2007 Films
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Hollywood Dreams (2007)
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Written, directed, and edited by, Henry Jaglom. Starring Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, David Proval, Karen Black.
FILMMAKER HENRY JAGLOM, ACTORS TANNA FREDERICKS AND DAVID PROVAL WILL BE AT THE SCREENING TO DISCUSS THE FILM AND BE AVAILABLE FOR Q & A.
Hollywood Dreams will be screening at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 8 pm. Filmmaker Henry Jaglom, and actors Tanna Frederick and David Proval will be at the screening for a presentation and Q and A.
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• "Terrific & Scalding! A funny, touching and irreverent comedy/drama about Hollywood today." Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune.• "As Hollywood films get worse and worse, Jaglom gets better and better." Roger Ebert
• "Hollywood Dreams is Irresistible!" Jennette Catsoulis, New York Times.
• "Corrosively funny." Grady Hendrix, The New York Sun.
Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, Eureka. September 15, 8 pm $20 advanced, $10 seniors and students. $25 at the door. Tickets are on sale now at www.arkleycenter.com
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
This multiple Award-winning documentary, tells the story of four battles between Native Americans and corporate and government entities. The four stories take place in Alaska, Maine, Montana, and New Mexico, the battles all to protect the land and the environmental resources from contamination by oil-drilling, strip mining, and toxic wastes. Whether one is a member of one of the 317 reservations today, or a simple a resident of planet earth, these stories are issues that affect us all. Powerful and Inspiring. (2005, Directed, Produced, Written by Roberta Grossman).
Short: Natural Selection, (Written and directed by Scott Leberecht, 17 minutes) In the future city of Los Angeles 2097, outlaw genetic engineering has transformed the streets into a battle ground between those who protect nature and those who exploit it.
Screening at the Southern Humboldt Community Park. Pre-screening music by Karie Hillery. Beer and wine and snackage. Bar proceeds go to the Friends of the Eel River. Friday, Sept. 7 Music and mingle at 7 pm, cinema starts at 8:15 $10 per person.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937) is the first full-length animated feature in color and with sound, one of Disney's greatest films, and a pioneering classic tale in film history. It was the first commercially successful film of its kind and a technically brilliant, innovative example of Disney animation. In addition to winning a special Academy Award in 1939, it was also the first film to release a motion picture soundtrack album. Walt came up with the idea for "Snow White" when he was only 15, working as a newsboy in Kansas City. He saw a major presentation of a silent film version of the tale starring Marguerite Clark. Regardless of your age, this is a treasure not to be missed. The original Disney 1937 35mm version (83 minutes in length).
Guest Speaker on Disney animations.
Garberville Theatre, Sunday Sept. 9 at 5 pm. $10, Under 18, and over 60 - $5
STRAIGHT OUTTA HUNTER'S POINT, by award-winning
filmmaker Kevin Epps.
Garberville Theatre, Sunday, Sept. 9, 7:30 pm. $10
Silent Cinema Event: The Cat and the Canary
(1927) Directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni, is a 1927 American silent horror film adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black comedy play of the same name. The film stars Laura La Plante as Annabelle West, Forrest Stanley as Charles "Charlie" Wilder, and Creighton Hale as Paul Jones. The plot revolves around the death of Annabelle, Charlie, and Paul's insane uncle and the reading of his will 20 years later. Annabelle inherits her uncle's fortune, but when she and her family spend the night in his haunted mansion they are stalked by a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, a lunatic known as "the Cat" escapes from an asylum and hides in the mansion.
The film was restored in 2004 by David Shepard of the Film Preservation Associates and a new original score was composed by local resident Franklin Stover. Stover will be present at the screening to discuss the process of creating music to match this powerful classic.
Composer Franklin Stover will be at the screening to discuss the process of writing an original score
to a silent film,
Winema Theatre, Monday, Sept. 10. 7:00 pm $10 general, $8 students/seniors
A fundraiser for the Ferndale Repertory Theatre
The Gold Bracelet
A Groundbreaking multi–award–winning film is the backdrop of an event that changed America forever, September 11. It is the moving journey of a man who strives to live a simple life, dedicated to his family, working hard for the American dream, Having left India and his career as a professor, Arjun Singh (Kavi Raz) now runs a mechanic shop in his adoptive homeland. The Gold Bracelet goes above and beyond story telling, it reaches out and moves the audience, inspires us, stirs emotions, and take a look at how we treat each other.
This is the winner of this year’s WildRiver’s Global Vision Award, presented to a filmmaker whose work
brings awareness to social, cultural, or environmental issues, with a message if hope.
Filmmaker Kavi Raz will be at the theatre for a presentation and a Q & A session.
Minor Theatre, Tuesday, Sept. 11, Doors open at 5:00 pm, $10, students and seniors $8 Screening at 5:30 pm
Le Grande Illusion, One of the most powerful and poignant films of all time. Although the story is of WW1 prisoners of war and their captors, the tale goes far beyond that. Magnificent acting by cinematic artistry weaves a tapestry of life in challenging circumstances. This is one of the greatest works of director Jean Renoir, son of famed artist Auguste Renoir. The issues are timeless. A masterpiece. The grand illusion being that that was the war to end all wars, although the film is not about war but about the consequences of war, it is not violent.
Director: Jean Renoir, 1937. Subtitles
Minor Theatre, Tuesday Night, Sept. 11. Screening w/speaker discussion at 8 pm.
STRAIGHT OUTTA HUNTER'S POINT, by filmmaker and
community activist Kevin Epps.
$10 general, students and seniors $8.
The NorCal Shorts Fest
This special event will showcase some of the finest short films made in Northern California. There will be animation, narrative, documentary, and a bit of experimental cinema. This will be a buffet of visual and audio delights not to be missed. This is a one- time event (maybe)! For more specific information on the films, check our website.
Ferndale Repertory Theatre, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7 pm. $10 general, $8 students/seniors
A fundraiser for the Ferndale Repertory Theatre.
The Gleaners and I
Directed by Agnes Varda, 2000. Running time 83 minutes
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. A delightful and provocative film that explores, using humor and a camera, the way that graffiti removal is approached in many places. A bit of irony, to say the least. Brilliant.
Directed by Matt McCormick, Running time 17 minutes
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Thursday, Sept. 13, 6 pm. $10 per person, students and seniors $8.
Say I Do
A special screening with filmmaker Ron Vignone, a Q & A period will follow the film. 35mm print, amazing story and filmmaking process. Fascinating story about the making of the film. it will blow your mind! This film has won so many awards, I lost count...
Sept 8, at the Benbow State Recreation Area, by the Lake 8 pm, $10 general, $8 students/seniors
screening at 5:30 at the Eureka Theatre on Sept. 14. Filmmaker Ron Vignone will be present for Q and A.
RAP DREAMS. screening at 8 pm at the Eureka Theatre on the 14th, Screening and presentation by award-winning filmmaker Kevin Epps.
Multi-media hip-night. The house is jumping. This Friday Night, the Eureka theatre is the place to be. You’re never too old to be inspired and have some fun!
Eureka Theatre, Sept. 14, 8:00 pm $10 general, $8 students/seniors
"Youth Champion Award presented to Kevin Epps at Wild Rivers 101 Festival"
San Francisco, CA – The Bay Area filmmaker behind acclaimed gritty urban documentaries such as Rap Dreams and Straight Outta Hunters Point is bringing these award winning independent films up to Humboldt County for the 2007 edition of the Wild Rivers 101 Festival. In addition to screenings, Epps will participate in panels and receive the Youth Champion Award for his work helping inner city kids develop multimedia skills at the historic Eureka Theater Sept 14 th. The only connection Humboldt County generally has to the inner city is often a potent green agricultural product of dubious legal standing, this changes as Epps brings his street savvy films produced in the Bay Area’s urban jungles to the Redwood Empire.
Epps’ work is regularly featured on Current TV Network founded by Al Gore, is just one of the many independent filmmakers & media producers that are gaining access to the media landscape through new outlets via the Internet, cable & satellite networks.
Mastamind Productions is a film and new media production entity based in San Francisco Ca that has produced award winning films that have engaged the public in a wide spectrum of respected venues from prestigious universities and theaters, even transcontinental airlines on down to local non profit community centers. As a producer founder Kevin Epps has generated content for companies such as Current TV, Google, Yahoo, Podshow Network and numerous other outlets. For more information: www.mastamind.com
Hollywood Dreams
Henry Jaglom will be presented with this year’s WildRivers 101 Independent Spirit Award, as a filmmaker who exemplifies the independent cinema values and artistry.
Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, Sat. Sept. 15, 7 pm
Screening and presentations by director Henry Jaglom and actors Tanna Frederick and David Proval.
A Q & A session will follow the screening
$25 General Admission, $15 students/seniors
Surfing for Life
An astounding documentary about surfers in their golden years, the oldest living American surfer was John H "Doc" Ball, who surfed until he was 94, and passed in 2001. Throughout his final years he skateboarded and surfed without a wetsuit in Shelter Cove. He rode the waves since 1929, was the first surf photographer, a dentist, and wrote a photo book about early California Surfing. This is a look at the vitality of this local legend, as well as many other men and women who keep on surfing. This is an inspiring story for those of all ages.
Co-producer, writer, and director: David L. Brown. Surfing for Life has won 15 international awards.
As a special treat, archived 8mm footage of surfing in Shelter Cove in the 1960s, taken by Doc Ball, will be spliced together, put on DVD and shared with those who loved him, or would have if they had had the pleasure. This is to honor a beautiful soul and inspiration.
Wharfinger Building, Sunday late afternoon ... 3 pm.
General $10, students/seniors $8.
A fundraiser for the Humboldt Surfriders
Strange Culture: The Presence Project
This is a film about Steve Kurtz, a politically active artist, bridging between the old and the new millennium. He is one of the most prolific, innovative of artist. What happened to him is unthinkable...or is it? This is definitely a must-see film if you are interested in your rights, your freedom of expression, or just wants to be amazed at a compelling real-life story. Many awards, and many more on the way!
Written, Directed, and Edited by Lynn Hershman Leeson, shot by Hiro Narita, with Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Thomas Jay Ryan, Josh Kornbluth, and Steve Kurtz.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is this year’s recipient of the WildRivers 101 Lifetime Achievement Award for
Digital Media Vision.
She will be presented the award in SF with a later screening of STRANGE CULTURE and discussion
with the filmmaker, in Humboldt County. Date and Venue TBA