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Venice Film Festival
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The film festival is part of the Venice Biennale, which was founded by the Venetian City Council in 1895. The film festival has taken place in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, since its inception the Venice Film Festival has grown into one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The 74th Venice International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 30 August to 9 September 2017, the first edition of the Venice Film Festival was carried out from the 6 to the 21 of August in 1932. The festival began with an idea of the president of the Venice Biennale Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata and Luciano De Feo, with good reason, the festival was considered the first international event of its type, receiving strong support from authorities. This first edition was held on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, and at that stage it was not a competitive event. The very first film to be shown in the history of the Festival was Rouben Mamoulians Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the second edition was held two years later, from 1 to 20 of August in 1934. For the first time it included a competition, at least 19 countries took part with over 300 accredited journalists. The Mussolini Cup was introduced for best foreign film and best Italian film, other awards were the Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment to best actor and actress. The prize for best foreign film went to Robert J. Flahertys Man of Aran and was a confirmation of the taste of the time for auteur documentaries, starting in 1935, the Festival became a yearly event under the direction of Ottavio Croze. The actors award was renamed Volpi Cup, in 1936 an international jury was nominated for the first time and in 1937 the new Cinema Palace, designed by the architect Luigi Quagliata, was inaugurated. The 1940s represent one of the most difficult moments for the review, the conclusion of the Second World War divides the decade in two. Before 1938 political pressures distorted and ruined the festival, in addition, few countries participated and there was an absolute monopoly of institutions and directors that were members of the Rome-Berlin Axis. The festival resumed full speed in 1946, after the war, with the return of normalcy, Venice once again became a great icon of the film world. In 1947 the festival was held at the Doges Palace, a most magnificent backdrop for hosting a record 90 thousand participants, surely it can be considered one of the greatest editions in the history of the festival. For the next twenty years the festival continued its development and expansion in accordance with the plan set in motion after the war. In 1963 the winds of change blow strongly during Luigi Chiarini’s directorship of the festival, during the years of his presidency, Chiarini aspired to renew the spirit and the structures of the festival, pushing for a total reorganization of the entire system. The social and political unrest of 1968 had strong repercussions on the Venice Bienniale, from 1969 to 1979 no prizes were awarded and the festival returned to the non-competitiveness of the first edition
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine River and it is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, as of the 2015 United States Census estimate, the population of the city is 71,948, reflecting an increase of 1. 5% from the 2010 Census. The Wilmington Metropolitan Division, comprising New Castle County, DE, Cecil County, MD and Salem County, Wilmington is built on the site of Fort Christina and the settlement Kristinehamn, the first Swedish settlement in North America. The area now known as Wilmington was settled by the Lenape band led by Sachem Mattahorn just before Henry Hudson sailed up the Len-api Hanna in 1609, the area was called Maax-waas Unk or Bear Place after the Maax-waas Hanna that flowed by. It was called the Bear River because it flowed west to the Bear People, the Dutch heard and spelled the river and the place as Minguannan. The area was known as The Rocks, and is located near the foot of present-day Seventh Street. Fort Christina served as the headquarters for the colony of New Sweden which consisted of, for the most part, the lower Delaware River region, dr. Timothy Stidham was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington. He was born in 1610, probably in Hammel, Denmark and raised in Gothenburg and he arrived in New Sweden in 1654 and is recorded as the first physician in Delaware. The most important Swedish governor was Colonel Johan Printz, who ruled the colony under Swedish law from 1643 to 1653. He was succeeded by Johan Rising, who upon his arrival in 1654, seized the Dutch post Fort Casimir, located at the site of the present town of New Castle and this marked the end of Swedish rule in North America. Although during the American Revolutionary War only one small battle was fought in Delaware, the British remained in the town until they vacated Philadelphia in 1778. In 1800, Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, a French Huguenot, knowledgeable in the manufacture of gunpowder, by 1802 DuPont had begun making the explosive in a mill on the Brandywine River north of Brandywine Village and just outside the town of Wilmington. The DuPont company became a supplier to the U. S. military. Located on the banks of the Brandywine River, the village was annexed by Wilmington city. The greatest growth in the city occurred during the Civil War, Delaware, though officially remaining a member of the Union, was a border state and divided in its support of both the Confederate and the Union causes. The war created enormous demand for goods and materials supplied by Wilmington including ships, railroad cars, gunpowder, shoes, and other war-related goods. By 1868, Wilmington was producing more iron ships than the rest of the combined and it rated first in the production of gunpowder and second in carriages
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School of Visual Arts
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School of Visual Arts is a for-profit art and design college located in Manhattan, New York, founded in 1947. The college is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, SVA was established by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth in 1947, as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. The school began with three teachers and 35 students, most of whom were World War II veterans who had a part of their tuition underwritten by U. S. governments G. I. The college was renamed the School of Visual Arts in 1956 and it offered its first degrees in 1972. In 1983, the college introduced its first graduate offering, a Master of Fine Arts in painting, drawing, today the school has a faculty of more than 1,000 and a student body of over 3,000. The BFA interior design program is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, the MPS art therapy program is approved by the American Art Therapy Association, and the MA art education program is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. The colleges logo, seen on its banners, publications and merchandise, was created in 1997 by designer George Tscherny for SVAs 50th anniversary, SVA Arts Abroad offers short-term study abroad programs in various creative fields. In 2014, LinkedIn named SVA #2 in its best schools for designers list, payScale included the college in its Top 10 Art & Design Schools by Salary Potential list for 2013 -2014. SVA is ranked 18th among the art schools in U. S. News & World Report, with its MFA Photography, Video. Since 2012, SVA has been included on the Military Friendly Schools list, SVA operates out of several buildings located in the Gramercy Park neighborhood, on Manhattans east side, and in the Chelsea neighborhood, on the citys west side. Additionally, the college maintains a hall on Ludlow Street. From 1994 to 1997, the also had a branch campus in Savannah. However, the campus was closed following a lawsuit from the Savannah College of Art, the colleges 209 East 23rd Street building, located between Second Avenue and Third Avenue, features classrooms, administrative offices, a cafeteria and an amphitheater. The upper floors are designated for the film, video, graphic design, advertising, illustration. The building also houses the SVA Gramercy Gallery, on the ground floor, both archives are available to the public via appointment. This building is where classrooms and studios used for undergraduate and graduate photography classes are located, as well as the radio station, WSVA. It also features classrooms and studios for classes in interior design, printmaking, the building also houses the SVA Flatiron Gallery, on the ground floor, and a cafeteria on the lower level. The building at 132 West 21st Street houses the Visible Futures Lab, a workshop featuring traditional and emerging fabrication technology, located at 335 West 16th Street, this building houses the BFA Fine Arts Department, including sculpture studios and digital lab
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Film director
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A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a films artistic and dramatic aspects, the director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film, the film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions, there are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors, other film directors have attended a film school. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors dialogue, while others control every aspect. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners, some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films. Film directors create a vision through which a film eventually becomes realized/noticed. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of production, as well as directing the shooting timetable. This entails organizing the crew in such a way as to achieve their vision of the film. This requires skills of leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in the stressful. Moreover, it is necessary to have an eye to frame shots and to give precise feedback to cast and crew, thus. Thus the director ensures that all involved in the film production are working towards an identical vision for the completed film. The set of varying challenges he or she has to tackle has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with egos. It adds to the pressure that the success of a film can influence when, omnipresent are the boundaries of the films budget. Additionally, the director may also have to ensure an intended age rating, thus, the position of film director is widely considered to be a highly stressful and demanding one. It has been said that 20-hour days are not unusual, under European Union law, the film director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film, largely as a result of the influence of auteur theory. Auteur theory is a film criticism concept that holds that a directors film reflects the directors personal creative vision
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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The Roost
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The Roost is an American 2005 horror film directed by Ti West. Zombies and homicidal bats terrorize four teenagers stranded on a mysterious farm, following a near-death car accident, four friends on their way to a Halloween wedding, venture to a secluded farm for help. Little do they know however, they will soon disturb an ancient evil with far more ghastly plans in store for them, the Roost was photographed in Super 16mm on location in Wilmington, Delaware, and Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, in October 2003. The film features the original song I Raise Hell by the Mr. Move, the Roost premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March,2005. It was screened at the Woodstock Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Fright Fest, The Fantasia Film Festival, the Roost was released to DVD in the United Kingdom on August 21,2006. The Roost was released to DVD in the United States on October 3,2006 and it was nominated for Best Limited Release Film at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. It was ranked as one of the Top 10 Movies of 2005 by Bloody-Disgusting, the Roost at the Internet Movie Database The Roost at AllMovie Official website
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The House of the Devil
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The House of the Devil is a 2009 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Ti West, starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, and Mary Woronov. The plot concerns a young student who is hired as a babysitter at an isolated house and is soon caught up in bizarre. The film combines elements of both the film and haunted house subgenres while using the satanic panic of the 1980s as a central plot element. The film pays homage to horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, recreating the style of films of era using filming techniques. The films opening text claims that it is based upon true events, in the 1980s, after her landlady gives her an extension on the deposit for her new house, college student Samantha Hughes takes on a babysitting job for Mr. Ulman and his wife. Ulman asks to meet her but stands her up, later apologizing and offering to pay double the original salary, Samantha accepts and gets a ride to the remote mansion from her best friend, Megan, who expresses her distrust. At the house, Mr. Ulman pulls her aside and reveals that he not have any children to be monitored. Samantha balks but finally agrees, if he will pay her $400, Megan immediately leaves, citing Ulmans lies and peculiar behavior, but she reluctantly promises to pick up Samantha later. Samantha stays, after accepting the money, on the way home, Megan stops in her car to smoke a cigarette. When her car lighter will not work, a stranger suddenly appears out of nowhere, startling her, when Megan reveals that she is not the babysitter hired by the Ulmans, she is abruptly shot and murdered by the stranger. After ordering a pizza, Samantha dances around the house listening to her Walkman. While cleaning up the mess, she discovers a cupboard filled with old family photographs, in one photograph a different family than the Ulmans stands next to the Volvo she and Megan saw upon pulling up to the house. An additional peculiar detail is that the family in the photograph has a young son and this seems unlikely as the Volvo is a new car and Mr. Ulman stated that although they had a child he was now grown. Samantha draws a conclusion that Ulman has possibly murdered the original mansion owners. In a panic she dials 911, but eventually manages to calm herself down, the pizza is finally delivered by the stranger who had killed Megan. Drugs in the pizza cause Samantha to pass out, just as she discovers activity behind a door leading to the third floor, when she comes to, she finds that she has been bound and gagged in the center of a Pentagram. As a lunar eclipse darkens the sky, Mr. and Mrs. Ulman, along with the stranger. Mother is revealed to be a grotesque, witch-like figure, as part of the ritual she slices her arm and pours the blood into a goat skull
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The Innkeepers (film)
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The Innkeepers is a 2011 American horror film written, directed and edited by Ti West, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy and Kelly McGillis. Claire and Luke are two employees at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, a once-grand hotel that is about to close. Claire and Luke are the employees working during its final weekend of operation. Claire, who suffers from asthma, has recently dropped out of college. That afternoon, Luke checks in a woman, whom Claire recognizes as Leanne Rease-Jones. While delivering towels to her room, Claire is starstruck and has an encounter with Leanne. The following night, while taking out the garbage, Claire notices Leanne watching from her hotel window, Claire waves to her, but Leanne ignores her and moves away from the window without acknowledging her. Claire hears noises coming from the garage, where there is a door leading to the basement. She padlocks the door and returns inside and she uses Lukes ghost-hunting equipment to record EVPs in various places around the hotel. While recording, she hears faint voices and music, and sees the piano in the lobby play by itself. She runs into Leanne in the hallway, Leanne reveals she is actually in town for a psychics convention and that she has left her career as an actress to become a medium. She warns Claire not to go into the basement, early that morning, Claire awakens to Madelines apparition in her room. Later that day, a man arrives and asks for a room on the third floor. Luke explains that the third floor rooms have been stripped of their due to the hotels impending closing. However, Claire offers to provide the man with a set of sheets as the still have their beds. Luke and Claire decide to investigate the basement where Madelines corpse was hidden, there they encounter disembodied voices and other paranormal activity and Luke becomes so frightened that he leaves the hotel. In a state of panic, Claire awakens Leanne and asks for help, Leanne goes to the bottom of the basement stairwell, where she makes contact with a spirit and then tells Claire that they need to leave the hotel immediately. Panicked, she runs downstairs and finds that Luke has returned to the hotel and he goes upstairs to find Leanne and Claire hears more noises coming from the basement
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The Sacrament (2013 film)
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The Sacrament is a 2013 American found footage horror thriller film directed by Ti West. A. J. Bowen and Joe Swanberg play journalists who document their co-workers attempt to locate his sister after she joins a religious commune. The films plot borrows heavily from the life events of the Jonestown Massacre of 1978. When Patrick investigates, he discovers that they have moved to a new undisclosed location only accessible by helicopter, intrigued by the mystery, Patricks co-workers, reporter Sam and cameraman Jake, suggest a feature documentary on the topic. The trip goes well, but the helicopter pilot warns them that he leave with or without them the next day. Issues first arise when they meet the guides at the airfield, expecting only Patrick, they are taken aback by a film crew, they contact Father, the leader, who authorizes their entrance. At the commune itself, armed guards delay the entry of the film crew, feeling uneasy, Jake and Sam begin to regret the trip, but Patrick is able to smooth things over when his sister appears. Caroline enthusiastically welcomes them and apologizes for the misunderstanding, Caroline leaves with Patrick, and Jake and Sam are given their own cabin. After settling in, the two attempt to find members to interview, several of the people open up to them and tell stories of how Father has saved them and given them new-found hope. The communes nurse, Wendy, reveals that the commune has a medical center funded by donations from the members. Privately, the filmmakers express their skepticism but admit that the members seem happy and have accomplished much, Caroline arranges an interview with Father, and Sam prepares a list of questions. However, Father will only agree to do the interview during a public meeting, Father, an older Southerner, greets them warmly and at first answers the questions openly. However, his answers become more evasive and vaguely threatening, near the end of the interview, Father raises the subject of Sams pregnant wife, which Sam had mentioned earlier to Wendy. Put off-guard, Sam fumbles and loses control of the interview, and Father politely but dominantly cuts it short with roaring applause from his followers, during the party, Savannah, a young, mute girl, passes a note requesting help to Sam. When the filmmakers inquire further, they discover a dissident group that wishes to leave, alleging abuse, Jake does not want to get involved, but Sam insists that they help despite the fact that the helicopter can not fit them. When Sam and Jake attempt to locate Patrick, they find that he has been taken aside for a threesome, growing increasingly distrustful of Father and the commune, Jake and Sam anxiously wait out the night, unable to sleep. In the morning, they find that the dissidents have become outright rebellious, Sarah, Savannahs mother, insists that they at least rescue her daughter, and Jake returns to the helicopter to delay its take-off. The pilot flatly refuses to help, but gunshots cut the conversation short, Jake flees into the forest and circles back to the helicopter, the injured pilot tells him to get the others
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