• Justin Reichman Talks About His New Film “A WIFE ALONE” World Premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival

    A WIFE ALONE, “a neo-noir thriller about an ill-fated marriage in the suburbs of upstate New York,” directed by Justin Reichman is having its World Premiere on Thursday June 6, at the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival, in Brooklyn, New York City. We had the opportunity to catch up with the director, to talk about how he got into filmmaking , his new film A WIFE ALONE  and all about taking the ‘plunge.’ Justin Reichman should know a lot about taking the plunge, after all, he left a pretty stable job as a lab tech at an AIDS research facility on 21st street in New York City to pursue his dream. Now he’s back in New York, years later, to premiere his first major film.

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    VIMOOZ: Congratulations on your film “A WIFE ALONE” being an Official Selection in the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival. How does it feel being included in the festival?

    Justin Reichman: It feels great to have a festival like Brooklyn on our home turf to premiere.

    VIMOOZ: Is this your first film?

    Reichman: Yes, it is. I did a few shorts, but nothing approaching the scope of A WIFE ALONE.

    VIMOOZ: How did you get into filmmaking?

    Reichman: I always loved to read and draw. When I was a kid I’d make stupid home videos with my siblings, but the decision to pursue filmmaking came about later in life after working a 9-5 job at an AIDS research institution in NYC and realizing that the sciences weren’t for me. I traveled around a lot after that, lived in South America for a year and started writing, doing some acting and working on sets.

    VIMOOZ: Tell me about the film. What is it about?

    Reichman: It’s about a ruthless young woman, a former prostitute, who infiltrates the upper echelon of suburbia through marriage.

    VIMOOZ: By the way, are you also the writer?

    Reichman: Yes, myself and Pete. We wrote the script while I was engaged to be married so a lot of it plays on the fears young people have before taking the plunge. Do I really know this person? Is our love real? That kind of thing. We created a noir story revolving around this collective psychological questions we all ask and then created the nightmare version of that. Infidelity, mistrust, sex tourism, years of misery tied to a lifestyle rather than love.

    VIMOOZ: The film is set in upstate NY, whats the connection there?

    Reichman: I grew up there. After traveling around a lot, I had a distant, objective affection for Rochester that I had fun playing around with in storyland.

    VIMOOZ: What happens after Brooklyn Film Festival?

    Reichman: We have a stunning theatrical release and sign a 3 project deal with a reputable studio. We all have agents and don’t have to worry about money ever again. I’d like to make a black comedy.

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  • PETUNIA, Comedy Film Starring Christine Lahti, Michael Urie To Open in NYC on June 28 | TRAILER

    PETUNIA, a new comedy film written and directed by Ash Christian (Fat Girls, Mangus!) and starring Oscar and Emmy award-winner Christine Lahti (Chicago Hope,  Running on Empty), Golden Globe nominee Thora Birch (American Beauty, Ghost World), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), and Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie), opens in NYC on June 28 at Cinema Village. PETUNIA is described as a film about a dysfunctional family unit on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This is the story of how they pick up the pieces.

    PETUNIA follows an off-beat family of New Yorkers as they come to terms with their own misgivings about life, relationships and the sheer unpredictability of love itself.

    PETUNIA weaves together the lives of brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael as they unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them. While Michael’s cynical wife Vivian discovers she is pregnant, the family is also changing. Charlie’s would be boyfriend George is in a polyamorous relationship with fitness fanatic Robin and Adrian has developed an unrelenting sex addiction. Meddling parents Felicia and Percy must decide whether to reignite the spark in their relationship or start all over again.

    http://youtu.be/2OCVajmoP1I

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  • SEE the TRAILER for Killer Whale Documentary “BLACKFISH”

    Magnolia Pictures released a new trailer for the killer whale documentary “BLACKFISH” set to be released July 26, 2013.  CNN is expected to air the documentary sometime in the Fall 2013.  BLACKFISH tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity including the much publicized incident involving Dawn Brancheau, a 40-year-old female trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the muli-billion dollar sea-park industry.

    http://youtu.be/G93beiYiE74

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  • Jeremy O’Keefe Talks About His New Film “SOMEWHERE SLOW” at Brooklyn Film Festival

    Jeremy O’Keefe is the director of the new independent film SOMEWHERE SLOW, now playing at the Brooklyn Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York through Saturday, June 9, 2013. SOMEWHERE SLOW, also an Official Selection at Cinequest, Omaha Film Festival, Vail Film Festival and the Monadnock International Film Festival, is described by the Brooklyn Film Festival as “intimate, raw and funny,” and “a searing and complex portrait of Anna Thompson, a 40 year old skin care rep, coasting through an unfulfilled marriage and an estranged relationship with her family.”

     [caption id="attachment_4030" align="alignnone" width="550"]Jeremy O’Keefe[/caption]

    We recently caught up with the Los Angeles native O’Keefe at the Brooklyn Film Festival to find about more about his film, SOMEWHERE SLOW.

    VIMOOZ: First, congratulations on SOMEWHERE SLOW being an official selection in the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival … this is the East Coast premiere – are you ready for the NY audience?

    Jeremy O’Keefe: Thank you! I have been dying to screen a film for a NYC audience for a decade.  I used to live in NYC as I was just scraping together my first film, WRESTLING, and I loved nothing more than discovering small indie movies in the Village Voice and checking them out at the Quad or Sunshine Cinemas.   Screening in Brooklyn is a major personal feat for me! 

    VIMOOZ: You’ve screened SOMEWHERE SLOW at other film festivals, is the NY audience really different?

    O’Keefe: We’ve been fortunate to screen in a lot of various places around the country and the audience response has been passionate.   The Brooklyn Film Festival will certainly be opening up our film to an even broader cross section of people from all walks of life, and it’s really exciting for Jessalyn and I.   I don’t anticipate that the audience response will be all that different — people who go to see movies at festivals tend to be cut from the same cloth.   Should I be scared?? 

    VIMOOZ: No, but New Yorkers are known to be very opinionated. Tell us about “SOMEWHERE SLOW” – the story?

    O’Keefe: Plot-wise the film is about a woman (played by Jessalyn Gilsig, who produced with me) who breaks free of a boring, suffocating life and goes an adventure in New England with a teenage drifter  (played by Graham Patrick Martin of TNT’s Major Crimes).    Thematically, the movie is about taking risks and making the changes necessary to find the life you’ve been yearning to live.  It’s something I believe we can all relate to and a desire we all have at some point (or several points) in our lives.  The movie is funny and sexy, heartbreaking and provocative.

    VIMOOZ: You have a very impressive cast for an independent film. How were you able to get such great talent?

    O’Keefe: I, too, am impressed with who we were able to get to tell this story with us. I honestly can’t believe it.    Jessalyn reminds me that we were able to get talents like David Costabile and Robert Forster because of the script I wrote.  The film has become so much bigger than the 100 pages of paper I wrote it on  — with so many brilliant and creative actors, designers, producers and crew members all investing so much that I forget that it all began with an idea I had one day a few years ago.    I set out to tell a story that didn’t gloss over the imperfections and inconsistencies of real people.  I wanted to live in the nuance of life.  Actors are first and foremost warriors of the human experience.  I believe we were able to get the talent we did because they wanted to get down and dirty and explore some of the moments in life that are too crucial to be lost in a montage.  

    VIMOOZ: You also wrote the screenplay, how did you come up with the idea? 

    O’Keefe: Like most writers, we draw from our own experiences.  I wrote the script to explore a time in my life when I was living at the bare-minimum and floating through a kind of stasis.   I think we, as people, often look to external events to tell us whether we are meant to be happy or sad.  It’s human nature to look outside for change, but I’ve discovered that the best, sturdiest change comes when we look inside.  And that’s what I wanted to write about — a bunch of  external events taking my main character on a roller coaster that would cause her to take control of herself for the first time in her life. 

    VIMOOZ: What’s up next for SOMEWHERE SLOW?

    O’Keefe: Exciting things! We are playing in Brooklyn and at the Lighthouse International Film Festival in Long Beach Island, NJ this weekend, and we are signing our distribution deal so we can share everybody’s efforts with a worldwide audience.  

    VIMOOZ: What’s up next for you?

    O’Keefe: I’ve got a comedy short about hospice care called FINALE about to start festivals and am prepping two different features, a sex comedy and a 1940’s revenge thriller. I’m also shopping a pilot script based on the critically-acclaimed novel, BODY OF A GIRL, written by my sister-in-law, Leah Stewart.    I want continued success for Somewhere Slow and my other projects because it means I get to get another crew together, make a make-shift family again, and tell another story. 

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  • RIP: Bengali Director Rituparno Ghosh Suffers Heart Attack, Dies at 49

    Award-winning, Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh, THE LAST LEAR, suffered a heart attack and died last Thursday in Calcutta, India, reports the New York Times. He was 49.

    Although Mr. Ghosh is more well known in the Bengali film industry, he also achieved international success with his films including, his first English-language film in 2007, “THE LAST LEAR,” which had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and was later shown at the London Film Festival.

    Mr. Ghosh, often described as a  cross-dresser, also touched on the issue of sexuality and gender in his films. Ghosh who sometimes acted, was known for playing gay characters including in Kaushik Ganguly’s “Arekti Premer Golpo” (“Just Another Love Story,” 2011) and Sanjoy Nag’s “Memories in March” (2011).

    Behind the scenes, his most recently released film, “Chitrangada” (2012), dealt with same-sex relationships and gender identity and featured Mr. Ghosh in the role of a gay man who undergoes a sex-change operation so that he and his partner can adopt a child. 

    via New York Times

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  • ZAYTOUN, TWO LIVES, Documentary, TWA FLIGHT 800 Among 2013 Lineup for Stony Brook Film Festival

    zaytoun The 18th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival will screen a lineup of new independent features, documentaries and shorts for ten days from Thursday, July 18 to Saturday, July 27, 2103. Opening night features the East Coast premiere of ZAYTOUN, directed by Eran Riklis  (Lemon Tree), and closing night will feature the East Coast premiere of the Norwegian and German dramatic thriller, TWO LIVES, directed by Georg Maas, which takes place in Norway in 1990. Opening night film, ZAYTOUN stars Stephen Dorff (Somewhere) playing an Israeli soldier who is shot down over Beirut during the 1982 Lebanese War. He is taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp, and among his captors is a ten-year-old boy, Fahed (Abdallah El Akal). The festival describes the film as a moving portrait of the tentative bond forged between the Israeli pilot and the refugee boy. Closing night film, TWO LIVES is described as a compelling meditation on identity, morality and family. Katrine (Juliane Köhler) is the ‘war child’ of a Norwegian mother and a soldier from Germany’s occupying army. An adult now, she enjoys family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. Everything changes for Katrine when a web of concealments is revealed. The fine cast includes Norwegian film legend Liv Ullmann as Katrine’s mother. Other highlights include the festival honoring legendary producer and indie film powerhouse Christine Vachon of Killer Films with a Career Achievement Award. It will coincide with the screening of her new film, Deep Powder. The documentary, TWA FLIGHT 800 will have its its festival premiere screening followed by a Q & A panel discussion with the filmmakers, Kristina Borjesson and Tom Stalcup. TWA FLIGHT 800 presents the saga of the catastrophic crash off the south shore of Long Island on July 17, 1996. At the time, it was called “the largest aviation investigation in U.S. and world history.” But it was also the most controversial. Now, a team of insiders from that investigation comes forward in this feature documentary to uncover what really happened to TWA Flight 800. It is also the story of one extraordinary scientist, Tom Stalcup, who spent years fighting for access to documents and evidence. Thirteen years into his quest, several retired members of the official crash investigation joined him. In TWA FLIGHT 800  these former government insiders blow the whistle on their own investigation and spend two years helping the scientist uncover the truth. What follows is a story of intense personal journeys and a grand-scale exposé with breathtaking implications. TWA FLIGHT 800 is an EPIX Original Documentary with a premiere date on EPIX and EpixHD.com on July 17, 2013. Stony Brook will present the World Premiere of the feature, A NEW YORK HEARTBEAT, directed by Tjardus Greidanus, described as a riveting story about gangsters in 1959 Brooklyn, starring Escher Holloway, Rachel Brosnahan (Beautiful Creatures) and Eric Roberts. Foreign films include THE BLITZ directed by Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred), will be making its U.S. premiere at the festival. The dramatic film is set just days before the Germans bombed the Netherlands in May 1940. The Festival will also host the U.S. Premiere of the German drama, THE TOWER, directed by Christian Schwochow. Other international films making East Coast Premieres is the powerful documentary from Pakistan, THESE BIRDS WALK, the Serbian-Croatian MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, the Polish drama MANHUNT, the Turkish feature WATCHTOWER, the Israeli drama INHERITANCE, directed by acclaimed actress Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree) in her directorial debut. She also stars in the film. MUSCLE SHOALS, a documentary about Rick Hall’s FAME recording studio and its house band, born in the tiny town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is making its New York Premiere. Keith Richard, Aretha Franklin, Bono, Wilson Pickett, Greg Allman and many others are featured

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  • REVIEW: Hey Bartender

    by Chris McKittrick

    Bartending is often seen as one of those “between” jobs – you know, the type of job you have as a stopover between one job and another.  While for most bartending consists of pulling tap handles and mixing happy hour well drinks, for others it is an art.  This is the premise of HEY BARTENDER, an engrossing documentary by director Douglas Tirola featuring some of the world’s best mixologists.

    HEY BARTENDER primarily follows Steve Schneider, a former Marine who turns to mastering cocktails in the wake of a nearly life-ending injury, and Steve “Carpi” Carpentieri, a Connecticut bar owner hoping to reinvent his struggling bar as a cocktail destination.  Schneider works at the Manhattan bar Employee’s Only where earning the bartender’s jacket is a trial by fire.  He hopes to focus as much determination as he did in the Marines on his bartending.  Meanwhile, Carpi is lovable as he immerses himself in the world of the cocktail with a mixture of confusion and excitement.

    Interestingly enough, the documentary meanders from Steve and Capri’s journeys, which is a shame because both of them are really interesting people.   However, where it meanders to is equally interesting: the audience is taught the history of cocktail-making and introduces Dale “King Cocktail” DeGroff, who pioneered the current cocktail culture while bartending at New York’s Rainbow Room in the 1980s and later founded the Museum of the American Cocktail.  We are also introduced to a number of key figures in the scene, with spectacular shots of them making drinks in slow motion that shows just how much effort goes into these concoctions.  One drawback of featuring so many bartenders is that they inevitably begin to repeat each other (mostly about how seriously they take their jobs), but other than that they are fascinating.

    If you idea of a cocktail is a Jack and Coke, prepare to be surprised.  There is an entire world of advanced cocktails with prime ingredients out there, and HEY BARTENDER is spilling all the secrets.  It’s one of my favorite documentaries of the year simply because it gives the audience a key to an entire world unknown to those who frequent their corner bars for cold beers.   My only other gripe is that you really ought to watch this one with a carefully-mixed drink in each hand.  Then again, what’s wrong with that?

    Rating: 4 out of 5  : See it ……. It’s Very Good

    http://youtu.be/jgsYEMOqXO4

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  • Russian Film “ATOMIC IVAN” and U.S. Film “NUCLEAR SAVAGE” Win Top Film Awards at Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro’s Uranium Film Festival 2013

    After screening 52 documentaries and fiction movies from 19 countries, May 16 to May 26,  the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio Janeiro 2013 in the cinema of the Modern Art Museum (MAM) came to a close. Six films from six countries – Russia, India, USA, Estonia, Jordan and Germany – were honored with the Uranium Film Festival’s trophy, the Yellow Oscar. ATOMIC IVAN by Vasily Barkhatov from Russia won the Yellow Oscar 2013 for Best Feature Fiction Movie, and “NUCLEAR SAVAGE: THE ISLANDS OF SECRET PROJECT 4.1” by US-Filmmaker Adam Jonas won the Yellow Oscar 2013 for Best Feature Documentary.

    The International Uranium Film festival was founded in 2011 in Santa Teresa, the famous artist quarter in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. The aim of the festival is to inform the public, from a neutral position, about nuclear power, uranium mining, nuclear weapons and the health effects of radioactivity. 

    The six award recipients are:

    Best Feature Fiction Movie:

    ATOMIC IVAN – Russia, 2012, 91 min, Director Vasily Barkhatov, Executive producer, Viktoria Gromik, TELESTO FILM

    Best Feature Documentary:

    NUCLEAR SAVAGE: The Islands of Secret Project – USA, 2012, 87 min, Adam Jonas Horowitz

    Best Short Comedy:

    CURIOSITY KILLS – Estonia, 2012, 14 min, Sander Maran

    Best Short Documentary

    : HIGH POWER – India, 2013, 27 min, Pradeep Indulkar

    Best Animated Film: ABITA – Germany, 2012, 4 min, Shoko Hara, Paul Brenner

    Best Student Film:

    NO TO A NUCLEAR JORDAN – Jordan, 2012, 7 min, Solenne Tadros

    Special achievement awards went to “Children of Uranium” (Romania), “Friedlich in die Katastrophe” (Germany), “Nuclear Waste” (Ukraine), “Unter Kontrolle” (Germany), “Der Bauch von Tokio” (Germany), “Hibakusha” (USA), “Hiroshima Nagaski Download” (Mexico/Japan).

    Yellow Oscar to Atomic Ivan

    “Atomic Ivan” is the

    Best Feature Fiction Movie of the Third International Uranium Film Festival 2013. The 2012 produced film Atomic Ivan by VASILY BARKHATOV from Russia won the Yellow Oscar 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. The romantic comedy “Atomic Ivan” is a debut film of famous theatre director Vasiliy Barkhatov from Moscow based on the script of world-known playwright Maxim Kurochkin. The Shooting of the film took place at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant, about 200 km North West of Moscow, and at the Leningrad Power Plant 70 km close to St Petersburg. It was the first time that Russian’s nuclear agencies opened their doors to filmmakers. “Atomic Ivan is a combination of Visual Art, Comedy, Love Story and pure Nuclear Science”, says Festival Director Norbert G. Suchanek. “Atomic love at a Russian power plant. Atomic Ivan is a beautiful, intelligent, romantic comedy, in the surrealistic stile that remembers me on Federico Fellini.”

    Suchanek: “The basic Story of Atomic Ivan is simple. The director of a nuclear power plant invites an Artist to develop a play together with the nuclear workers at the nuclear power plant. Imagine: A Fellini opera in a real nuclear power plant. Beside of all that the films transports important worth full scientific information about nuclear power and radioactivity. So there was no way! This film had to win a Yellow Oscar of the Uranium Film Film Festival 2013.” The Executive producer of Atomic Ivan, Miss Viktoria Gromik from TELESTO FILM was present at the Award Ceremony in the Cinemateca of the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Rio de Janeiro. She said: “It is very important for us to receive this Award from the Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro.”

    Yellow Oscar to Nuclear Savage

    The November 2011 released documentary “NUCLEAR SAVAGE: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1” by US-Filmmaker Adam Jonas Horowitz is a brilliant accusation against a terrible crime. Atmospheric testing of atomic bombs and using local populations as guinea pigs are crimes against humanity. Nuclear Savage is a must-see documentary for everybody, no matter if your are in favour of nuclear power or against. Adam Jonas Horowitz shot his first film in the Marshall Islands in 1986, and was shocked by what he found there, in this former American military colony in middle of the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive coconuts, leaking nuclear waste repositories and densely populated slums were all the direct result of 67 Cold War U.S. nuclear bomb tests that vaporized islands and devastated entire populations.

    Yellow Oscar to High Power

    The 2013 finalized documentary “High Power” is an important, well made film that can give worthwhile impulsesto current “nuclear question” in India. For that it received the Yellow Oscar in the category best short documentary of the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2013. Pradeep Indulkar, director of “High Power”, is an Indian engineer, who has been working during 12 years for India’s nuclear program. High Power tells the disturbing story of the local population of Tarapur in the state of Maharashtra, where India’s first nuclear power plant was constructed in the 1960s. Local fishermen families lost there land, their fishing grounds and health. Pradeep Indulkar´s short documentary about the Tarapur Atomic Power Station had to be made. “It is an important, the nuclear discussion stimulating documentary, that comes at the right time, when thousands of people in South-India struggle against a new nuclear power plant at Kudankulam is the state of Tamil Nadu”, says Festival director Norbert G. Suchanek. “High Power is Pradeep Indulkar´s first documentary, and we hope to see more documentaries by him in future.”

    “Apart from all the sorrows and distress my film brought to you, this is a golden moment of my life as a film maker”, said Pradeep Indulkar during the Award Ceremony in the Museum of Modern Art cinema. “At this moment I remember and thank all my friends and well-wisher who helped in making of High Power. I also thank to all those Indian people who contributed even a smallest amount to make our trip happened. I thank you all who supported this film with as a great audience. I thank Rio, I thank Brazil and I accept this award on behalf of all the nuclear affected people of Tarapur and I dedicate this award to all those farmers and fishermen who lost their land, home and life for nuclear power plant. “

    Yellow Oscar to Curiosity Kills

    Sander Maran is a promising filmmaker from Estonia. His 2012 produced short comedy ”Curiosity Kills” already received the Audience Award of Helsinki’s H2T Festival. Now it won the Yellow Oscar of the third International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro in the category “Best short comedy”. Synopsis: “A 10 year old boy is fascinated by his father’s spooky looking chemistry suitcase and decides to play with its contents. One thing leads to another and the boy’s pet rat ends up attacking the family. Curiosity kills.”

    “Films about radioactivity are normally boring for teenager and students”, says festival director Norbert G. Suchanek. “Curiosity Kills is different. It is trashy comedy, which made the festival udience, mainly students from upper-class colleges, laugh and scream. And beside of that, curiosity kills gives valuable information: Radioactivity is dangerous and can change the genetic code of living beings. And every radioactive material must be stored and handled with great care. If not, the consequences can be terrible.”

    Yellow Oscar to Abita

    The best Animated Film of Rio de Janeiro’s Uranium Film Festival 2013 is,

    ABITA, a beautiful animated film directed and produced 2012 in Germany by Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner from the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Ravensburg. This animated short film deals with the dreams of Fukushima children who can’t play outside because of radioactive contamination. Brazilian Professor for animated film and festival judge Leo Ribeiro: “I selected Abita, because it is a very poetic and sensitive movie and very well done.”

    Yellow Oscar to No to Nuclear Jordan

    Best Student Film of the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival is “

    NO TO A NUCLEAR JORDAN” by young director Solenne Tadros from the International Academy-Amman. Student productions about nuclear issues are still very rare – especially in the Middle East. The Yellow Oscar 2013 is given to Solenne Tadros to stimulate other film students and film schools world-wide to follow here example to deal with this for human mankind important but very complicated and often risky nuclear issue. In addition the festival jury hopes that “No to Nuclear Jordan” will improve the public discussion about Nuclear Energy in the Kingdom of Jordan, where the construction of nuclear power plants and uranium mining are in the planning.

    via International Uranium Film Festival 

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  • Horror-Thriller JUG FACE Sets August 9th Release Date

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    JUG FACE, the horror-thriller written and directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle, will have a national theatrical roll out on August 9th via Modern Distributors. The film will have a pre-theatrical VOD roll out in the U.S. on July 8th, and is slated for a VOD release, day and date with theatrical, on August 9th.

    JUG FACE, stars Lauren Ashley Carter (“The Woman”), Sean Bridgers (“Deadwood”), Sean Young (“Blade Runner”), Larry Fessenden (“I Sell the Dead”) and Daniel Manche (“The Girl Next Door”) and tells the story of a pregnant teen trying to escape a backwoods community when she discovers that she may be sacrificed to a mysterious pit. The entity in the pit requires a life for keeping the community safe. The face of the person to be sacrificed is crafted onto a ceramic jug. When ignored, the entity unleashes an evil onto the community. Now no one is safe as tragedy befalls each member one by one and they soon realize that the pit wants what it wants.

    JUG FACE won the Slamdance Grand Prize Screenwriting Award in 2011 and debuted as a Special Screening selection at this year’s festival.”

    http://youtu.be/ffaBYM3P3SQ

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  • Sprout Film Festival to Show Films Featuring People with Developmental Disabilities in NYC May 31 to June 2, 2013

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    [caption id="attachment_4016" align="alignnone" width="550"]The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City[/caption]

    The 11th Annual Sprout Film Festival, showcasing over 50 films featuring people with developmental disabilities, will take place this Friday May 31st to Sunday June 2nd, 2013, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

    At the festival, Sprout will also unveil their new and improved film distribution catalog, SPROUTFLIX, the only distributor of films specifically and exclusively related to the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities, and offers streams, downloads, DVDs and playlists to be purchased and licensed for institutional use.

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  • Independent Film CAROLINE AND JACKIE Begin Week Long Run at LA’s Downtown Independent

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    The independent film CAROLINE AND JACKIE which had its world premiere at 2012 Tribeca Film Festival will begin a week-long run at the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles, California, May 31st – June 6th, and if successful, will expand in other distribution outlets. 

    Written and directed by Adam Christian Clark, and starring Marguerite Moreau, Bitsie Tulloch, David Giuntoli, Valerie Azlynn, David Fuit and Jason Gray-Stanford, CAROLINE AND JACKIE‘s synopsis follows “On a birthday trip, Caroline visits her sister Jackie and her boyfriend. What starts out as an evening with close friends quickly goes askew. Caroline and the group attempt to support Jackie for an apparent illness – though it’s unclear who really needs the most help.”

    http://youtu.be/rESiHYyUW7s

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  • “THE TIME BEING” Starring Frank Lagella, Wes Bentley Gets A U.S. Release Date

    [caption id="attachment_4012" align="alignnone" width="550"]Wes Bentley in THE TIME BEING directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain. Courtesy of Tribeca Film.[/caption] 

    The ‘multi-layered’ mystery “THE TIME BEING,” directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain and starring Wes Bentley and Academy Award Nominee Frank Langella, will be released in the US and Canada by Tribeca Film beginning July 23 on demand and July 26 in select theaters.

    In the film, which had its World Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Daniel (Wes Bentley) is a struggling young artist whose ambitions have pushed his marriage to the brink. When a reclusive millionaire named Warner (Frank Langella) purchases one of his pieces, he hopes for additional commissions from a new benefactor. Instead, Werner offers him a series of increasingly bizarre surveillance assignments. As Daniel starts to unravel the secrets behind the requests, he must determine if Warner is out to further his career or ruin his life. The film also features Sarah Paulson , Ahna O’Reilly, Corey Stoll, and Gina Gallego.

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