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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Four of our films selected in the African Film Festival!

African Film Festival, Inc. and Film Society of Lincoln Center present the 18th edition of the New York African Film Festival! A multi-venue, two-month celebration of African arts and culture, taking place from April 2nd through May 31st, 2011, the festival will feature a gallery exhibition, fashion show, panel discussions, Q&As with directors and actors, live performances, and of course, the best in contemporary cinema from Africa and the Diaspora.

Four of our titles have been selected this year:

- FOR THE BEST AND FOR THE ONION!: April 9, 4:45pm, at The Film Society of Lincoln Center

- LADIES IN WAITING: April 30, 7:30pm, at Maysles Cinema

- ZERO TOLERANCE: May 1, 5:00pm, at Maysles Cinema

- NORTH-SOUTH.COM: May 1, 3:00pm, at Maysles Cinema

More information here.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Sergei Loznitsa and Patricio Guzman headed to the Cannes Film Festival!

We would like to congratulate Sergei Loznitsa, director of BLOCKADE and REVUE, whose new film YOU, MY JOY has been selected in the official competition of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ, Patricio Guzman's new film, will be part of a lineup of Special Screenings. We released Guzman's BATTLE OF CHILE last year to critical acclaim ("DVD of year" - MSN.com) and we are looking forward to discovering this new title.

Complete Cannes lineup here.

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Spend an Afternoon with Icarus Films at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival!

On Saturday November 14th, the Margaret Mead festival at The Museum of Natural History in NYC will present two Icarus Films releases:

- 2pm: WAR AND LOVE IN KABUL
- 5:30pm: HOW I AM (from our newly acquired catalog of Fanlight Productions titles)

Do not miss them!

For more information, please visit the festival's website here.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

Interview with Helene Klodawsky, director of MALLS R US

In anticipation of the US premiere of MALLS R US at MoMA (see previous post), POV published an interesting interview with director Helene Klodawsky.

Read the interview on POV's blog.

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Friday, January 16, 2009

New York Jewish Film Festival

Icarus Films' new acquisition A ROAD TO MECCA, The Journey of Muhammad Asad will have its US premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival next week.

Screenings are held at the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th street on Tuesday January 20th at 3:45pm and Wednesday 21st at 6:15pm.

Director Georg Misch will be in attendance.

For more information, click here!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Friday, January 25, 2008

2 FRIF Films to be shown at MoMA's Documentary Fortnight Festival
This year's Documentary Fortnight Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City looks to be an interesting program, incorporating films on a wide array of subjects and from a variety of countries.

Included in the programs are THE PRIZE OF THE POLE on Wednesday February 27th at 6 pm (to be followed by a discussion with the Director of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Elaine Charnov) and TEETH in a double-billing with EXPOSED on Friday, February 15th at 6pm.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

FRIF at the Middle East Studies Association Film Festival
The First Run / Icarus Films titles THE DIARIES OF YOSSEF NACHMAN and IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION will play at the MESA 2007 Conference from November 17-20, 2007.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

LOSERS AND WINNERS at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
Two cultures collide when 400 Chinese workers move to Germany for a year and a half to take apart an entire gigantic modern coke factory—and ship it back to China. Tensions quickly become evident between the Germans and Chinese over workplace issues, especially the Germans' concerns about safety measures and environmental issues, and the Chinese indignation over their hosts' cultural condescension and criticism of the lazy work habits of the "old foreigners." In providing a human view of the effects of globalization, LOSERS AND WINNERS reveals the ironies and ambiguities inherent in global economic changes, the respective sensations of loss and accomplishment, and of differing personal prospects for the future.

On Saturday, November 10th, at 1:15, as part of the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, LOSERS AND WINNERS will screen at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Guzmán Urzúa Wins Best Director Award
Camila Guzmán Urzúa won the prize for Best Director for THE SUGAR CURTAIN at the Santiago Film Festival in Santiago, Chile last week. Urzúa documents her journey back to her childhood home in Cuba to revisit the so-called “golden age” of her childhood, while her memories contrast with the backdrop of present-day reality for her friends who stayed behind and those who left.

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Monday, May 14, 2007

Suggestions for Jewish Film Festival Programmers
If you are looking for our newest titles to program in your Jewish film festival, screening series or just looking for films on Jewish themes, we have created a new subject page to help you find what you are looking for: Suggestions for Jewish Film Festivals. HOTHOUSE, which won a Special Jury Mention at this year's Sundance Film Festival is included, as is one of our April Bestsellers JUDITH BUTLER. Check out the new page and be sure to bookmark it and check back for updates.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Heddy Honigmann at San Francisco International Film Festival
Bay area blogger Steve Rhodes kindly shared his photos of Honigmann with us, taken during her Q&A with film critic John Anderson after the screening of FOREVER at this year’s Festival. More photos at Rhodes' Flickr site.

Anderson also wrote a wonderful essay on Honigmann's body of work as the festival honored her with their annual Persistence of Vision award. Read Heddy Honigmann is Good For You by John Anderson.

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Monday, April 16, 2007

FOREVER and OUR DAILY BREAD Win Fest Prizes
Heddy Honigmann's newest film FOREVER just won Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's Inspiration Award, a juried award given to the film "that best exemplifies the value and relevance of world religions and spirituality." FOREVER will also be screening at the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival and Hot Docs in Toronto. We are also that this weekend, OUR DAILY BREAD took the top jury award for Best Feature Documentary at the Ashland International Film Festival in Oregon. Find out where you can see these and other titles on our Playdates page.

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Heddy Honigmann Receives Honors at Upcoming Festivals
We are please to announce that Heddy Honigmann will be receiving Hot Docs' Outstanding Achievement Award and San Francisco Film Society will bestow its Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award during their April festivals. Both awards are for exceptional, lifelong achievement in documentary. We have launched a new web page about Honigmann in our Featured Filmmakers section where you can read about her life and career, called by Karen Cooper, Director of Film Forum in New York, "one of the most brilliant documentarians working today."

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Monday, January 29, 2007

HotHouse Wins Award at Sundance 2007
The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah came to a close yesterday with an Awards Ceremony where HOTHOUSE by Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dohan received a Special Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition! The film goes inside Israel’s highest security facilities to witness everyday life of the nearly ten thousand Palestinian "security prisoners." World Cinema Documentary Competition jurors were Raoul Peck, Juan Carlos Rulfo, and Elizabeth Weatherford.

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

HOTHOUSE Selected to 2007 Sundance Film Festival
We're pleased to announce that HOTHOUSE—the latest film from renowned Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan, whose films have been the recipients of the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and numerous Israeli Academy Awards—has been selected to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. HOTHOUSE takes inside Israel's highest security prisons, explores the lives of Palestinian "security prisoners" (including Hamas and Fatah members of the Palestinian legistature) and the evolution of their society, inside and outside of prison, towards a democratic community.

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Grand Prize for OUR DAILY BREAD at
Environmental Film Festival
The prizes and acclaim keep coming for OUR DAILY BREAD. It was just awarded the Grand Prize at the 2006 Paris International Festival of Films on the Environment.

The critics raved when the film opened recently in New York and Chicago, and the film is now moving across the country. Check our Screenings Page.

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