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10th Annual Black Women Film Festival to Take Place June 13-15 in Atlanta

The Black Women Film Network (BWFN) will present its 10th Annual Black Women Film Festival June 13-15, 2014 in Atlanta.

The three-day event – sponsored by BET Networks, Spelman College, Atlanta Technical College, 11Alive, Moguldom Studios andMadame Noire – kicks off Friday, June 13 at 12:00pm at Spelman College (Sci Center NASA Auditorium) with 7 films by or about African-American women, including the controversial 72% (directed by Janice Garcia and Jeremy Batchelor), a documentary that explores the single mother phenomenon in the black community.

Documentary BOUND BY FLESH About Conjoined Twins Daisy and Violet Hilton Sets Release Dates

Sundance Selects will open the new documentary BOUND BY FLESH, about conjoined twin superstars Daisy and Violet Hilton theatrically in New York (IFC Center) and select theaters, VOD, and iTunes on June 27. The award-winning film was directed by Leslie Zemeckis (BEHIND THE BURLY Q).

17th Annual Brooklyn Film Festival Announces FORMULA Winners; Jadrien Steele’s VICTORIANA Wins Grand Chameleon Award and Best Narrative Feature

Brooklyn Film Festival, which ran from May 30 through June 8 in Williamsburg at indieScreen (289 Kent Avenue) and Windmill Studios NYC (287 Kent Avenue), announced the winners of its annual festival themed FORMULA. The event . The festival presented 107 film premieres from 34 countries, selected from over 2,000 submissions.

Jadrien Steele’s Victoriana won the awards for Grand Chameleon Award and Best Narrative Feature, and Best Documentary Feature went to Nima Sarvestani for No Burqas Behind Bars. Alexis Boling’s Movement and Location won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s Who Took Johnny won for Best Documentary Feature. Best New Director went to Matan Guggenheim for Paradise Cruise.

Seattle International Film Festival Announces 2014 Award Winners; “Boyhood” Sweeps with 3 Golden Space Needle Awards

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The 40th Seattle International Film Festival announced the winners of the SIFF 2014 Golden Space Needle and Competition Awards. Boyhood sweeps with 3 Golden Space Needle Awards including Best Film, Director, and Actress, Keep On Keepin’ On wins Golden Space Needle for Best Documentary. The 25-day festival, which began May 15, featured 452 films representing 83 countries, including 44 World Premieres (20 features, 24 shorts), 30 North American Premieres (22 features, 8 shorts), 14 US Premieres (8 features, 6 shorts), and over 770 Festival screenings and events.

The Academy Honors 15 Student Winners of 41st Student Academy Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday night honored fifteen student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony, held at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Hollywood. The gold, silver and bronze medals were announced and presented by actors Adrian Grenier, Nate Parker and Oscar® nominee Demian Bichir, and the Oscar-winning directing/producing team from the animated feature “Frozen,” Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho.

The 2014 Student Academy Award® winners are:

Lineup Announced for African Diaspora International Film Festival – Chicago; Opens with “Freedom Summer”

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The Chicago African Diaspora International Film Festival is back in Chicago to celebrate 12 years of consecutive work in the Windy City. To be held from June 13-19, hosted by Facets Cinematheque and presented by ArtMattan Productions, the festival will showcase 14 documentary and fiction films set in The United States, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Egypt, France, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Curacao, Morocco, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico.

The festival will open with Freedom Summer by Emmy-winning MacArthur “genius” Fellow filmmaker Stanley Nelson. A Sundance Film Festival favorite, this film covers the Civil Rights Movement efforts during a very intense period in Mississippi, the Summer of 1964. The screening will be preceded by a catered reception and will be followed by a discussion with veteran film producer Cyndee Readdean who will discuss the making of this powerful film that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer events.

WATCH Trailer for Newly Restored Documentary STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED

The trailer is released for the newly restored documentary Stations Of The Elevated. Stations Of The Elevated premiered at the 1981 New York Film Festival, but lacking appropriate music licenses, was never theatrically released in the United States. In the 30 years since its completion it has been rarely screened, developing a cult amongst cinephiles and jazz and graffiti lovers. After two years of working to secure appropriate licenses for its soundtrack, APD’s Cinema Conservancy program will finally make this crucial cultural document and cinematic experience available to the public in 2014 with a theatrical run.

Stony Brook Film Festival Unveils 2014 Film Lineup incl. NY Premiere of Juliette Binoche in “A Thousand Times Good Night”

Juliette Binoche in A Thousand Times Good Night, directed by Eric Poppe

The 19th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival, produced by Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, will screen ten evenings of the best in new independent film from Thursday, July 17 through Saturday, July 26 in the Staller Center Main Stage Theatre. The popular summer festival will include three World Premieres and four U.S. Premieres among the seventeen features and twenty shorts and host Q&As with filmmakers and Opening and Closing Night receptions.

The U.S. Premiere features include Back on Track directed by Kilian Riedhof, a bittersweet drama from Germany about a man well over 70 years old training for the Berlin marathon; Kenau, directed by Maarten Treurniet, a big-screen adventure from the Netherlands set in the 16th century; Paper Souls (Les âmes de papier) a quirky and surprising comedy from France; The Dark Valley directed by Andreas Prochaska, with Sam Riley (On the Road), a tale of revenge from Austria/Germany reminiscent of the best of American Westerns.

Film Lineup Revealed for 2014 New York Asian Film Festival; Crime Thriller OVERHEARD 3 to Open, Documentary MANSHIN: TEN THOUSAND SPIRITS to Close

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema in association with Japan Society announced the full lineup for the 2014 New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), which will take place June 27 – July 14. The festival of popular Asian cinema will showcase 60 feature films, including 1 major international premiere, 20 North American premieres, 6 U.S. premieres, and 11 more films making their New York City debuts. The festival will be attended by over 20 star filmmakers and celebrity guests traveling from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

NYAFF’s Opening Night presentation will be the International Premiere of Overheard 3, the highly anticipated finale to the immensely popular Hong Kong franchise. A stand-alone story of loyalty and morality that Sergio Leone might have made had he been working in Hong Kong, graced with a star-studded cast, and geared with heart-busting action, the ultimate episode in the epic saga, after tackling insider trading and stock market manipulation, sees writers-directors Alan Mak and Felix Chong—the creators of the Infernal Affairs trilogy—turning to real estate conspiracies in the Hong Kong New Territories.

THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON, The Directorial Debut of Mike Meyers Among 17 Films to See at 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival

SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON

The 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival taking place June 15 to 29, 2014, will host 17 features at this year including: THE LAST OF THE UNJUST, Claude Lanzmann’s follow-up to SHOAH, SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON, the directorial debut of Mike Meyers (AUSTIN POWERS, WAYNE’S WORLD), the Opening Night selection FRIENDS FROM FRANCE, a Cold War-era thriller set behind the Iron Curtain, THE WONDERS, a neo-noir tracking one graffiti artist’s descent into a world of crime, and many other fine selections.

The 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival is produced by the Northwest Film Center and co-presented with the Institute for Judaic Studies. While the Festival specifically celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture, and identity, these films and the stories they tell also resonate beyond their settings and speak to experiences and issues that confront our common humanity.

See Pictures From Opening Night of 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival

The 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival kicked off on Friday night with two Opening Night films: the World Premiere of T.J. Misny’s Intimate Semaphores, and the New York Premiere of Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns. The festival continues through June 8, 2014.

See more pictures from opening night at 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival.

Watch out Brooklyn! The Clothespin Freaks are back! Stop-Motion Animated Short “Hanging By A Thread” at the Brooklyn Film Festival

After winning Best Animated Film in Seattle, Brooklyn artist and filmmaker Catya Plate returns to Williamsburg to screen her most recent stop-motion animated short film “Hanging By A Thread” (Best Animated Short, Nevada City Film Festival, 2013; Best Animated Film, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, 2014) at the Brooklyn Film Festival!

Like her award-winning short “The Reading”, “Hanging By A Thread” features her trademark characters, the Clothespin Freaks, this time, in a post-apocalyptic future where the human race has fallen to pieces.

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