“Oak Hill,” a film starring Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland, will have its world premiere in North Bergen this afternoon in a benefit for Temple Beth El and a Union City shelter for the homeless.
The film, by screenwriter and former Jersey Journal reporter Peter LaVilla, tells stories of women down on their luck who find themselves together at a homeless shelter in New Jersey.
“I rounded up all the stories over the years that I did at homeless shelters,” LaVilla told Journal Arts Editor Jeff Theodore in an interview that appeared in Friday’s Weekend Urge section. “As I was writing the script, this movie is what poured out of me.”
This is the first screening of the final cut.
It begins at 2 p.m. at Temple Beth El, 75th Street and Hudson Avenue.
The $8 admission ($6 for seniors) will be split between the temple and the PERC shelter.
LaVilla said he chose to donate the funds to the organizations because they allowed him to film parts of “Oak Hill” in their facilities.
Anyone not able to attend who would like to make a donation may send a $4 made out to Temple Beth El and a $4 check made out to PERC to LaVilla at 3031 Edwin Ave., Suite 5J, Fort Lee, NJ 07024.
For information, call LaVilla at 201-947-7879. [via]
Benefit Screening Of “Out Late” Date: Saturday, December 06, 2008 Time(s): 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Location: Bay Street Theatre Town: Sag Harbor
A benefit screening of the feature film “Out Late” will be held Saturday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m., at the Bay Street Theatre, (One Bay Street, Sag Harbor). The film was produced and directed by Beatrice Alda and Jennifer Brooke, partners in life and work, and the co-founders of Forever Films, Inc., a Sag Harbor-based film production company. This will be the local filmmakers only East End screening of the film.
An emotional and thought provoking film for all audiences, “Out Late” introduces five individuals who made a decisive change later in life: to come out as lesbian, gay, or transgender as senior citizens. Why did they wait until their 50s, 60s, or 70s to come out? And what was the turning point that caused each of these people finally to openly declare their sexuality? From Canada to Florida, to Kansas, we find out what ultimately led these dynamic individuals to make the liberating choice to pursue fully integrated lives.
“Out Late” has garnered much critical acclaim, winning Best Documentary at the Long Island International Film Expo, and was selected to screen at over 20 prestigious film festivals, including Newfest in New York City, and Artivist (an international human rights festival) in Los Angeles. In May, the filmmakers were invited to screen the film for the major donors of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC. Other recent and upcoming screenings include film festivals in Barcelona, Madrid, Montreal and Egypt.
This special event is open to the public. Tickets are $45 and include the screening, a Q&A with the filmmakers following the film, moderated by WLIU 88.3 FM’s Bonnie Grice, and reception. Tickets are available at the Bay Street Theatre Box Office (Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., 631-725-9500). All proceeds benefit SAGE LI and LIGALY, Long Island non-profit organizations dedicated to meeting the needs of the Long Island gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender senior and youth communities, by providing education, advocacy, and social support services.
Mammoth Lakes Library presents the film “Roman De Gare”
December 9, 2008 Times: 7:00 pm http://www.monocolibraries.org Location: Mammoth Lakes Library Phone: 760-934-4777 Admission: Free
The Mammoth Lakes Library will be showing the foreign film “Roman De Gare” at 7:00 pm. Free.
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction? [imdb]
Cinema Revolution presents The Dance Film Project an evening of choreography for the camera
Image from “throne/thrown” by Vanessa Voskuil and John Koch
Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13 at 7 PM
FEATURING NEW ORIGINAL SHORT FILMS BY
Mad King Thomas and Katinka Galanos
Vanessa Voskuil and John Koch
Justin Jones and Kevin Obsatz
Mandy Herrick and Dustin Nelson
Katie Ritchey and Garrett Tiedemann
Erica Pinigis
Megan Mayer and Kevin Obsatz
FILMS INCLUDE PERFORMANCES BY
Laurie Van Wieren
Sally Rousse of James Sewell Ballet
Anna Marie Shogren
Charles Campbell of Skewed Visions
Kristin Van Loon of Hijack
Elliott Durko-Lynch
…among others.
The evenings’ events will also include: April Sellers’ multi-media duet “Women Bathing”
and musical group To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie will perform after the screenings Saturday Dec. 13.
For map and directions click here
Parking is available in the Intermedia Arts lot on the north side of the building
Tickets: $8 – $12 sliding scale
(available at the door) General Admission
Show a Cinema Revolution store receipt at the door and get $2 off ticket price.
Parental Advisory: This performance contains nudity and may not be suitable for children
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In anticipation and celebration of Cinema Revolution’s fifth anniversary, store owner and filmmaker John Koch hosted an open call last April for filmmakers and choreographers to come together and create original short works for the camera or for live performance and camera. Koch proposed that the participants explore the expressiveness of dance through a cinematic language placing themselves in site-specific contexts and focusing on the various structures of time.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
April Sellers (Sage Award honoree for Outstanding Performance 2005) will restage her multi-media duet, “Women Bathing,” which reveals the female form in 17-gallon metal washtubs. “Women Bathing,” originally created with support by the Minnesota State Arts Board, will feature video by Kelly Radermacher, original music composition by Michael O’Brien, and performances by Kelly Radermacher and Pam Plagge.
DANCE FILM DESCRIPTIONS
“Reverb“ by director Katie Ritchey and filmmaker Garrett Tiedemann. Four women search the echoes of space and time. While compelled forward through programmed behaviors and a maintenance of group dynamics an underlying curiosity keeps them tracing peripheries of unknown origin. Photo by Garrett Tiedemann.
“4-Frame Dance Project“ by choreographer Justin Jones and filmmaker Kevin Obsatz. Obsatz runs four digital cameras simultaneously, each facing in toward the center of a square to capture a single choreography and displayed on the screen simultaneously in a four-square layout. The dance relates to the placement of the cameras, resulting in disorienting and surprising effects produced by this particular method of capturing and displaying choreography. The technique is repeated by 8 different dancers each giving their unique take on the perspective. Featuring performances by Justin Jones, Anna Shogren, Laurie Van Wieren, Mad King Thomas (Theresa Madaus, Tara King, Monica Thomas), Charles Campbell, Kristin Van Loon, Elliott Durko-Lynch and Megan Mayer. Photo by Kevin Obsatz.
“Coarse Confluence“ by choreographer Megan Mayer and filmmaker Kevin Obsatz. Megan Mayer, a dance artist/choreographer and photographer based in Minneapolis, is the solo performer in this site-based dance film, which is the result of an interest in the intersection between movement and film. Megan performs in an array of natural landscapes, her dance interacting with and reflecting upon her surroundings. Photo by Kevin Obsatz.
“throne/thrown“conceptualized by choreographer/director Vanessa Voskuil and filmmaker John Koch. Taking its impetus from W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” “throne/thrown” explores the search for the position in one’s life by which to conduct one’s authority over it. Directed and conceived by Vanessa Voskuil (2006 Sage Award for Outstanding Design) and John Koch (Cinema Revolution store owner and filmmaker), “throne/thrown” strives to create a frenetic, visually compelling, and cinematically moving experience. Photo by John Koch.
“Alongside Sympathetic Neurons“ by choreographer Mandy Herrick and filmmaker Dustin Nelson. Herrick and Nelson explore site-based dance, investigating particular locations and how they can be perceived differently through changing the typical movement, behavior, time, and perspective of each site. The exploration and movement inspired by the body-site, within the context of a geographical-site, illustrates a parallel in both body and place. Photo by Dustin Luke Nelson.
“Cuddle“ by choreographer/filmmaker Erica Pinigis. Stop-motion is used to show the dance of two lovers lying together, suspended in black space and bound by a single bed sheet, as their bodies intertwine, merging, coming apart and back again, exploring the movement and gesture of romantic love.
“I’ll be on the dock in a minute“ choreographed and conceived by Mad King Thomas and filmmaker Katinka Galanos. Sally Rousse, co-founder of James Sewell Ballet, stars in this semi-biographical dance, filled with both truths and fictions about her life. Sally tells a story about being run over by a truck when she was a small girl, featuring peculiar and fantastic interview footage mixed with live-action reenactments/re-interpretations of the events. The following themes are informing the work: the scale of human bodies (over time and between individuals), rewriting history, investigating the function of truth vs. fiction, and the dynamics of tangential conversations.
The CUSU Women’s Campaign and Campaign for Female Education are holding a film screening of “Where the Water Meets the Sky” as part of the documentary’s global launch on World AIDS Day.
Monday 1st December, 8pm-10.30pm
Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky is the inspiring story of a group of women in rural Zambia who learn how to make a film as a way to speak out about their lives. All funds raised through the screening will support Camfed’s work to educate girls and invest in economic and leadership opportunities for young women in Africa.
Co-Hosted by NERDI Film Society, The Humanitarian Centre, The Hub, CU StopAIDS, CU International Development Soc, CU African-Caribbean Soc, Social Documentary Film Soc. [via]
“Blood Trail” is the first film showcased by the Tri-State Actors Theater in their Crescent Theater, 74 Main St., Sussex, N.J., and is showing at 6:30 and 8 p.m. Friday. The film is presented by 144 Productions and is about two couples whose country vacation goes horribly wrong. Tickets are $10. Call 973-875-2950. [via]
The Jewish Federation League of Greater Orange County is presenting the film “Praying With Lior” at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Downing Film Center, 19 Front St., Newburgh. It’s a documentary about a boy with Down syndrome whom many people believe is closer to God than anyone else. One screening is already sold out, so be sure make reservations soon by calling 562-7860 or visiting Downing Film Center.
“The Limbo Room,” winner of Best Domestic Feature at the 2006 Queens International Film Festival, and starring local actress Melissa Leo, is about theater life and some of the discrimination issues that occur in show business. The only area screening of the film will take place at 8 p.m. Friday at the Rosendale Theater on Main Street, Rosendale. Leo will be at the screening to answer questions after the film. With her performance in “Frozen River” generating heavy Oscar buzz, this is a great opportunity to meet the actress in person. Tickets are $10. Call 658-8989. [via]
World Neighbors, a nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Oklahoma City, has joined with Sundance Film Festival to present “Flow,” a new documentary focusing on the world’s water crisis.
In conjunction with the deadCenter Film Festival and the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, World Neighbors is providing two opportunities to see the documentary. A Tulsa screening will be at 7 p.m. today at Circle Cinema, 12 S Lewis Ave. An Oklahoma City screening is set for 2 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive.
For more information on the Tulsa screening, call (918) 585-3456; for the Oklahoma City screening, call 278-8237.
World Neighbors staff members will be present at the conclusion of both screenings to discuss how the issue of water is being addressed in some of the poorest communities in 18 countries. [via]
ABOUT GARDENS OF THE NIGHT (2008), Rated R, 110min.
Leslie (Gillian Jacobs), struggles with a hand to mouth existence on the streets of San Diego with only her childhood friend Donnie (Evan Ross) to look after her, both of them trying to cope with the trauma of having been abducted and held captive by two men nine years earlier. As an eight-year-old girl, Leslie (Ryan Simpkins) was abducted through trickery by an older man Alex (Tom Arnold), and his young accomplice Frank (Kevin Zegers). Leslie was held captive in their house along with an eight-year-old boy named Donnie, who believed his mentally unstable mother, sold him to Alex. The children create a bond with each other managing to escape into a fantasy world they create in their bedroom. Years later Leslie and Donnie, now seventeen years old, are living as street-kids and struggling to cope with what they suffered through, having been affected by the experience differently. Donnie’s feelings for Leslie are those of any teenager in love, however Leslie’s perception of love has been severely mutated through her relationship with Alex and her instinct is to run from Donnie. Can she not only survive this horrific experience, but be set free from it’s terrible shackles?
Also starring John Malkovich, Harold Perrineau and Jeremy Sisto.
Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.
Born in London, England, Damian studied at the London International Film School, his first short Killing Time played at the Los Angeles Film Festival and won First Prize at the Avoriaz Film Festival for Horror and Science Fiction and his next short film: Greasy Lake, from a short story by TC Boyle, with James Spader and Eric Stoltz, won first prize at the Houston Film Festival. Producer Andrew S. Karsch at United Artist’s optioned the rights to the Martin Amis novel The Rachel Papers which Damian adapted and directed, joining up with Eric Fellner’s Initial Pictures, the film was made in London with James Spader, Ione Skye and Dexter Fletcher. The Rachel Papers attracted the attention of Disney Films and he made his next two films with Touchstone Pictures: Deceived starring Goldie Hawn and Bad Company written by Ross Thomas and starring Laurence Fishburn, Ellen Barkin and Frank Langella. He has already written his next two films: Pop and An Available Man. [via]
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