Many Festivals, Many Winners: iW Rounds up June's Major Film Fest Awards

06/29/11 June happens to be one of those months in the calendar year that seems to attract many a festival. It's the beginning of Summer (in the Northern Hemisphere), so always a good time to break out the local film event. Festivals are particularly ubiquitous in the U.S. in June, though it is definitely rivaled by April. So, as a one-stop shop, iW has compiled a number of festivals that played ...

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Just Because It's 90 Degrees Out, Doesn't Mean You Can't Go Skiing

07/07/11 DALLAS, July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With the humid Northern Hemisphere sizzling like an ant under a magnifying glass, the summer season can be dreadful for travelers who dream of snow, not surf, as their ideal vacation. While snow skiing is traditionally a winter pastime, there's no reason your inner ski bum needs to wait until the winter solstice to enjoy a week of racing down powdery slopes ...

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Film Festivals that Thrive in the Dog Days of Summer; A Preview of July & August Events

07/11/11 The height of Summer (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) is sometimes considered a lighter period of the year in terms of the general festival circuit, a relative "calm before the storm," ahead of the major late-Summer/early Fall events in Venice, Telluride and Toronto. But July and August are nevertheless teaming with festivals in North America and around the world, including gay ...

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