Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a centennial salute to legendary writer, director and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, featuring a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of “Suddenly, Last Summer,” on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

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Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and curriculum specialists Young Minds Inspired have distributed “Media Literacy: Reading between the Frames,” a free teaching resource guide to more than 18,500 high schools across the United States. Reaching approximately 2.4 million students, the guide was inspired by the Academy’s Media Literacy Program, which twice a year brings up to 400 Los Angeles Unified School District high school students to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater for a three-day seminar. This is the 10th consecutive year the Academy has produced a teaching guide.

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Beverly Hills, CA — The deadline to submit entries for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 24th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition is May 1, 2009. Entries must be postmarked by May 1 or submitted online by 11:59 p.m. PT on May 1.

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The eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City kicked off on
Wednesday night with the premiere of Woody Allen's Whatever Works
comedy for Sony Pictures Classics – the first one he's based in Gotham
for several years. The event was star-studded and glamorous, but
somewhat more low-key than many of the splashier film openings that
have highlighted Tribeca's landscape in recent years. Considering that
this is the festival that showcased Spider-Man 3 and Speed Racer,
putting a Woody Allen comedy front and center makes a statement.

But it's the right kind of statement. First of all, based on audience
and critical reaction thus far – Whatever Works won't open in
theaters until June 19 – everyone's happy to have Woody back. Stars
Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David and Uma Thurman strolled the red carpet
at the Ziegfeld Theater; Allen himself just zipped on in after a
quick handshake with festival co-founder Robert De Niro. Inside, on the
big screen, Wood, David and Thurman gave what are already being buzzed
about as Oscar-worthy performances.

Traditionally, Vanity Fair has held a lavish dinner for select festivalgoers following the opening night screening, and, despite the economic downturn (and a smaller festival overall; Tribeca has reduced the number of films on its slate this year), this remained a constant. The VF dinner was held Tuesday night downtown at the Supreme Court building on Centre Street, and celebrities taking the carpet this time included Bono, MTV's Judy McGrath, CBS's Les Moonves, Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner and Kanye West. Inside, there was even one more surprise: The usually retiring De Niro spoke to the crowd, telling them, "It's great to have everyone here. It's just great."

Couldn't have said it better. -Randee Dawn

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Beverly Hills, CA — “Portraits of a Lady” and “A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman” will screen as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.

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Beverly Hills, CA — The opportunities and challenges facing motion picture costume designers working in the current era of digital technology will be explored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ program, “Costume Design in the Digital Age,” on Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.

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New York, NY — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Monday Nights with Oscar®” will celebrate the motion picture highlights and advances of 1908, D.W. Griffith’s first year as a director, with the presentation of “A Century Ago: The Films of 1908,” on Monday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City.

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After five days of screenings and events, Aspen Film announced the competition winners of Aspen Shortsfest 2009 at a reception at the
Wheeler Opera House in Aspen.  Roughly 2,500 entries were considered from over 60 countries, with more than 60 short films selected for Aspen Shortsfest from 21 countries for this esteemed, five-day Oscar®-qualifying International Competition.  

Considered one of the world's premier international short film and video showcases for this trend-setting art form, Aspen Shortsfest's centerpiece, the International Competition,  offered a lively, thought-provoking, and humorous selection of drama, comedy, animation and documentary. Over 40 filmmakers from the United States, Australia, and Europe traveled to Aspen to participate in public screenings and the Shortsfest school education programs.  Audiences were not deterred by a strong spring snow storm or the economy, with sold out screenings and capacity audiences in both Aspen and Carbondale throughout the festival.

An esteemed jury of distinguished film professionals were present during the festival and awarded the following cash and prizes to award winning films in several categories. This year's jury included Denver Post Film Critic Lisa Kennedy, director Lewis Teague, writer/director/producer Robert Weide, and director Jon Bloom. The Aspen Shortsfest 2009 Awards Ceremony was held Sunday, April 5 at the Wheeler Opera House.

Shortsfest 2009 Award Winners

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY AWARDS

ANIMATED EYE AWARD - $2,500
SHE WHO MEASURES (Veljko Popovic, Croatia)

BEST COMEDY  - $2,500
THIS IS HER (Katie Wolfe, New Zealand)

BEST DRAMA (shared) - $2,500
NETHERLAND DWARF (David Michôd, Australia)
NEXT FLOOR (Denis Villeneuve, Canada)

BEST DOCUMENTARY - $2,500
THE WITNESS: FROM THE BALCONY OF ROOM 306 (Adam Pertofsky, USA)

BEST SHORT SHORT - $1,000
WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON (Declan Cassidy, Ireland)

BEST STUDENT - $1,000
RALPH (Alex Winckler, UK/France); Columbia University

SPECIAL JURY RECOGNITIONGROUND BENEATH (Rene Hernandez, Australia)
SHORT TERM 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton, USA)
SOIL IN GOOD HEART (Deborah Koons Garcia, USA/India/Norway/UK)
TEN FOR GRANDPA (Doug Karr, Canada)

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OTHER SHORTSFEST 2009 Awards

THE ELLEN AWARD - $1,000
COPY OF CORALIE (Nicolas Engel, France)

BAFTA/LOS ANGELES AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
CONCERTO (Filippo Conz, USA)

BAFTA/LOS ANGELES CERTIFICATES OF EXCELLENCE
MIRACLE FISH (Luke Doolan, Australia)
A'MARE (Martina Amati, UK)

HIGH FIVE TO LO-FI
CHICKEN COWBOY (Stephen Neary, USA)

YOUTH JURY PRIZE - $500
MIRACLE FISH (Luke Doolan, Australia)

AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD - $1,000
THE WITNESS: FROM THE BALCONY OF ROOM 306 (Adam Pertofsky, USA)

Complete film descriptions available at www.aspenfilm.org.  

Aspen Film embarks upon its 30th year as an active media arts non-profit presenting festivals, film series, and education programs year-round, making it one of Colorado's oldest and most established cultural organizations. The 18th edition of Aspen Shortsfest is sponsored in part by the Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts, The City of Aspen, The Aspen Times, Aspen Sojourner, and REEL People, Aspen Film's membership program. For more information on Shortsfest and other Aspen Film programs, contact 970.925.6882.
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Beverly Hills, CA — A record 559 entries, from students representing 103 U.S. colleges and universities, are in competition for the 2009 Student Academy Awards. In addition, a record 57 entries from 39 countries have submitted in the Honorary Foreign Film award category; the pool includes first-ever entries from Egypt and Estonia.

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Beverly Hills, CA — “Darfur Now” and “The Devil Came on Horseback” will screen as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 27th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.

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