Interview with Festival Director Nathalia Lemos (Flamingo Film Festival)

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The Flamingo Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting the international short films and videos produced by student filmmakers. For the past 3 years, this event, held in South Florida, has honored outstanding narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated projects created by students while enrolled in a college, university, or other post-secondary institution.

Website: flamingofilmfest.com

Interview with Nathalia Lemos:

Matthew Toffolo: What is your Film Festival succeeding at doing for filmmakers?

Nathalia Lemos: The festival is giving student filmmakers the opportunity to have their work screened not only for their peers, but also for a diverse audience of festival goers.

MT: What would you expect to experience if you attend the festival this year (2016)?

NL: Anyone attending the festival this year can expect a diverse showcase of student films. Festival goers will have the unique opportunity to see a variety of films not only from local student filmmakers, but also student films…

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Interview with Festival Director Tim Baldwin (Studio 35 Cinema Film Festival)

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Get ready for the second annual Studio 35 Cinema Comedy Film Festival (S35CCFF) taking place at Columbus’ oldest independent movie theater. Located in the heart of Clintonville, the S35CCFF features the newest and funniest independent film and shorts from around the country. What goes better together than comedy and a beer! A whole weekend is dedicated to showing the best independent comedy features and shorts, while drinking the best draft beers of the Midwest.

Website: http://www.studio35.com/

Interview with Tim Baldwin:

Matthew Toffolo: What is your Film Festival succeeding at doing for filmmakers?

Tim Baldwin: We’re able to show their shorts and features on a big screen in DCP format. Not on a pull up screen in a hotel auditorium, or something like that. We’re an independent theater in Columbus, and we can show what we want. You make a movie to see on the big screen, and we will do…

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Happy Birthday: Genesis Rodriguez

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genesisrodriguez.jpgGenesis Rodriguez

Born: July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida, USA

MAN ON A LEDGE
dir. Asger Leth
Stars:
Sam Worthington
Elizabeth Banks

MOVIE POSTERCASA DE MI PADRE
dir. Matt Piedmont
Stars:
Will Ferrell
Gael Garcia Bernal

MOVIE POSTERIDENTITY THIEF
2013
dir. Seth Gordon
Stars:
Jason Bateman
Melissa McCarthy

MOVIE POSTERTHE LAST STAND
2013
dir. Jee-woon Kim
Stars:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Eduardo Noriega
MOVIE POSTERWHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING
dir. Kirk Jones
Stars:
Cameron Diaz
Matthew Morrison

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Died Today (July 29th): David Niven (1910–1983)

davidniven.jpgDavid Niven (1910–1983)

Born: March 1, 1910 in London, England, UK
Died: July 29, 1983 (age 73) in Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

Married to:
Hjördis Genberg (14 January 1948 – 29 July 1983) (his death) (2 children)
Primula Rollo (16 September 1940 – 21 May 1946) (her death) (2 children)

Dodsworth
1936
dir. William Wyler
starring
Walter Huston
WUTHERING HEIGHTSWuthering Heights
1939
dir. William Wyler
Starring
Laurence Olivier
Merle Oberon
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
dir. Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger
Starring
Niven
DEATH ON THE NILEDeath on the Nile
1978
dir. John Guillermin
Cast
Peter Ustinov
Jane Birkin

Happy Birthday: Ken Burns

kenburns.jpgKen Burns

Born: July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Married to:
Julie Deborah Brown (18 October 2003 – present) (1 child)

THE FIRST INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
MOVIE POSTERTHE SECOND INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns

MOVIE POSTERTHE THIRD INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
MOVIE POSTERTHE FOURTH INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
THE FIFTH INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
MOVIE POSTERTHE SIXTH INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
MOVIE POSTERTHE SEVENTH INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
MOVIE POSTERTHE EIGHTH INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
MOVIE POSTERTHE NINTH INNING
1994
dir. Ken Burns
THE TENTH INNINGTHE TENTH INNING
dir. Ken Burns and Kim Novack
Stars:
Baseball
Barry Bonds

 

Happy Birthday: Tony Sirico

tonysiricoTony Sirico

Born: July 29, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

He has appeared in six films directed by Woody Allen: Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Celebrity (1998) and Café Society (2016).

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GoodfellasGoodfellas
1990
dir. Scorsese
starring
Ray Liotta
Robert DeNiro
Joe Pesci
MOVIE POSTERBULLETS OVER BROADWAY
1994
dir. Woody Allen
Starring:
John Cusack
Dianne Wiest

 

Happy Birthday: Stephen Dorff

stephendorff.jpgStephen Dorff

Born: July 29, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

(2008, on Hollywood) I don’t know how it works. There’s been times when I’ve wondered, ‘Why the fuck am I not getting that movie?’ There’s so much to this game like who’s hot and all that. If you stay true and work with great directors, that’s all I can hope for. Right now, I feel the most solid and my work is the best it’s ever been. I feel fortunate.

Somewhere
dir. Sofia Coppola
Stars:
Dorff
Elle Fanning
BORN TO BE A STAR BORN TO BE A STAR
dir. Tom Brady
Stars:
Nick Swardson
Don Johnson
BLADEBlade
1998
dir. Stephen Norrington
Cast
Wesley Snipes
Stephen Dorff
MOVIE POSTERIMMORTALS
dir. Tarsem Singh
Stars:
Henry Cavill
Mickey Rourke
.45
2006
dir. Gary Lennon
Stars:
Milla Jovovich
Angus Macfayden
DEUCES WILDDeuces Wild
2002
dir. Scott Kalvert
Starring
Brad Renfro
Stephen Dorff
MOVIE POSTERWORLD TRADE CENTER
2006
dir. Oliver Stone
Stars:
Nicolas Cage
Michael Pena
PUBLIC ENEMIES Movie PosterPublic Enemies
2009
dir. Michael Mann
Starring
Johnny Depp
Christian Bale