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FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Angela Robinson Witherspoon ‘s CURTSY MISTER showcased at 12th Harlem International Film Festival celebrates independent filmmaking on the weekend of May 6th and 7th

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The 12th Harlem International Film Festival’s red carpet on Saturday, May 6th, again gave a diverse group of filmmakers their due in front of the cameras. Sunday’s closing night presentation of Angela Robinson Witherspoon’s CURTSY, MISTER included a very special guest to see Witherspoon’s feature film directorial debut.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Sam Voutas’ acclaimed KING OF PEKING Opens New Jersey’s Lighthouse International Film Festival Announces Lineup for fest in June

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The Lighthouse International Film Festival (LIFF) has announced the complete lineup for its ninth annual event, which will take place June 8-11, 2017 on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The festival will open with Sam Voutas’ acclaimed KING OF PEKING, a rousing Beijing-set love letter to cinema that brought cheering audiences to their feet at Tribeca 2017.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Daniel Peddle’s GARDEN OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON Opens The 12th Harlem International Film Festival with style to spare

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The 12th Harlem International Film festival’s Opening Night Afro Punk celebration, highlighted by the world premiere presentation of Daniel Peddle’s GARDEN OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON featured more style on the red carpet than most. The impressive looks on the carpet showed that these filmmakers have figured out that the attention you get in front of the photographers and interviewers there can be useful to get attention for your film when it plays in the fest – and beyond.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Daniel Peddle ’s GARDEN OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON opens the 12th Annual Harlem International Film Festival (May 4-7) unveils its schedule

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“This year’s lineup is typically diverse, both in content and the filmmakers responsible for the films, bookended by personal profiles that hit close to home both because of their redemptive themes and because they get to the heart of what is the best in humanity,” said Harlem International Film Festival Program Director Nasri Zacharia, “In our 12th year, the festival will once again provide a forum for wonderful storytelling and exciting moments on the big screen created by talent all around the world.”

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Leilani Münter from Racing Extinction races on the EARTHxFilm’s Green Carpet for the Global Green Gala on Friday, April 21

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EARTHxFilm and Earth Day Texas rolled out the Green Carpet to honor environmental heres and activists at the Global Green Gala on Friday, April 21 at Fair Park, in Dallas. Featuring a heady mix of people on the front lines working to literally save the earth, as well as filmmakers documenting and illustrating those efforts, the red carpet also included several of the guests contributing to the mission.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: EARTHxFilm’s Opening Night Green Carpet for Jeff Orlowski ‘s CHASING CORAL

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The very first red….er, I mean GREEN carpet for the very first EARTHxFilm and their very first Opening Night Gala selection, Jeff Orlowski’s CHASING CORAL featured Earth Day Texas and EARTHxFilm luminaries, a cool race car driver, and an Oscar winner! All of them walked along a turf carpet that could double as a putting green outside Fair Park’s beautiful Music Hall.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: President Dan Brawley leads as Film Festival Alliance Officially Announces New Board of Directors

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The newly elected Board of Directors includes President Dan Brawley (Cucalorus Film Festival), Vice President Andrew Rodgers (Denver Film Society), Treasurer Anne Chaisson (Hamptons International Film Festival and FFA founding member), Secretary Judy Laster (Woods Hole Film Festival, FFA founding member) and Jon Gann (Founder DC Shorts Film Festival, Past Program Director, FFA.)

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Dallas Shining Star honoree Zoey Deutch: The 2017 Dallas Film Society Honors Red Carpet with a Dallas Shining Star, her movie star mother, and much, much, more!

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The Dallas Film Society Honors red carpet on Friday, April 7, featured a Dallas Shining Star honoree and her famous mom, this year’s jurors, some late arriving filmmakers, and some filmmakers making one last appearance to soak up the attention of the photographers’ cameras and interviewers’ microphones.