9,000-acre wildfire in NW Wisconsin contained

TOWN OF GORDON, Wis. (AP) ? Firefighters battling a 9,000-acre in northwestern Wisconsin have contained the massive blaze.

Department of Natural Resources spokesman Robert Manwell said Thursday the fire in Douglas and Bayfield counties is 100 percent contained. Manwell says fire crews will be handling small brush fires and reworking the lines that contain the wildfire.

Authorities opened all roads in the area overnight and some residents headed back to their homes. The fire, which began Tuesday, destroyed 17 homes and 30 other structures. The DNR says no one has been hurt in the largest forest fire to hit northern Wisconsin in 33 years.

Gov. Scott Walker has declared a state of emergency in Douglas and Bayfield counties, which makes the Wisconsin National Guard available for recovery efforts. The governor plans to tour the area Thursday.

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Husband kills wife with a pickaxe, police say

Investigators say a Pittsburgh man killed his wife with a pickaxe after the couple had an argument.
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Bruce Cook, 62, was charged Thursday with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse in the death of 57-year-old Lois Cook.

A friend called police Wednesday because Lois Cook missed work.
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Police said they arrived at the Cooks' home Wednesday night and found dried blood on the floor of the kitchen heading toward the basement steps. Investigators said they found Lois Cook's body under a tarp in the basement.

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Police said Bruce Cook hit his wife with some type of blunt object before striking her in the head with a pickaxe.
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A neighbor described the victim as a caring woman and referred to her husband as "a ticking time bomb."

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Al Pacino Has Manglehorn

David Gordon Green?s productivity amazes me. Not only is he promoting Prince Avalanche while wrapping up production on Joe (starring Nicolas Cage), but he?s also begun planning his newest film Manglehorn, and he wants Academy Award-winning actor and industry legend Al Pacino as the lead. The film would tell the story of an ex-con living in anonymity while nursing his sick cat and slowly falling into a dull routine, but his tranquility is eventually threatened when he?s unmasked as a man with a dark past.

Al Pacino?s career is at an all-time low. His latest movies make little effort to showcase his wonderful acting skills ? Stand Up Guys barely made a passing grade, The Son of No One was laughable, and nobody is willing to accept the fact that Jack and Jill even exists (except Adam Sandler, of course). Nevertheless, I still enjoy Pacino quite a bit. Maybe I?m just hanging on to the idea of a younger Pacino, who delighted audiences and critics alike with flawless performances in Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon. Perhaps Manglehorn can give the actor back the confidence to take on more serious roles, and hopefully it will get him the accolades he truly deserves.

As far as?David Gordon Green goes, well, he is an exciting filmmaker, no doubt about that. Has anyone seen his debut film George Washington? OK, probably not. Still, it?s a solid movie. How about All the Real Girls and Pineapple Express? The former was an instant indie hit, while the latter went on to become an iconic stoner film. Sounds like a fairly decent career, right? Wrong. Critical reception of the director?s later films has been intermittent, to say the least. Is intermittent the right word? I mean terrible. Despite early success with thoughtful indie dramas, somewhere down the road the guy decided to make Your Highness and The Sitter ? two tragedies in less than a year. Will he get back on track with Joe and?Manglehorn?

Manglehorn was co-written by Paul Logan and is being financed by Worldview Entertainment.

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Kraft Foods profit beats Street, shares rise

May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...

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The Best Things to Buy in May

Spring is a great time to stock up on some new furnishings and other household items, especially in May. Here are the best things to buy this month.

Every month, we look back at the best times to buy anything during the year, and pull out items each month to remind you what's coming. Obviously, none of this is to say you should go on a shopping spree?but if you've been holding off for a lower price on something, these are the things that get the sale treatment in May.

All Spring

• Televisions and Other Electronics: The Japanese fiscal year ends in March, which means Japanese-made goods?like the electronics we all love so much?are going to be on sale as they try to get rid of old stock. If you didn't grab a TV during the pre-Super Bowl sales, now's the time to grab one. Author Mark Di Vincenzo notes that these sales are probably even better than the February ones anyway, as long as you're comfortable buying last year's model.
• Houses: According to Bankrate, spring is a great time to buy a house. Prices aren't quite as low as they can be in the winter, but you'll have a much larger selection to choose from, so you can take the time to find your perfect dream home. The spring weather makes the yards look great, and everyone comes out of the woodwork looking for a new home, which makes competition fierce. A lot of families start buying and selling at this time so their kids have time to make the transition during summer vacation, too.
• Cookware & Kitchen Accessories: As graduation season draws closer, you'll see a lot of sales for common graduation gifts. Kitchen tools and cookware are at the top of the list, says Bankrate, so even if you aren't heading off to college next year, take advantage of the graduation-centric sales to stock up on any must-have kitchen tools now.
• Digital Cameras: CES has come and gone, and while last year's digital cameras start going on sale in February, you're probably going to find the best deals during the second quarter of the year, according to Digital Photography School and Digital Camera HQ. Not sure what camera you want? Check out our Hive Five for DSLR and mirrorless 4/3 cameras.
• Thrift Items: It's spring cleaning time, which means you can not only sell all your old junk, but buy other people's junk too! If you're a thrift store shopper, now's a good time to get even better bargains than usual, since places like the Salvation Army will be getting lots of new inventory.
• Vacuum Cleaners: Speaking of spring cleaning, if your vacuum just doesn't have the sucking power that it used to, it's the perfect time to buy a new one. New vacuums usually don't come out until June, so Bankrate says you should grab the old models now as they're clearing them out (though if you can wait, Dealnews says Black Friday will see the lowest prices).

May

• Office Furniture: Both Furniture Brains and DealNews note that office furniture tends to start dropping after Tax Day, and gets lower and lower once you get into June. If you've been looking to ergonomically optimize your workspace, now's the time?and you might start with one of the five most popular office chairs.
• Mattresses: Even though mattresses usually come out all year round, May often sees some pretty great price drops, according to DealNews. And, as long as you do your pre-shopping research, there's no reason you can't still get a great one.
• Refrigerators: Most big appliances go on sale later in the year, but refrigerators are the big exception. New models are on their way, says Money Crashers, which means last year's models are on sale. So, there's no better time to get a good discount on a barely outdated fridge for your newly rebooted kitchen.

We'll be posting updates for you guys every month, so you're aware of the deals going on all year round. If you're curious to see what's coming up, you can always check out our full best time to buy guide to see the entire year at a glance. And, if you know of any deals we didn't mention, share them in the comments below.

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Google files patent for smartwatch with Glass-like touchpads and functionality

Starting to get bored with Google Glass already? Well, it seems like Mountain View's trying to patent some of that functionality for a smartwatch, in a substantially different way than it did before. According to an application submitted to the USPTO, such a device would include standard smartwatch functions like a wireless transceiver, display and processor, but could also be equipped with two touchpads located on each side of the bezel. Those could enable "pinch, stretch and scroll on a platform with limited space available for user input," and would also communicate "with the clock line or data line." That means they'd control all the smartwatch functions, of course, but Google may be leaving the door open for it to control other devices as well, judging by the cagey wording -- perhaps sidestepping the need to reach for or yell at your eyewear.

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Wanted: Polar bear spotter on Norwegian islands

OSLO, Norway (AP) ? Do you enjoy the outdoors and have strong vocal cords? If so, Norway might have a summer job for you: three weeks in the Arctic wilderness spotting polar bears.

The governor's office on the remote northern islands of Svalbard is seeking a polar bear spotter to warn researchers doing projects in the region.

The job starts July 8 and also requires previous experience with the outdoors, good polar bear spotting skills and a competence with firearms. But Helge Solli from the governor's office says the successful candidate likely won't have to use a gun "just as long as they have a loud voice" to scare off any bears.

There are an estimated 3,000 polar bears in the Svalbard archipelago, which has a human population of about 2,400.

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CA-NEWS Summary

Three men charged with undermining Boston bombing probe

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged three men with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, saying they hid fireworks and a backpack belonging to one of the suspected bombers as a manhunt was under way. The three, two students from Kazakhstan and a U.S. citizen, were described as college friends of surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. They were not charged with direct involvement in the April 15 marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured 264.

Italy's Letta wins French backing for focus on growth

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's new prime minister Enrico Letta won French backing on Wednesday for calls to spur economic growth alongside budget rigor, but problems lay closer to home with coalition partners demanding tax cuts that would blow a hole in the budget. Letta, who took his message to Berlin on Tuesday, met French President Francois Hollande and said he was "100 percent satisfied" with the meeting and Hollande's response to his calls for Europe to start focusing on growth as well as consolidation.

EU considers trade action after Bangladesh factory collapse

DHAKA (Reuters) - The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400 factory workers. Duty-free access offered by Western countries and low wages have helped turn Bangladesh's garment exports into a $19 billion a year industry, with 60 percent of clothes going to Europe.

From Toronto to Dagestan; Canadian jihadi draws parallels with Tsarnaev

UTAMYSH, Dagestan, Russia (Reuters) - A mess of rubble, ash and charred vehicles is all that's left at the desolate farmhouse where a Canadian Muslim convert died fighting his last battle alongside Islamist insurgents in the Russian region of Dagestan. At the time, few people beyond local villagers noticed William Plotnikov's death in a region where skirmishes occur daily. But almost a year on, Plotnikov has emerged into the limelight following the Boston Marathon bombings.

Most Americans do not want U.S. involved in Syria: Reuters/Ipsos poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans do not want to intervene in Syria's civil war, although the percentage in favor more than doubles if President Bashar al-Assad's forces use chemical weapons against their people, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. Only 10 percent of those surveyed in the online poll said the United States should intervene in the fighting. Sixty-one percent opposed getting involved.

Turkey investigates use of chemical weapons in Syria

REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey is testing blood samples taken from Syrian casualties brought over the border from fighting in recent days to determine whether they were victims of a chemical weapons attack, local government and health officials said on Wednesday. The samples were sent to Turkey's forensic medicine institute after several Syrians with breathing difficulties were brought to a Turkish hospital on Monday in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province along the Syrian border.

Bolivia expels U.S. aid agency after Kerry 'backyard' comment

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled a U.S. development agency from his country on Wednesday, marking the latest confrontation between Washington and a bloc of left-wing governments in Latin America. Morales said he was kicking out the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a "protest" after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently referred to Latin America as Washington's "backyard." The term evokes strong emotions in the region, which experienced several U.S.-backed coups during the Cold War.

At least 22 killed in Iraq attacks

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, police and medics said, after weeks of intensifying violence that threatens all-out sectarian conflict. Iraq has become increasingly volatile as the civil war in neighboring Syria strains fragile relations between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Tensions are at their highest since U.S. troops pulled out of the country more than a year ago.

Japan PM's "stealth" constitution plan raises civil rights fears

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan's constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War Two, to formalize the country's right to have a military - but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past. Abe, 58, returned to office in December for a second term as prime minister and is enjoying sky-high support on the back of his "Abenomics" recipe for reviving the economy through hyper-easy monetary policy, big spending and structural reform.

Venezuelans hold rival May Day marches as vote dispute drags on

CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition and government supporters flooded Venezuelan streets in rival May Day marches on Wednesday as a continuing dispute over the results of last month's presidential vote kept political tensions high in the OPEC nation. On Tuesday, opposition deputies were beaten in a fracas in Congress resulting from their refusal to recognize the presidency of Nicolas Maduro, who narrowly won the April 14 election triggered by the death of socialist leader Hugo Chavez.

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Film Threat - Full Lineup Announced For 2013 Seattle International ...

The 39th annual Seattle International Film Festival, running May 16-June 9, 2013, has announced its full programming lineup. From the official press release:

The Seattle International Film Festival, the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States, announced today the complete schedule of films and events that will make up the 39th Seattle International Film Festival.

This year SIFF will screen 447 films: 272 features (plus 4 secret films), and 175 shorts representing 85 countries, including 49 World (18 Features, 31 Shorts), 48 North American (38 Features, 10 Shorts), and 17 US Premieres (6 Features, 11 Shorts). The festival will open with the previously announced screening of Joss Whedon?s Much Ado About Nothing, and close with the American premiere of Sofia Coppola?s The Bling Ring. The 2013 Seattle International Film Festival is produced by SIFF, the non-profit arts organization that reaches more than 250,000 annually through SIFF Cinema, SIFF FutureWave Education and the annual flagship Festival.

?My first knowledge of film festivals came from seeing astonishing and extraordinary films from the likes of Ridley Scott, Peter Greenaway, Lars von Trier and Bernardo Bertolucci. Today, those formative experiences drive my passion for finding the next wave of films from masters and undiscovered talent,? said SIFF Artistic and Co-Director Carl Spence. ?From the launch of our inaugural African Pictures program, to our Closing Night Gala, the American debut of Sofia Coppola?s The Bling Ring, to Disney? Pixar?s Monsters University, to Peter Greenaway?s Goltzius and the Pelican Company, the 39th edition of the Festival will unleash an incredibly rich and diverse array of fantastic programming.?

This year?s films feature a star-studded lineup including, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, and Maya Rudolph in Nat Faxon and Jim Rash?s The Way, Way Back; Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Bradley Whitford and Rashida Jones in Steven Bernstein?s Decoding Annie Parker; Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in David Gordon Green?s Prince Avalanche; Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck and Ben Foster in David Lowery?s Ain?t Them Bodies Saints; Greta Gerwig and Mickey Summer in Noah Baumbach?s Frances Ha; Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in James Ponsoldt?s The Spectacular Now; Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia in the World Premiere of Adam Rodgers? Middleton; and Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, and Ti West in Joe Swanberg?s Drinking Buddies.

?This is my first year at SIFF as Managing Director, however I have been involved with the organization for many, many years ? from participating as a sponsor, to covering as a reporter, to serving as a volunteer,? said SIFF Managing Director Mary Bacarella. ?I?m overjoyed to kick off my tenure as Managing Director with such an exciting Festival lineup; it?s going to be a spectacular 25 days of celebrating the world of film.?

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GALAS:

Opening Night Gala
Much Ado About Nothing (director: Joss Whedon)
Shakespeare?s classic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Whedon?s Much Ado. Shot in just 12 days (and using the original text), the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a dark, sexy, and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love. The film was shot entirely in Whedon and Cole?s own home, and made with a group of close friends (and recurring ?Whedonverse? players) who share the filmmakers? love of Shakespeare. Confirmed to attend Opening Night on May 16 are director Whedon and the stars of the film: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Nathan Fillion, and Clark Gregg.

Closing Night Gala
The Bling Ring (director: Sofia Coppola) North American Premiere
Coppola?s latest is a story ripped from the tabloid headlines and gossip news programs, a story as strange as it is true. Five Tinseltown teenagers (two played by Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga) wish to live like the rich and famous, but they?ll settle for robbing them instead. The gang, referring to themselves as ?The Bling Ring,? track the internet goings-on of SoCal?s A-list celebs with ease, waiting for just the right moment to break into their vast mansions and run off with their high-class goods. But when rebelliousness turns to recklessness, the group?s crimes catch up with them.

Centerpiece Gala
Twenty Feet from Stardom (director: Morgan Neville)
When you?re singing along with the chorus of your favorite song, do you really know who you?re singing along with? Veteran filmmaker Morgan Neville does, and his new film tracks the astounding careers, contributions, and sacrifices of pop music?s most-recognizable, yet least-known artists: the backup singers. Twenty Feet from Stardom follows several diverse and gifted backup singers living in the shadows of superstardom. Although these singers are usually relegated to the margins, and few, if any, become household names, their work has defined countless songs that remain in our hearts and collective consciousness. Director Morgan Neville and singers Tata Vega and Merry Clayton are scheduled to appear and perform at the screening.

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Films with Parties:
Drinking Buddies (director: Joe Swanberg, USA, Magnolia Pictures)
Fanie Fourie?s Lobola (director: Henk Pretorius, South Africa)
G.B.F. (director Darren Stein, USA)
Populaire (director: R?gis Roinsard, France, The Weinstein Company)
The Way, Way Back (directors: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, USA, Fox Searchlight)

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Special Guests:
SIFF highlights two special guests this year: legendary actor Kyle MacLachlan and director Peter Greenaway.

Washington native Kyle MacLachlan has brought his patented brand of effortless charm and fierce tenacity the big and small screens. This program will include the presentation of the Seattle International Film Festival Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting, an onstage interview with film clips from his career, including an audience Q&A, followed by a screening of David Lynch?s pilot for the cult-hit television show Twin Peaks.

Peter Greenaway, one of film?s leading provocateurs, provides a premise and a challenge in his upcoming forum: is the contemporary cinema?s dependence on text leading to the death of cinema? Illustrated with numerous clips and striking visual imagery, Peter Greenaway?s lecture promises to be enlightening and exciting adventure. The talk will follow a screening of Goltzius and the Pelican Company.

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Special Presentations:
This year?s Special Presentations include:
Decoding Annie Parker (director: Steven Bernstein) ? Starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton, this is the amazing true story of UW geneticist Mary-Claire King and her world-changing discovery of the BRCA1 breast cancer gene. Special benefit screenings will support the fight against breast cancer.
Inequality for All (director Jacob Kornbluth) ? the Sundance award-winning documentary exploring the causes and consequences of the widening income gap in America.
Somm (director: Jason Wise) ? the riveting story of four sommeliers attempting to pass the prestigious Master Sommelier exam. This film will be paired with special wine tasting receptions following the screenings. Director Jason Wise expected to attend along with renowned Sommeliers.

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Feature FILM Premieres:
World (18):
9 Full Moons (d: Tomer Almagor, USA)
Alive and Well (d: Josh Taft, USA)
Clutter (d: Diane Crespo, USA)
Evergreen: The Road to Legalization in Washington (d: Riley Morton, USA)
Fateful Findings (d: Neil Breen, USA)
Finding Hillywood (d: Leah Warshawski, USA)
Her Aim Is True (d: Karen Whitehead, USA)
Last I Heard (d: David Rodriguez, USA)
The Little Tin Man (d: Matthew Perkins, USA)
Middleton (d: Adam Rodgers, USA, Anchor Bay Films)
Mutual Friends (d: Matthew Watts, USA)
The Otherside (d: Daniel Torok, USA)
Scrapper (d: Brady Hall, USA)
Spud 2: The Madness Continues (d: Donovan Marsh, South Africa)
Teddy Bears (d: Thomas Beatty, USA)
Test (d: Chris Mason Johnson, USA)
Town Hall (d: Jamila Wignot, USA)
Worm (d: Andrew Bowser, USA)

North American (38):
36 (d: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand)
The African Cypher (d: Bryan Little, South Africa)
Ali (d: Paco R. Ba?os, Spain)
Belleville Baby (d: Mia Engberg, Sweden)
Between Valleys (d: Philippe Barcinsk, Brazil)
Bitch Hug (d: Andreas ?hman, Sweden)
The Bling Ring (d: Sofia Coppola, USA, A24)
Breach in the Silence (d: Andr?s Rodr?guez, Venezuela)
Bypass (d: Patxo Telleria, Spain)
Capturing Dad (d: Ryota Nakano, Japan)
Celestial Wives of Meadow Mari (d: Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russia)
Closed Curtain (d: Jafar Panahi, Iran)
Comrade President (d: Mosco Kamwendo, Zimbabwe)
Dead Meat Walking ? A Zombie Walk Documentary (d: Omar J. Pineda, USA)
Drug War (d: Johnnie To, Hong Kong, Well Go USA)
?den (d: Bruno Safadi, Brazil)
Every Blessed Day (d: Paolo Virzi, Italy)
Fatal (d: Lee Don-ku, South Korea)
Flight of the Storks (d: Jan Kounen, France)
Garibaldi?s Lovers (d: Silvio Soldini, Italy, Film Movement)
The Girl With Nine Wigs (d: Marc Rothemund, Germany)
The Great Passage (d: Y?ya Ishii, Japan)
House With a Turret (d: Eva Neymann, Ukraine)
I Kori (The Daughter) (d: Thanos Anastopoulos, Greece)
The Kampala Story (d: Donald Mugisha, Uganda)
Last Flight to Abuja (d: Obi Emelonye, Nigeria)
Love Is in the Air (d: Alexandre Castagnetti, France)
Low Profile (d: C?cilia Rouaud, France)
Ludwig II (d: Peter Sehr, Germany)
My Dog Killer (d: Mira Fornay, Slovakia)
Nishan (Medal of Honor) (d: Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn, Ethiopia)
The Plague (d: Neus Ball?s, Spain)
Redemption Street (d: Miroslav Terzi, Serbia)
Ripples of Desire (d: Zero Chou, Taiwan)
Short Stories (d: Mikhail Segal, Russia)
Television (d: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bangladesh)
Tito on Ice (d: Max Andersson, Germany)
Yesterday Never Ends (d: Isabel Coixet, Spain)

US (6):
2+2 (d: Diego Kaplan, Argentina, Strand Releasing)
Aayna Ka Bayna (d: Samit Kakkad, India)
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (d: Prathiba Parmar, USA)
Breathing Earth (d: Thomas Riedelsheimer, Germany)
Horses of God (d: Nabil Ayouch, Morocco)
Invader (d: Daniel Calparsoro, Spain)

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African Pictures Program:
This year SIFF will launch its African Pictures Program, a program made possible by a grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The African Pictures Program aims to celebrate the diverse and burgeoning hotbed of filmmaking activity emerging across the continent of Africa. This grant gives SIFF an unparalleled opportunity as a major international film festival to showcase a substantive program of indigenous films from Africa along with films by African filmmakers working outside the continent. Please click here for the complete African Pictures Program press release. See below for the full lineup:

The African Cypher (d:Bryan Little, South Africa, North American Premiere)
After the Battle (d: Yousry Nasrallah, France)
Coming Forth by Day (Hala Lotfy, Egypt)
Comrade President (d: Mosco Kamwendo, Zimbabwe, North American Premiere)
Die Welt (d: Alex Pitstra, Netherlands)
Fanie Fourie?s Lobola (d: Henk Pretorius, South Africa)
Finding Hillywood (Leah Warshawski, USA, World Premiere)
The Forgotten Kingdom (d. Andrew Mudge, USA)
A Hijacking (d. Tobias Lindholm, Denmark)
Horses of God (d: Nabil Ayouch Morocco, US Premiere)
The Kampala Story (d:Donald Mugisha, Uganda, North American Premiere)
Last Flight to Abuja (d: Obi Emelonye, Nigeria, North American Premiere)
Mother of George (d: Andrew Dosunmu, USA, Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Nishan (Medal of Honor) (d: Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn, Ethiopia)
The Pardon (d: Joel Karekezi, Rwanda, North American Premiere)
The Repentant (d: Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
Sand Fishers (d: Samout? Andrey Diarra, Mali)
Spud 2: The Madness Continues (d: Donovan Marsh, South Africa, World Premiere)

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COMPETITIONS:
SIFF competitions are intended to reflect the diversity and excellence of global filmmaking with awards and/or cash prizes given to the winners as determined by independent juries as well as by audience voting.

New Directors Competition: Festival programmers select 12 films remarkable for their original concept, striking style and overall excellence. To be eligible films must be a director?s first or second feature and without U.S. distribution at the time of their selection. Winners receive a $2,500 cash prize.

Breach in the Silence (d: Andres Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez, Venezuela, North American Premiere)
The Cleaner (d: Adrian Saba Peru 2012)
Coming Forth by Day (d: Hala Lotfy, Egypt/United Arab Emirates 2012)
Die Welt (d: Alex Pitstra, Netherlands/Tunisia/Qatar, 2012)
Fatal (d: Lee Don-ku, South Korea 2012, North American Premiere)
Fuck Up (d: ?ystein Karlsen, Norway 2012)
Harmony Lessons (d: Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan/Germany/France, 2013)
House With a Turret (d: Eva Neymann, Ukraine 2012, US Premiere)
Love is in the Air (d: Alexandre Castagnetti, France 2013, North American Premiere)
The Plague (d: Neus Ball?s, Spain 2013, North American Premiere)
Sadourni?s Butterflies (d: Dario Nardi, Argentina 2012)
Short Stories (d: Mikhail Segal, Russia 2012, North American Premiere)

New American Cinema Competition: Festival programmers select 12 films without U.S. distribution that are sure to delight audiences looking to explore the exciting vanguard of New American Cinema and compete for the FIPRESCI Award for Best New American Film. Jury is comprised of 3 members from the International Federation of Film Critics. The winning film will receive a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 6: Production Premium edition.

9 Full Moons (d: Tomer Almagor, USA 2013, World Premiere)
Clutter (d: Diane Crespo, USA 2013, World Premiere)
C.O.G. (d: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, USA 2013)
The Forgotten Kingdom (d: Andrew Mudge, USA 2013)
Last I Heard(d: David Rodriguez, USA 2013, World Premiere)
The Little Tin Man (d: Matthew Perkins, USA 2013, World Premiere)
The Moment (d: Jane Weinstock, USA 2013)
Mutual Friends (d: Matthew Watts, USA 2013, World Premiere)
A Song Still Inside (d: Gregory Collins, USA 2013)
Teddy Bears (d: Thomas Beatty, Rebecca Fishman, USA 2013, World Premiere)
Test (d: Chris Mason Johnson, USA 2013, World Premiere)
Worm (d: Andrew Bowser, USA 2013, World Premiere)

Documentary Competition: Unscripted and uncut, the world is a resource of unexpected, informative, and altogether exciting storytelling. Documentary filmmakers have, for years, brought these untold stories to life and introduced us to a vast number of fascinating topics we may have never known existed?let alone known were so fascinating. Winners receive a $2,500 cash prize.

The African Cypher (d: Bryan Little, South Africa 2012, North American Premiere)
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (d: Prathiba Parmar, USA 2013, US Premiere)
Breathing Earth (d: Thomas Riedelsheimer, Germany/Scotland 2012, US Premiere)
The Crash Reel (d: Lucy Walker, USA 2013)
Her Aim Is True (d: Karen Whitehead, USA 2013, World Premiere)
Mussels in Love (d: W.J.A. Kluijfhout, Netherlands 2012)
Our Nixon (d: Penny Lane, USA 2013)
The Punk Singer (d: Sini Anderson, USA 2013)
Sand Fishers (d: Samout? Andrey Diarra, Mali/France 2012)
Town Hall (d: Jamila Wignot, Sierra Pettengill, USA 2013, World Premiere)
The Trials of Muhammad Ali (d: Bill Siegel, USA 2013)
A World Not Ours (d: Mahdi Fleifel, Lebanon/United Kingdom/Denmark, 2012)

SIFF Shorts Competition: All short films shown at the Festival are eligible for both the Golden Space Needle Audience Award and Jury Award. Shorts Competition. Jurors will choose winners in the Live Action, Animation, and Documentary categories. Each jury winner will receive $1,000 and winners in any of the three categories may also qualify?to enter their respective films in the Short Film category of the Academy Awards?.

Golden Space Needle Awards / Artist Piper O?Neill
For the past 28 years, SIFF has celebrated its most popular films and filmmakers with the Golden Space Needle Audience Award. Created to recognize audience?s favorite films, awards are given to the Festival?s Best Feature Film, Documentary, Actor, Actress, and Short Film. Piper O?Neill is a Seattle-based artist who has been commissioned to create this year?s Golden Space Needle Award. The award?s design was inspired by the DeJur Electra 8mm camera lens introduced in the 1960s, especially by the beautiful and iconographic silhouette of the lens, symbolic of Seattle?s love of film. With an impressive body of work, Piper O?Neill will mount her second solo exhibition at Winston Wachter Fine Art in January 2014.

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Face the Music:
Seattle is one the greatest music cities in the world, so it?s only fitting that SIFF feature a wide array of music-themed films and events. Special live music events include A Muscle Shoals Tribute with Patterson and David Hood, and The Maldives perform The Wind.

Face the Music also showcases films that intersect the world of music on all fronts: from biopics and concert films to musicals and live events. Film highlights include Twenty Feet from Stardom, a fascinating documentary about backup singers and Kathleen Hanna documentary The Punk Singer.

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Northwest Connections:
Seattleites see more films per capita than the residents of any other American city, and a growing number of these selections have their roots in the fertile Pacific Northwest film community. Each year, SIFF honors the many ways in which the Puget Sound region contributes to the world of cinema, whether it acts as an evocative location for outside filmmakers or as inspiration for local filmmakers ready to strut their stuff. This year?s Northwest Connections films include Improvement Club (director: Dayna Hanson), Her Aim is True (director: Karen Whitehead), and Middleton (director: Adam Rodgers). Full list below:

Alive and Well (d: Josh Taft, USA, World Premiere)
Barzan (d: Alex Stonehill, USA)
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (d: Eric Slade, USA)
Dead Meat Walking ? A Zombie Walk Documentary (d: Omar J. Pineda, USA)
Evergreen: The Road to Legalization in Washington (d: Riley Morton, USA, World Premiere)
Finding Hillywood (Leah Warshawski, USA, World Premiere)
Her Aim Is True (d: Karen Whitehead, USA, World Premiere)
Improvement Club (d: Dayna Hanson, USA)
Middleton (d: Adam Rodgers, USA, Anchor Bay Films, World Premiere)
The Otherside (d: Daniel Torok, USA, World Premiere)
The Punk Singer (d: Sini Anderson, USA)
Shadowed (d: Joey Johnson, USA)
Scrapper (d: Brady Hall, USA, World Premiere)
Touchy Feely (d. Lynn Shelton, USA)
Unhung Hero (d: Brian Spitz, USA

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FESTS:

DocsFest,
Music, dance, art, sports, history, politics, the natural world. SIFF is proud to present nearly 70 documentaries this year throughout the festival, from the love lives of mussels (Mussels in Love) to the life and times of Muhammad Ali (The Trials of Muhammad Ali), from the home movies of President Richard Nixon (Our Nixon) to We Steal Secrets: the Story of WikiLeaks. New this year, a concentration of documentaries, DocsFest, takes place during the third weekend of the festival (May 31 ? June 2).

ShortsFest
SIFF?s annual celebration of the short film has become one of the hot tickets at the Festival. ShortsFest takes place during Memorial Day Weekend, and is a mini-fest packed with talented up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. Take advantage of an exciting opportunity to experience the best short films from the past year.

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MOODS:

?What sort of film do I feel like seeing tonight?? With our handy Moods groupings, we?ve made it easy to find the type of cinematic experience you?re in the mood for. Instead of using traditional categories, which require a bit of work to figure out, we?ve aimed to connect films with you, the audience, by organizing them into 10 areas that match your mood.

Love: Romance and love in all its forms, pleasures, and idiosyncrasies.

Make Me Laugh: Films that make you chuckle and tickle your funny bone.

Open My Eyes: Revealing films and documentaries revolving around history, politics, and contemporary events from around the world.

Provoke Me: Mesmerizing dramas and documentaries that explore thought-provoking questions, realities, and topics.

Thrill Me: Suspense, thrills, and action. Films with a faster pace that might also surprise you when you least expect it!

Show Me the World: Prepare to be taken to another place? from exotic, far-off lands to vibrant experiences outside of everyday life.

Sci-Fi and Fact: Science, technology, environment,?the future??and beyond!

To the Extreme: Explore the outer limits with films that go beyond the edge.

Creative Streak: The exploration of artistic endeavors from all disciplines: literature, film, art, dance, and performance.

Face the Music: Films that intersect the world of music on all fronts: from biopics and concert films, to musicals and live events.

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Fly Filmmaking Challenge 2013:
With only three days to shoot, five days to edit, and three days of post-production, this year?s Fly Filmmaking Challenge is a true partnership of our creative communities. The undeniable talents of the 2012 fellows from Artist Trust serve as the inspiration behind each script, with Seattle?s most iconic neighborhood locations supplying the backdrop of an incredibly entertaining program. These creative hurdles, couples with a documentary narrative from the most promising local educational filmmaking programs, form the whole picture that highlights Washington?s filmmaking community.

Fly Filmmakers: Ben Andrews, Amy Enser, Lulu Gargiulo, Curtis Taylor

Artist Trust Fellows: Samantha Boshnack, Samuel Green, Jovino Santos Neto, Derek Sheffield

Educational Filmmaking Programs: Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle University, Shoreline Community College

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SIFF EDUCATION:
SIFF Education offers three programs during Festival: FutureWave & Films4Families, Festival Forums, and SuperFly.

FUTUREWAVE AND FILM4FAMILIES FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING:
SIFF has two programs curated to make the Festival more accessible for younger audiences: FutureWave features are a great place for our cinema-savvy teen audience to find their love of world cinema and Films4Families is the perfect way for younger children (and the young at heart) to have a fabulous experience at SIFF. Both programs also have Youth Juries comprised of youth from their age bracket to watch all the films and present the Youth Jury Award in their respective categories.

FESTIVAL FORUMS & PANELS:
Where audiences and filmmakers come together to learn about and experience making movies. See below for a complete list:

Panel: Transition from Stage to Screen
New Queen Cinema with B. Ruby Rich
Inside Stunts: Meet the Men and Women that Pack the Punch into our Movies
Get Animated: Animation Workshop for Kids
Short Filmmakers Happy Hour & Panel: Making the Most of Any Festival
Rule the World of Independent Filmmaking From Indie Distribution to Smart Phone Productions
Sheroes in Media: From Guerrilla Girls to Women in Film
The Alchemy of Film Scoring
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: A Professional Development Workshop for Teachers
Behind the Curtain of Documentary Filmmaking
SIFF Crash Cinema Part I: PRE-PRODUCTION
SIFF Crash Cinema Part I: PRODUCTION Shooting/Editing/ Screening
Resources for the Modern Filmmaker
First Draft
Getting the Most out of the Media
Acting for the Camera with Story Town Studios
What?s Your Style: High School Filmmakers Scene Workshop
State of the Industry with Amy Lillard

SUPERFLY 2013
For its eighth year, the SuperFly Filmmaking Experience, created by Longhouse Media and presented by SIFF, brings 50 youth from across the country to Seattle to participate in an immersion into filmmaking and tribal culture. The young filmmakers will produce five short documentary films in 36 hours at the Suquamish Tribal Community.

The films will be completed just hours before their World Premiere at the SuperFly and Native Shorts Showcase on June 1 (4:00pm, Harvard Exit).

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SIFF ? Seattle
Venues: SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, McCaw Hall, Pacific Place Cinemas, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit, SIFF Lounge at the Tin Lizzie, The Triple Door

SIFF ? Renton
SIFF is proud to be returning to Renton for a third year where it will host six days of film screenings at the Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center from May 23 to 29. SIFF wishes to thank the City of Renton, the Renton Chamber of Commerce/Renton Visitors Connection, Renton School District, Renton Technical College and Valley Medical Center. SIFF-Renton will open with Lynn Shelton?s Touchy Feely.

SIFF ? Kirkland
For the fifth year, SIFF returns to Kirkland (May 30 to June 9) where it will open with Marcus Markou?s Papadopoulos & Sons. Screenings will take place at the Kirkland Performance Center. SIFF wishes to thank the City of Kirkland for its hospitality.

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Festival Box Office opens in person and online May 2. On that date, and after, browse the full public program at www.siff.net/festival-2013.

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SIFF 2013 by the Numbers:
447 Films
85 Countries
197 Narrative Feature Films (+ 4 Secret Films)
67 Documentary Features
8 Archival Films
175 Short Films
49 World Premieres (18 Features, 31 Shorts)
48 NA Premieres (38 Features, 10 Shorts)
17 US Premieres (6 Features, 11 Shorts)

Source: http://www.filmthreat.com/festivals/65503/

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