A colorful look at the 22nd Annual Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival
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New environmental film festival announced
A new locally-centered, environmental film festival scheduled for spring 2015 was announced Wednesday morning. The Fast Forward Film Festival will feature short films created by filmmakers from the Rochester and Finger Lakes region. The festival is an initiative of The Lost Bird Project, an organization that aims to highlight environmental issues through art and performance. […]
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Cinema celebrates the worker
In honor of its 25th anniversary, the organizers of the Rochester Labor Film Series will screen a dozen motion pictures culled from 250 titles, repeating the most popular of all those shown in the past. The selection, a kind of anthology of movies employing the theme of labor, includes works from several countries in addition […]
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Dryden Theatre to host film series tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House will host a film series tribute to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman beginning in July. Hoffman, a Rochester-area native, died in February. “Hoffman was one of the screen’s most versatile, daring, and prolific actors whose performances were not only a delight to watch, but often transcended the films themselves,” […]
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Film Review: “A Touch of Sin”
In “A Touch of Sin,” Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke tells four individual stories, tangentially connected to one another. Each tale, based loosely off a real news stories from modern Chinese history, focuses on a random act of violence committed by some poor soul who has been pushed to his or her limit by the corruption […]
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FILM: The 1st Annual “Lubies”
Years ago, my esteemed predecessor, Ms. Dayna Papaleo, founded her very own award ceremony to rival the Oscars, and to acknowledge the films and filmmakers she deemed worthy of honoring for their cinematic achievements over the previous year. These prestigious awards came to be known as “The Daynas.” Tragically, over the intervening years, Ms. Papaleo […]
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MOVIE PREVIEW: ImageOut 2013
ImageOut is still going strong, with no plans for laurel-resting as its 21st chapter unfolds October 11-20 with 41 programs of features, documentaries, and short films about the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender experience
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MOVIE PREVIEW: Greentopia | FILM
Greentopia began in 2011 as a two-day event. Now, just three years later, it has blossomed into a week-long multimedia festival that includes a conference, art exhibits, musical performances, and even a fashion show. Presented by Friends of the GardenAerial, the festival’s purpose is to educate and raise awareness for the environmental issues facing our […]
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The 2013 High Falls Film Festival
Established in 2001, the High Falls Film Festival was originally conceived with the intent of highlighting the contributions of women in all aspects of the film industry.
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ImageOut 2012
Over the course of 10 days, October 5-14, ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival will celebrate two decades of bringing to this city the world’s finest films about the ever-evolving lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender experience.
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MOVIE PREVIEW: Witness Palestine
It’s difficult to know where to even begin when discussing the conflict between Palestine and Israel, a decades-old schism with passionate stances on both sides, each believing theirs to be the just one. Yet as the powers-that-be lock horns over figurative lines in the literal sand, there continue to be human beings trying to make […]
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Declaration of independents
When the Little Theatre first opened in 1929, its mission was to show “art films that appeal to the intelligent and sophisticated,” and more than 80 years later it still strives to do just that. Yeah, there was that brief porn interlude in the 1960’s, but who hasn’t had one of those? These days, however, […]
