Best Director, World Cinema - Phoenix Film Festival 2008 Audience Award, Best Feature - Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2008 Audience Award Best Picture - Paris Lesbian & Feminist 2008 Best Debut Feature - Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival 2008 Women’s Favorite Feature (Audience Award) and Best Director Feature (Jury Award) - The Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2008 Best Actress, Sheetal Sheth - International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Of Canary Islands , 2009 Best Actress, Sheetal Sheth - Ibiza International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2009 SAFTA 2009 - several awards including: Best Director Feature Film (Shamim Sarif) Best Writer Feature Film Best Editor Feature Film Best Supporting Actor (David Dennis) Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Becker) Best Ensemble (Acting) Best Cinematographer (Micheal Downie) Best Production Designer (Tanya Van Tonder) Best Costume Designer (Danielle Knox)
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Upcoming Festivals: Ciclo Rosa, S. America - Aug ’09
Completed: Toronto Film Festival The Times BFI Festival (London) Phoenix Film Festival – winner, Best Director World Cinema Pan African Festival, Los Angeles – nominated, Best Feature Tongues on Fire (London) – Opening Gala Special Screening Female Eye (Toronto) – Closing Night Gala Feature London Lesbian & Gay Festival – special screening selection by Interbank Forum members Miami Gay & Lesbian Festival - winner, Audience Award, Best Feature Melbourne Queer Festival GlamFest - Perth Gay & Lesbian Festival Mardi Gras Festival (Sydney) Atlanta Film Festival Int’l Women’s Festival in Seoul Panafricana Festival, Italy IDEM (Spain) Tiburon Int’l Festival Belfast Festival Verzaubert Int’l Queer Festival (Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne & Berlin) Mpls./St. Paul Int’l Festival Clip Tampa Bay Pink Apple, Zurich I Will Tell (London) Boston Gay & Lesbian Portland Women’s Festival Inside Out Toronto Lesbian & Gay Louisville Gay & Lesbian Series, KY Connecticut Gay & Lesbian NewFest, New York San Francisco Int’l LGBT Oslo Gay & Lesbian- Runner up, Audience Award Hungarian LGBT Festival Philadelphia Int’l Gay & Lesbian Outfest, Los Angeles PAFF Atlanta Durban Int’l Festival Dublin Lesbian & Gay North Carolina Gay & Lesbian - Women’s Centerpiece Film Vancouver Queer BAMCinematek/Best of NewFest Series, NY Fresno Reel Pride Pikes Peak Lavender Festival New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest Tasveer, Seattle - Opening night Northampton Int’l Lesbian Series Closet Cinema, Southwest Tampa Clip Festival ImageOut, Rochester LGBT - opening night Sacramento Int’l Gay & Lesbian Lesgaicinevox, Argentina San Diego Asian Festival Indiana Cares Campaign Reel Affirmations, D.C. Pittsburgh Int’l Gay & Lesbian Hamburg Gender Bender, Italy Paris Lesbian & Feminist - winner, audience award best picture Paris Gay & Lesbian Atlanta Indo-American Rehoboth Beach Independent Out Takes, Dallas - opening film Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Brussels Zinegoak, Spain Cascade, Portland Grenoble, France Savannah, GA film series New Zealand Tel Aviv Int’l LGBT Film
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Enlightenment Productions
The World Unseen | İlgi Alanları
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The new movie version of "The World Unseen" book, now on sale at Amazon:
Click on the cover for the link
Hakkımda: NOW ON DVD on PAL and NTSC, will be shipped from UK:
website:http://www.enlightenment-productions.com click on "how to get" and Facebook Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shamim-Sarif/67470360408?ref=ts
Shamim Sarif has brought to the screen the motion picture adaptation of her critically acclaimed and award winning debut novel, ‘The World Unseen’.
In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited Amina (Sheetal Sheth) has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob, her 'colored' business partner. When she meets Miriam (Lisa Ray), a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her.
In a system that divides white from black and women from men, what chance is there for an unexpected love to survive?
starring:
Lisa Ray
Sheetal Sheth
Parvin Dabas
Nandana Sen
David Dennis
Grethe Fox
Colin Moss
and
Bernard White
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATES:
LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & TORONTO - NOV. 7th, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - NOV. 14th, 2008
PORTLAND - NOV. 21st 2008
GERMANY - JAN. 8th, 2009
SOUTH AFRICA - FEB. 13th, 2009
UK - APRIL 3rd, 2009
SWITZERLAND & AUSTRIA - TBD
THE NETHERLANDS- SEPT. 15th, 2009
Redlemon and New Social Voyeurs is taking a stand again! We are very proud to release our brand new pro-love and pro-gay marriage music video for "Fly"! The song features the amazing saxophone of Jay Davidson (who plays with Whitney Houston, Cinderella, Tower of Power, and many others), and the amazing vocals of Charlene Holloway (Chaka Khan and many others), and Sonya Klinger (an up-and-coming wunderkind who hits and holds the amazingly moving high note at the end!).
In a blatant attempt at agitprop mass manipulation, the music video features incredibly cute photographs of cats, kittens, dogs, and puppies, as well as evocative photographs supporting the long-time historical existence of gay marriage from Creative Commons. Some of the historical images point to past instances of church-administered gay marriages and well-known gay married saints. From Redlemon, "Fly (the End of Wars)", on iTunes, and on MySpace under NewSocialVoyeurs.
Thank you for writing this exquisite story, making this excellent movie, and for finding Leonie Casanova. Her song Broken is such a wonderful compliment to this film.
I borrowed this book from the library and it's awesome! The trailer to the movie looks fantastic. I can't wait to see it. And your other film, I Can't Think Straight...well I'm just on pins and needles waiting for that one to come out too! Peace out guys!
Thanks for the add, i am so looking forward for this movie and I Can't Think Straight. Can't wait until it come to DVD, i know it will be a great storyline in both movies.
