The Happy Sad, follows two couples, one black and one white, whose lives collide as they navigate open relationships and sexual identity. It explores the questions that alternative twenty- and thirty-year olds face in a culture where there appears to be endless possibilities for sex but also a resistance to any definitive model for a proper relationship.

Frameline - the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival , the world’s largest LGBT media arts nonprofit organization, showcases for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) cinema runs June 20 – 30, with San Francisco screenings at the historic Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street), Roxie Theater (3117 16th Street) and the Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street), and in Berkeley at Rialto Cinemas™ Elmwood (2966 College Avenue).With an expected attendance of 60,000, the 11 days of Frameline37 will bring together film lovers, media artists, and LGBTQ communities from the Bay Area and all across the globe to behold the best in queer cinema from this year’s record number of more than 700 film submissions. More than 30 countries will be represented, including Poland, Ireland, South Korea, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia.

Alicia Kuhns, a Spring 2013 LA Study Away Program participant, meets Backstreet Boy AJ McLean as she works the GRAMMY Lounge at her internship with public relations company Distinctive Assets.

Tanam Press was founded in 1980 by Reese Williams with the release of LP recordings with talks by Buckminster Fuller and Susan Sontag. Tanam books by d’Agostino include: Transmission (1985), and The Un/Necessary Image (co-edited with Muntadas, 1982) with artworks and essays by: Deirdre Boyle, Martha Gever, Todd Gitlin, Hans Haacke, John Hanhardt, Barbara London, Nam June Paik, David Ross, Kristine Stiles, Marita Sturken etc.

For more information, please visit Printed  Matter.

The series takes inspiration from the concept of the uncanny, hoping to attract an audience who is drawn to the unfamiliar ready to take a few risks and participate in our communal unheimlich. Experimental cinema has a long historical engagement with the uncanny, crisscrossing psychoanalysis, altered states of mind, and visual illusion. Performance art’s obsession with the body and its extension through technology celebrates the flesh becoming art object and the anthropomorphism of the machine. Each Uncanny Vision event will join a program of experimental film with an original conceptual performance from national and internally renowned artists.

On Saturday, May 11th, the program will feature a performance by Dynasty Handbag accompanied by films from Jesse McLean, Kent Lambert, Ivan Lozano, Sadie Benning, Dani Leventhal, and Frederic Moffet.

For more information, please click on Vox Populi.

As Indiewire previously announced, A2E: Artist to Entrepreneur will take place May 2 – 5 in two parts: A lab focused on direct distribution called OnRamp and a series of networking sessions entitled LaunchPad.

The lab is designed to help filmmakers consider the prospects of direct distribution by not only showing them how to take advantage of digital platforms but providing marketing guidance as well. The films selected for the lab are a combination of titles that have recently screened at festivals and others in various stages of production. “We tried to find a mix of movies,” Hope told Indiewire. “This is a pilot program designed to excavate the best practices that we need to dig ourselves out of the hole as an independent film culture.” He added that while the lab was not intended to force filmmakers to utilize direct distribution, several participants had already expressed interest in doing so.

For more details, please click here.

The contest will be held at TV Studio 1, from 9 AM – 1 PM on Wednesday, May 1st. It will be live streaming here.

Events include:

Brandon Watz, one of the class instructors, says the resulting shot is similar to what you can get by using a dolly. “The difference is that you’re a little bit more mobile.” Associate Professor Mike Kuetemeyer said students took the lead in designing each event. They included “Walk the Line,” in which the competitors had to walk toward and then away from an image that they had to keep in the frame. The fastest to do so won. Kuetemeyer said training for these skills events “does help them as operators. When it comes down to doing a shot, you’re pretty good.”

Click here to learn more about Diamond Screen.

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About  Heineken VOCES grant

In support of the Latin American Media Fund, Heineken and TFI have established the Heineken VOCES grant. The Heineken VOCES grant provides two additional grants to narrative and documentary projects helmed by Latino filmmakers 21+ living United States and working on feature-length narrative and documentary projects that offer new perspectives on their cultural experience. The mission of the grant is to encourage American Latino filmmakers to redefine, invent, explore and create visions and stories that reflect their diverse cultures. The Heineken VOCES grant encompasses an invaluable mentorship by the prestigious Tribeca Film Institute that exemplifies the Heineken brand promise of opening consumers world through unique and unexpected experiences, making them unforgettable and extraordinary.

For more in formation click on Tribeca Film Festival.

Ruth Klüger grew up in fascist Vienna, survived three years in Nazi concentration camps, and went on to become a Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has held professorships at Princeton University, University of Virginia, and University of Göttingen. In addition to her numerous publications in German and English, she is author of Still Alive: A Holocaust  Girlhood Remembered, an award-winning best seller said to be “as important as The Diary of Anne Frank—and equally unforgettable” by The Independent (London). Klüger is recipient of some of the most prestigious prizes and awards including the Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz-Preis (1995), Heinrich-Heine-Medaille (1997), Prix de la Shoah (1998), Thomas-Mann-Preis (1999), the Goethe-Medaille (2005), Lessing-Preis des Freistaates Sachsen(2007), and Austrian Danubius prize (2011). In this documentary, Klüger doesn’t mince words as she shares her thoughts on her childhood in anti-Semitic Vienna, her post–World War II life in the U.S., her experiences as a mother of two American sons, and the culture of commemoration that has grown up around the Holocaust. Filmed in Vienna, California, Göttingen, and Israel. (Portions in German with English subtitles, 83 minutes) Renata Schmidtkunz, the director of this documentary is a journalist who has worked as an editor and filmmaker in Vienna.
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Monday, April 22nd from 5.30-8.00 p.m.
Tuttleman Building, Room 101,
N 13th and Montgomery Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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Ms. Gulati is an independent filmmaker, a feminist, grass-roots activist, and an educator, who grew up in New Delhi, India and has made several short films that have screened at over three hundred film festivals worldwide. Her films have screened at venues such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival. Gulati’s award-winning documentary, Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, was broadcast on television in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, The Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.

Her most recent film I Am has won 12 awards and continues to exhibit extensively in the film festival circuit. Gulati has won awards, grants, and fellowships from the Third Wave Foundation, World Studio Foundation, the Robert Giard Memorial Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), VCU School of the Arts Faculty Award of Excellence and most recently a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation.

For more information, please see the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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About The Exhibition:

After My Own Heart brings together a group of artists whose works demonstrate an active commitment to feminist world-making. While the works in this show span several decades, the ideas, iconographies and ethos of 1960s and 1970s feminisms loom large. Whether thinking through separatism, gay liberation, core imagery, or simply the power of pleasure, these works mine the potent radicalism of feminism’s second wave to create a vibrant utopian imaginary—a time and place envisioned, unrealized, but still very much longed for.

For more information, click After My Own Heart.