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Q&As with MORE THAN HONEY director Markus Imhoof following the 7:40 PM screenings this Friday and Saturday in Beverly Hills

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Q&As with MORE THAN HONEY director Markus Imhoof following the 7:40 PM screenings this Friday and Saturday in Beverly HillsMORE THAN HONEY director Markus Imhoof and L.A. beekeeper Susan Rudnicki will participate in Q&A’s following the 7:40 PM screenings on Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10 at the Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills.

Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia.

Susan Rudnicki educates on honeybee issues for the beekeeping group BackwardsBeekeepers.

View the trailer at www.morethanhoneyfilm.com.

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Q&A’s with WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL filmmakers 8/16 and 8/17

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Q&A's with WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL filmmakers 8/16 and 8/17WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL filmmakers and special guests will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills and at the Town Center in Encino.

  • Friday (8/16) in Beverly Hills following the 7PM show with filmmakers Ron Frank and Mevlut Akkaya, plus Larry King and Sandy Hackett.
  • Saturday (8/17) in Beverly Hills following the 7PM show with filmmakers Ron Frank and Mevlut Akkaya, plus Sandy Hackett.
  • Saturday (8/17) in Encino following the 3PM and 5:20PM shows with filmmaker Ron Frank.

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THE GARDENER in the L.A. Times: “Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf slammed in Iran for visit to Israel.”

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THE GARDENER in the L.A. Times: "Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf slammed in Iran for visit to Israel."
Director Moshen Makhmalbaf

Posted on the L.A. Times website on July 24 by Alexandra Sandels and Ramin Mostaghim, a piece about the filmmaker of an acclaimed documentary we open at the Music Hall on August 2, THE GARDENER.

BEIRUT — Iran’s expatriate filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf is facing withering condemnation in his homeland for attending a film festival in Israel, the Islamic Republi’s archfoe.

The acclaimed director, considered a pioneer of moviemaking in Iran, traveled to the Jerusalem Film Festival this month to screen his latest work, “The Gardener,” which explores the conflict between two generations about the role of religion in society.

Javad Shamgdari, the head of Iran’s official cinema organization, penned a letter to the leadership of the Iranian cinema museum demanding the removal of all of the director’s awards and trophies.

“Makhmalbaf made his first 10 films in Iran using the money of the state-run organizations to learn cinema,” Shamgdari was quoted as saying by the semiofficial Mehr news agency. “Now he has fallen into the arms of the occupier, the murderous Zionist regime.”

Read the rest of the Times piece here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vcTTl6dwHk

 

NICKY’S FAMILY Q and A this Sunday w/Daughter of Kindertransport Survivor

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Michele Gold, daughter of a Kindertransport survivor, docent at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, and author of a forthcoming book about the Kindertransport, will participate in a Q&A after the 4:40 PM screening of NICKY’S FAMILY at the Royal on Sunday, July 28.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGEXoXkDgqk