'Jesse Owens' airs May 1 on PBS' 'American Experience.'
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Join us at the Cinefamily on Wednesday, April 18 for stylistic strategies in non-fiction storytelling.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday its plans to cut over $1 million of funding to arts programming.
'First Position' opens in theaters May 4 through Sundance Selects.
Film festivals devoted to a full spectrum of environmental topics did not exist in the United States until 1993, the inaugural year of the DC Environmental Film Festival (EFF; official name: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol). This once niche-interest festival has expanded from 1,200 attendees to over 30,000 this year on its 20th anniversary. "The festival is organically and incrementally growing, which is a testament to interest in documentary and in the environment," says Executive Director Peter O'Brien. Since its inception, the DC Environmental Film Festival has helped
South by Southwest (you write it SXSW, you say it "South-by") makes a credible claim to showcase innovation in the overlap between geekery/gaming, filmmaking and music. It has become the most exciting festival for edgy, overlap creative experience in those fields in the country. And it reached, unbelievably, a new intensity this year. Crowds routinely overwhelmed services. On opening day, people stood in three-hour lines for badges; rush hour within the Austin Convention Center was every hour on the changeover between panels; there were more food options than before, but even longer lines for
From any other filmmaker, Bay of All Saints would have been a completely different film. Someone who had not spent time among the residents of the notorious water slums in Bahia, Brazil might have set their stories to somber music to match the extreme poverty captured on film. An outsider might have focused on the government's struggle of eradicating the palafitas—stilt houses built on the water—highlighting their hard work and exalting their attempts to stave off poverty and inadequate housing in the region. In the hands of anyone else, this story would not give weight to the have-nots. But
Since Bob Marley's untimely death at the age of 36 from cancer in 1981, there have been numerous film projects announced. They have included unproduced narrative films--one to star Jamie Foxx, and another written by Lizzie Borden ( Working Girls)--as well as several documentaries that ran in theaters and aired on television. The history of the upcoming Marley began in 2008 when Martin Scorsese announced he would be working with the Marley family; the film was originally slated to be released in February 2010 to coincide with Marley's 65th birthday. Scorsese bowed out shortly thereafter and
Attending any film festival is necessarily an immersive experience. Arriving in an unfamiliar city, you check into your hotel, pick up your press credentials and a program, and then are left to your own devices. En route to the 30th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal, this process of immersion begins on the train as it winds its way through the city's outskirts, crossing wide stretches of the converging Ottawa and Saint Lawrence Rivers that form the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The modest skyscrapers reminiscent of its financial-center past and the prominent topographical feature
Let's imagine for a moment that we are in South Beach, Florida, where there are big events happening all the time; it's an all-night-party city, full of beauty, music, art and diverse people. And there is the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) going on here as well as in other cities of Miami Dade County. For Jaie Laplante, the Canadian executive director of the festival, that type of attraction is his goal. He graduated from York University in Toronto and has lived in Miami many years, working for other major festivals before he became MIFF's director in 2010. Here in "La capital del