Clandestine Will Play at the Atlanta Film Festival
While it was a tremendous honor for Clandestine to hold its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, one very important thing was missing: all of our friends, family and supporters. We are fortunate to say that we have supporters all around the world, but only two locations can provide us with the opportunity to gather the maximum amount of you in one place in time. One is Mobile, Alabama, and the other is Atlanta, Georgia. We are happy to announce that the latter will take place as part of the Atlanta Film Festival 2010.
The Atlanta Film Festival has been held annually for 33 years, and this year, it’s 34th, will take place on April 15th - 23rd. We don’t know yet when Clandestine will play exactly, but we are hoping for a good time slot to so you can all attend. More details can be found here as soon as we have them.
Thank you all for your lasting support; we hope to see many of you there.
Clandestine Wins Jury’s Choice Selection (1st Prize)
Last night, the Black Maria Film + Video Festival announced their awards and honored Clandestine with a Jury’s Choice Selection (1st Prize). Gideon and Marcus were not able to attend but will be attending some selected screenings of Clandestine across the country.
We would like to congratulate Eva Weber for taking home the Grand Prize for her film The Solitary Life of Cranes. Not only this, but we’d like to extend our compliments to Seoungho Cho, Patrick Bergeron, Joanna Priestley, Tom Gasek, Julie Zammarchi, Anthony Weeks, Ruth Peyser, Pavel Medvedev, and Kathryn Ramey who were also awarded the Jury’s Choice Selection.
This is the first award Clandestine is received, but will hopefully not be the last.
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This week, Doc at Mod Mobilian wrote a kind review of Clandestine, and in doing so, has reminded us of how incredible the support from Mobile has been. The Doc says Clandestine “is not just a documentary – it is an examination of deceit and “ciphering” in familial communications as well as international espionage”. We hope this will get the town excited for the Mobile premiere of Clandestine which is soon to come.
Thanks Mobile, and thanks Doc!
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It was pleasing to find this post on Clandestine last week by a kind stranger abroad. Tomas Goesl is a Shortwave listener and Ham Radio operator (call OK1JRA), who keeps up a website about radios and communication across the globe. It is very thorough and up to date from what I can tell (it is in the Czech language). For any reader of the Clandestine blog who is interested in the topic of shortwave, radio, and Numbers Stations, it is a good place to subscribe.
Contact has been established with Mr. Goesl through his website, and he has expressed more interest in viewing Clandestine. One possibility for this would be the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival which takes place in July 2010.
So, keep your fingers crossed and tune your dials to Surfing on the Radio Waves.
Note: you can use Google Translate to translate and browse sites in foreign languages.
Here is the Mr. Goesl’s post translated by Google:
In its surfing the net I came across an interesting film. It’s such a cross between a fancy story and document the numbers stations. Film-makers have used freely available documents and information tehta stations, add the story and created a piece that would have fans tehta mysterious stations certainly not be missed. The film lasts about 34 minutes, the black and white and will have its world premiere Dec. 20 at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
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You can now access our electronic press kit (EPK) from the press page of our website. Additionally you can download it directly by clicking here.
It is a work in progress that we will be constantly updating with new screenings, photographs, awards (fingers crossed), trailers, and anything that we feel might be helpful in getting the word out on Clandestine. You can always find the latest copy of it at clandestine-movie.com.
ATENCIÓN!
Since our world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November, we’ve been maintaining radio silence. There were certain events that required celebration, and we took advantage of this time to suspend Clandestine activity. But this time away from the editing room has not been completely idle. Gideon and I have been following up with our new friends and operatives, working on publicity, and fielding submission invitations from festivals around the world. To date, Clandestine has been solicited by almost a dozen festivals from three different continents. While we have been greatly encouraged by the interest, we’ve been anxious knowing that the first couple of weeks of 2010 would bring official selection notices for a handful of screening opportunities. We are proud to announce that we have been accepted to three American festivals for the month of February.
Thin Line Film Festival - 3rd Year - Denton, TX
It is not typical for films to hold their country premieres at newer, smaller festivals. But the Thin Line Film Festival presents an environment tailored to Clandestine. The focus on the festival is to present films that blur the thin line between fact and fiction, documentary and narrative; films just like Clandestine. And so it is that Clandestine will hold it’s Texas Premiere at the 3rd annual Thin Line Film Festival.
Black Maria Film + Video Festival - 29th Year - Nationwide
The Black Maria Film + Video Festival is a touring festival. Once the films are selected by a jury, they are taken to over 65 venues across the United States from February until June. This will give Clandestine the opportunity to play in museums, colleges, libraries, and select theaters nationwide. Some notable past venues of the festival are the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Atlanta’s own Cinefest Theater. Black Maria focuses on short works that reveal an inventive, insightful, and uncommon spirit.
Cinequest Film Festival - 20th Year - San Jose, CA
Being the first major independent film festival to be held after the Academy Awards, Cinequest is a festival and institution that focuses on “The Maverick”. It serves to highlight filmmakers who are doing what others aren’t, who are breaking ground, and doing it with little resources. It is a terrific atmosphere for Clandestine to shine. We hope to see a good crowd come out to see our American Premiere at Cinequest.
The broadcast is in, and the message is clear. Festivals are viewing Clandestine as a fresh, inventive film, worth showcasing to a larger American audience. We are now at the true beginning of our festival tour. The next few months will bring nearly 15 more official selection notices. Expect regular contact. So keep your dials tuned here, or be left in the cold.
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Sly Girl - Music Video - Nathalie Nahai
Did you know, the female narrator for Clandestine is a talented London based musician and recording artist? She has just released the music video for her new song “Sly Girl”. Check it out and be sure to keep up with Nathalie Nahai at http://www.nathalienahai.com.
Directed by Richard Hadley. A Ballistic production http://go-ballistic.com.
Photos From Our World Premiere
For those of you that weren’t able to make it, or those who still are going through IDFA withdrawals, here is a brief photo narrative or out world premiere at the 22nd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
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