#16 - JRL 8014
From: Dimitri Klimentov <dklimentov@msn.com>
Subject: New York's 2nd Annual Red Shift Festival
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004

Media advisory
2nd Annual Red Shift Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival to open in New York on Wednesday, January 14.

New York, January 13. New York's 2nd Annual Red Shift Festival, will take place on January 14 and 15, 2004 at the venerable East Village Anthology Film Archives, a showcase for independent and avant-garde films.

From short films to silent epics, from gritty documentaries to spectacularly crafted animation, Hi-8 video to 35mm film, Red Shift Festival champions work in all moving image formats and a full range of subject matter and innovative programming.

The First Red Shift Festival played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews living up to it's mission of discovering and promoting emerging independent filmmakers and drawing worldwide attention to Russian immigrant culture in the West, particularly thriving in New York.

This year's program includes films by Slava Tsukerman, Marina Goldovskay, Yuriy Gavrilenko and Dmitry Rozin, Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Dmitry Povolotsky and Mihalis Gripiotis, Alexander Shnurov and Victor Olenev, Maria Vasilkovsky, Yevgeniy Fiks, Signe Baumane, Yuri Makoveychuk, Mirek Nisenbaum and Sabina Hahn, Michael Shraga, Sergei Aniskov, Masha Reshetnikov, Nataliya Lyakh, Alexandra Lerman and Darya Belova, Olga Kisseleva, Darya Zhuk, Irina Danilova and Aliona Yurtsevich.

The two-day festival opens at 8pm at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street, New York

Members of the press wishing to attend should carry media credentials.

Updates and full details on the Festival, including schedule, program, filmmakers' bios are posted on the Festival's website at: http://www.rsfest.com

Contacts:

Yuri Gavrilenko
Festival Director
(917) 907-4425