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By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008
The 28th Annual 2008 CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival(CMJ08), the largest international new music discovery event was held at venues throughout New York City, October 21-28, 2008. The outstanding festival presented by XBOX 360, Zune, and Doritos, showcased music marathon, film festival, exhibit hall, panel discussions, seminars, comedy shows, special events, parties, concerts, and awards ceremony. This year, over 1000 artists performed at 70 venues t...
By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008
The 28th Annual CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2008 (CMJ08), College Radio Awards ceremony was held at New York University Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Thursday, October 23, 3:45 P.M. The ceremony honored America's best DJs, producers, promoters, remixers, radio shows, and podcasts in college radio.
CMJ08 five-time College Radio Award winner
(Most Groundbreaking, BestPodcast, Biggest
Asset To The Community, Station Of The Y...
By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008
The 28th Annual CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2008 (CMJ08), College Radio Awards ceremony was held at New York University Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Thursday, October 23, 3:45 P.M. The ceremony honored America's best DJs, producers, promoters, remixers, radio shows, and podcasts in college radio.
This year's ceremony included 23 awards. A combination of award prizes from Zune, Gibson, Insound, Ghost-Town Studios, piphone, and Western A...
By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008
By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008
The 14th Annual 2008 Directors Guild of America (DGA) Eastern Student Film Awards was held at the Academy Theater, New York, Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:00 PM. The award honors the best minority and women student filmmakers in the East Coast, USA. Producer/director Ted Bogosian, DGA student film Awards chair committee, Eastern directors council, introduced award presenter DGA First VP/PAC leadership council co-chair Paris Barclay, executive producer IN T...
By Maria Esteves - December 29, 2008
By Maria Esteves - December 29, 2008
The 28th Annual CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2008 (CMJ08), "Current Independent Culture Through the Eyes of True Indie Pioneer" panel discussion was held at New York University Kimmel Center, Thursday, October 23, 2:00 P.M. The successful standing room only panel attended by artists, industry executives, producers, promoters, remixers, digital/recording artists, DJs, and press discussed the decline of major record labels and the rise...
By Maria Esteves - July 18, 2008
As Mars space exploration matures and the ability for people to be able to travel to the moon becomes a reality, the premiere of "Robot Stories" (based on four
stories about love, death and family through experiences with robots) impeccable timing is simply superb! Award-winning writer/director Greg Pak was interviewed by Maria Esteves on January 12, 2004.
ME: Did you become an established writer/director through the International Film Fest Community?
GP: The film festiv...
By Maria Esteves - July 18, 2008
The 31st Annual 2008 Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF08) Work In Progress workshop led by award-winning filmmaker Greg Pak featuring GIVE UP TOMORROW directed by Marty Syjuco and co-directed by Michael Collins was held at Tribeca Cinemas, New York, Wednesday, July 16, 6:30 PM. A special trailer presentation of GIVE UP TOMORROW preceded the workshop and audience Q&A. AAIFF08 Work In Progress reception immediately followed.
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SAVE THE DATE
Christina Visca, GMHC, LIFEbeat and AREA present
KEEP ON DANCIN'
REMEMBERING MEL CHEREN
WITH THE MUSIC OF THE PARADISE GARAGE
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Santos Party House
100 Lafayette St, NYC
DJ Line-Up and More Details
COMING SOON
Door Proceeds to Benefit GMHC, LIFEbeat and AREA
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By Maria Esteves - December 7, 2008
The 81st Academy Awards (Oscar) presented by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) for outstanding film achievements of 2008 nominees will be announced in The Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Beverly Hills, CA, on Thursday, January 22, 2009. The 2009 Oscars will be held at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, CA, and televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide by the ABC Television Network, on Sunday, February 22, 2009. This year's Oscar tele...
The "2009 Keep On Dancin" remembering Mel Cheren with the music of the Paradise Garage (DJ line up to be announced) will be held at Santos Party House, New York, Saturday, January 10, 2009. All door proceeds to benefit Christina Visca, GMHC, LIFEbeat, and AREA (The American Run for the End of AIDS).
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By Maria Esteves - December 7, 2008
The 37th Annual Dance On Camera Festival (DOCF) will be held at the Walter Reade Theatre, New York, January 6 - 17, 2009. The festival co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center is the world's longest running dance film festival celebrating the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. This year's opening night reception and premiere films are Program 1: BALLERINA, directed by Bertrand Normand, PLAY: ON THE B...
By Maria Esteves - December 1, 2008
By Maria Esteves - December 1, 2008
By Maria Esteves - December 1, 2008
The CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2008
(CMJ08), New York Premiere performance of NELO, presented by BMI was held at Crash Mansion, Wednesday, October 22, 7:30 P.M. The outstanding NELO rock band from Austin, Texas preceded the evening's showcase performance of the PASSENGER, PONDEROSA, WATT WHITE, OUTERNATIONAL, BLONDE ACID CULT, and HYPERNOVA. NELO's live performance enjoyed by the crowded audience
included "The Rain ...
By Maria Esteves - November 22, 2008
The 23rd Israel Film Festival (IFF) in New York celebrating Israel's 60th Anniversary New York Premiere of THE LITTLE TRAITOR written/directed/produced by Lynn Roth was held at the Clearview Cinema, Saturday, November 1, 7:45 PM.
2008 IFF celebrating Israel's 60th Anniversary historical selection of THE LITTLE TRAITOR is an outstanding, heartfelt, and genuine family film based on the relationship between Proffi (Ido Port) a young Polish Jew and ...
By Maria Esteves - November 22, 2008
The 23rd Israel Film Festival (IFF) in New York celebrating Israel's 60th Anniversary Historical Selection of CHILDREN OF THE SUN, written/directed by Ran Tal was held at the Clearview Cinema, Sunday, November 2, 2:00 PM.
Winner of Best Documentary Award, 2008 Israel Film Festival in New York, CHILDREN OF THE SUN, is an excellent historical film that reveals the intimate culture of the Israeli Kibbutz movement from 1930s to 1970s. Born and raised...
By Maria Esteves - November 22, 2008
The 23rd Israel Film Festival (IFF) in New York celebrating Israel's 60th Anniversary Historical Selection of CHILDREN OF THE SUN, written/directed by Ran Tal was held at the Clearview Cinema, Sunday, November 2, 2:00 PM. An exclusive Q&A with writer/director Ran Tal preceded the 2008 IFF Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Panel Discussion, at the Clearview Cinema, Sunday, November 2nd.
ME: What inspired the making of the documentary film C...
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