Festival du film de Strasbourg
Not Reconciled accepted for the Festival du Film de Strasbourg as part of the Annual Program Without Frontiers. See http://www.strasbourg.festivalinfo.org/ for more details.
Jill Daniels
Next Year in Lerin controversy
Greek nationalists are busy abusing me on the You Tube Q&A. see below for link. Unfortunately most of it is racist and incoherently childish. For a more supportive discussion see MakNews website on http://www.maknews.com/forum/post252906.html?sid=bacd16e712c5b84fb64cffa7ed35041d
Please do give your views. I would love to hear from Greek people who are willing to talk more deeply about the problems of refugees from the Greek civil war in 1948, who I believe have the right to identify themselves as Macedonian or Greek if they choose, and to have the freedom to enter Greece freely to visit their old villages, towns and homes.
Please do give your views. I would love to hear from Greek people who are willing to talk more deeply about the problems of refugees from the Greek civil war in 1948, who I believe have the right to identify themselves as Macedonian or Greek if they choose, and to have the freedom to enter Greece freely to visit their old villages, towns and homes.
Next Year in Lerin at Hot Springs International doc festival
Next Year in Lerin screened to a full house on Saturday 24th October at the Hot Springs Documentary Festival near Little Rock, Arkansas. There was a great discussion afterwards.
See the Q&A on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWw4o9QkAA.
See the Q&A on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWw4o9QkAA.
Macedonian film festival in Australia
The Macedonian festival in Melbourne will take place without Next Year in Lerin because the cinema was pulled from under them and the new venue only has 35mm facilities. It is hoped it will be shown at an alternative venue either now or some time in the future.
Not Reconciled festival screenings
Not Reconciled will be screened at the DokBazaar International Short Film Festival, Ljubljana and Iasi International Film Festival in Romania on September 30th
http://www.iasifilmfest.ro/program.aspx?day=30&month=9&year=2009 for details
http://www.iasifilmfest.ro/program.aspx?day=30&month=9&year=2009 for details
Attack on the BFI
News just out that the BFI could be merged with the Film Council thus creating the final nail in the coffin for oppositional film-making in the UK. See this link for details and analysis by Michael Chanan.
http://putneydebater.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/end-of-the-bfi-as-we-know-it/
http://putneydebater.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/end-of-the-bfi-as-we-know-it/
Next Year in Lerin
Next Year in Lerin was shown in Brussels in April courtesy of the Macedonian Ambassador to the EU. Perhaps it will help in the struggle to allow Macedonians born in Greece exiled in the civil war, back to visit their former homes in Greece.
Not Reconciled
The Preview Screening of Not Reconciled
starring Judith Mora Toral and Jose Antonio Garcia was packed. Afterwards there was a fascinating discussion about the legacy of the Spanish civil war and uncovering of the mass graves of victims of the war, and the way the film combined 'real' people with fictional.
starring Judith Mora Toral and Jose Antonio Garcia was packed. Afterwards there was a fascinating discussion about the legacy of the Spanish civil war and uncovering of the mass graves of victims of the war, and the way the film combined 'real' people with fictional.
Journal Article
Follow the link to see the review of the international Visible Evidence documentary research conference held in December 2007 in Bochum Germany, written by Jill Daniels and Max Schleser in the Journal of Media Practice.
Click on link for details
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/authors.php?author=3418
Click on link for details
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/authors.php?author=3418
Next Year in Lerin in Australia
Next Year in Lerin is invited to screen at the first Macedonian film festival to be held in Australia. It will run in October 2009 in Melbourne. Watch this space for further details.
Small Town Girl
Small Town Girl has won the Best UK Documentary award at the British Film Festival Los Angeles, 2009.
Details: http://www.britishfilmfest.com/
Small Town Girl
Small Town Girl has been nominated for the Best UK Documentary at the Swansea Film Festival 2008.
Small Town Girl in Vertigo
Small Town Girl has been reviewed in the latest issue of Vertigo magazine.
Click here to read it.
The Belgrade Manifesto
The Belgrade Manifesto is a response to the current crisis in arthouse cinema: shrinking finance, over-controlling bureaucracies and, above all, the stagnation of cinematic language. It argues that the new low-cost digital technology offers filmmakers the chance to bypass existing structures and find new ways to make and exhibit films that can revitalise cinema.
The Manifesto was presented at the Belgrade Festival of Auteur Film on Sunday 2nd December 2007.
Click here to read it
