Author Archives | Christina Kotlar

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Shall We Kiss?

04/06/2009

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From a woman’s point of view, it can happen. It starts out innocently enough – a chance meeting in Nantes, where Emilie (Julie Gayet) and Gabriel (Michael Cohen) are strangers who connect and become deeply, mutually attracted. They go to dinner, he drives her back to her hotel and forwardly asks for a good night […]

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NYWiFT Panel: Get the Most Out of Film Festivals

04/05/2009

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On Thursday, April 2, the New York Women in Film & Television (NYWiFT) panel Getting the Most Out of a Film Festival – A Guide for Filmmakers started promptly at 6:30 p.m. and I was still on the NJ Transit bus dragging its way up the snaking, snorting conga line into Port Authority. It was […]

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An Indomnitable English Surgeon and Those Bloody Kozaks

04/01/2009

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On Sunday, March 29, I had the good fortune to be at the Second Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Non Fiction Films in New York City. It seemed that just about everyone whose films were shown around in the documentary and major film festivals were here tonight and it really did feel like one big […]

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