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-
ZAYTOUN, TWO LIVES, Documentary, TWA FLIGHT 800 Among 2013 Lineup for Stony Brook Film Festival
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
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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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
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
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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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Fantasia International Film Festival Unveils Official 2013 Poster
The Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled the official poster for the 17th edition of the festival taking place in Montreal from July 18 to August 6, 2013.
Fantasia organized a special poster design contest where the public was invited to submit their concepts and sketches. The contest was won by film critic and director of the Young Cuts Film Festival, Michael Ryan, but in a tragic twist of fate, Michael passed away this spring at the age of 46. To bring Michael’s vision to life, long-time Fantasia illustrator Donald Caron worked his magic, delivering a striking final art jointly inspired by Greek Mythology (Icarus and Daedalus) and Quebec legend of the Cheval Noir (Black Horse), the latter of which has featured prominently in the festival’s iconography over the two past editions. The festival dedicated the 2013 art to the memory of Michael Ryan.
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2013 Cucalorus Film Festival is Seeking Filmmaker Submissions
The Cucalorus Film Festival in historic Wilmington, North Carolina, is looking for submissions from filmmakers for the upcoming 19th edition of the festival to held November 13-17, 2013. Cucalorus, describes itself as a free-spirited and multidisciplinary showcaseand screens an collection of independent and international films with special programs on social justice, emerging artists, shorts, works-in-progress, dance, music videos, North Carolina, and international cinema.
In addition to films, the festival supports innovation through programs like Dance-a-lorus, a live performance featuring collaborations between choreographers and filmmakers; and Visual/Sound/Walls, an experimental venue crammed full of music videos, surf movies and installations. The festival showcases a strong schedule of socially aware and politically challenging films, which engage audiences on contemporary issues.
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“Gritty-Inspiring” Drama “BROKEN GLASS” to World Premiere at Dances With Films
Writer-Director Daniel R. Chavez new film “BROKEN GLASS”, a “gritty-inspiring” drama starring Eric Charles Jorgenson will have it’s world premiere on June 4 at the historic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as an Official Selection in Dances With Films, an independent film festival. “BROKEN GLASS” will have its European premiere in Spain as an Official Selection at the Madrid International Film Festival with nominations for Best Film and Best Original Screenplay.
“BROKEN GLASS” centers on James Glass, played by Jorgenson, who mysteriously winds up in a self-help meeting full of strangers struggling with their own personal issues. Unable to recall how he arrived at the meeting, Glass goes on a frightening and unexpected emotional journey that ultimately forces him to confront a traumatic experience that changed his life forever. The film also stars Cesar Garcia (Fast & Furious, Drive), Ken Lyle, Jess Allen, Jennifer Daley, Hina Khan, and Odell Mack.
http://youtu.be/zw-PWS6cnKQ
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Telluride Film Festival Unveils 40th Anniversary Edition Poster
The Telluride Film Festival today unveiled the poster designed by Oscar-winning production designer Dean Tavoularis for the 40th Anniversary running August 29 – September 2, 2013, in Telluride, Colorado.
“We are thrilled Dean agreed to do the poster art for the 40th anniversary,” said Executive Director Julie Huntsinger. “The 40th edition will be a remarkable celebration of TFF’s past and present, and Dean’s work with Telluride is a wonderful parallel. He was a part of Telluride in its very early years when he designed a poster for a TFF celebration called the ‘Spirit of Zoetrope.’ We are excited to have him back and to present his vision for this special year.”
Tavoularis remarks, “When I was asked by Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger if I would design the poster for the 40th Telluride Film Festival, I was first flattered and then thoughtful of being part of the Telluride film history. In my own way I pondered Telluride’s past and in fact all film festivals. Like the word implies, a festival is a fair; people gathering to show their films. It just as well could be their tomatoes. It’s an exchange. I wanted a poster that was simple and joyful, that looked homemade with pure colors in shapes that symbolize a 1:85 screen and an audience. One cannot exist without the other. I am very happy to be a small part of Telluride’s history.”
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Country Singer Lyle Lovett to be Honored at 2013 Lone Star Film Festival
Country singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett will be honored with the Stephen Bruton Award at the 2013 Lone Star Film Festival (LSFF). The Lone Star Film Festival in Sundance Square which has been ranked in the top 25 of MovieMaker Magazine’s coveted annual list “TOP 50 FILM FESTIVALS WORTH THE ENTRY FEE” will take place November 6-10, 2013, in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Stephen Bruton Award celebrates musicians who demonstrate a proficiency in film. Lovett will accept the award for his musical contribution to 30 films throughout his career as well as his appearance as an actor in eight, including Tim McCanlies’ Christmas story ANGELS SING, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival.
Stephen Bruton was a well-respected guitar player from Fort Worth who performed for many years with Kris Kristofferson. Bruton and childhood friend T Bone Burnett collaborated on the sound track for the movie CRAZY HEART. Bruton died at age 60 of cancer in T Bone’s Los Angeles home in 2009 just after the sound track was completed. Past recipients of the Stephen Bruton Award include Kris Kristofferson, T Bone Burnett, Willie Nelson, and Billy Joe Shaver.