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Monday, May 12, 2008

I FOR INDIA is now playing in Los Angeles

Sandhya Suri's film, I FOR INDIA, is currently playing at the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex in downtown LA until Thursday May 15th.

Don't miss your chance to see this film, for showtimes and tickets visit the Grande's webpage or call 310-478-1041.

I FOR INDIA is a chronicle of immigration in Britain, from the Sixties to the present day, as seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.

Labels: Immigration, India, Los Angeles, theatrical, UK

Friday, May 09, 2008

New prize for THE PRIZE OF THE POLE!

Staffan Julén's film, THE PRIZE OF THE POLE, received the Best Expedition Film Award at the 2008 Explorers Club Film Festival. The film will be screened on Saturday June 14th at 1:30pm at the Explorers Club in New York City.

This documentary combines biography and history as it accompanies the Inuit hunter Hivshu, a.k.a. Robert E. Peary II, on a quest to trace the story of his great grandfather and his other ancestors, including the Eskimo family the famous Arctic explorer brought back with him to New York as part of an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in 1897.

Labels: anthropology, Arctic, awards, exploration, film festival, Inuits

Monday, May 05, 2008

FRIF films presented at the National Women's Studies Association conference

The annual NWSA conference will take place from June 19th to 22nd in Cincinnati. 4 films from our catalog will be presented. JUDITH BUTLER, MAMA AWETHU! and DREAMING LHASA will be part of the Film Series screenings on Friday June 20th and OUR HOUSE will be available for individual screenings.

Labels: academic conferences, Africa, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, Tibet, women's studies

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Interview of Nick Higgins, director of A MASSACRE FORETOLD

Head to the BBC Film Network website for a very interesting interview of filmmaker Nick Higgins conducted during the 2007 Edinburgh Film Festival where his documentary A MASSACRE FORETOLD, about the Zapatista rebellion in the Chiapas, was premiered.

Labels: chiapas, festival news, massacre, mexico, politics

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

OPERATION FILMMAKER Awarded Best Documentary Feature

Following 10 days, 160 films, and thousands of moviegoers, the 17th Annual Florida Film Festival came to a close last weekend with a highly anticipated awards reception recognizing the best in American Independent Film.

Nina Davenport's OPERATION FILMMAKER was awarded the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2008 Florida Film Festival!

The film will open at the IFC Center in NYC on June 4th.

Labels: awards, festival news, Iraq

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

FOREVER opens on April 4th in Los Angeles

Heddy Honigmann's award winning new film, FOREVER - a powerful meditation on relations between the living and the dead, and the immortal power of art - will open on Friday, April 4th at the Laemmle Music Hall 3 in Los Angeles. It will play for one week only so don't miss out on your chance to see this beautiful film.

For showtimes and tickets, please check Laemmle's Music Hall online or call (310) 478-1041.

Labels: arts, death, Los Angeles, screening

Friday, March 28, 2008

DUST - it's everywhere... Even on Facebook!

Join our new Facebook group dedicated to DUST in all its forms. The new film by Hartmut Bitomsky examines the myriad shapes and pathways of dust. It pursues dust to the places where it settles and meets the people who contend with it.

Learn more about DUST, read articles and find screening and festival dates here!

Labels: dust, facebook, film festival, science

Friday, March 21, 2008

2 FRIF films receive awards at the 2008 Montreal International Festival of Films on Art

LOOKING FOR AN ICON was the recipient of the Award for Best Educational Film, while EILEEN GRAY received the Best Portrait Award.

The 10-day International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) was created in 1981 and has been striving ever since to increase public awareness and appreciation of the arts by promoting works by film, television and video artists and professionals.

Labels: architecture, arts, awards, festival news, photography

Thursday, March 20, 2008

The WPA Film Festival selects 4 films from the FRIF catalog

The Western Psychological Association is holding its annual meeting April 10th to 13th in Irvine, CA. DO COMMUNISTS HAVE BETTER SEX?, MADE OVER IN AMERICA and SELLING SICKNESS will be part of the film festival taking place during the conference. Last year's festival winner, THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA, will be showcased in a special encore presentation.

Labels: festival news, psychology

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

4 FRIF films to be presented at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting

From April 3rd to 6th in Atlanta, GA, the AAS will hold its annual conference with panels and discussions devoted to a wide range of issues in research, teaching and Asian affairs in general. I FOR INDIA, NANJING, LOSERS AND WINNERS and A DECENT FACTORY have been selected to illustrate the variety of subjects presented during the 4-day meeting.

Labels: asian studies, China, Globalization, Immigration, India, Labor

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