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 Summer in the City: REEL NEW YORK – Channel Thirteen's Film Festival
REEL NEW YORK is Channel Thirteen's summer film series that has been running for 13 seasons and is an exciting annual survey of independent filmmaking by established and emerging NY filmmakers. The series features classics as well as inspiring new works - all representing the diversity and creativity of the city.In 1996, when Thirteen postponed production of one its independent film series due to a financial downturn, film advocates Ruby Lerner, Terry Lawler, and Mona Jimenez approached ....
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 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2008
Now in its 19th year, the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is an important annual event for the NY community. Since 1994 it has been co-presented and hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. This year’s festival featured 23 films including feature length documentaries, fiction films, and shorts, as well as a special program of 9 shorts by young international filmmakers. Produced and curated by the independent organization HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the festival's mission is to ....
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 FOUR WIVERS, ONE MAN at Los Angeles Film Festival 2008
Nahid Persson was born and raised in Iran. Throughout her teen years, she was politically active and a supporter of human rights. Nahid participated actively in a revolution against the Shah 29 years ago, and then against the new religious regime that took over the country after Shah. Nahid was forced to flee the country 25 years ago. Before arriving in Sweden, she worked at a newspaper and wrote articles about women in various social groups. In Sweden some other Iranians and Nahid started a ....
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 WAY UP NORTH - NUFF - 6th Nordic International Youth Film Festival
These days, the sun never sets in the city of Tromso, which lies far to the north, near the Arctic Circle in Norway. Just the other week I had the good fortune to visit this beautifully serene city of 45,000 - home to the 6th Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF). Founded in 2003, NUFF offers young filmmakers from around the world a forum to meet, work together, and view one another’s films. In addition to making a short film, the filmmakers also learn about other cultures, a lesson which is ....
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 An Interview with Richard Raddon and Rachel Rosen about LA Film Festival
Richard Raddon is currently in his ninth year as Festival Director at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Before joining the festival, Mr. Raddon worked as an independent producer. His credits include: A Slipping Down Life, starring Guy Pearce, Lily Taylor, and Bruno Kirby, which premiered in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment in May 2004; Shooting Lily, which garnered the grand prize at the 1997 South by Southwest Film Festival; ....
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