Last night was the closing of the month long 17th annual nationwide Young Playwrights Festival, at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The Festival is an opportunity for teenage playwrights to have their work produced, directed and acted out by professional actors from the the Hollywood community. Twelve winning plays were chosen by a panel of theatre professionals from plays submitted by teenaged playwrights, aged 15 -19 from across the United States. Playwrights were then assigned a ...
Last night was the closing of the month long 17th annual nationwide Young Playwrights Festival, at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The Festival is an opportunity for teenage playwrights to have their work produced, directed and acted out by professional actors from the the Hollywood community. Twelve winning plays were chosen by a panel of theatre professionals from plays submitted by teenaged playwrights, aged 15 -19 from across the United States. Playwrights were then assigned a wri...
The 35th Seattle International Film Festival has concluded with the announcement of juried SIFF 2009 Competition Awards and Golden Space Needle Audience Awards, bringing to a close the largest and most highly attended film festival in the United States. Over the last 25 days, SIFF presented 203 narrative features, 11 archival features, 54 documentary features, and 124 short films from 62 countries, including 31 World Premieres (10 features, 21 shorts), 45 North American Premieres (36 features, 9...
Director: Celeste Friedman.
A promotional video for U. S. Senator Barack Obama from the State of Illinois in support of his candidacy for President of the United States.
Opening with examples of our struggling times, over 60 stunning and stirring images, through the lenses of 40 photographers, take you from Seattle to Times Square, Main to Minnesota, Iowa to Iraq and beyond.
Soundtrack written, produced and performed by singer-songwriter/composer Celeste Friedman. Produced by AmericansforHOPE.org.
We are very honored by the generosity of our contributing photographers, their hearts, time and talent!
Camilo Arenivar
TJ Baker
C.W. "Barney" Burgis
Lauren Victoria Burke
Jason Coleman
Joe Crimmings
Danny the Caveman
Gene Dawydiak
Tory Fink
Getty Images
Kris Godlewski
Gregory Han
Carl Harris
Alexander Heilner
Susan Jekarl
Cecily Johnson
Johnnie K.
Greg Lawler
Caitie Leary
Tia Likely
Hinda Majri
Celi McDaniel
Jason Melrath
Leo and Mixtli Photography
Erik Ose
Alfred T. Palmer
Darrell Porcello
Adrian Revels
Steve Rhodes
Joann Edmonds-Rodgers
Justin Russell
Kristina S.
Bob Scofield
David Silver
Troy Snow
Colleen Sontheimer
Scott Stillman
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers- ACoE photographer Jim Gordon
John Varady
Luke Vargas
The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) presents: the 16th Annual Sista’s Are Doin’ It For Themselves: See Their Images… Hear Their Stories… Saturday, March 28, 2009 starting at 6:00 p.m. Moderated by Ava DuVernay, Filmmaker of award winning documentary THIS IS THE LIFE. The Filmmaker Showcase and Discussion will occur at Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Avenue (650 Bronson Ave.), Hollywood, CA (Melrose & Van Ness / across from Paramount Studios) Chaplin Screening Room ...
The trio running the festival is busy answering journalists in the main lobby of Rivoli Theater. 8.30 Action kicks in, Series of great ads from sponsor, festival trailer, opening speech by Beatriz : crisis? what crisis...Lights out... Che in!
Che (The Argentine) - Opening film
Spani...
Ten days have gone by like a flash and I'm sitting here in the press room on Saturday afternoon, Valentine's Day, mulling over the dull flicks I slept through, the one or two that kept me awake, and the handful that I really wanted to see but never got around to. ("John Rabe", Sean Penn's "Milk", a Persian film called "Barbareye Elly", the latest Wajda, and a few others). Of the half dozen competition films I did get to, not one was a real winner, and most were so...
The Science Fiction Short Film Festival promotes and encourages awareness, appreciation and understanding of the art of science fiction cinema. Submissions are judged based on originality, quality, artistic merit, innovation, voice, style and narrative.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and the Seattle International Film Festival Group announce the second annual Science Fiction Short Film Festival, to promote appreciation and understanding of science fiction cinema.
The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY- pronounced nifty), showcases work by filmmakers 22 and under from across the U.S. and the world. More info: http://www.nffty.org
The largest LGBT festival in the Pacific Northwest brings to the screen feature length narratives, short films, experimental work, and documentaries from across the globe.
The Fucking Fabulous Film Festival (F4) shows the films that other festivals are too scared to show. We represent the true rock and roll nature of independent filmmaking. We foucs on the filmmakers, accepting no submission fees and having no judges.
The Fine Film Society is dedicated to providing a superb movie going experience to those committed to exploring the film arts. The Society`s goal is to hold a monthly showing of independent movies that are both cutting edge and praisworthy.
The Filmbiance Festival is dedicated to promoting cutting edge and independent films in a great atmosphere. Our mission is to show a praiseworthy short and feature film on one night only, in multiple cities once per month.
The "What The Hell Did I Just Watch?" Comedy Video Festival is designed to showcase comedy videos from around the world. No redeeming cultural values; no lingering shots of puddles or clocks; just jokes that make you really laugh.
StoryPIPE`s Smoke-n-Joke Festival is looking for the best short films of people smoking and telling a raunchy joke. No entry fee. Must be a great joke! Deadline March 31, 2006. Details and prizes onsite www.storypipe.com
STIFF is an off beat film festival that some have billed as the `Slamdance of Seattle`. We are looking for a wide variety of films to screen, please check out the website for more detail.
SJFF has grown to be one of the top Jewish film festivals in the country and the largest Jewish event in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle Weekly calls SJFF the best ethnic festival, second only to the Seattle International Film Festival.
Funny, irreverent, beautiful & inspiring...this is not your typical environmental film festival!
The second edition runs from October 15-24, 2004 at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, Brattleboro, VT.
Festival that concentrates solely on environmental films and where filmmakers, distributors, educators, funders, political and environmental leaders can meet to forge the future of environmental media.
Edmonds International Film Festival takes place August 24-27, 2000, in Edmonds, Washington, just north of Seattle. Independent feature film and screenplay competitions. See www.edmondsfilm.com for info.
Archived festival (terminated)
Greetings from the sun and surf of Santa Cruz!
As we gear up for next May, I wanted to take a look back at the 2008 Festival and share with you the activities of some of the films we presented then. It was a fantastic Festival with a terrific program (if I may so myself). Over those nine beautiful Spring days, we screened 149 films from all over the world to a record audience of nearly 8000 film lovers. This is truly a testament to the dedication and enthusiasm of our commun...
The "Titanic" international film festival, Budapest's new "tough guy on the block" and the only real rival to the annual Hungarian Film Week for the attention of the large film buff community here, closed shop on April 13 with the screening of a spellbinding new Irish thriller "In Bruges", and a closing gala party that lasted far into the night.Now into its third year as a legitimate prize awarding international film festival, the "Titanic" festival in Budapest, while still modest in size, appea...
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November 25, 2008
HAVE THE OSCARS MOVED TO PHILLY?
Yes, they have! The Oscars of Horror, that is. With all the magic, razzle-dazzle, and heart-pounding excitement of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. And it all happened this year at the one and only CLAW AWARDS of Terror Film Festival.
The spectacular third season of Terror Film Festival took place in October 2008 at the distinctive and creepy Ethical Society Building, acr...
