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DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS
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LIXIN FAN, “LAST TRAIN HOME”
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Not many first-time independent filmmakers land a coveted spot in the Sunday arts section of The New York Times and an interview on The Leonard Lopate Show. But 33-year-old Lixin Fan, a Chinese-born Canadian immigrant who splits his time between Montreal and Beijing, has generated a lot of interest ...read more
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CLAUDIA LLOSA, “THE MILK OF SORROW”
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
For Claudia Llosa, director of the Berlinale-winning and Academy Award-nominated Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow, magical realism isn’t a literary genre or filmic device, it’s an element of national identity and consciousness. Her film, easily the most critically-lauded film to emerge ...read more
WEB EXCLUSIVES
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DO THE YAM: ASTAIRE & ROGERS, THE COMPLETE WORKS | By Livia Bloom
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
“I wanted to be a dancer,” says Fred Astaire, wheezing out a tune on a harmonica with his gangly frame draped casually over a medical couch. “Till I was psychologized.” Astaire plays doctor—a shrink, of all things—in Mark Sandrich’s Carefree (1953), a little-known screwball comedy gem ...read more
OUR VIDEOS
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THE NEW BREED L.A. #7: “SCREENING THE CUT”
Monday, August 09, 2010
“Don’t make your festival premiere your first test screening,” I always say to the filmmakers who take the IFP Narrative Lab. It’s sounds basic, but you’d be surprised at how many filmmakers I’ve come across who never properly screen their cuts with an audience ...read more
FESTIVAL COVERAGE
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IFP PARTNERS WITH UN FOR ENVISION | By Mary Anderson Casavant
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
This weekend the documentarian as activist was discussed at “Envision: Addressing Global Issues Through Documentaries,” an event presented by the IFP and UN and hosted by The New York Times at The Times Center. In her introductory remarks, IFP Executive Director Joanna Vicente pledged ...read more
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CANNES DIRECTORS DIRECTING 2010 | By Livia Bloom
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Each year, before the movies and parties and deals go down at the Cannes Film Festival, thousands of international participants go through the same steps. They complete their registration, receive the color-coded badge that designates their place in a screening hierarchy as rigid as that of a ...read more
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