Archive for April, 2012
Posted on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 by
Wes
The Los Angeles Comedy Shorts Film Festival ends on April 29, 2012, but not before a major closure of roads in the city. LA Comedy has you covered, though, so check out this map they have created to help navigate to their screening venue. Click the map for the google map.
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Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2012 by
Wes
After a packed screening at the Regal Hollywood 20 in sunny Sarasota, Florida, Peter Askin addressed the questions of a very pleased crowd after the screening of his film Certainty. The crowd let out excited yelps and applause as the film played and graciously thanked Askin for his contribution to SFF. This is Askin’s second [...]
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Posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 by
Wes
You are a long way from home if Inglorious Bastards is your idea of an artful military flick. Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion challenges you to dig a little deeper and understand the truth behind the old saying “history is almost always dictated by the victor”. In his return to true auteur filmmaking, Mathieu Kassovitz (known most [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 by
Wes
GroupOn deals are coming to IndiePix Films! IndiePix Films has been, and always will be, dedicated to being truly independent and bringing you the best in independent film. Now, we bring you the best for less! If you live in or near any of the cities listed below, you can take advantage of these deals! [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 by
Wes
Perhaps one of the most ambitious independent films events in the U.S., the newly created Film Festival Week – LA will be held April 11-19 in Hollywood, CA. The event comprises four unique film events and will screen a wide array of films, webisodes and TV programs from all over the globe, exclusively at Raleigh [...]
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Posted on Monday, April 9th, 2012 by
Wes
Earlier today Cinema Eye, the film organization that hosts the Cinema Eye Honors and advocates for artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking, released a statement in protest of the treatment of Award-Winning Filmmaker Laura Poitras by the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS is cited with six different incidents of detaining and interrogating Poitras upon [...]
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Posted on Friday, April 6th, 2012 by
Wes
Loud Mouth Films announced that Who Killed Chea Vichea? has received a George Foster Peabody Award! The Peabody is the most prestigious electronic media award in the world, recognizing “excellence, distinguished achievement, and meritorious public service.” There are no categories and no fixed number of awards. This year, 38 winners were chosen by the Peabody board as “the best [...]
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Posted on Friday, April 6th, 2012 by
Wes
Every year at Tribeca, the festival aims to add new events and series to the mix, expanding the conversation into new areas and topics. For Tribeca Film Festival 2012, one of these additions is the Future of Film Lunch Series: daily talks and presentations related to platforms, technology, and trends that are changing the art [...]
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Posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 by
Wes
We thank those who made it out to the free screening of Mamachas Del Ring, the inspiring story of passion for sport by Betty M. Park. Watching the film, you get a sense of the task at hand with documentary filmmaking in the compartmentalizing of complex stories in simple terms using nothing but your imagination [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 by
Wes
Kunle Afolayan, director of the critically acclaimed thriller Figurine, discusses his new film Phone Swap and the state of African film as he feels it is advancing. Afolayan utilized the strength in film of Ghana and Nigeria to fill out roles and settings in order to produce a high quality story line that, he says, [...]
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