Author: Bijan Tehrani

Falcon Theatre has I Ought To Be In Pictures written by Neil Simon and directed by Gregg W. Brevoort on stage now and the show will continue in Falcon theatre until November 11. This classic family tale told with Neil Simon’s signature comedic wit stars Kelly Hare (Franklin & Bash, The New Adventures of Old Christine), Genevieve Joy (Sensing Murder, My HBO Special) and Robert Wuhl (Arli$$, Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl, Batman). It’s 1980 and struggling screenwriter Herbert Tucker suddenly finds his estranged 19-year-old daughter Libby has hitchhiked to Hollywood and landed on his doorstep. After sixteen years…

2012 Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles was a great success, it run for ten days with screening of new films from Polish films including 80 Million, Poland’s Oscar submission and The Mill and the Cross a masterpiece by Lech Majewski.After the festival we had an interview with Vladek Juszkiewicz director and founder of the Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles, looking back at 2012 festival. Bijan Tehrani: Looking back at the 2012 Los Angeles Polish Film Festival, how happy are you with the outcome?Vladek Juszkiewicz: I am happy, the program was very good, people liked it. There was a very nice…

Pusher is based on the edgy and explosive series by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE), PUSHER stars Richard Coyle as a drug dealer who grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.Agyness Deyn that plays the part of the Flo in Pusher, first came to prominence when she featured on the front cover of Italian…

Arnon Goldfinger’s THE FLAT, a meticulously researched and immensely entertaining film that is a remarkable journey through history which gives a truly unique look at the way different generations viewed the Holocaust. At age 98, filmmaker Goldfinger’s grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared for decades since immigrating from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sifting through a dense mountain of photos, letters, files, and objects, Goldfinger begins to uncover clues that seem to point to a greater mystery and soon a complicated family history unfolds before his…

We Will Be Happy is a documentary film about Daniel, a young man from Lipiny – the poorest town in the southern Poland. Daniel wants out of the omnipresent misery. With a mobile phone camera in his hand he wanders round his neighborhood asking kids and grownups questions about their dreams. Are they going to come true, at least, for some? However, in the process of Daniel’s filming there emerges a hidden layer: the love between him and his charismatic grandmother. But will he ever manage to complete his film?We Will Be Happy directed by Pawel Wysoczanski ia part of…

Halloween, a short film by young Polish filmmaker Aleksandra Terpinska, has received Cinema Without Borders’ award for the Best Polish Short Film at the 2012 Polish Film Festival Los Angeles“All the short films at Polish Film Festival, LA were finely crafted and artistic films by young promising filmmakers. After a long deliberation, Cinema Without Borders’ jury picked Halloween, by Aleksandra Terpinska, as the winner of the Best Short Film Award. Halloween bring’s us the journey of a young girl embarking to find her roots and identity on Halloween night. She goes through many dark moments, but finally realizes that comfort…

It’s a cold Colorado evening and I am sitting with my notebook, typing my reports from my visit with HP—a very impressive day, I should say! I have already transferred my video report from my camcorder to the HP EliteBook, and even edited a three-minute piece. The hotel’s terribly slow WiFi reminded me why I should always be using my Verizon MiFi device. After trying to work on the establishment’s snail-paced network, I retrieved the MiFi hotspot. Believe it or not, the download speed was 22 Megabits! This was a spark for celebration (and relaxation), so I pulled up The…

MULBERRY CHILD is based on Jian Ping’s book Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China, the history of her coming-of-age under the brutality of Mao’s repressive Cultural Revolution. Told with the help of never-before-seen film footage inside the Cultural Revolution, MULBERRY CHILD, more than a journal of individual survival and family principles, is a lucid account of a dramatic period in China’s history.Susan Morgan Cooper was inspired to make her first documentary Mirjana… One Girl’s Journey, about a young Croatian girl displaced by The Balkan War. Her last documentary, the award winning An Unlikely Weapon was the story of photographer Eddie…

ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can Americans save their badly broken healthcare system?American healthcare costs are rising so rapidly that they could reach $4.2 trillion annually, roughly 20% of their gross domestic product, within ten years. Americans spend $300 billion a year on pharmaceutical drugs – almost as much as the rest of the world combined.ESCAPE FIRE also presents attainable solutions. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground.…

In The Mill And The Cross, directed by Lech J. Majewski, we witness a translation of Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 epic masterpiece The Procession to Calvary into cinema. Lech J. Majewski mischievously invites the viewer to live inside the aesthetic universe of the painting as we watch its creation. As various lives unfold within the film frame, Bruegel, too, appears as a character—capturing shards of their desperate stories on his canvas-in-the-making. A vibrant meditation on art and religion as ongoing, layered processes of collective storytelling and reinterpretation, The Mill And The Cross is also a feast of stunning visual effects and…