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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
Celebrate Films that Advance Worldwide Peace
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- Published on Monday, 16 August 2010 06:15
- Written by Bree Rubin
Now in its 9th year, The Global Peace Film Festival showcases international films with subjects ranging from the human condition to sustainability and the environment. The Central Florida-based film festival takes place in Orlando and Winter Park, Florida from September 21st to 26th, 2010.
The five-day event will screen films from all over the world that highlight the possibility of global peace. Guests also participate in panels with the filmmakers and special guests.
DocuWorks Showcases in NY & LA
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 19:15
- Written by Laura Blum
From July 30 to August 19, 2010, Manhattanites and Angelinos can catch theatrical screenings of 22 nonfiction films (including five shorts) during the International Documentary Association's DocuWeeks Theatrical Documentary Showcase.
You can catch IDA's showcase in New York City at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Av. at W. Third St.) and at the ArcLight Hollywood (6360 W. Sunset Boulevard) in Los Angeles. All of the films are in the running for a 2011 Academy Award.
One of them is Waste Land, a loving portrait of garbage. Rot and refuse are not the sort of thing you ordinarily equate with beauty, but then there's nothing ordinary about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz or his photographic work celebrating the art of recycling. The documentary by Lucy Walker follows Muniz from Brooklyn to Brazil's largest trash heap to photograph its gleaners.
Venice Int'l Film Festival: Inundated with Premieres
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- Published on Sunday, 08 August 2010 17:18
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For the 67th time, the island of Lido in Venice, Italy will become awash with cinema life when the Venice International Film Festival rises September 1 to 11, 2010. And once again, Hollywood creatures are expected to flood the seven-mile sandbar that hosts the world's oldest film festival.
Quentin Tarantino is helming the jury that will confer the prestigious Golden Lion. Among the 23 contenders for this year's top kudo is Darren Aronofksy's psychological thriller Black Swan. Tagged as the opening night film, it stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as ballerinas who are themselves thrust in a competition, in this case for marquee roles in a production of Swan Lake. Aronofsky's The Wrestler won the 2008 Golden Lion.
