LOOKING FOR AN ICON was the recipient of the Award for Best Educational Film, while EILEEN GRAY received the Best Portrait Award.

The 10-day International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) was created in 1981 and has been striving ever since to increase public awareness and appreciation of the arts by promoting works by film, television and video artists and professionals.

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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.

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The Peter Blum Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of photography by Chris Marker: Staring Back. The exhibit is almost 200 photographs taken over the course of six decades by the enigmatic and influential French filmmaker. This show, organized by Bill Horrigan at the Wexner Center for the Arts, is the first exhibition of Marker's photographs, and consists of images selected by the artist himself from his own archive, including black-and-white portraits of individuals that Marker has encountered during the course of his world travels.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will present a selection of Chris Marker films, including THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT, on October 4, 11 and 18 at 7pm in their Chelsea gallery location.

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Tickets are available now for the upcoming limited engagement of LOOKING FOR AN ICON screening with THE DAY YOU'LL LOVE ME (El Dia Que Me Quieras). Both films examine the significance, from historical to emotional, behind iconic photographs of the last century. CBC News said of ICON, "Much more than the story of four photographs... It is also an exploration of the meaning and importance of photojournalism itself." The two-week run begins on May 9 at New York City's Film Forum.

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After its successful runs in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the acclaimed film EXCELLENT CADAVERS opens at the Roxie Cinema this Friday, November 3. Based on the book by Italian-American author Alexander Stille and featuring the photos of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, EXCELLENT CADAVERS chronicles the recent history of the Mafia and its integral—and seemingly ineradicable—relationship to postwar Italian politics.

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