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Toronto International Film Festival Goes Downtown
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- Published on Sunday, 12 September 2010 12:30
- Written by Laura Blum
Flying north in formation, film flocks are making their annual migration to the Toronto International Film Festival (September 9 to 19, 2010) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Festival initiates both the fall movie season in North America and the awards ca
mpaigns of numerous films, and is considered among the most influential fests in the world.
This year, TIFF itself has moved. Following a $196-million capital drive, it has abandoned its Bloor and Yorkville nest, and will now be headquartered in a five-story complex called the Bell Lightbox, at King and John Streets in the city’s downtown. The official ribbon cutting and revelries will take place on September 12.
Woodstock Film Festival - Grit Not Glam
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 September 2010 17:04
- Written by Laura Blum
Just as the fall foliage mounts its technocolor show in the Hudson Valley Catskills, the Woodstock Film Festival fires up a spectacle of its own in Woodstock, NY. Screenings, performances, panels and special events will unfold in the historic arts colony of flower power fame as well as in the neighboring towns of Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Mt. Tremper and Kingston. This year’s “fiercely independent” Festival will take place September 29 to October 3, 2010, marking its 11th season.
More than 150 films will be on offer, whittled down from 1,500 submissions. Each year the tally of premieres edges ever upward; the upcoming edition’s is 60, and 11 of these mark world debuts.
Latinbeat Comes of Age
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- Published on Saturday, 04 September 2010 19:01
- Written by Laura Blum
Never mind the unlucky number; Latinbeat's 13th year of toasting Latin American cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (September 8 to 18, 2010) gives ample cause to clink glasses.
Programmed by FSLC’s Marcela Golio and Richard Peña, the slate features 16 films from eight countries. Five of these entries will be staging their U.S. premieres, including Marcelo Piñeyro’s Thursday Widows/Las viudas de los jueves, which opens the festival.
Filmmaker's Alliance Vision Fest 2010 hits LA
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- Published on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:21
- Written by Bree Rubin
This year marks the 13th annual Filmmakers Alliance VisionFest event, celebrating the best of Los Angeles's independent film community on August 27th, 2010.
The highly anticipated and popular evening-long gala begins at 8PM with the presentation of the Nilsson Award, honoring "bold, direct, honest and aesthetically challenging filmmaking that is often unrecognized by the mainstream independent film community" to Armenian filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan.
Following will be the presentation of this year's Vision Award, celebrating an established filmmaker "whose artistic ambition and consistent filmmaking excellence provides artistic inspiration to emerging filmmakers all around the world."
Past recipients of the Vision Award include Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Allison Anders, Werner Herzog, and Kevin Smith. This year's recipient, Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, has been making films for 15 years and is best known for the Pusher trilogy.
Also presented at the VisionFest each year is The Los Angeles Short Filmmaking Grant, which provides the winning short screenplay with film, cameras, and processing support. The evening will also be punctuated with screenings of recent short films and previews.
Tickets are $25 and available at Eventbrite. For more information, visit filmmakersalliance.org
VisionFest 2010
August 27th at 8PM
Downtown Independent Theater
251 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
