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The American Black Film Festival 2018 at Miami Beach
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 June 2018 18:50
- Written by Brad Balfour
With the weather getting hot, Miami Beach is often considered a destination for sun, sand, and fun, but it’s also a destination for bold new cinema. The American Black Film Festival (ABFF), running June 13 - 17, 2018 is an annual event dedicated to showcasing quality film and television content by and about people of African descent. Founded by Jeff Friday, it supports emerging artists to foster a wider range of stories told in the entertainment and cinema industry.
Not only does the ABFF feature a slate of films, it also includes business seminars, panel discussions with filmmakers and actors, workshops on financing, auditioning, and showrunning, with short film competitions and parties going into the night.
Films include The Flea, an Official Selection of the 2018 American Black Festival, which is a comedy about the day in the life of a flea market manager, who must deal with customers, vendors and his boss, as he struggles to survive one more day on the job. Whitney, an unflinching documentary on the legendary singer’s tragic life. 1970’s classic, Superfly, now has a remake from music video director, Director X.
To learn more, go to: http://www.abff.com/
American Black Film Festival
June 13 - 17, 2018
Various Locations
Miami Beach, FL
Human Rights Watch Film Fest Explores Feminism & Data Privacy
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- Published on Friday, 01 June 2018 00:06
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Running June 14 - 21 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC Center, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival has a slate of eye opening films from around the world. This year's festival highlights women fighting back against personal and institutional abuse, with twelve of the films featured this year directed by women. “In a year when women have spoken out against abuse, harassment and oppression, the festival highlights the outstanding work of women filmmakers telling epic stories of women fighting injustice with resilience and courage.” said John Biaggi, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival creative director.
The opening night film, On Her Shoulders, about Yezidi human rights advocate and ISIS survivor Nadia Murad opens the festival on June 14, and the closing night film The Unafraid explores the experience of DACA students struggling to fight for their own education as they face a very uncertain future.
This year's festival also examines government and corporate regulation of information with films like The Cleaners, directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck, on data gatekeepers.
To learn more, go to: https://ff.hrw.org/new-york
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
June 14 - 21, 2018
Ghosts & Gangsters at 2018 Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
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- Published on Tuesday, 29 May 2018 20:34
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Sicilian Ghost Story
Now in it’s 18th edition, the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema film festival hits Lincoln Center with a slate of Italian films. Taking place at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) and running from May 31 to June 6, the festival features 17 films. The Opening Night selection is Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazz’s second feature, Sicilian Ghost Story, based on the true events of a missing young boy.
The fest will also include the premiere of Boys Cry, a gritty gangster genre debut by the D'Innocenzo brothers; Roberto De Paolis's feature debut about youthful self-discovery, and Pure Hearts; Sergio Castellitto's emotionally raw Fortunata, featuring legendary Rainer Werner Fassbinder leading lady Hanna Schygulla and Jasmine Trinca. Plus three works by returning Open Roads filmmakers: Marco Tullio Giordana's Nome di donna, Ferzan Ozpetek’s Naples in Veils, and Vincenzo Marra’s Equilibrium.
To learn more, go to: https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/open-roads-new-italian-cinema/#films
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
May 31 - June 6, 2018
Walter Reade Theater
165 W 65th St.
New York, NY 10023
NY Portuguese Short Film Festival Brings Lisbon to Lincoln Center
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 18:33
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Featuring the work of filmmakers from Portugal and Portuguese directors abroad, the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival (NYPSFF) will be running at Lincoln Center Howard Gilman Theater and the Tribeca Film Center May 30 - 31.
The first of its kind, the festival highlights the work of new and young Portuguese filmmakers. The Director of Arte Institute and the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival, Ana Ventura Miranda, says that “The Portuguese Cinema has develop very much in the past years, especially the short film format and that the NYPSFF showcases the new directors but also the country itself and its creativity”.
To learn more, go to: http://www.nypsff.arteinstitute.org/
The NY Portuguese Short Film Festival
May 30 - 31, 2018
Lincoln Center Howard Gilman Theater
144 West 65th St.
Tribeca Film Center
375 Greenwich St.
New York, NY 10013
