No, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has not moved from live stage to film - but this festival is sponsored by another local institution dedicated to the arts on a year-round basis: the Bad Film Society.
The festival? The Bad Film Society Presents ... The Annual Ashland Co-Dependent Film Festival.
While the OSF is well known throughout the state, country, even the world, the Bad Film Society is known to a relative few. Sequestered away in the basement of the Ashland Elks Lodge, the grou...
Novisi cafe and tea room.
One real gem at the festival is the tea ceremony. A few afternoons, members of the press gather with filmmakers and actors to chat and have tea. It's a very inspiring and just lovely event and a great opportunity to meet in a more relaxed setting.
Today I had the pleasure to indulge in scones and tea with Danish filmmaker Martin Pieter Zandvliet. His film "Applause" is a dark, heartfelt, but also hopeful story about a mother who is recovering from alcoholism and desperat...
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The Gulf Coast Film Festival has selected the new docucomedy feature The Baby Food Dude to close this year's selection of films. The film documents a man's relationship with his family over the course of a 40 day all baby food diet. It will run Sunday, November 16 at 6:10PM in the Slocomb Fine Arts Building on the Central Campus of the San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas. Featuring brothers Brice "Bubba" Tea and Herb "Buddy" Tea, The Baby Food Dude is a film like no other. As a comedy movie, ...
It's about a banana, that can change the night into day.
Wednesday, January 24----SWEET MUD, the sole dramatic film from Israel in the Sundance World Cinema Drama Competition, debuted this evening at the Egyptian Theater in Park City. The film is the second feature by Israeli director Dror Shaul. Set in a kibbutz (collective farm) during the 1970s, the film is a powerful, courageous critique of kibbutzniks who ostracize a psychologically unstable young mother. It also shows the effect of their well-meaning prejudice on her youngest son, who stands p...
"Sweet Mud" is the highest scoring film in Israel this year and one of the foreign films contenders.
It is rumored to be selected for Berlin Panorama. Could well be the sweet surprise hit of next year"
Bruno Chatelin
Sweet Mud: (Israel, 2006, 97 Minutes, color) has been written and directed by Dror Shaul
While the Israeli kibbutz has been idealized as a paragon of utopian movements, Sweet Mud tells a darker, more nuanced tale of a community ill equipped to cope with individuality and deviatio...
