October 22, 2011 One more chance to see Doxita's Inside/Outside program in NYC! ____ My Name is Sydney playing as a part of this beautiful line-up of short films.
For tickets and program information click...
Union Docs @ 7:30.
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September 27, 2011 My Name is Sydney will play at the IFC Center in New York City as a part of Karen Cirillo's beautifully curated Doxita Film Festival. This is one of many upcoming national screenings of the Inside/Outside program as it takes off for a tour of several notable venues across the United States. Please stay tuned for dates and times through Whistle Films & the Doxita siite!
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May 15, 2011 WHISTLE FILMS worked with AIDS Walk for their 2011 New York walk! What an incredible event to be a part of. We braved the rain, the wind... more rain... and the result? Brushing shoulders with some of the city's best talent, meeting people who were walking for those they loved, lost and others who were still fighting, lifting high over central park in a motorized crane shooting thousands streaming past below... what a day! For a quick sample click HERE. Stay tuned for more to come.
May 11, 2011 A new Whistle Films collaboration, we're pleased and honored to be working side by side with Ping Chong & Company once again. Ping Chong & Company was recently awarded a grant from the Ms. Foundation for Women in order to support an educational documentary based on their recent theatrical production Secret Survivors. The show features real life stories of five survivors of childhood sexual abuse in three alternately heartbreaking, inspiring, and redemptive acts.
The documentary project, currently in development, will use the show as a platform to explore possibilities of healing, the epidemic at large, and outlets for activism. This pivotal project aims to break down barriers through opening new avenues for communication about this often taboo issue. Whistle Films will work with Ping Chong & Company to produce and direct the film; please stay tuned for our Kickstarter Campaign and sample clips of the show.
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April 2, 2011 Awe in Autism, the innovative website highlighting creative works by people on the spectrum, selected My Name is Sydney to screen in tandem to a poetry reading of Sydney Edmond's writing. The event featured a truly awe-inspiring array of talent, the film played to an incredibly warm and responsive audience... we were honored to be included.
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February 11, 2011 WHISTLE FILMS was commissioned by the award-winning theater company Ping Chong & Company to produce and direct a documentary short exploring its innovative arts-in-education program Secret Histories. The collaboration could not have been more in-line with the mission of Whistle Films to promote and explore the intersection between creative expression, documentary subject matter, and storytelling as a way of expanding understanding between cultures. To learn more about the program and to see the short please CLICK HERE!
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December 1, 2010 The National Center for Jewish Film, one of the leading distributors of Jewish-themed Motion Picture content, is now a fiscal sponsor for The Jamaica Projects. CLICK HERE to read more about the project and to make a tax-deductible donation towards the film's completion.
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November 16, 2010 The DVD of Composer Mark Applebaum's Metaphysics of Notation edited by Melanie Vi Levy and Directed by Filmmaker Robert Arnold of Lateral Films is officially released! CLICK HERE to watch the film!
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October 14, 2010 A Different Color Blue and My Name is Sydney were both honored with awards by the Focus Film Festival in Chico California. Artist Charles Curtis Blackwell attended to accept the awards on the films' behalf.
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September 16th & 19th 2010 My Name is Sydney screened at the Temecula Valley Film and Music Festival in California. Lisa and Sydney Edmond were in attendance.
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June 29, 2010 A Different Color Blue will air nationally on POV (PBS) with The Beaches of Agnes!! Tune in to see Charles Curtis Blackwell and the film on TV!
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April 29, 2010 My Name is Sydney is a National Finalist for the 37th Annual Student Academy Awards!
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April 26, 2010 My Name is Sydney is a Regional Finalist for the 37th Annual Student Academy Awards! On April 26th at 6 pm the film will screen at the NW Film Center in Portland, Oregon with other Regional Finalists from the western states of the US.
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February 27th & 28th 2010 My Name is Sydney will play at the True/False Documentary Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri as a part of the "Someone to Watch Over Me" shorts program.
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February 17, 2010 My Name is Sydney will premiere at The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana on February 17th at 5:45 at the Wilma Theater. The film will be included in the Festival's Short Film Competition.
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December 4. 2009 My Name is Sydney was nominated for IDA' s David L. Wolper Award at the Director's Guild in Los Angeles.
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November 29, 2009 Artist Charles Curtis Blackwell of A Different Color Blue is featured in the New York Times.
______________________________________________________ October 25, 2009 Beards screened to a raucous San Francisco audience last week and several people with significant beards were in attendance. Next week My Name is Sydney will be featured on Craig Evan's website Autism Hangout. Check in for a video "webinar" with Sydney & Lisa Edmond and director, Melanie Levy.
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October 18th & 21st, 2009 The Secret Life of Beards will screen at the Roxie in San Francisco! The film will be shown as a part of a shorts program curated by the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. Other shorts include a wonderful film by Jason Sussberg called Shelter. This is the first local screening of Beards and we're hoping for at least a few celebrity beard appearances - by world beard champion Jack Passion, real life cowboy James "Love Speight", and Muslim community leader Imam Tahir among many others!
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September 09, 2009 Celebrated Author, Artist & Activist Donna Williams features My Name is Sydney on her Podcast "OddPod". CLICK HERE to listen to a conversation between Donna Williams and Director Melanie Levy!
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August 3, 2009 Nextframe UFVA Touring Student Festival announces The Secret Life of Beards as a 2009 finalist.
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June 19, 2009 The Secret Life of Beards is featured in Toronto's City News. CLICK HERE
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May 29, 2009 Worldwide Shorts Film Festival in Toronto announces The Secret Life of Beards to be included in its Opening Night Gala of Award-Winning Short Films. CLICK HERE
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