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Link Round-Up: Lost in LA Edition

June 26th, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • Comments Off • Related Posts • Tags

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image - Hirshorn Museum, June 19 to September 7I made a quick trip out to the Los Angeles Film Festival to root for the Austin filmmakers premiering their work, Spencer Parsons’ I’LL COME RUNNING and TRINIDAD by PJ Raval and Jay Hodges. Best of luck to them both in their respective competitions as the fest gets closer to announcing the winners. In the meantime, lots of goodies in my inbox.

- Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars is now available for download on iTunes. If you haven’t caught the film and are inclined to watch on your computer or mobile device, I highly recommend the film. It is the story of a wonderful band of musicians sprung from a refugee camp. Their music is political, emotional and a heck of a lot of fun.

- held a King Corn video mash-up contest and the winner is… Kylee Darcy for her animated mash-up called Corn Takes Over the World. You can watch it and the runners up at IL’s Filmocracy.

- The wonderful POV maven Yance Ford alerted me to a new and first-ever gay film fest starting up in Russia. Side-by-Side will take place in October in St. Petersburg. I’m sure it would be a once-in-a-lifetime trip, and if you have an appropriatly themed film, you just might help make history in that country! Deadline for submissions is coming up on July 2.

- And lastly, for my DC friends or those traveling to DC in the near future, the Hirshorn, a wonderful museum on the National Mall, has a new realist cinema , “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image.” It runs until September 7.

Link Round-Up: Call for Entries Edition

May 13th, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • Comments Off • Related Posts • Tags

I tend to not post calls for entries because all that information is on Withoutabox and any filmmaker worth their salt is using it. But, occasionally there are intriguing opportunities or those that I want to champion, so here they are:

P.O.V. Call for Enteries for the 2009 Season - This summer documentary series is a great spot to show your film and the crew there will put their all into helping you find your audience. Deadline is June 27.

Cinema Verite, the Iran International Documentary Festival - A doc festival in Tehran. Nuff said. Deadline is July 15 and there is no entry fee.

Independent Film Week’s Spotlight on Documentaries - New this year, if you are accepted to the Project Forum, you don’t have to pay a registration fee. No reason to not submit now! Deadline May 23.

Link Round-Up

April 1st, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • 1 comment • Related Posts • Tags

I’ve been getting a lot of emails about cool stuff that is going on this month, and it’s tough to post about everything. Here is a quick round-up of some good stuff that has crossed my inbox:

This is actually not new news, but looks like Arts Engine is gearing up to do something with DocuClub, the works-in-progress screening program founded by Susan Kaplan. It was a great program and it’s wonderful to see that it will continue with the awesome Arts Engine folks.

The Independent Film Festival of Boston has announced their line-up, which looks like some of the best festival fare of this year, so far. If you are in Boston, you’ll want to catch these great films while they are in your backyard. Great website with trailers and such! The fest runs from April 23 - 29. Check out The Greening of Southie for me and let me know what you think.

Speaking of The Greening of South, directed by Ian Cheney, one of my faves from last year, King Corn, which features Cheney and Curt Ellis, will be airing on on April 15. Be sure to DVR or tune in if you haven’t seen it (or buy the DVD, of course).

And lastly, if you are a Chris Marker fan, my former employer Icarus Films is working in partnership with The Wexner Center to sell DVDs of his work. If you are a fan, you know that much of his body of work has not been available in the US so here’s your chance to stock up on Marker films.