WorldFest was founded over 53 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the Whole Wide World. It evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968.
WorldFest was founded by award-winning producer/director Hunter Todd to present a quality film festival for th...
RIFF Awards 2019: winners of the XVIII edition announcedRome Independent Film Festival on the New Cinema Aquila directed by Fabrizio Ferrari have been announced.
Our jury that has had the important task of decreeing the winners this year was made of Ukrainian journalist and film critic Nadia Zavarova, the German consultant for international festivals Bernd Brehmer, the Romanian journalist and writer Tatiana Covore, the American-Argentine musician and journalist Diego Petreco...
Barbara Bentree proudly accepted “Audience Favorite Documentary Feature Award” for the Knoxville Film Festival
Artistic Director Keith McDaniel and Director Barbara Bentree
Executive Director Keith McDaniel founded the Secret City Film Festival in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 2004 in celebration of the art of independent cinema. Nine years later, the festival was moved to Knoxville and rebranded as the Knoxville Film Festival. Held at Knoxville’s arthouse theatre, the...
Dave Grusin with the “Robert Redford Creative Achievement Award”
Panel discussion after the film screening: Don Grusin, Producer John Rangel, Dave Grusin, Director Barbara Bentree, Moderator Harry Musselwhite
Dave Grusin with Grammy Nominee Nathan East and Grammy Winner Don Grusin backstage at the Film Festival
2019 AWARD WINNERS AT ALBUQUERQUE FILM & MUSIC EXPERIENCE
AFMX 2019 Music Award
Neil Giraldo
Robert & Sibylle Redford Award fo...
"Named One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World!" Moviemaker Magazine, Sept 2016 and July 2019.
"The best-curated film festival in the Twin Cities, Sound Unseen focuses on movies with musical themes, often pairing them with filmmaker appearances and live music." Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press Nov. 2015
The 20th annual Sound Unseen music film festival will take place Wednesday, November 13 through Sunday, November 17, 2019 in Minneapolis, MN.
In the fall of...
We received a FirstPlace Award at the RIFF
L to R:
George Marshall - Festival Director
Shawn Quirk - Festival Programmer
Barbara Bentree - Director / Producer
Marlyn Mason - Actor
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) proudly announced the Award Winners for its 37th Anniversary Celebration of Flickers, on Sunday, August 11, 2019. The Annual Awards Ceremony was held at The Metcalf Auditorium, RISD Museum in downtown Providence, RI. This year’s Festi...
Beautiful Bozeman, Montana held the Second Annual BZN International Film Festival, June 11-14, 2020.
A four-day event celebrating independent filmmaking, creative expression, and emerging and established voices. The BZN International Film Festival showcases films that educate, encourage and inspire audiences to get involved and take action to protect our planet.
Over 70 films screened at various theaters throughout downtown Bozeman, Montana, complemented by a rich slate of Q & A sessions...
Dave Grusin Documentary Recounts a Life Spent Juggling Film Scores and Jazz Cats
..."Your music will never be more or less than you are as a human being," said longtime friend Quincy Jones at the "Not Enough Time" screening...
By CHRIS WILLMAN
Pictured: John Rangel - Producer I Quincy Jones I Barbara Bentree - Director / Producer
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John Rangel - Producer I Quincy Jones I Barbara Bentree - Director / Producer
Producer John Rangel I Marcus Miller
Panel discussion after Los Angeles screening Jon Burlingame - moderator, Marcus Miller, Barbara Bentree - director, Joel Sill - Executive Music Consultant
"...Dave Grusin Not Enough Time” was being screened at Smart Post West for members of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, along with interested distributors. The post-screening panel, moderated by...
DAVE GRUSIN
COMPOSER
Dave Grusin has written the music and composed the theme songs for over twenty network television shows including "Maude", "St. Elsewhere" and "Good Times". Dave was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning one Oscar for "The Milagro Beanfield War". His other nominated films include, "The Champ",...
DAVE GRUSIN: NOT ENOUGH TIME is an elegant and uplifting Feature Length Documentary about one of the 20th Century's most important music composers. Millions of people all over the world know and love the music of Dave Grusin but even his most ardent fans don't completely realize what a phenomenal career he has had.
Dave Grusin has been nominated for thirty-eight Grammy Awards, eight Academy Awards and four Golden Globes Awards during his long...
ROBERT DAVID "Dave" GRUSIN
Dave Grusin grew up as the son of a Latvian immigrant in rural Colorado and spent his early years training to be a cowboy. However, his father strongly encouraged him to seriously study music...so he did. A timely audition after college led Dave to playing piano, arranging music, and eventually becoming a Music Director on "The Andy Williams Show" in Los Angeles. The...
