We are still in the process of acquiring people for 2005 (check back again in March). However, this gives you an idea of the choices from LAST YEAR, 2004:
1. Rosario Sotelo (Director)
Bio: Rosario Sotelo is a visiting filmmaker from San Francisco.
FABRICATION (5 min)
Fragmented memories emerge out of grainy, hypnotic visuals as a Mexican-American girl struggles against a history of tradition and expectation to discover her individual voice.
Dates Available: APRIL 22-23, 2004
2. Chris Gaines (Director and Educator)
***attended by two of his students
Chris Gaines is the director of Raw Art Works in Boston. This non-profit program is a nationally recognized, community based youth arts organization. Its mission is to ‘use the power of arts to nurture growth in at-risk children and teenagers’. Films made by Real to Reel students in this program have been screened at multiple film festivals and the Museum of Television and Radio.
"FINDING MY WAY" Teen filmmaking and the future of cinema
These works were done by Chris Gaines’ students at RAW and Real to Reel in Boston. Seeing work done by their peers across the country can be extremely inspiring and empowering.
Dates Available: APRIL 16-19, 2004
3. Pavel Ruminov (Director)
Pavel Ruminov, director of the full length, feature film DEADLINE, is coming all the way from Russia to speak with students and present his film at the festival. Although only a small excerpt of the film will be shown, students will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to speak with this filmmaker and be a part of Russia’s long filmmaking history.
Dates Available: APRIL 19-21, 2004
4. John Sheedy (Director)
John Sheedy grew up in Oregon, in a double-wide on 40 acres. He now attends grad school at the University of Arizona. In 1998 he spent a month in Oaxaca photographing Day of the Dead. He has also taught photography workshops, and led trips to Mexico for Middle and High School students.
THE COMMUTE (12 min)
Two men, on separate sides of the Mexican-American border, both go through their daily routine of traveling to work in a Mexican factory. The clear differences between the two men’s experiences show the major disparity a few miles along opposite sides of the border can make.
Dates Available: APRIL 15-23, 2004
5. Andrew Dickson (Director)
Andrew Dickson is a Portland, Oregon based multi-discipline artist. He is also a screenwriter, actor and antique dealer.
MY NAME IS BRADLEE, THIS IS MY STORY (7 min)
Bradlee is a 29-year-old Pisces with a high tech job; but something’s missing. He heads north and finds a New Age paradise in Portland, Oregon.
Dates Available: APRIL 20-23, 2004
6. Yuri Makino (Director)
Yuri Makino is a local filmmaker, as well as University of Arizona alumni. Her film LLAMA WALKS was voted ‘Best of Arizona’ at the 2003 Arizona International Film Festival.
TOKYO EQUINOX (11 min)
Meant to record a long awaited reunion, this personal documentary slowly and poetically traces the conditions of estrangement between two sisters and their father.
Dates Available: APRIL 15-23, 2004
7. Eric Escobar (Director)
Eric Escobar is a visiting filmmaker from San Francisco.
APPLES AND ORANGES (2 min)
An old farmer retreats to his daily routine of plucking oranges from the tree, but he soon finds something peculiar among his pickings.
A SUS ORDENES (excerpt)
Escort services are too expensive for Mrs. White, an eccentric upper-class widow who hires day laborers to have dinner with her only to provoke them.
Dates Available: APRIL 22-23, 2004
8. Pepe Urquijo (Director)
Pepe Urquijo is a visiting filmmaker from San Francisco. He earned a B.A. in cinema production and screenwriting at San Francisco State University. His works have been shown all over the country and in Mexico.
PEPEPALOOZA (a film series)
FRUIT OF LABOR is a chronological account of a year in the life of Santiago Cazares. As we follow the seemingly mundane daily routine of selling fresh fruit, it uncovers a complicated world of politics, culture and pride. By shadowing Chago for one year, we see the old-fashioned innocence of one man’s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Dates Available: APRIL 21-23, 2004
9. Jessica Burstein (Writer, Director, Actor and Producer)
Jessica Burstein earned her MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Ms. Burstein grew up Jewish in North Carolina, a history which influences her vision as a filmmaker. She teaches video production in New York City at the YWCA La Puerta Early Learning Center, through a grant from the United Way.
VERONIKA’S BIRTHDAY
In this short, melodramatic Veronika Goldstein goes to visit her hilariously overbearing grandmother in suburban Florida where things deteriorate quickly when her perky cousin Lizzie shows up.
Dates Available: APRIL 17-22, 2004
10. Arnault Labarrone (Director)
Arnault Labarrone is coming all the way from France to speak with students and present his film, BUG. Speaking to this French filmmaker and seeing a clip from his experimental, special fx Sleeping Beauty story would be a unique and inspiring experience for students.
Dates Available: APRIL 21-24, 2004
11. Jeff Moneo (Director)
A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Jeff graduated from the Vancouver Film School and has been working in Vancouver's independent film scene for the past three years. His student film "Ladyfingers" garnered him a nomination for Best Student Director at BC's Leo Awards and has been screened at various international film festivals. He was recently awarded the prestigious National Screen Institute Drama Prize. Currently in reproduction on the Japanese language short film "Yori Michi, Dona Michi, A Chino Michi" and the short film "Ballerina".
DANCELAND (23 min)
This three-part travelogue of the Canadian prairies captures scenes from the extraordinary lives of a hermit, a wrestler, and a dancer.
Dates Available: APRIL 15-20, 2004
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