Title: Coal Rush Director: Filippo Piscopo & Lorena Luciano Genre: Documentary The documentary film ‘Coal Rush,’ winner of the Social Justice Award at the 2014’s Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York, arrives in the French capital. The film is featured at 2015’s Festival international du film d’environnement (Fife), that for 32 years has been focusing on movies dealing with environmental issues. ‘Coal Rush’ is a documentary made by Italian-born and American-adopted filmmakers Filippo Piscopo and Lorena Luciano. The story is set in rural West Virginia, where a community comes to believe that illnesses amongst inhabitants are caused by environmental wrongdoing. Locals sue Massey Energy coal company, because it’s contaminating [ Read More ]
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- 2/7/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
We have been following this New York City Fest's development for a while and wish it well. Needless to say an important program of films.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York , a new non-profit film festival will run March 14-20, 2014 at New York’s Quad Cinema. Founded by award-winning actor, filmmaker and curator Nora Armani, the festival will showcase films with human interest stories and socially relevant themes as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling. Rated Sr aims to promote positive social change through the powerful medium of cinema.
Amy Goodman will deliver the festival’s keynote address on Tuesday, March 18th and she will give out the “Rated Sr Social Justice Award” for raising awareness to issues outside mainstream media. Such is the philosophy behind Democracy Now! Currently aired by more than 1,000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America, and watched in dozens of countries via the Internet.
Over thirty narrative and documentary films will screen including twelve feature films which will compete for the Grand Prize, a week-long theatrical engagement at the Quad Cinema, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select Program, and ten documentaries will compete for the documentary prize. The winner will receive a VOD DVD distribution deal courtesy of Cinema Libre Studio, a leader in the distribution of social issue documentaries and independent feature films.
Films:
Feature Competition Narrative and Documentary
Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Alessandra Giordano, USA, 81min, 2013, documentary
Dovid Meyer, Paul Mones , USA/Israel, 101 min, 2013, narrative
Flore, Jean-Albert Lièvre, France, 2014, 85min, documentary
Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream, Patrick Lovell, USA, 120 min. 2013, documentary
If Only Everyone, Nataliya Belyauskene, Armenia, 2012, 94min, narrative
Indian Summer, Simon Brook, France, 84, 2013, documentary
Lucky Express, Anna Fischer , USA, 87, 2013, documentary
Offside Trap (Abseitsfalle), Stefan Hering, Germany, 98min, 2012, narrative
Orphans of the Genocide, Bared Maronian, USA, 91min, 2013, documentary
Small Small Thing, Jessica Vale, USA, 85min, 2013, documentary
Documentary:
Coal Rush , Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, USA, 85min, 2013,
Control, Chris Bravo & Lindsey Schneider, USA, 50min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
Destiny's Bridge, Jack Ballo, USA, 80min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
From the Black You Make Color, Richie Sherman & Judy Maltz , USA, Israel, 75min, 2012
Hamshen Community at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Lusine Sahakyan, Armenia, Turkey, 60min, 2012
Not Who We Are, Carol Mansour, Lebanon, 72min. 2013
Stable Life, Sara Macpherson, USA, 52min, 2013
The Throwaways, Bhawin Suchak, USA, 62min, 2013
Festival partners include:
·Academic partner, the School of the Visual Arts Social Documentary department, home of the new Mfa in Social Documentary filmmaking.
·Dailymotion, the official video media partner. A selection of close to 100 film trailers from the festival submissions are viewable on an official festival page, garnering close to 100,000 visits to date.
·Village Voice (Media partner)
·Other promotional partners of the festival include: Nyfa, Indieflix, Unifrance Films International, Cineuropa, Alouette Communications, Fiaf, Samuel Infirmier, Final Draft and Center for Remembering and Sharing.
·New-York based metalsmith designer Michael Aram has donated a special trophy to be awarded to the recognized Rated Sr honoree.
·The festival awards the Vanya Exerjian award to a film that raises awareness to violence against women and girls, in commemoration of Armani’s late cousin and uncle, victims of a violent hate crime.
Rated Sr is a film festival that focuses on socially relevant human stories and raises awareness to social problems by offering positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema. Rated Sr believes that through raised awareness, expanded knowledge about diverse cultures, and the human condition as a whole, it is possible to create a better world free of violence, hate and crime.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York shines the spotlight on filmmakers who tell compelling, socially relevant narratives across a broad range of social issues without resorting to gratuitous violence and violent forms of movie-making. Rated Sr Films are enlightening, uplifting, entertaining, but most of all artistically appealing. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales each year of the festival will be donated to a charity selected from the fields of: poverty, homelessness, cancer and aging.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York , a new non-profit film festival will run March 14-20, 2014 at New York’s Quad Cinema. Founded by award-winning actor, filmmaker and curator Nora Armani, the festival will showcase films with human interest stories and socially relevant themes as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling. Rated Sr aims to promote positive social change through the powerful medium of cinema.
Amy Goodman will deliver the festival’s keynote address on Tuesday, March 18th and she will give out the “Rated Sr Social Justice Award” for raising awareness to issues outside mainstream media. Such is the philosophy behind Democracy Now! Currently aired by more than 1,000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America, and watched in dozens of countries via the Internet.
Over thirty narrative and documentary films will screen including twelve feature films which will compete for the Grand Prize, a week-long theatrical engagement at the Quad Cinema, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select Program, and ten documentaries will compete for the documentary prize. The winner will receive a VOD DVD distribution deal courtesy of Cinema Libre Studio, a leader in the distribution of social issue documentaries and independent feature films.
Films:
Feature Competition Narrative and Documentary
Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Alessandra Giordano, USA, 81min, 2013, documentary
Dovid Meyer, Paul Mones , USA/Israel, 101 min, 2013, narrative
Flore, Jean-Albert Lièvre, France, 2014, 85min, documentary
Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream, Patrick Lovell, USA, 120 min. 2013, documentary
If Only Everyone, Nataliya Belyauskene, Armenia, 2012, 94min, narrative
Indian Summer, Simon Brook, France, 84, 2013, documentary
Lucky Express, Anna Fischer , USA, 87, 2013, documentary
Offside Trap (Abseitsfalle), Stefan Hering, Germany, 98min, 2012, narrative
Orphans of the Genocide, Bared Maronian, USA, 91min, 2013, documentary
Small Small Thing, Jessica Vale, USA, 85min, 2013, documentary
Documentary:
Coal Rush , Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo, USA, 85min, 2013,
Control, Chris Bravo & Lindsey Schneider, USA, 50min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
Destiny's Bridge, Jack Ballo, USA, 80min, 2013 (Nyfa artist)
From the Black You Make Color, Richie Sherman & Judy Maltz , USA, Israel, 75min, 2012
Hamshen Community at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Lusine Sahakyan, Armenia, Turkey, 60min, 2012
Not Who We Are, Carol Mansour, Lebanon, 72min. 2013
Stable Life, Sara Macpherson, USA, 52min, 2013
The Throwaways, Bhawin Suchak, USA, 62min, 2013
Festival partners include:
·Academic partner, the School of the Visual Arts Social Documentary department, home of the new Mfa in Social Documentary filmmaking.
·Dailymotion, the official video media partner. A selection of close to 100 film trailers from the festival submissions are viewable on an official festival page, garnering close to 100,000 visits to date.
·Village Voice (Media partner)
·Other promotional partners of the festival include: Nyfa, Indieflix, Unifrance Films International, Cineuropa, Alouette Communications, Fiaf, Samuel Infirmier, Final Draft and Center for Remembering and Sharing.
·New-York based metalsmith designer Michael Aram has donated a special trophy to be awarded to the recognized Rated Sr honoree.
·The festival awards the Vanya Exerjian award to a film that raises awareness to violence against women and girls, in commemoration of Armani’s late cousin and uncle, victims of a violent hate crime.
Rated Sr is a film festival that focuses on socially relevant human stories and raises awareness to social problems by offering positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema. Rated Sr believes that through raised awareness, expanded knowledge about diverse cultures, and the human condition as a whole, it is possible to create a better world free of violence, hate and crime.
Rated Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival New York shines the spotlight on filmmakers who tell compelling, socially relevant narratives across a broad range of social issues without resorting to gratuitous violence and violent forms of movie-making. Rated Sr Films are enlightening, uplifting, entertaining, but most of all artistically appealing. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales each year of the festival will be donated to a charity selected from the fields of: poverty, homelessness, cancer and aging.
- 3/10/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Morgantown, W.Va. (AP) — An independent documentary chronicling the fight that hundreds of southern West Virginia residents waged against Massey Energy over polluted well water will be screened for the first time at the Atlanta Film Festival in Georgia.
"Coal Rush," which premieres March 29 at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, was five years in the making. Co-directors Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo say it deals with some of America's most pressing social and environmental issues, documenting the struggles of residents in the Mingo County communities of Rawl, Lick Creek, Merrimac and Sprigg.
Their 7-year-long lawsuit was ultimately settled last summer for $35 million. The terms were supposed to be confidential, but The Associated Press obtained a letter sent to the plaintiffs and reported its contents.
The letter said Massey had offered $35 million besides the $5 million it had previously agreed to put into a fund to cover medical testing.
A judge approved the settlement in December,...
"Coal Rush," which premieres March 29 at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, was five years in the making. Co-directors Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo say it deals with some of America's most pressing social and environmental issues, documenting the struggles of residents in the Mingo County communities of Rawl, Lick Creek, Merrimac and Sprigg.
Their 7-year-long lawsuit was ultimately settled last summer for $35 million. The terms were supposed to be confidential, but The Associated Press obtained a letter sent to the plaintiffs and reported its contents.
The letter said Massey had offered $35 million besides the $5 million it had previously agreed to put into a fund to cover medical testing.
A judge approved the settlement in December,...
- 3/21/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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