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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky today (7/20) at 4 PM.
With English trailer.
Tickets available at our box office and online at: http://www.japansociety.org/event/the-cowards-who-looked-to-the-sky-fugainai-boku-wa-sora-wo-mita
It’s a Double Billing!
Don’t miss Masaaki Yuasa’s (Mind Game)madly frenetic new short, Kick-Heart, preceding Show Must Go Ontomorrow (7/20) at 1 PM.
Introduction by producer Justin Leach.
More information at: http://www.japansociety.org/event/kick-heart
Tickets available at our box office and online at: http://www.japansociety.org/event/documentary-of-akb48-no-flower-without-rain
The Ravine of Goodbye tonight (7/19) at 7 PM.
Winner of the Moscow International Film Festival Special Jury Prize
With English subtitles.
Tickets available at our box office and online at: http://www.japansociety.org/event/the-ravine-of-goodbye
I am on the Board of a film festival in my area and tonight was the Opening Night of this year’s festival! Fun times posing on the red carpet… ❤️
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Speak of the devil - we officially won the Student Film category in the New Media Film Festival.
We also got Semi-Finalist for the New York Animation Film Awards back in June (I got confused about the laurels and didn’t know what they meant at the time)
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Alan Rickman at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2015 at Cineworld
Photo by Brian McEvoy
My work SLEEVELESS / FEARLESS (and me) will be in Berlin next week as part of Berlin Feminist Film Week on 8th - 14th March 2016!
Welcome to the screening BODY POSITIVE – My body is my temple on 9th of March at 20:30 to Moviemento! I will be taking part to the panel discussion as well with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah - I’m little bit nervous and totally exited!
Hereandhere are the Facebook events!
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SLEEVELESS / FEARLESS ja mä ollaan Berliinissä ensi viikolla Berlin Feminist Film Weekillä! Jännittää!!!
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Welcome to Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy next week where I will be showing 3 films and talking in a panel!
Cut to the Chase – R&A Shorts: Queer Bodies
keskiviikkona 26.9.2018
klo 18:45
WHS Teatteri Union
The screening, curated by the Young Artist of the Year 2018, J. A. Juvani, preent the politics of body, sex, sexuality, and gender. According to Queer Bodies (2011) by Heather Sykes, “queer bodies” include all that are excluded from the norm, such as the overweight body. In the screening, Aurora Reinhard’s interview documentary Boygirl (2002) is followed by recent works of a new generation of artists: Hinni Huttunen, Artor Jesus Inkerö, Camille Auer, and Kristoffer Ala-Ketola. The screening is associated with the forthcoming educational material on queer thematics produced by AV-arkki and Seta and curated by J. A. Juvani.
R&A TALKS: Queer Bodies
Torstaina 27.9. at 17-18
Bio Rexin lämpiön lavalla
Co-hosted with AV-Arkki – the Centre for Finnish Media Art jaThe Family Federation of Finland we dive into representations of gender. On stage artists J.A. Juvani, Hinni Huttunen, Artor Jesus Inkerö, the Family Federation of Finland’s Jaana Tiiri and transactivist Sakris Kupila. The discussion will be moderated by Marjo Pipinen.
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It’sGo Skateboarding Day, and what better way to celebrate than to highlight films throughout Sundance Film Festival history that feature skateboarding.
Founded in 2004 by Don Brown and the International Association of Skateboard Companies in California, the holiday gives skateboarders an opportunity to get outside and practice the sport with the help of participating cities worldwide.
Here are just a few films that capture the creativity, passion, drive, and so much more that skateboarding can ignite.
(Above) 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Hala dir. by Minhal Baig
Hala is her father’s pride and joy. Dutiful and academically gifted, she skillfully navigates both her social life as a teen in Chicago and her obligations as an only child to Pakistani immigrants. When she meets Jesse, a classmate who shares her love for poetry and skateboarding, their romance is complicated by her Muslim faith and a father who is prepared to arrange her marriage according to their family’s cultural tradition. As Hala begins to challenge these customs, her parents’ own lives start to unravel, testing the power of Hala’s flourishing voice.
2018 Sundance Film Festival, Skate Kitchen dir. by Crystal Moselle
Introverted 18-year-old skateboarder Camille lives on Long Island with her single mother. After a startling injury, she promises her mother she’ll hang up her board, but the pull to skate is too strong. On Instagram she discovers “The Skate Kitchen,” a subculture of girls whose lives revolve around skating, and bravely seeks them out… Skate Kitchen precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
2001 Sundance Film Festival, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography dir. by Stacy Peralta
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn’t always like that. In the early ’80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade. This documentary chronicles their epic rise, using awesome archival footage and moving first-person accounts from Brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen, among others.
1999 Sundance Film Festival, Dogtown and Z-Boys dir. by Stacy Peralta
Skateboarding has crossed over into the mainstream population due in large part to the humble beginnings of a group of eight teenagers in an area of Santa Monica called Dogtown. It was there that this mismatched gang of kids from broken homes formed a group known as the Zephyr Team aka Z-Boys… Reuniting the original crew 25 years later enables us to hear in their own words what it was like before x-treme sports existed.
All film stills courtesy of respective film titles.
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A brief history of Parker Posey’s (aka “The Queen of the Indies”) Sundance career in film posters
SubUrbia, 1997 Sundance Festival
Directed by Richard Linklater and written by Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia is an extraordinary blend of the disparate visions of two celebrated observers of pop culture and disaffected youth… SubUrbia seduces you with a cinematic style that captures the dark heart of middle America.
Frisk, 1996 Sundance Film Festival
Frisk is the much-anticipated adaptation of Dennis Cooper’s infamous novel about homosexuality, sadism, and insanity. Ironically, Dennis is also the name of the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal.
Broken English,2007 Sundance Film Festival
Nora isn’t broken; she just acts that way. She is actually sexy, funny, and creative, and her only fault is being cursed with that modern affliction of wanting more out of life than what others want for her. She must suffer quietly her best friend’s “perfect marriage,” a job she has outgrown, and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all.
Fay Grim,2007 Sundance Film Festival
Eight years have passed since the infamous Henry Fool fled the country, abandoning his wife, Fay Grim, and their son, Ned. Played to Hartley-esque perfection by Parker Posey, Fay is falling to pieces. Ned is being expelled from school, and Fay’s brother, Simon (James Urbaniak), the reviled garbageman/poet, is serving a 10-year sentence for aiding Henry’s escape.
Spring Breakdown,2009 Sundance Film Festival
An outlandish, quick-witted romp that jubilantly leaves none immune to ridicule, Spring Breakdown chews up our geeky gals and spits them out as triumphant powerhouses—confident that being who they truly are is way cooler than fitting in.
Grab,2011 Sundance Film Festival
Each year residents of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico honor individual family members by throwing food and gifts from the rooftops of their homes to the community that gathers below. Billy Luther’s film follows three families as they prepare for this ancient tradition, which has taken many modern twists.
Columbus, 2017 Sundance Film Festival
While his father is in a coma, Jin finds himself stuck in an unusual Midwestern city renowned for its modernist buildings. Though not fond of architecture, Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a bright girl who works at the city library (avoiding college and her future), and she shows him the local marvels.
-All film posters courtesy of respective film titles-
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The sun will come out, tomorrow!
And even if it doesn’t, Athena Film Festival passes will go on sale!
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When you wake up from your tryptophan-induced hibernation, it will be time to get ready for the Athena Film Festival! Passes go on sale Dec. 3 at http://athenafilmfestival.com!
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Athena Film Festival passes go on sale Dec. 3! Come see for yourself that the pictures have not gotten small.
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The Athena Film Festival is now open for submissions through September 15, 2014.
What We Look For:
Documentaries, Features and Shorts that:
- Reveal the diverse narratives of women leaders from all walks of life—narratives of ambition, courage, strength and resilience.
- Showcase women leaders who help us interpret the reality of the modern world—captivating stories of truth, determination, innovation and vision.
- Highlight the talents of emerging artists — capturing a new generation’s take on what truly makes exemplary women leaders.
Keep In Mind:
- All films must feature a female in a leadership position at the center of the story.
- Films may be directed by a person or people of any gender.
- Films that are directed by women but do not focus on female leadership will not be considered.
Don’t wait until it’s too late to send in your films!
Boston’s Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival
“Ask not for whom the Ostrich screams, The Ostrich screams for thee.”
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This is my final design for Norwich Film Festival poster competition. I have been short listed on their voting website as one of the final eight. Please use this link to vote http://www.norwichfilmfestival.co.uk/2013-poster-designs-the-top-8 if you have the time! Thank you!
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A proposal for the Norwich Film Festival leaflet guide - a fold out format that shows all of the necessary information with the black and white poster on reverse as a keep sake.
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Fordham’s Paul Levinson is a judge in this year’s Phillip K. Dick Film Festival, and will sit on a panel to discuss the Amazon series, “The Man in the High Castle.”
Dr. Levinson, a pop culture and media expert, was recently interviewed on NBC New York (channel 4) about the death of singer David Bowie.
Watchhere.
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