Win Big with Tribeca Film Festival Virtual! 

This year, movie lovers anywhere and everywhere across the US have a chance to experience the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) without ever having to leave home through Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (TFF Virtual).  From April 23 – 30, you can watch eight full-length 2010 TFF films, eighteen 2010 TFF short films, conversations with filmmakers and actors, live panels, Q &A’s, and red carpet action as they happen and on demand all on a brand new high definition video player. 

As a TFFV Premium Passholder, you will also have access to an eclectic collection of TFF 2010 short films, exclusive access to live coverage of star-studded red-carpet premieres, behind the scenes interviews with leading filmmakers and established and up-and-coming actors and insider panels. In addition, you will have the opportunity to interact with fellow TFF Virtual Festival-goers via online chats and live Q&As with the TFFV filmmakers so you can attend the Festival with all of your friends no matter where they live in the US!!! 

Become a fan on Facebook for a chance to be daily winner of a TFF Virtual pass!  

Enter to win a Tribeca Film Festival Virtual prize pack! Post your name and Screenhead will pick the winner Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Prizes courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival. 

–             Tribeca Film Festival Swag Bag

–             Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Pass

I am happy to announce the newest film by Banksy, the world famous street artist, Exit Through The Gift Shop coming to theaters April 16, 2010.

The movie’s story fascinates me as a film lover because Bansky fiercely guards his anonymity to avoid prosecution. So he has resisted all attempts to be captured on film. 

Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy.  Alas! The artist turns the camera back on its owner – with spectacular results.

It’s easy to generalize lobbyists because their jobs are hard to define in simple terms. But when you come across a crooked one like Jack Abramoff, it doesn’t make it any easier to understand what lobbyists do. 

Alex Gibney tackles a crooked lobbyist in the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money.  The trailer doesn’t simplify the profession, but seems makes it worse. The movie premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with favorable reviews and will arrive in movie theaters May 7, 2010 as a limited release.

Screenhead has 10 copies of I’m No Dummy documentary to give away.

This whimsical and insightful documentary about ventriloquism examines and dissects the world of “venting”, illustrating that this perceived novelty act is truly an extraordinary art form. Featuring veteran ventriloquists, Tony Award winner Jay Johnson of sitcomSOAP fame, two- time Comedian of the Year Jeff Dunham, Campus Entertainer of the Year Lynn Trefzger, and highly regarded vent historian Tom Ladshaw, the film allows a rare glimpse into the humorous delight and creative invention involved in how ventriloquists do what they do. The skill and influence of legendary ventriloquists Edgar Bergen, Jimmy Nelson, Senor Wences and Paul Winchell are also showcased. It harkens back to a simpler time, at least technologically. A time when the only way something inanimate could speak was through a human voice and not a computer chip, and brings to light that everyone has an inner puppet.

Post your name to enter the I’m No Dummy giveaway. We will pick the winners Monday,  April 19, 2010.

Screenhead latest giveaway is The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt. 

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restrain enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” 

The youngest president in our nation’s history, who brought an unprecedented excitement and power to the office, Theodore Roosevelt’s unique accomplishments are celebrated in The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt, charging onto DVD April 13 from Infinity Entertainment Group. 

The life of America’s 26th president makes any fiction pale by comparison.  His was the life of a magnificent maverick—a man of enormous popularity and legendary achievements. 

From the sidewalks of New York to the frontiers of Dakota, from the Spanish-American War to World War I, to his dynamic years in the White House, Roosevelt saw it all. Larger than life, Teddy was a true American hero who changed the country as have few other leaders.

Directed by Harrison Engle and narrated by the late George C. Scott, The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt is a unique, dramatic documentary, combining remarkable film footage of great historical events, meticulous re-creations and the stirring music of John Philip Sousa – also included on a special 31-track CD, Sophisticated Sousa –  to create a spectacular visual and musical experience. 

Screenhead has two copies of The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt to give away. Post your name and we will pick the winner Saturday, April 18, 2010.

Sometimes it takes a lie to expose the truth. This gut busting wake-up call follows two gonzo political activists from New Orleans to NYC to India as they pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks.  Beware, Corporate America: The Yes Men are here. The Yes Men Fix the World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to standing ovations, followed by a successful theatrical release and broadcast premiere on HBO.  From Docurama Films, The Yes Men Fix the World can be brought home on DVD. 
 
Enter the giveaway by posting your name and Screenhead will pick the winner Tuesday, April 13, 2010.

(1) Official “THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD” DVD
(1) Faux Edition of “The New York Post” - Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men
(1) Exclusive Mini Comic Book – Based on “THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD

- Winner must be in the US

We have our winners: Michele P. (10), Deb K. (100), Melissa P.  (105) and Lily Kwan (165).

The winners can prepare to encounter wild animals at large – really large – in three exciting adventures in Smithsonian Networks Wildlife Collection. Get up close and personal with three of the biggest, most mysterious creatures on earth: the Anaconda, the Giant Panda and the Blue Whale.  Smithsonian Networks is pleased to bring these unique and mesmerizing documentaries together for the first time in a single collection.

What an ideal DVD set for the whole family or for someone who just can’t get enough of the wildlife. My daughter loves these documentaries; she learns so much in such a little amount of time.

Capitalism: A Love Story | Giveaway! 

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone says Capitalism: A Love Story is “fireball of a movie that might change your life.” 

Moore “skewers both major political parties,” say Claudia Puig of USA Today, for selling out the millions of people devastated by loss of homes and jobs to the interests of fat cat capitalists.

Moore has “dug up some astonishing dirt,” says Brian D. Johnson of Macleans, stories told in the faces of the foreclosed and evicted, in the food stamps received by hungry airline pilots, and in the courage of fired factory workers who refuse to go quietly. 

But more than a cry of despair, Moore’s film raises the possibility of hope. Capitalism: A Love Story is “The most American of films since the populist cinema of Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life),” says Dan Siegel of Huffington Post. 

 “A movie that manages shrewdly, even brilliantly, to capitalize on the populist anger that has been sweeping the nation” Joe Morgenstern of Wall Street Journal. 

Capitalism: The Love Story hits the streets tomorrow, March 9, 2010. It’s a movie every citizen will want to see.

The winners of the two prizes are  Falon (91) wins First Prize is (1) Capitalism: A Love Story DVD and (1) Baseball Cap – Signed by Michael Moore; and Carol (06) wins Second Prize is (1) Capitalism: A Love Story DVD and (1) Official Mini-Theatrical Poster – Signed by Michael Moore

- Winner must be in the US and have a non PO Box shipping address

- Winner must be claimed within 14 days of contest launch

It looks like a breath-taking ride at you local IMAX theater. The trailer is playing before Avatar in 3D.  Guess who narrates the movie?

I don’t really follow who wins the Best Documentary Short, but last night’s presentation created a lot of drama to put documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams into an unexpected spotlight.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the spotlight that he probably deserved. During Williams’ acceptance speech for Music by Prudence, Elinore Burkett came on stage pushed him away. Elinore Burkett was a producer of the now award-winning documentary, with an emphasis on was.

In fact, she had creative differences with Williams, which they were able to settle out of court. By settling, I mean she left the picture and her name doesn’t even appear on the credits.

Yet there she was, on stage, “pulling a Kayne” on Williams, as the director stated in a later interview.

I believe that I complimented Sandra Bullock in an earlier article for how she kept a great face in receiving a Razzie just before she won an Oscar. However, what Elinor Burkett did is just appalling.

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