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THE LAST STAND

A look at the new movie staring the Govenor ,
Arnold Schwarznegger
THE IMPOSTER
A young Frenchman convinces a grieving

family that he is their missing 16-year-old son
The Hunt P.13
CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER

11 Having
met at a young age and becoming close
friends, eventually become lovers.
HUNT
13 THE
A powerful and disturbing depiction of how
quickly a lie can become the truth
FILMMAKERS BLACKLISTED -VS- LIBEL
17 A look at film festivals blacklisting filmmakers

and a pending UK libel case
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UFFO - THE UNIVERSAL FILM

& FESTIVAL ORGANIZATION
UFFO celebrates 170 film festivals the have
adopted best business practices
Celeste & Jess Forever P.11
OF HOPE
23 LAND
SONO SION steps to the next level in his
filmmaking career with Land of Hope
FESTIVAL DOCTOR
27 FILM
A low budget Australian flick achieved screen-
ing at 42 international film festivals
ALBEE IN STAGES
35 EDWARD
A documentary film,The Stages of Edward
Albee, by James Dowell and John Kolomvakis
PRIZE FESTIVAL (UK)

41 ISIS
Cardiff UK, hosts the Iris film festival 2012
with a huge turnout and a cash prize of 25K
BBC CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL

47 BBC
at the centre of a child abuse scandal
that involves hundreds of allagations
The Imposter
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59 ATHElookTOPatDOCUMENTARIES
the top 100 documentaries that
make a return at the box office
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"the last stand"

with Arnold Schwarzenegger
a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant
to become involved, and then
counted out because of the
perceived ineptitude of his
small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility
for the face o.
Sheri Owens is a man who

has resigned himself to a life
of fighting what little crime
takes place in sleepy border
town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation
that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner The Cast
was crippled.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
After a spectacular escape as Sheriff Ray Owens
from an FBI prisoner convoy,
the most notorious, wanted Rodrigo Santoro
drug kingpin in the hemisphere
is hurtling toward the border at as Deputy Frank Martinez
200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a Zach Gilford
fierce army of gang members.
as Deputy Jerry Bailey
He is headed, it turns out,
straight for Summerton Junc- Forest Whitaker
tion, where the whole of U.S. as Agent John Bannister
law enforcement will have
their last opportunity to make
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Genesis Rodriguez
as Agent Ellen Richards
Johnny Knoxville
as Lewis Dinkum
Jaimie Alexander
as Sarah Torrance
Luis Guzmn
as Mike Figuerola
Peter Stormare
as Burrell
Eduardo Noriega
as Gabriel Cortez
Harry Dean Stanton
Daniel Henney
Last Stand
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THE IMPOSTER
A film by Bart Layton
documentary centered on a
young Frenchman who convinces a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-yearold son who went missing
for 3 years.
A French confidence man Frdric Bourdin, who impersonated Nicholas Barclay,

a Texas boy who had disappeared at the
age of 13 in 1994.
Bourdin, who turned out to have a long
record of impersonating various dierent
children, real or imaginary, embellished
his claim to be Nicholas by alleging that
he had been kidnapped for purposes of
sexual abuse by U.S. military personnel
and transported from Texas to Spain.
His impersonation fooled several ocials
in Spain and the U.S., and he was apparently accepted by many of Nicholass
family members, even though he was seven years older than Nicholas, spoke English with an accent, and had brown eyes
and dark hair rather than Nicholass blue
eyes and blond hair.
The impersonation was eventually unearthed as a result of the suspicions of

a private investigator, Charles (Charlie)
Parker, and an FBI agent, Nancy Fisher.
Bourdin subsequently made a full confession, and in the movie he elaborates on
the various stages in his impersonation.
The film raises, but does not resolve, the
question of how the family came so readily to accept the impersonation. Parker,
Fisher and Bourdin himself suggest, but
cannot provide conclusive evidence for,
the possibility that some in the family
may have known more than they revealed
about (or even been directly implicated
in) Nicholass disappearance, in which
case his purported reappearance could
have proved convenient from their point
of view.
Because many of the events depicted in
the film were not filmed when they happened, the film re-creates some of them
with actors.
The critically acclaimed British documentary from director Bart Layton, has proven
to be a commercial success too after one
by Tyrone D Murphy
of the largest grossing opening weekends
for a documentary in recent years.
The film grossed 252,170 over three
days and previews from just 49 screens,
to post an impressive screen average of
5,146 across the UK. This rose to a fourday gross, including the bank holiday, of
345,279, a total that easily outstrips the
opening weekend figures of the successful documentaries MARLEY, MAN ON WIRE
and TOUCHING THE VOID.
Elsewhere in the UK, the film proved a particular triumph at Cinema City in Norwich,
the Duke of Yorks in Brighton and The Little Theatre Cinema in Bath. Picturehouse
Cinemas enjoyed the lions share of THE
IMPOSTER box oce with 36%, followed
by Cineworld with 22% and Everyman
Media Group with 15%.
THE IMPOSTER was also the highest-grossing film across Picturehouse Cinemas this
past weekend it played in 15 cinemas,
with a 5,288 three-day screen average
and a 7,437 four-day screen average.
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Celeste & Jesse

Forever
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The film begins with a montage of Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy
Samberg); having met at a young age
and becoming close friends, then eventually become lovers. The montage ends
with Celeste walking away from Jesse
during a party, while Jesse looks sad.
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During dinner, while Celeste and Jesse

look at the menu and speak with German
accents to each other, Beth becomes increasingly annoyed and confronts them
about their abnormal relationship. She
expresses that its not normal for them
to spend everyday together like nothing
is wrong. It is then revealed that they
In present day, Celeste and Jesse still have been separated for 6 months and
get along well. Celeste is a successful in the process of divorce.
trend analyzer and runs her own media
company with her partner, Scott (Eli- Celeste and Jesse tell Beth that its betjah Wood). Celestes media company ter this way because when they were
has just signed Riley (Emma Roberts), together, they fought all the time and
a teen pop-star whom Celeste does not Beth and Tucker get caught in the midrespect and openly bashes during a T.V. dle. Angry, Beth storms o, with Tucker
interview.
following her, having the same feelings.
In the car ride home, Celeste and Jesse
Jesse on the other hand is an unem- discuss whether they feel its weird that
ployed artist who seems to be in no they spend so much together, and they
hurry to find employment. One night, assure each other its not weird because
they have dinner with their mutual best they are each others best friend.
friends, Beth (Ari Graynor) and Tucker
(Eric Christian Olsen), who are engaged.
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One day, Jesse is out with his friend

Skillz (Will McCormack) who feels
that Jesse should start dating other
women. Jesse informs him that hes
hoping for Celeste to come back
around. It is obvious that Jesse is
still in-love with Celeste and is hoping she will change her mind about
the divorce. While at work, Scott is
questioning Celeste about whether
she made the right decision divorcing Jesse and if shes truly over him,
she would also begin dating.
One night, Celeste invites Jesse
over to help her put together an
Ikea dresser. They become frustrated from trying to built the drawer
and they instead get drunk on wine
and spend the night together. They
both wake up and Celeste instantly
regrets what happened the night
before and this upsets Jesse and
he storms out angry because he
thought the night together meant
Celeste had finally came back
around.
Celeste goes on a business trip and
repeatedly tries to get a hold of Jesse. Jesse is then seen on a date with
Veronica (Rebecca Dayan), a woman
Skillz set him up with 3 months ago,
but never called back after the first
date. Celeste returns home after
two weeks and Jesse comes over
to speak to her. Jesse informs her
that he is going to have a baby with
Veronica, a woman she never knew
he went out with 3 months ago, and
wants to try to make things work
for the sake of the baby. Celeste
becomes disturbed by this and asks
to be excused while she goes to the
bathroom and becomes upset. She
expresses her concern to Beth who
questions about her having second
thoughts with the divorce. Celeste
assures Beth that shes not having
second thoughts and says shes going on a date.
Celeste goes on a date with Max
(Rich Sommer). During the date,
they run into Jesse. This makes Celeste feel awkward and ask Max to
leave. Max says hes not going to
leave and meets Jesse, whom he
finds is a cool guy. After the date,
Celeste ask him when hed like to
go out again, but Max turns her
down and tell her that shes not
ready and she should take her time,
just like he did when he was going through a divorce. Her second
date is with Rupert (Rafi Gavron), a

model/actor who is young and hot.
He sings to her during their date and
she abruptly leaves, telling him she
left a candle lit at home. Celeste is
clearly uncomfortable with his singing and age. Her third date is with a
photographer whom she is a big fan
of. They initially hit it o and go
back to the hotel and make-out.
During their make-out session,
he begins to masturbate while on
top of her. This shocks her and she
slowly creeps away from under him
and leaves, but he continues to masturbate. In the mean time, Jesse is
becoming closer to Veronica and
even becomes a vegan. Jesse invites
Celeste out for lunch at a vegan restaurant to confront her about their
divorce papers. He informs Celeste
that she needs to sign the papers
because Veronica is not a U.S. citizen and they must get married for
her to stay.
This upsets Celeste and she storms
out stating shes busy because she
has a job, unlike some people and
says shell sign the papers when she
has the time. As time passes, Celeste
realizes that her decision to divorce
Jesse was impulsive and selfish and
starts to realize she still loves him
and wants to be with him. Celeste
ask Jesse to meet her at a bar where
she express her interest in trying
again and that shell try harder and
do better. Jesse becomes upset and
leaves. Celeste chases him outside
and they begin to argue. Celeste
calls Jesse a coward and Jesse tells
her shell be alone forever. The argument ends with Celeste telling
Jesse never to call her again and
Jesse assuring her that she does not
have to worry.
Celeste becomes increasingly depressed and begins to drink and
smoke weed excessively. In the process, she begins to have a relationship with Paul (Chris Messina), who
tries to pick her up after Yoga earlier in the film. She initially turns
him down, but begins to warm up to
him after she runs into him at a party. During Beth and Tuckers bridal
party, Celeste becomes drunk and
passes out on a floaty in the pool,
with everyone staring at her. After the bridal party, she gets a call
from Riley who ask her to come
over. Celeste believes that Riley is
angry over the logo she designed

for her that unintentionally resembles a penis with balls going into a
butt. This logo sparks controversy
with fans. However, Riley reveals
that she actually likes the logo because she believes it speaks to her
gay fan base. Celeste thinks that
Riley could be the next Lady Gaga
because of this. Celeste arrives at
Rileys house to find her in tears. Riley reveals that she has had a secret
boyfriend, who she discovered has
been cheating on her. They begin to
bond over the common experience
of heartbreak and slowly become
friends. Later, Celeste runs into Rupert while walking with Riley and
introduces them.
At Beth and Tuckers wedding, Celeste makes a toast. She tells the
newlyweds to appreciate each other, to be patient, and to try harder,
like she should have. This speech
touches Jesse, and he thanks Celeste. They are able to reconcile and
become friends again.
Later, on a karaoke date, Celeste
informs Paul that she cannot continue to date him because of her
divorce, which she feels she must
go through alone. He tells her to
call him when she is ready. We then
see Celeste and Jesse finally signing their divorce papers and laughing at each others inside joke. Their
lawyers look on, confused by their
laughter. Celeste wishes Jesse well.
She finally asks Jesse if he loves Veronica, to which he responds that
he does. Celeste tells him to keep
fighting for it.
In the final scene, Celeste calls Paul
while driving. She gets his voicemail, so she leaves a message stating shes ready to beat him at
Scrabble.
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SAWNEY Flesh of Man
tive, brutal family of cannibalistic

serial killers, led by their incestuous father Sawney Bean murdered
over 1000 people. Their victims
were butchered and their bodyparts hung from the roof of caves.
His bloodthirsty brood who lived a
life of degraded seclusion in underground tunnels, included eight sons,
six daughters, eighteen grandsons
and fourteen granddaughters, all inbred.
The murdering troglodyte clan were
finally captured alive and dragged
in chains to the gallows of Edinburgh, where they were all horribly
executed without trial. Only two of
the very young granddaughters Agnes and Morag, who were mentally
retarded were allowed to live. They
were taken into care for future trial
but Agnes eventually escaped from
her foster family and fled to the
hills. She was never found. Her sister
Morag wasnt so lucky, her identity
was discovered by angry locals who
hanged her from the nearest tree. It
is said that Agnes gave birth to a son
and two daughters who were hide-
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so much so that a sack was put over
their heads.
After 400 years the murders have
started again. SAWNEY and his family of KILLERS are BACK!
Trailer at www.sawney.net
PLOT SUMMARY for SAWNEY
Sawney, a religious psycopath
(played by David Hayman) drives
a devilish Black Cab, stalking the
towns and villages abducting unholy
souls for his communion of sacrifices. His insane family of acrobatic
freaks (Freerunners) Judd and Jake,
use their martial art skills to wreak
slaughter and havoc among their
victims who are then dragged to an
old disused pumping station. The
Missing Persons list begins to rise!
Crime investigative journalist Hamish MacDonald (Samuel Feeney)
writes sensational and damming
headlines against the police, due to
their incompetence in handling the
case. Frustrated inspector Bill Munro
(Gavin Mitchel) dislikes Hamish in-
tensely but decides to work with him

rather than against him.
Chief
Superintendant
Charlie
McGuire is however concerned with
Munro and his handling of the case,
he decides to manipulate the journalist. Hamish decides to investigate the heinous crimes on his own,
but with disastrous results. Unknowingly, his fiance Wendy McIntyre
(Elizabeth Brown) is drawn into the
mayhem and she becomes a target
for the psychopathic KILLERS!
Scottish Production Company Philabeg Films Limited are producing
this modern day horror film based
on the family of cannibalistic killers. The 90 minute film is in its final phase of production and will be
ready for distribution at the end of
2011. The film is being shot on new
RED cameras and the crew are based
in Aberdeen with over 28 years experience in Film & Television. The
crew have been filming in some incredible locations all over Scotland.
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THE SESSIONS
Starring John Hawkes, William H. Macy and Helen Hunt, the film is based on the true story
of Californiabased journalist and poet, Mark OBrien. Portrayed by the exceptionally gifted
John Hawkes who gives a career-defining performance, OBriens story is the immensely
poignant and surprisingly funny tale of a man, paralyzed by polio who - at age 38 is determined to finally lose his virginity.
Directed by Ben Lewin, THE SESSIONS will open in the UK and Ireland on January 18th 2013,
distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Beyond
The
Grave
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Brazilian feature film BEYOND
THE GRAVE (aka PORTO DOS MORTOS aka MS ALL DE LA TUMBA),
produced by Lockheart Filmes, is
now available on the VOD platform in USA, Latin America and
also Caribbean. A mixture of arthouse horror, existential road
movie and spaghetti western, the
movie can be watched instantly
on Netflix in more than 40 countries.
Winner of two international
awards and selected for the Chicago Latino Film Festival and Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine
Latinoamericano (Cuba), among
others, BEYOND THE GRAVE
gained a cult status following
among underground film festivals
and Internet critics around the
globe. Shot in HD on locations in
the city of Porto Alegre, the production budget is estimated in
US$ 150K.
BEYOND THE GRAVE is the feature
directorial debut of 33 years old
filmmaker Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, who also writes and produces.
The film follows the post-apocalyptic journey of the Ocer (Rafael Tombini) who hunts a mystical serial killer known as the Dark
Rider (Adriano Basegio). Across
wastelands populated by reanimated corpses, he will put his remaining sanity to the test against
a nemesis that could have brought
the end of the world.
Monsters
by Tyrone D Murphy
Monsters, Inc., one of DisneyPixars most beloved and visually
imaginative feature films ever, returns to the big screen to delight
a whole new generation of audiences and fans alike, this time in
stunning 3D. The now-classic Academy Award-winning animated
comedy adventure Monsters, Inc. is set in Monstropolis, a thriving
company town where monsters of all shapes and sizes reside.
Lovable Sulley (voiced by John Goodman) and his wisecracking best
friend Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) are the top scare team
at Monsters, Inc., the largest scream-processing factory. The main
power source in the monster world is the collected screams of human childrenand at Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc., originally released on November 2, 2001, was the
highest grossing animated film at the global box oce in 2001.
After 15 previous Academy Award nominations, Randy Newman
finally won his first Oscar for the Monsters, Inc. original song If I
Didnt Have You.
Monsters, Inc. and director Pete Docter were nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in the first year that category was established. The film was also Oscar nominated for Best
Original Score and Best Sound Editing.
Director Pete Docter went on to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature for Up in 2009 and has also been nominated for Best Original
Screenplay three times: Up (2009), WALLE (2008) and Toy
Story (1995).
Co-Director Lee Unkrich made his solo directorial debut with Toy
Story 3, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated
Feature in 2011.
Producer Darla K. Anderson also produced A Bugs Life, Cars and
Toy Story 3, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best
Picture in 2010.
On June 21, 2013, DisneyPixar will unlock the door to a prequel,
Monsters University, that tells the story of how Mike and Sulley
met in college, overcame their dierences and became the best of
friends.
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NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL

by Susan Johnson
Saroj Khan
This September, the newlyformed Institute of Bollywood
Dance and Film (IBDF) is opening its doors to welcome Bollywoods legendary choreographer SAROJ KHAN to teach dance
workshops to anyone with the
desire to learn from one of the
greatest artistic figures in the
history of Indian cinema.
Our world wind travel blurb

World Wind Tour. Who knew that being Founder/Director of a film festival would bring you on a journey
around the world. The founder/director, Susan Johnston of New Media
Film Festival (4th Annual) recently
spoke in Romania, Colorado, Toronto
for TorontoEco.com as part of TIFF
and is flying to LA to speak at Stan
Lees Comikaze Expo with a follow
up in October for Digital Hollywood.
Topics include New Media, Social
Media and Incremental Monetization in the Digital Space. Honoring
stories worth telling and bringing
the best in New Media globally are
part of the mission. What has been
exciting is the collaboration with
all ages and all cultures in finding
ways to bring these great stories to
the screen and distribution. Susan
had a blast as a UFFO member to
moderate the distribution panel at
last years Red Rock Film Festival in
Utah. If any UFFO members would
like to do a media trade (yes, we can
all help each other) please email

info@newmediafilmfestival.com We
have about 100k on our newsletter
list, 2MM via social media including groups and 2k on pinterest, are
ranking high on empire avenue. We
are also in full gear on our Call for
Entries, use discount code twitter10
at www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com
and save $10 in any of our 17 categories for screening, competition
($45k in awards) and distribution
opportunities.
www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com
The Best in New Mediahonoring
stories worth telling
Festival worth the entry fee Movie Maker Magazine
The New Media Film Festival makes
the cutting edge accessible.-Huington Post, Xaque Gruber
Sundance for the
Crowd.-Culture Rehab
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SCRIPT International Short Film will be held on 08-09 Feb 2013 at

Fidelity Theater, IMA Hall, Kochi, Kerala, India. Festival seeks socially
relevant films of 30 min duration and in a separate category 2 min
films. See www.scriptfilmfest.in for details. Entries close 15 Nov
2012.
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Saroj Khan is a pioneer in Bollywood, widely known for her

innovative and classical technique- based choreography.
Saroj Khans visionary mind
helped the Bollywood superstar
Madhuri Dixit, along with several other starlets, achieve significant career successes and a
meteoric rise to fame. Her teachings of grace, strength, precision,
subtlety and expressiveness
have graced some of the most
iconic songs in Bollywood. Her
projects include choreography
in feature films Lagaan, Don, Jab
We Met, Love Aaj Kal, Agneepath,
Agent Vinod, Veer-Zara, Devdas,
Bride and Prejudice, Tezaab,
Khalnayak, and Dilwale Dulhania
Le Jayenge, among several other
blockbuster films.
The Institute of Bollywood Dance
and Film is a new and unique
training arena for performers
looking for potential careers in
the Indian film industry. Were
looking to bridge the gap between passionate amateur performers and working professionals, says IBDF founder Rujuta
Vaidya, while providing extraordinary training and networking
opportunities to individuals who
are interested in moving towards
a career in the performing arts,
especially in Bollywood.
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Thomas Vinterberg's
The Hunt
by Kevin Murphy
The Hunt to open at UK cinemas on 30 November 2012
HE HUNT is a powerful and disturbing depiction of how quickly a lie can become the truth
when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to
flourish.
Bruus Christensen) at this years Cannes Film Festival,

where it screened to critical acclaim In Competition.
Mads Mikkelsen first came to public attention in Nicolas
Winding Refns debut Pusher in 1996.
Throughout his career he has worked both in his naFollowing a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas is
tive Denmark, most notably in Susanne Biers Osstarting to pull his life back together again.
powerful car-nominated After the Wedding and this year
He has a new girlfriend, a new job, and is in
and
in A Royal Aair, and internationally, where his
the process of re-establishing his relationship
disturbing
credits including Bond Villain Le Chire in Casino
with his teenage son Marcus. However one
depiction Royale, Clash of the Titans and The Three Muspassing remark threatens Lucass newfound
keteers. In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious
stability. One of the children he looks after at
European Film Award for Achievement in World
the nursery where he works, a little girl with a
Cinema.
vivid imagination, tells a random lie which is impossible to ignore. Her allegation spreads like a virus,
THE HUNT is produced by Sisse Graum Jrgensen and
quickly acquiring the veneer of truth the more it is told.
Morten Kaufmann for Zentropa Entertainments29 in coAs shock turns to mistrust and then malice, it doesnt
production with Film I Vst and Zentropa International
take long before this small community is in a collective
Sweden with support from The Danish Film Institute, DR,
state of hysteria, igniting a witch-hunt that threatens to
Eurimages, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Svenska Film Instidestroy an innocent mans life.
tutet, SVT and the MEDIA Programme of the European
Union.
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg - co-founder of the
Dogme movement and director of the award-winning
international hit Festen - THE HUNT won the Best Actor
prize (Mads Mikkelsen), as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Thomas Vinterberg) and the Vulcain Prize
for Technical Artist (to Director of Photography Charlotte
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TAKEN 2
gets a surprise visit from his daughter,

Kim (Maggie Grace), and his ex-wife,
Lenore (Famke Janssen). The happy reunion turns sour when Lenore is taken
by people working for Murad Hoxha
(Rade erbedija), the employer of the
The stars have reunited for the sequel men working in the Paris building where
to the 2008 thriller; in which a retired Kims friend, Amanda, was found dead
CIA agent travels across Europe to find and the father of Marko Hoxha, whom
his daughter who has been kidnapped Bryan killed in the previous film. With
on in Paris to be sold into prostitution.
Lenore held hostage and Kim on the
run, Mills must utilize all his lethal skills
A year after the events in Paris, on a trip to rescue them and eliminate any who
to Istanbul, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) are seeking revenge against him.
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film Taken, it is scheduled to be released
on October 5, 2012.
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Creativity, Art, Cinema,

Music and Soccer?
by Kevin Murphy
"Get A Job"
Comedy Gets Special Maui Preview
AILUKU-- Get A Job the all

Maui movie will be presented this weekend at the historic Iao Theater in the downtown
business district of Wailuku. The
special showcases are part of the
First Friday celebration held in
the business district with presentations at 5, 7, and 9, on September 7th. On Saturday September
8th showings will be 1, 3, 5 and 7.
Written, produced and cast with

an entirely local feel, the comedy
is about the adventures of a bumbling man-child trying to find a job.
The labor of love took four years
for writer/director Brian Kohne to
complete. Kohne, who went from
playing youth soccer on Maui to
playing varsity soccer at San Jose
State, gets high praises for the
multi-layered film. The discipline
of college sports and the weaving
patterns of a complicated soccer
oense mimic a positive creative
process.
Kohne says he is tweaking the
movie for its final cut. He said,
The journey has had a lot of sports
correlations. Just like the college
soccer season, we are all in it for
the long haul, not just one game.
Perseverance has been the watchword. Currently, the production
team is making tweaks to the film
while preparing the full length feature for its theatrical release.
Kohne added, In film school they

dont teach about how to market
and merchandise a cinema production. It is the fourth stage of a long
process.
The beginning part of the movie has another noted Hawaiian
sportsman, exercise trainer Robert
Kotter, stealing a comedic scene.
He gets a giant laugh as the rude
stand-up paddle-boarder.
This funny indie movie features
many of Mauis best musical ambassadors. Included are Willie K,
Eric Gilliom, Henry Kapono, Amy
Hanaialii and Jake Shimabukuro.
Carolyn Omine and Kathy Collins hit the mark with their poorly
planned romantic scheming.
The movie has a wide range of appeal. Well known entertainers,
Augie-T and Mick Fleetwood add
to the funny mayhem. Cameo appearances by rockers Pat Simmons
and Willie Nelson are an added
bonus. The award winning sound
track from the Barefoot Natives is
a genuine listening windfall as are
the climatic surf scenes.
Each patron will be issued a special collectors ticket and the box
oce will be open a half-hour
before show times. For more Get
A Job information: http://www.
GetAJobMovie.com
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Filmmakers blacklisted -vs- UK libel action

"UFFO's moral dilema"
BLACKLISTED
BY THE FILM FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS FACEBOOK GROUP
Social networking has its dark side. Some people are all too prepared to write untrue and
malicious comments about others, thinking that they are exempt from the laws against
defamation. They arent. Defamation laws apply however a defamatory publication is
made, whether in a newspaper, over the phone, in a tweet, in a blog, or on Facebook.
was annoyed that he had rued her feathers in some way. Her
ecently, UFM wrote an article exposing a number of
comments posted to the group appear to have indeed blackpeople representing particular film festivals in a
listed Gillis, and may have damaged the careers of everyone
Facebook group who were blacklisting filmmakers
who was involved with Gillis film, including the cast, crew, fiwith little more than a casual comment. This was the
nanciers and distributors. Tyrone Murphy said, As a filmmaker
first instance of its kind since the systematic HollyI wouldnt touch these festivals
wood blacklist of filmmakers in 1947, when a number of Hollywood actors, directors, musicians, screenwriters and other
Prior to this incident, there was strong opposition and
entertainment professionals were blacklisted from emhostility in the FFO group towards UFFO and its remit of
ployment because of their political beliefs or associaAs a filmbest business practices for film festivals. Over a period
tions.
maker I
of almost a year, members of the FFO Facebook forum
wouldnt
sought to harass UFFO at every turn. Amy Ettinger, one
Fast forward 60 years, and the dreaded blacklist
of the forums members and director of the Scottstouch these
practice re-emerged in 2012, this time via the Film
dale International Film Festival, remarked in a thread
Festival Organizers (FFO) group, a cadre of small film
festivals
about UFFO: Hope it goes down in flames with no takfestivals organized on social networking site, Faceers. A comment by Matthew M. Foster, director of the
book. The group is led by Jon Gann, the festival director
Dragon*Con Film Festival, read, And I second Amy. The faster
of DC Shorts Film Festival.
this dies (UFFO) the better. No good can come of it and so much
trouble. The hostility and harassment did not stop there.
The blacklisting of filmmakers began with a post on the
UFFO also has also had to contend with an individual who has
groups Facebook page by Kerrie Long, director of the Eda track record all over the internet for scamming artists, and is
monton Film Festival in Canada, alleging that her festival had
now in charge of three film festivals. He made threats against a
received threats of violence from Canadian filmmaker Barry
festival director and UFFO CEO, Tyrone D. Murphy, for discussGillis, who was upset that his film was rejected by the festival
ing him in a thread. The moderators allowed this; but when
a month before the ocial film selection process began.
UFFO responded, Jon Gann closed the thread.
The festival had informed him that his film, The Killing
A friend of Jon Gann, Mr. Je Ross, director of the SF IndiefGames, was too violent for the Edmonton Film Festival.
est, seemed to delight in the harassment of UFFO. Within a
discussion on the forum, Tyrone D. Murphy asked Ross why he
The frustrated filmmaker wrote to the Edmonton Film Festiis not transparent with filmmakers regarding the fact that his
val a number of times, and was completely ignored. We (UFM)
festivals are non-jury festivals; Ross arrogantly replied, If they
have seen the correspondence between Gillis and the Edmondont like it they can vote with their feet. Although this stateton Film Festival, and although it clearly demonstrates Gillis
ment was contemptuous it was nothing compared with Ross
was annoyed, the correspondence contains no threat of vioother conduct. On one occasion, Ross stated to another festival
lence whatsoever.
director on the FFO forum that he possessed the home address
of the UFFO Founder and CEO, Tyrone D. Murphy, and suggestUFFO was a member of this forum at the time, and strongly
ed that he was sending something nefarious to Murphys home
objected to blacklisting activity. UFFO believes it is fundamenaddress by mail.
tally wrong to blacklist anyone. Astonishingly, film festivals
blacklisted Gillis film despite a complete lack of evidence to
The hostility came to a head when a number of the groups
suggest that the allegation made by Kerrie Long was true.
members, including the moderators and Je Ross, were blacklisting filmmakers or supporting others who did so. Despite
In the case of Gillis, it would appear that Kerrie Longs actions
UFFO objections, they would not listen to reason, and Jon Gann
were deliberate attempts to convince the other festival organizers on the forum to blacklist Gillis, perhaps because she
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Some time later, Jon Gann issued a

public statement and posted it the
FFO and the UFFO forums on Facebook. This statement (printed opposite) was defamatory and untrue
of UFFO and of Tyrone D. Murphy.
Murphy was being branded a troublemaker for defending filmmakers
who had no voice on the forum to defend themselves against the allegations that had been made. However,
despite John Ganns very dramatic
statement, it later transpired that the
credible violent threat that was, according to Gann, a behaviour so horrific, unprofessional, and frightening
simply never happened.
Ganns statement concluded with an
invitation to members of the forum
to investigate the situation before
jumping to conclusions. However,
Gann removed the entire thread containing the damning comments, so
there was actually no way for anyone
to know the facts or to investigate
the situation. (The entire thread is
printed on the next page.) A libel action is being considered against the
moderators of the FFO group. Three
of the moderators have resigned, and
one has apologized. Two other film
festival directors have also apologized for their part. It must be said
that the apologies came only after
a threat of legal action was made
against the group.
Another moderator of the FFO group,
Ms. Anna Feder, who is (or was at the
time) director of the Boston Underground Film Festival, is completely
belligerent and unapologetic. She
attempted to distance herself from
her festival because of the potential backlash from filmmakers over
her participation and support in the
blacklisting of filmmakers. UFM has
since uncovered irrefutable evidence
that Ms. Feder has been salting funds
away in Swiss bank accounts in an attempt to circumvent any award for
damages and costs to UFFO or Murphy by the UK courts. Although the
other moderators have had ample

opportunity to remedy the situation,
they remain supportive of Kerrie
Long and her comments that blacklisted the filmmakers. Jon Gann has
since appointed Long a moderator of
the forum, and clearly supports her
and her comments.
Legal action may now be the only
recourse for UFFO. However, the UK
libel laws are abused on a regular
basis by rich corporations and individuals. (Tyrone D. Murphy has been
an advocate for change in the current
law for a number of years.) Nonetheless, in response to a defamatory
statement, UFFO would be justified
in taking a libel action against the
moderators of the group.
English law allows actions for libel
to be brought through the Court for
any published statements that are
alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual in a manner which
causes a reasonable person to think
worse of him. Once it is shown that
a statement was published, and that
it has a defamatory meaning, that
statement is presumed to be false
unless the defendant is able to raise
a defence to this defamatory act.
In a nutshell, this amounts to a presumption of the innocence of the
plainti in the face of an accusation
levelled by the defendant. In a libel
action, the FFO group moderators
would have to prove the alleged
defamatory statement was true. In
addition, the 2006 UK case of KeithSmith v Williams confirmed that discussions on the Internet are public
enough for libel to take place.
UFFO founder Tyrone D. Murphy was
previously involved in a historic libel
action when the famous Groucho
Club instigated a libel action again
him to halt publication of an expos
book about the club. The action was
a pre-publication test case for libel. In simple terms, it was a libel
action about what could be written, not what had been written. The
Groucho Club and its billion pound
corporation lost the case against
Murphy when Murphy located evidence that blew their case out of
the water. Murphy has since been
publishing on the club members
forum revelations of rape, illegal
electronic surveillance and a child
pornography ring.
Murphy said, I have an aversion
to the UK libel laws; however, Jon
Ganns statement was defamatory
of me, and this leaves me with a
moral dilemma: do I now use the
same laws to bring justice to bear on
the moderator of the Film Festival
Organizers Group on Facebook?
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Jon Ganns Public Statement

This is my first, and will be, my only public
response to a situation which transpired
earlier this week.
Tyrone Murphy was removed from the
Film Festival Organizers private Facebook group after he was asked to stop
commenting on a spedfic thread of conversation. He was warned that his actions
would result in his removal from the
group, yet he continued the thread.
The thread concerned banning a filmmaker after making a credible violent threat
against a festival programmer -a behavior so horrific, unprofessional, and frightening -that it is understandable (and I
believe, justified) to ban ANYONE from an
event. Film festivals are not a right, but a
public forum that is curated, organized
and produced by an organization or individual fur the benefit of an audience.
NO ONE should be subjected to such outright hate -filmmaker or organizer alike.
Mr. Murphys action was not isolated, as
he had a history of provoking others in
the group before, and was asked before
to stop. Over the past few months, many
members had become inactive -- it was
only after the removal of Mr. Murphy that
I knew his previous actions were the reason fur their silence.
The private Film Festival Organizers
group was established as a safe place
fur festival programmers and organizers
to exchange information, tales, and film
recommendations. It has been incredibly helpful fur festivals large and small
to be able to have a free and open - and
respectful - exchange, without fear of
harassment.
In the past few days, the group has received numerous requests fur additions
to the group, and we are approving the
requests of those whose employment as
a festival director or programmer is verified. I have not recommended any new
members fur a matter of months - and I
have never poached the list of UFFO or
any other organization fur new members
- nor would I ever . I believe that any comments to the contrary to be libelous.
It is my hope that anyone who reads this
note investigate the situation before
jumping to condusions- since as is the
case with all tales, there are two sides to
the story. Thank you fur your time. Please
do not comment, as there is no reason to
do so.s!
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banned UFFO from the FFO Facebook forum for merely trying to bring
some sanity and reason to the situation. The complete lack of regard for
filmmakers careers and legal procedure shown by Kerrie Long and other
festival organizers is reprehensible.
An entire cast and crew of a film can
be aected, and the potential losses
to financiers and distributors can be
catastrophic. After UFFO was excluded from the FFO group, the moderator, Jon Gann created another thread
which contained a racist/anti-Jewish
video posted by Charles Judson,
a programmer of the Atlanta Film
Festival. The thread also included a
torrent of abusive comments about
UFFO and its objections to the blacklisting of filmmakers.
This is the thread on the Film Festival

Organizers Group on Facebook
Kerrie long - Edmonton International Film Festival
I apologize for repeating the thread about filmmaker feedback

(Its WAY down the line on this page) . We gave verbal feedback
to a filmmaker yesterday Who lives in our city -- as a courtesy
. .. BEFORE our ocial notification date in August. Lets just say
his actions since then make me very, very afraid. Please ... if ANY
of you receive a feature length, horror film from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada message me and Ill tell you whether its the same
guy or not. Hes crazy!
Like Comment Unfollow Post Wednesday at 9:34pm near Edmonton, Alberta
Mitch Davies Co Director The Fantasia Film Festival
That doesnt sound good at all. Just tried to message you, but
it doesnt look like your account allows non-friends to contact
you through it. Could you message me details? Wednesday at
11:04pm Like
Helen Stephenson, Executive Director, Prescott Film Festival
Sorry you had to go through that. ..
Wednesday at 11: 49pm Like
Matt Marxteny (Programmer) The Red Rock Film Festival
So sad that a few filmmakers cannot handle criticism - no coincidence that a lot of these filmmakers do not get into Cannes,
Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, SXSW and cannot understand why
.On a lighter note, a few years ago a filmmaker did not make it
into our festival. We thought the filmmaker would have a sense
of humor and invited their cheesy film to screen at our bad cinema night. They entertained the idea. To our surprise, they submitted their new film later on and the new film got in! What a
trooper -a true filmmaker. Filmmakers make note: its not about
winning or being the ocial selection; its all about contacts
and getting recognized. What was the age of this filmmaker? I
know several school teachers from the 90s and more recently
who cant stand that they can never tell their students the truth
about how their students are doing.
Yesterday at 10:23am Like
Thank-you ALL for your support and words of encouragement.

Im grateful to have this private space to share. The saga continues ... today he EMAILED the Chair of Board to Declare WAR on
EIFF. His exact words. Were discussing now with our lawyer to
determine if thats enough to alert the police. In truth, I am very
afraid right now ... I remember watching his movie, thinking
What kind of person thinks up these horrible acts of torture?.
Will keep you posted.
Yesterday at 5:01pm Like
Tyrone D Murphy Universal Film & Festival Organization
What you are now doing is fundamentally and profoundly

wrong. You are hijacking this filmmakers career Perhaps you
may have had a bad experience with a filmmaker or perhaps you
may be in the wrong. We do not know this without seeing the
evidence or all the facts (we only have your word). In saying that
you are in the business of taking submissions from filmmakers
and sometimes festivals do get one that could be considered
flakey We cannot say this for certain in this case as we do not
know the whole story. Relating the content of the filmmakers
film to emphasize your own predicament and stating that you
are afraid of a horror filmmaker because they make horror films
is simply nonsensical when there is no evidence at all to support this. You web site has a section explicitly geared at horror
filmmakers and has the following to entice submissions. EDGE

OF NIGHT. This series is lovingly tailored to the more adventurous festival-goer. Bizarre, scary, or just plain shocking
In addition, despite stating he is at war with the EIFF or on some
sort of vendetta, the posts you have made here have dearly
been made in an attempt to blacklist the filmmaker. This is completely out of line and unacceptable. You have a duty to protect
all the filmmakers reputations and private and personal details
who submit films to your festival. Perhaps you should confer
with the volunteer Board of Directors for the EIFF before you
make any further comments. If you have a genuine complaint
against a filmmaker then why not what the rest of the world
does do, report this to the authorities. I would strongly suggest
that this groups administrator should really not allow this type
of retaliation against a filmmaker when we have no idea of what
has transpired and we are not in possession of the facts
59 minutes ago Like
Je Ross - SF Indie Fest
How odd that I find myself disagreeing with you Tyrone, respectfully. I think a filmmaker who is abusive and threatening
to one fest based on a rejection could quite possibly react the
same way with another festival. All she is doing is warning people about an abusive individual. Some people have thin skin
and dont appredate that kind of thing. You run a film festival,
right? So youve said? Maybe you dont mind abuse from makers
but I can see that some fest organizers may want to avoid such
situations. (I on the other hand tend to get into it with them, as
you can probably imagine ... . )
51 minutes ago Like
Tyrone D Murphy
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Ah, Je my ond friend! Interesting as you are always the one to

disagree (as always) This is a serious issue. We have not seen
what this filmmaker has said, not one word! We also know that
are some festival directors who have attacked the filmmaking
community to fend o criticism of a shoddy and/or scam operation. What I am saying is you have a duty to protect a filmmakers
reputation as a festival and not blacklist them in such a way, its
just not right!. In any event such an attack is as bad if not worse
than the alleged oender. So who is worse here? the filmmaker
who is annoyed and retaliating or the festival director who is
annoyed and retaliating ? What I am saying is you have a duty to
protect a filmmakers reputation as a festival and not blacklist
them in such a way, its just not right!. In any event such an attack is as bad if not worse than the alleged oender. So who is
worse here? the filmmaker who is annoyed and retaliating And
yes1 (you do make me smile) I really could see that you would
be over excited and eager to get into it and be argumentative
with a disgruntle filmmaker. We all cope in our own way.
Im gonna hold my tongue and see if any of ourcolleagues care

to comment before debating further .
35 minutes ago Unlike iJ 1
Okay Je1 I understand you are hesitant. Good call! Another important point to factor into this issue that must be considered
is the Law. If this filmmaker is in litigation with the EIFF and this
does seem very likely then it is paramount that the subjudice
rule in Canada that restricts comments on an on-going case
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Charles Judson - Alanta Film Festival

If a festival organizer uses the words afraid and has to go so far
as contacting other festivals, I would take that seriously. When
we ran the 20 10 48 Hour Film Project one of the filmmakers
who didnt win any awards emailed all of our judges. He sent
a very long, nasty and accusary e mail, the judges were all cool
with it and shook it o
Right now we have to manage one of our volunteers who in
2008 started exhibiting odd behivour and ion a film shoot in
2009 got into a fist fight and he stormed o another local film
shoot in anger never to return. He hasnt got into any psychical altercations since then, but his constant threats to sue us
and shut us down and actions in general keep us on the alert.
Every time we have someone new on sta and he contacts them
its a major hassle. He still taunts me personally as least once a
month and often a weekly basis. He sent me yet another cryptic
tweet just this week (I had to unfriend him on FB)
9 m1nutes ago Like
I would agree if there was any evidence at all, but there is no

threat here in this case, just a blacklisting exorcize insofar as
I can see. We somehow have gone on to former volunteer you
have had problems with. A question, why not apply the law to
stop this former volunteer? Also , you are aware of some festival
directors have been making threats to film-makers also?
2 minutes ago Like
How do you know theres been no threat?
about a minute ago Like
Oh my. I didnt mean to cause a stir. Your points are all duly
noted. I really believed this to be a SAFE place to share. Lesson
learned.
about a minute ago Like
Tyrone D Murphy
How do you know there has? (re Charles)
a few seconds ago Like
So a film festival opinion should live in fear instead and just
let the threats escalate? This could all blow over, which it does
99.99% of the time. But if someone genuinely feels afraid for
their safety, they should act on that. Again, Someones life is
not worth a filmmakers career. And a filmmaker should never
make statements that can cause any on to believe they may be
in harms way, even if the threat turns out to be empty. Its not
only dumb career wise, but potentially a good way to go to jail
a few seconds ago like
Kerri I support you and hope that you do feel this is a safe space
for us to talk about our work. we just have to put up with this
interloper who looks for things to get hot and bothered about
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. his mission is to protect all filmmakers from evil film festivals.

hes like the NRA, always on the look out for a slippery slope.
there was a time, on the WAB film festival directors board, that
fest organizers could discuss INTERNAL issues amongst themselves without a self appointed defender of makers having to
turn the attack on those who just want to talk about their day.
Tyrone, seriously, this is not a court of law, this is a water cooler.
chill out.
19 minutes ago Like
Je, I can always rely on you to say something like that. I am
not a self-appointed defender of anything. Interloper is an odd
word, it would seem you are getting hot under the collar again
Je, please refrain from personal attacks and childish remarks.
This is also my working day and I do have an opinion.
15 minutes ago Like
do you not even care what kerrie said really believed this to
be a SAFE place to share. Lesson learned. id rather you not
stifle discussion here. stay your opinion and move on please.
i would hate it if people felt they couldnt talk about our work
here because of you.
12 minutes ago like
Quinten Bendigo Iraq International Film Festival
Listen here buddy! (Mr Murphy) I support Kerrie long and the
comments made by Je Ross. We are in business to make money and not to be pandering to filmmakers complaints about how
we operate, most of the complainers are just whiners and sore
losers, we get them all the time. Also, I have looked at this UFFO
and I for one do not intent on supporting best business practices, also I will say what I dame well please here and anywhere
else so you can take you high and mighty morals and remember
that old saying (where the sun dont shine) .
I will not be allowing this Whack job filmmakers film to go
through selection at our festival, any filmmaker who is dedaring war on a festival should be blacklisted by the festival community and I will be telling all my contacts about this nut case.
Also,(this is the interesting bit) are the same Tyrone D Murphy
who was an ocer in the French Foreign Legion and worked as
a counter surveillance operative for Hughes Aircraft, a company
owned by the CIA. (I am also a former investigator Mr Murphy
and I have looked at your background)
18 hours ago Like
Matt Marxteny (Programmer) The Red Rock Film Festival
Wow, a lot of comments here. I think none of us understand
what the abusive nature was in this case. We had a questionable filmmaker once that boasted about their violent acts and
simply called the police, and left it like that. We just figured Hollywood would love them like they do domestic abusers, paedophiles, drug addicts and all the others ...
13 hours ago Like
Mat you are a crazy kid!
13 hours a o Like
Tyrone D Murphy
We are not talking about someones life, this is an extreme view.
All of a sudden now this filmmaker is a potential murderer. This
all reminds me of the movie 12 angry men, how quickly we
all judge someone and how we take someone word for everything simply because they say so. Should you not know all the
facts before you join in on this little blacklisting operation?
Both you and I do not know the full story here, if someone has
a problem go to the Police. We all love films, thats what we all
have in common and yes they are a few nut jobs but from all
walks of life. As a former fraud investigator and surveillance
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that may aect the outcome is strictly adhered to. Kerrie Longs
comments have really attacked this filmmakers credibility as
not just only a filmmaker but his mental state1 Kerry even said
hes crazy. So we must all be really scared of this crazy horror
filmmaker because she says so. Come on Je! she is dearly attempting to blacklist him among other film festivals. How would
you feel of someone was attempting to blacklist your festival
among the filmmaking community because you had an issue
with them. So when you look at it from both points of view1
then you know it is wrong! Why just recently I was asked not to
comment on wrong doing on this group when I was accosted by
an individual with a dubious track record. As Jon Gann said at
the time1 this is not the place!
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specialist I lived with threats many times, I know what its like
to receive a real threat and also know what veil threat is. But
what I have seen here today is disgusting, so quick to judge.
You are behaving like a jury in a kangaroo court, this guy is
guilty, no consideration for his or her career, his or her own
circumstances, no real thought or consideration if there may
be something else going on here. Why not reserve judgement
and not blacklist this filmmaker
8 minutes ago like
Tyrone D Murphy
I would like to ask the admin to ask this person to refrain from
this kind of hostility and abuse
From
Je Ross - SF Indie Fest today :
you showed your true colors with that last exchange, mate.
have you noticed that no one in that group every takes your
side in anything? four people told me they just block you so
they dont have to read your posts, but i wont, because i want
to be able to continue to expose your bullshit whenever neccessary. youve done a good job of proving to all the folks on
that list that you do not have their interests at heart and are
just a troll. every one now knows which side your on, so good
job there, nicely done. we know exactly what to expct from tyrone murphy in any given conversation. if you want to actually
have an impact on the opinions of the people you are your org
are tying to influence, you might want to count to 10 before
letting fly another 200 word antagonistic post.
Like Comment Unfollow Post 24 minutes ago
Well done Jef
21 minutes ago Like
Tyrone D Murphy
please stop making comments that are hostile and meaningless
20 minutes ago Like
tyrone, please stop making comments that are hostile and
meaningless
20 minutes ago Like
gettig to much for you Mr UFFO man?
19 minutes ago Like
Jon Gann Moderator and DC Shorts Film Festival
And this is NOW CLOSED. I am done moderating. Tyrone - this
is a safe space for fest organizers to talk and discuss openly with one another and not judge. If you cannot follow this
simple rule, you will be removed. Je- stop fanning the fire,
please.
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Tyrone D Murphy
I would agree with that Jon , which is why I commented on
Kerries post which was judging film-makers and others jumping on the bandwagon and basically blacklisting a filmmaker.
I am saying that judging in such a way is wrong also but now I
cannot comment on this, I am not judging but question someone else judging. As Je is a moderator here he is really out
to cause trouble
4 m1nutes ago Like
Kick him o!
3 minutes ago Like
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UFFO best business

practices for film festivals
Maureen OHara
Every once in a while

there is something that
stands out and compels
us to notice it; I think
that is what struck me
most about UFFO when
it was first brought to
my attention. I am so
tremendously honoured
and proud to be the
President of such an
international organisation that promotes ethics in an industry I love
so much.
ince the launch

of UFFO on the
1st July 2011 and
the organizations
best
business
practices for film festivals it has been adopted
by over 170 international
film festivals and has gathered strong support from
organizations all over the
world
With stories being published on almost a daily
basis about fraudlent film
festivals something had
to be done to protect filmmakers from fraud and to
assure that honest festival
organizers
hard-earned
reputations were protected. At this stage it was just
an ideal. Sometime later I
attended an international
Film Festival in the UK. I
discovered that the festival organizer and his
Tyrone D Murphy is the founder

and CEO of UFFO, he was responsible for creating and implementing best business practices.
Through his hard work it has
been adopted by over 170 international film festivals around the
World.
He is an award winning film
producer and director, a festival
director and now dedicated his
time to benefit the filmmaking
and film festival communities
through UFFO.
Tyrone Power JR, is the Chairman of the UFFO committee
USA. He is an acclaimed actor in
his own right and follows in the
footsteps of his famous father
Tyrone Power Senior.
The promotion of ethics and
standards is a noble and worthwhile goal in any walk of life. To be
able to help do so in an industry I
love and admire is truly a gift and
an honour. I am proud to be a part
of the UFFO organization which
fosters and promotes the dedicated, passionate work of filmmakers and film festivals around the
world. Tyrone Power.
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partner, a film director, had

a film in competition in
their own festival. (Nothing illegal about that; a
number of festival organizers regularly promote their
own and even their friends
films.) The screening programme was set up with
their own film taking prime
position in the whole lineup. In addition the film was
nominated in 7 of the 10
categories. Although the
film was slated by many of
the UK critics it managed
to win an award in every
category. Almost 400 other
filmmakers who submitted
their films to this festival
paid $50 for the privilege
of their film being chucked
in the trash.
What was very apparent
was that there needed to
be something in place to
stop this from happening.
There was no code of practice anywhere in the world
that was fair to both filmmakers and film festival organizers. We wrote a very
basic set of best business
practices and published it
on the social networking
sites LinkedIn and Facebook to judge the reaction.
The response from both
communities was phenomenal. We were inundated
with e-mail from all corners of the globe, telling us
horror stories, and why the
code of practice is needed.
The whole idea behind a
code of practice was to improve the relationship between industry professionals and acknowledg the
importance of enhanced
cooperation between filmmakers and film festivals. It
led to a heated debate over
many months by festival
directors and filmmakers.
Both communities had very
strong opinions about
what should and should

not be included.
On the one hand the majority of festival directors
run legitimate operations,
provide a great service and
want to play fair; on the
other hand the filmmaking
community had a gut full
of the fraudulent activity
that was taking their hardearned dollars. The few
bad apples in the barrel
were blighting the entire
film industry.
The UFFO best business
practices has ten simple
guiding principles. The
successful implementation
of this code was largely dependent on its acceptance
by the film festival and
filmmaking community as
a whole. It is completely
voluntary and has helped
define the obligations and
responsibilities that film
festival organizers have towards the filmmaking community
It has a pragmatic approach to implementation
that is based on rational
and transparent working
methods. It promotes good
business practices and assists in the development
of relationships between
film festival organisers and
the filmmaking community. The Universal Film and
Festival Organization was
later formed to monitor
the database of accredited
film festivals. Membership
to UFFO is completely free
and is open to all creative individuals, filmmakers and film festivals. It is
completely voluntary and
easy to implement, in addition its also a blueprint
for filmmakers in deciding
which film festivals to do
business with.
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Best Business Practice for

Film Festivals
No 1: Film Festival organizers should operate a transparent selection process and
publish details of the selection process
and the names of the Jury/selection committee (publication can be after a festival
concludes)
No 2: Film festivals organizers should provide full contact details for the festival
offices including address and telephone
numbers and the names of the festival
directors and or committee
No 3: A Film Festival should publish its legal
status as a company, charity or non-profit
(this only applies to a registered entity)
No 4: Film festival organizers should not
share filmmakers financial data with any
third parties
No 5: Film Festivals should publish a year
by year history of festival winners and films
officially selected
No 6: Film festival organizers, committee
and or jury should not show or demonstrate any favouritism to any film submitted
to the festival or attempt to influence other
members of the jury or selection committee
No 7: Film Festivals should declare the
number of films sought and/or invited by
the festival organizers to participate in the
festival prior to and before the general call
for submissions is sent out
No 8: Film Festivals should provide the
names of the selection committee and/or
jury members who viewed the submitted
film screeners to the festival (this could be
after the festival has concluded)
No 9: Film festival organizers should view at
least 5 minutes of all submitted films
No 10: All Festival organizers should declare any conflict of interest that may arise
from any film submitted to or invited to
participate in the festival
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PRACTICES
ADOPTED BY OVER
170 FILM
FESTIVALS
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Land of hope
fter a sequence of stunning productions, SONO SION steps to the
next level in his filmmaking career
by portraying a story of families
who struggle to live with dignity.
Gifted with a rare talent broaching such taboo subjects as sex and violence through
films that are written based on actual incidents, including but not limited to Love Exposure, Cold Fish, and Guilty of Romance,
Sion Sono has been overtaking international film festivals every time he introduces his
productions to the world.
After presenting Cold Fish for the Orizzonti
sectionofthe67thVeniceInternationalFilm
FestivalandGuiltyofRomanceforthedirectors fortnight of the 64th Cannes Film

Festival, Sono, with his last movie Himizu, successfully brought the Marcello
Mastroianni Award for Best New Young
Actor and Actress to its main cast Shota
Sometani and Fumi Nikaido at the 68th
Venice International Film Festival. Now,
as a theme for his latest movie, Sono has
chosen to address the biggest taboo facing Japan today genpatsu (nuclear
power station).
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Yasuhiko Ono is a dairy farmer and

lives his peaceful and satisfying life
with his wife Chieko, his son Yoichi, and Yoichis wife Izumi. Their
lives are uprooted when a massive
8.3 magnitude earthquake hits o
the east coast of the prefecture,
followed by a horrible accident at
a nearby nuclear power plant. The
area within a 20- - kilometer radius of the plant was shut down as
a danger zone, which ironically divided the Ono family whose house
sits just outside the zone from their
next door neighbor, the Suzuki Family, who is now forced to abandon
their house across the street from
the Onos and evacuate to a shelter.
Yasuhiko, however, vividly
remembers what once happened
several years back to his country. He
declares his disbelief in the government and decides to stay home while
sending Yoichi and Izumi to a shelter. After moving to another town,
Izumi finds out she is pregnant. Being in the agony of not knowing how
to best protect her baby, Izumis
fears against radiation continues to
mount.
This is an invisible war. We see no
bullets or missiles, but they are flying out there all over the place!
Meanwhile, the Suzuki Familys
young son Mitsuru and his girlfriend
Yoko keep searching for Yokos
missing family on foot as they walk
step by step through debris that
has totally covered and filled an
oceanfront town. The nuclear plant
soon lost control, causing the worst
case scenario to become a reality.
Yasuhikos house is now included in
the danger zone, and the evacuation
is about to be enforced in a few days.
For them and others who have lost
their homes and are forced to live in
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the fear of radiation, will there really be a hopeful future waiting after
this endless despair and anxiety?
A new masterpiece of advocacy entertainment keenly cuts out scenes
from todays society while questioning how we human beings should be
Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, film
director Sion Sono shot his last movie Himizu, in which he expressed
his armation of hope for the post- 3/11 era of Japan. As more than
a year has passed since the nations
worst tragedy in the history, Sono, in
his new film, attempts to reveal the
hardships that the nation has had to
confront following the disaster.
Based on the facts he has directly
seen and learned from his repeated
research trips to disaster sites, Sono
successfully reproduces the feelings
and emotions of victims, who are
suddenly thrown into an unparalleled human crisis. His or gnal story
is fictional yet provides a detailed
recording of the reality Japan has recently faced. In sharing similarity to
works by preceding Japanese master
filmmakers such as Shohei Imamura
and Nagisa Oshima, this film vividly
captures real peoples lives as well
as human dignity through a keen and
sharp observation of society. In this
film, Sono again questions and seeks
the true meaning of human existence by using a current social issue
as the base of the story, which is a
universally- - approved filmmaking method that is often favored by
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg,
and other globally- - known directors.
This film makes a new masterpiece
of advocacy entertainment for its attempt in bringing to light the inside
of the human spirit that was covered
but not fully reported by the media
during the aftermath of the disaster.
Powerful performances by seasoned actors who support todays
Japanese film industry; Intense and
strong storytelling and overflowing poetic sentiment in the SONO
SIONs world Casted as the storys
main character Yasuhiko is Isao
Natsuyagi, a seasoned actor known

for his performances in supporting
roles of many Japanese films since
the 1960s. Naoko Otani, who plays
Yasuhikos wife Chieko, has been
highly acclaimed for her performances in various movies including Zigeunerweisen (1980). Jun
Murakami, one of the leading actors
in the Japanese independent film
industry, plays the role of Yasuhiko
and Chiekos son Yoichi; and Megumi Kagurazaka, a regular cast member in Sonos past films, plays the
role of Yoichis wife Izumi. Other
cast members include: Denden (father of the Suzuki family), Mariko
Tsusui (mother of the Suzuki family),
Yutaka Shimizu (Mitsuru, son of Suzuki family), and Hikari Kajiwara
(Mitsurus girlfriend), as well as
Daikichi Sugawara, Takashi Yamanaka, Kenzou Kawarasaki (neighbors of
the Ono family). Also appearing in
cameo roles are Yusuke Iseya, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Gitan Otsuru, and Tetsushi Tanaka who each have friendships with Sono.
The film was completed as a Japan- - UK- - Taiwan coproduction
with financial support from film production companies in UK and Taiwan,
both of which have great admiration
for and trust in Sonos talent. The
film does not contain the graphic
expressions of sex and violence,
which have been common elements
in Sonos previous films. Instead,
backed with the exquisite music of
Adagio from Mahlers Symphony
No. 10, the tranquil and beautiful
images on the screensimply tell
the earnest attitudes of families towards their new lives resulting from
the tragic disaster. With Sonos
strong and intense storytelling technique and a poetic sentiment that
overflows throughout the story, the
lives of three couples are portrayed
as they experience despair, coexistence and hope. In this film,
Sion Sono takes a step to the next
level in his filmmaking careerthrough his unseen side as a social
filmmaker, which brings a definitive
and unparalleled impact to many
viewers.
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Suddenly caught in an unprecedented and disastrous situation,

three couples experience despair,
coexistence, and hope as they
struggle to survive. The story begins in 20XX, several years after the
Great East Japan Earthquake, in a
fictitious prefecture Nagashima- ken.
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APRISONEROFTHEBALLOONINDUSTRY
ear K.,Here is a letter I have begun many times, and have never sent. Let me just plunge
into it theninto the middle
of thought.
destinationyou may not even be sure

where you are going, or how farthere
is something about this that is peculiarly
American, poignant as grief, awesome as
tragedy.
How does it fare with you? Are you writing? How does your poetry and fiction
progress? Oh, how I would like to read it
I have thought of you many times.
You stand, about to depart, perhaps you

pause a moment to wonder: Whats
this mean: this lifethis journey? And
you cannot at that moment help being
assailed by a catalogue of names and
voices, places and evenings, memories
and faces which have their own claims to
make on you and which you must shrug
o. There were other mornings, too, like
this one and yet how unlike. How little
you noticed them, the way the cool air felt
against your face, the cryptic messages of
birds now sharply calling Farewell! and
Dont go! andperhaps most peculiar
as a truck grumbles by and a few people
begin to move about on the streetthe
stability of it all.
What do you do now, how do you spend

your time? In the things I do every day, I
seem to be staving o some knowledge,
or the recognition of some knowledge
My Unconscious has not yet caught up
with me, though there have been inklingsLast night, for example, I dreamed
you were explaining to me why things did
not work out between us andit all made
sense in the dream
When my Unconscious does catch up with
me, my rational sense of experience, order, whythere will be a real field day for
my mind, my egoBut as yet I have no bad
dreams. The obligation to create, to render in fictions the truth, order and beauty,
happiness etcetera, of which I have been
permitted only fleeting glimpses in my
own life and which I seem to fail so miserably to attain in any enduring senseThis
duty to tell and to show what I have seen,
to convey the dramas that eternally play
themselves out in the mythical and religious dimensions of my heart and soul,
becomes more and more imposing, demanding, like an angry, vengeful childIt
is a child, however, who will soon have his
way, as I will next semester be doing more
Advanced Creative Writing, an occasion
for me to refine some stories and plays.
I am very much alone now, in
this fall of brittle hopes and transparent
dreams: alone with words and voices and
weathers
Face it: there is something about
getting up on a particular morning and going out into the crisp air, clean and shrill,
all that you own on your back or inside
a travel-bag in your hand, with the sole
purpose of traveling to some particular
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At one time you thought you would stay

forever. This was enough, youd said, this
was all you could ever want. But something happened. The light, the gaiety
went out of it or something went dry. And
you awoke one morning to find there was
nothing left. There is no explaining it,
there is nothing to make it right, it just
happens. You have to live with it.
There are, after all, you tell yourself, other
places you can go. There will be sun, rain
and laughter there. You will have friends
and, perhaps, loves. There will be excitements and dramas and gaudy scenes: you
will hear screaming and weeping again.
More than likely you will know fear again,
and you will know what it is for other people to confess their fears to you.
Youll get drunk. There will be work for
you to do. You will try to settleand live.
But once, didnt you think you could
live here?
A funny sense of dej vu accosts you, disturbs you now as you walk along. Have
you walked this way, perhaps down this
very street, before? When? Perhaps it was
by Dennis Weiser
some early morningBut you were not
leaving thenNot leaving for good.
There is a ticket in your pocket, but it is
not a ticket to New York. A list of places
occurs to you, flashes sarcastically across
your mind, all the exciting places you
might goSan Francisco, Boston, Atlantabut you are not going to any of those
places. You are not even going to Kansas
City. You do not smile but smirk as you
remove the ticket surprisingly from your
pocket. It is not even whole, but merely
the stub of a ticket to a movie you saw
several days ago. You cannot remember
what the movie was.
There will be a swirl of hills and turns and
curves and cornfieldsthere will be more
than one stopday will follow night
and then there will be nothing. No letters
and no pleasant voices: all the voices will
be cracked and guttural. Only the sound
of an electric motor being turned o and
on; a cool upward draft; an occasional
shaft of light.
Face it: it is all behind you now. You are
going to western Kansas and the nearest
town is Lowry. You are going to the helium
mines, a prisoner of the balloon industry.
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Former weekly columnist for The Kansas
City Business Journal and book reviewer
for National Public Radio aliate KCURFM, Dennis Weiser is the author of a dozen
works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including the novel satire of the CIA in Honduras in 1983, Crash Dummies. An excerpt
from Crash Dummies (Tzytzyan Ysalane)
won first prize for prose fiction at the
Chicago Printers Row Book Fair and was
published in Things That Go Bump in the
Night (Outrider Press 2004). He recently
completed a collection of stories, Beautiful Lies and is currently writing his third
novel, Soul Snatchers of Java. Print copies
and generous previews of all of his books
are available at CRASH DUMMIES BOOKS.
Digital versions for most ereader devices
are available at MY SMASHWORDS.
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EL MONSTRO DEL MAR!

success at film festivals with the good doctor
Rebekah Louisa Smith
El Monstro Del Mar
In 2011, after Monstro had done over 20 festivals, the unexpected happened; an Australian distribution company called
Monster Pictures who Stuart had formed an allegiance with
was interested in distributing it in Australia and New Zealand
on DVD. The deal soon closed and Monstro was then available
for purchase. All of these festival screenings had equated into
An independently made feature film with a strong narrative yet
a 20 screen theatrical run with more incoming. Shortly after
no stars is a dicult beast. It may be a gem of a film but it
this Monster Pictures UK acquired it and then after viewwill be hard to sell, as in todays economic climate it is
ing it at the Pollygrind Film Festival in Las Vegas the film
predominantly stars who sell for a high price.
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was picked up by Breaking Glass Entertainment in the
festivals - 22 USA.
This is where The Film Festival Doctor comes in use,
awards - 3
as the above types of films tend to have a strong
What the moral of this story shows (so to speak) is that
distribution
life on the film festival circuit. It is dicult to get a
festivals are important platforms to host independent
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films on, as successful film festival exposure results in a
especially without a stars presence to entice viewers
theatrical screening and can open doors to many opporto part with their money. Film festival programmers are
tunities including of course as Monstro has demonstrated, dismore concerned with the strength of the film, including the
tribution. We are now hoping to achieve a repeat performance
quality of the narrative, productive levels and script, as opwith Stuarts next film which is currently in post-production
posed to who is in it.
called Chocolate, Strawberry Vanilla and also to break Monstro into the European distribution market in order to achieve
The film festival doctor oers a specialist service which is
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focused exclusively on film festival PR. The aim of the company is to help producers achieve successful international film
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festival exposure with their film. Previous clients of mine include Martin Kemps Stalker, Elfie Hopkins, Mothers Milk and
ofcourse Stuart Simpsons El Monstro Del Mar!
he festival film that could...how a low budget Australian monster flick achieved world domination by
screening at 42 international film festivals, won 22
awards and acquired 3 distribution deals.
The film tells the story of 3 young girls who were told by their
grandfather to never go into the sea. After they disturb the
monster living in the water they unlock a dark secret which
unleashes the scary gigantic monster across a small suburban
Australian town. When I first saw this film I knew that it was a
perfect festival film. The narrative was quirky & dierent as
it was a very careful and delicate Tarantino-esque homage to
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill and the 1970s grindhouse movies .
El Monstros first festival screening was the Atlanta Horror Film
Festival then between 2010-2012 more festival invitations
kept rolling in, including the Chicago International Film Festival, Lund Fantastik Film Festival & the Austin Film Festival.
A total of 22 awards were won including best film, actress and
SFX. All of these festivals were celebrating its aesthetic beauty,
creative storytelling and honouring Stuarts vision with awards
to achieve recognition.
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Kahlil Gibran's
Life Stor y to b e Por traye d in Feature Film
Producer William Nix and the Creative Projects

Group. The Option grants the
exclusive feature film rights to tell the life story
of famed Lebanese author and artist, Kahlil Gibran with the authorization and authority of the
Committee.
Kahlil Gibran is best known for his iconic series
of prose poems, embodied in The Prophet, but
he was also a prolific painter and author of many
other works, including extensive correspondence
that illuminates his artistic and romantic self.
He lived in the early twentieth century in Lebanon, Boston, Paris and New York.
His work emphasized unity in diversity, through
internationalism and respect for various cultures
and religions, as well as his own spiritual vision.
One of Gibrans most recognizable statements,
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on service, was echoed by JFK in his 1961 Presidential Inaugural Address. When emphasizing
human rights and freedom around the world, recalling the earlier words of Gibran, JFK said ask
not what your country can do for you--ask what
you can do for your country. Gibrans words and
works remain timely beacons for the world today,
as this film will explore.
The Committee will be actively involved in a dialogue and collaboration
with Mr. Nix about the biographical feature.
When announcing this Agreement, Dr. Chidiac
stated that we are extremely
pleased that with the involvement of Mr. Nix we
can finally bring the full story of the short but notable life of the famous Lebanese author and artist, Gibran Khalil Gibran He further stated that
our Committee will continue to work closely
with Mr. Nix, with whom we have enjoyed a productive relationship on other matters, to support
and tell the story of the life and work of Kahlil
Gibran around the world.
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r. Tarek Chidiac, President of the Gibran

National Committee of Lebanon, announced the signing of an exclusive Option Agreement with Los Angeles.
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Consequence
Images from London Premier Screening
of Consequence, a Movie by Si Wall
Photography by Nathan Joseph.
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Director Si Wall confesses to being a story teller

with an active imagination, although some of his
on-screen antics border on insane. If you think this
is harsh, then read on. Making a low-budget indiefilm in this climate, without a well-known actor
could be considered foolish, but then to make it
tougher from the outset by deciding to use only
one actor, shoot it in 12 days, do just about all of it
on location quantifies my earlier statement.
This guy is certifiable. His third film pulls no
punches either, Consequence follows the life of
one young girl who gets to live a day in her mundane life without having to consider any of those
pesky paybacks for her actions and takes us on a
journey that is as funny as it is dark, as honest as it
is surreal and with an ending that leaves you asking the questions.
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Jodie Webster is played by the talented newcomer

Katie Richmond, as yet discovered only by Si Wall,
but with performances as honest and as real as
this, its only a matter of time before she catches
the attention of big Hollywood studios. Si commented that the crew all seemed pretty nervous
at the beginning, I mean carrying a film on your
own for 90 minutes isnt easy, but one by one they
all made comments about how natural she was.
They were all won over pretty quickly and I think
I got it right.
To put CONSEQUENCE in a category is tricky. Its
not over-stylized, complicated or trying to be clever. Its an honest film, with honest performances
and a great story that takes you, the viewer, on
a ride full of emotion, from laughter to disbelief
and then well, youll have to watch it and see.
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CONSEQUENCE is the third film from MASIVE

Films.
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Interview with director of Consequence Si Wall.
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So before people buy a ticket, what can they expect Si?
Well, a good bit of real-life drama, some humour, as with all situations in our daily lives, a couple of twists and a ending, I do like
an ending!
How did the idea come about?
SO
I dont always sleep too well and one night, I got up at 3am and flicked through
the TV, and found a Richard Linklater film about two people meeting up after 7 years.
Throughout the film, all they did was talk about their one night together and what had
AC happened, it was strangely addictive and as a film, it really shouldnt work, but it did. I
AD wanted to take Consequence one step further, and have one actor only, going about her
LE life and inviting the audience in. It made it harder to work the story, but if it was easy then we
ND wouldnt enjoy it as much would we?
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How did you choose the actor for such a demanding role?
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I auditioned for an earlier project, Speed Date and took the last audition of a long day and lit up the room.
She impressed me on that shoot and put some actors to shame to be honest. She is a fearless performer and we
needed that for Jodie, so she was my only choice when it was just in note form, before it became a script.
Are you happy with the final result?

I think anyone who creates something from scratch, would always like to make changes, I now I do, but were all dictated to
by budgets, or lack of them as well as time, so you create what you create and keep quiet about the changes you wish youd
made. As long as the audience enjoy, then Ill always have a smile on my face.
Who do you look up to as fellow filmmakers?
Theres three! Lars Von Trier, for having the courage to do things his way and not worry about the Consequences, sorry, no
pun intended. Peter Jackson, for having the sight and belief that he could take on one of the worlds most read books and
deliver what everyone wanted. He has such vision that it frightens me and I cant wait for The Hobbit. These were the first
books I read as a young lad, so mean a lot to me. Finally, Id have to say Tim Burton, as my filmmaking hero. He not only creates films, but creates worlds with the most amazing characters in them and Id personally watch the shopping channel if he
was directing a show on there.
What else do you have planned?
Currently a really exciting slate of projects. I have a great film called Resistance which has currently notched up over 20
international awards as a script alone and its about a 15 year old girl growing up and surviving WWII. I have an animation
project called Pulling Strings, A Brothers Grim adaptation I am currently developing and a really brutal British Gangster film,
but with a twist! Im also discussing two other book adaptations.
If you couldnt be a director, what would you do?
Its my dream job, so if would have to be something to do with telling stories, a writer, an illustrator, but Id rather not have
to make that decision just now.
Do you have a wish list of actors youd like to work with?
Its actually not a very long list. Johnny Depp, simply the best character actor on the planet. Jack Nicholson, because I think
it would be awesome to be in his company and Tom Hardy, as his intensity intrigues me! Add Dustin Homan and Id be a
happy camper, just because hes Dustin Homan.
Bit of a risk having just one actor wasnt it?
No, not when you trust them and hopefully, they trust you too. I like actors who are prepared to take a risk and get it wrong,
then try again. Im not into playing it safe!
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Interview
with Katie Richmond, lead Actress
of Consequence
Katie can you tell us about your character Jodie,
I viewed Jodie as a rubix cube. She had so many sides to her be it in reality or inside her own head so it became
a mission to play all these dierent sides of her truthfully yet never deviating form the core of her character. Which
can become very demanding of your time and energy both on and o set but something that comes with the territory of such
an intricate young lady.
So, what have you been able to relate to most with the character of Jodie?
Being in such an unpredictable industry, an actor has to acknowledge that they will only ever have a certain amount of control over
something. Jodies journey explores her unease with such an unstable existence and that manifests itself in her quest to regain some
control, fighting for equilibrium and struggling to make things fit. This was something I felt familiar with, wanting to tighten my hands
around something that can never be ordered.
What made you want to be in this film?
Upon reading the script I instantly had so many thoughts and ideas running around my head. I could see myself engaging in her predicament and wanting to portray & tell her story. I loved the concept, that an audience is only allowed in on her side of the story and
you as the audience are forced to see things from Jodies perspective. It was also a chance to work with Si Wall again. A director I have
a huge amount of admiration & respect for. And if he wanted to see where I took Jodie, I knew I was in very safe hands.
What have you enjoyed most about the shoot with the Cast and Crew?
I think with it being such a small crew, there was no longer a divide between cast and crew like there so often is on many set & projects. Which is only natural. But with this project we were all working as one. When something went wrong technically we all mucked
in to sort the problem, when something wasnt sitting right with the dialogue, the crew felt they could oer a solution and so it goes
on. It was a fluid working environment where it felt as though we were working as a unit. It was quite special.
I understand that a a lot of filming was done in rural Kent in the UK. What do you think about the Garden of England as its known
to us Brits ?
Isnt it just so pretty? The locations we used often reminded me of good old-fashioned England. Really lovely people who smiled in
the street and oered you a brew if you so wished.
I know you did this shoot pretty much in two weeks. How did you keep your energy up when it was 3am in the morning?
Quite simply, I had a job to do & this is what I know and love so getting up at 3am was no chore. I was raring to go with whatever I had
prepped for the scene ahead and to be given the all clear to play I was in my element.
There seemed to be a great vibe on the shoot. What would you say the funniest moment whilst you were filming Consequence?
Chucking something so hard out of shot to someone who I expected to catch it, who then toppled backward taking down the stage
curtain with him has to be pretty up there. Knowing cut had not yet been called and maintaining a straight face while the crew fell
apart was a test in itself but my god were the onslaught of belly laughs worth the wait.
Was this the catalyst for you to want to work with Si Wall?
I have a great respect for Si and his method in directing and I feel he has an undoubted trust in me, so it made for a perfect relationship whereby we were freely exploring without the hindrance of sussing someone out first or looking for a balance. It was a no
brainer working alongside Si again hes such a creative energy you tend to sunbathe in the glow(!)
Consequence itself is a film which is certainly going to catapult you into the limelight and be a fantastic platform for you to go on to
do further roles. What roles would you like to explore more of?
Jodie Webster is a southern soul and everything that comes with her is London born. But as a native northerner Id love to take a role
set in my little corner of the world. This is Englands gritty reality and phenomenal cast for example is something Id very much like
to be a part of.
Who would you say your role model is in the acting world? Do you have an inspirational person you would like to follow in the footsteps of?
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No hesitation - Julie Walters. She is the epitome of versatile and if I could be half as thorough in the characters I play as this fantastic
actress Id still smile a shy smile of success
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UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow
Michael Etherton
MD of UK Jewish Film Festival
Judy Ironside
Founder and Executive Director
by Tyrone D Murphy
Stephen Margolis,
Chair of UK Jewish Film
How do you find the films to screen at the UK Jewish Film Festihe 2012 UK Jewish Film Festival opens in style on
val and what do you most enjoy about the process?
November 1st at the BFI London and Cineworld
Didsbury Manchester with the UK premiere of the
We have hundreds of films submitted to us throughout the
French romantic comedy Paris-Manhattan, written
year and I see many more potential titles at film festivals
and directed by Sophie Lellouche. Informed by the
around the world. One of the most exciting things about the
eternal wisdom of Woody Allen and featuring a cameo by the
process is seeing whats new in the film world, uncovering
auteur himself, Paris-Manhattan is about a young woman
new stories, unexpected and original ideas and, with it,
named Alice after Allens 1990 film whose choices
privilege and responsibility of curating an attracin life and love are shaped by the philosophies of her
The UK Jew- the
tive and well-balanced programme. This years profavourite filmmaker.
ish Film Festi- gramme includes films from many dierent countries
Debut filmmaker Sophie Lellouche, who is based in val November which oer a fascinating insight into Jewish lives, his1st-18th tory, and culture around the world.
Paris, will introduce the film in London and will take
part in a Q&A session afterwards. Im very honoured to
Do you work with other Jewish festivals?
participate in the UK Jewish Film Festival and cannot wait
to meet the audience, says Sophie.
Ive been acting as consultant and co-curator for a number of
festivals since 2005 when I assisted and mentored the sta
This years UK Jewish Film Festival will show more than 70 feaand volunteers of the first Zagreb Jewish Festival. Im so
ture films, documentaries, short films, and TV specials from all
pleased and proud to be able to pass on my knowledge and
over the world at venues across London. In a first for the fesexperience to international festival organisers; recently weve
tival, simultaneous screenings will take place in Manchester,
worked with Jewish Festivals in San Francisco, Las Vegas, GeLeeds, Liverpool, and Glasgow. Since its foundation in 1997
neva, Budapest, Odessa, Lisbon, and Berlin. In fact we regularly
by Executive Director Judy Ironside, the UK Jewish Film Festicollaborate with around 20 Jewish Festivals worldwide.
val has provided an unrivalled showcase for works on Jewish
themes by filmmakers from all over the world
Interview - Michael Etherton, MD of UK Jewish Film Festival
Interview - JUDY IRONSIDE, Founder and Executive Director
Where is the UK Jewish Film Festival taking place this year?
You founded the Festival in 1997 what inspired you?
London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, and Glasgow. Weve
been planning an expansion of the Festival to cities outside
Ive always been involved in the creative arts and, as a member
London for a while and are really delighted that its come to
of the British Association of Drama Therapists, I worked with
fruition for 2012. This years programme is really comprehenyoung people with special needs with an emphasis on sharsive and features drama, documentaries, short films, TV shows;
ing individual life stories. As a result I had the idea of creatin fact its a programme designed to appeal to a broad range of
ing a festival where the power of film and the value of stories
film fans around the country.
combine to promote understanding and respect. I founded the
Brighton Jewish Film Festival in 1997 showing films with JewWhat can we expect from this years UK Jewish Film Festival?
ish themes, establishing Holocaust education screenings and
discussions and meeting filmmakers from around the world. In
A fantastic range of contemporary world cinema with more
2004 I decided to take the festival national with the establishthan 70 film premieres and previews from 20 countries. This
ment of the UK Jewish Film Festival.
includes award winning drama like the exclusive preview of
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Lore by much feted Australian director Cate Shortland; landmark films

about iconic figures like Gainsbourg
on Gainsbourg: An Intimate Portrait
and Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir; cutting edge political documentaries like One Day After Peace and
Poisoned and real life dramas such
as The Portrait of Wally and Life In
Stills. There will also be lots of opportunities to engage in post-screening
discussions, to meet filmmakers and to
share thoughts and ideas. Its the perfect festival experience!
Do you feel that Jewish cinema is garnering a more mainstream audience?
Interview - Stephen Margolis, Chair of

UK Jewish Film
How will you develop the Festival in
your new role as Chair of UK Jewish
Film?
We want to broaden the demographic
and focus on emerging talent and provide opportunities to help the producers, directors, writers, cast and crew
of tomorrow. For instance our Emerging Filmmakers Day (November 11th)
will run workshops, talks, training and
mentoring sessions with the likes of
Tim Bevan and Michael Kuhn and will
provide budding filmmakers a chance
to screen their work. I think its vital
to encourage fledgling filmmakers by
giving them access to information and
expertise and were delighted that luminaries from the British film industry
are stepping up to take part.
Tell us about the fund raising for the
Festival?
There are financial pressures on any
film festival in any part of the world.
We need to find a commercial base to
what we are doing in order to help support our artistic aims. UK Jewish Film
is blessed by having some very supportive benefactors who help us with
a fund for short films the Pears Foundation Short Film Fund and to finance
emerging talent so we need to develop
those relationships and expand our
base of supporters. Im very excited
about being appointed as chairman
and I feel its a fantastic way to give
something back to a fantastically exciting industry which has been my life
for so many years.
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For screenings at all other venues,

tickets can only be purchased directly from the venue:
Tricycle, Barbican www.tricycle.co.uk
Cine Lumiere www.institut-francais.org.uk
Everyman Hampstead
www.everymancinema.com
Genesis
www.genesiscinema.co.uk
Lexi
www.thelexicinema.co.uk
Phoenix - www.phoenixcinema.co.uk
Cornerhouse Manchester
www.cornerhouse.org
Cineworld Didsbury
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Seven Arts Centre Leeds
www.sevenleeds.co.uk
Woolton Picture House Liverpool
wooltonpicturehouse.com
Glasgow Film Theatre
www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre
Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow
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Absolutely. These are universal stories, issues and ideas. The films that
include Jewish themes that we bring
are an important part of that mainstream of world cinema. The high profile and success of so many of the films
that we bring highlights that they are
being recognized and appreciated by a
very diverse audience.
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Video Festival
of Dallas premier
Edward Albee in Stages
Albee Portrait
Albee Portrait Session
The
Dark Side of the E.Mind
he documentary film,The Stages of Edward Albee,

by James Dowell and John Kolomvakis, oers an intimate, accessible, ninety-seven minute glimpse into
the life of an American literary giant. Intriguing for
fans and non-fans of the theatre, alike, its an engaging, lucid homage to the work and persona of a defining voice
for 20th century American drama. The film paints a portrait,
literally and figuratively, that illuminates playwright Edward Albees creative process and dramatizes his formidable impact on artists, colleagues and audiences.
windows and doorways. Albees associates clearly wanted to

share their experiences of the remarkable playwright; Dowell
and Kolomyakis congenial demeanor and natural interview
style set everyone at ease, allowing for the free flow of heartfelt expression.
Viewing the film, one loses all sense of the camera, as if

privileged to sit in on the conversations. Nationally recognized stage and film actors perform excerpts from Albees works, demonstrating examples of the stages
of creation referred to in the title. Interviews feature
playwrights John Guare, Tony Kushner and Terrence
McNally, as well as respected actors Rosemary Harris,
Bill Pullman, Bill Irwin, Judith Ivey, Kathleen Turner and
Marian Seldes. Pullmann, Irwin, Turner annd Seldes perform readings from The Zoo Story (1958), Whos Afraid
of Virginia Woolf (1962) and Three Tall Women (1990
-1991).
a film
not to be
missed
Mention Edward Albee to a room full of theatre bus,

and the conversation may explode with intense emotion. Love him or despise him as a playwright, Albees
work assaulted American theatre, a tsunami of imagery,
themes, unforgettable characters and sweeping transformation. Almost twenty years ago, Dowell and Kolomyakis
embarked on the creation of A New York Triptych of documentary films examining 20th and 21st century cultural experience, through introspective revelation of aspects of three
iconic artists lives. They knew they wanted to include the
Kennedy Center, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright
Edward Albee, but they werent sure how to proceed, or if he
would consent to project inclusion.
Riding on the New York subway one day, the men spied Albee sitting directly across from them. With trepidation, they
approached. We planned to try to get in touch with you, but
since we saw you here, we thought wed ask. They dined with
him and a mutual friend, composer and diarist Ned Rorem, who
broached the subject of making a film. Numerous interviews
were scheduled. Over a seven year period, Dowell and Kolomyakis met with Albee at his rural home in Montauk, where he
talked casually at length about his life and career and beliefs
while Mr. Dowell painted his portrait. Notable playwrights, colleagues, actors, journalists and personal associates of Albee
volunteered their time and energy to share, with enormous
candor and passion, their perspectives on his life and artistry.
What results on film is a panoramic view of lives greatly impacted by Albee and his work, revealed with remarkable openness, sincerity, humor and respect. The scenes filmed at Albees
home reflect a life of unexpected tranquility. A microphone
mixes in the sweetness of birdsong wafting through open
The Stages of Edward Albee has its World Premiere Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:45pm as part of the 25th Annual
Video Festival of Dallas at the Dallas Museum of Arts Horchow
Auditorium. The website www.videofest.org, describes the
Dallas Video Festival as one of the oldest nonprofit film festivals in the USand focuses on independent, experimental, and
short films, as well as alternative documentaries, animation,
and more. Many filmmakers attend the screenings and oer
commentary afterwards. Dowell and Kolomyakis will attend
the September 29 screening.
The Video Festival of Dallas run on September 26 30, every
year. Please visit: www.videofest.org
The Stages of Edward Albee represents the final third of the
nineteen year film project odyssey A New York Triptych. The
project also examines the lives and work of poet, novelist and
collage artist Charles Henri Ford in Sleep in a Nest of Flames
and Pulitzer prize-winning composer and diarist Ned Rorem in
Ned Rorem: Word & Music.
As run in abbreviated form on TheaterJones.com
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Mankind is the problem and need to be destroyed.
lific Italian director Giacomo Mantovani

(Adamant, Political Asylum, 2011).
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This successful symbolic and intimate

work has had 2 thousand likes in less than
This is the end of everything. Inside an old 5 days at the Virgin Media Short, one of the
workshop at an unknown location, Duncan main short movie competitions in England
and Gunda have laboured to build a spe- awarding young talent all over the world
cial weapon that can wipe humanity from and working with the BFI.
the face of the planet. In The Dark Side of
the Mind, two young talented actors em- I make movies to open minds, not to enbody the never ending struggle between tertain. This is the worthy and challenggood and bad sides of the human mind. ing aim of Giacomo Mantovani. Lets wait
Duncans sentiments represent how man- for more from this award-winning director
kind thinks in its darkest moments while who has already proven to have both talthe weapon represents his ultimate anni- ent and a great amount of technical skill.
hilative solution; all within this 3 minute
film, the latest work of the young and pro-
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After the shooting with busboy Juan Rom
Cash prize for Journalist student
niversity College Falmouth

MA International Journalism
student Emma Fry has landed
10,000 for her first professional
documentary.
Emma is the first student to have

won the award and was the youngest among more than 100 applications from film makers pitching for
the cash at this years prestigious
Sheeld Doc/Fest. Emma filmed in
Cambodia as part of her MA project at
University College Falmouth and will
now go back in November to use the
10,000 she was awarded to produce
a full film.
The theme for this years entries was

Women mean business and Emmas
documentary will feature the work of
female land mine clearers in Cambodia. Most of the land mines remain
from the times of the Khmer Rouge in
the 1970s. Devices still buried in the
fields have caused more than 40,000
Cambodians to suer amputations as
a result of mine injuries since 1979.
Emmas work documents the women
who risk their lives every day undertaking land mine clearing as a profession.
Women in developing countries are
often led to believe they should have
little to do with commerce. Commenting on this Emma said: It was

nice to see these women play such
an important role in their community
and I was very surprised at how they
showed no fear for the task at hand.
One of the women had a major in accounting, but seeing villagers injured
by the mines she wanted to focus on
helping these people instead.
For some time it was uncertain if

Emma was even going to make it to
the pitch, with dates of the festival
colliding with her first planned trip to
Cambodia.
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Programme Leader of Journalism at University College Falmouth,

George Matheson, said: The MA courses provide students with
a wide range of skills preparing them for the real working life of
journalism with around 80 per cent of our MA students ending up
with jobs in the industry after theyve graduated.
This is a fantastic award worth a lot of money and it shows that
Emma is already able to compete with some of the best in the industry. Im confident shell use the money to produce some great
journalism.
The documentary will be shown on the Community Channel in
the first instance but following the initial screening Emma will be
helped in finding other outlets to showcase the film.
A taster of Emmas work so far is available on her blog: http://missemmafry.wordpress.com/
The award is funded by CBA World View which is supported by
the governments Action Aid
Leveson Inquiry dragging feet on

100,000 for Tailban Documentary
Investigation or Not?
Is paying the Taliban 100,000 during a time of hostilities an
Act of treason?
Last issue we covered a story about an unprecedented access documentary on the Taliban that was made possible
by paying the Taliban 100,000 in cash.
I had to rebook the trip and I lost

a lot of money on the flights, but I
thought it was too good an opportunity to miss, she said.
The Sheeld Doc/Fest sees representatives of the British documentary industry come together under
one roof. It attracts leading documentary makers and executives in
British television.
Speaking about her pitch and being
the least experienced film maker
standing up in front of the crowd,
Emma added: I was terrified, especially as it was my first public pitch
but the training and skills I have
picked up on the Falmouth MA gave
me the confidence to win.
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This incident began with a series of negotiations meetings about how the filming could be achieved. The media
organizations team approached a number of politicians
and contacts who had direct links to the Taliban in Kabul.
An agreement was put in place: upon receipt of 100,000 in
cash, the media organizations team would be given unprecedented access to the Taliban. We are led to believe that
it was an assistant producer from the media organization
who smuggled the 100,000 in cash through UK customs
in hand luggage to Afghanistan. The deal was apparently
sanctioned by the head of the media organization. We have
no doubt as to the reliability of this information.
Although this information was forwarded to the Levinson
Inquiry and the US authorities no action has yet been taken
against the Media Organization not has any contact been
made with UFM. Perhaps the Medis Corporation is above
the Law!
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PRIVATE PEACEFUL
B
ased on the bestselling book of the same name, PRIVATE

PEACEFUL is a story beloved by many and written by celebrated author, Michael Morpurgo OBE, author of the smash
hit novel WAR HORSE.
PRIVATE PEACEFUL is the classic rites of passage story of two

brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love
for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the
horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and
cowardice. PRIVATE PEACEFUL is set in the fields of Devon and
the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, giving us a heart-breaking
glimpse of the way we once lived and still die.
PRIVATE PEACEFUL is directed by established director Pat
OConnor whose body of work includes Cal, Circle of Friends
and Inventing the Abbotts. With starring roles from exciting
young talent, Jack OConnell (Skins, Harry Brown), George MacKay (The Boys are Back, Defiance) and Alexandra Roach (The
Iron Lady, Anna Karenina), PRIVATE PEACEFUL also features a
host of British talent including Richard Griths (Harry Potter,
Hugo, Pirates of the Caribbean), Maxine Peake (Shameless, See
No Evil, Criminal Justice), Frances de la Tour (Rising Damp, Harry Potter, Hugo) and John Lynch (Sliding Doors, Cal).
PRIVATE PEACEFUL WILL BE RELEASED IN CINEMAS ACROSS THE
UK ON 12 OCTOBER 2012
Queen Ratling Jenny Maynard

&
all members of the
Grand Order of Lady Ratlings
welcome you to their events
Annual Ball 21 October 2012
For details of GOLR events
visit
www.golr.co.uk
or email the Secretary
susannahkl111@aol.com
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Plenty of space for your

descriptions in this
Common Gender
Screening for Golden Globes in Beverly Hills
by PJ Pawlak
Common Gender, Bangladeshs entry for Best Foreign
Film screened Saturday night in Beverly Hills at the historic and nostalgic Charles Adiko Screening Room for
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Directed by Noman Robin, Common Gender is based on
a true story about the ostracization of Transgender people in Bangladesh. Shunned at birth, given up by parents
these brave souls live together in squalor conditions
surviving on handouts.
So extreme is their groups disfranchise, that they are
not even allowed to be buried at the end of their time.
The film follows such a group of Transgender individuals and how they cope with loss of family through hope,
love and song and optimism.
Common Gender had a long and successful theatrical
release in Bangladesh which is one of the prerequisites
for submission to the prestigious Golden Globes. The
characters stay with you as you travel with them in their
journey for recognition in their community. Costumes
are colorful and dances numbers are spectacular.
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The after party was a delight with food provided by

the Bangladesh community. Drinks flowed and conversations abounded concerning this very controversial
subject. The highlight of the evening was a Bangladesh
dance provided by one of the stars of the film Cindy
Rolling in traditional Bangladesh costume.
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Issue 6 of 2012
HOMEGROWN GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL by Berwyn Rowlands

winner to make a new short film. It continues to be the
largest LGBT film prize in the world and there lies the
secret to her success.
Iris is oering something unique support, guidance
and funding which will always be attractive to film makers from all over the world. The main film festival element of Iris has grown organically around the prize. We
have seen a sustainable growth in our audience which
from day one continues to be diverse - 30% identify as
straight. This is very unusual for an LGBT film festival; it
is normally about 2%, if that.
There are hundreds of film festivals if not thousands taking place all over the world. Many play
an important role in making films available to
an audience deprived of diversity at a time
when it feels that our cinema screens are taken
over by a small number of mainstream films. However in
this post digital age I think you could argue that the audience is probably better served than at any other time,
and today you can access films in many dierent ways:
DVDs, blu rays, on-line, TV, etc.
From the start the stakeholders, notably the UK Film

Council (now the BFI), wanted the festival to be a celebration of excellence in story telling through film.
This approach implies that anybody who loves cinema
would have a legitimate interest in who would win the
Iris Prize. So although we are first and foremost a gay
and lesbian film festival our focus is equally split between the traditional issues of representation and a
celebration of excellence and standards in film making.
Careful marketing and programming coupled with entertaining guests and lots of socialising are the basic
ingredients for any festival. With careful planning, hard
work and an element of luck, success should follow, and
the Iris journey to date is no dierent.
So why would you go about creating yet another film

festival in Wales? And why would you make it a gay
and lesbian festival. (Wales is generally not recognised as a global gay and lesbian player)
25,000
for the
In this our sixth year, to keep things fresh, exciting and relevant weve tried going up a gear or
two this has become our motto for 2012 and
Ive asked this question when looking at the big
stu as well as the smaller details.
The answer to the second point is relatively

winner
straight forward (no pun intended). Wales post
devolution is a confident place where the yes
we can mentality is prevalent. So if you have a
One of the biggest developments is our extra
good idea there is a sense that anything can happen
day, making Iris a five day festival. Weve used the
and adding Cardi to that list of globally recognised gay
day to introduce a new style Iris Awards hosted by Amy
friendly capitals is both fun and scary but ultimately an
Lam, who visits Wales for the first time fresh from a
achievable goal. I can see it now: Sydney, San Francisco,
successful stint at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The
and Cardi (OK the first two are not capital cities but
awards will include a champagne reception, lunch and
you get my drift).
entertainment; all the key elements people expect
when youre presenting such a prestigious prize.
But why another film festival? I addressed this issue at
the start by oering the Iris Prize and making this the
Iris is a growing global family which is proud to call Carfocus. The Iris Prize is still a whopping 25,000 for the
di and Wales home.
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Jack Ryan
ilming has begun on Jack Ryan with an all-star
cast. The film is directed by Kenneth Branagh.
The story follows CIA agent Ryan as he uncovers
a financial terrorist plot that takes him to Moscow, London and New York.
Written by David Koepp the movie stars, Chris Pine and
Ben Aeck with Keira Knightley as his fianc Cathy
Muller, Kevin Costner as Ryans CIA handler Harper and
Peter Andersson as security agent Dmitri Lemkov.
Jack Ryans character previous screen appearances
were The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear
and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears.
The movies is set for release at the end next year.
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BBC ROCKED
BY CHILD ABUSE ALLAGATIONS
The BBC alleged child abuse

scandal that has hit the headlines
recently has now become a threat
to the existence of the BBC itself. Allegations of child about now incorporate
two inquiries at the BBC and a Police
investigation that involves hundreds
of complaints against celebrities and
a series of arrests are now imminent.
The scandal bears an uncanny similarity to another recent expos of child
abuse in the UK. The discovery that
the UK Media Haunt: the Groucho Club,
had one of the the largest child abuse
networks in UK history operating on
the clubs online members only forum
was simply covered up. Despite the
network operating with complete impunity for almost a year on the members forum, where children as young
as 7 years old were sold for sex, no
Karin Ward made the claims in documentary on ITV, a major public service
TV network in the United Kingdom.
Ms Ward claims that she was abused
by another television presenter when
she was 14 years old, and saw Glitter
having sex with an underage girl in Sir
Jimmy Saviles dressing room.
The Director-General of the BBC,
George Entwistle, said that he would
like to apologise on behalf of the BBC.
However, he ruled out an internal inquiry into the damning child abuse
claims despite a multitude of victims
coming forward stating they were
abused on BBC property. The BBC faced
mounting pressure to investigate the
damning claims.
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, called for the allegations of sexu-
Police now investigating

hundreds of complaints
action was taken. The Groucho Club

discovery was also promptly followed
by a Police cover-up and the destruction of evidence. UK politicians who
queried the Polices failure to fully
investigate the paedophile network
were presented with a false report.
We now come full circle, and over a
year and a half later, one of the UKs
most well-known and respected institutions is also under attack over child
abuse allegations and another alleged
cover-up. This time its the UKs own
BBC that has been rocked by allegations that children were abused at
the BBCs own studios in London by
a host of celebrities. The recent avalanche of allegations followed claims
by a woman who alleges that she witnessed the BBC celebrity presenter,
Sir Jimmy Savile, and a convicted paedophile pop star, Gary Glitter, sexually abusing underage girls in in the
dressing rooms at the BBC studios.
al abuse to be thoroughly investigated.

The PM said that the womens claims of
sexual abuse as teenagers at the BBC
were truly shocking. He said that
the allegations should be looked into
by the BBC and, if necessary, by the
police. At this stage the BBC then did
a complete U-turn: George Entwistle
said the BBC Corporation would conduct an inquiry into alleged abuse of
teenage girls after all, but only after a
police investigation had concluded.
Just hours after Mr. Cameron called
for a full internal investigation, former
BBC chief, Mark Thompson, who stood
down last month, made the astonishing claim that he knew nothing about
the alleged abuse of teenage girls and
had not even heard rumours at any
time during his eight years as DirectorGeneral of the BBC.
Mr Entwistle told BBC Radio 4s Today
programme: These are awful
allegations that have been made,

and they are criminal allegations,
and the first thing I want to say
is that the women involved here
have gone through something awful, something I deeply regret they
should have to go through, and I
would like to apologise on behalf
of the organisation to each and
every one of them for what theyve
had to endure here.
Entwistle added that the BBC would
conduct its own inquiry when the
police have finished everything
they have to do, and when they
give me an assurance that there is
no danger of us in any way compromising or contaminating an investigation. He went on to say that
any investigation would need to be
done in two phases, and that the
BBC would take a look properly

after the police inquiry. So, its
critically important that we start by
putting the BBC at the disposal of
the police in this regard. Any BBC
probe, he added, would examine
the broad question of what was
going on and whether anybody
around Jimmy Savile knew what
was going on.
After BBC presenter Jimmy Savile
died on October 29 last year, the
BBCs Newsnight programme spent
six weeks investigating allegations that he abused pupils when
he was at the height of his fame in
the 1970s. BBC journalists spoke to
ten women who claimed they had
been abused or had knowledge of
abuse at the Duncroft School in
Surrey, UK, which was shut down
in 1980. But the investigation was
never aired after Peter Rippon, the
editor of Newsnight, decided to
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Savile was rotten, but he apparently

was not alone in this, and that the culture in at least part of the BBC was utterly corrupted.
Asked if he would call for ITV to hold
an inquiry as well, Wilson said, I hope
that any broadcaster that has these
sorts of allegations moves very swiftly
to deal with them. About 40 people
have now come forward. The police
are also planning to investigate claims
that Savile and an accomplice ran a sex
ring at the BBC.
A British Politician, Mr. Rob Wilson, MP

for Reading East, has written to the
chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten,
urging him to ensure the BBC is totally
transparent regarding all of the allegations being made. Speaking on the BBC
Radio 4 Today programme, Mr Wilson
said, Theres a lot more to this than
criminality this is about a culture that
apparently existed within, particularly
the BBC light entertainment department and who knows where else.
Wilson added, It was, according to
those who were part of it, an environment where young girls could be molested and possibly worse, and female
presenters groped. Now, this was allegedly tolerated, known about, and
allowed to continue, and its alleged
that a blind eye was turned to this.
Its becoming, with every passing day,
more and more obvious that Sir Jimmy
Wilson continued, The BBC is designed in such a way that news and current aairs programmes are protected
from the interests and influence of the
rest of the organisation. He added,
With the benefit of hindsight I think
we could all wish that Newsnight had
been able to go as far as ITV went.
A BBC spokesman said, Both the BBC
Trust and the Director-General have
stated that the police are the proper
authority to look into these serious
allegations. The BBCs internal investigations unit is helping them in every
Groucho Club forum

had children as young
as 7 available for sex
way possible. Mr Entwistle met with

police, and subsequently wrote to his
sta: I wanted to write to you at the
end of what has been a dicult week
for the BBC, following allegations from
a number of women that Jimmy Savile
sexually abused them when they were
young teenagers during the 1960s and
70s.
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Like everyone who works here, I was

appalled by the things I saw in the ITV
documentary. I am determined that
the corporation will do absolutely
everything it can to help find out what
happened. I want to make it clear that

full cooperation with the police on
this matter is vital. If any sta member,
past or present, knows anything they
think might help, I would urge them to
come forward.
Although the BBC tried hard to evade
the issue and put o calls for an investigation into the scandal, it would now
seem that there may be some light at
the end of the tunnel for the abused
victims, as the Prime Minister has taken an interest. However, it remains to
be seen if the BBC investigation will
be open and transparent, or if it will
follow in the footsteps of the Groucho
Club and the wall of silence surrounding that reprehensible aair.
To date, the management of the Groucho Club have refused to comment
on the child pornography network,
or issue a public statement outlining
their position. Those responsible for
destroying the evidence and covering it up have never been arrested or
charged. Perhaps the time may now
be right for an inquiry into the Groucho
Club child abuse network on their own
members forum which had 42,000
members. An inquiry would identify
those who were complicit in the conspiracy to cover it up. Its astonishing
that not one of the 42,000 members
on the forum reported the child abuse
ring to the Police.
However, given the political clout and
connections of the chairman of the
Groucho Club and conservative strategist, Mr, John Henry James Lewis OBE,
it would seem highly unlikely. It was
revealed recently at the Levenson Inquiry it was the same John H. J. Lewis
who paid for Jeremy Hunt the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics,
Media and Sport at the time to fly to
New York for a series of meetings to
discuss the BSKYB deal with the Murdoch family.
The user names and dates of birth of
many of the forum users are to be published in the next edition of this Magazine. Information on the Groucho Club
courtesy of the Groucho Gate Aair a
book due out in early 2013
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before the BBC broadcasted three
separate tributes to the alleged paedophile, Sir Jimmy Savile, during the
weeks surrounding Christmas, 2011.
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TOP
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BY MARTIN BELDERSON
Recently, after twenty years of making documentaries for TV, I decided to

make a feature length documentary
movie. Coming from the sheltered
world of TV, learning how films are financed has been a steep, scary learning curve for me.
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Now Im not here to bore you with my trials and tribulations of the last year but
one thing in particular fascinated me.
It was the near constant variation on a
theme Id hear again and again from other documentarians, sales agents, distributors, production accountants, venture
capital types, good friends, bad friends,
people I struck up conversations with on
public transport. Well, maybe not the latter, but you get my point. They all said,
Youre crazy, theres no box oce in documentaries, never has been.
Why would anyone invest in one? It
would often be qualified with, Unless
youre Michael Moore, of course. Sometimes Morgan Spurlock got a mention
It is plain that my definition of the word

documentary is not the IMDbs. Sure, it
is no surprise to anyone that Fahrenheit
911 is in there at Number One, but if
they think Jackass is a documentary, we
are never going to agree. So I stripped
out all of what I called performance
films, mainly live concerts.
As I have not seen all of the Top 100, it is
a subjective opinion. How skimpy does
the backstage coverage of a live gig need
to be before it is crossed o the list?
Justin Bieber survived the cull; Hannah
Montana and Miley Cyrus did not.
from the cognoscenti, but thats it. They

all thought that Don Quixote tilting at
windmills was an act of sanity compared
to what Im attempting.
It is true that only the most cynical person would make a documentary purely
for the money. If they did, it would almost certainly be a terrible film. It is also
true that a lot of documentary features
get funded, produced and distributed
every year, usually because they are publicising an issue of social justice and their
backers accept that they will not make
money. Thats great; those stories need
to be told, but the weird thing is how, especially for a filmmaker coming from TV
where documentaries cover a very wide
never has done, and was not worth the

investment. I decided to break the remaining list down by decade of production, by sub-genre (social issue, music,
natural history etc.) and by return on investment. A mere fifty-six seemed like
too small a sample to do all this analysis,
so I dug further down into the IMDb rankings until I had a Top 100 that matched
my criteria.
spectrum, in the film world social issues

are seen as the principle purpose of documentary.
All those comments triggered my investigative instincts. Could it be true that
only rarely do documentaries make a
profit? Should professionals like me
surrender the field to people with trust
funds or activist groups willing to finance their projects? I decided to have
a look at the Internet Movie Database
(pro.imdb.com). One of the things you
can do on their site is rank films by box
oce income. I did that and up came
the top one hundred grossing documentaries of all time. Here, it got interesting. Take at look at the Top 10.
It is always a good idea to compare your

information against another source,
so I crosschecked the IMDb list against
Box Oce Mojos (boxocemojo.com).
IMDb bought BOMO a few years ago
but, luckily for me, BOMOs definition of
documentary matches mine much more
closely. Only one IMAX film (Born to Be
Wild) and one performance film (Martin
Scorceses Shine A Light) snuck in their
Top 100.
I looked again. And the big beast that

is IMAX stared back at me. With their
unique format, distribution, pricing and
screening system, it seemed unfair to include them in a list of general box oce.
Wincing because there are so many IMAX
films that I love; they too were struck
from the list. That left just fifty-six true
documentaries standing, with Michael
Moore at the top and Werner Herzogs
Grizzly Man in at the bottom.
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two lists only agree about one
film, Fahrenheit 911. The reason has to be that IMDb rank
films by US box oce and BOMO
by the much larger worldwide
box oce. The US market is
incredibly important to documentaries but averages 56.7%
of those films in the Top 100s
where both US and worldwide
box oce are recorded.
I discovered another strange
quirk. Six of BOMOs films are
not even ranked by IMDb and
eighteen of my adjusted IMDb
Top 100 get no mention in
BOMO. Enough was enough. I
combined the two lists using
largest reported worldwide income alone and drew up my own
Top 100. Heres the top 10:
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Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock have
to take a lot of the credit for the huge
chunk of box oce swallowed up by the
current aairs sub-genre, but its success is
not because of their films alone. There are
fourteen movies in there, the same number as in the music sub-genre.
I expected sport documentaries to do well,
but this category is the big underachiever,
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appeal in the US. There are plenty of them

but they tend be low-ranking. The overachieving categories are natural history
and mysteries. The former is no real surprise. Wildlife films have a global reach
and easily overcome language barriers.
The latter reflects the 1970s enthusiasm
for Eric von Daniken, Noahs Ark, and the
mysteries of Ancient Egypt.
I am sure some of you are dying to know
whats in the fake genre. It is Catfish
from 2010, which many think is a beautifully constructed romance disguised as
a documentary. When I saw it I liked this
film, but from almost the first minute was
questioning how it could have been filmed
without staging the whole story. Yet there
is no advantage whatsoever in pretending
it is a documentary. Should I have dumped
it early on along with Jackass I, II and III?
Maybe, but it is a lovely little film and the
jury is still out on its authenticity. For the
time being it stays put.

Natural history aside, most of these films
could be made for less $2 million including delivering multi-format prints to distributors etc. Spend the same money on a
low budget indie-drama and would you get
box oce like this? It would be interesting
to find out. Maybe thats for another article, but, as Im talking about income again,
lets have a look at return on investment
(ROI) which is a films box oce income divided by how much it cost to make. Here
the figures are problematic. Both IMDb
and BOMO report budget totals, but only
for about a third of the films. Also, there
is no straightforward way of checking the
figures are accurate. And there are way too
many suspiciously round figures.
With that in mind, here they are.
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You can see for yourself the crazy spread

of budget totals. Super Size Me at $65K
surely only reflects above the line costs.
Preparing the deliverables alone would
have cost at least $100K. At the other
end of the scale, Capitalism: A Love Story
comes in at what looks to me like a wildly
over-priced $20million. I do believe the
total for Winged Migration. It is a remarkable film and a technical triumph, but also
an eye-wateringly expensive film to make.
What can we make of all this? Not a great
deal when it comes to ROI, although what
is interesting is the spread of chart positions. If nothing else, it hints that size of
profit does not necessarily equal size of
box oce.
What then are we left with? I take many
things from this research. It shows a broad
range of sub-genres attracted, and continues to attract, large audiences. At the top
there is no dilution eect. Decade-by-decade, the number of successful documentaries is expanding and box oce takings
have kept pace. Also, big budgets are not a
guarantee of success, either in audience or
return on investment.
Some words of warning. If you try to raise
finance for your documentary using this
article as evidence you will probably not
impress any sales agents or sales companies you show it to. They openly admit
they do not understand the genre and will
only take your project on if you already
have a finished film. There may be exceptions to this but I havent met one. I can
understand their position. They too have
to make subjective decisions but ones that
aect their livelihoods. Why take a risk?
Another way of looking at it was put to me

by a film financier when I discussed this research with him. Say I have $20 million
a year to invest, what am I going to do?
he said, Invest in twenty $1 million documentaries over which I will not be able to
keep control, or one indie [drama] costing
the entire amount into which I can put all
my energy to make sure it delivers a return? The answer is obvious.
So, no short cut to full finance, but at least
you now know that documentaries do deliver at the box oce; that you dont have
to be a Michael Moore or a Morgan Spurlock to do so; and that if you get the right
story, there is a mass audience out there
for it.
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Actor, producer and journalist Ron Gilbert ..
Silver Case shines in exposing Hollywood filmmaking
fter finally seeing this film on the

big screen, at the LA Film & TV Festival at the magnificent Chaplin theater
in front of an enthusiastic audience and
I was blown away by the production values. This film is a great example for any
filmmaker who wants the crash into the
Hollywood film scene using their own
vision and not governed by corporate
film studio executives.
Director Christian Filippella and his

producing partners Claire Falconer, Salvatore Zannini, Brian Keith Gamble, Corrado Musso and others put their metal to
the petal driving this film into the most
prestigious festivals with a film that is a
low budget comedy. After screening at
Rome International Film Festival, Fantafestival and Salento International Film
Festival they won the distribution award
at the Tolentino International.
Film Festival and the film will be dubbed
and released theatrically at the end of
the year. So after screening at 30 film
festivals and winning 11 festival awards
which is not an easy feat they are still on
the festival circuit.
I met Christian, who is also an AFI fellow,

about 2 years ago, at a Cinema Italian
Style function, when he was planning
his filming schedule and he asked me to
join the cast and I was happy to accommodate him. He was inspired by Italian
Noir films from the 50s 60s and 70s and
had met Salvatore Zannino, who was a
very important link in finding costumes
and props that would represent this sort
of bizarre extravagant world he had in
mind.
They felt that tailor looking suits for the
leads Caesar (Chris Facey) and Barabba
(Brian Keith Gamble) was essential and
costumer Sarah Le Feber was amazing
in helping to fine tune the looks for the
director. He had modeled for Gianni Versace, Ingrami, Joseph Abboud, Marithe &
Francios Girbaud, and is a model buddy
of Channing Tatum, so it was a natural progression going from the fashion
world to being a producer in the movie
world. With very limited resources they
managed to find wonderful locations
that give to the film a strong feeling of
reality even in situations which are quite
far from being realistic. In fact, the film
is a grotesque satire about Hollywood,

an adventurous dark comedy with hints
of action and almost comic strips characters.
Barabba and Caesar, the main characters,
are two farcical thugs, arousing sympathy and they are everyday heroes, which
make it is easy to identify with them.
They talk simple, they dont think too
much and they fight hard to obtain their
goals. They always wear the same clothes
throughout the film, sweat, get dirty and
drive an old cop car. It is impossible not
to like them. Consequently it is easy to
read their violence in the film as a form
of survival so we all easily identify with
them in our own daily life. Their reaction
to the system is what ideally each of us
would like to do but dont because our
educational makeup.
So this film was more like a life experience for the director under the circumstances under which the film was shot.
Due to budget reasons he had to cover
many dierent positions from producing to production design, from editing
to cinematography. To facilitate his
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work a few camera buddies helped him during some of the most intense filming days. Even with necessary compromises he
stayed faithful to the vision we had before filming. In fact the film is a grotesque satire about Hollywood and the behavior
which we have been subconsciously inducted into.
This inspired the film and a look at the absurd world of Hollywood and its apparently illogical producing system. I think the
answer is in Barabbas surprising wisdom in his insanely long monologue in the camera car sequence You know what the real
problem is? It isnt about the individual anymore. When you boil it down, were all just sheep. Its the corporations taking over
the world. And we just let them... I mean, its ridiculous that in order to get something you need to get something else and that
thing you want or you need to get is tied to the other one you needed to get in the first place..So theres no way youre going
to get that first thing without getting the second one and thats because its simply impossible to get that thing without having
gotten the other one first, which is the way it is.
Silver Case was made to break the rules without necessarily following all the logical criteria of movie production. Shot on digital and creating what the French New Wave and the Italian Neorealism did with filming and editing many years ago. Barabba,
(Brian Keith Gamble) interprets this character magnificently by totally becoming an obstinate surprisingly smart criminal as
stubborn as a mule. His marriage to his partner in crime .Caesar (Chris Facey) through the film is fantastic. He won out over 1000
actors who auditioned and
observes the world around
him with the eyes of a kid
and seems to live in his own
world when he suddenly has
these genial intuitions.
In casting other characters,
Salvatore
suggested Oscar nominee,
Eric Roberts and he fitted
him in a fashion sense in
J. Lindberg suits, Rosetti &
Moreschi shoes, and Emilio
Pucci ties from Mantero
showroom. So along with 2
Oscar nominees ,Seymour
Cassel and Eric Roberts and
the rest of the cast is also
fantastic using diversity in
casting with Asian, Latino,
Italian and African American
actors, Art Hsu, Alejandro
Cardenas, Shalim Ortiz, Vincent De Paul, Claire Falconer,
Fernanda Romero, Kelvin
Han Yee, Brad Light, Ron Gilbert and Stanley B. Herman.
The psychological and social valency of Silver Case
is what makes this film so
interesting to watch. Under
the surface of apparently
innocuous dialogue and a
very simple motivating factor for the story, which is the
missed delivery of the briefcase, there is a complicated
world of significances. The
subtlety of the movie and its
characters is what makes this
film a strong film. The worldwide recognition for a film
shot in only 3 weeks using
just a Canon 5D mark II and
with a very limited budget is
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ZOE MOON ASTROLOGY MONTHLY FORECAST 2012
ARIES
TARUS
GEMINI
Three years of Karmic tests and self

mastery in relationships with partners,
agents, attorneys, and competitors ends
this month and you graduate challenges
that wont return for nearly 3 decades. You
now enter a new arena of mastery, tests,
leadership, and Karma through sex, intimacy, reproduction, divorce, loans, debt,
inheritance, settlements, investments,
bankruptcy, alimony, child support, taxes,
insurance, commissions, royalties, or
partners money. This is where you want
to get serious now. A new beginning
opens up with romantic or business partners, representatives or opponents on
the 15th and the 2 weeks that follow.
Income peaks in achievements or endings
by the 29th.
Saturn wraps up his 3 year test through

work, health and pets and your relationship dynamics there. This month he
begins the next phase which will take you
into new levels of mastery, tests, leadership, and Karma through romantic or
business partners, agents, attorneys, specialists, competitors, advocates, or opponents. These connections will require a
serious approach, limits, responsibility,
and commitment or endings. You get a
fresh start at work, with co-workers,
employees, services you offer, health, or
pets on the 15th onward. Something
about who you are, your body, image, or
identity hits a high note by the 30th.
Relationship tests and Karmic encounters

that have played out over true love, children and creative projects the last 3 years
ends this month as Saturn leaves Libra.
You now begin a new phase of tests,
mastery, leadership, and Karma that will
play out at work, with co-workers,
employees, services, health, or pets. These
areas will need serious approaches, limits,
responsibility, and commitment or
endings. New possibilities in love, with
kids or creative projects open on the 15th
and the 2 weeks that follow. A film, music
or art project, hospital or addictive matter,
clandestine affair, spiritual interest, research project, or investigation peaks by the
29th
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You have hosted Saturn for the last 3 years
and are now graduating from the toughest
personal and physical testing period of a
29 year cycle. You should feel like you are
more grown up and self-reliant than you
were when this began. You wont have
such a challenge for another 29 years.
Now you enter a new test period that will
involve mastery, Karma, leadership, ambitions, responsibility, and commitment or
endings tied to income so get serious
about the money you earn. You get a new
beginning on a personal or physical level
on the 15th and 2 weeks that follow so go
for that new look, body, identity, or desire.
Sex, divorce or big financial matters peak
by the 29th
SCORPIO
Saturn has been cleaning out your Karmic
closet for the past 3 years helping you
grow up and deal with anything hidden,
addictive, or subconscious and to take
responsibility for film, music, art, spiritual
interests, psychic or magical interests,
clandestine affairs, self-sabotage, hospitals, prisons or addictions, research, or
investigations as you mastered new levels
through these topics. He now starts a
cycle through your sign which is the
beginning of a whole new 29 year cycle of
your life, baby steps are important as will
be getting serious, stepping up, taking on
more leadership for yourself, and structuring your life. New artistic, spiritual or
romantic opportunities open from the
15th and 2 weeks that follow. A relationship peaks by the 29th.
SAGITTARIUS
You have had serious and Karmic dynamics at play with friends, groups, the
internet, astrology, charities, and aspirations over the last 3 years as Saturn has
tested relationships here and asked you to
deal with limits, loss or maturity between
all of this. Now he lightens up here and
moves into your Karmic closet where he
starts a new cycle where you will master
another level of responsibility through
time behind closed doors, in retreat, with
secrets, clandestine affairs, strategies,
hidden enemies, hospitals, prisons, addictions, film, music, the arts, spiritual interests, psychic abilities, and development.
This is where you will get serious, set limits,
take charge, commit or end things. New
social opportunities, internet or astrology
interests, charitable works, and group
affiliations open on the 15th and 2 weeks
that follow. Work, health or pet matters
peak by the 29th.
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Three years have now gone by with tests,

Karmic moments, and mastery over your
home environment, moves, real estate
deals, mom, family, roommates, and security needs. That testing now eases not to
return for nearly 3 decades. Saturn now
takes the next level of mastery, Karma and
leadership into the area of true love, children and creative projects. These areas
will now be serious and require responsibility, ambition, structure, commitment or
endings. New opportunities at home, with
moves, real estate, family, mom, or
roommates open up on the 15th and the
2 weeks that follow. A peak moment
comes by the 29th with a friend, group,
social event, the internet, astrology, charities, or aspirations in celebration or
endings.
Saturn has been testing your ability to

grow up in the way you think, speak, write,
deal with agreements, get involved locally,
through short trips, with siblings,
neighbors, vehicles, and electronics these
past 3 years. This month a whole new set
of tests, Karma and self-mastery begin that
will play out at home, through moves, real
estate deals, family, mom, roommates, and
security needs or foundations. These are
the areas of serious approach, ambition,
mastery, and responsibility where you will
commit or end things. New writing, agreements, sibling or neighbor opportunities,
vehicles, electronics, short trips, local
activities, speaking roles, and ideas open
up from the 15th and 2 weeks that follow.
Career and authority matters peak by the
29th
Saturn has been testing your ambitions

and leadership abilities to earn money
these last 3 years and putting your relationships with partners, competitors and
representatives to the test as well as you
mastered a new level here. This month
Saturn takes his lessons, tests, mastery,
ambition, and Karma into your communications, writing, agreements, local activities, short trips, sibling or neighbor interactions, vehicles, electronics, and ideas
arena. You will be learning a new level
here and getting serious about responsibilities, commitment and endings. New
income opportunities open in the 2 weeks
that follow the 15th. A legal, media, publishing, marketing, educational, or travel
matter peaks by the 29th
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Career and bosses, authority figures and
ambitions have been where you have
been tested by Saturn the last 3 years as
he asked you to step up and learn another
level of mastery here in relationship to
partners, agents, attorneys, competitors,
or other significant people. Saturn now
exits this area and lifts that weight. He
moves into your social arena where your
next round of tests, Karma and responsibility will play out with friends, groups, the
internet, astrology, charities, and aspirations. This is where you want to get serious,
ambitious, commit to things or end them.
New career or boss opportunities open on
the 15th and 2 weeks that follow. A love,
child or creative interest peaks by the 29th
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Saturn has tested you and brought Karmic
commitments or endings through legal,
ceremonial, travel, foreign, media, marketing, publishing, or educational means
these last 3 years, urging you to grow up
here and reach another level. Now he exits
this arena and moves into your Midheaven
where you will now take on another level
of leadership, test and deal with Karma
playing out through career, bosses, authority figures, dad, reputation, fame, or
ambitions. This is where you should get
serious and know you will be making commitments or ending things. New legal,
ceremonial, travel, media, marketing,
publishing, or educational opportunities
open from the 15th and 2 weeks that
follow. A peak at home, with moves, real
estate, family, mom, or roommates, hits by
the 29th.
PISCES
The loans, debt, inheritance, bankruptcy,
settlement, insurance, taxes, commissions,
royalties, alimony, child support, divorce,
or sexual matters that have tested you and
brought Karma to bear over the past 3
years end this month as you have mastered a new level of maturity here. Saturn
now moves into the realm of law, media,
publishing, marketing, publicity, education, travel, import/export, and foreign
interest where you will meet new tests,
Karma, and self-mastery. Your ambitions,
leadership, and serious approach here
along with commitments or endings, will
see you through. New sexual attractions,
divorce or financial opportunities open
from the 15th and 2 weeks that follow. An
agreement, writing project, sibling or
neighbor issue, or decision peaks by the
29th.
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A new docudrama on Britains most prolific killer, Mad Frankie Fraser. He is reputed
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Fingal Film Festival
by Kevin Murphy
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR 2013
Following a hugely successful 2012, Fingal Film Festival Organisers are

back at their desks preparing for next years spectacular event 2013.
eptember 1st is the ocial date for submitting

films for consideration for the 2013 Festival, which
is due to take place at May of 2013.
As the submission date is launched, the Organisers are

planning a bigger event than last year, with a combination of workshops, equipment presentations. They also
plan to host a Classical film section, Q&A Screenings
and have a special section in the festival timetable for
youth filmmakers to showcase their work, also we will
be launching a short film Heritage and Culture section
from Fingal.
Managing Director Liz Kenny says; this year we expect to
attract filmmakers in the thousands to the event as the
Fingal Film Festival has now found its feet and understands what works best for us, after a wonderful year of
learning from our 2012 Festival, which was a huge success. The 2013 festival schedule is guaranteed to wet
the appetite of both established and aspiring filmmakers alike.
This year we are calling upon Filmmakers from all over

the world to submit their latest work. We encourage
new filmmakers to submit material, but this year are
also looking for submissions from the more established
filmmakers as well to showcase their work at the 2013
Fingal Film Festival says Creative Director Dave Byrne.
We are looking for Art House Features and Shorts, Feature Films, Documentary Features, Short Films,
Short Docs, Animations and anything else original and
quirky emerging filmmakers are working on that may
wet the appetite of our selection panel.
Application forms can be found at www.fingalfilmfest.
com Also be sure to check out 2012 Behind the Scenes
documentary FFF 2012 now showing on our website.
Normski Anderson
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