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| Director Avantika Hari |
Indie Fest awards it’s 2011 Humanitarian Award to:
Land Gold Women
A powerful film that hopes to raise awareness about
honor killings.
By Debbie L. Sklar
Land Gold Women is a feature film that revolves
around a small British-Asian family caught between their traditional past and
the tumultuous, faction-driven present. They are caught between Eastern
tradition, Western culture and political turbulence. At the core of the film is
the relationship between father and daughter, and how the dynamics of it play
out when the daughter decides to take her life into her own hands. This
Anglo-Indian collaboration aims to...
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 Indie Fest Places Documentary
with Distributor
By Yayoi Lena Winfrey
When most Americans think about the sport of surfing, they envision California
kids in colorful swimwear gliding atop the rolling ocean while listening to
sixties musical group The Beach Boys. But surfing originated with native
Hawaiians and other indigenous Polynesians before hitting the shores of America.
Today, the culture of surfing can be found just about anywhere there are waves,
including in Cuba.
In his documentary Havana Surf!, Rodrigo Diaz-McVeigh takes a group of
Cuban surfers on the road to ride the waves in different regions of...
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 Good-Bye Brother
Skylight Kunming Documentary Pays Homage
By Debbie L. Sklar
Rather than just say a simple good-bye to their brother, the late Michael
Sutherland of Santa Barbara, who died in an unexpected white water rafting
accident in his adopted home of Kunming, China in 2007, his siblings made a
short documentary film called Skylight Kunming: A Tribute to Michael
Sutherland, in his honor via their production company, Zag Zoo Films located in
Paris.
The film sketches the multifaceted pioneer credited with introducing...
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 A Passion for Distribution
California-based Multivisionnaire Media may be small, but it is mighty.
By Debbie L. Sklar
Good things are said to come in smaller packages.
Take Multivisionnaire Media, a Los Angeles-based international sales agent that
facilitates film distribution into all international territories.
Multivisionnaire primarily handles feature films that are Genre specific with
multiple marketing hooks.
“Our current focus are films with cast and especially action, sci-fi, horror,
gay, or any film with a clear 'hook' for buyers,” says Managing Partner Sean T.
Haley, who runs the company along with his wife and partner, Erika Kao-Haley.
“We handle worldwide distribution including...
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 Bad
Blood: The Hunger,
not the typical Horror Fare
A Macabre Thriller ... With a Twist of Class
By Debbie L. Sklar
Horror films are here to stay. So say the filmmakers of Bad Blood: The Hunger,
actor/director Conrad Janis and Writer/Producer Maria Janis.
Conrad Janis with over 700 acting credits is perhaps best known as Mindy’s
dad on Mork & Mindy, the popular sitcom starring Pam Dawber and Robin
Williams. Janis, as the eminence grise of Bad Blood...The Hunger, stars
and directs opposite three-time Academy Award nominee Piper Laurie, as Carrie,
the wry but menacing matriarch of the film. Janis' wife Maria, an actress with
countless credits herself, wrote and produced Bad Blood: The Hunger and
they both talked enthusiastically with Indie Fest about...
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