The News Review:
- Sundance Film Festival got a boost from ‘sex lies and videotape’
- Three Rivers Arts Festival to be a week shorter this summer
- MLK Community March and Festival
- At Sundance Film Festival it’s a buyer’s market
- Berlin film festival announces competition lineup
- Dixie Chicks’ Martie Maguire to Play Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Sundance Film Festival got a boost from ‘sex lies and videotape’
Los Angeles Times CA
Film Festival — Steven Soderbergh harbored no illusions about setting the film world on fire with his debut feature “sex lies and videotape. ” Upon arrival in Park City the writer-director had so little faith in its landing theatrical distribution he decided to skip promoting his “dialogue-laden talkudrama” and instead posed as a festival volunteer chauffeuring the likes of Jodie Foster in a shuttle van rather than networking with studio execs.
Three Rivers Arts Festival to be a week shorter this summer
Bizjournals.com NC
us Digg This Related News. “In response to feedback from participating artists and audiences we have decided to change the festival to a new 10-day format” J. Kevin McMahon president and CE of. “Given our planning timeline and current budget the concentrated period will allow us to focus on ensuring the quality of the programming.
MLK Community March and Festival
Community Impact Newspaper TX
19 the Heritage Council is hosting the 2009 Community March and Festival to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. This event now in its 16th year celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy.
At Sundance Film Festival it’s a buyer’s market
Los Angeles Times CA
By John Horn January 15 2009It’s Hollywood’s version of the saddest orphanage imaginable: More than a hundred precious newborns looking for a loving home. nly a dozen and a half will be lucky enough to find one with fewer adoptive parents now showing up. The Sundance Film Festival which starts tonight represents many things to many people — a bold collection of arty movies for cineastes a free-flowing booze binge for party animals — but at its core Sundance stands apart as the nation’s most important market for films made outside the studio system. Like everything else in the upside-down economy these days though the festival’s sales dynamics are certain to be transformed this year especially for the historic Sundance stronghold of documentary films. “It’s a scary time out there” says Jim Stern a producer of “An Education” a coming-of-age drama considered one of the top films headed to Park City in search of a theatrical distributor. But I also think there are going to be opportunities.
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Berlin film festival announces competition lineup
Reuters
Jones features in “In the Electric Mist” by French director Bertrand Tavernier about a detective hunting a serial killer in America’s deep south while Pfeiffer headlines in British director’s Stephen Frears’ period romance “Cheri. In independent production “Happy Tears” Moore is launching a comeback to the cinema in a small budget family drama along with Ellen Barkin and Rip Torn. The Berlinale which runs from February 5-15 is Europe’s first major film festival of the new year. “With their very distinctive artistic styles the films in competition provide evidence of living conditions in our globalized world” Kosslick said in a statement. He added that 25 of the 26 films in the competition have now been confirmed. The festival had already announced that “The International” a thriller about the funding of war and terror by German director Tom Tykwer that features Clive wen and Naomi Watts will open the 59th annual festival on February 5. Britain’s Tilda Swinton who won the Academy Award for best supporting actress last year for her performance as a shifty lawyer in legal thriller “Michael Clayton” will be jury president.
Dixie Chicks’ Martie Maguire to Play Telluride Bluegrass Festival
CMT.com TN
She is reportedly at work on a bluegrass album. The Dixie Chicks won the festival’s band competitionin 1990 prior to lead vocalist Natalie Maines joining the band. ther artists appearing at the festival include the.
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