Lighthouse International Film Festival . June 4 . 5 . 6 . 2010 . LBI . Long Beach Island

Excitement is beginning to build as more and more pieces of this year’s Lighthouse International Film Festival are falling in to place.

Excitement is beginning to build as more and more pieces of this year’s Lighthouse International Film Festival are falling in to place.
. The charismatic Gianni Di Gregorio (co-scenarist of the smash hit Gomorrah), stars in his directorial debut “Mid-August Lunch”—a charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. Broke, and armed with only a glass of wine and a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni resides with his 93-year-old [...]
The Black Maria Festival is an Academy Award qualifying festival of independent and experimental film and video works of varying lengths. The collection consists of 50 of the finest works selected in a juried competition from approximately 1000 international entries. The program at Monmouth features about 2 hours of shorter pieces across genres, including documentary, [...]
Sunday night, March 28, 2010: The 8th Annual Garden State Film Festival came to a close tonight as the winners were chosen and awards were presented at a festival gala and closing ceremony. Below, you’ll find a list of the winners in each category. The producers and sponsors of the Garden State Film Festival would like to thank all who participated [...]
“From The Ashes” is a documentary chronicling the history, loss and rebuilding of a landmark, 125-year-old house known as Tick Hall. In 1997, a huge fire burned Tick Hall to the ground, leaving only the blackened chimney standing. The loss was a blow to the community and Tick Hall’s owners – talk-show host Dick Cavett [...]
The Showroom, Asbury Park’s only independent cinema, will partner with Cookman Ave. bookstore words! and the online literary magazine SplashofRed.net Sunday, March 14 to continue their popular BookFLX series. The next event in the lineup will bring acclaimed crime novelist Wallace Stroby to The ShowRoom to discuss his latest book, “Gone ‘Til November.” The ShowRoom [...]
From the director: ”RED”, an independent film will screen at the Garden State Film Festival on Saturday March 27th at 4pm in Asbury Park, NJ. It is set in the Cold War era of the 1950′s. Floyd Woods is flown into the small town of Sherrill, NY to investigate a life insurance claim, only to find himself distracted [...]
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, “Sweetgrass” follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. [...]
Nominated for Best Writing at this year’s Academy Awards, “In the Loop” follows The US President and UK Prime Minister as they fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller (James Gandolfini) doesn’t think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, [...]
The ShowRoom, as one of only two venues in New Jersey to be showing this collection of films, is screening this year’s nominees for Best Animated and Best Live-Action Short for a limited time only. See show times below. For more information on the shorts please visit www.theshowroomap.com and http://www.shortshd.com/theoscarshorts/. Show Times: Live Action- Thursday, [...]