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<strong>Santa</strong> RoSa<br />
InteRnatIonal<br />
FIlm FeStIval<br />
A 25th Anniversary Wine Country <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Event<br />
September 14 - 20, 2011<br />
www.sriff.org
Arts in <strong>Film</strong> aim to deepen our understanding of various art forms. This year there are 32<br />
films that explore everything from iconic painters to the impact of hip-hop on world culture.<br />
US Cinema highlights emerging talent within the United States.<br />
Eco Cinema focuses on environmental issues. This year there are 16 films on effect of<br />
humans on our fragile planet.<br />
Cine Latino celebrates films that engage us in the Latino culture.<br />
Cinema of Conscience this year there are 15 films on war, disease, or challenges to humanity.<br />
World Cinema highlights films from around the world that create cultural understanding.<br />
This year there are scores of films from more than 20 countries.<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong> arouse the senses through cuisine and wine, from the earth to the table.<br />
Index to Features By Genre<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Anna ..................................................57<br />
Child of Giants: ...............................55<br />
Furious Force of Rhymes, The 27, 39<br />
Heaven’s Mirror: ................12, 39, 46<br />
I, Don Giovanni .......................24, 63<br />
Kinshasa Symphony ......................57<br />
Music from the Big House ...........56<br />
My Afternoons with Margueritte ......<br />
22, 61<br />
Never Stand Still .............................23<br />
Roots Music Americana ................63<br />
Streets of Flamenco ........................27<br />
Unfinished Spaces ...................57, 61<br />
Cine Latino<br />
City of Gardens ......................30, 62<br />
F*ck My Life ...................................64<br />
Mamitas ..........................................40<br />
Patagonia ........................................52<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Age of Champions ........................25<br />
A Second Knock at the Door ...... 51<br />
Bicycle, Spoon, Apple ..................60<br />
Burma – A Human Tragedy ........64<br />
Only a Number ................13, 43, 53<br />
Reconciliation ..........................46, 54<br />
Salvador ..........................................52<br />
Tanzania: ........................................24<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Amazon Forever ............................43<br />
Among Wolves ..............................65<br />
Dolphin Tale ................................... 51<br />
Enjoy Your Meal! ...........................28<br />
Flirting with Heights .....................30<br />
If a Tree Falls: .................................34<br />
On Coal River .................................49<br />
Patagonia Rising ............................45<br />
Priceless ..........................................38<br />
Slow the Flow .........................30, 56<br />
The Baja Wave Document ..........58<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
Barista: ..............................................32<br />
Delicious Peace .............................42<br />
Mediterranean Food ....................29<br />
Milk War ..........................................37<br />
DeDication<br />
Mother Vine ...................................25<br />
Sushi: The Global Catch ..............54<br />
US Cinema<br />
Currency .........................................50<br />
East Fifth Bliss .........................35, 53<br />
Entrance: .........................................42<br />
Jess + Moss .............................36, 45<br />
Scarface ...........................................52<br />
The Cosmic Joke ...........................59<br />
The Magnificent Seven ................23<br />
World Cinema<br />
40 ...................................................... 59<br />
Bardsongs ................................50, 60<br />
Eighteen Years Later .....................26<br />
Love in Another Language .........38<br />
Nuummioq .....................................44<br />
Robert Mitchum is Dead ............. 41<br />
Seven Samurai ..............................26<br />
Silent Sonata ............................41, 49<br />
Solemn Promise (Besa) ..............32<br />
The Athlete .....................................33<br />
The Jailmate ...................................28<br />
The Legend of Flying Cyprian ....40<br />
Touch ........................................ 29, 47<br />
Justine Ashton’s mother Margaret Vanston Ellis Warner passed on August 4. Mrs. Warner was<br />
surrounded by her 5 children and one granddaughter, Tara Ashton. Justine is dedicating the 1st<br />
annual SRIFF to her mother. She says “ I am the woman I am today because of my mum. She<br />
inspired all of us—family and friends—to work hard, to love the earth, to immerse ourselves in<br />
all aspects of the arts and above all to be of service to others”<br />
Welcome to The <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Statement from the founDerS<br />
25th Anniversary Year<br />
“In Kino Veritas”<br />
A <strong>Festival</strong> Of The Senses<br />
We are all producers of this extraordinary event and IT IS AN HISTORICAL<br />
MOMENT! Thank you all for your contributions. You have given time and<br />
resources to bring meaningful cinema, the arts, music, delicious cuisine,<br />
and the bounty of this region to our communities and we are<br />
deeply grateful.<br />
The <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> (aka Wine Country <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>)<br />
is a cultural treasure! It is known through out the world and praised for 24<br />
years of outstanding programs of films and events. SRIFF/WCFF is the original<br />
film festival north of Marin County—it was and continues to be a catalyst<br />
to others to produce their own variations with common goals: to enrich our<br />
lives and communities through the power of the moving image, to broaden<br />
our understanding of other cultures, to learn about critical issues facing our<br />
world—here and in places we most likely will never get to live or visit, and<br />
to gather together for meaningful conversations (turn your cell phones off!)<br />
at intimate receptions, in theater lobbies, outside under the stars or in the<br />
Grand Room Cave, in downtown cafes, and upstairs at the <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality<br />
Lounge (open to the general public).<br />
The films in this 25th anniversary program are simply terrific! We encourage<br />
you to see as many as possible and to see films in the different categories.<br />
The program you have before you will bring many hours of enjoyment and<br />
may in some way change your life. It is designed to entertain, to inspire and<br />
to encourage you to seek out your greatest possibilities!<br />
We believe that film is a “window on the world” and an opportunity to<br />
immerse one’s hands into the water of an unknown stream. By meeting<br />
the talented visiting filmmakers, producers and actors, you have the rare<br />
chance to wade deeper into their visions and to discover undercurrents<br />
which may not be on the surface of the screen. You may even discover<br />
along the way that film is a window to the soul!<br />
- Stephen and Justine Ashton<br />
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR<br />
September 14, 2011<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
It is a pleasure to welcome those gathered for the <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, presented by the 25th Wine Country <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
I applaud your work to encourage cultural understanding and<br />
meaningful dialogue through cinema, the arts, cuisine and<br />
community. By showcasing a wide variety of films and hosting<br />
numerous special events, you raise awareness and keep the arts alive aliv<br />
in your communities.<br />
My congratulations go to everyone presenting in this festival, and I<br />
thank all those who made this event possible. On behalf of all<br />
Californians, I extend my best wis wishes hes for a fantastic event and every<br />
future success.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
EDMUND G. BROWN JR.<br />
GOVERNOR EDMUND G. BROWN JR. • SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95814 • (916) 445-2841 445<br />
DOUBLE PLATINUM<br />
PLATINUM<br />
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GOLD<br />
SILVER<br />
Thank You to Our Sponsors<br />
CLONE, East West, Sheldon Winery, UPBEAT TIMES, Sonoma County Gazette, Ehret Winery,<br />
Korbel Champagne Cellars, Broadbent Selections, Inc., Old World Winery, Sky Saddle<br />
Winery, Sky Pine Vineyards, Ashton Vineyard, Accent Printers, Crestridge Partners
How To <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Dates: September 14th - 20th, 2011<br />
Tickets: The best way to experience the <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is with a Pass. (individual film tickets go on sale<br />
online September 7th and at the box office day of show). We have six passes on sale:<br />
• LOCAL PASS (Exclusively for SONOMA COUNTY residents): ..................................................................$100<br />
All screenings (80+ films) • <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Opening Night <strong>Film</strong> and Party • Priority Entry • Access to<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>’s Hospitality Lounge (all hours)<br />
• DAY PASS ........................................................................................................................... $50 / Early Bird $45<br />
Friday 9/16 Only, Sat 9/17 Only and/or Sunday 9/18 Only • Good for all Screenings • Priority Entry<br />
• DAY PASS PLUS ................................................................................................................. $65 / Early Bird $55<br />
All of the Above PLUS • one complementary wine flight at Cellars of Sonoma • Hospitality Lounge Happy<br />
Hour with guest<br />
• <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> PASS .............................................................................................................. $225 / Early Bird $200<br />
All of the Above PLUS • <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Opening Night <strong>Film</strong> and Party • One complementary wine flight at<br />
Cellars of Sonoma • Access to the Hospitality Lounge (all hours)<br />
• <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> PASS PLUS .................................................................................................... $325 / Early Bird $300<br />
All of the Above PLUS • <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Closing Night <strong>Film</strong> and Party • Priority Entry with a Reserved<br />
Seat in all theaters • Master Classes • One Free Day Pass for a Family Member or Friend<br />
• CONCIERGE PASS ....................................................................................................................................... $500<br />
Concierge Passholders enjoy personalized attention. A Concierge will assist you on your accommodation needs,<br />
offer insider tips on who is attending, provide up to date news, and offer guidance when you select your films<br />
• Invitation to a private reception • Choice of a reserved seat anywhere in all film festival venues. • Includes<br />
Master Classes, Opening and Closing Nights and Special Events. • Complimentary Wine Tickets<br />
Venues:<br />
3rd Street Cinemas,<br />
620 3rd Street, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
Roxy Stadium 14,<br />
85 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Avenue,<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge,<br />
#1 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Avenue,<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
Glaser Center,<br />
547 Mendocino Avenue,<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
Summerfield Cinemas,<br />
551 Summerfield Road,<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
Deerfield Ranch Winery,<br />
10200 Sonoma Highway<br />
(Hwy. 12)<br />
Kenwood, Sonoma Valley<br />
Parking: Public parking is convenient and inexpensive in downtown <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>. Parking is free at Summerfield<br />
Cinemas and Deerfield Ranch Winery.<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
KenwooD opening night<br />
film & feStivitieS<br />
Wednesday, September 14, 2011<br />
Deerfield Ranch Winery<br />
My Afternoons with Margueritte<br />
Starring Gerard Depardieu & Gisele Casadesus<br />
Admission: $15<br />
(for film description, see page 22)<br />
Program:<br />
Gates open 6:30pm<br />
Short films in the Cave 7pm<br />
Music by DGIIN 7pm - 8pm<br />
On stage reading from Camus’ writings with<br />
Actress Sally Kirkland & Robert Rex 8pm<br />
Feature starts 8:15pm<br />
Food Truck Street Eatz<br />
offers movie goers a delicious menu.<br />
Deerfield wine sold by the glass or bottle!<br />
Please no outside food or drinks.<br />
Low lawn chairs welcome.<br />
Bring a flashlight & jacket/Nights get cool<br />
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<strong>Santa</strong> roSa opening night<br />
filmS & feStivitieS<br />
a reD carpet opening night!<br />
Thursday September 15, 2011<br />
Summerfield Cinemas<br />
The Magnificent Seven<br />
Admission: $15.00 per person includes the after party!<br />
Dan Tocchini’s favorite movie! This classic, a venerated, star-studded Western from 1960<br />
stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, Horst<br />
Bucholz and Eli Wallach. On the American <strong>Film</strong> Institute’s “100 Years… 100 Thrills” list.<br />
Preceded by Short: Living On Air<br />
Program:<br />
Join us for a Champagne Reception 5:30pm<br />
Short film Living On Air 6:00pm<br />
Feature Presentation 6:30pm<br />
Then join us at La <strong>Rosa</strong> Restaurant in downtown <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
between 9pm and midnight for a spectacular after party!<br />
Popular Sonoma County band John Pita entertains 9pm - 11pm<br />
NO HOST BAR<br />
Be sure to bring your movie ticket stub or pass.<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
cloSing night filmS<br />
& party<br />
Tuesday September 20, 2011<br />
Roots Music Americana – Roxy 6pm<br />
The film explores today’s American roots musicians who take on<br />
their own legacy, the cult-like radio stations that play their<br />
music (local KRSH for one) and the community that listens.<br />
The documentary by local filmmaker David Reddix, features Jeff<br />
Mattison & Wayward Angels, Alabama Mike, Duke Robillard,<br />
Poor Man’s Whiskey, The Hellhounds, among others. With filmmaker David Reddix<br />
in person and a short riff by The Hellhounds in the theater lobby.<br />
Among Wolves – Deerfield Ranch Winery 7:45pm<br />
Written and directed by Gerardo Olivares<br />
WINNER SRIFF 2011 JACK LONDON SPIRIT AWARD<br />
Based on a true story, Among Wolves is set in a remote valley<br />
of Spain’s Sierra Morena Mountains. It is the story of Marcos<br />
Rodríguez Pantoja who is famous for being one of Spain’s highprofile<br />
feral children. At the age of seven his abusive father sold<br />
him to a goatherder whom Marcos soon won over by proving<br />
himself a quick study at herding, trapping and fishing. After the goatherder died, Marcos<br />
was left to fend for himself. He spent the next twelve years living in the wilderness<br />
with a pack of wolves, declaring himself “King of the Valley.”<br />
I, Don Giovanni (see page 62) –<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 6:40pm<br />
My Afternoons with Margueritte (see page 61) –<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 6:30pm<br />
SRIFF Closing Night Party / Tuesday September 20th, 9pm<br />
La <strong>Rosa</strong> Tequileria & Grille • 500 4th Street, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> (Courthouse Square)<br />
Jeff Mattison & The Wayward Angels, The Hellhounds and Alabama Mike<br />
play at the The SRIFF Closing Night Party at La <strong>Rosa</strong> Tequileria & Grille<br />
Party free with film ticket (bring your ticket stub!) or <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> PASS holders.<br />
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art anD cinema:<br />
a Duet Dialogue<br />
Ongoing Exhibit, <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge,<br />
#1 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Avenue, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
Artists Reception - Friday, September 16, 2011, 5-8pm<br />
Through their unique ability to probe the artistic intentions of five different films<br />
that will screen at the SRIFF, five Sonoma County artists have created their own<br />
interpretive artistic reaction through their Art. Each Art piece will be displayed at its<br />
corresponding film screening and at the <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge.<br />
Gerald Huth<br />
Connie Mygatt<br />
Don Ponte Official Art for the SRIFF<br />
The film Only A Number is about a Hungarian woman who<br />
survived the Holocaust. This film spoke to me very strongly,<br />
as my family was refugees from Nazi Germany, who came<br />
to America after 13 years without a home. In my work, I<br />
have tried to show the de-humanization of the concentration<br />
camps, the suffering imposed on a people for no real reason.<br />
I have included the image for the film itself, and the repetition<br />
of the numbers, which became that person’s identity.<br />
When I was a young girl I would sit by the sea staring at her<br />
vastness with wonder and longing. The sea seemed to hold<br />
the depths and wonder of what my young heart was seeking.<br />
I recalled those feeling while watching Heaven’s Mirror. Fado<br />
music embraces the longing one has for a profound passion.<br />
In my art I wanted to portray that longing. The girl fearlessly<br />
awaits her fate, not to be washed out to sea, but to hold fast<br />
to a custom that sings in her heart and fuels her own passion.<br />
Karina Nishi Marcus<br />
In my connected paintings “12 Bar Blues: Key of Hope,” I<br />
have sought to explore the atmosphere of transformation.<br />
Regardless of outward circumstance and situation,<br />
it is a human journey to hope in seeming hopelessness<br />
that is the inspiration. Because the film—Music From the<br />
Big House—is shot in black and white, I have limited my<br />
palette to the strong contrasts of blue and yellow. The<br />
two corresponding canvases represent the “call and response” song form of the Blues.<br />
Kathleen McCallum<br />
Jennifer Mygatt-Tatum<br />
Joào de Brito<br />
Touch is essential to our existence.<br />
We need it. We crave it. We seek it.<br />
When we have experienced it and it has been taken<br />
from us<br />
We feel pain. We are here to learn two essential<br />
lessons.<br />
To Love. To Forgive. The rest doesn’t matter.<br />
Mother earth floats in the poisoned river. Coal<br />
collects on her abdomen. Her fertile body depleted<br />
by toxins in the water is frail. Grasping on to one<br />
slim representative of what was once a vibrant<br />
forest she hopes to stay afloat. With what little<br />
strength her body holds, she hopes for the return<br />
to a harmonious, respectful relationship between<br />
man and nature. On Coal River.<br />
is a Portuguese born painter who is known for his bright<br />
colors and themes of nature. He incorporates his Portuguese<br />
roots and is compared to the Fauvists. He is deeply<br />
inspired, he says, by Fado music and we are privileged to<br />
have him with us showing his work at the Heaven’s<br />
Mirror screenings and in the <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge.<br />
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Screening of<br />
heaven’S mirror:<br />
a portugueSe voyage<br />
Saturday, September 17, 2011<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave, 6:15pm<br />
Paintings by world renowned Portuguese-American artist Joao de Brito will accompany the<br />
screenings, followed by a discussion of the intersection of film, art and music in Portguese-<br />
American culture during a special Panel Event.<br />
DIR: Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
PROD: Joshua<br />
Mellars CAM:<br />
Joshua Mellars<br />
ED: Joshua Mellars<br />
MUS: Carlos<br />
Goncalves<br />
FEATURING:<br />
Joana<br />
Amendoeira,<br />
Mafalda Arnauth,<br />
Camané<br />
70<br />
Minutes, 2011,<br />
USA<br />
The evenings at Deerfield Ranch Winery on September 17 and<br />
Summerfield Cinemas in <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> on the 18th featuring<br />
presentations of film and art will be complemented by Live music<br />
by Conjunto de Fado Os Rouxinois and fadista Carmencita. The<br />
band, all in their early twenties, are an example of the rising<br />
resurgence of fado both in Portugal and the US. And in addition,<br />
authentic Portuguese food and fine wines will be served.<br />
Heaven’s Mirror:<br />
A Portuguese<br />
Voyage<br />
World Premiere<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Director Joshua Dylan<br />
Mellars’ love song to fado music, this documentary is a Chatwinesque travelogue of<br />
the filmmaker’s encounter with fado that goes deep into the spell of this hauntingly<br />
beautiful Portuguese folk music and its salient emotion--longing, or “saudade.”<br />
In telling fado’s story, Heaven’s Mirror travels from the Portuguese immigrant enclaves<br />
of California to New England’s former whaling ports, then to Lisbon’s candle-lit<br />
fado houses and Indian Goa’s steamy, pastel bungalows.<br />
New generation fadistas Ana Moura and Mafalda Arnauth are featured in Mellars’<br />
documentary, bringing a fresh approach to fado: Moura, filmed singing in an intimate<br />
cabaret setting, has sung “No Expectations” on the big stage with the Rolling Stones;<br />
Arnauth is filmed at Sintra’s windswept Moorish castle and on the rugged coastline<br />
which inspires her own songs, and has recorded Astor Piazzolla’s Argentine tangos<br />
and Tom Jobim’s Brazilian bossa novas, as well as traditional fados.<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18, 4:00 pm, Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Screening of<br />
only a number<br />
Sunday, September 18, 2011<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 1pm<br />
Community Partner: Sonoma County Jewish <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Join in with Holocaust Survivor Lillian Judd and Director Steven Besserman<br />
as they discuss the film, and the process of Forgiveness, followed by debut of<br />
Liliian’s book From Nightmare To Freedom, and a book signing.<br />
DIR: Steven<br />
Besserman<br />
SCR: Steven<br />
Besserman,<br />
Aranka Mozes<br />
Besserman<br />
CAM: Gerardo<br />
Puglia<br />
ED: Iva Drufovka<br />
MUS:<br />
Allen Krantz<br />
FEATURING:<br />
M. Katrin Daria<br />
65<br />
Minutes, 2010,<br />
USA<br />
Only a Number<br />
West Coast Premiere<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Stephen Besserman’s<br />
parents, Aranka and<br />
Joseph, are survivors<br />
of the Holocaust. Both<br />
have numbers tattooed<br />
on the inside of their left<br />
arm: hers is A17855, his<br />
is 159337.<br />
To better understand his<br />
parents’ history, he travels to Europe and follows the same path his mother did. Starting<br />
in her home of Atkar, Hungary, he moves on to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the<br />
place where she began her descent into hell and where she became only a number<br />
to the Nazis. Then he moves to Waldlager in Muhldorf, Germany to the concentration<br />
camp where his parents met, fell in love and found the will to live. The journey<br />
continues to Troubing, Germany, where they married, and finally onto America to<br />
begin a new, free life.<br />
While a majority of the film is narrated by his mother’s words, the film’s interspersed<br />
dialogue beautifully depicts Besserman’s ambivalent feelings about the Holocaust because<br />
had such a horrific event not occurred, he may not have come to be.<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Monday, Sept. 19, 2:00 pm Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
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~ awarDS lunch ~<br />
Saturday September 17th 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm<br />
LOCATION:<br />
Sizzling Tandoor Restaurant<br />
409 Mendocino Avenue<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, CA 95401<br />
PRICE: Limited number of tickets $20. Not included with passes.<br />
Purchase at <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge or wcfilmfest@aol.com<br />
Aung San Suu Kyi – Robert and Margrit Mondavi Peace &<br />
Cultural Understanding Award<br />
1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Burma will receive<br />
SRIFF’s 7th Robert and Margrit Mondavi Peace and Cultural<br />
Understanding Award. The award is to be accepted on behalf<br />
of Aung San Suu Kyi by Stephen Collins.<br />
Sally Kirkland – Career Achievement Award<br />
Sally is best known for Anna, which garnered her the 1987<br />
“Best Actress” Oscar nomination, and the wins for the “Best<br />
Actress” Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Awards. She<br />
started her career as the youngest member of The Actor’s<br />
Studio in the early ‘60s, training with Lee Strasberg. Sally<br />
played alongside Kevin Costner in Revenge and in JFK, with<br />
Cicely Tyson and Lisa Kudrow in Heat Wave, opposite<br />
Matthew McConaughey and Jenna Elfman in EdTV, and with Jim Carrey in Bruce<br />
Almighty. Sally teaches acting, produces and directs numerous projects. She is a<br />
painter (her paintings are exhibited in the FHL), a poet and a reverend for the<br />
Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.<br />
Stephen Collins – Cinema of Conscience Award<br />
Stephen Collins is a co-founder of Creative Coalition, a nonprofit,<br />
nonpartisan group made up of American entertainment<br />
industry members. The group educates leaders in the arts<br />
community on First Amendment rights, arts advocacy and<br />
public education. Collins starred in 7th Heaven, Star Wars, First<br />
Wives Club, Because I Said So, and more. He brings his first<br />
film Next of Kin to SRIFF.<br />
Veronica Diaz-Carranza – Rising Star Award<br />
We are thrilled to welcome to Veronica Diaz-Carranza to <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, for<br />
the Northern California premiere of Mamitas, by award-winning filmmakers<br />
from Chapman University. Veronica is a rising star to watch.<br />
Michael Henry Wilson – SRIFF Modern Masters Award<br />
Michael has authored books on Martin Scorsese, Clint<br />
Eastwood, Jacques Tourneur, Raoul Walsh, and Borzage.<br />
His documentaries include A Personal Journey with Martin<br />
Scorsese Through American Movies, In Search of Kundun<br />
with Martin Scorsese (a 1998 WCFF award winner), and Clint<br />
Eastwood, le franc-tireur. Michael brings to SRIFF his most<br />
recent documentary Reconciliation: Mandela’s Miracle.<br />
Brad Rosier – Breakthrough Creative Achievement Award<br />
Originally planning to attend medical school, Brad realized<br />
that he wanted to work in the arts. He discovered several<br />
films made on zero-budgets and as a result he made the<br />
extraordinary Currency on a shoestring budget. Brad is a true<br />
SRIFF filmmaker discovery!<br />
Joshua Dylan Mellars – Distinguished Cinema Artist Award<br />
Joshua is a masterful filmmaker who blends music, imagery, poetry<br />
and narrative into his films. His unique style is captivating and will<br />
heighten one’s sense of self. He brings to SRIFF Heaven’s Mirror,<br />
completing his music documentary trilogy. Tango Illusions received<br />
the 2005 Wine Country <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> “Best CineLatino” Award.<br />
Michael Knowles (actor/writer/director, producer) – SRIFF Maverick<br />
Award<br />
“Using our experiences as guideposts we trust our instincts and<br />
imagination in our approach to making movies. Staying true to the<br />
script story, allowing it to direct us, and letting everyone involved<br />
influence the process, we enable ourselves to be creative in every<br />
step of making the film.” Michael brings his third feature film, East<br />
Fifth Bliss to SRIFF.<br />
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wine eventS<br />
Spain & portugal<br />
Friday, September 16th 5:00pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas Garden Court<br />
Mother Vine - Summerfield 3, 5:00 pm<br />
Traveling throughout Portugal, including the islands of the<br />
Azores, we’ve documented select historical wine regions<br />
under multiple threats. From the building of second home<br />
to European Union mandates; from financial hardship<br />
to the unwillingness of a younger generation to follow,<br />
Portugal is very close to losing forever important elements<br />
of it swine culture and history. Mother Vine is an effort to<br />
introduce European and American audiences to just what is at stake as Portugal encounters<br />
modernization. Through humor and pathos, Mother Vine follows the practices and dignified<br />
labor of winemakers in regions unknown to all but the most traveled. Can hundreds of years<br />
of wine culture be saved? Mother Vine ultimately says “yes.”<br />
Ken Payton, <strong>Film</strong> Director will be hosting a Wine Tasting after the screening of<br />
rare wines explored in the film<br />
Sunday, September 18th 4:30pm<br />
Roxy Cinemas<br />
In a Dreamland in 3D - Roxy 2, 2:00 pm<br />
Paula, a young and aggressive executive, travels to Rioja<br />
Alavesa to attend a conference. After a series of setbacks,<br />
she meets “Vinfo”, the elf of wine. By his side, she will discover<br />
the natural resources of Rioja Alavesa and will explore<br />
its villages and countrysides. She becomes immersed in a<br />
magical story that will forever change her life.<br />
Join the filmmakers for a TASTING OF FINE RIOJA ALAVESA WINES including:<br />
Bodegas Loli Casado • Lapuebla de Labarca • Rioja Alavesa<br />
Call 707-935-3456 for details and reservations.<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
panel DiScuSSion<br />
A <strong>Festival</strong> of the Senses.<br />
Immerse Yourself in <strong>Film</strong>s that Matter, Inspiring Connections, Epicurean Adventure,<br />
Music, the Arts and Cultural Diversity<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge (FHL)<br />
Saturday 11am - 1:30pm<br />
Making Movies That Matter<br />
$5 Brown Bag Brunch<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge (FHL) #1 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Avenue at 3rd Street, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, CA<br />
<strong>Film</strong>makers who have made a serious commitment to expressing their concern and<br />
vision for a better world will discuss the challenges of making movies that stand to<br />
make a difference to humanity.<br />
• Stephen Collins - Next of Kin • James Breen - Happy Birthday Michael Peck<br />
• Michael Wilson - Reconciliation • Chris Grimes - Second Knock on the Door<br />
• Nicole Kian-Sadighi - I Am Neda • Josh Litle - Furious Force of Rhymes<br />
• Elen Friedland - Delicious Peace Grows • Steve Besserman - Only A Number<br />
Sunday 11am-1:30pm<br />
Panel & Lunch<br />
Independents’ Day • Emerging Talent • <strong>Film</strong>makers to Watch<br />
Get the Inside Scoop on Indie <strong>Film</strong>making Today<br />
$15. Includes Lunch<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge (FHL) #1 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Avenue at 3rd Street, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, CA<br />
• Minh Duc Nguyen - Touch • Michael Knowles - East Street Bliss<br />
• Veronica Diaz - Mamitas • Brad Rosier - Currency<br />
• Trevor Adrian - The Cosmic Joke<br />
• “One To Watch”- Clay Jeter & Sarah Hagan - Jess + Moss<br />
• Monty Fisher & Camilo Vila - City of Gardens<br />
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acting worKShopS<br />
with the proS<br />
Sally Kirkland Master Class:<br />
“Theatre Games” For Actors and Everyone Else<br />
$20. Sunday September 18, 2:00-5:00pm,<br />
Glaser Center 547 Mendocino Avenue<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, CA 95401<br />
180 Minutes<br />
I’ve been teaching acting to actors and non-actors since 1975. The Sally Kirkland<br />
Insight Acting Workshop combines what I call MONOLOGUE BLAST where people<br />
either bring in their own monologue or cold read one of mine (poetry works too). I<br />
work with monologues and “Emotional Recall”; “Personalizations”; “As If” exercises<br />
to bring more truth to the monologues.<br />
People bring in songs to do acting work with and I teach Theater Games where<br />
we work with New York, British, Texas, Southern, French, German, etc, accents and<br />
animals and all sorts of fun characters; 5 year-olds, 90 year-olds, Rock ‘n Roll Star,<br />
Mental Patients, Lisps, Deaf, Dumb and Blind, etc. We improvise games called<br />
“Freeze Frame” and the “Car Exercise”. People really love it!<br />
I help people with their projection and physical relaxation when in front of the public.<br />
I’ve worked with actors and non-actors in 16 U.S. cities and Australia and England.<br />
Graduates of my work include: Sandra Bullock, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Bill<br />
Paxton, Dwight Yokum, Kathy Griffin, and many more. I help people explore their<br />
freedom of expression and everybody has a lot of fun.<br />
-Sally Kirkland<br />
Sally Kirkland Master Class:<br />
Your Turn<br />
$10 Tue. Sep 20, 1:00-3:00pm<br />
Glaser Center 547 Mendocino Avenue<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, CA 95401<br />
120 Minutes<br />
Although this “sequel” to Sally Kirkland’s “Theatre Games For Actors and Everyone<br />
Else” on Sunday is the opportunity for participants to show the results of the work<br />
they’ve done on themselves, it will also be open to others who are interested in<br />
Ms. Kirkland’s acting methods. Please bring material of your own for this session: a<br />
poem, a monologue, or a short scene you can do with a partner.<br />
Don Gibble Improv Workshop:<br />
Give ‘Em Your Best. It’s What They Want!<br />
$15 Tue. Sep 20, 4:00-7:00pm,<br />
Glaser Center 547 Mendocino Avenue<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong>, CA 95401<br />
180 Minutes<br />
Hollywood Talent Manager Don Gibble will teach an Improvisation Class showing<br />
what casting directors look for at both commercial and theatrical auditions.<br />
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Special eventS ScheDule<br />
Wednesday<br />
Kenwood Opening Night <strong>Film</strong> & Festivities - Deerfield Ranch Winery<br />
Gates Open 6:30pm • (see pg. 7)<br />
Thursday<br />
<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Opening Night <strong>Film</strong>s & Festivities - Summerfield Cinemas<br />
Reception Begins 5:30pm • (see pg. 8)<br />
Friday<br />
Artist Reception/Happy Hour – <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge<br />
5pm-8pm • (see pg. 10)<br />
Summerfield Cinema Reception - Summerfield Garden Court<br />
With Portuguese wines • 6:30pm • (see pg. 16)<br />
Saturday<br />
Bird Walk - 8am Howarth Park - No Host<br />
Followed by 10am Screening of Flirting with Heights, Summerfield<br />
Cinemas • (see pg. 30)<br />
Making Movies That Matter - <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge<br />
11am-1:30pm (see pg. 17)<br />
Awards Lunch - Sizzling Tandoor Restaurant<br />
2pm-3:30pm (see pg. 14)<br />
Reception with <strong>Film</strong>makers, Producers & Actors -<br />
Summerfield Garden Court<br />
6pm-7:30pm • $10 • Open to the Public<br />
Happy Hour - <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge<br />
5pm-7pm • No Host Bar<br />
Party with Rising Stars - Veronica Diaz-Carranza (Mamitas),<br />
John Robinson (City of Gardens), Sarah Hagan (Jess+Moss)<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge<br />
9:15pm • Tickets In Advance Online (www.sriff.org) or $10. at the door.<br />
Limited space. Book early.<br />
Sunday<br />
Independents’ Day - Emerging Talent, <strong>Film</strong>makers to Watch, Get the<br />
Inside Scoop on Indie <strong>Film</strong>making Today - <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge<br />
11am-1:30pm • (see pg.17)<br />
Sally Kirkland Master Class - “Theatre Games” For Actors and Everyone<br />
Else - Glaser Center<br />
2pm • (see pg. 18)<br />
Tea w/ Lillian Judd and Book Signing - Summerfield Garden Court<br />
1:00pm • Screening of Only a Number, followed by Tea<br />
Ticket and pass holders only • (see pg. 13)<br />
Happy Hour - <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge<br />
5pm-7pm • No Host Bar<br />
Evening with John Savage - Summerfield Cinemas<br />
7:15pm • (see pg. 52)<br />
Monday<br />
Reception for Sally Kirkland Tribute - Summerfield Garden Court<br />
6pm-7pm<br />
Sally Kirkland Career Achievement Award - Summerfield Cinemas<br />
7:30pm-9:30pm • With screening of Anna • (see pg. 58)<br />
Tuesday<br />
Sally Kirkland Acting Workshop - Glaser Center<br />
1pm-3pm • (see pg. 19)<br />
Don Gibble Improv Workshop - Glaser Center<br />
4pm-7pm • (see pg. 19)<br />
Reception for Closing Night <strong>Film</strong>s - Summerfield Cinemas 5:30pm<br />
Blues in the Roxy Theater Lobby - Hellhounds<br />
6pm-6:45pm • (see pg. 9)<br />
Closing Night Party - La <strong>Rosa</strong> Restaurant<br />
9pm • (see pg. 9)<br />
Friday, Sept. 23 - Special Screening of The Cove - Deerfield Ranch<br />
7pm • (see pg. 65)<br />
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Deerfield Ranch Cave, 6:00 pm<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
86<br />
Minutes<br />
Opening Night in the Cave!<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Opening Night in the Grand Room Theatre<br />
is especially welcoming and whets<br />
your appetite for things to come.<br />
Lingo Vino<br />
DIR: Daniel Texter<br />
Luxembourg, 2010, 32 Minutes<br />
Two old wine producers, Leo and Jakob,<br />
have been bickering for 40 years over who<br />
produces the best wine until a letter coming<br />
from America upsets this ritual.<br />
DRW MMX<br />
DIR: Stephen Ashton<br />
USA, 2011, 15 Minutes<br />
DRW MMX is a visual flow of the challenging<br />
harvest of 2010 with Robert Rex,<br />
winemaker at Deerfield Ranch Winery.<br />
In a Dreamland 3D<br />
DIR: Ezequiel Degastaldi<br />
24 Minutes, Spain<br />
Paula, a young and aggressive executive<br />
travels to Rioja Alavesa to attend a conference.<br />
During her trip back home and after<br />
experiencing a series of setbacks due to<br />
stress, her life changes when she meets<br />
“Vinfo”, the elf of wine. By his side, she will<br />
learn the habits and natural resources of<br />
Rioja Alavesa and will discover its villages<br />
and countrysides.<br />
Venez Avec Moi<br />
DIR: Tylor Norwood<br />
15 Minutes<br />
A film about the power of love, and how<br />
walking away is sometimes the best way to<br />
show someone you care.<br />
Wednesday, September 14<br />
Thursday, September 15<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm Summerfield Cinemas 3, 4:15 pm<br />
DIR: Jean<br />
Becker<br />
PROD:<br />
Louis<br />
Becker,<br />
Gérard<br />
Depardieu<br />
ED:<br />
Jacques<br />
Witta<br />
MUS:<br />
Laurent<br />
Voulzy<br />
CAST:<br />
Gérard<br />
Depardieu,<br />
Gisèle<br />
Casadesus<br />
88<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 6:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
My Afternoons with<br />
Margueritte<br />
Using a dictionary is like<br />
traveling —from one word to the<br />
next.<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
“Using a dictionary is like traveling—from<br />
one word to the next. You lose yourself as<br />
if in a labyrinth. You stop and you dream.”<br />
- Margueritte<br />
In a small town tucked away in rural Charente,<br />
France a chance meeting between<br />
handyman Germain (Gerard Depardieu)<br />
and the sharply intelligent 95-year-old Margueritte<br />
(Gisèle Casadesus) leads to a tender<br />
friendship. She introduces him to reading<br />
starting with philosopher Albert Camus.<br />
As her influence transforms his life and the<br />
lives of those around him, roles reverse<br />
when her sight begins to fails. .<br />
Winter Frog<br />
DIR: Slony Sow<br />
18 Minutes, 2011, France<br />
Benjamin, winemaker, sees his wife die in<br />
his arms following a long illness. Only one<br />
way for him: death. But a young Japanese<br />
woman, coming specially to taste his wine,<br />
will gently bring him to mourn the death<br />
of his wife by a series of symbols and exchanges<br />
between two cultures.<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Wed.!<br />
Food Truck: STREET-EATZ 6:30 - 8:30pm<br />
BAND: DGIIN 7PM - 8pm<br />
DIR: Ron<br />
Honsa<br />
PROD:<br />
Nan<br />
Penman<br />
CAM:<br />
Jimmy<br />
O’Donnell,<br />
Etienne<br />
Sauret<br />
ED:Charles<br />
Yurik<br />
CAST: Paul<br />
Taylor,<br />
Mark<br />
Morris,<br />
Suzanne<br />
Farrell,<br />
Merce<br />
Cunningham,<br />
Judith<br />
Jamison,<br />
Bill Irwin,<br />
Frederic<br />
Franklin,<br />
Marge<br />
Champion,<br />
Gideon<br />
Obarzanek,<br />
Rasta<br />
Thomas,<br />
Nikolaj<br />
Hubbe,<br />
Joanna<br />
Haigood,<br />
Shantala<br />
Shivalingappa,<br />
Jomar<br />
Mesquita,<br />
Jens Rosen<br />
Never Stand Still<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
This documentary explains how a different<br />
way of looking at dance evolved. During<br />
the depths of the depression, Ted Shawn, a<br />
choreographer, purchased an old farm. It<br />
was to become the heart of the experimental<br />
dance movement. Jacob’s Pillow Dance<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> is internationally known.<br />
One of Shawn’s main objectives was to<br />
make dance an acceptable profession for<br />
men and the other was to explore completely<br />
the beauty of movement. Jacob’s<br />
Pillow is known for innovation. All types<br />
of dance are fused and blended. Also included<br />
within the Center’s artistic umbrella<br />
are movements that are slightly off kilter<br />
and dancers who interact with the set.<br />
Pieces of performances are interspersed<br />
throughout. Interviews with noted dancers<br />
and choreographers as well as students<br />
string the narrative together. The film is a<br />
celebration of culture and provides an immersion<br />
in the art form and an exploration<br />
of the capabilities of the human body.<br />
-Diane McCurdy<br />
9 Variations On A Dance Theme<br />
DIR: Hilary Harris<br />
USA, 1967, 11 Minutes<br />
A a potent examination of both the human<br />
and film forms. Without resorting to any<br />
camera tricks, superimpositions or slow<br />
motion, the film explores how the aesthetics<br />
of editing and the camera can celebrate<br />
movement and the human body.<br />
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78<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011, USA<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 6:00 pm<br />
DIR: John<br />
Sturges<br />
PROD:<br />
John<br />
Sturges<br />
SCR:<br />
William<br />
Roberts,<br />
Walter<br />
Newman,<br />
Walter<br />
Bernstein<br />
CAM:<br />
Charles<br />
Lang<br />
ED:<br />
Ferris<br />
Webster<br />
MUS:<br />
Elmer<br />
Bernstein<br />
CAST: Yul<br />
Brynner,<br />
Eli Wallach,<br />
Steve<br />
McQueen,<br />
Charles<br />
Bronson,<br />
Robert<br />
Vaughn,<br />
James<br />
Coburn,<br />
Brad Dexter,<br />
Horst<br />
Buchholz<br />
128<br />
Minutes,<br />
1960,<br />
USA<br />
The Magnificent Seven –<br />
Restored Version<br />
US Cinema<br />
The <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong> Entertainment Group is<br />
proud to announce as its owners’ pick The<br />
Magnificent Seven, the venerated, star-studded<br />
Western from 1960 starring Yul Brynner,<br />
Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert<br />
Vaughn, Brad Dexter, Horst Bucholz and<br />
Eli Wallach. Inspired by master Japanese<br />
filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven<br />
Samurai (showing on Friday, September<br />
16 at 6:05 pm), it is a tale of seven American<br />
gunmen hired to protect a small farming<br />
community in Mexico from a gang of plunderers.<br />
This classic film is on the American<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Institute’s “100 Years… 100 Thrills” list.<br />
The film’s score, composed by Elmer Bernstein,<br />
was nominated for an Oscar for Best<br />
Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Living on Air<br />
DIR: David Macian<br />
Spain, 2011, 14 Minutes<br />
Who is the man behind the famous whistles<br />
heard in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns?<br />
How did the destinies of world renowned<br />
composer Ennio Morricone and musician<br />
Alessandro Alessandroni converge?<br />
Join us for a Champagne Reception<br />
Before the film 5:30pm
Thursday, September 15<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 7:00 pm Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 3:00 pm<br />
DIR: Sylvia<br />
Caminer<br />
PROD:<br />
Sylvia<br />
Caminer<br />
CAM:<br />
Douglas<br />
Bachman,<br />
Francisco<br />
Aliwalas<br />
ED: Avril<br />
Beukes,<br />
Rika<br />
Camizianos<br />
MUS: The<br />
Footnote<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Venance<br />
Ndibalema,<br />
Kristen<br />
Kenney<br />
119<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Tanzania: A Friendship<br />
Journey<br />
Northern California Premiere<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Sylvia Caminer, “Ven” Ndibalema and<br />
Kristen “Kris” Kenney In Person<br />
Emmy Award winning director and producer<br />
Sylvia Caminer (alumna of the 2003<br />
WCFF) has created a masterpiece that<br />
puts viewers right in the middle of Africa’s<br />
ancient culture, its contemporary poverty,<br />
and the eternal spirituality and hope of its<br />
people.<br />
Sylvia will attend the screening—a Northern<br />
California Premiere—with Venance “Ven”<br />
Ndibalema and Kristen “Kris” Kenney who<br />
are featured in this stirring documentary<br />
about friendship and awakening.<br />
Ven takes his American college friend Kris<br />
to the impoverished African nation where<br />
his family lives. As he rediscovers his past<br />
by visiting old friends and family, Kris is<br />
transformed when she encounters a reality<br />
that thrusts her out of her comfort zone<br />
and into a culture where life is hard and<br />
every day is seen as a blessing.<br />
Best Documentary & Best World<br />
Showcase - 2011 SoHo <strong>International</strong><br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
DIR:<br />
Carlos<br />
Saura<br />
PROD:<br />
Andrés<br />
Vicente<br />
Gómez,<br />
Andrea<br />
Occhipinti,<br />
Igor<br />
Uboldi ED:<br />
Julia Juaniz<br />
MUS:<br />
Nicola<br />
Tescari<br />
CAST:<br />
Lorenzo<br />
Balducci,<br />
Lino<br />
Guanciale,<br />
Emilia<br />
Verginelli<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
Italy<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:40 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
I, Don Giovanni<br />
Priest, Poet, Lyricist, Libertine<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Master filmsmith Carlos Saura has been<br />
making films for more than 50 years. This<br />
time turns his sights to opera and collaborates<br />
with his long time cinematographer<br />
and master “painter with light,” Vittorio<br />
Storaro (Apocalypse Now) to provide the<br />
stage for a nexus of revelations about art,<br />
politics and lust.<br />
The film traces the remarkable life of Lorenzo<br />
Da Ponte, a Jewish-born poet and Catholic<br />
priest who introduced Dante to America<br />
(be sure to see Dante’s Inferno - Animated<br />
Sunday, 9/18, 4:30pm, at the Roxy!). It<br />
opens in 1763, when he finds himself exiled<br />
to Vienna. It is there where his friend Giacomo<br />
Casanova introduces him to Wolfgang<br />
Amadeus Mozart who hires the unknown<br />
libertine as his librettist. Da Ponte’s own<br />
nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna<br />
nurture Mozart’s inspiration and lead<br />
to one of his boldest and most powerful<br />
compositions: Don Giovanni.<br />
Melody Caspari,<br />
Soprano<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Thurs.!<br />
Food Truck: Rosso Pizzeria’s Fire To Go<br />
6:30pm - 8:30pm<br />
Live Performance: Opera with Melody<br />
Caspari, Soprano 7pm - 8pm<br />
Friday, September 16<br />
DIR:<br />
Christopher<br />
Rufo<br />
PROD:<br />
Keith<br />
Ochwat<br />
70<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
Age of Champions<br />
West Coast Premiere<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Producer Keith Ochwat and Athlete<br />
Doreen Finnegan In Person<br />
This documentary profiles a number of<br />
elderly athletes who partake in the United<br />
States Senior Games.<br />
Roger Gentilhomme, 100 years old, is an<br />
alert, active and adept tennis player who,<br />
despite having had to contend with both<br />
arthritis and cancer surgery, looks forward<br />
to every match and marvels at the fact that<br />
he inspires people young and old alike. The<br />
Tigerettes are a women’s basketball team<br />
who are all over the age of sixty-five and<br />
have won six gold medals. Bradford Tatum,<br />
eighty-eight, was recently diagnosed with<br />
cancer and undergoing chemotherapy, but<br />
decides to postpone his surgery until after<br />
the Senior Games where he hopes to win<br />
the gold medal.<br />
This is the kind of movie that moves us in<br />
special ways. It really isn’t about old age or<br />
winning metals at all. It is about perseverance,<br />
friendship and aging joyfully.<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 5:00 pm<br />
Mother Vine<br />
World Premiere<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
Includes Tasting of Rare Portuguese<br />
Wines Hosted by Director Ken Payton<br />
Mother Vine takes us on magical voyage<br />
through Portugal, including the Azores,<br />
with renowned wine historian Virgilio Loureiro.<br />
Through humor and pathos, viewers<br />
follow the practices and dignified labor of<br />
winemakers in regions unknown to many,<br />
but the most traveled. Here we see vines<br />
with high overhead trellises on outrageously<br />
steep rocky terrain that are hand-tended by<br />
people who have been following unique traditions<br />
for centuries.<br />
It is these historic wine regions that are<br />
under multiple threats. From the building<br />
of second homes to European Union<br />
mandates, and from financial hardship to<br />
the unwillingness of a younger generation<br />
to follow, Portugal is very close to losing<br />
important elements of its wine culture and<br />
history forever.<br />
Mother Vine is an effort to introduce audiences<br />
to just what is at stake as Portugal<br />
encounters modernization.<br />
This is an opportunity to taste the wines and<br />
see what the world will be missing should<br />
these traditions perish. Special thanks to the<br />
producers of Mother Vine and the wine producers<br />
who have generously shared their<br />
bounty with us, and to Randall Graham for<br />
his kind assistance.<br />
24 25<br />
DIR: Ken<br />
Payton<br />
PROD:<br />
Liliana<br />
Mascate<br />
SCR: Ken<br />
Payton<br />
CAM:<br />
Nuno Sa<br />
Pessoa Sequeira<br />
ED:<br />
Nuno Sa<br />
Pessoa<br />
Sequeira<br />
78<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Portugal
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 5:35 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Edoardo<br />
Leo PROD:<br />
Gianluca<br />
Bertogna,<br />
Marco<br />
Bertogna,<br />
Marco De<br />
Angelis,<br />
Nicola De<br />
Angelis<br />
ED:<br />
Roberto<br />
Siciliano<br />
CAST:<br />
Marco<br />
Bonini,<br />
Edoardo<br />
Leo and<br />
Sabrina<br />
Impacciatore<br />
100<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France<br />
Eighteen Years Later<br />
World Cinema<br />
This is a road movie, Italian style. Estranged<br />
brothers Mirko and Genziano embark on a<br />
fractious journey to honor the last wishes of<br />
their deceased father. His request is to have<br />
his ashes carried 300 miles from Rome to<br />
his hometown in Calabria in his antique<br />
Morgan automobile and be buried next to<br />
his wife’s grave.<br />
Mirko is a submissive peasant and Genziano<br />
is a high-powered businessman. As<br />
they bicker, it becomes evident that their<br />
antagonism centers on some dark family<br />
secret involving their mother, which is<br />
slowly revealed in flashbacks.<br />
Along the way the car, the Morgan, becomes<br />
a character itself as the brothers<br />
encounter all the typical road trip conventions.<br />
The drama is punctuated with<br />
bursts of comedy as they travel through<br />
an entire range of emotions set against<br />
the rugged Calabrian countryside and<br />
backed by an eccentric and charming score.<br />
-Diane McCurdy<br />
Roxy 1, 6:05 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Akira<br />
Kurasawa<br />
PROD:<br />
Sôjirô<br />
Motoki<br />
ED:<br />
Akira<br />
Kurosawa<br />
MUS:<br />
Fumio<br />
Hayasaka<br />
CAST:<br />
Toshirô<br />
Mifune,<br />
Takashi<br />
Shimura,<br />
Keiko<br />
Tsushima<br />
207<br />
Minutes,<br />
1954,<br />
Japan<br />
Friday, September 16 Friday, September 16<br />
Seven Samurai<br />
World Cinema<br />
Akira Kurosawa’s legendary masterpiece<br />
has left an indelible mark on the history of<br />
cinema, inspiring John Sturges’ classic 1960<br />
western The Magnificent Seven (showing<br />
Thursday, September 15 at 5:35 pm), three<br />
sequels, and the science fiction film Battle<br />
Beyond the Stars. It became Japan’s highest-grossing<br />
movie and is among the first<br />
films to use the now-common plot element<br />
of the recruitment and gathering of heroes,<br />
as in Ocean’s Eleven and The Dirty Dozen.<br />
In 2010, the film topped Empire Magazine’s<br />
list of the 100 Best <strong>Film</strong>s of World Cinema.<br />
Set in 1587 during the warring states period<br />
of Japan, an agricultural community hires<br />
Kambei Shimada, a down-on-his luck samurai<br />
to protect their village. To their great<br />
joy he accepts, but insists on hiring six more<br />
ronin (unemployed samurai). The seven<br />
warriors teach the villagers how to defend<br />
themselves, and the villagers give each man<br />
three small meals a day in return as all prepare<br />
for an impending battle royale with a<br />
gang of forty bandits.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave, 6:15 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Marisa<br />
Lioreda<br />
Saez<br />
PROD:<br />
Aaron<br />
Gross<br />
ED: Cyrus<br />
Aliakbari<br />
CAST:<br />
Maria<br />
Bermudez<br />
92<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA,<br />
Spain<br />
Streets of Flamenco<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
In this documentary, Maria Bermudez, the<br />
daughter of Mexican immigrants, recounts<br />
her childhood in East Los Angeles with<br />
eight brothers and sisters and moving from<br />
barrio to barrio. Times are hard—her family<br />
encounters racism, she never stays in a<br />
neighborhood long enough to be accepted<br />
by her peers, and her parents’ marriage<br />
ultimately dissolves.“Through it all,” she<br />
recalls, “I had an underlying desire to do<br />
more, to be more.”<br />
Inspired by her older brother who meets a<br />
tragic end, Maria studies theater, music and<br />
dance, becoming consumed by the desire<br />
to focus exclusively on flamenco.<br />
Maria journeys across Spain—from Madrid<br />
to Valencia to Seville to Jerez—to learn<br />
from world-renowned dancers. Although<br />
the resentment she encounters affects her<br />
deeply, she perseveres and attains international<br />
recognition for her innovative approach<br />
to her craft that is inspired in part by<br />
her marriage to Pele de los Reyes, a singer<br />
who ventured to merge flamenco with rock<br />
and blues.<br />
Streets of Flamenco is a perfect film to be<br />
viewed by anyone who dares to dream. It<br />
calls on us to follow our hearts, to work<br />
hard and that sometimes we have to travel<br />
great distances emotionally as well as geographically.-<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Fri.!<br />
Food Truck: Max Porter- Elliott’s Bistro<br />
Airstream<br />
Roxy 3, 6:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Joshua<br />
Atesh Litle<br />
PROD:<br />
Serge<br />
Lalou,<br />
Steve<br />
Lawrence,<br />
Joshua<br />
Atesh<br />
Litle, David<br />
Piperni<br />
ED: Gloria<br />
Bremer,<br />
Jérôme<br />
Lefdup,<br />
Martha<br />
Skolnik<br />
MUS: Mathieu<br />
snax<br />
Gordon,<br />
Wendell<br />
Hanes<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
G-Town,<br />
Abass<br />
Abass and<br />
Alif<br />
The Furious Force of Rhymes<br />
Art + Politics = Certain Combustion<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Furious Force of Rhymes is a must-see documentary<br />
that explores hip-hop music as a<br />
form of protest. The focus of the film is the<br />
worldwide spread of hip-hop culture. The<br />
flashpoint for this spread is said to be when<br />
Afrika Bambaataa performed in Paris in<br />
1982. Since then France has been a hotbed<br />
of hip-hop culture, with African immigrants<br />
connecting with the American black street<br />
music. Now, hip-hop directly confronts the<br />
problems of France’s ghettoes.<br />
The artists profiled use their rhymes to<br />
speak out on behalf of the dispossessed.<br />
We see talents from all over the world, from<br />
Berlin’s Joe Rilla to System Ali, a crew from<br />
Israel consisting of Jewish and Palestinian<br />
rappers who rehearse in a bomb shelter.<br />
The film gives a lucid second look at the<br />
culture of hip-hop, not so much portraying<br />
it as a pop music fashion, but as a unifying<br />
sociological force that gives the youth of<br />
the world the courage and power to speak<br />
out in the face of strife and injustice. With<br />
director Joshua Atesh Litle In person.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Simply Rob<br />
DIR: Tom Shrapnel<br />
United Kingdom, 2011, 15 Minutes<br />
A portrait of poet and activist Rob Vassilarakis,<br />
who was diagnosed in 1993 as HIV<br />
positive. This film follows Rob as he tells his<br />
turbulent life story through his poetry.<br />
26 27<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France<br />
ALSO PLAYING:<br />
Sat., Sept. 17, 6:30 pm<br />
Roxy 3
Roxy 2, 7:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Massimo<br />
Amici<br />
ED:<br />
Francesca<br />
Montana<br />
MUS: Mak<br />
Sfrenz<br />
CAST:<br />
Gianpiero<br />
Cognoli,<br />
Harriet<br />
MacMasters-Green<br />
65<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
The Jailmate<br />
World Cinema<br />
Director Massimo Amici is a SRIFF/WCFF<br />
alumnus. Massimo taught himself how<br />
to direct and produce movies by making<br />
shorts. He draws much of his inspiration<br />
from Italian neorealist films.<br />
John Vanzotti is a frustrated young man<br />
who has isolated himself from a cruel world<br />
that doesn’t understand him. He doesn’t<br />
know how to connect with others, especially<br />
Samantha the girl he tutors and is secretly<br />
in love with, and spends all his time alone<br />
trying to finish a sitcom for a second-rate<br />
writing contest. As he immerses himself in<br />
his writing, an arrogant alter ego appears<br />
in his TV set to challenge John’s withdrawn<br />
lifestyle.<br />
At times the audience is left in doubt as<br />
to who is the real personality, although<br />
the “other self” conceit runs throughout<br />
the ten episodes the film is divided<br />
into, each can be considered separately.<br />
-Diane McCurdy<br />
Friday, September 16<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 7:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Walther<br />
Grotenhuis<br />
PROD:<br />
Wouter<br />
Snip<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Narr. by<br />
Jos Van<br />
der Steen<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Netherlands<br />
Enjoy Your Meal!<br />
How Food Changes the World<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
How often do we think about where food<br />
comes from, who is benefiting from our<br />
consumption and who and what are being<br />
harmed by what we eat?<br />
In this compelling and creative documentary,<br />
the preparation of a gourmet meal is<br />
juxtaposed with the harsh reality behind<br />
each major component of the meal. Accompanied<br />
by the soundtrack of Mozart’s Don<br />
Giovanni, the meal includes shrimp, the<br />
product of a farm which has destroyed hundreds<br />
of mangrove trees and taken property<br />
away from local farmers; a suckling<br />
pig who is fed soya beans harvested from<br />
South America where thousands of acres of<br />
land are burned to plant more beans; and<br />
sugar peas exported from Kenya where<br />
drought and dried-out rivers have resulted<br />
in a struggle over the water rights.<br />
The choice is ours to make: we must become<br />
conscious consumers who will clear<br />
a path through a minefield of moral choices<br />
and dilemmas. Are we up to this task?<br />
Luther Burbank and His<br />
Experimental Farm<br />
USA, 10 Minutes<br />
Director Lisa Edey Pierce In Person<br />
This film is an intimate look at famed plant<br />
breeder and local hero Luther Burbank and<br />
his farm in Sebastopol, CA. He developed<br />
many plants and today the farm is a living<br />
museum to his legacy<br />
Friday September 16<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 7:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Minh Duc<br />
Nguyen<br />
PROD:<br />
Mellissa<br />
Tong<br />
MUS:<br />
Marcell De<br />
Francisci<br />
CAST: Porter<br />
Lynn,<br />
John Ruby,<br />
Melinda<br />
Bennett,<br />
Tony<br />
LaThanh,<br />
Long<br />
Nguyen,<br />
Hiep Thi<br />
Le, Trisha<br />
Nguyen<br />
28 29<br />
109<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18 4:10 pm<br />
Roxy 1<br />
Touch<br />
World Cinema<br />
Porter Lynn makes her motion picture debut<br />
in this moving and romantic dramatic<br />
comedy about the tactile aspect of love.<br />
Lynn stars as Tam, an accomplished but<br />
painfully shy and isolated Vietnamese-<br />
American manicurist who takes a job at a<br />
salon in Los Angeles. Among her first customers<br />
is Brendan (John Ruby), a mechanic<br />
whose marriage to his corporate lawyer<br />
wife is suffering on account of his hands being<br />
smutted from his job.<br />
In a desperate move to keep his wife, he<br />
visits a nail salon every day for a manicure,<br />
preferring Tam’s personal touch as she and<br />
he brave the gossip of her colleagues. Before<br />
long, Brendan leans on Tam for further<br />
advice to bring himself and his wife closer<br />
together. But he and Tam find themselves<br />
caught up in an increasingly irresistible mutual<br />
attraction.<br />
Other aspects of the emotional impact of<br />
touch are explored in this heartwarming<br />
and thought-provoking film. It is sure to jar<br />
your synapses. With director Minh Duc<br />
Nguyen in person.<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Joaquín<br />
Oristrell<br />
PROD:<br />
Marta<br />
Esteban,<br />
Sandra<br />
Hermida,<br />
Gerardo<br />
Herrero<br />
ED:<br />
Aixalà,<br />
Domi<br />
Parra<br />
MUS:<br />
Josep Mas,<br />
Salvador<br />
Niebla<br />
CAST:<br />
Olivia<br />
Molina,<br />
Paco León,<br />
Alfonso<br />
Bassave<br />
97<br />
Minutes,<br />
Spain<br />
Mediterranean Food<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
One is reminded with fondness of how<br />
food is used as an allegory, a metaphor, a<br />
code and a symbol for all that is most fundamental<br />
to us in films previously screened<br />
at our <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, including Eat, Drink,<br />
Man, Woman (WCFF 1994), Mostly Martha<br />
(WCFF 2001 ) and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ No<br />
Reservation (WCFF 2007).<br />
SRIFF’s director Stephen Ashton fell in love<br />
with Mediterranean Food several years ago.<br />
His perseverance in bringing it here finally<br />
paid off! The film is a romantic ménage à<br />
trois tale where the bedroom rather than<br />
the kitchen is at the center of the movie. It<br />
tells the story of Sofia (Olivia Molina), from<br />
her childhood at a small seaside cantina to<br />
becoming a famous chef, a journey she accomplishes<br />
not just through her passion for<br />
food, but also through her passion for the<br />
two men in her life: the steady Toni (Paco<br />
Leon) and the adventurous Frank (Alfonso<br />
Bassave). Both men appeal to different aspects<br />
of her personality and her ambition,<br />
and she is not really prepared to give up<br />
either of them.<br />
Director Joaquin Oristrell’s Unconscious,<br />
a humorous take on the world of psychoanalysis,<br />
won Best World Cinema Award at<br />
the 2004 WCFF.<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Fri.!<br />
Food Truck: Max Porter- Elliott’s Bistro<br />
Airstream
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 8:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Camilo<br />
Vila<br />
PROD:<br />
Monty<br />
Fisher,<br />
Rami Rivera<br />
Frankl,<br />
Francisco<br />
Hernández,<br />
Luis Llosa,<br />
Noreen<br />
Perez,<br />
Alicia Rivera<br />
Frank,<br />
Joseph<br />
Suarez,<br />
Camilo<br />
Vila<br />
SCR:<br />
Monty<br />
Fisher<br />
ED: Henry<br />
Vargas<br />
MUS:<br />
Roger<br />
Bellon<br />
CAST:<br />
John<br />
Robinson,<br />
Michael<br />
DeLorenzo,<br />
Alex Meraz<br />
101<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Peru, USA<br />
City of Gardens<br />
World Premiere<br />
Cine Latino<br />
Fri., Sept. 16<br />
Monty Fisher, Camilo Vila and John<br />
Robinson in Person.<br />
US based Cuban filmmaker Camilo Vila’s<br />
City of Gardens is a film is inspired by the<br />
story of Monty Fisher, an American teaching<br />
English in Peru who was jailed on<br />
trumped up charges and spent the early<br />
1980s in the Andean nation’s worst prison.<br />
Fisher is the film’s producer and even<br />
wrote the original screenplay, which Vila<br />
later adapted, transforming the main character<br />
into a young American surfer falsely<br />
accused of drug trafficking. Vila says that<br />
when he makes a film he never thinks<br />
of conveying “a message” but rather of<br />
“making a quality movie that has a good<br />
screenplay, a production marked by work<br />
ethic and that has a moral.” Starring John<br />
Robinson and Alex Meraz, the film was shot<br />
last year in Peru. Vila left Cuba in 1961, and<br />
after living in Miami, New York, Europe and<br />
Puerto Rico, moved to Los Angeles in 1985.<br />
ALSO PLAYING:<br />
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:30 pm<br />
Roxy 2<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 10:00 am<br />
DIR: Jean-<br />
Michel<br />
Bertrand<br />
SCR:<br />
Jean-<br />
Michel<br />
Bertrand,<br />
Dominique<br />
Marcel<br />
ED:<br />
Dominique<br />
Marcel,<br />
Sonia<br />
Bonvoisin,<br />
Henry Erisman<br />
MUS: Jakob<br />
Vinje<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Voice :<br />
Charles<br />
Berling,<br />
Jean-<br />
Michel<br />
Bertrand<br />
75<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France<br />
DIR: Elizabeth<br />
Pepin<br />
Silva<br />
27<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA,<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Flirting with Heights<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ing the Unseen<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Jean-Michel Bertrand takes us on a discovery<br />
adventure to the lair of the royal<br />
eagle. Bertrand began his quest, and the<br />
film about it, ten years ago. With him, we<br />
wander through Champsaur, a land not so<br />
far away but little known, an enchanting<br />
kingdom, bordered by the highest summits<br />
of the Alps. The intrepid Chamois, indolent<br />
Alpine Marmot, distinguished Stoat, black<br />
Grouse Gladiator, and multicolored birds<br />
accompany the filmmaker’s steps towards<br />
the heights. In an effort to not disturb these<br />
wild beasts, Bertrand shows how he makes<br />
himself forgotten to the point of invisibility.<br />
But he also shares his daily life: the interminable<br />
treks, the 50 kilos of film material that<br />
he must haul to the top, the lack of comfort,<br />
the solitude, the doubt, freezing nights, and<br />
the interminable waiting in a tent.<br />
Slow the Flow<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
A prime example of Eco Cinema from<br />
California, covering multiple water-related<br />
issues, including: urbanization’s effect on<br />
stormwater runoff, water-friendly landscaping,<br />
water conservation and pesticide use.A<br />
great documentary.,<br />
Preceded by a Bird Walk in Howarth<br />
Park. Meet at 8am at Summerfield<br />
Cinema. <strong>Film</strong> at 10am.<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Roxy 3, 11:00 am<br />
Youth Shorts<br />
Reflections on our early years make for<br />
great storytelling.<br />
Dog Math<br />
DIR: Lori Stoll<br />
USA, 2011, 7 Minutes<br />
Seven year old Emily learns about grief,<br />
loss and acceptance when her beloved<br />
dog Alistair is put down. Beautiful and<br />
touching, it is a story that many know all<br />
too well.<br />
Immersion<br />
DIR: Richard Levien<br />
USA, 15 Minutes<br />
Immersion focuses on Moises, a young<br />
Mexican immigrant who doesn’t understand<br />
English, but knows that numbers are<br />
universal and hopes he can do well on his<br />
math test. Untrained actors from Bay Area<br />
public schools make this film a more real,<br />
visceral experience.<br />
Play by Play<br />
DIR: Carlos Baena<br />
USA, 2010, 23 Minutes<br />
Donn, a lonely 10-year-old, leads a vivid<br />
imaginary life as a big league ballplayer.<br />
When his schoolyard nemesis learns about<br />
it, Donn is thrust into an escalating struggle<br />
to avoid being humiliated in front of his<br />
class.<br />
The Red Curtains<br />
DIR: Alain Deymier<br />
Spain, 35 Minutes<br />
Jose and Pablo, 13, are forced to flee the<br />
city and are condemned to drift as Jose<br />
tries to solve the mystery of his identity.<br />
30 31<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
80<br />
Minutes<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, Noon<br />
Cycles Shorts<br />
In this series of shorts we see filmmakers dealing with<br />
the cycles of life.<br />
The Anchor<br />
DIR: Luke Daniels<br />
United Kingdom, 2011, 16 Minutes<br />
A story about Nigel, a light-hearted young man who<br />
stumbles into The Anchor, a pub, for a pint of beer. The<br />
people he meets there stay with him for years to come.<br />
The Convention of Dying<br />
DIR: Shana Sosin<br />
USA, 2010, 12 Minutes<br />
An 80 year old matriarch in her last hours of life<br />
discovers that as absurd as the four generations of<br />
Miller women can appear, their care and concern for<br />
her never shies from the truth. Tough Midwest women<br />
navigate a complex emotional map.<br />
The Sea is All I Know<br />
DIR: Jordan Bayne<br />
USA, 2011, 30 Minutes<br />
An estranged couple come to the aid of their dying<br />
daughter, but struggle their faith in God and each other.<br />
Academy Award winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) brilliantly<br />
portrays a grieving mother trying to understand<br />
the hand she has been dealt in this heartbreaking short.<br />
Walter<br />
DIR: Jonathan Browning<br />
USA, 2011, 4 Minutes<br />
Paul Dooley (Insomnia) stars as a widower looking for<br />
company in this short short-film by Jonathan Browning.<br />
Winter Frog (see pgs 22 & 61 for description)<br />
Dir: Slony Sow<br />
France, 2011, 18 Minutes
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 12:05 pm<br />
DIR: Erik<br />
Sween<br />
ED: Don<br />
Poe, Diana<br />
Logreira<br />
MUS: Haik<br />
Naltchayan<br />
50<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Barista: Inside the Counter<br />
Culture<br />
World Premiere<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
Five baristas spill the beans on the daily<br />
grind—getting up at before dawn, caffeinating<br />
the masses, multi-tasking like maniacs.<br />
They serve up an eye-opening blend of<br />
espresso, sass, and subculture. <strong>Film</strong>ed in<br />
New York, Portland, Seattle, DC, and San<br />
Francisco, this film shows how your favorite<br />
cup is flavored as much by the cultures and<br />
history that created it, as it is by the coffee<br />
in your cup.<br />
Come meet the Ethiopian barista, the Italian<br />
joker, the aspiring national champion,<br />
the coffee historian, and the philosopher of<br />
cups. You’ll never look at your cup of coffee<br />
the same.<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 1:45 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Srdan<br />
Karanovic<br />
PROD:<br />
Srdan<br />
Golubovic,<br />
Jelena<br />
Mitrovic<br />
SCR:<br />
Srdan<br />
Karanovic<br />
CAM:<br />
Slobodan<br />
Trninic<br />
ED:<br />
Branka<br />
Ceperac,<br />
Mateja<br />
Rackov<br />
MUS:<br />
Zoran Simjanovic<br />
CAST:<br />
Miki<br />
Manojlovic,<br />
Iva<br />
Krajnc,<br />
Nebosja<br />
Dugalic,<br />
Radivoje<br />
Bukvic<br />
104<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Serbia,<br />
Albania<br />
Saturday, September 17 Saturday, September 17<br />
Solemn Promise (Besa)<br />
World Cinema<br />
Adapted from a true story, this is a subtle,<br />
clever and heartwarming movie about how<br />
even the bloodiest of human conflicts is no<br />
match for the power of friendship, loyalty,<br />
and love. Taking its title from the Albanian<br />
word for “faith,” the story takes place inside<br />
an unassuming schoolhouse in a small Serbian<br />
town during World War I. The principal,<br />
Filip, a native Serb, receives notification<br />
urgently requiring him to travel to Belgrade<br />
and assist in the war effort. While he is<br />
away, the school custodian Azem, offers his<br />
“besa”—a solemn promise to be kept even<br />
if it means certain death—to keep Filip’s<br />
wife Lea, safe.<br />
The arrangement is uneasy at first. Azem is<br />
an uneducated Albanian Muslim and Lea is<br />
a cultured, Christian woman from Slovenia<br />
who feels as though they have nothing in<br />
common. As time goes by and the fighting<br />
inches closer, Azem and Lea trade stories<br />
from their lives and discover they share a<br />
passion and talent for music while building<br />
a bond that transcends war, politics and any<br />
possible difference in race, class or religion.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 2:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Davey<br />
Frankel,<br />
Rasselas<br />
Lakew<br />
PROD:<br />
Mesereta<br />
Argaw,<br />
Davey<br />
Frankel,<br />
Michael<br />
Frenschkowski,<br />
Lise Mette<br />
Jensen,<br />
Rasselas<br />
Lakew,<br />
Susannah<br />
Ludwig,<br />
Chris<br />
Ouwinga,<br />
Izabella<br />
Tzenkova,<br />
Darryn<br />
Welch<br />
ED:<br />
Davey<br />
Frankel,<br />
Matt<br />
Mayer<br />
MUS:<br />
Christian<br />
Meyer<br />
CAST:<br />
Rasselas<br />
Lakew,<br />
Dag Malmberg,<br />
Ruta<br />
Gedmintas<br />
The Athlete<br />
World Cinema<br />
The first Ethiopian film submitted for an<br />
Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign <strong>Film</strong> is<br />
based on a true story (with some amazing<br />
archival footage). It celebrates the life<br />
of Abebe Bikila, the first African to win an<br />
Olympic Gold Medal. Having earned comparisons<br />
to the classic Robert De Niro film<br />
Raging Bull, the poignant and moving story<br />
will impart the lesson that accepting defeat<br />
is truly optional.<br />
It seemed as though Bikila was destined<br />
for Olympic stardom, as his birth date, August<br />
7, 1932, coincided with the Olympic<br />
Marathon in Los Angeles, California. While<br />
serving in Ethiopia’s Imperial Bodyguard,<br />
he was discovered by Onni Niskanen, a<br />
Finnish-born Swede who was hired by the<br />
Ethiopian government to train potential<br />
athletes.<br />
In 1960, Bikila was added to the Ethiopian<br />
Olympic team at the last minute. Unable to<br />
acquire a pair of shoes that fit him comfortably,<br />
Bikila ran the marathon barefoot and<br />
finished first with a record time of 2:15:16.2.<br />
Four years later in Tokyo, Bikila won the<br />
marathon with a time of 2:12:11:2, setting<br />
a new world record and becoming the first<br />
athlete to win the Olympic Marathon twice<br />
in a row, cementing his reputation as the<br />
greatest long distance runner in the world.<br />
Then tragedy struck him down...or did it?<br />
-James Conrad<br />
32 33<br />
93<br />
Minutes,<br />
Ethiopia<br />
Roxy 3, 2:00 pm<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
85<br />
Minutes<br />
LMAO! Humor Shorts<br />
Laugh out loud... it’s cool<br />
A Sense of Humor<br />
DIR: Nathan Larkin-Connolly<br />
USA, 2011, 10 Minutes<br />
Laura was born with a disorder that makes<br />
it impossible for her to laugh. Starring<br />
Glee’s Heather Morris.<br />
California King<br />
DIR: Eli Akira Kaufman<br />
USA, 2008, 21 Minutes<br />
A womanizing mattress salesman falls<br />
for a skeptical insomniac who knows her<br />
science better than her heart.<br />
Life In Short<br />
DIR: Matthew Perkins<br />
USA, 23 Minutes<br />
A struggling dwarf actor produces a short<br />
film in an attempt to win the heart of his<br />
average sized best friend..<br />
The Movie Critic<br />
DIR: Gary Corbett Davis<br />
USA, 8 Minutes<br />
My Friend Peter<br />
DIR: Steve Kopera<br />
USA, 2010, 11 Minutes<br />
An awkward waiter and his hand puppet<br />
strike up a conversation on the bus.<br />
Stanley Pickle<br />
DIR: Vicky Mather<br />
United Kingdom, 2010, 12 Minutes<br />
Stanley plays with his toys all day and<br />
every evening his mother kisses him goodnight.<br />
Thing is Stanley is twenty.
Roxy 2, 2:15 pm<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
68<br />
Minutes<br />
Music Arts In <strong>Film</strong> Shorts<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Band Art: An Orchestra in Search<br />
of Freedom<br />
DIR: Ivan Valdes<br />
Spain, 30 Minutes<br />
Gordan Nikolic, a Serbian violinist, surprises<br />
us with a project that transcends music.<br />
Through a three concert tour around Spain<br />
we will unravel Band Art philosophy, and<br />
discover his innovative approach.<br />
Living On Air<br />
DIR: David Macian<br />
Spain, 2011, 14 Minute<br />
Who is the man behind the famous<br />
whistles heard in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti<br />
westerns? How did the destinies of world<br />
renowned composer Ennio Morricone<br />
and musician Alessandro Alessandroni<br />
converge?<br />
Winter<br />
DIR: Leyla Modirzadeh<br />
USA, 2011, 24 Minutes<br />
What happens when you make Franz<br />
Schubert’s song cycle ‘Winterreise’ into a<br />
series of music videos? You get the inner<br />
life of horses, dogs, and swans. You find<br />
out what fish dream about and you never<br />
look at crows the same way again. This<br />
not-to-miss short within a short film is the<br />
first installment of Leyla Modirzadeh’s<br />
haunting experimental trilogy. It’s all here:<br />
urban emptiness, mortality, loss, hope,<br />
dreams of spring and wasted youth. .<br />
Saturday, September 17 Saturday, September 17<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 2:10 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Marshall<br />
Curry and<br />
Sam Cullman<br />
PROD:<br />
Steve<br />
Bannatyne,<br />
Marcia<br />
Carver,<br />
Sam<br />
Cullman,<br />
Marshall<br />
Curry,<br />
Sally Jo<br />
Fifer, Nick<br />
Fraser, Bill<br />
Gallagher,<br />
Simon<br />
Kilmurry<br />
ED:<br />
Marshall<br />
Curry<br />
MUS:<br />
James<br />
Baxter<br />
85<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
If a Tree Falls:<br />
A Story of the Earth Liberation<br />
Front<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
This thought-provoking documentary examines<br />
the drastic lengths people will go<br />
when they care passionately about the environment.<br />
The story largely concerns Daniel<br />
McGowan, a young man who was arrested<br />
by Federal agents in 2005 in connection<br />
with a pair of arsons committed four years<br />
earlier in Oregon and Washington State<br />
by members of the Earth Liberation Front,<br />
a group of radical environmental activists<br />
whom many refer to as “eco-terrorists.”<br />
The film is as effective as it is insightful. It<br />
ponders the logistical, logical and moral<br />
issues of environmentalism. A logger explains<br />
that while cutting down trees is part<br />
of his job, he does not want to cut them all<br />
down. He points out that actions by certain<br />
environmentalists are not radical, but the<br />
logging industry’s act of cutting down 95%<br />
of the Silva in the US is.<br />
The film plants seeds of introspection in<br />
the mind of the viewer like acorns and pine<br />
cones being shed upon a forest floor. None<br />
of the acts of arson and vandalism by members<br />
of the Earth Liberation Front resulted<br />
in injury or loss of human life, but Daniel<br />
McGowan is in jail sentenced as a terrorist.<br />
Yet oil spills, logging and strip-mining<br />
wreak untold death and destruction upon<br />
our planet which begs the question—should<br />
companies be considered terrorists too?<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 3:35 pm<br />
DIR: Iara<br />
Lee<br />
PROD:<br />
George<br />
Gund,<br />
Sergei<br />
Krasikov<br />
ED:<br />
Nathaniel<br />
Cunningham,<br />
Jeff<br />
Marcello,<br />
Collin<br />
Ruffino<br />
MUS:<br />
Mahdyar<br />
Aghajani<br />
72<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
Cultures of Resistance<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Does each gesture really make a difference?<br />
Can music and dance be weapons of peace?<br />
In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director<br />
Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better<br />
understand a world increasingly embroiled<br />
in conflict and as she saw it, heading for<br />
self-destruction. After several years, travelling<br />
over five continents, Iara encountered<br />
a growing number of people who committed<br />
their lives to promoting change. This<br />
is their story. From Iran where graffiti and<br />
rap became tools in fighting government<br />
repression, to Burma where monks acting<br />
in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship,<br />
to Brazil where musicians reach out to<br />
slum kids and transform guns into guitars,<br />
and ending in Palestinian refugee camps<br />
in Lebanon where photography, music,<br />
and film have given a voice to those rarely<br />
heard, Cultures of Resistance explores how<br />
art and creativity can be ammunition in the<br />
battle for peace and justice.<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 4:00 pm<br />
East Fifth Bliss<br />
34 35<br />
DIR:<br />
Michael<br />
Knowles<br />
PROD:<br />
Michael<br />
Knowles,<br />
Douglas<br />
Matejka,<br />
John Ramos,<br />
John<br />
Will<br />
MUS:<br />
Daniel<br />
Alcheh<br />
CAST:<br />
Michael C.<br />
Hall, Lucy<br />
Liu, Sarah<br />
Shahi. Peter<br />
Fonda,<br />
Rhea Perlman,<br />
Brie<br />
Larson<br />
97<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18, 8:30 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
US Cinema<br />
Adapted from an award-winning novel<br />
by Douglas Light and featuring such high<br />
profile names as Peter Fonda (Easy Rider),<br />
Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) and Michael C.<br />
Hall (Dexter), East Fifth Bliss is the story of<br />
a man due for an unexpected and overdue<br />
awakening from his dreary life.<br />
Thirty-five-year-old Morris Bliss is trapped<br />
in an urban catch-22. He wants to travel,<br />
but has no money. He needs a job, but has<br />
no prospects. Adding to his woes, he shares<br />
an apartment on New York City’s Lower<br />
East Side with his widowed father and is<br />
still haunted by his mother’s premature<br />
death. But when Stephanie, the highly sexual<br />
eighteen-year-old daughter of a former<br />
high school classmate comes into his life,<br />
an awkward relationship ensues and suddenly<br />
Morris finds himself fighting to keep<br />
his life from spinning out of control.<br />
Moving, funny and full of thought-provoking<br />
social commentary, East Fifth Bliss<br />
is a film that will send audiences on a<br />
wild roller coaster ride close to the edge.<br />
-James Conrad
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 4:00 pm<br />
Total<br />
lRunning<br />
Time:<br />
77<br />
Minutes<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Monday, Sept. 19, 5:00 pm<br />
Roxy 2<br />
Cinema of Conscience Short<br />
Program<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Our series of films on social issues over the<br />
last 25 years reflects changes in the world.<br />
Directors James Breen, Nicole Kian-<br />
Sadighi and Stephen Collins in person<br />
Happy Birthday Michael Peck<br />
DIR: James Breen<br />
USA, 2011, 25 Minutes<br />
While the nation celebrates Labor Day, an<br />
unemployed autoworker named Michael<br />
Peck celebrates his birthday by giving an<br />
interview about his family’s experiences in<br />
the auto industry. Through the interview, it<br />
becomes obvious that this is a final chance<br />
for Michael to be heard before he commits<br />
a desperate act to protest how the auto industry<br />
has treated its workers.<br />
I Am Neda<br />
DIR: Nicole Kian-Sadighi<br />
21 Minutes, 2011, USA<br />
A courageous young woman who has<br />
become the face of the Iranian Green<br />
Movement.<br />
The Interview<br />
DIR: Michelle Steffes<br />
12 Minutes, 2010, USA<br />
Next of Kin<br />
DIR: Stephen Collins USA<br />
A US Army corporal makes a tense official<br />
visit to the estranged father of a woman<br />
soldier just killed in Iraq. He learns that his<br />
daughter felt closer to him than he knew.<br />
Roxy 3, 4:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Clay Jeter<br />
PROD:<br />
Jason<br />
Michael<br />
Berman<br />
ED: Isaac<br />
Hagy<br />
CAST:<br />
Sarah<br />
Hagan,<br />
Haley<br />
Strode,<br />
Austin<br />
Vickers<br />
82<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18, 2:30 pm<br />
Roxy 1<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Jess + Moss<br />
US Cinema<br />
Winner of the 2011 Dallas <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> and Nashville <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, Jess +<br />
Moss is the story of two cousins during one<br />
summer. The ideas of growing up, abandonment,<br />
sexual awakening and fear of the<br />
future are explored and presented through<br />
a series of beautifully shot vignettes. Every<br />
scene is a moment in time, with the next<br />
moment being related to the last—as if the<br />
viewer is looking deep into Jess and Moss’<br />
minds. As the accompanying bits of taperecorded<br />
conversations stop, rewind or<br />
move ahead, so do these captivating moments<br />
of childhood. The stunning cinematography<br />
by Will Basanta and director Clay<br />
Jeter paints vivid imagery that accents the<br />
bits of conversation between Jess and Moss<br />
which provide subtle, yet important details<br />
to the story.<br />
Followed by Q & A with Clay Jeter<br />
and Sarah Hagan In Person<br />
(Be sure to join Clay Jeter and other Emerging<br />
<strong>Film</strong>makers for Brunch on Sunday,<br />
Sept. 18. see p. 17)<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Roxy 2, 4:30 pm<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 6:00 pm<br />
Milk War<br />
U.S. Premiere<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
A Canadian David and Goliath story of an<br />
organic dairy farmer battling to legalize the<br />
sale of farm-fresh unpasteurized milk in<br />
Canada, this film is about Michael Schmidt<br />
has supplied his friends and neighbors with<br />
raw milk for over 20 years even though it’s<br />
against federal law for a farmer to distribute<br />
milk to the public. In 2006 Schmidt’s farm<br />
was raided by armed officers, his equipment<br />
was seized, all dairy products were<br />
destroyed and the farmer was charged with<br />
20 criminal offenses for distributing unpasteurized<br />
milk.<br />
Note: Closer to home, James Cecil Stewart,<br />
the owner of a Venice (CA) market, and two<br />
other people were arrested in August on<br />
charges stemming from the alleged illegal<br />
production and sale of unpasteurized goat<br />
milk, goat cheese and other products. Stewart,<br />
64, was charged with 13 counts, including<br />
conspiracy to commit a crime, processing<br />
milk without pasteurization, unlicensed<br />
business, food facility without a permit,<br />
improperly labeled food and removal of<br />
closure notice.<br />
36 37<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
71<br />
Minutes<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday Sept. 18 4:30 pm Roxy Cinemas 3<br />
Arts In <strong>Film</strong> Shorts<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Arcimboldo: Nature and Fantasy<br />
DIR: Carroll Moore<br />
USA, 2010, 30 Minutes<br />
A short documentary, courtesy of the<br />
National Gallery of Art, about the heralded<br />
“father of surrealism” Guiseppe Arcimboldo.<br />
Narrated by actress Isabella Rossellini,<br />
the film examines his trademark style<br />
of fusing portraits with items of agriculture<br />
and nature.<br />
Gauguin: Maker of Myth<br />
DIR: Carroll Moore<br />
USA, 2011, 30 Minutes<br />
An in-depth look at Paul Gauguin, the<br />
French painter who left a legacy of selfcreated<br />
myths about himself and exotic<br />
locations–including Brittany, Martinique<br />
and Tahiti. Narrated by actor Willem Dafoe,<br />
with the voice of Gauguin provided by<br />
actor Alfred Molina, this film is a production<br />
of the National Gallery of Art in<br />
Washington.<br />
Pass Through the Fire<br />
DIR: Deirdre Lee<br />
USA, 2011, 11 Minutes<br />
Pass Through the Fire portrays artist Jay<br />
Strommen and his wood-fire ceramic process.<br />
Through an experimental approach,<br />
Pass Through the Fire explores themes<br />
relating to the natural elements and human<br />
destiny.<br />
DIR: Kevin<br />
O’Keefe<br />
PROD:<br />
Declan<br />
O’Driscoll,<br />
Kevin<br />
O’Keefe<br />
SCR: Kevin<br />
O’Keefe<br />
CAM:<br />
Barry<br />
Cheong<br />
ED:<br />
Barry Silverthorn<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Michael<br />
Schmidt<br />
47<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Canada
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 7:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Steven<br />
Cowan<br />
PROD:<br />
Steven<br />
Cowan,<br />
Cameron<br />
Harrison<br />
ED: Steve<br />
Cowan,<br />
Cameron<br />
Harrison,<br />
Barry<br />
Schienberg<br />
MUS:<br />
Bruce Zimmerman<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Bill<br />
Bradley,<br />
Mike<br />
Capuano,<br />
Mike<br />
Conaway,<br />
Mario<br />
Cuomo,<br />
Dick<br />
Durbin,<br />
Donna<br />
Edwards,<br />
Walter<br />
Jones, Dan<br />
Maffei<br />
57<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA<br />
Priceless<br />
World Premiere<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Democracy is a priceless idea, but just<br />
how—and exactly where—do elected officials<br />
get their campaign money? This<br />
documentary from Habitat Media examines<br />
the impact of funding from special interest<br />
groups (specifically from the pesticide and<br />
oil/gas industries) and how resulting subsidies<br />
reveal the dishonesty of Congress and<br />
the people who are making our laws.<br />
Persuasion and “contributions” from lobbyists<br />
are resulting in inadequate support<br />
and funding for ideas and projects that are<br />
beneficial to the public. From 2002 to 2008,<br />
the fossil fuel industry contributed over $86<br />
million to members of Congress, as opposed<br />
to only $3 million from renewable<br />
energy industries. As a result, around $70<br />
billion in subsidies were given to the fossil<br />
fuel industry, while only $12 billion was given<br />
to renewable energy. Likewise, the over<br />
$25 million in 2008 campaign contributions<br />
from agribusiness ensures that only .5% of<br />
American farms are organic.<br />
More than just a muckraking film, it investigates<br />
possible solutions including some humorous<br />
insight from our nation’s children.<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 6:15 pm<br />
DIR: Ilksen<br />
Basarir<br />
PROD:<br />
Cihat<br />
Bakir, N.<br />
Bunhan<br />
Bengi, Murat<br />
Senoy,<br />
Merthan<br />
Yalcin<br />
ED: Arzu<br />
Volkan<br />
MUS:<br />
Ugur Akyurek,<br />
Erdem<br />
Yoruk<br />
CAST:<br />
Timur<br />
Acar,<br />
Saadet<br />
Aksoy,<br />
Gizem<br />
Erden<br />
94<br />
Minutes,<br />
Turkey<br />
Love in Another Language<br />
World Cinema<br />
This film by Turkish director Ilksen Basarir<br />
tells a universal tale about the miscommunications<br />
in relationships that we all<br />
experience in a fast paced, high tech, social<br />
networking world, and about the power of<br />
love.<br />
Onur has been deaf since birth and although<br />
able to speak, he has chosen to stay<br />
silent. One evening at a friend’s engagement<br />
party, he meets Zeynep. Soon they<br />
fall in love, but the world they try to build<br />
begins to break down. Will they find a way<br />
to reconnect with the deepest of all human<br />
feelings with or without words?<br />
Paco<br />
DIR: Alvaro Ramos<br />
Spain, 2011, 20 Minutes<br />
This is the story of Paco Bernal, an unknown<br />
painter whose effort, sacrifice,<br />
dedication, love and talent, is at the center<br />
of this independent documentary for the<br />
whole of humanity.<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave, 6:15 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
PROD:<br />
Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
CAM:<br />
Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
ED: Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
MUS:<br />
Carlos<br />
Goncalves<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Joana<br />
Amendoeira,<br />
Mafalda<br />
Arnauth,<br />
Camané<br />
Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese<br />
Voyage<br />
World Premiere<br />
Double-Feature w/ Silent Sonata –2-for-1<br />
SPECIAL EVENT!<br />
(See Page 12 for details)<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Director Joshua Dylan Mellars’ love song<br />
to fado music, this documentary is a Chatwinesque<br />
travelogue of the filmmaker’s<br />
encounter with fado that goes deep into the<br />
spell of this hauntingly beautiful Portuguese<br />
folk music and its salient emotion--longing,<br />
or “saudade.”<br />
In telling fado’s story, Heaven’s Mirror travels<br />
from the Portuguese immigrant enclaves<br />
of California to New England’s former whaling<br />
ports, then to Lisbon’s candle-lit fado<br />
houses and Indian Goa’s steamy, pastel<br />
bungalows.<br />
New generation fadistas Ana Moura and<br />
Mafalda Arnauth are featured in Mellars’<br />
documentary, bringing a fresh approach to<br />
fado: Moura, filmed singing in an intimate<br />
cabaret setting, has sung “No Expectations”<br />
on the big stage with the Rolling Stones;<br />
Arnauth is filmed at Sintra’s windswept<br />
Moorish castle and on the rugged coastline<br />
which inspires her own songs, and has recorded<br />
Astor Piazzolla’s Argentine tangos<br />
and Tom Jobim’s Brazilian bossa novas, as<br />
well as traditional fados.<br />
38 39<br />
70<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18, 4:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Sat.!<br />
Food: Colin Watleys’ Fancy Pants Fresh<br />
Music Performances: Fado singers<br />
Roxy 3, 6:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Joshua<br />
Atesh Litle<br />
PROD:<br />
Serge<br />
Lalou,<br />
Steve<br />
Lawrence,<br />
Joshua<br />
Atesh<br />
Litle, David<br />
Piperni<br />
ED: Gloria<br />
Bremer,<br />
Jérôme<br />
Lefdup,<br />
Martha<br />
Skolnik<br />
MUS: Mathieu<br />
snax<br />
Gordon,<br />
Wendell<br />
Hanes<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
G-Town,<br />
Abass<br />
Abass and<br />
Alif<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France<br />
ALSO PLAYING:<br />
Fri., Sept. 16, 6:30 pm<br />
Roxy 3<br />
The Furious Force of Rhymes<br />
Art + Politics = Certain Combustion<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Furious Force of Rhymes is a must-see documentary<br />
that explores hip-hop music as a<br />
form of protest. The focus of the film is the<br />
worldwide spread of hip-hop culture. The<br />
flashpoint for this spread is said to be when<br />
Afrika Bambaataa performed in Paris in<br />
1982. Since then France has been a hotbed<br />
of hip-hop culture, with African immigrants<br />
connecting with the American black street<br />
music. Now, hip-hop directly confronts the<br />
problems of France’s ghettoes.<br />
The artists profiled use their rhymes to<br />
speak out on behalf of the dispossessed.<br />
We see talents from all over the world, from<br />
Berlin’s Joe Rilla to System Ali, a crew from<br />
Israel consisting of Jewish and Palestinian<br />
rappers who rehearse in a bomb shelter.<br />
The film gives a lucid second look at the<br />
culture of hip-hop, not so much portraying<br />
it as a pop music fashion, but as a unifying<br />
sociological force that gives the youth of<br />
the world the courage and power to speak<br />
out in the face of strife and injustice. With<br />
director Joshua Atesh Litle In person.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Simply Rob<br />
DIR: Tom Shrapnel<br />
United Kingdom, 2011, 15 Minutes<br />
A portrait of poet and activist Rob Vassilarakis,<br />
who was diagnosed in 1993 as HIV<br />
positive. This film follows Rob as he tells his<br />
turbulent life story through his poetry.
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 6:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Mariana<br />
Cengel-<br />
Solcanska<br />
PROD:<br />
Eduard<br />
Cengel,<br />
Andrzej<br />
Halinski,<br />
Jacek<br />
Lipski<br />
ED: Ondrej<br />
Azor<br />
MUS:<br />
Vladimir<br />
Martinka<br />
CAST:<br />
Lukcas<br />
Bicskey,<br />
Radoslav<br />
Brzobohat,<br />
Juliusz<br />
Chrzastowski<br />
108<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Slovakia<br />
The Legend of Flying Cyprian<br />
World Cinema<br />
Slovakian director Mariana Cengel-Solcanska’s<br />
first feature-length motion picture, The<br />
Legend of Flying Cyprian has been hailed<br />
as a visually impressive masterpiece with a<br />
glorious soundtrack.<br />
According to legend, in 18th century Europe,<br />
a man arrived very badly injured at<br />
the door of The Red Monastery, a Camaldolese<br />
monastery in the mountains. The<br />
monks, who live in total isolation, oblivious<br />
to the outside world, take him in, name him<br />
Cyprian, nursed him back to health, and<br />
discovered his profound skill at thousands<br />
of crafts and thousands of sciences. It is<br />
there that he built a flying machine adapted<br />
from Leonardo Da Vinci’s design and embarked<br />
on its maiden voyage to pay a visit<br />
to God himself.<br />
Mariana Cengel-Solcanska was born<br />
in Nitra in 1978. While studying <strong>Film</strong> at<br />
the Academy of Music and Dramatic<br />
Arts in Bratisla she directed several<br />
short student films and a made-for-TV<br />
movie produced in the Czech Republic.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Roxy 1, 7:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Nicholas<br />
Ozeki<br />
PROD:<br />
Adam<br />
Renehan<br />
SCR:<br />
Nicholas<br />
Ozeki<br />
CAM:<br />
Andrew M<br />
Davis<br />
ED:<br />
Melissa<br />
Brown<br />
MUS:<br />
Joseph Trapanese<br />
CAST:<br />
Jennifer<br />
Esposito,<br />
Joaquim<br />
de<br />
Almeida,<br />
Veronica<br />
Diaz-<br />
Carranza<br />
110<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Mamitas<br />
Cine Latino<br />
With STAR Veronica Diaz-Carranza in<br />
person!<br />
Jordin attends a school in East L.A. but he<br />
sees no point in it. He is cocky and charming;<br />
he insults his teacher who suspends<br />
him.<br />
In this coming of age story, the five days<br />
that Jordin is banished from class, we see<br />
the boy become a man. Jordin is not close<br />
to his cold and cranky father, but he is tender<br />
and loving with his aged grandfather<br />
who still fancies himself a bon vivant. He<br />
meets Felipa, a bookish girl and misfit who<br />
sees past Jordin’s macho swagger, and a<br />
tenuous friendship begins. Along the way<br />
some family secrets are revealed not only<br />
about Jordin, but about Felipa as well.<br />
The director’s cast mixes old pros like Pedro<br />
Armendariz as the beloved grandfather and<br />
proficient young newcomers such as Veronica<br />
Diaz-Carranza as Felipa who sparkles<br />
and is both sassy and soft in her portrayal.<br />
Veronica will attend the screening and will<br />
receive SRIFF’s “Rising Star Award”.<br />
Saturday, September 17<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm<br />
DIR: Janez<br />
Burger<br />
PROD:<br />
Conor<br />
Barry,<br />
Morgan<br />
Bushe,<br />
Tomas<br />
Eskilsson,<br />
Macdara<br />
Kelleher,<br />
Petri Rossi,<br />
Jozko Rutar,<br />
Fredrik<br />
Zander<br />
SCR:<br />
Janez<br />
Burger<br />
CAM: Divis<br />
Marek<br />
ED: Milos<br />
Kalusek<br />
MUS:<br />
Drago<br />
Ivanusa<br />
CAST:<br />
Leon Lucev,<br />
Ravil<br />
Sultanov,<br />
Pauliina<br />
Räsänen,<br />
René Bazinet,<br />
Daniel<br />
Rovai<br />
73<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Slovenia<br />
Silent Sonata<br />
Double-Feature w/ Heaven’s Mirror<br />
–2-for-1<br />
World Cinema<br />
A SRIFF GEM - A MUST SEE!<br />
A recent UCLA study determined that 93%<br />
of human communication is nonverbal.<br />
Director Janez Burger takes this premise a<br />
step further with Silent Sonata, a poignant<br />
film that contains no dialogue whatsoever<br />
(which you will not miss).<br />
“When we think of how humanity has lived<br />
for the past few thousand years, we don’t get<br />
the impression that it lived in peace which<br />
was occasionally broken by wars,” Burger<br />
observes. “On the contrary, humans have<br />
lived in war with occasional cease fires.”<br />
The story is about a father and his children<br />
who live in a dilapidated house in the<br />
middle of a barren warzone. As they await<br />
the enemy’s next volley, they are paid a visit<br />
by Circus Fantasticus, a wandering caravan<br />
complete with acrobats, a fire-eater, a<br />
hobo clown skilled at both accordion and<br />
sleight-of-hand magic tricks, and a dying<br />
Ringmaster.<br />
In this visual stunner, the forces of<br />
good overcome those of evil. It is a<br />
film of feelings, atmosphere, sensibility,<br />
and surrealism. With Special Guests.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18,<br />
6:15 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Sat.!<br />
Food: Colin Watleys’ Fancy Pants Fresh<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 8:35 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Olivier<br />
Babinet<br />
and Fred<br />
Kihn<br />
PROD:<br />
Laurent<br />
Herbecourt,André<br />
Logie,<br />
Joachim<br />
Lyng,<br />
Magnus<br />
Ramsdalen,<br />
Dawid<br />
Szurmiej,<br />
Igor<br />
Wojtowicz<br />
ED: Yann<br />
Dedet,<br />
Thomas<br />
Marchand<br />
MUS:<br />
Étienne<br />
Charry<br />
CAST:<br />
Olivier<br />
Gourmet,<br />
Pablo<br />
Nicomedes,<br />
Bakary<br />
Sangaré,<br />
Danuta<br />
Stenka<br />
91<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France,<br />
Poland,<br />
Belgium,<br />
Norway<br />
Robert Mitchum is Dead<br />
World Cinema<br />
This “melancomical” odyssey through<br />
Europe focuses on the unemployed actor<br />
Franky who spends his days smoking and<br />
dreaming of his career to get started. One<br />
day his manager Arsène puts him into a<br />
stolen car and heads off north claiming to<br />
have an appointment above the Arctic Circle<br />
with Franky’s idolized director. In search<br />
of his idol, Franky embarks on a bizarre trip<br />
through unfamiliar territories.<br />
40 41
Roxy 1, 9:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Dallas<br />
Hallam,<br />
Patrick<br />
Horvath<br />
PROD:<br />
Suziey<br />
Block,<br />
Karen<br />
Gorham,<br />
Dallas<br />
Richard<br />
Hallam,<br />
Patrick<br />
Horvath,<br />
Michelle<br />
Margolis<br />
SCR:<br />
Michelle<br />
Margolis,<br />
Karen<br />
Gorham,<br />
Dallas<br />
Hallam<br />
and Patrick<br />
Horvath<br />
ED: Dallas<br />
Richard<br />
Hallam,<br />
Patrick<br />
Horvath<br />
CAST:<br />
Karen<br />
Baird, Suziey<br />
Block,<br />
Karen<br />
Gorham<br />
83<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
Sat., Sept. 17<br />
Entrance:<br />
The Scary Side of the City of<br />
Angels<br />
US Cinema<br />
Cast and Crew In Person<br />
Entrance is about the limits of our perception<br />
and how the things lurking on the periphery<br />
of our lives can lead to unexpected<br />
conclusions that was created by a group of<br />
young LA actors and film pros.<br />
An intentionally extended beginning and<br />
middle mostly follows Suziey, a barista<br />
that we follow through the minutia of her<br />
daily Silverlake life (dog feeding, walking to<br />
work, coffee making, chit-chatting, followed<br />
by dog feeding, walking). Every step takes<br />
Suziey further into alienation and closer to<br />
emotional breakdown.<br />
But then... ‘THUMP, THUMP THUMP!’ Is<br />
someone lurking in the house? The last act<br />
is not only the prize at the end of Suziey’s<br />
shaggy dog story, but a tense, white-knuckle,<br />
continuous 20-minute shot with only<br />
one invisible cut!<br />
Patience is required, but the style of this<br />
horror/slice (no pun intended) of life film<br />
predicts a fine future for its young filmmakers<br />
and cast.<br />
Sunday, September 18<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, Noon<br />
DIR: Curt<br />
Fissel<br />
PROD:<br />
Ellen<br />
Friedland<br />
ED: Curt<br />
Fissel<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Ed<br />
O’Neill<br />
40<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
Delicious Peace Grows In A<br />
Ugandan Coffee Bean:<br />
Peace is Brewing In Africa<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
Ellen Friedland In Person.<br />
This film tells the story of one man’s mission<br />
to strengthen peaceful relationships<br />
and promote economic development despite<br />
the lingering ramifications of the hatred<br />
created by the tyrant Idi Amin Dada.<br />
A group of Christian, Muslim and Jewish<br />
neighbors put aside their differences and<br />
organize to form a collective, which they<br />
call Mirembe Kawomera - Delicious Peace.<br />
Upon partnership with a Fair Trade distributor<br />
based in the United States, their dream<br />
flourishes as the farmers’ standard of living<br />
improves and many American coffee drinkers<br />
in the United States become receptive<br />
to their message of peace and fair wages.<br />
Narrated by actor Ed O’Neill (Married...<br />
With Children) this inspiring documentary<br />
imparts a message of hope and solidarity<br />
that will jolt the minds of viewers into<br />
epiphany faster than that first cup of coffee<br />
of the day and perhaps help to bring<br />
forth changes in the world’s society.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Sunday, September 18<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 1:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Steven<br />
Besserman<br />
SCR:<br />
Steven<br />
Besserman,<br />
Aranka<br />
Mozes<br />
Besserman<br />
CAM:<br />
Gerardo<br />
Puglia<br />
ED: Iva<br />
Drufovka<br />
MUS:<br />
Allen<br />
Krantz<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: M.<br />
Katrin<br />
Daria<br />
Only a Number<br />
West Coast Premiere<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Stephen Besserman’s parents, Aranka and<br />
Joseph, are survivors of the Holocaust. Both<br />
have numbers tattooed on the inside of<br />
their left arm: hers is A17855, his is 159337.<br />
To better understand his parents’ history,<br />
he travels to Europe and follows the same<br />
path his mother did. Starting in her home of<br />
Atkar, Hungary, he moves on to Auschwitz-<br />
Birkenau in Poland, the place where she<br />
began her descent into hell and where she<br />
became only a number to the Nazis. Then<br />
he moves to Waldlager in Muhldorf, Germany<br />
to the concentration camp where his<br />
parents met, fell in love and found the will<br />
to live. The journey continues to Troubing,<br />
Germany, where they married, and finally<br />
onto America to begin a new, free life.<br />
While a majority of the film is narrated by<br />
his mother’s words, the film’s interspersed<br />
dialogue beautifully depicts Besserman’s<br />
ambivalent feelings about the Holocaust<br />
because had such a horrific event not occurred,<br />
he may not have come to be.<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 1:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Jean-Pierre<br />
Dutilleux<br />
PROD:<br />
François<br />
Enginger<br />
SCR:<br />
Jean-Pierre<br />
Dutilleux<br />
CAM: Lula<br />
Araujo,<br />
César<br />
Moraes,<br />
Bernard<br />
Malaisy<br />
MUS:<br />
Stewart<br />
Copeland,<br />
Jean-<br />
Michel<br />
Pinoteau<br />
CAST: Aurélien<br />
Wiik,<br />
Ayupu<br />
Kamaiura,<br />
Anna<br />
Carolina<br />
Vigo, José<br />
Steinbeck<br />
Amazon Forever<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Based on a true story, Amazon Forever is<br />
the vivid account of one young man’s destiny<br />
being written in his dreams.<br />
As a boy growing up in the countryside<br />
of Luxembourg, Nicolas often fantasized<br />
about life as an Indian. As an adult, he<br />
becomes a filmmaker who travels to Brazilian<br />
rainforests along the Amazon River to<br />
make a film about the ritual ceremony, the<br />
Kuarup.<br />
As Nicolas films a ceremony in which the<br />
villagers honor their dead, he begins to develop<br />
a keener understanding of their way<br />
of life and is awed by the deep connection<br />
these people feel with the Earth. Six months<br />
later at home in Luxembourg, Nicolas<br />
learns that the deforestation has increased<br />
and goes back to the village where he and<br />
the Indians wage war on the men illegally<br />
cutting down the rainforest, driving them<br />
away from the village. When the bulldozers<br />
return, Nicolas decides to use his camera as<br />
a tool for drawing worldwide attention to<br />
this Amazon village’s plight.<br />
42 43<br />
65<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Monday, Sept. 19, 2:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
Tea & book-signing with Lillian Judd,<br />
Holocaust Survivor<br />
Ticket & pass holders only<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
2009,<br />
France,<br />
Brazil
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 1:15 pm<br />
DIR: Otto<br />
Rosing,<br />
Torben<br />
Bech<br />
PROD:<br />
Claus<br />
Lauritzen,<br />
Mikisoq<br />
H. Lynge,<br />
Ruth Montgomery<br />
ED: Henrik<br />
Fleischer,<br />
Niels<br />
Ostenfeld<br />
MUS: Jan<br />
de Vroede<br />
CAST: Lars<br />
Rosing, Angunnguaq<br />
Larsen,<br />
Julie Berthelsen<br />
95<br />
Minutes,<br />
2009,<br />
Greenland,<br />
Denmark<br />
Nuummioq<br />
World Cinema<br />
This film is the first international feature<br />
from Greenland, a country with a population<br />
of about 56,000. It was written and<br />
directed by native Greenlanders with the<br />
more technical aspects handled by Danish<br />
professionals.<br />
“Nuummioq” literally means the man from<br />
Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland. Malik<br />
is a regular guy who is a carpenter and<br />
spends his time with the boys, drinking,<br />
hunting and whoring. When a friend lands<br />
in the hospital, Malik passes out and when<br />
he regains consciousness he is given a grim<br />
diagnosis. This pivotal incident which he<br />
keeps to himself becomes a catalyst for a<br />
re-evaluation of his life. He embarks on a<br />
long journey by boat with his Inuit cousin<br />
in which he learns about Inuit culture, his<br />
family secrets and the stark beauty that surrounds<br />
him.<br />
The story is told with minimalist intent<br />
and his evolution is set against the rugged<br />
landscape. The shadows, glaciers, the<br />
fjords all have their own severe grace. As<br />
Malik appreciates his heritage and his surroundings<br />
he becomes more sensitive,<br />
gentle, and comes to terms with his illness.<br />
-Diane McCurdy<br />
Roxy 2, 2:00 pm<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
93<br />
Minutes<br />
Sunday, September 18<br />
Spanish Arts Shorts<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Includes Tasting of Rioja Alavesa<br />
Wines! Spain: the home of Goya, Catalunya’s<br />
Gaudi, the Prado, the Guggenheim<br />
in Bilboa and...a passion for art as seen in<br />
these short films.<br />
9th Day of Creation<br />
DIR: Angel Urbina<br />
44 Minutes, 2011, Spain<br />
On the site of an abandoned church,<br />
an artist’s visionary and surreal dream<br />
manifests itself in paintings that extend<br />
along the walls, seemingly growing both<br />
naturally and spontaneously out of the<br />
Earth’s entrails.<br />
figure<br />
DIR: Maxi Campo<br />
25 Minutes, 2010, Spain<br />
In a Dreamland 3D<br />
DIR: Ezequiel Degastaldi<br />
24 Minutes, Spain<br />
Paula, a young and aggressive executive<br />
travels to Rioja Alavesa to attend a<br />
conference. After experiencing a series of<br />
setbacks due to stress, she meets “Vinfo”,<br />
the elf of wine. By his side, she will learn<br />
the habits and natural resources of Rioja<br />
Alavesa and will discover its villages and<br />
countryside. A film that is intense and full<br />
of magic story that will forever change<br />
your way of being and facing life.<br />
Sunday, September 18<br />
Roxy 1, 2:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Clay Jeter<br />
PROD:<br />
Jason<br />
Michael<br />
Berman<br />
ED: Isaac<br />
Hagy<br />
CAST:<br />
Sarah<br />
Hagan,<br />
Haley<br />
Strode,<br />
Austin<br />
Vickers<br />
82<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Jess + Moss<br />
44 45<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday, Sept. 17, 4:30 pm<br />
Roxy 3<br />
US Cinema<br />
Director Clay Jeter In Person<br />
Winner of the 2011 Dallas <strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> and Nashville <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, Jess +<br />
Moss is the story of two cousins during one<br />
summer. The ideas of growing up, abandonment,<br />
sexual awakening and fear of the<br />
future are explored and presented through<br />
a series of beautifully shot vignettes. Every<br />
scene is a moment in time, with the next<br />
moment being related to the last—as if the<br />
viewer is looking deep into Jess and Moss’<br />
minds. As the accompanying bits of taperecorded<br />
conversations stop, rewind or<br />
move ahead, so do these captivating moments<br />
of childhood. The stunning cinematography<br />
by Will Basanta and director Clay<br />
Jeter paints vivid imagery that accents the<br />
bits of conversation between Jess and Moss<br />
which provide subtle, yet important details<br />
to the story.<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 3:30 pm<br />
DIR: Brian<br />
Lilla<br />
PROD:<br />
Greg Miller<br />
CAM:<br />
Brian Lilla<br />
ED: Brian<br />
Lilla<br />
MUS: Axel<br />
Herrera<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Lalo<br />
Romero<br />
87<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Chile<br />
Patagonia Rising<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Throughout the past hundred years, over<br />
45,000 hydroelectric dams have been built<br />
across the world. Although they have been<br />
touted as a source of “clean” energy, these<br />
dams have forever altered the course of<br />
many of the world’s rivers in terms of their<br />
direction and the health of their ecosystems,<br />
with disastrous environmental effects.<br />
In the heart of stunning Patagonia, a remote<br />
and largely underdeveloped region that<br />
spreads across the southern portions of Argentina<br />
and Chile, flow two of the world’s<br />
purest rivers, Rio Baker and Rio Pascua. Fed<br />
by melting ice from glaciers in the Andes<br />
these rivers are the life force for the surrounding<br />
rainforests, estuaries and marine<br />
ecosystems and for hardy gauchos.<br />
The people of Patagonia are caught in a<br />
heated battle over the proposal to build<br />
five dams on these rivers. The viewpoints of<br />
gauchos, environmental activists, the prodam<br />
business sector and renewable energy<br />
experts are juxtaposed.<br />
The film calls much needed attention to the<br />
problem, while proposing viable solutions.<br />
- James Conrad<br />
Save Earth, Save Us<br />
DIR: Tatsuro Manno<br />
USA, 2010, 1 Minute<br />
A professor shows his students an experiment.<br />
He puts a frog in water, and boils<br />
it slowly. It dies unaware. Global warming<br />
similarly dries an old lady to death
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 3:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Michael<br />
Henry<br />
Wilson<br />
PROD:<br />
Carole J.<br />
Wilson,<br />
Michael<br />
Henry<br />
Wilson<br />
ED: Rick<br />
Blue, Terry<br />
Kelley<br />
MUS:<br />
Thomas<br />
Take<br />
Wilson<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Clint<br />
Eastwood,<br />
Desmond<br />
Tutu, FW<br />
de Klerk,<br />
Zindzi<br />
Mandela,<br />
Francois<br />
Pienaar,<br />
The<br />
Springboks<br />
88<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Monday,<br />
Sept. 19, 4:30 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3<br />
Reconciliation:<br />
Mandela’s Miracle<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
With Michael Henry Wilson, In Person<br />
This moving documentary, directed by<br />
Michael Henry Wilson, SRIFF Cinema of<br />
Conscience Award winner, provides an insightful<br />
look at Nelson Mandela the leader,<br />
former President, Nobel Peace Prize winner<br />
and “father of democracy” for post-apartheid<br />
South Africa.<br />
A series of interviews with those closest<br />
to Mandela chronicle his anti-apartheid<br />
beginning as the leader of Umkhonto we<br />
Sizwe, a part of the African National Congress;<br />
his 27 year imprisonment on Robben<br />
Island; and his release and eventual election<br />
as President in South Africa’s first fully<br />
democratic election. Members of the 1995<br />
Springboks, South Africa’s national rugby<br />
team, look back on his support of the team<br />
and their World Cup win that reunited the<br />
country.<br />
Loaded with archival footage, Reconciliation<br />
not only informs, but provides a real<br />
glimpse of the dark and dangerous reactions<br />
to apartheid. Footage of Truth and<br />
Reconciliation Commission hearings are<br />
heart-breaking as loved ones of victims<br />
share their stories. Footage of Clint Eastwood’s<br />
2009 film Invictus, about Mandela<br />
and the 1995 Springbok team presents a<br />
modern-day interpretation of the democratic<br />
rebuilding. Winner of the 2011 Cannes<br />
Independent <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, Reconciliation is<br />
a clear standout in a sea of films about a<br />
man who became the face of freedom and<br />
democracy.<br />
Sunday, September 18 Sunday, September 18<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 4:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
PROD:<br />
Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
CAM:<br />
Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
ED: Joshua<br />
Mellars<br />
MUS:<br />
Carlos<br />
Goncalves<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Joana<br />
Amendoeira,<br />
Mafalda<br />
Arnauth,<br />
Camané<br />
70<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday, Sept. 17, 6:15 pm<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave<br />
Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese<br />
Voyage<br />
World Premiere<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Director Joshua Dylan Mellars’ love song<br />
to fado music, this documentary is a Chatwinesque<br />
travelogue of the filmmaker’s<br />
encounter with fado that goes deep into the<br />
spell of this hauntingly beautiful Portuguese<br />
folk music and its salient emotion--longing,<br />
or “saudade.”<br />
In telling fado’s story, Heaven’s Mirror travels<br />
from the Portuguese immigrant enclaves<br />
of California to New England’s former whaling<br />
ports, then to Lisbon’s candle-lit fado<br />
houses and Indian Goa’s steamy, pastel<br />
bungalows.<br />
New generation fadistas Ana Moura and<br />
Mafalda Arnauth are featured in Mellars’<br />
documentary, bringing a fresh approach to<br />
fado: Moura, filmed singing in an intimate<br />
cabaret setting, has sung “No Expectations”<br />
on the big stage with the Rolling Stones;<br />
Arnauth is filmed at Sintra’s windswept<br />
Moorish castle and on the rugged coastline<br />
which inspires her own songs, and has recorded<br />
Astor Piazzolla’s Argentine tangos<br />
and Tom Jobim’s Brazilian bossa novas, as<br />
well as traditional fados.<br />
Roxy 1, 4:10 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Minh Duc<br />
Nguyen<br />
PROD:<br />
Mellissa<br />
Tong<br />
MUS:<br />
Marcell De<br />
Francisci<br />
CAST: Porter<br />
Lynn,<br />
John Ruby,<br />
Melinda<br />
Bennett,<br />
Tony<br />
LaThanh,<br />
Long<br />
Nguyen,<br />
Hiep Thi<br />
Le, Trisha<br />
Nguyen<br />
Happening at Summerfield Sun.!<br />
Music Performances: Fado singers<br />
46 47<br />
109<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Friday, Sept. 16, 7:30 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3<br />
Touch<br />
World Cinema<br />
Porter Lynn makes her motion picture debut<br />
in this moving and romantic dramatic<br />
comedy about the tactile aspect of love.<br />
Lynn stars as Tam, an accomplished but<br />
painfully shy and isolated Vietnamese-<br />
American manicurist who takes a job at a<br />
salon in Los Angeles. Among her first customers<br />
is Brendan (John Ruby), a mechanic<br />
whose marriage to his corporate lawyer<br />
wife is suffering on account of his hands being<br />
smutted from his job.<br />
In a desperate move to keep his wife, he<br />
visits a nail salon every day for a manicure,<br />
preferring Tam’s personal touch as she and<br />
he brave the gossip of her colleagues. Before<br />
long, Brendan leans on Tam for further<br />
advice to bring himself and his wife closer<br />
together. But he and Tam find themselves<br />
caught up in an increasingly irresistible mutual<br />
attraction.<br />
Other aspects of the emotional impact of<br />
touch are explored in this heartwarming<br />
and thought-provoking film. It is sure to jar<br />
your synapses. With director Minh Duc<br />
Nguyen in person.<br />
Roxy 3, 4:30 pm<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
71<br />
Minutes<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday Sept. 17 4:30 pm Roxy Cinemas 2<br />
Arts In <strong>Film</strong> Shorts<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Arcimboldo: Nature and Fantasy<br />
DIR: Carroll Moore<br />
USA, 2010, 30 Minutes<br />
A short documentary, courtesy of the<br />
National Gallery of Art, about the heralded<br />
“father of surrealism” Guiseppe Arcimboldo.<br />
Narrated by actress Isabella Rossellini,<br />
the film examines his trademark style<br />
of fusing portraits with items of agriculture<br />
and nature.<br />
Gauguin: Maker of Myth<br />
DIR: Carroll Moore<br />
USA, 2011, 30 Minutes<br />
An in-depth look at Paul Gauguin, the<br />
French painter who left a legacy of selfcreated<br />
myths about himself and exotic<br />
locations–including Brittany, Martinique<br />
and Tahiti. Narrated by actor Willem Dafoe,<br />
with the voice of Gauguin provided by<br />
actor Alfred Molina, this film is a production<br />
of the National Gallery of Art in<br />
Washington.<br />
Pass Through the Fire<br />
DIR: Deirdre Lee<br />
USA, 2011, 11 Minutes<br />
Pass Through the Fire portrays artist Jay<br />
Strommen and his wood-fire ceramic process.<br />
Through an experimental approach,<br />
Pass Through the Fire explores themes<br />
relating to the natural elements and human<br />
destiny.
Roxy 2, 4:30 pm Roxy 2, 4:30 pm<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
67<br />
Minutes<br />
Animated Shorts Program<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Our specially selected Animated Shorts<br />
Program ranges from pure visual beauty<br />
to a voyage into Dante’s Inferno. Special<br />
guest includes Hélène Cardona.<br />
Cockroach<br />
DIR: Luke Eve 14 Minutes, 2010, Australia<br />
It is a live action short with an animated<br />
CGI lead character.The film took a year to<br />
complete.<br />
Night Fishing with Cormorants<br />
DIR: Betsy Kopmar 5 Minutes, 2009, USA<br />
An abstract meditation, inspired in part by<br />
the 17th Century Japanese screen printing<br />
by Kano Tanyu “Night Fishing with Cormorants”<br />
and by the very stark and beautiful<br />
novel of Akira Yoshima, Shipwrecks. “I am<br />
not telling a natualistic story in one piece,<br />
but rather I have tried to make a work that<br />
will hold in equal reverence the spirit of<br />
the bird, the fish, and the fisherman.”<br />
Woman and Wind<br />
DIR: Aija Bley 11 Minutes, 2011, Latvia<br />
A short animated tale from Latvia about<br />
a woman from the West who falls in love<br />
with the Wind of the East. Bright, colorful<br />
and poetic, this story of love with no limits<br />
will capture your heart.<br />
Sunday, September 18 Sunday, September 18<br />
Animated Shorts Program, cont.<br />
Dante’s Inferno - Animated<br />
A Masterpiece is 700! World Premiere<br />
DIR: Boris Acosta PROD: Boris Acosta<br />
CAST: Armand Mastroianni,<br />
Eric Roberts, Vincent Spano, Jeff<br />
Conaway, Hélène Cardona<br />
37 Minutes, 2011, USA<br />
Poet & Actress Hélène Cardona<br />
(Chocolat) will discuss Dante<br />
and his influence on language<br />
and the arts. In Person.<br />
The SRIFF/WCFF 25th Anniversary celebration would not<br />
be complete without other great anniversaries... and in<br />
fact, 2011 is the 700th anniversary of Dante’s Inferno, the<br />
150th anniversary of Gustave Dorés lithographs of The<br />
Divine Comedy, the 100th anniversary of L’Inferno - the<br />
first Italian feature film ever and the 50th anniversary<br />
of Salvador Dali’s abstract 100 paintings of The Divine<br />
Comedy.<br />
Dante’s Inferno Animated, inspired by 14th century<br />
Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece, The Divine<br />
Comedy, takes us on a astonishing and terrifying tour of<br />
the afterlife. Dante (voiced by Eric Roberts), on a quest<br />
to be reunited with Beatrice, his one true love, joins his<br />
mentor Virgil (Vincent Spano) on a journey through the<br />
descending circles of Hell in search of the point of entry<br />
into Purgatory. Hélène Cardona portrays the Lustful<br />
Francesca.<br />
Featuring animated paintings of artist-filmmaker Boris<br />
Acosta, Dante’s Inferno Animated is an accessible<br />
entertaining interpretation of the epic poem. The visually<br />
engaging and intellectually stimulating film is sure to stir<br />
interest in the “father of the Italian language” Dante in a<br />
new generation. Happy Anniversary All!<br />
3rd Street Cinemas 1, 6:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Francine<br />
Cavanaugh;<br />
Adams<br />
Wood<br />
PROD:<br />
Jillian<br />
Elizabeth,<br />
Deann<br />
Borshay<br />
Liem, Dan<br />
Frishwasser,<br />
Eric<br />
Falkenstein,<br />
J.<br />
Robert<br />
Spencer<br />
ED: Mary<br />
Lampson<br />
MUS:<br />
Steven<br />
Gutheinz<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Ed<br />
Wiley, Bo<br />
Webb,<br />
Judy<br />
Bonds,<br />
Maria<br />
Lambert<br />
81<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
On Coal River<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
In this documentary about a real-life David<br />
and Goliath battle, a bitter feud between<br />
the residents of Coal River Valley, in West<br />
Virginia, and coal company Massey Energy<br />
rages on over a five-year period.<br />
Former coal miner Ed Wiley is concerned<br />
about the toxic waste facility that he used<br />
to work for now threatening his granddaughter’s<br />
elementary school. Bo Webb<br />
retired from the Marines to live in his childhood<br />
home, except that the valley is being<br />
destroyed by a company practicing mountaintop<br />
removal, or blowing up mountains<br />
in order to extract coal. Judy Bonds left her<br />
family’s home when a mine opened next<br />
door and kept sending black water down<br />
the creek. Maria Lambert brings in scientists<br />
to confirm that Massey Energy has<br />
contaminated her entire neighborhood’s<br />
water supply.<br />
These four leaders, along with the community,<br />
fight against the local school board,<br />
state government and Massey Energy to<br />
protect their children and their home. When<br />
they feel ignored, Wiley raises money to<br />
build a new elementary school, and walks<br />
from West Virginia to Washington, D.C. to<br />
speak directly to Senator Robert Byrd.<br />
Every individual exhibits dedication, vivaciousness<br />
and the will to keep fighting, even<br />
when down. This dramatic film’s end will<br />
have you cheering and proves that, even<br />
against all odds, anything is possible.<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 6:15 pm<br />
DIR: Janez<br />
Burger<br />
PROD:<br />
Conor<br />
Barry,<br />
Morgan<br />
Bushe,<br />
Tomas<br />
Eskilsson,<br />
Macdara<br />
Kelleher,<br />
Petri Rossi,<br />
Jozko Rutar,<br />
Fredrik<br />
Zander<br />
SCR:<br />
Janez<br />
Burger<br />
CAM: Divis<br />
Marek<br />
ED: Milos<br />
Kalusek<br />
MUS:<br />
Drago<br />
Ivanusa<br />
CAST:<br />
Leon Lucev,<br />
Ravil<br />
Sultanov,<br />
Pauliina<br />
Räsänen,<br />
René Bazinet,<br />
Daniel<br />
Rovai<br />
73<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Slovenia<br />
Silent Sonata<br />
World Cinema<br />
A SRIFF GEM - A MUST SEE!<br />
A recent UCLA study determined that 93%<br />
of human communication is nonverbal.<br />
Director Janez Burger takes this premise a<br />
step further with Silent Sonata, a poignant<br />
film that contains no dialogue whatsoever<br />
(which you will not miss).<br />
“When we think of how humanity has lived<br />
for the past few thousand years, we don’t get<br />
the impression that it lived in peace which<br />
was occasionally broken by wars,” Burger<br />
observes. “On the contrary, humans have<br />
lived in war with occasional cease fires.”<br />
The story is about a father and his children<br />
who live in a dilapidated house in the<br />
middle of a barren warzone. As they await<br />
the enemy’s next volley, they are paid a visit<br />
by Circus Fantasticus, a wandering caravan<br />
complete with acrobats, a fire-eater, a<br />
hobo clown skilled at both accordion and<br />
sleight-of-hand magic tricks, and a dying<br />
Ringmaster.<br />
In this visual stunner, the forces of good<br />
overcome those of evil. It is a film of<br />
feelings, atmosphere, sensibility, and<br />
surrealism. With Special Guests..<br />
-James Conrad<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday, Sept. 17,<br />
8:00 pm<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco<br />
48 49
Deerfield Ranch Cave, 6:15 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Sander<br />
Francken<br />
PROD:<br />
Karin S. de<br />
Boer<br />
ED: Gys<br />
Zevenbergen<br />
MUS: Adi<br />
Bhasin,<br />
Afel<br />
Bocoum,<br />
Sakar<br />
Khan,<br />
Rainer<br />
Michel,<br />
Morup<br />
Namgyal<br />
CAST:<br />
Abba<br />
Bilancoro,<br />
Kolado<br />
Bocoum,<br />
Dhamender<br />
Singhi<br />
94<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Netherlands<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Monday, Sept.<br />
19, 8:35 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3<br />
Bardsongs<br />
World Cinema<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ed in India and Mali, Bardsongs, using<br />
three folk tales from Rajasthan, West Africa<br />
and Ladakh respectively, this film demonstrates<br />
that wisdom is universal, regardless<br />
of what an individual person’s beliefs are.<br />
Part One tells the story of Sahir, whose father<br />
never jumps to conclusions, no matter<br />
how much he is tempted. The second story<br />
is that of Bouba, a student of the Koran<br />
who embarks on a six-day quest in and<br />
around the city of Djenné in search of the<br />
greatest part of all knowledge. The third<br />
tale concerns Sonam, his travels with his<br />
daughter through the Himalaya to a village<br />
to sell a dzo (a crossbreed between a yak<br />
and a cow), and the advice he receives from<br />
people he meets along the way.<br />
“When it comes down to it we all seem to<br />
think alike about the essence of our existence,<br />
whether you are a Hindu or a Christian,<br />
Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish or anarchist,<br />
atheist or animist,” muses Francken. “The<br />
understanding that the old wisdom of any<br />
given people is of universal importance,<br />
was a great starting point for me, especially<br />
in an age in which we more and more are at<br />
each other’s throats on account of cultural<br />
differences. ”<br />
Indeed, this beautiful, deep and poetic film,<br />
brimming with astute observations on human<br />
nature, seeks to bridge these gaps.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Sun.!<br />
Food: The Yeti 6:30Ppm - 8:30pm<br />
Roxy 1, 7:00 pm<br />
DIR: Brad<br />
Rosier<br />
PROD:<br />
Brad<br />
Rosier<br />
SCR: Brad<br />
Rosier<br />
CAM: Brad<br />
Rosier<br />
ED: Brad<br />
Rosier<br />
CAST: Damon<br />
Davis,<br />
Nora<br />
Batteast,<br />
Rachel<br />
Cottom,<br />
Jamie<br />
Grant, Brittany<br />
Fried,<br />
Kevin<br />
Joiner,<br />
Nathan<br />
DeSelm,<br />
Dennis<br />
Fox, Rick<br />
Sunderland<br />
85<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010, USA<br />
Sunday, September 18 Sunday, September 18<br />
Currency<br />
US Cinema<br />
A SRIFF MAJOR DISCOVERY!<br />
WEST COAST PREMIERE<br />
With director Brad Rosier in person—<br />
SRIFF Emerging Talent Award 2011<br />
When the credits roll in a film and planets<br />
and apples are all drifting in space, it becomes<br />
obvious that existential questions<br />
will be posed. Currency has been variously<br />
described as a drama, mystery, thriller and<br />
neo-noir. It is all these and more, a labor of<br />
love for Brad Rosier who not only directed,<br />
wrote, shot, edited, and produced it, but<br />
also served as production designer and<br />
make-up artist. He has a highly artistic approach<br />
in the framing of his work.<br />
Currency spans 80 years and follows four<br />
scenarios that are loosely connected by a<br />
mysterious antique coin that supposedly<br />
was Christopher Columbus’ lucky charm.<br />
The value that our society places on money<br />
and the price people place on their values<br />
are constant themes.<br />
A child mourns the death of her mother<br />
and asks why we die. A mobster ruminates<br />
as to whether life has any meaning and an<br />
old woman broods on why we are alone.<br />
Each position is presented with dialog and<br />
an over voiced philosophical explanation.<br />
Everything is strung together with a painter’s<br />
sensibility and the ever present coin.<br />
-Diane McCurdy<br />
Counterfeit<br />
DIR: Geoff Bailey<br />
20 minutes, 2010, USA<br />
Roxy 3, 7:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Charles<br />
Martin<br />
Smith<br />
PROD:<br />
Yolanda T.<br />
Cochran,<br />
Robert<br />
Engelman,<br />
Richard<br />
Ingber,<br />
Broderick<br />
Johnson,<br />
Andrew A.<br />
Kosove,<br />
Keith<br />
Melton,<br />
Carl Rogers,<br />
Steven<br />
P. Wegner,<br />
David<br />
Yates<br />
ED:<br />
Harvey<br />
Rosenstock<br />
MUS:<br />
Mark<br />
Isham<br />
CAST:<br />
Morgan<br />
Freeman,<br />
Ashley<br />
Judd,<br />
Harry<br />
Connick<br />
Jr., Kris<br />
Kristofferson,<br />
Nathan<br />
Gamble<br />
Dolphin Tale<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
A remarkable story of recovery and rehabilitation<br />
starring Harry Connick Jr., Ashley<br />
Judd and Morgan Freeman, Dolphin Tale is<br />
based on the true story of Winter, a bottlenose<br />
dolphin at Florida’s Clearwater Marine<br />
Aquarium, widely known for her prosthetic<br />
tail.<br />
A young boy named Sawyer befriends<br />
Winter, who was rescued from the Florida<br />
coast having lost her tail in a crab trap when<br />
she was three months old. Despite a grim<br />
prognosis for Winter, Sawyer rallies to her<br />
support, crusading for a prosthetic limb<br />
constructed from silicone and plastic to be<br />
affixed to her stump with a gel-like sleeve<br />
being used to prevent skin irritation.<br />
It should be noted that in real life, the innovations<br />
that improved Winter’s life have<br />
informed the prosthetics industry. A similar<br />
approach was used to create artificial appendages<br />
for US Air Force Senior Airman<br />
Brian Kolfage, who lost both legs and his<br />
right hand in a 2004 mortar attack on Iraq.<br />
This story of devotion and innovation will<br />
without a doubt leave an indelible mark upon<br />
the hearts and minds of all viewers, whether<br />
or not they have to cope with disabilities.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
50 51<br />
100<br />
Minutes,<br />
USA<br />
Roxy 2, 7:15 pm<br />
DIR: Christopher<br />
E.<br />
Grimes<br />
PROD:<br />
Christopher<br />
E.<br />
Grimes,<br />
Bethany<br />
Leonard,<br />
Joe Reno,<br />
Jessica<br />
King, Travis<br />
Edwards<br />
SCR:<br />
Christopher<br />
E.<br />
Grimes,<br />
Jessica<br />
King<br />
CAM:<br />
Travis<br />
Edwards<br />
ED: Travis<br />
Edwards<br />
MUS:<br />
Beth<br />
Moore,<br />
Shelby<br />
Cinca, Jim<br />
Cooper<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Paul<br />
Binder<br />
(narrator)<br />
60<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
A Second Knock at the Door<br />
World Premiere<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
With Christopher Grimes In Person<br />
This documentary offers a rare glimpse into<br />
the lives of military families dealing with the<br />
loss of loved ones to friendly fire. Through<br />
interviews and investigative reports obtained<br />
through the Freedom of Information<br />
Act, this documentary explores several key<br />
incidents in which the families of the fallen<br />
were forced to embark on a quest for the<br />
truth after the Army attempted to bury the<br />
true cause of death within the “fog of war.”.<br />
Trout Fishing In Afghanistan<br />
DIR: Eric Gilliom<br />
USA, 2010, 15 Minutes<br />
Eric Gilliom In Person<br />
During the height of the US-Taliban conflict,<br />
a retired US Navy Seal disguises himself<br />
and sets off for a trout fishing expedition in<br />
Afghanistan. George is put into harm’s way<br />
when he stumbles across the country’s largest<br />
opium harvest and films it. This short<br />
gives us a glimpse into what is just another<br />
day, and way of life, for the Afghan people.<br />
Next of Kin<br />
DIR: Stephen Collins<br />
USA<br />
A US Army corporal makes a tense official<br />
visit to the father of a woman soldier killed<br />
in Iraq with whom he had little contact.<br />
While he and the corporal spar over the US<br />
presence in Iraq, the father learns that his<br />
daughter felt closer to him than he knew.
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 7:15 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Oliver<br />
Stone<br />
122<br />
Minutes,<br />
1986,<br />
USA<br />
Roxy 3, 9:00 pm<br />
DIR: Brian<br />
de Palma<br />
170<br />
Minutes,<br />
1983,<br />
USA<br />
Salvador - 25th Anniversary:<br />
Evening with John Savage<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
The 25th Anniversary of Salvador is a perfect<br />
celebration for the SRIFF, as it is our<br />
25th Anniversary as Wine Country <strong>Film</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. We had the film 25 years ago and<br />
were privileged to have Co-Writer Richard<br />
Boyle on our Cinema of Conscience panel.<br />
He is the real life character James Woods<br />
portrays in the film.<br />
Set in El Salvador, the film traces a war photographer’s<br />
steps into a moment in history.<br />
This year we are honored to have John Savage<br />
with us to give particular insight into<br />
the making of the film, as well as the rest<br />
of his career.<br />
Scarface<br />
US Cinema<br />
This ground-breaking 1983 film was written<br />
by Oliver Stone. Nearly thirty years on,<br />
Scarface’s legacy remains confirmed and<br />
its “the higher they fly, the harder they fall”<br />
message will eternally ring true.<br />
Sunday, September 18 Sunday, September 18 Mon., Sept 19<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm<br />
DIR: Marc<br />
Evans<br />
PROD:<br />
Rebekah<br />
Gilbertson,<br />
Flora<br />
Fernandez-<br />
Marengo<br />
ED: Mali<br />
Evans<br />
MUS:<br />
Joseph<br />
LoDuca<br />
CAST:<br />
Matthew<br />
Rhys,<br />
Marta<br />
Lubos,<br />
Nahuel<br />
Pérez Biscayart,<br />
Nia<br />
Roberts,<br />
Matthew<br />
Gravelle<br />
120<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Argentina,<br />
UK<br />
Patagonia<br />
Quests for Roots at the End of<br />
the World<br />
Cine Latino<br />
In May 1865, 163 Welsh men, women and<br />
children set sail to flee the poverty of their<br />
hill farms and to find a promised land<br />
where they could prosper. Two months later,<br />
the Welsh came ashore in Patagonia, Argentina.<br />
Years later, two on-the-road stories<br />
of love and identity prove that the dream of<br />
Patagonia is still alive today.<br />
Cerys, an old diabetic woman (Marta Lubos),<br />
tricks her neighbor’s misanthropic<br />
son, Alejandro (Nahuel Perez Biscayart),<br />
into traveling with her to Wales, to find the<br />
farm her immigrant mother grew up on,<br />
and ends up broadening his horizons far<br />
beyond anything could have imagined.<br />
Gwen (Nia Roberts) and Rhys (Matthew<br />
Gravelle), a young couple, take a trip to Patagonia.<br />
Their journey takes an unexpected<br />
twist and turns into a love triangle with the<br />
entrance of their tour guide (Matthew Rhys)<br />
that puts their relationship to the test.<br />
The cast brings the characters’ wants and<br />
dreams to life. With beautiful backdrops<br />
and breathtaking cinematography, Patagonia<br />
explores cultural identity across multiple<br />
generations and is, itself, a beautiful<br />
example of the festival’s phrase “terroir of<br />
cinema”—the attributes, tastes and cultural<br />
distinctions that reflect the roots of the filmmakers<br />
and subjects they focus on.<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Sun.!<br />
Food: The Yeti 6:30Ppm - 8:30pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 8:30 pm<br />
East Fifth Bliss<br />
52 53<br />
DIR:<br />
Michael<br />
Knowles<br />
PROD:<br />
Michael<br />
Knowles,<br />
Douglas<br />
Matejka,<br />
John Ramos,<br />
John<br />
Will<br />
MUS:<br />
Daniel<br />
Alcheh<br />
CAST:<br />
Michael C.<br />
Hall, Lucy<br />
Liu, Sarah<br />
Shahi. Peter<br />
Fonda,<br />
Rhea Perlman,<br />
Brie<br />
Larson<br />
97<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday, Sept. 17, 4 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3<br />
US Cinema<br />
Adapted from an award-winning novel<br />
by Douglas Light and featuring such high<br />
profile names as Peter Fonda (Easy Rider),<br />
Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) and Michael C.<br />
Hall (Dexter), East Fifth Bliss is the story of<br />
a man due for an unexpected and overdue<br />
awakening from his dreary life.<br />
Thirty-five-year-old Morris Bliss is trapped<br />
in an urban catch-22. He wants to travel,<br />
but has no money. He needs a job, but has<br />
no prospects. Adding to his woes, he shares<br />
an apartment on New York City’s Lower<br />
East Side with his widowed father and is<br />
still haunted by his mother’s premature<br />
death. But when Stephanie, the highly sexual<br />
eighteen-year-old daughter of a former<br />
high school classmate comes into his life,<br />
an awkward relationship ensues and suddenly<br />
Morris finds himself fighting to keep<br />
his life from spinning out of control.<br />
Moving, funny and full of thought-provoking<br />
social commentary, East Fifth Bliss<br />
is a film that will send audiences on a<br />
wild roller coaster ride close to the edge.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 2:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Steven<br />
Besserman<br />
SCR:<br />
Steven<br />
Besserman,<br />
Aranka<br />
Mozes<br />
Besserman<br />
CAM:<br />
Gerardo<br />
Puglia<br />
ED: Ivan-<br />
Drufovka<br />
MUS:<br />
Allen<br />
Krantz<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: M.<br />
Katrin<br />
Daria<br />
65<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept. 18, 1:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3<br />
Only a Number<br />
West Coast Premiere<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Stephen Besserman’s parents, Aranka and<br />
Joseph, are survivors of the Holocaust. Both<br />
have numbers tattooed on the inside of<br />
their left arm: hers is A17855, his is 159337.<br />
To better understand his parents’ history,<br />
he travels to Europe and follows the same<br />
path his mother did. Starting in her home of<br />
Atkar, Hungary, he moves on to Auschwitz-<br />
Birkenau in Poland, the place where she<br />
began her descent into hell and where she<br />
became only a number to the Nazis. Then<br />
he moves to Waldlager in Muhldorf, Germany<br />
to the concentration camp where his<br />
parents met, fell in love and found the will<br />
to live. The journey continues to Troubing,<br />
Germany, where they married, and finally<br />
onto America to begin a new, free life.<br />
While a majority of the film is narrated by<br />
his mother’s words, the film’s interspersed<br />
dialogue beautifully depicts Besserman’s<br />
ambivalent feelings about the Holocaust<br />
because had such a horrific event not occurred,<br />
he may not have come to be.
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 4:00 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Michael<br />
Henry<br />
Wilson<br />
PROD:<br />
Carole J.<br />
Wilson,<br />
Michael<br />
Henry<br />
Wilson<br />
ED: Rick<br />
Blue, Terry<br />
Kelley<br />
MUS:<br />
Thomas<br />
Take<br />
Wilson<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Clint<br />
Eastwood,<br />
Desmond<br />
Tutu, FW<br />
de Klerk,<br />
Zindzi<br />
Mandela,<br />
Francois<br />
Pienaar,<br />
The<br />
Springboks<br />
88<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday,<br />
Sept. 18, 3:30 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3<br />
Reconciliation:<br />
Mandela’s Miracle<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
With Michael Henry Wilson, In Person<br />
This moving documentary, directed by<br />
Michael Henry Wilson, SRIFF Cinema of<br />
Conscience Award winner, provides an insightful<br />
look at Nelson Mandela the leader,<br />
former President, Nobel Peace Prize winner<br />
and “father of democracy” for post-apartheid<br />
South Africa.<br />
A series of interviews with those closest<br />
to Mandela chronicle his anti-apartheid<br />
beginning as the leader of Umkhonto we<br />
Sizwe, a part of the African National Congress;<br />
his 27 year imprisonment on Robben<br />
Island; and his release and eventual election<br />
as President in South Africa’s first fully<br />
democratic election. Members of the 1995<br />
Springboks, South Africa’s national rugby<br />
team, look back on his support of the team<br />
and their World Cup win that reunited the<br />
country.<br />
Loaded with archival footage, Reconciliation<br />
not only informs, but provides a real<br />
glimpse of the dark and dangerous reactions<br />
to apartheid. Footage of Truth and<br />
Reconciliation Commission hearings are<br />
heart-breaking as loved ones of victims<br />
share their stories. Footage of Clint Eastwood’s<br />
2009 film Invictus, about Mandela<br />
and the 1995 Springbok team presents a<br />
modern-day interpretation of the democratic<br />
rebuilding. Winner of the 2011 Cannes<br />
Independent <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, Reconciliation is<br />
a clear standout in a sea of films about a<br />
man who became the face of freedom and<br />
democracy.<br />
Monday, September 19 Monday, September 19<br />
Third Street Cinema 1, 4:00 pm<br />
PROD:<br />
Mark Hall<br />
ED: Sandra<br />
Adair,<br />
Catie Cacci<br />
MUS:<br />
Brian Satterwhite<br />
CAST:<br />
Casson<br />
Trenor,<br />
Mamoru<br />
Sugiyama<br />
75<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Sushi: The Global Catch<br />
Food on <strong>Film</strong><br />
The Japanese pride themselves on their<br />
perfectionism, so it’s no surprise that seven<br />
years of apprenticeship are required for<br />
certification as a sushi chef. Preparing sushi<br />
is a meticulous process, beginning with<br />
the catching of the tuna, which is given a<br />
thorough quality inspection before it leaves<br />
the warehouse for the marketplace. Perhaps<br />
this is one reason why the popularity<br />
of this cuisine has exploded worldwide. For<br />
example, in Austin, Texas, a landlocked city,<br />
sushi is sold at high school football games.!<br />
However, the high demand for quality sushi<br />
has worrisome ramifications. We are experiencing<br />
such a steep worldwide decline in<br />
the bluefin tuna population that Barbara<br />
Block, a professor of marine studies at<br />
Stanford University, is actively seeking endangered<br />
status for the species.<br />
Some chefs and restaurant customers are<br />
also expressing worry. According to Michelin-starred<br />
chef Mamoru Sugiyama, “We<br />
will run out of tuna sooner than we will run<br />
out of oil.” Meanwhile, Casson Trenor, an<br />
environmental activist who is advancing<br />
the cause of sustainable sushi maintains,<br />
“People taking a paycheck from the oceans<br />
must be responsible for their actions.” With<br />
that in mind, some fishermen have taken to<br />
farm-raising fish in an endeavor to ensure<br />
both a plentiful supply and a quality product.<br />
But will such an effort be successful, or<br />
will exacting consumer demand irrevocably<br />
destroy aquatic ecosystems?<br />
Roxy 2, 5:00 pm<br />
Cinema of Conscience Short<br />
Program<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
Our series of films on social issues over the<br />
last 25 years reflects changes in the world.<br />
Directors James Breen, Nicole Kian-<br />
Sadighi and Stephen Collins in person<br />
Happy Birthday Michael Peck<br />
DIR: James Breen<br />
USA, 2011, 25 Minutes<br />
While the nation celebrates Labor Day, an<br />
unemployed autoworker named Michael<br />
Peck celebrates his birthday by giving an<br />
interview about his family’s experiences in<br />
the auto industry. Through the interview, it<br />
becomes obvious that this is a final chance<br />
for Michael to be heard before he commits<br />
a desperate act to protest how the auto industry<br />
has treated its workers.<br />
I Am Neda<br />
DIR: Nicole Kian-Sadighi<br />
21 Minutes, 2011, USA<br />
A courageous young woman who has<br />
become the face of the Iranian Green<br />
Movement.<br />
The Interview<br />
DIR: Michelle Steffes<br />
12 Minutes, 2010, USA<br />
Next of Kin<br />
DIR: Stephen Collins USA<br />
A US Army corporal makes a tense official<br />
visit to the estranged father of a woman<br />
soldier just killed in Iraq. He learns that his<br />
daughter felt closer to him than he knew.<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 5:00 pm<br />
DIR: Tom<br />
Ropelewski<br />
PROD:<br />
Tom<br />
Ropelewski,<br />
George<br />
Paul<br />
Csicsery<br />
CAM: Skip<br />
Sweeney<br />
ED: Paul<br />
Dixon,<br />
Martina<br />
Nagel, Piri<br />
Miller<br />
MUS:<br />
Richard<br />
Chon<br />
CAST:<br />
Daniel<br />
Dixon,<br />
Dorothea<br />
Lange,<br />
Maynard<br />
Dixon<br />
Child of Giants:<br />
My Journey with Maynard Dixon<br />
and Dorothea Lange<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Living in the shadow of extraordinary genius<br />
can never be easy for a young child.<br />
Now multiply that by two and you can only<br />
being to imagine what growing up held<br />
for Daniel Dixon, eldest son of legendary<br />
photographer Dorothea Lange and gifted<br />
painter Maynard Dixon.<br />
Tom Ropelewski’s skillfully constructed<br />
documentary, using archival materials and<br />
interviews, examines the tight-rope balance<br />
of the creative mind against the role of the<br />
parent and how sometimes one can fall a<br />
bit short. Spending long periods of time in<br />
foster homes during the Depression with<br />
no idea when a parent would return, Daniel<br />
and his younger brothers had to come to<br />
terms with their parents’ idiosyncrasies. The<br />
film offers the chronicle of a disjoined childhood<br />
full of art and beauty and the impact<br />
that creative genius can have on the life of<br />
a child.<br />
54 55<br />
Total<br />
lRunning<br />
Time:<br />
77<br />
Minutes<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Saturday, Sept. 17, 4:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
97<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA
Third Street Cinema 1, 5:30 pm<br />
DIR: Elizabeth<br />
Pepin<br />
Silva<br />
27<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA,<br />
Slow the Flow<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
A prime example of Eco Cinema from California,<br />
which covers multiple water-related<br />
issues, including: urbanization’s effect on<br />
stormwater runoff, water-friendly landscaping,<br />
water conservation and pesticide use.<br />
Featuring smart, beautiful landscaping and<br />
statistics, this documentary from the Water<br />
Board Training Academy is entertaining, informative<br />
and to-the-point.<br />
Roxy 1, 6:00 pm<br />
DIR: Bruce<br />
McDonald<br />
PROD:<br />
Erin Faith<br />
Young,<br />
Jennifer St.<br />
John<br />
ED:<br />
Eamonn<br />
O’Connor<br />
MUS: Rita<br />
Chiarelli,<br />
Christopher<br />
Guglick,<br />
John Hazen,<br />
Léah<br />
Lazonick<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Rita<br />
Chiarelli<br />
87<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Canada<br />
Monday, September 19 Monday, September 19<br />
Music from the Big House<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Angola Prison in Louisiana has had a colorful<br />
history since its establishment in the<br />
early days of Reconstruction.<br />
Canadian-born singer-songwriter Rita Chiarelli<br />
opens the door to Angola Prison in<br />
Music From The Big House. She discovered<br />
Angola Prison while on a pilgrimage down<br />
Highway 61 in search of the birthplace of<br />
the blues and encountered whole new<br />
generations of musicians confined behind<br />
those four walls and songs that were raw,<br />
real and moving in their truthfulness. Initially,<br />
Chiarelli had planned to perform a<br />
concert at Angola, but after jamming with<br />
several of the inmates, she realized that<br />
they, too, should perform.<br />
We learn about some of the legendary<br />
musical inmates of Angola Prison, such as<br />
Robert P. Williams, Hogman Maxie, Freddie<br />
Fender and Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter,<br />
who earned a gubernatorial pardon with<br />
his music. There were talented female inmates,<br />
too, like Odea Matthews.<br />
Music is the main focus of this documentary,<br />
and as we see Chiarelli jamming with<br />
some very talented convicted felons, little<br />
about the specific reasons for their incarceration<br />
is given or necessary, especially<br />
since it is pointed out that many of them<br />
will spend the rest of their natural lives<br />
behind bars. Instead, these musicians talk<br />
about their heroes, and how music has<br />
given them something to keep themselves<br />
going.<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave, 6:15 pm<br />
DIR: Alysa<br />
Nahmias<br />
& Ben<br />
Murray<br />
PROD:<br />
Benjamin<br />
Murray,<br />
Alysa<br />
Nahmias<br />
ED: Alex<br />
Minnick,<br />
Kristen<br />
Nutile<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Vittorio<br />
Garatti,<br />
Roberto<br />
Gottardi,<br />
Ricardo<br />
Porro<br />
86<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Unfinished Spaces<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
In 1961, shortly after the revolution, Fidel<br />
Castro embarked on turning a country club<br />
outside of Havana into, “...the most beautiful<br />
academy of art in the world.” We learn<br />
what went wrong in this documentary.<br />
Three visionary architects were commissioned<br />
and given freedom to create. Roberto<br />
Gottardi, Ricardo Porro and Vittorio<br />
Garatti (all in the film) produced a surreal<br />
plan; a complex of buildings, some with<br />
subterranean paths, some resembling gigantic<br />
domed breasts, one with a fountain<br />
resembling a vagina.<br />
Because of the U.S. embargo on steel and<br />
other materials, the compound was constructed<br />
mostly using native terra cotta<br />
and the Catalonian arch. The structures<br />
were organic, undulating, breathtaking<br />
and represented more than just brick and<br />
mortar. They embodied the freedom, and<br />
exuberance of the new order. Before they<br />
were completed however, Soviet ideology<br />
forced a wedge between artistic freedom<br />
and functionality. The National Art Schools<br />
fell into disrepair, overgrown and neglected…<br />
nonetheless they continued as viable<br />
schools for all the arts which launched Cuban<br />
arts into world renown.<br />
The fate of the buildings even today, make<br />
for a dynamic real-life drama that offers<br />
surprises.<br />
Co-Director Alysa Nahmias In Person for<br />
Q & A.<br />
56 57<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Tuesday, Sept. 20 4:30 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Mon.!<br />
Food: Doce Lunas 6:30pm - 8pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 6:30 pm<br />
DIR: Claus<br />
Wischmann,<br />
Martin<br />
Baer<br />
PROD:<br />
Stefan<br />
Pannen,<br />
Holger<br />
Preuße<br />
ED:<br />
Peter Klum<br />
MUS: Jan<br />
Tilman<br />
Schade<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Joseph<br />
Masunda<br />
Lutete,<br />
Albert<br />
Nlanzu<br />
Matubanza,<br />
Nathalie<br />
Angwanguilo<br />
Bahati<br />
98<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Germany<br />
Kinshasa Symphony<br />
Northern California Premiere<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
A Perfect “Arts In <strong>Film</strong>,” “Cinema of Conscience”<br />
and “World Cinema” Nexus.<br />
Kinshasa Symphony shows how people living<br />
in one of the most chaotic cities in the<br />
world have managed to forge one of the<br />
most complex systems of human cooperation<br />
ever invented: a symphony orchestra.<br />
It is a film about the Congo, about the people<br />
of Kinshasa and about music.<br />
Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer have<br />
fashioned one of those very special films<br />
that take you into worlds unknown–inspiring<br />
in the face of completely unexpected<br />
beauty and at the same time ravaged by<br />
war and poverty.<br />
Kinshasa Symphony sings the praises for<br />
L’Orchestre Symphonique Kimbangusite<br />
and the indomitable resilience of its conductor<br />
and members—two hundred strong.<br />
In spite of the Congo’s atrocious war, 10<br />
years of bloodshed and displacement (the<br />
most devastating since WWII with over 5<br />
million deaths) Armand Diangienda, the<br />
conductor and founder has managed to<br />
create a viable orchestra. Overcoming enormous<br />
obstacles, the symphony has continued<br />
for fifteen years, providing classical<br />
music for audiences in the Congo that have<br />
almost no awareness that such music exists.<br />
This film exemplifies the power of art to<br />
heal and transform.
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 7:30 pm<br />
DIR: Yurek<br />
Bogayevicz<br />
PROD:<br />
Yurek Bogayevicz,<br />
Gábor<br />
Dettre,<br />
Zanne<br />
Devine,<br />
Deirdre<br />
Gainor,<br />
Julianne<br />
Gilliam<br />
ED: Julie<br />
Sloane<br />
MUS: Greg<br />
Hawkes<br />
CAST:<br />
Sally<br />
Kirkland,<br />
Paulina<br />
Porizkova,<br />
Robert<br />
Fields<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
1986,<br />
USA<br />
Anna<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
A 25th Anniversary Celebration:<br />
Career Achievement Award Honoree<br />
SALLY KIRKLAND, In Person.<br />
Yurek Bogayevicz’s classic film Anna is<br />
based on the true story of Polish actress<br />
Elezabieta Czyewska, who was blacklisted<br />
in Poland on account of her erstwhile<br />
husband David Halberstam’s criticism of<br />
Poland’s communist regime. Sally Kirkland,<br />
a SRIFF guest of honor, was nominated<br />
Best Actress for her stunning performance<br />
as Anna, an aging and exiled Czech actress<br />
trying to hit the big time in New York City<br />
and struggling after her divorce from a wellconnected<br />
intellectual.<br />
During a humiliating audition, she makes<br />
the acquaintanceship of Krystyna, a beautiful<br />
off-the-boat young actress from Czechoslovakia<br />
who idolizes her. Anna takes<br />
the young girl under her wing, helps her<br />
learn to speak English and introduces her<br />
to several well-connected friends. Sadly,<br />
As Krystyna’s career ignites and takes off,<br />
Anna continues to tread a hard road.<br />
The film makes astute commentary about<br />
the motion picture industry—particularly to<br />
the effect that in show business, beauty is often<br />
held to a higher value than actual talent.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Monday, September 19 Monday, September 19<br />
Third Street Cinema 1, 7:30 pm<br />
DIR: Chris<br />
Figler<br />
PROD:<br />
Chris Figler,<br />
Serge<br />
Dedina,<br />
Fay Crevoshay,<br />
Chris<br />
Grizey ED:<br />
Chris Figler<br />
MUS:<br />
Gabrieal<br />
Tenorio<br />
(Featuring<br />
The YO YO<br />
Mob)<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Serge<br />
Dedina<br />
33<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
USA<br />
The Baja Wave Document<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Veteran Hollywood film editor Chris Figler’s<br />
(Dexter, Big Love) documentary film showcases<br />
Baja’s most iconic locations and the<br />
campaign to save them, the last of the untouched<br />
coastlines of the peninsula.<br />
Through the unlikely alliance of WILD-<br />
COAST activists, fishermen, and surfers<br />
came the immense effort to preserve the<br />
beauty of Baja against some of the most<br />
powerful developers in Mexico and eventual<br />
victory.<br />
Roxy 2, 7:30 pm<br />
The Cosmic Joke<br />
World Premiere<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm<br />
58 59<br />
DIR:<br />
Trevor<br />
Adrian<br />
PROD:<br />
Trevor<br />
Adrian,<br />
Jesse<br />
Cummings,<br />
Avram<br />
Walden<br />
SCR:<br />
Trevor<br />
Adrian<br />
CAM:<br />
Trevor<br />
Adrian<br />
ED: Trevor<br />
Adrian,<br />
Nathan<br />
Carver<br />
MUS:<br />
Jesse<br />
Cummings<br />
CAST:<br />
Avram<br />
Walden,<br />
Jessica<br />
Sapick,<br />
Brian<br />
Hutton,<br />
Patrick<br />
Englar,<br />
Linda<br />
Wang,<br />
Lauren<br />
O’Neil<br />
60<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
US Cinema<br />
With Director Trevor Adrian in person<br />
In this modern day coming of age story,<br />
Evan (Avram Walden), is a Computer Science<br />
student who yearns to be a world<br />
class video game designer. After taking<br />
advice from Leo (Brian Hutton), his friend<br />
and mentor, he drops out of college and<br />
finds himself working for Leo’s rival game<br />
design firm, in San Francisco. There he<br />
meets Shannon (Jessica Sapick), an attractive<br />
young designer who shares his ambitions.<br />
As part of a generation that invented<br />
the quarter-life crisis, Evan and Shannon let<br />
the desire for achieving their personal goals<br />
override their lives. Will their romantic entanglements<br />
and emotional baggage get in<br />
the way, or can they have success in their<br />
careers as well as in love?<br />
DIR: Emre<br />
Sahin<br />
PROD:<br />
Emrah<br />
Yucel<br />
SCR: Emre<br />
Sahin<br />
ED: Emre<br />
Sahin<br />
MUS:<br />
Nnamdi<br />
Moweta<br />
CAST: Ali<br />
Atay (Metin),<br />
Deniz<br />
Cakir<br />
(Sevda),<br />
Ntare<br />
Guma<br />
Mbaho<br />
Mwine<br />
(Godwill)<br />
99<br />
Minutes,<br />
Turkey<br />
40<br />
World Cinema<br />
40 is the story of a city and how it influences<br />
the lives of three strangers as their worlds<br />
weave, waltz and collide on its chaotic<br />
streets. Shot entirely on location in Istanbul,<br />
40 combines intense dramatic story telling<br />
with documentary-style cinematography...a<br />
synchronistic journey dealing with faith,<br />
love, luck, destiny, human trafficking…and<br />
a bag full of money that falls from the sky.<br />
Metin is a young man who, having fled a<br />
harrowing home life to strike it rich in the<br />
big city, has jumped from the frying pan<br />
into the fire, using his job as a taxi driver<br />
as a front so that he can deliver drugs to<br />
wealthy citizens of Istanbul.<br />
Godwill is a naïve but resourceful illegal immigrant<br />
from Nigeria, who dreams of going<br />
to Paris to be in the arms of his One True<br />
Love. Sevda, an Istanbullite nurse born to<br />
bi-cultural parents, is spiritually conflicted,<br />
having tried her hand at Buddhism, Christianity<br />
and Islam, she is now using numerology<br />
to find the way to a better life for herself<br />
and her young daughter. Action is set<br />
during a turbulent week when each of the<br />
three characters finds and loses the treasured<br />
bag of bills. Amid themes of urban<br />
dislocation and dispossession, 40 questions<br />
the notion of fate and destiny. Do things<br />
happen for a reason or are they random?<br />
40 and Currency share a common spirit in<br />
our <strong>Festival</strong> this year, and without a doubt<br />
should be seen as a pair.<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Mon.!<br />
Food: Doce Lunas 6:30pm - 8pm
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 8:35 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Sander<br />
Francken<br />
PROD:<br />
Karin S. de<br />
Boer<br />
ED: Gys<br />
Zevenbergen<br />
MUS: Adi<br />
Bhasin,<br />
Afel<br />
Bocoum,<br />
Sakar<br />
Khan,<br />
Rainer<br />
Michel,<br />
Morup<br />
Namgyal<br />
CAST:<br />
Abba<br />
Bilancoro,<br />
Kolado<br />
Bocoum,<br />
Dhamender<br />
Singhi<br />
94<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Netherlands<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Sunday, Sept.<br />
18, 6:15 pm<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave<br />
Bardsongs<br />
World Cinema<br />
Mon., Sept. 19 Tuesday, September 20 Tuesday, September 20<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ed in India and Mali, Bardsongs, using<br />
three folk tales from Rajasthan, West Africa<br />
and Ladakh respectively, this film demonstrates<br />
that wisdom is universal, regardless<br />
of what an individual person’s beliefs are.<br />
Part One tells the story of Sahir, whose father<br />
never jumps to conclusions, no matter<br />
how much he is tempted. The second story<br />
is that of Bouba, a student of the Koran<br />
who embarks on a six-day quest in and<br />
around the city of Djenné in search of the<br />
greatest part of all knowledge. The third<br />
tale concerns Sonam, his travels with his<br />
daughter through the Himalaya to a village<br />
to sell a dzo (a crossbreed between a yak<br />
and a cow), and the advice he receives from<br />
people he meets along the way.<br />
“When it comes down to it we all seem to<br />
think alike about the essence of our existence,<br />
whether you are a Hindu or a Christian,<br />
Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish or anarchist,<br />
atheist or animist,” muses Francken. “The<br />
understanding that the old wisdom of any<br />
given people is of universal importance,<br />
was a great starting point for me, especially<br />
in an age in which we more and more are at<br />
each other’s throats on account of cultural<br />
differences. ”<br />
Indeed, this beautiful, deep and poetic film,<br />
brimming with astute observations on human<br />
nature, seeks to bridge these gaps.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 2:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Charles<br />
Bosch<br />
PROD:<br />
Oriol<br />
Ivern, Tono<br />
Folguera,<br />
Toni Marin,<br />
Joan<br />
Salvat,<br />
Muntsa<br />
Tarres,<br />
Andres<br />
Luque,<br />
Pere<br />
Gibert<br />
ED: Ernest<br />
Blasi, Carlos<br />
Prieto<br />
MUS:<br />
Josep<br />
Sanou<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Pasqual<br />
Maragall<br />
107<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
Spain<br />
Bicycle, Spoon, Apple<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
This film is a moving, comical and optimistic<br />
documentary directed by investigative TV<br />
journalist Charles Bosch. It takes its name<br />
from a test used to diagnose Alzheimer’s.<br />
The film brings the story of Pasqual Maragall,<br />
the immensely popular former mayor<br />
of Barcelona and later President of Catalonia<br />
to life as Bosch follows the progress of<br />
Maragall’s illness over two years.<br />
As the disease causes him to slowly fade,<br />
his good humor and sense of irony remain<br />
largely intact as he celebrates President<br />
Barack Obama’s 2008 election by bringing<br />
a life-size cutout back from New York and<br />
promoting the Pasqual Maragall Foundation<br />
for Alzheimer’s Research.<br />
Throughout the film, doctors from India and<br />
the United States briefly interject to discuss<br />
new drugs and other innovative forms of<br />
treatment to combat the growing number<br />
of Alzheimer’s cases worldwide—currently<br />
at twenty-four million and counting.<br />
Lauded by Variety Magazine for “cleverly<br />
balancing the personal with the medical,”<br />
the film gives a powerful and lucid insight<br />
into the fight against Alzheimer’s and<br />
demonstrates who the real heroes are.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 4:30 pm<br />
DIR: Alysa<br />
Nahmias<br />
& Ben<br />
Murray<br />
PROD:<br />
Benjamin<br />
Murray,<br />
Alysa<br />
Nahmias<br />
ED: Alex<br />
Minnick,<br />
Kristen<br />
Nutile<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
Vittorio<br />
Garatti,<br />
Roberto<br />
Gottardi,<br />
Ricardo<br />
Porro<br />
86<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
Unfinished Spaces<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
In 1961, shortly after the revolution, Fidel<br />
Castro embarked on turning a country club<br />
outside of Havana into, “...the most beautiful<br />
academy of art in the world.” We learn<br />
what went wrong in this documentary.<br />
Three visionary architects were commissioned<br />
and given freedom to create. Roberto<br />
Gottardi, Ricardo Porro and Vittorio<br />
Garatti (all in the film) produced a surreal<br />
plan; a complex of buildings, some with<br />
subterranean paths, some resembling gigantic<br />
domed breasts, one with a fountain<br />
resembling a vagina.<br />
Because of the U.S. embargo on steel and<br />
other materials, the compound was constructed<br />
mostly using native terra cotta<br />
and the Catalonian arch. The structures<br />
were organic, undulating, breathtaking<br />
and represented more than just brick and<br />
mortar. They embodied the freedom, and<br />
exuberance of the new order. Before they<br />
were completed however, Soviet ideology<br />
forced a wedge between artistic freedom<br />
and functionality. The National Art Schools<br />
fell into disrepair, overgrown and neglected…<br />
nonetheless they continued as viable<br />
schools for all the arts which launched Cuban<br />
arts into world renown.<br />
Unfinished Spaces is a mixture of many<br />
things, art, architecture, revolution and<br />
the spirit of a nation. The fate of the<br />
buildings even today, make for a dynamic<br />
real-life drama that offers surprises.<br />
-Diane McCurdy<br />
60 61<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Monday, Sept. 19, 6:15 pm<br />
Deerfield Ranch Cave<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 6:30 pm<br />
DIR: Jean<br />
Becker<br />
PROD:<br />
Louis<br />
Becker,<br />
Gérard<br />
Depardieu<br />
ED:<br />
Jacques<br />
Witta<br />
MUS:<br />
Laurent<br />
Voulzy<br />
CAST:<br />
Gérard<br />
Depardieu,<br />
Gisèle<br />
Casadesus<br />
88<br />
Minutes,<br />
2010,<br />
France<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Wednesday, Sept. 13, 8 pm<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco<br />
My Afternoons with<br />
Margueritte<br />
Using a dictionary is like<br />
traveling —from one word to the<br />
next.<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
“Using a dictionary is like traveling—from<br />
one word to the next. You lose yourself as<br />
if in a labyrinth. You stop and you dream.”<br />
- Margueritte<br />
In a small town tucked away in rural Charente,<br />
France a chance meeting between<br />
handyman Germain (Gerard Depardieu)<br />
and the sharply intelligent 95-year-old Margueritte<br />
(Gisèle Casadesus) leads to a tender<br />
friendship. She introduces him to reading<br />
starting with philosopher Albert Camus.<br />
As her influence transforms his life and the<br />
lives of those around him, roles reverse<br />
when her sight begins to fails. .<br />
Winter Frog<br />
DIR: Slony Sow<br />
18 Minutes, 2011, France<br />
Benjamin, winemaker, sees his wife die in<br />
his arms following a long illness. Only one<br />
way for him: death. But a young Japanese<br />
woman, coming specially to taste his wine,<br />
will gently bring him to mourn the death<br />
of his wife by a series of symbols and exchanges<br />
between two cultures.
Roxy 2, 6:30 pm Deerfield Cave, 6:30 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Camilo<br />
Vila<br />
PROD:<br />
Monty<br />
Fisher,<br />
Rami Rivera<br />
Frankl,<br />
Francisco<br />
Hernández,<br />
Luis Llosa,<br />
Noreen<br />
Perez,<br />
Alicia Rivera<br />
Frank,<br />
Joseph<br />
Suarez,<br />
Camilo<br />
Vila<br />
SCR:<br />
Monty<br />
Fisher<br />
ED: Henry<br />
Vargas<br />
MUS:<br />
Roger<br />
Bellon<br />
CAST:<br />
John<br />
Robinson,<br />
Michael<br />
DeLorenzo,<br />
Alex Meraz<br />
101<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Peru, USA<br />
City of Gardens<br />
World Premiere<br />
Cine Latino<br />
Monty Fisher In Person, Camila Vila in<br />
Person.<br />
US based Cuban filmmaker Camilo Vila’s<br />
City of Gardens is a film is inspired by the<br />
story of Monty Fisher, an American teaching<br />
English in Peru who was jailed on<br />
trumped up charges and spent the early<br />
1980s in the Andean nation’s worst prison.<br />
Fisher is the film’s producer and even<br />
wrote the original screenplay, which Vila<br />
later adapted, transforming the main character<br />
into a young American surfer falsely<br />
accused of drug trafficking. Vila says that<br />
when he makes a film he never thinks<br />
of conveying “a message” but rather of<br />
“making a quality movie that has a good<br />
screenplay, a production marked by work<br />
ethic and that has a moral.” Starring John<br />
Robinson and Alex Meraz, the film was shot<br />
last year in Peru. Vila left Cuba in 1961, and<br />
after living in Miami, New York, Europe and<br />
Puerto Rico, moved to Los Angeles in 1985.<br />
ALSO PLAYING:<br />
Friday, Sept. 16, 8:00 pm<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2<br />
Total<br />
Running<br />
Time:<br />
91<br />
Minutes<br />
Tuesday, September 20 Tuesday, September 20<br />
Closing Shorts<br />
DRW MMX<br />
DIR: Stephen Ashton<br />
USA, 2011, 26 Minutes<br />
See pg. 22 for more description.<br />
A Hungry Boy<br />
DIR: Laurel Petty<br />
USA, 2010, 21 Minutes<br />
Born into a large and impoverished family<br />
in Israel, Chef Avner Samuel began cooking<br />
in a commercial kitchen at 13. Growing<br />
up as a “hungry boy” influenced Mr.<br />
Samuel to open his “dream restaurant,”<br />
Aurora, in Dallas. <strong>Film</strong>maker Laurel Ann<br />
Petty follows Chef Samuel in his restaurant,<br />
as he creates his art, from prep to service.<br />
In A Dreamland<br />
DIR: Ezequiel Degastaldi<br />
Spain, 24 Minutes<br />
See pg. 44 for description<br />
Mexican Cuisine<br />
DIR: Francisco Guijarro<br />
USA, 2011, 5 Minutes<br />
In California, the state with the most<br />
Mexican immigrants, there’s a cuisine that<br />
has a deeper meaning. With filmmaker<br />
Francisco Guijarro in person<br />
Tacos or Tacos?<br />
DIR: Robert Lemon<br />
USA, 2010, 15 Minutes<br />
A short film examining the rise of food<br />
trucks in Austin, Tex., ranging from the<br />
traditional taco truck to fancier and more<br />
experimental trucks in south Austin, and<br />
the rise of urban food culture in the city..<br />
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 6:40 pm<br />
DIR:<br />
Carlos<br />
Saura<br />
PROD:<br />
Andrés<br />
Vicente<br />
Gómez,<br />
Andrea<br />
Occhipinti,<br />
Igor<br />
Uboldi ED:<br />
Julia Juaniz<br />
MUS:<br />
Nicola<br />
Tescari<br />
CAST:<br />
Lorenzo<br />
Balducci,<br />
Lino<br />
Guanciale,<br />
Emilia<br />
Verginelli<br />
I, Don Giovanni<br />
Priest, Poet, Lyricist, Libertine<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
Master filmsmith Carlos Saura has been<br />
making films for more than 50 years. This<br />
time turns his sights to opera and collaborates<br />
with his long time cinematographer<br />
and master “painter with light,” Vittorio<br />
Storaro (Apocalypse Now) to provide the<br />
stage for a nexus of revelations about art,<br />
politics and lust.<br />
The film traces the remarkable life of Lorenzo<br />
Da Ponte, a Jewish-born poet and Catholic<br />
priest who introduced Dante to America<br />
(be sure to see Dante’s Inferno - Animated<br />
Sunday, 9/18, 4:30pm, at the Roxy!). It<br />
opens in 1763, when he finds himself exiled<br />
to Vienna. It is there where his friend Giacomo<br />
Casanova introduces him to Wolfgang<br />
Amadeus Mozart who hires the unknown<br />
libertine as his librettist. Da Ponte’s own<br />
nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna<br />
nurture Mozart’s inspiration and lead<br />
to one of his boldest and most powerful<br />
compositions: Don Giovanni.<br />
Roxy 1, 7:00 pm<br />
Roots Music Americana<br />
World Premiere<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong><br />
A CLOSING NIGHT <strong>FILM</strong> & PARTY<br />
Roots Music Americana Roxy 14 6pm<br />
The film explores today’s American roots<br />
musicians who take on their own legacy,<br />
the cult-like radio stations that play their<br />
music (local KRSH for one) and the community<br />
that listens. The Director’s Cut documentary<br />
by local filmmaker David Reddix,<br />
features Jeff Mattison & Wayward Angels,<br />
Alabama Mike, Duke Robillard, Poor Man’s<br />
Whiskey, The Hellhounds, among others.<br />
With filmmaker David Reddix in person and<br />
a short riff by The Hellhounds in the theater<br />
lobby.<br />
62 63<br />
90<br />
Minutes,<br />
Italy<br />
ALSO PLAYING: Thursday, Sept. 15, 8:00 pm<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco<br />
DIR:<br />
David<br />
Reddix<br />
PROD:<br />
David<br />
Reddix<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING:<br />
David<br />
Reddix<br />
53<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
USA<br />
SRIFF Closing Night Party<br />
La <strong>Rosa</strong> Tequileria & Grille-<br />
500 4th Street, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Rosa</strong><br />
(Courthouse Square)<br />
Jeff Mattison & The Wayward Angels,<br />
The Hellhounds and Alabama Mike play<br />
at the The SRIFF Closing Night Party at<br />
La <strong>Rosa</strong> Tequileria & Grille<br />
Free for film ticket (bring your ticket<br />
stub!) and <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> PASS holders.
Third Street Cinema 1, 7:00 pm<br />
DIR: Neil<br />
Hollander<br />
PROD:<br />
Jaclyn<br />
Bashoff,<br />
Barry Broman,<br />
Willie<br />
Chan,<br />
Sabrina<br />
Chen-Louie,<br />
Sabrina<br />
Chen-Louie,<br />
Henry<br />
Herng-Lih<br />
Ju, Neil<br />
Hollander,<br />
Steven<br />
Hon Keung<br />
L, Anjelica<br />
Huston,<br />
Geoffrey<br />
Kwan,<br />
Chun Tsui<br />
ED:<br />
Brendan<br />
Broman,<br />
Phelps<br />
Harmon,<br />
Rii Kanzaki<br />
MUS: Tom<br />
Disher<br />
FEATUR-<br />
ING: Sally<br />
Kirkland,<br />
Anjelica<br />
Huston<br />
85<br />
Minutes,<br />
Burma – A Human Tragedy<br />
Cinema of Conscience<br />
This film, narrated and produced by Anjelica<br />
Huston, exposes shocking and unconscionable<br />
horrors not covered by any Western<br />
journalists at the time of production.<br />
Through interviews with refugees, survivors<br />
and Burma’s democratically elected president<br />
and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung<br />
San Suu Kyi, the landscape of an ongoing<br />
genocide that flies in the face of international<br />
law comes horribly alive.<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ed covertly and under constant threat<br />
of death, this film offers a rare glimpse into<br />
the systematic extermination of ethnic minorities<br />
that has gone on for decades.<br />
With a population of over 55 million people,<br />
Burma is the 24th most populated in<br />
the world. Its corrupt plutocratic dictatorship<br />
wields power in appalling ways, sending<br />
soldiers through the country to plunder<br />
and demolish villages, commit genocide<br />
and rape women, even blatantly encouraging<br />
HIV positive men to rape. Thousands<br />
of landmines are left buried in the ground,<br />
crippling and killing humans and animals.<br />
Many Burmese spend their lives in prisonlike<br />
refugee camps abroad, suffering in perpetual<br />
isolation and disenfranchisement.<br />
Ecological atrocities are also being committed,<br />
as the junta exploits the copious natural<br />
resources to develop nuclear weapons.<br />
Despite bearing the warning “Extreme<br />
Carnage and Mutilation Shown,” this is a<br />
film that needs to be widely seen, to call<br />
attention to the atrocities being committed.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
Roxy 3, 7:15 pm<br />
DIR: Nicolas<br />
Lopez<br />
PROD:<br />
Carlos<br />
Anaya<br />
SCR: Nicolás<br />
López<br />
CAM:<br />
Antonio<br />
Quercia<br />
ED: Diego<br />
Macho<br />
MUS:<br />
Manuel<br />
Riveiro<br />
CAST:<br />
Ariel Levy,<br />
Lucy<br />
Cominetti,<br />
Andrea<br />
Velasco,<br />
Paz<br />
Bascuñan,<br />
Leonor<br />
Varela,<br />
Matías<br />
Lopez,<br />
Nicolas<br />
Martinez,<br />
Ramon<br />
Llao,<br />
Ignacia<br />
Allamand,<br />
Claudia<br />
Celedón<br />
96<br />
Minutes,<br />
Chile<br />
Tuesday, September 20 Friday, September 23<br />
F*ck My Life -<br />
A Romantic Comedy<br />
Northern California Premiere<br />
Cine Latino<br />
Que Pena Tu Vida, or in English—more or<br />
less—F*ck My Life, gives astute and humorous<br />
insight into the crazy and unpredictable<br />
nature of love. Director López has fashioned<br />
a film for the Facebook crowd, playfully<br />
portraying the realities of 20-somethings<br />
in search of love, happiness and of<br />
course, sex.<br />
Set in Santiago, Chile, this romantic comedy,<br />
using the cinéma vérité style of filmmaking<br />
to great effect, centers on Javier (Levy),<br />
a troubled man in his mid-20’s haunted by a<br />
painful split with his girlfriend. On his emotional<br />
journey on the quest for true love, he<br />
experiences several misadventures, including<br />
but not limited to some embarrassing<br />
and expensive nights out at the club, getting<br />
caught in the middle of a bitter standoff<br />
between a recently separated older couple,<br />
a few emotional drunken binges and even<br />
the odd run-in with the law—all the while<br />
getting moral support from his long-suffering<br />
best friend Angela, who despite Javier’s<br />
petulance, insecurity and immaturity, describes<br />
him as “the kind of friend you put<br />
up with, no matter what they do.”<br />
As the tears are shed, the arguments fought<br />
and the text messages displayed on screen<br />
in midair using a most effective computergenerated<br />
font, F*ck My Life reminds us all<br />
that when it comes to love, we are all the<br />
same schmuck, no matter what.<br />
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm Deerfield Ranch Cave, 7:00 pm<br />
Among Wolves<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
Winner of SRIFF 2011 Jack London<br />
Spirit Award<br />
Set in a remote valley of the Spain’s Sierra<br />
Morena Mountains which is the current<br />
site of the Natural Park of Cardeña and<br />
Montoro Sierra, Among Wolves is the true<br />
story of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, famous<br />
for being one of Spain’s high-profile feral<br />
children.<br />
The product of an abusive household,<br />
when Marcos turned seven in 1953, his<br />
father sold him to a goatherd in the mountains<br />
to be the man’s assistant. Despite the<br />
initial unease of their relationship, Marcos<br />
won the goatherd over by proving himself a<br />
quick study at herding goats as well as trapping<br />
and fishing.<br />
Sadly, the goatherd sickened and died and<br />
Marcos spent the next twelve years living in<br />
the wilderness with a pack of wolves, declaring<br />
himself “King of the Valley.”<br />
In 1965, aged nineteen, Marcos was captured<br />
by Spain’s civil guard and forced out<br />
of his exile into civilized society. He never<br />
adapted, and still lives with the dream of<br />
returning to his true home.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
The Cove<br />
A Special Added Event<br />
Eco Cinema<br />
GAIA AWARD WINNER<br />
This extraordinary 2009 documentary follows<br />
a group of environmental activists,<br />
armed with state-of-the-art equipment,<br />
who travel to Taiji, Japan on a covert mission,<br />
infiltrate an isolated cove and expose<br />
the cruel horrors of dolphin drive hunting,<br />
performed under the cover of night, in<br />
which some of these animals are hunted<br />
for their meat while the survivors suffer in<br />
captivity.<br />
The team is led by Ric O’Barry, who trained<br />
the five dolphins used in the 1960’s television<br />
show Flipper. O’Barry had a heartbreaking<br />
epiphany when Kathy, a dolphin<br />
who played the show’s title character committed<br />
suicide by self-asphyxiation, dying in<br />
his arms. From that day forward, he devoted<br />
his life to activism, founding the dolphin<br />
project on Earth Day 1970.<br />
Many horrifying revelations are brought to<br />
attention in the film. Most of Japan’s population<br />
is unaware of the dolphin hunts or<br />
the marketing of dolphin meat. Worse yet, it<br />
is disclosed that dolphin meat contains high<br />
volumes of mercury.<br />
Awarded the 2011 Academy Award for<br />
Best Documentary Feature, The Cove<br />
will no doubt shine a light on the increasing<br />
health hazards and troubling<br />
ecological ramifications of the barbaric<br />
dolphin hunts. With special guests from<br />
Oceanic Preservation Society In Person.<br />
-James Conrad<br />
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PROD:<br />
José María<br />
Morales<br />
SCR:<br />
Gerardo<br />
Olivares<br />
CAM: Óscar<br />
Durán<br />
ED: Iván<br />
Aledo<br />
MUS:<br />
Klaus<br />
Badelt<br />
CAST:<br />
Juan José<br />
Ballesta,<br />
Sancho<br />
Gracia,<br />
Carlos<br />
Bardem,<br />
Manuel<br />
Camacho<br />
114<br />
Minutes,<br />
2011,<br />
Spain<br />
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Sun.!<br />
Food: Reach for the Stars Caterers<br />
DIR: Louie<br />
Psihoyos<br />
PROD:<br />
Olivia Ahnemann,<br />
Jim Clark,<br />
Paula<br />
DuPré<br />
Pesmen,<br />
Charles<br />
Hambleton,<br />
Fisher<br />
Stevens<br />
ED:<br />
Geoffrey<br />
Richman<br />
MUS:<br />
J. Ralph<br />
CAST:<br />
Richard<br />
O’Barry,<br />
Louie<br />
Psihoyos,<br />
Hardy<br />
Jones,<br />
Hayden<br />
Panettiere<br />
90<br />
Minutes<br />
USA
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Stephen Ashton, Founder, Creative Director<br />
Justine Ashton, Founder/CEO, Development Director<br />
Meredith Hayes, Director of Marketing<br />
David Norwood, Director of Operations, Volunteer Coordinator<br />
Nick Gloyd, Operations Manager<br />
Theresa Norwood, “Angel” Assistant Dir. of Operations<br />
Casey Lewiston, Technical Director Web Master<br />
Katherine Devereux, CFO<br />
Gwen Wright, Assistant to CFO<br />
Jess Johnson, Executive Assistant<br />
Tylor Norwood, Trailer/<strong>Film</strong> Producer<br />
Shannon Norwood, <strong>Film</strong> Production Asst. / Photographer<br />
Tara Montoya, <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge Co-Manager<br />
Stacy Ervin, <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge Co-Manager<br />
Barbara Beeden, <strong>Festival</strong> Hospitality Lounge Assistant Manager<br />
Jaqui King, Deerfield Ranch Winery Co-Manager<br />
Dan Schieberl, Deerfield Ranch Winery Co-Manager<br />
Kathleen Willbanks, 3rd St. Cinemas Manager, Facebook Administrator<br />
Diane McCurdy, Summerfield Cinemas Manager<br />
Brittany Sweeting, Roxy Stadium 14 Co-Manager<br />
Robert Becker, Roxy Stadium 14 Co-Manager<br />
Leila Rand, Program Designer<br />
Don Gibble, Talent Manager<br />
Jay Vorzimer, Visual and Graphic Designer<br />
Special Recognition and a Ton of Thanks to: Robert and PJ Rex, Dan, Amy Tocchini<br />
& Family, Don Ponte, Karina Nishi Marcus, Robert Marcus, Connie Mygatt, Gerald Huth,<br />
Jennifer Mygatt Tatum, Kathleen McCallum, Joel Jaman, Nancy Manchester, Brad Calkins,<br />
Scott Jordan, Michaelene Lee, Van Marovich, Councilmember Susan Gorin, Sally Kirkland,<br />
Lalit Khanna, Debbie Harding, Dominic Espinosa, Vesta Copestakes, Yannick Ponte, Jonathan<br />
Coe, Jillian Dorman, Debbie McGauley, Amy Hogen, Guy Erdman, Stephen Collins,<br />
Barbara Bowman, Richard Murphy, Cheri Lieurance, Alex Freemon, Eric Olsen, Ann and<br />
Alec Peters, Amanda Smith, Surendra Rai, Darren Chapple, Max Childs, Jamison O’Toole,<br />
Stephen Weisz, John Biggs, Heidi Porch, Paul Katzeff, Karen Armstrong, Mary Olsen, Mimi<br />
Pirard, Anne Mitchell, Max Porter-Elliott, Lionel Rocha, John Pita, Randy Destruel, Len<br />
Polito, Chris McCormick, Dan Brown, Peggy and Ed Dombeck, Leilani Sioson and Ron<br />
Sioson (we apologize if we missed anyone!!!), and to the scores of dedicated volunteers.<br />
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Feature <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
40 .........................................59<br />
Age of Champions .............25<br />
Amazon Forever ................43<br />
Among Wolves ...................65<br />
Anna ....................................58<br />
Athlete, The ........................33<br />
Baja Wave Document, The 58<br />
Bardsongs .....................50, 60<br />
Barista....................................32<br />
Bicycle, Spoon, Apple .......60<br />
Burma – A Human Tragedy 64<br />
Child of Giants: ..................55<br />
City of Gardens ............30, 62<br />
Cosmic Joke, The ...............59<br />
Currency .............................50<br />
Delicious Peace ...................42<br />
Dolphin Tale ....................... 51<br />
East Fifth Bliss ...............35, 53<br />
Eighteen Years Later ..........26<br />
Enjoy Your Meal! ................28<br />
Entrance: .............................42<br />
F*ck My Life ..........................64<br />
Flirting with Heights ..........30<br />
Furious Force of Rhymes, The<br />
.....................................27, 39<br />
Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese<br />
Voyage ............... 12, 39, 46<br />
I, Don Giovanni ............24, 63<br />
If a Tree Falls: .....................34<br />
Jailmate, The ......................28<br />
Jess + Moss ...................36, 45<br />
Kinshasa Symphony ..........57<br />
Legend of Flying Cyprian, The<br />
...........................................40<br />
Love in Another Language 38<br />
Magnificent Seven, The .....23<br />
Mamitas ..............................40<br />
Mediterranean Food .........29<br />
Milk War ..............................37<br />
Mother Vine ........................25<br />
Music from the Big House 56<br />
My Afternoons with Margueritte<br />
.....................................22, 61<br />
My Life ................................64<br />
Never Stand Still ................23<br />
Nuummioq .........................44<br />
On Coal River .....................49<br />
Only a Number ..... 13, 43, 53<br />
Patagonia ............................52<br />
Patagonia Rising ................45<br />
Priceless ..............................38<br />
Reconciliation ...............46, 54<br />
Robert Mitchum is Dead ... 41<br />
Roots Music Americana ....63<br />
Salvador ..............................52<br />
Scarface ...............................52<br />
Second Knock at the Door, A<br />
........................................... 51<br />
Seven Samurai ...................26<br />
Silent Sonata ................ 41, 49<br />
Slow the Flow ...............30, 56<br />
Solemn Promise (Besa) ....32<br />
Streets of Flamenco ...........27<br />
Sushi: The Global Catch ....54<br />
Tanzania: A Friendship Journey<br />
...........................................24<br />
Touch .............................29, 47<br />
Unfinished Spaces .......57, 61<br />
Short <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
9 Variations On A Dance<br />
Theme ..............................23<br />
Animated Shorts .......... 48<br />
Cockroach .......................48<br />
Dante’s Inferno - Animated<br />
............................................48<br />
Night Fishing with<br />
Cormorants .....................48<br />
Woman and Wind .........48<br />
Arts in <strong>Film</strong> Shorts .... 37, 47<br />
Arcimboldo ................37, 47<br />
Gauguin ......................37, 47<br />
Pass Through the Fire 37, 47<br />
Cinema of Conscience Shorts<br />
Program ............... 36, 55<br />
Happy Birthday Michael Peck<br />
.................................36, 55<br />
I Am Neda .................36, 55<br />
Interview, The ...........36, 55<br />
Next of Kin ..........36, 51, 55<br />
Closing Night in the Cave 62<br />
DRW MMX ......................62<br />
Index<br />
In a Dreamland ..............62<br />
A Hungry Boy ...................62<br />
Mexican Cuisine ..............62<br />
Tacos or Tacos? ................62<br />
Counterfeit ..........................50<br />
Cycles Shorts ...................31<br />
Anchor, The .................... 31<br />
Convention of Dying, The 31<br />
Sea is All I Know, The .... 31<br />
Walter .............................. 31<br />
Winter Frog ..................... 31<br />
Living on Air .......................23<br />
LMAO! Humor Shorts .... 33<br />
Sense of Humor, A ........33<br />
California King ...............33<br />
Life In Short ....................33<br />
Movie Critic, The ............33<br />
Stanley Pickle .................33<br />
Luther Burbank and His<br />
Experimental Farm ..........28<br />
Movie Critic, The ..........22, 33<br />
Music Arts In <strong>Film</strong> Shorts 34<br />
Band Art .......................... 34<br />
Living On Air ...................34<br />
Winter .............................. 34<br />
Next of Kin ..............36, 51, 55<br />
Opening Night in the Cave!<br />
....................................... 22<br />
DRW MMX ......................22<br />
In a Dreamland 3D ........22<br />
Lingo Vino .........................22<br />
Venez Avec Moi ..............22<br />
Paco .....................................38<br />
Save Earth, Save Us ...........45<br />
Simply Rob ...................27, 39<br />
Spanish Arts Shorts ....... 44<br />
9th Day of Creation .......44<br />
figure ...............................44<br />
In a Dreamland 3D ........44<br />
Trout Fishing In Afghanistan 51<br />
Winter Frog .............22, 31, 61<br />
Youth Shorts ....................31<br />
Dog Math ........................ 31<br />
Immersion ...................... 31<br />
Play By Play ...................... 31<br />
My Friend Peter ................ 31<br />
Red Curtains, The ............ 31<br />
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