What Happen to Jiffest 2011?

Now is already October, which means, there is so many Film Festival around; Q Film Festival, iNAFFF, OK Video Fest, Europe on Screen and some more. In Jakarta, one of the biggest Film Festival is Jiffest, which is held every year on the Q4. For this year, Jiffest was previously planned to run on 14-24 October 2011. According to the press release on last year's Jiffest, they got a huge donation to save Jiffest 2010 and also 2011. Now, the date is very close, but there still no news on Jiffest. There is no website at all, no further clarification and announcement on its Twitter account. 

Korean Cultural Week 2011

Nah, I'll continue with a Korea cultural event, which will be held from 28 September-3 October at Gandaria City. It is called "Korean Cultural Week". This event is purrfect since they offer both modern and traditional culture of Korea.

The event consists of: 

Let's watch Elizabeth Taylor!

For July, Bentara Budaya Jakarta continues its monthly screening with theme "Elizabeth Taylor movies". So, of course we can see some of her golden movies at BBJ. Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful actress in Hollywood at her age. Her beauty and fame was legendary and she has had title as "Husband grabbers". In fact, she has been married and divorced for 8 times. Her acting is not so prominent, yet she has been awarded with 2 Oscar as the Best Actress. Besides all the excellencies, the world knows her well for her care in AIDS. She founded American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) which becomes the biggest donator for AIDS Research in the world.

Liz Taylor parent is American, but she was born in London on February 17th 1932. She was recognized when she is 7 years old by a family relative. Universal Pictures was astonished to see her and she got a contract for a movie, continued with a contract with MGM. On 1944, she got her first debut as the main actress through National Velvet. This movie was a big success and brought her name into international recognition. 

She was died on the March 23rd 2011. In order to remember Liz Taylor and her journey, BBJ will present six of her movies. 

 

BBJ Movie Screening: Nia Dinata

Bentara Budaya Jakarta is now come back with their monthly movie screening. This time the movie screened are those directed by Nia Dinata. From 24-25 June, they will screen 4 of her movies, one of them, "Perempuan Punya Cerita"  is a collection of short movies from Nia Dinata and three other directors. The other movies are "Ca Bau Kan", "Arisan!" and "Berbagi Suami".

The screening schedule : (NB: it is FREE and open for public)

Friday, June 24th 2011:

17.00: Ca Bau Kan

19.00: Movie Discussion with Nia Dinata

20.00: Arisan!

Saturday, June 25th 2011:

17.00: Berbagi Suami

19.00: Perempuan Punya Cerita

More about Nia Dinata and her movies:

Movie Screening with Movies Explorer Club

Movie Explorer Club is a film based community that cover all movie lovers, movie goers and movie makers. Now they invite you, together watch "Lukisan Keabadian" movie at Rumah Komunitas 3F. This movie is about love story between a painter and a mute girl, till death do them part. Due to the mute character, this movie offers not much dialogue, you can understand the movie through the scenes.

After the screening, you can also attend a discussion with this movie Director Rozi MF, titled: Making Film is Easy.

These event will be held at June 8th 2011, starting from 18.00-done.

Location: Rumah Komunitas 3F

Jl. Panglima Polim V/20, South Jakarta

(Near All Fresh / 711 / in front of Ayam Bakar Ganthari)

CP: Bayu (0817-12815)

HTM: FREE

Source: Nobar

More about Movie Explorer Club: @MoviesExplorer