Another last minute selection for “Dignity” that is nominated again! I am SO happy!
At the end of march we will se how it goes for it at the Belgian Moving Pictures Film Festival of Kalmthout!
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“Dignity” competing at the Female Filmmakers Audience Awards
Despite the fact that Dignity has already been competing for over one year and a half, it still happens that it is selected for a festival!
This time is the Audience Awards, and if you would like to vote for it, you can scroll down and find it on this page, thank you!
March 8, 2017 – Watch your tongue: that bitch ain’t dirty.
Sitting in the row in front of me a handsome man in his forties. Fingers tattooed with black letters, silver rings on each, bracelets and dark earrings, leather wrist band, clear blue eyes under golden lashes, hair shaved at the sides and a long ponytail of blond and curly hair that almost reaches his butt, short boots, black jeans and a gray jacket with a dark shirt underneath. And a clerical collar. His name is Markus, he is a street priest: his assigned parish is the streets, at night, and his mission is to help the underprivileged and the exploited. Especially prostitutes. In Sweden, the Protestant Church often works like this, hands on in the dirt, like Christ with the lepers.
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Who’s Afraid of Sweden?
Sweden has recently been in the news after Donald Trump referred to as fact a Fox News report based on the statements of a certain Nils Bildt, a Swedish mythomaniac who passed off as news the usual anti-immigration and anti-Islam propaganda spread by the “Sverigedemokraterna” (Swedish Democrats) party, a nationalist-inspired political faction founded by some neo-Nazi groups.
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to reply by publishing a significant and exhaustive press release in English, “Facts about migration and crime in Sweden,” which demolishes some of the most widespread false opinions/news currently circulating, based on facts and statistics extracted through official channels, primarily Police Force data.
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“Midsommar” at the UK Screen One Film Festival!
You know this by now: for many reasons, I hold this short film very very close to my heart. This is why I still send it to some selected festivals, like the UK Screen One film Festival. And I am really elated when is goes to a final like in this case!
Video invitation to “Dignity” screening!
Anyone in Newark for the Women in Media film festival on April 6? 🙂
If you are, check out my video invitation for the screening of my film “Dignity”!
… and “Cowboy Song” is selected again!!
Well well, life is really funny sometimes! All of a sudden, in the span of only one week, right when the Daniel Karlsson Trio is in Italy for a tour that I have organized, the “Cowboy Song” video is selected for the thrid time!!
This so just sooo amusing! Let’s hope it goes well at the Sochi Film Festival in Russia!
New selection for “Cowboy Song”!
This is a real funny coincidence! Right when I am managing a tour all over Italy for the Daniel Karlsson Trio, the first video I made for the band three years ago gets selected for two festival within a few days!
This time it is the turn of the World Wide Virtual Film Festival!
“Midsommar” at the Fincortex!
I am always very glad when “Midsommar” gets selected to a festival, especially when its profile is a bit beyond the usual stereotypes, as in the case of the Fincortex – Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes Experimentales.
Italian Tour for Daniel Karlsson Trio!
If you wonder what I am up to any time I am neither busy with my films or writing, this is the answer: I am promoting the greatest jazz band in the world, the Daniel Karlsson Trio!
Unofficially from tonight in Brescia, and very officially from tomorrow in Naples, they are touring all over Italy, with gigs I organized in the best clubs available, yay!!!