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Oaxaca FilmFest
Oaxaca FilmFest was an eight-day long international film festival that was permanently cancelled in 2022 without taking place, once it could no longer hide the fact that it devolved into a calculated scam to prey on unknowing filmmakers. At its start, the festival was held every autumn in the Mexican city of Oaxaca from 2010 - 2019, and again from 2021. The festival is composed of various categories and offered a large space in its selection to emerging directors and screenwriters. History The festival was founded by Ramiz Adeeb Azar, with the first edition of the festival held in November 2010. ''MovieMaker'' magazine listed it as one of "50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" three times. Oaxaca FilmFest has included the works of artist such as Guillermo del Toro, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Neil LaBute, Diego Luna, Takashi Miike, Martin Scorsese, Bill Plympton, Donald Sutherland, Luke Wilson Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American acto ...
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Oaxaca
Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 municipalities, of which 418 (almost three quarters) are governed by the system of (customs and traditions) with recognized local forms of self-governance. Its capital city is Oaxaca de Juárez. Oaxaca is in southwestern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Guerrero to the west, Puebla to the northwest, Veracruz to the north, and Chiapas to the east. To the south, Oaxaca has a significant coastline on the Pacific Ocean. The state is best known for #Indigenous peoples, its indigenous peoples and cultures. The most numerous and best known are the Zapotec peoples, Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, but there are sixteen that are officially recognized. These cultures have survived better than most others ...
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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans over six decades. He has been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films ''Citizen X'' (1995) and '' Path to War'' (2002); the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canadian Walk of Fame, he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film '' Threshold'' (1981). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema. In 2021, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for his work in the HBO miniseries ''The Undoing'' (2020). Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including ''The Dirty Dozen'' (1967), ''M*A*S*H'' (1970), ''Kelly's Heroes'' (1970), ''Klu ...
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Film Festivals In Mexico
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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Adverse (film)
''Adverse'' is a 2020 American crime thriller film written and directed by Brian Metcalf and starring Thomas Nicholas, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Astin, Kelly Arjen, Penelope Ann Miller, and Mickey Rourke. It premiered at the Fantasporto Film Festival, Portugal's largest film festival, on February 28, 2020. The film earned Metcalf a Platinum Remi Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. The film was released theatrically in the United States on February 12, 2021, by Lionsgate. The film received a 75% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Premise A rideshare driver discovers that his sister is in debt to a dangerous crime syndicate. Cast * Thomas Nicholas as Ethan * Lou Diamond Phillips as Dr. Cruz * Sean Astin as Frankie * Kelly Arjen as Mia * Penelope Ann Miller as Nicole * Mickey Rourke as Kaden * Jake T. Austin as Lars * Matt Ryan as Jake * Andrew Keegan as Jan * Aaron Schwartz as Detective Mitchell * Charlene Amoia as Mary * Jesse Garcia as Detective Ranie * ...
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April Mullen
April Mullen () is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. Career In 2012, Mullen became the first woman to direct a live action, fully stereoscopic 3D feature film, ''Dead Before Dawn'' (2012)''.'' In 2015, she directed the neo-noir grindhouse feature film '' 88'' (2015). Mullen was sought out for comment when the study, ''Women in View on Screen'', concluded Canadian women mostly get to sit in the director's chair on small film and television projects, while men get the big-budget projects. Mullen has also commented on the perspective that women bring to filmmaking behind the lens: "Women have this vulnerability and connection to a depth of emotions that I can see and feel in certain moments of truth in the films we create. To me, the female gaze is transparency – the veil between audience and filmmaker is thin, and that allows people in more." She is also sought out for her perspective on the "female gaze" in movies. In 2016, Mullen directed ''Below Her Mouth'' in 2016, which ...
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Badsville
''Badsville'' is a 2017 American-Canadian action drama film directed by April Mullen and starring Robert Knepper and Emilio Rivera. Cast Production According to the ''Niagara Falls Review'', Mullen expressed interest in directing the film after David Phillips showed her the script. The film was shot in Southern California. On November 3, 2016, it was announced that Epic Pictures acquired the distribution rights to ''Badsville''. Reception Gary MacDonald of ''The Globe and Mail'' wrote "''Badsville''s an ugly place, but the acting/directing chops in this indie film brighten it considerably". Gary Goldstein of the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the U ...'' said, "Forget the cheapo title, ''Badsville'' is a powerful, deeply felt crime drama about le ...
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Suntan (2016 Film)
''Suntan'' is a 2016 Greek drama film directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos. It stars Makis Papadimitriou as a middle-aged general practitioner on a resort island who becomes obsessed with a young female patient, played by Elli Tringou. It premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in February and was released in Greece in March 2016, where it grossed $145,858. Plot Kostis, the new general practitioner, arrives on the resort island Antiparos, and greets the mayor. The mayor tells that, outside of the summer months, the population is around 800 and life is quiet. Kostis settles in amid Christmas celebrations, meeting several people, among them Takis, a villager who crudely assures him that the island will be overflowing with hedonistic young women during the summer. The summer comes along and Kostis treats a young tourist named Anna, who has injured her leg. Her friends – Alin, Mila, Jason, and Morten – insist on accompanying her into the examination room an ...
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Nick Sandow
Nick Sandow (born August 3, 1966) is an American actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Joe Caputo in ''Orange Is the New Black''. Early life Of Italian descent, Sandow grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Van Nest in the Bronx. He moved to Manhattan around age 19 to study acting under William Esper in the Two-Year Professional Actor Training Program and work in theater. Career Sandow has worked extensively in television guest starring on many television series such as Law & Order, Third Watch, NYPD Blue, Boardwalk Empire, and Blue Bloods. His most notable acting role on Orange Is the New Black, as prison administrator Joseph Caputo, was originally supposed to have been for a handful of episodes for the shows first season, but his role was expanded during the second season and was made a series regular with the third season. He began his directing career in theater on Off-Off-Broadway. In 2015 he wrote, directed and acted in The Wannabe ''The Wa ...
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The Wannabe
''The Wannabe'' is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Nick Sandow, with Martin Scorsese as an executive producer, and starring Patricia Arquette, David Zayas, Domenick Lombardozzi, Michael Imperioli, Vincent Piazza and Nick Sandow. It was released on December 4, 2015, by Orion Pictures and Momentum Pictures Cast * Vincent Piazza as Thomas * Patricia Arquette as Rose * Michael Imperioli as Alphonse * David Zayas * Domenick Lombardozzi as Mickey * Nick Sandow as Anthony * Mike Starr * Doug E. Doug as The Twin * Vincenzo Amato as Richie * Slaine * Larry Eudene as Assistant DA * Joseph Siravo as John Gotti * Neal Huff * Mark Lotito as Prosecutor Maloney * Adriana DeMeo as Annie * Daniel Sauli as Curtis Sliwa * Mario Macaluso as Whitey * Jay Bulger as Eric Roberts * Mark Vincent as Eddie Lino * Joe Bevilacqua as Giuseppe Production Nick Sandow was inspired to write the film after reading about Thomas and Rosemarie Uva, a New York City couple who were murde ...
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Atıl İnaç
Atıl İnaç (born 22 March 1975) is a Turkish film director. Early life İnaç was born into a family of filmmakers: his mother was a screenwriter and his father a producer. İnaç went to the United States for high school education. Upon graduation, he studied philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Later, İnaç earned his degree in Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), Philosophy Department. He continued his academic studies at Claremont Graduate University - Philosophy Department, specializing in philosophy of language. He worked as a producer for Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, TRT (Turkish Radio Television) in 3 radio shows which were broadcast nationwide in Turkey. İnaç's amateur studies in jazz music led him to produce and host jazz-oriented radio shows on Acik Radyo, a prominent, private Turkish radio station. He also wrote articles on and did interviews with jazz musicians and jazz composers. Filmmaking During his graduate studies, he worked for ...
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Brian A
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble". For example, the element ''bre'' means "hill"; which could be transferred to mean "eminence" or "exalted one". The name is quite popular in Ireland, on account of Brian Boru, a 10th-century High King of Ireland. The name was also quite popular in East Anglia during the Middle Ages. This is because the name was introduced to England by Bretons following the Norman Conquest. Bretons also settled in Ireland along with the Normans in the 12th century, and 'their' name was mingled with the 'Irish' version. Also, in the north-west of England, the 'Irish' name was introduced by Scandinavian settlers from Ireland. Within the Gaelic speaking areas of Scotland, the name was at first only used by professional families of Irish ...
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