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Deborah Z. Porter, the festival??s founding president, said in an interview that she began preparing for the event after learning that Boston was “the only major U.S. city that did not have an annual book festival...
...only begins to cohere around the 40-minute mark, helped along by the introduction of Jennifer Lawrence as Mariana, a teen whose mother’s affair forces her to grow up too fast. Lawrence has already received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for emerging actors at the Venice Film Festival??an honor previously given to fellow Arriaga actor Gael García Bernal—which her bracing performance richly deserves. Although uniformly believable, the remaining cast does not reach Theron’s or Lawrence’s level. As the guilty mother, Kim Basinger...
...says. “This involved following the actors in real life and a lot of improvisation.” Receiving the ADF gave Chazelle the opportunity to jumpstart his creative career in the professional industry. His film will be one of 14 entries competing in the Tribeca Film Festival??s Discovery section, a category that features the innovative works of up-and-coming filmmakers. “I feel great about the final product,” he says. “But it was essentially a lucky stroke that my film will be shown...
...great that the VES students have a screening opportunity, but we wanted that platform to be available to everyone,” she said, also noting that with submissions from both a graduate and a VES professor, the festival was not limited to undergraduate filmmakers. And although the festival??s predominant spirit was not one of competition, several outstanding submissions will be recognized with accolades presented later this week. The festival??s co-sponsors included Harvard Undergraduate Television, the Havardwood Undergraduate Student Organization, and the Cinematic, Harvard’s annual undergraduate film publication. Derek...
...When she returned to the States in 2006, Sheldon-Desjardins, a director of programs with Hostelling International, decided to combine her passion for film with her interest in women’s issues to establish the Boston International Women’s Day Film Festival. The festival??which ran last week March 5-9—screened 20 films in Boston and Cambridge, primarily at the Brattle Theatre. The films remind viewers of the many trials suffered by women around the world—from the kidnapping and murder of young women by the Nepalese national army...