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Music by Benjamin Harwood; Films by Rogelio Sánchez Toledo, Michael Winokur, Hanspeter Ammann and Aman Bhanot

Festival 2017 - First Annual Add-A-Movie Festival

Gallery MC

545 west 52nd Street 8th Floor, NYC

December 16 2017

4PM - 10PM

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Film by Carmern Kordas

Score by John Pinnella

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    Festival 2018 - Immigration

    Second Annual Add A Movie Film Festival - Immigration

    The 2018 theme was Immigration. We screened films about and by Immigrants.

    December 15th 2018

    Gallery MC

    at 545 West 52nd St. 

    8th floor

    Manhattan, NYC

    Content

    4:30 PM - door/registration/cocktails/network 

    5 PM - Screening: Music, Art and Shorts

    5:30 PM -Screening, The Immigrant with the original live score byAddAMovie Composers, played by  pianist Ilya Laskin 

    6 PM - conversations with filmmakers, composers and the pianist

    6:30 PM - break - dinner (surprise immigrant food available for purchase)

    7 PM - Panel: Immigration through the film lens; panelists Patricia Shih, Musician and Filmmaker, Linda Mason, Artist, Gene Pritsker, composer
    Moderated by Milica Paranosic
    7:45 PM - Awards

     8 PM - Feature Presentation, Undocumented by Patricia Shih

    9:15 PM Q and A with Patricia Shih, Greg Blank and if we're VERY LUCKY

    Dr. Harold Fernandez

    9:45 PM - Network 

    General seating/cash bar

    Mulled wine, surprise immigrant food and $1 Pop-Corn!!!

    About

    Schedule

    Schedule

    Our signature informal yet highly informative style presentation, with the authors (directors and composers) present to give an insight to their work and the process, this part screening, part networking opportunity in the heart of Manhattan is a must for film lovers and film industry people alike.

    Schedule

    Schedule

    Schedule

    4 - 5 pm - Screening: Dance on Film  (featuring films developed collaboratively between Paracademia and University of Roehampton)

    5:15 - 6:15 pm  - Life in Black and White (featuring films by Maya Deren and Jean Epstein)

    6:15 - 7 pm Dinner break - we will have  yummy Italian Pizza from Il Baretto, if you prepurchase with your ticket

    7 - 8 pm - Panel: Gender Equality in Film Industry; panelists: documentary filmmaker Meschida Philip, Audrey Clinet, the founder of EROÏN, Aaron Simms, the founder of Inwood Art Works and the international star Lara St. John

    8 -9:30 pm  - Female Directors   (featuring films by Meschida Philip, Lara St. John, the EROÏN productions and others)   

    9:30 - 10 pm Cocktails and Networking

    General seating; cash bar and $1 fresh MC-pops!

    Festival 2019 - We Are Not Princesses

    A FRESH LOOK AT HEROINES IN FILM

    A FRESH LOOK AT HEROINES IN FILM

    A FRESH LOOK AT HEROINES IN FILM

    November 9, 2019 4 - 9 pm

    OPERA America | The National Opera Center

    330 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001

    SPECIAL PRESENTATION

    OF AN AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY

    We Are Not Princesses 

    (download the EPK)

    Special Guest: Quartet Metadata

    performing original scores to  Alice in Wonderland (1915) .






    Program

    A FRESH LOOK AT HEROINES IN FILM

    A FRESH LOOK AT HEROINES IN FILM

      

    3:30 PM

    Sign In/Reception 

    4:00 PM

    Screening, 1stBlock

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Bernie Walasavage**

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Chang Lin**

    AMERICAN MARRIAGE, by Giorgio Fontana

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Lauren Lucente*

    ZOO by Mathilde Surieux

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Jeff Bloom**

    *performed by Quartet Metadata

    ** Film Scoring Competition Winner

    Short break

      

    5 PM

    Screening, 2nd Block 

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Timothy Goplerud *

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Kazunori Tarumi **

    AS ONE by David Spaltro

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Benjamin Harwood*

    DEAR LARA by Lara St. John, Score by Laurie Anderson

    SEARCHING FOR CRYSTAL by Meschida Philip, Score by Benjamin Harwood

    *performed by Quartet Metadata

    ** Film Scoring Competition Winner

    6 PM

    Dinner break

    6:30 PM

    Panel – Non-stereotypical female characters in movies through time 

    Moderator: Meschida Philip, filmmaker

    Panelists: Sara Maamouri, documentary filmmaker and editor  (We are Not Princesses), Holter Graham, Actor, V/O Artist, Tatyana Kot, Actor/Dancer/Model

    7 PM

    Feature Presentation

    Feature presentation: We Are Not Princesses 

    by BRIDGETTE AUGER: CO-DIRECTOR/DP/PRODUCER, ITAB AZZAM: CO-DIRECTOR/DP and SARA MAAMOURI - PRODUCER/EDITOR

    a documentary film about the incredible strength and spirit of four Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut as they come together to tell their stories of love, loss, pain and hope through the ancient Greek play, Antigone.    


    8:30 PM

    Awards and networking 


    General seating

    Composition Competition

    Composition Competition

    Composition Competition

    This year, our film scoring competition was for a short string quartet composition for a section of Alice in Wonderland (1915).The submission process has now ended.We congratulate our winning composers:

    • Chang Lin
    • Kazunori Tarumi
    • Bernie Walasavage
    • Jeff Bloom


    Quartet Metadata will perform their pieces live, during the first and the second screening block

    Film Competition

    Composition Competition

    Composition Competition

    From Our 2019 Festival:

    Excerpt from ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Score by Benjamin Harwood*

    Performed by Quartet Metadata

    AddAMovie Film Festival 2020 - (in)Voluntary Body Mutilation

    March 8th 2021 5PM EST

    REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/addamoviefilmfestival-tickets-143792873355

    Lotte Reiniger, Cinderella 1922. Silent animation. As Inspiration.

    The focus of the festival , this classic work has been scored by our composers for Quartet Metadata 

    Congratulations to our winning composers

    Erik Ingalls, first prize

    Adrian Bawtree, second prize

    Juli Aoyama, third prize

    Our first prize winner, Erik Ingalls, receives a performance and a recording of his quartet.


    Our second and third prize winners, Adrian Bawtree and Juli Aoyama receive an honorable mention, a short online interview and a phone consultation!


    Once again, congratulations and many thanks for participating!

     

    Congratulations to Sophie Dunér,

    We have chosen Distorted Souls by Sophie E. Dunér as part of our official selection.

    A little birdie tells us that Sofie will compose a brand new score for her movie for this particular occasion.

    Once again, congratulations and many thanks for participating!

    Submission Information

    All submission information can be found on our "Submit to the Festival" page

    International Women's Day

     Why do we choose this date for this particular theme?  follow the blogs and articles below...

    Outcry in Iran at nine-year sentence for man who beheaded daughter

    Deliberate self-harm, also called self-injury, is when people inflict physical harm on themselves

    https://www.rainn.org/articles/self-harm


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