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![]() CRITIC RAVES ABOUT QUALITY OF ICE SCREEN"I have never seen anything like it!", shouted internationally acclaimed movie critic, Francois Fellini, in Antarctica to cover the First Annual Antarctic Film Festival, when he saw the screening of Bad Business " I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw this motion picture playing on a wall of solid ice. Ice makes the best natural surface on which to project a film I have ever seen, the technology is awesome! Each tiny ice crystal, and there are billions of them, refracts and reflects light in an extraordinary manner. The silver screen never looked this good, I can't imagine a screen made of diamonds looking any better. " A travelling companion, whom Mr. Fellini refused to identify, commented that "After seeing Bad Business, on this ice screen, I didn't really see what the big deal was about the ice screen, but I thought the movie sensational. " [to read about the ice screen technology click here] |
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![]() FESTIVAL PLANS NEW LOCATION The Festival is in negotiations to build it's new home featuring the world's largest ice screen. The site, high atop Antarctica's largest glacier, will provide panoramic views as well as provide a sheltered environment for the an outdoor ice ampitheater to accommodate 10,000 viewers. Phase one of the land acquisition is in the final stages and the Festival Committee is poised to approve the deal, pending a favorable environmental study, which is anticipated. According to C. T. Pinguino, Festival Director, the festival expects easy approval since the entire facility will be constructed of ice. ![]()
![]() Penguins dive into cool waters near the site where the ice screen blocks are mined. |
MICHAEL PRESSMAN, well known Hollywood director, |
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"The Dogme movement is happening. Thomas Vinterberg's CELEBRATION shows us that story is the most important thing. To that end, director Murray Mintz, with his "digital" feature, BAD BUSINESS, has joined the likes of Vinterberg and Lars Von Trier in the Dogme movement, but with a comic twist. ![]()
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