Whether you’re a student with an internship in NYC this summer, taking a vacation to the Big Apple in June, or just a citizen New Yorker, you may want to check out the 13th Brooklyn Film Festival. The 2010 theme is “Stunt”.
The competitive event will run from June 4th through June 13th at indieScreen in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where the festival will present 150 film premieres. The full festival lineup will be announced on May 15, 2010.
Click here for more information
Will Smith: Men in Black III
Will Smith continues his role as Agent Jay in the upcoming film, Men in Black 3. Men in Black 1 and 2 happened to be two of Columbia Pictures most successful films.
Click here to read more about the continuation of the Men in Black saga.
Lena Horne films available at the BFC/A
The Black Film Center/Archive has the following films that feature Lena Horne:
The Duke is Tops (1938)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Boogie Woogie Dream (1944)
The Wiz (1978)
You must make an appointment with the BFC/A before viewing films, and films may only be viewed in our comfortable seminar room at the BFC/A.
Office phone: (812) 855-6041
Fax: (812) 856-5832
E-mail:bfca@indiana.edu
In Memorium: Lena Horne
Lena Horne, singer, actress and dancer, passed away Sunday night at the age of 92. To learn more about her life and work, please go to the following links:
New York Times
National Public Radio
Happy Mother's Day Weekend
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Iris Film Festival: May 1, 2010
The Iris Film Festival showcases films and videos of Indiana University students and people around Bloomington, Indiana. Now in it’s fourth year, the festival will take place on May 1 at 7:00 pm in Fine Arts 015.
The festival will feature about 20 films entries chosen by a committee of Communication and Culture graduate students. The entries’ themes range from documentary, music videos, melodrama, comedy, and experimental.
Awards include Best Screenwriting, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and the Brian Friedman award for the best project created in a Communication and Culture class. An honorary audience award is also given each year. The judges this year will be Gregory A. Waller, Joan Hawkins, and Stephanie DeBoer, all professors in Communication and Culture, and Josh Vasquez, a Ph.D. student in Communication and Culture.
Free admission, free snacks, free refreshments
XXV Black International Cinema Berlin, May 4-8, 2010
Fountainhead® Tanz Theater presents the 25th Annual Black International Cinema Berlin:
A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy
The Magical Oasis Cinema Experience
in cooperation with
Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre, Black International Cinema Berlin, The Collegium – Forum & Television Program Berlin, in association with Cultural Zephyr e.V. are an international, intercultural community of persons engaged in achieving increasing understanding and cooperation between individuals and groups in support of democratic procedures and the elimination of violence, religious, ethnic and gender persecution, youth exploitation, homophobia and racial hatred through the process of art, education, culture and dialogue.
The festival is located at the Rathaus Schöneberg, John F. Kennedy Platz. Admission is free.
Hope to see you there! Tschüss!
Deadline Approaching for Academy's 2010 Nicholl Screenwriting Competition
The deadline to submit entries for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 25th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition is Saturday, May 1, 2010. The Nicholl Fellowships competition is open to any individual who has not earned more than $5,000 from the sale or option of a screenplay or teleplay, or received a fellowship or prize of more than $5,000 that includes a “first look” clause, an option or any other quid pro quo involving the writer’s work.
To enter, writers must submit a completed online application, upload one PDF copy of their original screenplay in English and pay the US $45 entry fee before 11:59 p.m. PT on May 1, 2010. Last year’s competition drew a record 6,380 entries. Entry scripts must be feature length and the original work of a sole author or of exactly two collaborative authors. The scripts must have been written originally in English. Adaptations and translated scripts are not eligible. Up to five $30,000 fellowships are awarded each year.
“The Academy is extremely proud that the Nicholl competition continues to identify talented but as yet undiscovered screenwriters,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “I’m sure that this year’s fellowship recipients will exhibit the same great potential as so many of our past winners.”
Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay during their fellowship year. The Academy acquires no rights to the works of Nicholl fellows and does not involve itself commercially in any way with their completed scripts.
Several past Nicholl fellows have gone on to successful screenwriting careers, including Oscar®-nominee Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich,” “Charlotte’s Web,” “The Soloist”), Doug Atchison (“Akeelah and the Bee”), Mike Rich (“Radio,” “The Rookie,” “Finding Forrester”), Ehren Kruger (“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “The Ring,” “Arlington Road”) and Andrew Marlowe (“Hollow Man,” “Air Force One,” ABC’s “Castle”).
Several other Nicholl fellows have had success in the film industry; click here to read more about them.
Tribeca Film Festival, April 21st – May 2nd
Get ready for the 9th annual Tribeca Film Festival!
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 in a response to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan.
Featured in the festival this year are Earth Made of Glass, a new documentary film that looks at the 1994 genocide in Rwanda from both personal and political perspectives; A .45 at 5oth, a short documentary about James Cromwell’s involvement with the Black Panther movement; and Billy and Aaron, a short documentary about Billy Strayhorn and his decision to live as an openly gay man within the homophobic jazz milieu of the 1940s.
Tickets for the Tribeca Film Festival will be sold to the general public on April 19th at 11:00 am.
Samuel L. Jackson spends time in Bondy, France
Samuel L Jackson met young people in a poor Paris suburb on Tuesday, spotlighting deprived areas that France’s mainstream cinema is accused, like its politicians, of neglecting.
Bondy, France is known for its large population of immigrants and has experienced racial conflict. In 2005, Bondy and other similar neighborhoods were hit by a series of protests that created tensions between police and the neighborhood youth.
BondyBlog has followed this banlieue since 2005 as an online news source. The blog came to be regarded as a useful source as reporters grappled with coverage of neighborhoods that had received relatively little media attention.