Last night at the DGA Theater, The City of Your Final Destination was screened. The first of James Ivory’s releases without his life long business partner, Ismail Merchant, who passed away in 2005. The film centers around a doctoral student named Omar (Omar Metwally), who’s recent grant rides upon getting a deceased Latin American writer’s family to [...]
Tags: A Room with a View · Anthony Hopkins · Charlotte Gainsbourg · DGA Theater · Hiroyuki Sanada · Ismail Merchant · James Ivory · Laura Linney · Merchant Ivory Production · Omar Metwally · The City of Your Final Destination · The Remains of the Day
A terrific evening of art auction, spoken word performances and of curse, Artfully Unforgotten’s Voices of Afghanistan book launch. All auctioned artwork was created by Regis High School students and their art instructor, Miss Robyn Prezioso. Student artists included Brian Dunlop, Nate Hahn, David Desrosiers, Zach esposito, Sam Flinn, Conor Jones, Phil kennedy, Christian kinsella, Christian Landeros, Myles Phillips, Robert Marrero, [...]
Tags: Heather Metcalfe · not-for-profit events new york city · Regis High School · spoken word artists new york · Voices of Afghanistan
Please come by Molly Pitchers at 1641 2nd Avenue, this Wednesday from 6:00-9:00p in an effort to raise awareness and resources for Afghan women and children. Speaking Up is the latest in the Voices of Afghanistan series from the organization Artfully Unforgotten. The evening will include Afghan inspired artwork, spoken word performances as well as the [...]
Tags: Afghan women · Artfully Unforgotten · Heather Metcalfe · Molly Pitchers · Regis High School art students · Voices of Aghanistan
John Tierney’s New York Times article entitle “Findings – Earth Day Challenge – 7 New Rules for the Environment” is an interesting follow up to the Earth Days (2009) documentary that aired on PBS Monday night (also available on Netflix if you missed it). This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first official Earth [...]
Tags: Earth Day documentary · Findings - Earth Day Challenge - 7 New Rules for the Environment · John Tierney
I’m sure most people know that environmentalism didn’t start with Former Vice President Al Gore, but there are many that aren’t aware how and when it grew into what it is today. Earth Days (2009), which has done the festival circuit, is now having an airing tonight, April 19th on PBS . The documentary examines the [...]
Tags: Al Gore · documentary film environment · Don Kleszy · Earth Day · Earth Days · environmental history documentary · environmentalism · environmentalist movement · Hunter Lovins · Mark Samels · Michael Giacchino · Paul Ehrlich · PBS · Robert Stone · Rusty Schweickart · Stewart Brand · The Population Bomb · Whole Earth Catalog
On Saturday Digital Communications and Media Studies, Department of the McGhee Division/SCPS presented its first of what the sponsors plan on being an annual event. The agenda was to explore modern communication in the media industry and its impact on our world. The two panel discussion with networking registration breakfast and lunch, entitled “Engaged Media: A [...]
Tags: 5 minds for the future · anthony pennings · Documentary film · Documentary Superstars · Ellen Kahn · Engaged Media · GRITtv · Howard Gardner · Kathleen Hulley · kristen sosulski · Marsha McCreadle · Merva Fadoul · Metchtild Schmidt · Picture the Homeless · robert robinson · SCPS NYU · social change documentary · social media democracy · social media innovation · social media meaningful engagement · Soliya · TWINART
American Cinema Editors and the Manhattan Edit Workshop will be sponsoring another EditFest NY this June 11th and 12th. This will mark the second consecutive New York event at the Directors Guild of America Theater. This year the sponsors promise “even bigger and better” and from the line up they have so far, that may [...]
Tags: A.C.E. · American Cinema Editors · Andrew Weisblum · documentary · EditFest NY · EditFest NY 2010 · film editing new york · film editors conference · John Refoua · Manhattan Edit Workshop · MEWSHOP · Steve Rivkin · Susan Morse · Tom Haneke
When I was a kid I kept a mental image of all the different jobs I’d take when I grew up. The short list included being a spy a la Modesty Blaise, 1966, part of a married detective couple like William Powell and Myrna Loy, a Hollywood director such as Billy Wilder, Hollywood costume designer similar [...]
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Yesterday evening I attended NYWIFT’s Digi-Dynamics: Changemakers – Documentaries That Spur Social Movement. A panel discussion made up of a variety of filmmakers whose focus is, as the event’s title implies, to inspire social change through social issue documentary films. Moderated by Michelle Byrd (former distinguished IFP Executive Director), the filmmaker panelists included Laura Castañeda, Jesse [...]
Tags: Bitta Mostofi · Changemakers - Documentaries That Spur Social Movement · Chicken and Egg Pictures · Digi-Dynamics · Gucci Tribeca · IFP · Jesse Erica Epstein · Laura Castañeda · Made in India · Michelle Byrd · Nancy Kennedy · New Day Films · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWFT · PBS · POV · The Fledgling Fund · Vaishali Sinha · Where is My Vote · Who Does She Think She Is? · Working Films
Please join Artfully Unforgotten and friends for the latest event in the Voices of Afghanistan series, Speaking Up. Artfully Unforgotten’s “Voices of Afghanistan” book will also be available for purchase. Proceeds from the event and book sales will be going to Bpeace and Mashale Noor School. The Voices of Afghanistan film short trailer will be [...]
Tags: Artfully Unforgotten · Heather Metcalfe · Human Rights · international · Molly Pitchers NY event · Regis High School · spoken word performance · Voices of Afghanistan · Voices of Afghanistan series · women in Afghanistan · women's rights
