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Sydney Levine
LatinoBuzz: Mexico's Young Filmmakers Are Breaking Records and Pushing Boundaries
- By Vanessa Erazo
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- May 9, 2012 11:55 AM
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Mexico’s film industry broke records last year. Box office attendance reached an all-time high and due in part to increased public funding, local productions rose to more than 70 feature films. Yet, as is true in all of Latin America, Hollywood blockbusters edged out national films.
LatinoBuzz: Latin American Films Take Center Stage at the Box Office, Sometimes
- By Vanessa Erazo
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- May 2, 2012 1:07 PM
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It’s rare for a film in Spanish or Portuguese to make it to a U.S. theater. Even within Latin America or Spain, it’s difficult for local films to compete against Hollywood blockbusters. Once in a while, against all odds, Latino films triumph at their local box office.
Napa Valley Film Festival Carries On
- By Peter Belsito
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- March 2, 2012 12:10 PM
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A few weeks back I had the distinct pleasure of attending and serving on the jury of the premiere edition of Napa Valley Film Festival. I want to promote / publicize their 2nd outing later this year but first I want to use this forum to say why I think they at Napa – and events like them worldwide – are so important now.
Canada in Berlin
- By Sydney Levine
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- February 11, 2012 7:30 AM
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As we roll into Berlin where War Witch (aka Rebelle) (ISA: Films Distribution) by Kim Nguyen is in Competition. While it’s Kim’s 4th feature, this is the first of his films to have a world premiere at an international festival. This is exceptional as well because the last time the Canadians had a Canadian director in Competition at the Berlinale was in 1999 with Emporte-Moi ! Guy Madden’s Keyhole holds a Berlinale Special slot. Guy is Canada’s cultural ambassador in Berlin and a regular at the Festival and sat on the Berlinale’s Official Jury last year – with Isabella Rossellini.
Canada Revisited
- By SydneyLevine
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- February 10, 2012 6:46 AM
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A year ago in Sundance we interviewed Telefilm Canada’s Carolle Brabant who had taken the reins of Telefilm the previous March. While often the Canadian films are waiting to premiere at Cannes or Toronto. This year the number of upcoming greats which might make it to Cannes include Xavier Dolan’s latest Laurence Anyways (ISA: MK2), and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight's Children, based on a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India. It won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981 and was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary. It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books.
Robot & Frank and Valley of Saints at Sundance via Sloan Foundation Support
- By Sydney Levine
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- February 8, 2012 7:30 AM
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It is not fostering films that teach but films that integrate science into the drama that makes for good stories. This program brings public understanding of science and technology which is about bridging the gap between the two cultures and fostering a keener appreciation of the increasingly scientific and technological world in which we live. Also humanizing the face of science—and of the men and women engaged in scientific and technological pursuit.
U.S. Distributors Are Popping Up Like Mushrooms: Adopt Films
- By Sydney Levine
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- October 20, 2011 1:30 AM
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Veteran distribution executive and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky has teamed with longtime Twin Cities entrepreneur and former exhibitor Tim Grady to form a new acquisitions-oriented independent distribution company called Adopt Films. They announced their first acquisition at TIFF 2011, the French-American filmmaker Marie Losier’s award-winning documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. Adopt Films plans a first quarter 2012 release in the U.S.
Women to Watch: Nancy Gerstman U.S. Distributor
- By Sydney Levine
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- October 7, 2011 5:30 AM
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by Guest Blogger Peter Belsito
When Are Films Political? Hell and Back Again
- By Sydney Levine
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- October 6, 2011 2:00 AM
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Hell and Back Again, the feature documentary by Danfung Dennis that won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 opens on October 5th at Film Forum in NYC and on October 14th at Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica. New Video is the U.S. distributor and this is one of four films inaugurating its new theatrical distribution initiative. Dogwoof is the international sales agent.
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