Rava Films

Lily Cole’s Art Matters

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:33:15 +0000

Last year, RAVA Films collaborated on two of the 6-episode TV Broadcast documentary series entitled “Lily Cole’s Art Matters,” for the UK television broadcast network SKY Arts and produced by back2back productions. The series’ first episode was finally on UK public broadcast this past month. Snippets and excerpts of the doc series coming soon.

Camilo has been selected to participate in the 22nd London Latin American Film Festival

admin — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:23:13 +0000

Camilo has been selected to participate in the 22nd London Latin American Film Festival (LLAFF) which will run from 16th to 25th of November at Bolivar Hall in central London and at other venues across the city.
CAMILO will be screened on: FRIDAY 23 NOV at 7.30 pm at Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way London W1T 5DL
+ info en http://www.latinamericanfilmfestival.com/

Filming in Cairo for smARTpower

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:34:57 +0000

Cairo, Egypt was RAVA’s latest destination. We were there just a few weeks ago filming a short documentary on the Egypt-segment of the smARTpower series. smARTpower, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, sends 15 U.S. artists abroad to work with local artists and young people around the world to create community-based art projects. The initiative, designed to create cross-cultural dialogue and greater understanding through the visual arts, is the subject and theme of RAVA’s biggest non-fiction project so far, a 15-episode short documentary series recounting the experiences and setbacks of the program and the people who participated in it.

The artist-scholar Arturo Lindsay was selected to represent the U.S. in this program and to carry out a contemporary art theory and practice workshop with young Egyptian emerging artists based on the concept of “Bearing Witness” (to the Egyptian revolution.) The workshop culminated in a multi-media exhibition with the works of art of the 15 workshop participants.

Filming in Kenya for smARTpower

admin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:42:34 +0000

Earlier this month, the RAVA crew was in Kenya shooting a documentary film for one of a series of short documentaries about smARTpower, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, that sends 15 U.S. artists abroad to work with local artists and young people around the world to create community-based art projects.

The artist sent to Nairobi, Kenya for a 45 day period was Miguel Luciano miguelluciano.com . His project comprised a large-scale kite project in which up to hundreds of participants from impoverished slum communities in and around Nairobi built handmade kites with life-size photographic self-portraits of themselves. When the kites were flown en masse in a final culminating event at the Ngong Hills at the footsteps of the Rift Valley, the project became a metaphor of freedom as the participants saw images of themselves flying simultaneously in the air above.

Miguel collaborated with several Kenyan artists from the Nairobi-based not-for-profit art organization Kuona Trust, and the Mukuru Slum arts collective and center Wajukuu Art Project, to help target, organize, train and mentor the youths participating in Miguel’s project. These very generous artists, together with Miguel and the participants from the Mukuru community, are the characters of our story.

Currently in post-production, the smARTpower: Miguel Luciano documentary will be released by end of 2012.

Camilo won Best Latino Short Film at 8th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival.

admin — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:01:47 +0000

We are proud to announce that Camilo, our first short film, won Best Latino Short Film at 8th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival.

More info at: http://duotheater.org/film.php

Camilo was selected in 8th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:12:22 +0000

We are proud to announce that Camilo, our first short film, was selected in 8th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival (April 28- May 6, 2012)

Camilo will be screening on Tuesday May 1 , 8pm at

DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts Center

62 East 4th Street

East Village, NYC, USA

Tickets $10 at
SMARTTIX

more info:

Festival Website: http://duotheater.org/film.php

Film Website: www.ravafilms.com/camilo

“New York Close Up” nominated for a Webby Award!

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:25:00 +0000

Art21 | “New York Close Up” nominated for a Webby Award!

We have some exciting news! Our friends at Art21 just informed us this morning that New York Close Up, the online series RAVA Films has collaborated with extensively, has been nominated for Best Documentary Series by the 16th Annual Webby Awards!

This is a huge honor for us and a great accomplishment for our friends at Art21. Please help spread the word about the series by voting for NYCU on the Webby website at http://pv.webbyawards.com/ (under “Online Film & Video/ Documentary: Series”.) You’ll need to sign up in order to vote.

Thank you for your support and we hope to hear from you soon!

RAVA

Screening of Camilo in QWFF

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:50:35 +0000

Camilo was selected in QWFF (Queens World Film Festival 2012) and will be screening at Saturday March 3, 2012 | 2:45 pm | Jackson Heights Cinema Screen #1.

You can buy the tickets in the festival’s website.

Camilo was selected in Gasparilla International Film Festival

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:35:43 +0000

We are proud to announce that Camilo, our first short film, was selected in Gasparilla International Film Festival (TAMPA, FL) . We will give you more details in the coming weeks

more info: www.ravafilms.com/camilo

SCREENING OF CAMILO IN THE NEWFILMMAKERS NY

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:24:56 +0000

Camilo, the first short film of Rafael Salazar is going to be in The NewFilmmakers NY Series screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side
at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street this Wednesday (February 8). Tickets for the whole evening at NewFilmmakers NY are only $6 and are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

+info about the event:
NewLatino Filmmakers Screening Series is the best and only independent Latino “cinematheque” showcase in New York City – now in its 10th year! Docs, shorts & features.
Join our traditional Reception in the lobby and meet the filmmakers and friends.
“Come early, stay late, pay one price.”