SANTA ROSA FILM FESTIVAL - Santa Rosa International Film Festival

Thursday, September 15
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 7:00 pm Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco, 8:00 pm
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 3:00 pm
DIR: Sylvia
Caminer
PROD:
Sylvia
Caminer
CAM:
Douglas
Bachman,
Francisco
Aliwalas
ED: Avril
Beukes,
Rika
Camizianos
MUS: The
Footnote
FEATUR-
ING:
Venance
Ndibalema,
Kristen
Kenney
119
Minutes,
2011,
USA
Tanzania: A Friendship
Journey
Northern California Premiere
Cinema of Conscience
Sylvia Caminer, “Ven” Ndibalema and
Kristen “Kris” Kenney In Person
Emmy Award winning director and producer
Sylvia Caminer (alumna of the 2003
WCFF) has created a masterpiece that
puts viewers right in the middle of Africa’s
ancient culture, its contemporary poverty,
and the eternal spirituality and hope of its
people.
Sylvia will attend the screening—a Northern
California Premiere—with Venance “Ven”
Ndibalema and Kristen “Kris” Kenney who
are featured in this stirring documentary
about friendship and awakening.
Ven takes his American college friend Kris
to the impoverished African nation where
his family lives. As he rediscovers his past
by visiting old friends and family, Kris is
transformed when she encounters a reality
that thrusts her out of her comfort zone
and into a culture where life is hard and
every day is seen as a blessing.
Best Documentary & Best World
Showcase - 2011 SoHo International
Film Festival
DIR:
Carlos
Saura
PROD:
Andrés
Vicente
Gómez,
Andrea
Occhipinti,
Igor
Uboldi ED:
Julia Juaniz
MUS:
Nicola
Tescari
CAST:
Lorenzo
Balducci,
Lino
Guanciale,
Emilia
Verginelli
90
Minutes,
Italy
ALSO PLAYING: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:40 pm
Summerfield Cinemas 2
I, Don Giovanni
Priest, Poet, Lyricist, Libertine
Arts in Film
Master filmsmith Carlos Saura has been
making films for more than 50 years. This
time turns his sights to opera and collaborates
with his long time cinematographer
and master “painter with light,” Vittorio
Storaro (Apocalypse Now) to provide the
stage for a nexus of revelations about art,
politics and lust.
The film traces the remarkable life of Lorenzo
Da Ponte, a Jewish-born poet and Catholic
priest who introduced Dante to America
(be sure to see Dante’s Inferno - Animated
Sunday, 9/18, 4:30pm, at the Roxy!). It
opens in 1763, when he finds himself exiled
to Vienna. It is there where his friend Giacomo
Casanova introduces him to Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart who hires the unknown
libertine as his librettist. Da Ponte’s own
nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna
nurture Mozart’s inspiration and lead
to one of his boldest and most powerful
compositions: Don Giovanni.
Melody Caspari,
Soprano
Happening at Deerfield Ranch Thurs.!
Food Truck: Rosso Pizzeria’s Fire To Go
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Live Performance: Opera with Melody
Caspari, Soprano 7pm - 8pm
Friday, September 16
DIR:
Christopher
Rufo
PROD:
Keith
Ochwat
70
Minutes,
USA
Age of Champions
West Coast Premiere
Cinema of Conscience
Producer Keith Ochwat and Athlete
Doreen Finnegan In Person
This documentary profiles a number of
elderly athletes who partake in the United
States Senior Games.
Roger Gentilhomme, 100 years old, is an
alert, active and adept tennis player who,
despite having had to contend with both
arthritis and cancer surgery, looks forward
to every match and marvels at the fact that
he inspires people young and old alike. The
Tigerettes are a women’s basketball team
who are all over the age of sixty-five and
have won six gold medals. Bradford Tatum,
eighty-eight, was recently diagnosed with
cancer and undergoing chemotherapy, but
decides to postpone his surgery until after
the Senior Games where he hopes to win
the gold medal.
This is the kind of movie that moves us in
special ways. It really isn’t about old age or
winning metals at all. It is about perseverance,
friendship and aging joyfully.
Summerfield Cinemas 3, 5:00 pm
Mother Vine
World Premiere
Food on Film
Includes Tasting of Rare Portuguese
Wines Hosted by Director Ken Payton
Mother Vine takes us on magical voyage
through Portugal, including the Azores,
with renowned wine historian Virgilio Loureiro.
Through humor and pathos, viewers
follow the practices and dignified labor of
winemakers in regions unknown to many,
but the most traveled. Here we see vines
with high overhead trellises on outrageously
steep rocky terrain that are hand-tended by
people who have been following unique traditions
for centuries.
It is these historic wine regions that are
under multiple threats. From the building
of second homes to European Union
mandates, and from financial hardship to
the unwillingness of a younger generation
to follow, Portugal is very close to losing
important elements of its wine culture and
history forever.
Mother Vine is an effort to introduce audiences
to just what is at stake as Portugal
encounters modernization.
This is an opportunity to taste the wines and
see what the world will be missing should
these traditions perish. Special thanks to the
producers of Mother Vine and the wine producers
who have generously shared their
bounty with us, and to Randall Graham for
his kind assistance.
24 25
DIR: Ken
Payton
PROD:
Liliana
Mascate
SCR: Ken
Payton
CAM:
Nuno Sa
Pessoa Sequeira
ED:
Nuno Sa
Pessoa
Sequeira
78
Minutes,
2011,
Portugal