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The Nature of Things, in collaboration with On Screen Manitoba and Doc Manitoba, is offering a one-day workshop and networking opportunity for up to 15 selected documentary filmmakers or production crew from the Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, and/or Deaf and Disabled communities based in Manitoba.
The goal of this in-person workshop is to introduce participants to key decision-makers and insider information about science and nature filmmaking, from how to come
Not since the days of Ben-Hur, Cleopatra and Fellini classics like La Dolce Vita has Rome enjoyed the boom in film production it’s experiencing at the moment. From Tom Cruise racing through the eternal city’s narrow streets in Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, to Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated immigrant drama Lo Capitano, the Italian capital is in the midst of a resurgence that harkens back to its “Hollywood on the Tiber” heyday.
At the center of all this
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Cinema, one of the world’s leading art forms, has long been associated with the Indian subcontinent. First and foremost, its commercial development was exhibition-oriented.
Mr. Hiralal Sen (2 August 1868 – 26 October 1917), Bengal’s genius, organized the first film exhibition in undivided Bengal in 1898. Then he went to film school in London and got involved in the film production process. The journey of the filmmaker begins here. Many people continued on this same trajectory and went on to receive advanced filmmaking training in London. Not only in London, but Europe, America, Asia, and especially from the Film and Television
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The Sundance Film Festival, a beacon of cinematic innovation, has unveiled its official 2024 lineup, featuring an array of Columbia filmmakers. The Festival will host screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance Mountain Resort from January 18-28, 2024.
Established by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute in 1981, Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the US and focuses on introducing innovative work worldwide. This year, an impressive array of Columbia-affiliated films will screen in a variety of categories, showcasing the talents and accomplishments of alumni and faculty alike.
Notably, Celine Song ’14, an alumna
MADAWASKA LAKE, Maine — Brenda Nasberg Jepson’s family has deep roots in both Maine and Sweden, but she might never have explored her ancestral homeland were it not for her career in filmmaking.
Jepson’s latest documentary, currently titled “Swedish Adventure,” is in post-production and will premiere on Maine Public later in 2024, more than 40 years after her first film set in Sweden. This time, her return to the country also marked the first time her husband, Alan Jepson, a New Sweden native, traced his family’s story back home.
For Brenda Jepson, now 67, the new film brings full circle a journey
Sundance, the world’s largest independent film festival, is celebrating its 40th edition this year, and there’s a lot to reflect on. Over the past four decades, everything from Clerks to Little Miss Sunshine to Get Out have premiered on at the Park City, Utah, and this year boasts some starry entries too.
There’s Freaky Tales, starring Pedro Pascal and from Captain Marvel directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck; two Kristen Stewart films in Love Lies Bleeding (read IGN’s review here) and Love Me; Richard Linklater’s Netflix film Hit Man: Steven Soderbergh’s latest,
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A dedicated group of Davenport Central students has dreams of becoming the next Greta Gerwig or Martin Scorsese.
They are getting a leg up in potential film or TV careers through the free programs of Rock Island-based Fresh Films.
The national company has been in the Quad Cities since 2016, engaging local
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In the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery one December night, a six-minute video projected onto one wall showed people on the Tibetan pilgrimage journey from small villages to religious sites in the city of Lhasa. The quiet and reflective piece, showing people walking and prostrating themselves across icy, unforgiving terrain, was created for the fall course Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions.
Tairan Hao, a second-year Master of Fine Arts student working in video installations and new media art, says he was inspired to create this piece by a visit to Tibet five years ago, when he saw a crowd
I’m typing this column up at my desk on the Monday morning after the 2024 Golden Globes, a week after the Music City Film Critics handed in our individual nominations, and the day our group of local cinema scribes announced our list of official 2023 movie nominations. Award season is well upon us and there were a number of solid movies in theaters this year. From May December to American Fiction to Godzilla Minus One, to box office blockbusters like last summer’s one-two punch of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Underrated gems (Napoleon) and overrated bores (The Holdovers) are a seasonal
WILMINGTON, N.C. — North Carolina is hoping to grow its blossoming film industry by training up more workers, thanks to a new grant approved by the General Assembly.
The Film Partnership of North Carolina is getting $500,000 in new funding, and it’s going to help “cultivate a diverse pipeline of interns.” The partnership is working on training up students for a variety of jobs in the film sector.
(CHECK IT OUT: Movies filmed in the Carolinas)
Angelique Chase is living her dream. She is happily married to her high school sweetheart, Matt, and the two have an infant son, Malone. She also just completed her fourth film, which recently aired on the Lifetime Network.
Chase, whose dad was in the Air Force, was born in Iceland and lived in England, North Dakota, and California, before moving to Stilson at the age of 12, when her father retired from the military.
“We moved here when my dad retired because this is where my mom grew up,” Chase says.
Chase and her husband graduated from Southeast Bulloch High School, and Chase went