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MARCHING BAND A documentary film by Claude Miller
The 22nd Annual Virginia Film Festival, set for November 5-8 at venues throughout Charlottesville, will offer up some 80 films and more than 100 guests to shed light on an array of topics ranging from the funny business of comedy, business, politics, wine and more.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 14, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
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The evolution of Indigenous cinema will be celebrated at the 10th Anniversary of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which runs in Toronto from today, Wednesday, October 14th until Sunday, October 18th, 2008.
The Festival, which annually spotlights the work of Native filmmakers and media artists from across the Indigenous spectrum, will showcase more than 125 works by Indigenous people at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 6, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
CMJ Film Festival will host the genre-bending dark comedy, The Men Who Stare At Goats on Wednesday, October 21 at 7:00pm. George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges all star in this film about a bizarre paranormal military unit in Iraq. Q&A to follow the screening with members from the cast.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 30, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
The 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival wrapped up Sunday night by posting its best attendance ever: more than 66,500 fans. It beat the record set in 2007 by nearly 14,000.
“Cherry Blossoms-Hanami,” Doris Dorrie’s moving drama about a man’s unlikely trip to Japan, won the 22nd Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film.
The Central and Eastern European Film Competition was won by “The Investigator,” the killer-turned-detective saga from Hungary by director Attila Gigor.
The $5,000 Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Competition award went to Aron Gaudet for his documentary “The Way We Get By,” about senior troop-greeters in Maine.
“Hungu” took the best animated short award, while “Gilles” won for best live-action short. This year’s winners are eligible for Oscar nominations because the Cleveland festival is an official qualifying event for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
American Independent Audience Award: “Prince of Broadway.”
Nesnadny and Schwartz Documentary Film Competition: “Trinidad.” [via]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 25, 2009 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
The Japan Film Festival-Los Angeles 2009 will be held from Friday, April 10 - Sunday, April 19 in Santa Monica and Downtown Los Angeles and will feature both North American and Los Angeles Premieres. The festival will be showing 22 feature films in total.
Films
Opening: The Sky Crawlers LA Premiere Director: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase, Chiaki Kuriyama, Syosuke Tanihara
“Kildren” are ageless fighter pilots who live in adolescence until they die in battle. They were created to fight in an endless war to “entertain” the peacetime people.
Closing: Vacation Director: Hajime Kadoi
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Hidetoshi NIshijima, Nene Otsuka, Ren Osugi, Syuji Kashiwabara
Hirai, a veteran prison guard who is getting married to Mika, a single mother. Hoping to make time to be with his new family, he finds that the only way to be entitled to a week’s vacation is if he acts as the execution assistant during an execution.
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 LA Premiere Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki, Maki Horikita, Hiroko Yakushimaru
The scene is set four months after the previous movie in the Tokyo Shitamachi area. The story continues with the human drama of the residents in Yuuhi machi 3 chome.
252: Signal of Life US Premiere Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Starring: Hideaki Ito,Masaaki Uchino, Takayuki Yamada, Yu Kashii, Yuichi Kimura
The biggest monster Typhoon ever to hit Japan, people try to survive while in a furious panic.
ICHI Director: Fumihiko Sori
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Shido Nakamura, Yosuke Kubozuka, Akira Emoto, Riki Takeuchi, Takao Osawa
New female version of the famous sword hero “Zatoichi”.
The Gift From Beate Director: Tomoko Fujiwara
Starring: Beate Sirota Gordon
Ms. Beathe Shirota Gordon makes every effort to build “essential equality of the sexes” in the Constitution of Japan after WWⅡ. Supported by her efforts, Japanese women devote their energies to establishing a gender equal society.
Campaign Director: Soda Kazuhiro
Starring: Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Sayuri Yamauchi, Junichiro Koizumi, Junko Kawaguchi
Documentary film about “a political amateur” who is transformed into “a candidate running with the official support” of the big political party. Making full use of strategy and methodology while developing an electoral campaign.
Tribute for the prolific actor, Ken Ogata
A Long Walk Director: Eiji Okuda
Starring: Ken Ogata, Saki Takaoka, Kana Sugiura, Syota Matsuda, Eiji Okuda
A middle-aged man who suffers from remorse in his life meets a girl who has blocked out her emotions after being repeatedly abused by her mother. While being chased as a kidnapper, he decides to take off on a journey of redemption.
Vengeance is Mine Director: Syohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chocho Miyako, Mitsuko Baisyo, Mayumi Ogawa
A story of a man who kills five people and runs away through Japan. His life is full of accumulated crimes from his upbringing, love affairs and antagonism from his own father.
Date and Venue
April 10 (Fri) to 16 (Thu) Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex (Santa Monica)
1332 2nd Street Santa Monica, 90401
April 17 (Fri) to 19 (Sun) Downtown Independent (Downtown Los Angeles)
251 S. Main Street Los Angeles, California 90012
April 25 (Sat) and 26 (Sun) Starplex Cinema (Irvine)
4626 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, CA 92604
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 4, 2009 under Oakland County Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
The 11th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Feb 5 - 22, opens on Thursday night with Somers Town by Shane Meadows. The award-winning film was hailed as the best British film of the year and received the top award at the 2008 Edinburgh Film Festival and won the Best Actor award at the Tribeca Film Festival. It follows two teenage boys on little adventures around town and is a story of the social environment in London. It started out as a short film that eventually grew into a full length feature and was shot in just 17 days. [via]
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson on Tuesday unveiled plans for a first-ever Oakland County Film Festival in 2010. Read more …
The 32nd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), will showcase 115 compelling new films from over three-dozen countries, including regional work, to an audience of more than 35,000 over the next two weeks.
The Festival opens Thursday, February 5th at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with the gala premiere of Oregon-based animation studio LAIKA’s new movie Coraline. The festival runs thru February 22.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 10, 2008 under Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
Kathmandu City, the cosmopolitan heart of the Himalayan region, is hosting the sixth edition of Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival from December 11-15, 2008. More than 60 films covering a wide array of subjects - including conflict, culture, climbing, wildlife, environment, globalization, gender, and lifestyles - will be screened back-to-back at the Rashtriya Sabha Griha and the Nepal Tourism Board, Pradarshani Marg (Exhibition Road).
Thirty-four films will be screened in the international non-competitive section, 19 in the international competitive category, and 12 films in Nepali Panorama section.
International (Competitive)
| Film | Filmmaker | Country |
| Autumn in the Himalayas | Malgorzata Skiba | India |
| Burma’s Open Road-An Insight into Myanmar | David Adams | Australia |
| Cherub of the Mist | Naresh Bedi | India |
| China’s Stolen Children | Jezza Neumann | UK |
| Full Cover Girl | Folke Ryden | SWEDEN |
| I Want My Father Back | Suma Josson | India |
| Joy for Life | Pavol Barabas | Slovakia |
| Karma | Tsering Rhitar Sherpa | Nepal |
| Komi, A Jounrney Across the Artic (Les Nomades Du Cercle Polaire) | Andreas Voigt | France |
| Living with Shame (wa quan) | Huaqing Jin | China |
| Pageant in Painted Scenes | Merajur Rahman Baruah | India |
| Playground | Eve Spence | Australia |
| Raga of River Narmada | Rajendra Janglay | India |
| Red Velvet | Klaus Reisinger and Frederique Lengaigne | France |
| The Day After Peace | Jeremy Gilley | UK |
| The Linguist | Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger | USA |
| The Thirst of a Stone Sea (Zed Kamenog Mora) | Vladimir Perovic | Serbia |
| Threshold | Deepak Rauniar | Nepal |
| TWISIN…..a reality not far away. | Prina Raj Joshi | Nepal |
| The Legend of Shiva and Parvati | Krishna Saraswati | Germany |
International (Non-competitive)
| Film | Filmmaker | Country |
| A Russian Wave | Becky Bristow | Canada |
| A Twinkle Behind Closed Eye (Ghughuti Basuti) | Geetika Juyal | India |
| Aconcagua Speed Flying | Francois Bon & Damien Dufresne | France |
| Across the Plateau | Zhang Zeming and Paul Liu | Australia |
| Amma | Aparna Kapur | Canada |
| Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha - from subsistence ecology to the market | Pankaj H Gupta | India |
| Crying Sun: The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya | USA | |
| Endless Journey (Nonimi Gamana) | Henry Warnakulasuriya | Sri Lanka |
| Hai Dupatta | Tess Joseph | India |
| Herdswoman (Hjordeliv) | Kine Boman | Sweden |
| I Became | Arwa Mamaji | India |
| Joseph’s Son (Joseph Ki Macha) | Booby Wahebgbam | India |
| Khoda | Reza Dolatabadi | UK |
| Liu Fei’s Summer Holidays (liu fei de shu jia) | Huaqing Jin | China |
| Mehendigonj of Barisal at Estuary of Meghna | Fuad Chowdhury | Bangladesh |
| Mountain Life (Bergschau) | Gerhard und Fridolin Baur | Germany |
| No Penguin’s Land | Barelli Marcel | Switzerland |
| Pustelniks in the mountain (Pustelnicy W Gorach) | MIROSLAW DEMBINSKI | POLAND |
| Red Bull X-Alps | Mario Kreuzer | Germany |
| Red Gold | Travis Rummel & Ben Knight | USA |
| Rightful Place | Producer - WITNESS and Human Rights Center Memorial | USA |
| Sacred Mountains of the World | Stipe Bozic | Croatia |
| The Angel of the Himalayas (Kataputali) | Toshiaki Itoh | Nepal |
| The Eighth Summit | Wayne Tindall | Australia |
| The Endless Knot | Michael Brown | USA |
| The High Mountains Guide (Des Hommes Sur La Montagne) | Dider Hill Derive | Belgium |
| The Honeymoon | Susanne Horizon Franzel | Germany |
| The Last Nomads | Andrew Gregg | Canada |
| The Sari Soldiers | Julie Bridgham | USA |
| The Skyrunner | Niko Jager | Germany |
| The Weatherprophets (die wetterpropheten) | Christoph Felder | GERMANY |
| Translation Possible | Susanne Horizon Franzel | Germany |
| Twin Trek | June Chua | CANADA |
| Unity in Diversity | Russ Pariseau | Nepal |
Nepal Panorama
| Film | Filmmaker | Country |
| Awaken Eyes | Binod Paudel | Nepal |
| Beyul: Sacred Hidden Valleys of the Himalaya | Tsering Rhitar Sherpa | Nepal |
| Changa | Pooja Gurung | Nepal |
| Dead yet Alive | Sanjog Laaphaa Magar | Nepal |
| Dream … a mess of things | Raghuwar Nepal | Nepal |
| Frames of War | Prem bk and Kesang Tseten | Nepal |
| Irony | Fidel Devkota | Nepal |
| Lives of Jawang (Jawangka Jindagiharu) | Ramesh Khadka | Nepal |
| Malami | Subarna Thapa | Nepal |
| Palush | Sindhu Pokhrel | Nepal |
| Petrol | Jiban Bhattarai | Nepal |
| Vintuna | Aaryem Nakami | Nepal |
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 1, 2008 under Uncategorized, Zero Film Festival | Be the First to Comment
Zero Film Festival - Sneaking in under the Hollywood radar and focusing on a critical yet traditionally ignored niche in the independent film community, Zero Film Festival screens exclusively self-financed,
zero budget films from filmmakers all over the world.
Zero Film Festival takes place December 1st - 6th, 2008 in warehouses, underground venues and other zero budget locations within downtown Los Angeles. The festival will be a week long celebration of the creative lifestyle, with real independent films from around the world and some of the best bands from the Los Angeles independent music scene.
[via press release]
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Thirty-six films from a dozen countries will be featured in the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, set for Wednesday, December 3 through December 14. Themes will include traditions and the lingering effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their families. [via]
Beau Jest 7:20
Followed by a reception for Society Members and Premium Passholders
Beau Jest 7:20
Followed by a reception for Society Members and Premium Passholders
Let’s Dance 7:20
Where are you going, Moishe? 9:30
Holy Land Hardball1:20
Max Minske and Me 3:30
The Beetle5:30
Waltz with Bashir 7:20
Love in Brief: Around Trip/Dancing w/Alfonso/Veils 1:20
Love Comes Lately3:30
One Day You’ll Understand 7:20
Two Lives Plus One 7:20
Letters to Jenny1:20
Refusnik3:30
Arab Labor7:20
The Lemon Tree7:20
Villa Jasmin1:20
Pauwel’s Circus/Waves of Freedom3:30
God and Co.
Naturalized
Circumsize Me7:20
Woman from Sarajevo/From Tripoli to Bergen-Belsen1:20
To See If I’m Smiling 3:30
Four Seasons Lodge 7:20
Two Lives Plus One 7:20
Father’s Footsteps 1:20
Emotional Arithmetic 3:30
El Brindis7:20
Where are you going, Moishe?9:30
Let’s Dance7:20
Villa Jasmin 1:20
A Secret 5:40
Hey! Hey! It’s Esther Blueberger 7:40
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 7, 2008 under Asiana International Short Film Festival, Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
The sixth Asiana International Short Film Festival kicked off this week and will run until next Monday in Gwanghwamun, downtown Seoul. Over 1,700 films from 70 countries are taking part in this year’s festival, with about 50 films competing for the W40 million (US$1=W1,330) grand prize. The festival also selects in-flight movies for Korea’s second flag carrier. Each year the organizing committee chooses around 10 films to be shown during Asiana’s international flights until June the following year. [via]
Out of 1,743 films from 69 countries, 52 films from 30 countries are selected for the Official Selection.
The Official Selection: Read more of this article »