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August 6, 2012
Press Release

Albuquerque Film Festival’s Near Death Experience Inspires This Year’s “Aliens & Outlaws” Themed Program

by Ashley Fontaine
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August 2, 2012
New Mexico Business Weekly 

Albuquerque Film Festival returns to KiMo Theatre

by Damon Scott
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May 14, 2012
KRQE News via YouTube

National scam hits ABQ non-profit

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June 8, 2012
KRQE News 

Stan Lee film boosts ailing festival

by Celina Westervelt

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  June 1, 2012
New Mexico Business Weekly 

ABQ Film Festival will go on despite $$ theft

by Megan Kamerick

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May 15, 2012
KRQE News 

Nonprofits hit as host company vanishes

by Celina Westervelt

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May 14th, 2012
Los Angeles Times 

FBI probes disappearance of nonprofits’ money

by Jeff Gottlieb

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August 15, 2011
DailyLobo.comProducer’s goal: SXSW in ABQ
by Alexandra Swanberg
Click to read article.Indie fest shuns Hollywood
by Alexandra Swanberg
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August 14, 2011
ABQ Journal Rocker Films Story Of His Life
By Adrian Gomez
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August 12, 2011
New Mexico Business WeeklyAlbuquerque Film Fest preps for third year
by Megan Kamerick
Click to read article.Q&A with Albuquerque Film Festival honoree Haskell Wexler
by Megan Kamerick
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June 29, 2011
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
AFF Alums Steve Gaydos and Mark Fergus Cover Features
Authoring For Auteurs (or How I Became An Abysmal Writer) by Steven Gaydos (Screenwriter for Monte Hellman’s Road To Nowhere)
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Cowboys & Aliens Covering New Mexico Territory with Mark Fergus
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June 29, 2011
EBERT PRESENTS “AT THE MOVIES”
Road To Nowhere Two Thumbs Up


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June 29, 2011
FESTIVAL ALUM “Fanny, Annie and Danny”
awarded BEST DRAMA, BEST ACTRESS (Jill Pixley), and BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Colette Keen)
last weekend at the Breckenridge Festival of Film


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June 6, 2011
KASA FOX TV Channel 2:
New Mexico Style

Albuquerque Film Festival Kick-Off Event
Rich Henrich, also the Founder and Director of “Film 4 Change” and the Albuquerque Film Festival, and Andrew Connors, Curator of Art at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, talk about the Film Festival and the benefit of Arts in the community. They share details about the upcoming festival in August, as well as the Kickoff this Tuesday night which will feature the film “The Cool School” at the KIMO Theater with special guests, including Dean Stockwell.

June 3, 2011
Local IQ: Nowhere to Hide
Legendary filmmaker Monte Hellman unveils latest work


By Jeff Berg
Monte Hellman’s film career began in 1959, when he directed the low-budget horror film,The Beast from Haunted Cave. He has hopscotched all over the filmmaking map in his long career, with his latest feature, Road to Nowhere, arriving in Albuquerque this month. Click for full story

June 2, 2011
The Alibi: Reel World
KiMo shows beatnik doc The Cool School


By Devin D. O’Leary
The Albuquerque Film Festival is scheduled to return Aug. 18 through 21. Organizers are gearing up, though, with a special Summer Kick-Off event. Click for full story

May 31, 2011
Save the dates:
Albuquerque Film Festival flies again
By Michael L. MillerAs we head into summer, we wanted to give readers a sneak preview of what’s becoming the biggest and brightest film festival in Albuquerque.
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May 17, 2011
1759 Guinness.com
Albuquerque Film Festival Kicks-Off Summer with Cool School Screening
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May 17, 2011
VIMooZ.com
2011 Albuquerque Film Festival to open with ‘Amigo’ Amigo, written and directed by John Sayles and starring Chris Cooper has been announced as the opening night film of the 3rd Albuquerque Film Festival scheduled for August 18st – 21st, 2011. Click for full story

May 17, 2011
2011 Albuquerque Film Festival Kicks-Off Summer with Screening of The Cool School
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May 14, 2011
Monte Hellman’s long and winding road
The cult filmmaker’s ‘Road to Nowhere’ is his first movie after a two-decade gap.

By Kevin Thomas
Monte Hellman, the most idiosyncratic of the talented filmmakers mentored by producer Roger Corman in the ’60s and ’70s, is drawing raves for his latest film, “Road to Nowhere,” an intense, romantic movie-within-a movie. Click for full story
 
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