‘Raju’ Director on Going to Great Lengths to Film a Short Max Zaehle (left) directing Wotan Mohring and Julia Richter in ‘Raju.’ Barbara Chai, Wall Street Journal Although his short film, “Raju,” deals with the weighty subject of illegal child-trafficking, director Max Zaehle is ebullient when discussing his work. Perhaps it’s because he recently scored [...]

Mark Gold’s Potato Parmesan Soup for National Homemade Soup Day By, Lesley Balla For National Homemade Soup Day, which for some unknown reason is always February 4, the first thing that comes to mind is the story of stone soup. Some travelers go to a village carrying nothing more than an empty pot, and the [...]

  By Benjamin Sutton The 2012 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, Animated Shorts, and Documentary Shorts  Opening February 10 at IFC Center Attempting to find a unifying theme to one year’s 15 Oscar-nominated short films is a necessarily (and happily) impossible task, but if nothing else the strongest contenders in the animated, live-action and documentary short [...]

Max Zahle is a student filmmaker who has a movie showing at Sundance this weekend.  But that’s not all.  He just found out the movie “Raju” is also nominated for an Oscar. Max came on Good Things Utah to talk about “Raju” and his accomplishments.  He says “Raju” was shot in Calcutta and is about [...]

2012 Oscar nominee Max Zähle is interviewed on Good Day Utah with Angelus Student Film Festival director Monika Moreno about his acclaimed film RAJU.  Zähle who is a Hamburg Media School grad and was awarded the the 2011 Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the Angelus Student Film Festival, received word of his Best Live Action [...]

  By Ben Fulton The Salt Lake Tribune Park City • Max Zähle’s 24-minute film “Raju” didn’t make the cut among this year’s short films selected for competition by the Sundance Film Festival, but it proved good enough for an Oscar Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. The 34-year-old German director, whose previous work [...]

Max Zähle, a graduate of Hamburg Media School, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short for his film, “Raju,” which will receive a free screening in Park City on Saturday sponsored by the Angelus Student Film Festival. In 2011, Zähle won the Angelus Festival’s Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking Award for [...]

2011 Angelus Student Film Festival grand prize winner and Hamburg Media School grad Max Zähle, who was awarded the fest’s Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking Award for RAJU, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short.   The gripping, emotionally harrowing story of a German couple who adopt a young Indian boy in Kolkata has also received the Student Academy Bronze [...]

LOVE HACKING, directed by Jenni Nelson, a recent MFA grad in Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University, won the Outstanding Documentary Award at the Angelus Student Film Festival. The film follows the journey of Tim Heath, a Silicon Valley robot inventor After a personal reawakening, Tim radically shifts his outlook on courtship and utilizes the [...]

  STUDIO CITY (CBS) — Just in time for the entertaining season, the “Cart For A Cause Cookbook” is on sale now! Recipes from nearly 40 of L.A.’s hottest chefs are featured, all of whom have cooked on the Cart, the nation’s first fully philanthropic mobile food truck. Chefs Jeremy Berlin, Ray Garcia and Mark [...]

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Film on AIDS crisis to be part of Tucson festival                                                                                                                                                        A film that explores the impact of the AIDS crisis on go-go dancers and a club owner in Amsterdam will be part of the Loft Cinema Film Festival in Tucson. House of Boys, directed by directed by Jean-Claude Schlim, will be screened at 7 p.m. [...]

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Fellow Cart For A Cause Chefs, Unite!   As you’ve certainly heard, the Cart For A Cause Cookbook is due to launch Nov. 30 and to kick things off, I’d love for you to join me and St. Vincent Meals on Wheels Founder Sr. Alice Marie Quinn at Bar Pintxo for a media event and [...]

Angelus added London to its itinerary of traveling cinema adventures as the “On The Road” series presented several past Angelus films, with a private screening at the London Film Academy, followed by subsequent screenings at the London Film School, Ravensbourne University, and Holy Trinity Brompton Church.  Photo above is of Academy Award-winning producer of The [...]

  Udo Kier on film, life and being happy By Inger Sandal The Loft Cinema set the bar high when it awarded its first “Lofty” Lifetime Achievement Award to German actor Udo Kier. “There’s no one else on the planet like Udo,” Jeff Yanc, the Loft’s program director said at last month’s presentation during the [...]

  QUEER CLIP: ‘House of Boys’ “convincingly recreates the era’s sexual openness, but also its dirty authenticity…”

Some of L.A.’s most well-known chefs including Street’s Susan Feniger, Ray Garcia of Fig, Nic’s Larry Nicola, Mirko Paderno of Oliverio, Rob Sarstedt of Craig’s, Akasha’s Akasha Richmond, mar’sel at Terranea Resort’s Michael Fiorelli, Ashley James of Four Seasons Hotel, Jeremy Berlin of Church & State and Nguyen Tran of Starry Kitchen were hosted by [...]

Last night, legendary retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, teamed up with St. Vincent Meals on Wheels and Miss Lilly’s Trading Company for a festive gathering filled with food, friends and a store full of the most exquisite beauty and fashion. The evening started off with a celebratory VIP reception featuring culinary temptations prepared by several Los Angeles chefs including Mark Gold of Eva, Alex Becker [...]

This holiday season, legendary specialty retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, once again teamed with St. Vincent Meals on Wheels and Miss Lilly’s Trading Company for a festive evening of shopping, sipping champagne and cocktails, and sampling gourmet nibbles. Saks donated a percentage of all sales on the evening of December 8 to SVMOW, the [...]

Max Zähle Receiving Student Academy Award   2011 Angelus Student Film Festival grand prize winner and Hamburg Media School grad Max Zähle, who was awarded the fest’s Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking Award for RAJU, has been shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Live Action short.   The gripping, emotionally harrowing story of a German couple who adopt a young Indian boy in [...]

By Andrew Magee A prestigious Los Angeles film festival brought three award-winning directors to Fulham for a screening at the London Film Academy last night. The Angelus Student Film Festival is an international competition that recognises some of the best young filmmakers around the world. Festival director Monika Moreno presented the selection from a festival [...]

A cookbook for Meals on Wheels Truth be told, the seniors beat us to it. Long before iPhone-wielding hipsters were tracking down the latest culinary-mashup food truck, a subset of our elders were getting their dinner from Meals on Wheels. Cart for a Cause, the food truck whose sales benefit St. Vincent Meals on Wheels, [...]

Reviewed by Frank Mundo In poet Melinda Palacio‘s debut novel, Ocotillo Dreams, we meet a young woman named Isola, a green-eyed, “exotic-looking” Mexican-American “often mistaken for Thai or Filipino” whose mother’s death couldn’t have come at a worse time in her life. Just one fellowship short of becoming a full professor in San Francisco, Isola, [...]

Long live the Dane! Hamlet rendering by Sarah Airriess Join us in Elsinore, beginning January 21 Experience Hamlet in a whole new way. After intense audience reaction to our production last summer in Griffith Park, we realized we weren’t done with Denmark just yet. This time around, we’re re-imagining the play, stripping it down to [...]