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Oct 12 2012
Film festival returns to Arlington.
by Marley Jurgensmeyer, an Arlington High School Student.
Arlington
Coming up on its second year, the Arlington International Film
Festival (AIFF) has evolved, according to organizers April Ranck and
Alberto Guzman.
The AIFF opens Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the Regent Theatre and runs
through Sunday, Oct. 21.
Some 150 entries from 20 different countries were submitted this year,
compared with 55 entries from eight countries last year. Nations
represented include: Nigeria, Morocco, Liberia, Germany, Sweden,
Belgium, India, Argentina, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Greece, Honduras,
Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Social justice is a strong theme running through this year's entries,
Ranck and Guzman said, including the Best of Festival winner: Vivian
Ducat's `All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert.' A survivor of
poverty and near lynching in the segregated South, Rembert has
chronicled the suffering of cotton fields and chain gangs and the joy
of juke joints and church choirs in paintings collected and exhibited
nationwide.
A panel discussion by Ducat and Rembert will follow Wednesday's
showing of `All Me,' one of many ways the festival reflects the
multicultural, arts-oriented and socially conscious nature of many
entries, said Ranck and Guzman.
The Forgas Hungarian folk music and dance troupe will open Thursday
night's showing of Endre Hules's artistic narrative `The Maiden Danced
to Death,' which explores the schism in post-communist Hungary through
the story of two brothers.
Armenian musicians `Martin Haroutunian and Friends' will play Saturday
before Suzanne Khardalian's `My Grandma's Tattoos,' in which
Khardalian discovers her own grandmother's painful history as an
Armenian woman driven out of Ottoman Turkey during World War I.
And Indian dance performers from Newton's Thillai Fine Arts Academy
will follow Sunday's screening of Joshua Dylan's documentary `Play
Like a Lion,' which presents Indian `Emperor of Melody' and U.S.
Grammy nominee Ali Akbar Khan.
All these cultures are represented in the Boston area, and many right
here in Arlington, said Ranck and Guzman, recalling it was the local
Hungarian community that asked them to show Hules's film. There was
nowhere for them to see it otherwise, community members said.
`It's important to us to give voice to the communities that are living
here, that no one recognizes. We often say we know them, but we know
nothing about them,' Guzman said. `The festival is a an open forum to
exchange ideas and to try to understand the other.'
continue reading at
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Oct 12 2012
Film festival returns to Arlington.
by Marley Jurgensmeyer, an Arlington High School Student.
Arlington
Coming up on its second year, the Arlington International Film
Festival (AIFF) has evolved, according to organizers April Ranck and
Alberto Guzman.
The AIFF opens Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the Regent Theatre and runs
through Sunday, Oct. 21.
Some 150 entries from 20 different countries were submitted this year,
compared with 55 entries from eight countries last year. Nations
represented include: Nigeria, Morocco, Liberia, Germany, Sweden,
Belgium, India, Argentina, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Greece, Honduras,
Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Social justice is a strong theme running through this year's entries,
Ranck and Guzman said, including the Best of Festival winner: Vivian
Ducat's `All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert.' A survivor of
poverty and near lynching in the segregated South, Rembert has
chronicled the suffering of cotton fields and chain gangs and the joy
of juke joints and church choirs in paintings collected and exhibited
nationwide.
A panel discussion by Ducat and Rembert will follow Wednesday's
showing of `All Me,' one of many ways the festival reflects the
multicultural, arts-oriented and socially conscious nature of many
entries, said Ranck and Guzman.
The Forgas Hungarian folk music and dance troupe will open Thursday
night's showing of Endre Hules's artistic narrative `The Maiden Danced
to Death,' which explores the schism in post-communist Hungary through
the story of two brothers.
Armenian musicians `Martin Haroutunian and Friends' will play Saturday
before Suzanne Khardalian's `My Grandma's Tattoos,' in which
Khardalian discovers her own grandmother's painful history as an
Armenian woman driven out of Ottoman Turkey during World War I.
And Indian dance performers from Newton's Thillai Fine Arts Academy
will follow Sunday's screening of Joshua Dylan's documentary `Play
Like a Lion,' which presents Indian `Emperor of Melody' and U.S.
Grammy nominee Ali Akbar Khan.
All these cultures are represented in the Boston area, and many right
here in Arlington, said Ranck and Guzman, recalling it was the local
Hungarian community that asked them to show Hules's film. There was
nowhere for them to see it otherwise, community members said.
`It's important to us to give voice to the communities that are living
here, that no one recognizes. We often say we know them, but we know
nothing about them,' Guzman said. `The festival is a an open forum to
exchange ideas and to try to understand the other.'
continue reading at
http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/x1660694717/Film-festival-returns-to-Arlington#axzz292uidvmc
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress