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Bill Condon MR. HOLMES Among Titles Added to 2015 Berlinale

Berlin International Film Festival

Mr. Holmes

Eight films have been selected for the Competition Program of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

Body
Poland
By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of)
With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala
World premiere

Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
Vietnam / France / Germany / Netherlands
By Di Phan Dang (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid)
With Do Thi Hai Yen, Le Cong Hoang, Truong The Vinh
World premiere

Journal d’une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)
France / Belgium
By Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen; Three Hearts)
With Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Vincent Lacoste
World premiere

Mr. Holmes
United Kingdom
By Bill Condon (The Fifth Estate)
With Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan
World premiere – Out of competition

Queen of the Desert
USA
By Werner Herzog (Fata Morgana, Fitzcarraldo, Cave of Forgotten Dreams)
With Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis , Robert Pattinson
World premiere

Taxi
Iran
By Jafar Panahi (Closed Curtain, Offside)
With Jafar Panahi
World premiere

Victoria
Germany
By Sebastian Schipper (Gigantic, A Friend of Mine)
With Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André M. Hennicke
World premiere

Yi bu zhi yao (Gone with the Bullets)
People’s Republic of China / USA / Hong Kong, China
By Wen Jiang (Let the Bullets Fly)
With Wen Jiang, You Ge, Yun Zhou, Qi Shu, Huang Hung
International premiere
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Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell to Co-Host 2015 Spirit Awards

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Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell will co-host the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The 30th annual awards ceremony will be held as a daytime luncheon in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, February 21 with the premiere broadcast airing live exclusively on IFC at 2:00 pm PT / 5:00 pm ET.

“The only thing better than having a great host for the Spirit Awards is having two great hosts,” said Josh Welsh, Film Independent President. “For our 30th anniversary we’re so excited to have Fred and Kristen co-hosting the awards and it’s going to be a fantastic show.”

Commented Jennifer Caserta, president, IFC, “We’re proud to once again showcase the Film Independent Spirit Awards on IFC and celebrate the 30^th anniversary with a live broadcast. Fred is obviously right at home on IFC and we are excited to welcome Kristen to the network. Together, they’ll make this show true event television for our viewers.”

Fred Armisen is one of the most diversely talented performers working today with credits that run from acting, producing and writing in both comedy and music. He is the co-creator, co-writer and co-star of IFC’s Portlandia alongside Carrie Brownstein for which he received an Emmy® nomination for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series” in 2014 and a nomination for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series” in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The show also received the prestigious Peabody Award for excellence in 2011. In February 2014, Armisen was named band leader of the 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

An eleven season veteran of Saturday Night Live,he has also appeared in countless feature films including Easy A, The Rocker, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Eurotrip and The Promotion as well as lending his voice to the feature The Smurfs. He has also appeared in the films Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny with Jack Black,Baby Mama with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, The Ex with Zach Braff and Jason Bateman, and in Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’sAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

Armisen will soon star in HBO’s one-off comedy event 7 Days in Hell. Armisen will also star in Jamie Babbit’s raucous comedy Fresno alongside Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon, Judy Greer and Natasha Lyonne. Armisen’s most recent venture is his new IFC comedy, American Documentary.

Kristen Bell currently stars as ‘Jeannie Van Der Hooven’ in the Showtime series House of Lies opposite Don Cheadle. The fourth season premiered on January 11, 2015. She was recently seen reprising her beloved title role in Warner Brothers’ film Veronica Mars. Bell also lent her voice to the character ‘Anna’ in the acclaimed new Disney animated feature, Frozen, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee.

Bell appeared in a guest-starring arc in the most recent season of NBC’s hit series Parks & Recreation. She also played the lead role in the independent film The Lifeguard, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She also starred in and co-produced the comedy Hit & Run, written and directed by her husband Dax Shepard. Her other film credits include: Movie 43,Some Girls, Writers, Big Miracle, You Again, Burlesque, When in Rome, Couples Retreat, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pulse, Serious Moonlight and David Mamet’sSpartan.

Kristen’s television credits include: Veronica Mars, Unsupervised, Deadwood, Heroes and Party Down. Her Broadway credits include: Tom Sawyer and The Crucible opposite Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Her Off-Broadway credits include: Reefer Madness and A Little Night Music both at The Lincoln Center in New York and Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Sundance Doc, HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, to Debut on HBO

Documentary

HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO documentary, which is scheduled to premiere at the upcoming 2015 Sundance FilmFestival, will debut on HBO later this year.

HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. television rights to HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO. Directed by Alexandra Shiva (Stagedoor, Bombay Eunuch), the film will have its world premiere Sunday, January 25 at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition, and will debut on HBO later this year.

A first kiss, a first dance. These are the rites of passage of American youth that hold the promise of magic, romance and initiation into adulthood. For kids from all walks of life, these first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying. For some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. In HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, director Alexandra Shiva follows a group of young people in Columbus, Ohio, with an array of developmental challenges as they prepare for an iconic event – a spring formal dance. They spend 12 weeks confronting and practicing their social skills as they prepare for the big event, to be hosted at a local disco. Working with their trusted psychologist, they deconstruct fear and larger-than-life social anxiety one step at a time by picking dates, dresses, and, ultimately, a King and Queen of the Prom. HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO is a story of the universal human need to grow, connect and belong as uniquely dramatized by individuals facing the deepest struggle toward social survival.

Shiva states, “A domestic broadcast on HBO will ensure that this film reaches the widest possible audience throughout the country and I am excited to be working with them to do that. This is a film not only for the many whose lives are touched in some way by autism, but also for anyone who can relate to the fraught experience of growing up and trying to understand adulthood.”

In 2001, Shiva directed & produced her first feature documentary BOMBAY EUNUCH, awarded Best Documentary at NewFest and the Special Jury Award at Florida Film Festival, followed by a 6-week theatrical run. Her second documentary STAGEDOOR premiered at SXSW in 2005, and in 2006 screened at New York’s Film Forum and on the Sundance Channel. HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO is her third feature documentary.
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Directors Guild of America Reveals 2014 Documentary Nominees

Awards

Virunga

Directors Guild of America announced the DGA’s nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2014.

“The spectrum of directorial excellence across today’s nine television and documentary categories is revelatory for the breadth and depth in what each of these women and men have directed – from 30-second commercials to multi-hour miniseries,” said Directors Guild of America President, Paris Barclay. “As fellow filmmakers, we’re inspired by the quality, imagination and creativity demonstrated by these impressive nominees; as audience members, we’re incredibly fortunate to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Our congratulations to all of the nominees.”

The winners will be announced at the 67th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The DGA Awards will be hosted by actor Jane Lynch.

The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2014 are (in alphabetical order):

Dan Krauss
The Kill Team

This is Mr. Krauss ‘s first DGA Award nomination.

John Maloof
Charlie Siskel
Finding Vivian Maier

This is Mr. Maloof’s first DGA Award nomination.
This is Mr. Siskel’s first DGA Award nomination.

Jesse Moss
The Overnighters

This is Mr. Moss’s first DGA Award nomination.

Laura Poitras
Citizenfour

This is Ms. Poitras’s first DGA Award nomination.

Orlando von Einsiedel
Virunga

This is Mr. von Einsiedel’s first DGA Award nomination.
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Film Review: MATCH starring Patrick Stewart

Film Reviews

At its very core, MATCH is a mystery.

In its initial minutes, it appears to be a jovial comedy about Tobi (Patrick Stewart), an eccentric Julliard dance instructor and Lisa (Carla Gugino), a woman who comes to interview him for her dissertation on the history of dance while accompanied by her disinterested husband Mike (Matthew Lillard). The fact that Tobi is so quirky and artsy and Mike is a straight-laced police officer who seems uncomfortable with the interview because he assumes Tobi is gay seems like the opening minutes are a setup for a conventional comedy. But writer/director Stephen Belber, who wrote and directed the little-seen 2008 Jennifer Aniston comedy Management, doesn’t settle for a script full of gags about a manly man uncomfortable with another man’s assumed sexual orientation. Instead, MATCH is one of the most startlingly moving dramas of the 2014 festival season and is sure to make an impact upon its general release in 2015.

The interview setup instead leads the trio to Tobi’s Inwood apartment, where he enjoys regaling them with stories of his life’s work. In fact, based on earlier brief glimpses of his rather humdrum life, Tobi just seems overjoyed to have the opportunity to speak to others. But once the group is in Tobi’s apartment, the questions become increasingly personal and it becomes apparent that there is much more to this story than a dissertation. That leads this film down storytelling paths that a viewer would have never expected. Films can often contain so few surprises, and then something like MATCH comes along and virtually brings a twist to every single scene.

Of course, the star here is Patrick Stewart. Stewart has already amassed a body of work that proves that he is one of the great dramatic actors. He has nothing left to prove – in fact, if he spent the rest of his life trading in on his X-Men and Star Trek fame on the convention autograph circuit nobody would blame him – yet it is a testament to his dedication to his craft that he still seeks out opportunities to flex his acting muscles. MATCH is perhaps his finest non-theater performance in over a decade. It’s wonderful to see Stewart in a role that he can sink his teeth into.

Gugino, an actress who has never quite found a role to define her career, has found the ability to match Stewart. The film digs within her character, but in many ways she is the “everywife” who can never find her own life separate from her husband. Her performance is deeply sorrowful, but at the same time full of strength. She has so much more to offer than her small roles in Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Spy Kids, and it is about time that filmmakers have noticed that.

Beleber has not only directed a dramatically intense film, but he has written a script full of both humorous and poignant dialogue. Early in MATCH (when it still appears to be a comedy), Stewart’s character comments on the softness of the jacket belonging to Gugino’s character. He says:

“Oh my God! This is softer than a baby’s ass! Oh, is that inappropriate? I know nothing about baby ass, it just seemed like nice image.”

It’s a hilarious line that indicates that Tobi is a man being complimentary, but also concerned how this interview will portray him. Though not all of the dialogue in MATCH is hilarious, much of it reveals the same truths as this one does.

At only 90 minutes, MATCH is the rare rollercoaster drama that will floor you, yet provide a satisfying story in that timing. It is because of the combination of Beleber’s writing and directing and Stewart and Gugino’s acting that MATCH is a must-see for anyone who appreciates indie dramas.

RATING 5 out of 5: MUST See it …… It’s EXCELLENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15WAor16pE
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27 Short Films on Lineup for 2015 Berlin Intl Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

Take What You Can Carry

27 short films from will be competing at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the nomination for best short film at the European Film Awards and the first-ever EUR 20,000 Audi Short Film Award.

This year’s members of the International Short Film Jury are documentary filmmaker and curator Madhusree Dutta, Turkish artist Halil Altındere, and producer and festival director Wahyuni A. Hadi from Singapore. Screening in competition are the latest works of Nadav Lapid, Amit Dutta, Jennifer Reeder, Matt Porterfield, artist duos Daniel Schmidt & Alexander Carver, Mischa Leinkauf & Matthias Wermke in collaboration with Lutz Henke, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovačič, among many others.

What images have the power to dispel the pleasure found by some in being a soldier? Israeli director Nadav Lapid asks himself this question and then discovers an image that is able to do exactly that in Lama? (Why?). In Japan, there’s a new term since Fukushima: “atomic divorce”. It is what the many divorces are called that have been filed all over Japan in the aftermath of the catastrophe. Christian Bau attempts to capture this phenomenon in Snapshot Mon Amour. David Muñoz visits a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. The production of his film El Juego del Escondite (Hide & Seek) relates directly to the question of what enables a refugee to remain the subject of his or her own narrative. Then there is the quintessence of artist intervention in public space – the raising of white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge last summer in New York City – which can be seen as either an affront or a chance: the documentary Symbolic Threats by Leinkauf, Wermke and Henke offers a number of interpretations.

Matt Porterfield’s Take What You Can Carry tells of a young woman who is a foreigner in Berlin – and in doing so portrays Generation Y, with performance group Gob Squad as its mouthpiece. Jennifer Reeder’s Blood Below the Skin gives a glimpse of the tender and tangled web of love and dependency between a mother and her daughter that goes beyond the traditional allocation of roles.

Berlinale Shorts 2015:

Architektura, Ulu Braun, Germany, 15’ (WP)
Bad at Dancing, Joanna Arnow, USA, 11’ (WP)
Blood Below the Skin, Jennifer Reeder, USA, 32’ (WP)
Chitrashala (House of Painting), Amit Dutta, India, 19’ (WP)
Däwit (Daewit), David Jansen, Germany, 15’ (WP)
Dissonance, Till Nowak, Germany, 17’ (WP)
Hosanna, Na Young-kil, South Korea, 25’ (DP)
La Isla está Encantada con Ustedes (The Island is Enchanted with You), Alexander Carver & Daniel Schmidt, USA / Switzerland / Australia, 28’ (IP)
El Juego del Escondite (Hide & Seek), David Muñoz, Spain, 23’ (WP)
Kamakshi, Satindar Singh Bedi, India, 25’ (WP)
Lama? (Why?), Nadav Lapid, Israel, 5’ (IP)
Lembusura, Wregas Bhanuteja, Indonesia, 10’ (IP)
Lo Sum Choe Sum (3 Year 3 Month Retreat), Dechen Roder, Bhutan, 20’ (WP)
maku (veil), Yoriko Mizushiri, Japan, 6’ (WP)
The Mad Half Hour, Leonardo Brzezicki, Argentina / Denmark, 22’ (WP)
Mar de Fogo (Sea of Fire), Joel Pizzini, Brazil, 8’ (WP)
Of Stains, Scrap & Tires, Sebastian Brameshuber, Austria / France, 19’ (IP)
Pebbles at Your Door, Vibeke Bryld, Denmark, 18’ (WP)
Planet Ʃ, Momoko Seto, France, 12’ (WP)
San Cristóbal, Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo, Chile, 29’ (WP)
Shadowland, John Skoog, Sweden, 15’ (IP)
Snapshot Mon Amour, Christian Bau, Germany, 6’ (WP)
Superior, Erin Vassilopoulos, USA, 16’ (IP)
Symbolic Threats, Mischa Leinkauf, Matthias Wermke & Lutz Henke, Germany, 16’ (WP)
Take What You Can Carry, Matt Porterfield, USA / Germany, 30’ (WP)
The, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovačič, Austria, 13’ (WP)
YúYú, Marc Johnson, France / Spain / USA, 15’ (WP)
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Isabel Coixet’s NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT to Open 2015 Berlinale

Berlin International Film Festival

The 65th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 5 with the world premiere of Nobody Wants the Night, by Spanish director Isabel Coixet.

The Spanish-French-Bulgarian co-production takes place in 1908, in the Arctic seclusion of Greenland. The adventure film focuses on courageous women and ambitious men who put anything at stake for love and glory.

The ensemble cast includes international stars such as French actress and Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (Camille Claudel 1915, The English Patient), Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi (Babel,The Brothers Bloom) and Irish film artist Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing). Filming took place in Bulgaria, Norway and Spain.

“I’m very pleased that Nobody Wants the Night will open the 2015 Berlinale. Isabel Coixet has created an impressive and perceptive portrait of two women in extreme circumstances,” says Dieter Kosslick, director of the Berlinale. “It will also be the first film to be screened in Dolby Atmos® in our Berlinale Palast.”

Six films by Isabel Coixet have already been presented in various sections of past Berlinale programmes, including My Life Without Me (2003) and Elegy (2008) in Competition. In 2009 Isabel Coixet was member of the festival’s International Jury.
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DGA Announces 2014 Feature Film Nominees

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The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson

Directors Guild of America today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2014.

“In a year full of excellent films, DGA members have nominated a stellar group of passionate filmmakers,” said Directors Guild of America President Paris Barclay. “Inspiring and artistic, these five directors made films that left an indelible impact not only on their fellow directors and members of the director’s team, but on audiences around the world. Congratulations to all of the nominees for their terrific work.”

The winner will be named at the 67th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)

This is Mr. Anderson’s first DGA Award nomination.

Clint Eastwood
American Sniper
(Warner Bros. Pictures)

This is Mr. Eastwood’s fourth DGA Award nomination, all in this category. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Million Dollar Baby in 2004 and for Unforgiven in 1992. He was also nominated in this same category for Mystic River in 2003. Mr. Eastwood was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2006.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)

This is Mr. Iñárritu’s third DGA Award nomination. He was previously nominated in this category for Babel in 2006. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for “Best Job” (Proctor and Gamble) in 2012.

Richard Linklater
Boyhood
(IFC Films)

This is Mr. Linklater’s first DGA Award nomination.

Morten Tyldum
The Imitation Game
(The Weinstein Company)

This is Mr. Tyldum’s first DGA Award nomination.
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BOY MEETS GIRL Transgender Romantic Comedy Sets Release Date

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BOY MEETS GIRL, starring newcomer Michelle Hendley, a transgender girl from Missouri in her first role, opens in theaters in February.

BOY MEETS GIRL opens in New York at the Village East on February 6, expands to Gaslamp 15 in San Diego, The Angelika in Washington DC, the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, VT on February 13th and the Noho 7 in Los Angeles on February 27th.

BOY MEETS GIRL stars newcomer Michelle Hendley, a transgender girl from Missouri in her first role, and Michael Welch who most will remember from the popular Twilight film series. Michelle Hendley, the person at the center of the story was initially spotted on YouTube by director Eric Schaeffer (My Life Is In Turnaround, If Lucy Fell, and Fall). Schaeffer, who wrote and directed the romantic comedy, contacted Hendley out of the blue and brought her out to Los Angeles for an audition. The startled Hendley agreed only after Schaeffer spoke to her parents to convince them he was legit.

BOY MEETS GIRL is a poignant coming of age comedy about three twenty-somethings living in rural Kentucky. Robby (Michael Welch, Twilight) is a car mechanic, Ricky (Michelle Hendley) is a gorgeous transgender girl working in a coffee shop and Francesca (Alexandra Turshen) is a beautiful debutante.

Lamenting the lack of eligible bachelors in her small rural town, Ricky finds herself attracted to Francesca when the two meet in the coffee shop. Ricky and Francesca strike up a friendship, and maybe a little more, which forces Robby to face his true feelings for Ricky. The story is further complicated when Francesca’s Marine fiancé Michael (Michael Galante) returns from overseas.

BOY MEETS GIRL arrives just as another transgender story has struck a national chord in the media. The sad story of Leelah Alcorn* only increases the need for a deeper conversation about gender and orientation which this film presents to the larger media. The film presents a positive sex/human story in our pop culture which crosses all gender and orientation lines.

BOY MEETS GIRL will begin its platform theatrical release on February 6 with a VOD release expected on April 6. The film is distributed by Wolfe Releasing and the commercial release of the film follows a successful domestic and international film festival run where it received dozens of awards, critical reviews and legions of ardent fans and landed on three of the top thirty Films of The Year lists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNdW9TzxGrk&feature=youtu.be
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Montclair Film Festival Announces 2015 Poster Contest Winner

Montclair Film Festival

Montclair resident and graphic designer Amanda Ansorge’s design has been selected to serve as the Montclair Film Festival (MFF)’s 2015 Festival Campaign.

The design, selected from dozens of submissions to the festival’s annual Poster Contest, features a beautiful text treatment and swirling imagery against a bright yellow background and marks an exciting new direction for the festival’s brand. The design will be utilized in 2015’s MFF posters, banners, publications and advertising as the 2015 festival’s signature image.

“Amanda has created a beautiful design and we are so pleased to be able to showcase her work,” said MFF Executive Director Tom Hall. “Working under the leadership of our Marketing Committee leaders and Board Members Kelly Coogan Swanson and Lisa Ingersoll, MFF continues to build an exciting brand that maintains a deep connection to our community.”

Amanda Ansorge is a graphic designer and the Art Director for Red Hot Magazine, a bimonthly about Red Bank and its surrounding area. She has branded and designed publications for numerous New Jersey destinations, including Asbury Park, Englewood, and the Ironbound District in Newark. Amanda is a graduate of Brown University, and pursued graduate studies in industrial design at Pratt Institute. A New Jersey native, Amanda lives in Montclair with her husband and two sons.

“I’m so honored to have my design represent the Montclair Film Festival,” Ansorge said.
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Controversial Doc FAREWELL TO HOLLYWOOD Sets US Release Date

Documentary

FAREWELL TO HOLLYWOOD, a documentary film by Henry Corra and Reggie Nicholson is set to open in the US in February 2015.

This award-winning documentary has screened at numerous international film festivals including IDFA, Hot Springs Doc Fest and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The film will open in New York at Cinema Village on Wednesday, February 25 (the day of Reggie Nicholson’s birthday), and at the Noho 7 in Los Angeles on Friday, March 13. A national release will follow.

In a recurring poetic image, 17-year-old Regina Diane Nicholson swings between heaven and earth on a breathtakingly high cliff by the sea. Reggie is a tomboy struggling with a terminal illness, her parents, and her dream of making a film before she dies. She impresses us with her loving, strong personality and wisdom beyond her years, as well as her morbid sense of humor.

When director Henry Corra met 17-year-old filmmaker Regina Nicholson at a film festival, he agreed to help her make a feature film. What developed over nearly two years is a powerful friendship and poignant relationship between Reggie and Henry. He became her collaborator, friend and defender in her fight to find artistic and personal freedom. When Reggie turns 18 and can make decisions legally on her own, things become even more intense.

FAREWELL TO HOLLYWOOD is a poetic fairytale about love and death, holding on and letting go, one that invites us to discuss the relationship between filmmaker, subject and family. An eclectic mix of images with the intimacy of a video diary or home movie, it is filmed both by Henry and by Reggie and supplemented by their text message exchanges, images from her favorite movies, and fairytale-like scenes with songs that together form a heartwarming, but also heartbreaking and controversial ode to Reggie’s life.

It’s a raw and unexpected love story about the commitment of two people to art, poetry, care, and the potential beauty of every moment together, to the very end.

http://youtu.be/pWIohJHlhO0
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2015 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Official Selections

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

A DOG NAMED GUCCI, Gorman Bechard

The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival announced the lineup for the 2015 festival, which includes a record number of screenings.

Now in its 12th year, the festival runs from February 6-16 across four venues in downtown Missoula, Montana, and will include four competitions in the Feature, Short, Mini-Doc, and Big Sky Award categories. Competition films, thematic strands, Big Sky Doc Shop events, and special presentations will be announced in mid-January.

2015 BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTIONS –

1971, Johanna Hamilton, 80 minutes
20/NOTHING, Rachel Stevens, 6 minutes
A DOG NAMED GUCCI, Gorman Bechard, 83 minutes
A LINE IN THE SAND, Justin Clifton & Chris Cresci, 2 minutes
ABDULAI, Aidan Avery, 14 minutes
ABOVE ALL ELSE, John Fiege, 95 minutes
ABOVE THE ALLEY, BENEATH THE SKY, Dominic Gill, 24 minutes
ALMOST THERE, Dan Rybicky & Aaron Wickenden, 93 minutes
AN HONEST LIAR, Justin Weinstein & Tyler Measom, 90 minutes
AND WE WERE YOUNG, Andy Smentanka, 111 minutes
BACK ON BOARD: GREG LOUGANIS, Cheryl Furjanic, 86 minutes
BADGER CREEK, Randy Vasquez & Jonathan Skurnik, 8 minutes
BAJA’S SECRET MIRACLE, Eliana Alvarez Martinez,12 minutes
BARD IN THE BACKCOUNTRY, Cindy Stillwell & Tom Watson, 56 minutes
BASHIR’S VISION, Daniel Roher, 15 minutes
BEDEVIL, Sam Carroll, 67 minutes
BEING EVEL, Daniel Junge, 100 minutes
BELLY OF THE BEAST, Rob Norton, 15 minutes
BIG MOCCASIN, Chelsea Moynehan & Andrew Moynehan, 66 minutes
BILL ORHMANN: LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH. Rob Norton, 8 minutes, 2012
BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND, William Saunders, 95 minutes
BLACKSUN, Jon Bougher & Kohl Threlkeld, 7 minutes
BLENDHER, John Frank Freeman, 11 minutes
BLINDSIGHT, Bob Sacha, 16 minutes
BOYS WITH BROKEN EARS, Nima Shayeghi, 80 minutes
BRAVE NEW WILD, Oakley Anderson-Moore, 75 minutes
BREAK KIDS, Emily Kassie, 8 minutes
BROKEN CITY POETS, Ariane Wu, 29 minutes
BROKEN LANDSCAPES, Michael T. Miller, 13 minutes
BROKEN SONG, Claire Dix, 71 minutes
BUGARACH, Sergi Cameron, Ventura Durall & Salvador Sunyer, 90 minutes
BY BLOOD, Sam Russell & Marcos Barbery, 63 minutes
CAILLEACH, Rosie Reed Hillman, 14 minutes
CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC, Nick Brandestini, 94 minutes
CJ HENDRY: PEN ON PAPER, Rob Norton, 3 minutes
COACHING COLBURN, Jeff Bemiss, 16 minutes
COMIC BOOK HEAVEN, E.J. McLeavey-Fisher, 12 minutes
CONTROVERSIES, Ryan Mckenna, 22 minutes
COUNTING THE DEAD, Catharine Axley, 7 minutes
CRAZY CARL AND HIS MAN BOOBS, Mike Woolf, 50 minutes
CROOKED CANDY, Andrew Rodgers, 6 minutes
DAUGHTERS OF EMMONAK, Graeme Aegerter, Bobby Moser & Samantha Andre, 17 minutes
DAVID & ME, Ray Klonsky & Marc Lamy, 69 minutes
DAVID HOCKNEY IN THE NOW, Lucy Walker, 6 minutes
DESERT HAZE, Sofie Benoot, 109 minutes
DIVIDE IN CONCORD, Kris Kaczor & Dave Regos, 83 minutes
DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR?, Abigail Fuller & Sarah Ivy, 76 minutes
DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN, John Pirozzi, 107 minutes
DRY SEASON, Max Good & Tyler Trumbo, 8 minutes
DRYDEN: THE SMALL TOWN THAT CHANGED THE FRACKING GAME, Chris Jordan-Blochm 11 minutes
F-LINE, Silvia Turchin, 9 minutes
FIGHTER BY NATURE, JP Keenan & Aryelle Cormier, 28 minutes
FINDING TRACTION, Jaime Jacobsen, 57 minutes
FISHTAIL, Andrew Renzi, 61 minutes
FLORENCE, ARIZONA, Andrea B. Scott, 77 minutes
FOR ALL, Rachel Stevens, 15 minutes
FUNGIPHILIA RISING, Madison Mcclintock, 13 minutes
GARDENERS OF EDEN, Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck, 62 minutes
GAUCHO DEL NORTE, Sofian Khan, 58 minutes
GIAP’S LAST DAY AT THE IRONING BOARD FACORY, Tony Nguyen, 25 minutes
GNARLY IN PINK, Benjamin Mullinkosson & Kristelle Laroche, 7 minutes
GODKA CIRKA, Àlex Lora & Antonio Tibaldi, 10 minutes
GROWING HOME, Faisal Attrache, 21 minutes
HEARTS AND MINDS, Peter Davis, 112 minutes, 1974
HIGHRISE (An interactive documentary), Katerina Cizek
HINOKI FARM, Akiro Hellgardt, 29 minutes
HIP HOP-ERATION, Bryn Evans, 93 minutes
HOLLOW (An Interactive Documentary), Elaine Mcmillion
HOTEL 22, Elizabeth Lo, 8 minutes
HUNGRY HORSE, Pieter ten Hoopen, Tim McLaughlin & Brian Storm, 43 minutes
IN COUNTRY, Mike Attie & Meghan O’Hara, 80 minutes
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, 9 minutes
JALANAN, Daniel Ziv, 107 minutes
JORDANNE, Zak Razvi, 5 minutes
JUNK STUDIO, Kier Atherton, 7 minutes
KOSMA, Sonja Blagojevic, 75 minutes
KUNG FU ELLIOT, Matthew Bauckman & Jaret Belliveau, 128 minutes
LA ALFOMBRA ROJA, Iosu Lopez, 12 minutes
L.A. MINER, Thomas Wood, 24 minutes
LA REINA, Manuel Abramovich, 19 minutes
LADY BE GOOD: INSTRUMENTAL WOMEN IN JAZZ, Kay Ray, 80 minutes
LAST STOP IN SANTA ROSA, Elizabeth Lo, 5 minutes
LITTLE HERO, Marcus A. McDouglad & Jennifer Medvin, 10 minutes
LIVES WORTH LIVING, Eric Neudel, 60 minutes
LOVE AND TERROR: ON THE HOWLING PLAINS OF NOWHERE, Dave Jannetta, 100 minutes
LUCHADORA, River Finlay, 12 minutes
MEET THE HITLERS, Matt Ogens, 83 minutes
MIE NISHI, Bruno Caticha, 19 minutes
MINERS SHOT DOWN, Rehad Desai, 86 minutes
MR FOGG, Joseph Dixon, 17 minutes
NATURAL LIFE, Tirtza Even, 76 minutes
NOW EN ESPANOL, Andrea Meller, 67 minutes
OMA EN OPA (Grandma and Grandpa), Charlotte de Bekker, 8 minutes
OMID, Jawad Wahabzada, 9 minutes
ON BEAUTY, Joanna Rudnick, 30 minutes
ONE YEAR LEASE, Brian Bolster, 11 minutes
OUT OF DEEPWOOD, Craig Weflen, 23 minutes
PERSONAL GOLD, Tamara Christopherson, 89 minutes
POUTERS, Paul Fegan, 17 minutes
RETURN OF THE RIVER, Jessica Plumb & John Gussman, 70 minutes
REUNIONS, Naomi Wise, 10 minutes
RUHR RECORD, Rainer Komers, 45 minutes
SALAD DAYS, Scott Crawford, 104 minutes
SANTA CRUZ DEL ISLOTE, Luke Lorentzen, 19 minutes
SHEILD AND SPEAR, Petter Ringbom, 89 minutes
SHOWFOLK, Ned McNeilage, 23 minutes
SIBLINGS ARE FOREVER, Frode Fimland, 85 minutes
SIGHTLINES, Genevieve Bicknell, 16 minutes
SILENCED, James Sipone, 102 minutes
SILENCING THE THUNDER, Eddie Roqueta, 27 minutes
SLOW SEASON, John Fiege, 6 minutes
SOFT VENGENCE: ALBIE SACHS & THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA, Abby Ginzberg, 86 minutes
TERRANCE, Joris Debeij, 6 minutes
THE AGE OF LOVE, Steven Loring, 78 minutes
THE ALAN LANE STORY, Tyler Pfiffner & Kimberly Kozub, 15 minutes
THE CASE OF THE THREE SIDED DREAM, Adam Kahan, 87 minutes
THE DISEASE, Nathaniel Maddux, 15 minutes
THE HIP HOP FELLOW, Kenneth Price, 79 minutes
THE IMMORTALISTS, Jason Sussberg & David Alvarado, 79 minutes
THE LAST SEASON, Sara Dosa, 80 minutes
THE LAST SMALLHOLDER, Francis Lee, 9 minutes
THE LAST STOP IN SANTA ROSA, 5 minutes
THE ORCHESTRA, Francesco Merini & Helmut Failoni, 60 minutes
THE ORPHAN GIRL, Yarrow Kraner, 20 minutes
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS, Edward Lovelace & James Hall, 83 minutes
THE SOWER, Julie Perron, 77 minutes
THE VOW, Cameron Zohoori, 40 minutes
THE WHALE HUNT, (An interactive documentary), Jonathan Harris
THE YEAR WE THOUGHT ABOUT LOVE, Ellen Brodsky, 68 minutes
THERE WILL BE NO STAY, Patty Dillion, 71 minutes
TO LIVE DELIBERATELY, Marshall Granger, 10 minutes
TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR, Adam Weber & Jim Goldblum, 84 minutes
TONGUE RIVER HOME, Eliza Goode, 5 minutes
TOP SPIN, Sara Newens & Mina T. Son, 76 minutes
TREASURE ISLAND, Elizabeth Lo & Melissa Langer, 7 minutes
TRUE SON, Kevin Gordon, 72 minutes
UNDER THE BED, Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley, 11 minutes
UNPLUGGED, Mladen Kovacevic, 51 minutes
WAR WITHIN THE WALLS, Courtney Marsh, 28 minutes
WE ARE THE ONES, Jon Michael Shink, Michael Skinner, 62 minutes
WELL NOW YOU’RE HERE, THERE’S NO WAY BACK – 109 minutes
WHERE I CAN’T BE FOUND, Arjun Talwar, 15 minutes

JOHN COHEN RETROSPECTIVE –

ROSCOE HOLCOLM FROM DAISY, KENTUCKY, 29 minutes
MOUNTAIN MUSIC OF PERU, 58 minutes, 1984
GYPSIES SING LONG BALLADS, 28 minutes, 1982
DANCING WITH THE INCAS, 58 minutes, 1991
THE HIGH LONESOME SOUND, 68 minutes, 1963
END OF AN OLD SONG, 27minutes, 1970
SAM GREEN RETROSPECTIVE –
THE LOVE SONG OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER (w/Yo La Tengo), 2012
CLEAR GLASSES, 4 minutes
LOVE LETTER TO THE FOG (A Cinematic Study of Fog In San Francisco), 2013, 10 minutes
UTOPIA, PT. 3: THE WORLD’S LARGEST SHOPPING MALL, 2009, 13 minutes
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, 28 minutes
LOT 63, GRAVE C, 10 minutes, 2006
THE FABULOUS STAINS: BEHIND THE MOVIE, 1999, 11 minutes
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, 2003
RAINBOW MAN/JOHN 3:16
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, 60 minutes (w/live score by Brendan Canty, Todd Griffin, & Catherine McRae)

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