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Tenth Annual South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles To Present Inaugural Legacy and Lifetime Achievement Awards

  Academy Award-winning Actor George Chakiris To Be Honored With Legacy Award; Romanian Acting Great Victor Rebengiuc To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award   Beverly Hills, CA, April 14, 2015 — The South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) (seefilmla.org) will celebrate its 10th anniversary beginning April 30th, with a special opening night gala at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. This year the festival will … Continue reading Tenth Annual South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles To Present Inaugural Legacy and Lifetime Achievement Awards

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Cultural Arts

Sundance Institute and New York University to Host Workshop on Music in Film and Television on May 9

 Composers, Filmmakers and Students Invited to Attend Sundance Institute Film and Music Program at NYU: Steinhardt   Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute and New York University (NYU) Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions today announced they will host Sundance Institute Film Music Program at NYU: Steinhardt, a day-long workshop for composers, filmmakers, students and other industry professionals interested in music in film and … Continue reading Sundance Institute and New York University to Host Workshop on Music in Film and Television on May 9

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PLAY “O RÉJANE” NOMINATED FOR THREE STAGE RAW LOS ANGELES THEATER AWARDS

The world premiere production of “Do not miss” play O RÉJANE is nominated for three first-ever Stage Raw Los Angeles Theater Awards in the Playwriting (llana Turner), Leading Female Performance (Cara Pifko) and Costume Design (Alex Berry) categories. O RÉJANE, which debuted in November 2014 at Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, connects theater-goers to the spirit of Réjane, a remarkable French actress and theater impresario who changed French culture, fashion and socio-politics as the 19th century morphed into … Continue reading CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PLAY “O RÉJANE” NOMINATED FOR THREE STAGE RAW LOS ANGELES THEATER AWARDS

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Arts, Introduction to the Artist

A Passion for Merging Past and Future: An Interview with Marco Kalantari, writer and director of “The Shaman”

By: Vernon Nickerson Edited By : Colleen Page As a hardworking  artist and creative it is hard to miss what a true genius  Marco Kalantari is and  how humble he is about his craft. A bridge to many different cultures Marco Kalantari is truly a mirror of cultural diversity. The Art Of Monteque had  a chance to sit down with the writer and director to talk about his premiere … Continue reading A Passion for Merging Past and Future: An Interview with Marco Kalantari, writer and director of “The Shaman”

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Movie Review

WOW! You must run, don’t walk to catch Marco Kalantari’s featured short, “The Shaman” at The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival!

By: Vernon Nickerson Excellent high-quality production values (sets, costumes, 3-d imagery, etc.) combine with a superb cast ably lead by Danny Shayler as the title character and Susanne Wuest as his nemesis, Colossus, to transport us completely to a post apocalyptic 2204 world that has seen 73 years of continuous war. In this dark time, Shaman’s (our heroes) track and convert the souls of their … Continue reading WOW! You must run, don’t walk to catch Marco Kalantari’s featured short, “The Shaman” at The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival!

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Movie Review

Let’s Make A Movie, People! A Review of Max Finnernan’s Feature Film “The Shells” From 2015 The Phoenix Film Festival

    By: Vernon Nickerson The film “The Shells” had its world premiere at the Phoenix Film Festival on Friday, March 27th. It was a little film with quite a few big surprises. Writer/Director/Producer Max Finnernan uses a sexy and comically smarmy male lead, “The Director/Producer Manny” (Erik Heger) to spin an interesting and engaging science fiction yarn involving government-sponsored mind control experiments and a … Continue reading Let’s Make A Movie, People! A Review of Max Finnernan’s Feature Film “The Shells” From 2015 The Phoenix Film Festival

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Movie Review

“Plain Clothes ” The Light And Darkness of the PTSD

By: Austin Winter-Chase   This is a deeply moving and insightful film about PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the  toll it takes  on one’s life “Plain Clothes” is written and directed by Sam Jaeger (Parenthood, American Sniper) who also stars as Officer Cole. Officer Cole is a person struggling to balance his dark and stressful work with his family life. It is hard but  Officer Cole is doing … Continue reading “Plain Clothes ” The Light And Darkness of the PTSD

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Movie Review

Divinely-Ordered Serendipity = Finding Vivian Maier

  By: Vernon Nickerson The writer-director dynamic duo of John Maloof and Charlie Siskel unite their creative powers to exquisitely present the heroic, tragic and thoroughly entertaining documentary, “Finding Vivian Maier”.  Ms. Maier, an amazing and prolific street photographer masquerading as a nanny for children of the final half of the 20th century, is a heroine of sorts herself by the end of Maloof and Siskel’s … Continue reading Divinely-Ordered Serendipity = Finding Vivian Maier

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Movie Review

And a little child shall lead them: Rusty Cundieff’s new feature film, “White Water”

By: Vernon Nickerson Perhaps the most powerful thing about Director Rusty Cundieff’s film, “White Water” is its ability to tell a based-upon-real-events story of the segregated community of Opelika, Alabama in 1963 to a new generation of children and their parents. The screen play, written by the team of Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein, is an adaptation of the childrens’ book of the same name … Continue reading And a little child shall lead them: Rusty Cundieff’s new feature film, “White Water”

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Arts

Spotlight ON: Music and The Brain: A Call to Action, a Southern California Radio sponsored community event

By: Vernon Nickerson On Sunday, January 25, 2015 a typical sunny and warm Sunday California winter afternoon, I had the pleasure of being in a standing-room-only crowd at the Crawford Family Forum, broadcast headquarters of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) station KPPC, 89.3 FM, in Pasadena, California. A diverse group of parents, children, musicians, music and arts educators, student musicians, graduates of public and private school systems … Continue reading Spotlight ON: Music and The Brain: A Call to Action, a Southern California Radio sponsored community event

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Movie Review

Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality: A review of Shira Geffen’s film, Self-Made

  By: Vernon Nickerson Written and directed by Shira Geffen, Self Made tells the story of two women – one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.  I found the story particularly compelling and provocative because all of it … Continue reading Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality: A review of Shira Geffen’s film, Self-Made

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Movie Review

“Love Hunter”: An America Story

  By: Monteque Pope-Le Beau Love Hunter is a wonderful story about reaching out and following ones dreams at the same time it is a cautionary tale about what happens when one stops caring and thinking about others. It is here when a person can becomes lost in a world of their own making,  solely thinking about themselves and their needs.   In the 1990’s, … Continue reading “Love Hunter”: An America Story

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Cultural Arts, Social Issues

Illustration: The POLICE, By: Firat Canbay

This is a creation depicting how the police have gone too far in their pursuit of controlling the people. In this day in age there is such unrest, when people should be coming together; united in their humanity, they are instead fragmented by the the unjust practices of the police. We cannot move forward with progress as a people or society until we have dealt … Continue reading Illustration: The POLICE, By: Firat Canbay

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Arts

Delayed Publications

    We at the Art of Monteque are very grateful for the support and the readership we have received. It is with humble gratitude that we thank all of you. We have tried to to be a place were our readers can discover new artist, new stories, different ways of thinking and being.  It has been our honor to showcase wonderful new voices and … Continue reading Delayed Publications

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BELLA THORNE LEADS CAST OF ‘PERFECT HIGH’; PRODUCTION BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 1

  Victoria, British Columbia, February 2, 2015 – Vancouver-based Sepia Films and LA-based Just Singer Entertainment have announced the start of production on PERFECT HIGH, a Lifetime movie set in the disturbing world of teenage heroin use. Inspired by the shocking rise in heroin addiction among suburban teenagers, PERFECT HIGH starsBella Thorne (Blended; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day; Shake it … Continue reading BELLA THORNE LEADS CAST OF ‘PERFECT HIGH’; PRODUCTION BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 1

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Power of Story: Visions of Independence With George Lucas and Robert Redford at 2015 Sundance Film Festival

  By Monteque Pope- Le Beau   The hottest ticket at Sunday 2015 Sundance Film Festival People were willing to give you whatever they had just to get a ticket to this event. I on the other hand I already have my ticket and I was very lucky to get one! Why were people on the edge of madness over such an event? Because of … Continue reading Power of Story: Visions of Independence With George Lucas and Robert Redford at 2015 Sundance Film Festival

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Arts

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE GROSSES $4.4M – BREAKING DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE RECORD FOR FILM THAT HAS CROWDFUNDED

Part of Record Breaking Two-Year Run for Film On Indiegogo   Park City, UTAH January 28, 2014 – Indiegogo, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, announced today that Sundance award winner Dear White People, which raised its initial production funds on Indiegogo, has broken the U.S. domestic box office record for a film that has crowdfunded. Since its opening on October 17, 2014 the film has grossed $4,404,154 domestically to date, … Continue reading DEAR WHITE PEOPLE GROSSES $4.4M – BREAKING DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE RECORD FOR FILM THAT HAS CROWDFUNDED

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Arts

The Hidden Gems of Sundance 2015

  By: Monteque Pope-Le Beau Images By: The Sundance Film Festival Here in the beauty that is Park City surrounded by tall snowcap mountains The 2015 Sundance Film Festival has returned with an outstanding selection of films, filmmakers and artist of which has made this years festival one to remember. From Robert Redford’s wonderfully fun film “A Walk In The Woods” to Director Adam Salky’s shockingly … Continue reading The Hidden Gems of Sundance 2015

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