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Chris Raffaele Releases New Film

A new movie is out that was shot in Bronx by a filmmaker who is native to the borough.
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Bronx Teens Storm Cannes, France

Screening in the directors forthnight at Cannes....
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Hormone Usage Information Countered In An Award-Winning Documentary

The producers of award-winning documentary Hot Flash Havoc (www.hotflashhavoc.com), confronting the issue of menopausal hormone therapy – which became controversial following a widely-discredited 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study – announced today that the film has been released to theaters in over 100 major markets around the country in a campaign that began March 30, 2012....
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‘BabyGirl’ Touches on Latino Family Issues

The 11th annual Tribeca film festival will hit the ground running Thursday night in New York City, where a handful of Latino filmmakers and actors are leaving their mark at the esteemed festival....
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Gimme the Loot Wins The Grand Jury Prize At SXSW 2012

"Gimme the Loot," New Yorker Adam Leon's tale of two Bronx teenage graffiti artists, won the grand jury prize for narrative feature at the South by Southwest film festival, organizers announced Tuesday....
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To Be Heard, A Documentary

Lives and language on the edge: Three teens from Bronx tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change....
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South Bronx Teens Make Bodegas Documentary

Here is a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there....
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John Patrick Shanley Hits Provincetown

Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Doubt” and an Oscar for his screenplay for “Moonstruck,” was born in the Bronx, the setting for “Five Corners” (1987), which is being screened on Tuesday, February 1, 2011....
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Shooting Wraps On 'Gun Hill Road'

Shooting has successfully wrapped in New York's Bronx borough on Rashaad Ernesto Green's first feature-length film, "Gun Hill Road," its producers said....
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Biopic About Linda Lovelace

Rumors that Lindsay Lohan has been fired from Inferno, the new movie biopic about Linda Lovelace, have been squelched by the producers. ...
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The Story Of The New York Accent

From Atlantic Avenue to Zerega Avenue, word on the street is the New York accent is disappearing — a casualty of a city that has evolved into a vast expanse of banks, H&Ms and glass-blown high-rises. ...
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The Bronx Taught Me To Fight

Wesley Snipes claims he could take on anyone in a fight....
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Bronx - The Brithplace Of A Culture

Handal Gomez Abdelrahim wants to restore Fred Astaire to his rightful place as one of the original b-boys. In a short film, Graffiti Nation, that will screen on Oct. 23 at the International Independent Film & Video Festival in Manhattan, Mr. Abdelrahim, a resident of West 238th Street in Kingsbridge, juxtaposes clips of soft-shoe work by Fred Astaire with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever....
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Bronx Princess, The Film

Rocky Otoo, the main subject of PBS’s new documentary “Bronx Princess,” is not your average American teenager. And yet, as filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed document Rocky’s life as she graduates from high school, travels to Ghana to live with her father, and begins college life, she feels pretty relatable....
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The Buddha Play Review

The themes espoused in the play are timeless and especially timely, as we Americans now pause and consider our values, examine our place in the world, and rethink what is of importance....
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Youth Film & Poetry Program Concludes

The Full Circle Project held its final session of the summer in Co-op City with local high school youth in an accelerated multimedia course in filmmaking and performance poetry....
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A Bronx Filmmaking Program

Students in the Bronx completed the second annual filmmaking and poetry program called The Full Circle Project, a six week course in filmmaking technologies and performance poetry. During the last days of the sessions, students finished their personal short films, which will be showcased in an online exhibition in the fall....
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Cpt. Abu Read, A Film About Courage

Hopefully the film, Captain Abu Raed, will be distributed in all the big movie chains. It is a movie well worth seeing. The story, taking place in Amman, Jordan, is about humanity and its mixtures of life's abrupt cruelties, unexpected kindnesses, hopes and sacrifices....
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Long Distance NY Premiere

Abiyot is one of several African long distance runners, trying to make a living and career in the US. Once he was a promising member of the Ethiopian national team, but two years ago he left his country to start a new life in the Bronx....
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7th Annual Bronx Independent Film Festival

The Bronx Stage & Film Company will present the 7th Annual Bronx Independent Film Festival (BXFF) June 18 - 20 at Lehman Stages (Lehman College) showcasing narrative and documentary films and filmmakers from around the world....
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Chris Raffaele Releases New Film

A new movie is out that was shot in Bronx by a filmmaker who is native to the borough.
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Bronx Teens Storm Cannes, France

Screening in the directors forthnight at Cannes.
image

Hormone Usage Information Countered In An Award-Winning Documentary

The producers of award-winning documentary Hot Flash Havoc (www.hotflashhavoc.com), confronting the issue of menopausal hormone therapy – which became controversial following a widely-discredited 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study – announced today that the film has been released to theaters in over 100 major markets around the country in a campaign that began March 30, 2012.

‘BabyGirl’ Touches on Latino Family Issues

The 11th annual Tribeca film festival will hit the ground running Thursday night in New York City, where a handful of Latino filmmakers and actors are leaving their mark at the esteemed festival.
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Gimme the Loot Wins The Grand Jury Prize At SXSW 2012

"Gimme the Loot," New Yorker Adam Leon's tale of two Bronx teenage graffiti artists, won the grand jury prize for narrative feature at the South by Southwest film festival, organizers announced Tuesday.
image

To Be Heard, A Documentary

Lives and language on the edge: Three teens from Bronx tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change.
image

South Bronx Teens Make Bodegas Documentary

Here is a good way to go into the weekend: a funny, engaging documentary about one of New York's most lamented food deserts, made by the teenagers who live there.
image

John Patrick Shanley Hits Provincetown

Playwright John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Doubt” and an Oscar for his screenplay for “Moonstruck,” was born in the Bronx, the setting for “Five Corners” (1987), which is being screened on Tuesday, February 1, 2011.
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Shooting Wraps On 'Gun Hill Road'

Shooting has successfully wrapped in New York's Bronx borough on Rashaad Ernesto Green's first feature-length film, "Gun Hill Road," its producers said.
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Biopic About Linda Lovelace

Rumors that Lindsay Lohan has been fired from Inferno, the new movie biopic about Linda Lovelace, have been squelched by the producers.

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Rani Molla

is a multimedia journalist focusing on the Highbridge neighborhood of South Bronx. She has worked at a variety of publications, most recently serving as the culture manager and art critic at the Santa Fe Reporter, an award-winning alternative weekly in New Mexico.