The MFA Film Program is presenting a four-show engagement of Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel’s acclaimed feature debut "The Swamp" (La Cienaga) from June 16-19 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. For information please visit the MFA website.

David Koh & Chris Blackwell announced today the dates for this year's Goldeneye Film Festival & Retreat. The former home of Ian Fleming -- where he wrote all 13 James Bond novels -- hosts the December 7–12, 2005 event. His retreat, Goldeneye, is now an Island Outpost resort in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica, just outside of the resort destination of Ocho Rios. Goldeneye Film Festival & Retreat is still accepting submissions. For more information, visit the festival's website.

The Walker Art Center presents "Alexander Payne: Sideways Glance at America" from June 3-11 in Minneapolis, MN. Fresh off capturing a screenwriting Oscar for "Sideways," Nebraska-born filmmaker Alexander Payne returns to the Midwest on June 3 for dialogue with Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times. Their discussion of Payne's creative process and career will be followed by a retrospective of his feature films "Citizen Ruth," "Election," "About Schmidt," "Sideways," and his film school thesis project, "The Passion of Martin."

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria Queens in collaboration with the North Star Fund will present a daylong tribute to John Sayles and Maggie Renzi for their seminal role in launching the American independent film movement. The program, on Saturday, May 21, will include screenings of "Matewan" (1987) and" City of Hope" (1991), directed by Sayles and produced by Renzi, and two panel discussions, exploring the current state of political filmmaking and the role of women in the film industry. Both Sayles and Renzi will appear in person to present their work and participate in the discussions.

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens will present a retrospective tribute to audacious French director François Ozon from Sunday, May 22 through Sunday, June 5, 2005. Ozon will appear in person at the Museum on June 5 following a special screening of his acclaimed new film, "5x2," a reverse chronological narrative of scenes from an unraveling marriage.

Are you interested in working in the industry and need to know how to write coverage? Or have you written a script and wonder how a distributor or production company reader might evaluate your material? Join AIVF's two-night seminar on May 17 and 31 from 6-10 p.m. in New York City and learn the elements of story analysis and how to write standard industry coverage from professional story analyst Maureen Nolan. For more information, please visit the AIVF website.

The Museum of Modern Art presents its third annual festival of preserved and restored films, including many works never before seen in the U.S. To Save and Project: The Third MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation will be presented in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from May 26 through June 26, 2005. The exhibition of short and feature-length films encompasses animated, dramatic, documentary, and avant-garde works that have been preserved and restored by Hollywood and European studios and distributors, and by archives around the world, including MoMA. Restored films by Sergei Eisenstein, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jacques Feyder, Ingmar Bergman, and Michael Reeves among many rarities in 81-film exhibition. For more information, visit the MoMA website.

The American Cinematheque presents "Golden Balls: A Tribute to Spanish Director Bigas Luna" at the Egyptian (May 20 - May 22) and Aero Theatres. Drawn from his seemingly inexhaustible passion for sex, food and his native Catalunya, the films of legendary Spanish director Bigas Luna literally overflow with symbolist and surrealist images. Everything is oversized in Luna's universe, from women's breasts to male egos. A popular and controversial filmmaker in Spain since the late 70s, Luna's "Jamon Jamon" (1991) starring a young Javier Bardem ("Before Night Falls") and Penelope Cruz ("Vanilla Sky," "Don't Move") finally brough him to the attention of American audiences. The series featured the nearly impossible to see "Poodle" (1979), a shocking portrait of an incestuous pair of siblings and their dog. Plus the LA Premiere of "Sound of the Sea" (2001) starring Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her"). For more information, visit the American Cinematheque website.

The MFA Film Program and the Boston Jewish Film Festival are proud to present an advance screening of filmmaker Marian Marzynski’s new documentary “A Jew Among the Germans” on May 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Marzynski will be present for a discussion following the screening. For more information, please visit the MFA website.

The Museum of Fine Arts Film Program is pleased to present a six-show engagement of director Hiner Saleem’s new Armenian tragicomic drama “Vodka Lemon” from June 3-11 in Boston. Post-Soviet Armenia provides the setting for Hiner Saleem’s beautifully understated “Vodka Lemon,” a loving look at a world frozen both in time and in the snows of Caucasian winter. This is a film about a community that has little left and whose future seems dreary—yet still, sparks of love and hope fly. Hiner Saleem was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1964. Before pursuing a film career, he was an exhibited painter and a published poet. A political refugee for the past 20 year, Saleem now lives in Paris. For more information, please visit the MFA website.

In celebration of National Bike Month, the 5th Annual Bicycle Film Festival will kick off its 2005 cross-country tour at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City on May 12. The festival will run through May 15. In addition to screening 55 feature-length and short films that celebrate bicycles and urban bike culture, the festival will also host a bike-centric art show entitled “Street,” and a downtown parade on May 14. For more information, please visit the Bicycle Film Festival website.

From May 27-29, the Northwest Film Center presents Jessica Yu's “Breathing Lessons: The Life and Death of Mark O’Brien." Yu's new film captures the haunting imprint of an extraordinary man-legendary outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1973).

The Jacob Burns Film Center will showcase six feature films and two short films in collaboration with the New York African Film Festival (AFF) from May 6-12. The Film Center’s festival features the AFF’s National Traveling Series, designed to bring the unique experience of watching African cinema to the broadest possible audience. The films range from filmmaker/novelist Ousmane Sembene’s look at female circumcision (“Moolaadé”), to films about the cosmos (“Cosmic Africa”), corruption (“Agogo Eewo”) and the struggle toward multiculturalism (“Dirt for Dinner”). The Film Center is located at 364 Manville Road in Pleasantville, NY. For more information, please visit the Jacob Burns Film Center website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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) **

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

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.

The American Cinematheque presents IT WAS 25 YEARS AGO...THE FILMS OF 1980, at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica (April 28 - May 4) and Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (April 14 - 17). At the quarter century mark, it's a good time to take a closer look at a watershed year that saw mainstream Hollywood in full force with mega-hit comedies (THE BLUES BROTHERS), horror films (FRIDAY THE 13th) and a terrific, much-anticipated sequel (STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) to one of the most successful films of all time.

For more information, please visit the American Cinematheque website.

Film screenings with Wim Wenders, Arthur Penn, Campbell Scott and Andy Keir at the Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford, Conn.

March 30 @ 7 p.m. - Sneak Preview of LAND OF PLENTY. Q&A with Wim Wenders.

March 31@ 7 p.m. - The 30th Anniversary screening of NIGHT MOVES. Q&A with Arthur Penn.

April 2 @ 7 p.m. - Screening of OFF THE MAP. Q&A with Campbell Scott and Andy Keir (editor).

For more information, please visit the Avon Theatre website.

Filmmakers Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford follow up their 2002 Lo Fi Landscapes Tour with a new program of films about the space of history and the history of spaces. These films explore how historical text becomes physical texture, and how filmmaking itself is memory recovered from landscape's amnesia. Their new tour will run from April 28 through June 17.

For more information, please visit the following website.

Macs in the Movies

Dan Halsted and Philip Hall from Camelot Pictures will be appearing at the Apple Store, The Grove, in Los Angeles to discuss how they use Apple computers and products to run an organized, efficient, wireless office.

Where: Apple Store, The Grove in Los Angeles
When: Friday, April 1st, 7:00 p.m

Russell Lee Fine, Cinematographer of films such as EVERYDAY PEOPLE and THE GREY ZONE, will appear at the Apple Store, Soho on March 24 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss how digital technology impacts the creative process of cinematography and filmmaking.

The Images Festival
Announces its 2005 Off Screen Program

The world's most provocative and radiant visions made visible at
The Images Festival
April 7 - 16, 2005

"In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith"
7:00pm, directed by Barbara Rick
In Good Conscience brings together award-winning journalist/filmmaker
Barbara Rick and the legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens) to recount the courageous story of Sister Jeannine Gramick, an American nun who has defied a Vatican edict to shut down her compassionate ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics. Refusing to remain silent at tremendous risk to her calling, Sister Jeannine protests the Church’s discrimination and
hypocrisy, taking her case all the way to Rome to seek an audience with
Vatican officials. For more information, visit their website.

The 5th annual International Film and TV Finance Summit March 7-9.

The Summit will address current trends in Film and TV Finance and the legal agreements used in these types of financial transactions. This conference brings together a senior roster of international film finance professionals. These financiers, independent producers, legal advisors, and studio executives provide "hands-on" practical experience and technical knowledge on how to obtain financing for film projects.

Saturday, April 16, 2005 at The Museum of Television & Radio, 25 West 52 Street, New York NY 10019

THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS
NEW WORK FROM AGNES VARDA AND
A TRIBUTE TO SILENT FILM COMEDIAN HARRY LANGDON
AT THE AERO AND EGYPTIAN THEATRES

Emile is the poignant exploration of an older man’s struggle to reconnect with his past.  From the director of Johnny (1999) and Lola (2001) comes the third chapter of films dealing with a character’s search for identity at a critical point in life.  This marks Bessai’s third feature film on which he served as writer/director/producer/ and cinematographer.  The cast includes Tygh Runyan, Chris William Martin, and Ian Tracey.

When Emile (Ian McKellen) is given the opportunity to travel from England to Victoria on Canada’s west coast to receive an honorary degree at the university, he goes knowing that it might be his last chance to reconnect with his only living relatives.  His niece Nadia (Deborah Kara Unger) and her daughter Maria (Theo Crane) hold the key to Emile’s tragic past and the guilt, which has taunted him his entire life.  The film starts to develop along two paths; in the present Emile struggles to connect with his estranged family, and in the past he plays back his memories of leaving the farm where he grew up with his two brothers.  As the past weaves together with the present, the film artfully and touchingly reveals a portrait of one man’s redemption.  
 
Emile runs 92 minutes and is not yet rated.

On Friday, March 4th the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) launches its seventh year with the US premiere of Millions by acclaimed director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later). The director and actors Alex Etel and Lewis McGibbon will be on hand for an audience Q&A following the screening. In addition, there will be an all-ages Gala Opening Night reception, with food and cocktails. Millions will be screened at the Director’s Guild of America (110 West 57th Street) at 6:00 PM.

Vincent Sassone’s A Tale of Two Pizzas, released by Cockeyed Caravan, will debut in five markets in two states in February. N&S Cinemas, based in Wisconsin, has booked the independent film to premiere 2/11 at Act One Theatre in Daytona Beach, FL (where Pizzas headlined the Daytona Beach Film Festival last November) and at Cinema 6 in Sturgeon Bay, WI, followed by an opening 2/18 at Pavilion Cinema in Naples, FL.

Curated by Gina Kim and is co-presented with the Film and Video Center
at University of California, Irvine.

Guests:    * Director  Im Kwon-taek in person  March 4 and 5.
       Director Kim Dong-won in person March 21.
       Director  E J-Yong in Person April 18.

where:     Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St. Cambridge MA 02138, 617 495
4700, www.harvardfilmarchive.org
when:     March 2 -  May 9, 2005
Tickets:     $8/$6,* tickets for Chihwaseon and Chunhyang with director
Im Kwon-taek in person are $10/$12 and may  be purchased at The Harvard
Box Office, 1350 Mass Ave, Holyoke Center         Arcade, 617 496-2222.

THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS
A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT OF ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORTS IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH
AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE

Presented In Association with Apollo Cinema

ACTOR/COMEDIAN DAVE FOLEY TO HOST CEREMONY WITH DISTINGUISHED JUDGES INCLUDING
SCREENWRITERS AND PRODUCERS OF
MOULIN ROUGE, MONSTER, ALI, NIXON AND GARDEN STATE

Red Carpet Ceremony To Be Held at the Writers Guild Theater on February 25, 2005

U.S. Theatrical Premiere Wednesday, March 23 at Film Forum

Once upon a time Americans drank scotch and soda, martinis or vodka tonics. Today wine is the beverage of choice for millions of sophisticates worldwide. MONDOVINO explores the culture, economics and politics of the wine phenomenon.

At the Tiburon International Film Festival (this is right outside of San Francisco)
http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com   (415) 381-4123
Date: March 13, 2005   at 1:50 PM
Looks like we will be there, too.

Also, it will have its television premiere on
HBO/Cinemax March 15, 2005 at 7:30 PM

For more info check out www.dogamentary.com

RONALD COLMAN, HOLLYWOOD'S FORGOTTEN STAR AT THE AERO AND
EGYPTIAN THEATRES

February 25 - March 5, 2005
The American Cinematheque presents IF I WERE KING - RONALD
COLMAN, HOLLYWOOD'S FORGOTTEN STAR, (February 25 - March 5) at the Aero and Egyptian Theatres.

Opens on Friday, March 11 at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema

In DON'T MOVE, an almost unrecognizable Penelope Cruz returns to
European filmmaking with a knockout performance in a career-defining
role that has already won her best performance accolades.

In conjunction with the exhibition East Village USA, the New Museum of Contemporary Art presents a 5-day film festival at the Pioneer Theater featuring rare short films and cult classics originating in the context of the 1980s East Village scene.

When: Wednesday – Sunday, February 16-21, 2005 (Times vary)
Where: Pioneer Theater (155 East Third Street)
Cost: Tickets are $9 and available at the Pioneer Theater

BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
WARMS UP WINTER WITH FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
New Films from Israel, Uruguay Mark February and March

NEWTON, Massachusetts –February 7, 2005 –The Boston Jewish Film
Festival is pleased to offer screenings of three films, not yet
theatrically released, each with an appearance by its filmmakers, this
February and March.  Details appear below.

Milestone presents 2 More Great DVDs for March!
Milestone & Image Entertainment to release
Mary Pickford in LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
And one of the first Bollywood Meets Hollywood features,
David Rathod’s WEST IS WEST

Director, Writer and Lead Actor: STEPHEN CHOW
Cast: YUEN WAH, YUEN QIU and BRUCE LEUNG SIU LUNG
Set amid the chaos of pre-revolutionary China, small time thief, Sing
aspires to be one of the sophisticated and ruthless Axe Gang whose
underworld activities overshadow the city.  

NAKED FAME
Regent Releasing
Opens Feb 25, 2005
Christopher Long's intelligent and appealing documentary, Naked Fame follows Colton Ford and his life partner, fellow adult film star Blake Harper, as Colton moves from the film studio to the music recording studio.

Written and directed by Peter Himmelstein, "Peep World" was developed at the 2004 Sundance Filmmakers and Screenwriters Labs. "Peep World" tells the story of a darkly comic day in the life of a family tormented by fact, fiction, and mortality.

The Screenplay Reading Series is part of the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program, and is an extension of the Screenwriters and Filmmakers Labs. The Screenplay Readings are free and open to the public. Projects are presented as part of Sundance Institute’s continuing support of independent filmmakers and their projects.

Christopher Boe's first feature, "Reconstruction" (2003, Denmark) opens Friday, an artfully arranged, gorgeously shot, literate romance. At the 50 year old The Brattle Theater in Cambridge.

MoMA New York hosts New York Premieres every Wednesday to celebrate its reopening. December 8th, Steve Zissou attends "The Life Aquatic", directed by Wes Anderson.

Honoring star of stage and screen, Alan Cumming, and featuring a silent
auction of unique items, music, cocktails, and hors d'oeuvres, plus special
DJ Girlina, the 5th Annual NewFest Winter Benefit is taking place at Viscaya Lounge (191 7th Ave., between 21st and 22nd St. in New York on Sunday, December 12 from 7 - 9pm. The event supports NewFest's programming, which includes NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival (June 2-12, 2005), NewFest@BAM (bimonthly beginning in March 2005), and NewFest Wednesdays at the Pioneer Theater (twice monthly beginning in December). For more information about NewFest, please visit their website.

Shwaas (“Breath”)
India's entry to the Academy Awards begins an exclusive engagement
Friday, December 10th in New York.

From December 8 to 28, the Instituto Cervantes, will present the 13th annual “Spanish Cinema Now” film festival in cooperation with The Film Society of Lincoln Center. This year one of the highlights is a tribute to the celebrated director, screen writer and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez.

This year’s “Spanish Cinema Now” highlights the best in contemporary Spanish film showcasing new releases by established directors like Saura, Gutiérrez Aragón, Ventura Pons and Felipe Vega, excellent films by young filmmakers such as Julio Medem, Gracia Querejeta, Iciar Bollain and Joaquin Oristrell as well as impressive debuts from promising directors Santi Amodeo, Pablo Carbonell and Xavier Bermúdez. In conjunction with screenings at the Instituto Cervantes and others at The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, the Instituto Cervantes will present an exhibition of photographs, film memorabilia and books chronicling his work. For more information, visit the Film Society of Lincoln Center's website.

AmnesiA
New Dutch psychological drama
at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater December 1-7

 “Fascinating!” - CHICAGO READER

Moving Image presents MICHAEL MANN IN PERSON At a special all-digital screening of "COLLATERAL"
Monday, December 6 at 7:00 pm at the Loews Kips Bay Theater
HEAT, THE INSIDER and ALI
will screen at the Museum of the Moving Image as part of this event
Program dates: Nov. 30, Dec. 1, Dec. 2, and Dec. 6, 2004

American Museum of the Moving Image presents HOLIDAY WITH PRESTON STURGES

Two-week series celebrates the master of sophisticated slapstick - the
perfect holiday cocktail!
Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, The Miracle of  Morgan's Creek, The Palm
Beach Story, and more

Program Dates: December 18, 2004 - January 2, 2005

ROSARIO DAWSON HOSTS PREMIERE AND GALA EVENT FEATURING EIGHT HIGH SCHOOL FILMMAKERS DEBUTING SHORT FILMS IN NEW YORK CITY ON DECEMBER 8.

SCENARIOS USA PAIRS YOUNG FILMMAKERS WITH ACCLAIMED DIRECTORS DAVID KOEPP, BEN YOUNGER AND JAMIE BABBIT TO BRING THEIR SCRIPTS TO LIFE

December 8-12, 2004
4th Annual River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival
Spazio Uno Cinema in Via Del Sole, 10, Florence - Italy

BORN INTO BROTHELS, An Inspiring Look at the Children of Calcutta’s Red
Light District, has U.S. Theatrical Premiere Wednesday, December 8 at Film Forum. BORN INTO BROTHELS will have a two-week engagement, December 8-21, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (West of 6th Avenue), with screenings
daily at 1:15, 3, 4:45, 6:30, 8:15, 10.

"No documentary [at Sundance] touched me as deeply as BORN INTO
BROTHELS... A remarkable and moving story... Beautifully edited and
shot.” —David Ansen, Newsweek

THE SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL 2004 UNVEILED

December 1 – December 5

(Santa Fe, New Mexico) Celebrating its fifth season, the Santa Fe Film Festival returns Dec. 1-5 with its largest slate ever – presenting 196 features, documentaries and shorts from 34 different countries around the globe. The festival’s coveted Luminaria Awards – for lifetime achievement in cinema – will go this year to actor Alan Arkin and to Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Arau, whose 1992 landmark, Like Water for Chocolate, remains among the top-grossing, foreign-language pictures ever released in the United States.

THE BUSINESS OF DOCUMENTARY:
STORIES THAT BROKE THE RULES
when: TODAY, Monday, November 15, 6:30- 8:30 pm
where: AIVF

Panelists include Lauren Lazin (Director,TUPAC: RESURRECTION), Tia Lessing
(Producer, FAHRENHEIT 9/11), Marie Therese Guirgis (Head of Acquisitions,
Wellspring-TARNATION) and RJ Millard (VP, Publicity and Marketing, IDP
Distribution-SUPER SIZE ME).
COST: $25/ $15 AIVF members
RSVP

* 24 COUNTRIES · 24 FILMS · 12 NIGHTS *
7th European Union Film Festival
ARRIVAL DATE: 26 November 2004
DEPARTURE DATE: 09 December 2004
Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Downtown Vancouver

NEW ITALIAN FILMS TO SCREEN AT QUAD CINEMA
FOR 14th ANNUAL N.I.C.E. FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 12 - 18, 2004

BAM's 2004 Next Wave Festival Continues an Artistic Association with Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe with the U.S. Premiere of "Lost Objects."

Concerto Köln, The New York Virtuoso Singers, and DJ Spooky join the Bang on
a Can Lost Objects Ensemble for a multimedia musical event depicting human
loss, directed by François Girard.

Panel Discussion: " How Did That Happen?:
The Role of Television Ads and the Internet in this Year’s Presidential Election”
Saturday, November 13, 2:00 p.m. at the
Museum of the Moving Image

The Northwest Film Center Presents-
DREAMS + DESIRE: THE FILMS OF WONG KAR-WAI
November 19 - December 19, 2004

In anticipation of the coming releases of two new films, 2046 and THE HAND (a segment of EROS, a trilogy with Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh), audiences have discovered in Wong Kar-Wai a cinematic genius whose talents and subtlety seem to deepen exponentially with each film.

Film Showcase & Tour 2005™

The GET SHORTY Film Showcase & Tour 2005™... Featuring the best
short films on Earth...under 10 Minutes. Period. A platform solely dedicated
to the art of the shortest Short Films. Get Shorty will provide a forum to
showcase the most creative short films from around the world! We truly
believe that there are filmmakers in this world who can be brilliant in TEN minutes or less.

Urban Gypsy Productions in association with Unifrance
and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy proudly present

The Fourth Annual French Short Film Festival

A dynamic selection of narrative and animated shorts from France’s diverse and ever emerging film community
At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater November 18-21

Asbury Film Festival
Thurs Nov 11, 2004 8pm
Tishman Auditorium, New York
New York
The best short films from the best US Film Festivals. This year's will feature more than 10 Oscar winning films.

MoMA's Department of Film and Media returns to its newly upgraded Titus Theaters with "Premieres", an unprecedented 10-week series that celebrates the exciting and extraordinary breadth, style, and diversity of contemporary filmmakers worldwide. Kiarostami, Godard, and other master filmmakers present work from 2004.

MoMA New York Reopens this November. To commemorate Yoshio Taniguchi's elegant renovation, the first screenings on November 20th will feature films that have used the ever-changing Moma as a location. Highlights include Cassavettes' "Shadows", "Moving Day at the Museum", and Warhol's "Empire".