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Brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia are portrayed in the documentary, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” screening Sunday in Grass Valley. more...
02/05/2010 2:14pm
Silver Screen Classic Movie Series continues on Saturday with the screwball comedy “Easy Living” from 1937.
  02/03/2010 10:06pm
In anticipation of the 10th anniversary visit of Tibetan Buddhist monks to Nevada County this month, Sierra Friends of Tibet will show a free documentary film on the situation inside an occupied Tibet.
  02/03/2010 10:05pm
What makes “An Education” a special film experience are the man-child charms of the sexual predator. This one-liner may categorically turn away some of you, but the writer, director, and actors have collaborated on a compelling turn with a...
  02/03/2010 9:44pm
Starting this year, there will be 10 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, not the standard five. Granted, the Academy Awards is a marketing tool, but this tactic cheapens, maybe even embarrasses, the meaning of an Oscar nomination.
  01/27/2010 11:04pm
“The Legend of Pale Male” captured the Best of Fest award at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival last weekend, beating out more than 135 other submissions.
  01/19/2010 12:01am
First dibs at film ffest
Mia Whisenand is 7 — old enough to present the film in which she stars, “V is for Volunteer,” to 860 local students and teachers attending the opening of the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Friday morning.
  01/15/2010 11:20pm
As a featured artist for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, LeeAnn Brook will be showing her newest body of work at New Moon restaurant in Nevada City, entitled “Nature Light at New Moon.” The work features large contemporary landscapes of the...
  01/20/2010 12:54pm
Editor's Note: This set of reviews is the fourth of a four-part series about films in the 8th Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival.
  01/13/2010 10:41pm
When Doug Bertran was 10, he commandeered the family Super8 film recorder, got together with friends and made his first movies.
  01/13/2010 10:35pm
The South Yuba River Citizens League has landed a $10,000 grant to support its Jan. 15-17 Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival.

“For us, it feels like winning an Oscar,” said festival Director Kathy Dotson.
  01/11/2010 11:39pm
Nevada City will become a center of activism to halt global warming when the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival opens Friday for a weekend of movies and other events.
  01/09/2010 12:57am
For the last eight years, the SYRCL Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival has artfully blended film, activism, truth, and community. Considered the nation's largest environmental film festival, Wild & Scenic screens 135 films including 35 world and...
  01/07/2010 12:33am
Editor's Note: This set of reviews is the third of a four-part series about films in the 8th Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Jan. 15, 16, 17, in Nevada City.
  01/06/2010 10:49pm
The chance to see the lush, 3-dimensional forests of the dreamworld Pandora in the new film “Avatar” drew long lines at Grass Valley's Sierra Cinemas over the holidays.
  01/05/2010 9:31pm
Silver Screen Classic Movie Series continues on Saturday with “Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et La Bête),” from 1946. Once upon a time, a Beast threatens to kill a man unless he gives up one of his daughters. Agreeing to take her...
  12/31/2009 12:56pm
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