A record-breaking audience of more than 78,000 people attended this year’s 35th Cleveland International Film Festival, but, there was no closing-night film.
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Cleveland International Film Festival wraps without Closing Night Film
Vincent Wants to Sea – Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film
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Sundance Film Festival 2011 documentary, REBIRTH in Theatres, August 2011
The Sundance Film Festival 2011 documentary, REBIRTH, directed by Jim Whitaker was acquired and will be released by Oscilloscope Laboratories and Showtime Networks. Oscilloscope will release REBIRTH in theatres in August 2011. SHOWTIME will broadcast REBIRTH on the 10th anniversary of the events of September 11th.
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3D documentary PINA to be released in US by Sundance Selects | Trailer
The 3D documentary PINA which world-premiered at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival will be distributed in the US by Sundance Selects, a sister division to IFC Films. Directed by Wim Wenders’ (WINGS OF DESIRE, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB), PINA is an in-depth look into the work of iconic dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch.
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2011 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival report another record-breaking year + Winners
Best Narrative Feature – A Beginners Guide to Endings – Director Jonathan Sobol The 17th San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) which ran March 9 – 13, 2011 announced that it had another outstanding year, surpassing income and attendance goals.
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2011 Fallbrook Film Festival Screens 71 Films; Military Films Make the Cut
Pumzi The 2011 Fallbrook Film Festival will run April 8, 9 and 10 at the UltraStar Cinemas at River Village in Bonsall.
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70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners
If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise The recipients of the prestigious 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and two American Masters documentaries won Peabodys. LennoNYC, a poignant, revelatory documentary about John Lennon’s life and work in his adopted home city, and Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia, an homage to the theatrical and film director by Martin Scorsese. Peabodys also went to William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, an Art21 film that provided an intimate look at the creative process of a multifaceted artist whose work includes sculpture, animation, theater and tapestries, and Macbeth, a Great Performances production that sets Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy in a modern, militaristic society.
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Charleston International Film Festival Announces 2011 Official Selections
The 4th Annual Charleston International Film Festival (CIFF), scheduled to run five days May 18-22, 2011 in South Carolina, announced its 2011 Official Selections.
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Whole Foods Market and Silverdocs Festival launch $50,000 Filmmaker Grant for ‘Green’ Films
Whole Foods Market is really serious about its foray into film. The leading retailer of natural and organic foods and AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Festival, the nation’s leading documentary festival, announce the launch of a $50,000 grant program for filmmakers working in the green film genre.
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RiverRun International Film Festival Adds 3 New Films to 2011 Lineup
Morgana Davies as Simone and Charlotte Gainsbourg as Dawn in THE TREE, a film by Julie Bertuccelli. A Zeitgeist Films release. RiverRun International Film Festival has added three feature films to its Festival lineup. The films, MISS REPRESENTATION, ANOTHER EARTH and THE TREE, will be shown as part of RiverRun’s Special Screenings. With the addition of these features, RiverRun will screen a total of 121 films.
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[UPDATED] Filmmaker, Alan Arkin, to be honored at Florida Film Festival’s 20th Anniversary event
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, Alan Arkin, will be honored at the Florida Film Festival’s 20th anniversary event, “An Evening with Alan Arkin,” on April 15. The Oscar® winning, three-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker will receive the John M. Tiedtke Lifetime Achievement Award and the evening’s event will also include the 45th anniversary screening of The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, the film that earned Arkin his first Oscar® nomination in 1966.
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Lunatics, Lovers and Poets and all the Winners of 2011 Fort Myers Film Festival
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets The Fort Myers Film Festival held March 24-27, 2011 announced its 2011 winners in the Documentary, Features, Shorts, Short Shorts, Strictly Local, Diverse/Latin and Faith & Inspirational categories.
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2011 Method Fest CANCELLED
In a message on their website, the Method Fest Independent Film Festival in Calabasas, California, announced that they are cancelling the 2011 festival.