S.A.V.E. Silent Animal Voices Euthanized is a documentary that will investigate how different societies face and deal with the issue of homeless dogs and cats around the world according to their cultures and political views. Everyday millions of dogs and cats face the obstacle of being able to survive another day and have another chance at life. Neglect, abuse, the fur trade industry and euthanasia are just some of the factors affecting animals in different societies throughout the world today.
11/9/11
Urban Stories (Historias de la Urbe) IndieFlix Official Selection
Watch "Urban Stories" (Historias de la Urbe) online:
http://indieflix.com/film/historias-de-la-urbe-33192/
http://indieflix.com/film/historias-de-la-urbe-33192/
11/3/11
“Miami Fall” workshop series at Inkub8
1:00 PM
Saturday Oct 29th 1- 4 pm
with Neil de la Flor & special guest.
This multi-dimensional, multi-genre creative writing workshop will build your confidence as a creative writer by encouraging you to tap...
6:00 PM
Friday Nov 11th 6-9 pm
Saturday Nov 12th 1-4 pm
with ISABELLE KIROUAC
Contact Improvisation - Dance Workshop
Contact Improvisation - Dance Workshop
CATCHING WAVES ::: Dancing the body migrations (all levels)
We will learn to fall and rise...
1:00 PM
Saturday December 12th 1-4 pm
with Bistoury Physical Theatre ALEXEY TARAN & CARLA FORTE
IMPROVISATION IN URBAN SPACES
A workshop designed to focus our study of Improvisation through the Underscore, a...
1:00 PM
December 17th 1-4 pm
with Heather Maloney
This workshop explores the physicality of falling with gravity through the frame of a contemporary dance technique class, and then continues into an...
10/26/11
"HISTORIAS DE LA URBE" (Urban Stories) IndieFlix Official Selection, Release on 11/8/2011
"HISTORIAS DE LA URBE" (Urban Stories)
IndieFlix Official Selection
Release on 11/8/2011
Mission
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IndieFlix promises to build a fair and open market to empower filmmakers to be the engine of their achievement and audiences to be a vital part of a movie's success.
IndieFlix is committed to encourage public opinion and power of choice while reinvesting in the independence of films, the people that craft them, and the organizations that support them.
They believe that every good movie has an audience.
For more Information:
http://indieflix.com/
http://blog.indieflix.com/
http://www.facebook.com/indieflix
For more Information:
http://indieflix.com/
http://blog.indieflix.com/
http://www.facebook.com/indieflix
9/11/11
8/19/11
S.A.V.E.
S.A.V.E. is a documentary that will investigate how different societies face and deal with the issue of homeless dogs and cats around the world according to their cultures and political views.
Everyday millions of dogs and cats face the obstacle of being able to survive another day and have another chance at life. Neglect, abuse, the fur trade industry and euthanasia are just some of the factors affecting animals in different societies throughout the world today.
The main objective of this project/documentary is to create a collective conscience when it comes to giving these animals the treatment and quality of life that they truly deserve; featuring the dedication and laborious work of small rescue groups as well as caring individuals who work so hard on a daily basis to create a better world for the animals.
The goal is to create awareness of the hardships these animals endure every day of their lives and to transform the way some societies currently function - to fuel the public's conscience reminding them that as humans, we owe these animals respect and to offer them the protection they need.
Directed by: Carla Forte
Everyday millions of dogs and cats face the obstacle of being able to survive another day and have another chance at life. Neglect, abuse, the fur trade industry and euthanasia are just some of the factors affecting animals in different societies throughout the world today.
The main objective of this project/documentary is to create a collective conscience when it comes to giving these animals the treatment and quality of life that they truly deserve; featuring the dedication and laborious work of small rescue groups as well as caring individuals who work so hard on a daily basis to create a better world for the animals.
The goal is to create awareness of the hardships these animals endure every day of their lives and to transform the way some societies currently function - to fuel the public's conscience reminding them that as humans, we owe these animals respect and to offer them the protection they need.
Directed by: Carla Forte
Producers: Carla Forte, Alexey Taran
Produced by: ERE. Bistoury
Executive Producer: Miami World Cinema Center
Collaborators: Yisell Hernandez, Maritza Sillie, Randy Valdes, GEARstudioMiami, Miami-Dade County Film and Entertainment Office, Miami-Dade County - Animal Services.
5/27/11
URBAN STORIES Movie Trailer
"URBAN STORIES"
A Film by The Forte Siblings
Produced by ERE. BISTOURY
URBAN STORIES is a contemporary dramatic feature film that follows several Immigrants of different nationalities as they adapt to life in Miami. The stories unfold through stylistic camera work that interrelates the eight vignettes, pushing the boundaries of independent cinema.
The stories take place in a gritty, modern landscape, where people arrive in search of a better life and economic conditions, hoping to achieve the American dream. All of them are quickly immersed in an urban space that appears to be beautiful and full of opportunities while also being filled with obstacles and human drama.
Although each story is a gritty, dramatic character study, the goal is to send audiences a message hope and better understanding of the human condition.
5/23/11
"URBAN STORIES" Honorable Mention "LOS ANGELES MOVIES AWARDS" 2011
"URBAN STORIES"
Honorable Mention
A Film by The Forte Siblings
produced by ERE. BISTOURY
5/17/11
ERE. BISTOURY one of the 56 Finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge Miami
56 Finalists announced in Knight Arts Challenge Miami
May. 16, 2011
Contest part of $40 million cultural initiative to spur community engagement
MIAMI (May 16, 2011) – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the finalists in the Knight Arts Challenge Miami, an annual contest that aims to bring South Florida together through the arts.
The 56 finalists – including individual artists, artist-driven organizations and premiere cultural institutions – emerged from a wide-ranging field of applicants with a broad spectrum of ideas. Descriptions of the finalists’ projects are available below and atwww.KnightArts.org. Knight Foundation will announce the winners of the matching arts grants in November.
“The ideas from the South Florida arts community just keep getting better and better – further proof that Miami’s cultural scene is truly coming into its own,” said Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation’s vice president/arts. “The momentum this contest has created for the arts will continue to engage this community and enrich the lives of South Floridians.”
This is the fourth year of the Knight Arts Challenge, which offers $20 million over five years in matching grant money to the best ideas in the South Florida arts. Applicants must follow only three rules: the ideas must be about art, the project must take place in or benefit South Florida and the project must find funding to match Knight’s commitment.
Previous winners of the Knight Arts Challenge are helping to transform the local arts scene and bring the community together. They include the 2011 Borscht Film Festival, a sold-out event presenting Miami stories; the LegalArt Residency, Miami’s only live/work artists residency; Teatro Avante, which enhanced its award-winning Hispanic theater festival; and the Miami City Ballet, which brought back live music to accompany its 25thanniversary season. As part of the challenge, Knight Foundation also invested an additional $20 million in endowment grants to three leading arts institutions: the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and the New World Symphony.
For more information, visit www.KnightArts.org.
5/7/11
To Hell and Back: Asesinos por una Noche
To Hell and Back: Asesinos por una Noche
By Annie Hollingsworth of artburstmiami.com
Last night's Asesinos por una Noche was an intensely dark, multimedia performance presented by local artists Alexey Taran, Carla Forte, and the Bistoury Physical Theater. It's a good guess that each person in the audience last night felt about the show they way they feel about conflict in their lives: some people are repelled by it, others numb themselves to it, and some indulge in it for thrills or just to get it out of their system.
For much of the performance at the Miami-Dade Auditorium, the audience was positioned as voyeur in what could be described as scenes from hell. On a dark, minimal stage, two dancers articulated violent muscular contractions and unstable, collapsing joints. Dance isn't quite the right word to describe it. Choreographic phrases traversed catalogues of agonies: anger, sadism, domination, fear. There was something distinctly Catholic about this piece. It was part confessional, part exorcism.
For much of the performance at the Miami-Dade Auditorium, the audience was positioned as voyeur in what could be described as scenes from hell. On a dark, minimal stage, two dancers articulated violent muscular contractions and unstable, collapsing joints. Dance isn't quite the right word to describe it. Choreographic phrases traversed catalogues of agonies: anger, sadism, domination, fear. There was something distinctly Catholic about this piece. It was part confessional, part exorcism.
5/6/11
4/27/11
Assassins For One Night, by Alexey Taran ~ May 5 & 6 ~ 8PM at Miami Dade County Auditorium.
FUNDARTE present
ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT A Meet the Composer Commission.
ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT A Meet the Composer Commission.
(Inspired on the play “La noche de los Asesinos” by the Cuban playwright Jose Triana.)
Directed by: ALEXEY TARAN
Conceived by: CARLA FORTE & ALEXEY TARAN
Composer: JURAJ KOJS
Performers: CARLA FORTE, JURAJ KOJS, CARLOS ORTIZ & ALEXEY TARAN
Lighting Designer: A. PUIG
Photography: GLASSWORKS MULTIMEDIA & VICENTE FORTE
FILM CREDITS
Production Company: BISTOURY PHYSICAL THEATER, TRIMEDIA & GLASSWORKS MULTIMEDIA
Directed by: CARLA FORTE & ALEXEY TARAN
Director of Photography: RANDY VALDES & ELVIS SUAREZ
Editor: RANDY VALDES
Assistant Director: Corina Freyre,
Production Assistant: VICENTE FORTE, OMAR ROQUE & ANDRES PUIG
Sound: VICENTE FORTE
Lighting & Grip: RANDY VALDES, ELVIS SUAREZ & A. PUIG
Costume Design: SUSY RAFFO
Makeup: SUSANA RAFFO & CORINA FREYRE
“Assassins for the Night is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami- Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.”
"Assassins for the Night was commissioned through Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund."
Additional funding and support: Fundarte, Miami on Stage, GlassWorks Multimedia, ArtSpoken Performing Arts Center, Harold Golen Gallery & Trimedia.
Thanks to: Bill Young / Colleen Thomas & Co., Charo Oquet, Edge Zones Art Center, Matt, Yoshvani Medina, Susana Raffo, Carlos Ortiz, Andres Puig, Randy Valdes, Elvis Suarez, Vicente Forte, Corina Freyre, Omar Roque, Ever Chavez, Carlos Caballero, Miami Dade County Auditorium & Staff.
More information: www.fundarte.us
2/28/11
Village Voice Review by Deborah Jowitt
Grand Street comes to 92nd Street
By Deborah Jowitt Wednesday, Feb 23 2011
Details
Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co.: LITup
92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival
February 18 through 20
A guy lurches back from the cash bar, carrying overflowing plastic glasses of beer for himself and his buddies. A woman is asked to please go sit somewhere else because her bench is needed. Some people sit on the floor. A few congregate around small tables. There’s plenty of music, some provided by a DJ. A mirror ball hangs overhead, along with some red Chinese lanterns. A host/entertainer enters in outlandish garb—carrot wig, pock-marked half-mask, lit-up rings on his fingers, and high-heeled boots. He gives one woman a neck massage, greets friends, and does some precarious and daring dancing. What kind of party is this?
2/14/11
1/20/11
Miami On Stage 2011 / FUNDARTE
Miami On Stage 2011
Miami already has a homegrown, exciting arts scene that will only continue to flourish and grow through increased opportunities for professional artists to present their performance work. FUNDarte’s Miami On Stage is a curated multi-disciplinary performing arts series featuring work by South Florida artists. The series includes one-to-two commissions of new work per season. Now in its second year, Miami On Stage has literally taken its name to another level through an innovative collaboration with the Miami-Dade County Auditorium and its new On.Stage Black.Box and again at The Byron-Carlyle Theater in Miami Beach. The series will present four to five performances, featuring work from South Florida musicians, actors, playwrights, dancers, poets, filmmakers and visual artists. It will also include a number of complementary events, such as panel discussions, open rehearsals and post-show talk-backs. Other upcoming events will be announced shortly.The Miami On Stage series will feature the following four performances at the new On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami-Dade County Auditorium:
March 18, 2011 - Latin Jazz Night Jam with Yorgis Goiricelaya, Hilario Bell and other musicians will present an “unplugged” concert. Goiricelaya and Bell both recently independently produced new albums.
April 22, 2011 - Jesus Hidalgo and The Pachamama Project will present Sistema Dos (System Two), a project that integrates a consciousness of the environment with music in a multi-media project.
May 6, 2011 - La noche de los asesinos directed by choreographer Alexey Taran is a physical theater performance piece and video installation based on the play of the Cuban playwright José Triana.
June 24, 2011 - If you’re going to pull a knife, USAlo is a theatrical performance collaboration between Carlos Caballero and Elizabeth Doud that employs the texts of Samuel Beckett to talk about the petroleum industry, unemployment and mermaids.
FUNDARTE Presents:
"ASESINOS POR UNA NOCHE" (ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT)
A Dance Theater performance piece combined with video installation based on the play by Cuban playwright José Triana, “Assassins for One Night” narrates the struggle against the constant restrictions imposed upon us by a system without any real power. Through dance, theatre, music and projections, three characters deconstruct the obstacles that limit their individuality through the use of imagination and fantasy. Alexey Taran (Director of Teatro Físico) and Carla Forte (Screenwriter and Filmmaker) are the intellectual authors of this night, during which the act of becoming an assassin will become a liberating escapade for both the onstage participants and the audience.
Directed by: ALEXEY TARAN
Based on the play: "La noche de los asesinos" by José Triana and Texts by Carla Forte
Performers: Carla Forte, Carlos Ortiz, Alexey Taran & Juraj Kojs
Original music: JURAJ KOJS
Film: "ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT"
Direction: Carla Forte
Director of photography: Randy Valdes
Editor: Alexey Taran
Photo by: Hernán Gimenez
“Dance Miami Choreographers Fellowship Program 2010-2011”
A Dance Theater performance piece combined with video installation based on the play by Cuban playwright José Triana, “Assassins for One Night” narrates the struggle against the constant restrictions imposed upon us by a system without any real power. Through dance, theatre, music and projections, three characters deconstruct the obstacles that limit their individuality through the use of imagination and fantasy. Alexey Taran (Director of Teatro Físico) and Carla Forte (Screenwriter and Filmmaker) are the intellectual authors of this night, during which the act of becoming an assassin will become a liberating escapade for both the onstage participants and the audience.
Directed by: ALEXEY TARAN
Based on the play: "La noche de los asesinos" by José Triana and Texts by Carla Forte
Performers: Carla Forte, Carlos Ortiz, Alexey Taran & Juraj Kojs
Original music: JURAJ KOJS
Film: "ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT"
Direction: Carla Forte
Director of photography: Randy Valdes
Editor: Alexey Taran
Photo by: Hernán Gimenez
"With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs , the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners."
"Assassins for one Night was commissioned through Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund."
“Dance Miami Choreographers Fellowship Program 2010-2011”Meet The Composer 2010 Commissioning Music/USA program
Additional support by:
Additional support by:
GlassWorks Multimedia
ArtsPoken
Trimedia Film
1/6/11
BILL YOUNG AND COLLEEN THOMAS PRESENT LITup AT 92Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL
DON’T LOOK NOW: IT’S A DANCEBILL YOUNG AND COLLEEN THOMAS PRESENT LITup AT 92Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL
New and Repertory Work Plus Guest Artists NANCY BANNON, LEVI GONZALEZ and ALEXEY TARAN
Fri-Sun, Feb 18-20
NEW YORK, NY: January 5—Bill Young and Colleen Thomas are tired of dance performances. "I'm trying to make a dance where people don't notice I'm making a dance," Young says.
Young and Thomas, partners in both choreography and life, open this year's 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival on Feb 18-20 with LITup, a program designed especially for the dance space at 92Y. They create and curate a compilation of new and existing material from their repertory and works from guest artists Nancy Bannon, Levi Gonzalez and Alexey Taran.
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