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Film Festivals
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival will run January 23-30, 2003 in Boston, MA. The festival screens fiction, documentary, and animated films and videos with a distinctive Human Rights theme. For more information please visit www.hrw.org/iff/2003/index.html.
The "First Night Film Festival" will show a series of films at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA for First Night 2003. Award-winning films that screened at past Roxbury Film Festivals will be shown. In addition, there will be a "Festival of International Shorts" — short films from all over the world curated for First Night by Bo Smith of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For more information please visit http://ae.boston.com/first_night/events/film.html.
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In the News
Film Festival New Haven will offer a screenwriting workshop in January 2003. The workshop will be conducted by Wayne Buck, cofounder of Film Festival New Haven, and is open to anyone who wants to learn the craft of screenwriting. Class size will be limited to 10, and will meet once a week for 8 weeks. For information, email Wayne at waynebuck@compuserve.com.
Out of 2000 entries, New Hampshire-based filmmaker Satchel Underwood advanced in the Project Greenlight Director’s Contest into the top 50 with a 3-minute scene from his film "Mutual Admiration Society." Leo Beaudet of Mansfield, MA advanced into the top 10 with his screenplay "Order of the Dragon." The winner of the Contest will be awarded the opportunity to direct a motion picture, produced by Miramax Films.
Screenings
The Boston Film & Video Foundation presents a special Martin Luther King Day screening of John Cassavetes’ Show at the Coolidge Corner Theater on Monday, January 20, 2003. Special guests for the screening are Lelia Goldoni, star of the film, and Boston University Professor Ray Carney. For more information please visit www.coolidge.org or www.cassavetes.com.
The New England Film Artists Present series at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) will show Myles Gordon and Susan Hajjar’s documentary "Touching Lives: Portraits of Deaf-Blind People" on January 9 and 11, 2003. The film focuses on the lives, trials, and triumphs of people who are both Deaf and Blind and seeks to raise awareness about Deaf-Blindness. For further details please visit www.mfa.org.
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) New England Film Artists Present series will also screen "Green" and "Become the Sky," two ecological films by filmmaker Laura Dunn. Dunn will be present at the screening, which takes place at the MFA at 1:00 P.M. January 18, 2003. For more information please visit www.mfa.org.
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