Tag Archive: Pleasantville

Meet the JBFC’s Incoming Artist-In-Residence, Bernardo Britto

By Sophie Cowley Beginning May 30, the Jacob Burns Media Arts Lab will welcome in a new artist-in-residence: Bernardo Britto. Bernardo is an award-winning filmmaker and animator whose impressive array of work has played at a number of festivals, including Sundance and SXSW. His debut feature, Jacqueline (Argentine), is a hilarious mockumentary-style film that premiered [...]

Wednesday

May 24

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24 Hour Film Challenge 2017

Each year, the Burns hosts its 24 Hour Film Challenge, a competition for high school students that charges participants with making a film in 24 hours. Groups have access to our Media Arts Lab equipment and facilities for pre-production, shooting, and editing films throughout the Challenge. To prevent participants from working on their stories in advance, each [...]

Tuesday

May 23

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All things JAZZ!

By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Are you ready? You are not going to want to miss the amazing selections in this year’s Jazz Sessions: The Greats on Camera series, May 18–June 22, including five rousing films and four live performances! We kick things off by celebrating the incomparable Satchmo! Will Friedwald, longtime friend of the Burns, [...]

Wednesday

May 17

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Taking A Front Seat At The Art House Cinema

By Sophie Cowley With the mounting success of streaming platforms and the ever-growing convenience of personal devices like tablets and iPhones, some believe that the cinema is becoming a thing of the past. But the Jacob Burns Film Center heartily disagrees. Why Art House? When you arrive at an art house like the Jacob Burns, [...]

Friday

Apr 28

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Curtains Up

By Dotty Battel, JBFC Marketing Volunteer “The play’s the thing…” William Shakespeare is not the only one to feel that way…we do too (about film as well!). That said, we are giving a standing ovation to Life on the Stage: Conversation and Film, a new dynamic film series created in collaboration with The Actors Fund. [...]

Thursday

Apr 20

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{Cinemania Student Critic} A Recycled Orchestra

By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Ilani Denzer In a town that is home to Paraguay’s main landfill Favio Chavez, a resourceful ganchero, and many determined children came together and formed the Landfill Orchestra of Cateura. Here 40% of the youth don’t finish school because their parents need them to pick garbage in the landfill to [...]

Thursday

Mar 09

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JBFC Fellow's Film Added to WJFF 2017

By Paige Grand Pré, Education Communications Associate The JBFC is thrilled to announce that the recently-completed short documentary Kitty and Ellen will screen in advance of A Jewish Girl in Shanghai as part of our 2017 Westchester Jewish Film Festival. Kitty and Ellen was directed by Leah Galant, our Fall 2016 Sally Burns Shenkman Woman Filmmaker Fellow, [...]

Thursday

Mar 09

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{Cinemania Student Critic} Landfill Harmonic

By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Ty Amsterdam Landfill Harmonic is an uplifting documentary that has such an incredible storyline, it could almost seem fictional! The film takes place in Cateura, a town in Paraguay where most of the residents try to find work at the garbage dump. We follow Favio Cháves, who decided to inspire [...]

Thursday

Mar 02

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Jacob Burns Film Center Launches New Creative Culture Initiative

Recognizing a gap in support for filmmakers in the Hudson Valley, Jacob Burns Film Center staff developed Creative Culture, a unique initiative designed to foster a thriving artistic community in the region. The goal of the program is to transform makers into strong and successful storytellers by strengthening their voice, providing a supportive network, and [...]

Wednesday

Feb 22

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Great Moments in Oscar History

by Sarah Soliman, Marketing Assistant The 89th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, Feb. 26, and there are sure to be some memorable moments. La La Land could tie (or even surpass) Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King for most Academy Awards won by a single film, and it’s [...]

Friday

Feb 17

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