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October 12, 2007 |
Issue # 47 |
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Married to the Movies
The Husband and Wife Behind the Fort Lauderdale
International Film Festival
By Jan Engoren
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Gregory von Hausch and Bonnie Leigh
Adams, the married couple behind the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival |
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How many films have you seen this year? Gregory von Hausch
estimates that he’s seen about 1,200. As festival director for the past 19
years, it is part of von Hausch’s job to watch films and select them for the
Fort Lauderdale International
Film Festival (FLIFF).
In order to do that, von Hausch, along with his wife,
Bonnie Leigh Adams, senior program director for FLIFF, travel the world to the
top international film festivals including those in Cannes, Montreal and New
York to watch and select the films to show at FLIFF. In a typical year, von
Hausch and Adams attend up to five festivals, all to ensure that South Florida
movie lovers have great films to choose from at FLIFF.
For this year’s edition of FLIFF, von Hausch and Adams both
agree there are many highlights. This year’s festival will showcase 185 films,
98 premieres, 14 world premieres, and films from 26 different countries. |
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Jazz And Blues, Then and Now
James Blood Ulmer Returns to
Miami Beach
After 20 Years
By John Kramel
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Jazz and blues musician James Blood
Ulmer will play Miami Beach after a 20 year absence
Photo: Bill Douthar |
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The last time musical legend James Blood
Ulmer played South Florida was all the way back in 1988
at the Cameo Theater on Miami Beach. On Saturday,
October 20 Ulmer, heading up a new trio, will bring his
unique fusion of jazz and the blues to the Colony
Theatre on Lincoln Road. These venues are just blocks
apart, but in the two decades separating the gigs
Ulmer's music has never stopped developing and changing,
much as Miami Beach and South Florida itself keeps
evolving.
The most notable transformation
this time around for Ulmer is that he is playing with a
trio.
“[This group of musicians has] only
played together as a trio at the Bonnaroo Festival this
past June,“ says Ulmer. “This was the first time in a
long time I had played in a trio. It's great, because it
allows me to play the guitar, and that's what I like to
do.” |
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Hot Shot
A Miami man
meets a Broadway legend |
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