Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 9, 2009 under Cine Noir Black Film Festival, FESPACO Pan-African Film Festival, Red Bridge Film Festival | 
Red Bridge Film Festival (RBFF) April 17-20 at the Park Theatre in Park Rapids, Minnesota
- Image from “Man On Wire’
The Red Bridge Film Festival (RBFF) committee has solidified its slate of movies to be presented at this year’s festival, screening April 17-20 at the Park Theatre in Park Rapids, Minnesota.
Park Rapids graduate Rachel Morgan will be the featured filmmaker at the event. Her full-length feature movie, “Happy Birthday Rita,” filmed on location in New York City last summer will be shown Saturday afternoon during the festival as a work in progress.
The remaining line-up of movies for the RBFF includes: “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Man On Wire,” “Shine a Light,” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Read more …
Cine Noir Black Film Festival
This year’s Cine Noir Black Film Festival will run March 12-15 in Wilmington, North Caroline and will screen short films and features by black filmmakers. One the films to be screened is “Touché” by Maurice M. Martinez. Martinez walked away with the Best Documentary award in 2005 and 2007. Read more …
40th Pan-African FESPACO Film Festival Winners
“Teza,” a feature by award-winning director Haile Gerima set during Mengistu Haile Mariam’s 1974-1991 rule, received the Golden Yennenga Stallion, Fespaco’s equivalent of the Oscar statuette, at this year’s 40th pan-African FESPACO film festival in Burkina Faso.
The Silver trophy went to South African John Kani for Nothing but the truth, a story about a family coming to terms with its previous life under apartheid and set against the backdrop of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Algerian director Liyes Salem won the Bronze Trophy for his film Mascarades.
The film’s Ethiopian-born director, Haile Gerima, currently lives in the United States and his sister Selome Gerima, who also co-produced the film, accepted in his honor.
The other winners at Fespaco 2009:
- Best Short Film - Sektou (They have Stopped Talking), by Khalid Benaissa (Algeria)
- Best Documentary - Nos Lieux Interdits (Our Forbidden Places) - Leila Kilani (Morocco)
- Best Sreenplay - L’Absence - Mama Keita (Guinea)
- Best Actor - Jerusalema - Rapu-lana Sei-phemo (South Africa)
- Best Actress - Les Jardins de Samira - Sana Mousiane (Morocco)
- Best Photography - Jerusalema - South Africa
- Best Editing - Jerusalema - South Africa
- Best Set - Adieu Mères - Morocco
- Best Music - Adieu Mères - Morocco
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 27, 2009 under Black Maria Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, FESPACO Pan-African Film Festival, Harlem International Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival (Philly Fest), Philadelphia QFest, True/False Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival |
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 …