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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Film Festivals</title>
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		<title>Gabriel Byrne at the Aero</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/gabriel-byrne-at-the-aero/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/gabriel-byrne-at-the-aero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aero Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Cinematheque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Byrne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Irish Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macdara Vallely]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peacefire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 Gabriel Byrne will be present at a screening of Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home at the American Cinematheque&#8217;s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Stories from Home, which screens this evening (Thursday), Sept. 24, at 7:30 pm will be followed by Macdara Vallely&#8217;s Peacefire. Byrne will take part in an onstage discussion between the two film presentations.
Both films are being screened as part of the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival, which continues until Sunday, Sept. 27.
Schedule and synopses below form the American Cinematheque&#8217;s press release:
Thursday, September 24 &#8211; 7:30 PM 
Double Feature: 
 GABRIEL BYRNE: STORIES FROM HOME, 2008, South Wind Blows/Harvest Films, 76 min., Dir. Pat Collins. A revealing look at the life and creative impulse of Gabriel Byrne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/los-angeles-jewish-film-festival-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/los-angeles-jewish-film-festival-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali Suliman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angie Dickinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beau Jest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Silverstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cass Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathy Randall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Reynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doron Tavory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiam Abbass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Sinclair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keisha Castle-Hughes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lainie Kazan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lemon Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martine McCutcheon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Swayze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippe Halsman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stefanie Powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sybil Danning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tab Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Brothers Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toni Collette]]></category>

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The 4th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, will kick off with a screening of Joshua Sinclair&#8217;s Jump, starring Ben Silverstone (of the coming-of-age gay drama Get Real) and Patrick Swayze. 
Jump will screen  on Thursday,  April 23, at 8:00 pm at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Based on a real story, the film (co-written by Sinclair and Ryan James) follows the  biased murder trial of the young Jew and future celebrity portrait photographer  Philippe Halsman (Silverstone), who was accused of murdering his father in  late 1920s Austria. Swayze plays the young man&#8217;s Jewish attorney.
Also in the Jump cast: Martine McCutcheon, and veterans Stefanie Powers, Richard Johnson,  and Sybil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: BURN THE BRIDGES, CAMPILLO, YES I DO</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-burn-the-bridges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-burn-the-bridges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrés Rubio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodies of Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burn the Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campillo Yes I Do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can't Spit it Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can't Swallow it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francisco Franco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klara Liden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lars Laumann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Summer in New Paltz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ottica Zero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quemar las Naves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Thursday, April 2, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
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One Summer in New Paltz, a Cautionary Tale



Cast:
Nancy Nicol


Country:
Canada


Year:
2008


Running time:
54min



Campillo, Yes I Do



Directed by:
Andrés Rubio


Country:
Spain


Year:
2008


Running time:
52min



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One Summer in New Paltz, a Cautionary Tale
In 2005, George W. Bush called for an amendment to the Constitution of  the United States to enshrine a heterosexual definition of marriage.  The mayor of New Paltz however didn’t agree and performed 26 gay  weddings one sunny afternoon, beginning a wave of civil disobedience.  Whether you are the marrying type or not, only the hardest of hearts  could fail to be moved by this clever and touching film about love,  commitment and pissing off George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: GHOSTED, THE AMERICAN SOLDIER</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-ghosted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-ghosted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Before Stonewall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delphine Seyrig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghosted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monika Treut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulrike Ottinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veruschka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Wednesday, April 1, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Before Stonewall



Directed by:
Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg


Distributor:
Peccadillo Pictures


Country:
USA


Year:
1984


Running time:
87min



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25 years ago this film felt like a revelation of a hidden gay  history. Conventional wisdom had defined the modern movement for gay  liberation from the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York, however,  this film shows just how much activism and creativity haad been going  on before 1969. A dazzling line-up of interviewees includes poets,  writers, political organizers, dancers, actors who bear witness to a  life before Stonewall, including Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Barbara  Gittings, Harry Hay, Ann Bannon and many more. 
The courage and bravery of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: PEDRO, MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-pedro-stonewall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-pedro-stonewall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Loynaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dustin Lance Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Tobin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madame X - An Absolute Ruler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Oceano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigel Finch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Zamora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stonewall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[To Each Her Own]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulrike Ottinger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Tuesday, March 31, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Madame X &#8211; An Absolute Ruler



Directed by:
Ulrike Ottinger


Cast:
Tabea Blumenschein


Country:
West Germany


Year:
1977


Running time:
141min



&#160;
Adventure and fun on the high seas comes at a price for this band of  stereotyped women, who answer a call to join Madame X on her ship  Chinese Orlando and experience a life without rules and patriarchal  tyranny. However old roles reassert themselves and the women find  themselves swapping one kind of servitude for another as Madame X  demands complete devotion from her shipmates, even the ones she is  enamoured with.
An early low-budget film from renowned avant-garde filmmaker  [Ulrike] Ottinger, who actually took all crew positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: EROS O BASILEUS, STEAM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-eros-o-basileus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-eros-o-basileus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ally Sheedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Rafelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Winger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory J. Markopoulos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lion's Den]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Trapero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Beavers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby Dee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Monday, March 30, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Lion&#8217;s Den



Directed by:
Pablo Trapero


Cast:
Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Laura García


Distributor:
Unanimous Pictures


Country:
Argentina


Year:
2008


Running time:
113min



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Julia, a two weeks pregnant 25-year-old student is sent to prison for a  crime she may or may not have committed &#8211; the murder of her boyfriend&#8217;s  male lover. No one can remember what happened that night, and as Julia  adjusts to life inside prison walls, gradually commanding respect from  other inmates on the &#8216;maternity&#8217; wing and developing a tender and  loving relationship with fellow internee Marta, she not only has to  fight her wrongful incarceration, but also for her son Tomas, born  inside prison and due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiburon Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/tiburon-film-festival-awards-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/tiburon-film-festival-awards-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andres Habegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filip Renc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guard No. 47]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucia Siposova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicke Lignell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiburon Film Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
2009 Tiburon (Calif.) Film Festival Awards
2009 Tiburon International Film Festival: March 19-27
&#160;

Based on a novel by Josef Kopta, Filip Renc&#8217;s Guard No. 47 tells the story of Josef Dousa,  a railway guard and World War I veteran who hopes to forget all the horrors he witnessed in the battlefield by spending his time with his young wife in a lone-standing guard house. Peace, however, is not in store for him. One day he saves the life of a young man  about to  jump under a train; while recovering, the young man  falls in love with Dousa’s wife. 

&#160;
Golden Reel Award for Best Film: Guard No. 47 from the Czech Republic
Best Director: Filip Renc for Guard No. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: BORN IN 68, Latin American Shorts</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-born-in-68/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-born-in-68/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristeu's Shoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Born in 68]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etienne Dhaene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fanny Ardant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Martineau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laetitia Casta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Berger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olivier Ducastel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Saar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Wish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New World]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Sunday, March 29, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Born in 68



Directed by:
Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel


Cast:
Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët 


Distributor:
Peccadillo Pictures


Country:
France


Year:
2008


Running time:
170min



&#160;
Festival favourites Martineau and Ducastel return to the LLGFF with an  epic drama covering life and sexual politics in France. Friends and  lovers caught up in the excitement of May &#8216;68 at the Sorbonne  eventually leave Paris for a communal life in the country. The  collective seems at first like a fairytale of left wing hippydom. But  principles are betrayed as members of the commune drift away to  bourgeois careers. Laetitia Casta gives a great performance as the  central figure, Catherine, loved by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: DOLLS, THE DEVIL&#8217;S CLEAVAGE</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-dolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-dolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dolls]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Kuchar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory J. Markopoulos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Could Go on Singing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Garland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karin Babinska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrik 1.5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Summers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twice a Man]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Saturday, March 28, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
&#160;

Dolls



Directed by:
Karin Babinská


Cast:
Marie Dolezalová, Sandra Nováková, Petra Nesvacilova


Country:
Czech Republic


Year:
2007


Running time:
99min



&#160;
This debut feature from Karin Babinská is a beautifully made and  poignant coming of age tale, about three best friends from high school  embarking on their last summer together before going their separate  ways at summer&#8217;s end. Iska, struggling to understand her burgeoning  sexuality and why she feels different from other girls, has been forced  to join her little brother Vojta at a summer camp for athletes. Whilst  he can back flip and somersault like a pro, the timid Iska can barely  hold her own against a punch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: Fred Halsted, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-fred-halsted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/london-gay-film-festival-2009-fred-halsted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Friday, March 27, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
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The Naked Civil Servant



Directed by:
Jack Gold


Cast:
John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge


Country:
UK


Year:
1975


Running time:
85min



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This dramatization of Quentin [Crisp]&#8217;s first volume of autobiography won  BAFTAs for its director Jack Gold and its star. John Hurt gives a  dazzling performance as the young Quentin, a flame-haired flamboyant  homosexual when such things were not permitted. It contains much of the  wit and wisdom of Quentin and celebrates a life lived in a refusal to  conform. The highlight is Quentin&#8217;s impassioned speech from the dock  when charged with soliciting for an immoral purpose. 
Plus an interview with Bernard Braden filmed in 1967. Previously  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Underground Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2009 Boston Underground Film Festival Awards
 2009 Boston Underground Film Festival: March 19-26, 2009
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In Zach Clark&#8217;s  Modern Love Is Automatic, a bored nurse (Melodie Sisk) discovers her inner dominatrix after ditching her boyfriend and finding a new roommate, a naive young woman (Maggie Ross) who is just beginning to realize that the world out there isn&#8217;t quite like the Disney Hour.
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Jury Awards
Best of Fest (Feature)
Modern Love Is Automatic (Zach Clark)
  Honorable Mention: Morris County (Matthew Garrett) 
Best of Fest (Short)
Treevenge (Jason Eisener)  
Honorable Mention: The Scavengers (Corey Bowles) 
Most Effectively Offensive
Mavela (My Love Lives in the Sewers) (Manuel Arija de la Cuerda)
  Honorable Mention: The Gingerbread House (Claudio Centimeri) 
Special Jury Prize
Excision (Richard Bates, Jr.)
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2009 SXSW Film Festival Awards
 2009 SXSW Film Festival: Austin, March 13-21, 2009
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First-time feature filmmaker Judi Krant&#8217;s Made in China follows an American &#34;novelty&#34; inventor who goes to China in order to try to market his product. Once in Shanghai, he discovers that things aren&#8217;t going to be as easy as he&#8217;d thought. In the cast: Jackson Kuehn, Dan Sumpter, Syna Zhang, Deng Juan.
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FEATURE FILM JURY AWARDS
NARRATIVE FEATURE
Grand Jury Award
  Made in China, Director: Judi Krant
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast
    That Evening Sun, Director: Scott Teems
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DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Grand Jury Award
  45365, Director: Bill Ross IV &#38; Turner Ross
Special Jury Award
    The Way We Get By, Director: Aron Gaudet
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FEATURE FILM AUDIENCE AWARDS
NARRATIVE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2009 Miami Film Festival Awards
2009 Miami Film Festival: March 6-15, 2009
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  Directed by Daniele Vicari, and adapted from attorney Gianrico Carofiglio&#8217;s novel by Vicari, Carofiglio, Francesco Carofiglio, and Massimo Gaudioso, Il Passato è una terra straniera / The Past is a Foreign Land stars Elio Germano as a brilliant  but bored law student who, after crossings  paths with a card shark (Michele Riondino), is lured into the dangerous world of  fixed decks.
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WORLD COMPETITION 
Knight Grand Jury Prize: The Past is a Foreign Land (Il Passato È Una Terra Straniera) by Daniele Vicari, Italy
Best Director: Enrique Rivero, Parque Vía, Mexico 
Best Actor: Michele Riondino, The Past is a Foreign Land (Il Passato È Una Terra Straniera) by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Redford to Be Honored at San Francisco Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Robert Redford &#8212; actor, filmmaker, political and environmental activist, and independent film festival creator &#8212; will be the recipient of this year’s Peter J. Owens  Award at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at 7:00 pm. at  the Castro  Theatre.
The Robert Redford tribute will feature   career retrospective film clips, audience Q&#38;A, and an onstage  interview with Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle. That will be  followed by a screening of the film that turned Redford into a superstar, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), directed by George Roy Hill, and co-starring Paul Newman and Katharine Ross.
Among Redford&#8217;s most notable films as a director are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation V: RUTHLESS, Vitaphone Varieties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives press release.
Saturday, April 18
  7:30  p.m.
  Preservation  funded by The Film Foundation 
  RUTHLESS  (top photo)
  (1948, Edgar G. Ulmer) 
  Director Edward G. Ulmer’s complex  psycho-melodrama Ruthless (1948) is  undoubtedly worthy of rediscovery.  A  flashback-structured tale of a sociopath’s remorseless drive for station and  wealth, Ruthless (often referred to  as Ulmer’s Citizen Kane) employs a  relentless undercurrent of emotional violence.   As relayed in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Ulmer envisioned his  feature as “a Jesuitic morality play… a very bad indictment against 100 percent  Americanism—as Upton Sinclair saw it.”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation IV: BEHIND THE SCENES IN HOLLYWOOD, POINTED HEELS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Lena Rivers
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation Schedule I: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation Schedule II: THE PROWLER
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation Schedule III: SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR
Photos: Courtesy of UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives
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Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives press release.
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Sunday, April 5
  7  p.m.
  Preservation  funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Film Preservation  Foundation and the Society for Cinephiles
  LENA RIVERS (top photo)
  (1914,  director unknown) 
  This version of the classic drama Lena Rivers by Cosmos Features was one  of a pair released in 1914 (the other from Garrison Films) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation III: SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR, POINT OF ORDER!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Naked Eye by Louis Clyde Stoumen
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation Schedule I: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation Schedule II: THE PROWLER
Photos: Courtesy of UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives
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Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives press release.

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Thursday, March 26
7:30  p.m.
Preservation  funded by The Film Foundation
THE NAKED EYE
(1957, Louis Clyde Stoumen) 
Director Louis Clyde Stoumen’s evocative  documentary on the art and history of photography begins with a quote from  Ecclesiastes—“Truly the light is sweet&#8230;”—before a quick recounting of the  medium’s 100-year technical development.   From there, Stoumen sharpens focus with  extended narrative sequences on key artists.   Alfred Eisenstaedt and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation II: THE PROWLER, RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Evelyn Keyes, Van Heflin in The Prowler
2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation Schedule I: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
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Friday, March 20
  7:30  p.m.
  Preservation  funded by the Film Noir Foundation and The Stanford Theatre Foundation  
  THE PROWLER
  (1951, Joseph Losey)
  Set in a shadowy post-war Los Angeles, The Prowler focuses on a wealthy but  neglected housewife (Evelyn Keyes) who spends her evenings alone, with only her  husband’s voice on the radio for company.   When she’s spooked by a peeping tom, a calculating cop (Van [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation I: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A TALE OF TWO CITIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Schedule and synopses from the UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives press release:
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Friday, March 13
  7:30  p.m
  Preservation  funded by The Film Foundation and GUCCI
  A WOMAN UNDER THE  INFLUENCE
  (1974, John Cassavetes)
  Over  30 years after its self-distributed release, screenwriter-director John  Cassavetes’ masterpiece retains the  power to shock and unnerve for its raw, often harrowing depiction of a  blue-collar Los Angeles family on the rocks.   At its trembling heart, Gena Rowlands’ performance as Mabel Longhetti,  wife of everyman Nick (Peter Falk) and mother of three, stands as a virtually unmatched  tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCLA Festival of Preservation 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The UCLA Film &#38; Television Archives&#8216; 2009 UCLA Festival of Preservation, which kicks off this evening and continues until April 26, leaves me at a loss. The problem is: I don&#8217;t know what not to recommend. (See full schedule below.)
Now, it&#8217;s not that I think  every single one of the listed films are  waiting-to-be-rediscovered masterpieces &#8212; or even that they&#8217;re mostly enjoyable fare. What makes me so excited about the Festival of Preservation is that it features  films that for the most part are incredibly rare, thus offering audiences a unique chance to either get to know (or to get reacquainted with) our cinematic past.
Here&#8217;s some of what&#8217;s in store for you if you live in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Special Screenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Special Screenings
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American Prince
Director: Tommy Palotta
After being forgotten for 30 years, filmmaker Tommy  Pallotta revisits Scorcese’s lost documentary “American Boy” and its  raconteur subject, Steven Prince. (World Premiere)
Berlin Calling
Director/Writer: Hannes  Stoehr
Berlin Calling is an extraordinary story that starts  in pre-war Berlin, spans three generations, and concludes in the dark  and sweaty rock n’ roll clubs that line the Sunset Strip in Los  Angeles.  Cast: Paul Kalkbrenner, Rita Lengyel, Corinna Harfouch, Araba  Walton, Peter Schneider (U.S. Premiere)
Blood Trail
Director: Richard Parry
War photographer Robert King let a camera crew  follow him for over 15 years. From his first assignment in Bosnia to  his breakthrough work in Chechnya, and on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Midnighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Midnighters
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A Film With Me In  It
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
An actor hard on his luck ends up with a large number of dead bodies  on his hands.  Cast: Mark Doherty, Dylan Moran (U.S. Premiere)
The Ceremony
Director/Writer: James  Palmer
After finding a bizarre book, a young man is plagued  by unexplainable occurrences inside his home.  Cast: Scott Seegmiller  (World Premiere)
Grace
Director/Writer: Paul  Solet
After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson  insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child  miraculously returns to life, but when the baby develops a desperate  appetite for human blood, Madeline is faced with a mother’s ultimate  decision.  Cast: Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Lone Star States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Lone Star States
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American Violet
Director: Tim Disney.  Writer: Bill Haney
The astonishing story of Dee Roberts, a young African American  single mother, whose courageous fight against her unwarranted drug  arrest forever changes her life and the Texas justice system.  Cast:  Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Michael O’Keefe, Xzibit,  with Charles Dutton and Alfre Woodard.
Blaze Foley Inside
Director: Kevin Triplett
A documentary on the everyday man behind the legend,  Blaze Foley.  Born in a tree house, killed in a friend’s living room  and 86?ed from his own funeral, is now a bona fide country music legend  whose songs are covered by Merle Haggard, John Prine, Willie Nelson and  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: 24 Beats Per Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: 24 Beats Per Second
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Anvil! The Story  of Anvil
Director: Sacha Gervasi
At 14, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner  made a pact to rock together forever.  They meant it. Cast: Steve “Lips  Kudlow,” Robb Reiner.
All Tomorrow’s  Parties
Director: All Tomorrow’s  People
A kaleidoscopic journey  into the parallel musical universe of cult music festival All Tomorrow’s  Parties. (World Premiere)
Youssou Ndour: I  Bring What I Love
Director: Chai Vasarhelyi
Youssou Ndour, one of  Africa’s most prominent musicians, returns home for the release of his  highly controversial album, Egypt. (U.S. Premiere)
Intangible Assets  Number 82
Director: Emma Franz
An Australian drummer  searches for an enigmatic Korean shaman and is transformed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: SX Global</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/sxsw-film-festival-2009-sx-global/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: SX Global
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Calling E.T. (Netherlands)
Director: Prosper de  Roos.
A close-up look at a small group of people  listening, watching, waiting and preparing for their perceived  inevitable earthly encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence. (U.S.  Premiere)
Favela on Blast (Brazil)
Director: Leandro HBL
Globe trotting taste-maker DJ Diplo presents a look  at Brazil’s Baile Funk music scene from directly inside the mountain  ghettos where it spawned and thrives.
The Forgotten Tree (Mexico)
Director: Luis Rincon
A documentary that revisits the slums featured over  fifty years ago in Los Olvidados, (Luis Buñuel), and reveals the  current and similar conditions for the people in this area of Mexico  City.
Journey to the End  of Coal (France)
Director: Samuel Bollendorff
Millions of Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Emerging Visions</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/sxsw-film-festival-2009-emerging-visions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Emerging Visions
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Awaydays
Director: Pat Holden.  Writer: Kevin Sampson
A blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the  post-punk energy of its late-70s Liverpool setting. Based on the  classic novel by Kevin Sampson.  Cast: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen  Graham, Oliver Lee (North American Premiere)
Beetle Queen Conquers  Tokyo
Director: Jessica Oreck
Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties  underlying Japan’s deep fascination with insects… and what it says  about the rest of us. (World Premiere)
Brock Enright: Good  Times Will Never Be The Same
Director: Jody Lee Lipes
Artist Brock Enright’s unbridled creative force  clashes with the confines of love, family, and industry, as he crafts  the most significant show of his career. (World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Spotlight Premieres</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Spotlight Premieres
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Adventureland
Director/Writer: Greg  Mottola
In 1987, a recent college graduate takes a nowhere  job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect  preparation for the real world.  Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen  Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Martin Starr
Alexander the Last
Director/Writer: Joe  Swanberg
A sensual and intimate portrait of a young marriage.  Focusing on an artistic young couple, the film illuminates the  challenges of monogamy amidst myriad sexual and creative temptations.   Cast: Jess Weixler, Justin Rice, Barlow Jacobs, Josh Hamilton, Jane  Adams (World Premiere)
Beeswax
Director/Writer: Andrew  Bujalski
Something like a legal thriller for anyone who  considers “legal thriller” an oxymoron, the film revolves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Documentary Feature Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SXSW Film Festival 2009: Documentary Feature Competition 
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Director: Bill Ross
An inquiring look at everyday life in middle  America, the film explores the congruities of daily life in an American  town Sidney, Ohio. (World Premiere)
Garbage Dreams
Director: Mai Iskander
Filmed over four years, the film follows three  teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s  largest garbage village. Each boy chooses a different path when their  community is suddenly faced with the globalization of their trade.   (World Premiere)
MINE: Taken By Katrina
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of pets were  rescued and adopted by families around the country, leading to many  custody battles. Through these stories, the film examines issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Film Festival 2009: Narrative Feature Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Hal Holbrook in That Evening Sun.
The 2009 SXSW Film Festival runs March 13-21, 2009, in Austin, Texas.
SXSW Film Festival 2009: Narrative Feature Competition
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Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart.  Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic  quest to craft the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known and  reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie.  Cast: Mark Scheibmeir, Sydney  Andrews, Stephen Taylor Fry, Dan Braverman (World Premiere)
Bomber 
Director/Writer: Paul  Cotter
A bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping  bombs on Germany. Cast: Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow, Eileen Nicholas  (World Premiere)
Breaking Upwards
Director: Daryl Wein.  Writer: Peter Duchan, Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones
A young New York couple who, desperate to escape  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW 2009: Mumblecore Movies Available Via IFC Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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David Denby on &#34;mumblecore&#34; movies in The New Yorker:
&#34;Mumblecore  movies are made by buddies, casual and serious lovers, and networks of  friends, and they’re about college-educated men and women who aren’t  driven by ideas or by passions or even by a desire to make their way in  the world. Neither rebels nor bohemians, they remain stuck in a limbo  of semi-genteel, moderately hip poverty, though some of the films end  with a lurch into the working world. The actors (almost always  nonprofessionals) rarely say what they mean; a lot of the time, they  don’t know what they mean. The movies tell stories but they’re also a  kind of lyrical documentary of [...]]]></description>
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