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SFIFF Announces Feature Film Competition Contenders
The 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival has announced the slates for its 2014 New Directors Prize and Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature. The festival runs April 24-May 8. From the official press release: San Francisco, CA...
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Mill Valley Film Festival Announces 2014 Dates and Call For Entries
Mark Fishkin, California Film Institute (CFI) Executive Director and Founder, has announced that the 37th annual Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) will be held October 2 – October 12, 2014. MVFF’s programming team, led by Zoë Elton, Director of Programming, also announced the...
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SFFS Announces Finalists for Spring 2014 Filmmaking Grants
The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) have selected 15 finalists for the latest round of SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants; more than $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature film projects at any stage of production. SFFS /...
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‘If You Build It’ Subject Emily Pilloton Honored in Home Town
If You Build It, by Patrick Creadon, follows activist-designers Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller as they set up Studio H–an innovative shop class engineered to teach students the fundamentals and virtues of humanitarian design–in Bertie County, the poorest county...
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10 Most Anticipated Films At SXSW 2014
After last year’s surprise breakout film Short Term 12, many people are wondering if the SXSW Film Festival will premiere another indie sensation. Only time will tell if lightning will strike twice in Austin, but at the very least...
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2014 Oscar Winners
The big winner Oscar Sunday was Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, winning seven awards including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Though for the second year in a row, the winner for Best Director did not go...
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2014 Spirit Award Winners
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was unsurprisingly the big winner at the Film Independent Spirit Awards today with a total of five wins including, Best Feature, Best Director, Best Supporting Female, Best Cinematography, and Best Screenplay. There were...
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Giveaway: American Hustle Original Soundtrack
David O. Russell’s American Hustle hauled in an impressive ten Oscar nominations this year, which tied Gravity with the most nominations for a motion picture. In order to commemorate the double digit Oscar nominated film, we are giving away...
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Oscars 2014 Predictions
Over the past several weeks we have provided an extensive individual breakdown for all of the major Oscar categories. Today we have compiled our 2014 Oscars Predictions on a convenient one sheet for you, along with links to our...
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‘Ghostbusters’ Harold Ramis Dead at 69
Harold Ramis, the actor, writer and director whose films include Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Caddyshack, has died at the age of 69 from complications related to autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a condition he had for the past few years. According...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Picture
Last week we predicted that Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón would get the win for Best Director, so historically speaking that would mean Gravity should have a 73% chance of winning Best Picture because of how closely tied those categories are....
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Director
It requires a lot of restraint for me not to put down Steve McQueen as the director that should win the award on Oscar night. I believe he is one of the best upcoming directors of our time, so...
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SF Indiefest Capsules: Hide Your Smiling Faces, Bluebird, More
Hide Your Smiling Faces Set in a beautifully photographed forested town in the rural North East, Hide Your Smiling Faces by Daniel Patrick Carbone is a moving, richly atmospheric coming-of-age film in the vein of Terrence Malick. It centers on...
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Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actor
What started out as one of the most competitive categories of the Oscar race is looking to be the easiest one to predict. The Oscar statue is now Matthew McConaughey’s to lose, but is his performance as Ron Woodroof...
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