▌FYI ▌ Meet the glossy for Christian Cinema

www.christianfilmworksmagazine.com

Stop pretending you knew it existed.

Meet Christian Filmworks Magazine, the domain of Christian Cinema. I don't think you should expect to see Tyler Perry's face show up in its pages, but the thought is a brilliant one.

Take a gander and let me know what you think. 

P.S.

Would love to see my own fam represented, too. We go pretty hard in this arena, but I don't know that we've consolidated our efforts where film for entertainment is concerned.

▌CASTING CALL ▌25th Anniversary MTV Real World

 

MTV is casting for Real World 25. 18 - to - 24-year-olds beware! (Hopefully you'll bring the vim and vigor back...no offense, MTV.)

▄▌SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT▐▄ Meet me at my Examiner ;-) #gig #giddy

I'm pretty excited about this one.

Yours truly is now Film Festival Examiner for the DC area. 

Follow the pretty green link to read my first (scrib'd) fest experience. Special thanks again to Samuel Douek and Hola Mexico for being my firsts. //Hola  Mexico Film Festival touches down in the District//

That being said, the more you read, the more I get to write! So please DO stop on through! You'll know every time I post something new. Love you much. A tout a l'heure!

▌CANNES ▌Late Like A Mug--So What! #Cannes #madREALmad #noladies

Congratulations to all the winners, and a special s/o to Mahamat-Saleh Haroun!

The Winners of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival

-Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)

-Grand Prize: "Of Gods and Men" by Xavier Beauvois (France)

-Jury Prize: "A Screaming Man" by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)

-Best Director: Mathieu Amalric for "On Tour" (France)

-Best Actor: Javier Bardem, "Biutiful" (Mexico) and Elio Germano, "La Nostra Vita" (Italy)

-Best Actress: Juliette Binoche, "Certified Copy" (Iran)

-Best Screenplay: Lee Chang-Dong, "Poetry" (Korea)

-Camera d'Or (first-time director): "Ano Bisiesto" by Michael Rowe (Mexico)

-Best short film: "Chienne d'Histoire," by Serge Avedikian (France)

▌FESTIVAL ▌Hola, Mexico! And Why 'Naco' is ALWAYS Chido @ E St (thru 6/1)

Landmark 'E Street' Cinemas

555 11th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

202.452.7672

NOW through 6/1

You may have heard about 'Norteado'--which opened the festival, but the people's choice is worth your eyeballs and attention to staying 'woke', too. Yours truly viewed Sergio Arau's Naco es Chido ("Kitch Is Cool") Friday at Landmark, and may I say, it is indeed a timely faux tale.

For would-be revolutionaries who are losing their vigor since hope-dope became too much, I recommend you take a whiff of the beauty in Mexican cinema at Sam Douek's Hola Mexico Film Festival, running now through Tuesday, June 1st.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence from Spain and the 100th year since the Mexican Revolution. To celebrate in cinematic style, Hola Mexico Film Festival is here in the DMV for the first time since the international fest began.

Catch it before it's gone!

▌SAYWhaa? ▌Real Housewives of Accra

STOP. THE. PRESSES.

HOLD. THE. PHONE.

You KNOW I had to post something like this. 

There is very little word, but the word that exists goes something like this: 

MOVE OVER ALL YOU SO-CALLED HOUSE CHICKS.

Casting for the Real Housewives of Accra will go down from mid-July to August according to the 480+ Facebook fan page of the alleged soon-to-be show. No, Bravo did not fall and bump its head (yet). The show is to be a Ghanaian production with requests for advertisers, camera folks and the like being made now, and auditions to take place in Accra. 

One blog is deeming this but one foray into the land of Ghana's socialite scene, and while I'd like to believe I'm above socialite-ness and the manifestations of it in televisual form--I'm not. I'll probably watch an episode or several if this is for real and if given the chance...

I'm worried.

What are the implications of such a thing, Readership?!

What's the call to "stay woke" in all of this?!!

My...my...my...

▌CELEBRATION OF LIFE ▌ Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010)

Dennis Hopper, the star behind 'Easy Rider', and a reputed Hollywood hell-raiser, died Saturday, May 29th after a long battle with prostate cancer. Hopper was 74. Dennis Hopper dead at 74 - NYPOST.com

▌CELEBRATION OF LIFE ▌ Gary Coleman (February 8, 1968 - May 28, 2010)

 Daresay, one of the most bitten celebrities in parody and sketch comedy, Gary Coleman was a breakout child star and testimony to a life lived against the odds. Coleman's 4'8 stature was the result of a kidney condition that left him resembling his childhood characters well beyond their appearances on television. While he garnered much success around every "Whatchu taum'bout Willis?" utterance on Diff'rent Strokes, he also managed to appear at the center of tabloid press. Coleman suffered a brain hemorrhage following an accident at his Utah home last Wednesday. He was 42 years old.