... they have secured a $50,000 grant for the Connecticut Film Festival, which is hosted in downtown Danbury.The state grant was ... as a tourist destination for the arts, entertainment and film. The film festival brings with it a positive message that Danbury is a ... event that shines our state's spotlight onto the City of Danbury . The film festival brings to the city over one hundred filmmakers, one ...

... 18, 2008 – The Fifth Annual New Haven Underground Film Festival is returning to Connecticut on Saturday, September 27 ... provocative, entertaining and just plain odd movies. The festival, which claims, "it is so underground that's in not in New Haven," will be held at the Wilson Wilde ... Lasley, a student at Yale, also has a short in this year's festival. The directors hope more students will submit work ...

... a real Tri-State area kind of film, and if you are from the Tri-State area (New York, New Jersey and ... a reality blur for me -- actually living in Venice, being yanked into Connecticut during the film, then yanked again to the present to the press conference in ... a lot of grumbling about what is wrong with the International Venice Film Festival, but from my point of view as an American who completely ...

... Rainer Maria. Last year, due to some scheduling problems, the festival took a downward turn, with indie-rapper MC Chris ... radio vets Oneida will also take the main stage, as will Connecticut College's skanking wonders, Great Skaught. ... early afternoon, as will New Haven's Aeroplane 1929. This year's I AM festival will see an increase in the "arts" aspect of the event, as there will be six interactive ...

... last spring. In searching for a venue, I thought the New York Film Festival with its avant-gard weekend showcase would ... , 2008 I wrote him that " I had a new 30 minute experimental film that I thought he might want to see". I asked him for a mailing address.I never received a ... specially commissioned score -- found at a bus station in Connecticut 10 years later -- the world premiere of Scudorama was ...

... by Jonathan Demme, and was shot in Stamford, Connecticut. The original title of the film was "Dancing with Shiva", but was changed to ... open in the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival, where it will be among twenty-one others films competing for the top prize, the Golden Lion. Other Hollywood films that the film will be competing with include Burn After Reading, The Wrestler, and The Burning ...