2009 Souvenir Program Guide - California Film Institute

Ever wonder what the
rest of the world watches
for family entertainment?
The Mill Valley Film Festival’s
Children’s FilmFest provides
the answer. With a focus this
year on Northern Europe,
the 15th Children’s FilmFest
brings some cold noses but
warm hearts to the Bay Area.
Young female heroines
a bound, with Stella and the
Star of the Orient leaping
through time, and a crew of
feisty girls (and a black cat)
defying ghosts in The Ten
Lives of Titanic the Cat.
Short fi lms feature a girl who
fi nds a unique way to combat
her parents’ infat uation
with a pet cat (Love Child), a mother passing
on her imaginary friends to her daughter (The
Faeries of Farthingale) and a sly young woman
who sneaks off to the woods to practice
some benign witchcraft (Dragonflies, the
Baby Cries). Boys hold their own when Ricky
CHILDREN’S
FILMFEST
PROGRAMS
STELLA AND
THE STAR OF THE ORIENT,
WITH DRAGONFLIES,
THE BABY CRIES
THE TEN LIVES
OF TITANIC THE CAT,
WITH THE FAERIES OF
FARTHINGALE
RICKY RAPPER,
WITH LOVE CHILD
THE LETTER
FOR THE KING
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THE FAERIES OF FARTHINGALE
RICKY RAPPER
Rapper finds time to romance a fellow 10year-old
neighbor and also do battle with an
evil aunt. And an aspiring young knight is
thrust into the limelight when he has to deliver
The Letter for the King.
CHILDREN’S FILMFEST OPENING PARTY EXTRAVAGANZA
Sunday, October 11, 12:30 pm 142 Throckmorton Theatre.
$5 PARTY11
Join us after our opening weekend film in Mill Valley for a
Children’s FilmFest Extravaganza party including some of the
BEST face painting in the entire world! Balloon twisting! Music!
A fi nger food lunch by Whole Foods! And even some short fi lms!
Adults must be accompanied by children.
SPONSORED BY
CHILDREN’S FILMFEST
SUPPORTED IN PART
BY A GRANT FROM
ABOUT SUBTITLES
To enhance our very young
viewers’ appreciation of
foreign-language movies, we
provide the unique service of
having actors read subtitles
aloud. When we can, we play
the readings through
in di vidual headphones, to
allow those who do not
require the service to have an
equally pleasurable film
experience. We have a limited
number of headsets, so we
offer them on a first-come,
first-served basis to young
people only. indicates
subtitles with headphones
indicates subtitles read
aloud.
AGE RECOMMENDATIONS
Please bear in mind that the
age range following each
children’s film program
description is a suggestion
only. It may only refer back to
a program’s length or to its
subject matter, while it cannot
adequately address everyone’s
sense of appropriate or
inappropriate content. Each
child is different, and each
parent has different standards.
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