Talk about your big fat surprises: With one phone call, Nia Vardalos had a daughter. In this exclusive Mother's Day essay for People, the star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding talks in detail for the first time about the shock, chaos and "peaceful gratefulness" that came after she and husband Ian Gomez adopted a 3-year-old girl.The RitualMy daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. After years of wanting to be parents, my husband and I were given 14 hours notice ... then a little girl walked into our house.Trying to...
- 5/9/2009
- by Nia Vardalos
- PEOPLE.com
A couple of weeks before the festival, Filmmaker reached out to directors with films in the festival to offer them space to recount the making and mission of their movies. Below is a response we received from Keith Maitland, whose documentary, The Eyes of Me, premieres at the festival today. How do they see the movie, if they can’t see at all? The Eyes of Me follows four blind teens over the course of one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin, TX. I didn’t know much about blind people before I decided to dive into their world and make the film, so naturally, I had a lot of questions to answer … and apparently so do a lot of other people out there. This week at SXSW, host to The Eyes of Me World Premiere, I’ve talked...
- 3/18/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
by Rick Allen (December 17, 2008) Las Vegas is an interesting experiment in movie-cliche-as-city, and in so many ways it seemed to be the perfect gathering spot a week ago for film festival leadership from around the world. We've all seen that movie: plucky underdogs, daunting house odds, weird juxtapositions (the International Film Festival Summit was sandwiched between Major League Baseball's Winter Meeting and Cowboy Christmas). So when the Iffs gave me the mic (a hand one - I felt like a lounge lizard) for the kick-off keynote, my analysis went in three acts:...
- 12/17/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
by Basil Tsiokos (November 20, 2008) At the end of October, after 12 years with the organization, I officially stepped down from my position as the Artistic Director of NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, which just celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Within the last year, three of the other best-known U.S. Lgbt film fests have also experienced significant staff changes, beginning with the departure of Outfest's Executive Director Stephen Gutwillig, followed by Frameline's Artistic Director Michael Lumpkin, and, most dramatically, by the wholesale staff restructuring of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. While some of these changes were simply career shifts after long tenures, others were unfortunately borne out of economic necessity.
- 11/20/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
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