The Cleveland International Film Festival will be in person at Playhouse Square in 2022.
Plans are underway for the 46th Cleveland International Film Festival, set for March 30- April 10, 2022, at Playhouse Square. In addition to in-person programming, there will be online offerings. Details will be announced later, according to a news release.
The last two festivals have streamed online following the initial cancellation of the 2020 festival due to the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement about next year s festival comes with the disclaimer that the details are subject to change based on community health conditions.
CIFF said this year s streaming festival reached a national audience of more than 102,000 viewers.
Kamisha Thomas is a filmmaker, writer, director, co-founder of the Returning Artists Guild in Columbus and a returned citizen. Kamisha was a filmmaker before she went to prison, but finished her short film while she was inside. There were a lot of projects in prison, she says, that helped her continue her filmmaking.
SA s Marian de Pontes Etana selected for Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival
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South African film director, Marian de Pontes is on a mission to tell inclusive and diverse African female stories in Hollywood.
Her latest film âEtanaâ earned her a Horizon Award, a finalist position at the 2021 USA Film Festival and an official selection of the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival.
âEtanaâ focuses on the title character, played by Vivian Nweze and her attempt to flee her forced servitude in an army that deploys child soldiers.
Scene from âEtanaâ. Picture: Supplied.
âI desire and aim to create films with diverse and inclusive voices, to tell female and African stories that have an impact on the ways people think about their approach to each other and the world.
Jordan Kenneth Kamp was born an artist.
“He was such a good artist at preschool that the teacher would say we never had anybody draw with the detail this 3-year-old draws with,” said his mother, Sheryl Kamp.
Drawing was one way for Jordan Kamp to express himself. As he grew older, he got immersed in a different type of storytelling, acting.
With his light heart and unique sense of humor, he became a familiar face on TV commercials, theater and cinema.
“I found an identity with being artistic, so I guess that’s where it started,” Kamp said.
His first performance was a one-act play, Hello, Dolly, at Orrville High School where he played Horace Vandergelder.
‘Tu Me Manques’ filmmaker discusses transformative movie about LGBTQ+ suicide
Updated May 06, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Suicide related to the destructive, self-loathing cocktail of fear and shame is what filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott deftly explores in his new transformative movie “Tu Me Manques.”
Originally staged as a 2015 play of the same name in Bellott’s Bolivian homeland, the movie focuses on a grieving and conservative father flying from South America to New York City hoping to find answers as to why his closeted gay son committed suicide.
For Bellott, the fear of being ostracized in his home country was only exceeded by the desire to publicize the devastating number of suicides related to living as a closeted gay man in Bolivia.