Other HBO playdates: July 15 (12:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.), 18 (11:45 a.m.), 20 (9:00 a.m., 7:30 p.m.) and 24 (4:00 p.m.).
A truly inspirational film about the educational hopes and dreams of Kenyan children on a desperate, emotional journey away from a life typically destined for poverty and despair. It's a powerful, suspenseful, heart-rending story of aspiration and determination.
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The festival runs from July 16-July 23, 2010.
Also, the film was an official selection at this year's Waterfront Film Festival in Michigan.
IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs is June 7-11 in New York City. Through the Labs Dee will receive a year-long Lab fellowship.
PARIAH is the story of a Brooklyn teenager who juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, family, and heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Marissa O'Guinn reports that she's received the Warner Bros. Film Award for her thesis film project entitled LOVING THE HARLEQUIN, currently in post production.
More information about the project can be found at:
Ellen Page set to star. Cynthia won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2008. Ron Nyswaner, an Oscar nominee for PHILADELPHIA, is penning the screenplay, which tells the true story of New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree (played by Page) and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester, who battled terminal cancer, in their fight to secure Hester's pension benefits. Cynthia is one of the film's producers.
2009 ASF/Tribeca Film Institute grant winner Ana Lily Amirpour announces that her foreign drama THE STONES is being produced by German-based outfit Brave New Work run by producers Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh & Armin Hofman with Ana Lily attached to direct in 2011. Brave New Work most recently produced the documentary KICK IN TEHRAN about a young Iranian Muslim woman's journey to compete in karate at the 2008 Olympics, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
http://www.bravenewwork.de/home.php?lang=en
THE STONES logline:
In modern-day Tehran, a progressive and vibrant youth-culture exists underground, but when an Iranian/American boy goes to visit his motherland for the first time, he quickly learns the dangerous repercussions of rebellion in the volatile Islamic government.
Her film CIGARETTE CANDY won the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance (Jonathan Orsini) at the Florida Film Festival.
www.floridafilmfestival.com/films_events/film_guide/cigarette_candy/