Emilio Aragón takes part of the Indie Film Festival with his first feature film Paper Birds.
Hailed by Indiewire as “A true American Maverick Among Fests” and praised by actor Ethan Hawke as “among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking,” the Woodstock Film Festival premiers exceptional films and hosts the most talented emerging and established professionals in the movie industry.
Join us September 21-25 for screenings, panels and concerts. Screenings feature more than 125 narrative and documentary films from around the country and the world. PANELS cover a broad spectrum of current artistic, technical and social issues. Concertsfeature rock, fo ... Go to event
Now in its 22nd year, the AFI Latin American Film Festival showcases the best filmmaking from Latin America and, with the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal, celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections.
Highlights of the festival include the Opening Night selection, The Mexican Suitcase, Chevolution director Trisha Ziff’s latest documentary about a treasure trove of photographs from the Spanish Civil War recently discovered in Mexico City; Medianeras, Gustavo Taretto’s quirky crowd-pleaser about two lonely people finding each other in Buenos Aires; Chilean auteur Raul Ruiz’s lush, labyrinthine epicMysteries of Lisbon, presented in a weeklong run within the festival;Bonsai, the latest film from Chilean director Cristian Jimenez (Optical Illusions), which recentl ... 
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival is the largest annual festival of films for children ages 2-16 in the world, programming 250 films from 40 countries and showcasing the best in culturally diverse, value affirming new cinema for children. With audiences of 25,000 including over 100 filmmakers who lead post-screening Q&A’s and hands-on filmmaking workshops, the Festival is also Academy-qualifying.
where: Facets Cinema (1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago) in Lincoln Park, and other Chicago venues.
when: October 21 – October 30, 2011
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A continuation of the director’s 2004 work, Oxhide, the second installment in this series Oxhide II, follows the lives of her father, mother, and herself in their small Beijing apartment. The family’s dinner table, which serves a multitude of functions (including the father’s leather-making station), is the main subject of the film as it is converted into a surface for dumpling making. Liu uses up-close, tight shots to focus the viewer’s attention on the main action taking place whatever it may be, and making the often seemingly ordinary parts of life the central theme in her style of filmmaking. The director invites the viewer into her home to see that, “daily routines are interesting in themselves… every day, every moment is equal in its importance…” (Liu Jiayin interviewed by Christen C ... 
Think “Wales” and behold images of Celts, choirs, castles, coal mines, coastline and pastoral mountain valleys dotted with sheep. Join filmmaking musicians Monty and Marsha Brown for a memorable journey to Wales: Land of Song.
When: Friday, February 17, 2012
Time: 1:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Where: Miller Center for the Arts,
4 North Second Street, Reading, PA 19601
Tickets: $7 Adults; $6 Seniors (60 years+) and Students
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This series of documentaries, featuring films made from the 1970s to the present, focuses on the most intimate acts by filmmakers and documentary subjects as they probe into extremely private experiences concerning family, birth, death, loss, and heartbreak. Pushing the genre and subjects into uncharted territories, these films address various issues fundamental to documentary filmmaking: privacy, authority, authenticity, and responsibility. They also offer penetrating contemplations on Japanese society and individual lives.
This series is supported in part by the Japan Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts.
When: March 10-31, 2012
Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Tickets: $7 members; $9 students/seniors; $11 nonmembers
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Get carried away at the 36th Cleveland International Film Festival — the premier film event between New York and Chicago. The CIFF includes a full survey of contemporary international filmmaking with approximately 150 feature films and 130 short subject films from over 60 countries.
When: March 22-April 1, 2012
Where: Cleveland, Ohio
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