We've told you about it through interviews, features, and the Kickstarter campaign behind it. Finally, Ambulane California is here and it's kicking off with urban style Cumbia band, Viento Callejero today September 21 at MacArthur Park. Kcrw DJ Dan Wilcox is bringing the dance party to the Bowtie Project alongside the La River for the closing night event on October 4.
From September 21 – October 4, the two- week documentary tour will travel to a different neighborhood to present a free documentary event in an outdoor/alternative venue. All screening events are free and open to the public. To see the list of films, schedule and venues please visit Here and follow @AmbulanteCA.
Films in the program included Sundance's "Alive Inside" (Sept. 23), "No No: A Documentary" (Sept.26), and "Living Stars" (Sept28) ; Mexican gems "Elevator"(Sept 25) and "Three Voices" (Sept. 27 & Sept. 29); unique visions of life in America such as "Las Marthas" (Sept. 25), "To the Other Side" (Sept. 30) and " Ladonna Harris: Indian 101"(Oct.1); visually astonishing films like "Cairo Drive" (Sept.24), "Alamar" (Oct. 1) and "Bering. Balance and Resistance" (Oct. 2); and classics such as "The Exiles" (Oct.3.).
Tonight Viento Callejero will go on at 6:30pm sharp to start the dancing before the 7pm L.A. premiere screening of "Bronx Obama,"a documentary about a Puerto Rican in the Bronx who looks like the Potus. The filmmaker Ryan Murdock and subject Louis Ortiz will be on hand. The feature film is preceded by "Ink & Paper," a short documentary about a local printing press and paper store. Filmmaker Ben Proudfoot will be present.
Ambulante’s tour will culminate at the Bowtie project at Rio de Los Angeles State Park on October 3 & 4. The Closing Weekend event is in collaboration with California State Parks, Clockshop and La River Revitalization Corporation. Dan Wilcox of Kcrw will be the master of groove festivities on Saturday, October 4 following the 7pm screening of "Yakona," a stunningly cinematic environmental film by filmmakers Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda, who will be present for Q&A.
Check out the film festival trailer:
https://vimeo.com/105792099
About Dan Wilcox
Dan Wilcox delves beneath the surface of the pop music landscape to shed light on a wealth of penetrating deep-cuts. He works as a music supervisor in various films including 'As Above, So Below' and upcoming film, The Coup by The Weinstein Co. He is the featured DJ for each year’s Barnsdall Wine Tastings and will be doing their Movie Nights in October
http://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/dan-wilcox
About Viento Callejero
Los Angeles based Urban style Cumbia trio that formed in 2013. The group is composed of three talented musicians, Gloria Estrada on guitar, Federico Zuniga on bass, and Gabriel Villa on drums. Together they bring a fresh approach to urban tropical music stripping it down to feature its rawest elements. With Cumbia making a resurgence, artists have been re-mixing and re-interpreting the Classic Cumbias in dance halls all over the world. Viento Callejero represents the newest incarnation of the movement in Los Angeles, breaking down the rhythmic and melodic pulse of Cumbia Colombiana, Son Montuno, Merengue, Reggae, Dance Hall, Funk, and Rock to create a fresh sound with a new twist that is infectious to the listeners ears, hips, and feet.
www.vientocallejero.com...
From September 21 – October 4, the two- week documentary tour will travel to a different neighborhood to present a free documentary event in an outdoor/alternative venue. All screening events are free and open to the public. To see the list of films, schedule and venues please visit Here and follow @AmbulanteCA.
Films in the program included Sundance's "Alive Inside" (Sept. 23), "No No: A Documentary" (Sept.26), and "Living Stars" (Sept28) ; Mexican gems "Elevator"(Sept 25) and "Three Voices" (Sept. 27 & Sept. 29); unique visions of life in America such as "Las Marthas" (Sept. 25), "To the Other Side" (Sept. 30) and " Ladonna Harris: Indian 101"(Oct.1); visually astonishing films like "Cairo Drive" (Sept.24), "Alamar" (Oct. 1) and "Bering. Balance and Resistance" (Oct. 2); and classics such as "The Exiles" (Oct.3.).
Tonight Viento Callejero will go on at 6:30pm sharp to start the dancing before the 7pm L.A. premiere screening of "Bronx Obama,"a documentary about a Puerto Rican in the Bronx who looks like the Potus. The filmmaker Ryan Murdock and subject Louis Ortiz will be on hand. The feature film is preceded by "Ink & Paper," a short documentary about a local printing press and paper store. Filmmaker Ben Proudfoot will be present.
Ambulante’s tour will culminate at the Bowtie project at Rio de Los Angeles State Park on October 3 & 4. The Closing Weekend event is in collaboration with California State Parks, Clockshop and La River Revitalization Corporation. Dan Wilcox of Kcrw will be the master of groove festivities on Saturday, October 4 following the 7pm screening of "Yakona," a stunningly cinematic environmental film by filmmakers Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda, who will be present for Q&A.
Check out the film festival trailer:
https://vimeo.com/105792099
About Dan Wilcox
Dan Wilcox delves beneath the surface of the pop music landscape to shed light on a wealth of penetrating deep-cuts. He works as a music supervisor in various films including 'As Above, So Below' and upcoming film, The Coup by The Weinstein Co. He is the featured DJ for each year’s Barnsdall Wine Tastings and will be doing their Movie Nights in October
http://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/dan-wilcox
About Viento Callejero
Los Angeles based Urban style Cumbia trio that formed in 2013. The group is composed of three talented musicians, Gloria Estrada on guitar, Federico Zuniga on bass, and Gabriel Villa on drums. Together they bring a fresh approach to urban tropical music stripping it down to feature its rawest elements. With Cumbia making a resurgence, artists have been re-mixing and re-interpreting the Classic Cumbias in dance halls all over the world. Viento Callejero represents the newest incarnation of the movement in Los Angeles, breaking down the rhythmic and melodic pulse of Cumbia Colombiana, Son Montuno, Merengue, Reggae, Dance Hall, Funk, and Rock to create a fresh sound with a new twist that is infectious to the listeners ears, hips, and feet.
www.vientocallejero.com...
- 9/21/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Filmed in Texas and told "from the perspective of the San Marcos River," Yakona had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival last week and went on to win an Audience Award in the Visions category. This meditative and visually captivating film can't be neatly categorized, and it will surely speak to the hearts of locals, nature lovers and anyone who has ever taken a swim in the San Marcos.
Filmmakers Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda chose to use a Pure Cinema stylistic technique, which relies on vision and movement rather than traditional narrative storytelling (not a single talking head is included and there is only minimal speaking). Instead, with footage captured using underwater cameras and reenacted scenes depicting life from prehistoric to modern times, Collins and Sepulveda create a collage of moments and emotions that together capture the spirit of the San Marcos River and the ecosystem of...
Filmmakers Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda chose to use a Pure Cinema stylistic technique, which relies on vision and movement rather than traditional narrative storytelling (not a single talking head is included and there is only minimal speaking). Instead, with footage captured using underwater cameras and reenacted scenes depicting life from prehistoric to modern times, Collins and Sepulveda create a collage of moments and emotions that together capture the spirit of the San Marcos River and the ecosystem of...
- 3/19/2014
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
SXSW Film Festival Audience Awards have been announced, with Before I Disappear winning the award in the Narrative Feature Competition and DamNation earning the audience award in Documentary Spotlight.
SXSW announced the Audience Award-winners from the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic, SXGlobal, Festival Favorites and Design Award categories. The Audience Award for 24 Beats Per Second will be announced on Monday, March 17.
Before I Disappear, which won the audience award from the Narrative Feature Competition, came into SXSW with a fair amount of momentum. Directed by Shawn Christensen, the character study is based off his Oscar-winning short film, Curfew. The movie stars Christensen as Richie, a depressed man who is forced to take care of his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia (Fatima Ptacek). Before I Disappear also stars Emmy Rossum (Shameless), Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries) and Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy).
Congrats to the...
SXSW announced the Audience Award-winners from the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic, SXGlobal, Festival Favorites and Design Award categories. The Audience Award for 24 Beats Per Second will be announced on Monday, March 17.
Before I Disappear, which won the audience award from the Narrative Feature Competition, came into SXSW with a fair amount of momentum. Directed by Shawn Christensen, the character study is based off his Oscar-winning short film, Curfew. The movie stars Christensen as Richie, a depressed man who is forced to take care of his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia (Fatima Ptacek). Before I Disappear also stars Emmy Rossum (Shameless), Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries) and Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy).
Congrats to the...
- 3/17/2014
- Uinterview
Shawn Christensen’s Before I Disappear has won (15) the 2014 SXSW narrative feature audience award, while Diana Whitten’s Vessel triumphed in the documentary section.
Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez earned the narrative spotlight audience award and Ben Knight and Travis Rummel took the documentary prize for DamNation.
The 24 Beats Per Second category will be announced via sxsw.com on March 17 as first screenings were still remaining at time of writing on Saturday (15).
The audience awards follow the previously announced juried awards, which included grand jury winners Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ Fort Tilden for narrative feature and Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible for documentary feature.
Complete 2014 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award Winners:
Narrative Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner: Before I Disappear
Shawn Christensen
Documentary Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner: Vessel
Director: Diana Whitten
Documentary Spotlight
Audience Award Winner: DamNation
Director: Ben Knight and Travis Rummel
Narrative Spotlight
Audience Award Winner: Cesar Chavez
Directors: Diego Luna
Visions...
Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez earned the narrative spotlight audience award and Ben Knight and Travis Rummel took the documentary prize for DamNation.
The 24 Beats Per Second category will be announced via sxsw.com on March 17 as first screenings were still remaining at time of writing on Saturday (15).
The audience awards follow the previously announced juried awards, which included grand jury winners Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ Fort Tilden for narrative feature and Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible for documentary feature.
Complete 2014 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award Winners:
Narrative Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner: Before I Disappear
Shawn Christensen
Documentary Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner: Vessel
Director: Diana Whitten
Documentary Spotlight
Audience Award Winner: DamNation
Director: Ben Knight and Travis Rummel
Narrative Spotlight
Audience Award Winner: Cesar Chavez
Directors: Diego Luna
Visions...
- 3/16/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
With the 2014 SXSW Film Festival drawing to an end, the organization just announced this year's Audience Awards, chosen by the festival's attendees, who hit up movie screenings all across Austin, TX.
Shawn Christensen's "Before I Disappear" won the Audience Award in the Narrative Feature Competition, and Diana Whitten's flick, "Vessel" earned the Audience Award in the Documentary Feature Competition.
Awards in the respective categories were also given to to Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers’ "Fort Tilden," as well as Margaret Brown's documentary, "The Great Invisible."
"Cesar Chavez," directed by Diego Luna, won the Audience Award in the Narrative Spotlight, set to premiere on March 28th through Pantelion Films, and Ben Knight and Travis Rummel's film, "DamNation" won the Documentary Spotlight.
Take a look at the list of winners below!
Narrative Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner: "Before I Disappear"
Director: Shawn Christensen
Documentary Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner:...
Shawn Christensen's "Before I Disappear" won the Audience Award in the Narrative Feature Competition, and Diana Whitten's flick, "Vessel" earned the Audience Award in the Documentary Feature Competition.
Awards in the respective categories were also given to to Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers’ "Fort Tilden," as well as Margaret Brown's documentary, "The Great Invisible."
"Cesar Chavez," directed by Diego Luna, won the Audience Award in the Narrative Spotlight, set to premiere on March 28th through Pantelion Films, and Ben Knight and Travis Rummel's film, "DamNation" won the Documentary Spotlight.
Take a look at the list of winners below!
Narrative Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner: "Before I Disappear"
Director: Shawn Christensen
Documentary Feature Competition
Audience Award Winner:...
- 3/15/2014
- GossipCenter
It's the last day of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, and the fest has announced the Audience Award winners from the Narrative and Documentary Feature, Narrative and Doc Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic, SXGobal, Festival Favorites and Design Award Categories. Full list below. The 24 Beats Per Second category will be announced online on Monday, March 17. Here's our wrap of the fest, and list of the competition winners. Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award Winner: Before I Disappear Director: Shawn Christensen Documentary Feature Competition Audience Award Winner: Vessel Director: Diana Whitten Documentary Spotlight Audience Award Winner: DamNation Director: Ben Knight & Travis Rummel Narrative Spotlight Audience Award Winner: Cesar Chavez Directors: Diego Luna Visions Audience Award Winner: Yakona Director: Anlo Sepulveda & Paul Collins Midnighters Audience Award Winner: Exists Director: Eduardo...
- 3/15/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
We mentioned it in our 22 Can't Miss SXSW Titles yesterday, and now we have an exclusive first look clip for you of the SXSW Visions-premiering nature docu Yakona. Directed by Anlo Sepulveda and Paul Collins, Yakona looks like it will take us on an ethereal trip above and below water at the mouth of Texas's Unesco-designated San Marcos River. The film premieres Saturday at SXSW with an encore presentation Tuesday (more on the SXSW page). Here are a few more words on the film and the video below. Yakona is an impressionistic journey down Texas's San Marcos River. The film travels from source to sea, through the changing seasons, interpreting the river's time and memory, and documenting the relationship between ourselves and the natural...
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- 3/6/2014
- Screen Anarchy
‘Tapping into the cultural zeitgeist,’ at SXSW 2011
Austin, Texas – The SXSW 2011 Feature Film Lineup was unveiled Wednesday afternoon. The festival lineup will consist of 130 features, in nine full days of programming, promising to deliver a film-going experience unlike previous years.
With a reputation for taking chances on relatively unknown filmmakers, the SXSW panel of judges carefully picked 130 films from 1,792 feature-length film submissions, (1,323 U.S. and 469 international). The program consists of 60 World Premieres, 12 North American Premieres and 16 U.S. Premieres.
The main competition categories return with eight Narrative Features, and eight Documentary Features, both competing for their respective Grand Jury Prize. New for films in competition this year, are awards for screenplay, editing, cinematography, music, and acting.
(The Midnighters and SXFantastic feature sections, along with the short film program, will be announced next week.)
Here are a few of the Features to be screened, among many others.
Narratives:
The Beaver (World Premiere)
Dir.
Austin, Texas – The SXSW 2011 Feature Film Lineup was unveiled Wednesday afternoon. The festival lineup will consist of 130 features, in nine full days of programming, promising to deliver a film-going experience unlike previous years.
With a reputation for taking chances on relatively unknown filmmakers, the SXSW panel of judges carefully picked 130 films from 1,792 feature-length film submissions, (1,323 U.S. and 469 international). The program consists of 60 World Premieres, 12 North American Premieres and 16 U.S. Premieres.
The main competition categories return with eight Narrative Features, and eight Documentary Features, both competing for their respective Grand Jury Prize. New for films in competition this year, are awards for screenplay, editing, cinematography, music, and acting.
(The Midnighters and SXFantastic feature sections, along with the short film program, will be announced next week.)
Here are a few of the Features to be screened, among many others.
Narratives:
The Beaver (World Premiere)
Dir.
- 2/3/2011
- by Albert Art
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Readers of Sound On Sight can be sure that we will indeed be covering the SXSW Film Festival once again. As previously reported, Duncan Jones’ latest film Source Code is opening the festival and there will also be premieres for the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Greg Mottola’s Paul, and Jodie Foster’s The Beaver. Now the full line-up has been announced it is incredible.
Hit the jump to check out the line-up, and be sure to visit our site during the event.
The 2011 SXSW Film Festival runs from March 11 – 19th in Austin, Texas.
SXSW Film Announces 2011 Features Lineup
Austin, Texas – February 2, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 11 – 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The 2011 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, highlighting emerging talent and breakthrough performances and supporting first-time filmmakers.
Hit the jump to check out the line-up, and be sure to visit our site during the event.
The 2011 SXSW Film Festival runs from March 11 – 19th in Austin, Texas.
SXSW Film Announces 2011 Features Lineup
Austin, Texas – February 2, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 11 – 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The 2011 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, highlighting emerging talent and breakthrough performances and supporting first-time filmmakers.
- 2/3/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival announced this year's features lineup. The festival takes place March 11-19 in Austin, Texas.
There are a total of 130 features screening this year including 60 world premieres, 12 North American premieres and 16 U.S. premieres! This year the a total of 1,792 feature-length films were submitted, which is the most ever.
There are going to be some amazing films shown this yea. Opening night kicks off with Duncan Jones' Source Code (Moon). The fest rolls on with Jodie Foster‘s The Beaver, Greg Mottola‘s Paul, Sundance Grand Prize doc winner How to Die in Oregon, Errol Morris‘ Tabloid, Victoria Mahoney‘s Yelling to the Sky, Azazel Jacob‘s Terri. There will also be a special screening of Catherine Hardwicke‘s Red Riding Hood.
The Midnight and SXFantastic sections will be announced with the shorts program next week.
See the complete lineup below via...
There are a total of 130 features screening this year including 60 world premieres, 12 North American premieres and 16 U.S. premieres! This year the a total of 1,792 feature-length films were submitted, which is the most ever.
There are going to be some amazing films shown this yea. Opening night kicks off with Duncan Jones' Source Code (Moon). The fest rolls on with Jodie Foster‘s The Beaver, Greg Mottola‘s Paul, Sundance Grand Prize doc winner How to Die in Oregon, Errol Morris‘ Tabloid, Victoria Mahoney‘s Yelling to the Sky, Azazel Jacob‘s Terri. There will also be a special screening of Catherine Hardwicke‘s Red Riding Hood.
The Midnight and SXFantastic sections will be announced with the shorts program next week.
See the complete lineup below via...
- 2/2/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
The South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) just announced their entire 2011 feature film lineup, and there’s isn’t a lot of note, with regards to this blog’s focus.
Titles you should be aware of – all of which we’ve previously profiled on Shadow And Act – include, Victoria Mahoney’s feature film debut, Yelling To The Sky (which will actually make its world debut at the Berlin Film Festival later this month); plus Blacktino, the first feature film from writer/director Aaron Burns, a self-described “blacktino nerd from Austin, Texas,” who got his start at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios doing visual effects; Benda Bilili, a documentary about a band of homeless, disabled Congolese; and last, but not least, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, a documentary about the black man that happens to be the man behind the puppet (which also played at Sundance).
There might be...
Titles you should be aware of – all of which we’ve previously profiled on Shadow And Act – include, Victoria Mahoney’s feature film debut, Yelling To The Sky (which will actually make its world debut at the Berlin Film Festival later this month); plus Blacktino, the first feature film from writer/director Aaron Burns, a self-described “blacktino nerd from Austin, Texas,” who got his start at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios doing visual effects; Benda Bilili, a documentary about a band of homeless, disabled Congolese; and last, but not least, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, a documentary about the black man that happens to be the man behind the puppet (which also played at Sundance).
There might be...
- 2/2/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The South by Southwest Film Festival has announced their features lineup for the 2011’s Festival, which will take place March 11th to the 19th in Austin Texas. Read the full press release after the jump. SXSW Film Announces 2011 Features Lineup Austin, Texas – February 2, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 11 – 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The 2011 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, highlighting emerging talent and breakthrough performances and supporting first-time filmmakers. The Midnighters and SXFantastic feature sections, along with the short film program, will be announced next week. “This is the most exciting moment for us. After a fantastic festival of discovery in 2010, we can finally unveil the line up for this year’s event,” says Film Conference and Festival Producer Janet Pierson. “SXSW prides itself on taking chances, sifting for...
- 2/2/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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