Foreign Language Oscar Entries<\/strong><\/p>\nFinland
\n\u201cLe Havre\u201d
\nFinland\/France\/Germany 2011
\nDirector: Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki<\/p>\n
The FIPRESCI Critics\u2019 prize-winner at Cannes tells the tale of a young African refugee thrown by fate into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-read bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and unwavering community support, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation.<\/p>\n
Iran
\n\u201cA Separation\u201d
\nIran 2011
\nDirector: Asghar Farhadi<\/p>\n
A couple is torn between leaving Iran for a better life and staying to care for a dying parent.\u00a0 Golden Bear Award-winner for Best Film and Silver Bear Award-winner both for Best Actor and Best Actress at the 61st Berlin International\u00a0 Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Turkey
\n\u201cOnce Upon A Time in Anatolia\u201d
\nTurkey 2011
\nDirector: Nuri Bilge Ceylan<\/p>\n
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Ceylan\u2019s latest is a strange and hypnotic, slow-paced treatment of a frustrating murder investigation conducted in the dark emptiness of the Anatolian night. This bleakly comic, superbly crafted film marks Turkey\u2019s best filmmaker\u2019s masterpiece to date.<\/p>\n
Spotlight on New Mexico Filmmakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cWild Horses and Renegades\u201d
\nUnited States 2011
\nDirector: James Anaquad Kleinert<\/p>\n
A beautifully photographed and passionately expressed chronicle of the plight of the American wild horse, risking extinction by the practices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and increased control of public lands by the extractive industries of coal, gas, oil and uranium. Celebrity activists including Sheryl Crowe, Governor Bill Richardson, Willie Nelson and Viggo Mortensen<\/p>\n
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ABOUT THE SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\nEstablished in 1999, the annual Santa Fe Film Festival (SFFF) is a non-competitive Festival dedicated to supporting film and the artists who create them by providing a creative forum for exchange and discovery with the public. The festival is open to US and Foreign films in three categories: Narrative Features, Documentary Features, and Shorts (all types).<\/p>\n
Surrounded by the reflected light of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and 19 indigenous pueblos, the Santa Fe Film Festival sets the stage for a unique cinema experience in this historic 400-year-old capital of New Mexico that has been the attraction for great artists, photographers and writers drawn to its luminescence for ages.<\/p>\n
Bio Diane Schneier Perrin \u2014 Executive Director<\/strong><\/p>\nIndependent Film Producer Schneier Perrin\u2019s feature producing credits include Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s \u201cBlue Steel,\u201d Oliver Stone\u2019s \u201cTalk Radio\u201d and Barbet Schroeder\u2019s Academy Award-winning \u201cReversal of Fortune\u201d.\u00a0 In 2006, Schneier Perrin relocated from Los Angeles to launch and run the successful state-supported \u201cNew Mexico Filmmakers Intensive\u201d at the College of Santa Fe.\u00a0 A full-time Santa Fe resident, Schneier Perrin was appointed by Governor Richardson to the Governor’s Council on Film and Media Industries in 2009, served as a juror for the state-sponsored 2010 New Visions\/New Mexico Contract Awards and as a panelist for the 2009 NM Women in Film Athena Award for Excellence in Short Screenplay.\u00a0 Schneier Perrin succeeds former Co-Executive Directors, Michael Hare and Rose Kuo, now respectively the COO and Executive Director of The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. Perrin\u2019s goal is to establish the SFFF as a premier boutique international festival. The festival will promote Santa Fe as a destination with its unique beauty and cultural and artistic heritage, and will premiere international and independent art cinema for local audiences.<\/p>\n
Bio Brent Kliewer \u2014 Director of Programming<\/strong><\/p>\nBrent Kliewer has been programming films for Santa Fe audiences for over 30 years.\u00a0 Besides programming for the Santa Fe Film Festival, Kliewer also oversees programming at The Screen on the campus of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
Previously Kliewer worked for the now-defunct art house Collective Fantasy in Santa Fe before he began programming films for the Cinematheque and The Screen.<\/p>\n
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
\nKean & Kolar Communications
\nDeborah Kolar 310.396.4126 debkolarpr@gmail.com
\nJan Kean 310.264.2472 jankeanpr@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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