Brooklyn, NY - May 2, 2006
The Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) ENiGMA-9 announced today the narrative feature and documentary line-ups for its 9th annual festival, which takes place at the Brooklyn Museum June 2nd-11th, 2006. A very competitive year, the 15 narrative features were selected from over 320 submissions and the 11 documentaries were selected from over 560 submissions. In all, 15 countries will be represented in these two sections.

Dave Ratzlow, Director of Programming for BiFF, recognizes "this year’s narrative feature submissions were especially strong. I only wish we had room for more films. We all worked very hard to create a high-quality program with some of the most thought-provoking and cutting-edge films of the year."

The narrative feature slate includes the U.S. Premiere of "Cousins"(Cousines), the first Haitian film to appear at the festival, as well as the East Coast Premiere of "Factotum" starring academy award nominee, Matt Dillon. On June 2, Opening Night, BiFF celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Italian Republic. The Opening Night film presentation will be the U.S. Premiere of "Blood, Death Does Not Exist" (Sangue, La Morte Non Esiste). The following concert, presented by Fondazione Arezzo Wave Italia, will feature the Italian band, Avion Travel.

The documentary slate includes the East Coast Premiere of "In The Shadow Of The Palms – Iraq" and the World Premieres of "Radiophobia" and "Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball". All films compete for prizes, products, and services, worth over $100,000. The best documentary of the festival also receives the Diane Seligman Award, which carries a $5,000 cash prize.


International Narrative Feature Competition:

• Ahlaam, directed by Mohamed Al-Daradji (Iraq). In the first few moments of the Iraq war, a mental institution is destroyed leaving its patients, terrified and confused, to wander the streets of Bagdad. Meanwhile, a young doctor and the families of some of the patients attempt to find them amid the turmoil of a city in chaos. East Coast Premiere.
• Blood, Death Does Not Exist (Sangue, La Morte Non Esiste), directed by Libero De Rienzo (Italy). Employing a visceral shooting style in three distinct sections, De Rienzo creates a shocking tour-de-force and emotional roller coaster about two siblings set adrift in modern Italy. The opening night screening and party celebrates the commencement of the festival and the 60th anniversary of the Italian Republic. U.S. Premiere.
• Contact (Kontakt), directed by Sergej Stanojkovski (Germany/Macedonia). A grumpy ex-convict and a woman, prematurely released from a psychiatric ward, are thrown together by their scheming relatives. As they repair an old Macedonian villa, this odd couple slowly begins to create a normal life for themselves. East Coast Premiere.
• Cousins (Cousines), directed by Richard Senecal (Haiti). After the sudden death of her father, a young woman finds herself homeless on the streets of Port-au-Prince. The film features a wonderful performance by Jessica Geneus as a woman forced to make difficult choices in order to survive. U.S. Premiere.
• Factotum, directed by Bent Hamer (United States). Matt Dillon plays the alter-ego of writer Charles Bukowski, a Beat Generation poet and novelist. The film covers his early years as he struggles with alcoholism, dead-end jobs and tempestuous relationships. Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei co-star in the film. An IFC Films Release. NY Premiere.
• Finger And Body, directed by Kei Horie (Japan). The heart-wrenching story of a young pimp, in the midst of an existential crisis, forced to come to terms with an incestuous relationship with his sister. Culminating in a Fellini-inspired adventure, this mesmerizing film establishes Horie as a young filmmaker to watch. U.S. Premiere.
• The GoodTimesKid, directed by Azazel Jacobs (United States). Two men, who share the same name, discover each other during important transitions in their lives. A young woman, the object of both their affections, gets a chance to escape her mundane routine. Odd and sweet, this film features terrific performances by the director and two charming newcomers. East Coast Premiere.
• Little Fugitive, directed by Joanna Lipper (United States). A colorful remake of the 1953 classic about a young boy who runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother. Brooklyn, in all its glory, is featured throughout this High Definition film. East Coast Premiere.
• The Last Queen Of The Earth, directed by Mohammed Rezaarab (Iran). A simple yet powerful film about a young Afghani man earning a living in Iran who attempts to return to Afghanistan before the impending US-led attack. The chaos which ensues impedes the search for his wife and family. World Premiere.
• Lower City (Cidade Baixa), directed by Sergio Machado (Brazil). Lifelong pals test the limits of their friendship when they both fall for an exotic dancer who hitches a ride on their dilapidated cargo ship. A brutal tale of jealousy, temptation, and lust, the film features standout performances by three of Brazil's best young actors. A Palm Pictures Release. NY Premiere.
• Milk And Opium, directed by Joel Palombo (India). A young Muslim musician, away from home for the first time, travels throughout India with his family. He struggles to earn money while dealing with his antagonistic, opium-addicted uncle. With breathtaking images and thrilling musical sequences, Palombo creates a touching and inspiring adventure. East Coast Premiere.
• The Oh in Ohio, directed by Billy Kent (United States). Parker Posey stars as a woman who seems to have everything going for her, except... she has never had an orgasm. When her husband, played by actor Paul Rudd, leaves her, she begins a wild journey leading her to love and satisfaction in the most unlikely place. Danny DeVito and Mischa Barton also star in the film. NY Premiere.
• The Ring Finger (L'Annulaire), directed by Diane Bertrand (France/Germany). A lost young woman, portrayed by supermodel Olga Kurylenko, arrives at a lonely port city and finds work at a strange laboratory that attempts to preserve people’s memories. In a journey of self-discovery, she soon engages in a complicated love affair with her enigmatic employer. NY Premiere.
• Road, directed by Leslie McCleave (United States). A freelance photographer and her former lover embark on an increasingly surreal road trip. As the pair surveys toxic clean-up sites, they confront the wasteland of their relationship to each other and to their environment. Shot on a small budget with only a handful of actors, McCleave creates a haunting and thought-provoking film. NY Premiere.
• What A Wonderful Place, directed by Eyal Halfon (Israel). An ex-cop, who has become an errand-boy for a violent gangster, rediscovers his moral compass after befriending a troubled prostitute from Ukraine. The film features excellent performances from an international ensemble cast. East Coast Premiere.

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New York NY– May 13, 2006 Visualiner Entertainment’s STRIPPED DOWN award winning stylish thriller set in the seedy world of a second rate strip club isn’t exactly what you’d expect from a mother of four whose children range from 10 months old to a student at Stanford University. But that’s exactly what you get with writer/director/actress Elana Krausz . While serving up provocative images of nubile gyrating flesh STRIPPED DOWN transcends it’s candy coated exploitation bubble to make a serious statement of feminine empowerment. This social consciouness has led to STRIPPED DOWN being an official selection of the prestigious Monaco Charity Film Festival.



The Festival, which runs from May 15 through 20th, 2006 will play host to a variety of films from around the world which tackle challenging social issues. The lineup includes such selections as INNOCENT VOICES from Golden Globe nominated director Luis Mandoki and five time Academy Award Nominee Sidney Lumet’s STRIP SEARCH.



Krausz stars opposite Ian Ziering (DOMINO, “Beverly Hills, 90210) Marcus Jean Pirae (BULLETPROOF MONK) which recently garnered her a Best Actress Award at the Silver Lake Film Festival from a jury headed by Alison Anders and Charles Burnett. STRIPPED DOWN, which also took the an award for Outstanding Achievement in Production, has been invited to the Solstice Film Festival in St. Paul, Minnesota.



The film tells the story of Lily (Elana Krausz) a former stripper turned club manager, who has allowed herself to succumb to years of abuse and objectification. All of that changes in the course of 24 hours in a series of events that involve her paranoid and violent strip club owner husband (Pirae) a judgemental Tax Agent (Ziering) and two strippers who evoke memories of Lily’s distant past: Bre Blair (“What About Brian”) and Lisa Arturo (AMERICAN PIE 2).


STRIPPED DOWN debuts in Monaco on May 17t at 5pm with a party immediately following featuring star Ian Ziering and HSH Prince Albert of Monaco. The screening and party both take place in Monte Carlo’s famed Hotel de Paris, Salle Debussy.

New York, NY – The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) Æ announced today the program of films and events for the 11th annual festival to be held June 14-18, 2006. The Opening Night film this year will be the documentary Al Franken: God Spoke from directors Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus. The Closing Night film will be the documentaryThe Heart of the Game from director Ward Serrill. The centerpiece film will be the documentary Ground Truth from director Patricia Foulkrod with never-before-seen footage.

"For NFF11, we chose to focus on the art of storytelling in the documentary form," said Co-Founder and Executive Director, Jill Burkhart. " What we find so exciting is that non-fiction filmmaking is borrowing the storytelling engines usually reserved for fiction films, giving docs an extraordinary power."

Artistic Director, Mystelle BrabbÈe, said, "The fact that we have decided to celebrate the up-and-coming power of documentaries does not mean that we still are not foremost a festival devoted to the art of screenwriting."

In response to the record-breaking sales and attendance at last year’s festival, the Nantucket Film Festival has added some new and larger venues, expanding its stretch and accessibility across the island. New for this year will be the 450-seat tent on the lawn of The White Elephant. The tent will be home to "Late Night Storytelling", one of the audience favorites among NFF’s special events, and the "NBC Universal Screenwriters Tribute". Also announced, the beautiful Sconset Casino will serve as one of NFF’s screening venues while the Dreamland Theater is under renovation. Among the programs dedicated to screenwriting, the Nantucket Film Festival introduces a new panel called "A Film is Written Three Times" to emphasize that screenwriting doesn’t begin and end with the script. A film is written a second time by the director and a third time in the editing room.

As previously announced, the writing team of Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne will be the NBC Universal Screenwriter Honorees for the 2006 Nantucket Film Festival. Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, and Thomas Haden Church will be on island to fete Payne and Taylor. The tribute will be followed by an In Their ShoesÆ conversation on screenwriting with Mr. Payne and Mr. Alexander, hosted by Leonard Maltin on Sunday.

The Opening Night Film will be the documentary Al Franken: God Spoke directed by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus. From Pennebake Hegedus Films, Al Franken: God Spoke is a cinema verite pursuit of Al Franken from his highly publicized feud with Bill O’Reilly to his relentless campaign against George Bush and the Right Wing during the 2004 election, and beyond.

The Closing Night Film will be the documentaryThe Heart of the Game directed by Ward Serrill. From Woody Creek Productions, The Heart of the Game follows the Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls' high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player in particular whose off-court struggles threaten to destroy her dream of being the first person in her family to get a college education.


2006 Nantucket Film FestivalÆ Programs:

In addition to the NBC Universal Screenwriter Tribute and "In Their Shoes" interview, the Nantucket Film Festival will feature a line-up of its signature programs and events, including "Morning Coffee With", "Screening on the Beach", and "Late Night Storytelling".

As one of the most popular events at NFF, "Late Night Storytelling" showcases five surprise storytellers and a handful of audience members who are given only five minutes to tell their "LOST AND FOUND" stories. Pete Farrelly and Ann Meara are returning to co-host this hilarious event.

Nantucket Film FestivalÆ Awards†

Among the awards given at NFF Æ this year will be The Audience Award for Best Feature & Best Short, SHOWTIME’S TONY COX Awards for Best Screenwriting in a Feature Film and Short Film, Teen View on NFFÆ Award, Best Storytelling in a Documentary Film, and The† Writer/Director Award.

In keeping with NFFÆ mission of spotlighting writers, the Festival will announce the winner of Showtime’s annual Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting in early June.† The winner will be feted at the Showtime Award Ceremony at the Festival.

ABOUT NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL

The NFF was founded in 1996 to spotlight screenwriters, screenwriting and storytelling in today's†cinema. The festival takes place over five days in June on the idyllic island of Nantucket, MA.

Now in its eleventh year, NFF has become a prestigious annual event within the international film industry. Screening over 50 feature-length and short films in all genres that highlight the art of storytelling, the NFF is significant attraction that draws over ten thousand attendees, screenwriters, producers, agents and development executives each year. ††

Screenwriting is further explored through panel discussions, a screenplay competition, an emerging screenwriter's mentorship with the Screenwriters Colony, an educational program for teens and community beach screenings.†The Festival also hosts the popular evening of Late Night Storytelling (hosted by Peter Farrelly and Anne Meara and past stories told by Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Mos Def and Paul Rudd) in addition to screenplay staged readings.†

Past staged readings have included the hilarious SHOWSTOPPER by Anthony Barille & Geoffrey Nauffts including the talents of Ben Stiller and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei. Last year’s reading, SPECTACLE, Part One of the Mark Rosen Chroniclesby Stacy Weiss and Dan Chariton was directed by Ben Stiller and the cast included: Macaulay Culkin, Amy Sedaris, David Krumholtz, Lake Bell, Robert Sean Leonard, Ben Stiller and more. The coveted screenplay A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer was the centerpiece staged reading of NFF 2003 and featured Will Ferrell in the starring role with Alan Cumming, Mos Def, and Rosie Perez.

The NFF has been a showcase for some of the top independent films of the last decade. The festival was one of the first to find and platform such films as: The Full Monty, Next Stop Wonderland and Girlfight. NFF 2005 Featured the North American Premiere of Jim Jarmush's Broken Flowers as the Opening Night Film.

For more information please visit our website at www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.

Brooklyn, NY - May 12, 2006 he Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) ENiGMA-9 announced today its slate of 33 short films, 32 animated films and 17 experimental films. BiFF also added several short documentaries to the program in order to round out the competition. Including the 15 narrative features and 11 documentaries previously announced, a total of 118 films have been selected from 34 countries.

“Several exciting additions will make 2006 a very special festival,” said Marco Ursino, BiFF Executive Director. “We are collaborating with New York Women in Film & Television who will co-present several short films by female filmmakers on Thursday, June 8th, 2006 at 6pm.” On Sunday, June 11th, 2006, BiFF will also host three other film festivals, Lunafest and Interfilm, in two shorts programs, and Subway Cinema, which will show a feature from China entitled "Peacock" directed by Gu Changwei.

A complete schedule of events for the festival will be announced shortly and will be available at BiFF’s website www.wbff.org.


Additions to the Documentary Competition:

• Beg, Borrow Or Steal, directed by Andreas Koefoed (Denmark) – US Premiere.
• Eviction, directed by Steve Loff (USA) - World Premiere.
• Journey to the Unknown, directed by Lizbeth Meija (USA) - NY Premiere.
• Made in the Bronx, directed by Stephen Dypiangco (USA).
• A New American Century, directed by Anthony Wilson & Sam Hollenshead (USA) - East Coast Premiere.
• Our Daily Bread,directed by Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines) - US Premiere.
• Preacher With An Unknown God, directed by Rob Vanalkemade (USA).
• Razor Wire Rodeo, directed by Nicolas Pallay (Switzerland) - US Premiere.
• Walking By My Side-Parents' Hearts, directed by Winnie Ho (Hong Kong) - US Premiere.

Animation Competition::

• Alive, directed by Lucky Blackwell (USA) - World Premiere.
• All People Is Plastic, directed by Harald Hund (Austria) – East Coast Premiere.
• Black Day To Freedom, directed by Rob Chiu (England).
• Bob Log III's Electric Fence Story, directed by Stock' n' Woolf (Germany) – East Coast Premiere.
• The Chamber, directed by Yu Seock Hyun (Korea) – US Premiere.
• The Crab Revolution, directed by Arthur De Pins (France).
• Devil's Canyon, directed by Kelly Sears (USA) – NY Premiere.
• Doves: Sky Starts Falling, directed by Reuben Sutherland (England).
• Dragon, directed by Yroy Morgan (USA) – NY Premiere.
• The Foot Steps of Water, directed by Alireza Darvish (Iran) – US Premiere.
• Forest Clearing, directed by Simon Robson (England) – US Premiere.
• Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot, directed by David Chai (USA).
• The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli, directed by Claude Barras (Swiss) – US Premiere.
• God On Our Side, directed by M. & U. Kranot (Netherlands) – NY Premiere.
• A Half Man, directed by Firas Moman (Canada).
• In Those Days, directed by Nadine Buss (France) – US Premiere.
• Infinite Justice, directed by Karl Tebbe (Germany) – World Premiere.
• Journey to Mars, directed by J.P. Zaramella (Argent.) – NY Premiere.
• Kontrol-Eskape, directed by mAt&spoN (France) – US Premiere.
• Life in Transition, directed by John R. Dilworth (USA).
• Ministry Messiah, directed by Gints Apsits (Latvia) – US Premiere.
• Not There Yet, directed by Jason Tammemagi (Ireland) – NY Premiere.
• Novecento, Pianist, directed by Sarah VD Boom (France) – NY Premiere.
• The Nuclear Physicist Gives His Son Free Advice, directed by Hanan Harchol (USA) – World Premiere.
• Our Man in Nirvana, directed by Jan Koester (Germany) – US Premiere.
• The Paguey River, directed by Ramón París & Tere Castillo (Spain).
• A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process (In Less Than 60 Seconds), directed by Chel White (USA) – East Coast Premiere.
• Reflections, directed by Suki (France).
• Scentsory Design, directed by Jenny Tillotson (England) – East Coast Premiere.
• Scope, directed by Makoto Yabuki (Japan).
• Stalk, directed by L.Hodgkinson (England).
• The Wraith of Cobble Hill, directed by Adam P. King (USA).

Experimental Competition:

• 3PM, directed by Iris Bernblum (USA) – World Premiere.
• The Carousel Rite, directed by Zoltan Gayer – Peter Molnar (Hungary) – US Premiere.
• Chalazae, directed by Samantha Krukowski (USA) – World Premiere.
• Dark Room, directed by Bart Wasem (Switzerland).
• Def Song, directed by Doctor L / Xavier Reyé (France) – US Premiere.
• E=nyc2, directed by Kimi Takesue (USA) – NY Premiere.
• The Fall of Adam, directed by Gail Sneddon (England) – US Premiere.
• From Where I'm Standing, directed by C. Stevenson (England) – NY Premiere.
• Ha Ha Ha America, directed by JD Ligon (USA) – East Coast Premiere.
• Harrachov, directed by Matt Hulse & Joost Van Veen (England) – US Premiere.
• I Know Who I Am, directed by The Sakanama (France) – World Premiere.
• Looking for Alfred, directed by Johan Grimonprez (Belgium) – US Premiere.
• Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve, directed by Nicholas Lens (Belgium) – World Premiere.
• Pulpville, directed by Nina Martinek (USA) – East Coast Premiere.
• Stone, directed by Samantha Yu (USA).
• Tra La La, directed by Magali Charrier (England) – NY Premiere.
• Wolfstraum, directed by Maria-Anna Rimpfl (Germany) – US Premiere.

Short Film Competition:

• 50 Cents, directed by Mathijs Geijskes (Netherlands) – NY Premiere.
• Australian Summer, directed by Luke Eve
• Presences, directed by Patrick Lecomte (France) – US Premiere.
• Sans Supervision, directed by Andrew T. Betzer (USA) – US Premiere.
• Slumber Party, directed by Variety Shac (USA) – World Premiere.
• Space Chase, directed by Duncan & Pearson (England) – East Coast Premiere.
• The Headless Sailor, directed by Lorenzo Recio (France) – US Premiere.
• The Remaining Days, directed by Simon Olivier Fecteau (Canada) – US Premiere.
• The Swan, directed by Nin Brudermann (USA) – US Premiere.
• The Winter, directed by Zhao Jing (China) – US Premiere.
• They're Made Out of Meat, directed by Stephan O'Regan (USA).
• Time of the Cherries, directed by Jean-Julien Chervier (France) – US Premiere.
• Transit, directed by Bani Khoshnoudi (France) – US Premiere.
• Vancouver, directed by Jesse McKeown (Canada) – US Premiere.
• Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, directed by Marcal Fores (Spain) – US Premiere.

NewFest Celebrates 18th Year as New York’s LGBT Film Festival

Opening Night Film, Strangers With Candy, Only a Taste of what’s in Store at 18th Annual NewFest (June 1-11).

230 Films—45 Features, 40 Documentaries, 145 Shorts—Highlight 2006 Festival Including 36 New York Premieres, 10 United States Premieres and 25 World Premieres.

New York — NewFest, New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, announced today the full program of films and special events for the 18th annual festival. The opening night film will be the New York premiere of Paul Dinello’s Strangers With Candy, starring Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert. The closing night film will be the New York premiere of Ramon Salazar’s 20 Centimeters.

"Even after such a pivotal year for gay themes in mainstream cinema, many people have reached a level of complacency. The importance of NewFest is that it provides filmmakers and audiences with a dedicated and visible public forum in which to enjoy and critically engage with these films as a community and, most importantly, continue to promote dialogue between gay and mainstream cultures about gay representation," said Basil Tsiokos, director of NewFest.

New this year is a special filmmaker panel presented by NewFest and indieWIRE will take place at the Apple Store Soho, Thursday, June 8th, 7:30-9:00PM. The panel will include Strangers With Candy stars Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello (director/writer/actor) in a discussion about the film, moderated by director of NewFest, Basil Tsiokos.

In addition to Strangers With Candy and 20 Centimeters, other gala films include the two Centerpieces, Todd Stephens’ Another Gay Movie and the Spanish film, Queens, directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira.

NewFest 2006: The 18th New York LGBT Film Festival will take place June 1-11 at the AMC Loews 34th St Theater. For more detailed information about the following line-up, visit www.newfest.org beginning May 15th.

FEATURES

Presenting New York City’s largest line-up of the newest and best LGBT narratives and documentary features representing diverse countries, and including 25 World Premieres, 10 US Premieres, and 36 NYC Premieres.

Almost Myself

Directed by Tom Murray (USA, 2006, video, 80 min, World Premiere)

Backstage

Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot (France, 2005, 35mm, 115 min, French with subtitles)

Beautiful Daughters

Directed by Ariel Orr Jordan & Josh Aronson (USA, 2006, video, 61 min, NYC Premiere)

Gender Rebel

Directed by Elaine Epstein (USA, 2006, video, 45 min, World Premiere)

Between the Lines: India's Third Gender

Directed by Thomas Wartmann (Germany, 2005, 35mm, 95 min, English/Hindi with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Beyond Conception: Men Having Babies

Directed by Johnny Symons (USA, 2006, video, 75 min, NYC Premiere)

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

(Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros)

Directed by Auraeus Solito (The Philippines, 2005, video, 100 min, Tagalog with subtitles)

Boy Culture

Directed by Q Allan Brocka (USA, 2005, video, 85 min)

Boy I Am

Directed by Samantha Feder & Julie Hollar (USA, 2006, video, 80 min, World Premiere)

Broken Sky

(El cielo dividido)

Directed by Julian Hernandez (Mexico, 2005, 35mm, 140 min, Spanish with subtitles, US Premiere)

Camp Out

Directed by Larry Grimaldi & Kirk Marcolina (USA, 2006, video, 78 min, NYC Premiere)

Coffee Date

Directed by Stewart Wade (USA, 2006, video, 93 min, World Premiere)

Combat

Directed by Patrick Carpentier (Belgium, 2005, video, 56 min, French with subtitles, US Premiere)

The Conrad Boys

Directed by Justin Lo (USA, 2006, 35mm, 94 min, NYC Premiere)

Cruel & Unusual

Directed by Janet Baus, Dan Hunt, & Reid Williams (USA, 2006, video, 67 min, NYC Premiere)

The Crying of Angels

(Anjeli placu)

Directed by Zuza Piussi (Slovak Republic, 2005, video, 54 min, Slovakian with subtitles, US Premiere)

Many People, Many Desires

Directed by T Jayashree (India, 2004, video, 45 min, English, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi with subtitles)

The Dark Matter of Mars

Directed by Phyllis Famiglietti (USA, 2006, video, 76 min, World Premiere)

East Side Story

Directed by Carlos Portugal (USA, 2006, video, 88 min, English & Spanish with subtitles, World Premiere)

Electroshock

Directed by Juan Carlos Claver (Spain, 2006, video, 98 min, Spanish with subtitles, US Premiere)

Eye on the Guy: Alan B Stone & The Age of Beefcake

Directed by Jean-Francois Monette & Philip Lewis (Canada, 2006, video, 48 min, English & French with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Directed by Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg (USA, 2005, video, 81 min)

The Fall of '55

Directed by Seth Randal (USA, 2006, video, 82 min, World Premiere)

Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story

Directed by Sean Mullens (USA, 2005, video, 84 min, NYC Premiere)

For the Love of Dolly

Directed by Tai Uhlmann (USA, 2006, video, 56 min, NYC Premiere)

Forgiving the Franklins

Directed by Jay Floyd (USA, 2006, video, 98 min, NYC Premiere)

Go West

(Ideme na Zapad)

Directed by Ahmed Imamovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina/Croatia, 2005, 35mm, 97 min, Bosnian with subtitles)

The Gymnast

Directed by Ned Farr (USA, 2006, video, 98 min, NYC Premiere)

Gypo

Directed by Jan Dunn (UK, 2005, video, 98 min, NYC Premiere)

Hot Chicks

Directed by Anonymous, Rodney Ascher, P David Ebersole, Jamie Tolbert Franklin, Syd Garon, Todd Hughes, Bryce Ingman, Tom Kirk, and TOMMY! (USA, 2006, video, 100 min, Sneak Preview)

Hotel Gondolin

Directed by Fernando Lopez Escriva (Argentina, 2005, video, 52 min, Spanish with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Black Beulahs

Directed by Fanney Tsimong (South Africa, 2006, video, 48 min, English & Shotho with subtitles, World Premiere)

How Do I Look?

Directed by Wolfgang Busch (USA, 2006, video, 80 min, World Premiere)

Idol

Directed by Chris Long & Mike Hiem (USA, 2006, video, 80 min, World Premiere)

In the Blood

Directed by Lou Peterson (USA, 2006, video, 82 min, World Premiere)

Innocent

Directed by Simon Chung (Canada, 2005, video, 80 min, English & Cantonese with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Jack Mitchell: My Life is Black & White

Directed by Craig B Highberger (USA, 2006, video, 75 min, World Premiere)

Kiki and Herb Reloaded

Directed by Chris Gallagher & Michaline Babich (USA, 2005, video, 75 min, NYC Premiere)

Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama Goes to Sweden!

Directed by Heather de Michele (USA, 2006, video, 79 min, World Premiere)

The Life of Reilly

Directed by Barry Poltermann & Frank Anderson (USA, 2006, video, 90 min, NYC Premiere)

Long-Term Relationship

Directed by Rob Williams (USA, 2006, video, 97 min, World Premiere)

Looking for Cheyenne (Oublier Cheyenne)

Directed by Valerie Minetto (France, 2005, 35mm, 90 min, French with subtitles, US Premiere)

The Lost Tribe

Directed by Rachel Landers (USA, 2005, video, 56 min, NYC Premiere)

Be Real: Stories from Queer America

Directed by Bobbie Birleffi (USA, 2006, video, 52 min, NYC Premiere)

Love Life

Directed by Damion Dietz (USA, 2006, video, 72 min, NYC Premiere)

Lover Other

Directed by Barbara Hammer (USA, 2006, video, 55 min)

Loving Annabelle

Directed by Katharine Brooks (USA, 2005, video, 77 min, NYC Premiere)

Low Profile

(Falscher Bekenner)

Directed by Christoph Hochh‰usler (Germany, 2005, 35mm, 94 min, German with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

Directed by Julian P Hobbs (USA, 2005, video, 80 min, World Premiere)

Mom

Directed by Erin Greenwell (USA, 2006, video, 70 min, World Premiere)

Mom's Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Custody Movement

Directed by Jody Laine, Shan Ottey, & Shad Reinstein (USA, 2006, video, 58 min, NYC Premiere)

Two Moms: A Family Portrait

Directed by Luiz de Barros & Andile Genge (South Africa, 2004, video, 48 min)

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

Directed by George Bamber (USA, 2005, video, 88 min)

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

Directed Linda Thornburg (USA, 2005, video, 126 min, NYC Premiere)

My Name is Jackie Beat

Directed by Randolph Mark Viverito (USA, 2006, video, 65 min, World Premiere)

Not Quite Right

Directed by Philip Schaff (USA, 2005, video, 89 min, NYC Premiere)

Out of Hand

(Keller)

Directed by Eva Urthaler (Austria, 2005, 35mm on video, 92 min, German with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Paper Dolls

(Bubot Niyar)

Directed by Tomer Heymann (Israel, 2005, video, 80 min, English/Hebrew with subtitles, US Premiere)

Pick Up the Mic

Directed by Alex Hinton (USA, 2005, video, 95 min, NYC Premiere)

Queer Duck: The Movie

Directed by Xeth Feinberg (USA, 2006, video, 74 min, World Premiere)

Rag Tag

Directed by Adaora Nwandu (UK/Nigeria, 2006, video, 98 min, NYC Premiere)

Rainbow's End

Directed by Christian Jentzsch & Jochen Hick (Germany, 2006, video, 75 min, US Premiere)

Rock Bottom

Directed by Jay Corcoran (USA, 2006, video, 75 min, World Premiere)

Say Amen!

(Tagid Amen!)

Directed by David Deri (Israel, 2005, video, 65 min, Hebrew/Moroccan with subtitles, NYC Premiere)

Family Matters

(Mishpuche)

Directed by David Noy (Israel, 2004, video, 61 min, Hebrew/German with subtitles)

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

Directed by Victor Silverman & Susan Stryker (USA, 2005, video, 57 min, NYC Premiere)

Silom Soi 2

Directed by Piya Rangsitienchai (Thailand, 2006, video, 90 min, Thai with subtitles, World Premiere)

Small Town Gay Bar

Directed by Malcolm Ingram (USA, 2005, video, 81 min, NYC Premiere)

Songbirds

Directed by Brian Hill (UK, 2005, video, 62 min, NYC Premiere)

Stray Cats

(Mga Pusang Gala)

Directed by Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil (The Philippines, 2005, video, 116 min, Tagalog with subtitles, US Premiere)

Sun Kissed

Directed by Patrick McGuinn (USA, 2006, 35mm, 92 min, NYC Premiere)

Tang Tang

Directed by Zhang Hanzi (China, 2004, video, 90 min, Mandarin with subtitles, US Premiere)

Two Drifters

(Odete)

Directed by Jo„o Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal, 2005, 35mm, 101 min, Portuguese with subtitles)

Vacationland

Directed by Todd Verow (USA, 2006, video, 104 min, US Premiere)

Whispering Moon

(Das Fl¸stern des Mondes)

Directed by Michael Satzinger (Austria, 2005, video, 97 min, German with subtitles, World Premiere)

White Shadows

Directed by Mialyn Hanna (USA, 2006, video, 82 min, World Premiere)

Whole New Thing

Directed by Amnon Buchbinder (Canada, 2005, 35mm, 92 min)

With You!

Directed by Yaniv Dabach (USA, 2006, video, 68 min, World Premiere)

Your Heart in My Brain

(Dein Herz in meinem Hirn)

Directed by Rosa von Praunheim (Germany, 2005, video, 83 min, German with subtitles, US Premiere)

Yours Emotionally!

Directed by Sridhar Rangayan (UK/India, 2006, video, 83 min, World Premiere)

SHORTS PROGRAMS

Fifteen programs featuring over 100 shorts offer a broad range of genres, themes, and aesthetics reflecting the potential of the short form and its universal appeal.



Available Men

(Film & video program, 93 min)

The men in these short films are primarily interested in dating and/or sex.

Boomerang (Nicolas Breviere, France, 2005, 26 min, French with subtitles)

Two Nights (Rolmar Baldonado, Australia, 2006, 11 min)

still (Tim Leyendekker, The Netherlands, 2005, 4 min)

Hello, Thanks (Andy Blubaugh, USA, 2005, 8 min)

Gay? (Jean-Gabriel Periot, France, 2000, 2 min, French with subtitles)

Hitchcocked (David M Young, USA, 2005, 8 min)

Available Men (David Dean Bottrell, USA, 2005, 15 min)

Hustler WP (Craig Cobb, USA, 2006, 19 min)



Between the Boys

(Video program, 97 min)

Gay relationships are center stage in this collection of shorts.

Between the Boys (Jake Yuzna, USA, 2004, 4 min)

Brothers (Deniz Buga, Turkey, 2003, 7 min, Turkish with subtitles)

Goodboys (John Lochland, UK, 2006, 12 min)

Pablo, Did You Put on the Washing Machine? (Javier Haba Navarro, Spain, 2004, 3 min)

Dinner Conversation (Jim Cashman, USA, 2005, 4 min)

Patriotic (David Burns, USA, 2004, 9 min)

Eggs for Breakfast (Claudio Sodi Zapata, Mexico, 2005, 5 min, Spanish with subtitles)

And I Do Not Know Even When (Eduardo Soto-Trillo, Ion Arocena & Laura A Cancho, Spain, 2004, 15 min, Spanish with subtitles)

The DL Chronicles (Quincy LeNear & Deondray Gossett, USA, 2005, 30 min)



Boys Will Be Boys

(Film & video program, 106 min)

A collection of gay comic shorts.

Little Siren (Marisa Crespo & Moises Romero, Spain, 2004, 7 min, Spanish with subtitles)

My Cat's Balls (Didier Benurea, France, 2004, 22 min, French with subtitles)

The Underminer (Todd Downing, UK, 2005, 6 min)

The Marriage Class (Margaret Broucek, USA, 2006, 7 min)

Baby Time Share (Jim Zulevic, USA, 2005, 4 min)

How to *** Ejaculate (Panik Qulture, France, 2005, 7 min, French with subtitles)

Pretty Things (Michael Lucid, USA, 2006, 12 min)

Deliriously Jen (Angus Oblong, USA, 2005, 13 min)

Sissy Frenchfry (JC Oliva, USA, 2005, 28 min)



Can't Buy Me Love

(Film & video program, 97 min)

Hustlers and the men who love and hire them...

Trick (Megan Berlin Alderson, USA, 2004, 15 min)

Uproar (Arnault Visinet, France, 2004, 20 min, French with subtitles)

Man Seeking Man (Matti Harju, Finland, 2004, 12 min, Finnish with subtitles)

She Kills He (Dave Rodriguez, USA, 2005, 20 min)

Monkey's Rock (Olav Wehling, Germany, 2004, 10 min, German with subtitles)

Can't Buy Me Love (Todd Wilson, USA, 2006, 20 min)



Drawn Out: Animation 2006

(Video program, 91 min)

Our ever-popular animation program returns showcasing a diverse array of subjects and styles.

David + Jonathan (Jan Wandrag, USA, 2006, 15 min)

Dreaming is for Moonrise (Pei-ying Lee, Taiwan, 2004, 7 min)

Innocent (Cliff Kafai Mok, Canada, 2004, 6 min)

My Crazy Life (Carlos E Arguello & Enzo Ybarra, USA, 2006, 6 min)

guy 101 (Ian W Gouldstone, UK, 2005, 9 min)

The Pink Underwear (Ramon Navarro Souto, Brazil, 2003, 1 min, Portuguese with subtitles)

Small Talk at the Bathhouse (Michael Trull & Rick Ziegler, USA, 2005, 5 min)

LA Dolls (Lori Kaye & Les Thomas, USA, 2005, 18 min)

Downsizing of the Gods (John Goodwin, USA, 2006, 24 min)



I Belong to You: Experimental Gay Shorts

(Film & video program, 97 min)

These gay experimental short films contemplate such subjects as sex, memory, relationships, youthfulness, longing, and the male body.

Solitude (Jesus Rodriguez, USA, 2005, 9 min)

Every Wandering Cloud (Tom Kalin, USA, 2005, 7 min)

Boy With a Ball (Victor Barbieri, USA, 2004, 1 min)

I Belong to You (Ivan Monforte, USA, 2006, 4 min)

Group of Seven Inches (Kent Monkman, Canada, 2005, 7 min)

Pop Porn Party (Panik Qulture, France, 2005, 4 min)

On Sex (Saverio Corti, Italy, 2005, 3 min)

To Hold A Heart (Michael Wallin, USA, 2005, 13 min)

Still (Lucky Kuswandi, Indonesia/USA, 2005, 15 min)

The Only Letter I've Ever Written (Tung-Yen Chou, Taiwan/UK, 2005, 11 min)

Rock & A Hard Place (Joshua Thorson, USA, 2005, 23 min)



In the Girls Room

(Film & video program, 96 min)

This collection of shorts examines young women coming to terms with their sexuality or gender.

Odile (Benedicte Delgehier, France, 2005, 10 min, French with subtitles)

Black Plum (Meredyth Wilson, USA, 2005, 16 min)

Doors (Mandra Waback, The Netherlands, 2004, 13 min)

Bye Bye Antonia (Isabella Gresser, Germany, 2005, 15 min, German with subtitles)

Being A Boy (Mia Olsson, Sweden, 2004, 10 min, Swedish with subtitles)

Peace Talk (Jenifer Malmquist, Sweden, 2005, 14 min, Swedish with subtitles)

Katie and Kasey (Kyla Tomlin, USA, 2005, 6 min)

Open (Teale Failla, USA, 2005, 12 min)



Male Bonding

(Film & video program, 98 min)

Young men try to make sense of their sexuality in this program of international shorts.

Summer (Hong Khaou, UK, 2006, 9 min)

Out Now (Sven J Matten, Germany, 2005, 20 min, German with subtitles)

Kissing Tigers (Teddy Lussi-Modeste, France, 2004, 21 min, French with subtitles)

My Uncle Mario (Naama Zaltsman, Israel, 2003, 18 min, Hebrew with subtitles)

Beginners! (Nicolas Wackerbarth, Germany, 2004, 30 min, German with subtitles)



Obsession for Men

(Film & video program, 101 min)

From a crush on a straight best friend to the fascination of a stranger from afar, these films address longing.

Straight Boys (Dave O'Brien, USA, 2006, 15 min)

Davy and Stu (Soman Chainani, USA, 2006, 13 min)

Cabalerno (Jarrah Gurrie, USA, 2005, 5 min)

Colorblind (Apollo Oliva, USA, 2006, 20 min)

Emilio's Eyes (Alex Zuno, Mexico, 2005, 19 min, Spanish with subtitles)

Nights in Love (Hakon Liu, Sweden, 2005, 29 min, Swedish with subtitles)



Real Boys

(Video program, 85 min)

A collection of some of this year’s best gay documentary portraits.

Disruptive Items (Isabella Bravo, USA, 2004, 7 min)

Gay (Brandon Yanofsky & Dylan Ellison, USA, 2005, 10 min)

(in)Visible Years (Gideon Boaz, USA, 2005, 25 min)

Out in the Heartland (Gretchen Hildebran, USA, 2005, 18 min)

Reporter Zero (Carrie Lozano, USA, 2005, 25 min)



Real Girls

(Video program, 97 min)

A collection of some of this year’s best lesbian documentary portraits.

Jane's Birthday Trip (Etienne Kallos, USA, 2006, 16 min)

Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women's Project (Jennifer Abod, USA, 2006, 25 min)

Possessed by Demons (Nokuthula Dlhadlha, South Africa, 2004, 5 min)

You Are The Only One Who Knows (Jenni Linko, Finland, 2003, 24 min, Finnish with subtitles)

A Girl Named Kai (Kai Ling Xue, Canada, 2004, 9 min)

Rape For Who I Am (Lovinsa Kavuma, South Africa, 2006, 27 min)



The Science of Love: Women's Relationships

(Film & video program, 93 min)

These works showcase women in love or searching for love.

The Science of Love (Joyce Draganosky, USA, 2005, 14 min)

LA Dolls (Lori Kaye & Les Thomas, USA, 2005, 18 min)

Outside (Jenn Kao, USA, 2004, 22 min)

Christmas Eve (Hakon Liu, Sweden, 2005, 4 min, Swedish with subtitles)

Triple Minority (Amber Sharp, USA, 2005, 15 min)

Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan (Tina Mabry, USA, 2005, 20 min)



She Drives Me Crazy

(Video program, 89 min)

The end of the affair is the underlying theme of these short lesbian films.

If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now (Tamar Glezerman, Israel, 2006, 10 min, Hebrew with subtitles)

Sarang Song (Tamika Miller, USA, 2005, 23 min)

Top of the World (Maya Kenig, Israel, 2005, 15 min, Hebrew with subtitles)

Gillery's Little Secret (Tina Scorzafava, USA, 2005, 25 min)

Cosa Bella (Fiona Mackenzie, USA, 2006, 16 min)



She's So Outrageous!

(Film & video program, 92 min)

Prepare to laugh at this year’s funniest lesbian shorts.

Squeeze Play (Chiedu Egbuniwe, USA, 2004, 14 min)

Never Rob a Bank With Someone You Love! (Jill Maxcy, USA, 2005, 11 min)

CremMate: Muffy (Diane Wilkins, USA, 2006, 3 min)

About That Lesbian Puppet (Charlotte Gutierrez, USA, 2004, 2 min)

Beyond Lovely (Hilary Goldberg, USA, 2005, 11 min)

His Name is Cosmo (Nicole Opper & Laura Terruso, USA, 2006, 18 min)

Make Room for Phyllis (Madeleine Olnek, USA, 2006, 12 min)

Love Is Blind (Peter Pizzi, USA, 2005, 9 min)

One End Stands (Maiara R Skarheim, Australia, 2005, 12 min)



Teenage Wasteland

(Video program, 90 min)

This collection of shorts about gay and questioning youth deals with the darker side of coming out and the dangers of attraction.

Boys Grammar (Dean Francis, Australia, 2005, 8 min)

Dark Room (Ronen Amar, Israel, 2005, 15 min, Hebrew with subtitles)

Cut Out (Kristina Simons, New Zealand, 2004, 18 min)

High Hopes (Timo Kalevi Puukko, Bulgaria, 2004, 13 min, Bulgarian with subtitles)

Bugcrush (Carter Smith, USA, 2006, 36 min)



FILMMAKERS FORUM

NewFest’s Filmmakers Forum is a two-day series of panels and discussions bringing NewFest audiences together with filmmakers and industry to address a wide-range of topics stemming from NewFest 2006. Panels will examine the creative process of filmmaking, themes from films featured in the festival, and emerging trends in the community as reflected in film.

Saturday 6/10

1:00 – 2:30pm: Screening the Arts

This panel brings together filmmakers who have turned their cameras on queer artists in order to document the importance of artistic expression to the LGBT experience.

3:30 – 5:00pm:Rose Troche's Practical Guide to Filmmaking

Acclaimed writer/director/producer Rose Troche (Go Fish, The L Word) walks you step-by-step through the filmmaking process in an intensive workshop focusing on scene from script to screen.

6:00 – 7:30pm: NYC LGBT Film Case Studies

Join NYC based filmmakers with films in NewFest 2006 to discuss how they made their films, and the pros and cons of shooting an LGBT movie in the Big Apple.

Sunday 6/11

1:00 – 2:30pm: Masculinity in the Lesbian Community

As seen in NewFest 2006 films like Boy I Am and Gender Rebel, there’s a lot to say about FTMs and genderqueer people and how they do and don’t fit into the larger lesbian community.

3:30 – 5:00pm: Queering Film Genres

What is involved in translating a genre for LGBT audiences? Does a queer presence inevitably subvert the norms of the genre, or is it just cosmetic?

6:00 – 7:30pm: The History Channel

This panel discussion asks documentary filmmakers what attracts them to particular historical moments, and how their work challenges the way that LGBT history is written as they overturn conventional wisdom about who we are and how we got here.

FESTIVAL FOCUS

NewFest’s annual spotlight on thematic trends that emerged in this year’s selections; films on the cutting edge of LGBT life and culture.

Arts

These edifying and entertaining documentaries use film, the seventh art, to showcase artists from a number of other disciplines and their craft – from theatre to performance art, photography to hip hop, these works explore the creative process and the intersection of sexual identity.

>Beautiful Daughters, The Dark Matter of Mars, Eye on the Guy, Jack Mitchell, Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama Goes to Sweden!, The Life of Reilly, Lover Other, Pick Up the Mic

History

In addition to quite a few biographical portraits in this year’s festival that reveal the fascinating history of LGBT individuals, these four documentaries take a more inclusive look at historical events and movements that shaped the LGBT community as a whole.

>Fabulous!, The Fall of ’55, Mom’s Apple Pie, Screaming Queens

MTF

An unusually large number of films this year focus specifically or to a large extent on male-to-female transgendered subjects – a testament to the growing visibility of the trans community in recent years.

>20 Centimeters, Almost Myself, Beautiful Daughters, Between the Lines, Cruel and Unusual, Hotel Gondolin, How Do I Look, Memoirs of My Mental Illness, Paper Dolls, Screaming Queens

Youth

Though teenagers are often popular subjects for filmmakers, especially in coming out narratives, this year many films focus on high-school aged LGBT protagonists – each very different in story and tone from the next, their young subjects nevertheless all experience conflict and confusion due in large part to their sexuality.

>Backstage, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, Camp Out, Forgiving the Franklins, Innocent, Loving Annabelle, Out of Hand, Vacationland, Whole New Thing

WHEN:
THURSDAY, JUNE 1 7 PM Opening Night Film at St. George Theatre
FRIDAY, JUNE 2 7 PM Screenings
SATURDAY, JUNE 3 1 -10 PM Screenings
SUNDAY, JUNE 4 10 AM Screenings Begin
6 PM Closing Party on Staten Island Ferry
WHERE: STATEN ISLAND’S HISTORICAL VENUES, STATEN ISLAND FERRY

WHO: National and Local Filmmakers, Student Filmmakers

• EXCLUSIVE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THE CELESTINE PROPHECY- Opening Night Film
  - based on the NY Times Best-seller, SI Director, Armand Mastrioanni
  
• FESTIVAL CLOSING BASH ABOARD THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY- cocktail party, fireworks, awards ceremony
• DIVERSE PROGRAM OF NOTABLE AND AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL FILMS chosen by the Community,
  Highlights include:
  - Staten Island Catapult- commuter dilemma spoof film
  - Walking The Line- US, Mexico border issues film

Screenings in nationally registered historic screening venues:

• Snug Harbor Cultural Center- National Historic Landmark
• Music Hall at Snug Harbor- 2nd oldest NYC music hall, after Carnegie Hall
• St. George Theatre, recently renovated

(NEW YORK, NY – May 16, 2006) – Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research, announced today that its new public service advertisements, produced in conjunction with the Ad Council, will be screened throughout the 11th annual Nantucket Film Festival, June 14-18. The PSA’s will be shown prior each feature film shown at the festival.

The multi-year Autism Speaks/Ad Council PSA campaign, which launched last month, is aimed at the general public. It stresses that autism is more common than people think (1 in 166 children is now diagnosed with autism) and encourages families to learn the signs of autism and talk to their doctor if they suspect their child is not meeting developmental milestones. The campaign was created pro bono by advertising agency BBDO and is running across all media platforms, including print, broadcast and cable TV, radio and the internet.

“We’re so grateful to the Nantucket Film Festival for providing this unique forum to increase awareness about the growing prevalence of autism,“ said Suzanne Wright, co-founder of Autism Speaks. “Parents need to be aware of the early warning signs of autism and talk to their doctor as soon as possible if they suspect a developmental delay. Early intervention is our best weapon against autism.”

"The Nantucket Film Festival is committed to this joint effort with Autism Speaks in bringing autism to the forefront of public awareness. We welcome the opportunity to support their heartfelt efforts," said Jill Burkhart, NFF Executive Director.

About Autism

Autism is a complex brain disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate and develop social relationships, and is often accompanied by extreme behavioral challenges. Autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed in one in 166 children, affecting four times as many boys as girls. The diagnosis of autism has increased tenfold in the last decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called autism a national public health crisis whose cause and cure remain unknown.

About Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks is dedicated to increasing awareness of the growing autism epidemic and to raising money to fund scientists who are searching for a cure. It was founded in February 2005 by Suzanne and Bob Wright. Bob Wright is Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, General Electric, and Chairman and CEO, NBC Universal. Autism Speaks and the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) recently combined operations, bringing together two of the leading organizations dedicated to accelerating and funding biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments and cure for autism spectrum disorders; to increasing awareness of the nation’s fastest growing developmental disorder; and to advocating for the needs of affected families. To learn more about Autism Speaks, please visit www.autismspeaks.org

About Nantucket Film Festival

The NFF was founded in 1996 to spotlight screenwriters, screenwriting and storytelling in today's cinema. The festival takes place over five days in June on the idyllic island of Nantucket, MA.

Now in its eleventh year, NFF has become a prestigious annual event within the international film industry. Screening over 50 feature-length and short films in all genres that highlight the art of storytelling, the NFF is significant attraction that draws over ten thousand attendees, screenwriters, producers, agents and development executives each year.

Screenwriting is further explored through panel discussions, a screenplay competition, an emerging screenwriter's mentorship with the Screenwriters Colony, an educational program for teens and community beach screenings. The Festival also hosts the popular evening of Late Night Storytelling (hosted by Peter Farrelly and Anne Meara and past stories told by Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Mos Def and Paul Rudd) in addition to screenplay staged readings.

Past staged readings have included the hilarious SHOWSTOPPER by Anthony Barille & Geoffrey Nauffts including the talents of Ben Stiller and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei. Last year’s reading, SPECTACLE, Part One of the Mark Rosen Chroniclesby Stacy Weiss and Dan Chariton was directed by Ben Stiller and the cast included: Macaulay Culkin, Amy Sedaris, David Krumholtz, Lake Bell, Robert Sean Leonard, Ben Stiller and more. The coveted screenplay A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer was the centerpiece staged reading of NFF 2003 and featured Will Ferrell in the starring role with Alan Cumming, Mos Def, and Rosie Perez.

The NFF has been a showcase for some of the top independent films of the last decade. The festival was one of the first to find and platform such films as: The Full Monty, Next Stop Wonderland and Girlfight. NFF 2005 Featured the North American Premiere of Jim Jarmush's Broken Flowers as the Opening Night Film.

For more information please visit our website at www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.

June 2006

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NANTUCKET SOUNDS OFF:

New Faces and New Programs grace the 11th Annual Nantucket Film Festival from June 14-18

New York, NY – Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) Æ will dive into the political fray with Al Franken, Brian Williams, Daily Show correspondent Nathan Corddry, and an assembly of US troops. The 11th annual festival will embrace the narrative power of documentary films, starting with the Opening Night film Al Franken: God Spoke.

Al Franken: God Spoke is a cinema vÈritÈ pursuit of Al Franken from his highly publicized feud with Bill O’Reilly to his relentless campaign against George Bush and the Right Wing during the 2004 election, and beyond. Mr. Franken will be on island to support his film, reveal more of his political future, as well as participate along with Brian Williams in the special program IN HIS OWN WORDS: Brian Williams on Hurricane Katrina.

In this program, Brian Williams shares his experience of Hurricane Katrina -- from his arrival inside the Superdome before the hurricane to the chaos that followed. His impressions of that first week create a moving and devastating portrait of a catastrophe, an abandoned people, and an indictment of the failure of government response. The 27-minute film will be followed by a half-hour interview with Brian Williams, conducted by Al Franken.

In correlation with the Centerpiece Screening of their film Ground Truth, Focus Features has planned a special press reception in honor of US troops, hosted by Focus Feature's producer and CEO James Schamus. Ground Truth tells the stories of a half-dozen American heroes – ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq – as it charts recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. With several US troops in attendance, the reception that precedes the screening will provide an invaluable forum for first-hand accounts of the war in Iraq.

In addition to the events above and the signature events that have helped secure the Nantucket Film Festival as the premiere Screenwriters’ Festival, there will be several new programs at this year’s festival showcasing the "screenwriter" including "Iconoclasts" with Academy- Award winning Brokeback Mountain scribe Diana Ossana.

The Best Writer/Director Award Jury for the 2006 Nantucket Film Festival will comprise of Anthony Bregman (producer of Friends With Money and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Marc Levin (director of Slam and Protocols of Zion), and Henry-Alex Rubin (director of Murderball).

In collaboration with "This and That" Films, this year’s staged reading is COUP DE TAT written by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse. COUP DE TAT follows sixteen-year-old Tatiana, a rebel-without-a-cause, who makes a Latin American dictator, Hector Vivas, her pen pal. When Vivas is overthrown, he takes refuge in Tatiana’s suburban garage and Tatiana learns what being a rebel is truly about.

The celebrities participating the staged reading include Jimmy Smits, Steven Webber, Mary Kay Place, Nathan Corddry, Anna Belknap, Michael Mastro, Nadia Dajani, and Michael Cera.

New Programs and Venues at the 2006 Nantucket Film FestivalÆ :

ICONOCLASTS

This new NFF event will bring together leading screenwriters, directors, actors, editors and other creators in the filmmaking process. The original series on Sundance Channel pairs two leading creative innovators from fields such as literature, architecture, music, journalism, food, fashion and film. "Iconoclasts" presents intimate, unpredictable portraits of today’s leading innovators and risk-takers in their respective fields. In the same tradition, NFF will present a pair of creative visionaries, with one acting as a guide into the world of the other, in order to explore their creative process, inspirations and passions.

Guests include: Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain), Tom McCarthy (writer/director The Station Agent), and Campbell Scott (actor/director, Big Night, Off the Map)

NEW PANEL: A Film is Written Three Times

Among the programs dedicated to screenwriting, the Nantucket Film Festival introduces a new panel called "A Film is Written Three Times" to emphasize that screenwriting doesn’t begin and end with the script. A film is written a second time by the director and a third time in the editing room.

The panelists include Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Writers and Director, Half Nelson), Neil Burger (Writer/Director, The Illusionist), Jay Craven (Writer/Director, Disappearances), and Goran Dukic (Writer/Director, Wristcutters: A Love Story).

NEW VENUES:

In response to the record-breaking sales and attendance at last year’s festival, the Nantucket Film Festival has also added some new and larger venues, expanding its stretch and accessibility across the island. New for this year will be the 450-seat tent on the lawn of The White Elephant. The tent will be home to "Late Night Storytelling", one of the audience favorites among NFF’s special events. Also announced, the beautiful Sconset Casino will serve as one of NFF’s screening venues while the Dreamland Theater is under construction.

As previously announced, the Closing Night film will be the documentary The Heart of the Game from director Ward Serrill.

ABOUT NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL

The NFF was founded in 1996 to spotlight screenwriters, screenwriting and storytelling in today's†cinema. The festival takes place over five days in June on the idyllic island of Nantucket, MA.

Now in its eleventh year, NFF has become a prestigious annual event within

the international film industry. Screening over 50 feature-length and short films in all genres that highlight the art of storytelling, the NFF is significant

attraction that draws over ten thousand attendees, screenwriters, producers, agents and development executives each year. ††

Screenwriting is further explored through panel discussions, a screenplay competition, an emerging screenwriter's mentorship with the Screenwriters Colony, an educational program for teens and community beach screenings.†The Festival also hosts the popular evening of Late Night Storytelling (hosted by Peter Farrelly and Anne Meara and past stories told by Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Mos Def and Paul Rudd) in addition to screenplay staged readings.†

Past staged readings have included the hilarious SHOWSTOPPER by Anthony Barille & Geoffrey Nauffts including the talents of Ben Stiller and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei. Last year’s reading, SPECTACLE, Part One of the Mark Rosen Chroniclesby Stacy Weiss and Dan Chariton was directed by Ben Stiller and the cast included: Macaulay Culkin, Amy Sedaris, David Krumholtz, Lake Bell, Robert Sean Leonard, Ben Stiller and more. The coveted screenplay A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer was the centerpiece staged reading of NFF 2003 and featured Will Ferrell in the starring role with Alan Cumming, Mos Def, and Rosie Perez.

The NFF has been a showcase for some of the top independent films of the last decade. The festival was one of the first to find and platform such films as: The Full Monty, Next Stop Wonderland and Girlfight. NFF 2005 Featured the North American Premiere of Jim Jarmush's Broken Flowers as the Opening Night Film.

For more information on the recently unveiled complete slate and special events, please visit our website at:

www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.

Cibola Arts Council and New Mexico State University-Grants is proud to present the first PAH-FEST Digital Media Festival. PAH-FEST will launch this July 6th through 9th, 2006, and will be headquartered in Grants, New Mexico, just 80 miles West of Albuquerque.

The festival is the brainchild of EARS XXI President Christopher Coppola who, continuing in the tradition of his uncle Francis Ford Coppola, promotes the utilization of cutting edge “prosumer” technology to "digitally empower" people from all walks of life. Thus enabling them to tell their unique stories and share their points of view with the world.

The festival will have a strong online component ( www.pahfest.com ), and cover a variety of unique categories including:

• • -- Online Theater: web based interactive venue for digitally produced shorts and feature length pictures.
    
    -- Team Mobiflicks: five small filmmaker crews shoot, cut and finish a short picture in 3 days during the festival.
    

-- Mobile Phone Art: contestants create 1 minute pictures with their mobile phones.

• • -- Technology Treasure Hunt: participants interlink a variety of technology platforms in the field to score points.
    

In addition, PAH-FEST will honor noted underground filmmaker and professor George Kuchar. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, July 8th at 7pm.

PAH-FEST online and on-site judges include Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Corman, New Mexico State Senator Joseph Fidel, George Kuchar, Miss New Mexico 2006 Ane Romero, among others.

For more information on how to submit your films online; how you can enter one of the 'on-site' categories including Team Mobi-flicks, Mobile Phone Art, and Technology Treasure Hunt; or if you simply want to attend please visit www.pahfest.com.

New York, NY - June 12, 2006 The 9th Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF), titled ENiGMA-9, occurred this past week at the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway.) The festivities concluded last evening in a warm celebration of all the filmmakers and the awarding of the prizes. Through the resources of festival’s sponsors, BiFF awarded the winners with prizes totaling $100,000 in film services, products, and cash. “The festival cares about independent films," BiFF executive director Marco Ursino said before announcing the awards. "The festival cares about Brooklyn and its ethnic communities."

Grand Chameleon Award winner, Libero De Rienzo, exclaimed “I spent 8 years making this film. Everyday and every night - Christmas and birthdays. We did what we wanted in order to seek the truth in a country [Italy] where cinema is dying. Now the film sits on the shelf at the distributor and has never been released. I almost gave up filmmaking but now I have hope and I will start on my next film...Upon returning to Brooklyn this evening I felt such nostalgia for New York and the Festival. Thank you.”

Hanan Harchol, an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in reflection of his audience award for “The Nuclear Physicist Gives His Son Free Advice”, feels that he wanted to make “an artistic piece so the Brooklyn Museum was a perfect venue for its World Premiere. But also I wanted to make an accessible and pleasing piece, so winning the audience award proves that I accomplished that goal.”

2006 Edition Winners

Grand Chameleon Award
BLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST
Director: Libero De Rienzo

Best Feature
BLOOD: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST
Director: Libero De Rienzo

Best Documentary / Diane Seligman Award
RADIOPHOBIA
Director: Julio Soto

Best Short
OUSMANE
Director: Dyana Gaye

Best Experimental CAROUSEL RITE
Director: Zoltan Gayer & Peter Molnar

Best Animation (ex-equo) JOURNEY TO MARS
Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella
CRAB REVOLUTION
Director: Arthur de Pins

Brooklyn Excellence Award
DOUGLAS STEINER, Chairman of Steiner Studios

Spirit Awards:
This award are for films in which the festival recognizes its own spirit.
Feature: AHLAAM
Documentary: BEFORE FLYING BACK TO THE EARTH
Short: THE WINTER
Experimental: LOOKING FOR ALFRED
Animation: OUR MAN IN NIRVANA

Best new director:
JOEL PALOMBO for MILK & OPIUM

Audience Awards
Feature: THE OH IN OHIO
Documentary: CROSSING ARIZONA
Short: MAGNETIC POLES
Experimental: WOLF'S DREAM
Animation: THE NUCLEAR PHYSICIST GIVES HIS SON FREE

Certificate for Outstanding Achievement
Best Female Actor (ex-equo) : OLGA KURYLENKO (THE RING FINGER) & JESSICA GENEUS (COUSINES)
Best Male Actor (ex-equo) : BASHIR AL-MAJID (AHLAAM) & SWAROOP KHAN (MILK AND OPIUM)
Production: WILKENSON BRUNA (COUSINES)
Cinematography: TOMISLAV PINTER (CONTACT)
Screenplay: EYAL HALFON (WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE)
Editing: KEITH REAMER (LITTLE FUGITIVE)
Score: CHRIS BROKAW (ROAD)

BiFF’s primary goal is to connect filmmakers to distribution companies and expose them to the media. This connection was made evident last night with the winner of Best Documentary, Radiophobia, as filmmakers Julio Soto and Alex Mendibil met at the festival 2 years ago. [justify]For the 2006 edition, BiFF received over 2000 films from 88 countries. 140 film premieres, divided in five categories, were selected for the competitive program.

Fifteen hundred people trod the red carpets at Staten Island’s historic St. George Theatre for Staten Island’s First Film Festival’s Opening Night Film and the New York premiere of The Celestine Prophecy, the exciting film based on the international bestselling book. Over 4,500 filmgoers enjoyed the Festival which ran from June 1-4, (www.sifilm festival.org), and more than fulfilled the expectations of the festival producer, sponsors, film community and public.



Celebrities such as Armand Mastroianni, The Celestine Prophecy director who hails from Staten Island, The Celestine Prophecy author James Redfield and Carmine Giovinazzo, “Danny Messer” from CSI, New York all turned out on Opening Night to show their support.



Audience and sponsor’s choice awards were announced at the Festival’s sold-out closing party and went to the following films: BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT - Hombres De Paja: BEST NEW FILMMAKER - Self Medicated; BEST DOCUMENTARY - Anytown, USA: BEST LOCAL FILM - Slow Day; BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE - The Celestine Prophecy; BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE - The Genocide in Me; BEST FAMILY FILM - String of the Kite; BEST STUDENT FILM - Penny Dreadful BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT - SI Catapult; BEST ANIMATED SHORT - Dear Sweet Emma; BEST COMEDIC SHORT - Cut & Run; BEST FILM CONCERNING WOMEN'S ISSUES - Troop 1500; BEST DRAMATIC SHORT - The Routine; BEST SHORT - Duel at Red Table and the AUDIENCE CHOICE award went to Cugini.



Even with pouring rain, Saturday’s outdoor family screening which was to take place on the Richmond County Savings Bank Ballfield moved inside to the Executive Suites at Richmond County Savings Bank and 30 attendees still showed up to watch the films.



“Staten Island can truly be proud of their community and culture, the theme of our first festival,” relates Jeannnine Marotta, Festival Director, “The festival was created by the community and its success bodes well for business, the arts and the quality of life in Staten Island.”



The First Annual Staten Island Film Festival presented a program of over 100 independent films chosen for their local and national cultural significance.



For more information on the festival, visit the festival’s website, www.sifilmfestival.org., or email: info@sifilmfestival.org or call 718.477.1400.



The Staten Island Film Festival is a project of the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation, a 501 © (3), non-for-profit corporation. Its mission is to enhance a thriving Staten Island economy through projects that enhance the quality of life. Joining the SIEDC in the presentation of the film festival are Staten Island Board of Realtors, the Building Industry Association and the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island. The presenting sponsor of the Festival is the Richmond County Savings Foundation. The Venues sponsor is KeySpan. The Opening Night Screening sponsors include Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro and Time Warner Cable. The Closing Night Awards Ceremony and Cocktail Reception sponsors include Staten Island Board of Realtors, Inc., Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro and the Staten Island Advance. Other official sponsors include Pro Sho Productions, Staten Island Bank and Trust Foundation, Creative Media, Pratt Industries, Staten Island Hotel and UR Music.

INDIEFLIX at SIFF '06

INDIEFLIX CELEBRATES AND CONGRATULATES OUR INDIEFLIX FILMMAKERS COMPETING IN THIS YEAR'S SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!

Several IndieFlix filmmakers are screening their new works at this year's 2006 Seattle International Film Festival.

Artistic Directors and highly celebrated Seattle dance duo, 33 Fainting Spells’ Gaelen Hanson and Dayna Hanson, each have short solo projects at this year’s SIFF. Gaelen premieres Your Lights are Out or Burning Badly. Dayna contributes Diesel Engine. Their past award winning film Entry is available on IndieFlix.

In addition, Dayna Hanson produced the documentary Walking to Werner with Linas Phillips, her collaborator on EBE4. Walking to Werner is in SIFF’s Documentary Competition.

Entry and EBE4 Cinematographer, Ben Kasulke broughts his talents to Walking to Werner and feature narrative, We Go Way Back. Ben won Best Cinematography at Slam Dance for WGWB earlier this year.

Lynn Shelton, editor for the IndieFlix top seller Outpatient, wrote and directed We Go Way Back. WGWB also won Best Narrative at Slam Dance. This is Lynn’s first feature-length narrative and is in competition during SIFF as part of the New American Cinema Program.

IndieFlix is excited to support our local talent in all their endeavors. IndieFlix is also happy to spread the word about NYC filmmaker Julie Goldman and her projects in SIFF and on IndieFlix.

Julie executive produced three documentaries at this year's SIFF, loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies, What Remains, and Sketches of Frank Gehry. Julie has 7 films on IndieFlix from her work with Chris Clements at Central Films; Digital Gremlins for Windows, Free Floaters, Human X is Tense, Hypnostasis, Pink Slips, Whats Up, and X-Philes. We hope Seattle provides a good home for Julie’s documentaries during the festival.

IndieFlix is a proud sponsor of Goran Dukic’s film Wristcutters: A Love Story which is part of the New American Cinema Competition. We wish their team the best of luck.

From May 25th to June 18th, IndieFlix will be on the streets and at SIFF venues, asking film enthusiasts about their favorite flix. We hope to see you out and about in Seattle and checking in daily to catch the buzz!

Congratulations to all and good luck at the festival. We will be there to show our support.

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‘BY THE PEOPLE’ TO PREMIERE AT JACKSON HOLE FILM FESTIVAL

Pre-Selected As One Of The Festival’s Top Five Documentaries

“You will never again take your right to vote for granted.”

Screening at the Mainstage Theater at the Jackson Hole Film Festival

New York, NY - May 30. 2006 – By the People, a new behind-the-scenes documentary that exposes who and what it really takes to put on an American election, will world premiere at the Jackson Hole Film Festival. The film premieres on Thursday, June 8th, with an encore screening Sunday, June 11th; both screenings will be held at the Mainstage Theater. Ahead of the festival, By The People has been selected as one of the top five finalists that will compete in the Best Documentary category.

To view the trailer visit http://bythepeople-themovie.com

In By The People, first-time director Malindi Fickle, armed with a storyteller’s sensibility and a biting sense of humor, lets the words and emotions speak for themselves as the film’s subjects battle against time, lack of resources, and political obstacles to get the polls open and the votes counted.

By The People unfolds over the 11 days leading up to the 2004 Presidential election, following a young County Clerk in Marion County, Indianapolis, her small crew of government employees, and the dedicated volunteer poll workers, as they race to prepare for one of the most anticipated and divided elections in American history. Unflinchingly honest and unexpectedly funny, the film captures average Americans of all political stripes working side by side to insure that everyone in Indianapolis--including quadriplegics and prisoners awaiting trial--are allowed to exercise their fundamental right to vote.

Fickle was inspired to begin shooting after her brother Tim, a deputy clerk in the office profiled in the film, told her about the extraordinary effort that goes into getting the entire voting process ready, staffed, managed, and closed on each and every Election Day.

“Everyone, including myself, thinks they know what it takes to put on an election. The truth is, most people have no idea. Making this film, we witnessed ‘democracy in the wild.’ This is the story of government employees everywhere, almost all of whom face the herculean task of putting on an election with little public support and even fewer funds." said Fickle.

By the People is not about political scandal, media hype, election slogans, or partisan division. It is the story of real people, from all ages and political backgrounds, struggling to hold one of America’s most basic freedoms together.

Screening at the Mainstage Theater at the Jackson Hole Film Festival:

About the Filmmaker:
Malindi Fickle is the director and executive producer of By The People. By the People is her feature film directing debut, and the first release from her production company Hyperbaric Productions. A director, producer and actor in New York City for over fourteen years, Fickle’s directing and producing credits include: “Savior” at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater, produced by Beth O’Neal; “Escape From Happiness”; and the world premiere of “A Floating Roof Above Your Head”. As an actress, her feature films include: Sharon Pollack’s Everything Relative (Sundance Film Festival); Jacklight (Cannes Critic’s Selection) and St. Andrew’s Girls (TVA Films). Fickle graduated Summa Cum Laude from New York University.

Innocence Lost, about child abuse, by Gabriel Veenendaal, 25, from Murray, Utah; Orphans in Africa, about poverty in Africa, by Tim Leaton, 22, from Midlothian, Virginia; Thumbs Down to Pity, decrying stereotypes of the disabled, by Benjamin Snow, 19, of Woodland Park, Colorado; Strike It Up, about isolation in our technology bubbles, by Molly Conners, 26, from Albany, New York; It’s the Buzz, about safe-sex, by Brian Gonzalez, 19, from San Antonio, Texas.
In addition, Scott Hamann, 25, from South Portland, Maine, was the top winner in a new category created and judged by MSN Spaces - Integration of Film and New Media - for the most effective use of the internet in presenting an issue, mixing film, text and blogging on a personal webspace on MSN Spaces. His film is 'Ubuntu: Humanity,' also about poverty in Africa.

Launched January 26, 2006 at Park City, Utah during film festival season, FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE (www.filmyourissue.com) invited all young Americans to create personal “issue films” as a way to engage young people in pressing contemporary issues, add their voices to the public dialogue, and take a contemporary snapshot of what’s on young people’s minds, circa 2006. More than 300 films were submitted.

Thirty-five semi-finalists were posted on May 26 for public voting on MSNBC.COM, which tabulated 88,638 votes by deadline of midnight, June 7, 2006 – and breaking the record as the most heavily-voted video streaming poll in MSNBC.COM history, leaping past the 61,598 votes for the MSNBC.COM poll for best ads broadcast during the Super Bowl, the largest-viewed annual television event.

The filmmakers will receive their awards at the 2006 FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE Awards Ceremony, co-hosted by USA TODAY, MSN Spaces and MSN Video on Monday, June 19, 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The event co-host, United Nations Under Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, will be joined at the podium by Academy-Award winning actor Ellen Burstyn and Judy Woodruff, Special Correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In addition to the filmmakers being awarded, the inaugural Walter Cronkite Civic Engagement Leadership Award will be presented to Illinois State University for its student outreach on behalf of both civic engagement and in support of FYI. The FYI Award trophy designer is New York artist-designer Frank Carfaro.

Finalist films will also be presented at the FYI awards ceremony at the U.N., presented at a private reception hosted by MSN Spaces in Park City, Utah during film festival season 2007, and air this summer on mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, and be available on demand on broadband channel mtvU Über at mtvU.com. Filmmakers will receive a Toshiba Qosmio laptop and Motorola RAZR V3, and a single finalist will be offered a paid summer internship at The Walt Disney Studios.

Select films will also be selected as part of 'Generation Next,' an ambitious project produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and headed by correspondent Judy Woodruff, which will similarly provide a contemporary snapshot of what's on the minds of young Americans, circa 2006. 'Generation Next' will use multiple platforms of a PBS documentary, multiple segments on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and online websites. Production begins in June 2006, with airdates planned for late 2006 and early 2007. The FYI films will be presented on the 'Generation Next' internet platform, and evaluated for broadcast consideration.

'As FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE has evolved in its second year, it has provided us with layers of pleasure, excitement, delight and surprise - from the number and quality of entries which were powerful, illuminating, raw, indignant, conscious to the overwhelming response of the public, whose votes on MSNBC.com, has surpassed the record set by the Super Bowl ads voting page,' notes HeathCliff Rothman, Founder and President of FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE.

'Ultimately, it's a testament to this young generation who show such vivid consciousness of the world around them, understand nuances of issues, and comprehend with perhaps greater clarity than any generation before them their own equality, in each of their individual categories, identities, ethnicities and life choices, and that of animals.'

MSN Spaces, a presenting sponsor of FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE, created the new category, Integration of Film and New Media, evaluating the intersection of internet, film, blogging and text to support an issue. The five winners, selected by Microsoft General Manager Jodi Ropert, who served as Chief Adjudicator, are Scott Hamann (http://spaces.msn.com/ubuntuhumanity); Charles Choueri, (http://spaces.msn.com/charleschoueiri); Griffin Hammond (http://spaces.msn.com/asbdoc); Tim Leaton (http://spaces.msn.com/mrtim345); Virginia Theil (http://spaces.msn.com/immigrantrights).

FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE's esteemed roster of VIP Judges, headed by distinguished Jurist Walter Cronkite, include George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Senator Barack Obama, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Ellen Burstyn, Anderson Cooper, Brian Williams, USA TODAY President Craig Moon, Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman, Universal Studios CEO Ron Meyer, Disney Chairman Dick Cook and others.

Some of the world's largest companies, organizations and national and international leaders have come together behind an unprecedented initiative to engage young Americans in the pressing social issues of our time, including Presenting Sponsors MSN Spaces and MSN Video, MSNBC.com, USA TODAY, Entertainment Weekly, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., mtvU, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Independent Pictures, The United Nations, The Humane Society of the United States, ASCAP, Motorola, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, The Maui Film Festival, The Vail Film Festival, and all the major higher education academic organizations.

FYI - FILM YOUR ISSUE academic partners include the leading organizations of higher education: The Association of American Colleges and Universities, The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (The American Democracy Project), The American Association of University Professors, Campus Compact and Imagining America.

Visit www.filmyourissue.com for more information, to view the winners and finalists, and read about the filmmakers and their inspiration for making their films.

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MTV Award Winning Film, “The Beautiful Lie” DVD Only At IndieFlix!

IndieFlix Breaking News!

As part of our mission to support filmmakers IndieFlix has been blogging, showcasing and talking about budding filmmaker, Joshua Caldwell this month in an effort to help him get enough votes to win the first MTVu Student Filmmaker Award. And it looks like it worked!

The MTV Movie Awards aired recently and out of thousands of submissions the winner, by a landslide, of the Student Filmmaker Award went to Fordham University graduate, Joshua Caldwell.

The Award Winning Film “The Beautiful Lie” directed by Seattle based, Joshua Caldwell is now available on DVD exclusively at IndieFlix.

Now you can get “The Beautiful Lie” plus the special bonus feature: The Complete IndieFlix Exclusive “After the Win With Josh Caldwell” interview on DVD only at IndieFlix. Josh now has a first look development deal with MTV Productions and is on the radar.

Check out the trailer now! Support independent film. Buy it today! www.indieflix.com

Nantucket, MA – Tickets sales at the 11th Annual Nantucket Film Festival surpassed last years sales by 35% making it another record breaking year for the Screenwriter’s Festival.

This year festival director Jill Burkhart and artistic director Mystelle Brabbee made the decision to move some of the festival’s spotlight events to bigger venues. The extra space came in handy.

A special 450 seat tent was constructed at the swanky White Elephant Hotel to accommodate the demand for the ever popular Late Night Storytelling, and the NBC Universal Screenwriters Tribute. These events played host to the likes of Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Joe Pantoliano, Tom McCarthy, Campbell Scott, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, and Bobby Farelly.

In Their Shoes with Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor was held at the Nantucket Community School creating an Election like feeling during this conversation moderated by Leonard Maltin. The school also played host to the staged reading of the screenplay “Coup de Tat.” Heather Graham, Jimmy Smits, Steven Weber, Mary Kay Place, The Daily Show's Nathan Corddry, and Arrested Development's Michael Cera all participated in this memorable event.

In His Own Words: Brian Williams took place at Nantucket’s Unitarian Church. The pews were full as Al Franken discussed Hurricane Katrina with Williams after screening the anchor’s footage on the subject.

The NFF has been a showcase for some of the top independent films of the last decade. The festival was one of the first to find and platform such films as: The Full Monty, Next Stop Wonderland and Girlfight. NFF 2005 Featured the North American Premiere of Jim Jarmush's Broken Flowers as the Opening Night Film.
For more information please visit our website at www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.

Inaugurated by a homage to the great Otto Preminger, on the 100th anniversary of his birth and on the 20th anniversary of his death, this year the International Week of Film Critics is curiously marked by the theme of "disappearance," starting from its opening film, Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), on the mysterious kidnapping of a little girl in 1960s London. Yet if we look closely, in all the wonderful films of this 21st edition of the Critics Week, the seven titles in competition and the closing film, we find – perhaps by chance but with a strong symbolic value – this constant of search and disappearance: the quest for a new identity, the traces of one's own past, of a non-place where disappear, the re-finding and eventually the loss of the illusion of love, the disappearance of a father that had been a point of reference during a difficult childhood.



A symbolic coincidence, we were saying. In our passionate search for the best international debut film, a goal that is once again the Critics Week''s unwavering mission, we accidentally stumbled upon a theme that ultimately colours our relationship with Italian cinema as well. Faced with an undeniable production crisis in our film industry, which resulted in drastic investment rationing and an evident decrease in the number of films produced (first films in particular), as we wait hopefully for the necessary steps to be taken to unblock this empasse, what could we have chosen? We certainly do not want to demonise young Italian cinema. On the contrary, the critics' role is to discover, present and promote trends, languages and forms of overcoming cultural homologation. Thus we chose to include, as the only Italian film, a small, self-financed work shot on video by four young people full of ideas, a true sense of cinema and a few hundred euros. Necessarily out of competition (for technical reasons as well), as our closing event, the film nevertheless receives the visibility it deserves and we are able to properly conclude a selection that, in a year of a proliferation and competition among events and festivals, and of more or less natural budget reductions, has become increasingly more of a gamble. And have we won? It is up to you to decide.

( Francesco Di Pace)

This riveting film follows a professional thief Caspar Karr as he commits burglaries on the streets of Chicago. The filmmakers provide a fascinating and disturbing glimpse into Carr’s intricate planning process, from casing stores to tapping phones to drilling safes open, all the while letting the filmmakers document his every move. As Carr drags the filmmakers deeper into his murky world of disguises and sinister surprises, the line between documentarian and criminal accomplice becomes increasingly blurred.

Screenings:

Monday, August 7 @ 9:00 am @ L’Altra Sala, Locarno, Switzerland

Tuesday, August 8 @ 11:00 am @ Auditorium FEVI, Locarno, Switzerland



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This year, for the United Nations’ International Day of Peace, the FOURTH ANNUAL GLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL in Orlando, Florida (September 14th -21st 2006) will showcase exciting and important international films and host events and community outreach programs to further the goal of peace on earth.



With a notable advisory board including Yoko Ono, Philippe Cousteau, Richard Gere, Philip Glass, Lee Grant, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Dr. Noel Brown, President & CEO of Friends of the United Nationsand many others, TheGlobal Peace Film Festival will open on Thursday, September 14th and end on Thursday, September 21st, presenting a fascinating and diverse program of over 60 features, comedies, narratives documentaries and shorts from around the globe.



With an overall theme, “The Many Paths to Peace”, GPFF will screen powerful stories from around the world which help expand the definition of peacemaking as something that can be worked on daily in the personal lives of individuals and communities. Films whose themes explore issues on the environment, racism, community, family, conflict resolution, the role of women, and civil rights will screen at Rollins College’s Tiedke Hall, University of Central Florida’s Communication Building and the Ying Academic Center in downtown Orlando. The festival also will present topical and engaging panels at the Enzian Theatre, films and events at the Orlando Science Center and outreach programs throughout the community.



“The Festival grows every year, this year with traveling festivals visiting Beppu City, Japan, Cyprus, New York City and Los Angeles,” relates Nina Streich, GPFF’s Executive Director, “The support of United Nations NGOs and every segment of the Orlando community has been wonderful over the years and we look forward to our best festival yet.”



GPFF’s Artistic Director Kelly DeVine adds, “We found many compelling stories reflective of the ways in which people hope for peace, work for peace and achieve peace within themselves and for their communities.”



The Opening Night film is the US Premiere of Martin Koolhaven’s Schnitzel Paradise, (Netherlands, 2005), a ribald, cross-cultural love story of a young Moroccan immigrant who defies his father’s wishes for a traditional career by working as a dishwasher in a noisy, bustling restaurant. He falls in love with the owner’s wealthy niece surrounded by a rowdy international cast of characters.



GPFF will close out its festival at Rollins College with Down the Rabbit Hole (USA, 2006), the exciting extension of the cult classic, What the Bleep Do We Know? that continues to explore the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality. A special series of environmental films along with a special screening of Cosmic Africa willbe a highlight of the “Cocktails on the Cosmos” event at the Orlando Science Center, with four floors of hands-on exhibits, giant screen films and stargazing in the observatory.

GPFF Narrative Films include: Pope Dreams (USA, 2006), Robert Hogan’s coming of age story starring Julie Haggerty in one of the strongest performances of her career. Pearl Diver, (USA, 2005) is first time director Sidney King’s poignant story of two estranged sisters reared in a quiet Mennonite community and the accident which stirs up the family’s unresolved burdens and mysteries. Ismael Ferroukhi’s film, Le Grand Voyage, (France/Morocco, 2005), is a touching road movie in which a traditional father asks his assimilated son to escort him to Mecca to make his pilgrimage. By the trip’s end they learn to understand the degree to which they truly love one another. Mani Ratnam’s film, A Peck on the Cheek (India, 2006), takes us on a journey of discovery and reconciliation as a young girl searches through war-torn Sri Lanka to meet her birth mother.

GPFF Documentaries include: Freedom's Fury, executive produced by Quentin Tarrantino and Lucy Liu and narrated by Mark Spitz, the telling of the 1956 historic Olympic water polo match between Hungary and Russia, which occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt. The award winning and deeply moving The Trials of Darryl Hunt (USA, 2005) by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, is the story of Darryl Hunt’s 20-year struggle to clear his name and free himself from a false conviction of rape and murder in North Carolina. The Chances of the World Changing (USA, 2006) follows a writer’s life as he rescues endangered species of turtles destined for Chinatown restaurants, eventually housing thousands of turtles in his New York City penthouse apartment. Refugee All Stars (USA, 2005) follows a band of refugees from Sierra Leone who become singing stars and later return to their homeland, ravaged by war. Simone Duarte’s En Route to Baghdad: Sergio Vieira de Mello, (Brazil/USA, 2004)tells the life story of the diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, the peacemaker chosen by Kofi Annan who was killed in Baghdad during a heroic mission. Mission to Matrimony (USA, 2006) examines the policy implications of marriage and family in a United States of many families. Ben Lewis takes a serious and funny look at the humor of Soviet Russia with Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Jokebook (France/Canada, 2005).



GPFF presents Environmental Films at the Orlando Science Center: Cosmic Africa (South Africa, 2002) tells the story of a South African astronomer on a quest to reunite the science of cosmology with the origins of celestial knowledge by visiting ancestral African lands. Mama Earth(USA, 2006) is Leslie Bloom Van Ee’s thought-provoking commentary, as told by the Earth herself, using comedy and music compelling viewers to consider the effects of their activities. Also playing throughout the festival will be a number of short documentaries with various environmental themes such as Tamra Raven’s Rats to Roses (USA, 2005) about the challenges and rewards of maintaining community gardens in New York City; Texas Gold (USA) by Carolyn Scott looks at the effects of big oil on the Texas Gulf coast and Leslie Iwerk’s Recycled Life (USA, 2005), is a journey to the Guatemala City Garbage Dump, Central America’s largest and most toxic landfill, where thousands of adults and children have been living, eating, and working over the last sixty years.Promises Made, by Susan Hogue, examines the tangle of political, environmental and social issues at land use projects since the 1930’s and their present day ramifications and Recycle (USA) by Vasco Nunes and Ondi Timoner, tells the efforts of Miguel Diaz, a homeless man in Echo Park in Los Angeles, who created a community garden while struggling with substance abuse.



This year’s GPFF Short Narrative Films include: Martin Jones’ At Dawning (UK, 2001) about a woman leaving an ill-considered one-night stand only to be distracted by a man who truly needs her. Brian Sawyer’s Tex, The Passive Aggressive Gunslinger (USA) that pits Bob Balaban against the granite-jawed Charles Rocket in an unlikely showdown in the old West. Ellie Lee’s Dog Days (USA, 2000) tells the tale of a young girl making an unlikely friend in an America recovering from a devastating war. Confection, (2003) by Eva Saks, is adelicious film about a little girl who learns empathy from a pastry and Josh Staub’s festival favorite, The Mantis Parable, (2005) offering a beautifully animated story about the importance of kindness in all things.



GPFF Short Documentaries. David Holbrooke has written and produced a series of thought-provoking short documentaries under the banner of “Original Thinkers” and GPFF will be screening four of them: Live From Shiva’s Dancefloor (2003) where New York City iconoclast Speed Levitch offers up the history of Wall Street and suggests a memorial for the fallen World Trade Towers. In A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn (2005) a photographer challenges our modern view of open spaces. A fourth generation rabbi gives a monologue on all religions along the beaches, wharves, hotdog stands and roller coasters of Coney Island in A Time for a New God (2004) and in Freaks Like Me (2004), a congregation of swamis, imams, monks, yogis, rabbis, priests gather in Barcelona, where one thousand years ago people of all faiths peacefully cohabitated. Other short docs include Conscientious Objector (UK, 2006), an inventive interpretation of the anti-war poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay; Criminalizing Dissent documenting the passionate attempts of protesters to make themselves heard to the G8 leaders meeting in Georgia and Building Bridges, tracing the efforts of a women’s group in Mostar to overcome the divisions lingering from war. Also screening are Repetition Compulsion, an animated short doc illustrating the story of battered and homeless women at shelter using charcoal drawings and Federation of Black Cowboys about African-Americans in Brooklyn, NY who promote the culture, history and legacy of America's forgotten Black Cowboys and educate youth to an alternate lifestyle.



The Festival will present four panel discussions during the festival-taking place at the Enzian Theatre. The topics will be: “How Can You Change the World With Your Film If Nobody Sees It?”, “Peace Pitch: The Beach Lady,” where Erica McCarthy presents her work-in-progress about MaVynee Betsch, the Florida environmentalist and activist in the African American community, “Making Films That Make a Difference” and “Media Day of Dialogue,” presented by the Central Florida Association of Black Journalists & Broadcasters.



The GPFF’s educational outreach program will host students from Orange County Public Schools on field trips to Enzian’s Theatre for special screenings. Art teachers in select OCPS schools will conduct class projects on the theme, “What Peace Looks Like To Me” with work to be exhibited in public spaces in Orlando and Winter Park.



On September 21, the UN’s International Day of Peace, the festival joins people around the world by hosting a gathering at Rollins College, including live music and events, as students and members of the community form a peace symbol, visible from the sky. Doves will be released as a peace statement and experience in honor of this important day.



GPFF sponsors include Peace Cereal, WKMG, Avon, The Orlando Weekly, Kodak, Current TV.com, Nestle Waters, Bond 9 “Scent of Peace”, ProductionHUB, the Florida Film Commission, the Metro Orlando Film & Entertainment Commission, Putumayo, Rollins College and UCF School of Film and Digital Media.



GPFF is supported by a grant from the Downtown Development Board, supporters of the Downtown Arts District and the free Lymmo service, which offers a convenient way to get around downtown Orlando.



Individual tickets for the GLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL are $8. and are available on-line at www.peacefilmfest.org or at the door. Passes begin at $99 and are available on-line. For schedule information, see the website: www.peacefilmfest.org.



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Global Peace Film promotes world peace through film, film events and awards to Peace Ambassadors around the world. The mission of the Global Peace Film Festival, with the home festival held in Orlando, Florida, since 2003, is to utilize the power of the motion picture to further the goal of peace on earth. Traveling festivals, to Japan, Cyprus, New York City and Los Angeles began in 2006. http://www.peacefilmfest.org

Malibu, CA - September 13, 2006 - The inaugural Malibu Celebration of Film (MCOF), a non-competitive showcase of film festival-winning entries will screen 11 features, 8 documentaries and 13 shorts October 4-8, at indoor and outdoor Malibu locations, including Pepperdine University, Malibu Pier and Malibu Bluffs Park. MCOF is targeting its community, ripe with Academy voters and film aficionados.

Recognizing Robert Altman, MCOF's recipient of the 2006 Malibu Courage Award, the 5-day event will launch with an outdoor screening at Calamigos Ranch of his latest film, "A Prairie Home Companion," introduced by film historian Leonard Maltin, which will follow a western-style barbeque dinner. The world premiere of "Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story," a documentary exploring how real-life Gidget/Kathy Kohner Zuckerman's mid 1950's surfing experience in Malibu transformed into an enduring Hollywood movie/TV franchise, will close MCOF. Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" will also be screened, yet no other film other than Altman's, have previously been available in Malibu. A star-studded black-tie tribute gala for Altman is set for October 7.
MCOF will also include panels, special guest speakers, Q&A's with filmmakers, and an educational outreach program, "FilmsCool," co-chaired by Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. There will also be screenings of features and shorts honored by Sloan Foundation for their insights into science and technology, and a reading of a screenplay about screen legend/inventor Hedy Lamarr, "Face Value," which received a Sloan Foundation grant.
The features that will screen at MCOF are: Norway/Denmark's surfing drama "Monster Thursday," "Pope Dreams," "At Last," "Pearl Diver," "Swimmers," "Dopamine," "Madness and Genius," Czech Republic's "Skritek," and Israel's "Janem Janem." The documentaries that will unveiled include: "Mama Earth," "Black Sun," "Trials of Darryl Hunt," "37 Uses for a Dead Sheep" and "Anytown, USA." Complete Film List Attached.
Key sponsors of the film festival include the City of Malibu, Malibu Pier Partners, Pepperdine University, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Charter Cable and The Malibu Times. The festival's executive director is Kim Jackson; the festival's curator Kelly Devine; MCOF board members are Professor Michael Gose, Judy Gersten, Bob Klein, and Dolores Rivellino Walsh.

We are pleased to announce Season Two of the Haydenfilms Online Film
Festival has now officially begun! In addition to our new home page
http://www.haydenfilms.com/, this season we are proud to announce a major
breakthrough for our filmmakers, one which we feel will empower you, the
viewer, to maximize the success of your festival experience as never
before!

We have partnered with Bside Entertainment to deploy Bside festival
community technology on our festival website: http://hayden.bside.com. We
strive to make the Haydenfilms Online Film Festival a destination where
filmmakers can "take their films to the next level" - generating buzz,
building a broader audience, finding distribution or simply gaining
valuable feedback from festival-goers.

We encourage you to opt-in to utilize this new technology to enhance your
festival experience!

Season Two will run from September 13 through midnight EST November 15,
2006. Members will also be eligible to win our $250.00 Viewer
Appreciation Award by voting for the festival winner. Our filmmakers need
YOUR votes, so tell all your friends, sit back and get comfortable, and
enjoy the show!

The 2006 HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL celebrates its sixth wonderful year of honoring the cinematic achievements of women around the world. This unique and exciting festival will take place in Rochester, New York, November 8-13, 2006. The Festival has grown exponentially to become one of the vital cultural assets in Western New York. This international festival of films made with women taking an integral place behind the camera draws people from around the country and globe to this stimulating event, which takes place at the historic, five-screen Little Theatre and the Dryden Theatre at the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.



HighFalls is a festival with a difference - its mission. Susan B. Anthony lived in Rochester, as did George Eastman. The creators of High Falls chose to honor the founders of the women’s movement with a program that presents a wide variety of films, focusing on the achievements of women in the industry and to help correct the imbalance of employment for women (as Susan B. might have) in many areas.

While highlighting the work of a woman behind the camera on each film selected, the High Falls Film Festival programs movies for all audiences. Artistic Director Catherine Wyler and Festival Director & Co-Programmer Ruth Cowing plumbed the best films of 2006 for the prestigious specialty spots in the HighFalls schedule, bringing a more varied, eclectic and exciting list of films to festival audiences than ever before. 2006 Festival movies range from the lush costume drama to the most original, and comedic, monster movie in years, to American indies showcasing new talents in both narrative and documentary, not to mention three highly-touted Oscar contenders for Foreign Language Film.



From the Opening Night film, Agnieszka Holland’s COPYING BEETHOVEN, starring Ed Harris and Diane Kruger, to the Gala Centerpiece presentation of THE LIVES OF OTHERS, the German Oscar contender that was an Official Selection at both the Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals, and through to the Closing Night presentation of the 1928 charming silent film classic, LONESOME, directed by Paul Fejus (and presented with a live score by the famed ALLOY ORCHESTRA), the High Falls Film Festival will be a very exciting place to be.

Each year, the Festival honors exceptional women in the industry with the prestigious Susan B. Anthony “Failure is Impossible” Award, for women in the film industry who have persevered in their careers and triumphed over difficulties. This year, the festival will honor, for the breadth and distinction of their work, Opening Night director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, Washington Square); actress Famke Janssen (featured in the festival film The Treatment, X-Men, I Spy); and producer Lauren Shuler Donner (X-Men, You’ve Got Mail, St. Elmo’s Fire, Bulworth). For 2006, the Festival inaugurates the Elizabeth Cady Stanton “Thorn In The Side Award.” Named in honor of the friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it is an apt prize for women in a collaborative medium who push each other to greatness. The first Stanton Award presentation honors Telluride Film Festival co-founder Stella Pence. In addition, the Festival presents Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short Film.



Renowned actor of stage and screen, Shirley Knight (The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs, Sweet Bird Of Youth) will make a special appearance at the Thursday night screening of OPEN WINDOW in which she stars along with Robin Tunney and Joel Edgerton. Ms. Knight’s most recent role has been on television’s hit series “Desperate Housewives.”

The six-day HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL offers 34 feature-length films, programs of short films from around the globe, films for children, informal “Coffee With” events featuring visiting filmmakers, and opportunities to hear stories from the movie business from well-known stars. There are also seminars, master classes and panel discussions, on subjects such as screenwriting, acting, documentary filmmaking, and one on the future of film titled “Movies In the 21st Century.”



One of the highlights of High Falls is the annual Conversation with esteemed critic Jack Garner. This year, Susan B. Anthony “Failure Is Impossible” Award recipient Lauren Shuler Donner, and her partner (as well as husband), acclaimed director/producer Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Superman, Any Given Sunday) will be talking up a storm.

The 2006 HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL Film Program includes:



13 TZAMETI (Narrative France/Georgia), This film is a winner-take-all thriller, where an unfortunate young man is transformed into Contestant #13 in a game of Russian Roulette with no way out to save his luck.

21 UP AMERICA (Documentary, US),modeled on the famed British documentary series by Michael Apted, this is the Director Christopher Quinn’s third installment of an ambitious project that chronicles the lives of 16 very different Americans, filming them every seven years. At 21, they are barely adults, but the choices they make now about education, jobs, marriage and parenthood may well determine the rest of their lives. The film’s Producer, Victoria Bappart, will join us at High Falls.



ABSOLUTE WILSON(Documentary, US/Germany), is a provocative and moving portrait of perhaps the most visionary theater artist of our time, Robert Wilson. What emerges is a life full of impressions, colors and rhythms that shaped his ground-breaking aesthetic vision, creating some of the most historic theatre and opera productions of the twentieth century. David Byrne, William Burroughs, Tom Waits and Philip Glass are featured among his collaborators. Director/Producer/Writer Katherine Otto will represent the film.

AFTER THE WEDDING (Narrative, Denmark) starring Danish movie idol Mads Mikkelson, tells the story of Jacob, a man dedicated to the children he cares for in an orphanage in India. The film is a riveting story of manipulation that is also a commentary on wealth and poverty in our global community.



AIR GUITAR NATION (Documentary, USA), is a feature-length documentary that covers the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships, its huge international cult following and the contestants who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of playing…the invisible guitar.

AMERICAN BLACKOUT (Documentary, US), director Ian Inaba delves into the systematic disenfranchisement of African-American voters in 2001. The film’s heroine, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, whose investigation of the infamous Florida election as well as her blatant criticism of the war in Iraq has made her the target of relentless right-wing venom, does not waver in her crusade for exposing racist policies, no matter how troubled the waters. Congresswoman McKinney will join us at HighFalls along with the film’s producer Anastasia King.



AVENUE MONTAIGNE (Narrative, France), a sparkling and witty romantic comedy by director Daniele Thompson, is a classic fairy tale starring Cecile de France as a young woman whose arrival in Paris from the provinces puts her in the path of a circus of eccentrics, ranging from the brilliant to the hilariously bizarre.

THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI (Documentary, US),is a documentation of the ubiquitous Soho street artist, Jimmy Mirikitani, and the tempestuous events that shaped his life, which included not only being interred at Tule Lake Camp, the destruction of his family in Hiroshima, and his life as an elderly, homeless artist, whom in 2001, and on 9/11, when the neighborhood was so engulfed by smoke and ash, she invited into her apartment. Hattendorf tries to gets him into the social service system and discovers how easy it is to get lost in America. Director/Cinematographer/Editor Linda Hattendorf will attend HighFalls to present her film.



CINEMATOGRAPHER’S STYLE (Documentary, US), If you’ve ever wondered about the art of cinematography, this doc will introduce you to 110 leading practitioners from 15 countries, explaining how and why the movies look the way they do. Ellen Kuras, one of the cinematographers featured in the film, will introduce and lead a Q&A following.

A COAT OF SNOW (Narrative, US), From award-winning writer, and Rochester native, Gordy Hoffman (Love Liza, Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Sundance 2002, starring his younger brother Philip Seymour Hoffman), is his directorial debut.A young woman arrives at her cousin’s bachelorette party with a video camera, and what begins as a simple, happy event unfolds into a “long, dark night of the soul”, as it becomes apparent the bride harbors a grim secret. Actress Jennifer Christopher will be on hand to represent the film.



COPYING BEETHOVEN (Narrative, US/Germany), is the HighFalls opener, directed by Susan B. Anthony “Failure Is Impossible” Award winner, Agnieszka Holland. Ed Harris delivers a sexy, bawdy, passionate performance as the tempestuous genius composer in this richly imagined tale about Beethoven and the ambitious young copyist of his Ninth Symphony, Anna (the beautiful Diane Kruger). Agnieszka Holland will join us at HighFalls to present her film.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Documentary, US), is the story of Father O’Grady, a pillar of his community, and a notorious pedophile. Director Amy Berg was actually able to persuade O’Grady to participate in the making of this film, along with several of his victims. At press time, this film is causing an earthquake within the Los Angeles Diocese and may well change history with its searing indictment concerning the practices and politics of the Catholic Church.

FOLLOW MY VOICE(Documentary, US), One record producer, the creators of a cult film classic and some of the most influential indie rockers record a benefit album for a controversial LGBTQ youth center in New York City. "Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig" documents the stories of four teens, echoing their struggles and aspirations with the music from the rock drama "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". Includes studio sessions from Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, The Bens, The Breeders, Yo La Tengo, John Cameron Mitchell, They Might Be Giants and more. Director Katherine Linton and featured teen subject Angel will be in town to represent the film

FREESTYLE: THE ART OF RHYME (Documentary, US), is director Kevin Fitzgerald’s exuberant capturing of street-based freestyle rappers and the spirit of the movement on street corners and nightclub stages.

GOODBYE LIFE(Narrative, Iran), The first feature by Iranian filmmaker Ensieh Shah-Hosseini is based on her eight-year-long experience as a journalist during the 1980’s Iran/Iraq war. A profoundly anti-war film, GOODBYE LIFE is unsparing in depicting death and destruction. But it also shows Iranian villagers living in the war zone determined to preserve the rituals of daily life, even when a wedding celebration turns into a funeral.
THE HOST (Narrative, South Korea), Director Bong Joon-Ho’s smart, touching and funny film is the story of a monster who emerges from the Han River following a U.S. doctor’s dumping of chemicals on the highway. He immediately creates havoc, kidnapping a girl in the process. The government’s comic mishandling of the crisis, as well as the girl’s wildly dysfunctional family, who set out to save her, are priceless...



KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST (Documentary, US), documents that during the Cold war, the CIA was instrumental in the coup that brought the military thug Mobuto to power in Congo. Director Pippa Scott tells this atrocious history through archival photographs and film With narration by Don Cheadle, Alfre Woodard, and James Cromwell. Director/Producer/Writer Pippa Scott will join us in HighFalls to present her film.

KISS ME NOTON THE EYES (Narrative, Lebanon) is a moving and sensual film about Dunia, a young student at CairoUniversity with aspirations to become a dancer. Her startling audition for a dance contest, in which she explains that a woman cannot move or evoke acts of love when society asks women to hide their femininity, sets in motion a series of events that carry Dunia towards true liberation, but the constraints of Egyptian society run deeper than she expects...



KZ (Documentary, UK), British documentarian Rex Bloomstein focuses on the picturesque Austrian town of Mauthausen, once a site of a concentration camp and now a tourist destination. He exposes the myriad attitudes of those who pass through, from horror and empathy to denial and compartmentalization, and in so doing exposes the larger truth of how we, in the present, respond to the horror of this historic massive extermination.

LIFE AFTER TOMORROW (Documentary, US),chronicles the stories of the young girls who got their start in show business during the original five-year run of the hit musical Annie, among them Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly Ringwald and MSNBC anchor Dara Brown. It focuses on those whose early burst of fame did not blossom into the careers they imagined, and their highly personal interviews talk about their lives on both sides of the celebrity fence… The film’s co-Producer/co-Director Julie Stevens will be representing her film at HighFalls.

LITTLE RED FLOWERS (Narrative, China/Italy), From legendary underground director Zhang Yuan comes a contemporary parable about the complexities of being compelled to “fit in” to a society that requires it, as seen through the eyes of young boy entering school for the first time.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Narrative, Germany), It’s 1984 in East Berlin, and a drab drone from the Stasi (the East German secret police) is ordered to find something - anything - incriminating in the life of the country’s most popular playwright. Germany’s Oscar contender is a brilliantly made thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.



MEN AT WORK (Narrative, Iran), four middle-aged friends returning from a ski trip in Tehran find a strange object at the edge of a cliff. It might be an Easter Island-like stone statue or a fossilized tree, but in any case, its phallic monumentality presents a challenge and they become obsessed with literally overthrowing it. A hilarious comedy of machismo emerges as the men strategize, enlist passersby, and risk life and limb in this absurd project.

THE NIGHT OF THE WHITE PANTS (Narrative, US), brings Tom Wilkenson (Max), the patriarch of a wildly dysfunctional family, who survives a heart-attack, a failing business, and an acrimonious divorce with enough adventurous spirit intact to explore Dallas’s punk underground scene with his ambitious daughter (Selma Blair) and her maverick web designer/rocker boyfriend (Nick Stahl.) The cast which also includes Laura Jordan as a punkette who captures Max’s fancy and a warm, ironic Francis Fisher as one of his ex-wives, is first-rate. Director Amy Talkington will be on hand to present her film.



OPEN WINDOW (Narrative, US)starring Robin Tunney and Joel Edgerton, explores how a marriage is affected by the aftermath of rape. With fine supporting performances by Cybill Shepherd, Shirley Knight, and Elliott Gould. The film’s Director/Writer Mia Goldman, along with actress Shirley Knight will be on hand at HighFalls.

THE PLAY, set in a remote Turkish village, is a heartwarming documentary about a strong-willed peasant woman who decides that her story and that of her women friends is the stuff of theater. Enlisting the aid of several townspeople, she sees her vision through, and in the process changes the dynamics of the village forever.

RENAISSANCE (Animated Feature, France/UK/Luxembourg), Set in Paris in 2054, RENAISSANCE pays homage to the futuristic noir vision of METROPOLIS and BLADE RUNNER, marrying science fiction with extraordinary digital animation to present a world beyond imagination.


SHOOT THE MESSENGER (Narrative, UK), a highly controversial project when it aired on the BBC, is a brilliant, flamboyant social satire that fearlessly takes on issues of black identity and self-hatred in middle-class modern day London. It is also the winner of the BBC Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award. The film will be represented by Director Ngozi Onwurah.

TEN CANOES (Narrative, Australia), is set in the distant past of tribal times, where a man, Dayindi, covets the wife of his elder brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of a wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, bungling mayhem and revenge gone wrong.



THE TREATMENT (Narrative, US),Starring Susan B. Anthony “Failure is Impossible” Award winner Famke Janssen,is a tightly woven story about Jake Singer, an anxious schoolteacher in New York City, and the psychoanalysis he undergoes subsequently from Dr. Ernesto Morales (Ian Holm), therapist from hell. Add Ms. Janssen as a beautiful socialite widow into the mix, Jake’s life becomes a veritable boomerang between what is allegedly “real” and the overworkings of an overanalytical mind. Production Designer Edwige Geminel and Actress Famke Janssen will be on hand to represent the film.

UNFOLDING FLORENCE: THE MANY LIVES OF FLORENCE BROADHURST (Documentary, Australia),is the spirited and highly original documentary by acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong about the many lives of one larger-than-life woman: flamboyant Australian design pioneer Florence Broadhurst.

WHAT REMAINS (Documentary, US), Steven Cantor follows his award-winning short film about photographer, Sally Mann, with a feature that covers the extended period of Mann’s landscape photos, her death and decay series, and her recent self-portraits. The film shows Mann at work behind the camera and also allows her opportunities to talk at length about her work process and how she arrives at a subject that will sustain her for years. The Film’s Composer Mary Lorson will be in HighFalls.

WHEN I CAME HOME (Documentary, US),is a film about a surprising and unfortunate population: over 300,000 homeless veterans; those who served in Vietnam and those returning from the current war in Iraq. It reveals a failing system and the veteran’s struggle to survive after returning from war-a struggle often as traumatic as the battlefield they’ve just left. The film’s subject Herold Noel and Producer Nancy Roth will represent the film.

Every year the High Falls Film Festival presents an example of the work of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund, which preserves American films in which women have had significant creative input. It has preserved over 40 films, and is the only fund of its kind in the world.

SPECIAL SELECTIONS:

CONEY (Documentary, US), a quick jaunt through the Coney Island area at all times of the day and night, in all seasons, is a prime example of the early work of Frank and Caroline Mouris, collaborators in film and life for over forty years. Reviewer Elliott Stein wrote: This “animated documentary” is a pixilated “grand jete”…five minutes if earned emotion never before provided by so brief a work.

LONESOME (Narrative, US),is a classic charmer from 1928, the transitional period between “silents” and “talkies”, and will be presented at HighFalls with the renowned Alloy Orchestra providing the soundtrack. This Paul Fejus romantic comedy about two lonely people, Jim and Mary, who live in the same building, work in the same factory, but have never met, both hear an advertisement for Coney Island, and both hop on a bus for an amusement park adventure…the film that touched off 1974’s Telluride Festival, LONESOME represents the height of the silent film industry, and tells a delicious and universal love story. Telluride Film Festival co-founder Stella Pence will be on hand to introduce the film.

HIGHFALLS FILM FESTIVAL is sponsored by New York State, Monroe County, Eastman Kodak Company, the City of Rochester, Harris Beach PLLC, the New York State Council on the Arts, Women in Film/GM Alliance, Ameriprise Financial, City Newspaper, Buck & Pulleyn and Delta Stratagem.

A full schedule of screening titles, dates, times and locations for all Festival films, panels and events is available on the festival web site www.highfallsfilmfestival.com. or the Festival hotline at 585-258-0480. Out of town visitors may email their ticket orders to outoftowntickets@highfallsfilmfestival.com. For more information about the High Falls Film Festival, please contact the Festival office at 45 East Ave., Suite 400, Rochester, NY, 14604, (585) 279-8307

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Celebrating its 20th year, AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi spans 10 days each November, featuring international films from emerging filmmakers, the latest work from great film masters and nightly red carpet gala premieres. With its timing at the beginning of the Awards' season and its setting in the film capital of the world, the Festival's programs and partnerships all serve to position AFI FEST as one of the most influential and star studded film festivals in North America.

In addition to our Gala lineup, this year's AFI FEST also features an amazing 15 films that are also their country's Oscar submission including AFTER THE WEDDING (Denmark), AMERICAN VISA (Bolivia), CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (China), DAYS OF GLORY (Algeria), FALKENBERG FAREWELL (Sweden), FAMILY LAW (Argentina), GRBAVICA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), PAN'S LABYRINTH (Mexico), TEN CANOES (Australia), THE BANQUET (Hong Kong), THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Germany), THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING (Egypt), VITUS (Switzerland), VOLVER (Spain) and WHITE PALMS (Hungary).

AFI FEST 2006's overall lineup will showcase a total of 111 features (91 narrative, 20 documentary) and 36 shorts (33 narrative, 3 documentary) for a total of 147 films from 45 different countries. Of the films, 22 are World Premieres, 30 are North American Premieres and 28 are US Premieres.
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AFI FEST 2006 runs November 1-12, 2006.

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The 16th edition of N.I.C.E. Film Festival, presented in cooperation with the Tribeca Film Festival, Italian Cultural Institute and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo` showcases a selection of 7 shorts and 7 features films by talented and emerging Italian directors as well as the North American Premiere of Giacomo Campiotti`s acclaimed drama “Mai + come prima” (Never Again as Before). For the first time this year N.I.C.E. Film Festival will take place at the Tribeca Cinemas, Theater 1 located at 54 Varick Street at Laight street, one block south of Canal street, a strategic location in the heart of downtown.

The new cooperation between N.I.C.E. Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival is aimed to further promote the work of independent Italian filmmakers by introducing them to a broader audience. It is also a recognition of the importance N.I.C.E. has assumed throughout the years in the film festival circuit. According to Viviana del Bianco, director of N.I.C.E.,“N.I.C.E. has become a not to be missed appointment in the busy fall months. Moviegoers look out for N.I.C.E. film selection as we manage to present a variety of innovative films that stand out in the Italian panorama”. Peter Scarlet, executive director of Tribeca Film Festival confirms: “We're pleased indeed to welcome this long-running program of discoveries of new Italian filmmakers to Tribeca. Over the past years, N.I.C.E has showcased works by many new talents, including the early films of Francesca Archibugi, Mimmo Calopresti, Antonio Capuano, Cristina Comencini, Matteo Garrone, Aurelio Grimaldi, Mario Martone, Marco Risi, Silvio Soldini, Paolo Virzi and Edoardo Winspeare, to name but a few. We hope you'll join us in the exciting screenings to be taking place at Tribeca Cinemas during this new Fall program.”

SPECIAL EVENT: NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF GIACOMO CAMPIOTTI`S “MAI + COME PRIMA”
This year special event is dedicated to Giacomo Campiotti, winner of N.I.C.E Film Festival in 1994 with his first feature film “ Like Two Crocodiles”. Since then, Campiotti has continued on a very personal path with gripping films that touch deep chords in his audiences. His work includes Corsa di primavera, the three-part feature Il tempo dell’amore and a remake of Doctor Zivago for BBC television. His new coming-of-age film Mai + come prima (Never Again as Before), screened in its North American premier, shows his ability to climb emotional heights while gently leading the viewer to see the profound connections between events. Four boys and two girls, who have just graduated from high school, take a vacation together in the heart-stopping Dolomite Mountains. On a dramatic climbing expedition up a mystic peak, they encounter a tragedy that will change each of them forever. Campiotti wrote this film with noted Russian writer-director Alexander Adabachian.

The screening of Mai + come prima will open the festival on Thursday, November 9th at 7.00pm and 9.00pm. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A with executive producer Gianluca Bianco.

N.I.C.E. FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION
The feature films participating in N.I.C.E. present a broad range of cinematic style and content, from comedies and dramas to fact-based tales, all reflecting the social and political climate of today’s Italy. Over the past sixteen years, the festival has gained the attention of an ever-increasing audience by continuing to present a variety of innovative films with diverse, authentic voices. The 7 shorts and 7 feature films in competition– that must be produced within the past 2 years by directors at their first or second work - were selected by a committee comprised of Linda Blackaby, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Film Festival, journalist Barbara Corsi, Deborah Young, Variety `s film critic, and for the first time this year Peter Scarlet, executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Journalist Anna di Martino curated the short films selection.

Among the movies selected are Giorgio Diritti’s strongly felt first feature, Il vento fa il suo giro (The Wind Blows Round), a story of intolerance taking place in a tiny mountain hamlet; Gian Paolo Cugno`s Salvatore – Questa e` la vita (Salvatore – This is Life) about the friendship that springs up between a boy who's lost his parents and his new elementary school teacher from northern Italy. Cugno`s story takes place in Sicily and features a great cast including Enrico Lo Verso (Il Ladro di bambini, Hannibal), Gabriele Lavia (Remember Me, My Love; Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean) and critically acclaimed Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties, The Dinner, Life is Beautiful,). Also in competition are Giovanni La Parola … E se domani (…And if Tomorrow), a tragicomic portrait of contemporary Italian society inspired by a true story; Fuoco su di me (Fire at my Heart) by Lamberto Lambertini who demonstrates all his profound love for his native Naples and its history with this romantic and tragic drama featuring a warm and illuminating performance by Omar Sharif. With “Sotto la stessa luna” (Beneath the Same Moon) Carlo Luglio provides a close-up view of the hardships faced by Rom gypsies living on the outskirts of Naples while Paolo Genovese and Luca Miniero`s Nessun messaggio in segreteria (Sorry You Can`t get Through) is a joyous and ironic fast moving story about a retired man who tries to find the man who`s earning the pension he`s living off. Francesco Amato`s Cosa ci faccio qui!” (What the Hell am I Doing Here!) is the unconventional recount of a young Italian boy’s summer spent on Italy’s southern beaches. Each feature film is preceded by a short and it`s followed by a Q&A with the director.

On Monday, November 13th at 6.00PM, a special panel discussion will take place at Casa Italian Zerilli-Marimo`, (24 West 12th Street,T212 998 3858) at 6pm. The panel on “The Future of Italian Cinema” will be moderated by Deborah Young, film critic, Variety. The discussants includes Peter Scarlet, executive director, Tribeca Film Festival, Viviana del Bianco, director, N.I.C.E. Film Festival, Giovanni La Parola, director …E se domani; Sabrina Impacciatore, actress, …E se domani; Lamberto Lambertini, director, Fuoco su di me; Sergio Scapagnini producer, Fuoco su di me; Paolo Genovese, director, Nessun messaggio in segreteria; Sauro Falchi, producer, Nessun messaggio in segreteria; Francesco Amato, director, Ma che ci faccio qui!; Chiara Boschiero, executive producer, Ma che ci faccio qui!; Luca Liguori, producer, Sotto la stessa luna; Pilar Tozzi, distributor, Sotto la stessa luna.

About N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events
N.I.C.E. is a not for profit cultural association founded in 1991. N.I.C.E. was conceived to help foster the talent of a new breed of Italian filmmakers by showcasing a variety of shorts and feature-length films to foreign audiences. The filmmakers featured in N.I.C.E. tell their stories with a unique voice and a fresh point of view that serves as a vivid reminder that the Italian cinematic tradition is alive, well and thriving. N.I.C.E. also affords foreign public the chance to experience alternative cinematic perspectives and a culturally different approach to filmmaking. Currently, the audiences of the New York and San Francisco editions of N.I.C.E. vote for the best feature film and short that are being awarded with the Premio Citta di Firenze. The European editions of N.I.C.E. take place in Amsterdam, Holland from February 27th to March 8th, 2007 and in Moscow and St. Petersburg from March 25th to April 6th, 2007.

N.I.C.E. is one of the most important event among those financed by the Italian Minister of Cultural Activities – Department of Cinema and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affair. It is also in cooperation with Italian Consulate of New York and San Francisco, Italian Cultural Institute of New York and San Francisco, City of Florence, Department of Cultural of the city of Florence, Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, New York University, San Francisco Film Society, Tribeca Film Festival, RAI Corporation, Rai e RaiSAT.
In cooperation with: Tribeca Film Festival, Italian Cultural Institute and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo`

The 16th Annual N.I.C.E. Film Festival (New Italian Cinema Events) will take place for the first time at TRIBECA CINEMAS, Theatre 1, 54 Varick Street (at Laight Street), T. 212.941.4005 from Thursday, November 9th through Wednesday, November 15th.

Tickets are available at the box office and online at www.tribecacinemas.com and they are priced at:
Adults: $10.00, Pass: $60.00
Seniors and Students: $7.00, Pass: $40.00.

For more information: www.nicefestival.org and www.tribecacinemas.com

Los Angeles, CA: -- Aspiring filmmakers who dream of having their work distributed to the Hollywood elite now have a new ally: Moving Pictures Magazine, known internationally for insightful entertainment commentary, is offering winners of its first Short Film Contest a bounty of perks and prizes.

The four winners of Moving Pictures’ Short Film Contest will be invited to attend Moving Pictures' Sundance Film Festival Event in Park City, Utah in January 2007. Moving Pictures events are often on the Top Ten Lists of the world's major film festivals and markets. Filmmakers will be screened at the event as they will mingle with industry professionals in attendance.

Winners will be featured on Moving Pictures' Best of 2006 Short Films DVD, distributed to magazine subscribers, including members of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences™, the Writers Guild of America West™, the Directors Guild of America™, and the Screen Actors Guild™. Winners also will be featured at the 7th Annual Silver Lake Festival May 3-12 in Los Angeles and will be considered for distribution by Maitland Primrose Media. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Moving Pictures Magazine.

“For years, Moving Pictures Magazine has been committed to bringing the stories behind the movies to film enthusiasts and industry professionals alike,” says C. Margaret Tritch, publisher. “By hosting the Short Film Contest, we hope to forge relationships with talented young filmmakers, providing them with contacts and a platform to show their work. We seek quality short films that highlight the talents, stories, hopes and dreams of up-and-coming filmmakers.

Prizes will be awarded in Narrative, Documentary and Animation. A separate prize is held for Youth Filmmakers aged 18 or under in any category. The Youth category is especially designed for budding school-aged filmmakers who feel they have something to say and want to share it with the world.

To qualify, each entry must be no longer than ten (10) minutes and should be submitted in DVD or VHS format. Each entry will be judged by distinguished entertainment industry professionals.

Moving Pictures tells the stories behind the movies and how movies affect society. The publication offers a distinctive, socially aware view that aspires to build a bridge between the filmmaker and the audience, fostering creativity and dynamic discussions on the art and impact of movies.

The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) kicks off its third annual
celebration of films, events and panels presented amidst idyllic Bahamian
settings on December 7th – 10th, 2006. Festival attendees will delight in
the nation’s tropical beauty and cultural charms thanks to Founding Sponsors
Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and the Islands of The Bahamas Ministry of
Tourism. Audiences will enjoy BIFF screenings at the Atlantis Theatre,
Paradise Island and at Galleria 6 JFK in Nassau. Programs, panels, and gala
parties will be held at various locations around Nassau and Paradise Island.
The festival is, available and accessible to all – visitors and Bahamians
alike. It surely is “Cinema In Paradise.”

As previously announced, Oscar® Winner and Bahamian resident, actor Nicolas Cage will be the recipient of the Career Achievement Tribute sponsored by Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch (LODH) at the Third Annual Bahamas International Film Festival. The BIFF Tribute Chopard Award will be
presented at a gala event at the Atlantis Theatre at the Atlantis Paradise
Island Resort and Casino to Mr. Cage by Sir Sean Connery, his co-star in
“The Rock.” Friday, December 8. Over the four day festival, BIFF will screen
a selection of Nicolas Cage’s films including: Face/Off, Adaptation and Wild
at Heart. There will also be a conversation with the actor, moderated by a
well known personality, during which additional highlights of Mr. Cage’s
career will be presented. Mr. Cage will attend the screenings at both the
Atlantis and Galleria 6 JFK for Q&A.

“BIFF is committed to exhibiting films that showcase unique international themes as well as combining both enjoyment and thought provoking concepts via the cinematic arts,” says Leslie Vanderpool, the Founder & Executive Director of BIFF. "We have screened hundreds of films from all over the world which we will be showcasing a slate of fifty narrative, documentary and short films over the festival’s four days."

“The high caliber of representation of films in this year’s festival will be incredible,” says Ms. Vanderpool. “There are significant messages from many countries with a special concentration in the Caribbean. It will affect the Bahamas multi-cultural community in a powerful way. While we are an ‘international festival,’ with guests coming from around the world, we are even more a festival for the people of Nassau and the Bahamas who we hope
will catch films and panels that they normally wouldn’t be able to see.”


The Festival has three juried competition categories; the “Spirit of
Freedom” (both Narrative and Documentary sections) presented by Chopard, and the “New Visions” award going to the filmmaker in the Narrative section
presented by Hard Rock Cafй. Other film programs include “Panorama World
Cinema,” “Special Screenings,” “Family Films,” “Caribbean Spotlight,” and a
new component is added this year “East Meets West,” which will present films from Eastern Europe, India, East Asia and the Pacific Islands.

From Thursday, December 7th, when the Festival presents its Opening Night
Gala Film, Director Susanne Bier’s AFTER THE WEDDING, through our exciting
Career Achievement Award event and on to our Closing Night Film, the Bahamas International Film Festival will be a very special and exciting place to be.

The 2006 BIFF Film Program Includes:


Spirit of Freedom: Narrative Competition

The ‘Spirit of Freedom’ is the theme of the Grand Jury Competition, as each
cinema artist explores the potential of the human spirit and how freedom
pervades our lives.

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Since 1988, NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival has been one of the most comprehensive forums of international LGBT film/video, and an important exhibition platform for independent film/video makers. Each year, NewFest provides a professional and public context for the presentation of innovative and challenging work that reflects the broad range of practice and ideas found in contemporary media.

Submissions of films/videos by, about, or of interest to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, or transgendered persons are now being accepted for NewFest 2007, which will take place May 31-June 10. In addition, submitted works under 30 minutes by NYC area makers are eligible for programming in NewFest's new monthly Local Shorts Showcase at the IFC Center!

For PDF or text versions of the Submission Form & Guidelines, please click on the image above.