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Gen
Art Film Festival --
26
April - 2 May
In
its fifth year, the New York festival is paying tribute to recent
independently produced American feature films and short subjects.
Screenings at the Sony Lincoln Square Cinemas and the Worldwide
Plaza Cinema include the opening night feature, Mark Osborne's
Dropping Out, a dark comedy about a young man's
attempts to record his suicide; and the closing night feature
Urbania, a drama about coming to terms with tragedy, which was
screened at the Sundance
Film Festival. Other feature films include I'll Take You
There, a comedy by Adrienne Shelly; What Happened
to Tully, which just the Best Director award for Hillary
Birningham at the Los Angeles Independent
Film Festival; Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish, a
comedy by Kevin Jordan, The Operator
by Jon Dichter and Playing Mona Lisa by Matthew Huffman. Each
feature will be preceded by a new short subject. The Gen Art Alumni
Award will be presented to filmmaker Brad Anderson (The
Darien Gap, which premiered at the first Gen Art Film
Festival, Next
Stop Wonderland and the soon-to-be-released Happy
Accidents starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio).
Gen
Art
Los
Angeles Italian Film Awards (LAIFA)
25 - 29 April
At
the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Goodbye Casanova
written and directed by Mauro Borrelli is to kick off the event.
The world premiere of Tony Mortillaro's Pride & Peril is
the closing night and awards ceremony film. The program will feature
New Italian Films, an Italian-American Showcase, Documentaries
and Shorts. To be honored at the awards ceremony are Giorgio Moroder
for Outstanding Achievement In Music, Carlo Rambaldi for Outstanding
Achievement In Special Effects and Dante Spinotti for Outstanding
Achievement In Cinematography. The official competition films
will compete for the Grand Jury Prize as well as for the Audience
Award, while the First Time Director Award will recognize and
celebrate newcomers to the industry. This year's tribute goes
to Bernardo Bertolucci (Godfather of Cannes
2000 Critics' Week) with the screenings of The Conformist,
Last Tango In Paris and The Tragedy
Of A Ridiculous Man.
LAIFA
Avignon/New
York Film Festival
24
- 30 April
 Providing
filmmakers and audience members with unique opportunities to experience
the cross-pollination of two distinct film cultures, the 6th Avignon/New
York Film Festival fields a seven-day line-up of films, guests
and special events at The French Institute/Alliance Française
in New York. The festival is hosting over 70 events and screens
41 film, introducing the US and NY premieres of 14 new French
and American independent features and 20 shorts (which vie for
the prestigious Roger Award, voted by audience members, and $80,000
in prizes). Guests of honor are directors Claude Lelouch (A
Man and a Woman), Jean-Charles Tacchella (Cousin
Cousine) and actor/director Peter Fonda.
Avignon/New
York
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