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The New York International Short Film Festival (NY Shorts Fest) showcases the finest short-form cinema from around the world to enthusiastic audiences in the vibrant filmmaking enclave of New York City.
NY Shorts Fest offers short-form filmmakers an ideal platform to screen their film and gain recognition in the heart of New York City. NY Shorts Fest premiered Ricky Gervais ‘Derek” in 2012, which became a popular British television show written, directed and starring Ricky Gerva...
By Maria Esteves – February 20, 2015
REEM ACRA Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear Show was held during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York in Lincoln Center, Monday, February 16, 2015. Acra’s beautiful and exotic fall 2015 magical collection included embroidered, beaded and lace gowns in white, jet black, midnight blue, champagne, deep red and amethyst; cocktail and evening dresses with prints, embroidered lace, jewels and chiffon in nude, antique gold and silver, black velvet, deep...
By Maria Esteves – February 17, 2015
The TADASHI SHOJI Fall 2015 Joy of Flight Runway Show was held day one of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York in Lincoln Center, Thursday, February 12, 2015. Inspired by the joy of flight, Shoji’s fall 2015 stunning and elegant designs on the runway included floor length cape in metallic embroidered crepe; tulle gowns in emerald green, nude and plum; feather-embroidered gowns; aero dynamic sleeveless dress in black with embellished neck details; ...
By Maria Esteves – October 1, 2014
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York REEM ACRA Spring 2015 fashion show was held at the tents in Lincoln Center, Monday, September 8, 2014. Acra’s ready-to-wear classic collection inspired by 20th century Paris couturiers showcased on the runway elegant crystal embroidered and metallic silk gowns; draped, halter, sculpted and wrap dresses in delicate colors that included aqua silk, blush, white, black, pale gold, floral prints and lace.
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By Maria Esteves
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York CUSTO BARCELONA Spring/Summer 2015 Skin Runway Show was held at the Salon in Lincoln Center, Sunday, September 7, 2014, 3:00 P.M. Barcelona’s Spring/Summer 2015 Ready-to-Wear Skin collection for men and women was inspired by the beauty of the body. Celebrities in attendance included TV show personality Nigel Barker, James Goldstein, TV show personality Alexander Jenkins (Miss J), actress Dascha Polanco, and singer/composer Henry Sa...
By Maria Esteves – November 23, 2014
The 2014 New York Veterans Day Parade Opening Ceremony presented by United War Veterans Council, Inc., commenced Tuesday, November 11, 10:00 a.m. at Madison Square Park, New York. The event included a wreath laying ceremony honoring veterans who gave their lives for America; featured the United States Marine Corps; remarks by this year’s Grand Marshal former NYPD commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, Vietnam War; South Ko...
The 2014 New York Veterans Day Parade with Grand Marshal former NYPD commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, Vietnam War commenced Tuesday, November 11, 11:11am up Fifth Avenue at 29th Street to 53rd Street. Presented by the United War Veterans Council (UWVC), this year’s America’s Parade theme Land of the Free/Home of the Brave, celebrated Francis Scott Key's The Star-Spangled Banner 200th anniversary, featured the U.S. Marine Corps military branch and hono...
Netflix, Showtime, specifically HBO and more recently CNN as well as Aljazeera America, have been providing expanded platforms for documentaries which can be readily accessed. Further festivals such as Britdocs and the Guanajuato International Film Festival’s ‘Documentary with an Impact’ program identify documentaries which have real consequences driving discernible change. Non-fiction programs have secured a firm position in the media landscape especially if they are i...
The Insight Film Festival is delighted to announce the winning and runner-up entries for the PLURAL+ Insight Award 2014, which will be formally presented at an awards ceremony in New York City on 4 December 2014 (see attached press releases).
The Insight Film Festival - based in Manchester, England - encourages filmmakers to make films that address the theme of faith.
The PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival (hosted by the United Natio...
Dutch feature film Silent Ones by Ricky Rijneke has been selected for the New York No Limits Series 2014 Summit in the category Competition for Best Feature Film.
The 2014 Summit held from 20 to 22 November at The Wild Project in 195 E 3rd St. Lower East Side New York, has selected 5 feature films and 14 shorts.
NEW YORK NO LIMITS is an ongoing film series in New York City. The series seeks to discover diverse and daring films that reflect the purest vision of the filmmaker. The goal of NY...
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Submissions are now open for the 6th Annual Silver Sound Showdown Music + Video Festival. Submit your awesome music video or band to www.silversoundshowdown.com
Showdown is actually two simultaneous events: it is a music video festival AND a battle of the bands. We will showcase 21 of the best music videos and 5 of the best bands anywhere, ever.
PRIZES
The director of the winning music video is paired up with the winning ...
By Maria Esteves – September 6, 2014
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York TADASHI SHOJI Spring 2015 Ca’ d’Oro Runway Show was held at the Stage in Lincoln Center, Thursday, September 4, 2014. Shoji’s Spring 2015 collection was inspired by the sunsets overlooking the Grand Canal and the gothic details of Ca’ d’Oro (Palazzo Santa Sofia) in Venice. The runway show included lace belted trench, sheath and full skirt dresses; tulle, chiffon, shirt waist blo...
By Maria Esteves – August 29, 2014
The U.S. theatrical release of WEB JUNKIE, directed by Israeli documentarians Hilla Medalia and Shosh Shlam immediately followed a Q&A session with Film Forum programmer Mike Maggiore at Film Forum, New York, Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Questions posed to the filmmakers by Maggiore and the audience included: How long did it take to make the film? What inspired the making of the film? Hilla, how did you come into this project? Of all the boys in the ca...
Presented by New York’s Japan Society with some corporate support from UNIQLO, Sapporo, Sony and private assistance, the eighth edition of Japan Cuts, The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema was held from July 10-20. Its program featured 27 feature films, of which 17 were not shown before in the US, and overlapped with the New York Asian Film Festival which carried 13 of the Japan Cuts selections. Among the few festivals celebrating Japanese films in the United S...
It has been estimated that the approximate value of art work shown during the Frieze Art Fair from May 8 -12 exceeded $2 billion. This also includes work exhibited during this period at other at the same time such as the Downtown Art Fair, Pulse, and the show organized by the New Art Dealers Association (NADA). By far the largest fair, Frieze showed artist from 28 countries represented by galleries selected by the Frieze curators, including more than 50...
Established in 2005 to promote Polish films in the United States and attract an American audience, the Polish Film Festival (PFF) celebrated its 10th anniversary from May 7-11 at New York’s renowned Anthology Film Archives theatre, a traditional home to many niche film festivals. Working closely with the Polish Film Institute and other agencies, the film festival offered a well-rounded program with eleven recently produced features and a documentary, all subtitled. Many ...
By Maria Esteves – May 18, 2014
The Eighth Annual 2014 New York Dance Parade and Festival with Grand Marshals Tony Award winning tap dancer and choreographer Savion Glover, artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women, Queen of House Music Barbara Tucker and DJ Hex Hector commenced Saturday, May 17, 1:00pm - 7:00pm down on Broadway and Tompkins Square Park. Presented by executive director Greg Miller, Dance Parade, Inc,, this year’s theme Be The Momentum, a ...
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANNES: The first edition of Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York was a huge success with the screening of 55 films from 18 countries and exciting opening and closing night celebrations.
“Amy Goodman provided a rousing keynote address to a festival that will hopefully last well into the future.” Wrote The Huffington Post.
Festival Founding Artistic Director Nora Armani will attend the Cannes Film festival to presents the winning documentaries: Small Small Thing, directed by Jessica Vale, and Not Who We Are, directed by Carol Mansour, from the festival’s slate at the Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner, May 14-23rd, along with Coal Rush, Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Orphans of the Genocide, From the Black You Make Color, Stable Life and Born in Adana. To arrange for a meeting and for details visit: www.cinando.com/SquareMangoFilms
Grand Prize Winner, Small Small Thing, will also have its New York City theatrical premiere at The Quad Cinema, from June 6–12, 2014. This week–long run is offered by Rated SR Film Fest as the Grand Prize, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select program.
In New York, a new partnership with IndiePix http://www.indiepixfilms.com will see six short films from the festival’s slate released on DVD and VOD under the heading: Rated SR Films. New sponsorship and partnership opportunities are available at Rated SR that is already the talk of the media with a reach over 1M followers & likes. Contact: ratedsrfilms@gmail.com for information.
Sponsor Presentation: http://youtu.be/gx7colpL9K0 // Opening Night: http://dai.ly/x1kg777
Closing Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3VcWdi1KM
Like Rated SR on Facebook and follow it on Twitter.
Submissions for 2015 (the 2nd edition) of Rated SR Film Festival open in June 2014. Main sidebars are: Women Filmmakers of the Middle East and The Forgotten Genocide 100 years later. More information may be found on the festival’s website: www.ratedsrfilms.org.
To arrange for a meeting with Ms. Armani in Cannes call: +33 6 51 61 19 62 or email: squaremangofilms@gmail.com
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANNES: The first edition of Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York was a huge success with the screening of 55 films from 18 countries and exciting opening and closing night celebrations.
“Amy Goodman provided a rousing keynote address to a festival that will hopefully last well into the future.” Wrote The Huffington Post.
Festival Founding Artistic Director Nora Armani will attend the Cannes Film festival to presents the winning documentaries: Small Small Thing, directed by Jessica Vale, and Not Who We Are, directed by Carol Mansour, from the festival’s slate at the Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner, May 14-23rd, along with Coal Rush, Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Orphans of the Genocide, From the Black You Make Color, Stable Life and Born in Adana. To arrange for a meeting and for details visit: www.cinando.com/SquareMangoFilms
Grand Prize Winner, Small Small Thing, will also have its New York City theatrical premiere at The Quad Cinema, from June 6–12, 2014. This week–long run is offered by Rated SR Film Fest as the Grand Prize, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select program.
In New York, a new partnership with IndiePix http://www.indiepixfilms.com will see six short films from the festival’s slate released on DVD and VOD under the heading: Rated SR Films. New sponsorship and partnership opportunities are available at Rated SR that is already the talk of the media with a reach over 1M followers & likes. Contact: ratedsrfilms@gmail.com for information.
Sponsor Presentation: http://youtu.be/gx7colpL9K0 // Opening Night: http://dai.ly/x1kg777
Closing Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3VcWdi1KM
Like Rated SR on Facebook and follow it on Twitter.
Submissions for 2015 (the 2nd edition) of Rated SR Film Festival open in June 2014. Main sidebars are: Women Filmmakers of the Middle East and The Forgotten Genocide 100 years later. More information may be found on the festival’s website: www.ratedsrfilms.org.
To arrange for a meeting with Ms. Armani in Cannes call: +33 6 51 61 19 62 or email: squaremangofilms@gmail.com
ENDS
As suggested in earlier articles, in order to survive the growing festival scene in major metropolitan areas niche festivals need to have an unmistakable profile offering a program others do not have. These fests’ niche must be successfully branded, offering more than just a marginal differentiation from other fests. In New York the international Latino Film Festival announced its demise. As the founder Calixto Chinchilla explained the fest cannot meet the economic ...
A rapidly growing number of films resulting from new low cost production technologies and the rising number of young filmmakers have made the identification and subsequent exposure of outstanding independent films and their release on different platforms problematic. As members of the FTF Critical Eye film criticism panel noted, it is impossible to track all the films which are a produced, many of which will never see the light of the day. A significant number of the close to 800 fil...
Now in its 43nd year, the renowned New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet-established filmmakers from around the world. With a focus on diversity, original narratives, and outstanding direction, the programmers from MOMA and the Film Society selected features by innovative film makers from recent film festivals but also from individual sub...
Focusing on independent and arts-oriented productions the Winter Film Awards presented its third edition from February 26 to March 1st, surviving the first three years during which many new festivals fade away. As Stephen Follows pointed out a third of the new festivals last only one year. Run by volunteers the Winter Film Awards fest is non-profit endeavor with a minimal budget and not widely known. 350 productions were submitted for 2014 with a final selection of 61 ...
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is a unique event that brings Brooklyn’s celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. The award-winning AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for exciting emerging creators and established voices. We partner with film distributors and media organizations, host world-class talkbacks, create innovative programming for networking and skill building, and screen in state-of-the-art theaters for enthusiastic audiences across Brooklyn.
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