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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

4 Icarus Films at the American Anthropological Association conference

The 108th AAA annual meeting is taking place in Philadelphia from December 2 to 6. Four of our films will be presented:
- REVUE
- RAPAYAN
- UMBRELLA
- LUCANAMARCA

For more information, please visit the AAA website here.

Labels: academic conferences, anthropology, cultural anthropology

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A very special event: Conference honoring filmmaker and professor Elizabeth Fernea

Icarus Films is proud to announce a conference organized by the University of Texas Austin in honor of the late professor Elizabeth "BJ" Fernea.

Fernea was a leading scholar, author and filmmaker whose work focused on Women's Issues in the Middle East. Her memoir “Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village” (1965) which detailed her immersion into the lives of the women of Al-Nahra, was a national bestseller.

The conference will take place from October 15 to 17 and is free and open to the public. Click here for more details and a list of speakers, and click here to download the information poster.

For a complete list of Elizabeth Fernea's films distributed by Icarus Films, please click here.

Labels: academic conferences, Elizabeth Fernea, keynotes, Middle East, panel, UT Austin, women issues, women's studies

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Icarus Films screenings at national conferences

OAH - Organization of American Historians
Seattle, WA. March 26th - 28th

MILK IN THE LAND
This documentary traces the history of the national consumption of milk, from the mid-19th century swill cow stables-an urban byproduct of distilleries, when Americans drank more beer than milk-to today's industrialized production of homogenized and pasteurized milk.

WPA - The Western Psychological Association
Portland, OR. April 23rd - 26th

BETWEEN MADNESS AND ART
The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.
HIDDEN GIFTS
The mysterious relationship between artistic expression and mental illness, glimpsed through the story of Scotsman Angus MacPhee, diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1946.
FAT CHANCE
Yuka, almost 200 pounds and fast approaching fifty, decides the time has come to lose weight in hopes of becoming healthier and happier.

Labels: academic conferences, american history, arts, psychology, schizophrenia, US history

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

FAT CHANCE receives an ALA Award

We are pleased to announce that the film FAT CHANCE by Yuka Sekiguchi was awarded the American Library Association Video Round Table's Notable Videos for Adults prize.

When single mom and filmmaker Yuka Sekiguchi, overweight at nearly 200 pounds and fast approaching fifty, determines to lose weight in hopes of becoming healthier and happier, she decides to film her struggle, figuring that public humiliation will be a strong incentive to succeed.

Labels: academic conferences, american library association, awards, body image, fat chance, yuka sekiguchi

Monday, May 05, 2008

FRIF films presented at the National Women's Studies Association conference

The annual NWSA conference will take place from June 19th to 22nd in Cincinnati. 4 films from our catalog will be presented. JUDITH BUTLER, MAMA AWETHU! and DREAMING LHASA will be part of the Film Series screenings on Friday June 20th and OUR HOUSE will be available for individual screenings.

Labels: academic conferences, Africa, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, Tibet, women's studies

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

First Run/Icarus films to be screened at the Organization of American Historians conference

During its 101^st conference taking place in NYC from March 28^th to 31st, the OAH will show 4 films from the FRIF catalog. THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON, THE CAMDEN 28, BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE and THE PRIZE OF THE POLE have all been selected and represent an eclectic range of subjects such as reactions to the Vietnam war, a troupe of Harlem tap dancers and Arctic exploration.

Labels: academic conferences, american history, arctic pole, been rich all my life, camden 28, Chris Marker, harlem, prize of the pole, sixth side of the pentagon, vietnam war

4 FRIF films to be shown at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference

The annual meeting of ASCA will take place in Houston from March 27th to 30th, this year exploring the theme of “Seeking the City: Visionaries on the margins.”

WASTE=FOOD, SHIGERU BAN, THE FUTURE OF MUD and LAGOS/KOOLHAAS will all be presented during the conference.

Labels: academic conferences, architecture, future of mud, lagos/koolhaas, shigeru ban, waste food

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER to be screened at the Society for Photographic Education Conference

The Society for Photographic Education is holding its 45^th national conference from March 13th to 16th in Denver, Colorado. WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, the Academy Award nominated documentary by Christian Frei about American photographer James Nachtwey, will be presented as part of the Film Festival Showcase.

Labels: academic conferences, Christian Frei, film festival, James Nachtwey, photography, screening, war photographer

Thursday, November 29, 2007

First Run / Icarus Films at the AAA's Annual Conference Film Series

The American Anthropological Association's Society of Visual Anthropologists are holding their annual conference from November 28 - December 2, 2007. THE FACE OF EVIL, EVERYTHING'S FINE, INSIDE OUT, CAN'T DO IT IN EUROPE, and JUSTICE AT AGADEZ will all be screened over the course of the conference, with EVERYTHING'S FINE and JUSTICE AT AGADEZ both to receive Awards of Commendation.

Labels: academic conferences, anthropology, awards, cinema studies, news

Thursday, November 15, 2007

FRIF at the Middle East Studies Association Film Festival

The First Run / Icarus Films titles THE DIARIES OF YOSSEF NACHMAN and IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION will play at the MESA 2007 Conference from November 17-20, 2007.

Labels: academic conferences, cinema studies, festival news, Middle East

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Symposium on THE ISTER at Duke

The internationally acclaimed and award-winning film THE ISTER will be shown on Thursday, September 27, in the auditorium of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. A symposium devoted to the film will be held on Friday, September 28, at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies.

Daniel Ross, who, along with his colleague David Barison, made THE ISTER, will be present for the screening of the film and will be the featured speaker at the symposium. Both events are free and open to the public. Members of the community are invited to view this remarkable film and to take part in the discussion of it.

Labels: academic conferences, Danube River, Heidegger, literature

Monday, March 05, 2007

Upcoming Screenings at the AAS Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies is coming up from March 22-25 in Boston. We are pleased to announce that five titles from our catalog will be screening at the conference on Saturday, March 24 in the Brandeis Room (3rd Floor) of the Boston Marriott Copley Place starting at 9 AM. THEY CHOSE CHINA, INSIDE OUT and SHIGERU BAN are scheduled and WANDERING SOULS and ANGRY MONK are available by request for viewing. Download a copy of the full screening schedule from the AAS website.

Labels: academic conferences, asian studies

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Prizes and Screenings at the Upcoming

Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival

We've just been informed that we have six films screening at the SVA Film Festival this November, and that three have won prizes! This festival is part of the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.

LA SIERRA was given the Award of Excellence, the highest honor the SVA bestows on a film. THE DEVIL'S MINER was given an Award of Commendation, while COMPADRE won the Fieldwork Prize, “since the problems it depicts are so like those of many anthropologists in the field, and so rarely discussed.”

Additionally, TO BE SEEN, THE HUMAN HAMBONE and BRULY BOUABRE'S ALPHABET will be honored with screenings at this largest meeting of anthropologists in the world!

Tags: anthropology

Labels: academic conferences, anthropology, awards, cultural anthropology

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Four Recent Release to Screen at
2006 American Sociology Association Convention

We're proud to announce that four acclaimed documentaries will screen at the upcoming annual American Sociology Association Convention in Montreal.

BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER'S CROW is a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World. MADEMOISELLE AND THE DOCTOR is a comprehensive examination of the current international debate about the right to die. TO BE SEEN is a study of visual culture, of urban culture and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. Last, AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards.

Labels: academic conferences, assisted suicide, criminal justice, oil, prisons

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

PROTEUS Wins Prestigious Award
from the American Historical Association

At last month's Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the largest historical society in the United States, PROTEUS: A NINETEENTH CENTURY VISION was awarded the prestigious 2005 John E. O'Connor Film Award for its outstanding interpretation of history through the medium of film.

PROTEUS: A NINETEENTH CENTURY VISION, a multi-layered, animated exploration of the 19th century's fascination with the undersea world, about the intersection of spirituality, art and science, is according to Science Magazine, "A Truly Stunning Film! Lebrun successfully fuses his selection of images and text to bring to life the drama behind this 19th century vision of nature."

Labels: academic conferences, awards, ecology