AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Fest's Audience Award winners for 2011 are Jerry Rothwell's Donor Unknown, which won the Feature Audience Award, and Matt Morris's Mr. Happy Man, which won in the Shorts category. Award-winning and Festival favorites will play at the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center this week along with Guggenheim Retrospective screenings. Here's the schedule. More details on Donor Unknown (trailer below), Mr. Happy Man and previously announced winners, including Kevin Macdonald for Life in a Day and Lee Hirsch's The Bully Project, are below: Donor Trailer v4 Website from Docs & Pieces on Vimeo. Donor Unkown, directed by Jerry Rothwell took the Audience Award Feature. The film chronicles twenty-year-old JoEllen Marsh who was raised by two loving mothers in Pennsylvania who used a ...
- 6/27/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
After the dust settled at last week's Silverdocs documentary film festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, the votes were tabulated and it was announced that Jerry Rothwell's "Donor Unknown" and Matt Morris's "Mr. Happy Man" took home the audience awards for Best Feature and Best Short, respectively. "Donor Unknown" probes into the lives of several young men and women who realize they all share a sperm donor in common. Little do ...
- 6/27/2011
- Indiewire
By Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Independent Film Festival of Boston [1] recently released their full line-up and it's a doozy. Sundance favorites such as The Future [2] and Submarine [3] will be there, along with awesome documentaries like Being Elmo [4] (With Elmo In Attendance!!!) and Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times [5]. I'm looking forward to films I wasn't able to catch at Sundance and SXSW, such as the legal documentary Hot Coffee, the heartbreaking How to Die in Oregon, and the new fascinating Conan O'Brien film. Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins [6] also looks like it will rock the house. The full line-up is below. The festival is April 27th through May 4th, and it's one of my favorite movie events of the year. If you live anywhere in New England, I invite you to come and check it out. You can follow IFFBoston on Facebook for updates [7] or buy your passes now [8]! Narrative Features 13 Assassins...
- 3/25/2011
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
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