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LA Premiere of “Putzel” to Open 2013 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

The 8th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) will kick off its week long film festival with the star studded red carpet LA premiere of the comedy film “Putzel”on June 1, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.

In addition to “Putzel,” the LAJFF will hold LA Premiere screening events for Jonathan Holiff’s “My Father and the Man in Black” about Johnny Cash and his Jewish manager Sid Holiff, and “Roman Polanski, A Memoir” the documentary that screened at Cannes; the US premiere of the BBC documentary, “Neil Diamond:Solitary Man” ; and the closing night film – the World premiere of “When Comedy Went To School” When Comedy Went To School is a documentary about the Jewish stand up comics well known around the world who got their start in the Catskills. The documentary directed by Ron Frank features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Jerry Stiller, Jackie Mason and Robert Klein and many others.

“The Rocket,” “Bridegroom” Win Audience Awards at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

The 12th Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) announced the winners of the two Heineken Audience Awards — one for narrative and one for documentary. The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt, was chosen by the audience to receive the Narrative award; the film also took top honors at the Festival jury awards where it received both The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film for Sitthiphon Disamoe’s performance as Ahlo. Bridegroom, directed by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, was chosen for the Documentary award. Each award comes with a cash prize of $25,000.

San Francisco International Film Festival to Honor Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford will be honored with the 2013 Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting at the upcoming 56th San Francisco International Film Festival to take place April 25 – May 9, 2013. The award will be presented to Ford at San Francisco Film Society Awards Night, Tuesday, May 7. Ford will also be honored at An Afternoon with Harrison Ford at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, on Tuesday May 7. A screening of a film featuring one of his iconic performances will follow an onstage […]

Only Lovers Left Alive Starring Tilda Swinton Among 5 Films Added to 2013 Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival added 5 films to the lineup to complete the Official Selection for the upcoming 2013 festival. The 5 films are ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE by Jim Jarmusch (pictured above) was added to Competition; LE DERNIER DES INJUSTES by Claude Lanzmann was added to Out of Competition; and MY SWEET PEPPERLAND by Hiner Saleem, TORE TANZT by Katrin Gebbe and WAKOLDA by Lucia Puenzo was added to Un Certain Regard.

Film About Nigerian Immigrants “Mother of George” to Close 2013 Maryland Film Festival

Mother of George, directed by Andrew Dosunmu, and which premiered earlier this year at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, will be the closing night film for the 2013 Maryland Film Festival.

New York’s Rooftop Films Releases Full 2013 Film Lineup for Outdoor Summer Series, incl. “12 O’Clock Boys,” “Frances Ha”

Rooftop Films full feature film slate for 2013 was released today and it includes more than 45 new independent films, including two special sneak preview screenings co-presented with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Rooftop Films and the Academy will present a free screening of “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” which premiered at Sundance. The film, which opens June 14th, shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. Rooftop and the Academy will also partner to present “Short Term 12”, the feature film debut of Destin Cretton. Cretton was a 2010 Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship winner, and “Short Term 12” went on to win the 2013 SXSW Grand Jury Award in March.

“The Rocket”, “The Kill Team”, “A Short Film About Guns” Among Winners of 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories with The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt of Australia taking the top prize for narrative films – The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and The Kill Team, directed by Dan Krauss winning the prize for Best Documentary Feature.

First-Time Writer, Director Meera Menon Wins inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

First-time writer/director Meera Menon (Farah Goes Bang) was selected out of eight filmmakers to win the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the annual Women’s Filmmaker Brunch at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Menon will receive a cash prize of $25,000 for “work and talent that embody the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer.” The Festival runs through April 28.

Boneshaker Starring Academy Award Nominee Quvenzhané Wallis Among Opening Night Shorts Program for 2013 Maryland Film Festival

Francis Bodomo’s Boneshaker starring Academy Award Nominee Quvenzhané Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild

The 2013 Maryland Film Festival will kick off on Wednesday, May 8th, with an Opening Night Shorts program, described by the festival as “an eclectic mix of work from an extremely talented array of filmmakers.” Featured short films include Francis Bodomo’s Boneshaker, a drama about an African family lost in rural Alabama starring Academy Award nominated Quvenzhané Wallis, last seen in Beasts of the Southern Wild. The 2013 Maryland Film Festival runs May 8-12 in downtown Baltimore.

Documentary on African American Funerals to Kick off 26th Season of POV on PBS

POV (Point of View) kicks off its 26th season on PBS on Monday, June 24, 2013 with Christine Turner’s Homegoings, and closes Sept. 23, 2013, with Samantha Buck’s Best Kept Secret. Homegoings “takes viewers inside African-American funerals through the heart and soul of a man who has devoted his life to caring for the departed and their loved ones.” Best Kept Secret, is described as a film about a Newark, N.J. teacher fighting the system to get her autistic students the help they desperately need.

Tribeca Film Institute Announces Winners of 10th Annual Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards

The narrative The Lobbyists and the documentary (T)ERROR were tonight announced the winners of the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) 10th Annual Tribeca All Access (TAA) Creative Promise Awards. Each project received $10,000 to help bring their films to completion. The Institute also announced this year’s TAA alumni grants and fellowships during the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. The grants, all presented at tonight’s event, total over $90,000 in funds.

Newton’s Laws of Emotion Wins first ever Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Prize

Newton’s Laws of Emotion was just announced as the winner of the first ever Tribeca Film Institute (TFI)Sloan Filmmaker Prize. The project will receive a $10,000 cash prize that will be used to help bring the film closer to completion.

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