The Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival will kick off June 21 in New York with the opening-night film Blackout, directed by Jerry LaMothe and starring Melvin Van Peebles, Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Wright and LaTanya Richardson.
The 11th annual festival, running through June 24, will screen 49 films drawn from independent cinema by and about people of color.
The lineup includes the world premiere of "Who's Your Caddy?" the first release from Robert L. Johnson and Tracy Edmonds' Our Stories Films. The slate also features work from Latino American, Asian American and female directors and features several films with ties to New York.
"This year, the Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival is presenting what is arguably our most diverse slate to date, from the perspective of both filmmakers and subject matter," Urbanworld founder Stacy Spikes said.
Other titles include Mr. Untouchable, directed by Marc Levin and executive produced by Damon Dash, about the life and times of Harlem drug lord Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes; Gangsta Rap: A Glockumentary, directed by Damon 'Coke' Daniels; Faizon Love's Tao of the Golden Mask, directed by Faizon Love; Hellfighters, a documentary about Harlem's only high school football team, directed by John Frankel; August the First, directed by Lanre Olabisi, focussing on an American family confronting its Nigerian past; Divided We Fall, a documentary from Indian American director Sharat Raju that traces hate crimes throughout the U.S.
The 11th annual festival, running through June 24, will screen 49 films drawn from independent cinema by and about people of color.
The lineup includes the world premiere of "Who's Your Caddy?" the first release from Robert L. Johnson and Tracy Edmonds' Our Stories Films. The slate also features work from Latino American, Asian American and female directors and features several films with ties to New York.
"This year, the Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival is presenting what is arguably our most diverse slate to date, from the perspective of both filmmakers and subject matter," Urbanworld founder Stacy Spikes said.
Other titles include Mr. Untouchable, directed by Marc Levin and executive produced by Damon Dash, about the life and times of Harlem drug lord Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes; Gangsta Rap: A Glockumentary, directed by Damon 'Coke' Daniels; Faizon Love's Tao of the Golden Mask, directed by Faizon Love; Hellfighters, a documentary about Harlem's only high school football team, directed by John Frankel; August the First, directed by Lanre Olabisi, focussing on an American family confronting its Nigerian past; Divided We Fall, a documentary from Indian American director Sharat Raju that traces hate crimes throughout the U.S.
- 6/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW DELHI -- The fifth Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles concluded Monday night at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood with the U.S. premiere of Rajnesh Domalpalli's South Indian film Vanaja.
The screening was followed by the awards ceremony during which director Pan Nalin's epic love story Valley of Flowers won the grand jury prize for best feature while the audience choice award went to John Jeffcoat's romantic comedy Outsourced.
Revolving around a young girl who battles odds to become a classical dancer, Vanaja, which received a special mention for debut feature, received the Berlin International Film Festival's best debut feature award in February.
"Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra won the grand jury prize for best documentary, and best short went to Tea Break by Srinivas Sunderrajan. The animated short Printed Rainbow by Gitanjali Rao received a special mention.
Audience award winners were the documentary Divided We Fall by Sharat Raju and the short Monsoon by Shyam Balse.
"Over the past six days, we have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from filmmakers, audiences, sponsors and press," festival director Christina Marouda said.
The screening was followed by the awards ceremony during which director Pan Nalin's epic love story Valley of Flowers won the grand jury prize for best feature while the audience choice award went to John Jeffcoat's romantic comedy Outsourced.
Revolving around a young girl who battles odds to become a classical dancer, Vanaja, which received a special mention for debut feature, received the Berlin International Film Festival's best debut feature award in February.
"Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra won the grand jury prize for best documentary, and best short went to Tea Break by Srinivas Sunderrajan. The animated short Printed Rainbow by Gitanjali Rao received a special mention.
Audience award winners were the documentary Divided We Fall by Sharat Raju and the short Monsoon by Shyam Balse.
"Over the past six days, we have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from filmmakers, audiences, sponsors and press," festival director Christina Marouda said.
- 4/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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