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Woodstock Film Festival Wrap – Up

Woodstock Film Festival Wrap – Up

from WFF The 11th Woodstock Film Festival wrapped after a 5-day schedule of over 150 films, panels, concerts and other events. The 2010 WFF Awards Gala at BSP Studios in Kingston was attended by more than 500 film aficionados. Emceed by Academy-award nominated writer/director Ron Nyswaner (The Painted Veil, Philadelphia) award presenters included Jonathan Gray, […]

Mao’s Last Dancer

<em>Mao’s Last Dancer</em>

by Allan Tong for FILMbutton.com As the Mao era crumbled in China, his cultural delegates plucked 11-year-old Li Cunxin from his poor Chinese village and took him to Beijing to study ballet. In China, that’s pretty much like boot camp. Kids followed a strict regimen that left no room for weakness or individuality. In Li’s […]