LETTER FROM MASANJIA
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Friday 1:45 PM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | Canada/China | 73 min | Documentary
Director: Leon Lee
Writer: Leon Lee, Caylan Ford
Producer: Leon Lee
Cinematographers: Sun Yi, Marcus Fung
Letter from Masanjia begins when mom of two, Julie Keith, finds an SOS note in a box of “Made in China” Halloween decorations from an Oregon Kmart. The desperate note was written by a political prisoner named Sun Yi, from China’s notorious Masanjia labor camp. On the crumpled page that travelled over 5000 miles, he details being jailed for his spiritual beliefs and how he is being subjected to torture and brainwashing tactics. His message goes viral and miraculously leads to the closure of China’s entire labor camp system. But their story is far from over.
- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
GHOST LIGHT
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Friday 11:30 AM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | USA | 102 min | Comedy
Director: John Stimpson
Writer: John Stimpson
Producers: John Stimpson, Geoffrey Taylor
Principal Cast: Cary Elwes, Shannyn Sossamon, Danielle Campbell, Carol Kane, Roger Bart, Tom Riley, Caroline Portu, Scott Adsit, Steve Tom
Filmmaker in attendance
Ghost Light is a haunted comedy about the absurd, but very seriously regarded, superstitions of the theatre, specifically those surrounding Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When a disgruntled and arrogant understudy tempts fate by uttering the forbidden name of the “Scottish King” on stage, the sorcery of the Bard’s witches overwhelms the production leading to chaos, misfortune and death. All’s well that ends well… but not for everyone.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
Yesterday or the The Day Before
2017 | Spain | 9 minutes
Director: Hugo Sanz
Ana and Silvia are two sisters who are not able to show their love for each other. Now, during a journey together, they will try to break down the wall that separates them.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Short Films
Where Mothbloods Bloom
2017 | USA | 16 minutes
Director: Grant Conversano
Fed up and exhausted, Autumn cuts off her relationship with her heroin addict boyfriend leaving her stranded and alone at a gas station at night. It is in this lonesome place that Autumn reaches out to Zane, a truck driver with problems of his own.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Short Films
Waterboys
2016 | Netherlands | 93 minutes
Director: Robert Jan Westdijk
Screenwriter: Robert Jan Westdijk
Producers: Maarten van der Ven, Robert Jan Westdijk
Cinematographer: Alex Wuijts
Editors: Ruben van der Van, Robert Jan Westdijk
Principal Cast: Leopold Witte, Tim Linde, Helen Belbin, Julie McLellan & The Waterboys
Waterboys tells the humorous and moving story of the evolving relationship between crime novelist, Victor (Leopold Witte), and his cello-playing son, Zack (Tim Linde). When Zack is dumped by his girlfriend and Victor is dumped by Zack’s mother on the same day, the two men grieve and briefly console one another before heading off on a trip to Scotland. It is here where Victor hopes to promote his latest book and spend some bonding time with Zack. However, Victor’s selfish tendencies nearly alienate the fragile relationship he shares with his son, and the trip becomes increasingly turbulent as the reasons for the pairs’ domestic troubles come to light.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
Three August Days
2017 | Estonia, USA | 20 minutes
Director: Madli Laane
In the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in the Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and a Russian boy reach across cultural lines to unite over a shared bottle of American soda.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Short Films
The Organizer
2017 | USA, Canada, Honduras, India, Cameroon, UK | 100 minutes
Director: Nick Taylor
Screenwriter: Nick Taylor
Producer: Joey Carey
Cinematographers: Nick Taylor, Joey Carey
Editor: Nick Taylor
The Organizer is a portrait of Wade Rathke, the controversial founder of ACORN, as well as an exploration of the much maligned and misunderstood occupation of community organizing.
Before it’s infamous demise following several highly publicized scandals, ACORN had been the largest community organization in the US. Rathke, a former anti-war and welfare rights organizer, founded the organization in Little Rock in 1970, and over the following decades shepherded its growth into a national political powerhouse for the poor. His entrepreneurial vision helped build ACORN, but internal conflict and external pressures would lead to its tragic downfall.
Undeterred, Rathke is now building new organizations around the world and trying to rebuild at home. With a wealth of archives and interviews, The Organizer is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the often hidden, usually messy, and always controversial job of building power for the powerless.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
The Last Honey Hunter
2017 | USA | 35 minutes
Director: Ben Knight
In a remote corner of Nepal, Maule Dhan Rai had a vivid dream as a young man. The elders determined that because of his dream, he alone would be granted safe passage onto the jungle cliffs in pursuit of a rare and toxic honey. This was many years ago. Even in these forgotten corners of the Himalayas, the world is changing quickly and unpredictably. No one else in Maule’s village has since had the dream.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Short Films
The Illumination
2017 | USA | 32 minutes
Directors: Tom Scott, Daniel Honan
In a remarkable twist of fate, it was the decades-long effort of one blind person, Gordon Gund, that made it possible for another, Yannick Duwé, to see. After 45 years, the journey of Gordon and Lulie Gund to find a cure for blindness can only be described as an act of love.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Short Films
The Heroin Effect
2017 | USA | 93 minutes
Director: Michael Venn
Producer: Karlina Lyons
Post Production Supervisor: Michael Bernard
Every day, 144 people in the United States die from Heroin and other opioid overdoses, and every day, others take their first steps toward recovery. Dean, Sandi, and Eric, all having battled addiction, share their journey to long term recovery. Daniel, in the midst of a crippling addiction, shares his video diary to serve as the most personal of warnings. This is our community and our crisis, and only as a community, and with a shift in our perception of addicts and addiction, can we begin to tackle this epidemic.
- Published in 2018, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films