SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
presents
Nothing is Truer than Truth
Nothing is Truer than Truth at The American Film Market, Mark Rylance joins The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and more...
1 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
Controversy Films was an official participant at The American Film Market in Los Angeles this month. With almost 8,000 attendees and 800 buyers, AFM is the biggest film market in the United States. We met with distributors, producers, industry insiders, actors, writers, and many friends. NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH sparked interest from several new collaborators and potential partners.
On Friday afternoon, former Women in Film New York president and entertainment attorney Laverne Berry and I shared stories poolside with writer Sam Joseph and producer Byron Martin. Saturday included lunch with Controversy Films mentor and film critic James Ulmer, IMDB hero Matt Syrette and the newest member of the Ulmer Scale crew Ethan.
After pitching to international distributors at the market, I went over to the AFI Film Festival in Hollywood to meet Controversy Films festival guru Vicki Oleskey and catch the premiere screening of THE PAST, from Iranian
2 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
director Asghar Farhadi, whose previous film A SEPARATION won the 2012 Academy Award for best foreign language film. On Monday, I had coffee in West Hollywood with award-winning actor and writer Gregory Martin and his partner Cherie, and then we all drove to the Dreamworks Animation campus for a fabulous lunch with Controversy Films advisor Carole Sue Lipman. Before heading back to Boston, I attended the Indie Wire party on the Santa Monica Pier, and talked with publisher James Israel about this year's AFI line up.
Read more about the market here.
From The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Website: Mark Rylance named newest SOF honorary trustee
Anti-Stratfordian actor Mark Rylance was re-confirmed by the new SOF board last night as the newest honorary trustee of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Rylance joins Sir Derek Jacobi, Michael York, Roland Emmerich,
3 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
and John Orloff as honorary trustees of the former Shakespeare Fellowship, now unified with the Shakespeare Oxford Society into the new Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship.
Rylance was Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe between 1996 and 2006. He has been a professional actor since 1980, and has acted in over 50 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Rylance served as an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a friend of the Francis Bacon Research Trust, President of the Marlowe Society, an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple Hall, and Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust (SAT) which holds annual authorship conferences at Shakespeare's Globe. SOF trustee Earl Showerman, MD, was instrumental in making the contact with Rylance last year. More...
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe)
Read The New York Times article for Mark's take on what makes great Shakespeare.
Ros Barber, PhD launches a new website devoted to the
4 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
authorship question "Shakespeare: The Evidence"
Shakespeare: The Evidence
Read an interview with Ros in the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship newsletter here.
5 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
Save Venice Boston Chairperson and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Curator Anne-Marie Eze joins Controversy Films Advisory Committee.
We are thrilled to announce that Anne-Marie Eze, PhD, has joined the NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH team. She designed a "Shakespeare in Venice" tour for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and most recently spoke in Paris on the museum's collection of rare books and manuscripts. Her
6 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
film experience includes work on several UK documentaries.
Read more about Anne-Marie's work here.
And the Gardner collection here...
More about Save Venice here.
From Roger Stritmatter's blog, the latest discussion of this poem attributed to Edward de Vere:
My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed each gazing eye; To none of these I yield as thrall. For why my mind doth serve for all.
Read the entire poem and story here.
Harper's Magazine printed the poem in 2010 with the following comments:
-Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, My Mind to Me A Kingdom Is (ca. 1585) first published (in modified form) in William Byrd, Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety (1588).
7 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
"This poem is one of the true masterpieces of the Elizabethan era, understandable on many levels: as a sanctuary of conscience, as a statement of Calvinist precepts, as a dissertation on contentment, as a praise of the powers of imagination and invention. William Byrd's setting of the Oxford poem is one of the finest English art songs of the Elizabethan era."
Donate now!
Thank you to everyone who has supported the project by donating through our fiscal sponsor, The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) New York. All donations made through IFP are 100% tax deductible and proceeds go directly to the film.
THE LAST WORD...
From NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH supporter Hanno Wember in Germany comes the news that the new documentary THE NAKED SHAKESPEARE by director Claus Bredenbrock has won an "Award of Excellence" from IndieFest.com.
Thanks to Hanno for screening the film Please help us bring the film to at the Toronto Shakespeare Conference audiences around the world! We last month and sending copies to fans. cannot reach our goal without your help. And from Stratfordian Jonathan Bate, this story: PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A YEAR-END TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION Shakespeare's TO NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH fingerprints found PROJECT #169, THROUGH IFP. THANK YOU FROM EVERYONE AT CONTROVERSY FILMS.
8 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
on three Elizabethan plays
Computer analysis gives the Bard a hand in three late 16th century dramas, says scholar Jonathan Bate
By Dalya Alberge The Observer, Saturday 12 October 2013 09.19 EDT
The hand of William Shakespeare has been identified in scenes or passages in three Elizabethan plays previously Wishing all of you a wonderful holiday believed to have been written by others, season, filled with family, friends, joy, following linguistic "fingerprinting" tests and peace. We are truly thankful for and other new research. your support of this important project.
Arden of Faversham, The Spanish Tragedy and Mucedorus will now be included in a major edition of collaborative plays bearing the Bard's name. Jonathan Bate, a renowned Shakespeare scholar, said the evidence has convinced him that specific parts within those plays must have had input from Shakespeare.
Bate, professor of English literature at Oxford University, says the issue is "perhaps the single most significant lacuna in 21st-century Shakespearean scholarship".
Read the entire article here.
Stay Connected
9 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM SHAKESPEARE NEWS https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_previe...
1234 Main Street, Awesomeville, MA · 555.555.5555
Forward this email
This email was sent to [email protected] by [email protected] | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy.
Controversy Films | 49 Cross Street | Winchester | MA | 01890
10 of 10 12/13/13 4:34 PM