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Israel Film Festival Celebrates Silver Anniversary
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 May 2011 05:00
- Written by Laura Blum
For its 25th marker, the Israel Film Festival is treating New Yorkers to two weeks of 
revelries (May 5 to 19, 2011), beginning with tonight's Opening Night Gala featuring a VIP reception at The Plaza followed by awards and the New York premiere of Intimate Grammar at the Paris Theater (across the street, at 58th Street at Fifth Avenue).
Honorees to be ribboned are actor Liev Schreiber, director/choreographer Stanley Donen and producer/director Micha Shagrir.
The film, which is based on David Grossman's acclaimed 1991 novel The Book of Intimate Grammar, took the Best Feature prize at the 2010 Jerusalem International Film Festival and the Sakura Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Directed by Nir Bergman (Broken Wings), it follows an adolescent boy in Jerusalem of the 1960s whose struggle to throw off the shadow of the Holocaust literally stunts his growth.
LA Jewish Film Festival 2011
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 May 2011 10:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) screens May 5 - 12, 2011 at the 
Laemmle's Town Center in Encino, the Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills, and other venues in Greater Los Angeles, California.
The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) builds community awareness, appreciation and pride in the diversity of the Jewish people through film.
The mission of LAJFF is to preserve and celebrate the rich Jewish heritage; to cultivate Jewish values and the quality of Jewish life in the community (not only for the affiliated but unaffiliated); and to create and maintain a sense of community by providing important and exciting programming for individuals, families and organizations.
NY Indian American Film Fest 2011
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- Published on Monday, 02 May 2011 10:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The 11th Annual New York Indian American Film Festival (NYIFF) runs May 4 - 8, 201
1 at the Tribeca Cinemas in lower Manhattan, New York City, the oldest and most prestigious Indian film festival in the country.
The Festival is presented annually by The Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), a not-for-profit, secular service and resource arts organization whose mission is to promote and build the awareness, creation, production, exhibition, publication and performance of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America.
In Focus: Cinema Tropical

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- Published on Monday, 02 May 2011 01:00
- Written by Brad Balfour
From May 4 - 16, 2011, the Museum of Modern Art is featuring the work of C
inema Tropical, the New York-based non-profit media arts organization.
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed an unexpected and astonishing film renaissance throughout Latin America. This program celebrates that extraordinary flourishing of Latin American film by screening the films promoted by the organization in the past 10 years.
Largely influenced and inspired by the so-called New Argentine Cinema, and propelled by creative hybrid models of production, a young and enthusiastic generation of filmmakers is drastically changing how the region sees and represents itself on the big screen.
