2009 Harlem International Film Festival, February 26 thru March 1st
The 2009 Harlem International Film Festival kicked off last night, and continues thru Sunday, March 1st. This weekend’s screenings take place at the MILLENNIUM, 66 East 4 Street.
Engine Collision Festival
The first-ever Engine Collision Festival will bring together over 100 artists for daily independent film screenings, live performance, music, art and fashion. Headliners include filmmaker David Lynch, who is set to screen a selection of his un-released short films. Jennifer Lynch will also be on hand, reading from her novel “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.”
This 11-day event, starting last night and running thru March 8 will also give people a last chance to catch “The Engine” in the Hollywood & Vine area, California. Read more …
TLA Entertainment Group and the Philadelphia Film Society Make up
TLA Entertainment Group and the Philadelphia Film Society, which co-present the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, announced this week that they have reconciled their differences and will again be working together.
The two organizations will collaborate on the Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest, March 26-April 6, and the newly named LGBT event Philadelphia QFest, July 9-19. Read more …
True/False Film Festival
Thursday marked the opening night of the annual True/False Film Festival. For the first time since True/False started six years ago, there were 10 documentaries to see on Thursday night, regarded as the “soft” opening night for the four-day festival. Tonight, Friday, is considered the kickoff. Read more …
28th annual Black Maria Film Festival, February 28, in Morris Township, New Jersey
The fate of polar bears and the efforts to save them are the subjects of the film ‘Ice Bears of the Beaufort,’ which is on the roster Feb. 28, when the 28th annual Black Maria Film Festival rolls into the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship in Morris Township, New Jersey. From the Arctic Ocean to New York City’s Little Italy, the Black Maria film selections run the gamut in locations and topics, from the medical to the cultural. Read more … [catch the festival when it comes to your city]
Cannes Film Festival Honors Clint Eastwood
Actor, Clint Eastwood accepted a special award from the Cannes Film Festival. Cannes rarely gives awards outside its festival, and Eastwood was appreciative. “I will treasure it for as long as I’m around,” he said. Eastwood won the Cannes Golden Coach award for Mystic River in 2003.
He will soon go to South Africa to begin filming his next project. The movie will be based on Nelson Mandela and his appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, seen as a turning point in the country’s post-apartheid history. Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman will star in the film. Read more …
Director Ang Lee to head Venice Film Festival Jury
Director Ang Lee, will head the jury for this year’s Venice Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion award. The Taiwanese-born director won the award in 2007 for “Lust, Caution,” and in 2005 for “Brokeback Mountain,” for which he also won a best directing Oscar.
This year’s film festival will be held Sept. 2-12. Read more …
FESPACO Pan-African film festival
The 40th anniversary FESPACO Pan-African film festival, showcasing the continent’s wide-ranging cinematic talent kicks off this weekend, February 28 thru March 7th.
Feature films competing for this year’s Etalon d’Or de Yennenga, the “African Oscar” fashioned after the legendary horsewoman founder of Burkina Faso’s biggest ethnic group, range from a superstitious tale of an albino murdered for his head to incest in a poor Afrikaner family in South Africa. Read more …
33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
“Shinjuku Incident”, starring famous actor Jackie Chan and directed by Derek Yee Tung- shing, and “Night and Fog”, from acclaimed Director Ann Hui, will open the 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival. The World premiere of both films will take place on March 22, 2009 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will take place from March 22 to April 13. Read more …
19th annual Cinequest film festival opened in San Jose with a “Wake”
The 19th annual Cinequest film festival opened in San Jose Wednesday night with the film “Wake.” “This film is about a woman, who, because love has treated her poorly, has developed this obsession with funerals,” said Cinequest Co-Founder and Director Halfdan Hussey. “She goes to funerals, because it’s what she loves to do, and through that she engages in a new love affair.”
This year’s festival, which runs until March 8th, includes films from 44 countries. Read more …
Foursite Film Festival will run from March 4-7 in Ogden, Utah
The sixth annual Foursite Film Festival will run from March 4-7 and will show films at four venues in Ogden, Utah, including the Megaplex 13 at The Junction, the Weber State University Wildcat Theater, Peery’s Egyptian Theater and the Treehouse Museum.
The festival will premier its opening night film entitled “Saving God,” starring Golden Globe Award winning actor Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible I, II & III). Read more …
New York International Children’s Film Festival this weekend
This one is really for the kids. The New York International Children’s Film Festival kicks off this weekend with the french animated film Mia and Migoo. The rest of the lineup includes a mix of live action films and animated ones that can appeal to a wide range of kids, from tots to teens. The festival starts tomorrow, Friday, and runs through March 14th.
Artists’ Television Access invites experimental film and video makers to submit their work (20 minutes or less) to its 4th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. Video, Super 8 and 16 mm animation, documentary, narrative, abstract, found footage based and other works will be accepted.
The ATA Film and Video Festival is committed to showcasing films and videos that use an unconventional stylistic and technical approach and bring up subjects or concepts that not only entertain, but also provoke, our diverse audience. The festival also includes installations in ATA’s Mission District storefront gallery, a lunch for the filmmakers, and new in our 4th year, a discussion forum for the exchange of ideas amongst filmmakers, curators and audiences.
POSTMARK DEADLINE: May 29, 2009
Submission fee: $10
Festival will take place in October 2009
More information and submission form: http://festival.atasite.org/
CINE Golden Eagle Competition
This is your last chance to enter the Spring 2009 CINE Golden Eagle Competition!
You have until Monday, March 2, 2009 to enter your film for consideration.
How To Enter Enter online with our online entry form.
Contact CINE at info@cine.org or 202.785.1136 to have an entry form sent to you.
Cambridge Film Festival
On 1 March 2009 submissions open for the 29th edition of the Cambridge Film Festival, one of the most popular and well-respected events in the UK film calendar. Filmmakers from around the world will be invited to send in their shorts, features and documentaries for consideration by the Festival team.
Applicants can submit by 1 May 2009 to benefit from a reduced earlybird rate and the final deadline is 31 May. Free entry is granted to filmmakers based in the Eastern region in keeping with the Festival’s mission to support local and regional talent.
The 29th Cambridge Film Festival takes place from 17 to 27 September 2009.
Reel Work Labor Film Festival
REEL WORK LABOR FILM FESTIVAL is seeking documentary or dramatic films on themes of empowerment of working people such as through labor organizing.
FILM SUBMISSIONS: Download a submission form to submit directly to the festival.
Reel Work Labor Film FestivalReel Work neither charges an entry fee nor offers awards, but covers transportation and lodging expenses to bring both filmmakers and activists featured in films to participate in the festival.
The festival seeks permission to air selected entries in Reel Work Labor Film Series on local non-profit cable access television. And we seek permission to retain screener copies of films, which are placed in the Labor Film collection of the local Santa Cruz Public Library.
SCINEMA Science Film festival
SCINEMA (www.scinema.com.au) is a film festival exploring the world of science through film and one of the major events of Australia’s National Science Week (August 15 - 23) in 2009.
SCINEMA Science Film festival - Call for entries
SCINEMA is looking for films exploring science subjects through documentary, animation and narrative form. Download an entry form. Entries close April 30.
SCINEMA - Student film Challenge - Call for entries
Australian primary, secondary and tertiary students can be a part of SCINEMA’s short film challenge this year. In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy, we are asking students to make a short film about space or astronomy. Winning films will earn their filmmakers an exclusive trip to Australia’s major astronomy facilities, including The Dish in Parkes, NSW. Download your entry form here (http://www.scinema.com.au/enter/SkyStudentEntry.pdf). Entries close April 30.
The Festival is looking for the best in American and International narrative features, documentaries, short films and music videos.
DEADLINES: The early film deadline is May 1. The final film deadline is June 1. If postmarked by June 1, the entry fees are $45 for films over 30 minutes and $35 for films under 30 minutes. If postmarked by July 1, the fees are $55 for films over 30 minutes and $40 for films under 30 minutes.
FESTIVAL DATES: Sept. 24 - 27, 2009
FILM SUBMISSIONS: Information on submitting films can be found on the Festival’s Web site www.sdff.org. Entries are accepted exclusively through WithoutaBox.
The 2009 San Diego Film Festival will be held in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter.
Marbella International Film Festival
Marbella International Film Festival is in search of the Young Talent of 2009 through a new competition to create a SHORT FILM for the 4th edition of the Marbella International Film Festival which will be held 1st - 4th October 2009.
The criteria for the short films are being kept quite simple; they must be suitable for general public viewing and no longer than 10 minutes.
It’s free to enter, just send in your film on DVD along with an entry form.
Films can be submitted up until 23rd April with the shortlisted films being announced early June and the full programme available from 1st July.
The festival will open on Wednesday 22nd July and will culminate, as is tradition, with the Rushes Awards hosted by Terry Christian on Thursday 30th July 2009.
The 31,000 audience members at this year’s 32nd Portland International Film Festival have selected their favorite films from among the 78 feature and 36 shorts screened February 6-22.
Tying for first place for Best Feature Award are Toa Frazer’s DEAN SPANLEY (New Zealand) and Dorie Dörrie’s CHERRY BLOSSOMS (Germany). Two films also tied for the Best Documentary Award-Festival guest Jennifer Grausman’s film PRESSURE COOKER (US), co-directed with Mark Becker, and Agnés Varda’s THE BEACHES OF AGNÉS (France), both of which tied for second place in the overall balloting. The winner of the Best New Director Award is Amin Matalga, for CAPTAIN ABU RAED (Jordan).
This year’s Short Film Award goes to Portland filmmaker Heather Harlow for NOUS DEUX ENCORE.
PIFF 32 OREGONIAN AUDIENCE AWARDS
FEATURES
BEST FEATURE AWARD WINNERS
1. DEAN SPANLEY / New Zealand / Toa Frazer
CHERRY BLOSSOMS / Germany / Doris Dörrie
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD WINNERS
2. PRESSURE COOKER / US / Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker
THE BEACHES OF AGNÉS / France / Agnès Varda
3. THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE / Canada / Benoît Pilon
4. REVANCHE / Austria / Götz Spielmann
BEST NEW DIRECTOR AWARD
5. CAPTAIN ABU RAED / Jordan / Amin Matalqa
6. THE ENGLISH SURGEON / Great Britain / Geoffrey Smith
7. SUGAR / US / Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
WORLDS APART / Denmark / Niels Arden Oplev
8. WOLF, THE LAWS OF WILDERNESS / Sweden / Daniel Alfredson
9. SEREPHINE / France / Martin Provost
10. EVERLASTING MOMENTS / Sweden / Jan Troell
11. HOME OF DARK BUTTERFLIES / Finland / Dome Karukoski
12. KATYN / Poland / Andrzej Wajda
13. LEMON TREE / Israel / Eran Riklis
14. HUNGER / Great Britain / Steve McQueen
15. MOSCOW, BELGIUM / Belgium / Christophe Van Rompaey
MILKING THE RHINO / US / David E. Simpson
16. THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX / Germany / Uli Edel
17. O’HORTEN / Norway / Bent Hamer
18. THE GARDEN / US / Scott Hamilton Kennedy
19. THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD / US / Sean McGinley
20. THE BLACK BALLOON / Australia / Elissa Down
SHORTS
BEST SHORT AWARD
1. NOUS DEUX ENCORE / US / Heather Harlow
2. TOYLAND / Germany / Jochen Alexander Freydank
3. THE WEDNESDAYS / Ireland / Conor Ferguson
4. PROCRASTINATION / Great Britain / Johnny Kelly
5. THE LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY / US / Byrd McDonald
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: HARRISON MONTGOMERY
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: AUTOMORPHOSIS
Audience Award for Best Narrative Short: TREEEVENGE
Audience Award for Best Documentary Short: NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Audience Award for Best Animation: DESCENDANTS
6th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival
Marian Quinn’s ‘32a’ and feature doc ‘Saviours’ are among the Irish titles that will screen at the upcoming 6th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival taking place on March 5th & 6th in the Roxie Theatre, San Francisco.
Opening the festival, is the screening of the mockumentary ‘Hardy Bucks’ by Chris Tordoff and Martin Maloney. The film follows the lives of Buzz and Eddie, as they face the travails of life in the fictional hamlet of Castletown (aka Swinford). Read more…
Savannah Jewish Film Festival
The Savannah Jewish Film Festival begins today February 25, 2009 and ends March 8, 2009. Full Film Festival passes are on sale at the Jewish Educational Alliance, or online.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Make a short film for imagineNATIVE ‘09!
Deadline: Monday March 9th, 2009
Do you have a great idea for a 5-minute short film? Explore 16mm filmmaking through LIFT’s workshops and production equipment. Shoot and edit your ideas to film, and see your film on screen at the 10th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which will take place in Toronto from October 14-18, 2009!
Eligibility Criteria:
This call is open to Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, Inuit, other international Indigenous) candidates only;
Preference will be given to emerging artists or to video artists who have not worked in film (Note: you do not have to be a youth, but youth may also apply);
Candidates must commit to attending the LIFT training workshops from March - August 2009.
Please email your one-page short film idea, a half to one-page statement on why you would like to participate, and a bio to kpotts@imagineNATIVE.org. Please be certain to indicate your past experience in film and video, and your Indigenous affiliation. Should you have additional questions, please call Kerry Potts at (416) 585-2333 or kpotts@imagineNATIVE.org.
The deadline for submissions is Monday March 9th, 2009
Movies 13-59 min. are Shorts; 60-129 min. are Features.
“Early Bird” Special
Shorts $20, Features $50 by April 15th, 2009 (postmarked)
“On Time” Entries
Shorts $25, Features $65 by May 1st, 2009 (postmarked)
Late Entries
Shorts $35, Features $90 by May 10th, 2009 (postmarked)
RULES:
All entries must be transferred to VHS NTSC or Region 1 or 0 DVD for preview.
Please include clips and/or trailers of your movie(s) and/or links of same to be used in promoting the festival online.
No tapes will be returned unless you include $4.60 or whatever it costs to priority mail your stuff back.
All accepted entries will be notified by mail - enclose your name and address.
PLEASE NEVER SEND YOUR PARENTS’ HOME MOVIES!
Tallgrass Film Festival
The Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA) and the Tallgrass Film Festival announced their call for submissions for the 7th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival to be held October 22-25 in Wichita, Kansas at the Warren Old Town Theatres and other downtown venues.
Submissions from Kansas filmmakers, and high school filmmakers from around the country will not require a submission fee, however, all official submission forms must be filled out as usual at www.withoutabox.com and filmmakers must submit a valid Kansas address or a copy of a valid high school ID, respectively, to request the fee waiver.
The entry deadline for film submissions is July 13, 2009 with a late submission deadline of July 27, 2009. (Fees: Features $50, Shorts $25/Late Submission Fee: Features $100, Shorts $50).
The Early Bird Deadline offers reduced submission fees; however, films must be submitted by April 6, 2009, to qualify for the discount. (Fees: Features: $40 and Shorts: $15).
27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
The 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival opens with Lee Yoon-ki’s MY DEAR ENEMY, a breezy, pitch-perfect ride through the streets of Seoul and into the unsuspecting world of two ex-lovers, ENEMY brims with warmth and possibility while mining the magic, mystery and foibles of human relations. Winding its way through back alleys just as it twists through the intricacies of the heart, Lee’s fourth feature is a jazzy, city-symphony road trip that sparkles with remarkable performances and subtle gestures. The 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival runs March 12 - 22, 2009. San Francisco: March 12 - 19, Berkeley: March 13 - 21, San Jose: March 20 - 22. Read more …
Rwanda Film Festival pushed back to June
Eric Kabera, founder of the Rwanda Cinema Centre (RCC), announced that this year’s Rwanda Film Festival has been pushed to June in order for it to coincide with the popular annually celebrated Gorilla Naming Ceremony commonly known as Kwita Izina. According to Kabera, the decision to push the festival forward, which normally takes place in March annually, was for it to coincide with the Kwita Izina week to allow more film makers to attend. [via]
The theme of The Rwanda Film Festival this year will be under: ”Red Carpet to Hillywood.” In what has quickly become a tradition, the Rwanda Film Festival-Red carpet to Hillywood will come alive on June 12-19 in the hills ( Hillywood) and from the 21-27 2009 (Kigali venues).
Beaufort International Film Festival
The third annual Beaufort International Film Festival will take place March 6-8, 2009 in Beaufort, SC. With more than 100 entries from more than 24 countries worldwide ranging from Cambodia to Russia , 21 film finalists have been chosen for competition in this year’s festival.
Tickets on sale for Staten Island Film Festival
The fourth annual Staten Island Film Festival runs June 4-7 at the College of Staten Island, Willowbrook and tickets are on sale now. Independent film selections will be announced on April 2. Read more …
The True/False Film Festival returns for its sixth edition Feb. 26-March 1, 2009. For four days, downtown Columbia, Missouri is transformed into a small-town Midwestern utopia. Most films come freshly discovered from Sundance, Toronto and other festivals, others appear mysteriously before their official premieres elsewhere. The main venues are the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, the Blue Note, the two-screen Ragtag Cinema, the Forrest Theater at the Tiger Ballroom, as well as Stephens College’s Macklanburg Playhouse and Windsor Auditorium.
Modern Afghanistan, where the spectre of the Taliban still looms, finds unusual unity in an American Idol-style TV show. Some details remain the same, but no US contestant ever had to deal with death threats for dancing in public.
The incredible-yet-true story of a “superhero” endurance swimmer from Slovenia. Martin Strel aims to swim the entire Amazon River, ostensibly to raise awareness of the perils facing the rainforest. What ensues is a wine-soaked psychedelic rollercoaster a la Apocalypse Now.
Bosnia, 1993 - Experienced war correspondents Richard Parry and Vaughan Smith meet a wannabe photographer named Robert King. They proceed to film him over the next fifteen years, in war zones around the world, creating this fascinating portrait of life as a frontline journalist. Sneak preview.
A sassy city girl reunites with her father, the chief of a small African village, in this archetypal fish-out-of-water story. (Plays with Lies and Tommy.)
True Life Fund selection. This spine-tingling thriller tracks a clandestine group of video activists as they use whatever means necessary to spotlight Burma’s brutal military junta.
When the Borat crew came to Glod, Romania, they used people there to stand in for the fictional Kazakhstan. In this rollicking slice-of-life, we meet the real-life residents of Glod, including the forever-dreaming teenager Carmen. Sneak preview.
A behind-the-scenes, David-and-Goliath legal drama in which Ecuadorian Amazon residents pursue justice against Chevron/Texaco for two decades of oil pollution.
The director of Guerilla uses stunning archival footage and vivid testimonies by Stewart Brand and others to capture the lead-up to the first Earth Day in 1970.
A sensational tour of the world, stopping to hang out with gangsters in Poland, shoppers in a vast Chinese mall, blind people in Brazil and coca farmers in Colombia.
The future of our food is up for grabs, and leading figures such as writer Michael Pollan and farmer Joel Salatin show us the perils and promise of what lies ahead. Sneak preview.
Rick Minnich (Homemade Hillbilly Jam) returns to T/F with a deeply personal doc about his father, who after a car accident became “the new Richard,” a man with no memory of his previous life. Sneak preview.
A Thai marriage pipeline extends from Bangkok to a remote fishing village in Denmark, where hundreds of Thai women have changed the fortunes of previously lonely men. Sneak preview.
This richly entertaining true-crime story reveals something’s rotten in Lodz, Poland, as a ghoulish conspiracy is uncovered involving funeral directors and ambulance drivers. Sneak preview.
Two city dwellers go cold turkey from civilization, weaning themselves off the power grid, agribusiness and other modern conveniences, while attracting a whirlwind of publicity and an army of naysayers.
Deborah Stratman’s freshly minted experimental classic takes us on a visually stunning tour of men and their toys, from a shooting range to a rural firehouse.
The shadowy figures of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have ordained these four films as the best shorts of the year. We go to India to eradicate polio and cleft lips, meet a dispassionate photographer of doomed men, and relive Martin Luther King’s final days.
Fandom as cult, religion, and force field. Fierce followers of electronic group Depeche Mode - from St. Petersburg to Iran - tell stories of the band as comfort and salvation.
A charismatic firecracker of a teacher heats up some of the year’s most entertaining scenes in this warm and thoroughly enjoyable film about a Philadelphia high school culinary arts class.
Director Reed returns to her hometown of Missoula, Montana to confront her own past and that of her adopted brother, who could be the grandson of Orson Welles.
Three ambitious musicians - the a capella R&B singer Kemoy, the privileged Ice, and the ghetto-hardened Turbulence - try to distinguish themselves on the music-mad island of Jamaica. Sneak preview.
Longtime T/F favorite Eric Daniel Metzgar accompanies the crusading N.Y. Times super-journalist Nicholas Kristof to the Congo, where Kristoff negotiates warlords and treacherous zones to locate the story that will change hearts and minds in the West.
The challenges of aging and patriotism mix in this sensitive portrait of three senior citizens, who have met every arriving and departing flight since the beginning of the Iraq War.
This harrowing thriller traces the valiant rescue efforts to save Sergio Vieira De Mello, the brilliant UN commissioner for human rights, victim of a truck bombing in Iraq.
Fifty years after Europe warred on the battlefield, its competitive spirit is now satisfied by singing contests. With a knack for funny and moving in equal measure, the film tells the story of the 2007 Junior Eurovision competition in which pint-sized talents from Cyprus to the Ukraine sing their hearts out. Sneak preview.
This animated, mind-blowing doc - one of the year’s most celebrated films - is a former Israeli soldier’s attempt to make sense of a massacre of Palestinian civilians, 25 years later.
Ondi Timoner’s splashy portrait of Josh Harris, an artist with a flair for social engineering experiments. In 1999, he spearheaded an Orwellian commune in which 100 specimens lived in a New York City basement where their lives were surveilled 24-7.
The Yes Men are the culture-jamming dynamic duo of our age. Their latest adventures includes deflating Dow Chemical’s stock price a few billion dollars in a matter of minutes with a well-timed apology to the people of Bhopal, India.
The KoAloha Ukulele Story, an animated documentary short film based on the life of Alvin Okami, has won the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival’s prestigious Gold Kahuna Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. The 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival will be held March 6 - 8, 2009 along the pristine shores of world-famous Waikiki Beach at the beautiful Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort. Read more …
Mesa Community College International Film Festival: Still Walking: The Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda
An exclusive sneak film preview and a personal appearance by film director Hirokazu Kore-eda will be the highlights of the sixth annual Mesa Community College International Film Festival, March 3-7. Kore-eda fans will have the opportunity to view Still Walking at the MCC festival before the official U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April.
Mesa Community College International Film Festival: Still Walking: The Films of Hirokazu Kore-eda
Tuesday, March 3: Maborosi
Wednesday, March 4: After Life
Thursday, March 5: Nobody Knows
Friday, March 6: Hana
Saturday, March 7: Still Walking
For more information contact Don Castro at 480-461-7613
Santa Monica, California’s CUT! Film Festival Announces Line-Up
CUT! Film Festival 2009 - A benefit and celebration of cinema dedicated to the art and imagination that goes into the creation of film. Taking place the weekend of March 14-15, 2009 at the historic Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave. at 14th Street, Santa Monica, CA, this event promises to be a cinema lover’s dream! Read more …
The sixth annual Canadian Art REEL ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL, held in Toronto from Thursday, February 26 to March 1, 2009, features 14 films on internationally renowned artists.
The festival is proud to announce a FREE day of film screenings for students on Friday, February 27, 2009. The films are The Universe of Keith Haring, an in-depth look at the pioneering graffiti and drawing artist; General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle, on the legendary Toronto art collective; and Our City Dreams, by young filmmaker Chiara ClementeSwoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic and Nancy Spero. about five women artists:
Other festival highlights include the WORLD premiere of a film on David Lynch’s exceptional art practice; Isaac Julien’s film on the artist filmmaker Derek Jarman featuring Tilda Swinton; the TORONTO premiere of Adele’s Wish, a controversial repatriation story of Gustav Klimt’s paintings; and the CANADIAN premiere of a film on the psychological portraits of Alice Neel.
Plus: You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art!
THE REEL ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL presents the CANADIAN premiere of Herb and Dorothy, a documentary by Megumi Sasaki about a postal clerk and a librarian who built one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.
“In keeping with our educational mandate, the Canadian Art REEL ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL is delighted to present an afternoon of free student screenings with special guest speakers,” says Ann Webb, festival organizer and executive director of the Canadian Art Foundation. “Our objective, through the presentation of these documentary films on art and artists, is to present an accessible point of entry for audiences to consider some of the key personalities and thoughts behind contemporary art.”
The festival launches on Thursday, February 26, 2009, with an opening night screening and celebration at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Canadian premiere of Herb and Dorothy will screen at 7:30 pm sharp at Baillie Court, the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West. Herb and Dorothy Vogel, director Megumi Sasaki and associate producer Takeshi Yamasaki will be in attendance.
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