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Sundance's Film Forward Program Advances Cultural Dialogue
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- Published on Friday, 10 December 2010 18:01
- Written by Brad Balfour
With the 10 films selected for the inaugural year of the Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative, this cultural exchange program takes the Sundance Film Festival experience to the world. The first Film Forward slate includes five American and five international films to be presented in collaboration with public and private partners throughout the planet. These films and their filmmakers will kick off the ambitious project in New York and Tunisia in December.
10th Annual Russian Film Week in New York
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- Published on Saturday, 04 December 2010 13:38
- Written by Brad Balfour
For the 10th consecutive year, New Yorkers can see some of the best in modern Russian movies through The Russian Film Week which takes place in Manhattan and 
Brooklyn from December 3rd through December 9th, 2010. From screenings to meet-and-greets with casts and directors of the 15 films being presented.
Throughout its decade-long run, the Russian Film Week has become a unique celebration of culture and artistic expression from the Great Bear of Europe. The event’s diverse audience – ranging from foreign cinema fans to Russian expats to students looking for a thought-provoking experience -- is a testament to the value of crossing cultural and language boundaries.
The 5th Annual Romanian Film Festival in NYC
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:49
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The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York presents the 5th Annual Romanian Film Festival in NYC from December 3-5 2010 at Tribe
ca Cinemas. Each year, the festival presents the best and most recent films from Romania’s unique and critically exalted national body of contemporary cinema to New York audiences.
This year’s edition entitled A New Beginning, features new works from filmmakers who were at the forefront of the “Romanian New Wave,” such as Cristi Puiu, Radu Muntean and Razvan Radulescu, as well as debut features from Constantin Popescu and Bobby Paunescu. The highly-anticipated new work from Andrei Ujica (Videograms of a Revolution) -- The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu -- is the opening night film.
African Diaspora Film Festival Gathers Black World Cinema
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- Published on Thursday, 25 November 2010 02:35
- Written by Laura Blum
The 18th African Diaspora Film Festival (November 26 to December 14, 2010) kicks off on Black Friday, yielding both a double entendre and gift ideas for Christmas shoppers (assuming there’ll be DVDs for sale).
And the wordplays keep coming. As if riffing on its diaspora theme, the Festival is dispersed around Manhattan, to such far-flung venues as Anthology Film Archives, (32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street), The Riverside Theater (91 Claremont Ave. @ 120th Street), The Schomburg Center for Black Culture (515 Malcom X Boulevard), Symphony Space Thalia Theater (2537 Broadway @ 95th St.) and Columbia University’s Cowin Center (147 Horace Mann) and The Chapel (125 Zankel).
