Agnès Varda is to receive an honorary Palme d’or during the Closing Ceremony of the 68th Festival de Cannes. Previously, only Woody Allen, in 2002, Clint Eastwood, in 2009, and Bernardo Bertolucci, in 2011, have been granted this supreme distinction by the Board of Directors of the Festival de Cannes. The award is given to […]
Festival Screening – Saturday, May 2 @ 6:30pm In his new documentary, award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson examines the rise and fall of The Black Panther Party, the revolutionary black socialist group that re- defined community activism in America. Rising from the streets of Oakland, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed the Panthers to confront state […]
First Festival Screening – Friday, May 1 @ 1pm A tender and funny drama set in the sunny sixties about the reunion of Hélène, Lili and Rose, three Jewish survivors who haven’t seen each other since Auschwitz. They reconnect during a warm summer in a seaside town in the north of France. In telling his […]
Michael Showalter to attend, Mavis Staples to participate in post-screening Q&A w/ Stephen Colbert The Montclair Film Festival (MFF) announced the Opening, Closing and Centerpiece selections for the 2015 festival, taking place May 1-10, 2015 in Montclair, NJ. The 4th annual festival will open on May 1st at the historic Wellmont Theater with the East […]
THE 2015 LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL WILL RUN FROM APRIL 23 – 30 CELEBRATING 31 YEARS & PRESENTING OVER 134 OUTSTANDING FILMS WITH THIS EDITION LOS ANGELES – Visual Communications (VC), the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, announced its program of outstanding films for the upcoming 31st edition of the […]
TORONTO – An unexpected second chance at love in the heart of Dublin’s nightlife; good vibrations in bombed out Belfast; a feel good story of personal reconciliation; an abandoned UK soldier on the run in Republican territory and a Northern Irish artist’s labour-of-love tribute to post 9/11 NYC are among the themes at the 5th […]
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