The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

  • 10th Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival to Open with Funny Doc MEET THE PATELS | TRAILER

    MEET THE PATELS The 10th Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival will take place this year September 8 to 13, 2015.  There are two “pre-festival events” again this year. First, on Tuesday, September 8, is THE SALT OF THE EARTH, the Oscar-nominated documentary by director Wim Wenders, about Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, and on Wednesday, September 9, is AMY, the biopic about pop/jazz/blues artist Amy Winehouse. The official Opening Night kicks off with MEET THE PATELS (pictured above), the documentary by the brother-sister team of Geeta and Ravi Patel which plays like a comedy, and traces the misadventures of 30-year-old Ravi Patel as his parents, desperate to see him married, escort him back to India to find a proper bride. Closing night is the Italian comedy BUONI A NULLA (GOOD FOR NOTHING). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7litSYXbpRs The festival’s lineup includes dozens of films, documentaries, dramas and comedies, including the acclaimed family drama ABERDEEN, from Hong Kong and a quirky Swedish film, THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED. Director Genevieve Bailey interviewed eleven-year-old girls from many countries and all walks of life for I AM ELEVEN. From France there is UNE NOUVELLE AMIE (THE NEW GIRLFRIEND), and from Israel the comedy ZERO MOTIVATION. Dramas and documentaries from Mexico, Norway, Australia, the USA and Caribbean round out the features program. Saturday, short films are the focus, with two popular forums returning. In the afternoon, animator Signe Baumane, presents a curated collection of short animations from around the globe and in the evening is the juried International Shorts film competition.

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  • LISTEN TO ME MARLON Wins Best Film at 2015 Traverse City Film Festival

    Listen to Me Marlon The Traverse City Film Festival, founded, programmed, and run by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, just wrapped its 11th edition which ran  July 29-August 2, 2015 in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. The festival welcomed over 100,000 avid cinema lovers. “This year’s festival brought some of the best films we’ve ever had, and we had more filmmakers here to share the stories of those film with audiences than ever before. Everyone I’ve spoken with has their own special moment from the festival – for me, celebrating the 100th birthday of the State Theatre with Geraldine Chaplin in attendance was a once in a lifetime experience,” said Moore. The 2015 official program added new sections which sold out quickly, including #Tween (movies for the generation currently coming of age), and The Sidebar: Food on Film (the best in culinary cinema, followed by candid conversations between the stars of the Northern Michigan food scene and sample bites prepared by the chefs and inspired by the films), and LGBTQ (marking the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on gay marriage). Closing Night’s gala screening of “Grandma” began with Michael Moore legally marrying a gay couple, live on the stage of the State Theatre. The Founders Grand Prize for Best Film, the festival’s top prize, went to “Listen to Me Marlon.” Best Documentary went to “The Wanted 18” and Best Comedy to “Finders Keepers.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cekn77FeK4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCfIVdmIbgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etx0cHsVcqg The festival’s Changemaker Award went to Iraq veteran Ross Caputi for his film “Fear Not the Path of Truth,” and its Discovery Award to Kauother Ben Hania for her satirical film “Challat of Tunis.” Audience Award winning films included “A Brave Heart: The Story of Lizzie Velasquez” for Best Documentary and “Tangerines” for Best Foreign Film. AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS OF 2015 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL Audience Award Winner for Best Kids Short: “The Present“ Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Short: “Birthday“ Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary Short: “Naneek“ Audience Award Winner for Best Kids Film: “Fiddlesticks“ Audience Award Runner Up for Best Foreign Film: “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared“ Audience Award Winner for Best Foreign Film: “Tangerines“ Audience Award Runner Up for Best American Film: “Learning to Drive“ Audience Award Winner for Best American Film: “Kill the Messenger“ Audience Award Runner Up for Best Documentary Film: “The Hunting Ground“ Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary Film: “A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story“ SHORT FILM WINNERS Founders Prize Special Mention Short Film: “Let Your Light Shine“ Founders Prize for Best Narrative Short: “Discipline“ Founders Prize for Best Documentary Short: “My Enemy, My Brother“ FOUNDERS AWARDS Lifetime Achievement Award: Geraldine Chaplin Visionary Award: Robert Altman Michigan Filmmaker Award: Roger Corman Discovery Award: Kaouther Ben Hania, “Challat of Tunis“ Changemaker Award: Ross Caputi, “Fear Not the Path of Truth“ Stuart J. Hollander Prize for Best Kids Film: “Fiddlesticks“ Buzz Wilson Prize for Best Avant-Garde Film: “Journey to the West“ Founders Prize Special Award: “7 Chinese Brothers“ Founders Prize Special Award: “The Trials of Spring“ Founders Prize Special Award: “The Wolfpack“ Founders Prize Special Award: “Roseanne for President!“ Founders Prize Special Award: “The Armor of Light“ Founders Prize Special Award: “Wild Tales“ Founders Prize Special Award: “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem“ Founders Prize Special Award: “The Last Five Years“ Roger Ebert Prize for Best Film by a First Time Filmmaker: “T-Rex“ Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking: “Tangerine“ Founders Prize for Best Documentary: “The Wanted 18“ Founders Prize for Best Comedy: “Finders Keepers“ Founders Prize for Best Drama: “Two Days, One Night“ Founders Prize for Best Film: “Listen to Me Marlon“ TCFF DOWNTOWN WINDOW DECORATION CONTEST First Place: Great Lakes Bath & Body and Paperworks Studio Second Place: Toy Harbor Third Place: Haystacks FIM GROUP BUMPER CONTEST First Place Claire Holloway DECISION TIME $1,000 Second Place Brian Steinberg SHORT AND TALL $300 Third Place Mike DeRosa THE KID AND HIS CITY $200 The 12th annual Traverse City Film Festival will take place July 26 – 31, 2016.

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  • Richmond Intl Film Fest Announces 2015 Official Line-Up

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    The Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF), will kick off on Thursday, February 26 with Wish You Well, a coming-of-age drama set in 1940s Virginia written by best-selling author David Baldacci and starring Josh Lucas and Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn.

    The festival will continue over the next three days with screenings at the Byrd, the Virginia Historical Society, and Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas.

    New this year, RIFF is teaming up with producing sponsor, Swedish Match, a Sweden-based tobacco company with U.S. headquarters in Richmond, to bring patrons a Swedish film spotlight and community outreach during the festival. Through the spotlight, patrons will experience a taste of Swedish lifestyle, arts and culture.

    Swedish films included in the spotlight are this year’s Golden Globe nominated Force Majeure, which is also Sweden’s official Oscar entry for consideration of Best Foreign Language Film of the year. The film is directed by Ruben Ostlund and stars Johannes Kuhnke. Force Majeure debuts opening night at Movieland with a Swedish mixer to take place prior to the screening. The second Swedish spotlight film is the best-selling adaptation, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared directed by Felix Herngren and starring Sweden’s funniest man, Robert Gustafsson, which plays at the Byrd Theatre on Sunday afternoon.

    Closing out Sunday afternoon is the world premiere of Living in a Food Desert, a feature documentary directed by Jesse Vaughan that takes an inside look at the food desert crisis affecting hundreds of thousands in Virginia. The film features Mount Olive Baptist Church, FeedMore, Tricycle Gardens, Lynchburg Grows, Shalom Farms and Renew Richmond with interviews that include Leslie Van Horn, First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe, Delegate Delores McQuinn, Dr. Jewel Hairston, Douglas Pick, John Lewis, Sally Schwitters, Daron Chavis, and others. Produced by Jesse Vaughan and Cedric Owens for Virginia State University’s College of Agriculture.

    A sample of other features and shorts in festival competition are:  Sewing Hope, a feature documentary narrated by Forest Whitaker that follows a Ugandan Nun who has dedicated her life to helping women terrorized by Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army  Salgan & Salgan, a feature documentary, which profiles legendary tango pianist, Horatio Salgan  Wildlike, directed and written by Frank Hall Green and starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek, I Robot, Déjà vu), Ann Dowd (Compliance, Side Effects, Marley & Me, Garden State), Ella Purnell (Maleficient, Never Let Me Go, Kick-Ass 2), Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker, Flight, Jarhead, Bobby), Nolan Gerard Funk (House at the End of the Street, X-Men 2), and Diane Farr (Numb3rs, About Cherry)  The Japanese Dog, Romania’s official Oscar entry for consideration of Best Foreign Language Film of the year, directed by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu.  Des Eclats de Verre, Sundance Grand Prize Jury and Audience Award winner and this year’s Best Short Winner at the Toronto International Film and Video Festival  Audience of One directed by KARP and starring Taylor Gray (Star Wars Rebels, Thunderstruck) and Spencer Daniels (Star Trek, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)  Imagine, directed by Jonathan Steven Green and Jahanara Saleh and starring Scott Wolfe (Party of Five, White Squall)  Love They Nature, narrated by Liam Neeson  Someone You Love: The HPV Epidemic, narrated by Vanessa Williams  Blood and Circumstance, a film recently shot in Virginia.

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