With a background in network television news, "Deliver Us From Evil" director Amy Berg is an Emmy Award winner for her work, tackling such topics as sexual assault, women in prison, clergy abuse, battered women, unsafe public playgrounds, poverty, illegal drug dispersion, illicit medical doctors and...
Read More »One year after winning the audience award for best narrative feature at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Ali Selim's "Sweet Land" opens in Minnesota's twin cities Friday before hitting New York next weekend. Described as a "turn-of-the-century love story," the film stars Elizabeth Reaser, T...
Read More »After a short stint as an agent at ICM, Sarah Lash is leaving the talent agency to join John Sloss' Cinetic Media in New York. Sloss told indieWIRE that she Lash would join the company on October 30, 2006. Lash started at ICM on May 1st of this year after serving as VP of Acquisitions and Co-Product...
Read More »The 2006 Woodstock Film Festival takes place this weekend in New York State. indieWIRE reported on the festival's lineup last month and organizers confirmed Thursday that Matt Dillon will present this year's Trailblazer Award to Jonathan Sehring, while Rosie Perez will present the Maverick Award to ...
Read More »Neten Chokling Rinpoche's "Milarepa," a feature film about the early life of a great Tibetan mystic, won the audience award at National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival, which recently concluded in Washington, D.C. The film debuted at the Los Angeles installment of the fest and also screened at the D.C. event. Yolanda Cruz's Mexican short film "Suenos Binacionales" won the audience prize for best short. The All Roads Film Fest is part of the All Roads Film Project, the National Geographic initiative offering a showcase for indigenous and under-represented minority-culture storytellers worldwide. For more information, please visit their we...
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