Josh Corin is the award-winning author of three novels, including Nuclear Winter Wonderland, which Booklist named as one of the top debuts of 2008.
Welcome to SinescopeSinescope is an online journal of the arts—film, literature, media, music, and performing/visual arts. Additionally, many of our contributors maintain individual or collaborative blogs on the site. For those interested in learning more about the journal, submitting an article for review, or contacting the editor, you may do so on our about page. Thank you for your interest.
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Atlanta Film Festival: March 23 to April 1, 2012
Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. It is the largest and longest-running festival in the region, welcoming an audience of over 25,000 to discover 150+ new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films, selected from 1,800+ submissions from all over the world. It is also the most distinguished event in its class, recognized as Best Film Festival by Creative Loafing, Sunday Paper, 10Best and Atlanta Magazine. In 2008, the Atlanta Film Festival’s executive director was honored as Best Festival Director for a National Film Festival at the International Film Festival Summit.High Museum of Art - Atlanta: Picasso to Warhol, October 15, 2011-April 29, 2012
The High Museum of Art is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. Located in Midtown Atlanta’s arts and business district, the High has more than 12,000 works of art in its permanent collection. The Museum has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art.
Decatur Book Festival: Sept 2-5, 2011
It is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, more than 600 world-class authors and 190,000 festival-goers have crowded the historic downtown Decatur square to enjoy book signings, author readings, panel discussions, an interactive children's area, live music, parades, cooking demonstrations, poetry slams, writing workshops, and more.
The 7th Atlanta Asian Film Festival: Oct 8-22, 2011
Over a dozen films and documentaries for Atlanta premiere, including works nominated at the Academy Awards/Cannes/Sundance for best foreign film, originating from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, and Taiwan. All films are screen in original language with English subtitles.
