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WELCOME TO THE AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER FESTIVAL 2018 Dear Filmmaker, Congratulations on your nomination, we hope you have a wonderful time with us in Amsterdam and we look forward to meeting all of you! Our events are always held in one location and over the past 14 years that I have been developing the Festivals, have found that this format works very well, having all the filmmakers and professionals mixing together makes for an ideal fun and professional environment. For the filmmaker, this helps them engage at all of our Festivals which then allows them to make new contacts and the possibility to do business with each other in the future. Our Festivals open with a meet and greet, which is an informal gathering and for filmmakers this is a great chance to mix and socialise with other filmmakers and scriptwriters from all over the world. Of course we are open to the public but this is not our only consideration, we are keen that this is the start of a journey for you.
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We have with us the support of industry professionals Brad Blain & Neil McEwan who are readily available with advice on your project and can help with any questions you may have. We also are delighted to announce that Meghan Speake will also be joining us for the Amsterdam Festival. Meghan runs her own distribution company and again, will be more that happy to advise you on any aspect of your film or script. Finally we have Edwin E. Brochin available during the festival week. Edwin E. Brochin will be holding a distribution Q&A to offer help finding markets for attending filmmakers. Our screenings programme will be back to back and we have multiple screening rooms to showcase the incredible amount of talent that has been nominated at this year’s Madrid Festival. During the week we will also be holding networking nights, professional panels, Q&A’s and parties (please check the daily screening display for times & dates) to fully connect as much as possible. I would also like to remind you that during the week we offer you the opportunity of a filmed interviewed – as we do at all of our Festivals! All of the interviews are then posted on YouTube and you are more than welcome to use these on your social media to promote your latest movie or script – and you can find a number of previous interviews by visiting our website.
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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant A stunning documentary film by Herbert Golder A fresh and candid glimpse of one of the great masters of cinema at work, by his longtime friend (of more than 25 years) and collaborator (on 10 films) Herbert Golder, BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT chronicles Werner Herzog’s making of the feature film, MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (co-written by Golder), which was nominated for a GOLDEN LION at the Venice Film Festival, and which stars Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, and Chloe Sevigny.
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MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE was inspired by the true story of an actor who acted out in reality the crime he was supposed to enact on stage in a production of an ancient Greek play: he murdered his mother. BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT explores the process through which this true story, itself inspired by a fiction, is transformed back into a fiction—that is, a narrative feature film—once again. Unlike other documentaries which have been made about Herzog, in which he stares
almost defiantly into the camera and, in his inimitable way and in his famous voice, articulates his views on life, this film shows a side of him known only to his friends and close collaborators. Although refreshingly candid and surprisingly revealing, this portrait in no way diminishes Herzog’s mystique—quite the contrary—but it does deepen our appreciation of his humanity, and offers, through Golder’s running commentary—as much part of an ongoing conversation with Herzog as a conversation with the viewer—an insider’s insight into his craft. Even as we come closer
to knowing Herzog more intimately in this film, we also become increasingly aware of his privacy and the deep solitude that in some essential way defines him. Herzog’s idea that film should be, not analysis, but an “agitation of the mind” informs the telling of the story that unfolds here. Not without its moments of humor and warmth, BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT nonetheless manages to explore, through what we see taking shape on screen and through Golder’s voiceover narration, some of the most abiding and deepest themes of Herzog’s films. Documentary
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THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MORON A film by Chris Dockrill, Island Grunt and The New Olympia Theatre Company
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With a cast of 35 actors and musicians, the show is a powerhouse of original music, energy-packed choreography, larger-than-life characters and a zany plot that takes you on a strange and unforgettable journey on this crazy island. The story, briefly, goes like this: Edwyna and her bumbling boyfriend, Douggie, are shipwrecked, captured by a crazy band of Rastafarian natives led by Voodoo Valma and her right-hand man, Balthasar, almost cooked and sacrificed and then sold to the maniacal Doctor Moron for his experiments in genetic mutation. Along the way they meet Rubber Gloves, the Slave Market Junkie (featured in the poster), Brother Bob the hip black American preacher whose singing rips the paint off the walls, Schnapps the manic photo historian and Fitter and Turner, the doctor’s dwarf lab assistants who just love the ‘wet jobs’, just to name a few! What a night! What a cast! What a show! The result is a unique film that, as Dockrill explains, “is like the live show on steroids.” Indeed, one major paper in Australia, tagged the film as “Rocky Horror on steroids”.
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TOP IMAGE: REE LANGRIDGE AS VOODOO VALMA - MIDDLE IMAGE: CRAMER CAIN AS BALTHASAR - LOWER IMAGE: TIM VICTORY AND JIMMY CHAPMAN AS FITTER AND TURNER.
The Island of Doctor Moron® started as a high school rock musical in the rural town of Kempsey in Australia. Eight countries, ten international film festivals and thousands of delighted fans later, the film of the rock musical is now world famous. The film is no ordinary film of a rock musical. It’s a hybrid asChris Dockrill, the co-creatorand director, describes it. “We created and produced the live show in Sydney in late 2014”’ he said. “We filmed the show with 14 cameras per shoot over many nights’ performances. We then took ten months in the editing suite to assemble a cinematic film of the live show in perfect 5.1 sound.” It’s the first film of its type to be produced in Australia. Paul Robert Burton, the chief editor, did an amazing job, building this film from the hundreds of hours of footage.
TOP IMAGE LEFT: JAMES BERKLEY AS DOCTOR MORON - TOP IMAGE RIGHT: JAMES JONATHON AS RUBBER GLOVES - MIDDLE IMAGE: LYNDELL ARTHUR AS EDWYNA - LOWER IMAGE: WAYNE MCDANIEL AS BROTHER BOB.
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“We wanted to smash through the fourth wall and propel the viewers onto the stage and into the show,” said Dockrill. This is precisely what the film does, as the Vox pops and thousands of amazed audience members confirm. The film has a universal appeal; it cuts across all ages, genders and tastes. Jack Thompson AM, one of Australia’s most famous stage and screen actors followed the evolution of the show from early rehearsals to the live show and then to the film. Thompson is on record as saying: “The Island of Doctor Moron has breathed new life into live musical theatre. I witnessed the live show work its magic on a full-house audience of all ages. The film of the show is amazing; it has captured and amplified that magic. The energy and fun the film produces is irresistible.” Matthew Reilly, international best seller and action writer who saw both the live show and the film said of the film, “Moron is fun.” Reilly’s fans number in the hundreds of thousands so he should know what appeals.Reilly aptly sums up this wonderful film when he says,“If you want a good night out, go and see Moron!” www.theislandofdoctormoron.com
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OPEN DOOR Here, the acclaimed filmmaker Noel Izon, gives us some extraordinary background to this thought provoking documentary including an opening personal family connection to “An Open Door”.
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“Of the 1,305 Jews who were able to make it to Manila, two of them are very important to me and to who I am today. The first was an Austrian physician named Otto Zelezny. He came to the Philippines in 1938 and eventually became friends with my father. When my father became deathly ill in 1945, he saved my father’s life. So I would not be talking with you today if it were not for the skill of this doctor. Between my younger sister and me, we have eight children and six grandchildren. The other Jew that was very instrumental in my life was Dr. Herbert Zipper, He had been to two concentration camps before he got a visa to be the conductor of The Manila Symphony Orchestra. Fortunately he stayed on after the war and I got a chance to meet him personally when I was in 5th Grade. He brought the Manila Symphony to my school and for the first time in my life I had an adult talking to me like I was an adult. He explained the construction of the orchestra and the symphony and various instruments and I was totally fascinated with this and because of him I began to play in a band that continues to this day. So one gave me my life and the other my lifelong love of music.” Noel Izon
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Noel Izon is an independent filmmaker based in Hyattsville, MD. He was born in Tondo Manila in 1946, the year the Philippines attained full independence. He is the fifth child of acclaimed Filipino cartoonist and artist Esmeraldo Z. Izon. He moved to the United States in 1967. He has been involved in creative and broadcast design and production for over four decades. His production credits encompass more than 250 films and videos. He has filmed internationally in Asia, Europe, the United States and Israel. He has won many national awards for his work, which include some 100 nationally televised programs produced mainly for PBS and for National Geographic Television. He has produced films and videos for numerous national and international clients including the White House and the Vatican. AN OPEN DOOR: HOLOCAUST HAVEN IN THE PHILIPPINES A dramatic story of rescue and friendship and how the Philippines was able to provide sanctuary to more than 1305 Jews fleeing Nazi Europe prior to 1941 and is the third in Noel’s trilogy of forgotten WWII Stories. In the1930’s, when nations of the world were closing their doors to refugee Jews fleeing the growing horror of Hitler’s Germany, one small island nation in the Pacific chose to do what others would not – save those lives. On July 6, 1938, 80 delegates from 32 countries around the world met at a French resort in Evian-les-Bains at US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s request to address the growing Jewish refugee crisis in Hitler’s Greater German Reich. Over 200 international journalists and representatives from Jewish relief organizations recorded 10 days of deliberation by the delegates that ultimately failed to perform the task for which they were assembled – to save Germany’s persecuted Jews through orchestrated resettlement. It can be characterized as one of the greatest diplomatic and humanitarian failures of 20th century Western civilization. Not one of the attending delegations voiced a commitment to either lift or suspend their nation’s quota restrictions within their immigration laws or vowed to increase the numbers of Jewish refugees entering their country by offering them political asylum. But while these relatively low-level diplomats, mostly from the Western nations in Europe and the Americas, lamented the plight of the refugees without offering any solutions, the small Asian nation of the Philippines had already set a rescue plan into operation.
Holocaust historian, Bonnie M. Harris, Filipino-American historian, Sharon Delmendo, and award-winning Philippine filmmaker, Noel “Sonny” Izon, have collaborated in creating a timely documentary, “An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines,” in which this previously unknown episode in history has been beautifully captured. And while this rescue, orchestrated and empowered through Pres. Quezon, ultimately saved these refugees from the uncertainty of Europe’s future, it also gave them a new welcoming homeland as the Filipino people opened their hearts and accepted them within the fabric of Philippine society. This event in history, the rescuing of 1,300 refugee Jews by the small Asian Commonwealth nation of the Philippines, saved these persecuted Jews of Europe from the fate of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, and while 1,300 Jewish lives, when compared to six million Jewish victims of Nazi atrocities, are not so many, to those hundreds who found a haven in Manila, each Jewish life that was rescued was a blessing for the more than 8,000 members of their current posterity. The greatest legacy of the Holocaust Haven created in the Philippines and retold in Izon’s film will always be this – they healed wounds inflicted by the worst of times as only the Filipinos can. Bonnie M. Harris, Ph.D. Lecturer, Dept. of History, San Diego State University, Grossmont College, Southwestern College
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American Barbarian A timely and thought provoking short film by the Chicago based award winning Filmmaker Paul L.Carr
“American Barbarian is a film I felt compelled to make following the election of Donald Trump. Literally overnight, the American landscape fractured and entered a surreal dimension. Like a virus from a science fiction tale, the upheaval and divisiveness embodied in Donald Trump infected communities nationwide. The main character in my film, Dorothy, is a young woman coping with the aftermath of the election, a grotesque reality where the bogey man is no longer hiding under the bed, as in a child’s nightmare, but occupies the office of President. Dorothy’s plight mirrors that of any woman who feels besieged and targeted in a society celebrated for its alleged freedoms. For although America is a land of plenty, there remains a plethora of abuse toward women and the horror genre is an appropriate way to tell this tale. The tools of satire and dark comedy, mashed up with a strong rock n’ roll soundtrack, provides the film a tragicomic vibe befitting of the absurd times we live in. Every day, literally, the news regarding Donald Trump is relentlessly and increasingly disturbing, bizarre – pick an adjective. In making this film, I often said that the constant unravelling and degeneration so obvious in his
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psychological state made it imperative that we wrap the film ASAP, before we all go poof! Who knows what the future holds? Trump has made the world a more dangerous place, undoubtedly.
and sculptures, scenes shot in a bar and on a rooftop, a bedroom, a bondage dungeon, a psychiatrist’s office. Chicago, a cinematographer’s dream, displays itself beautifully.
Nonetheless, my goal was to provide some laughs and end the film on an upbeat note, which I believe was accomplished. Sometimes you have to whistle past the graveyard!
The spirit of the young woman, Dorothy – at times desperate, frightened, confused, is also relentless, buoyant, determined. Clearly, in this era of Trump and #Timesup, American Barbarian speaks of the tumultuous times that every woman, and man, must navigate.”
Locations around the city of Chicago provided great streetscapes and American Barbarian also incorporates public art
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JOHNNY DO BRASIL A film by Jean-Louis Uzan
Johnny Lebon is a talented screenwriter. He’s black. He’s gay. He’s gifted. He’s job is all about immersion. After three books, this latest opus as Lebon’s p.o.v brings us into his fourth quest in a very original form of moving images as he shows us the deep reality of today’s Brasil through the joy of Rio’s Carnival. It all started when a famous Hollywood producer sent him to an island in the Bahamas to feed his work. There, Johnny messed up with serious drug dealers and fell in love (Cherchez la femme).
The next story brought him in France in the middle of the secret world of horse races where he investigated on the mysterious death of a crack horse (Dark Paradise) and found out way more. In Florida he ended up shooting himself in the movie he wrote facing adversity, crimes, ecological issues and girl power. But Johnny always shows us, in a modern James Bondish way what he cares about and defends the causes he believes in. He is the kind of anti-hero who’s led by his sense of justice, fantasy and truth. Always curious, certainly human, perhaps a bit naive -but always smar t- Johnny Lebon is ready for his next job … in Japan. His adventures could work perfectly in TV series, and Jean-Louis Uzan, the author, is ready to be the showrunner.
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ONE NIGHT STAND An impeccably made short film featuring a staggering central performance by Matthew Sauvé
I guess destiny has a crazy way of recalibrating one’s life. The thought of becoming an actor when I was young was just that - simply a thought. It was just something I would daydream about to myself; I would keep it a secret and tell no one. It would be almost 20 years before I let that quiet voice inside my heart speak up and actually follow my true calling in life...acting. I’m here at the Amsterdam International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema promoting the short film “One Night Stand” for which I am honoured to be nominated for “Best Lead Actor”. This is a film that has allowed me to travel the world. I was just at the Madrid International Film Festival two weeks ago and I’m still beside myself for being nominated and winning the award there for “Best Lead Actor in a Short Film”. In 2017 I won the jury prize of “Best Actor” and the coveted annual Golden Fox Award of “Best Actor” at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival’s annual gala in Calcutta, India. It was an experience of a lifetime and I’m extremely humbled to be recognized in such a way. I don’t take any of this for granted, not for one second. Looking back on my past six years as an actor, there is one moment in particular that was pivotal.
On August 16th, 2016 I found myself in an audition with Hollywood Director/ Writer Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Light Between Oceans). I don’t know what stars had to align for me that day, but I am forever grateful they did. I was in the room with him for close to twenty-five minutes it seemed. This is a person whose body of work I’m a fan of, so I’m grateful my training kicked in and for the time I was in the room with him I was an actor and I had a job to do. He made sure of it too, completely down to earth and very calculated with the questions he asked me. He made me forget everything else going on outside that room and brought me on an emotional roller coaster ride. I cried, I laughed, I got angry, I got sad, I was stripped of all my emotional armor that society creates for us to survive in this world today. At the end of the audition he got out of his seat and held me tight in the same way a boxing trainer would hold a prize fighter after going twelve rounds in the ring and he said to me, “Thank you for being brave, open and vulnerable with me here today; you possess all of the qualities a great actor needs to have and who knows maybe we’ll see each other again someday.” I entered that audition room with a fire already lit inside of me that day and those words Derek Cianfrance said to me afterwards was a barrel of gasoline being dumped onto that fire. Regardless if I ever cross paths with him again, he is a man who simply wouldn’t have said it had he not meant it. It’s surreal to think a Hollywood Director who directs some of the most talented A-list actors on the planet has forever made a positive impact on me for the rest of my life, simply by the power of his words. My next stop on the film festival circuit is the Austin Revolution Film Festival in September. I only recently learned I’m nominated for “Best World Actor” there and my film is screening on my actual birthday. Patience is a virtue; it can only be learned not taught. I have all the time in the world if I want it, I believe in goal-setting and writing down the things you want to achieve in life. I also believe in how life sometimes sends us detours, not to derail us from our dreams, but to build our character to prepare us for them. We’ve all heard the saying “be careful what you wish for, it just might come true”; I say be bold in what you wish for so it does come true.
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JACKPOT A brilliant debut comedy drama by Hakan Yilmaz & Volkan Yilmaz
Crime, stand up comedian, robbery and a crazy club host. A screwed, gangster comedy in a true suburban spirit. What happens if you mix an IQ freed stand up comedian with two tough friends HAKAN and VOLKAN who are the exact opposite? Together with their common friend, JIGAAR, a real looser and very unsuccessful stand up comedian, we can follow the friends’ journey from nothing to everything and about Jigaar’s fall and rise. Jigaar is a man with a heart of gold but with a brain as a 6 year old child who does not hestitate to show his “sharpness” for the children EFE and PELIN.
The comedy movie Jackpot is made by Sweden’s equivalent to Martin Scorsese by the directors Hakan Yilmaz and Volkan Yilmaz and Jackpot is their first feature film. It is interesting to note that Hakan and Volkan have done everything in the film such as the script writting, directing, producing, editing and acted as head actors etc.
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JACKPOT A brilliant debut comedy drama by Hakan Yilmaz & Volkan Yilmaz
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CHAIRMAN BUdDHA An incredible feature documentary by Louyi Tang
Chairman Buddha is about the mythology of Mao Zedong, who many Chinese today believe has been reincarnated as a Buddha. Temples have been built in the countryside, and statues have been re-erected in city squares. Convinced Mao is more powerful than the ancient Indian Buddha, worshippers fall to their knees before his statues. Divergent from other documentaries in Chinese and Western media, Chairman Buddha views Mao Zedong from the eyes of ordinary Chinese and tells the story with their words. The film focuses on today, a time of Mao Zedong without Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong’s worshippers have created a new religion only a few decades after his death. His birthday is celebrated as Chinese Christmas today. The purpose of making this film about Mao Zedong’s worshippers was never about politics. Considering it her destiny, Louyi Tang formed a tight crew and traveled half of China to film Chairman Buddha, a documentary that was greatly influenced by the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tze. After a three-year production, Louyi proudly claims that Chairman Buddha is not just a documentary, but a collaboration of brave souls, warm hearts and open minds.
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The whole process of making this film gave Louyi a chance to reevaluate China’s culture
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and history that she had lived with for many years. One day when she looked at the tears streaming down the serene face of the crying nun, Louyi suddenly became aware that what she really wanted to express in this film is that life is misery. Layers of this meaning are deeply embedded in the film. Chairman Buddha has been nominated for five awards at the 2018 Amsterdam International Filmmaker Festival: Best Original Score, Best Feature Documentary, Best Director of a Feature Documentary, Best Cinematography and the Jury Award.
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BEYOND TRANSPORT An Engaging Documentary By Ched Lohr
Beyond Transport is a multi-cultural investigation of our openness for direct conversation in the personal device era. In this short documentary, first-time filmmaker Ched Lohr travels to each of the continents to interview taxi drivers and other professionals in the transportation industry on the subject. The idea for Beyond Transport developed during a 2015 backpacking trip in Australia when Lohr observed fellow travelers preoccupied with personal devices and less available for conversation. Prior to departing for home, a casual conversation with a taxi driver led to the man sharing details of his legal career prior to his career driving a taxi. Lohr believed connecting these contrasting experiences would be an interesting and timely topic for a documentary, especially interviewing taxi drivers in multiple cultures.
Beyond Transport’s stage includes many alternates beyond the conventional yellow cab including a purple 1950’s Chevrolet in Havana, a limousine in Ho Chi Minh City, and a Bike Taxi in Charleston, SC. The collection of interviews is balanced by spectacular footage of the various cultures during this extensive pursuit. Audiences gain insight on our preferences for communication while passing by public exercise parks in Cambodia, on top of a mountain in Chile, in front of grazing giraffes in Tanzania, and into frigid water beside a host of penguins in an amphibian-like vehicle that transports the small number of travelers making their way onto the glaciers of Antarctica. Lohr calls on taxi drivers, viewing these professionals as a qualified resource to characterize social trends due to the variety of clients who pass through their vehicles. Having a keen intuition is beneficial and many taxi drivers are also master conversationalists. Their expertise is confirmed through interviews conducted in 14 countries during 16 months of filming. The drivers share insight on passenger’s openness for social conversation and how it has changed in the last 5-10 years, as personal devices have become more integral to our lives.
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The score for the documentary is every bit as eclectic as the footage but appropriately fits into the background and reinforces focus on the primary point of the documentary- our dialogue. Beyond addressing the primary objective of this documentary, drivers share their own personal stories on topics ranging from family to love to friendship to struggle. These conversations verify the common threads of life that connect us all. We may not know the future ramifications of distraction from habitually checking our phones but we are reminded of the vital importance of continuing to practice the art of conversation. This documentary’s theme is not to disavow personal devices. Instead, the theory that there is no equal substitute for direct interaction is affirmed. Lohr hopes audiences will consider mindfulness after viewing his film to balance use of technology with an openness and interest to converse with fellow human beings. We all have a story to tell; our stories connect us. Documentary
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Nominated . Best Short Documentary . Best Editing of a Short Documentary . 2018 Amsterdam IFF
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LEND A HAND
2017 - BEST COSTUME DESIGN AWARD American Filmatic Arts Awards, New York 2017 - COSTUME DESIGN GOLD AWARD IIFA - International Independent Film Awards, California
by Raffaella Covino
’Lend a hand’ is a film realized with a very low budget. It started from an idea by Raffaella Covino; that is to make a film in “Umbria”, the wonderful region in the centre of Italy.
- AWARD WINNER 2018 Monthly Edition, January 2018 - BEST FEATURE London Independent Film Awards January 2018 , London
In order to get the plan moving Raffaella’s team have been working for three years. The two local largest video and audio companies: Promovideo and Sound Studio Service said yes to co-producing the film for all the technical side. Firstly, 5,000.00 euros had been collected through crowd funding using the slogan “Please buy now the ticket of the movie-to-be!”
- AWARD OF RECOGNITION Monthly Edition, January 2018 - BEST ACTRESS/ Ilaria Falini Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival January 2018
Next, Raffaella and her team convinced more than 300 people to place their professional skills at their disposal in order to fulfil this great dream for Cinema’s sake The result; “Lend a hand” a sparkling, light, women’s comedy. And now here is the challenge; if you smile twice when you watch this film we will win our bet! As soon as the film was finished, it was selected at the XIV Edition of the Italian Film Festival in Miami, competing with movies including: “Jeeg Robot” and “Do not be bad”, and shortly after that the Italian Film Festival in Atlanta.
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Synopsis: Caterina is a young and well-known psychologist, her life is perfect: love, job, family, friends are all that she wishes. But one day something happens which threatens her happy existence. Her father dies leaving her full of debts owed to her sister Viola who has spent through the family property; a provincial scandal disgraces her reputation and she loses her job and her husband leaves her. For the first time Caterina must start again and begin a new life. A deeply different life from the one she has always known and loved. After an amusing series of events she will discover that her deepest strength is never to stop, lifting her head up once more, trusting and leaning on those people, (such as her friends Ludovica and Sara and her fragile sister Viola ), whom she had always thought she was there to help. CAST & CREW Actors: Caterina - ILARIA FALINI Ludovica - OLGA ROSSI Sara - ROBERTA BISTOCCHI Viola - MARTA PELLEGRINO Franco - FRANCESCO BOLO ROSSINI Chief editor - MICHELE NANI Street singer - DAVID RIONDINO
2017 - BEST COSTUME/WARDROBE DESIGN AWARD International New York Film Festival, New York
Director – RAFFAELLA COVINO Screenplay - RAFFAELLA COVINO, VINCENZO TERLIZZI Producers OGNI FOTOGRAMMA, PROMOVIDEO srl, SOUND STUDIO SERVICE Director of photography - WALTER CIURNELLA Original Soundtrack - DAVID RIONDINO, FRANCESCO BRUNI, MARCO CAPACCIONI Music Editing - SOUND STUDIO SERVICE “Dammi una mano” original song - DAVID RIONDINO Sound Mixing - MARCO CAPACCIONI,ALBERTO BRIZZI Costume Designer - SARA PITTAVINI Set Designer - CATALINA TRIANA,TAMARA MILENKOVIC Poster Design - LUCIANA CIUFFINI, PROMOVIDEO
2017 - BEST FOREIGN COMEDY FEATURE AWARD American Filmatic Arts Awards, New York
The Director is at the moment working on her next movie that will be shooting soon in Perugia, Italy.
- REMI AWARD WINNER 2018 - FEATURE/ FIRST FEATURE WorldFest - Houston International Film & Video Festival – Houston, TX - FINALIST 2018 – NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM CineFesta Italia, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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M R, M S A participatory public artwork which weaves people's lives and experiences into a collective memory.
Where are your memories stored?
Gramercy Empire Productions LLC presents a film by Jake Alexander McAfee Memories Recorded, Memories Stored Director/Writer/Editor Jake Alexander McAfee Cinamatographer Jake Alexander McAfee Artist Judith Modrak Producer Mark Lobene
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All men dream, but not equally . . .
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant Filming Herzog filming . . . A film by Herbert Golder
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LEMON & LETTER
Synopsis Kijima Kaito (grade 5) moved with his family to Ogi-jimah, where his father was originally from, because of his mother’s illness. After the death of his mother, he lived with his father and grandfather. Eventually his father left the island to go back to work as a photographer.
A Short Film by Keiko Umenoki
This was filmed with a focus on the scenery of Ogi Island, found within the Seto Naikai area and with a focus on the people living there. “W&M”, my previous film portrayed the lives of individual women visiting the island. But during the creation of this film I had in mind the children, who’ve moved to the island and their growth and struggles regarding their future.
Yuu Takagi (also grade5), who recently moved to the island, smiles at him in the midst of his loneliness. The two of them grow up together and are now high school students.
My desire is to continue to show these films, both inside and outside of Kagawa, as a means of revitalising the islands of Seto Naikai and Kagawa prefecture.
This is a story of two children who moved to the island, fell in love, and grew up together.
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Cast Makoto Shinada as Kaito Kijima Kyoko Ujihara as Yuu Takagi Yoshiyuki Ito as Denjiro Kijima Akiko Kinouchi as Michiko Takagi Takaki Obayashi as Kaito Kijima’s Child Aoi Kobayashi as Yuu Takagi’s Child Crew Writing & Director Keiko Umenoki Director of Photography Tomoaki Iwakura Editor Takeshi Iwamoto Music Main theme guitar Music [Beyond the sky] by Howdy Music tomy M Ending theme song [Instead of saying good-bye] by Maiko Piano music [Dream diary] by Haruna Okada
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GRACE FURY An artistic tour de force by Laura Carruthers.
Filmmaker-choreographer, Laura Carruthers, leads world-class performing artists in a stunning, feature film memoir that travels the elements of her story on a breathtaking flight of dynamic choreography, cinematography, realization, and resolve. Grace Fury is the brainchild of Laura’s fire and grace, cultivated over years of pioneering in the arts. As a bridge between dance theatre and autobiographical documentary, the film speaks both poetically and candidly to the challenges of building projects for film and stage, outside, between, and across domains – as a woman, shouldering her homage to the Classical and Scottish Highland dance traditions, yet bound to move hearts and minds to a new point of shared calling...of greater freedom and connection.LauraCarruthers.com “...an autobiographical journey through dance, imagery, spoken word and the power of presence that redefines everything you’ve ever expected dance to be in a documentary... Thought provoking and freeing, immensely entertaining and trailblazing, Grace Fury is an absolute must see...” ---- The Independent Critic “I look forward to presenting my latest film, Grace Fury, a very personally meaningful
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endeavor, that speaks from both tradition and experimentation. Although she is fundamentally biographical, revealing my progression in thought and purpose from vulnerable, firsthand exploration, I use symbol, metaphor, and fictional action from my earliest short films not only to enhance the film’s mystery and depth, but to mark my artistic “evolution”…Key elements preserved from my other projects, on stage or in short film - merged with fresh ideas and new footage - give Grace Fury layered, comprehensive form and substantiate her authentic perspective… I hope others will see her full, nuanced being and join me in her message of grace, hope and faith.”GraceFury. com ---- Laura Carruthers
Grace Fury has already moved hearts and minds this year, among film experts and enthusiasts. She premiered and won Best Experimental Feature at the Manhattan Film Festival, received a *Platinum* Remi Award from WorldFestHouston and Best Woman Filmmaker from the World Music and Independent Film Festival, enjoyed her South American premiere, as a Finalist in Brazil, and especially looks forward to her August screenings in both Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
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MEMORIES RECORDED, MEMORIES STORED Directed by Jake Alexander McAfee
Where are your memories stored? With her distinctive, insightful vision, award winning sculptor, Judith Modrak, takes on a new challenge, creating her first interactive art installation. “Memories Recorded, Memories Stored,” is a documentary short which chronicles the creation of Modrak’s “Our Memories”, a participatory artwork which weaves people’s lives and experiences into a collective memory. The film is nominated in two categories at this year’s Amsterdam International Film Festival, Best Short Documentary and the Jury Award. Last year, it won “Best Documentary Short for Science and Education 2017” at the 6th Annual Madrid International Film Festival, after premiering at the Queens World Film Festival in March 2017. The film follows Modrak as she creates an outdoor installation for the 9th annual Governors Island Art Fair in New York.
“My vision with the film was to highlight Judith’s style and artistic aesthetic.” Director Jake McAfee says, “more importantly, I wanted to capture Judith’s drive and spirit as an artist and her journey to create ‘Our Memories.’ ”
Recognizing the need to record one’s personal experience, these neuron-inspired sculptures are, at first, hollow. The idea is for a person to recall a powerful memory, and then share it by depositing a memory stone in a sculpture. Memories are color coded into six primary emotive categories based on Plutchik’s color wheel: joy, anger, love, sadness, fear and surprise.
For Modrak, the journey continues. In April, new “Our Memories” sculptures made an appearance at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park in New York City. Today, the sculptures can be seen in Thomas Paine Park in lower Manhattan where they remain until April 2019. Modrak explains “the larger vision is to have hundreds of new memory sculptures filled with thousands of experiences from people all over the globe – connecting us to our core and to one another.”
The sculptures take on the colors of the collective “memories” and transform as more memories are stored. Once filled, the sculptures are permanently sealed.
“Memories Recorded Memories Stored” screens on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 2:05pm at the NH Amsterdam Hotel, Screening Room 2.
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VISITING TANK By Beth Warshafsky and Gerry Hemingway
Director’s statement: “‘The Visiting Tank’ for string quartet and sampler was composed in a semi-narrative form. The musical work (commissioned in 1999) was inspired by an imagined child’s perspective on war in the setting of the dissolution of former Yugoslavia. In 2010 I created a visual projection which was part of a performance at the Kleintheatre, Luzern, Switzerland. It became clear in the development of this visual counterpart to the pre-existing musical content that literal references suggested in the “story” could be transformed in such a way that abstraction could co-exist with concrete pictorial content. After the performance, I developed the piece as a stand-alone film. This was shown at the 9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival in Seoul, The BITT Festival, 3 Artang Gallery, Seoul, Korea and Screen Compositions 7, Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY. In 2017 I decided to revisit the piece. I began revising some of the composition and painterly elements while keeping the structure the same. Though much of the original source material came from Bosnia, it is integrated in a textural way which veers on the edge of abstraction. Images are driven by movement and woven with abstract content, creating form in a manner analogous to sound composition. In this sense the piece is a feeling response to loss.”
Beth Warshafsky The collaborative work of visual artist Beth Warshafsky and percussionist/sound artist Gerry Hemingway began in the early 90’s. Recently, their work has evolved to include real-time interactive performance. Their goal has been to create a flexible environment where visual art is presented dynamically with music, with each influencing the other. Beth weaves a real-time multilayered lyrical and expressive canvas that draws from precomposed imagery and live video input as well as using the music itself as one of her paintbrushes. The process to refine each work is decidedly patient, often evolving over many performances, documentations and evaluations. The live interactive material changes continuously as it explores through improvisation the possibilities of poetic expression through the interweaving of sound and image. Experimental
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THE LIVING SOUL A script by Mitchell Gibson
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Dr. Mitchell Gibson was Chief Resident in Psychiatry at a large inner city medical center. One day, while meditating in his apartment, a mysterious being appeared and changed his life. Gibson was faced with the dilemma of interacting with a highly intelligent being who was not of this dimension. The predicament threatened to dramatically alter his career, his relationships, and his ability to function as a doctor. Soon, Mitchell Gibson would embark upon a life and death struggle to save the life of a young woman who desperately wanted to kill herself. The Living Soul is an award winning script that has been an official selection in nine film festivals. The script won a finalist position in the Austin Revolution Film Festival and the Spirit Quest Film Festival. The Living Soul Script won Best Feature Script in the European Film Festival and Best Script in The Calcutta Cult Film Festival. Dr. Mitchell Gibson and Kathy Haynes Gibson have worked together as spiritual teachers for more than fifteen years. Together they have hosted workshops all over the world. They have also consulted for Fortune 500 companies, celebrities, business professionals, spiritual leaders, and many other individuals all over the globe.
They host a nationally syndicated weekly radio show on KCAA radio called The Mitch and Kathy Show. They are the first spiritual teachers to speak at Carnegie Hall since Paramahansa Yogananda did so in 1926 Mitchell Gibson is a physician, writer and film-maker who has created over 200 short films and scripts. He now seeks to fund his projects and move into film making full time. Kathy Gibson is a writer, corporate executive,
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and film-maker. Together they created a successful publishing company and now they have branched out into filmmaking. They have been married for 15 years and have two chlldren. Their works focus on spirituality and consciousness. Their films bridge the concepts of entertainment and though provoking subject matter. SCRIPT
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SAFE Writer, Producer, Director Tim Earnheart’s 8-minute Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi short film, ‘SAFE’ (winner of Best Director, Best Thriller and Best Horror at the New York Film Awards), is a thrill-ride about a woman adopting a young girl into her family who suddenly gets swept up into a world of mayhem as three masked intruders break into her home to retrieve an item from her safe. But what the intruders get is much more than they bargained for.
Since the house slept 22 people, the cast and crew spent the weekend at the house to be more efficient with the filming days. After filming was completed, Earnheart usually spends 3 months on the post-production work. With ‘SAFE’, he spent 20-hour days, 7 days a week, for 3 weeks straight assembling the edit, sound mix, 3D/VFX, trailer, and marketing/ poster designs by himself. “It was a truncated process from the usual because deadlines were quickly approaching for film festivals I wanted ‘SAFE’ entered in to,” says Earnheart.
Blending elements of a home invasion thriller, horror and sci-fi – as well as keeping the film grounded in reality -was a delicate balance for Earnheart. “It’s always tricky when blending genres. You don’t want your film to have an identity crisis on what it is.To me, ‘SAFE’ is a thriller at heart,” explains Earnheart. “My job is to entertain an audience, first and foremost. That’s why I like blending genres -- to keep the audience off-balance so they hopefully don’t see the ending coming.”
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The process paid off, with ‘SAFE’ having won awards not only from the New York Film Awards, but also from the Los Angeles Film Awards (Best Thriller), LA Shorts Awards (Best Horror), and 15 others as well. In all, ‘SAFE’ has been selected into over three dozen film festivals worldwide in 2018 so far.
Building relentless tension throughout, with minimal dialogue, isn’t an easy task to accomplish. Earnheart relied on his go-to cinematographer, Matt Fleming (‘Conduit’), to shoot the film on his RED camera with all of his camera and lighting equipment at their disposal.
“I’m always humbled and honored to have my short films just be selected into film festivals. Being nominated or winning anything for ‘SAFE’ has been truly exciting and a surreal experience,” says Earnheart.
“Matt and I pre-planned everything about 3 months in advance for the 3-day shoot of ‘SAFE’. I drew a schematic of the house and devised a shot list, with lighting/camera equipment we were using for every shot. There’s no guess work on what shots we need, how we shoot them, or how will the VFX fit into the shot in post -- it’s just execution at that point. We’ve discussed everything months beforehand. Matt is the best collaborator I’ve ever worked with in my films,” says Earnheart.
After festival runs, all of Earnheart’s recent short films, ‘Conduit,’ ‘Working with Damian,’ ‘180,’ and ‘180: Chapter 2’ have been released through horror icon Eli Roth’s online network, Crypt TV. Earnheart’s been represented by agents and managers in Hollywood for filmmaking and had 3 feature screenplays optioned over the years.Currently, he’s working on another short film, and has a feature script he’s excited to get off the ground to direct himself that blends elements of action, horror and sci-fi.
On the other side of the camera, the cast includes Nadine Nagamatsu as the Woman (nominated for Best Actress in a short film for ‘SAFE’ at PIFF 2018), with other acclaimed actors including S. Joe Downing, Ayuba Audu and Reeve Barceloux rounding out the cast of the masked intruders. The adopted daughter is played by Corrie Fleming -- the daughter of cinematographer Matt Fleming. “We cast Corrie as a demon girl in my last horror short, ‘Conduit’. She did such a fantastic job I wanted to use her again. She’s such a great and easy actress to work with,” explains Earnheart. With everything in place, Earnheart rented out a 10,000 sq ft mansion on the lake in Seattle, WA (USA) to shoot for 3 days.
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THERE WAS ONCE A CAR/Megha - A Song of Silence With two films in competition at The Amsterdam International Film Festival, here we go behind the scenes to discover how the founder Neeru Khera of the “The Creative Gypsy” came to be and her plans for the future. Delhi based film and entertainment buff Neeru Khera created a unique production house and YouTube channel called “The Creative Gypsy”. The company believes in creativity, uniqueness and above all entertainment . Neeru entered the field of entertainment at the young age of 8 as an actor and continued doing theatre for a long time, but turned to film making at a much later stage. Her passion for cinema led her to launch a small company. But what started of as a small company soon started taking enormous strides and did some extraordinary work in a short while. It believes in creating entertaining content along with a strong social message… It’s our way of giving back something to society and what better medium than films to do it.
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“Our company has several firsts to our credit. We have produced India’s first LGBTQ web series, six of our short films were shown as a series called Through The Lens on national TV, All About Sec 377 was shown as a feature as well as a series; again the first time LGBTQ was shown on television. The short film Megha..A Song of Silence was made to promote Cochlear implants for children and we got huge support from doctors and NGO’s. The aesthetically shot music video Ode To Ganges is sung by the well known Akriti Kakar and is available on Times Music . It stresses on keeping our holiest river clean in a musical way. Our latest 3 min short Deepanshi…A Ray of Light is being launched at the annual conference of The Eye Bank Foundation of India and will be shared with thousands of doctors at their clinics and with numerous social organisations with Veteran Bollywood actress Sushma Seth playing the lead in it. Also, ready for release is short documentary Samarpan..The Light Within . It shows the devotion of a lady to her Guru, Mauni Baba who remained silent for more than 50 years and lived till the age of 108 years. We have just finished shooting for Command & I Shall Obey our short film on psychosis. This is Neeru’s first directorial venture and it stars the famous Bollywood actor Satyakam Anand and is very different from our earlier work. It is a dark film based on a true case study and we hope it does well on the festival circuit.
All of our short films have won various awards at film festivals in India as well as around the world . They have been selected at Nice, Berlin, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, CapeFear,Los Angeles, Cyprus, Indonesia, Chile, Peru, Buffalo, Jaipur, Delhi, Bangalore, Allahbad, Kolkatta , Mumbai and many more.
Our web series All About Sec 377 is set to cross 2 million views very soon and it is our constant endeavor to keep creating and posting entertaining content on it to raise our subscriber base and keep them coming back to our channel for meaningful as well as entertaining cinema.
Akkad Bakkad and Siri..The Living Scarecrow won awards at two of the most prestigious Indian festivals; Dada Saheb Phalke and Filmfare awards respectively and 3 of our films, An Untold Story of Paperboats, Aadha Chand Tum Rakhlo and Siri The Living Scarecrow have been selected for the Short Film Corner at CANNES and made us all very proud.
We are also privileged to have signed contracts with international platforms Shorts TV and Shami Media to showcase our films and make them available worldwide. In addition our films will also be available on Sony Liv and Hungama in India . It is indeed a great honour for us!
Our films have a strong Indian flavor and music plays an important role in them. They have been shot at various locations in India and are extremely colorful. In a few years we have made about 15 short films, a few documentaries, music videos, commercials and web series. Our team comprises of young talents in the field of script and screenplay writing, cinematography, music, direction and editing. All are passionate about their work and are eager to do more including more work of quality. Also participating in prestigious festivals like Cannes and Film Fest International’s has given The Creative Gypsy a certain stature as well as connected us with film professionals from all around the world. This has given us the opportunity to form collaborations and we are looking forward to international projects in the near future. This will give our company a huge boost and give us visibility in various international forums and festivals. Love stories, a satire and a thriller are genres we haven’t explored and this is what we want to try next, we are on the lookout for good scripts on these subjects and hope to get something special soon. Our YouTube channel has around fifty thousand subscribers and the numbers are increasing day by day.
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But this is no time to rest on our laurels but to forge ahead. Having gained confidence and experience it is time to move ahead to feature films, we want to make meaningful cinema, which we will be proud of. Cinema has a universal language and it is the most important visual media today which not only tells stories but also exposes reality. It is the most effective medium for telling your story which can reach vast audiences all around the world. We want our story to reach all corners of the globe. To tell a story on a universal topic. According to us what makes a great film is an extraordinary script and we are on the look out for that special story and screenplay. Our writers are working on many subjects but we are also open to producing scripts written by others. We have always encouraged and promoted new talent. Many of our projects have first time directors at the helm and they have done a commendable job. Not only do they have a fresh approach, they also are extremely hard working. Due to our visibility on various international platforms we are now being invited by various organisations to make films for them. We have recently been approached by a rehab organization from Dublin to make a film on drug addiction for them. We are also in talks with state governments to promote films in the local languages and television is another area that we are targeting.
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Corporates are increasingly using web series to showcase their products on the net and we are working with companies like Hitachi and Fenesta for the same. The next year promises to be extremely busy and we are looking forward to doing some excellent work and all this would not have been possible without the support of my husband Naveen Khera and my children Radhika, Priyanka & Dhruv. I appreciate all the hard work put in by our team.…we could not have reached where we are without their valuable contribution. And, to end a very big thank you is extended to all at Film Fest International who have always been promoting and supporting new talent. The initial push is so very important without which many new companies are not able to make it big.
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All of us at The Creative Gypsy are looking forward to this new and exciting phase of our career which will help many of us to soar upwards. One cannot predict what lies ahead but we are determined to do our best, undeterred by obstacles which will surely confront us in this journey. Honesty and perseverance will take us far and hopefully we will do a successful job. It will be a dream come true to see our feature films on the silver screen in theatres and we are working hard to make it come true. Hopefully next year we will be at one of your festivals with a feature film…we always look forward to them.” Wish us luck !! Neeru Khera
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FLYING ON THE WINGS OF TIME CHAPTER ONE: NOW AND THEN With four films in competition at the Amsterdam International Film Festival, “Now Boarding 2”, “The Muse is the Mountain”, “Four Journeys” and her latest film – a short documentary from her Buenos Aires Trilogy - “Flying on the Wings of Time”, Dr Teresa Mular shows once again her remarkable talent for filmmaking and in particular how she can create comical short narratives to serious and moving documentaries.
This is a personal journey which describes how the architecture and the view of the city of Buenos Aires, where I was born, raised and educated, have changed the landscape of the neighborhood where I lived and I knew so well . ‘Now and Then’ narrates the changes that have occurred between the past ( 40 years ago ) and the present. Memories that are intertwined with landscapes where I spent my childhood and teenage years. Wandering and wondering through the eyes of the filmmaker, who appears on and off, almost as a ghost throughout the project. Recollections of a time that has passed and has left great memories.
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Director Statement Coming to terms with one’s past and present takes much more than “ guts “. Thus, to decide and shoot a documentary about the place where you grow up, especially after several decades of being absent from that very place you once knew so well has been a complex process. I believe that anyone who has left his/her own hometown, be that in the same country of birth or as an emigrant, can experience a connection to what was left, what has been replaced and the passage of time in general terms and in a most intimate personal path as well.
Director Biography - Teresa Mular Dr. Teresa Mular was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was raised and educated there, completing her University studies and graduating as a Medical Doctor at age 23. Parallel to that she studied piano and voice at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires. As a young person she developed a lifelong passion for classical music and the arts. She moved to New York, to further her training at Downstate Medical Center, State University of New YorkKings County Hospital, in Brooklyn. She became an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology years later at the same institution and had a long career as a physician and teacher. Currently she has been President of the New York Gynecological Society (New York city) from 2014 to 2015. She has
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received several awards for her teaching activities from Stony Brook University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Although geographically far from her native town, she continued to visit her family in Buenos Aires and remained in close contact with her beloved homeland throughout the years. She developed a strong interest in creative photography, which led to obtaining various awards at diverse Long Island, New York photo competitions. She is fluent in Italian (which she studied in Florence starting in 2006) and it is in Italy, where she found the germinating seed for making her first documentary about the land that witnessed her birth. She completed this work in 2011, which is a four-part documentary that pays homage to the various artistic complexities and cultural life of Buenos Aires, under the title “ Flying on
the Wings of Time “ Volando en las Alas del Tiempo”. This documentary (“ Flying on the Wings of Time”) was shown at the XXXIV International Women Film Festival of Florence, Italy, to great acclaim in December of 2012 and also at the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre in April of 2012. The Argentinean Cultural Center showed it in June of the same year in Long Beach, New York. The same film received a Silver Award in the Short Film Category, awarded by the Oregon Film festival in November of 2012. It has been screened at the Lucerne International Festival (Switzerland) and shown in Lucerne in October of 2014. She completed another documentary entitled “ The Muse is the Mountain”, which deals with the life, struggles and achievements of a group of artisan women in the mountainous regions of Costa Rica.
Its premiere was held on May 6th, 2014 at Instituto Cervantes of New York. It was selected for screening in various festivals around the world, including the International Film Festival in Jakarta (2014), Indonesia, being awarded with a Silver nomination in the Director category and a Gold nomination in Documentary and it was selected as Best Director of a Short Documentary at the Milan International Film Festival (Italy) 2015, and an Excellence Award at the Dada Saheb Film Festival in India (2015). It was also an official selection at the Costa Rica International Film Festival of Peace with the Earth (2014) and at the Helios Film Festival, Cincinnati, USA (2015) and nominated in the categories of a) Scientific and Educational Award and b) best director at the Milan International
Filmmaker Festival in November 2015. It was nominated for best Foreign Language Documentary at the Madrid International Film Festival 2016. Her film “ Four Journeys “ was completed in June 2016. It is a documentary about immigrant Latin American women now working in New York and who have struggled in various ways since arriving as newcomers to New York, but are now successful in their own careers and private lives. It has been officially selected, nominated and awarded ad various film festivals at a national and international level. thmular@optonline.net Documentary
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CHAPTER ONE: NOW AND THEN A Short Documentary by Dr Teresa Mular MD
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HORSE UP A TREE
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claim with Beau as equal partner. Beau won’t be needing that new job after all.
Pinnacle Film Awards - Platinum Jaipur, India, Internat F/F - Finalist
Three horses appear on a nearby butte. Flanked by the mare and colt, the black stallion rears up high. Realizing the stallion is going to be fine, Katy waves and Beau holds his pirate hat to his heart, as the three horses lope away together. HORSE UP A TREE has won many awards and accolades
Nice, France, Internat F/F - Best script nomination
Harlem International Film/Fest - 1 of 6 finalists
Rome Indep Prisma Awards - 1st Place - Best Feature Screenplay
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Hollywood Film Competition - Platinum Firefly Film Comp - 1st Place
Present day.
NYC Indie Film Awards - Silver
Under a waterfall, Captain Beau, 65, a black man with a peg leg, soaps up, singing “Rule, Britannia.” He unsheathes his imaginary sword, vanquishes his imaginary foes, counts fifteen men on a dead man’s chest.
Snowdance Film Awards - 1st Place
Coverage from Emerging Screenwriters - “... a brilliant script... a wonderfully original story “and “... a marvelous story... the best kind of family-friendly movie... easy to see as the next Pixar or Aardman film.”
A script by Terry Lynam
Mindfield F/F - Gold European Indep Film Award - Platinum
We Screenplay Diverse Voices - Semi-finalist Kiev, Ukraine, Internat F/F - Finalist (pending) Amsterdam Internat F/F - Finalist (pending)
A “Highly Recommend” from Paul W. Cooper - Little House on the Prairie, 3 Emmys, Writers Guild Award.
Beau’s lost a leg, and command of his pirate ship, but not his zest. Retired from plundering, Beau and his talkative, cranky, Parrot live in Montana, searching for gold. They don’t find much. One day, a frantic mare and colt lead Beau to a magnificent black stallion high up a tree. No telling how he got there. Nor how to get him down.
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Seeking help in town, Beau sails across the prairie on his pirate ship rigged with sails and wheels. The pirate flag - the fearsome “Jolly Roger” - flapping from the highest mast. Townsfolk just laugh at that crazy old pirate. That’s okay, Beau never did like horses anyway. But soon, he’s fighting off vultures, wolves, a bear. And thirty feet up a tree, stroking a horse during a fierce thunderstorm. Beau bonds with a spunky ally, Katy, 11, but all their efforts fail. Can’t get the horse down. Always fretting about money and healthcare in his old age, Beau finally lands the perfect job. All his worries over. As Beau sails his ship to the new job, he reminisces on times his crew depended on him in perilous times. In colorful flashbacks, pirate Captain Beau swordfights Royal Dragoons, sails through storms, outwits the navies of Britain, France, and Spain. The scourge of four oceans and seven seas, he was. Beau realizes it’s now the stouthearted stallion depending on him. Beau turns the rudder, sails toward the horse. Parrot scolds him he’ll lose his dream job, but Beau is determined. Beau’s dangerous new plan works - he and Katy get the horse to the ground. The stallion staggers off with the mare and colt. But it seems the stallion won’t survive his ordeal. That night, Beau’s old pal reveals he’s found a mother lode of gold and filed his lynamup@comcast.net
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SOPHIA LAZZATI
“When Sophia leaves her violent husband, new problems arise as she regains fortitude and her daughter encounters divided loyalties.” Film The Magazine were lucky enough to have a Q & A with Niav Padelis – the talented filmmaker behind this award winning feature. SOPHIA LAZZATI HAS A RAW AND CLAUSTROPHOBIC FEEL WAS THIS INTENTIONAL? Yes, I wanted to concentrate on the content and make that the main focus. The style suits the theme; domestic violence is disturbing and raw. The audience will experience the same claustrophobic feel and some may find it too intense, but hopefully at the end they are moved or made to think about the subject and the characters. THERE ARE LOTS OF FILMS ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HOW DID YOU APPROACH THIS ISSUE? Many of these films are set in impoverished households where alcohol is the contributory factor. I wanted to look at other motives and show that anyone can be affected regardless of status. Also, I didn’t want to focus too much on the violent event, but rather the consequences upon the family as they try to move on.
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WHY CHOSE THIS SUBJECT? This subject is universal; it happens in every society and most audiences would be able to relate to it. Women’s issues are at the forefront of people’s minds currently so it is an auspicious time to add to the debate. TONY LAZZATI SEEMS TOO NICE TO BE AN ABUSIVE MAN. That is the point; abusive men are too often portrayed as one dimensional evil characters. In reality they can still be conventional in other aspects of their lives and that’s how they get away with it! Tony is a loving father and he holds down a good job, but behind closed doors he is mentally and physically abusive to his wife. He is jealous of her success and doesn’t know how to handle it.
WOULD SOPHIA REALLY HAVE SUCH A KOOKY FRIEND LIKE MAGENTA? Magenta is the perfect antidote for Sophia’s serious nature. She is artistic and unconventional and brings some much needed fun into Sophia’s life. Likewise, Sophia helps to stabilise Magenta, who could escape from reality completely if left alone. I feel sometimes friends provide the missing part in our character and complete us. WHY DOESN’T TONY’S FRIEND CHALLENGE HIM MORE ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOUR? Sandy finds it difficult to equate Sophia’s injury with his dear friend; he has only ever seen Tony behave in an acceptable manner with Sophia. Fear of losing the friendship is also a concern. In a way he colludes with Tony’s behaviour by not challenging it. THE FILM IS PEPPERED WITH HUMOUR, THAT’S QUITE UNUSUAL GIVEN THE SUBJECT MATTER. I believe comedy and pathos are so intrinsically linked, even in our darkest times something funny can happen. Also, the viewer needs lighter moments to break up the intensity of the drama. However, introducing humour into a serious drama is a very delicate balance and I hope we got the balance right.
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WHAT CHALLENGES DID YOU FACE MAKING THIS FILM? The biggest challenge was the tiny budget of £15,000 which is less than many people have for making a short. However, constraints force you to become more creative to achieve your goal. In the site flat, two of the rooms became five different locations i.e. the lounge became two lounges and a dining room; and the bedroom doubled up as a doctor’s surgery. We did this by moving furniture, pictures and props to create distinct backdrops. We made sure all the cast and crew were paid and well fed, but we managed to negotiate excellent deals on the locations to remain on budget. WHAT OTHER PROJECTS ARE YOU WORKING ON? We have two shorts on the festival circuit, ‘Yearning’ and ‘Top Table’. ‘Yearning’ is about a couple who develop intense desires for different goals forcing them to reassess their relationship. Our comedy short ‘Top Table’ is screening in Amsterdam and is a feel good film about a man using humour to quell his girlfriend’s fury. We are currently filming ‘Tokyo Tales’ a comedy short set in Japan, the Japanese segment is complete and we plan to finish the London segment in the Autumn. Our second feature film ‘Murder by the Sea’ a comedy/mystery, is in pre-production, we hope to begin filming next year. Drama
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That’s Opportunity Knocking Writer/Director Charles Pelletier
Comedy based on a true story wins 12 film festival awards! “The keen ensemble performances make this funny production hilarious.” Huffington Post Writer/Director Charles Pelletier got the idea for the script “That’s Opportunity Knocking” by an anecdote told by one of the actors, Thomas Anawalt, at a bar after a play in which they were both involved at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Thomas had been living in New York, and one night got home with his roommate, and went to bed, only to find the next morning that he had been robbed, and the burglars had been in the apartment the whole time they had been home. Hiding. Somewhere. The true story became a comedic “tall tale” in which two wanna-be thugs attempt to rob an apartment; everything goes awry when the owners show up early for a little late-night sex. Toss in the third wheel roommate, fresh out of the mental hospital and comedy was created. “Brilliant writing that is perfectly performed by an extremely strong cast.” Movie-Blogger.com
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Pasolini and the Third Generation
The story begins with the first encounter of Tarzanetto and his friends with Pasolini at the “Prato delle Tavolette” and continues up to his adventures in Cinema and as a blacksmith and a special effects master. Pasolini was a teacher, a writer, a poet and a director, and also above all an ironic, strong man, a master of martial arts, a talented footballer, a lover of good food and a very generous man. Tarzanetto performs shows, writes books and holds conferences for young students. Pasolini’s art, thought and life are the common denominator of Tarzanetto’s work as a social animator. The drawings in the movie were made by Alba Kia.
My philosophy is to cast the right people, and stay out of their way. The state an actor is in, when he or she is acting well, is vulnerable. I believe great actors will eventually find their way, if given a safe space and a morsel of guidance, but that journey is largely an internal one. Comedy
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- Best Editing of a Feature Documentary, - Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary, - Best Foreign Language Documentary for Alberto De Venezia, Ipnotica Produzioni.
A documentary film by Andrea Natale
Paolo Pilati “Tarzanetto” is the protagonist of the documentary “Pasolini and The Third Generation” (originally title “Pasolini e la Terza Generazione”.) He is one of boys who inspired Pasolini’s book “Ragazzi di Vita” and this in turn became the film was inspired by the book “Pasolini and the Third Generation” written by Tarzanetto and Irene Dini.
Since she owned her own studio, we were able to have many rehearsals over a period of weeks, on the set, and find the characters, in the way you would direct a play.
The director recently won many awards. In the last edition of The London IFF, his short film “Journey notes” won the Award for Best Lead Actor in a Foreign Language Film. In December, it also won the Best Short Story Award at the American Filmatic Arts Awards in New York. His new film won the Best Trailer award at the Around International Film Festival Paris in October 2017 and has three nominations at The International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema London 2018.
It also has three nomination at The International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Amsterdam 2018: - Jury Award for Alberto De Venezia, - Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary, - Best Cinematography in a Feature Documentary for Enrico Manfredi Frattarelli. Currently, Andrea Natale is working with the journalist Raffaele Panico on all new historic documentary projects.
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THIS PAGE FEATURES ONE OF ALBA KIA’S ANIMATIONS FOR THE FILM & THE “MENESTRELLO DELL’ANIMA”, ONE OF THE MANY CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THE DOCUMENTARY.
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Director Charles Pelletier’s notes: I was anxious to write a project for some of the very gifted actors I had worked with at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (C. Stephen Foster, Charlotte Gulezian, Moronai Kanekoa, Satchel Andre and Thomas Anawalt), mostly recent graduates of the USC MFA Acting program. Cynthia Webster read the script and was immediately excited about producing it. As a cinematographer, she had won two Emmy’s, so when she agreed to be the DP, it was a perfect scenario for me, as a first-time film director.
bloc central un film de michel finazzi
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The Gaelic Curse A Feature Film By Brian Walsh & Edwina Forkin
Two ordinary young men are the recipients of an ancient Gaelic Curse handed down through the centuries. Bailey O Farrell with a hump on his back that moves around and Paddy O Reilly who has a leg that has a life of its own. Neither are accepted like regular people. They find each other over the internet and agree to get together with the intention of breaking the curse. Bailey’s parents have already turned their back on their son and left Los Angeles abandoning him and have returned to their native Cara village in Ireland. Despite his scary hump Bailey has I.T. credentials and wins a trip to England and agrees to come to Ireland to Paddy the Limp O Reilly to try and break the curse. The parents are unaware that their son has arrived in Cara!
Through a series of unusual events, characters, twists and turns and a little supernatural intrigue we follow the journey of the two boys. The story all the while is told in real time with light hearted humour as the boys encounter true love for the first time in their lives with two strong women who can see past their disabilities and awkwardness. Bailey and Limps plight holds a mirror up to the society they find themselves in that are embarrassed by them. Each finds true love and the curse is broken. We are left thinking about the messages running throughout the tale and perhaps are unaware we are left analyzing our own perception of people who are different to us!
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BLOC CENTRAL A feature length movie by Michel Finazzi
SYNOPSIS: Daniel Ruchat has just started work as a prison officer. P. B., charged with attempted murder, has been transferred to the small Lausanne prison Bois-Mermet. As days go by, both discover their new environment. And as their paths cross, the viewer is taken through the twists and turns of life inside the prison.
In his first full-length fiction film, Michel Finazzi depicts life in a Swiss prison. This feature film, closely based on reality, reveals various aspects of life inside prison and depicts the people who live and work there, from inmate to director, from social worker to supervisor. It is well-documented because the film-maker worked for 16 years in two regional prisons and consequently has in-depth insider knowledge of what prisons are like. With great precision, he covers practically every detail of prison life. It is also fiction, because the director has www.michelfinazzi.com
“Bride Price VS Democracy” A Film by Reza Rahimi
On Friday 17th of August 2018, the film Bride Price VS Democracy will be screened at the Amsterdam International Film Festival. With 3 Nominations; Best Director, Best lead actress and Best Edit. Here Film The Magazine chatted to the director, producer and scriptwriter Reza Rahimi to find out more about integration, traditions and burnout. “I came to the idea about the film about six years ago and started writing the script with a well-known Iranian writer (Amir Abbas Payam). When it was done after about two years, I sent the script to different resource people in the theatre and film industry and received a great response. Then I realized it was a good idea, but I had no money for the film, “said Reza Rahimi. Through his job “Studiefrämjandet” (Government culture institute), Reza had contact with many associations that are or have been active in both Swedish and foreign film industries, and began to believe that the film project could become a reality. The film deals with the phenomenon Bride Price. A kind of dowry sealed by a contract between the groom and the bride before the marriage, giving the bride the right to at
Winner Award (June 2018/best narrative feature) by the Calcutta International Film Cult Festival
distilled numerous anecdotes and life stories into a sensitively-crafted story that captures the attention from start to finish. Michel Finazzi does not dwell on the controversial issues surrounding prisons, preferring instead to turn his attention to the human beings who can be found there, both inside and outside the cells. His carefully composed portraits are moving in their humanity. And the spectator discovers that the microcosm of the prison is a reflection of society as a whole, with its norms and codes and comical situations. Drama
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any time receive the agreed amount of the contract. The movie is based on a real case by the Gothenburg District Court from 2010 and the film was careful to point out that despite the fact that the film lists some sensitive topics that one can have different opinions about, it is important that the film did not take a position on the matter. “We wanted to be independent and neither politically and religiously and the film only shows a culture clash in Sweden. Also, it has been important to have many reference of people who have reviewed the content from different angles. Among other things, we have had the help of Dr. Farhang Holakouee, a psychologist in Beverly Hills who works with counseling for just married couples, families and children. It’s a low budget movie in collaboration with professional filmmakers and actors and the uniqueness of this project is that the movie was recorded only on 12 recording days! And, I have done almost everything myself! I have edited the movie and made some of the music and the sound myself too.” says Reza. All in all, Reza was burnt out and ended up in depression as he slowly but surely had to start worked towards the completion of the film. Bride Price VS Democracy was selected at various international film festivals around the world and won the Best Leader Actress Award at the Nice International Film Festival 2018. Drama
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SLEIGH MY NAME A Darkly Comic Short Written By Will Turner Roden and Directed By David Ince
December 2017, and writer/producer/ actor Will Turner Roden was getting into the festive spirit by watching his favourite violent, drug fuelled tv show. Will wondered: what do violent criminals do at Christmas? Do thieves and vagabonds still put up their Christmas trees? Are punches thrown over who gets to put the star on top? Is the age-old dilemma: ‘Home Alone’ 1 or 2, settled by a fight to the death? Several rewrites of some very dubious rhyming later, Will’s screenplay was ready to shoot.
Kim Hardy
William Turner Roden
The Boss
The Boy
SLEIGH MY NAME starring WILLIAM TURNER RODEN KATIE ANN DOLLING KIM HARDY and LENNY LOVE sound recording, sound design and music JONATHAN VINCENT make-up & hair design REBECCA TAYLOR assistant director MICHELLE WRAIGHT lighting KIM HARDY written by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN produced by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN and DAVID INCE cinematography, edited and directed by DAVID INCE
SLEIGH MY NAME starring WILLIAM TURNER RODEN KATIE ANN DOLLING KIM HARDY and LENNY LOVE sound recording, sound design and music JONATHAN VINCENT make-up & hair design REBECCA TAYLOR assistant director MICHELLE WRAIGHT lighting KIM HARDY written by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN produced by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN and DAVID INCE cinematography, edited and directed by DAVID INCE
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Lenny Love
The Brains
The Bruiser
SLEIGH MY NAME starring WILLIAM TURNER RODEN KATIE ANN DOLLING KIM HARDY and LENNY LOVE sound recording, sound design and music JONATHAN VINCENT make-up & hair design REBECCA TAYLOR assistant director MICHELLE WRAIGHT lighting KIM HARDY written by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN produced by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN and DAVID INCE cinematography, edited and directed by DAVID INCE
SLEIGH MY NAME starring WILLIAM TURNER RODEN KATIE ANN DOLLING KIM HARDY and LENNY LOVE sound recording, sound design and music JONATHAN VINCENT make-up & hair design REBECCA TAYLOR assistant director MICHELLE WRAIGHT lighting KIM HARDY written by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN produced by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN and DAVID INCE cinematography, edited and directed by DAVID INCE
40 hours in three days, 1 derelict and haunted factory, and a cast and crew of just 10 people, working flat out with only one goal: to capture on-screen the bizarre and bonkers visual ode to the darker side of Christmas that is Sleigh My Name.
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Written entirely in rhyme like a Christmas carol and played for laughs and entertainment, Sleigh My Name is a comic mash-up between a Christmas movie and ‘Breaking Bad’, full of inventive ideas and irreverent humour. But be warned! As the narrator says: ‘A Christmas Fable is not what you’ll hear, brutal and cold, there’s reason to fear…Screams of delight turn to screams filled with fright, as darkness comes creeping and drowns out the light…’ Christmas will never be the same again! William Turner Roden
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Lenny Love
A Christmas Fable is not what you’ll hear...
SLEIGH MY NAME starring WILLIAM TURNER RODEN KATIE ANN DOLLING KIM HARDY and LENNY LOVE sound recording, sound design and music JONATHAN VINCENT make-up & hair design REBECCA TAYLOR assistant director MICHELLE WRAIGHT lighting KIM HARDY written by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN produced by WILLIAM TURNER RODEN and DAVID INCE cinematography, edited and directed by DAVID INCE
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A Christmas Fable is not what you’ll hear...
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Shomshuklla Das Writer, Director, Producer, Actress...Auteur With three films in competition in Amsterdam: “White Bee”, “Mixed Medium” & Flowers & A Lap of Rose”, here we look at Shomshuklla’s background to find out a little more about this talented, driven and stylish filmmaker.
2006 was the year of growth for Shomshuklla. She was at the peak of directing whilst staging her plays, under the banner of Kali Theatre in India with performances across the country. That was the year too, for her to make the huge decision of changing her profession from dramatist to a filmmaker. Thus, followed years of self-training, learning the nuances of film making. Having never been to film school, Shomshuklla is self taught with an intense filming regime. In 2012 all her training culminated in her directorial debut, “Sandcastle”, the story of the journey of a woman, to find who she is.
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Film festivals began recognising her work and other filmmakers started identifying with her story, with critics comparing her style to the film making to Terence Mallick and awards across the globe began pouring in. For her there is no looking back. She realised this is her journey, to be a filmmaker. The years following “Sandcastle” were hectic as she started writing more scripts and shooting more films. There was no stopping her. “Chhuti aar picnic (picnic)” a musical film was then shot followed by “Hopscotch”, a psychological horror, where she expressed that she was highly influenced by Polanski & “Tiktok” soon followed. She started creating her own style, which was both experimental and unique. Her, poetic film, “Flowers and a lap of rose” won the Legend award at a US Festival and an award was created in her name. Her unique style of film making evoked enthusiasm for research by the University of Maryland, which is to emphasise her technique, as this is not taught at the film school. Thus, her journey of film making has given her a rounded career, where it is not only the Festivals that appreciate her work but also, she has become a part of an academic career. The life she has chosen to live.
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WHITE BEE “White Bee is my 5th feature film and second English language feature film. The film was shot in the scenic location of France. We shot in the month of December, which was a great experience in itself. Some of the famous locales we shot in were the Christmas market and the famous European flower market. We even shot in the winter rain, which was a very moving experience, with the cold, gloomy feel. The actors in the film came from different parts of the world which made it a little tough to bring about a fluid sense of communication and coordination; that is why we decided upon and had rehearsals 6 months prior to filming. The team gelled well and everything went smoothly and without a hitch. This was my first time shooting with our American DOP, Alex Megaro. I met him in a festival and we instantly became friends. Ever since we met, we had decided that we want to work together on a beautiful project. The lead actor of my film, Sumanto Chattopadhyay, is a Creative Director with one of India’s most renowned ad agencies - Ogilvy. He had also been part of my directorial debut play in 2006, under the aegis of our theatre company Kali. Our frequencies matched as magic and it shows in the brilliant work we’ve managed to bring together, in perfect harmony. I met TanuKurien Vaswani, another of our film’s actors, through social media. It’s a great experience when you are able to bring together a terrific team on board. We shot for 7 days at a stretch, staying under one roof and enjoying every moment of the amazing filmmaking experience that ensued. White Bee is a story of a couple that meets after a separation – perhaps for the last time. The woman seems vulnerable, broken by her failed marriage. The man appears blasé about the breakup. If he expresses any doubts, they are about his wife’s ability to cope with the big bad world outside the cocoon of marriage. But as the story unfolds, we realize that the woman is spirited and resilient and it is he who is vulnerable – and needy of the shelter of their togetherness.” Drama
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romantic novella, Shesher Kobita), Hopscotch (a psychological horror film) and her recent release TikTok TikTok (a surreal, romantic film).She and her team have received multiple awards at several Festivals including for Best Cinematography, Best Male Lead, Best Director & Best Foreign Language Film. I shot this film all across Mumbai in India. Around the sea front, street, even in an art festival, thus getting some awesome props to enhance the journey and life of artists. Two plays which are staged in the film are my famous two plays, which I performed at the Edinburgh fringe festival, called We Draupadis and Sita’s, and Oh Gandhari, Oh Kunti which was performed in the famed Kala ghoda art festival in India. Mixed Medium is a story of the artists portraying the difference between their real and reel life. It is a journey of how surreal their work and life is whereas in real life, a simple cup of coffee can enlighten their day. Life full of mixed mediums and a way they live their life sometimes artistically or sometimes intellectually. They may be in their dream world full of aspirations but it’s the rain that brings them to reality. It’s a story of how they rehearse and perform for their stage show, and contradicts to that how relax and how they like to be in their own space. Also, you will understand how romance and love plays a critical role in each day of their lives. Drama
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MIXED MEDIUM Mixed Medium has been directed by multiple award winning woman indie film-maker, Shomshuklla, whose previous award winning works include such dramas as Sandcastle (the story of a woman finding her true identity), A Holiday & A Picnic (an adaptation of Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore’s famous
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FLOWERS AND A LAP OF ROSE “Flowers and a lap of rose is my 6th feature film and very close to my heart. The film was shot in some of the exotic locations of New York and India. Initially the script of the film was written in poetic layout. The thought was to give an ethereal look to the film, because of which we planned the shoot during the snow in New York. And by God’s grace and our luck, just a couple of days before we planned to shoot, a snow storm hit the city and covered the entire central park and other places with fresh snow. It looked magical. Bharat Dabholkar, the lead male actor of my film is a reputed actor in Indian Cinema. His character sketch was designed in such a way so that it gives a distinctive look to the film; a masculine well built man having a good time with his dog and bird. He is playing the character of a poet in the film. My female lead, Ria Patel who acted as the muse in my film is an alumni of LA film school. She got connected to me and showed interest when I narrated to her the story of my film. She played
her character wonderfully and has added beautiful flavours to my film. My DOP, Alex Megarowho is also a great friend and is from New York. I met him at a festival and got connected with him. The best thing that I liked about him was where he could visualize all of my ideas and give me exactly what I wanted from my film. Each frame that he shoots for my film is very artistic; he understands the brief. He is an award winning
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director and cinematographer. With great effort and hard work put in by all of my team we created this amazing art piece!” Synopsis One can find love in the beauty of flowers or the verses of poems. Flowers and a lap of rose is a story of an established poet and the magic of his verse. It’s a story of finding a world
in your dreams. The story makes you love yourself. One odd day something deep and a romantic sensation pushed him and he decided to pen a new sonnet. It is all about this young starry-eyed girl who is in her own journey of discovery, she see everything differently. As the poet started writing this new poem he began to sail in a reverie with this charismatic girl of obsession. cuttocut.ent@gmail.com Drama
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ULTRA LOW By Filmmaker Nicholas Gyeney
Ultra Low is a meta drama described as a cross between Clerks and Entourage, following a real-life filmmaking team from Seattle in an unfiltered look behind the scenes as they struggle to break down the doors of Hollywood. Q+A With Nicholas Gyeney How long was the shoot? Where did you shoot? NG: This movie was hugely ambitious simply because we only had 22 days to shoot a pretty epic indie story. There are so many scenes in this little film. So many characters. So many little pieces and details to capture. It basically flies in the face of all the “rules” of indie filmmaking (Keep it at or under 90 minutes with as few characters and locations as possible). The only way we could pull it off in such a short window was due to the luxury of a 3-camera team. This allowed us to accomplish quite a bit in every set up. The entire movie was shot in and around Seattle in the actual locations where the events took place. When you see my apartment, that’s THE apartment I was living in, dressed in the exact way it was. What is your favorite scene in the film? NG: It’s a little difficult because I’m particularly biased on this one from the personal nature of the story. There are so many scenes that evoke emotional memories from how it all happened. If I had to choose one, it would probably be the sequence in my apartment between myself and my producing partner Edi Zanidache, who has been my right hand through the making of all these films. That scene is particularly personal because it dives into the dark reality of my dream – that I could never be happy doing anything else.
What was the biggest challenge in making Ultra Low? NG: There were two big challenges I faced on this movie. The first was pulling believable performances out of a group of primarily non-actors. We rehearsed feverishly during pre-production in hopes of making my team’s deliveries feel as genuine as possible. I’d say we ultimately were able to pull performances from them that worked, with some rough edges to be sure. I can only hope that audiences will be along for the ride enough to look past any hiccups in performance along the way. The second challenge was wearing the four major hats of actor, writer, producer, and director, all at once. I gained new respect for filmmakers that can successfully direct themselves in movies. People like Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck, etc. I bow to these people who can do it so flawlessly. I found my brain being torn in so many directions, having to
critique other performances and focus on the direction of the take without ruining my own deliveries in the process. The dynamic was compounded by the fact that I couldn’t be standing behind a monitor reviewing the shot as I typically would be, so there was a lot of stopping to review, and a great deal of trust placed in my camera team to deliver the images I hoped to capture. By the end of every day, I was mentally exhausted. But, I’m grateful for the experience. I fell in love with acting a little bit. Whether I deserve to get work in other films is to be determined, but I certainly had fun, no matter how challenging it was. If you’d like to connect with Nicholas, whether as filmmaker to filmmaker, to inquire about investment opportunities or job opportunities in one of his upcoming films, or simply to talk movies,
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What are some stylistic influences that you used to create the world of Ultra Low? NG: This was an interesting balance. On one hand, I wanted to make the film feel as real as possible, to properly capture the experiences we went through. But, on the other hand, I wanted to juxtapose that realism against a very cinematic style in order to give Ultra Low a sense of adventure that you’d find in so many great classic dramas. This is the reason why you’ll hear a fairly over-the-top score in a movie that might typically have a minimalist musical approach. There’s also a lot of dialogue in the film, particularly during three major sequences that run over 8 minutes long each. These scenes serve as act markers for the team’s journey. I was particularly influenced by Quentin Tarantino for these scenes. Specifically, the long dialogue scenes in both Inglourious Basterds and Death Proof. Obviously, my dialogue scenes can’t come close to the quality of his, but its something I certainly aspire to. Nicholas Can Be Found On Facebook, Twitter (@Mirrorimages), Or By E-Mail: Gyeney@Mirrorimagesltd.com
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Lordemani A documentary by Brais Revaldería & Ricardo Pérez
For over ten centuries, Galicia has had a great relation with the Viking people. The different waves of Vikings on the Galician coasts has brought about that and today that essence can still be appreciated in celebrations such as Catoira (Pontevedra), the twin of the Danish city of Fredrikssund. Known for their strength and for being invincible warriors the Vikings arrived in Galicia attracted by the gold and wealth left behind by the Romans as a legacy. In the year 844 the Vikings sieged Galicia for the first time, this being the first of four incursions which took place up until two hundred years later. In the year 1028 the Viking troops led by “Ulf the Galician” attacked the towns which were in their path by the Arousa Estuary until they were turned back by the army of Bishop Cresconio de Compostela, who ordered the building of what today is known as Torres del Oeste (The Western Towers). This fortress would impede the Lordemani from crossing the river in search of riches from Santiago and Iria Flavia.
One of the fundamental towns in the Viking history of Galicia is undoubtedly Catoira, a sea village which for centuries suffered from the constant sieges of the Lordemani. As a reminder of the continuous Viking attacks, since 1960 every year in the first Sunday of August Catoira celebrates a Viking landing. Sailing in replicas of the drakars of the XI century the invaders arrive on the coast to attack the torres del Oeste.
Danes and Spaniards joined by history and now by the bonds of friendship after more than 25 years of joint celebrations show us once again that racial, cultural or language differences are not an obstacle for the understanding and cooperation between these people, in an era when separatisms and discriminatory treatment towards race or religion have increased in first world countries.
More than 10 centuries after Lordemani of Frederikssund (Denmark), who celebrates the Vikingespil every month of June, and the inhabitants of Catoira gather in this area of the Galician coast to celebrate the historic past which unites them.
Lordemani is a sample of culture and of the common character of two people who without reaching verbal understanding are capable of coexisting and of creating lasting bonds of friendship by setting aside differences or quarrels from the past.
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who? THIS IMAGE IS COPYRIGHTED © BY MMB PRODUCTIONS 2016. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Creator: Morag Sinkins
WHO IS DOREEN? Doreen is one of the most unique, outrageous characters that travel the world---France, Italy, U.K., Canada, and U.S. Certainly ONE of a KIND!!! As an actress, writer, producer and love of observing all walks of life, Doreen was created. This story shows how Doreen both lived and witnessed all people and her excessive pursuit for the perfect “hunk.” Her escape from having to live a life of perfection takes her on a wild spree amongst the crowds of people. No one knows who she truly is but through her disguise and unstoppable behaviour people are able to see the difference between the “Queen of the World” and her heart of gold.
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She will make people laugh. She will touch their souls. Not a dull moment. And she will NEVER stop her love of men, nor her speaking to the poor. Doreen is often asked where they could see her again. Doreen guarantees they will see her but her next location will be a surprise. BUT...WHAT IS SHE HIDING? Morag “Morrie” Sinkins, actress, writer and producer of the Comedy Short Film - WHO? also creator of the character “Doreen” whose life is a movie in itself. Her life has been spent in both Canada and the U.S. she has currently written a pilot for a Comedy TV Series which will be submitted to various locations. Doreen will certainly be in it!! There are wonderful cast members such as Naked Cowboy, one of Doreen’s favourite “hunks”. Cast Members are Morag “Morrie” Sinkins, Robert Burck, Erik Sherr, Gigi Assante.
Director/Director of Photography/Editor Giovanni Mota Writer/Producer/Creator Morag “Morrie” Sinkins Assistant Director - Anna Filameno Script Consultant - Michael McCarthy Cast Members Morag “Morrie” Sinkins - Doreen Robert Burck - Naked Cowboy Erik Sherr - Businessman Gigi Assante - Homeless Woman Comedy
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Katherine of Sinai A stunning major new feature film by Michael Redwood
With ‘Katherine of Sinai’ released this year and written and directed by Michael Redwood, this movie charts the love between Katherine and the emperor Constantine the Great. A host of Brit veterans, including Joss Ackland, Steven Berkoff and Edward Fox star alongside Peter O’Toole, who plays the Roman Cornelius Gallus, the palace orator. Sadly though, the Lawrence of Arabia star is not around to lend his own critique; he died before final editing was complete. “It’s sod’s law... Peter wanted to see the movie and I had arranged for a copy for him to watch in the hospital, but it wasn’t done in time,” says Redwood. “We missed him by 48 hours.” Along with his old friend Richard Burton, O’Toole holds the record for the most Oscar nominations without a win, perhaps something he can now achieve posthumously? There is no doubt he wanted one: when the Academy offered him a Lifetime Achievement Award 11 years ago, he unforgettably joked that he ought to turn it down because he “was still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright”. By all accounts, it appears that the cast and crew were largely unaware of O’Toole’s ill health – despite the fact that he’d narrowly escaped death so many times, one writer quipped that he’d had “more comebacks than a phoenix with repetitive strain injury”. If he was unwell, he never showed it. “He brought a crackling energy on set with him,” says Redwood.
One characteristic which appears to have stood out on set was his irresistibly naughty sense of humour. “He would make the whole crew laugh,” smiles Redwood. “If he was filming a scene, he would say things afterwards like: ‘You’ve fucked that up and I’m going to tell everybody.’ One day I told him to make Nicole [Keniheart, who plays Katherine] smile and he did it effortlessly.” What did he say? Redwood collapses into laughter. “You can’t print it!” Romanian newcomer Keniheart confirms this later on with a blush. “Yes, he did make me smile in one scene... he broke the ice; he was charming, no two ways about it.” Greater than his ability to delight with a single utterance was his gift for connecting with people he genuinely respected. “He asked me a lot of questions when we met,” says Keniheart. “We realised that at the age of six he had an illness, I don’t know what it was, and that I also had an illness at the age of six – and both of us were kept away from our families for a month. We laughed because we finally had something in common. He said: ‘I can see we will get on very well together’.
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“I was terrified when we first met, but he made everything so easy,” she adds. “I felt like I had known him a really long time. He taught me not to panic and just to be myself. I feel very privileged to be quite honest; millions of actors would die to have been in my position.” Clips from the film show O’Toole with his trademark purr performing lines with an intensity which does not suggest poor health or fragility. “He was a firecracker,” says fellow actor and chum Edward Fox, who plays the role of Emperor Constantius. “Really, Peter is wonderful [in the film]; he had a long speech to do and it was frightfully good, but then one never knew he was going to die then.” While the other actors travelled to and from Pinewood Studios, where part of the film was shot, O’Toole set up camp in a big tent on set, where his personal assistant, Lucy, looked after his every whim. He took breakfast early each day before the rest of the cast, and insisted on having his own input on camera angles and shooting. “After every take he would ask, “Can we see a replay?” It slowed us down, but it was a pleasure really,” says Redwood. “He was a true professional.
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“He does a death scene which we were forced to cut in the end because of film length slots. You can literally see the life drain out of one eye and then the other. It’s a great shot because he is smiling just as he dies. I don’t think I’ve seen him do a better performance than he has in this film, but it’s down to the public to decide at the end of the day.” Whether or not it is O’Toole’s performance of a lifetime remains to be seen, but to his friends at least, the veteran will forever be remembered as a plummy, mischievous gent who danced to his own tune. Sir John Standing, one of O’Toole’s closest friends, perhaps puts it best when he describes his funeral: “It was a proper old Irish wake with people playing the fiddle and having a few jars and sandwiches and stumbling around an open coffin. Michael Redwood Interview: The New British Independent Film ‘Katherine Of Sinai’
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FTM: This is such an amazing film but how on Earth did you manage to get the likes of Peter O’Toole, Edward Fox & Joss Ackland involved? MR: Although I had been involved in filmmaking for a number of years, this was the first film that I attempted to a script. Every filmmaker will be told that something is wrong, the script is wrong, you won’t get the actors, you won’t get the finance and we’ve all been through that! My mantra has always been “doubt kills more dreams than failure” and one thing that I found out was that even if you had made 20 films before and even if they had all been Oscar winners, it makes no difference because new filmmakers are needed, which I relied on. They are looking for fresh filmmakers but I wouldn’t let any of that put me off. Another problem can be some agents; you can’t get past them, so you have to be a diplomat. But the golden rule is, all actors want to work, they want to be wanted. A good friend of mine said “look, get it to the actors if possible then they’ll tell their agents to
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sort it”, and that is literally what we did in some cases! However, Brian Blessed’s agent was great, so each case is different and once you get one famous and established actor on board it changes things for the better and, however you do it, try if possible to locate the actors themselves with the scripts. You know they will never be rude, they will never say I won’t speak to you because they are not like that at all. Honestly, even if you gave an actor a script in a Café and asked them to have look at it, they will read it. We actually did end up speaking to most actor directly. Peter however was via his agent and was the first to actually say I love this script; I want to do this film.
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The thing is the actors know what the script writer is trying to say; imagine the script for “Goodfellas”, anyone with a degree in English would have ruined that script and I realised that the writer must not doubt themselves!
You’ve got to remember that the filmmakers will convince themselves that the actors won’t read their scripts and won’t be in their movies, but they will. I didn’t know then how to write a script, how to format a script and what I did was get a copy of the script for “The Dirty Dozen”, I looked and it was in “Courier” font and I realised that you should ALWAYS supply your script in this font and with no bolds, that’s what the actors want. The other thing is that the writers don’t need to be great at English, if you look at some of the greatest screenplays ever written, they are actually written really badly.
FTM: Can you explain one reason that Filmmakers in the UK have serious problems finding distribution overseas? MR: Well a big problem is that the distribution companies overseas will always insist on 5.1 surround sound or a separate dialogue channel. And of course, most British films which tend to have a small budget will struggle to call the actors back to do the voiceover work – the ADR (Additional Dialogue Recording). With American films they would tend to spend around 1.5 million dollars just on post sound and we knew that was going to happen so what we did was at the end of each take, with each actor our lovely sound guy would go away to a private
room and have him or her speak the same lines into a separate microphone. We called this the “wild track.” Then we knew we could get that track recorded in pure silence and it was clean dialogue. Then we could either put that into the film or insert into the (Dolby) Atmos track. It was very, very easy and the lovely thing is that actors fully understand what a “wild track” is and once in the room they would close their eyes and literally re-enact every word that they had said on set. A huge amount of time saved and a huge amount of money saved! So if for instance this film is to be shown in say Latin America, they want to pull out the dialogue track and replace it and of course, by doing it this way it’s very easy to remove this (centre) track and replace it. Also, the younger guys, the sound guys coming through now, they have to learn that they will need to dump the sound they recorded with the boom mike, even the sound of a fridge – will come through loud and clear. I think it was George Lucas who said “they will forgive a bad picture, but never bad sound!”
If any filmmakers are in any doubt about the sound or mixes I will always help them, and we will always do this as a favour and never ask them how much money they have to spend, please do contact me and I would be more than happy to offer my assistance! Drama
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20:05 Nawal The Jewel 122m
11:00 BARDO BLUES 85m
SUNDAY 12TH AUGUST SCREEN 2
12:35 Nomads 12m
11:00 Two Little Bitches 75m
12:50 SomeWhen 29m
12:20 The Gaelic Curse 86m
13:45 Stand Down 7m
13:50 Walter & Alma 29m
14:00 ASHCAN 90m
14:30 Grand Unified Theory 101m
16:30 The Simons way 30m
16:15 Aerts 4m
17:05 Beatbox and winds Nicos Diminakis 53m
16:25 I Go Back Home 97m
18:10 Million Loves in Me 109m
18:05 Shakespeare’s Heroes And Villains 87m
19:40 Katherine of Alexandria Director’s Cut 115m
SUNDAY 12TH AUGUST SCREEN 3 11:00 Hitching a Ride on Entropy 75m 12:50 Christmas of Nothing 16m 12:10 Kiss The Devil 6m 12:20 My Alaska 5m 12:30 All Is Foreseen 58m 13:30 Against Impunity 100m
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15:15 Indigo Lake 92m 16:55 The Irish Grand National ~ Chasing a Dream 77m
13:10 Inherit The Stars: The Director’s Cut 133m 15:30 Grace Fury 60m
18:20 Not Black Enough 82m
16:35 Voices Beyond the Wall 87m
19:45 Four Journeys 55m
18:00 Palyadawasi 120m
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20:05 Non-Transferable 83m
11:00 Treurgrond 88m 12:35 Hey Chef Where Is Your Home? 17m 13:00 Forgotten life 4m
MONDAY 13TH AUGUST SCREEN 1 11:00 Severo secret 64m 12:10 Mr. Probz against the stream 27m
12:45 Now Boarding 2 23m 13:15 Not Guilty 35m 13:55 City of my heart 4m 14:00 The Ritman Library – Amsterdam 90m 15:35 Perfect Worlds 35m 16:15 Hoda’s Story 58m 17:25 Far Away Places 22m 17:55 Drawing Home 112m 20:00 Lordemani 50m
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11:00 Pasolini e la Terza Generazione 75m
11:00 Can Hitler Happen Here? 74m
12:20 The Wild Dance 125m
12:20 The Last 2 Days 25m
16:20 The Magic Door 3m
12:50 Videl 14m
16:30 State Of Emergency Motherfucker! 6m
13:10 Baba 14m
16:40 She Sounds Like Spring 93m 19:00 Fighting On Ice 61m 20:10 WOL-HA : Very Bad Moon Rising 80m
13:30 The Burden 20m 13:15 Escaping stars 8m 13:30 Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson 97m
15:15 Secondhand Hearts 95m 18:20 Infirmus 83m
MONDAY 13TH AUGUST SCREEN 4 12:00 Sinatra in Palm Springs – The Place He Called Home 93m 13:40 Top Table 3m 13:50 BAGAHE (The Baggage) 110m 15:45 Silica 12m 16:05 The Crusties 12m
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16:20 Sasha 17m 17:35 Beverley Minster Fly Through 4m 17:45 PERTINENÇA (Belonging) 95m
TUESDAY 14TH AUGUST SCREEN 1 11:00 Gottscheer Homeland – The lost cultural Heritage 59m 12:10 Alouette 22m 12:40 Redemption 15m 13:00 Girl recruits her “GOD” 38m
13:45 Heavenkid 11m 14:00 Lubat Father And Son 89m 15:35 As It Seems 20m 16:00 In Search of the Changemakers 45m 16:50 Burned – Are Trees the New Coal? 44m 17:40 Trafficking 106m 19:20 The Children of the Noon 82m
TUESDAY 14TH AUGUST SCREEN 2 11:00 Transition 76m 12:20 The Little Truth 15m 12:40 Eat Your Heart 15m 13:00 Road Kill 21m 13:25 Forest Of Echoes 30m 14:00 The Blessed Envoy 26m 14:30 Falling 102m 16:15 Golden Light 4m
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TUESDAY 14TH AUGUST SCREEN 3 11:00 Sauti (Voice) 73m 12:20 Flea 28m 12:55 Orange 22m 12:25 Europe’s Trial With The Refugees 54m
13:25 Hell On Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise Of ISIS 99m 15:10 Osprey 96m 16:55 Haiku on a Plum Tree 78m 18:20 Bikini Blue 84m
12:55 After Meteor’s Trail 2m 13:00 Megha – A Song of Silence 16m 13:20 Summer 7m 13:35 Agatha Rose Penelope Fern 15m
TUESDAY 14TH AUGUST SCREEN 4
13:55 A Yangtze Landscape 156m
11:00 Johnny Do Brasil 80m
16:35 This Means War! Use it up 3m
12:25 Propaganja 21m 12:50 Hired Swords and the Sucker Gun 2m
16:45 LEGEND OF CARPATHIANS 92m 18:35 The Visiting Tank 13m
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16:35 Um Jardim Singular (A Singular Garden) 15m
11:00 Resonancia 80m
11:00 Cleft Lip 84m
16:55 Aria 22m
12:30 I am known as an artist, Wharton Esherick 41m
17:25 DNA Of Wild Beasts 18m
12:25 Stadium Anthems 99m 14:10 Beside me 83m 15:40 Letter On The Blind 80m 17:05 Flowers and a lap of rose 77m 18:30 The Long Shadow 88m
13:20 The Man Behind the Music 37m 14:05 “Memories Recorded, Memories Stored” 15m 14:25 Livingston Taylor – Life Is Good 84m
17:50 Modern Love 115m 19:50 Goodbye 11m
WEDNESDAY 15TH AUGUST SCREEN 3 11:00 The Last Dog 68m
15:55 One Night Stand 12m
12:15 Wake Me Up 24m
16:15 Build Ramps Not Walls 14m
12:45 Chamber Music Wonderland 50m
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THURSDAY 16TH AUGUST SCREEN 1
15:55 Hippopotamus 16m
11:00 Bill Evans Time Remembered 90m
10:00 The Muse is the Mountain 50m
13:10 16:15 Cor & Henk, weirfisher daughter of the lake of the East Scheldt 50m 15m 16:35 AHOI (F. Grujic) 19m 17:00 Jackpot 73m
16:05 Tripping Through 103m 17:55 NEAR CHANGE 10m 18:10 The Wedding Song 14m
18:20 Run through rainbow 18:30 bridges relatively independent 66m 55m
11:00 Vape Warz 47m 11:55 A Life Of Its Own, The Truth About Medical Marijuana 82m 13:20 The New City – The other side of Dresden 30m 13:55 Women of 1915 95m 15:35 Path of Dreams 25m
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16:00 King In The Mountain 55m
16:20 Living My Illusion 45m
18:05 White Bee 78m
17:00 Teaser Horse 31m
19:30 Rahman 30m
17:35 Sophia Lazzati 84m
17:10 White Rooms (Official Music Video) – Factor B Ft. Cat Martin 5m
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19:00 Outcaste – The House that Carol Built 66m
11:00 My Sister Hali 65m 13:05 Beyond Transport 23m 13:35 The Revenge of Phantom Knight 105m 15:25 “Inland Freaks” 11m 15:40 ECKHARDT 15m
THURSDAY 16TH AUGUST SCREEN 3 12:20 Vashon — pilot episode 47m 13:15 Colours From Outer Space 84m 14:50 Asphalt, Muscle & Bone 90m
17:20 Expecting Sunshine 48m 18:15 Zara 4m 18:25 The World Awaits 100m
THURSDAY 16TH AUGUST SCREEN 4 11:00 are the green fields gone 75m 12:20 Vibrations 45m
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16:20 That’s Opportunity Knocking 22m
13:40 She’s Marrying Steve 22m
10:15 Flying on the Wings of Time – Chapter One – “Now and Then” 27m
16:50 The Gaelic Curse 86m
14:10 Miracle of Christmas 115m 16:10 Black & White 10m 16:25 This is Home 18m 16:50 X art 72m 18:10 ALASKA IS A DRAG 98m
11:00 Damascus Steel 78m 12:25 88 Cents 38m 13:10 TRAVEL LOVE: Amor De Viaje 23m 13:40 GUERRERO 100m 15:25 Lemon&Letter 30m 16:00 Blackout 12m
18:20 Disillusioned 26m 18:50 The Island of Doctor Moron 135m
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13:20 Forgiveness 13m
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13:40 November 10th (Battle of Surabaya) 100m
11:00 Fiddlin’ 96m
15:30 Central Bloc 78m 16:50 An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines 78m 18:10 Dog Park 7m
11:00 Jamaica Man 65m
18:25 Before Anything You Say 61m
12:20 Survivors of Malmedy: December 1944 55m
19:30 It’s also love 36m
12:40 Santa Inocencia 65m 13:50 Bride Price VS Democracy 120m 15:55 The Dark Ward 11m 16:10 Dunham Deaf Boy 52m 17:10 There Was Once A Car 17m 17:35 Propaganja 21m 18:05 Unpredictable Journey 110m
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