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Correction: Apparently the news of Aisle 5 and New Line was an April Fool’s joke. Guess the laugh’s on us. That’s been removed.
7 Fluid Oz. Productions LLP announced the winners of the 2004-2005 Boston Motion Picture Awards. The winners are: 1st Place: "The Photo," written, produced, and directed by Hari Das; 2nd Place: "Necrolog," written and directed by Steven Addair and produced by Danielle Addair and Jim Hall; and 3rd Place: "Winter (En Hiver)" produced and directed by Andy Collen, written by Amy Blumenstein-Collen and Andy Collen. For more information about the BMPA, visit http://www.bostonawards.com.
Vermont Public Television is presenting the 5th season of Reel Independents, a showcase of independent cinema hosted by Ken Peck Fridays at 10 pm starting April 15, 2005.
Mooncusser Films is putting finishing touches on their newly completed documentary "WCC / Chatham Radio- The Untold Story," about wireless inventor Guglielmo Marconi, narrated by Walter Cronkite. For more information, visit: www.MooncusserFilms.com.
Vermont production company Stoneworks Entertainment is in pre-production on its first feature "Finding Providence," written and directed by Jayson Argento. For more information, visit www.stoneworksentertainment.com/.
The 48 Hour Film Project, open to pros and amateurs alike, arrives back in Boston on April 8. Entries are now closed, but it’s not too late to sign up to volunteer on a team or to see the films on April 12, 13 and 14 at Kendall Square Cinema and April 19 and 20 at the Brattle Theatre. For more information, visit http://www.48hourfilm.com/boston-2005.htm.
Harvard grad Meg Thomson’s film "dot the i’ which premiered at Sundance and stars Gael Garcia Bernal, started screening at Kendall Square as of April 1. For more information, visit see www.dottheithemovie.com.
New Hampshire filmmaker Bill Millios will be premiering his new feature "Dangerous Crosswinds" on May 26 at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH. For more information and a full screening schedule, visit www.backlotfilm.com.
Yale Undergraduate Women in Film announced the first annual Yale Women in Film Festival, to be held at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street, on the Yale Campus, April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Festival films were selected from submissions from across the country-both professional and student-and portray a wide array of issues in subject and filmmaking. See www.ctfilmguide.com/ctfilmfm/news_releases.html for a listing of events and times. Email elizabeth.talbert@yale.edu for more information about the festival, tickets, individual screenings, and panels.
The newly reorganized Boston Underground Film Festival, patron of provocative and exploratory content, will take place April 6-10 in Davis Square with headquarters at the Somerville Theater. For more information, visit www.bostonunderground.org.
Brown University’s Africana Film Festival will show 15 films from 12 countries and host 12 filmmakers, writers and critics from 6 countries from April 13th to April 17th at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence. For more information and a full schedule listing, check www.brown.edu/aff. For directions to the Cable Car, check www.cablecarcinema.com
The 13th Providence Latin American Film Festival will take place Sunday April 24 through Saturday April 30, 2005. For more information, visit www.murphyandmurphy.com/plff/.
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