Anyone familiar with Emir Kusturica's 1995 film "Underground" has had a taste of the signature Balkan brass music unique to Serbia, a wild, lively, and heart-pumping blend of trumpets, drums and other brass instruments that gives the film its distinctive tone and cultural stamp. "Brasslands," a documentary directed by the 10-person Meerkat Media Collective, sets out to explore this type of music at the largest trumpet festival in the world, in the tiny village of Guča, Serbia. The people of Serbia are passionate about their music, something that sets them apart as a culture and serves as a point of desperately needed national pride in the wake of the war with Bosnia and subsequent Nato bombings in the 1990s. So while "Brasslands" captures this special music and its spirit, it also captures what this music means to Serbians and how they see themselves in the world. And more than that,...
- 7/10/2013
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
The 3rd annual Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (Pow!) has announced their full festival lineup, which includes 44 films from all over the world. The fest will run March 18-21 at the Hollywood Theatre.
Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.
The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:
March 18
7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”
Nous Deux Encore,...
Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.
The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:
March 18
7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”
Nous Deux Encore,...
- 2/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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