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Gen Art Film Festival
Gen Art is an arts and entertainment organization that showcases emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists. It has produced over 100 events annually, which included fashion shows, film premieres and screenings, live music and art receptions and tours. Gen Art's offices are located in New York City and Los Angeles and since 2014, the company has been headed up by Keri Ingvarsson and a small team of private investors. Previous offices have included San Francisco, Miami and Chicago. On February 21, 2011, Gen Art announced it would return with the 16th Annual Gen Art Film Festival in New York City. Gen Art has since then announced its "Fresh Faces in Fashion Show" during New York Fashion Week 2011, which will feature the designers Ann Yee, ace & jig, Sunghee Bang, Eighteenth, Jennifer Chun, William Okopo, Baron Wells, Collina Strada, Falconiere, Osborn, and Wool and the Gang. History Gen Art began as a non-profit company, called Generational Arts Limited, ...
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Fashion Shows
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing ( styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging. As a multifaceted term, fashion describes an industry, designs, aesthetics, and trends. The term 'fashion' originates from the Latin word 'Facere,' which means 'to make,' and describes the manufacturing, mixing, and wearing of outfits adorned with specific cultural aesthetics, patterns, motifs, shapes, and cuts, allowing people to showcase their group belongings, values, meanings, beliefs, and ways of life. Given the rise in mass production of commodities and clothing at lower prices and global reach, reducing fashion's environmental impact and improving sustainability has become an urgent issue among politicians, brands, and consumers. Definitions ...
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New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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Playing Mona Lisa
''Playing Mona Lisa'' is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Matthew Huffman and starring Alicia Witt, Harvey Fierstein, Johnny Galecki, Elliott Gould, Marlo Thomas, Molly Hagan, and Brooke Langton. It is based on a play by Marni Freedman. Plot Everything goes wrong all at once in gifted 23-year-old pianist Claire Goldstein's life. San Francisco has an earthquake, she loses her apartment, her boyfriend Jeremy dumps her and she misses out on an important piano competition. Claire is forced to move home with her parents (Marlo Thomas, Elliott Gould), where sister Jenine (Molly Hagan) is busy planning a wedding. Claire's mom is into the occult, her teacher (Harvey Fierstein) tries to arrange auditions and friends try to hook her up with a new romantic prospect, Eddie, adding to the complications in her life. Cast Production Development and writing Based on Marni Freedman's play ''Two Goldsteins on Acid''. Filming The film was shot on location in San Francisco in the spring o ...
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Ghazi Albuliwi
Ghazi Albuliwi is a Jordanian-born American actor, best known for his 2013 film ''Peace After Marriage'', which he wrote, acted in, and directed. He also worked on the film ''West Bank Brooklyn''. Early life Ghazi Albuliwi was born in Jordan and moved to Brooklyn as an infant. His mother is from a village near Haifa, Israel. He believed that his family had fled in 1948. He spoke Arabic at home and had friends who were Latino, African-American, and Italian. He started doing stand-up comedy when he was 17. ''Peace After Marriage'' Ghazi Albulwi was inspired to make this film while sitting at a cafe in Jerusalem, trying to make a comedy. When he saw a group of Israelis laughing, he was inspired to do something to change the notions of someone who happens to be Arab. Ghazi stated in an interview for the ''Huffington Post'', "Call me idealistic, but at the moment, sitting near these Israelis, I said to myself, 'Write a movie where they would laugh and forget you were Arab. The f ...
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It's All Gone Pete Tong
''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong who cameos in the film. English singer Gary Haisman was behind the popular clubbing phrase "It’s all gone Pete Tong," which later inspired the title of the film. It won two awards at the US Comedy Arts Festival for Best Feature and Best Actor (Kaye) and swept the Gen Art Film Festival awards (Grand Jury and Audience). It was filmed on location in Ibiza and shot entirely in HD. Ibiza locations used in the movie include the music venues Pacha, Amnesia, Privilege, DC10 and the historic Pike's Hotel and Cala Llonga beach. Plot Frankie Wilde is a British music producer and DJ based in Ibiza. After years of playing in nightclubs he loses his hearing, first apparent when he hears a high-pitched whine during an Arsenal ...
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Christina Voros
Christina Alexandra Voros (born August 18, 1977) is an American cinematographer, director, and producer. She is best known for her work on the Western television series ''Yellowstone'' (2018–2024) and ''1883'' (2021–2022), the latter of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Biography Voros was born to John and Georgina Voros. Her parents were Hungarian refugees who fled during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Voros herself has dual American-Hungarian citizenship. She was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was a fencer in her youth. She studied poetry and theater at Harvard University, and received a graduate degree from Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ... in 2010. She married Jason Owen, a film wrangler, in 20 ...
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Peter And Vandy
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, a Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), a Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather * ''Peter'' (album), a 1972 album by Peter Yarrow * ''Peter'', a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * "Peter", 2024 song by Taylor Swift from '' The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology'' Animals * Peter (Lord's cat), cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chi ...
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Adele Romanski
Adele Marie Romanski (; born November 10, 1982) is an American independent film producer. She is best known for producing the acclaimed films ''Moonlight'', '' Never Rarely Sometimes Always'', and '' Aftersun''. ''Moonlight'' received eight Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, winning Best Picture for Romanski, along with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. Personal life Romanski grew up in Venice, Florida. She graduated from Pine View School in 2001, later graduating from Florida State University in 2004. She attended FSU with director Barry Jenkins. She was married to Academy Award nominated cinematographer James Laxton, who has worked on several of the films she produced. Career In January 2017 it was announced Romanski would be an executive producer on season 2 of '' The Girlfriend Experience''. She produced '' Under the Silver Lake'', which was released in 2018. She was instrumental in instigating Barry Jenkins' sophomore feature, ''Moonlight'', including gett ...
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Jonah Ansell
Jonah the son of Amittai or Jonas ( , ) is a Jews, Jewish prophet from Gath-hepher in the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE according to the Hebrew Bible. He is the central figure of the Book of Jonah, one of the minor prophets, which details his reluctance in delivering the judgment of God to the city of Nineveh (near present-day Mosul) in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. After he is swallowed by a large sea creature () and then released, he returns to the divine mission. In Judaism, the story of Jonah represents the teaching of repentance in Judaism, the ability to repent to God in Judaism, God for forgiveness. In the New Testament of Christianity, Jesus calls himself "greater than Jonah" and promises the Pharisees "the sign of Jonah" when referring to Resurrection of Jesus, his resurrection. Early Christian interpreters viewed Jonah as a Typology (theology), ''type'' of Jesus. Jonah in Islam is regarded as a Prophets and messengers in ...
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Emoticon ;)
''Emoticon ;)'' is a 2014 film directed, co-written and starring Livia De Paolis. Plot A woman and her boyfriend's children become guides in each other's relationships. References External links * 2014 films 2014 drama films 2010s English-language films American drama films {{2010s-US-drama-film-stub ...
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Venture Capitalists
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for Equity (finance), equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing start-ups in the hopes that some of the companies they support will become successful. Because Startup company, startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. Start-ups are usually based on an innovation, innovative technology or business model and often come from high technology industries such as information technology (IT) or biotechnology. Pre-seed and seed money, seed rounds are the initial stages of funding for a startup company, typically occurring earl ...
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