Nearly 10,000 attend the Seventh Annual Rochester High Falls International Film Festival

The 7th Annual Rochester High Falls International Film Festival ran from April 30 - May 5, 2008 at various venues around Rochester, and enjoyed record attendance as well as an impressive cadre of film industry attendees. Film stars Rita Moreno and Bill Pullman were in attendance, as well as actors Vivian Wu (Beauty Remains, The Last Emperor) and Sara Simmonds (In Search of a Midnight Kiss), and exciting filmmakers like Estela Bravo, who was awarded the Festival's Elizabeth Cady Stanton "Thorn in the Side" award for her body of work -- thirty years of incisive and moving documentaries from many corners of Latin America. Moreno was in town to receive the Festivals' Susan B. Anthony "Failure Is Impossible" Award.

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Celebrity Panel to Judge "I Love NY" Film Competition; Contest Begins June 1

Academy Award-Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emmy-Winner Tina Fey and Award-Winning Filmmaker Doug Liman to Judge; Winning Film to Air as Part of a Commercial During The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Broadcast

ROCHESTER, NY, May 29, 2008 – Filmmakers -professional, student, or amateur - will have the opportunity to tell the world why they love New York, with their work judged by a star-studded celebrity panel, as part of a new initiative launched today by Empire State Development (www.iloveny.com).

The inaugural "I LOVE NY" Short Film Competition, announced at the famed George Eastman House, invites filmmakers to produce their own 60-second short film illustrating why they love New York.

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