Team captains and top fundraisers for the Ride for Roswell have announced plans for the 12th annual Ride, and to invite corporations, churches, community organizations and individuals to get involved this year as riders and volunteers. Individuals of any age are encouraged to register, or to form teams of at least four members. Tips and tools are provided to make fundraising easy, including customizable Web pages, prewritten postcards, letters and support materials. “We’re looking for a combination of 4,200 riders and volunteers, including 100 new teams, to help us raise over $1 million for Roswell Park,” said John Hannon, Ride…
Author: Joseph DiDomizio
Skip the flowers this Mothers Day and honor your mother with a donation that helps women in Western New York. The WNY Woman’s Fund is once again offering a Mother’s Day card or set of five blank note cards for a $10 donation. The 2007 card features yellow roses, along with the Fund’s signature butterfly logo and a message that reads: “A contribution has been made to the WNY Women’s Fund in your honor so that a woman or girl can become as great as you are.” If you too believe in the potential of women and girls and would…
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo will have a reading of her book “Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender Power and Healing Among Chilean Mapuche”. Sponsored by Talking Leaves and The Institute for Research and Education on Women & Gender at the University at Buffalo. The book is the first study to follow Mapuche shamans’ gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal qualities but also because of its hermaphroditic flowers, which reflect the gender-shifting components of machi healing practices.…
Tonight the Buffalo Sabres look to close out the New York Islanders at home in game 5. Buffalo Rising’s Dave Staba recaps the series thus far in a sideshow podcast. Photos provided by Joe Cascio.
On the opening night of the first annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, Marc Benardout (director and co-producer) and Steven Sills (writer and co-producer) joined the audience during the screening of their film “Sinner”. Later in the week, “Sinner” won the Grand Jury Best Feature Film award from the BNFF. Buffalo Rising had the opportunity to chat with both of them about the film, the festival and of course, Buffalo. BRO: What is “Sinner” all about? Marc Benardout: Basically it’s a movie about redemption, and the title, “Sinner”, obviously sparks a lot of connotation with what its all about…but ultimately a…
Saturday night, at The Mansion on Delaware, the awards ceremony concluding the first annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival was held. The room was buzzing with filmmakers and industry speakers throughout the night. Big winners of the evening were: “Father G and The Homeboys” a documentary about a Jesuit priest who helps gang kids in LA, which took the three top documentary awards; “The Forgotten City” a documentary that explores “race relations, segregation, crime, and politics” according to the BNFF website, received the audience award for Best WNY film and The Falls Award for Best WNY film; “Sinner” a drama with…
One of the last films to screen at the first annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival is the Greek 107 minute “The Return of Dominick DeLadoor.” The feature length spy comedy is a sequel of sorts, to Zahos Samoladas’ previous feature “The Thing That Should Not Be”, hence the title. The cast was completely brought back, and thrust into a surreal world of high intrigue with a mix of science fiction, action and humor. Dominick DeLadoor is a secret agent, who spent the last six years in a coma. He wakes up to find his memory returning to him, revealing bits…
With the final day of the first annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival upon us, there are still a number of films to see. So many, that start time for the festival had to be moved up a bit in the day. Instead of starting at one on Saturday March 31st, the final day of screening for the BNFF starts at 10:45 am, with “The Willing Suspension of Disbelief”, a film about mobsters. It’s about filmmakers making a mob movie. Well, ok, filmmakers who are into the mob for money to make their film dreams come true, and then become mobsters…
We recently got to sit down with Bill Cowell, CEO of Captures Entertainment, which is sponsoring the first annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. We asked him about the festival, why Buffalo Niagara, and what is in store for next year. BR: What made you start a film festival in Buffalo? Bill Cowell: It was time; it was due. A lot of people talked about doing it and just never followed through. It was a pleasure working with all the independent filmmakers and kinda forming our little group and knowing they were interested enough to make me interested enough. BR: Why…
Friday night for the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival continues with a number of full-length features and shorts, which center mostly around economics. Not those boring kinds of economics you learned in high school (pop quiz: what’s the difference between micro and macro economics?) with charts and graphs, but those interesting kind of economics that watch people instead of a ticker. At 6:50pm at the Market Arcade Film and Art Center, “Bottom Feeder” a short film about a criminal making his rounds in the Bronx, and “Underground President” a full length feature about a Florida gang war, set some of the…