This week in gay Palm Springs California

The Countdown
Is On For AmDocs 2017
March 29, 2017, Palm Springs, CA – The 2017
edition of American Documentary Film Festival
opens this Friday, March 31st, at 9:30 am
at Camelot Theatres with the Annual AmDocs
Film Fund Pitch Competition (Presented by
Synimatica). The Film Fund Pitch Competition
is open to the public and is free.
Following the competition, AmDocs will feature
four film screenings throughout the day,
including the timely THERE WILL BE WATER
(11am) - a Danish film that documents the way
in which saltwater can be brought to the desert,
turned to freshwater, and used to fuel agriculture,
industry and improve the lives of millions.
It’s a must see for anyone living in the Western
United States. At noon, another timely film,
TRAPPED BY LAW, tells the dramatic tale of
two men, both technically citizens of Kosovo,
although having lived in Germany all or most
of their lives, who find themselves deported to
a country they have never known, and separated
from family and friends in Germany. It’s a
story that, sadly, might make the front pages of
our own papers.
Two additional screenings will take place at
1:30pm and 2:30pm, before a short break,
allowing everyone to get ready for the Opening
Night’s Festivities which begin at 5:30pm with
an Opening Night Reception and Red Carpet
Event at Camelot Theatres. Then at 7pm,
AmDocs 2017 will screen the West Coast theatrical
premiere of Phil Keoghan’s exciting and
beautiful film LE RIDE.
Keoghan, the host of the popular television
show The Amazing Race, was inspired to tell
a relatively unknown piece of history in an
unconventional way in a film with wide appeal
and evocative, good story-telling. Handsomely
shot with beautiful views of the French countryside,
LE RIDE chronicles Keoghan’s reenactment
of the 1928 Tour de France, and the series
of events that inspired him to do so, including
his discovery that a fellow New Zealander was
one of the first English-speaking cyclists to
enter and complete the race. Phil Keoghan will
appear onstage for a special Q&A immediately
following the reception.
What follows Friday’s opening day for AmDocs
2017 will be five full days of documentary
screenings, starting at 9:30am and running
throughout the day in all three of Camelot’s
theaters. Be on the look out for filmmakers and
special guests all weekend, including a number
of surprise appearances that are sure to be
crowd pleasers. “The beauty of these films is
that, while often quite diverse in terms of subject
matter, they share in common the fact that
they are examples of amazing storytelling,” said
Ted Grouya, Festival Founder and Director.
“They are also visually stunning and unique in
their perspectives.”
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Tickets and Passes for the 2017 edition
of The American Documentary
Film Festival are available now
at americandocumentaryfilmfestival.org,
or in person at the Camelot
Theatres Box Office.
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