Posts Tagged 'Jed Dietz'

Photo from the MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series Screening of THE SOURCE FAMILY

Published February 20, 2013 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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L to R: WYPR's Tom Hall, Jodi Wille, Explosion the Aquarian, and MFF Director Jed Dietz.

Left to Right: Tom Hall, Jodi Wille, Explosion the Aquarian and Jed Dietz.

Last night the Maryland Film Festival/WYPR Spotlight Series returned with THE SOURCE FAMILY (MFF 2012), with special guests co-director Jodi Wille and Source Family member Explosion the Aquarian.  The event took place at the MICA Brown Center’s Falvey Hall.

The MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series showcases the best of independent film and unites filmmakers with audiences. Each Spotlight Series film features a conversation between WYPR 88.1FM’s Tom Hall and the filmmaker, followed by a Q & A with the audience. Past titles in the series include BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, THE INTERRUPTERS and THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE.

Click here for an archive of past Spotlight Series interviews.

We will be announcing our next MFF/WYPR Spotlight Series title shortly; stay tuned for details!

Maryland Film Festival Highlighted in Filmmaker Magazine!

Published May 22, 2012 Uncategorized 2 Comments
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Pictured above are, from left to right, Maryland Film Festival director Jed Dietz; director (Sun Don’t Shine) Amy Seimetz; director of photography Nandan Rao (The International Sign for Choking); and director Joe Swanberg (V/H/S)

 

Check out Scott Macaulay‘s coverage of the 2012 Maryland Film Festival in Filmmaker magazine!

“The Maryland Film Festival, which wrapped its 2012 edition on Sunday, is one of the East Coast’s most intimate and engaging film events. With 40 features, over 70 shorts and an amazingly healthy contingent of loyal filmmakers annually making the trip to Baltimore, Maryland functions as both a discovery festival and friendly pit stop for directors on the independent circuit. John Waters hosts a movie — this year Barbara Loden’s seminal and still influential Wanda — and takes the audience out partying afterwards; the Opening Night consists of shorts, not some star-bloated, sub-standard mini-major feature; and, for the second year in a row, replacing a day of panels is “Filmmakers Take Charge,” a private event gathering filmmakers, industry and press for a discussion of the state of our business. Among the attendees I got a chance to talk with in Baltimore last week were the Zellner brothers, Sophia Takal and Lawrence Levine, Shane Carruth, David Lowery, Matt Porterfield, Kate Lyn Sheil, Visit Films’ Ryan Kampe, the New Yorker‘s Richard Brody, Indiewire‘s Ann Thompson, and the Washington Post‘s Ann Hornaday.

Click here for Scott Macaulay’s full article in Filmmaker magazine!

2012 Maryland Film Festival Coverage Media Frenzy this Week!!

Published May 1, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Illustration by Alex Fine, courtesy of City Paper.

The upcoming 2012 Maryland Film Festival has been all over the press this week with festival previews on the web, in the papers, on the air waves!

Baltimore magazine just released its 2012 Festival coverage in an a

rticle titled “The MFF: The Most Cinematastic Time of the Year!” with

Max Weiss‘ reviews for 2012 MDFF selections PILGRIM SONG; COME BACK, AFRICA; and VITO! 

Click here to read the full article in Baltimore magazine!

The City Paper‘s guide to the 2012 Maryland Film Fest, “Film Fest Frenzy,” was released online today, and will hit the streets in hardcopy tomorrow!

Here’s a taste of what the City Paper‘s 2012 Festival Guide has to say about our line up:

“The think pieces are flying regarding the future of film. Filmmakers and other cinephiles are shaking their heads about the fate of actual film stock-the digital revolution has finally overtaken 35 mm, bringing with it affordability and versatility and the prospect for easier distribution, but whisking away that almost alchemical magic of capturing light on chemical-coated celluloid and later projecting light through it. Meanwhile, the forces that forever altered the music business in the ’00s are starting to have the same game-changing effects on the movie biz, leaving the old system of blockbusters, wily indies, theatrical distribution, and back-end home-video profits gasping and scrambling to adapt. Depending on which pieces you read, the prognosis isn’t often rosy…”

Click here for the full City Paper article!

Bernadette Wegenstein

This Thursday, Maryland Film Festival Director Jed Dietz will be interviewed by Marty Bass for WJZ’s “Coffee With” program, along with Austrian linguist and filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein.  Parts of the interview will air on news segments throughout the day, and the full interview will be posted on the “Coffee With” website.

On Friday, Jed Dietz and former Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow will hit the radio waves with their monthly movie mash up on WYPR 88.1 FM’s Maryland Morning.  You won’t want to miss Friday’s show, which will focus on Jed and Michael’s picks for the upcoming 2012 Festival!

Tune in to 88.1FM from 9am to 10am on Friday, May 4th for the insider scoop on industry news, movies, and entertainment, and the must-see movies of the 2012 Maryland Film Festival!  If you miss the show, the podcast will be available on the Maryland Morning website.

Check out Podcast of MDFF Director Jed Dietz’ Festival Preview on Marc Steiner Show!

Published April 19, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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On April 17th, MDFF director Jed Dietz joined Marc Steiner to preview MDFF 2012 on The Marc Steiner Show on WEAA, 88.9FM.

Joining Marc and Jed were filmmakers Sheldon Candis, whose feature, LUV, premiered at Sundance and will be part of MDFF 2012, and stars Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, and Charles Dutton; and short filmmaker Angel Kristi Williams, whose short film,  THE CHRISTMAS TREE, will also screen during MDFF 2012.

In case you missed the live broadcast, you can listen to a podcast of the show here.

MFF Director Jed Dietz Reports from Sundance; MFF Documentaries in the Spotlight

Published January 20, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is now in full swing in Park City, Utah, and our very own Jed Dietz is on the ground and reporting back to us with photos, stories and updates about his experiences there.  Keep checking in throughout the week for a unique insider’s perspective on Sundance ’12!

So far, Jed is eagerly anticipating the Sundance premiere of DETROPIA, MFF Board member Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing’s new critically acclaimed documentary about the rise and fall of Detroit.  The New York Times also recently published a piece on this film.

Also, be sure to check out today’s NYTimes review on THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH.  A hit at MFF 2011, we wish director Chad Freidrichs well as it begins its theatrical journey.

Keep checking back for more updates from Sundance!

ON THE ICE: An MD Supported Film

Published January 24, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Winner of a MD Filmmakers Fellowship and native of Barrow Alaska, Andrew Opeakha Maclean, leads Q&A with his cast and crew after a sold out screening of ON THE ICE at Sundance. The film is one of 16 in Dramatic Competition.

~Jed Dietz

Maryland Film Festival in ONE WEEK!

Published April 29, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Check out this video made by the good folks over at Creative Alliance MovieMakers (CAmm) featuring the staff of the Maryland Film Festival. We are getting pretty excited for the festival which is just one week away!

EXCLUSIVE Friends of the Festival Programming Preview next week!

Published April 6, 2010 1 Leave a Comment
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EXCLUSIVE Maryland Film Festival Programming Preview hosted by Director Jed Dietz and the MFF Programming Team!

Wednesday, April 14, 7:30pm

Friends of the Festival will join us for our “Members Only” MFF 2010 Programming Preview for the insiders look and highlights on our 2010 film selections! This is an EXCLUSIVE event is for Friends of the Festival.

Join now to take advantage of this special pre-festival event!

For more information, email tickets@mdfilmfest.com.

Friends of the Festival is a membership program that supports the Maryland Film Festival throughout the year. For a contribution of $50 or more, our members receive benefits like:

  • FREE preview screenings from the art-house to Hollywood throughout the year
  • FREE movies before 6pm on the Friday of the Maryland Film Festival (this year taking place May 6 – 9)

Join Friends of the Festival today to see the 2010 FOF Programming Preview and many more FREE movies all year-round!

Mike Sragow Profiles Victor Fleming in NY Times

Published March 1, 2010 1 Leave a Comment
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It’s so ironic that Mike Sragow,  The Baltimore Sun’s great film critic and writer, (now under-used by The Chicago Tribune editors that oversee the newspaper) has a magnificent piece in yesterday’s New York Times. The piece is about the seminal Hollywood director Victor Fleming who will have a retrospective at NY’s Film Forum from March 5 – 18. The article features a photo of Jean Harlow in Fleming’s film BOMBSHELL (remember that great screening we did with Sragow at MICA?), and chronicles the frustration Sragow feels that Fleming, who helped thrust Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland and many more towards stardom, hasn’t received more recognition for his outstanding career. Sragow’s great book on Fleming has won universal praise and is certainly one of the best profiles of  the American movie art form, in the time of its adolescence, ever written.

~Jed Dietz, MFF Director

Jed Dietz to host Oscar-Nominated Shorts at The Charles!

Published February 19, 2010 1 Leave a Comment
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I’m really looking forward to hosting the Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts at 5:00pm this evening at the Charles. I saw LOGORAMA at Sundance, and am a big Wallace and Gromit fan. Whether or not you can join us this evening, I hope you can fit these two programs in to your weekend. Here’s Mike Sragow’s piece in today’s Sun.

~Jed Dietz, MFF Director

COME SEE THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS AT THE CHARLES!

Continuing a popular tradition, the Charles will offer two programs this weekend of Academy Award nominated Shorts- Animated and Live Action. These are not to be missed because they are hard to find anywhere else, and this will probably be the only chance you’ll get to see them on the big screen.

This represents a particularly diverse range of filmmaking talents, so we hope you can catch both Shorts Programs. Here’s Bret McCabe’s posting from 2/1710 on the City Paper website.

The Maryland Film Festival has a special commitment to Short Films, programming lots of them, and devoting our Opening Night to them (with crucial support from the Baker Fund). Festival Director Jed Dietz will host the Animated Shorts Program that starts at 5:00PM on Friday. There will be a brief intro and some Q&A afterwards. The whole program runs about 90 minutes.

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