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NEW VERSION OF NEXT YEAR IN LERIN

2010-09-25T09:57:00.004+01:00

Next Year in Lerin has been updated 10 years after its first issue. It has much better sound and image quality and I have made changes to the narration. Check it out by ordering your new copy.

Small Town Girl wins another award

2010-09-13T19:09:00.003+01:00

Small Town Girl won the award for best documentary feature at the first edition of Filmdirecting4women film festival in London yesterday 12th September. I am smiling today. http://www.filmdirecting4women.com/

Not Reconciled screening at Portobello Film Festival 3rd September

2010-08-27T11:55:00.006+01:00

Not Reconciled is screening at the Portobello Film Festival on Saturday 11th September 2010 at 3.30pm at the Westbourne Studios 242 Acklam Road W10 5JJ. Buses 31, 28, 52, 23. Westbourne Park is the nearest Tube. Entry is free. Hope to see you there.

Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival

2010-06-16T10:25:00.009+01:00

NOT RECONCILED has been selected for the Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival, part of the Annual Program Without Frontiers online festival. http://www.mamut.net/festivalsawards/newsdet7.htm

The film is available for viewing online through the festival. See this link for full details of the film and to watch it now.http://www.mamut.net/annual_program_without_frontiers/newsdet5.htm

Not Reconciled Screening in London

2010-05-24T10:05:00.008+01:00

Not Reconciled is screening on Saturday 29th May in the London Film Makers Convention at the RoundHouse in Chalk Farm at 12 noon. This is a free event. Everyone is welcome.
For more details of all the screenings see
http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2010/roundhouse/29_cafe.html

Not Reconciled award at Festival de Cine de Granada Spain

2010-04-11T16:13:00.007+01:00

Not Reconciled wins A Special Mention by the Jury at the Festival de cine De Granada.
http://www.mamut.net/festivalesdecine/newsdet4.htm

Not Reconciled screens at Athens, USA, International Film Festival

2010-04-11T15:12:00.008+01:00

The Last Happy Day and Not Reconciled : Two Films About History and Memory
SHOWTIMESaturday, April 24, 5:15 pm, Athena Cinema
Films shown in this competition show:
The Last Happy Day Director: Lynne Sachs 38 min. U.S.A.During WWII, the US Army Graves Registration Service hired the filmmaker’s Hungarian cousin, Dr. Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones -- small and large -- of dead American soldiers. This half-hour experimental documentary work, which resonates as an anti-war meditation, is composed of excerpts of Sandor’s letters to Sachs’ family, abstracted war imagery, home movies of children at a birthday party, and interviews.

Not Reconciled Director: Jill Daniels 40 min. United KingdomThroughout Spain there are many unmarked mass graves full of victims of executions during the civil war and after. Rosa and Carlos, the voices of ghosts of young Spanish civil war republicans, roam the ruins of Belchite in Northern Spain, waiting for the discovery of their own unmarked graves.http://www.athensfest.org/film/last_happy_day_not_reconciled

Festival du film de Strasbourg

2010-02-02T09:52:00.006Z

Not Reconciled accepted for the Festival du Film de Strasbourg as part of the Annual Program Without Frontiers. See http://www.strasbourg.festivalinfo.org/ for more details.

Next Year in Lerin controversy

2009-12-05T19:24:00.002Z

Greek nationalists are busy abusing me on the You Tube Q&A. see below for link. Unfortunately most of it is racist and incoherently childish. For a more supportive discussion see MakNews website on http://www.maknews.com/forum/post252906.html?sid=bacd16e712c5b84fb64cffa7ed35041d

Please do give your views. I would love to hear from Greek people who are willing to talk more deeply about the problems of refugees from the Greek civil war in 1948, who I believe have the right to identify themselves as Macedonian or Greek if they choose, and to have the freedom to enter Greece freely to visit their old villages, towns and homes.

Next Year in Lerin at Hot Springs International doc festival

2009-10-10T19:47:00.004+01:00

Next Year in Lerin screened to a full house on Saturday 24th October at the Hot Springs Documentary Festival near Little Rock, Arkansas. There was a great discussion afterwards.

See the Q&A on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWw4o9QkAA.

Macedonian film festival in Australia

2009-10-10T19:44:00.005+01:00

The Macedonian festival in Melbourne will take place without Next Year in Lerin because the cinema was pulled from under them and the new venue only has 35mm facilities. It is hoped it will be shown at an alternative venue either now or some time in the future.

Not Reconciled festival screenings

2009-09-09T17:58:00.003+01:00

Not Reconciled will be screened at the DokBazaar International Short Film Festival, Ljubljana and Iasi International Film Festival in Romania on September 30th
http://www.iasifilmfest.ro/program.aspx?day=30&month=9&year=2009 for details

Attack on the BFI

2009-08-24T12:19:00.004+01:00

News just out that the BFI could be merged with the Film Council thus creating the final nail in the coffin for oppositional film-making in the UK. See this link for details and analysis by Michael Chanan.
http://putneydebater.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/end-of-the-bfi-as-we-know-it/

Next Year in Lerin

2009-08-04T10:06:00.005+01:00

Next Year in Lerin was shown in Brussels in April courtesy of the Macedonian Ambassador to the EU. Perhaps it will help in the struggle to allow Macedonians born in Greece exiled in the civil war, back to visit their former homes in Greece.

Not Reconciled

2009-06-10T18:14:00.005+01:00

The Preview Screening of Not Reconciled
starring Judith Mora Toral and Jose Antonio Garcia was packed. Afterwards there was a fascinating discussion about the legacy of the Spanish civil war and uncovering of the mass graves of victims of the war, and the way the film combined 'real' people with fictional.

Journal Article

2009-05-27T12:14:00.002+01:00

Follow the link to see the review of the international Visible Evidence documentary research conference held in December 2007 in Bochum Germany, written by Jill Daniels and Max Schleser in the Journal of Media Practice.
Click on link for details
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/authors.php?author=3418

Next Year in Lerin in Australia

2009-05-25T09:23:00.007+01:00

Next Year in Lerin is invited to screen at the first Macedonian film festival to be held in Australia. It will run in October 2009 in Melbourne. Watch this space for further details.

Small Town Girl

2009-05-22T15:18:00.006+01:00

Small Town Girl has won the Best UK Documentary award at the British Film Festival Los Angeles, 2009.
Details: http://www.britishfilmfest.com/

Small Town Girl

2009-05-21T11:25:00.006+01:00

Small Town Girl has been nominated for the Best UK Documentary at the Swansea Film Festival 2008.

Small Town Girl in Vertigo

2009-05-21T11:20:00.005+01:00

Small Town Girl is reviewed in the latest issue of Vertigo magazine by Nancy Thumim.
http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/

The Belgrade Manifesto

2009-05-21T11:12:00.006+01:00

The Belgrade Manifesto is a response to the current crisis in arthouse cinema: shrinking finance, over-controlling bureaucracies and, above all, the stagnation of cinematic language. It argues that the new low-cost digital technology offers filmmakers the chance to bypass existing structures and find new ways to make and exhibit films that can revitalise cinema.

The Manifesto was presented at the Belgrade Festival of Auteur Film on Sunday 2nd December 2007.

Click here to read it