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		<title>EYES WIDE OPEN: Another Week at New York&#8217;s Cinema Village</title>
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Distributed by New American Vision, Eyes Wide Open will stay one more week at New York City&#8217;s Cinema Village. Directed by Haim Tabakman and written by Merav Doster, the forbidden gay love story set among Israel&#8217;s ultra-orthodox Jewish community &#8212; where homosexuality isn&#8217;t exactly welcome &#8212; stars Zohar Shtrauss and Ran Danker. The information below is from the film&#8217;s press release.
Aaron,  a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s  ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated  father of four children. One day, he hires Ezri, a handsome twenty-two  year  old student, as an apprentice and soon develops feelings for him. As  the relationship grows, Aaron starts to neglect his family and  community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-love-story-49549/</link>
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		<title>UP IN THE AIR Wins Scripter Award</title>
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Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, and author Walter Kirn won  USC&#8217;s 2010 Scripter Award for the socially conscious comedy drama Up in the Air this past Saturday. The Scripter Award goes both to the screenwriter(s) of an adapted screenplay from a literary work and to the author of the source material.
Directed by Reitman, and starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air tells the story of a corporate-downsizing expert who spends most of his time either at airports or among the clouds. Competing against Up in the Air were Crazy Heart, District 9, An Education, and Precious. The last two Scripter Award winners, Slumdog Millionaire (2009) and No Country for Old Men (2008), went on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/up-in-the-air-scripter-award-77654/</link>
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		<title>2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is currently accepting  entries for the 2010 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting  competition. As per the Academy&#8217;s press release, up to  five $30,000 fellowships will be awarded  through the program in November.
For the first  time, the entire application process this year, including the submission of entry  scripts, will be done online. No scripts will be accepted via mail or  e-mail. Online applications, rules and other details are available at www.oscars.org/nicholl.
More from the release: &#34;The  Nicholl Fellowships competition is open to any individual who has not  earned more than $5,000 from the sale or option of a screenplay or  teleplay, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/2010-nicholl-fellowships-in-screenwriting-competition-19876/</link>
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		<title>THE COVE&#8217;s Oscar Credits Announced</title>
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Nominee credits for Best Documentary Feature nominee The Cove have  been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’  Documentary Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows:

The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens

 As per the Academy&#8217;s press release, &#34;rules for the documentary feature category state that a maximum  of two persons may be designated as nominees, one of whom must be the  credited director, and the other of whom must have a producer or  director credit. Psihoyos is the film’s director, Stevens has a  producer credit.&#34;
Nominees for the other four  documentaries in competition – Burma VJ, Food, Inc.,  The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-cove-oscar-credits-91243/</link>
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		<title>Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin: Oscar 2010 Poster</title>
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the co-hosts of the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony, are featured on  the shoulders of a gigantic Oscar statuette in the official poster of the  March 7 telecast. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences  has announced  that the poster is now available for purchase. 
According to the Academy&#8217;s press release, &#34;the  27&#215;40-inch color poster is printed on premium quality, Forest  Stewardship Certified paper. LA-based creative shop Omelet is  responsible for the concept and execution of the design.&#34; This year&#8217;s Oscar ceremony slogan is “You’ve Never Seen Oscar Like This.&#34;
Posters are available for purchase on the Academy’s Web site at http://www.oscars.org/academy/posters-books/posters/ or by calling 1-877-335-8936. Each poster is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/steve-martin-alec-baldwin-oscar-2010-poster-87643/</link>
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		<title>DEAR JOHN &amp; the Top Ten</title>
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Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried in Dear John

Screen Gems’ romance drama Dear  John dethroned James Cameron’s Avatar at the  North American box office this weekend with a surprising $32.4 million  in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Lasse Hallström’s big-screen  adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel scored an average of  $10,913 per theater at 2,969 locations,  enough to end the impressive winning streak of Cameron’s hit epic.
At No. 2, Avatar  bagged another $23.6 million from ticket sales at 3,000 locations, a solid  weekend gross after eight weeks in release. Domestically, Fox’s sci-fi hit  flick has reached a cumulative gross of $630 million. 
New entry From Paris with Love generated $8.1 million in third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/dear-john-top-ten-49875/</link>
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		<title>Box Office: AVATAR, New Releases, Oscar Movies</title>
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Channing Tatum in Lasse Hallström&#8217;s Dear John (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in From Paris with Love (bottom)

According to estimates provided by Box Office Mojo, Lasse Hallström’s romantic tearjerker Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, topped the domestic box-office this weekend, with $32.4 million in ticket sales. Avatar came at a distance second, with $23.6 million. James Cameron&#8217;s 3D sci-fier has grossed a total of $630 million after 52 days.
The $52 million John Travolta-Jonathan Rhys Meyers vehicle From Paris with Love earned a paltry $8.1 million ($2,983 per screen) on its opening weekend. Following in fourth place was Mel Gibson’s   Edge of Darkness  with $7 million, a  59.3 percent drop from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/box-office-dear-john-oscar-movies-18769/</link>
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		<title>DEAR JOHN Dethrones AVATAR: Box Office</title>
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Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried in Dear John

A blonde socialite and a hunky military type have dethroned James Cameron and his Na&#8217;vi from atop the box-office charts. 
With  $32.4 million, Lasse Hallström’s tearjerker Dear John far surpassed Avatar’s $23.6 million at the US/Canada box office this weekend, according to estimates provided by Box Office Mojo. Starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum, Dear John chronicles the long-distance affair between two star-crossed lovers, kept apart by terrorists, wars, and tears. 
Avatar has lost an estimated 24.6 percent in revenues from the previous weekend, which may be partly  explained by the Super Bowl being held on Sunday; the film has generally dropped somewhere between 10 and 20 percent each week. Twelve years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/dear-john-avatar-box-office-7612/</link>
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		<title>UP Wins Annie Award for Best Animated Feature</title>
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Pete Docter&#8217;s Up was the best picture winner and Docter was the best director at the Annie Awards ceremony held Saturday evening at UCLA&#8217;s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The favorite movie did win the top two prizes &#8212; but that was it. With three awards each, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog were the evening&#8217;s top animated feature winners.
But at least Up&#8217;s best picture victory avoided a repeat of last year&#8217;s outrage  following the Kung Fu Panda sweep when WALL-E was the odds-on favorite. Up is the favorite to win this year&#8217;s Best Animated Feature Academy Award. It&#8217;s also the second ever animated feature to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Beauty and the Beast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/up-wins-annie-award-18907/</link>
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		<title>Annie Awards 2010</title>
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2010 Annie Awards
International Animated Film Society&#8217;s 2010 Annie Award nominations: Dec. 1, 2009
2010 Annie Award winners: UCLA&#8217;s Royce Hall in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2010
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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Up by Pete Docter
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PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
Best Animated Feature
    Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs &#8212; Sony Pictures Animation
  Coraline &#8212; Laika
  Fantastic Mr. Fox &#8212; 20th Century Fox
  The Princess and the Frog &#8212; Walt Disney Animation Studios
  The Secret of Kells &#8212; Cartoon Saloon
*  Up &#8212; Pixar Animation Studios
Best Home Entertainment Production
    Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas &#8212; Universal Animation Studios
*  Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder &#8212; The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/annie-awards-2010-123/</link>
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		<title>Taylor Lautner: STRETCH ARMSTRONG</title>
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Robert Pattinson will not play Spider-Man, but fellow Twilight alumnus Taylor Lautner is set to star in Universal’s upcoming  Stretch Armstrong. Lautner has been ridiculed for being too good-looking, too muscular, too sexy. But hey, it&#8217;s not the guy&#8217;s fault that he has all that going for him and his critics don&#8217;t. Lautner fans, I should add, will be able to see him flex (and stretch) his muscles in 3D. That&#8217;s the Avatar effect. 
In the movie, Stretch Armstrong will come across a &#34;stretching formula.&#34; I&#8217;m not sure exactly why he takes the stuff &#8212; does he think it&#8217;s candy? Or beer maybe? &#8212; but stretch he does when fighting evildoers. No director has been set for Stretch Armstrong, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/taylor-lautner-stretch-armstrong-8209/</link>
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		<title>DEAR JOHN Vs. AVATAR: Tearjerker Wins</title>
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Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried in Dear John

After seven weeks, Avatar&#8217;s reign at the box office may  finally be over: an estimated $6.2 million on Friday vs. $13.8 million for the tearjerker Dear John on Day One,   according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. Avatar had a small but not insignificant 16.7 percent drop from the previous Friday; even if the film rallies on Saturday &#8212; as it surely will &#8212; Avatar should end the weekend with at most $23-27 million. Outstanding for a movie on its eighth weekend &#8212; but it&#8217;ll land James Cameron’s  3D sci-fi adventure in second place nevertheless. Twelve years ago, Titanic remained on top for a total of 15 weekends.
Starring Amanda [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/dear-john-vs-avatar-8771/</link>
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		<title>SNOW AND ASHES, AMERICAN JIHADIST, THE WILD HUNT: Slamdance 2010 Winners</title>
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The Slamdance Film Festival winners were announced Jan. 29. The Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Film went to Charles-Olivier Michaud&#8217;s Snow and Ashes (above), in which a war correspondent wakes from a coma to discover that his collaborator has disappeared. The Best Documentary Film was Mark Claywell&#8217;s American Jihadist. The synopsis below is from the Slamdance website:
&#34;American Jihadist is a look at militant Islam through the eyes of an  African- American who fought and almost died for it.  This is the story of Isa Abdullah Ali, aka Clevin Raphael Holt, an  African- American Muslim from the ghettos of Washington, DC, labeled a  &#8216;known terrorist&#8217; by the U.S. Defense Department though he’s never been  charged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/snow-and-ashes-american-jihadist-slamdance-1887/</link>
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		<title>Jesse James Hollywood Sentenced: Inspired ALPHA DOG Character</title>
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Amber Heard, Anton Yelchin in Alpha Dog

 Jesse James Hollywood, 30, was sentenced to life in prison Friday at a Santa Barbara courtroom. He was found guilty of orchestrating the kidnap-murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz in August 2000 because of a $1,200 drug debt owed by the victim&#8217;s half-brother. Hollywood&#8217;s was a high-profile case partly because of Nick Cassavetes&#8216; 2007 movie Alpha Dog, which starred Sharon Stone, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, and  Emile Hirsch in the role of Johnny Truelove, a character based on Hollywood.
Defense attorney James Blatt said his client didn&#8217;t have a fair trial at least in part because Alpha Dog was released before the trial. According to various reports, four  other defendants had already been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/alpha-dog-jesse-james-hollywood-4945/</link>
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		<title>EYES WIDE OPEN: Gay Love Story Set in Israel&#8217;s Orthodox Community</title>
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Directed by Haim Tabakman and written by Merav Doster, Eyes Wide Open is a gay love story set in Jerusalem&#8217;s &#34;ultra-orthodox&#34; Jewish community &#8212; in other words, in a society in which homosexuality is anything but acceptable. 
Here&#8217;s the synopsis from the Eyes Wide Open press release: &#34;Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem&#8217;s  ultra-orthodox Jewish community is married to Rivka and is a dedicated  father of four children. One day, he meets Ezri, a handsome twenty-two  year old student, and soon falls in love with him. He then starts to  neglect his family and community life, swept away by his love and lust  for Ezri. But guilt, torment and pressure from the community will catch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/eyes-wide-open-gay-orthodox-jewish-7194/</link>
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		<title>AVATAR: No More Records to Break, Just Sails Along</title>
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Mel Gibson, Bojana Novakovic in Edge of Darkness

Compared to the day before, Avatar had a small 2.1 percent increase at the box office on Thursday, grossing $2.703 million  according to Box Office Mojo. James Cameron’s 3D sci-fi adventure doesn&#8217;t have any more official records to break at this point, so it just keeps sailing along even if with somewhat less steam. Its total after 49 days stands at  $606.4 million. 
Avatar was followed by Mel Gibson’s  revenge thriller Edge of Darkness, with earnings of $1.06 million, a  4.4 percent drop from the previous day.  Total to date: $22.09m. At #3, the Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel romantic comedy When in Rome, earned 687K, a 2.8 percent drop. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-more-records-to-break-9918/</link>
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		<title>Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, THE LOST WORLD, HUBBLE 3D: SXSW Special Events</title>
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Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford in Tod Browning&#8217;s The Unknown (MGM) (top); Toni Myers&#8216; Hubble 3D (IMAX / Warner Bros.) (bottom)

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
All My Friends are Funeral Singers  with Live Soundtrack by Califone
    Director and Screenwriter: Tim Rutili
    Zel, a fortune-teller, is aided in her prognostication by a band of  ghosts, but when a mysterious light appears, she may have to give up  the only family she knows. 
    Cast: Angela Bettis, Emily Candini, Reid Coker, Kevin Ford, Joe Adamik, Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, Tim Rutili  
 Hubble 3D 
    Director: Toni Myers
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		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/lon-chaney-joan-crawford-hubble-3d-1876/</link>
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		<title>Monsters, Porn Stars, Aliens: SXSW 2010 SX Fantastic</title>
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The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 Higanjima (Japan/Korea)
  Director: Tae-Kyun Kim. Screenwriter: Tetsuya Ôishi 
  Two years after losing contact, Akira discovers that his long-lost  brother may be found on Higanjima Island.  He may also find on  Higanjima an army of blood-sucking vampires. 
  Cast: Koji Yamamoto, Hideo Ishiguro, Dai Watanabe, Asami Mizukawa (North American Premiere) 
 Monsters (UK)
  Director and Screenwriter: Gareth Edwards
  Six years after a NASA probe crashes, bringing alien life forms to  Earth, a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through an  infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. 
  Cast: Scoot McNairym, Whitney [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/monsters-porn-stars-aliens-sxsw-fantastic-7610/</link>
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		<title>CANNIBAL GIRLS, ENTER THE VOID: SXSW 2010 Midnighters</title>
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The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
Amer (Belgium)
    Directors: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. Screenwriter: Bruno Forzani
    Ana is confronted to Body and Desire at three key moments of her life.  Cast: Bianca Maria D’Amato, Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène-Guibbaud,  Marie Bos, Harry Cleven (U.S. Premiere) 
 Cannibal Girls  (Canada)
    Director: Ivan Reitman. Screenwriter: Robert Sandler
    They do EXACTLY what you think they do! Second City TV regulars Eugene  Levy and Andrea Martin star in Ivan Reitman’s Canuxploitation classic  as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little  bed-and-breakfast run by a trio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/cannibal-girls-enter-the-void-sxsw-9126/</link>
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		<title>Steven Soderbergh, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO: SXSW 2010 Festival Favorites</title>
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 Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Nordisk Films) (top); Jennifer Lawrence in Winter&#8217;s Bone (Roadside Attractions) (bottom)

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 And Everything Is Going Fine
    Director: Steven Soderbergh 
    And Everything Is Going Fine is an intimate portrait of master  monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent  and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. The film pulls from some 90  hours of material to fashion a new narrative exploring, among other  things, art-making, mental illness and the sometimes thin line between  the two. 
 Crying with Laughter  (Scotland)
    Director and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/steven-soderbergh-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tatoo-sxsw-4681/</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2010: SX Global</title>
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The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 The DeVilles  (Denmark)
    Director: Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
    The love between the American burlesque stripper Teri Lee Geary (aka  Kitten DeVille) and her punk rock singer husband Shawn Geary is strong  but rather complicated. They live in their own time bubble, hers from  the 1950&#8217;s and his from the 1980&#8217;s. (U.S. Premiere) 
 Erasing David (United Kingdom)
    Director: David Bond
    Just how much of our personal information is floating around in  government and corporate databases? Filmmaker David Bond decides to  find out, by disappearing for a month and setting two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/sxsw-2010-sx-global-the-erectionman-8710/</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2010: 24 Beats per Second</title>
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Bahman Ghobadi&#8217;s No One Knows About Persian Cats (Mij Films)

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 Ain&#8217;t In It For My Health:  A Film About Levon Helm
     Director: Jacob Hatley
     In Ain&#8217;t In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the  first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and  ever-growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have  haunted him since The Band&#8217;s demise:  Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug  addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick  Danko.  Win or lose, Levon is an artist who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/sxsw-2010-24-beats-per-second-9087/</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2010: Lone Star States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
    Director: Sam Wainwright Douglas
    In Alabama, Samuel Mockbee’s radical design/build program brought  architecture to the rural poor and a new set of ethics to architecture.  His legacy has inspired a generation of architects dedicated to design  for social good. (World Premiere) 
 For The Sake Of The Song: The Story of Anderson Fair
    Director: Bruce Bryant
    A devoted community of artists, volunteers and patrons transforms a  politically subversive little coffee house and restaurant into a unique  American music institution&#8230; a small place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/sxsw-2010-lone-star-states-5689/</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2010: Emerging Visions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 11/4/08 
    Director: Jeff Deutchman 
    Weaving together footage recorded throughout the world on the day  Obama was elected President, this vérité documentary explores how  people choose to live through “history.” (World Premiere) 
 A Different Path 
    Director: Monteith McCollum 
    In an automobile dominated society, a cast of characters uses  ingenuity and wit to forge a new way to commute. One by foot, one by  bike, two by boat. (World Premiere) 
 American: The Bill Hicks Story  (United Kingdom)
    Directors: Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas 
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/sxsw-2010-emerging-visions-7762/</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2010 Documentary Features Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SXSW Film Festival will be held March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 Beijing Taxi
    Director: Miao Wang 
    Through a humanistic lens, Beijing Taxi vividly portrays China  undergoing a profound transformational arch in an era of Olympic  transitions. The intimate lives of three cabbies connect a morphing  cityscape and a lyrical journey through fragments of a society riding  the bumpy roads to modernization. (World Premiere) 
 Camp Victory, Afghanistan 
    Director: Carol Dysinger 
    Using almost 300 hours of footage shot over the course of three  years, Camp Victory, Afghanistan tells the story of the Afghan officers  charged with building a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/sxsw-2010-documentary-competition-8810/</link>
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		<title>SXSW 2010 Narrative Features Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SXSW Film Festival will be held March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
 Brotherhood 
    Director: Will Canon. Screenwriters: Will Canon and Doug Simon 
    When an initiation ritual spins dangerously out of control, one young man must stand up to save a friend&#8217;s life. 
    Cast: Jon Foster, Trevor Morgan, Arlen Escarpeta, Lou Taylor Pucci (World Premiere) 
 Dance With The One
    Director: Mike Dolan. Screenwriters: Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith 
    An emotionally explosive thriller set in the troubled heart of  Texas. Tragic family history rises to the surface when a teenager races  to protect his family from a lethal drug-runner. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/sxsw-2010-narrative-features-competition-1890/</link>
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		<title>James Franco, Edward Norton, THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS: SXSW 2010 Spotlight Premieres</title>
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 Barbershop Punk
    Directors: Georgia Sugimura &#38; Kristin Armfield (Co-Director). Screenwriter: Georgia Sugimura 
    Keeping the independent/punk spirit alive, barbershop quartet fan  Robb Topolski takes on the nation’s largest cable company, only to find  himself at the center of a federal investigation, inspiring a larger  story of censorship, individual voice and access. Featuring interviews  with Ian MacKaye, Damian Kulash of OK Go, Henry Rollins, Janeane  Garofalo, John Perry Barlow among others. (World Premiere) 
 BARRY MUNDAY 
    Director and Screenwriter: Chris D’Arienzo 
    Barry Munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he&#8217;s  missing his family jewels. To make matters worse, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/james-franco-edward-norton-george-lucas-8989/</link>
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		<title>Kristen Stewart, Sissy Spacek, Jean-Pierre Jeunet: SXSW 2010 Headliners</title>
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Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart in The Runaways (River Road Entertainment)

Cyrus
    Directors and Screenwriters: Jay and Mark Duplass 
    With John’s social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get  remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his  dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life – her son.  Written and directed by Jay &#38; Mark Duplass, the iconoclastic  filmmaking team behind The Puffy Chair, Cyrus takes an insightful,  funny and sometimes heartbreaking look at love and family in  contemporary Los Angeles.  
    Cast: John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener, Matt Walsh 
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/kirsten-stewart-sissy-spacek-sxsw-headliners-1890/</link>
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		<title>Charlie Sheen&#8217;s Mercedes Found Down Ravine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Sheen, 44, the star of the television sitcom Two and a Half Men and of Oliver Stone&#8217;s Oscar-winning Vietnam War drama Platoon (1986), reportedly had his Mercedes stolen early Friday (Feb. 5). Strangely, the car was found overturned hundreds of feet into a ravine near Sheen&#8217;s Sherman Oaks home. According to police, there is no evidence anyone was in the car. The area was searched and infrared equipment was employed, but nobody was found in the area.
At about 4 a.m., Sheen had called police to report his car had been stolen. At about the same time, an emergency call came through from the car&#8217;s OnStar-style alert system that indicates problems with a vehicle. According to police,  Sheen couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/charlie-sheen-mercedes-stolen-ravine-5681/</link>
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		<title>EVENING STANDARD Film Award Nominations 2010</title>
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Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish in Bright Star (Apparition)

The winners of London&#8217;s Evening Standard awards will be announced at the London Film Museum on Monday, Feb. 8. Curiously, all three best picture nominees were either directed or co-directed by women:  Jane Campion&#8217;s Bright Star, about the love affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne; Andrea Arnold&#8217;s Fish Tank, in which a teenager rebels against her mother&#8217;s new boyfriend; and Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor&#8217;s Helen, the tale of two friends, one of whom has gone missing. Neither of the Bright Stars leads, Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, was nominated, but Fish Tank&#8217;s Katie Jarvis is up for the most promising newcomer award.
 Anne-Marie Duff was shortlisted in the best actress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/evening-standard-awards-bright-star-2987/</link>
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