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Nashville Film Fest - Music City Goes to the Movies
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 05:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) runs April 14 - 21, 2011 at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 in Nashville, 
Tennessee. Now in its 42nd year, NaFF is the longest running film festival in the South.
Founded in 1969 by Mary Jane Coleman as the Sinking Creek Film Celebration, the organization’s signature eight-day April festival is now known as the Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan.
NaFF is a cultural arts institution that inspires, educates and entertains through an annual celebration of the art of motion pictures, year-round events and community outreach. It ranks among the most prestigious, continually garnering accolades and notice from a wide range of entertainment and trade publications.
This year, legendary actor and songwriter Kris Kristofferson receives the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) 2011 Career Achievement Award.
Indian Film Festival of LA 2011
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- Published on Sunday, 10 April 2011 05:00
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The 9th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) runs April 12 - 17, 2011 at the ArcLight 
Hollywood Theater in Hollywood, California. This year’s Festival showcases its line up with 13 feature films, 6 documentaries and 13 short films, including world premieres and US premieres.
"We are extremely proud of this year's program. This year's selections were selected not only for their great storytelling, but because each reflects the creativity, color, pace, and surprises that truly represent Indian culture and cinema," said Christina Marouda, the festival's Executive Director.
Kicking off the festival is the Los Angeles premiere of I Am Kalam, directed by Nila Madhab Panda. A young boy struggles to get an education over seemingly insurmountable odds. With Gulshan Grover, Harsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Beatrice Ordeix, Meena Mir. The film's star Gulshan Grover (Payback, Breaking Waves) in attendance.
This marks the director's feature film debut after having directed over 60 short films. It is also India's first feature film to be produced by a development organization. The film is inspired by India's former President Abdul J Kalam as well as by Panda's own childhood experiences.
Famous Monsters' Own Imagi-Movies Film Fest
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 21:46
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Presented by Famous Monsters of Filmland and organized by Sean Fernald, the Imagi-Movies Film Festival is showing April 8 - 10, 2011 at the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills, California, 
This is a banner year for Monster mavens -- first, this is a new annual festival, and second, it celebrates the legacy of Forrest J "Uncle Forry" Ackerman, America's #1 Sci-fi Fan. In addition, the Festival celebrates The Vincent Price Centennial and Dracula's 80th Anniversary.
In addition to its homage to the imagination of filmmaking, FM will be donating a portion of the weekend's proceeds to the Red Cross to aid in the relief for the victims of the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
The Vincent Price Centennial features two days of celebrity panels led by daughter Victoria Price, director and producer Roger Corman, writer William Goldstein, and filmmaker William Malone, with special screenings of two of Price's acclaimed films: The Masque of the Red Death and The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Havana Film Festival NY
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 05:00
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The 12th Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is screening April 7 - 15, 2011 at the Quad Cinema, El 
Museo del Barrio and NYU's King Juan Carlos II of Spain Center in Manhattan, as well as The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, plus other venues around New York.
HFFNY presents a selection of the best features, documentaries, and shorts from all over Latin America.
Tribute to Gerardo Chijona
HFFNY honors Gerardo Chijona, the award-winning Cuban director of Adorable Lies, by screening several of his films, culminating in the New York premiere of his latest film, Ticket to Paradise.
Adorables mentiras / Adorable Lies
dir. Gerardo Chijona (Cuba, Spain)
Chijona's first feature is a black comedy. Jorge Luis, a young man with dreams of becoming a screenwriter and film director, meets the beautiful Sissy at a film premiere. In order to impress Sissy, Jorge impersonates a director looking for a non-professional actress and Sissy, who dreams of becoming a successful actress, pretends not to be interested. Thus begins a relationship where the two act as not as they really are, but how they want to be, to escape the dull reality of their lives. With Isabel Santos, Luis Alberto Garcia. Chijona will be present for Q&A.
