FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
May 2011
May 2011 Filmmaker News & Notes
SFFS/KRF grant recipients Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist were awarded a Cinereach Winter 2011 grant for their narrative film The Scribe of Uraba. An international political thriller based on real events,the film tells the story of a union worker who is murdered at a bottling plant in rural Colombia and his 14-year-old daughter, who embarks on a quest for justice larger than her family, her village, or even her country.
Will Parrinello’s film Emile Norman: By His Own Design will be broadcast nationally on PBS, Thursday, June 9, 9:00 pm. PBS is also creating a companion website as part of its new PBS arts initiative, PBS.org/arts. The film will air on KQED Sunday, June 26, 6:00 pm and Thursday, June 30, 11:00 pm.
Banker White was awarded a grant from the Tribeca Film Insitute Documentary Fund for his SFFS fiscally sponsored documentary The Genius of Marian. The 2011 TFI/HBO “House I Live In” Fellowship provides $25,000 as well as professional guidance and a meeting with HBO Documentary Films towards the completion of a documentary which is focused on the filmmaker’s own personal story. The doc follows the filmmaker’s mother Pam White in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and documents her struggles to hang on to a sense of self. It deals with the gradual loss of a parent and explores the ways our memories shape our personal identities and our legacies.
In Mill Valley on Saturday, May 21, former FilmHouse residents and SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmakers Julie Kahn and Hayley Downs are hosting a "Wild Game and Foraged Feast" benefit for the postproduction of their “dark and sweaty documentary” Swamp Cabbage. The event is copresented by Savory Thymes, an organization which supports and educates the public about local and sustainable systems within the context of grassroots movements and the arts. Tickets
Feature length documentary Wish Me Away by award-winning SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmakers Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf had a sneak preview at the Nashville Film Festival on April 15. Wish Me Away is an intimate look at Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as openly gay, despite what some people in the industry have referred to as a career-ending decision. The film will also screen in the documentary competition section at the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 16-26).
George Csicsery and Chris Teerink's Songs Along A Stony Road had its World Premiere at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival on April 17. The film is about musicologist Zoltán Kallós who has traveled through remote villages in Transylvania and Moldavia for decades, documenting the rich musical traditions in these places, sometimes at the risk of imprisonment by the communist regime.
The SFFS fiscally-sponsored project, Howard Egger-Bovet's No One Knows Where the Bullet Goes took home the Best Music Award at the 14th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, held April 6–10. No One Knows Where the Bullet Goes is a collection of educational hiphop videos designed for teenagers. It explores issues ranging from the humorous to the provocative and invites for teens to think critically.
Sonoma International Film Festival attendees voted SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s film Miss Representation the favorite documentary at the festival. Also that week, the White House Project honored the doc with an emerging artist award at their EPIC Awards afterparty. Miss Representation explores women’s under-representation in positions of power and influence in America by challenging the limited portrayal of women as encouraged by the mainstream media.
Pam Walton’s Raging Grannies: The Action League will screen at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting in Las Vegas in August.
SFFS/KRF grant recipients Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist were awarded a Cinereach Winter 2011 grant for their narrative film The Scribe of Uraba. An international political thriller based on real events,the film tells the story of a union worker who is murdered at a bottling plant in rural Colombia and his 14-year-old daughter, who embarks on a quest for justice larger than her family, her village, or even her country.
Will Parrinello’s film Emile Norman: By His Own Design will be broadcast nationally on PBS, Thursday, June 9, 9:00 pm. PBS is also creating a companion website as part of its new PBS arts initiative, PBS.org/arts. The film will air on KQED Sunday, June 26, 6:00 pm and Thursday, June 30, 11:00 pm.
Banker White was awarded a grant from the Tribeca Film Insitute Documentary Fund for his SFFS fiscally sponsored documentary The Genius of Marian. The 2011 TFI/HBO “House I Live In” Fellowship provides $25,000 as well as professional guidance and a meeting with HBO Documentary Films towards the completion of a documentary which is focused on the filmmaker’s own personal story. The doc follows the filmmaker’s mother Pam White in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and documents her struggles to hang on to a sense of self. It deals with the gradual loss of a parent and explores the ways our memories shape our personal identities and our legacies.
In Mill Valley on Saturday, May 21, former FilmHouse residents and SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmakers Julie Kahn and Hayley Downs are hosting a "Wild Game and Foraged Feast" benefit for the postproduction of their “dark and sweaty documentary” Swamp Cabbage. The event is copresented by Savory Thymes, an organization which supports and educates the public about local and sustainable systems within the context of grassroots movements and the arts. Tickets
Feature length documentary Wish Me Away by award-winning SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmakers Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf had a sneak preview at the Nashville Film Festival on April 15. Wish Me Away is an intimate look at Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as openly gay, despite what some people in the industry have referred to as a career-ending decision. The film will also screen in the documentary competition section at the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 16-26).
George Csicsery and Chris Teerink's Songs Along A Stony Road had its World Premiere at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival on April 17. The film is about musicologist Zoltán Kallós who has traveled through remote villages in Transylvania and Moldavia for decades, documenting the rich musical traditions in these places, sometimes at the risk of imprisonment by the communist regime.
The SFFS fiscally-sponsored project, Howard Egger-Bovet's No One Knows Where the Bullet Goes took home the Best Music Award at the 14th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, held April 6–10. No One Knows Where the Bullet Goes is a collection of educational hiphop videos designed for teenagers. It explores issues ranging from the humorous to the provocative and invites for teens to think critically.
Sonoma International Film Festival attendees voted SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s film Miss Representation the favorite documentary at the festival. Also that week, the White House Project honored the doc with an emerging artist award at their EPIC Awards afterparty. Miss Representation explores women’s under-representation in positions of power and influence in America by challenging the limited portrayal of women as encouraged by the mainstream media.
Pam Walton’s Raging Grannies: The Action League will screen at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting in Las Vegas in August.