11th Film-Festival Poster Winner: Peace At Heart

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10 May, 2021

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Your Arlington Last Updated: 08 May 2021 Written by J. Alberto Guzman, April Ranck UPDATED, May 8: The Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) has awarded the 2021 poster design with an "allusion to peace" (at right) to Elena Mathis, student of Mass College of Art in Boston. An accompanying $500 aims to assist a student in advancing art studies. Mathis's design creates a strong connection with the viewer while the bird taking center stage, making direct eye contact and spreading his feathers announce the festival. The bird carries an olive branch in its talons, an ambassador of peace. Named the 11th festival winner May 7, Mathis said her "poster was inspired by the theme of documentaries, in particular, nature documentaries about birds with ridiculous courtship dances who always seem to love showing off for the camera." The poster submissions are evaluated by a panel of judges with expertise in composition, design, public relations and marketing and evaluated based on visual appeal, content and marketability. The jury was Elisa Adams, David Ardito, Jennifer Cheng Des-Autels, Marc Gurton, Erica Licea-Kane, Vicky Rodriguez and last year's award winner, Rayna Walters. Rodriguez calls the winning poster "so different from designs of previous years! I love the playful and self-assured look of the bird, and how he is looking directly at the viewer. Overall, it is humorous and wonderful in its simplicity." This year's competition was offered exclusively to professor Robert Maloney's illustration class at Mass College of Art & Design. The selected design appears around the world in various forms. Jury for 2021 festival Organizers have announced the jurors for the 2021 festival. They are Taylor Braun, Shoma Chatterji, Ali Zare Ghanatnowi, Zoë Kooyman, Kris Mokwunye, Eduardo Rencurrell Diaz and Mohit Soni. They join current jurors Akasa Stephe Angba, Kate Bernhardt, Alice Bouvrie, Barbara Costa, Sandip Pratihar and Marga Varea. MEET THE NEW JURORS Braun is the film-festival specialist at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. In this role, he helps educate students about the current film festival landscape as well as help create custom festival strategies for students' films. Previously, he was the senior programming coordinator at the Newport Beach Film Festival. He has also worked at Telluride Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival and Milwaukee Film Festival. Chatterji -- a film scholar, freelance journalist and author based in Kolkata -- is one of the senior-most film critics in India and has 25-plus published titles, of which 15 are on Indian cinema. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of Indian cinema and postgraduate diplomas in journalism and mass communications. She has won two national awards: Best Film Critic in 1991 and Best Book on Cinema in 2002. Ghanatnowi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer, translator, author, teacher, graphic designer, cameraman and producer. For the past two decades Ali has been involved in making more than 20 films, including animations, documentaries and short movies. Kooyman is an event producer and project director with deep experience in the global organization of large-scale live events for thousands of people, as well as intimate gatherings and cultural manifestations. Mokwunye is a graduate of theater arts, a filmmaker and media expert from West Africa. He has worked with Silverbird Communications, a leading media and entertainment company in Africa, Anttention Media, Phresh Media and hub manager for British Council. Diaz holds a Ph.D. of arts from the University of the Arts (ISA) of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). From the same schools he received his bachelor's in audiovisual communication graduating summa cum laude and a master's degree in film production. Soni has worked in Los Angeles as a line producer/production manager for four years. Mohit is a graduate of University of California Los Angeles with a bachelor of fine arts in film and aideo production. He is also a graduate of the New York Film Academy, Burbank, Calif., and has certificates in business and management of entertainment as well as acting from UCLA. Jurors for VOICES OF OUR YOUTH, student filmmakers' program Jaina Cipriano, Christina Oneil and Cameron Thuman join Padriac Farma as jurors for this year's program. Cipriano is a Boston-based artist working with photography, film and installation. Her work explores the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment through immersive sets and emotional performances that mirror the subconscious. Oneil has a B.A. in film studies and has worked on critically acclaimed movies and TV shows alongside Regina King, Bryan Cranston, and Ryan Murphy. . Thuman is a director known for his story-driven and highly visual style. Growing up as a halfpipe skier in Park City, Utah, he was nationally ranked and invited to the US Ski Team Project Gold Camp but fell in love with making videos of his friends even more than competing. After collaborating with Olympians, Cameron desired to do more with film and especially aspired to tell stories. VOICES OF OUR YOUTH: High School Filmmakers Program welcomes short films in the previously named categories. ARLINGTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL welcomes short films in the previously named categories. Member of the Arlington Cultural District | artsarlington.org/ welcomes short films in the previously named categories. Film Festival Alliance | filmfestivalalliance.org/ welcomes short films in the previously named categories. Mass Film Office | www.mafilm.org/film-festivals/ welcomes short films in the previously named categories. IMDB | www.imdb.com/event/all?ref_=he... In loving memory and appreciation of Winfred Rembert AIFF and Friends are saddened by the passing of Winfred Rembert on Wednesday, March 31, at the age of 75. He came into our lives in 2012 when we opened the festival with the documentary, ALL ME: The Life & Times of Winfred Rembert by filmmaker Vivian Ducat. We had the good fortune to continue working with Winfred, bringing him to Arlington for an Artist-in-Residency and for numerous other screenings and art exhibits in the greater Boston area. Read a 2014 YourArlington feature here >> His sense of life, his amazing ability to tell stories, and his visually compelling ways of presenting those stories in his art were only a few of his gifts that he shared with us. We are grateful for our time together. Here is a 9-minute short film of Winfred made 11 years ago by Vivan Ducat before anticipating the making of the documentary, All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert. New York Times Obituary >> AIFF, partners with Videomaker magazine The Arlington International Film Festival,celebrating its 11th year of production, has announced its 2021 partnership with Videomaker magazine. Filmmakers submitting films to AIFF via FilmFreeway in 2021 will be offered a free annual subscription. The magazine icovers all levels of video-production techniques from planning to shooting to editing and distribution. It is dedicated to providing resources to filmmakers and artists in a range of categories; i.e. electronics, video, audio, entertainment, media, industries and profession, and photography. Indie filmmakers, you are invited on a journey this year as AIFF continues to foster ways in which to connect filmmakers across economic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, bringing together people and communities. To claim your subscription, click here >> Other partners Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema was founded in 1957 as the first of its kind in the Middle East and Africa and is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture. The Institute is a member of the International Organization For Cinema Colleges and Institutes. Over the years, the Institute has participated in many international festivals and won numerous awards and honorary certificates. Besides the bachelor's degree, the Institute grants master's and Ph.D. degrees in the arts and sciences of cinema. The institute's sections comprise Scriptwriting, Directing, Editing, Cinema and TV production, Animation, Scenic Designing, Cinematography, and Sound Engineering. m.facebook.com/high.cinema.institute/ NESA's Online Exhibit The Equinox – When Light and Dark are Equal Worldwide The New England Sculptors Association (NESA) in its first annual online juried show, focuses on the power of the arts, the tension between light and darkness, justice and injustice, equality and inequality, reproductive rights, and environmental issues. This online show entitled The Equinox – When Light and Dark are Equal Worldwide displays 25 entries selected by juror Brian Hones of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Commissioner of the Boston Art Commission. The online show is free to the public for viewing March 19 - June 3. Visitors to the show are invited to vote for the sculpture they feel is most deserving of 'The People's Choice Award'. www.nesculptors.org YourArlington.com has provided news and opinion about Arlington, Mass., since 2006. Publisher Bob Sprague is a former editor at The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Arlington Advocate. Read more at https://www.yourarlington.com/about.