Kirsten Studio

Please come out to Voices of Afghanistan, a multi-media art event in benefit of women and children of Afghanistan, sponsored by Artfully Unforgotten, Best Busy and Parsons The New School.  This Friday, December 4th.  Save the date so you can enjoy art, food and drink.  What more could you ask for?  Really?  Visit artfullyunforgotten.com for details.

Manhattan Edit Workshop offers a masterclass series with the right price and the right time commitment.  Saturday I took the masterclass A Filmmaker’s Guide to Color Correction.  An intensive 10AM to 5PM class that covers a lot, but that’s okay.  I wanted a one day only class and that’s what I got. The first half [...]

Beijing Taxi is a documentary film recently screened at Tribeca Cinemas as part of an Arts Engine’s DocuClub event. A slow, rhythmic and moody film, Beijing Taxi is more about the evolution (or some might argue decline) of Beijing and it races to become an even more modernized city in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.  The filmmaker tracks three [...]

I listened to Robert F Kennedy Jr. speak at The Town Hall the other night.  He was there as a representative of National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). President of NRDC, Frances Beinecke introduced him. I was immediately impressed with the way Mr. Kennedy took the microphone, walked to the edge of the stage, front and center and [...]

Last Friday a The White House Project and interested parties converged on Bloomberg LP to mark the release of the organization’s new report entitled The White House Project: Benchmarking Women’s Leadership.  The report is a compilation of 6 years worth of research and surveys from 10 different industries, including but certainly not limited to, film [...]

The Way We Get By is a documentary that’s been making the film festival rounds in recent months.  I meant to see it when it was at  IFC Center this summer, then most recently it was part of the line up at the Paley Center for Media PaleyDocFest.  Alas, I couldn’t go on the night [...]

I’ve always been fascinated with home movies and not just my own. They seem to be so telling of a particular time and place. I also believe there is subtext in many of those home movies. I suppose sometimes scenery footage of vacations are often just clips of scenery, but if you happened to catch [...]

New York City’s Film Forum will be showing the newly restored Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1948 film The Red Shoes, starring the dazzling Moira Shearer. Thelma Schoonmaker, wife of the late Michael Powell and the well known Academy Award winning editor introduced tonight’s screening.  Showtimes are frequent but are only for the next couple weeks so [...]