After the Calendar Girls screening Thursday Nov 10th, the organization Dances for a Variable Population http://www.dvpnyc.org/ will hold a short presentation and workshop.
The 7pm screening of CARMEN on 9/23 will include introductory remarks from:
Michelle Buttigieg, North American Representative for the Malta Tourism Authority
The story of Sinéad O'Connor's rise to worldwide fame, and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on prophetic words and deeds across a six-year period (1987-1993), the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer, through a contemporary feminist lens.
Q&A with Director/Writer Haik Kocharian, and Cast on Friday, September 16th after 7:30pm show (SOLD OUT) Saturday 9/17 & Sunday 9/18 after 6:00pm and 8:30pm shows
A story of the friendship between a teenage boy and a wolfdog. When the two are forcefully separated, we follow the journey of the animal in search of his best friend. Addresses animal abuse, teens with undiagnosed conditions, and assisted suicide.
OUR AMERICAN FAMILY Q&A with the filmmakers on Thursday, September 8th after the 7:00pm show
An honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse.
-Semi-Finalist Laurels in the "Women's Empowerment Short" category of the San Francisco Indie Short Festival.Official selections for the festival will be announced end of May.
-Semi-Finalist Laurels in the Paris International Film Festival Short Category. Official selections for the festival will be announced in June.
Q&A with the filmmakers featuring the Tri-State Rescue Ladies & Friends on Friday, August 12 after the 7:00pm show, and on Saturday and Sunday after the 1:15pm and 7:00pm shows
SR is a festival that aims to satisfy a market need of socially relevant film content and everyday positive human stories while offering an alternative to the proliferation of violence in today’s story lines and filmmaking styles.
SR Films are entertaining, enlightening, uplifting but most of all artistically appealing. - www.ratedsrfilms.org
PARADISE HIGHWAY Intro and Q&A by Director/Screenwriter Anna Gutto Saturday July 30th at 9:20pm screening and Sunday July 31st at 6:50pm screening!
Academy Award® winners* Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. When her brother’s life is threatened, Sally (Binoche), a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila (Hala Finley). As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative (Freeman) sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a human-trafficking operation — and bring Sally and Leila to safety.
