Elvis Mitchell
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OFF PLUS CAMERA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA
Ambitious and generally without a dull moment, the fourth Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema unfurled from the 8th through the 17th of this month with little of the inconvenience and national tragedy that marked last year’s affair. Having been interrupted by the volcanic explosion that grounded planes across Europe last April and shortened by the tragic plane crash which killed an entire generation of Polish political and civic leaders, the third edition was a ragtag affair with few guests and an anarchic spirit that few festivals are able to generate. This year the festival was running at […]
by Brandon Harris on Apr 26, 2011 -
ELVIS MITCHELL TO HOST GOTHAMS ANNOUNCEMENT
Critic Elvis Mitchell will be livestreaming the 2010 Gotham Award nominations Monday, October 18th. Tune in and hear all the nominations, including the five films we picked for the Filmmaker-sponsored “Best Film Playing at a Theater Near You Award. More details from the press release: Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations will be announced at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. / PT to a global audience on UStream TV at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gotham-independent-film-awards-2010 There will also be a link from IFP’s website. Mitchell, currently host of the public radio show The Treatment, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 15, 2010 -
ELVIS RETURNS
Richard Prince (the Washington Post writer and editor of the Black College Review, not the novelist/screenwriter) reports in his column called “Journal-isms” for the Maynard Institute that former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell has returned to journalism it was reported that he had accepted a development job at Columbia Pictures. Apparently, the Columbia gig, which interested every young indie director he had given a good review to, never fully panned out. From the piece: Elvis Mitchell returned to National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” this month for the first time in a year, since it was announced that […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 28, 2006
