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Albuquerque Journal - Santa Fe Independent Film Fest to honor Oliver Stone
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival is honoring one of film’s biggest names in October.
Oscar winner Oliver Stone will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 16, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
After the ceremony, a film by Stone will be screened.
“Mr. Oliver Stone is one of the very greatest American movie makers of our time,” said Jacquez Paisner, SFiFF artistic director. “He has dared to make a difference, and his courage has had an unmatched impact on the arts.”
Pasatiempo – Festival a feast for film enthusiasts
It’s fitting that the 13th annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival kicks off with Bergman Island, a film about a movie-making couple (Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps) who seek inspiration on Fårö, the Swedish isle where renowned filmmaker Ingmar Bergman lived and worked. The film, which premiered at Cannes in July, screens at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at the Violet Crown.
Pasatiempo – Review 'Street Heroines'
Graffiti has been a boys’ club since its inception in New York City train yards in the 1970s.
Lady Pink was the first woman to enter the scene, an Ecuadorian immigrant who painted subway cars from 1979 to 1985. She appears as a godmother figure in Street Heroines, a documentary directed by Alexandra Henry about female graffiti and street artists in New York and Latin America.
Vimooz - Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Announces 2021 Dates for a Full, In-Person Event
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFiFF) returns for its 13th edition with a full program of in-person film screenings and events this upcoming October 13th–17th, 2021.
VIMOOZ – Oliver Stone to receive Santa Fe Independent Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Academy Award-Winning writer and director Oliver Stone will receive the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFiFF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival’s upcoming 13th edition. The Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony will be followed by a screening of an Oliver Stone film.
Albuquerque Journal – Film made in NM gains notice for shedding light on addiction
Everyone has a story, but few of them are heard.
The Albuquerque-based nonprofit Bold Futures wants to change that.
For the past two decades, the organization – formally known as Young Women United – has worked to build reproductive justice in New Mexico by and for women and people of color. More recently, it has expanded its mission to create communities by leading policy change, research, organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in New Mexico.
In 2017, the nonprofit decided to try using film to tell the stories of women who so often are voiceless. “All the World Is Sleeping” is that film, shedding light on the realities of addiction and the resources desperately needed for families living in cycles of addiction.
Pasatiempo – Review 'Brother, I Cry'
Centered on a family’s struggles with addiction, Brother, I Cry is a searing drama about the lengths a sister goes to protect her brother from himself. Jon (Justin Rain of The Walking Dead), a young First Nations man, is on methadone and trying to hold down a job for the sake of his girlfriend and their unborn child. But the car thief has multiple warrants out for his arrest and keeps bad company in the person of Martin (Jay Cardinal Villeneuve), a small-time criminal and user. Martin pulls Jon deeper into a life of crime, just when he’s trying to turn his life around.
Santa Fe Reporter - Santa Fe Independent Film to be In-Person in 2021
13th annual fest returns to the height of its powers
As New Mexico steels itself for a 100% reopening date of July 1, the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival announced today that it will return to in-person events for its upcoming 13th year from Oct. 13-17.
Southwest Contemporary - Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Returns In-Person for 2021
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival returns this year, filling local theaters and venues once again with camaraderie and celebration. The festival will offer a competitive selection of films as well as live panels and events with filmmakers and artists. It also aims to usher a sense of hope with this year’s theme “An Uplifting of the Human Spirit.”
“Film is essential,” says Jacques Paisner, SFiFF artistic director. “I’m excited to be presenting a world-class program of films” in a “fully in-person festival this year.” The five-day festival, which runs from October 13 to 17, 2021, will screen forty-seven feature films and more than 100 short films. Screenings will take place at Violet Crown Cinema, Jean Cocteau Cinema, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and Lensic Performing Arts Center.
Albuquerque Journal - Bringing world-class cinema to Santa Fe
Jacques Paisner believes film festivals should be experienced in person.
As artistic director for the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Paisner is looking forward to staging the festival in person in October.
“It’s going to be amazing,” he says. “It was a strange year and we’re so glad to be going back in the right direction.”
Albuquerque Journal - Native stories: Grant to help SF Independent Film Festival support Indigenous creativity
It’s been the goal of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival to present some of the best stories through film.
With the pandemic affecting its outreach, the festival has gotten help from the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Native American Advised Fund.
Tribal Business News – Grant funding increases Santa Fe Independent Film Festival outreach to Native filmmakers
The Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Native American Advised Fund is helping Native filmmakers forge ahead in the movie industry.
The fund recently awarded the $5,500 Native Stories grant to the annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFIFF) to increase opportunities for and outreach to Native filmmakers.