Contact:    Lisa Mattei, Festival Director
Plymouth Independent Film Festival
P.O.B. 1256
Plymouth, MA 02362
508-801-2530

PLYMOUTH, MA - The Plymouth Independent Film Festival announces its film selection for its third annual film festival. Over forty films will be screened at the Plimoth Plantation beginning on Thursday July 19 at 4pm. Highlights include seventeen films as part of the Made in Mass screenings series:

Behind the Rhyme: A Hip Hop Documentary - Conducted over the period of two years in the city of Boston, this film is a collection of interviews and performances providing a look behind the scenes of lifestyles, concepts, and expression of hip-hop culture.

Bourbon - Frank and Joe, a couple of low rent gangsters, hatch a plan to make it big by trafficking drugs cross-country. But when Joe gets greedy and brings on his pal Vince to do his errands, things go bad and everything comes crashing down…

Hidden Wounds - Psychological wounds suffered by veterans returning from war may be as hard to overcome as the physical injuries of combat. Through three disturbing portraits of Iraq veterans, this powerful documentary highlights the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder, estimated to affect as many as one in five soldiers returning from Iraq.

Make Levee Not War  - Plymouth filmmaker Ted Maguire’s short film about the effects of Hurricane Katrina in support of the ongoing recovery.  Interviews and comparison maps of the Boston area to the devastated regions are used to help the audience better relate.

No Match  - Plymouth resident and doctor at Jordan Hospital, Peter Pillitteri produced this short film about addition. When a busy photographer cannot find a match to light his cigarette, his day is substantially disrupted. Ordinary events taunt and entice him. His need for a smoke becomes desperate.

Remembering John Marshall - A portrait of filmmaker and activist John Kennedy Marshall who began his career in the 1950s documenting the lives of the Ju/’hoansi people of Namibia—among the last remaining hunter-gatherers. He made important contributions to cinéma vérité filmmaking and leaves behind an extensive ethnographic film archive including over 20 films on the Ju/’hoansi.

The Plymouth Independent Film Festival (July 18-22) kicks off with its opening night reception on Wednesday, July 18 at 7pm at the Memorial Hall Blue Room. Live Cuban band, hors d’oeuvres. $50/$75 (supporter level). Celebrate film at the Awards Night, Saturday, July 21 at John Caver Inn, 7pm. $25/$40 supporter level. Includes appetizers. For more information on PIFF and a complete listing of films visit www.plyfilmfest.org

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES invites applications and nominations for a full-time senior position (associate or full professor) in Feminist Film Studies.

We are looking for a candidate whose work crosses boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexualities, and/or transnational issues and who demonstrates commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching in Women’s Studies and in our graduate and undergraduate Visual and Narrative Culture programs. The Women’s Studies Department offers an undergraduate major and minor, M.A., Ph.D., and a graduate minor. The successful applicant will have been tenured at another institution and will present a record of scholarship and teaching that is consistent with tenure at a research university. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience in Women’s and/or Gender Studies. The appointment will begin in fall 2008. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names of three r
eferences to: Linda Mizejewski, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Women’s Studies, 286 University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1311. The deadline for first consideration is September 17, 2007. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome applications from women, members of historically underrepresented minority groups, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

We are pleased to announce that the following films are selected to be screened at the PARNU film festival in Estonia:

THE AGOUTI’S PEANUT by Paturi Panara and Komoi Panara
IN PURSUIT OF THE SIBERIAN SHAMAN by Anya Bernstein
SINGING PICTURES: WOMEN PAINTERS IN NAYA by Lina Fruzzetti, Akos Östor and Aditi Nath Sarkar
ORDINARY LIVES by Sheetal S Agarwal
For more information on the day when and where the film will be shown, please, be so kind as visit the website > www.chaplin.ee/english/filmfestival

Death of the writer and film-maker Sembène Ousmane

Dakar, June 9 (APS) - the writer-film-maker Sembène Ousmane is
deceased Saturday evening in his residence at Yoff at the 84 years
age, announced his assistant Clarence Delgado to APS.

Sembène Ousmane had been ill for some time.

Born in Ziguinchor, Sembène Ousmane was self taught and started
with writing by publishing novels like “Le Docker noir”, “Les Bouts
de bois de Dieu'’, ‘”L’Harmattan'’ et ‘”Le Mandat'’..

Thus, he produced his first short film ‘Borom Saret’” in 1963,
followed one year later by “Niaye”. In 1966, he carried out “La Noire
de …'’, his first full-length film which won, the same year, the
Gold Tanit at the Festival of Carthage. This film also won, in 1966, the
award of the best African film-maker at the world Festival of negro arts in Dakar.

He then produces in 1968 “Le Mandat'’, ‘”Emitai'’ in 1971,
‘”Xala'’ in 1974, ‘”Ceddo'’ in 1977, ‘’Camp de Thiaroye'’ in 1988,
‘’Guelewar'’ in 1992, ‘’Faat Kiné'’ in 2000 et ‘’Molaadé'’ in 2004.

The world of film will miss him.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is currently accepting applications for an ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. This is a full-time summer position beginning July 2nd 2007 and ending August 31st, 2007.

Documentary Screening Series at Somerville Community Access Television

10th BROOKLYN INT’L FILM FESTIVAL

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film program for tuesday june 5, 2007    next day >

SPECIAL EVENT
Tuesday, June 5th at 9:30pm
Brooklyn Heights Cafe
84 Montague St.

Drink specials on Peroni and free Hors d’Oeuvres

Come by at 9:30 or meet us after the 8pm screening of “Salty Air” at
Brooklyn Heights Cinema.

1:00 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> THE OATES’ VALOR
Dir: Tim Thaddeus Cahill, United States, 14 min, Short
Fourth-chair trombonist, Boyson Oates, flees home after several failed attempts to appease his father’s militant demands….
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> FIRST.
Dir: DB Woodside & Nick Sivakumaran, United States, 26 min, Short
First love, first kill, first grace. Throughout our lives we experience love, loss, and, in rare instances, rebirth. Meet Jam…
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> THE MAKING OF A MARTYR
Dir: Alistair Leyland & Brooke Goldstein, Canada, 58 min, Documentary
On March 24th, 2004, 15 year old Hussam Abdu was apprehended at an Israeli border checkpoint with live explosives strapped ar…
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2:00 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> FEAR
Dir: Niamh Linnie, Ireland, 12 min, Documentary
Fear… a documentary that digs to the core of this primal human emotion. From childhood and beyond, three personal stories r…
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> CONTACT
Dir: Hanro Smitsman, Netherlands, 10 min, Short
Contact is a short, tragi-comic thread story about the search for happiness of a boy, his mother, and her lover….
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> A BIT ON THE SIDE
Dir: Steve Sullivan, England, 12 min, Short
A Bit On The Side is a wry story that tries to find some sense in one man’s obsession with drills. Tony is fixated with drill…
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> DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM
Dir: Bari Pearlman, United States, 68 min, Documentary
Daughters of Wisdom is a story of the people of contemporary Tibet told from outside the familiar political narrative of this…
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3:30 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> ARTIE’S FILM: the topography of loneliness
Dir: Jacob Potashnik, Canada, 5 min, Experimental
“Artie’s film” is a meditation on New York in the early 1980s with a special emphasis on the effects of the Holocaust on the …
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> AN EMBER’S GLOW
Dir: Niamh Kennedy, Ireland, 12 min, Documentary
This documentary is a personal exploration into the life of the Director’s father, Jim Kennedy, a 68-year-old turf cutter att…
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> CHARGE FOR THAT
Dir: Chris Cassidy, United States, 7 min, Documentary
The streets of New York City have been an endless palette for artist Mark Nilsen. Dog piss, enthusiastic passers-by, and ever…
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> THE EDGE OF HOPE
Dir: Gerd Schneider, Germany, 52 min, Documentary
With the disengagement of the Jewish settlers on 17th April 2005 begins a new chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, bu…
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4:30 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> PICK UP
Dir: Manuel Schapira, France, 17 min, Short
From her apartment a young woman calls the public phone across the street. Unknown people pick up….
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> A NEUTRAL CORNER
Dir: Emily Greenwood, England, 14 min, Short
When Graham Brien, a young boxer, is out on a training run, he finds himself in a mysterious and desolate town where he is go…
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> BUSHMAN’S SECRET
Dir: Rehad Desai, South Africa, 65 min, Documentary
When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge,…
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6:00 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> MING OF GOLD
Dir: Jennifer Devoldere, France, 14 min, Short
For the first time in her life, 16-year-old Ming is in love. And nothing will prevent her from loving Paul. Neither their cul…
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> FORFEIT
Dir: Andrew Brendan Shea, United States, 84 min, Feature
FORFEIT explores the human traits of greed, obsession, and revenge. This clever and engaging heist flick tells the story of …
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7:00 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> THE ROCKET
Dir: Charles Biname, Canada, 125 min, Feature
The only thing that matters to 17 year-old Maurice Richard is playing hockey. Every night, after working to earn a living at …
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8:00 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Brooklyn Heights Cinema | book tickets
> SALTY AIR
Dir: Alessandro Angelini, Italy, 87 min, Feature
Fabio is a young educator full of energy who works with passion and dedication helping former prison inmates with their reint…
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8:30 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> WHAT IF SPRING DOES NOT COME?
Dir: Alireza Darvish, Germany, 8 min, Animation
It is the nature of life that sometimes what is possible for all become impossible for one. “What If Spring Does Not Come?” …
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> ARRANGED
Dir: Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo, United States, 89 min, Feature
Two young women - one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim - meet and become friends as first-year teachers at a public school i…
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9:30 pm | Tuesday June 5 | Cobble Hill Cinema | book tickets
> 4AM
Dir: Duane Sherwood, United States, 5 min, Experimental
A late night somnambulant dilemma….
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> WINTER JOURNEY
Dir: Hans Steinbichler, Germany, 100 min, Feature
In Hans Steinbichler’s Winter Journey, actor Josef Bierbichler is a force of nature - a big, belligerent man with even bigger…
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