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  DocuWeeks 2011 preview: “Unfinished Spaces” – An interview with Gottardi and Porro

  August 11, 2011 at 3:06 pm / Awards, Interviews

  Since premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June, 2011, Unfinished Spaces has become one of the hottest documentaries, both in critical acclaim and Oscar-buzz. The film will soon premiere in New York (12th-18th at the IFC Center) and return to Los Angeles (August 19th-25th at the Laemmle Sunset 5), as part of DocuWeeks, qualifying the film for the Oscar race. Unfinished Spaces explores the lives and the architecture of Roberto Gottardi, Ricardo Porro, and Vittorio Garratti, whose lives resemble the Art Schools they [...]

  

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  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ALYSA NAHMIAS AND BENJAMIN MURRAY: “UNFINISHED SPACES”

  July 7, 2011 at 9:26 am / Interviews, LAFF

  Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray’s documentary Unfinished Spaces played to great acclaim at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and was one of the films of the festival to get a very immediate and tangible boost from its successful World Premiere. Unfinished Spaces is now slated to show later this year as part of DocuWeeks in LA and New York for a qualifying run for the 2011 Oscars — rumors of a distribution deal are also in the winds. Unfinished Spaces tells the storyof Cuba’s National [...]

  

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• LAFF 2011: Movie Review “UNFINISHED SPACES” – CUBA’S ART AND REVOLUTION

  June 20, 2011 at 8:06 pm / LAFF, Movie Reviews

  Like many of the film’s showing at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, Unfinished Spaces is a feature directorial debut, this one being from the directing team of Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray. Both filmmakers are names to keep an eye out for, as Unfinished Spaces masterfully blends art, history, and politics into a film that offers something for audiences members interested in any or all of the three.

  The film centers around three architects, artist Ricardo Porro, Venetian-influenced Roberto Gottardi, [...]

  

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• LA Film Festival: preview list of MUST SEE films

  June 16, 2011 at 8:05 am / Film Festivals, LAFF

  “We All Bloom in June,” is one of my favorite sayings, and never does that seem truer than during the ten days of the Los Angeles Film Festival. Last year’s festival made up the ten best days of my life so far. I’ve been eager to go back ever since. Though the decision to move the festival from its long-time home of West LA to its new downtown home was controversial  last year, doing so made LA LIVE feel like [...]

  

  

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