Congratulations to 2007 ASF/Sundance grantrecipient Maryam Keshevarz, whose film CIRCUMSTANCE opens this Friday in new York and Los Angeles. The film won the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Great article in today's (Sunday 8/21) NY Times. Good luck Maryam! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/movies/circumstance-a-film-of-underground-life-in-iran.html
Click here to contribute to 2008 ASF/Columbia University Best Female Director grant recipient Madeleine Olnek's "Codependant Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same." Funds to be used to finish post and prep for distribution http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/84148707/codependent-lesbian-space-alien-seeks-same?play=1&ref=search
More info here... http://www.allshecan.com/ Watch the trailer here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAP6KhCyvg8&feature=youtu.be
Clip from COMMERCE premiere at AFI this week. Lisa Robertson (writer/director) is ASF's latest grantee. Interviews with Lisa, Annabeth Gish, Eddie Izzard...Congrats Lisa! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZeN_e9soYY&NR=1
Congratulations to 2009 ASF/Women in Film grant recipient Rebecca Richman Cohen for her two Emmy nominations for the searing documentary "War Don Don." The noms are in the categories of Outstanding Continuing Coverage Of A News Story (Long Form) and Outstanding Editing. Good luck Rebecca! http://www.tvweek.com/news/2011/07/the_2011_32nd_annual_news_docu.php
click here for Athena Film Festival submission info www.athenafilmfestival.com/
Congrats to ASF grantees Madeleine Olnek and Maryamn Keshevarz for their Outfest awards! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/outfest-award-winners-announced-212341
And yet another ASF grantee is nominated for an Emmy award! Congrat's to Jennifer Arnold, who's powerful film "A Small Act" is up for Best Documentary. Good luck Jennifer!
Pick up a copy of 2010 ASF/Nantucket Film Festival grantee Jennifer Arnold's powerful doc "A Small Act" which is released this week on DVD. The film centers on Holocaust survivor Hilde Back and the young African student she sponsored, Chris Mburu, who grew up to attend Harvard Law School and became a United Nations human rights lawyer. The film follows Mburu as he searches for Back, the relationship that follows, and the ongoing educational support her organization brings African children.
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2008 ASF/Nantucket Film Festival grant winner Nanette Burstein will direct the romantic drama Unforgiving World for Focus Features. Nicole Holofcener has written the screenplay. Read more here.. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/nanette-burstein-direct-romantic-drama-180664?_r=true