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1 Dec , 2001  

Written by Allison Walton | Posted by:

A report of news & events in the local industry for December 2001.

Film Festivals

The 2002 Sundance Film Festival announced the film line-up which included several New England films including "Blue Vinyl" by Judith Helfand & Daniel B. Gold.  See the complete list at www.sundance.org

Brown University in Providence, R.I. will be hosting the Ivy Film Festival on Saturday December 1, 2001. The festival will feature a variety of short works by local student filmmakers from Brown and other Ivy League Universities, as well as from schools in the area. For more information on the festival, including screening times, please visit the Ivy Film Festival Web site at www.ivyfilmfestival.com or e-mail questions to info@ivyfilmfestival.com

The second annual Sundance Online Film Festival will begin December 20, 2001 and run through January 20, 2002 at. Twenty-one films will be shown in the categories of Animation, Live Action, and New Forms. Viewers are encouraged to vote for their favorite films, to determine the winner of the Sundance Online Film Festival Viewer’s Award. For more information, please visit the Sundance Institute’s website at www.sundance.org

In the News

Filmmakers Collaborative is seeking studios, production houses, independent filmmakers, and others involved in the media business in the Greater Boston area to participate in the 2002 Filmmakers Open Studios, tentatively set for Sunday, March 17, 2001. Additional events planned include special screenings at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, panel discussions, and demonstrations of new technology and equipment. For more information on how to participate, please contact Bonnie Waltch at Filmmakers Collaborative at 781-647-1102, send an e-mail to FilmColl@aol.com, or visit their Web site at www.filmmakerscollab.org. The deadline is Friday, December 21, 2001.

Screenings

Director Athina Rachel Tsangari of Athens, Greece, will be at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday December 14, 2001 at 7 p.m., showing her new film "The Slow Business of Going." Tsangari’s first feature is both narrative and experimental, combining unusual aesthetic techniques of layering and animation with a story about a young woman traveling the world with a rocking chair strapped to her back, collecting experiences for a "Global Nomad Project." For more information, please visit the Harvard Film Archive Web site at www.harvardfilmarchive.org

Join award-winning Colombian-American videographer and media educator Roberto Arévalo as he presents videos from the Mirror Project made by his teen students from both local Boston neighborhoods and Wilmington, Delaware on December 3, 2001. He can be contacted at 617/625.1690 or via email at roberto@mirrorproject.org. More details at https://newenglandfilm.com/events/event-event.htm?EID=1836 

The Boston Jewish Film Festival will co-present several screenings of "La Bûche" at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium this December and January. Back after an extremely popular run in the Boston French Film Festival this July, this warmly satisfying film takes place over four days before Christmas and explores the painful, loving relationships between three sisters and a large supporting cast of parents, lovers, and husbands.   More information through The Museum of Fine Arts Box Office at www.mfa.org or call 617-369-3306.

As part of the annual First Night festivities in Boston on December 31, 2001, the Museum of Fine Arts will be showing a program of short films and videos, running approximately 45 minutes and repeated throughout the evening. First Night buttons are required and are for sale at the MFA’s Remis Box Office. For more information, please visit the Museum’s Web site at www.mfa.org/calendar

The Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Video Balagan, presents the Director’s Cut, on Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 8 p.m. This special show features the work of local experimental film filmmakers teaching and working at local schools or film foundations in the Boston area, home to some of the most progressive film/video programs in the country. For more information, visit the Coolidge Corner Web site at www.coolidge.org