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Now in its seventh year at the beachy southern edge of Queens, the Rockaway Film Festival has revealed its 2024 lineup, which IndieWire shares exclusively. The festival runs August 17-25, 2024 and features outdoor screenings and conversations at the Rff’s regular yearlong venue, the Arverne Cinema.

This year’s highlights include Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood’s looping, multi-screen installation “Waking Up (For the First Time),” a tribute to experimental animator Faith Hubley, with live music performances and DJ sets featuring members of indie bands Animal Collective and Mgmt.

Special events include bio-art and stop-motion animated workshops, children’s cinema, the U.S. premiere of “The Future Perfect” director Nele Wohlatz’s comedy of misunderstandings “Sleep with Your Eyes Open,” the New York premiere of Juan Palacios and Sofie Husum Johannesen’s “As the Tide Comes In,” plus the world premieres of Corey Hughes’ “Your Final Meditation” and Sam Fleischner’s “Jetty.

Rarely one finds a friend on the Criterion Channel—discounting the parasitic relationship we form with filmmakers, I mean—but it’s great seeing their March lineup give light to Sophy Romvari, the <bias>exceptionally talented</bias> filmmaker and curator whose work has perhaps earned comparisons to Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman but charts its own path of history and reflection. It’s a good way to lead into an exceptionally strong month, featuring as it does numerous films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the great Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara, newfound cult classic Arrebato, and a number of Criterion editions.

On the last front we have The Age of Innocence, Bull Durham, A Raisin in the Sun, The Celebration, Merrily We Go to Hell, and Design for Living. There’s always something lingering on the watchlist, but it might have to wait a second longer—March is an opened floodgate.

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Wes Anderson selected Suzie Templeton’s Oscar-winning Peter & The Wolf to screen in the Animation First Festival in New York

Suzie Templeton’s 2008 Oscar-winning Animated Short Peter & The Wolf is a timeless masterpiece. Selected by Wes Anderson, the first American Special Guest at the French Institute Alliance Française fourth annual Animation First Festival in New York it screens along with three other animated films that inspired him: David Hand’s Bambi, and two shorts, Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs (1982) and Garry Trudeau’s A Doonesbury Special (1977), co-directed by Faith Hubley and John Hubley. Templeton’s short Dog won Best New British Animation at the Edinburgh...

As a musical it’s excellent — fine tunes and lyrics, great singing and dancing by the ever-youthful Fred Astaire, the glorious songbird Petula Clark, and the impishly weird Tommy Steele cast appropriately as a grimacing Leprechaun. The update of what was a politically acute Broadway hit in 1947 is awkward but the show is a melodious pleasure — great color, fine voices and peppy direction by Francis Ford Coppola on his first big studio feature.

Finian’s Rainbow

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1968 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 145 141 min. / Street Date March 7, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock, Al Freeman Jr., Ronald Colby, Dolph Sweet, Wright King, Louis Silas.

Cinematography: Philip Lathrop

Film Editor: Melvin Shapiro

Original Music: Ray Heindorf

Written by E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy

Produced by Joseph Landon

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Finian’s Rainbow is a unique musical with a strange history.

Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomberts built a reproductive clinic on a ship, sailed it to countries where abortion is outlawed -- Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain... and got responses from thousands of women in need. It's an advocacy docu about an activist experiment that's moving around the world, promoting positive change. Vessel DVD Kino Lorber 2014 / Color / 1:78 enhanced widescreen / 86 min. / Street Date April 19, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95 Starring Rebecca Gomperts Cinematography Diana Whitten Film Editor Simeon Hunter Animators Emily Hubley.Emilie Liu, Hsien Pei Liu Original Music T. Griffin, Heather McIntosh Produced by Mitchell Block, Diana Whitten Directed by Diana Whitten

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

An efficient and powerful advocacy documentary, 2014's Vessel documents the work of Rebecca Gomperts, a pro- women's reproductive rights activist. A doctor and one-time activist with Greenpeace, around 2000 Gomberts decided to stop working in a women's clinic in her home of Amsterdam, Holland, and to take the...

Read More: Provincetown Film Festival Releases Lineup For 17th Edition  Jennifer Coolidge, the actress best known for her role as Stifler's mother in the "American Pie" franchise and her work with director Christopher Guest on his beloved improvised comedies "Best in Show," "A Mighty Wind" and "For Your Consideration," made a trip to the beachside town of Provincetown, Massachusetts over the weekend to pick up the event's Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award. The actress, who got her start as a member of The Groundlings comedy troupe alongside Will Ferrell, has worked non-stop since the late '80s in both TV and film. On top of the "American Pie" and Guest movies, Coolidge has memorably appeared on the small screen in "Seinfeld," "Sex and the City" and most recently "2 Broke Girls," and in the two "Legally Blonde" films as a daffy beautician who perfects the Bend and Snap to bag a man.

Time to hit the beach, moviegoers! The Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) recently announced the honorees for its 17th edition, taking place June 17–21 at the scenic Massachusetts town. Founded in 1999 as a means to promote Provincetown’s rich cultural history, the festival honors innovation in independent filmmaking and has become a top destination for both industry pros and cinephiles looking to welcome summer. 2015’s recipient of the coveted Filmmaker on the Edge Award, recognizing visionaries in the film world, will be presented to Bobcat Goldthwait (“Call Me Lucky”) on June 20 at the town hall. The award has been previously given to luminaries such as Quentin Tarantino, Darren Aronofsky, and John Waters, the festival’s resident artist. Actor Jennifer Coolidge (“Best in Show,” “Legally Blonde”) will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award. “This year’s honorees underscore the importance of comedy to independent film—not only surprising and delighting us,...

Read More: Provincetown Film Festival Releases Lineup For 17th Edition  The Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) announced that it will honor comedian and writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait, as well as actress Jennnifer Coolidge, at this year's edition of the festival. Goldthwait, whose documentary "Call Me Lucky" screened in competition at Sundance in January, will be named "Filmmaker on the Edge" in a conversation with Piff resident artist John Waters. Coolidge, best known for her roles in "Best in Show" and the "American Pie" and "Legally Blonde" franchises, will be awarded the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award from film critic B. Ruby Rich. In addition to announcing the 2015 honorees, Piff released the full shorts program, as well as the titles of feature films that have been added since the festival's main program announcement. Notable additions include Noah Baumbach's "Mistress America;" a...

Elegy To Connie screens Saturday, Nov 15 at 6:30pm at St. Louis University as part of The St. Louis International Film Festival. It is a Free event.

Elegy To Connie is a touching and unique documentary by local artist and filmmaker Sarah Paulsen that employs stop-motion animation to address the events leading up to and following the 2008 Kirkwood City Council shooting. The troubling incident is retold in interviews with a group of unintentional women activists who are bound together by their friendship with slain Councilwoman Connie Karr, and the animation amplifies their voices through striking visuals that sometimes illustrate their comments directly but frequently offer metaphoric counterpoint. Made in collaboration with these women, the film addresses the complicated issues surrounding the shooting – citizen representation, disenfranchisement, white privilege and black alienation, post-tragedy healing – and celebrates Connie’s legacy as a leader.

Sarah Paulsen took the time to talk to We Are Movie Geeks about her film.

For this week’s Ioncinema.com’s Short Film Corner, we feature Yearbook, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, where it deservedly was awarded the Short Film Grand Jury Prize. Recently listedl as one of Filmmaker Mag’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, writer/director Bernardo Britto’s densely packed, darkly prophetic tail of an average working man tasked with cataloging all of recorded history before Earth is destroyed by a retaliatory alien attack is a startlingly deep philosophic discussion of what keeping a record actually means.

It’s also a tragic, yet moving depiction of a classic man at work/wife at home trope, as well as an earnestly hand made animated short that calls on the tonality of Chris Ware’s hyper stylized tragicomic work and reaches far beyond its formative stricture to something of simple cinematic greatness. I had the opportunity to pose the young filmmaker...

Top brass at the Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) have announced the award winners of this year’s festival.

As previously announced, David Cronenberg was presented with the 2014 Filmmaker On The Edge Award and took part in a conversation with Piff resident artist John Waters at Town Hall.

Debra Winger was on hand to receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award and took part in a conversation with film professor B Ruby Rich.

Patricia Clarkson was presented with the 2014 Excellence in Acting Award.

The festival ran from June 18-22 and the 2015 edition is set for June 17-21.

The winners:

HBO Audience Award / Best Narrative Feature: One Chance, David Frankel;

HBO Audience Award / Best Documentary Feature: Alive Inside, Michael Rossato-Bennett;

HBO Audience Award / Best Short Film: Kehinde Wiley: An Economy Of Grace, Jeff Dupre;

The John Schlesinger Award, presented to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker: Keep On Keepin’ On, Alan Hicks;

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The 16th annual Provincetown International Film Festival will run June 18-22. What's most anticipated? Probably the North American premiere of Jonathan Demme's "A Master Builder" with Wallace Shawn (read more about it here). Demme's feature will show on the festival's closing night.   The opening night film will be "Last Weekend," directed by Tom Dolby and Tom Williams, making its east coast premiere. Other Spotlight showings include "Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank" from Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler on Friday, and "Love is Strange" from Ira Sachs on Saturday.  Some anticipated awards have been announced as well. Patricia Clarkson ("Pieces of April," "Last Weekend") is to receive the 2014 Excellence in Acting Award, and Debra Winger ("Terms of Endearment," "Rachel Getting Married") will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award. "We are delighted to honor Patricia Clarkson and Debra Winger at this year's festival," said Connie White,...

The 16th Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) will open with the East Coast premiere of Tom Dolby and Tom Williams’ Last Weekend starring Patricia Clarkson on June 18.

Closing the event on June 22 is the North American premiere of Jonathan Demme’s A Master Builder.

The Friday Spotlight will be Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler’s Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and the Saturday Spotlight will be Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange.

The 2014 Excellence in Acting Award will be awarded to Clarkson, while Debra Winger will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award.

“We are delighted to honour Patricia Clarkson and Debra Winger at this year’s festival,” said artistic director Connie White. “It is perfect timing to honour Patti, as we can celebrate her remarkable talent and also spotlight her beautiful performance in Last Weekend as our Opening Night Selection.

“In choosing Debra, we get to highlight one of our favorite actresses and a career...

 

The Austin Film Society has one last screening this evening of the new IFC Films release Hateship Loveship over at the Marchesa. Kristen Wiig and Guy Pearce star in this adaptation of Alice Munro's story. On Sunday, Afs is celebrating the Hubley Centennial with an afternoon of animated shorts screening from the husband and wife team of John and Faith Hubley. The shorts will screen at 2 pm, followed by an Afs Moviemaker Dialogue with their daughter Emily Hubley at 4.

On Tuesday, Ladonna Harris Indian 101 is playing for Doc Nights. Julianna Brannum's film explores the life of Comanche activist Ladonna Harris, who works to this day on educating emerging indigenous leaders. On Wednesday night, Richard Linklater will present a 35mm print of Louis Malle's 1981 drama Atlantic City and on Thursday evening, Essential Cinema will screen Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. 

The Alamo Drafthouse has a few Mother's Day events happening this weekend.

This year marks 100 years since animator John Hubley's birth. To celebrate the work of this man and his wife/collaborator Faith Hubley, Austin Film Society will be hosting an afternoon of shorts by the team as part of the Hubley Centennial.

Their daughter Emily Hubley, an animator and creative force in her own right, will introduce the screening and then participate in an Afs Moviemaker Dialogue afterwards (a separate ticket).

You may not think you've seen any of the Hubleys' work before, but given that they worked on TV ads and public television programs such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company -- along with their singular short films -- you most likely have.  The shorts included in the Centennial programming are new 35mm prints from the Hubleys' oeuvre between 1956-1970.  Their Oscar-winning Moonbird will be screened, as well as Windy Day (still above, includes voices of daughters Emily...

‘Gilda,’ ‘Pulp Fiction’: 2013 National Film Registry movies (photo: Rita Hayworth in ‘Gilda’) See previous post: “‘Mary Poppins’ in National Film Registry: Good Timing for Disney’s ‘Saving Mr. Banks.’” Billy Woodberry’s UCLA thesis film Bless Their Little Hearts (1984). Stanton Kaye’s Brandy in the Wilderness (1969). The Film Group’s Cicero March (1966), about a Civil Rights march in an all-white Chicago suburb. Norbert A. Myles’ Daughter of Dawn (1920), with Hunting Horse, Oscar Yellow Wolf, Esther Labarre. Bill Morrison’s Decasia (2002), featuring decomposing archival footage. Alfred E. Green’s Ella Cinders (1926), with Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis. Fred M. Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet (1956), with Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Robby the Robot. Charles Vidor’s Gilda (1946), with Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready. John and Faith Hubley’s Oscar-winning animated short The Hole (1962). Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), with Best Actor Oscar winner Maximilian Schell,...

2013 edition of the Provincetown International Film Festival ran June 19-23.

Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine [pictured] and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom were among the winners at the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff).

Haute Cuisine and Twenty Feet From Stardom scooped the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, respectively.

Other winners at the 2013 edition of Piff included Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You which took home the John Schlesinger Award, given to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker.

As previously announced, cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award (sponsored by the Mallrd Foundation), while Harmony Korine won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award (sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation).

The 2013 Piff ran June 19-23. For the full list of winners, visit the festival’s website.

2013 edition of the Provincetown International Film Festival ran June 19-23.

Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine [pictured] and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom were among the winners at the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff).

Haute Cuisine and Twenty Feet From Stardom scooped the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, respectively.

Other winners at the 2013 edition of Piff included Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You which took home the John Schlesinger Award, given to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker.

As previously announced, cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award (sponsored by the Mallrd Foundation), while Harmony Korine won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award (sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation).

The 2013 Piff ran June 19-23. For the full list of winners, visit the festival’s website.

Christian Vincent's "Haute Cuisine" and Morgan Neville's "Twenty Feet From Stardom" were the big winners last night as the Provincetown International Film Festival concluded during an open-air block party by doling out prizes to the audience award winners. "Haute Cuisine," the story of Daniele Delpeuch, who was the private chef to French President Francois Mitterrant was named best narrative feature, while "Twenty Feet," which is currently playing in select theaters, won best documentary feature. Other winners included Whoopi Goldberg, awarded the John Schlesinger Award given to a first-time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker for her debut "Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' To Tell You," and Marnie Crawford Samuelson, whose "Selina Trieff Will Not Stop" won best short film. Earlier over the weekend, renown cinematographer Ed Lachman ("Far From Heaven") accepted the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award, and Harmony Korine was on hand to receive the Filmmaker on the Edge.

The 15th anniversary of the Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff) will begin on Jun 19 and runs through Jun 23.

As previously announced, Harmony Korine will receive the Filmmaker On The Edge Award, Matt Dillon will receive the Excellence In Acting Award and cinematographer Ed Lachman will receive the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award.

The festival will open with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace [pictured] and close with Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes.

The Friday Night Spotlight Selection is John Waters’ I Am Divine and The Saturday Night Spotlight Selection is Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited!

The festival will close on Jun 23 with a town block party featuring the presentation of the HBO Audience Awards.

Film-to-Film Festival Schedule [See previous article "Brazil Movie Director's Cut: Film-to-Film Festival."] See below the complete “Film-to-Film” Festival schedule via the Academy’s press release. (Above image: John and Faith Hubley’s Of Men and Demons.) Thursday, September 27: Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 7:30 p.m. Brazil (1985), Original Director’s Cut (35mm, color, 142 min.) Onstage discussion with Katherine Helmond and Arnon Milchan. Writer-director Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” is set in an alternative reality “somewhere in the 20th century,” where civil servant Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) fights a hopeless battle against a totalitarian state. The film earned Academy Award® nominations for Original Screenplay (Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown) and [...]...

In celebration of its recent film preservation efforts, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will launch the first-ever .Film-to-Film. Festival, which will run September 27 through September 29, in the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills and the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. A year ago the Academy Film Archive launched an ambitious effort called .Project Film-to-Film,. aimed at preserving as many films on film as possible over a two-year period. The initiative.s main goal is to take advantage of the current, but threatened, availability of film stock to create new prints of a diverse range of motion pictures, encompassing the whole history of the art form.

More than 390 new prints have already been created from the best available film elements, covering significant narrative features and documentaries, as well as experimental, animated and short film titles. The wide variety of titles range from .Navajo,. the only film...

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The husband-and-wife team of John and Faith Hubley, who brought a humanistic perspective and a distinctly modern style to postwar American animation, will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, September 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar®-winning animator and renowned animation historian John Canemaker will host this in-depth look at these two iconoclastic artists.

The films the Hubleys made, together and independently, earned seven Academy Award® nominations and two Oscars®. The Hubleys took home Oscars for “The Hole” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1962) and “Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1966) and were nominated for “Windy Day” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1968), “Of Men and Demons” (Cartoon Short Subject, 1969), “Voyage to Next” (Animated Short Film, 1974) and “The Doonesbury Special” (Animated Short Film, 1977, with Garry Trudeau). John Hubley also earned an...

Ready for carousing on the Cape? The Provincetown Film Festival has assembled another top-notch selection of films for its gala screenings, and it's got some major names lined up to receive awards. The festival will open with Leslye Headland's Sundance hit "Bachelorette," which was picked up by Radius-twc. Also featured is "Fairhaven," Tom O'Brien's Massachusetts-set drama which just held its world premiere at Tribeca. The festival's two Spotlight titles are both high-profile, gay-themed films: Jonathan Lisecki's conception comedy "Gayby" and Jeffrey Schwarz's activism doc "Vito." The 2012 Filmmaker On The Edge award will go to B-movie pioneer and Hollywood legend Roger Corman. Parker Posey will receive the Excellence in Acting Award. The Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award will go to Kirby Dick, whose film "The Invisible War" will be released by New Video this year. The 2012...

Faith Hubley, Olivia de Havilland, John Hubley, Michael Goldman, Oscar 1967 "An Academy Salute to John Hubley" to be held as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Monday Nights with Oscar screening series in New York City. Hubley is considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors. (Right: Hubley's Oscar-winning animated short The Hole [1962].) The Hubley celebration will take place on Monday, October 10, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International. Pictured above are Hubley's wife, Faith Hubley, two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own, The Heiress), John Hubley, and Michael Goldman while backstage at the 1967 Academy Awards ceremony. The Hubleys shared the Oscar that year for their animated short A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature. Photo: Courtesy of ©AMPAS...

Faith Hubley, Olivia de Havilland, John Hubley, Oscar 1966 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Monday Nights with Oscar screening series will celebrate the life and career of animator John Hubley, considered one of the most innovative and influential designer-directors in the animation field. The Hubley evening will feature rarely seen films, and a conversation with Hubley's daughter and others. The event will be held on Monday, October 10, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Pictured above are John Hubley's wife and some-time collaborator Faith Hubley, two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, and Hubley while backstage at the 1967 Academy Awards ceremony. That year, the Hubleys won an Oscar in the Best Short Subject, Cartoons category for A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature. Photo: Courtesy of ©AMPAS...

Carl Reiner, John Hubley, Hope Lange, Oscar 1959 John Hubley, considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors, will have his life and art celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Monday Nights with Oscar screening series. A special evening featuring rarely seen John Hubley movies will be held on Monday, October 10, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. The event will be hosted by Academy Award-winning animator John Canemaker (The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation). He'll be joined onstage by one of Hubley's daughters, filmmaker Emily Hubley, and animator Michael Sporn. From the Academy's press release: Hubley (1914 – 1977) is known primarily for two decades of film collaborations with his wife, Faith Elliott Hubley. The couple, who opened their studio in 1955, focused a number of their animated films on such subjects as the creative process, the Cold War and overpopulation.

Pictured: The Hole, 1962. Courtesy of AMPAS

Beverly Hills, CA . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Monday Nights with Oscar®screening series will celebrate the life and art of John Hubley, one of animation.s most innovative and influential designer-directors, with a special evening featuring rarely seen films, on Monday, October 10, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. The event will be hosted by Academy Award®-winning animator John Canemaker (“The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation”), who will be joined onstage by one of Hubley’s daughters, filmmaker Emily Hubley, and animator Michael Sporn.

Hubley (1914 . 1977) is known primarily for two decades of film collaborations with his wife, Faith Elliott Hubley. The couple, who opened their studio in 1955, focused a number of their animated films on such subjects as the creative process, the Cold War and overpopulation. The resulting innovative work garnered many awards,...

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday announced its lineup for the 2011 Special Events and Tribeca Talks panel series. The full press release follows.

New York, NY [March 23, 2011] – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, today announced its lineup for the 2011 Special Events and Tribeca Talks® panel series. The component programs are “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie,” “Tribeca Talks: Industry,” “Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper, hosted by Barnes & Noble,” the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival panel, and new this year, in celebration of the tenth Festival, the “Tribeca Talks: Directors Series,” featuring one-on-one conversations with acclaimed filmmakers, plus the premiere of five new documentary films and a one-of-a-kind videogame-film event.

This year, Tribeca’s annual panel series, a collection of special events, conversations and audience Q&A’s designed to spark a richer dialogue about film, has expanded to include the “Tribeca Talks: Directors Series.” The series invites audiences to...

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday announced its lineup for the 2011 Special Events and Tribeca Talks panel series. The full press release follows.

New York, NY [March 23, 2011] – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, today announced its lineup for the 2011 Special Events and Tribeca Talks® panel series. The component programs are “Tribeca Talks: After the Movie,” “Tribeca Talks: Industry,” “Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper, hosted by Barnes & Noble,” the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival panel, and new this year, in celebration of the tenth Festival, the “Tribeca Talks: Directors Series,” featuring one-on-one conversations with acclaimed filmmakers, plus the premiere of five new documentary films and a one-of-a-kind videogame-film event.

This year, Tribeca’s annual panel series, a collection of special events, conversations and audience Q&A’s designed to spark a richer dialogue about film, has expanded to include the “Tribeca Talks: Directors Series.” The series invites audiences to...

The Provincetown International Film Festival's audience award for best narrative feature resulted in a tie, with honors going to Javier Fuentes-Leon's "Undertow" and Bruce Beresford's "Mao's Last Dancer" as the fest concluded Sunday.

Lucy Walker's "Waste Land" took home the audience award for best documentary feature, while Joseph Laraja's "Come on Down" won the audience award for best short film.

The student film grand jury prize went to Cameron Sawyer's "She's the Fox."

The Massachusetts fest, which focuses on indie film and emerging talent, presented its Filmmaker on the Edge Award to Kevin Smith. Tilda Swinton was honored with its Excellence in Acting Award, and "Howl" filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman were recognized with the Faith Hubley Memorial Award.

The Provincetown International Film Festival, which runs from June 16-20, will give its Filmmaker on the Edge Award to Kevin Smith.

The fest will also present Tilda Swinton with its Excellence in Acting Award and honor the directing team of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman with its Faith Hubley Memorial Award.

"We are thrilled with these four award recipients.  They each represent the spirit and artistic voice of what independent filmmaking is today," executive director Gabby Hanna said.

Joe Dante presenting "The Movie Orgy" in L.A., a rare stateside appearance of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda for a retrospective in New York and the Fantastic Fest in Austin are just a few of the events that serve as the perfect antidote for the endless stream of summertime sequels and toy-based franchises.

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92Y Tribeca

While the 92Y Tribeca is taking a well-deserved break in August, the cinema space comes roaring back in September, beginning with hosting the Fifth Annual NYC Shorts Festival (Sept. 10-13), followed by a late night "Labyrinth" sing-along complete with trivia and a costume contest (Sept. 25-26), and a Michael Winterbottom double bill of "Code 46" and "24 Hour Party People" (Sept. 30)...In October, the 92Y Tribeca will premiere "Zombie Girl: The Movie" (Oct. 2), the doc about 12-year-old filmmaker Emily Hagins and her quest to make a zombie movie, followed by hosting the Iron...

Linda Blackaby, Programmer for the San Francisco Film Society, had the honor of bestowing upon Lourdes Portillo SFIFF52’s Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, which honors the achievements of a filmmaker whose work is crafting documentaries, short films, animation or work for television. In as many years as I have been attending the San Francisco International, the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award has been given to such luminaries as Jan Svankmajer, Robert Frank, Johan van der Keuken, Faith Hubley, Kenneth Anger, Fernando Birri, Pat O’Neill, Jon Else, Adam Curtis, Guy Maddin, Heddy Honigmann and Errol Morris. Portillo—the “elegant insurgent” (as scribed by filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña in her commendable program essay)—rightfully joins that esteemed company.

• This is part fout of our continuing Tribeca Coverage. You can read about the competitive sections of the festival in part one, the non competitive selections in part two, the section 'Rediscovered', 'Spotlight' and 'Midnight Movies' in part 3.   The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival announced yesterday the line-up for its Short Film Competitions. The program includes 76 shorts selected from among 2,150 submissions. Included are short films by Laurie Anderson, Faith Hubley, Abbas Kiarostami, Sylvia Kristel, Bill Morrison and Jay Rosenblatt. There is also a strong representation from top film schools, including AFI, Columbia, Nyu, UCLA, USC as well as international film programs in Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Australia. The series also feature works directed by New York music icon Laurie Anderson and actors Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart. Appearing in this yearâ€.s short narrative films are actors David Straitharn, Henry Winkler, Sandra Bernhard, and Jeffrey Tambor. Documentary subjects include Don Cheadle,

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NEW YORK -- This informative and enlightening documentary chronicles the lives and careers of the husband-and-wife animator team of John and Faith Hubley. The first independent filmmakers to win an Oscar for animation -- they went on to garner two more -- the Hubleys' films were marked by a freewheeling sensibility and social awareness that provided a sharp contrast to the "pigs and bunnies" (in John's words) made so prevalent by the Disney juggernaut. "Independent Spirits" is playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.

The film, directed by Sybil DelGaudio, details the circumstances that compelled John, who started his career at Disney, to go independent and eventually launch his own animation studio. These included his liberal politics, his role in the 1941 Disney strike and his blacklisting during the communist scare. He went on to help form United Productions of America, which challenged the Disney aesthetic of naturalism in favor of an avant-garde approach marked by a minimalist, art-influenced style. Also groundbreaking was his collaboration with contemporary jazz musicians for his scores, including Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. The studio reached its greatest commercial success with its series of "Mr. Magoo" shorts.

Faith, who had started out as a film editor in the studio system during the war only to encounter myriad career setbacks, married John in 1955. They went on to collaborate on a series of groundbreaking animated shorts, many snippets of which are included here, that dealt with such subjects as overpopulation and the threat of nuclear annihilation. To help fund their more personal films, they also forged a notable career in television advertising, with perhaps their most famous effort being the "I Want My Maypo!" campaign. After John died in 1977, Faith embarked on a solo career that resulted in 24 more films before her own death in 2001.

Although largely uninspired in its storytelling style, "Independent Spirits" provides a reasonably clearheaded and comprehensive primer on the Hubleys' careers, featuring archival interviews with both artists spanning the years. Although one might have hoped for more context -- there's little in the way of critical analysis from objective sources -- the film does provide a welcome opportunity to sample great animated films that are not so readily viewable.

Side-Kicks Prods.

NEW YORK -- This informative and enlightening documentary chronicles the lives and careers of the husband-and-wife animator team of John and Faith Hubley. The first independent filmmakers to win an Oscar for animation -- they went on to garner two more -- the Hubleys' films were marked by a freewheeling sensibility and social awareness that provided a sharp contrast to the "pigs and bunnies" (in John's words) made so prevalent by the Disney juggernaut. "Independent Spirits" is playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.

The film, directed by Sybil DelGaudio, details the circumstances that compelled John, who started his career at Disney, to go independent and eventually launch his own animation studio. These included his liberal politics, his role in the 1941 Disney strike and his blacklisting during the communist scare. He went on to help form United Productions of America, which challenged the Disney aesthetic of naturalism in favor of an avant-garde approach marked by a minimalist, art-influenced style. Also groundbreaking was his collaboration with contemporary jazz musicians for his scores, including Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. The studio reached its greatest commercial success with its series of "Mr. Magoo" shorts.

Faith, who had started out as a film editor in the studio system during the war only to encounter myriad career setbacks, married John in 1955. They went on to collaborate on a series of groundbreaking animated shorts, many snippets of which are included here, that dealt with such subjects as overpopulation and the threat of nuclear annihilation. To help fund their more personal films, they also forged a notable career in television advertising, with perhaps their most famous effort being the "I Want My Maypo!" campaign. After John died in 1977, Faith embarked on a solo career that resulted in 24 more films before her own death in 2001.

Although largely uninspired in its storytelling style, "Independent Spirits" provides a reasonably clearheaded and comprehensive primer on the Hubleys' careers, featuring archival interviews with both artists spanning the years. Although one might have hoped for more context -- there's little in the way of critical analysis from objective sources -- the film does provide a welcome opportunity to sample great animated films that are not so readily viewable.