Archive for April, 2009

For those of you in NYC, please check out the Native Land Screening at the IFC Center on April 21st at 8:00 pm.  Manny Kirchheimer and Tom Hurwitz (the amazingly talented visual artist!) will be attending the screening and conducting a Q&A.  Native Land, co-directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, looks at labor struggles in...
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Mildred Richards is an Official Selection of the Newport Beach Film Festival! The Festival will showcase some amazing films from over 30 countries, with nightly special events, red carpet galas, post screening receptions, symposiums with filmmakers, international spotlights, industry seminars and retrospectives. Mildred Richards will screen in the program “Criminal Shorts” on Sunday, Apr 26th with: The Canadian Shield,...
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At the East Lansing Film Festival Marc was the invited guest speaker for the filmmaker panel moderated by Karl Schoonover, Professor of Film Studies at Michigan State University. This panel was very well attended and provided a lively discussion examining “what is independent filmmaking”. This topic then led to a discussion on the importance...
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We recently found out that ‘Mildred Richards’ is an official selection of the Boston International Film Festival.   Naomi Kondo, Festival Coordinator sent Marc Kess an email notifying him of our acceptance.  Here’s an excerpt: “I am writing to inform you with great pleasure and excitement that the Boston International Film Festival has accepted your film, “Mildred...
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