iW NEWS | THINKFilm To Release "Tracey"

THINKFilm has announced that Bruce MacDonald's "The Tracey Fragments" will open in New York City on May 9, 2008. The film, which stars Academy Award hopeful Ellen Page, will have its New York premiere on March 14th as part of "Canadian Front," the fifth edition of MoMA's annual film series celebrating Canadian cinema. Based on screenwriter Maureen Medved's novel of the same name, "Tracy" is shot in split-screen format, and follows a 15-year old (Page) in her search for her lost brother. The film recently received six 2008 Genie Award nominations (Canada's version of the Oscars), including best direction and best actress for Page. [Peter Knegt] 
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Journal of Short Film Releases "Volume 2" DVD

The Journal of Short Film recently announced its release of "Volume 2 (Winter 2006)." This DVD features a compilation of 11 shorts, including narratives, documentaries, experimental works, animation and "Walter Mondale doing hip hop." The Journal of Short Film, which models itself after a literary journal, publishes a DVD quarterly. For subscription and submission information, visit the journal's Web site. [M.L. Liu] 
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Emerging Pictures to Re-release 1972 Academy Award-winning Doc "Marjoe" in U.S.

Emerging Pictures announced today that it will re-release 1972's Oscar-winning documentary feature "Marjoe," with a January 13th opening at New York's IFC Center theatre, followed by roll-out in other markets. The provocative documentary, first seen at the Cannes Film Festival, was co-produced and co-directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan and received the 1972 Academy Award for best documentary feature. The film focuses on four-year-old Marjoe Gortner, who at the age of four was ordained and quickly became famous around the United States for preaching by memory and performing faith-healings. At age 14, he renounced his profession and his manipulative parents, but then returned to the pulpit at 21 as a preacher who didn't believe in God and exposed the tactics used by preachers-for-profit.The co-directors are scheduled to participate in a Q&A and cocktail party at the theater opening night. Simultaneous with its New York opening, "Marjoe" will be released in cities that are part of Emerging Pictures' consortium of digital projection-equipped theatres, Emerging Cinemas, including Ft. Lauderdale and Lake Worth, Florida; Scranton, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware, among others. [Brian Brooks]  
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