SANTA ROSA FILM FESTIVAL - Santa Rosa International Film Festival

Roxy 2, 6:30 pm Deerfield Cave, 6:30 pm
DIR:
Camilo
Vila
PROD:
Monty
Fisher,
Rami Rivera
Frankl,
Francisco
Hernández,
Luis Llosa,
Noreen
Perez,
Alicia Rivera
Frank,
Joseph
Suarez,
Camilo
Vila
SCR:
Monty
Fisher
ED: Henry
Vargas
MUS:
Roger
Bellon
CAST:
John
Robinson,
Michael
DeLorenzo,
Alex Meraz
101
Minutes,
2011,
Peru, USA
City of Gardens
World Premiere
Cine Latino
Monty Fisher In Person, Camila Vila in
Person.
US based Cuban filmmaker Camilo Vila’s
City of Gardens is a film is inspired by the
story of Monty Fisher, an American teaching
English in Peru who was jailed on
trumped up charges and spent the early
1980s in the Andean nation’s worst prison.
Fisher is the film’s producer and even
wrote the original screenplay, which Vila
later adapted, transforming the main character
into a young American surfer falsely
accused of drug trafficking. Vila says that
when he makes a film he never thinks
of conveying “a message” but rather of
“making a quality movie that has a good
screenplay, a production marked by work
ethic and that has a moral.” Starring John
Robinson and Alex Meraz, the film was shot
last year in Peru. Vila left Cuba in 1961, and
after living in Miami, New York, Europe and
Puerto Rico, moved to Los Angeles in 1985.
ALSO PLAYING:
Friday, Sept. 16, 8:00 pm
Summerfield Cinemas 2
Total
Running
Time:
91
Minutes
Tuesday, September 20 Tuesday, September 20
Closing Shorts
DRW MMX
DIR: Stephen Ashton
USA, 2011, 26 Minutes
See pg. 22 for more description.
A Hungry Boy
DIR: Laurel Petty
USA, 2010, 21 Minutes
Born into a large and impoverished family
in Israel, Chef Avner Samuel began cooking
in a commercial kitchen at 13. Growing
up as a “hungry boy” influenced Mr.
Samuel to open his “dream restaurant,”
Aurora, in Dallas. Filmmaker Laurel Ann
Petty follows Chef Samuel in his restaurant,
as he creates his art, from prep to service.
In A Dreamland
DIR: Ezequiel Degastaldi
Spain, 24 Minutes
See pg. 44 for description
Mexican Cuisine
DIR: Francisco Guijarro
USA, 2011, 5 Minutes
In California, the state with the most
Mexican immigrants, there’s a cuisine that
has a deeper meaning. With filmmaker
Francisco Guijarro in person
Tacos or Tacos?
DIR: Robert Lemon
USA, 2010, 15 Minutes
A short film examining the rise of food
trucks in Austin, Tex., ranging from the
traditional taco truck to fancier and more
experimental trucks in south Austin, and
the rise of urban food culture in the city..
Summerfield Cinemas 2, 6:40 pm
DIR:
Carlos
Saura
PROD:
Andrés
Vicente
Gómez,
Andrea
Occhipinti,
Igor
Uboldi ED:
Julia Juaniz
MUS:
Nicola
Tescari
CAST:
Lorenzo
Balducci,
Lino
Guanciale,
Emilia
Verginelli
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.
Roxy 1, 7:00 pm
Roots Music Americana
World Premiere
Arts in Film
A CLOSING NIGHT FILM & PARTY
Roots Music Americana Roxy 14 6pm
The film explores today’s American roots
musicians who take on their own legacy,
the cult-like radio stations that play their
music (local KRSH for one) and the community
that listens. The Director’s Cut documentary
by local filmmaker David Reddix,
features Jeff Mattison & Wayward Angels,
Alabama Mike, Duke Robillard, Poor Man’s
Whiskey, The Hellhounds, among others.
With filmmaker David Reddix in person and
a short riff by The Hellhounds in the theater
lobby.
62 63
90
Minutes,
Italy
ALSO PLAYING: Thursday, Sept. 15, 8:00 pm
Deerfield Ranch Al Fresco
DIR:
David
Reddix
PROD:
David
Reddix
FEATUR-
ING:
David
Reddix
53
Minutes,
2011,
USA
SRIFF Closing Night Party
La Rosa Tequileria & Grille-
500 4th Street, Santa Rosa
(Courthouse Square)
Jeff Mattison & The Wayward Angels,
The Hellhounds and Alabama Mike play
at the The SRIFF Closing Night Party at
La Rosa Tequileria & Grille
Free for film ticket (bring your ticket
stub!) and FESTIVAL PASS holders.