The 12th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) scheduled to run from April 28th – May 5th, 2011 will open with the World Premiere of EAST FIFTH BLISS.
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One-on-One with “Rid of Me” Director James Westby and star Katie O’Grady
James Westby returns to the Tribeca Film Festival, this time as writer-director-editor of “Rid of Me,” in fact, he shot the entire film himself. Vimooz.com’s Francesca McCaffery spoke one-on-one with the delightful director-star team of James Westby and Katie O’Grady, at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival with their truly wonderful indie comedy “Rid of Me.”
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Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with director Alex Rotaru of Inspirational documentary ‘Shakespeare High’
Director: Alex Rotaru The documentary film ‘Shakespeare High’ premieres at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. The movie follows a diverse group of SoCal teens as they prepare for and compete in the 90th Drama Teachers Association of Southern California Shakespeare Festival.
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REVIEW: Underwater Love; ..the most obscurely sweet and original soft-core porn musical I have ever seen
“Underwater Love,” a Japanese film directed by Shinji Imaoka, is the most obscurely sweet and original soft-core porn musical I have ever seen. Actually, come to think of it, this would be my first soft-core porn musical, and for what it was intended to be, I appreciated this film from beginning to end. The story itself merges Japanese fantasy with reality. It centers around Asuka, who is a thirty-something fish factory worker in a small Japanese village outside of Tokyo. She is engaged to her boss Taki, and seems to live a more than ordinary lifestyle with little variance or excitement. One day she sees a Kappa, a mythological water creature that is part human. It is her friend Aoki, who long ago drowned at the age of 17. He has mysteriously come back into her life as a tortoiseshell, beak faced creature. It is amusing to see this Kappa so accepted and integrated into normal human life. We also travel with him and Asuka to the fantastical world he inhabits as a mythological Kappa.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with director Scott Rettberg and producer Megan Sleeper of ‘New York Says Thank You’
What is the film ‘New York Says Thank You’ all about?” New York Says Thank You is an epic story following the journey of New Yorkers whose lives were touched by September 11 as they travel the country helping communities rebuild after disasters. Along the way, they face their emotions and ultimately triumph over tragedy through an idea that evolved from a five-year-old New York City boy.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with the 3 Directors of ‘The Swell Season’
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglvoa Backstage We recently met up with the 3 directors of ‘The Swell Season’ – Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with Whitney Dow, Director of ‘When the Drum is Beating’
Maestro Ulrick Pierre-Louis transcribes lost arrangements of the band’s songs Coming on the heels of the announcement that popular singer-turned-politician Michel Martelly will be Haiti’s next president, the documentary ‘When the Drum is Beating’ could not be more timely. The documentary premieres at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with Maggie Betts, Director of Documentary Film ‘The Carrier’
Director: Maggie Betts The documentary film ‘The Carrier’ premiered last night at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. In the film, young mother Mutinta is a Zambian subsistence farmer in a polygamous marriage who has just learned she is HIV positive. Newly pregnant, Mutinta does everything she can to protect her unborn baby while navigating complicated family dynamics and village politics. Newcomer Maggie Betts sculpts a sensitive observational portrait of one woman’s struggle leading up to her newborn’s birth.
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South Africa’s Durban International Film Festival’s to take place 21 July to 31 July 2011
Inside Job: The Oscar winning documentary Inside Job will be screened at this year’s Durban International Film Festival : Pictured here is Director of Inside Job Charles FergusonPhoto by Mariusz Cichon, Representational Pictures, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics The Durban International Film Festival’s 32nd edition takes place from July 21 to July 31, 2011 and will present over 200 screenings of films from around the world, with a focus on films from South Africa and Africa.
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IFC Midnight picks up Saint on Eve of its Premiere at 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
On the eve of its North American premiere in the Cinemania section at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, IFC Midnight acquired the U.S. distribution rights from sales and production outfit XYZ Films for director Dick Maas’ evil Santa film SAINT. Maas wrote the screenplay for the picture and produced with Tom de Mol. Starring Huub Stapel, Egbert-Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Bert Luppes and Escha Tanihatu, the Dutch film will premiere tonight at 9:00pm at the AMC Loews Village 7.
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Tribeca Film Festival – Interview with Director of ‘The Loving Story’ Documentary
Director: Nancy Buirski The first film on the Tribeca Film Festival schedule today is the documentary ‘The Loving Story.’ Nancy Buirski’s moving, evocative documentary recounts the unknown love story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple behind the 1967 Supreme Court ruling overturning anti-miscegenation laws in the United States. Drawing from a wealth of stunning archival footage, The Loving Story recreates a seminal moment in history in uncommon style, anchoring a timely message of marriage equality in a personal, human love story.
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Elton John Kicks off Tribeca Film Festival with Free Live Concert | Video
And it’s on. The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off last night with the free outdoor screening of Cameron Crowe’s new documentary “The Union,” about the musical collaboration between Elton John and singer/songwriter Leon Russell.