Brewed Fresh Daily (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
See you there? Support local film, local music, and local food! Check out the upcoming DVD release party for PolyCultures: Food Where We Live, as featured in the 2009 Cleveland International Film Festival. This Monday, June 22nd at 6pm at the Greenhouse Tavern, 2038 E. 4th Street. Get a limited release issue of the DVD and enjoy [...]
Gadling (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Festivals and Events , Stories , Vietnam , Nightlife A few years ago, in the audience of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center watching A Closer Walk , a wonderful documentary about the global struggle caused by AIDS, I felt tuned into something bigger than myself. Reading New York Times film critic Steven Holden's article about...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 04/25/2009
Filed under: Learning , Festivals and Events , Stories The San Francisco International Film Festival started Thursday and goes through May 9. If I wasn't miles and miles away, I'd go. I still have a bit of a buzz from my experience at the Cleveland International Film Festival last month where I took in Brook Silva-Braga's film "One Day in Africa ," plus three more. What I found most intriguing...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Festivals and Events , Stories , Africa This is season of film festivals. Brook Silva-Braga and his movie "One Day in Africa" drew me to the Cleveland International Film Festival a week ago Saturday. It was the premiere weekend of his film and I didn't want to miss it. Plus, Brook was going to be there. Ever since his guest blogger run at Gadling, I've been...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
Filed under: Biking , Arts and Culture , Hiking , History , Learning , Rwanda , France , Ireland I'm psyched. As soon as I set this puppy to post, I'm heading to Cleveland to go to the Cleveland International Film Festival where I'll meet up with Brook Silva-Braga for the showing of his film A Day in Africa . There's also a load of stuff going on to commemorate the inductions at the Rock and Roll...
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
Back into the bubble. Here's more inelegant but timely reporting on the films seen Thursday at the Cleveland International Film Festival . -The Candidate (Kandidaten) (Kasper Barfoed, 2008) Country: Denmark Genre: Thriller Synopsis: A lawyer investigating his father's suspicious death is set up to look like a murderer. Notes: This conventional thriller does nothing to distinguish itself from the many...
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
The truth is that there's nothing terribly smart about putting yourself through the full paces of a film festival's schedule for several days in a row. For nine of the eleven days at the single location Cleveland International Film Festival you can inhabit the theaters for six sessions beginning around 9:15 a.m. and lasting for about fourteen hours. Four of those nine days have midnight screenings...
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/21/2009
Typically I do not associate the Cleveland International Film Festival with showcasing a lot of films from name directors. It's not that they don't have them. They're just not in the abundance that larger fests have. I mention this because each of the films I saw today has a recognizable name (in cinephile circles) at the helm. Since this is my first update from the fest, I feel like I ought to point...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Festivals and Events , Stories , Africa , Video , Across Northern Europe with Brook Silva-Braga , News The Cleveland International Film Festival , from March 19-29 is the largest film festival in Ohio. That's merely one reason to attend this kaleidoscope of images and stories from around the world. The other reason is that Brook Silver- Braga will be at the premiere...
Public Blog (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
This short film written and directed by Kurt Kuenne and starring T.J. Thyne and Vicki Davis, has won a variety of awards including Best Narrative Short at the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Hawaii Internationall Film Festival. It’s guaranteed to give you a smile.
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