Growing festival in London also honours docs Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic and Mark Donne’s The UK Gold.
The 12th East End Film Festival (Eeff) has awarded its best feature prize, for first or second features, to Sebastian Hofmann’s Halley. Halley tells the story of a security guard at a Mexico City gym whose physical deterioration provides a stark contrast to the healthy bodies around him. Hoffman will be invited to be the festival’s director in residence next year, when Eeff will also spotlight Mexican cinema.
The jury was comprised of last year’s winner Armando Bo (El Ultimo Elvis), critic Peter Bradshaw, producer and Tugg co-founder Nicolas Gonda, My Brother The Devil director Sally El Hosaini, and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
The best documentary jury, comprised of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, musician Mark Stewart, producer Rachel Wexler and head programmer of Cph:dox Niklas Engstrøm, chose two documentaries to share the top award. They are...
The 12th East End Film Festival (Eeff) has awarded its best feature prize, for first or second features, to Sebastian Hofmann’s Halley. Halley tells the story of a security guard at a Mexico City gym whose physical deterioration provides a stark contrast to the healthy bodies around him. Hoffman will be invited to be the festival’s director in residence next year, when Eeff will also spotlight Mexican cinema.
The jury was comprised of last year’s winner Armando Bo (El Ultimo Elvis), critic Peter Bradshaw, producer and Tugg co-founder Nicolas Gonda, My Brother The Devil director Sally El Hosaini, and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
The best documentary jury, comprised of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, musician Mark Stewart, producer Rachel Wexler and head programmer of Cph:dox Niklas Engstrøm, chose two documentaries to share the top award. They are...
- 7/11/2013
- ScreenDaily
Prince William and Kate Middleton are thought to be having their baby soon, and the whole City of London is eagerly waiting for the blessed arrival.
According to a report, the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s hospital has prohibited any parking outside the entrance, and members of the press have already claimed their spot across the street.
Photographer Mark Stewart explained, "We all want a front row position to see history in the making and to record the first appearance of William and Kate's new baby.”
"There is quite a limited space to see that front door properly so you have to get in there early. It's one of the biggest stories in the world right now and everybody wants to get a good vantage point."
Meanwhile, a source shared that Dr. Marcus Setchell is ready for action as soon as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge need him.
According to a report, the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s hospital has prohibited any parking outside the entrance, and members of the press have already claimed their spot across the street.
Photographer Mark Stewart explained, "We all want a front row position to see history in the making and to record the first appearance of William and Kate's new baby.”
"There is quite a limited space to see that front door properly so you have to get in there early. It's one of the biggest stories in the world right now and everybody wants to get a good vantage point."
Meanwhile, a source shared that Dr. Marcus Setchell is ready for action as soon as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge need him.
- 7/3/2013
- GossipCenter
A sign went up over the weekend outside the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's hospital in London, alerting drivers there will be no parking there for the month of July. The space across the street was also recently the location of a modern-day, urban stampede as the media rushed in to mark their spots. Welcome to Baby Cambridge Watch. And on day three, two days after the first press arrived, 60 photographers' ladders are in position 40 feet from the front steps of the hospital, where Kate, The Duchess of Cambridge will emerge, according to royal protocol, with her husband, Prince William,...
- 7/3/2013
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
Even as the Edinburgh International Film Festival presses ahead up north, the nation’s capital is not – and never has been – content to sit complacent on the cinematic front. The East End Film Festival, founded in 2000 and expanding year on year ever since, returns from 25 June to July 10 and once again boasts a remarkably strong lineup. Awards to dish out include Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Short Film and the Eeff Short Film Audience Award, from an eclectic jury that features the likes of the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, Wu-Tang Clan head honcho RZA, and Armando Bo, winner of last year’s Best Film Award for his directorial debut El Ultimo Elvis.
Things kick off in celebratory fashion with the Opening Gala at the Art Deco Troxy in Limehouse on 25 June, where Mark Donne’s less-than-celebratory The UK Gold will have its world premiere. The documentary looks at recession-era Britain...
Things kick off in celebratory fashion with the Opening Gala at the Art Deco Troxy in Limehouse on 25 June, where Mark Donne’s less-than-celebratory The UK Gold will have its world premiere. The documentary looks at recession-era Britain...
- 6/24/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
From opposite ends of the Ping-Pong table, the famously competitive parents of Britain's future monarch grinned at each other, and then let fly. "Ahem, I think that was 6-2," William said, declaring victory over Kate during their visit to a Glasgow sports center April 4. But, after his official duties were done, he turned to Lord Lieutenant Sadie Docherty, the couple's host for the day, and chivalrously fessed up: "The only reason I won today was because Catherine was pregnant," the prince told Docherty, who recounted the conversation to People. "Otherwise she would have taken off her coat and beat me.
- 4/13/2013
- PEOPLE.com
The royal couple made an appearance in Glasgow on April 4, and people noticed the certain glow that Kate’s pregnancy has brought to both of them. The prince flirtatiously teased his wife over ping pong while the public watched — so cute!
Kate Middleton and Prince William took time out of their busy schedules to make an important appearance to a Quarriers shelter to meet homeless youth, but they also used the time to bond with each other and show how Kate’s pregnancy has truly brought them together closer than ever before.
Kate Middleton & Prince William Closer Than Ever
“They’re much more touchy-feely than they were,” royal photographer, Mark Stewart, told People magazine.
He wasn’t the only one that noticed the couple’s happiness — an insider also revealed that pregnancy has made the royals happier.
“They’ve always been close, but it is much more pronounced since she has become pregnant.
Kate Middleton and Prince William took time out of their busy schedules to make an important appearance to a Quarriers shelter to meet homeless youth, but they also used the time to bond with each other and show how Kate’s pregnancy has truly brought them together closer than ever before.
Kate Middleton & Prince William Closer Than Ever
“They’re much more touchy-feely than they were,” royal photographer, Mark Stewart, told People magazine.
He wasn’t the only one that noticed the couple’s happiness — an insider also revealed that pregnancy has made the royals happier.
“They’ve always been close, but it is much more pronounced since she has become pregnant.
- 4/10/2013
- by HL Intern
- HollywoodLife
Owen Hoffmann/PatrickMcMullan.com Paul Simon (right), and Mark Stewart perform at a fundraiser for the Turkana Basin Institute Wednesday at the Highline Stages in Manhattan.
A fast-joking bid caller in a tuxedo and a Stetson cowboy hat was talking up the stakes for a Yamaha guitar signed by Paul Simon, as an audience filled with philanthropists such as David Rockefeller Jr. sat amused.
After the guitar sold for $19,000, and exotic trips including a Kenya safari and an Antarctic voyage were auctioned,...
A fast-joking bid caller in a tuxedo and a Stetson cowboy hat was talking up the stakes for a Yamaha guitar signed by Paul Simon, as an audience filled with philanthropists such as David Rockefeller Jr. sat amused.
After the guitar sold for $19,000, and exotic trips including a Kenya safari and an Antarctic voyage were auctioned,...
- 5/3/2012
- by Robert P. Walzer
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Dr. Richard Leakey is the first to admit that his friendship with Paul Simon is unlikely. "I really don't like music and he really doesn't like old bones," Leakey told the audience at last night's intimate fundraiser for the Turkana Basin Institute (T.B.I.), a non-profit organization dedicated to assembling a full fossil record of humanity's origins in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Still, the venerable paleontologist and conservationist -- who was introduced last night as "the man many believe responsible for saving the elephant population" of Kenya -- and the legendary folk-rock musician hit it off when the latter paid a visit to T.B.I. about four years ago. Simon's experience there inspired him to propose a benefit concert, which took place last night at the Highline Stages in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
Real-estate developer Leonard Stern, philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. and IMAX C.E.O. Richard Gelfond were among the...
Still, the venerable paleontologist and conservationist -- who was introduced last night as "the man many believe responsible for saving the elephant population" of Kenya -- and the legendary folk-rock musician hit it off when the latter paid a visit to T.B.I. about four years ago. Simon's experience there inspired him to propose a benefit concert, which took place last night at the Highline Stages in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
Real-estate developer Leonard Stern, philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. and IMAX C.E.O. Richard Gelfond were among the...
- 5/3/2012
- by Michael Hogan
- Huffington Post
Prince William and Kate Middleton attended a friend's wedding at the St. Andrew's Church in Wingfield, England, on Saturday. Her childhood pal Hannah Gillingham tied the knot with Robert Carter. Kate's sister, a Project D-clad Pippa Middleton, was also along for the ceremony, as was Richard Branson's daughter Holly. Kate wore an Erdem dress that she also sported during her and William's tour of Canada last Summer, but this time, she accessorized with an Alexander McQueen belt. Her clutch was from UK designer Anya Hindmarch. William and Kate marked their own wedding, which was one year ago yesterday, privately. Despite a busy last week that included numerous public events and a dressed-up outing to the premiere of African Cats, William and Kate spent their anniversary together, just the two of them, at their Wales residence. According to reports, Kate wanted to prepare a meal of fish cooked in parchment.
- 4/30/2012
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrated their first wedding anniversary by attending the nuptials of their close friends. The royal couple went to the wedding of Duchess Catherine's old school friend Hannah Gillingham and Robert Carter at St. Andrews Church in Wingfield, Suffolk, on Saturday (28.04.12), almost exactly 12 months on from their own April 29 nuptials. Guests included many of the same close friends who attended Prince William and Catherine's wedding at London's Westminster Abbey last year as well as Catherine's sister Pippa Middleton. Royal photographer Mark Stewart, who was present, told People: 'The guests made it feel like a re-run of the royal wedding as they had so many of those people who matter the most to...
- 4/30/2012
- Monsters and Critics
A year ago the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were saying their vows in a wedding watched by hundreds of millions around the world. Saturday, memories of their special day would have been reawakened in a far simpler way, as the couple quietly attended the nuptials of close friends in an English country church. William and Kate spent the day celebrating the wedding of one of her close pals, Hannah Gillingham, who also attended Marlborough College. With the windy, wet weather bringing the need for umbrellas rather than the springtime hats of last year's sun-kissed wedding day, it was markedly...
- 4/29/2012
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
The Middletons put on quite the sister act at a wedding in a small English town over the weekend. Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, 29, joined sister Pippa, 28, for the nuptials of friends Thomas Sutton and Harriet Colthurst. While Pippa walked into the Italian-style church in Wilton, Wiltshire, with longterm boyfriend Alex Loudon, Kate was without her husband Prince William. Arriving with a group of close friends including Tom van Straubenzee and James Meade, the prince, 29, had already taken up his position inside as an usher. (Earlier, he and his mates had tucked into lunch at a local pub.) Eyewitness Mark Stewart...
- 9/26/2011
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
Bang on a Can All-Stars: Music for Airports (Live) (Cantaloupe)
In the Spring of 1998, when this was recorded in concert, the Bang on a Can All-Stars consisted of cellist Maya Beiser, clarinetist Evan Ziporyn (who doubles on keyboard and samplers on "1/1"), guitarist Mark Stewart, percussionist Steven Schick, pianist/keyboardist Lisa Moore, and bassist Robert Black. The previous year, the same group -- plus guests -- had made a studio recording of this music for Point, a Philip Glass label distributed by PolyGram. That album is still in print, so the question is whether this new release is different enough to justify its existence.
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In the Spring of 1998, when this was recorded in concert, the Bang on a Can All-Stars consisted of cellist Maya Beiser, clarinetist Evan Ziporyn (who doubles on keyboard and samplers on "1/1"), guitarist Mark Stewart, percussionist Steven Schick, pianist/keyboardist Lisa Moore, and bassist Robert Black. The previous year, the same group -- plus guests -- had made a studio recording of this music for Point, a Philip Glass label distributed by PolyGram. That album is still in print, so the question is whether this new release is different enough to justify its existence.
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- 6/13/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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