NEW YORK, May 3 (UPI) — “Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage” has won The Heineken Audience Award at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film’s directors, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn, are to receive a cash prize of $25,000. Throughout the festival, which kicked off April 21, audiences have been able to vote for The […]
Co-directors James Der Derian, David Udris and Michael Udris will be at both Hot Docs screenings for the Q&A of their film Human Terrain.
The 63rd Festival de Cannes will welcome 9 films in Competition for the Short Film Palme d’Or, which will be awarded during the Closing ceremony on the 23rd of May. These nine short films, running between 10 and 15 minutes, represent a wide range of cinematic genres in animation, documentary and fiction. This equally balanced […]
On April 23, the Tribeca Film Festival goes Virtual. That’s right. The Tribeca Film Festival has added a virtual component to their fest. Certain short and feature films, panels, red carpets and most interestingly, the ability to take part in Q&A’s with filmmakers will be available online.
For over 20 years The Klezmatics have been at the vanguard of the international klezmer revival movement. The Grammy Award-winning group¹s innovative, downtown N.Y. sensibilities have redefined the boundaries of contemporary Jewish music, through nine albums and collaborations with such diverse artists as Chava Alberstein, Arlo Guthrie, Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Nelson. Following the group […]
Hosted by TV and film star Mary Walsh, Poor No More offers a compelling look at Canadians in low-paying jobs with no security and no future. Mary then takes us to Ireland and Sweden to see how these countries have tackled poverty while strengthening their economies. It presents an alternative to the two-jobs-to-survive, unemployment-plagued North […]
By Alan Gordon for FILMbutton There was once a time when, if you were in show business, the clearest indicator that you’d “arrived” was a drawing of you by Al Hirschfeld in the Sunday New York Times. Hirschfeld’s drawings were as free, clever, inventive and as full of joy as any great performance, and his […]
HOT DOCS PARTNERS WITH BROOKLYN’S ROOFTOP FILMS FOR ROOFTOP DOCS OUTDOOR SCREENINGS DURING 2010 FESTIVAL Hot Docs, in partnership with Brooklyn’s Rooftop Films, will celebrate springtime in Toronto by presenting three special open-air screenings in its new Rooftop Docs series during this year’s Festival, taking place April 29 to May 9. Hot Docs and Rooftop […]
