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Read More »San Francisco's Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema will open with Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller's "Ballets Russes" Thursday night, kicking off the seven-day event, with screenings in the city as well as in Oakland and San Rafael featuring 55 features, documentaries and shorts. "Ballets Russes"...
Read More »One of America's longest running documentary fests, the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival has announced the slate of its 29th edition including the New York premiere of first-time director Petr Lom's "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgystan." The fest, which screens at New York's American Museum of Natu...
Read More »The fifth annual High Falls Film Festival, held in Rochester, N.Y., has announced its 2005 lineup. The festival, which focuses on the achievements of women working in film and video, will feature over 50 narrative and short films and documentaries. Stephen Frears's ("Dirty Pretty Things") "Mrs. Hend...
Read More »The Starz Denver International Film Festival recently announced its festival line-up for its 28th year. Produced by the Denver Film Society, the festival will run November 10 - 20 and will feature "Be Your Own Critic" as its main theme. About 200 films from 39 countries will screen this year, and th...
Read More »For more than a year now, Susan Kaplan's "Three of Hearts" -- the story of a 'trinogomous' relationship between two men and a woman -- has been receiving overwhelming acclaim on the film festival circuit. Kaplan explores what might seem like a sensational subject in "Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Fa...
Read More »Charlottesville's Virginia Film Festival, taking place October 27 - 30 recently unveiled its 60 film slate. Opening VIFF is Carlo Gabriel Nero's "The Fever," starring Vanessa Redgrave, which is a story about a middle-class woman who becomes a political activist "when her social conscience is awakene...
Read More »The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, presenting its 20th edition October 21st through November 20th, is screening more than 200 movies from 40 countries during its run as the world's longest film festival. The festival opens Friday with writer-director Richard Shepard's "The Matador," ab...
Read More »Global terrorism will be a main theme this year for the 2005 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) taking place in Amsterdam November 24 - December 4. A significant number of films relating to current events have been programmed for this year's festival, one of the largest of its...
Read More »When we last checked in with Tim Kirkman, back at Sundance this year, he was anticipating his first trip to the Park City festival. At his first screening, he clutched a small camera and snapped a shot of the audience. At age 38, after making a pair of feature docs and even working for years at Mira...
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