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February 8, 2020 by Nani Rivera | Category: News | Tags: 2020 | Comments (0)
Matthew Modine has played an array of characters over the course of his acting career. Matthew Modine poses for a portrait in in promotion of the “Full Metal Jacket” 30th reunion in Los Angeles in 2017. (Courtesy of…
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February 7, 2020 by Nani Rivera | Category: News | Tags: 2020 | Comments (0)
Film Week Returns Featuring the Twentieth Anniversary of the Santa Fe Film Festival and the Third Annual New Mexico Film and Television Hall of Fame Save the dates: Film Week is back in the State’s Capital. February 9th…
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January 31, 2020 by webmaster | Category: News | Tags: 2020 | Comments (0)
COMPLETE LIST OF 2019 WINNERS Best Film: Caretakers (Dir. George Loomis) Best Documentary: They Called Me King Tiger (Dir. Angel Estrada Soto) Best Short: The Head and the Hand (Dir. Marc Serpa Francoeur) Best LGBTQ+ Short: Gorgeous (Dir….
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January 3, 2019 by Aaron Leventman | Category: News | Comments (1)
Don’t miss the audience award winner at Sundance 2018 at The Screen Wednesday, February 13th at 7:00 PM and meet director Andrew Heckler. Starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Oscar Nominees Tess Harper and Tom Wilkinson this inspiring…
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January 3, 2019 by Aaron Leventman | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Sunday, February 17th at 12:00 PM Director/Actor Stephen Moyer will present his new film The Parting Glass with producer Mark Larkin. This features an all-star cast including Melissa Leo, Cynthia Nixon, Denis O’Hare (who also wrote the screenplay) and our…
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January 3, 2019 by Aaron Leventman | Category: News | Comments (0)
Veteran actor and activist Ed Asner will receive a lifetime achievement award on Saturday, February 16th at the SFFF Awards Ceremony. Don’t miss the world premiere screening of the documentary Ed Asner: On Screen and Off on Saturday, February…
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December 26, 2018 by Aaron Leventman | Category: News | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival works collaboratively with its sister cities and enjoys partnering with other organizations such as SOMOS. This year The Santa Fe Film Festival sponsored the STANNED UP FOR ALBUQUERQUE event with Anne Heche and…
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September 1, 2018 by Nani Rivera | Category: Photos | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival presents a night of celebration of Native Cinema at The Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing bar! We will be celebrating Native Cinema’s poster and will be auctioning off the actual 4ft X 4ft…
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July 5, 2018 by Nani Rivera | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
SFFF 2018 AWARD WINNERS Best Film: The Sounding (Dir. Catherine Eaton) Best Documentary: Filmworker (Dir. Tony Zierra) Best Overall Short: QED (Dir. Amy-Joyce Hastings) Best NM Short: Legacy (Dir. Mark Lewis) Best NM Feature: Making a Killing (Dir….
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December 26, 2017 by Aaron Leventman | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Melanie Mayron best known for her Emmy-winning role on TV’s Thirtysomething will be honored at the Santa Fe Film Festival’s awards ceremony for her outstanding contribution to the film and television industry. Mayron has appeared in films such as…
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December 26, 2017 by Aaron Leventman | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)
Article by Anne Maclachlan BARAKA: Behind the Blessings With 1992’s Baraka, director Ron Fricke, composer Michael Stearns, and producers Mark Magidson and Alton Walpole have created a wordless cultural—and internal—journey unlike any other. Enhanced by award-winning composer Stearns’s score,…
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November 24, 2017 by Stephen Aquila | Category: News | Comments (0)
1. The submitted film must be the original work of the Filmmaker. 2. A student submitting a film must provide a photocopy of a current and valid student ID or a letter from his/her school verifying enrollment. 3….
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October 28, 2017 by Stephen Aquila | Category: News | Comments (0)
Actor Michael Madsen Joins Director Hermann Vaske for Q&A Following Screening of Uneasy Rider Filmmaker, Hermann Vaske and Actor Michael Madsen Discuss and Take Questions Regarding Documentary About Actor, Artist and New Mexico Resident, Dennis Hopper in, Uneasy…
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December 10, 2016 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Tags: 2016 | Comments (0)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 21, 2016 Rich Henrich Santa Fe Film Festival (505) 919-8882 Rich@SantaFeFilmFestival.com 16TH SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL BROADENS CREATIVE CANVAS, FILMS New: Culinary Experience, Canyon Road ArtCrawl, Action Sports, Latin Cinema Santa…
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November 23, 2016 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival wants to congratulate the winners of the 2015 Santa Fe Film Festival! Best New Mexico Feature Awakening in Taos Best New Mexico Short Low/Fi Best Sci Fi Short Odessa Best Animated Short Side Show…
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January 2, 2016 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2015 Contact: Nani Rivera director@santafefilmfestival.com Phone: 505-629-6875 Announcing the 2015 Santa Fe Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Awardee Santa Fe, NM – The Original Santa Fe Film Festival will take place Wednesday, December 2…
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November 28, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Tags: 2015 | Comments (0)
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26, 2015 SFFF Press contact: NaNi Rivera, 505-988-7414 x102, director@santafefimfestival.com BlackShirtReads Press contact: Joanna Smith 602-740-3645, writeprofession@gmail.com On Saturday, December 5, the Santa Fe Film Festival and BlackShirtReads will co- sponsor a…
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November 27, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SFFF Press contact: NaNi Rivera, 505-988-7414, director@santafefimfestival.com BlackShirtReads Press contact: Joanna Smith 505-780-8211, writeprofession@gmail.com On Saturday, December 5, 2015 BlackShirtReads and the Santa Fe Film Festival (SFFF) will bring an afternoon of drama…
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November 20, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SantaFeFilmFestival Press Contact: Nani Rivera director@santafefilmfestival.com festivaldirector@http://santafefilmfestival.com/index 505-988-7414 ext. 102 On December 3, 2015 the Santa Fe Film Festival (SFFF) honors the life of soulful jazz singer, Amy Winehouse in an “Amy Celebration.” The three-part…
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November 20, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
ENCHANTMENT By Donald Davenport & Jeff Wood Julie Richardson, a big city doctor who opted to raise a family rather than practice medicine, is on the verge of accepting a job with a large corporate medical group when she…
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October 24, 2015 by webmaster | Category: News | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival is a proud sponsor of Santa Fe Fashion week! Click here to check out their web site for more information. …
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October 7, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Due to the success of our first winner “t@gged” to start filming a series this month, the 3rd Annual Shoot Santa Fe Pilot Project and has extended the deadline for submission. Extended deadline runs October 1st through November…
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September 17, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
Rock Against Racism Santa Fe “LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM” Summer Tour 2015 Present The Boomroots Collective Dreamond Faith Musnttouchit JULY 4,2015 5:30pm-8pm 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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June 30, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
A benefit for Santa Fe HRA, Pride & the Santa Fe Film Festival Order Tickets by clicking here $25 June 20, 2015 Doors open at 2PM at the Scottish Rite Temple ~ 463 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA Enjoy…
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June 2, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
“Santa Fe actually draws movies buffs, not to mention Hollywood heavyweights, throughout the year. The year-end Santa Fe Film Festival balances intimate screenings with expert panels and roaring parties.” Check out this link to read the rest of…
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May 29, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Tags: ABC News | Comments (0)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SantaFeFilmFestival Press Contact: Nani Rivera director@santafefilmfestival.com festivaldirector@http://santafefilmfestival.com/index 505-988-7414 ext. 102 BlackShirtReads Press Contact: Joanna Smith-Thole bsrsubmit@gmail.com Joint Press Release: The Santa Fe Film Festival (SFFF) and BlackShirtReads (BSR) announce a joint venture…
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May 17, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
The 1st Annual Santa Fe Labor Film Festival is the new Film Festival in Town! May 1-3, 2015 at 1420 Cerrillos Rd in Santa Fe. The Santa Fe Film Festival encourages attendance to all film festivals and is…
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April 20, 2015 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Jessie Bridges—daughter of Producer/Actor Jeff Bridges—is an emerging singer and songwriter. When Jessie’s father asked her to work with him on the film “True Grit,” their first stop was Santa Fe, NM. After a benefit concert, Jeff and…
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February 7, 2015 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN Celebrate film biz Santa Fe celebrates 2014 as another record year for film, and begins prepping for a bright future with House of Cards, Longmire, Manhattan and more. That’s thanks to the state’s incentives and marketing efforts of…
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December 4, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
by Anne Maclachlan In conjunction with the Santa Fe Film Festival, IATSE 480 and the Santa Fe Economic Development Center, and with support from a range of contributors, Shoot Santa Fe’s 2013 TV Pilot Project award went to…
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November 22, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Director, NANI RIVERA previews the festival’s upcoming Tune Up, a weekend of free events to help NM film peeps improve their business and their craft. Click here to listen
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November 12, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Shoot Santa Fe Pilot Project Award Goes to Chilling Look at Social Media by Anne Maclachlan In conjunction with the Santa Fe Film Festival, IATSE 480 and the Santa Fe Economic Development Center, and with support from a…
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November 1, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Shorts and Pints: Santa Fe Film Festival Goes to Albuquerque Craft Beer Fest The best short films of the 2014 Santa Fe Film Festival have been invited to show Saturday, June 21 from 4 to 10:00 p.m. at…
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June 9, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Is there a recipe for attracting film productions? In the case of Santa Fe, a movie making mecca that has multiple film festivals, studios, skilled actors, expert crew, gorgeous locations, tax rebates and oh yeah, a natural beauty…
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May 2, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
The Pledge Narrative Feature | 124 mins. | USA Director: Sean Penn Starring Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, & Patricia Clarkson. Why do we go to the movies? Adventure? Sometimes. Entertainment? Many times. Some of us even like…
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April 29, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
$25 Concert Party at Tanti Luce 221 Friday 4/25 to Benefit SFFF This evening at Tanti Luce shouldn’t be missed. Enjoy traditional New Mexican food; one-hour hosted beer and wine bar; live entertainment; and stars of both the…
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April 22, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Walk On 84 mins. | USA Director: Mark Bashian What do you get when an HIV positive guy and a quadriplegic comic, an amputee Paralympic sprinter, and a disabled Purple Heart Veteran get together? Sounds like the set-up…
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April 21, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL FITZGERALD [Taos film producer Michael Fitzgerald is the subject of a retrospective at the 2014 Santa Fe Film Festival, with the showing of his films “Pledge,” “The Three Burials of Melquidas Estrada” and “Closer to…
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April 20, 2014 by webmaster | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Wrenched Feature Documentary | 92 mins. | USA Director: ML Lincoln According to “Wrenched,” in the waning days of World War II young Edward Abbey was drafted and bound for Japan when news came of the Hiroshima bombing….
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April 20, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
My Forest Shown with: Wrenched Feature Documentary | 92 mins. | USA Director: ML Lincoln My Forest How many words does it take to express joy? In the case of “My Forest,” from Belgian Director Sebastien Pins, not…
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April 20, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Closer to the Moon Narrative Feature | 112 mins. | USA /Romania/Italy/Poland Director: Nae Caranfil RELATED: Read Diane Thomas’s Interview with Michael Fitzgerald You could sum up the American-Romanian feature film collaboration “Closer to the Moon” as a…
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April 18, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)
Click: “Growing Pains: Adolescent Short Films for Adults” “Growing Pains: Adolescent Short Films for Adults” is a bill of four separate short films with a common theme of taking responsibility for life choices. ACQUIRED TASTE Short | 33…
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April 13, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
The Club Feature Documentary | 72 mins. | USA Directors: Katie Green and Carlye Rubin This is not a club you wish you were in. This is not a club that anyone wants to be in. Full disclosure….
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April 13, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Narrative Feature | 124 mins. | USA Director: Tommy Lee Jones “Are you gonna be all right?” It’s the last thing we hear in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. And it’s the first thing we think about…
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April 13, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Beaches, Coffee and Day Dreams A Review of “The Novelist” Many of us dream of abandoning our day jobs to any number of things: selling hotdogs on the beach, trolling for large ocean-going fish or perhaps running away…
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April 10, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Documentary Feature |69 mins. | USA Director: Shaeri Richards, Jerry Hartleben Zen, Life and the Art of Non-Doing A Review of “Moving from Emptiness: the Life and Art of a Zen Dude” What is Zen? Short answer: silence…
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April 7, 2014 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)
Nothing In Los Angeles Narrative Feature | 94 mins. | USA Directors: Rob Herring, Alexander Tovar This could be called a romantic dramedy with excellent production values. Quinn, played by Alexander Tovar, who also directed, stars, produced, and…
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April 6, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
The Other Brother Documentary Feature | 71 mins. | USA Director: Kristy Higby This engaging documentary deals with two artistically creative brothers, estranged for 56 years, who truly went their separate ways. Jesse and Tom Flowers’ early backgrounds…
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April 6, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
I am Bialik Narrative Feature | 77 mins. | Israel Director: Aviv Talmor This unique Israeli film, which is nominated for The Israeli Film Academy’s Ophir Award for Best Picture as well as winning Best Picture at the…
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April 6, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Children of Internment Documentary Feature | 90 mins.| USA Directors: Joe Crump, Kristina Wagner How does a child feel at the age of 3, 4, 5 and up about being forced to move immediately, with his or her…
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April 4, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Jardin de Amapolas Narrative Feature | 90 mins. | Columbia Director: Juan Carlos Melo Guavara A Film Review by Laura K. Marsh Most people in the US think of a “garden of poppies” (JARDIN DE AMAPOLAS), and immediately…
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April 2, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2014 | Comments (0)
Producer Michael Fitzgerald’s film THE HOMESMAN has just been selected in competition at the Cannes Film Festival! He will be at SFFF for a retrospect of his films The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) and The Pledge (2001) his…
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March 26, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Director Nae Caranfil is bringing to the Santa Fe Film Festival 2014 a special screening of his latest feature film Closer to the Moon. The movie is based on the true story of an audacious 1959 Romanian National Bank robbery,…
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March 17, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
*** For Immediate Release *** For filmmaker and programming questions, contact Aaron Leventman: programmer@http://santafefilmfestival.com/index For all other Festival questions, contact Nani Rivera: festivaldirector@http://santafefilmfestival.com/index Santa Fe Film Festival 2014 Announces Filmmakers in Attendance for May 1-4 More than 40…
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March 14, 2014 by SFFF | Category: Press | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival is delighted to announce that this year’s screenings will be hosted by the Jean Cocteau Cinema at the Railyard, along with the Center for Creative Arts (CCA) and The Screen. “We’ve had an…
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March 7, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
*** For Immediate Release *** Contact: Nani Rivera nani@santafefilmfestival.com 505-988-7414 ext. 102 Santa Fe Film Festival Adds Production Team of Blaylock and Espinosa to Advisory Board The annual film festival has engaged the powerful Beverly Hills duo in…
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March 7, 2014 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
WHEN A NIGHT’S ESCAPADE TAKES A DISTURBING TURN FOR TWO TEEN GIRLS, WE LEARN JUST HOW DISCONNECTED AND DESENSITIZED SOCIAL MEDIA HAS MADE THEM. Directed by: Hannah Macpherson Co-Directors: Shay Eyre, Amber Midthunder Exec Producers: Chris Eyre, Angelique…
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December 10, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival’s First Annual Film Industry Event “Tune Up” announces Emmy-nominated Casting Director, Artios-winner, and CSA National Board of Directors member, Kerry Barden. Kerry’s credits include Good Will Hunting, The Help, Dallas…
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December 2, 2013 by Edgar | Category: News | Comments (0)
ALL EVENTS AT Center For Progress & Justice, 1420 Cerrillos Rd. and IATSE 480 1418 Cerrillos Rd. FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2013 6:00 PM Celebrating music! Santa Fe Music Alliance brings you concerts, food, and drink! Bands to perform are…
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December 2, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (1)
Three Day Film Jobs Events Help New Mexicans Break Into Film Business Contact: Nani Rivera (Santa Fe Film Festival, Director)(505)-988-7414 x102 Santa Fe – Film industry decision makers are pulling back the curtain on New Mexico’s film industry for…
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November 28, 2013 by Edgar | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
Come to MIX and watch the Early Bird Submissions for Santa Fe Film Festivals Pilot Project contest! Venue: De Vargas Mall Date: November 21, 2013 @ 6pm MIX SANTA FE MIX is a dynamic collaboration that promotes and develops entrepreneurial…
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November 21, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
SHOOT SANTA FE PILOT PROJECT Do you have a great idea for a TV show, set in Santa Fe? Submit your 60-90 second teaser/trailer to the Shoot Santa Fe Pilot Project to win a $25,000 package of goods,…
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November 15, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
SFFF Do you have an idea for a television pilot that would trump the final episode of Breaking Bad in the Nielsen Ratings? If so, submissions are being accepted now for the Santa Fe Film Festival Pilot Project,…
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November 14, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Film Festival and VincentPrice.com present the 1st Annual Halloween Night of Horror, to be held on October 31st at the Jean Cocteau, starting at 6:30pm. The evening begins with a special sneak preview screening…
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October 25, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Tags: Horror | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival and VincentPrice.com present: the 1st Annual Halloween Night of Horror, to be held on October 31st at the Jean Cocteau, starting at 6:30pm. The evening begins with a specially arranged screening of the original…
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October 24, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival is seeking a Director of Sponsorship Sales The SFFF is seeking a professional sales person to head the sponsorship sales efforts for the 2014 Santa Fe Film Festival. Position requires knowledge of the…
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October 15, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Calling All Volunteers! The volunteer meeting will be held October 8 at 6:00 PM located at the Center for Progress & Justice which is on Cerrillos Road next to the IATSE Local 480 Film Technicians Union. …
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September 30, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Be a part of our 2013/2014 Dream Awake campaign! We will be shooting free Dream Awake portraits this Saturday! When: Saturday, October 512-5PM Where: Santa Fe Film Festival Office 60 W. San Francisco Street ~ Suite 307 Santa…
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September 6, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (1)
The Santa Fe Film Festival held their annual gala and silent auction at The Hotel Santa Fe Hacienda and Spa on Friday, November 30, 2012. Photos by Nani Rivera
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September 4, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 5-7 PM @ Constellation Home Electronics directions The Santa Fe Film Festival is having a party to make major announcements about the upcoming festival season. Sign up here for an email invitation to future events.
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September 3, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
2012 Screening of Quartet At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. Visit…
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September 2, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
2012 Screening of The Sapphires It’s 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam. Visit IMDB for more…
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September 2, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
2012 Screening of Hyde Park on Hudson The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited…
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September 2, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Santa Fe— SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL HOSTS PARTY TO ANNOUNCE BIG NEWS The Santa Fe Film Festival will make a major announcement at its premiere party on Sept. 6. Sign up now on our website to receive a…
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September 1, 2013 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
“What we noticed were films made with a real intent to say something, that was in some way a call to enable action,” Schneier Perrin said when explaining how the idea for the “Changing the World Through Films” panel discussion came about.
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December 12, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
If you believe the subject of your work deserves global attention, tapping the digital potential of it becomes as important to perfect as any other aspect of the creative process.
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December 11, 2012 by Stryder Simms | Category: News | Comments (0)
I volunteered to cover the Santa Fe Film Festival’s “Artists in Conversation” panel (held at the Nuart Gallery) on Saturday, December 8, 2012. This was out of a personal need for knowledge about how other independent filmmakers face…
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December 9, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The U.S. is considered the evil perpetrator in the eyes of the Nazi children fleeing Allied occupation in Aussie director Cate Shortland’s latest film “Lore.” The script is adapted from Rachel Seiffert’s bestselling novel “The Dark Room.” In…
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December 9, 2012 by Stryder Simms | Category: News | Comments (0)
In “Any Day Now,” a new film by Travis Fine, Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming) is, like his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle name suggests: a superhero. Sure, he dons heels and skirt not a mask and a shell, but…
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December 9, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
I’m not suggesting the life of a professional cardboard bender is devoid of struggle. Birthing original art can turn into a decidedly more difficult proposition at any point in the process.
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December 8, 2012 by Stryder Simms | Category: News | Comments (0)
The film begins with a jaw-dropping performance in front of a large, formal, adult crowd and moves seamlessly into Jake giving a completely informal lesson in a school gymnasium to a group of kids, just as entranced as the first crowd. This is Jake’s magic: he can make anyone listen.
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December 8, 2012 by Melissa White | Category: News | Comments (0)
In the making of the film, Stanton made several trips to Egypt to interview the revolution’s leaders. On his first trip, Egyptian authorities impounded his video equipment and he was forced to make direct contact with Egyptian filmmakers who covered the event as it was unfolding.
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December 8, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
“Leviathan”, screening at the Santa Fe Film Festival this year, is a highly effective horror film made all the more so without a clear beginning, middle or end, because what we witness goes on in real life, day…
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December 8, 2012 by Stryder Simms | Category: News | Comments (1)
You want to talk creepy? The opening sequence in “Nothing Without You” goes something like this: A disheveled young woman, Jennifer Stidger (Emily Fradenburgh) watches the occupants of a house from a hole she dug in the attic…
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December 8, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
“Currently, an estimated 7,000 languages are in active use on earth. One language is lost every 14 days.” —“The Young Ancestors.” Director Aimėe Barry Broustra’s documentary film “The Young Ancestors” illuminates not only the tragic loss of spoken…
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December 8, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
East Germany in 1980 was a place of great paranoia: who could be trusted? No one. Definitely not friends, not even family. They could all be betrayers. The Berlin Wall hadn’t come down and sinister surveillance, persecution and…
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December 8, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
All of us, in all of our respective backgrounds, must work to preserve the diversity that is humanity. And “Garifuna in Peril” gives us the impetus to do just that.
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December 8, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
“The piece I submitted,” Galo Tobías said, “is the result of a technical-aesthetic experimentation I went through about two years ago, the intention is to get a very accurate visual result and close to what might be an abstract thought.”
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December 7, 2012 by Melissa White | Category: News | Comments (0)
Alicia, una joven campesina colombiana de 19 años, intenta rehacer su existencia después de que su familia es asesinada por los militares. Es así como llega a La Sirga, un hostal decadente a orillas de una laguna grande…
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December 7, 2012 by Raquel Troyce | Category: News | Comments (0)
The makers of “A.K.A. Doc Pomus” have done an honest job of portraying their subject “warts and all.” The interviews paint a multifaceted and complete picture of the man without feeling forced.
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December 7, 2012 by Dusty McGowan | Category: News | Comments (0)
According to the director, this is not intended to be a film about war, violence or about drug traffic, rather, it´s about relationships—relationships between the five characters.
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December 7, 2012 by Raquel Troyce | Category: News | Comments (0)
La combinación magistral de una genial dirección por parte de Andrés Wood con un estupendo libreto de Eliseo Altunaga y la soberbia actuación de Francisca Gavilán, dan como resultado un retrato increíblemente acertado de Chile, de su cultura, su folclor y su gente, sobre todo de la extraordinaria Violeta Parra.
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December 6, 2012 by Raquel Troyce | Category: News | Comments (0)
A masterful combination of great direction by Andrés Wood with a very well written screenplay by Eliseo Altunaga, as well as exceptional acting by Francisca Gavilán, results in an incredible portrait of the Chilean culture and folklore, of their people and most of all of the extraordinary singer herself.
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December 6, 2012 by Raquel Troyce | Category: News | Comments (0)
The film is a swirl of questions we want answered for ourselves and of society: Is it better to be gay or a criminal? Is it better to follow a lie and be validated by “society” (or at least this story’s version of that reality) or to tell the truth? And—what will we have to talk about when it is no longer a scandal to be gay?
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December 6, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
“Brief Encounters” follows Crewdson as he develops his most complex series of photos called “Beneath the Roses.” He builds an entire sound stage, finds a multitude of “real life” locations, and admits having an enormous amount of anxiety over the whole thing.
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December 6, 2012 by Dusty McGowan | Category: News | Comments (0)
The cinematography in “Shun Li and the Poet” emphasizes how small Shun Li is in the world, but she retains an optimistic spirit and tells her son stories in letter form: she must be reunited with him. She works for him, not the sewing factory boss, not her Chinese bosses and not the taverna customers.
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December 5, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Sure, he’s been nominated for a Grammy, has over ten albums with his own band, and beat out Carlos Santana and Jerry Garcia for a BAMA, but don’t worry—you’ve never heard of him.
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December 5, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
Hoffman’s “Quartet,” is about an octogenarian opera diva that takes charge by refusing to sing. It is also about a distinguished actor that shows up for a movie and refuses to act.
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December 5, 2012 by Stryder Simms | Category: News | Comments (0)
There is nothing subtle about “The Skin I’m In,” and that is exactly why you must see it. It is a creative, triumphant piece of documentary filmmaking on a singular subject: the life (so far) of Broderick Fox
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December 5, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
In the 2012 Santa Fe Film Festival’s presentation of this trio of short films about honor and right of passage, an Afghan boy, an ousted Iranian Prime Minister and an adolescent Somali, search for a way to leave their mark on the world.
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December 5, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
“The Sapphires,” screening at the 2012 Santa Fe Film Festival, is a film about the healing power of music and four young girls who overcome politics to follow their vision of success.
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December 5, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
“Nairobi Half Life” is an exciting, seamless, provocative, not-to-be-missed journey to reach an impossible Rocky-type goal.
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December 4, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
This film is about hope, about unity, but most of all, about courage—the kind of courage that women from a remote, almost forgotten land show when they are presented with the opportunity to earn money to provide a better life for their families.
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December 4, 2012 by Raquel Troyce | Category: News | Comments (0)
In English, this playfully directed South Korean film is pleasing to the ears, easy on the eyes and unwinds with the leisure of a seaside holiday.
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December 2, 2012 by Stryder Simms | Category: News | Comments (0)
A year ago I decided to start taking my role of film watcher seriously. This included keeping a film log, researching the background of every movie I watched, and trying to do more than just passively zone out.
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November 30, 2012 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
It’s a widely known fact that FDR had a long-term love affair with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, Eleanor Roosevelt’s social secretary. However in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” screenwriter Richard Nelson brings to life a much more obscure tryst between President Roosevelt (played by Bill Murray) and his sixth cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley.
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November 30, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
“Now, Forager” gives a realistic view of the world of fine dinning and who we rely on for little bits of fancy feasting joy.
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November 29, 2012 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Comments (0)
Bill Murray FDR Flick Highlights Santa Fe Film Fest Line-Up By Kathaleen Roberts / Journal Staff Writer on Thu, Nov 15, 2012 The 13th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival kicks off Dec. 6 with Bill Murray’s take on…
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November 19, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Santa Fe’s cineaste’s and foodies will come together for a delicious pairing of Film and Fungi COYOTE CAFE CELEBRATES THE 13th ANNUAL …
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November 9, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Enter the world of Santa Fe Film Festival at our Gala Celebration! The beautiful lobby and ballrooms of the Hotel Santa Fe are being taken over by the Santa Fe Film Festival for our annual gala celebration! Featuring…
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November 6, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The filmmakers scrub our attention back and forth across a broad swath of earthly activities to gently cleanse our eyes of apathy and bias and flush out entropy and dysfunction in society at large.
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November 2, 2012 by Edgar | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Hotel Santa Fe The Hacienda and Spa Welcomes the Santa Fe Film Festival Home The Santa Fe Film Festival and Hotel Santa Fe the Hacienda and Spa announce a 2-year partnership returning festival activities to this central downtown…
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October 26, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
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October 11, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Gaitatjis’s own road to America came when he emigrated from Greece in the late 1970s for a better education. By 1986, he turned to professional filmmaking.
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October 4, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
WITHOUT BORDERS, a multi-generational film from director Nick Gaitajis, answers the question: If I lost the only thing that ever gave my life meaning, what would I do to get it back?
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October 2, 2012 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
Be sure to listen to the two radio interviews that Nick Gaitatjis (Director of Without Borders) and Alex Pattakos (Santa Fe Film Festival Board Member) conducted about the “Without Borders” event on Talk Radio KTRC 1260AM ( http://santafe.com/ktrc). The interview on “New Mexico…
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September 25, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival presents Without Borders. A Special Screening & Reception with the filmmakers and cast at the New Mexico History Museum DATE: Friday, October 5, 2012 TIME: 6:00 pm — 10:00 pm LOCATION: New Mexico History Museum Auditorium…
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September 17, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
When a film becomes a decade old we often want to know how it stood the test of time by comparing, say, similar films or similar themes. It turns out, that is much easier said than done when a stand out film like WHALE RIDER matures.
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September 14, 2012 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
2nd Annual Santa Fe Film Festival FREE Community Screening Under the Stars The Santa Fe Film Festival presents a 10th Anniversary screening of WHALE RIDER An Award-winning Film by Niki Caro Friday, September 14th, 7-10:00pm (film starts just after sunset)…
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August 24, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
PLEASE NOTE: Change in venue to 1420 Old Pecos Trail THE SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL INVITES YOU FOR A FUNDRAISING COCKTAIL & HORS D’OEUVRES PARTY Please join us for a cocktail party with an open bar and exquisite…
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July 23, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
New Mexico Women in Film NMWIF CELEBRATES THE SHORT FILM Join us on Sunday, July 22, 2012 2012 WIFTI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE PANEL DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW How do Film Festivals select their short films? Learn the…
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July 18, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival Presents: A Limited Run of Lionel Rogosin’s 1959 film Come Back, Africa One Week Only! Join us Opening Day Saturday, June 23 at 2 PM @ The Screen Santa Fe Film Festival Chairman…
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June 18, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Join us at the Santa Fe premiere of Simon Wincer’s new film The Cup produced by the 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival’s Honoree and Santa Fe Studios CEO Lance Hool. Presented by SFFF, this special event is a…
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June 3, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL SUPPORTS SHOOTSANTAFE at SXSW March 14, 2012 9:00am – 9:00pm JOIN ShootSantaFe at SxSW in Austin 606 E. 3rd Street 9:00am – 10:30am – IATSE 480 Breakfast 11:00am – 3:00pm – Lounge 4:30pm…
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March 11, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Attention SFFF Oscar® Party Ticketholders! Complete your Oscar® Ballot and Submit to be eligible to win prizes* Download and Print the OFFICIAL Santa Fe Film Festival Academy Awards® Ballot Prizes include: Gift Certificates for O Eating House, Cowgirl BBQ, La Boca and…
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February 22, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival invites you to celebrate 2011 SFFF titles, The Artist, A Separation and Monsieur Lazhar and the films of 2011 at our Academy Awards® Screening Party! Sunday, February 26, 2012 4:30 – 9:30 PM at RIO…
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February 10, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
2011 Santa Fe Film Festival titles The Artist, A Separation, and Monsieur Lazhar, are Oscar bound – time to celebrate! On the heels of winning three Golden Globes this year – the 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival’s sold-out opening night film, The…
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February 9, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Suzy Tonra 505.983.2366 press@http://santafefilmfestival.com/index OSCAR GOLD POSSIBLE FOR SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL’S 2011 SOLD-OUT OPENING NIGHT FILM THE ARTIST The Artist is nominated for 10 Oscars and …
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February 4, 2012 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
FILM OPENS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9th FROM STRAND RELEASING The Women on the 6th Floor Opening Friday 12/9 at: UA Devargas Center 6 562 N. Guadalupe 505-988-1110 Trailer Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work,…
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December 8, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The signs have come down, the films are shipped back and the intense rush from screen to party to screen has stopped as the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival has come to a close. But not for…
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November 1, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Here’s a question: Why should you watch an art film? Keep that thought in rotation. Now let’s back up. Everyone has walked out of a movie at least once (more than once if you’re unlucky) and thought: “That…
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November 1, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
At the risk of making light of isolation and depression, the audience of director Terence Davies’ “A Deep Blue Sea” may need a pocket guide and a second viewing to gain perspective on the film. A portfolio of…
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November 1, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
“Monsieur Lazhar,” Canada’s official entry for the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, concerns an Algerian immigrant that finds work in Montreal standing in for an elementary school teacher who recently committed suicide. It sounds straightforward enough, but nothing…
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November 1, 2011 by Edgar | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
“Sleeping Beauty,” which played in a discreet 9:30 slot on Saturday night at the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, has already gained a reputation for being erotic, insipid, brave, disappointing, groundbreaking, regressive and a host of other…
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November 1, 2011 by Edgar | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
Snacking, by its very concept in the US, is something we do as a reward. It’s a time of cramming stuff in our mouths in a moment of celebration (okay, or stress). But when we do it in…
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October 31, 2011 by Laura K Marsh | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
When Oscar-winning editor Hughes Winborne spoke with great humor at the Santa Fe Film Festival’s special presentation of “The Final Rewrite,” his idea of a Hollywood movie editor’s Help Wanted ad might have sounded something like this: HELP…
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October 29, 2011 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
I had the pleasure of attending one of the 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival’s panel discussions Friday afternoon at Zane Bennett Gallery. Brent Kliewer, this year’s program director for the festival, hosted the conversation. The audience was made…
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October 29, 2011 by Edgar | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival Review by Michele Garza on October 28, 2011 3:54 PM KCET Cinema Series producer Michele Garza is heading over to the Santa Fe Film Festival this week. She’ll be reporting back with pictures from…
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October 28, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
‘The Artist’ at the Santa Fe Film Festival by Michele Garza on October 21, 2011 10:20 AM KCET Cinema Series producer Michele Garza is heading over to the Santa Fe Film Festival this week. She’ll be reporting back…
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October 28, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival by Michele Garza on October 17, 2011 5:03 PM KCET Cinema Series producer Michele Garza is heading over to the Santa Fe Film Festival this week. She’ll be reporting back with pictures from the…
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October 28, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
“A Useful Life” by Federico Vieroj is a 67 minute mini-feature that focuses on a major turning point in the life of Jorge, the curator of a small art house cinema in Montevideo, Uruguay. Vieroj’s movie is about…
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October 25, 2011 by Edgar | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
The packed audience at the Screen today on the last day of the Santa Fe Film Festival were all wondering if Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus”, would give us both a great story…
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October 23, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
In the slow-paced, detail-obsessive, character-rich, Oscar-contender from Turkey at the Santa Fe Film Festival, the story snakes around the characters like the creek through the hills and slopes, occasionally seen, sometimes only heard, but always a part of…
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October 22, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
Wild Horses and Renegades at the Santa Fe Film Festival! Award-winning Documentary “Wild Horses & Renegades” To screen at 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival 3 pm Saturday, October 22, 2011 – CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe,…
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October 22, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
You’ve heard that “Battlefield Heroes” is like a Korean Monty Python film about the escapades of war in the 7th century with slapstick comedy, sight gags and silly kings. After seeing it screened at the Santa Fe Film…
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October 21, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
When the average American thinks of a symbol of freedom, they might not think of a wild horse, mane flying, galloping across a wide open plain. However, that iconic symbol is in danger of being forever lost to…
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October 21, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
LOBSTER Is there a heaven for crustaceans? Could the cuisine on your stove top have attained a higher spiritual station? Relax, sit back and discover what one young couple learns. An age-old controversy is resolved after relational tensions…
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October 21, 2011 by Edgar | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Each of the delicacies in the Santa Fe Film Festival’s SHORTS PROGRAM III explores the loss of our innocence around our spiritual and intellectual decay, delivering a banquet of emotions to indulge in. This program screens Sunday, October…
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October 21, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
What goes around comes around. Come full circle. Karma. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. A person’s actions, whether good or bad, will have consequences for that person. Actions create an entire cycle of cause and effect. In…
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October 21, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
In this program of shorts from India, Italy, Albania and the USA, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Whether in the whole of a life, a decade, a day or a phase, we all…
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October 21, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
“Killing Memories” begins like a movie script: A black screen with sounds of gunfire: Rifles. Machine guns. Running. Shouting. Chaos. The first images appear and a voice remembers: “That evening when I killed that first soldier I sat…
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October 20, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Thusday, October 20 9P-Closing OPENING NIGHT PARTY @ The Cowgirl 319 S. Guadalupe Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Friday, October 21 5P-7P FILMMAKERS’ LOUNGE NETWORKING RECEPTION (Open to the Public) 540 East Alameda, Santa Fe, NM 87501…
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October 20, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Immigration is a hot button for us here in the US, and films that deal with the topic are as old as “talkies” themselves. But the business of refugees in film is less specific, especially in the US…
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October 20, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
The dramatic question which motivates “Callers” is this: How does a slovenly, down on his luck guy deal with the sudden and unexpected death of his girlfriend? There are several different avenues that a filmmaker can go down…
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October 20, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Friday, October 21 ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: Curator Brent Kliewer and Pawel Wendorff 3PM @ The Zane Bennett Gallery 425 South Guadalupe, Santa Fe, NM 87501 The 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival presents an informal dialogue between…
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October 20, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Murder has become such a fun game in US films that we forget it is really a painstaking, methodical plod through evidence discovery, and often it has little to do with the dead body itself. In Nuri Bilge…
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October 18, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
With a fictional view into the very real world of Guatemalan drug trafficking, director Veronica Riedel’s “Capsulas” delves deep into corruption, violence and greed. Winner of South Florida’s Women International Film Festival for Best Dramatic Feature Film, “Capsulas”…
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October 18, 2011 by Joanna Smith | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
The thing about short films is they are super concentrated bolts of thought. (You thought I was gonna say that the thing about shorts is they’re short. Heh. That too.) This gathering of projects in SHORTS PROGRAM IV…
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October 17, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Why make a full-length black-&-white, silent movie these days and what prompts Santa Fe Film Festival to program it on their opening night? Good questions deserve thoughtful answers. I’m going to guess right off that it’s not a…
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October 16, 2011 by Edgar | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012, Silent Film | Comments (0)
Okay. Eyes forward. This one is a must see for all LGBT youth, straights of every flavor, and actually, pretty much everyone. It’s a documentary called “Vito”, about the life of gay activist Vito Russo. A man, I…
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October 15, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 | Comments (0)
Opening Night Kick-off Party at COWGIRL October 20, 2011 @ 9:00 PM – Closing Enjoy a complimentary Chili Bar & Tapas Music by: Songwriter for legendary Steve Miller Band CB McCarty & Justin Lindsey, Michael Kott, Larry Diaz…
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October 14, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Join us Friday afternoon (OCT 21) at 3P when the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival presents an informal dialogue between Santa Fe Film Festival Director of Film Programming Brent Kliewer and Polish director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer, Pawel…
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October 13, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Most American families might not be aware that their Iranian counterparts face many of the same problems that they do. But in “A Separation” by director Asghar Farhadi, screening Saturday, October 22 at the Santa Fe Film Festival,…
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October 12, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
The 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival Screening Schedule is now up. Just click on SCHEDULE in the main menu to go to a list of the films and information on when and where they will be screened….
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October 9, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
SANTA FE, N.M. (October 7, 2011) – Diane Schneier Perrin, Executive Director for the newly revamped Santa Fe Film Festival (SFFF), today announced the program for the 12th edition of SFFF (Thursday, October 20 through Sunday, October 23,…
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October 7, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Comments (0)
The 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival is almost here! Take a look at our feature line up NOW available under Screenings Check back often as we add information daily on our special Spotlight on New Mexico Filmmakers, 4…
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October 7, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival’s IndieGoGo campaign on Friday night at the Kimya Dawson concert at the Railyard, Everyone who made a donation that night was entered into a drawing and…
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September 27, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
On September 30, the Santa Fe Film Festival Board of Directors invites the Santa Fe community to attend a dinner in honor of Lance Hool, CEO of Santa Fe Studios. A three-course dinner and silent auction at Encantado…
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September 26, 2011 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Comments (0)
For the last two weeks of October, Santa Fe, New Mexico will be an artistic feast for visitors and locals with appetites for art, architecture, music, history, film and food. From October 20-23, The Santa Fe Film Festival…
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September 23, 2011 by Joanna Smith | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
The Santa Fe Film Festival presents a special screening of Wait Until Dark directed by Terence Young (USA, 1967, 35MM) starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin at The Screen Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 7P Q & A with Alan…
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September 23, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
When does the music truly make the movie? How do certain songs become ingrained in the experience of watching a film? What kind of thought process is there behind the selection of those songs? These only seem like…
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September 22, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Welcome to the new http://santafefilmfestival.com/index. Here you’ll find the latest festival news, ways to participate, image galleries, ticket information, featured trailers, Facebook and Twitter links, and much more. Executive Director Diane Schneier Perrin led the new design charge,…
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September 6, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Reboot the Santa Fe Film Festival! Please Join the Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Film Festival as we Honor Lance Hool CEO of Santa Fe Studios Producer/Director/Actor September 30, 2011, 6-10P at Encantado, an Auberge Resort $150 per…
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September 2, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
If this evening’s event at the Screen hosted by the Santa Fe Film Festival is any indication, we’re in for a great time at the movies this October. I was treated—along with a couple hundred other movie lovers—to…
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September 1, 2011 by Edgar | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
The 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival in association with Heath Concerts and the Railyard Community Corporation presents a FREE Community Outdoor Screening of Oscar-winner JUNO directed by Jason Reitman and starring Ellen Page and Michael Cera Friday, September 23rd in Railyard Park JUST…
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August 29, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Let’s start this entry by painting a picture: You’ve sat up all night next to your editor, making certain that every bit of polish is in the right place. The score sounds fantastic, the shots are just the…
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August 29, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
The Way director, Emilio Estevez and star, Martin Sheen, are coming to Santa Fe on September 1st for an advance screening of the film before its US release October 7th. The Santa Fe Film Festival will host the event…
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August 25, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Thinking of coming to Santa Fe this fall for the 12th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival? Visitors are surprised to learn New Mexico has been host to over 150 feature films, and they don’t all star John Wayne,…
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August 24, 2011 by Edgar | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Unless you are the President of the United States or someone with a ridiculously disposable income, you are unlikely to have a 3-D theater with a separate room, a balcony, or seating for more than you and a…
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August 15, 2011 by SFFF | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
It’s great news that the Santa Fe Film Festival has engaged Brent Kliewer as Director of Programming for this year’s Festival October 20-23. Brent loves the movies and knows more about them than anyone I’ve ever met. He’s…
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August 13, 2011 by Edgar | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
Now is your chance to support your local, world-renowned film festival. If you are a New Mexico filmmaker and completed a film in New Mexico after September, 2010, submit it to the Santa Fe Film Festival and receive…
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August 11, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
The key to crafting the Santa Fe Film Festival into a distinctive and important event is a singular vision. There are many decisions to be made, films to be selected, and an overall level of quality to be…
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August 4, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
THE FAMILY THAT SCREENS TOGETHER BRENT KLIEWER AND THE SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL By Robert Nott/The New Mexican July 22, 2011 Brent Kliewer — who has always believed that movies should be shared with others in the dark —…
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July 22, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival announces appointment of Brent Kliewer as its Director of Programming and a special 2011 program section celebrating local filmmakers. Download a PDF of the press release: Santa Fe Film Festival Brent Kliewer Programming SANTA FE,…
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July 22, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
ON THE RAILS SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL’S NEW DIRECTOR By Robert Nott The New Mexican May 6, 2011 Like the heroine of an old movie serial, the Santa Fe Film Festival has undergone its share of close…
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May 6, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News | Comments (0)
Santa Fe Film Festival Announces New Executive Director and Launches a “Rebuild the Festival” Campaign Click here to download the PDF: Santa Fe Film Festival Announces New Executive Director 2011 Board of Directors announces appointment of Diane Schneier…
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May 6, 2011 by SFFF | Category: News, Press | Tags: 2011 | Comments (0)
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