Nevada City Film Fest to screen 100 films this August
Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2012
Nevada City Film Festival and friends take Sundance
The Union, January 28, 2012
The Sundance of the Sierras
Sacramento News & Review, August 18, 2011
Nevada City Film Festival includes a Musician Component
Sacramento Bee, August 18, 2011
Steve Goodall This year's Nevada City Film Festival opens with the film "Someplace with a Mountain."
KXJZ 90.9 Sacramento, August 18, 2011
An Insides guide to the Nevada City Film Festival
The Union, August 18, 2011
2011 Nevada City Film Festival: Official Lineup
Bad Lit, August 17, 2011
One of Our Favorite Spots Goes all Cinematic. And Stuff.
NBC Bay Area, August 10, 2011
Best Film Festivals in the Sacramento Area
CBS Sacramento, May 25, 2011
Best of the Nevada City Film Fest
Highlights and Winners from the 2010 Nevada City Film Festival
YubaNet: Best of the Fest, October 15, 2010
Random Griffith Blog, August 22, 2010
Nevada County filmmakers shine this weekend
The Union, August 20, 2010
Sacramento News & Review, August 19, 2010
Chuck Jaffee: Short films: A great place to try funny
The Union, August 19, 2010
Nevada City Film Festival is long on shorts and laughs
Sacramento Bee, August 19, 2010
The Union, August 19, 2010
Keep it rolling: Nevada City Film Festival turns
The Union, August 16, 2010
Amoeba, August 16, 2010
Moonshine Ink, August 15, 2010
People You Need to Know: Jesse Locks
Nevada City Advocate, August 13, 2010
2010 Nevada City Film Festival: Official Lineup
Bad Lit, August 10, 2010
Take the short film challenge with Chuck Jaffee
The Union, August 5, 2010
Wirecast To Live Stream The Nevada City Film Festival
Telestream, Nevada City, CA – August 3, 2010
Press Release, Nevada City, CA – August 2, 2010
Chuck Jaffee: Expanding musical horizons happening now
The Union, July 29, 2010
AAA Via Magazine – 6 Picks: Summer Blockbusters
AAA Via Magazine, July 2010
Nevada City Celebrates 10 Years of Film
The Union, June 13, 2010
The Nevada City Film Festival kicks off their 10-year anniversary with a Summer of Film series Thursday, June 17, at the Center for the Arts, with a special local screening of The Practice of the Wild, a film about the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder. ...
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Summer Fests 10 Fairs and Festivals Not to Miss This Summer
Newsreview.com, June 10, 2010
You might not think of a short film being excellent. At least, it might not enter your mind that a 10 minute film would stack up to the impact of a full length feature... read more
Nevada City Film Festival and KSK Records announce Young Filmmakers Grant
The Union, April 08, 2009
Want to make it big in movies? If you are between 13 and 20 years old and live in Nevada County, the Nevada City Film Festival and KSK Records might just be able to help! read more
Film festival examples of excellence
The Union, August 13, 2009
You might not think of a short film being excellent. At least, it might not enter your mind that a 10 minute film would stack up to the impact of a full length feature... read more
Adult Swim, Comedy Central Comedians to showcase at this year's Nevada City Film Festival
The Union, August 13, 2009
A year ago, Doug Lussenhop, an editor for the popular "Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim program, had no idea what he was getting himself into... read more
Tense family drama opens film festival
The Union, August 6, 2009
The police come to a home where an anger prone alcoholic beat his wife. This is the first scene in "Like Dandelion Dust"... read more
More tear jerkers, gut busters at Nevada City Film Festival
The Union, July 30, 2009
Nine years ago, on a warm summer weekend, the Nevada City Film Fesival (NCFF) was concieved... read more
Quick, quirky laughs at the Nevada City Film Festival
The Union, July 31, 2009
One signature potential with short films is funny creativity. A filmmaker gets in, gets out, boom. In 10 minutes more or less, savvy moviegoers find a cinematic treat that typically flies past everyone's notice. read more
Film contest a chance to share vision
The Union, May 24, 2009
The Nevada City Film Festival's recently announced My Nevada City Video
Contest celebrates the pioneer spirit of local independent filmmaking by
encouraging residents to share their vision, their love - their Nevada
City - with audiences.
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Nevada City Film Festival announces "My Nevada City" Video Contest presented by Citizens Bank of Northern California
Yuba Net, May 14, 2009
There is definitely something going on in them foothills! For decades
the beautiful gold rush-era town of Nevada City, California has been
home to a host of world renown musicians, poets, and visual artists,
making the area a welcoming and lively setting to showcase creative
independent filmmaking.
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Chuck Jaffee: NC Film Festival in retrospect
The Union, August 21, 2008
The 8th Nevada City Film Festival is history. Jason Graham (festival
director), David Nicholson (program director), Jeffrey Clark (executive
director), and a slew of dedicated volunteers are tired. It is impressive
that little Nevada City has two film festival traditions. It sure takes
a bunch of dedication to make them happen.
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Nevada City Film Festival
Sacramento News & Review, August 14, 2008
So, before becoming an official indie filmmaker, before making
Thumbsucker, you worked in commercials. Tell us about that.
It was a necessary room in my film school. It really helped me. And I
really felt like I was Robin Hooding...
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Nevada City Film Festival This Weekend
Bay Bridged, August 11, 2008
Nevada City is home to some of California's most passionate folk
musicians, but it's also home to the eclectic Nevada City Film Festival,
which takes place this weekend from Thursday, Aug. 14 to Sunday, Aug. 17.
(film festival logo)
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Jesse Locks: What's new at this year's film fest?
The Union, August 7, 2008
The Nevada City Film Festival has quickly become a favorite stop on the
independent film circuit with filmmakers from all around the world eager
to show their films. This year, 40 films will be screened over four days
at the four historic locations of the Nevada Theatre, Miners Foundry,
National Hotel and Magic Theatre. The films selected, span genres,
languages, and format with something for every kind of film enthusiast.
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Nevada City Film Fest Features Mike Mills
SF Weekly, July 17, 2008
Nevada City may be a small town, but it has quite a lot of cultural cache.
Musicians from Jonathan Richman to Terry Riley and Joanna Newsom have lived
in the scenic Sierra Foothills gold rush town. There's a cool little arts
scene there (not to mention some fantastic swimming holes), all of which
you can check out when the eighth annual Nevada City Film Festival hits
that town August 14 - 17.
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Film: Same Screen, less silver
Sacramento News & Review, June 9, 2008
Trash Film Orgy
No one's gonna accuse this beloved little local fest of false advertising.
The Trash Film Orgy is very much what it sounds like. This year's goodies
include George A. Romero's marauding-zombie mainstay, Dawn of the Dead, J
ohn Carpenter's blackly comedic parable of subliminal, extraterrestrial
mind control, They Live, and of course, the annual heckle-fest smorgasbord
known as Trash Till Dawn
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"A Farewell to Alms"/Nevada City Film Fest/Richard Glazier
Capital Public Radio, August 16, 2007
"A Farewell to Alms" A revolutionary theory about why the industrial revolution
happened is explored in a new book by a UC Davis economics professor. Today on
Insight, you'll meet Gregory Clark and he'll tell you what he thinks separates
rich and poor nations today. His book is "a Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic
History of the World."
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Nevada City film Festival web video
Current TV, August 7, 2007
http://www.nevadacityfilmfestival.com/Video/ncff_current_web.mov
Nevada City Film Festival successfully evolves
The Union, August 2, 2007
In 2001 I made a short film called "Mike vs. The Machine." It was an
absurdist comedy about a robot that drew a line on the sidewalk in
chalk and wouldn't let people cross it. I know it sounds bizarre,
but that's how the Nevada City Film Festival came to be...
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The Nevada City Film Festival
Sacramento News & Review, May 10, 2007
It's "the hippest little fest in the old west" according to the guy who
sent us a press release about it, and we're not arguing. Headquartered
in the historic Magic Theatre, this year's NCFF packs about 30 films
into three days. But wait, there's more: Concerts and after parties
courtesy of the Grass Roots Record Co.
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