Greenland Eyes IFF dates announced!
Greenland Eyes International Film Festival is happy to announce that the festival with take place from the 24th of April to the 30th of April 2012. The festival, which takes place in Arsenal Cinema Berlin highlight feature, documentary and art films from Greenland and will be supplemented with a workshop Greenland Film in Context at Humboldt University’s Nordeuropa-Institut focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of filmmaking in and about Greenland. Greenland Eyes IFF is a project initiated by Ivalo Frank in collaboration with the Nordic Institute at Humboldt University of Berlin, Arsenal Cinema – Institute for film and video art and the Nordic Embassy in Berlin.
For more information on the festival: www.greenlandeyes.com
SILVIO, ONE OF US
52’/ MiramonteFilm in co-production with ZDF/ARTE
Distributed by Deckert Distribution
Directors
Gianfranco Pannone, Valentina Monti, Andreas Pichler, Marzia Mete, Antonio Bellia, Elisa Bolognini
Silvio, One of us, shows the current political mood in Italy and troughout some portraits investigates the phenomenon of how far Berlusconi and his politics mirror Italy. The film was jointly filmed by five Italian filmmakers in the period around the regional elections of March 2010 asking themselves: who are the people that continue voting for the centre-right in Italy and thus supporting Berlusconi?
http://www.miramontefilm.com/en/in-development/one-of-us.html
released Feb 2011
GIRLS ON THE AIR
62’/ Fourlab, 2009 / Distributed by Cinecitta Luce
Twenty-five-year-old Humaira lived through the Taliban regime, but she now puts on lipstick for the camera, in a self confident way. She studied journalism and started her own radio station, Radio Sahar, back in 2003. Humaira will take us into her world that doesn’t just reflect the current representation of Afghanistan but also powerfully conveys humour, hopes and poetry.
DASPU. PUTAS PRET A PORTER
52’/ Mestiere Cinema, 2009
A group of prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro who fight to obtain rights and reduce stigma, create a clothing label that quickly invades Brazilian fashion shows
Uganda Calling
35’/ Mestiere Cinema, 2007
Six teenagers from Kampala, Uganda, talk about education and how it can change their life.
M*TRUEFALSE
28′/ Kiné, 2008
An original portrait of the writer Antonio Delfini using animation and archives.
RADIO LA COLIFATA
28’/ Fourlab, 2005/Distribuited by Docume
Radio la Colifata broadcasts from a mental hospital in Buenos Aires. In April 2003, the day before the political election in Argentina, radio La Colifata organized a symbolic election inside the hospital permitting those considered insane (colifatos) to vote. The result inside and outside the hospital it’s the same.
With Open Eyes
(70’, color, 2009)
With Open Eyes follows four young female directors all originated from various Middle Eastern countries (Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon) in a moment of their life. The four directors tell us about “their artistic eye”, the society they come from and the changes they work to promote. For the first time these artists will move from behind the camera to give us a piece of their reality, their thoughts, ambitions and fears.
The link between the eyes of these directors, their gaze upon the reality they face and their artistic production is here central. The question of Identity is also at core as close to all four of them have mixed origins and live in between various countries. Placed in a mobile environment or exiled most have studied abroad keeping a strong insight on the world they come from. This mobility gives them a contemporary approach to media and a global perspective to issues they film.
All between 23 and 34 years old, the directors of this film tend to represent in their own way, various aspects of the new generation of female directors in the Middle East. It is not the meaning here to give an analytic insight to female film production in the region. It is set and focused on four portraits, engaged artists and storytellers.
Visiting Artist Talk
Duke University Department of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies
Date: 11/26/11
Venue: Duke University, Durham, NC
duke uni
Part of the 2011-12 year Visiting Artist Series
Artist Talk by Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida: Conversation between the artists, Neil DeMarchi (Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University), and Stephanie Sherman and George Sheer (Co-Directors, ‘Elsewhere’, Greensboro, NC)
Expanding the Documentary: New Media and Digital Documentary
Symposium and Exhibition
Date: 11/14/11
Venue: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College
SUNY, Purchase, NY
expanding the documentary
Daylong symposium featuring Benj Gerdes as invited presenter and exhibition including Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida’s video essay “Strike Anywhere” (HD, 32:00, 2009).
TWO KRAN FILM NOMINEE AT THE 28 DOKFEST KASSEL
IVALO FRANK and SARAH VANAGT
28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (November 8 – 13) nominated works by two Kran Film members for this year awards. The Corridor, a film by Sarah Vanagt, has been nominated for the A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle, while the film Echoes, by Ivalo Frank, has been nominated for the prize The Golden Key.
ECHOES in Official Selection
Ivalo Frank’s film ECHOES, has been chosen as part of the Official Selection for ASFF, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival and will be screening at the festival from 3rd – 6th November 2011. The festival is a celebration of independent film from across the world with 150 films being screened from 30 countries.