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TIFF Kids International Film Festival Unveils Film Lineup; Opens With Canadian premiere of RIO 2, Closes With THE HOUSE OF MAGIC

THE HOUSE OF MAGIC

The TIFF Kids International Film Festival, returns for its 17th year at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto from April 8 to 21, 2014, with a slate full of premieres of some of the best films from around the world for children aged 3 to 13. The TIFF Kids Festival kicks off on Opening Night with the Canadian premiere of RIO 2, the all-star sequel to the smash-hit 2011 animated adventure, reuniting audiences with Blu and Jewel, voiced by Oscar® nominee Jesse Eisenberg and Oscar® winner Anne Hathaway, and wraps with the Closing Night Film THE HOUSE OF MAGIC, a gorgeously animated 3D feature from Belgium about a young abandoned cat who finds a new home in an enchanted mansion.

37th Portland International Film Festival Audience Awards; TWO LIVES Wins Best Narrative Feature, FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Wins Best Documentary

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER

The 37th Portland International Film Festival announced this year’s Alaska Airlines Audience Award winners voted on by the 38,000+ attendees on each of the 104 features and 24 shorts screened at the festival. Earning top audience accolades for Best Narrative Feature is TWO LIVES (Germany) directed by George Maas and Judith Kaufmann. FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (United States) directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel was selected as the Best Documentary Feature. Maloof and Siskel also took home the audience award for Best New Director Award. The PIFF 37 audience chose ERNEST AND CELESTINE (France) as this year’s Best Animated Feature. This year’s Short Film Awards go to directors Asa Blanck and Johan Palmgren for their film GRANDPA AND ME AND A HELICOPTER TO HEAVEN (Sweden) and Irene Taylor Brodsky’s ONE LAST HUG AND A FEW SMOOCHES: THREE DAYS AT GRIEF CAMP was the recipient of the Oregon Short Film Award.

Film Society of Lincoln Center Unveils Lineup for 2014 ART OF THE REAL Series; Opens With LA ÚLTIMA PELÍCULA

LA ÚLTIMA PELÍCULA

The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City announced the full schedule and details for Art of the Real, the new documentary-as-art series that will take place April 11-26, 2014. Corneliu Porumboiu’s THE SECOND GAME will have its North American premiere on Opening Night, with the director in attendance, following the screening of Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s LA ÚLTIMA PELÍCULA.

Documentary TANZANIA: A JOURNEY WITHIN Sets Release Day; VIDEO: Watch Trailer

The documentary, TANZANIA: A JOURNEY WITHIN, directed by Sylvia Caminer, which follows the journey of two unlikely friends, Kristen Kenney, a privileged young American woman, and Venance Ndibalema, a Tanzanian scientist/philosopher, as they travel across Tanzania, opens in NYC April 25 in conjunction with World Malaria Day, and in LA on May 2, before expanding nationwide.

Unlucky 13! 13th SCINEMA Festival of Science Film CANCELED for 2014.

SCINEMA Festival of Science Film is canceled for 2014. The Australian festival announced that because they were not successful in their funding bid, the festival will take a hiatus and return in 2015. SCINEMA Festival of Science Film is a traveling science film and multimedia festival based in Canberra, Australia.

Robert Greene’s THE ACTRESS to Open SF DocFest

Robert Greene’s THE ACTRESS

The 13th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) taking place June 5 to 19, 2014, will open on June 5th with Robert Greene’s new film THE ACTRESS, which follows Brandy Burre, an actress who gave up her role in HBO’s “The Wire” to start a family in upstate New York. After playing the role of wife and mother, Burre decided to re-enter the acting business. The film will play as part of a retrospective of Robert Greene’s earlier work.

A WILL FOR THE WOODS Top Winners of 2014 SF IndieFest

A WILL FOR THE WOODS directed by Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale and Brian Wilson

After 2 weeks of films, the 16th SF IndieFest came to a close; and the festival announced the 2014 Award winning films and filmmakers. The audience voted LETS RUIN IT WITH BABIES directed by Kestrin Pantera as the Best Narrative Feature, and A WILL FOR THE WOODS directed by Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale and Brian Wilson as Best Documentary Feature. The Jury also selected A WILL FOR THE WOODS as Best Documentary Feature, but went with DOOMSDAYS for Best Narrative Feature.

VIDEO: Watch Trailer for THE FINAL MEMBER, About Iceland Museum Devoted to the Male Member (LOL)

Check out the trailer for the new documentary called THE FINAL MEMBER that will be released in April 2014. Paris has the Louvre. London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland—a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle—boasts the world’s only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia.

American Documentary Film Festival to Screen “God Loves Uganda,” by Academy Award Winning Director, Roger Ross Williams

Although Uganda’s President Museveni claimed he was signing the country’s controversial anti-gay bill into law to fight liberal cultural imperialism by the West, the reality is that he may have actually signed the bill into law as a direct result of just the opposite: conservative cultural imperialism by America’s Christian Right. Possible? Academy Award-Winning Director Roger Ross Williams explores exactly that theory in his documentary GOD LOVES UGANDA at the American Documentary Film Festival which opens on Thursday, March 27th and continues through Monday, March 31st, 2014.

Ashland Independent Film Festival Announces 2014 Film Schedule Lineup

THE CASE AGAINST 8

The Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) unveiled its complete program for the thirteenth annual Festival, to be held in the heart of historic downtown Ashland, Oregon, April 3 to 7, 2014. The Festival will open with THE CASE AGAINST 8, is a behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

2014 Tribeca Film Festival announces World Narrative and Documentary Competition selections, plus Viewpoints titles

SUMMER OF BLOOD

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), today announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, along with selections for the out-of-competition Viewpoints section which highlights unique, personal stories and diverse filmmakers in international and American independent cinema. Forty seven of the 87 feature-length films were announced as part of the 13th edition of the Festival, which will take place from April 16 to April 27 at locations around New York City and open with the documentary film TIME IS ILLMATIC.

The Festival announced that DIOR AND I will screen as opening night for the World Documentary competition, GABRIEL will open the World Narrative competition, and SUMMER OF BLOOD will open the Viewpoints section. All three titles will have their world premiere on April 17.

Finalists Announced for Spring 2014 San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) Filmmaking Grants

San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) have selected 15 finalists for the latest round of SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants; more than $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature film projects at any stage of production. SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants are awarded twice annually to narrative films that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. More than $2 million has been awarded since the launch of the Film Society’s flagship grant program in 2009. Winners of the spring 2014 SFFS / KRF Grants will be announced in late April.

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