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While it may not be as star studded as Sundance, Cannes, Telluride, or Tribeca, the 22nd annual Washington, DC International Film Festival brings more than 100 feature films, documentaries, shorts and special programs from over thirty nations to explore their music, cultures, people and politics.
For 12 days, starting April 24th, this year’s festival […]
If you see what looks like a camper convention at different places around town, it’s probably the film crew of the new political thriller being filmed in Washington, DC, “State of Play”.
Scheduled to be released in April of next year, “State of Play” becomes one more film in a long list of movies that […]
The 16th annual Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC presents 115 environmentally-focused films and shorts from 30 countries, on a range of green topics. Some of the more interesting environmental subjects and green films presented during the 12-day festival schedule include:
Water, including multiple films including a new episode of the Strange Days on Planet Earth […]
As part of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday on January 21st, the film, “American Civil Rights Years, Eyes on the Prize, volumes 1 and 2” will be shown during the Civil Rights Film Festival at the Frederick Douglass National Historical Site in Anacostia.
Films will be shown between the hours of 11:30 […]
Katherine Hepburn is an American screen legend. She holds the record for the most (four) Best Actress Oscar wins, with twelve nominations. That more than one nomination for every four films she stared in.
From comedy to drama, romance to action, she could do it all and did it successfully for over 6 decades. […]
Take the original Star Wars trilogy, let one man play all the characters and what do you get?
The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy… at a theater far, far away.
The sole performer and writer of this 75-minute high-energy, family-friendly production, Charles Ross, probably saw the Star Wars movies a few times too many. He’ll fight for both the […]
If you can’t find enough holiday movies on television and need to jump start that festive feeling, visit The Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse on Sunday for their 2007 Christmas Movie Festival.
Bring the kids to meet Santa, learn to make gingerbread houses and enjoy over 9 hours of feature films and classic holiday cartoons […]
American travel writer and documentary maker, Karin Muller, has authored three travel books including Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman’s Solo Journey in an Elusive Land, where she spent seven months traveling alone through Vietnam by motorbike and on foot.
Her latest 2006 documentary film, Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa, she chronicles a yearlong quest […]
If you’re a fan of American painter Edward Hopper, as I am, the title says it all.
Nighthawks, the icon of American art is normally on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, where I first saw it as a kid. It’s now on display at the National Gallery of Art as part of […]
It seems Washington DC has become an International film festival center.
There’s the big DC International Film Festival, the DC Independent Film Festival, the African-American FF, the Asian Pacific FF, DC Shorts FF, the Environmental Film Festival, and the list goes on.
This festival schedule features local indie, student, several movies that have never been screened in DC, a coupe […]
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