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West Bank Story
''West Bank Story'' is a 2005 American musical comedy short film directed by Ari Sandel, co-written by Sandel and Kim Ray, produced by Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ashley Jordan, Ravi Malhotra, Bill Boland, and featuring choreography by Ramon Del Barrio. The film is a parody of the classic 1961 musical film '' West Side Story'', which in turn is an adaptation of ''Romeo and Juliet''. The film follows the rivalry between falafel restaurants, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, respectively named the "Kosher King" and the "Hummus Hut," and the romance between the latter's cashier and an Israeli soldier in the West Bank. The film stars Ben Newmark as the IDF soldier, Noureen DeWulf as the Palestinian cashier, A.J. Tannen as the Israeli restaurant owner, and Joey Naber as his Palestinian rival. Filmed on a Santa Clarita, California ranch,The ''Haaretz'' (Feb. 2007)Musical comedy on West Bank wins Oscar for best live action short film/ref> the short premiered at the 2005 Sundanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ari Sandel
Ari Devon Sandel (born September 5, 1974) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the short film '' West Bank Story'' (2005), which won the 2006 Academy Award in the category Best Live Action Short Film. Life and career Sandel was born and raised in Calabasas, California, the son of Kathy (Hale) and Dan Sandel. His father is Israeli and his mother is American. He is Jewish. He studied Media Arts at the University of Arizona in Tucson where he also received a special certificate in Middle Eastern Studies. He went on to earn his Directing MFA from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema–Television. ''West Bank Story'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has screened at over one hundred fifty film festivals worldwide, winning prizes from 30. Sandel also directed a 2006 documentary, '' Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland'', which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2015, Sandel's feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry. The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929. The 2nd Academy Awards, second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 25th Academy Awards, 1953 ceremony was the first one televised. It is the oldest of the EGOT, four major annual American entertainment awards. Its counterparts—the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Musical Comedy Films
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2005 Short Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2005 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events Awards 2005 films By country/region * List of American films of 2005 * List of Argentine films of 2005 * List of Australian films of 2005 * List of Bangladeshi films of 2005 * List of Brazilian films of 2005 * List of British films of 2005 * List of Chinese films of 2005 * List of Canadian films of 2005 * List of Dutch films of 2005 * List of French films of 2005 * List of German films of the 2000s * List of Hong Kong films of 2005 * List of Indian films of 2005 ** List of Bengali films of 2005 ** List of Bollywood films of 2005 ** List of Kannada films of 2005 ** List of Malayalam films of 2005 ** List of Tamil films of 2005 ** List of Telugu films of 2005 * List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN International
Cable News Network International or CNN International (CNNi, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel and website, owned by CNN Worldwide. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and international news bureaus. Unlike its sister channel, CNN, a North American-only subscription service, CNN International is carried on a variety of TV platforms across the world, and broadcast from studios inside and outside the United States, in Atlanta, New York City, London, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Abu Dhabi. In some countries, it is available as a free-to-air network. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC News (international TV channel), BBC News, France 24, CGTN (TV channel), CGTN, Deutsche Welle, DW, RT (TV network), RT, DD India, NHK World-Japan, NHK World, TRT World or Al Jazeera English. History Early years CNN International began broadcasting on September 1, 1985, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Films Of 2005 ...
This is a list of American films released in 2005. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 2005, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: January–March April–June July–September October–December See also * List of 2005 box office number-one films in the United States * 2005 in the United States References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 2005 Films Lists of 2005 films by country 2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stony Brook Film Festival
The Stony Brook Film Festival, presented by Island Federal Credit Union and produced by Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, presents a program of new, independent films every summer since 1995. Features and short films from the U.S. and around the world are screened over ten days at Staller Center, which has been the venue since the festival's beginning. The festival is the brain child of the Staller Center's current director Alan Inkles. The festival continues to gain momentum and has gathered a faithful following, drawing a crowd of over 15,000 people. History The annual Stony Brook Film Festival presents ten evenings of features, shorts and documentaries every July at Staller Center for the Arts. Stony Brook seeks fresh and inventive stories, intense character studies, impeccable direction and the highest production values in Independent Cinema. The Stony Brook Film Festival is a sought-after venue for filmmakers, sales agents, and distributors from around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indianapolis International Film Festival
Indy Film Fest, formerly known as the Indianapolis International Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Indianapolis, United States. The festival champions films that entertain, challenge, and expand perspectives in Indianapolis and beyond. Its inaugural edition took place in 2004, featuring Lars von Trier's ''Dogville'' as the closing film. Awards 2025 Awards Winners: * ''Midwinter'' - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film * ''Lena and Vladimir'' - World Cinema, Best Feature Film * ''Papercuts: My Life as an Indie Animator'' - Best Documentary Feature * ''Never Not Yours'' - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature 2024 Awards Winners: * ''No Right Way'' - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film * ''No Right Way'' - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film * ''L'incidente'' - World Cinema, Best Feature Film * ''Film is Dead. Long Live Film!'' - Best Documentary Feature * ''The Girl in The Yellow Scarf'' - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature * '' Darla in Space'' - Audience A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Live Action Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, ''Best Short Subject, One-reel'' and ''Best Short Subject, Two-reel'', referring to the running time of eligible short films: a standard reel of 35 mm film is 1000 feet, or about 11 minutes of run time. A third category "Best Short Subject, color" was used only for 1936 and 1937. From the initiation of short subject awards for 1932 until 1935 the terms were "Best Short Subject, comedy" and "Best Short Subject, novelty". These categories were merged starting with the 1957 awards, under the name "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects", which was used until 1970. For the next three years after that, it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films". The current name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. Current Academy rules cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somewhere (song)
"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical ''West Side Story'' that was made into films in 1961 and 2021. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. In a 1998 interview for a documentary on Bernstein, Sondheim expressed dissatisfaction with his lyrics for the song, going so far as to call them "embarrassing". He stated that he did not like the fact that in the opening line, the stressed note falls on the word "a" - in his view, the least significant word. In West Side Story Stage musical In the stage musical, the song appears in the second act of the show during the Somewhere Ballet. It is performed by an off-stage soprano singer and is later reprised by the entire company. In the original Broadway production, "Somewhere" was sung by Reri Grist who played the role of Consuelo. At the end of the show, when Tony is shot, Maria sings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
