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Film Festivals
The One Minute Video Festival will take place on March 7, 2003 at The Revolving Museum and the Evos Art Center in Lowell, MA. For more information on this evening of shorts by local, national, and international video artists please visit www.revolvingmuseum.org or www.evosarts.com.
The 12th Annual Women’s Film Festival will screen films celebrating women’s lives through film and the visual arts. The festival runs March 7-23, 2003 in Brattleboro, VT, and is a major fundraising event for the Women’s Crisis Center of Windham County, VT. There is additional information available at www.womensfilmfestival.org.
The Maine Jewish Film Festival will be held March 8-13, 2003 in Portland, ME. The festival will open with "The Believer," which won the Grand jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In addition, there will be a Women Filmmakers Forum, a Gay and Lesbian Forum, and a Youth Program. For more information please visit www.mjff.org.
Now in its 7th year, the Green Mountain Film Festival will take place in Montpellier, VT featuring 27 feature and documentary films March 21-30, 2003. To view the full list of films please visit www.savoytheater.com/gmff.
The 28th annual New England Film & Video Festival runs March 24-29, 2003. Screenings will be held at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Brattle Theatre, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The week long event features works by film and video makers from New England. Please visit www.bfvf.org or call 617-783-9241 ext. 12 for further details.
The Coolidge Corner Theater presents the 3rd Found Footage Festival March 28-29, 2003. The festival features unique clips of films from the vaults. More information is available at www.coolidge.org.
The seventh annual the Hartford Jewish Film Festival, presented by the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center with Trinity College and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will take place on March 29 – April 2, 2003. For more information, visit www.hjff.org.
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In the News
Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin, who have produced films in Portland, Maine for the past decade, won the latest Project Greenlight contest. They are now in Los Angeles pre-producing the feature film for Miramax that they will be co-directing.
Future Media Concepts has created a special seminar FCP to the Max geared to intermediate and advanced Final Cut Pro users who wish to increase their skill level to become a more creative and efficient editor and digital artist. The Boston seminiar will take place on March 5. For more information, visit www.fmctraining.com/fcp.
The annual Filmmakers Open Studios will take place on April 12 and 13 in venues throughout Cambridge, Boston, Allston, Brighton and beyond. The event enables the public to meet the Greater Boston community’s acclaimed filmmakers, tour production facilities, try out a class, screen recent work, and attend a panel discussion. The 2003 schedule has been announced and is available online at www.filmmakerscollab.org/openstudios/2003/index2003.htm.
SAG and AFTRA have announced the commencement of the Wages and Working Conditions Process. All SAG and AFTRA members who work the Commercials Contract are invited to attend the caucuses in New York and Los Angeles. The Commercials Contract expires on October 29, 2003. For more information, visit www.sag.org/calendar/calendar_newyork.html.
The Boston Society of Film Critics, made up of critics from print and broadcast media in the greater Boston area, recognized WIFV/NE’s Rewind/Fast Forward retrospective as one of the best local film series of 2002.
High Output has officially opened their new motion picture and television production facility in Canton — a 93,000 square foot complex located a short distance from Boston that houses 13,500 square feet of studio space. For more information, visit www.highoutput.com.
Screenings
John Marshall’s film "A Kalahari Family" will have its Boston premiere at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) on March 20th 2003. The six-hour five-part documentary represents more than 50 years of Namibian History. The entire series will screen on March 22, 2003 with repeat screenings through March 31st 2003. Please visit www.mfa.org or www.der.org for further details.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents a 10-screening series of filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, "The Last Letter" ("La Dernière Lettre") through March 16, 2003. Screening times are available at www.mfa.org.
"Southern Comfort" by Kate Davis and "Orphan" by Rich Moos will screen at Hoyt’s Nickelodeon Theater in Falmouth, MA as part on the Woods Hole Festival Winter Screening Series in March. "Made Up" by Lynne Adams, and "Pipe Dream" by John C. Walsh will be screening in April as part of the same series. Call 508-495-3456 or log onto www.woodsholefilmfestival.org for more details.
"Goldie’s Move," written, directed and produced by Brett Davey and John Lavall will have its upcoming premiere in Providence, RI. To learn more about the film please visit www.goldiesmove.com.
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