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Charleston International Film Festival Announces Best of Shorts Screening on June 29th

June 23, 2011 by Joe Talentino

Charleston, SC, June 20, 2011 – The Charleston International Film Festival (CIFF), South Carolina’s premiere event for independent filmmakers and film enthusiasts, would like to announce the Best of Shorts Screening on June 29th at the Cinebarre in Mt. Pleasant.

If you missed the Charleston International Film Festival main event, you have the chance on Wednesday to catch festival short film award winners and audience favorites at both 7PM and 9PM.

The programs will feature different films, but both include at least 7-8 shorts films of all genres in under two hours, making for a fun and unique film night out. Tickets are available at the Cinebarre box office for $8 day of or $7 in advance online at www.CharlestonIFF.com

7PM Short Block

Rooftop – Music video with local musician Emily Hearn with an appearance by Bill Murray. (Re)Discovering Don ZanFagna – Internationally acclaimed local artist, whose work has been featured in Charleston Magazine, this short documentary displays his work that is being rediscovered and appreciated after 30 years.

The Tub – Frannie (Dedee Pfeiffer) reluctantly relives her life and her lovers, guided by a mysterious woman whom she thinks she knows.

God and Vodka -The story of a writer’s final attempt to capture the words and memories, both touching and comedic, of a relationship that ended all too soon.

November – From Norway, this story is to remember and to forget the loss of loved ones. A visual and symbolic journey.

The Buck Johnson Story – A comedic short about a struggling writer, Dave, who feels the only way out of his Pork Pen job is this story about a wild redneck character, Buck F*@$in Johnson.

Place Stamp Here – The world disassembles us, and then puts us back together. This process repeats & repeats & we are never quite the same as when we started. Then again, neither is the world. Animation by twins Joy Vaccese and Noelle Melody.

How Tourette’s Saved My Life – Short comedy from local Art Institute student, this is a slice of life from a man who copes with Tourette’s Syndrome, and finds his outbursts saving his life.

9PM Shorts Block

Theatre Marvelosa presents “Zee Hat!!” – Local group revels, set in a French Bistro, Ravello sings to Zee Hat!! His prize possession, as Tanti Bacci tries to prove her love for him by vowing to retrieve Zee Hat when it is stolen by Ze Fox.

Saying Goodbye – SC filmmakers present this story about a woman who has lost everything moves into a southern nursing home where a cat with the ability to predict death and a spunky fellow resident inspire her to enjoy living again.

The Perfect Hurl – An innocent 14-year-old wanders moonlit suburbia with his daredevil classmates. His first taste of trouble is one to savor.

Jeremy – When his incarcerated father is transferred to a distant prison, fourteen year-old Jeremy must face life alone with his game-show addicted brother and two violent older half-brothers.

The Story of Us – The Story of Us is about a guy who finds himself blinded by his past love. Atroz – This comedy from Spain is about ‘Awful’ a singular teddy bear, a worn and curmudgeon one, whose owner is Luna, a little girl who has taken him as her best friend.

Sexting – People are not who they seem to be when a misdirected text message leads a young woman to meet with the wife of her boyfriend and ask what is really going on in their relationship.

Visit our special events page for Charleston International Film Festival

About CIFF Charleston International Film Festival

(CIFF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission to educate, entertain, and inspire through the art and science of film. Co-founded in 2007, by film producer Summer Spooner Peacher and Charleston native Brian Peacher, the festival showcases over 70 short films, features and documentaries from around the world. Attendees gather for five days every Spring to attend premieres, panels, special events and the Annual Awards Gala.

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Viva Cinema – Latino Film Festival in Jacksonville, Florida

October 13, 2009 by Susanne Talentino

VIVA CINEMA, Jacksonville’s own celebration of Latino Filmmaking, will take place October 15-18th with screenings, workshops, and parties.

The opening film is:

CRUDE – Ecuador/USA
Directed by Joe Berlinger, 104 min, Documentary
Thursday, October 15, 8pm @ The 5 Points Theatre
Q&A with Joe Berlinger (director)

Three years in the making, this cinema-verite feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy , the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

This film will be followed by a special ceremony to honor filmmaker Joe Berlinger with the Jacksonville Film Events 2009 Shining Light Award for brilliance in bringing a humanitarian issue to the public’s attention through the art of filmmaking.
There is also a party at Cuba Libre on Friday night and workshops scheduled during the day on Saturday at MOCA. Then, Saturday night, join the crowd of festivalgoers for a glass of sangria at The Pearl!

For more information, visit the website.

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SCAD Cinema Circle announces 2009-2010 season, Savannah

September 16, 2009 by Susanne Talentino

The Savannah College of Art and Design and its historic Trustees Theater announces the 2009-2010 season of the SCAD Cinema Circle. For the first time, all SCAD Cinema Circle screenings will include pre- and post-show discussions and offers membership packages with exclusive benefits, including special offers during the Savannah Film Festival.

The SCAD Cinema Circle seeks to provide film lovers and students with an enriching viewing experience of classic, award-winning and cutting-edge films from around the world. All screenings are presented at Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St.

Offering a stimulating movie-going experience, SCAD Cinema Circle films are introduced with a pre-show discussion that highlights the cinematic, cultural and historic importance of each film. At the conclusion of each film, a post-show discussion, led by SCAD’s Cinema Studies and Film and Television professors, provides an in-depth review of the film and the context in which it was produced.

Robert Eisinger, dean of SCAD’s School of Liberal Arts, said of the series, “Much like great books, great films demand critical and thoughtful analysis. Great films are deemed great because of their relevancy, as well as their entertainment and educational value. The SCAD Cinema Circle Series aims to provide viewers with an outstanding, exceptional experience.”

The SCAD Cinema Circle offers three levels of memberships for viewers to purchase ticket packages and qualify for special benefits. The top-level Producers Circle includes up to 14 tickets a year, a chance to purchase advance tickets to the Savannah Film Festival, free admission to a special screening for SCAD Cinema Circle members during the Film Festival, and advance ticket sales on select SCAD box office events ($100; $75 Senior/Military/Student/SCAD rate). The Directors Circle includes up to 14 tickets per year, free admission to the Savannah Film Festival special screening for SCAD cinema circle members and advance ticket sales on select SCAD box office events ($75; $50 Senior/Military/Student/SCAD rate). The Actors Circle offers six tickets per year ($30; $25 Senior/Military/Student/SCAD rate). All membership levels include the pre- and post-film discussions and the SCAD Cinema Circle quarterly newsletter. Individual film tickets are also available at $8 for the general public and $6 for seniors, students and military; individual tickets are free with valid SCAD ID.

For more information, call 912.525.5051 or e-mail trusteestheater@scad.edu. To purchase tickets, go to www.scadboxoffice.com.

The schedule of films follows:

Dr. Strangelove
Saturday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m.
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) plummets into madness. Suspecting that communists are trying to rob Americans of their precious body fluids, he sends a bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. The American president meets with his advisers, and the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, this will trigger a “Doomsday Device,” which will destroy the United States with buried bombs.

Savannah Film Festival
Special Screening
During the 12th annual Savannah Film Festival, Oct. 31 – Nov. 7, the SCAD Cinema Circle will hold a special screening (to be announced by Oct. 1).

Harold and Maude
Friday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Cyril Cusack
Directed by Hal Ashby
When extremely wealthy Harold (Bud Cort) is not staging his own suicide, he’s crashing funerals. This morbid young man falls in love with fellow funeral-crasher Maude (Ruth Gordon), a woman 50 years his senior, whose lust for life surpasses his own preoccupation with death.

Notorious
Friday, Jan. 15, 7, p.m.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
In this classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) recruits Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) to spy on her father’s influential Nazi friends. As part of her cover, she marries ringleader Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), but finds she is falling in love with Devlin.

Woman in the Dunes
Saturday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m.
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is tricked by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman, who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand dunes. The two begin a strange and erotic relationship that stretches over years, as the man’s hope for escape dims.

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Rosemary’s Baby
Friday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m.
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Directed by Roman Polanski
Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), the young wife of a struggling actor (John Cassavetes), is thrilled to find out she’s pregnant. But the larger her belly grows, the more certain she becomes that her unborn child is in danger. Perhaps there’s something sinister behind the odd enthusiasm her eccentric neighbors (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon, in an Oscar-winning performance) have for her welfare. Or perhaps it’s all in her mind.

The Godfather
Saturday, April 10, 7 p.m.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
This shadow epic follows the fortunes of the fictitious Corleone family, a powerful Mafia dynasty with its own system of honor, justice, law and loyalty that transcends all other codes. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Mario Puzo.

Sunset Boulevard
Saturday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden
Directed by Billy Wilder
In this bizarre tale, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), an aging silent film queen, enlists the help of a struggling writer (William Holden) to make her comeback. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim as Desmond’s ex-husband and Nancy Olson as the bright spot in unrelenting omniscience deliver masterful performances in this winner of three Academy Awards.

The Bicycle Thief
Friday, May 21, 7 p.m.
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Widely considered a landmark Italian film, Vittorio De Sica’s tale of a man who relies on his bicycle to do his job during Rome’s post-World War II depression earned a special Oscar for its devastating power. The same day Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) gets his vehicle back from the pawnshop, someone steals it, prompting him to search the city in vain with his young son, Bruno (Enzo Staiola). Increasingly, he confronts a looming desperation.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Saturday, June 19, 7 p.m.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Directed by Sergio Leone
During the Civil War, a mysterious nomad (Clint Eastwood) enters into a partnership with a Mexican gunslinger (Eli Wallach), a man with a price on his head. The nomad turns the gunman in for the reward money and then rescues him at the last minute. The pair joins a sadistic criminal to pursue much bigger stakes.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Saturday, July 3, 7 p.m.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason
Directed by Richard Fleischer
In Jules Verne’s underwater tale of high adventure, Captain Nemo (James Mason) is a scientific genius who offers his technological secrets to humanity … but at a price. Journey under the sea in a futuristic submarine in this exciting science fiction classic.

Treasure of Sierra Madre
Saturday, July 17, 7 p.m.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
Directed by John Huston
This Academy Award-winning film follows a trio of gold prospectors who set out to strike it rich and agree to split the take … until paranoia and greed consume one of them.

My Fair Lady
Saturday, July 31, 7 p.m.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Directed by George Cukor
Lovable Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is rescued from the gutter and transformed into a genteel young woman by professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), who bet a colleague that he could turn any guttersnipe into a lady. The lavishly beautiful costumes and settings, much-loved music and brilliant acting make this an exceptional musical.

Award-winning Documentary Screening – Jacksonville, Fl

December 1, 2008 by Susanne Talentino

The Award-winning Documentary “Africa’s Daughters” is screening on December 7th at the San Marco Theater in Jacksonville.
This documentary is the winner of the Atlanta Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary, “Africa’s Daughters” . The film captures the inspiring journey of two Ugandan girls with one big dream: to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Local filmmaker Natalie Halpern will be present at the screening and available for a Q&A afterwards.
Tickets are $10, and the money will go to help Ruth and Hoctavia, the two girls in the film, pay for college in Uganda. Visit the website for more information.

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