http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/ Enzian Theater en Copyright 2009 2009-11-06T01:29:49+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/fff_1st_features_deadline_hits/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/fff_1st_features_deadline_hits/ Unbelievable, but the 2010 Florida Film Festival early deadline for Features is already here.  Friday, November 6 is the first submisssion deadline for Features (films over 40 minutes) for the upcoming 19th edition of the festival April 9 - 18.  While our late deadline for Features hits 5 weeks from now on December 11, and our brand spanking new late-late extended deadline for all you Without a Box-ers out there allows for yet one more week of post-production or procrastination (or both) until December 18, NOW is the time to send in your feature film if it’s complete and ready… FFF 10 2009-11-06T01:29:49+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/yoo-hoo_hits_a_million/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/yoo-hoo_hits_a_million/ Congratulations to International Film Circuit and director Aviva Kempner for their film, YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG, which just passed the $1,000,000 box office mark this weekend.  No small feat for a documentary about “The most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of,” audiences nationwide obviously agree with the critics who have made this deeply affectionate and engrossing work one of the highest rated films at RottenTomatoes.com for the past four months (it still has a “93” rating).  A remarkable portrait of an even more remarkable woman, the film tells the story of Gertrude Berg, a pioneer in radio and television… General 2009-11-03T17:06:11+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/you_dont_have_to_be_jewish_to_love_enzian/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/you_dont_have_to_be_jewish_to_love_enzian/ But if you are it makes our current and upcoming programming that much more special.  Last Friday Enzian had the pleasure of opening the exclusive Orlando engagement of the new Coen Brothers movie, A SERIOUS MAN, one of the most brilliant and hilarious films of the year.  Easily the most personal (and Jewish) work they’ve ever created, it is a stunning meditation on faith and growing up in a predominantly Jewish suburb of late ‘60s Minnesota.  Whether you’re a fan of their previous work or not (and this is certainly one of their best and funniest), you don’t want to… General 2009-10-27T22:33:21+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/fff_1st_shorts_deadline_is_here/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/fff_1st_shorts_deadline_is_here/ Yes people, it’s hard to believe, but the 2010 Florida Film Festival early deadline for Shorts is already here.  Friday, October 23 is the first landmark to hit of the various submisssion deadlines for Shorts and Features for the upcoming 19th edition of the festival April 9 - 18.  While our late deadline for Shorts hits 4 weeks from now on November 20, and our brand spanking new late-late extended deadline for all you Without a Box-ers out there allows for yet one more week of post-production or procrastination (or both) until November 27, NOW is the time to send… FFF 10 2009-10-23T23:36:15+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/brouhaha_deadline_nears/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/brouhaha_deadline_nears/ Attention all independent Florida short filmmakers!  This Friday, October 23, is the official (postmark) deadline for all Brouhaha submissions.  That’s right—the 18th annual edition of the area’s premier showcase for the best short films produced in the state of Florida occurs the weekend of December 5 & 6, but the entry deadline is a mere 48 hours away.  As long as your work is at least in transit this weekend and we can receive it by the middle of next week you’ll be good to go.  But you don’t want to miss a chance for your film to be shown… General 2009-10-21T22:43:01+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/words_fill_october_slam/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/words_fill_october_slam/ Last weekend’s FilmSlam #10 for 2009 drew a healthy 80 or so local indie film supporters as seven new Florida short films made their debuts on the big screen at Enzian.  As always, the Audience Award winner of this monthly in-state filmmaking celebration receives an automatic bye into December’s Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase.  And once there, if the FilmSlam winner happens to be selected by a local industry jury to be part of the “Best of Brouhaha” program, the film moves on to play in the Florida Sidebar section of April’s 19th annual Florida Film Festival.  So potentially there’s… General 2009-10-16T23:16:03+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/local_boy_makes_good/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/local_boy_makes_good/ Congratulations to University of Central Florida Film grad and Florida Film Festival alum Danny Daneau for the trio of honors recently bestowed on his feature debut, THE ATTIC DOOR, at the 6th annual Bend Film Festival.  Held October 8 - 11 in the gorgeous northwest town of Bend, Oregon (yours truly actually went White Water River Rafting there once!), the festival awarded the film “Best Feature,” “Best Cinematography” (fellow UCF alum Scott Uhlfelder shot it), and “Best Music Score” (by composer Kristin Ohrn Dyrud). THE ATTIC DOOR, which had its World Premiere at the 2009 Florida Film Festival in April,… FFF 09 2009-10-14T21:00:28+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/freaky_october_fun_at_enzian_for_halloween/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/freaky_october_fun_at_enzian_for_halloween/ Now this is going to be fun!  Beginning last night with the outdoor Popcorn Flick screening of POLTERGEIST and for the final three weeks of October, Enzian is bringing all kinds of ghoulish goings-on to the Central Florida cultural landscape.  You may not recognize us (especially with the Haunted Swamp and Walk of Terror on Halloween weekend), but there will be plenty of laughs, frights, freak-outs, and (in some cases) buckets of gore gracing our screen in the coming days. The 10th anniversary screening of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, accompanied by Producer Robin Cowie who’ll be in attendance for intro… General 2009-10-09T21:27:49+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/twins_make_history/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/twins_make_history/ Wow!  How awesome was that?  Last night’s tiebreaker play-in game between Detroit and Minnesota before the largest baseball crowd in Metrodome history was truly one for the ages and one of the most stressful and amazing contests I’ve ever witnessed.  But after nearly 5 hours of back and forth and give and take, my Twins won 6 - 5 in 12 innings and became the first team in history to win a division after being 3 games out with 4 to play, while the Tigers became one of a handful of teams to blow a 7-game lead in the standings… Sports 2009-10-07T23:01:12+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/play-in_game_redux/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/play-in_game_redux/ Here we go again!  After a wonderful stretch of 16 victories in their last 20 games (w/o former MVP Justin Morneau available no less), my Minnesota Twins have battled back from 7 games behind the Detroit Tigers to tie them in the standings and once again force a game # 163 to determine who wins the AL Central and advances to the playoffs.  We’ve seen this before—last year the Twins tied with the White Sox but had to go to Chicago for the play-in game and suffered a brutal 1-0 defeat.  The outrage over the location of that game actually… Sports 2009-10-06T21:07:59+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/samosas_kingfisher_5_premieres/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/samosas_kingfisher_5_premieres/ How can you go wrong this weekend at Enzian?  The 15th annual South Asian Film Festival, co-presented with the Asian Cultural Association, is finally here and it’s a doozy!  From Saturday morning, October 3, to Monday evening, October 5, a wonderful, award-winning, and diverse group of 5 films will be gracing Enzian’s screen as part of our 15th anniversary of celebrating Indian film, history, and culture.  From an acclaimed master like Santosh Sivan to the directorial debut of a Mira Nair’s noted screenwriter (Sooni Taraporevela) to a Student Academy Award winner (Gregg Helvey), this is a lineup that’s certainly “Beyond… General 2009-10-02T22:37:01+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/september_slam_results/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/september_slam_results/ From the better-late-than-never department I wanted to give a shout-out to September’s FilmSlam winners.  The monthly showcase for in-state produced short films actually took place a couple of weeks ago while I was attending the Toronto Film Festival, and a solid crowd of almost 90 local indie film lovers, family members, and filmmaker friends came out to show their support and voice their opinions.  Taking 1st Place and (time permitting) earning a bye into December’s Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase (which can lead to a spot in April’s Florida Film Festival) was Aron Chapman and Natalie Vazquez Rivera’s THE TRANSPLANTED… General 2009-09-30T22:52:35+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/rock_docs_rock_...movie_club/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/rock_docs_rock_...movie_club/ The last few months of Movie Club at Enzian were great successes.  They were informative and very interesting.  Being able to get some of the best commentators Orlando had to offer to speak on various topics ended up working out quite well.  However, last month when planning for September we decided perhaps we were missing a major point of why the community would want to come out to something like this.  Who is a better critic and who has more valid views than the audience themselves?  Therefore, we decided to change the format to more like that of a book… 2009-09-25T22:14:01+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/to_market_we_will_go1/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/to_market_we_will_go1/ The 31st edition of IFP’s Independent Film Week (formerly known as the IFP Market and prior to that the IFFM or Independent Feature Film Market) wrapped today and provided some great opportunities to meet and listen to some masterful directors and industry heavyweights as well as getting a look at dozens of new documentary and narrative feature projects in various stages of completion.  Some films may actually be ready for the Spring 2010 festival circuit (including the Florida Film Festival of course), but the majority of them will take another year or two to get completed.  Still, it’s a great… IFP 2009-09-25T02:22:29+00:00 http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/wrapping_up_tiff/ http://blogs.indiewire.com/enzian/archives/wrapping_up_tiff/ I’m up in NYC for the IFP’s Independent Film Week (more on that later), so let’s put a lid on finishing up the balance of my Toronto selections with the rest of these quick takes: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED (4-Stars) - J Blakeson’s taut little British thriller is a heckuva lot of fun and shows just how much you can do with just 3 actors, especially when one of them is the wonderful Eddie Marsan (Mike Leigh’s HAPPY-GO-LUCKY).  Two blokes are ready for their big score when they execute their prep work to perfection and kidnap a rich girl. … TIFF 2009-09-21T05:54:56+00:00