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‘Raju’ Director on Going to Great Lengths to Film a Short Max Zaehle (left) directing Wotan Mohring and Julia Richter in ‘Raju.’ Barbara Chai, Wall Street Journal Although his short film, “Raju,” deals with the weighty subject of illegal child-trafficking, director Max Zaehle is ebullient when discussing his work. Perhaps […]
Angelus Winner Talks Oscar With WSJ
By Benjamin Sutton The 2012 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, Animated Shorts, and Documentary Shorts Opening February 10 at IFC Center Attempting to find a unifying theme to one year’s 15 Oscar-nominated short films is a necessarily (and happily) impossible task, but if nothing else the strongest contenders in the […]
Film Reviews Meet the Family and Fate in 2012’s Oscar-Nominated ...
By Ben Fulton The Salt Lake Tribune Park City • Max Zähle’s 24-minute film “Raju” didn’t make the cut among this year’s short films selected for competition by the Sundance Film Festival, but it proved good enough for an Oscar Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. The 34-year-old […]
German filmmaker gets news of Oscar nom at Sundance
Long live the Dane! Hamlet rendering by Sarah Airriess Join us in Elsinore, beginning January 21 Experience Hamlet in a whole new way. After intense audience reaction to our production last summer in Griffith Park, we realized we weren’t done with Denmark just yet. This time around, we’re re-imagining the […]
ISC Opens Winter Run Of Hamlet
Reviewed by Frank Mundo In poet Melinda Palacio‘s debut novel, Ocotillo Dreams, we meet a young woman named Isola, a green-eyed, “exotic-looking” Mexican-American “often mistaken for Thai or Filipino” whose mother’s death couldn’t have come at a worse time in her life. Just one fellowship short of becoming a full […]
LA Books Examiner Reviews Ocotillo Dreams
By Andrew Magee A prestigious Los Angeles film festival brought three award-winning directors to Fulham for a screening at the London Film Academy last night. The Angelus Student Film Festival is an international competition that recognises some of the best young filmmakers around the world. Festival director Monika Moreno presented […]
LA Film Festival hits London
Fellow Cart For A Cause Chefs, Unite! As you’ve certainly heard, the Cart For A Cause Cookbook is due to launch Nov. 30 and to kick things off, I’d love for you to join me and St. Vincent Meals on Wheels Founder Sr. Alice Marie Quinn at Bar Pintxo […]