Monday, February 25, 2013
Filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine win Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, Grand Jury Award winners at the 2007 Alexandria Film Festival, claimed the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short on Sunday night in Los Angeles. The couple won for Inocente, a film chronicling a homeless teenage immigrant in San Diego with dreams of being a painter. The film was broadcast on MTV in August and is currently available for viewing on the network's website. “It’s an inspirational story, and it suggests, convincingly, that we haven’t heard the last from this kid,” Michael O’Sullivan wrote in a review of the film in The Washington Post. Sean Fine, the grandson of a former Washington Redskins photographer, wore Robert Griffin III-themed socks to Sunday's ceremony, according to the Post…
Monday, November 12, 2012
Festival includes more than 40 feature-length films, documentaries, animations and shorts as well as a world premiere. Many of the films' directors will be attending and available for discussion.
The Alexandria Film Festival is gracing several silver screens this week across the city with an overarching event theme of “sustainability.” “A number of the films, but not all, have a sub-theme of sustainability, which more often then not means environmental, but can also mean just about everything we do that has an impact on the environment and the economy,” said festival Chairwoman Patti North. “We often don’t consider our behavior and what nurtures sustainability.” North and her team of volunteers curate the films for the festival, which is partly funded by the city of Alexandria. The festival presents feature-length films, documentaries, animations and shorts by emerging and established filmmakers, showcasing many films to audiences …
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Four-day event runs Thursday through Sunday, and it's bigger than ever.
Thousands of film fanatics and local and international filmmakers are preparing to descend on Alexandria beginning Thursday for the Fifth Annual Alexandria Film Festival, the city’s largest to date. The festival’s 2011 schedule includes 47 short and feature-length films and documentaries representing 14 countries. Washington-area and student filmmakers are also represented. “Alexandria has this amazing crop of filmmakers right in our backyard, and because we have such an international presence here, this is a great opportunity to celebrate local, national and international films,” said festival spokesman Pete Hyde. “And we’ve got the perfect setting for it. So, we’re a little unusual in that we have literally communities from all over the …
