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FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL STARTS WITH CONFIDENCE ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces the Opening Night Film and opening weekend special guests for the 2003 event. This year's festival takes place March 7-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. The 10-day festival highlights the best in American Independent and international film. The 2003 Florida Film Festival will open Friday, March 7 at 7 pm when Sterling Salutes the Silver Screen with a screening of James Foley's CONFIDENCE at Enzian Theater. Filmmaker Foley will be joined at Enzian by the film's star, Ed Burns. (Click here for details.) 2003
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL EXPLORES COASTLINES WITH NUNEZ AND REVEALS RUDOLPH'S
SECRETS ORLANDO,
FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces an evening with director
Victor Nunez at a screening of COASTLINES, Saturday, March 8, 6:15 PM,
and an evening with director Alan Rudolph featuring THE SECRET LIVES OF
DENTISTS, sponsored the Directors Guild of America, Sunday, March 16,
6:30 PM. Both directors will be present for a Q&A following the films.
Rudolph will also be presented with a Artistic Achievement Award from
the Festival at the annual Awards Gala on Saturday, March 15 at Universal
Orlando. This year's festival takes place March 7-16, 2003 in Orlando,
Florida. The 10-day festival highlights the best in American Independent
and international film. (Click here for
detailson Rudolph.) (Click
here for details on Coastlines.)
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces an afternoon with James Caan and Thief, sponsored the Westin Grand Bohemian and supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Saturday, March 15 at 1 PM. James Caan will be present for a Q&A following the film. Caan will also be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Festival at the annual Awards Gala later that evening. This year's festival takes place March 7-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. The 10-day festival highlights the best in American Independent and international film. (Click here for details.) 2003
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ORLANDO,
FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces special screenings and sidebars
for the 2003 event. The 2003 Florida Film Festival Special Screenings,
include Florida, Music, Family, and Retro Sidebars. The selections include
four World (Dunsmore, A Gift for Music, Hemispheres, and Time and Again),
two North American (Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You and Richard
Thompson: Solitary Life), and one East Coast premiere (The Secret Lives
of Dentists). A series of ten Wallace and Gromit's Crackling Contraptions
shorts will have their Southeast Premiere/Second US Showing at the Festival.
These films represent four countries. (Click
here for details.) FLORIDA
FILM FESTIVAL 2003 MIDNIGHT FILMS ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces midnight screenings selections for the 2003 event. In addition to the extremely popular midnight features and shorts screenings, the Festival has added a program of cutting-edge music videos. Music video directing is fast becoming a stepping stone to features films, and many of the most talented film and video artists working today, such as Spike Jonze (Adaptation), McG (Charlie's Angels), and Jonas Akerlund (Spun), all began their careers in the music world. The Music Video Showcase screening will take place on Wednesday, March 12th at Enzian Theater. The program will feature independent and underground bands like Sigur Ros, Flaming Lips, and Nerf Herder, as well as more well know artists like Queens of the Stone Age and Moby. The videos will showcase the work of acclaimed directors Floria Sigismondi, Traktor, Mark Romanek, and Stylewar, along with many of their notable contemporaries. An on-camera interview with visionary director David Slade will precede Aussie musician Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death," a surreal homage to the power one man has to affect change that was featured on the soundtrack of the original Matrix film. (Click here for details.) MEDIA
ALERT ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces the relaunch of FloridaFilmFestival.com and the opening of Festival Headquarters Monday, February 17. Florida Film Festival updates will be posted on xww.FloridaFilmFestival.com on Monday, February 17. This year's Florida Film Festival features 27 World, seven North American, eight US, 30 East Coast, 38 Southeast premieres, three Florida and 32 Second US Showings. More premieres than ever before in the Festival's 12-year history. In addition to the competition and overall schedule, information on Festival travel packages, parties and special events, special screenings and spotlight films, forums and panels, NextArt: Dynamic Media and New Forms of Entertainment, midnight screenings, and special guests will also be posted. Festival Headquarters, located at 120 East Comstock Avenue in Winter Park, will house the main operations for the 2003 event, including pass and ticket sales (tickets go on sale Friday, February 28th), will call, merchandise sales, NextArt: Provocations installations, Trailer A-Go-Go, the Festival's Hospitality Suite and Internet Lounge, media interview rooms, and staff offices. Hours of operation will be 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday from February 17 to March 7 and 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM March 8 through March 16 during the Festival with NextArt opening on March 13. Centrally located to all Festival venues and located just north of Orlando, Winter Park is famous for its stately trees, abundant parks, brick-lined streets, museums, vibrant lakes and fine shops. Headquarters is only one block from the shops and restaurants of Park Avenue. FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces spotlight selections for the 2003 event. The films have been selected and confirmed for the 2003 Florida Film Festival as Spotlight Films. The selections include one US (And Now…Ladies and Gentleman) and four East Coast premieres (Confidence, The Heart of Me, Lilya 4-Ever, and Together). Three of the films will also have their Second US Showing at the Festival (Confidence, The Sweatbox, and Together). These films represent six countries. (Click here for details.) FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES 2003 INTERNATIONAL FILMS ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces international selections for the 2003 event. The films have been selected and confirmed for the 2003 Florida Film Festival International Showcase. These films are eligible for Audience Awards in the International Feature and International Short categories. The selections include one World, two North American, three US, three East Coast, and six Southeast premieres. Strass, directed by Vincent Lannoo, will have its Second US Showing at the Festival. These films represent 11 countries. (Click here for details.) FESTIVAL
FILM CREATED LIVE ON STAGE ORLANDO, Fla. - The 2003 Florida Film Festival, March 7-16, 2003, will feature a first- ever live, interactive performance by New York based animation studio, The ILL Clan, to illustrate the process of "Machinima." This special performance will take place during the Festival's digital media sidebar entitled "NextArt: Dynamic Media and New Forms of Entertainment." The ILL Clan will demonstrate the real-time computer animation process known as Machinima-a hybrid of cinema and 3-D game technology, using graphic techniques originally developed for computer games to generate visuals. A filmmaker with a home computer can now create feature-length epics that would cost millions of dollars using traditional CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) techniques. The Machinima filmmaker can make his or her film in real time, rather than painstakingly animating frame by frame. The ILL Clan helped to pioneer Machinima with their Award winning short, Hardly Workin', which will be screened during the performance. Never seen before, the live Machinima presentation at Enzian Theater on March 16 features the ILL Clan's improv/animation team performing a live 3D animated show, using audience participation to create an entirely new film. The program will include screenings of comedy shorts and a brief talk by Paul Marino, Executive Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences and Emmy Award-winning 3-D animator. The name "Machinima," is derived from the words Machine and Cinema. Another Machinima project, Fountainhead Entertainment's "In the Waiting Line" music video for the group Zero 7, has just been added to the MTV and MTV.com line-up, and will be screened as part of the Midnight Music Video Showcase at the Florida Film Festival on Wednesday, March 12. FLORIDA
FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival announces selections for the 2003 event. The films have been selected and confirmed for the 2003 Florida Film Festival American Independent Competition. The selections include 17 World, three North American, one U.S., 17 East Coast, 17 Southeast, and two Florida premieres. Sixteen of these films will have their Second U.S. Showing at the Festival. (Click here for details.) Florida
Film Festival Announces NextArt ORLANDO, FLORIDA - The 2003 Florida Film Festival, March 7-16, 2003, announces NextArt: Dynamic Media and New Forms of Entertainment. Now in its 12th year, the Florida Film Festival has partnered with the University of Central Florida Department of Film and Digital Media to develop this featured sidebar. NextArt is a groundbreaking, first-of-it's-kind event that will feature installations, performances and panel discussions, nurturing emerging artists by providing them with a unique venue, connecting them to like-minded creators, and exposing the community to the most inventive forms of art and entertainment in existence today. The installation portion of NextArt, entitled Provocations, will be curated Marc N. Weiss. Weiss is the founder and executive producer of Web Lab (www.WebLab.org), an online laboratory that develops, supports, and champions innovative uses of the Web to enhance public understanding of -- and participation in -- the issues of our times. Weiss is best known for P.O.V., the celebrated public TV series that he created in 1987. During his eight-year tenure as executive producer, P.O.V. programs won six Peabody Awards, five duPont-Columbia Awards, and six Emmy Awards. Weiss will moderate a dialogue between video game experts, filmmakers, and enthusiasts at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival's Digital Center entitled Emergent Narratives and Computer Games. Assisting Weiss in the curation will be Suzanne Seggerman and Vanessa Wruble. Seggerman's background in interactive media includes community-oriented art projects and the design of non-traditional games, earning her awards from New Voices New Visions and Communications Arts. As a documentary filmmaker, her work includes co-producer of "Race For Life," a humanitarian aid and documentary film about Eastern Europe, which was broadcast in Europe and the U.S. Wruble is a documentary filmmaker and interactive artist who is currently involved in a "new movement" in do-it-yourself participatory/interactive event culture in New York City. Both are involved with WebLab's Studio A and Crossover projects. MEDIA
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FILM FESTIVAL GRANTED ACADEMY RANKING ORLANDO,
FLORIDA - The Florida Film Festival has been accepted by the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival in the category
of Short Films. Florida
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