Why I Love Los Angeles - Volume 1

Trevor Sewell Reflects

"The last twelve months have been a hectic but incredibly enjoyable ride for me. Ever since debuting my album 'Independence' on The IN Show with Gus Summers on the day of its release ( 21st November 2013); and, later the same day picking up the 'Best Blues Award' in the Hollywood Music In Media Awards at the Fonda Theatre, there has been a real sense of progression!"

The Trevor Sewell Band played a string of dates and festivals in the U.K in early 2014, and then went on to pick up 'Best Blues' in the 'Artists And Music' Awards in Los Angeles in February.

In April it was then back to Hollywood where they were once again elated to take the 'Best Blues Performance' in the Indie Music Channel Awards for the song 'The Train.'

While in Hollywood, Sewell also began recording for his next electric album at the iconic Capitol Records! As if this wasn't enough, Sewell also recorded a new unplugged album LIVE at Capitol entitled "Face To Face" which is set to be released on CD this week.

"'Face to Face' was actually a completely spontaneous album - there was no plan to record an unplugged album of any sort. It was just that the engineers in Capitol are so great that when I heard the sound that he [one of the engineers] had managed to get on my acoustic, I just said 'Hey, Joe, (sounds like a cue for a song) while I’m sitting here can I make a Live Acoustic Album?' He just smiled and said, 'Yep. Let's go for it.' There was no plan, no set list, no discussion. We just agreed that there would also be no overdubs; and, that this would just be a completely stripped back raw performance. I just wanted to see how the songs sounded with just a guitar and a voice."

The "Face To Face" Album was completed in less than 3 hours and features a mix of songs from Sewell's previous two albums and also some new songs not available anywhere else. No plans were made to release these songs; in fact, for the rest of the duration at Capital, time was spent recording material for the new electric album.

It was only when "Fact To Face" was played it to a few people in the UK who said it was an album that needed to be released, did Sewell consider doing so. When he did, it went straight onto the highly prestigious IBBA playlist in the UK!

"The plan for the new electric album was originally to release it in November, but owing to the continuing success of the 'Independence' album, the release had to be rescheduled to next year."

Another visit to L.A is already on the cards and is currently scheduled for either February or March 2015. There are already some really interesting possibilities for collaborations in the air with some great American Musicians and Artists!

ADDITIONAL, EXCITING NEWS

• The entire Independence album being licensed for inclusion in a huge Blues Collection to be released soon that includes a plethora of well known artists. “I was really excited when this possibility was first discussed and was amazed to find out that the entire album was to be included in the multi-volume set which includes many of my heroes! B.B King, Taste, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf and the list just goes on. It was a huge Buzz when I saw the tracklist.
• Five Sewell songs from a completely different project have also just been recorded in studios in France and Nashville by Brooke Nickerson for Gotham Records. One of the songs being a cover of 'Take These Chains' from Sewells' "Independence" album! “I love what Brooke and her band have done with the songs and am looking forward to the release - It's completely different to my own version and I love when I hear an artist do something different with my songs."

"America, and in particular Hollywood, has been very good to me over the past 3 years; and, not just because of the Awards. I've found the Los Angeles music fraternity to be incredibly welcoming and have really enjoyed playing in L.A with my last gig being at the Whisky A Go Go in April. I just feel a real affinity with Los Angeles and the people and it just seems to get better and better every time we visit."

Just some of the reasons Trevor Sewell loves Los Angeles. Be sure to check back for a Volume 2 from Trevor real soon!

For More Info on Trevor Sewell, be sure to visit http://trevorsewell.com and follow Trevor on Facebook at https://facebook.com/trev.sewell .

SOURCE The Trevor Sewell Band

CINEMA ITALIAN STYLE 2014 - November 13-18, 2014, at the Egyptian and Aero Theatres!

Co-presented by Luce Cinecitta and the American Cinematheque, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture-Film Department, Bonato Milano 1960 and Leading Hotels of the World. Technical Sponsor: Rossano Ferretti. In collaboration with the Italian Trade Commission and the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles. Media Partners: Variety and L'Uomo Vogue.

Join us at the Egyptian and Aero Theatres for our annual celebration of Italian cinema, opening with Italy's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign-Language Film, Paolo Virzi's masterful HUMAN CAPITAL, a sharp social critique cloaked in an engrossing neo-noir mystery that's co-presented by AFI FEST. Highlights of the series also include director Ferzan Ozpetek and actor Francesco Scianna in person with romantic drama FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS, TV host Pif joining us with his assured and hilarious directorial debut THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN SUMMER, Francesco Munzi appearing with his gripping crime drama BLACK SOULS, director Agostino Ferrente with his Nastro d'Argento Best Documentary winner BEAUTIFUL THINGS, plus the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner, THE WONDERS. YouTube compilation documentary ITALY IN A DAY and a new digital restoration of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 classic CINEMA PARADISO are also featured. See the complete schedule here!


Watch this year's Cinema Italian Style Trailer!

EGYPTIAN THEATRE

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028

Thursday, November 13 - 6:30 PM - Egyptian Theatre

134 Documentary Features Submitted For 2014 Oscar® Race

LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.

The submitted features*, listed in alphabetical order, are:
*features linked go to reviews and/or interviews

“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?”
“Documented”
“The Dog”
“E-Team”
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”
“Elena”
“Evolution of a Criminal”
“Fed Up”
“Finding Fela”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
“Food Chains”
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”
“Getting to the Nutcracker”
“Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
“The Great Flood”
“The Great Invisible”
“The Green Prince”
“The Hacker Wars”
“The Hadza: Last of the First”
“Hanna Ranch”
“Happy Valley”
“The Hornet’s Nest”
“I Am Ali”
“If You Build It”
“The Immortalists”
“The Internet’s Own Boy”
“Ivory Tower”
“James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge”
“Jodorowsky’s Dune”
“Journey of a Female Comic”
“Keep On Keepin’ On”
“Kids for Cash”
“The Kill Team”
“Korengal”
“La Bare”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Last Hijack”
“The Last Patrol”
“Levitated Mass”
“Life Itself”
“Little White Lie”
“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band”
“Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
“Manakamana”
“Merchants of Doubt”
“Mission Blue”
“Mistaken for Strangers”
“Mitt”
“Monk with a Camera”
“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
“National Gallery”
“Next Goal Wins”
“Next Year Jerusalem”
“Night Will Fall”
“No Cameras Allowed”
“Now: In the Wings on a World Stage”
“Occupy the Farm”
“The Only Real Game”
“The Overnighters”
“Particle Fever”
“Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes”
“Pelican Dreams”
“The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”
“Plot for Peace”
“Point and Shoot”
“Poverty Inc.”
“Print the Legend”
“Private Violence”
“Pump”
“Rabindranath Tagore – The Poet of Eternity”
“Red Army”
“Remote Area Medical”
“Rich Hill”
“The Rule”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Shadows from My Past”
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
“A Small Section of the World”
“Smiling through the Apocalypse – Esquire in the 60s”
“Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”
“The Supreme Price”
“Tales of the Grim Sleeper”
“Tanzania: A Journey Within”
“This Is Not a Ball”
“Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence”
“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
“True Son”
“20,000 Days on Earth”
“Unclaimed”
“Under the Electric Sky”
“Underwater Dreams”
“Virunga”
“Waiting for August”
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago”
“Warsaw Uprising”
“Watchers of the Sky”
“Watermark”
“We Are the Giant”
“We Could Be King”
“Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
“A World Not Ours”

Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process.  A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.

Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.

The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Award winning Science-Fiction short film “Chasing the Past” to screen at the prestigious 29th annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

Winner for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the Boston International Film Festival, NOMINATED for BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM at the Burbank International Film Festival and accepted at the Academy Award qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival, “Chasing the Past” will make its Florida premiere at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival on Thursday, November 13th at 3pm in the “Lets Take a Trip” block at the festival.

The film tells the story of a man who separates himself from society after the tragic loss of his fiancée when he meets a self-proclaimed time-traveler that he must now protect.   The emotional juggernaut is written and directed by Jonathan Salemi and stars Adam Marcinowski who is also a Producer on the project, Alycia Grant (“Chasing Life”), Ceri Bethan, Joberde Metellus and Graham Shiels who is known for his roles on “True Blood”, “Arrow” and the upcoming SyFy Channel original series “Olympus”.

For direct access to tickets and to learn more about the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, please visit:  http://fliff.com/Film/1752/LETS_TAKE_A_TRIP_-_Hollywood   The official FaceBook page for “Chasing the Past” can be seen at www.Facebook.com/ChasingThePastMovie .


More on Jonathan Salemi
His "Chasing the Past" next screening:  http://www.fliff.com
His Project in Post:  http://www.goodluckmovie.com/
iTunes Movies:  https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/sidewalk-symphony/id722880089
Available soon on NetFlix:  http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Ante_Up/70118941
Currently released:  https://twitter.com/ATruthIS

INDELIBLE MEDIA presents AN AFRICAN ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE PRODUCTION

Opening Fri, Oct 31, 2014
New York City - Village East Cinema

Washington DC - Angelika Pop-Up / Union Market & 

Angelika Film Center / Mosaic (Fairfax, VA)

Opening Wed, Nov 5, 2014

Los Angeles - Sundance Sunset

Opening Fri, Nov 7, 2014

San Francisco - Opera Plaza

Distributor: Trinity
Directed by: Carlos Agulló and Mandy Jacobson
Produced by: Mandy Jacobson
Executive Producer: Ivor Ichikowitz and the African Oral History Archive
Written by: Stephen W. Smith (also historical consultant)
Starring: Jean-Yves Ollivier, Thabo Mbeki, Joachim Chissano, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Pik Botha, Winnie Mandela, Jorge Risquet, Chester Crocker, Mathews Phosa, Wynand Tu Toit

Running Time: 84 Minutes


Websites: www.plotforpeace.com - www.africanoralhistory.com
www.jeanyvesollivier.com - www.brazzavillefoundation.org



Nelson Mandela’s release was a plot for peace. A previous unknown and improbable key to Mandela’s prison cell was a mysterious French businessman dubbed “Monsieur Jacques” in classified correspond-ence. His real name was Jean-Yves Ollivier and his trade secret was trust. Now for the first time, his true story is told in the documentary thriller, PLOT FOR PEACE.

In the mid-1980s, township violence raged in South Africa and one of the Cold War’s most vicious proxy conflicts devastated Angola. It was then that a foreign commodity trader with connections to all major stakeholders in the region became the lifeline for top-secret contacts. To build trust, he organized a huge prisoners’ exchange that opened the road for Mandela’s eventual release. A year later, in 1988, South Africa’s forces and 50,000 Cuban troops began withdrawing from Angola. In John LeCarré style, the land of apartheid and the front line states came out of the Cold War long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Within fourteen months, Mandela walked out of jail – a free man and, soon, South Africa’s first democratically elected President.

PLOT FOR PEACE features exclusive interviews with current and former heads of state – South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki, Mozambique’s Joachim Chissano, Congo’s Denis Sassou Nguesso – and numerous other protagonists, such as apartheid’s longest-serving minister of Foreign Affairs “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s icon of resistance Winnie Mandela, Fidel Castro’s “African hand” Jorge Risquet as well as Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker, the father of “constructive en-gagement” – all bearing vivid testimony. Their first-hand accounts disclose in full detail both the official and the secret dealings between the last tenants of apartheid and the Marxist regimes at South Africa’s borders and confirm the unique role that Ollivier played.

About The African Oral History Archive
The African Oral History Archive (AOHA) aims to safeguard Africa’s dynamic heritage for future genera-tions. In a global effort, over 150 interviews have been recorded, giving unprecedented access to all those who have been instrumental in shaping South Africa’s modern history. AOHA is a project of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, founded by Ivor Ichikowitz, a South African industrialist and philanthropist. PLOT FOR PEACE is part of the Celebrating Twenty Years of Democracy initiative, a 6-part series on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in September 2014. www.africanoralhistory.com

Mark your calendar for the World Premiere of ALMOST THERE, a Kartemquin Films documentary directed by Aaron Wickenden (of THE INTERRUPTERS) and Dan Rybicky!

ALMOST THERE is a coming-of-(old)-age story about 83-year-old Peter Anton, an "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two filmmakers discover his work and storied past. Shot over eight years, Almost There documents Anton's first major exhibition and how the controversy it generates forces him to leave his childhood home. Each layer revealed reflects on the intersections of social norms, elder care, and artistic expression.

ALMOST THERE is one of four Kartemquin documentaries showing on the opening weekend of DOCNYC, the country’s largest documentary festival, held at New York's IFC Center. Filmmakers Wickenden and Rybicky will attend their world premiere on Saturday November 15th at 6:45pm and their encore screening on Monday, November 17th at 1pm.

ALMOST THERE
Directed by Aaron Wickenden and Dan Rybicky


WORLD PREMIERE 
@ DOCNYC
Saturday November 15th ▪ 6:45 PM @ IFC Center  323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10014



ENCORE SCREENING:
Monday November 17th ▪ 1:00 PM @ IFC Center  323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10014

ABOUT THE FILM:
ALMOST THERE is a coming-of-(old)-age story about 83-year-old Peter Anton, an "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two filmmakers discover his work and storied past. Shot over eight years, Almost There documents Anton's first major exhibition and how the controversy it generates forces him to leave his childhood home. Each layer revealed reflects on the intersections of social norms, elder care, and artistic expression.

SOURCE After Bruce PR

International Family Film Festival Announces 2014 Lineup

19th Annual International Family Film Festival also features Industry Panels, Screenwriter’s Showcase, YouthFest! Awards, and Closing Awards Ceremony

Hollywood, CA – Celebrating its 19th year, the International Family Film Festival announced its 2014 lineup, to be held November 7-9 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. The festival will screen 88 films and feature 14 screenplays, representing the U.S.,16 foreign countries, and multiple professionally accredited film schools. The complete lineup and details are available at www.iffilmfest.org. All films and screenplays will compete in the spirit of family values in film.

"What makes our festival unique is our emphasis on themes that define and challenge the definition of family,” says Chris Shoemaker, IFFF Executive Director. “This year’s is a particularly robust festival, and we’re pleased to bring it back to Raleigh Studios.”


Screenings kick off on November 7, with opening-night film, Matthew Gratzner’s “Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink.” Actor/producer Jeffery Patterson stars in this period western playing two roles – twin brothers Vance and Tom Dillinger – who are separated when their parents are massacred and Tom is kidnapped. 30 years later, Vance is now a U.S. Marshal, while Tom has become The “Lucky” Bandit, a wanted outlaw.  A robbery gone wrong exposes Lucky’s identity, sending Vance and his posse on a quest to capture his own brother.  A chance discovery unveils the truth about their parents’ killer, leading Lucky on a ruthless quest for revenge.  Caught in the middle, Vance struggles between feelings of retribution and upholding the law.  To learn more about the film please visit hotbathanastiffdrink.com.

Another of Patterson’s productions, “Finding Harmony” (Billy Zane), is a touching, multi-generational southern drama about the wounds we carry, and those we leave behind.

Also slated is “The Town that Came a’ Courtin’” (Lauren Holly, Cameron Bancroft, and Valerie Harper), in which a small town plays matchmaker for its mayor and a successful author.

In “A Little Game,” (Olympia Dukakis, F. Murray Abraham, and Janeane Garofolo), a 10-year-old girl (Makenna Ballard) who is dealing with being an exceptionally smart child, and finds an unlikely mentor in a chess master who teaches her life lessons through the game.

In the way of shorts, “Before It’s Too Late” (Robert Loggia and Eric Roberts) takes a comedic look at how aging affects our driving skills to the point that become unsafe. We must then make one of the most difficult decisions of our lives; to give up our car keys.

In “Simpler Times” (Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara), a recently widowed man in his golden years moves in with his daughter and son-in-law and finds himself trapped in the world of modern technology.

“The Tunes Behind the Tunes” features a who's who of award-winning composers, (Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Richard Sherman, and more), sharing their insights into the role of music in adding character into animation over the decades.

Culminating the festival on November 9 is the IFFF Awards Ceremony, a black-tie ceremony and dinner showcasing the winning films, special honorees and celebrity presenters. Several special recognition awards are planned, including the “Friz Award,” for excellence in animation, and the “IFFF Excellence Award,” given to a person, production company, network or studio which produces excellent family entertainment. Previous Friz and IFFF Excellence awards recipients include: J.G. Quintel, Bill Farmer, Phil Roman, Charles M. Schulz, Chuck Jones, Joseph Barbera, and Friz award namesake Friz Freleng.

The 2014 IFFF will also conduct several film panels, offering attendees the opportunity to learn from and network with industry leaders & working professionals. This year’s panels include: The Los Angeles Digital Literacy panel, Indie Film Financing, Indie Film Distribution, Producers Networking brunch, and The Screenwriting 360º panel, covering Film, TV & CGI.

The Screenwriter’s Showcase and Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, November 9, features industry-working actors, cast by Lauren Patrice Nadler, performing a selected scene from each of the screenplay finalists. Screenplays were submitted from as far away as Belgium and the U.K. for categories including Drama, Comedy, Animation and Sci-fi/Fantasy.


For youth ages 8-17, the festival presents YouthFest! on Saturday, November 8. This all-day youth-friendly section features screenings, as well as acting, voice, and stunt workshops. YouthFest! culminates by celebrating the youth finalists and winners from the short film, comic book and screenplay categories.

The IIFF is a market that creates a positive and well-respected networking opportunity for film distribution deals.  Past IFFF’s have drawn over 5,000 film fans and industry professionals. Screenplays that compete in the Screenplay competition are frequently optioned and helmed into short and feature films. Through its partnership with Freshi Films, a national leader in digital education, the IFFF distributes digital-filmmaking kits to classrooms and after-school programs, helping youth nationwide discover the art and power of filmmaking.

Festival Passes are available to the general public and give access to all screenings and events. General admission tickets to individual films and events are also available. All-day passes for YouthFest! give access to all YouthFest! events. All tickets are available online at www.iffilmfest.org.


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