Jaeger- LeCoultre and Fundacion Aladina started up a new campaign to raise funds for the children with cancer during the 62 San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Time to Smile, there is no time to waste but lives to save

Several Spanish artists such as Belén Rueda, Eduard Fernández, Imanol Arias, Manuela Vellés, Juana Acosta and Miguel Angel Muñoz donated some photographies that will be shown in an exhibition set at the Hotel Maria Cristina during the Festival.

To help this cause you have to register at www.instagramersgallery.com  and vote for your favorite one. 1 like = 1 Euro.

Fundacion Aladina will donate the same amount of money as likes will get the most voted photo to help the kids at its organization and so they may enjoy holidays at Barrestown, a summer camp specially founded by Paul Newman to accommodate this youngsters suffering severe decease and be able to escape from hospital routine at least a few days.

This will be the second year that Aladina anf Jaeger-LeCoultre participate together with the San Sebastian fest in a solidary campaign. Last year´s Reverse for a Smile campaign was a success.

For those willing to collaborate here it is the bank account where you may contribute. All very welcome.

BENEFICIARY: FUNDACIÓN ALADINA

CONCEPT: TIME TO SMILE

BANK:    BANCO SANTANDER

ES35 0030 4537 6000 0039 7271  (BIC/SWIFT ESPCESMM)

Video by Leopoldo Soto Photo by Laurie Gordon

A Cinematic Feast In The Valley of The Moon
An eclectic SIX day celebration of cinema, the arts and cultural exchange. Films screen Outdoors in a spectacular setting at Deerfield Ranch Winery in Kenwood & Inside the winery’s Grand Room Cave Theatre, The KenWood Restaurant, Dunbar School & nearby venues in the Heart of the Valley.

Opening Night in the Deerfield Cave Short Film Program One: 

Wed. September 17, 6:00pm, Deerfield Cave 
Admission: $20 includes feature at 7:45

OPENING NIGHT OUTDOOR FEATURE:  THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU  

Be the first to see this drama comedy starring Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, & Adam Driver! When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.

 

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

THE GOOD LIE

Reese Witherspoon stars along- side Sudanese actors Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and newcomer Nyakuoth Weil as refugees who flee civil war that displaced over 20,000 youth and wind up in the US. Be the first to see this important film under the stars. 

Sept. 21, Deerfield  

 

MAÏNA

A tale of cultural conflict and resolution, involving coming of age, aboriginal life, spirituality, healing and profound love. Breathtaking cinematography, a terrific soundtrack, and fine acting make this film deeply moving with universal appeal. Co-Winner WCFF Jack London Spirit Award. Director Michel Poulette In Person.

Sept. 19, Deerfield

TERROIR
WORLD PREMIERE  

Keith Carradine stars in this luscious Tuscan wine drama based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.” Filmed in Tuscany’s most scenic wine estates Terroir features authentic wine-making traditions, sensual cinematography, and occult rituals derived from the secret rites of real-life erotic cults. Authentic wine lore thanks to some of Tuscany’s finest winemakers including Salvatore Ferragamo who are in this drama.

 Sept. 20, Deerfield

 

DRUID PEAK

A coming of age story about a troubled teenage boy who finds his place in the world tracking wolves in the wild lands of Wyoming. CoWinner WCFF Jack London Spirit Award. Amaroq Weiss, of West Coast Wolf Organizer In Person.

Sept. 18, Deerfield

Full Film Listing

 

The NIGHTINGALE

Philippe Muyl (The Butterfly) returns with a magnificent new family road movie, entirely set in China. Zhigen, an old Chinese farmer living alone in Beijing, sets out on the journey to beautiful Yangshuo to take back the bird, his only companion in the city. Renxing, his young spoiled and rebelious granddaughter, accompanies him & eventually experiences the Transformative Power of Nature.

Sept. 19, Deerfield

Estonian / Georgian Cultural Event & Picnic

Sept. 21 ~ 4:30pm Deerfield
 

TANGERINES 
Sept. 21, Deerfield -

 

Two Estonians living in Georgia (the Caucasus) become Peace Makers during the Georgian conflict in region of Abkhazia. They heal two wounded enemy soldiers. The story carries a pacifist message and poses the question of what it means to be human. Includes Dove Release in honor of INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY.

The FARMER & The CHEF

Cynthia Sandberg transforms a 2-acre garden to the 21-acre Love Apple Farms, while partner Chef David Kinch of two-star Michelin Manresa confronts the challenges of cooking with a ten fold increase of product. Their passion for farm- ing and cooking inspires!

Filmmakers, Farmer & Chef In Person.

Sept. 21, The KenWood 
 

Film schedule

CLOSING NIGHT
MONDAY, SEPT. 22ND
DEERFIELD RANCH WINERY

6pm~ Bobby Jo: Journey of a Singer/Songer + Live Performance

7:30pm~ John Burdick’s Live Blues Tribute

followed by
 

West Coast Premiere

JOHNNY WINTER - DOWN AND DIRTY 

BY  GREG OLIVER

Ultimate film of Blues Master Johnny Winter, of his life and times, from his East Texas beginnings to his world tour at age 70. A story of courage, commitment, and deep friendships.

ClipAward | 9th Internation Low & No Budget Short Film Festival Mannheim

The 9th edition of ClipAward will take place in October 3-5, 2014 in the baroque Mannheim Palace.

About 600 fabulous shorts, documentaries, installations, and music videos have reached the ClipAward

headquarter in Mannheim. After two sighting sessions it appears that it might be the best program in festival

history. Deep, kinky, amusing, and entertaining! 

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3 days // 9 sections // more than 800 minutes free schort film culture!

* SHORT FILM COMPETITION *

* INTERNATIONAL SHORTS *

* MUSICVIDEO COMPETITION *

* YOUNG SHORT FILM *

* PERSPECTIVE ROMANIA & MOLDOVA * 

* TRASH BRUNCH * 

* OPEN STAGE *

* CULTURAL KALEIDOSCOPE *

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About 100 films from over than 600 submissions were shown during the festival weekend in 9 sections.

The programme is offering you audiovisual art and an exciting worhshop programme.

Check out our hompage for tickets and further information about the festival and our programme http://www.clipaward.org

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We're looking forward to an exciting 9th ClipAward Short Film Festival!

“We are committed to bringing our audiences the very best films with Jewish content from around the globe, both fiction and documentary,” says Amy Geller, BJFF Artistic Director. “BJFF 2014 has a stellar line-up of films and related events--guest speakers, moderated discussions, after-parties, and in-person visits from filmmakers, actors, and other artists.”

This year, there are 39 films from 14 countries including Cuba, Greece, Morocco, and the Philippines, and of course many from Israel and the United States.17 films are New England premieres.

Says Geller: “Our festival strives to bring together a passionate Jewish community as well as movie lovers of all faiths and walks of life. And of all ages. This year, we have several fun, edgy programs, the FRESHFLIX picks, curated by and for younger adults (20’s-40’s). With something for everyone, we anticipate breaking our record last year of over 10,000 tickets sold and 17 sold-out films.”

BJFF 2014 Special Highlights include:

• Fifth Commandment Series: Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother
In Exodus, Moses received the Ten Commandments. “Honor thy father and thy mother was the fifth, and sometimes, through the centuries, the hardest to live by. The 2014 BJFF explores the complicated relationships between Jewish parents and their children in nine thought-provoking and often humorous films.

• Sports!

This year, the BJFF presents two sports related films: Touchdown Israel and  Havana Curveball

Touchdown Israel
Yes, there’s American football in the Holy Land, an eleven-team league of pigskin crazy amateurs, who play on too-short soccer fields while wives and parents look on anxiously. The players and coaches represent a cross-section of Israeli society, including Arabs, Christians, and religious settlers; their shared passion creates unexpected friendships. Includes an interview with New England Patriots owner, Bob Kraft, one of the supporters of the Israeli league. (Saturday, November 15, 6:30 p.m., Belmont Studio Cinema)

• Family Programming:   Havana Curveball (recommended for ages 8 and up):
As part of his Bar Mitzvah project, “Thirteen-year-old Mica takes to heart his Rabbi’s dictate to help ‘heal the world,’ and launches a grand plane to send baseballs to Cuba—a country with a mysterious pull. He knows only that Cubans have few resources, love baseball, and gave refuge to his grandfather during the Holocaust. The filmmakers, also Mica’s proud parents, know a curveball is coming…” –Washington Jewish Film Festival (Sunday, November 9, 2:15 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre)

• FRESHFLIX, a new program targeting young adults 20’s-40’s, kicks off with two events:

The Hole Story with director, writer and actor Alex Karpovsky, a Newton native. Filmgoers will have the opportunity to meet Karpovsky, a star of HBO’s Girls, and listen to his stories about his friendship and work with Lena Dunham, acting for the Coen Brothers, and much, much more. (Saturday, November 8, 6:30 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre)

The 4th Annual Short Film Competition. The audience will meet and mingle with a new wave of young filmmakers, pick the winning shorts via text voting, and, afterward, clink glasses with Boston’s tastemakers at the Saloon in Somerville’s Davis Square. (Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m., Somerville Theatre)

• Honoring a Great American Director: Paul Mazursky:
The BJFF mourns the death this year of Hollywood veteran director Paul Mazursky, best known for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, but who also made classic films about Jewish identity—Blume in Love; Enemies, A Love Story; and the film BJFF is screening on November 16 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Next Stop Greenwich Village. Perhaps no other American film has so profoundly captured what it felt like to be young and enraptured by New York City. (Sunday, November 16, 4:00 p.m., Institute of Contemporary Art)

• Favorite Films from the Famous asks: which classic Jewish films have influenced local luminaries? Anita Diamant, the celebrated author of the best-selling The Red Tent, will present Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street. It’s a bracing comedy of Jewish immigration and assimilation, starring Carol Kane, an Academy Award nominee for Best Actress. (Thursday, November 13, 6:45 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre)

• BJFF Community Leadership Award: The BJFF is proud to honor Deborah Nathan with the 2nd Annual Community Leadership Award for her passionate commitment to social justice and to improving society. Nathan, an arts therapy specialist and professional artist, founded Artsbridge, an organization that uses art and dialogue to develop constructive partnerships between American, Israeli, and Palestinian youth. (Sunday, November 9, 5:00 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre)

• The Local Connection!

In addition to Touchdown Israel and the Alex Karpovsky event, the BJFF 2014 will screen three additional films with local ties:

Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield
The late Chicago guitarist stands in the pantheon of Jewish rock ’n’ rollers alongside Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, with whom he played on Highway 61 Revisited. This colorful musical biography Includes interviews with Carlos Santana, BB King, the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, and with Bloomfield’s friend, Al Kooper, formerly of Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Kooper, recently a Berklee professor, will be in person at the film screening along with director Bob Sarles. (Saturday, November 15, 9:00 p.m., Brattle Theatre)

Next Stop: Greenwich Village
In Paul Mazursky’s autobiographical comedy set in the 1950s, Larry Lapinsky crosses the bridge from Brooklyn and his larger-than-life Jewish mother (an astonishing Shelly Winters) to become an actor, a lover, and a Greenwich Village bohemian. With sublime supporting performances from Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Walken and a commanding lead from the late Lenny Baker, a Brookline native and a BU graduate. (Sunday, November 16, 4:00 p.m., Institute of Contemporary Art)

Watchers of the Sky
Juxtaposing four stories of courage and humanity, and journeying from Nuremburg to Bosnia to Rwanda to The Hague, Watchers of the Sky chronicles the extraordinary life of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew who created the word “genocide.” Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem from Hell, which praised Lemkin for his seminal contribution to international law. A discussion follows, moderated by Dean Martha Minow, Harvard Law School.

This screening is presented in partnership with The Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard, Facing History & Ourselves and DocYard. The last is an award-winning film and discussion series of documentaries at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge. (Saturday, November 8, 6:30 p.m., Brattle Theatre)


Festival Locations, Tickets, and Sponsors

Locations: Venues include AMC Framingham, AMC Liberty Tree Mall 20, Arlington Capitol Theatre, Belmont Studio Cinema, Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place, Somerville Theatre, Warwick Cinema, and West Newton Cinema.

Tickets: Film descriptions, schedule, and ticket information are available now at bjff.org. Tickets go on sale via the web site on September 22. All films, with the exception of Special Events, are $14 general admission; $12 for seniors, students and members of the BJFF, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts and WGBH. Special Events: Opening Night (Nov. 6), Mid-Fest Film (Nov. 13) and Boston Closing Night (Nov. 17): $26 General Admission/$24 Discount. Sponsors:

Festival sponsors include: Adelson Family Foundation, Cambridge Trust Co., Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Consulate General of Israel to New England, The Cross Country Group, Franklin Sports, Israel Bonds, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Newbridge on the Charles, and Northern Trust.

The Boston Jewish Film Festival, a not-for-profit arts organization, celebrates the richness of the Jewish experience through film and media. Throughout the year, the Festival engages and inspires the community to explore the full spectrum of Jewish life and culture.
 

From the glitz and glamour of Cannes to world-firsts at Warsaw to the homegrown heroes in Sydney, the TasmanianBreath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival has scoured the world’s film festivals throughout the year to bring the best films of 2014 to Tasmania.

BOFA (sited in Launceston, Tasmania ) is proud to announce the full program of diverse and powerful films for its fifth annual festival, which will take place this year from Thursday November 6 to Sunday November 9, 2014. This year there is a strong focus on documentary films as well as the best of the best features from around the world.

“BOFA has always been about documentaries and features with inspiring stories of challenge and achievement,” said Festival Director Owen Tilbury. “2014 is different only in that we have found an even more-amazing-than-normal range of powerful documentaries for the program. So our opening night film, Desert Runners,  is unusually a documentary.”

Desert Runners tells the extraordinary story of the 4 Desert Ultra-Marathon Series, in which competitors run 4 grueling 250km races in the space of a year across some of the world’s most inhospitable terrains – the Gobi, the Atacama, the Sahara and Antarctica. BOFA is proud to show this dramatic documentary film on opening night, Thursday November 6, for its Australian film festival premiere.

Samantha Gash, whose journey is captured in Desert Runners, is a special guest of this year’s opening night as well as throughout the festival. Gash is the youngest person and the only Australian female to complete the 4 Desert Grand Slam and is a co-founder of Freedom Runners. Ticket holders have the chance to meet this inspiring woman at the glamorous opening night party, as well as mixing with other visiting actors and filmmakers. Guests can party the night away enjoying fine Tasmanian food and wine prepared by Don Cameron, one of the state’s finest chefs.

BOFA is thrilled to be screening this year’s winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Winter Sleep. This Turkish film tells the story of Mr Aydin, who presides over a hotel on the Anatolian steppe. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animositie. It has been described as “near perfect film making.”

Other Cannes prize-winners screening at BOFA include Force Majeure, winner of the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section. This simultaneously hilarious and disturbing film, , from Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund, investigates what happens to a man who instinctively abandons his family when a threatening avalanche turns out to be a false alarm.

In a proud moment for Australians at Cannes this year, veteran actor David Gulpilil won the Best Actor Un Certain Regard after receiving a long standing ovation for his captivating performance in Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country. Thanks to the support of Tasmanians for Recognition, a FREE screening of Charlie’s Country will take place on the Saturday of the Festival.

Winner of Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival, Two Days, One Night bears witness to a tour de force performance by Marion Cotillard, playing Sandra, who has a weekend to convince her co-workers at a solar-panel factory to forego their yearly bonus in order for Sandra to keep her job.

Another festival winner is Tangerines, which took out the Grand Prix at the Warsaw Film Festival earlier this year. Directed by Zaza Urushadze, this wonderful film manages to insert humour and humanity into the Georgia/Russia conflict of 1992.

Other highlights of the festival include Advanced Style, which documents New York photographer Ari Seth Cohen as he photographs New York fashionistas ranging in age from 60-90 years old for his street-style blog. These ladies (and gentlemen) prove that age is no limit to being fabulous.  

Another documentary, Finding Fela tackles the astonishing life of Nigerian musical pioneer, political maverick and global superstar Fela Kuti, whose biography inspired the Broadway smash hit musical, FELA!

A good laugh is had from The Trip to Italy with Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, the follow-up to the hilarious hit comedy The Trip. The Trip to Italy sees Coogan and Brydon team up once more to go on a driving tour of Italy, visiting charming restaurants and hotels inspiring discussions between the two friends about life, relationships and careers.

There’s also horror genre bender The Babadook directed by Jennifer Kent and starring Tasmanian-born Essie Davis and Noah Winspear.  This is preceded by the winner of the Stranger with My Face Short film Tasploitation Challenge competition, Bring in the Cat.

Another Tasmanian talent, filmmaker Niall Doran will be in attendance for a Q&A session after an exclusive screening of excerpts from his film (still in post-production), Sixteen Legs, which captures the never-before filmed kinky sexual behaviour of Tasmanian Cave Spiders. Witness the significant challenges for the film crew as they attempt to shoot these dinner-plate sized arachnids who don’t like light or heat in their completely dark and hostile environment.

The Sound of One Hand Clapping is this year's retrospective classic, telling the story of a post war migrant mother who leaves her three-year old daughter in a hut at a remote Tasmanian construction camp. Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan, who also directed the film and has just recently been shortlisted for this year’s Mann Booker Prize, will host the Q&A session.

BOFA is also about action. Films on innovation and community development are used to prompt an audience of  opinion leaders from around Tasmania to make plans for creating state growth and effective collaboration . Action Sessions include ‘Regional Innovation, State Growth’ lead by Dr Anton Kritz, developer of the Regional Innovation Model (RIM), which is transforming the Central Coast of NSW, looking at how  this model could be applied to Tasmania. Also, ‘Collaborating for Collective Impact’ will feature John Dengate, the Director of Twyfords, leading community groups like Anglicare Tasmania in a discussion on how Collective Impact can achieve significant and lasting social change in Tasmania.

Sponsored by Screen Tasmania is the industry master-class, ‘Making Documentaries and Factual Content Films that Make a Difference.’ Leading industry professionals such as Trish Lake from Freshwater Pictures, John Godfrey from SBS, Phil Craig of ABC; Susan Mackinnon, Documentary Australia Foundation; and many others discuss how to choose, develop, fund, make and distribute documentaries.

The Big Picture Debate is a free event tackling the topic of ‘Fracking in Tasmania:   Good or Bad?’ Fracking conjures images of flammable water gushing from faucets in films like Gaslands whilst  USA experts estimate that domestic shale sites hold an additional 24 billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas and claim it is safe. So who is right? Speakers from both sides of the argument will debate the pros and cons aided by footage from films on the subject, including the soon to be released The Frackman.

The Festival Lounge and Wine Bar will be open all throughout the festival from 11am until late in The Annexe, providing the perfect place to meet up with friends before or after a film and enjoy fine Tasmanian wine and beer, gourmet food and coffee. The Festival Lounge also provides a great environment for all festival-goers to mingle and meet on a level playing field, be they film fans or directors, festival guests or first-timers. Everyone is welcome.

BOFA 2014 is set to be a jam-packed four days of the world's best  films, insightful discussions, and wonderful food and wine. Immerse yourself for the whole four days or dip into BOFA this November  in Tasmania's  beautiful Tamar Valley . It will no doubt be the ‘breath of fresh air’ you’ve been craving!

For more information and full program and ticketing details, visit http://bofa.com.au/. 

You Couldn’t Make This Up…

Screening in Sydney from Tuesday 14 to Sunday 19 October the Antenna Documentary Film Festival today announces their full program line up. From game-changing docos, bold in style and extraordinary in form, to live interactive tales, Antenna proves yet again this is a festival with attitude, triumphs, challenges and soul.

Presenting their most ambitious program yet, filled with 35 features from over twenty countries, Antenna offers a rare opportunity to see the very best in documentary cinema from the furthest corners of the world, right to your doorstep in one superbly curated festival.

A shining example of boundary-pushing documentary filmmaking, Choose Your Own Documentary (CYOD) will have its live interactive Australian premiere at the Festival. Based on the classic ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books, the film follows Nathan Penlington and a team of filmmakers (all festival guests) as they embark on an epic quest to unravel the mystery of an old notebook they have discovered. But there is a twist. The audience decide Nathan’s fate by using remote controls. With over 1,500 paths and multiple endings, his fate is in their hands.

“Looking at this year’s line-up, we are extremely proud of the films that we have programmed ahead of Antenna 2014 for Sydney audiences” said Festival Director, David Rokach. “We are thrilled to be screening films by established directors, such asMartin Scorsese’s latest documentary The 50 Year Argument, as well as by many talented and emerging directors from Australia and around the world”.

Antenna kicks off Opening Night with the existential black comedy, Bugarach. Teasing the line between fact and fiction, this playful film follows a small town in France predicted as being the only place in the World to be saved from the Mayan Doomsday prophecy.

Not to be out done is Catalonia’s own Tarzan, amateur movie star and architectural wonder Garrell, who conquers his greatest role yet in The Creator of the Jungle. Fashioned entirely from home videos spanning 45 years, this spellbinding film is an extraordinary portrait of a man who crafted some of the most gorgeous hidden structures known to humankind.

LGBTIQ issues are a focus at the festival with compelling tales that focus on those issues still prevalent within the community today. The three hour experimental doco What Now? Remind Me is one of the most powerful films ever made about living with HIV. Filmmaker Joaquim Pinto turns the camera onto himself, documenting his personal insights on life as he combats this illness. Limited Partnership tells the incredible story of the first legally married same-sex couple in the US. It follows their struggles with the government after the controversial rejection of a green card on the grounds of “failing to establish a bona fide marital relationship between two faggots.”

Antenna invites audiences to join the craze that swept across Argentina in Living Stars, which peers into the private lives of everyday Argentinians as they dance in their living rooms, kitchens, garages and workplaces. This fun and lively non-narrative film celebrates their infectious joyous abandonment, and has led to the film being described as the most fun audiences will have in a cinema this year.

With the escalating conflicts across the Middle East, Antenna has two powerful films which capture the anxiety, destruction and personal toll of civil war. Sundance prize-winner Return to Homs takes us deep into the Syrian conflict, tracking key players in the resistance against Bashir al-Assad's regime from 2011 to 2013. Tribeca Prize Winner, Point and Shoot tells the unbelievable journey of Matthew Van Dyke, who armed with his video camera, sets off on a Motorcycle Diaries-style adventure. Winding up in Libya, he forms great friendships that inspire him to join the rebel army against Gaddafi – all the while keeping his camera rolling.

Antenna once again presents a strong Australian competition with films about inspiring characters living on the margins. Four Australian feature films are participating in this years program; Sons & Mothers, follows an acting troupe comprised of men with disabilities who set out to create a theatrical love letter to their mothers; These Heathen Dreams rediscovers Christopher Barnett, one of Australia’s most creative and unflinching artists of all time; I Will Not Be Silenced tells the story of Australian Charlotte Campbell- Stephen, who is fierce and brave in talking about her horrific gang rape in Kenya, which led to a seven-year battle for justice and The Land Between, which gazes into the hidden lives of African asylum seekers stranded between borders. 

The festival will culminate with Carlo Zoratti’s The Special Need, preceded by an award ceremony announcing the winner of the SBS Award for Best International Documentary, the Award for Best Australian Documentary and the Award for Best Short Documentary, with cash prizes totaling $6000.

Not for the faint-hearted and more importantly not to be missed, the Antenna Documentary Film Festival is set to challenge, seduce and inspire.

For tickets and more information visit antennafestival.org

FESTIVAL DETAILS

Tuesday 14th to Sunday 19th October, 2014
Palace Verona – 17 Oxford Street, Paddington
Chauvel Cinema – 249 Oxford St, Paddington (Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rd)                        

Giant Dwarf Theatre - 199 Cleveland Street, Redfern, 2016

Website: http://antennafestival.org

General Admission – Adult $18/Concession $15
Multi Passes – 3 films: $50, 5 films: $80, 10 films: $140

MEDIA ENQUIRIES:
Matt Fraser matt@cardinalspin.com.au P: 02 8065 7363 M: 0401 326 007
Amber Forrest-Bisley amber@cardinalspin.com.au P: 02 8065 7363 M: 0405 363 817

KEY LINKS

http://antennafestival.org

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Co-presented by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) with Istituto Luce Cinecittà, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong, this year's edition will once again be held at The Grand Cinema, Elements, Kowloon Station, with 8 latest selected Italian films running from 17 to 21 September 2014. The festival will open with the Asian premiere of Ferzan OZPETEK’s FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS (Allacciate le cinture). Mr. OZPETEK, a Turkish director who lives in Italy, gained widespread recognition with his debut production, HAMAM which was acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.

Tickets available now!

Other programmes: http://www.cine-italiano.hk

WILLiFEST Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

We're back!!! We are celebrating our 5th year with a kick-off invitation only (Sorry!) cocktail party this Thursday in Williamsburg which will be followed by our Opening Night Screening at the Williamsburg Cinemas. This year WILLiFEST presents the premiere of director Malindi Fickle’s drama Suck It Up Buttercup.

Friday brings a full day and night of  screenings at two venues, Williamsburg Cinemas and returning partner El Puente.

Friday also features an Industry Panel on the popular topic of crowdfunding at WILLiFEST Central located in the lower level of Sandbox. This panel presented by Crowdzu and moderated by writer/director/producer, Jim Jermanok will feature filmmakers Anthony Arkin, Jayce Bartok, Rob Fortunato, writer and biographer Felicia  Lin, and musician Billy Chrissochos of the band Porphyra. You can learn more about our panelists at http://www.willifest.com/2014/panels. Refreshments will be served. So come on down if you would like to learn the nitty-gritty of rewards-based crowdfunding. Space is limited! So bring your festival pass or RSVP for free via Meetup.


Friday night brings our first annual Pitch Contest. Presented by UHE-TV, this competition allows for one lucky filmmaker or screenwriter to get their film or TV series idea produced and broadcast. The event is being held at Barber Bart with drinks sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery.

Saturday kicks off with a block of family films at El Puente at 11:30 am. Over at Barber Bart, Donna Drake, host of the TV show LiVE it UP!, will be shooting an episode of her show from 1:00 pm - 6:30 pm. The taping will include interviews with filmmakers and musicians, peppered with live music performances.

Another Industry Panel, Getting the Part: Tips for the Working Actor, presented by Center for Active Learning, will take place at Videology at 2:00 pm, preceded by an hour of networking at the same venue. Panelists' information can be found online. This panel is free with a WILLiFEST Full or Saturday pass. You can also buy tickets at Eventbrite or at the door.

Screenings continue all day Saturday at Williamsburg Cinemas and at El Puente venues till midnight. Saturday will also feature our fifth annual Student Film competition over two back-to-back screening blocks at the Williamsburg Cinemas. The future of film is in their hands.

Sunday is wrap-up day. This year’s Closing Day film, showing at 1:00 pm at El Puente is the Spanish comedy caper from the Dominican Republic De Pez En Cuando (Once Upon a Fish) directed by Francisco Valdez. Our final event at 5pm at El Puente will be our annual Awards Ceremony where trophies will be handed out in recognition of the best feature and short films, actors, directors, documentaries, student films, music videos, soundtracks, commercials, and screenplays.

Congratulations to all our 2014 Screenplay Competition Winners!

Tickets and passes for WILLiFEST 2014 are still available at http://www.willifest.com/2014/tickets. Directions to all venues can be found on our website at willifest.com/2014/venues. The complete schedule can be seen at willifest.com/2014/overview. This year’s film line-up is at willifest.com/2014/films and our 2014 sponsors can be seen at willifest.com/2014/sponsors.

The 43rd Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) is pleased to announce the first wave of films from Quebec and Canada in our lineup. Once again this year, the Festival will be putting local cinema in the limelight by screening some much-awaited works spread out over several programs, including the International Competition – Louve d’or, Focus, FNC Lab, Panorama and Special Presentation for the features as well as a variety of short film programs.

The FNC will present the much-awaited Félix and Meira (Félix et Meira),the new film by Maxime Giroux (whose Jo pour Jonathan was shown in 2010), the tale of an unlikely romance between a woman from the Hassidic Jewish community and a lonely young man mourning his absent father; Love in the Time of Civil War (L’Amour au temps de la guerre civile), Rodrigue Jean’s first fiction film since Lost Song, presented at the FNC in 2008; and the documentary The Price We Pay by Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress), a thorough examination of offshore investment, tax shelters and the push to lower corporate income taxes, which exacerbate income inequalities at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The Festival will also present Gurov & Anna (Gurov et Anna) by Rafaël Ouellet (Camion), in which a student played by Sophie Desmarais embarks on a toxic love affair with her teacher.

The lineup will also feature a series of world premieres of Quebec and Canadian productions including: Le militaire by Noel Mitrani (The Kate Logan Affair, Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi), starring his favourite actor Laurent Lucas, a portrait of loneliness and isolation told through the story of a war vet whose wounds are both physical and psychological; Love Project, an ensemble film by Carole Laure that looks at Generation Y through a group of young adults who put together a collective art project; Antoine et Marie, the new feature by Jimmy Larouche (La Cicatrice), featuring Martine Francke and Sébastien Ricard, about date rape drugs, a topic rarely dealt with on film; and Nouvelles, Nouvelles, by Olivier Godin, the story of a policeman who comes back to life and goes in search of the missing daughter of a tabloid editor. The film stars a host of famous actors including Paul Ahmarani, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka, Étienne Pilon, Luc Proulx, Mani Soleymanlou and Ève Duranceau.

An array of documentaries will also hold their world premieres at the Festival this year: Uyghurs, Prisoners of the Absurd (Ouighours, prisonniers de l'absurde) by Patricio Henriquez (You Don’t Like the Truth: Four Days inside Guantanamo, presented at the FNC in 2010) recounts the nightmare of three innocent men imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay after the 9/11 terrorist attacks; Cantouque à Godin, a film in which Michel Depatie revisits the literary works of Gérald Godin, who left an indelible mark on Quebec’s collective memory through his writing, rooted in the language of the people, and his political involvement as a Parti québécois MNA; Fucké by Simon Gaudreau (King of the l’Est, presented at the FNC in 2010), which follows the daily lives of seven men living in an east-end Montreal apartment block where gut-wrenching poverty, self-destruction and madness are alleviated by tenderness and love; and the documentary essay Transatlantique by Félix Dufour-Laperrière, which portrays the intimate, subjective and often silent journey of a cargo ship crew.

And the Quebec/Canada/Belgium coproduction All yours(Je suis à toi) by David Lambert (best actor for Nahuel Pérez Biscayart at the Karlovy Vary Festival) will have its North-American premiere.

As it does every year, the Festival will showcase short films from Quebec and Canada. There are revelations galore, but also the highly-anticipated Sleeping Giant by Andrew Cividino, which won an award at Locarno; Plage de sable, the latest film by Marie-Ève Juste (Avec Jeff à Moto); Petit Frère by Rémi Saint-Michel, which screened at Cannes this May; and Cutaway by Kazik Radwanski (Tower).

Also in the lineup are some prestigious NFB co-productions, starting with Me and My Moulton by Oscar-winner Torill Kove (The Danish Poet) and Pilots on the Way Home by the brilliant Estonian animated filmmakers Olga and Priit Parn.

The big names in Quebec and Canadian experimental film are also well represented, with new films by Alexandre Larose, Pierre Hébert, Bruce LaBruce, Vincent Grenier, Mike Hoolboom and Phillip Hoffman.

The 43rd edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma will run from October 8 to 19, 2014, in Montreal.

The full lineup of the 43 rd Festival du nouveau cinema will be announced at the press conference on Tuesday, September 23 at 11 a.m. at the Agora in UQÀM’s Cœur des sciences (175 av. Président-Kennedy, corner of Jeanne-Mance).

Here isthe agenda for the conference running December 7 - 9, 2014 in Austin Texas.

A few adjustments will be made.

Meanwhile you can ask for the Filmfestivals.com DISCOUNT CODE FOR A PREFERED 300€ RATE.

Sunday, December 7, 2014

12:00pm – 12:15pm

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Monday December 8, 2014

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Opening Remarks, Registration & Exhibit Floor Opens

9:00am – 10:00am

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12:45pm – 1:30pm

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Tuesday December 9, 2014

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9:00am – 10:00am

10:15am – 11:00am

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www.PetalumaFilmFestival.org

PIFF will present a collection of films made by the local filmmakers from Sonoma County at the 6th Annual Petaluma International Film Festival: Death Makes Life Possible, Three-O-Seven, Bobby Jo, Preparing For Life.

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Petaluma International Film Festival® (PIFF) is an annual event showcasing independent feature and short films from around the world.  

The 4th Filmfest homochrom in Cologne and Dortmund, Germany, is opening with the German premiere of THE NORMAL HEART.

Filmfest homochrom is the LGBT film festival of Rhine-Ruhr, Europe's biggest polycentric metropolitan area, with Germany's gay capital Cologne and the largest Ruhr city, Dortmund. Although it is the youngest of Germany's queer film festivals, it is establishing itself as a fresh premiere festival with international appeal. This year's selection include premieres lik ALEX & ALI, BFFs, OCCUPYING ED, BOY MEETS GIRL, THE FOXY MERKINS, QUEEN OF AMSTERDAM and also Teddy winners THE WAY HE LOOKS and DER KREIS. Several directors and actors will be attending the festival and audiences will decide on the awards "Chromie".

THE NORMAL HEART (German premiere)

(USA 2014, 132 min, directed by Ryan Murphy, with Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Alfred Molina, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer etc.)

Date: October 15th

Location: Cologne, Germany

Homepage: www.homochrom.de/filmfest-2014