ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER Screening
Werner Herzog’s Academy Award-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (above, lower photo) and Irena Salina’s Flow: For Love of Water will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Herzog and produced by Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World looks at human beings interacting with the harsh environment of Antarctica. Werner Herzog will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
Flow: For Love of Water deals with the dire consequences of increased privatization [...]
by Anna Robinson | October 14, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Contemporary Documentaries, Documentaries, Encounters at the End of the World, Flow: For Love of Water, Irena Salina, Linwood Dunn, Los Angeles Screenings, Oscar 2008, Oscar Movies, Werner Herzog
CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, THE GARDEN Screening
Set in Los Angeles’ impoverished inner city areas, the documentaries The Garden (above, lower photo) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
In Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s The Garden, the organization South Central Farmers fight a wealthy developer in order to preserve the community garden they created after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Garden earned an Academy Award nomination for Documentary Feature. Kennedy will be present to take questions from the audience following the [...]
by Andre Soares | September 29, 2009
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Tags: Contemporary Documentaries, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, Documentaries, Los Angeles Screenings, Oscar 2008, Oscar Movies, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Socially Conscious Movies, Stacy Peralta, The Garden
Oscar 2009: Animated, Live-Action Shorts Screening
New Boy by Steph Green (top); Oktapodi by Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand (bottom)
The 2009 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories will be screened as part of the program "Shorts!," presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, February 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability). Not to be missed…
The 2009 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:
Animated Short Film
La Maison en Petits Cubes (above), Kunio Kato, director
Lavatory-Lovestory, Konstantin Bronzit, director
Oktapodi, Emud Mokhberi and [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2009
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Tags: 2009 Oscar, Academy Awards, Animation, Los Angeles Screenings, Manon on the Asphalt, New Boy, Oktapodi, Oscar 2008, Oscar Movies, Shorts, Steph Green
