Happy New Year Buckley Fans!

2005 was a great year for the Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley, which received buzz in mags like PASTE, and sold out shows worldwide including Seattle, Buenos Aires, Ireland, Portugal, Boston, Athens, Barcelona, Minneapolis, and Stockholm… and had another win for Best Music Documentary at the San Francisco World Film Festival. Whew! The doc’s certainly been making the rounds.

2006 is sure to be an exciting year, and we’re kicking it off with a screening at REEL MUSIC, a film festival in Portland, Oregon!

TIME: Saturday, January 21 8:30 pm PLACE: Northwest Film Center, Guild Theater, 829 SW Park Avenue (503) 221-1156

Hello again. If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice this website looks different. We’ve switched to a new interface so that we can post information more easily.

Now that summer is over, we’re continuing our quest to bring Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley to film festivals around the world! Cities include Athens, Barcelona, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Stockholm.

SAN FRANCISCO WORLD FILM FESTIVAL: SWIFT presents their film program, EXPOSED 05, where “music, art, and truth is the cinematic guiding theme.” Showtimes for the San Francisco premiere will be: Friday, September 30 at 6:30 PM. Tickets here. Sunday, October 2 at 2:15 PM. Tickets here. Screenings will be held at the CineArts/Empire Theater at 85 West Portal Avenue.

POPCORN FILM FESTIVAL, STOCKHOLM: This Swedish premiere will be held at the only festival in Scandinavia that’s “fusing music, film and club culture.” 5.15pm, Friday, October 7 at the “S�dra Teatern.” Tickets and festival information available at Popcorn’s website or the theater’s website.

SOUND UNSEEN, MINNEAPOLIS: “10 days of music documentaries, rare concert footage, audio/visual performances, live cinema, concerts, and parties.” Showtimes will be: Sunday, October 9 at 7:30 pm at the Bell Auditorium Friday, October 14 at 8:00 pm at the Oak Street Cinema Tickets available on the Sound Unseen website store. They have really cool t-shirts too.

IN-EDIT FILM FESTIVAL, BARCELONA: This Spanish film festival focuses on music documentaries and will screen Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley on: Thursday, October 28 at 6:30 PM (18.30 PM) Friday, October 29 at 8:30 PM (20.30 PM) Ticket information will be available on the In-Edit’s website.

ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: We have to apologize for not announcing this festival in time. This Greek premiere was actually tonight. If you attended the screening, please send word to us. We’d love to hear how it turned out!

PASTE Magazine reviews Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley in the 2005 June/July issue, and Fungible Convictions interviews Once & Future Productions.

Tickets are sold-out for the Seattle International Film Festival screenings on Thursday, June 2 and Saturday, June 4. The film is screening as part of two SIFF film programs, “Face The Music” and “Women in Cinema.”

Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley will have its Boston premiere at the Independent Film Festival of Boston on April 22 and 24. IFFB is a hot new festival with a great roster of films and we’re extremely pleased that Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is one of them this year.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22 at 10:30 PM
The Somerville Theatre
(617) 625-4088

SUNDAY, APRIL 24th at 5 PM
Coolidge Corner Theater
(617) 734-2500

IFFB festival passes available on-line at the official website. Individual tickets are available April 15-20 at Hollywood Express Video stores (Noon – 7 pm) at these locations: PORTER SQUARE (617) 497- 2001 and CENTRAL SQUARE (617) 864-8400. Tickets also available at the box office of the theater the day of the shows.

• MARCH & APRIL SCREENINGS
• SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
• WEST COAST PREMIERE

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This Spring Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley will be screening its way around the world at these film festivals.

PORTUGUESE PREMIERE in Espinho: Festival de Cinema e Video Jovem.
Monday, March 21 and Thursday, March 24

IRISH PREMIERE in Belfast:
Belfast Film Festival
Saturday, April 9 at 8 PM.
For ticket info, visit the official web site.

SOUTH AMERICAN PREMIERE in Buenos Aires:
Buenos Aires International Film Festival of Independent Films
The festival runs from April 12-24. We will post screening dates and times as soon as we have them.
For more information go to the official web site.

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SEATTLE PREMIERE:
We’re so thrilled to announce that Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley will have its Seattle premiere at the fabulous Seattle International Film Festival. The fest runs May 19 through June 12. We’re especially excited that Jeff’s legacy will have screen time at SIFF as it’s the most highly attended film festival in the U.S., making it a perfect venue to continue our on-going film festival campaign to spread the word about Jeff Buckley in this country!

We’ll keep you apprised of all screening dates right here and via our mailing list.

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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL:
Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley‘s West Coast premiere at the CineQuest Film Festival was a huge success with two sold-out screenings. Our compliments to the CineQuest staff for pairing us up with the fantastic opening short, “Stranger: Bernie Worrell On Earth,” another doc about an under-appreciated musical maverick.

Many thanks to all the people who attended, especially those who drove all the way from L.A. and Sacramento! The support and enthusiasm of the audience made for a special screening experience.