The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and New York University presents an exhibition of feature works by indigenous directors from around the world. First Nations\First Features, presented at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, May 12 to 23, 2005, is a 25-film showcase of the first features produced by filmmakers from cultures as diverse as Indigenous Australian and New Zealand’s Maori, Sami in Northern Scandinavia, and Navajo, Hopi, and Cherokee in North America, who have received accolades from both native and general audiences and won recognition on the world stage. The films will also be screened May 18 to 22 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and affiliated screening sites in Washington D.C. For more information, visit the MoMA website.

For the 14th consecutive year, the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival celebrates gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and culture with 11 feature films, six documentaries, and two programs of short films. The festival will take place at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from May 11-22.

For more information, please visit the MFA website.

The Museum of Fine Arts Film Program will present a retrospective of the films of Russian director Kira Muratova from May 25 through June 12 in Boston. Eight of Muratova’s 14 feature films will be shown, including her early films “Brief Encounters” and “Long Farewells” and her post-glasnost masterpieces such as “The Aesthenic Syndrome” and her most recent, “The Tuner.” Screenings will take place at the Remis Auditorium at the MFA.

For more information, please visit the MFA website.

The SoCal Independent Film Festival is accepting entries now. Early bird entries begin April 22 and the final entry deadline is August 19. The three-day event will take place in Huntington Beach, CA the last week of September. Open genre categories include: feature film, short film, documentaries and video art.
 
For more information, please visit the SoCal Independent Film Festival website.

The IndyOutties Film Festival is accepting entries now. The deadline for submissions is June 15. The festival will take place in Kansas City, MO from August 26-28, 2005. The festival's mission is to celebrate and increase awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally (queer) culture by providing an affirmative showcase for the work of queer video and filmmakers. Categories include-- but are not limited to-- features, shorts, animation, drama, comedy, documentary, experimental works, music videos and young filmmaker videos. For more information, please visit the IndyOutties website.

The Armenian Film Festival is interested in all forms of work: narrative and experimental, documentary and fiction, features and shorts by and/or about Armenians. Filmmakers from around the world are encouraged to submit work. The deadline for submissions is June 15. There is no entry fee. For more information, please visit the Armenian Film Festival website.

From May 13-22, BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn presents the films of Sergio Leone. Leone is one of cinema's supreme stylists and an influence on filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood. An Italian filmmaker that made films set almost exclusively in America, and which belonged to distinctly American genres such as the western, Leone provides an outsider's take on the key myths of American cinema. For more information, please visit the BAM Rose Cinemas website.

Vittorio de Seta (b. 1923) is credited with having made both features and documentaries that depicted the brutal industrial development which transformed Italy in the second half of the 20th Century. Salvo Cuccia's documentary "Détour De Seta," will be accompanied by Martin Scorsese's presentation of several rare de Seta documentary shorts. On Saturday, April 23 at 2:30 p.m. at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in New York City.

For more information, please visit the Tribeca Film Festival website.

An evening of the world’s best short films at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope from May 20-21 at 8:00 p.m. For more information, please visit the following website.

The Tulsa Overground Film Festival is accepting entries for its event taking place July 19 - 21. All genres, styles and formats are accepted from all ages, and the deadline is July 18. For more information, visit the festival's website.

Craig Lucas' "The Dying Gaul" is opening the 7th Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Friday, April 22, starring Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott and Peter Sarsgaard, and actress Bea Arthur will be the "Special Gala Diva of Ceremonies" opening night. Being saluted this year is director Gregg Araki ("Mysterious Skin") who will receive the 2005 Career Achievement Award. indieWIRE will publish a wrap up from the festival. For more information and a full list of film and MGLFF events, visit the festival's website.

The Mill Valley Film Festival in Marin County, California announces a call for entries for its 28th annual festival from October 6-16, 2005. Known as a filmmakers festival, the annual Mill Valley Film Festival offers a high-profile, prestigious, non-competitive environment perfect for celebrating the best independent and international cinema. The regular deadline is May 31 and the final deadline is June 30. Additionally, there is a substantial discount for submissions received by April 30. Preview formats for submissions are VHS and DVD; screening formats for films accepted to MVFF include 35 mm and Beta SP; other digital formats by arrangement.

For entry forms, please visit the festival's website.

The 6th annual Woodstock Film Festival (Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2005) is currently accepting submissions in all categories. Maverick Awards are presented for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Cinematography, Best Film Score, Best Editing and Best Animation. Cash, prizes and/or services are given out in each category. Audience Awards are presented for Best Feature and Best Documentary. The early deadline is May 2nd and the final deadline is June 13th. Entry fees range from $25-$50. To apply online, and for details, visit the festival's website or use Without A Box.

The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film announces a call for entries, accepting international submissions for their 6th Annual Short Film Festival which will be held on Oct. 3 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass. Submissions will be accepted through Sept. 1, with an early deadline of Aug. 15. Films under 20 minutes in length, live-action, animated, narrative and documentary are eligible. For the complete list of guidelines for submissions and eligibility requirements, please visit the CSIF website.

Now in its fourth year, the Commonwealth Film Festival will take place April 29 through May 8 in Manchester, England, as a non-competitive showcase for over 200 features, shorts and documentaries from the 71 nations of the Commonwealth. Taking over multiple screens and party venues across the city center, the Festival is one of the largest film festivals in the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit the Commonwealth Film Festival website.

The Oxygen cable network is actively seeking documentary projects concerning violence against women and girls, domestically as well as internationally. They are interested in completed documentary projects and documentary projects needing finishing funds. Please direct inquiries and send project proposals and synopses to Erika Green at egreen@oxygen.com.

Forty short films by graduate students at Columbia University’s School of the Arts Film Division will be presented during the 18th Annual Columbia University Film Festival. Screenings will be held from May 1-8 at Symphony Space and the McGraw-Hill Theater in New York City. A selection of films will also be presented in Los Angeles from June 7-9. For more information, please visit the following website.

Daniel Myrick, creator and co-director of "The Blair Witch Project," will demonstrate how his latest project, "The Strand," can be distributed using on-demand streaming, peer-to-peer technology and high-bandwidth direct downloads at NAB 2005 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on April 19. "The Strand" is the first live-action, independently produced, narrative episodic intended specifically for the web, hence the term "webisodic." For more information, please visit the following website.

From April 15-21, the 6th Annual Havana Film Festival in New York will showcase award-winning films and highlights from Havana’s Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, as well as new independent films from and about Latin America.

For more information about the Festival, please visit their website.

BAMcinématek presents the films of Paul Robeson at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn from May 9-23. An actor, writer, singer, activist and more, Paul Robeson was a renaissance man, yet his film legacy is woefully underappreciated and rarely seen. A commanding figure on stage and screen, Robeson is presented in four of his most rare film appearances. Paul Robeson, Jr. will introduce all the films.

AIVF Presents: 6th Annual Public Television Mentorship Sessions

Deadline: FRIDAY, April 15th, 6pm in AIVF office

Public Television Mentorship Sessions is an opportunity for AIVF documentary producers to meet face to face with Senior Programming staff from PBS, ITVS and POV. Producers submit brief proposals pitching their documentary projects (in rough cut stage), and reps from PBS then choose up to twenty filmmakers to meet with to advise them on their projects, provide critique, and to consider them for possible funding and/or broadcast.

The 5th Annual Whistler Film Festival is seeking submissions. The festival will run from Dec. 1 - 4, 2005. The deadline for early submissions is July 15, 2005; the deadline for short film submissions is August 19, 2005; and the deadline for feature film submissions is September 23, 2005. Filmmakers are invited to submit films of all lengths and genres, including animation.

For more information, please visit the Whistler Film Festival website.

NewFest, the New York Lesbian and Gay film festival continues its Wednesday screening series this week (April 13) at the Pioneer Theatre in the East Village with Jonathan Schwartz's doc, "Sexual Assault Behind Bars," preceded by "Gay Cops: Pride Behind the Badge" by Charley Lang. For more information, visit the festival's website. Purchased screening tix can be redeemed for a free drink at Clubhouse on Ave. C and 9th Street afterward.

Seeking financing for your script? Completion funds for your work-in-progress? Trying to sell your doc? Scoping out potential production partners? The IFP Market is a great place to begin. For filmmakers it is the only place in the U.S. to introduce new work-in-development to an industry-only audience of sales companies, fest programmers, distributors, TV buyers, producers and agents from the U.S. and abroad. The rolling deadline is between May 2 - 16, and submission costs also vary. For more information, and to appy, visit their website.

The American Cinematheque presents “The Return of Movies Not Available on Video” at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica (May 13) and the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (May 13 - 15). In our increasingly media-saturated, user-friendly age of movies on instant demand, it's comforting to know that there are still some treasures out there that can only be seen on the big screen in a movie theatre.

The American Cinematheque presents a sneak preview of "King and Queens" with director Arnaud Desplechin ("My Sex Life") in person on April 20 at 7:30 p.m. The new film fearlessly straddles heart-wrenching drama and burlesque hilarity in telling the emotionally gripping story of the intersecting lives of two former lovers. This screening is at the Max Palevsky Theatre at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.

For more information, please visit the American Cinematheque website.

The RESFEST Digital Film Festival is accepting entries from April 15 through May 15.

RESFEST is a global touring festival exploring the dynamic interplay of film, art, music and design. Each year the festival showcases the year's best shorts, features, music videos and animation in an environment that combines screenings, live music events, parties, panel discussions and technology demonstrations.

The Bahamas International Film Festival is accepting entries from April 11 through August 1.

BIFF is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the local community and international visitors with a diverse presentation of films from around the world. The festival takes place in Nassau and Paradise Island from December 8-11.

For more information, please visit the BIFF website.

On April 21 at 7 p.m., the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens will present a special advance screening of the acclaimed new documentary, “Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room.” The screening will take place at the museum, followed by a Q&A with director Alex Gibney.

The 12th Annual New York African Film Festival, to take place April 20 - 28 at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, continues its strong tradition of bringing the best of African cinema to American audiences. This year’s program showcases 24 films from 12 countries, including a number of nations whose national cinemas are mostly unknown in the U.S., including Niger, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Angola and Mozambique. The festival also features the work of eminent filmmakers Ousmane Sembene and Cameroon director Jean-Marie Teno.

For more information, please visit the African Film Festival website.

The Plymouth Independent Film Festival (PiFF '05) invites national and international filmmakers to submit films for screening during this summer's festival to be held between July 21st and July 24th. Submissions must be received no later than 5 p.m. on May 30.

Legendary indie filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell (preparing to shoot his long-awaited Shortbus) will man the decks along with Scissor Sisters’ favorite DJs Sammy Jo and Texxx.

The Hamptons International Film Festival is pleased to announce a CALL FOR ENTRIES for the twelfth annual festival, October 19-23, 2005.

The 19th Leeds International Film Festival, which runs between 10-20 November 2005, is now accepting submissions.

April 18, 2005
"Unfinished" ­ A Program of New Short Film and Video
7:30 pm. Free. @ Station 13
321 S. Jefferson, Chicago, IL

What is it that makes a film or video finished?
Does any work of art ever fully answer the questions it addresses? Is
a non-linear piece, lacking a traditional beginning or end, ever
finished? Who decides when a work is finished - the maker or the
viewer?

Monday, May 2 at 5, 7:30pm
Brother to Brother (2004), 94min
Directed by Rodney Evans
With Anthony Mackie, Roger Robinson.
*Q&A with director Rodney Evans and cast members after 7:30pm screening.

The Images Festival 2005 Opening Night Gala

featuring Jem Cohen's Chain

Thursday, April 7, 8 pm

@ the Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W.
and after-party at The Mod Club, 722 College St.

Jem Cohen in Person!

The Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) Presents the BAC 39th International Film
and Video Festival

** Media Sponsor: Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) **

Buried Treasures: Film Archives in Focus
April 29 - May 1, 2005
@ Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St. Cambridge 617 495 4700

AFRICAN FILM COMMISSION ANNOUNCES 2nd ANNUAL
AWARD CEREMONY & LAUNCHING OF
3rd ANNUAL SCREENWRITING COMPETITION

World Wide Festival to Honor Screenplays that Highlight Africa

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its call for entries for its twelfth annual festival, taking place October 19 - 23, 2005.

The festival is accepting entries for feature length fiction (70 minutes and over), documentaries (50 minutes and over) and short films (under 40 minutes). Fees for features and documentaries are $50 for early submissions (April 1st- May 10th) and $75 during the final application window (May 11th- June 7th). Fees for short entries are $35 for early submissions (April 1st- May 10th) and $50 during the final application window (May 11th- June 7th). Please visit their website for guidelines and applications.

From April 15 - May 21, the Northwest FilmCenter in Portland, Oregon will present the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

Entries are being accepted now through May 20 for the 18th annual Dallas Video Festival. The festival screens approximately 200 works ranging from 30-second television commercials, video art, documentaries, animation, digital features, kid-friendly fare and narrative shorts. Located in the Dallas Theater Center in Turtle Creek, the festival starts on August 3 and runs through August 7, 2005.

For more information, please visit the Dallas Video Festival website.

The American Cinematheque presents “Animation A-Go-Go!”, an in-person tribute to Ralph Bakshi at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (April 29 - May 1) and at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica (May 1). Blasted into public consciousness and controversy by the first X-rated cartoon, “Fritz the Cat,” legendary writer/director/producer Ralph Bakshi's career in animation spans an astounding 50 years.

In honor of Susan Sontag (1933-2004), BAMcinématek presents a selection of films that invoke her various passions, world travels (specifically to Cuba, Vietnam and Bosnia), particular writings ("On Photography," "Regarding the Pain of Others" and "Notes On Camp"), as well as her own iconic image-- as captured in a series of Andy Warhol screen tests. From May 10-12 at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn.

For more information, please visit the BAM Rose Cinemas website.

BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, will present the 5th Annual Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival from April 5 - 10. This year's festival features films, live stand-up comedy, a panel discussion, Q&A sessions with filmmakers and critics for a celebration of Jewish humor.

For more information, please visit the BAM Rose Cinemas website.

BAMcinématek presents a retrospective of Arnaud Desplechin’s work including five feature films and one short from April 13 – 17 at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn. There will also be a Q&A with Desplechin on April 15.

For more information, please visit the BAM Rose Cinemas website.

As part of their YIVO/Triumph of the Human Spirit Film Series, the Center for Jewish History in New York presents four films in April and May.

From April 16 – May 8, 2005, the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens will explore the concept, history and context of reality on film with an adventurous month-long retrospective, Candid Cameras: Real Life on Film. This program looks at the history and evolution of filmmakers’ attempts to observe and document people's lives, focusing on films that acknowledge, and in some cases, subvert the relationship between the camera and the subject.

The third annual Brooklyn Underground Film Festival runs from April 20 - 24 at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope. This year’s festival includes 100 films from 12 countries--including Brooklyn.

For more information, please visit the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival website.

ThaiLinks and the ImaginAsian present Thai Takes 2: Contemporary Thai Film Festival now through April 3 in New York City. For the second year, this film series will highlight emerging and established Thai and Thai-American filmmakers.

For more information, please visit the ThaiLinks website.

The Kodak Lecture Series presents Harmony Korine in conversation with Bruce LaBruce tonight (April 1) at 7:30 p.m. at Ryerson University in Toronto. Harmony Korine had an auspicious start to his movie career when he was discovered by photographer Larry Clark and subsequently commissioned to write the screenplay for Clark's first feature film, "Kids." Korine's directorial debut, "Gummo," was released one year later. He recently collaborated again with Larry Clark as screenwriter of the film "Ken Park."

For more information, please visit the Kodak Lecture Series website.

Sugar Pictures presents two events at the upcoming Museum of Television and Radio Documentary Festival: a panel about political documentaries on April 12 and the premiere of the documentary "Red Hook Justice" on April 18. Both events take place at the Museum of Television and Radio at 25 West 52nd St. in New York City.