Yesterday the list of movies in this year’s
New Directors / New Films season was announced. The season runs between March 21 and April 1 and there is a typically impressive line-up in MoMA and the Film Society of the Lincoln Center’s 36th annual showcase of the contributions from world cinema’s most promising emerging directors.
The two opening night films are
Paul Auster’s
The Inner Life of Martin Frost, and
Glue, the first feature from Argentinian director
Alexis Dos Santos which has picked up buzz at Toronto and Rotterdam. Auster’s second directorial effort - after the poorly-received/ill-fated
Lulu on the Bridge (1988) – is centered on a peripheral character from his 2002 novel,
The Book of Illusions.
Christopher Zalla’s
Padre Nuestro, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, is likely to be extremely popular, as will another big festival hit, Scottish director
Andrea Arnold’s
Red Road, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes last year.
John Carney’s
Once and
Julia Loktev’s
Day Night Day Night will also no doubt catch audiences’ imagination, however the line-up is strong throughout. From a personal point of view, I would recommend
Reprise by Norway’s
Joachim Trier, whose highly enjoyable and exciting debut employs literary conventions in a cinematic context in a way that is reminiscent of another Scandinavian gem of recent years,
Christoffer Boe’s
Reconstruction (2003); it is the kind of film that should have New York audiences salivating. For more info, go to the Film Society
website.
The 26 features that have been selected are:
7 Years (Jean-Pascal Hattu, France, 2006)
The Art of Crying (Peter Schonau Fog, Denmark, 2006)
Audience of One (Michael Jacobs, US, 2006)
Congorama (Philippe Falardeau, Canada/Belgium/France, 2006)
Cowboy Angels (Kim Massee, France, 2007)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, US, 2006)
El Custodio (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina, 2006)
Euphoria (Ivan Vyrypaev, Russia, 2006)
Glue (Alexis Dos Santos, Argentina/UK, 2006)
Gradually... (Maziar Miri, Iran, 2006)
The Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, US, 2006)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (Paul Auster, US, 2007)
Love for Sale: Suely in the Sky (Karim Ainouz, Brazil/France/Germany, 2006)
Meanwhile (Diego Lerman, Argentina, 2006)
Once (John Carney, Ireland, 2006)
The Only One (Geoffery Enthoven, Belgium, 2006)
The Other Half (Ying Liang, China, 2006)
Padre Nuestro (Christopher Zalla, US, 2007)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold, UK, 2006)
Reprise (Joachim Trier, Norway, 2006)
Rome Rather Than You (Tariq Teguia, Algeria/France/Germany, 2006)
Salty Air (Alessandro Angelini, Italy, 2006)
Shelter (Simon Puccioni, Italy, 2006)
Stealth (Lionel Baier, Switzerland, 2006)
War/Dance (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, US, 2007)
What the Sun Has Seen (Michal Rosa, Poland, 2006)
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Jeevika: South Asia Documentary Festival, which began in 2003, aims at capturing the livelihood challenges faced by the rural and urban poor and bringing it to the attention of current and future policy makers. Over the years, Jeevika has been successful in advocating for the cause of numerous entry-level entrepreneurs - rickshaw pullers, street vendors, prostitutes, child labour, farmers and forest-dwellers.
The premier event of the festival to be held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi will be the awards ceremony from 20-23rd July 2007, which will culminate four days of screening for the top films. The last date for the submitting the entries is May 31, 2007
In addition as part of the festival tour, the award-winning films will travel and be screened in premier schools and colleges in over 20 states in India and other organisations working on livelihood issues as well as in our South Asian neighbours.
Over the years, Jeevika has become an increasingly popular and news-worthy event as well as an important catalyst for positive social change. The Film-makers whose films have been showcased in the past include Rakesh Sharma (of the Final Solution fame), Sanjay Barnela (Turf Wars) and Shohini Ghosh (Tales of the Night Fairies).
For further details, please log on : www.ccs.in/jeevika
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posted by @ 2/23/2007 3:13 AM
"Audience of One" jacobs is soo crazy, if you love movies look out!
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posted by @ 2/24/2007 2:46 PM
your blogs are intersting, I have some information for you, read it once...thanks
Inviting Documentary
FILMS For SOCIAL CHANGE
Zoom in on a mode of living…
Give a voice to people’s struggles and triumphs…
Defend the basic human right of freedom to livelihood…
Economic Freedom
Capture social -cultural norms, legal - regulatory barriers that prevent people working in the vocation of their choice and send us.
ENTRY CLOSING ON: JULY 15, 2008
Prizes
Worth Rs. 2 lakhs
(Including support for advocacy campaign based on the film)
Apply now: www.jeevika.org or http://www.ccs.in
Entry Rules:
- Two DVD copies.
- Open to ALL filmmakers (student, amateur & professionals).
- Any language with English subtitles.
- No cut off date on entries.
Jeevika, a South Asian documentary film festival on the issue of livelihood, is a search for documentaries that focus on legal and regulatory restrictions as well as socio - cultural norms and religious practices that prevent or constrain people from earning an honest livelihood in the vocation of their choice. It is a part of an attempt to bring policies in focus which have not been liberalized and keeping entry level professions under License Raj, thus keeping a nation under imposed poverty. Livelihood is a common issue that touches all other issues including poverty human rights, governance, labour welfare, tribal rights, minority rights, women empowerment, health, globalization, privatization, environment, agriculture, hunger and many more.
For further details please contact: Mr. Manoj Mathew
Phone: 91.11.2653.7456 (10am-6pm IST)
Log on: http://www.ccs.in/jeevika/index.html
Email: jeevika@ccs.in
CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
K-36 Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110016, India
Phone: 91-11-2653 7456/ 2652 1882/ 2651 2347;
Web: www.ccs.in
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posted by Jeevika: South Asia Documentary Festival @ 5/28/2008 7:16 AM
