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IFP ANNOUNCES DOCUMENTARY LINE-UP FOR ITS ANNUAL INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER LABS

IFP ANNOUNCES DOCUMENTARY LINE-UP FOR ITS ANNUAL INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER LABS

Filmmakers from Los Angeles, Berlin, Brooklyn, Kentucky, and Washington Selected for Year-long Mentorship

New York, NY  (May 14, 2012) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced today the ten documentaries selected for the 2012 Independent Filmmaker Labs, IFP’s  annual year-long fellowship for first-time feature directors.  The creative teams of the selected films, chosen from a national pool of 200 submissions, join the 8^th edition of the Labs taking place May 14-19 in New York City.

“The Labs are unique in our focus on guiding filmmakers to concretely and constructively plan for their films’ lives beyond post-production, and are tailored to maximizing their opportunities given the particular assets of each film,” says IFP Executive Director Joana Vicente. “With almost 80% of previous Lab projects debuted in festivals and released worldwide, the impact of this has been significant.”

The Independent Filmmaker Labs are a highly immersive, free mentorship program supporting first-time feature directors with projects in post-production as they complete, market and distribute their films. Focusing exclusively on low-budget features (<$1million), the Labs provide filmmakers with the technical, creative and strategic tools necessary to launch their films. Twenty projects (10 documentaries and 10 narratives) are selected for the Lab fellowship. Narrative Lab selections will be announced in June.

The Independent Filmmaker Lab program is supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Artists Public Domain, Ford Foundation, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, SAGIndie/Screen Actors Guild and Time Warner Foundation. Lab partners include The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, BMI, Eastman Kodak Company, Rooftop Films, 92YTribeca and the Sundance Documentary Film Program.

The selected projects for the 2012 Documentary Lab and Lab Fellows are:

Alias Ruby Blade

Alias Ruby Blade is the story of Kirsty Sword Gusmão, former First Lady of Timor-Leste. An aspiring documentary filmmaker, Kirsty instead became a courier for the Timorese resistance movement in Jakarta code named Ruby Blade. Through correspondence, she fell in love with the imprisoned resistance leader Xanana Gusmão. Together they nurtured the tumultuous birth of the world's newest nation. Fellows: Alex Meiller (Director), Tanya Ager Meillier (Producer). Brooklyn, NY

Big Joy Project: The Adventures of James Broughton 

Told by his angel at age 3 that he'll be a poet of Big Joy, James Broughton pioneers experimental filmmaking and poetry readings in San Francisco, leading to the Beat Movement.  Jungian analysis forces him to marriage with children, but his heart hurts until he meets a male student 35 years his junior - his soulmate for 25 productive years.

Fellows: Stephen Silha (Director/Producer), Eric Slade (Director/Producer), Dawn Logsdon (Editor). Vashon, WA

For Thousands of Miles

For Thousands of Miles is a story about Larry, a young man split between two lives; tethered to a stranger who still spent their days alone on an open road, a stranger who spoke like he spoke; who looked like he looked; a stranger who still missed the things Larry now found to be without residence. Fellows: Mike Ambs (Director, Writer); Erica Hampton (Production Manager). North Hollywood, CA

The Last Wild Mountain

The Last Wild Mountain follows the inception of rock climbing in 1950s America through stories of the unusual characters who started it. Their world is based on risk-taking and antidisestablishmentarianism, but as their Utopia grows up and so do they, their existence is challenged by growth, reality, and a diminishing landscape.  How long can this world last? Fellows: Oakley Anderson-Moore (Director/Writer), Alexander Reinhard (Producer). Los Angeles, CA

Lucky

Lucky Torres is heir to a South Bronx boulevard of broken promises - untouched by the hope of urban renewal - teetering on a tightrope between dreams and despair. One of millions of Americans living on the brink of invisibility, Lucky's desperate search for a way out ultimately leads to a search within in this candid portrait of fame, survival and family.

Fellows: Laura Checkoway (Director/Producer), Neyda Martinez (Producer). Brooklyn, NY

Our Nixon

Throughout Nixon's presidency, three White House aides obsessively filmed their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. This unique archive, created by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, was seized by the FBI during the Watergate investigation, then filed and forgotten. Our Nixon uses this footage to create an intimate, complex portrait of the Nixon presidency. Fellows: Penny Lane (Director/Producer), Brian Frye (Director). Claryville, NY; Kentucky.

Purgatorio: A Journey into the Heart of the Border

Purgatorio is a travelogue made up of episodes from the border. Murder victims, to children, drug-addicts, grieving mothers, Samaritans, journalists, pastors, police officers, a whole universe of characters and landscapes is skillfully woven together to show us how the US-Mexico border, and in fact all borders, are born from the deepest flaws of human nature. Fellows: Rodrigo Reyes (Director/Producer), Justin Chin (Director of Photography), Manuel Tsingaris (Editor). Merced, CA

Survival Prayer

Survival Prayer is a lyrical journey that celebrates the lifeways of a remote indigenous community against the backdrop of cultural loss and natural calamity. Following individual food harvesters as they gather and prepare for the winter, the film bears witness to a sacred relationship between individuals and the land that sustains them. Fellows: Benjamin Greené (Director/Producer), P. Corwin Lamm (Editor); Michael Beharie (Composer). Bellingham, WA

These Birds Walk

These Birds Walk is about common people who soar in a time of crisis while navigating the gritty reality of their daily lives in Pakistan. Omar, a poor runaway boy, plans his escape from a foundation in hopes to finally return home. A reluctant ambulance driver, Asad, navigates the difficult streets of Karachi, transporting the sick and dead to their fated destinations. Their two lives come together through a dying humanitarian upon whom so much of their daily lives depend. Fellows: Bassam Tariq (Director/Producer), Omar Mullick (Director/Producer), Valentina Canavesio (Producer). Brooklyn, NY.

Where God Likes to Be

The film follows three young American Indians from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana through the course of one summer as they are faced with the choice to either leave the reservation for the first time in their lives or stay and struggle with life there.

Fellows: Nicolas Hudak (Director/Writer), Anna Hudak (Producer/Writer). Berlin, Germany

About IFP

After debuting with a program in the 1979 New York Film Festival, the nonprofit IFP has evolved into the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, and also the premier advocate for them. Since its start, IFP has supported the production of 7,000 films and provided resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers – voices that otherwise might not have been heard. IFP fosters the development of 350 new feature and documentary films each year through its Project Forum of Independent Film Week, Independent Filmmaker Labs and projects in its fiscal sponsorship program. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has fostered early work by leading filmmakers including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith. www.ifp.org.

The Jazz Foundation of America celebrates A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM

The Jazz Foundation of America celebrates

A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM

When: Thursday, May 17, 2012

Where: Apollo Theatre
253 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027

Time: 7:00PM-8:30PM

Red Carpet: 8:30PM

Performances by:

QUINCY JONES, MACY GRAY, RANDY WESTON, BONO, STANLEY JORDAN, DR. JOHN, DARRELL HAMMOND AND MORE!

ABOUT THE JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

For 23 years, the Jazz Foundation has kept Jazz and Blues alive. We are the only national organization dedicated to saving the lives and homes of elder Jazz and Blues musicians in crisis – musicians who have made our world richer through their music. JFA has grown to support over 6,000 cases a year with emergency assistance and work opportunities. Every day, we help clients in need who often have nowhere else to turn: our Emergency Assistance program keeps the electricity on, the rent or mortgage paid, and food on the table, in addition to providing counseling and referrals for pro bono services. We help to reestablish a musician’s sense of dignity and purpose through performance opportunities with our Agnes Varis Jazz in the Schools program which brings music to schools, nursing homes, hospitals and other venues throughout the country. We also save lives through our partnership with Englewood Hospital and Medical Center doctors and staff who have been serving JFA clients for 18 years. With this network of caring professionals, JFA social workers provide crucial services that keep many of these accomplished music veterans alive and productive, doing what they love to do – make music..

Sponsored By
PARMIGIANI FLEURIER

THE ACADEMY WELCOMES "BARRY LYNDON" IN NYC Director Bennett Miller to Introduce

THE ACADEMY WELCOMES "BARRY LYNDON" IN NYC Director Bennett Miller to Introduce Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen Stanley Kubrick’s "Barry Lyndon" as part of its "Member Selects" series, on Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Oscar®-nominated director Bennett Miller, who will introduce the film, chose "Barry Lyndon" for this "Member Selects" evening, where Academy members introduce one of their favorite films. Kubrick followed his string of Academy Award® nominations ("Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange") with the adaptation of The Luck of Barry Lyndon, an early novel by 19th century writer William Makepeace Thackeray. The story's piercing examination of societal hypocrisy fit well within Kubrick's oeuvre, however, and the lush period setting allowed the director's obsession with detail to shine. Told in two acts, the story recounts the lusty adventures of an 18th century Irishman who shamelessly attempts to climb the social ladder any way he can. Ryan O'Neal, in one of his few costume dramas, played the unrepentant rogue. The 1975 film, which was shot entirely on location throughout Great Britain, was nominated for seven Academy Awards® and won four, including an Oscar® for John Alcott's innovative cinematography. The film’s interior sequences were shot in natural candlelight to achieve the feeling of an 18th century painting. This screening is presented courtesy of Warner Bros. Tickets for "Barry Lyndon" are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets may be purchased online at www.oscars.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the box office prior to the event (subject to availability). The Academy Theater is located at 111 East 59th Street in New York City. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All seating is unreserved. For more information, visit www.oscars.org or call (212) 821-9251.

This Egret comes to dine early evening in the same field

In my neighborhood, this same Egret comes to dine every evening

He watches me an my dogs as we watch him. Have a great day all of you aficionado's

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Call To Artists / Halifax Art Festival

The Guild of the Museum of Arts and Sciences presents:        Call to Artists WHAT:  Fine Art and Fine Craft Festival WHERE: Riverfront Marketplace on historic downtown Beach Street, Daytona Beach, FL WHEN: Saturday and Sunday            November 3 - 4, 2012            Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.            Sunday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.            SetUp: Friday, Nov. 2 after 3 p.m. NOTEWORTHY: *50th Annual Event. *Limited to 250 juried fine artists and craft persons. *$25,000 Cash Awards, including $5,000 Best in Show, plus Patron Awards. *Fine Arts & Fine Crafts - Juried & Judged/Booth Fees: $25/$200. *Crafts - Juried/Booth Fees: $25/$100. *Friday setup after 3 p.m.; drive-up to booth for load-in and load-out. *Artist amenities include free parking, boothsitters, 24-hour security, Saturday continental breakfast and Saturday night award dinner.Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Halifax Art Festival is the 2nd oldest continual art festival in the state of Florida. The festival attracts fine artists and artisans from all over the country. Offering live entertainment, a student art competition, children's activities, fine dining in many local restaurants and cafes, HAF is a premier annual event in Central Florida.   The Guild of the Museum of Arts and Sciences originated and presents  this prestigious festival every year which is totally organized and operated by volunteers. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: Deadline: August 18, 2012 For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: www.halifaxartfestival.com Email inquiries to: halifaxartfest@aol.com You may also contact by telephone: Andrea Pair, Artist Contact: 386-304-7247 Gloria Keay, HAF Chair: 386-767-1278 This call to artists is brought to you as a service of The Art Festival Newsletter, the nation's only quarterly newsletter dedicated to the success of art festival artists. Please visit us at:  www.theartfestivalnewsletter.com We also invite you to visit the incredible homepage for artists: www.Art-Linx.com Searching for festivals? Visit www.theartfestivaldirectory.com

M Gallery of Fine Art SE LLC is pleased to present “Southern Dreams,”

Denise LaRue Mahlke, PSA

On Display from June 1 - 31, 2012

 M Gallery of Fine Art SE LLC is pleased to present “Southern Dreams,” an exhibition featuring pastel artist Denise LaRue Mahlke. Mahlke is known nationally for her works depicting the beautiful scenery across the United States.  The show will be composed of pastel master works and hang from June 1^st – 30^th.

There is a quiet thoughtfulness and passionate purpose to the work of artist D. LaRue Mahlke.  Her paintings convey a sense of restfulness and peace that reflects the spiritual connection she feels for the landscape she loves. Denise believes that being an artist is a calling that involves preserving, celebrating, and sharing in God’s creation. This sense of having a calling, a God-given purpose, motivates her to paint from the heart and challenges her to continue to sharpen her skills, understanding, and dedication. “There is always more to learn and I have a responsibility to put forth my best efforts in the spirit of thanksgiving and praise. The opportunity to reflect the creative ingenuity and love of the Creator through my work is a privilege and a joy.”

Denise is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, and is also a member of Plein Air Austin and Central Texas Pastel Society.  Her work has been featured in American Artist, Pastel Journal, Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art, and Western Art Collector, and continues to gain national recognition and earn awards.  She is an invited artist to the prestigious Maynard Dixon Country show, which supports the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, and Artistic Horizons which benefits Arts Without Boundaries.

For more information please contact M Gallery of Fine Art at 843.727.4500, sales@mgalleryoffineart.com, www.mgalleryoffineart.com, or stop in 11 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401.

Occupy Graduation

STUDENTS RALLY TO

OCCUPY GRADUATION 

AS STUDENT DEBT SURPASSES TRILLION DOLLAR MARK,

GRADUATES EXPRESS FRUSTRATION WITH NOT SO BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD

MEDIA CONTACT WORKHOUSE CEO ADAM NELSON
TELEPHONE: +1 646. 205. 3540 | EMAIL NELSON@WORKHOUSEPR.COM 

USA (10 May 2012) Graduation day is one of the proudest moments in a student's life. But for so many people facing a mountain of student debt, it's also a time for entering an unfair world of loan collectors and limited job prospects. Burdened by this debt, graduating students will exeunt the college stage with a silent, but firm expression of their angst and frustration in response to the growing student loan debt bubble. Formed by the collective voices of OWSPR, WORKHOUSE, Occupy Colleges, Move On, OccupyWallSt.org, Occupy Student Debt, Occupy Together, Ben Cohen (Ben and Jerry’s), Rebuild the Dream, “Default: The Student Loan Documentary,” Backbone Campaign, Occupy Student Debt, EDU Debtors Union, Forgive Student Loan Debt and Wear Your Debt, students throughout the country have pledged to use Commencement ceremony -- their big day---  to address this debt jubilee by white taping the actual dollar sign of their debt incurred to caps and gowns or by wearing symbolic ball & chains on their ankles in silent protest. A simple demonstration of expression to illustrate the national student frustration over this deep financial crisis, Occupy Graduation does not seek to interrupt the actual ceremony of commencement in any way save for visual representation. Amongst the Institutions who have pledged participation include George Washington University (Thursday, 17 May 2012), CU Boulder (Friday, 11 May 2012), The University of North Carolina (Sunday, May 13) and many, many more. For a full list and more information visit Occupy Graduation 

Wonderful World / By Rancian& Caroline Gaudrlault

artMRKT Hamptons Fair

www.art-mrkt.com/hamptons As the artMRKT Hamptons fair quickly approaches, I would like to take a moment and highlight a number of the show’s developments involving our exhibitors, cultural partners and sponsors. Opening Night Preview Barbecue to Benefit Parrish Art Museum Our Opening Night Benefit for the Parrish Art Museum is going to be something truly special this year. We are proud to be working with noted Brooklyn chef Leon Gunn to welcome the Parrish Art Museum members, donors and board to our preview event on Thursday, July 19th. An alumni of Wolfgang Puck, Aria, Noho Star and Williamsburg Brooklyn’s Traif restaurants, Leon will be serving up his refined take on the quintessential Hamptons dining experience, the summer barbecue. Together with our supporting sponsors, we look forward to producing a fantastic evening for our partners, dealers and guests. It is our honor and pleasure to produce our Opening Night Preview to benefit the Parrish Art Museum. We would like to extend a special thanks to Terrie Sultan along with all of the Parrish Art Museum board and staff for their support. Exhibiting Galleries It is our sincere pleasure to be working with great New York dealers P.P.O.W., Lennon Weinberg, DC Moore Gallery, Meulensteen, Forum Gallery, Morgan Lehman, Envoy Enterprises, Lyons Wier, Nancy Hoffman, Dean Project, Eric Firestone Gallery, Halsey Mckay Gallery, Allegra LaViola Gallery, Keyes Art Projects and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts. 101/Exhibit from Miami, AUREUS Contemporary from Providence and Mindy Solomon Gallery from St. Petersburg return for a second year along with newcomer David Lusk Gallery. We would like to thank Karen Boltax of Boltax Gallery for her time and dedication serving as our local Hamptons advisor. The Premier Location and Venue artMRKT Hamptons returns to the Bridgehampton Historical Society grounds which are conveniently located in the heart of Bridgehampton on Montauk Highway (Rt. 27). A short and familiar drive from all parts of the Hamptons, the area serves as a central shopping and dining destination that sees thousands pass through on a typical summer weekend. This year's venue will feature several upgrades including a laser-leveled floor, larger marquis and an improved layout. Limited to 40 galleries, artMRKT Hamptons will afford exhibitors a chance to engage a large audience in a spacious and relaxed setting. view location map view layout map New Cultural, Media and Promotional Partnerships We look forward to working with our returning 2011 cultural partners the Bay Street Theatre, Children’s Museum of the East End, Nature Conservancy, Southampton Hospital and of course a special welcome goes to our new partners Artadia, Lower East Side Print Shop and the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation. It's partnerships like these that make our fairs one-of-a-kind. We are proud to welcome several new media sponsors, Hamptons Cottage & Gardens, Hamptons Magazine and VENU Magazine. They join last year's national media sponsors such as The Art Newspaper and Modern Painters as well as last year's local media sponsors, The New York Observer, Dan's Papers, Hampton Jitney's NextStop Magazine, Social Life Magazine and Hamptons.com. We are also excited to announce several new targeted marketing efforts in local cultural publications which will include Guild Hall's Summer Program Guide. Cadillac returns to sponsor artMRKT Hamptons and Sotheby's International Homes joins us as our Exclusive Realty Partner. Sotheby's will be helping promote artMRKT Hamptons by engaging its extensive database of Hamptons' homeowners. Several other large promotional partnerships are in the works and will be announced shortly. MRKTworks Auction Program In an effort to intergrate our fair into the landscape of the Hamptons and give back to the community, artMRKT has developed an innovative program called MRKTworks. Here, artMRKT will present a series of contemporary works for sale through a unique blend of an online and live auction platform, with the work’s corresponding non-profit beneficiary receiving 100% of the proceeds. The auction will begin online July 5th and will conclude July 22nd at the fair. We are thrilled to name the Bay Street Theatre, Children’s Museum of the East End, Nature Conservancy and Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation as our 2012 artMRKT Hamptons MRKTworks beneficiaries. For more information and to apply online visit www.art-mrkt.com/hamptons. artMRKT Productions also produces artMRKT San Francisco, Texas Contemporary and Miami Project.

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Photos from Jeanette Korab's Carnevale de Venezia

Carnevale de Venezia

Mixed Media & Photographic Art by Jeanette Korab

Shortell Design Saturday April 21st

Joseph Shortell (Host), Angela Minnich,  Jeanette Korab, Nichole Davis and Courtney Caulfield

Suzann Farren, Jeanette Korab, Nancy Lassetter and Peggy Lohr

Jeanette Korab & Coke Buchanan

Bob Hopkins and Jeanette Korab

Jeanette Korab

NYWIFT/HSBC screening series: Jessie Owens

NYWIFT/HSBC screening series: Jessie Owens Event: Monday Apr. 30, 2012 Join us for a free screening of the documentary Jessie Owens, produced and directed by NYWIFT member Laurens Grant, and written and produced by Stanley Nelson—the team behind the Emmy-winning documentary Freedom Riders. Director and producer Laurens Grant will be available for a Q&A after the screening. “He is the quintessential Olympic hero. He stood up to racists in Germany, he stood up to racists at home and he did it with a grace and a genius that have not been equaled.” —Jeremy Schaap, ESPN reporter and author of Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics Jesse Owens was the most famous athlete of his time, whose stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world, even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, his grace and athleticism rallied crowds around the world. Yet when the four-time Olympic gold medalist returned home, he couldn’t even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. But his story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame, and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit our purpose and forget them once they don’t. It is hard to imagine a more politically charged atmosphere than the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On August 3, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans. Running on a muddy track, Owens equaled both the Olympic and world records of 10.3 seconds in the 100-meter dash and won his first gold medal. Tradition called for the leader of the host country to congratulate the winner but Hitler refused. “Do you really think,” the German leader said, “I will allow myself to be photographed shaking hands with a Negro?” The film will premiere on the PBS series American Experience on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at 8:00 pm (check local listings). Laurens Grant is a multiple Emmy–winning documentary filmmaker. She won a Primetime Emmy as the producer of the documentary Freedom Riders. Grant has also co-produced two specials for PBS: Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction and Latin Music USA: The Chicano Wave. She has also produced and directed documentaries for A&E and The History Channel, and she has directed films in Africa and Latin America. Before working in documentary, she was a foreign correspondent in Latin America and headed up the Panama bureau for Reuters, where she wrote for Newsweek and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. Use the hashtag #NYWIFT in your tweets!  NYWIFT programs, screenings and events are made possible, in part, by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Legislature and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Foundation. Last updated: Apr. 23, 2012 Event Information NYWIFT/HSBC screening series: Jessie Owens Date/Time: Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 6:30 PM Pricing: Free for NYWIFT members RSVP online Location: Norwood Club 241 West 14th Street