Fanny: The Right to Rock
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
2021 | Canada | 96 min | Documentary
Director: Bobbi Jo Hart
Producer: Bobbi Jo Hart, Robbie Hart
Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to release an LP with a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970). Despite releasing 5 critically-acclaimed albums over 5 years, touring with famed bands from SLADE to CHICAGO and amassing a dedicated fan base of music legends including David Bowie, Fanny’s groundbreaking impact in music was written out of history… until bandmates reunite 50 years later with a new rock record deal. With incredible archival footage of the band’s rocking past intercut with its next chapter releasing a new LP today, the film includes interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, The Runaways’ Cherie Currie, Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian, The B52’s Kate Pierson, Charles Neville and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey. Fighting early barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, and now ageism, the incredible women of Fanny are ready to claim their hallowed place in the halls of rock ‘n’ roll fame.
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Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 88 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel Raim
Producer: Daniel Raim, Sasha Berman
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called “the most powerful movie musical ever made.” Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director’s chair and in Jewison’s heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters). The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
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Fire in the Mountains
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | India | 84 min | Narrative
Director: Ajitpal Singh
Producer: Alan McAlex, Ajay Rai
In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety). One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from hell, and religious superstitions. She saves money, uses feminine wiles to subvert the corrupt powers-that-be, and piggy-backs her son up and down the mountainside to medical appointments with condescending doctors. In the end, our heroine’s tightly wound grit must find release… in triumph, or madness, or both.
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For the Love of Friends
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States, Canada | 98 min | Documentary
Director: Cara Consilvio
Producer: Alex Charner
In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance, and fear, he returns home to his own HIV diagnosis. Though the run finishes, Brent’s activism never stops.
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The Game
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | United States, Serbia | 93 min | Narrative
Director: Ana Lazarevic
Producer: Ana Lazarevic
STRAHINJA, a smuggler in the Balkan’s modern “migration industry,” longs for a flashy lifestyle. These aspirations and his emotional unavailability have estranged him from his wife, TIJANA, and their son, LUKA (7), the very people he hopes to impress. When a routine trip is interrupted by police, Strahinja becomes stranded with refugee teens, Yousef (17), his younger brothers, and a traveling companion. The boys are refugees, but above all else, they are teenagers who long to have experiences that are something close to normal. The more time Strahinja spends with them, the more he struggles with seeing this as just a job. Their open-hearted approach to life makes him aware of the walls he has built around his own.
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Georgia’s Line
Friday, 26 August 2022
In-Person Event: SHOWROOM
2021 | United States | 16 min | Narrative
Director: Jo Dery
Producer: Miranda Dean
Georgia spends each winter as part of a mysterious all-female commune whose members commit to a subsistence lifestyle and take a vow of silence. When Georgia’s daughter and granddaughter return home to Vermont in need of support, Georgia’s role in the family unit comes into conflict with her desire for solitude.
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Hello, Bookstore
Friday, 26 August 2022
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2022 | United States | 86 min | Documentary
Director: A.B. Zax
Producer: A.B. Zax, Mark Franks, Melissa Nathan, Sydney Flint
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. This portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times, and the stories hidden on the shelves.
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Hideout
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | Taiwan | 118 min | Narrative
Director: Yen Kuang Chen
Producers: Yen Kuang Chen, Jerry Hsin, Vincent Lee
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Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make enough money so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. One day, he is contacted by Michael, a drug broker, with an offer to buy a batch of rare cocaine. Guo-hao teams up with long-time buddy Da-wei to borrow money from local crime boss Uncle Ma to complete this deal. However, Michael is found dead on the day of the exchange, and the drugs are already gone. The owner of the cocaine threatens to kill Guo-hao if he fails to come up with the drugs or money. At the same time, Uncle Ma dispatches his henchmen to recover the loan. In the middle of the night, Guo-hao receives a phone call from a mysterious man claiming to be in possession of the lost cocaine, telling Guo-hao he has a new deal for him…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
In-Person Event: SHOWROOM
2022 | United States | 60 min | Documentary
Director: Erik Ewers, Christopher Loren Ewers
Producer: Julie Coffman
Follow the journeys of more than 20 young Americans from all over the country and all walks of life who have struggled with thoughts and feelings that have troubled—and, at times—overwhelmed them. The film presents an unstinting look at both the seemingly insurmountable obstacles faced by those who live with mental disorders and the hope that many have found after that storm.
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Hit the Road
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | Iran | 93 min | Narrative
Director: Panah Panahi
Producers: Mastane Mohajer, Jafar Panahi, Panah Panahi
English Subtitles
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old – on a road trip to the Iranian border with a furtive purpose. This humanist drama offers an authentic, often comedic, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family preparing to part with one of their own.
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