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FROM THE DIRECTORS: Festival Policies

WELCOME TO THE SCOTTSDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! ADULTS-ONLY ADVISORY What could be better than the pairing documentary films would hardly fill up a row with attendees. Many Many of the films in the Scottsdale of Scottsdale Center for the Performing seasons later, films such as Nicky’s Family and Antarctica: A Year International Film Festival are Arts – showcasing its 40-year history on Ice went on to win our Audience Award for “Best Film.” The unrated by the M.P.A.A. and viewer of presenting cultural and performing evolution in viewing taste gave me the courage to go all out this discretion is advised. We suggest arts – with the Scottsdale International season and create our first-ever documentary sidebar. We are that you consider that the majority Film Festival and its 15-year commitment replete with documentaries tackling a realm of social, musical, of the films in this Festival are for to the best in global film? Certainly the artistic, humanistic and political issues. adults. Please use your discretion merging of resources and support are A special note of gratitude to the entire team of the Scottsdale in determining whether your child long overdue and make for a logical Cultural Council and Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, from is mature enough to attend. alliance benefitting Arizona, the Valley, Neale Perl, who green-lighted the opening night’s extraordinary post- the Center and the Festival itself. With an eye focused intently on film performers coming to us from Paraguay, to Ally Haynes-Hamblen, ELECTRONIC DEVICES our new partnership, you will find films with a tip of the hat to dance, who as a kindred spirit has patiently steered me through the unknown symphony, choir and folk music. territory of a large nonprofit organization, and all the way back to Please turn off your cellphone Our 15th annual opening night reception, the Landfill Harmonic every single Festival patron, foundation, donor, member, volunteer, and other digital devices upon film and the entertainment dynamic of the Recycled Orchestra prove grantor, sponsor, board member and advertiser. I share with you my entering the auditorium. The staff that this year’s expansion of the Festival owes a debt to the resources delight at the distance we have traveled together and the many new will require cellphone users to of the Center. Our entire opening night event stands as a testament journeys to discover. leave the auditorium until they to the grandeur of a celebration that was formerly unattainable. have finished their calls. The staff The resources and audiences of the Center along with support With gratitude, will also require anyone operating from the nonprofit Scottsdale Cultural Council and Harkins Theatres a hand-held device with an will steadily elevate the Festival in the years to come. Together we can illuminated screen to leave until expand our reach and service to the community. In the truest sense, they have finished viewing the the Festival has become a destination event, and the community screen. Please do not send or should begin to feel the impact on local tourism with more robust review text messages during programming for film-lovers. Amy Ettinger the films. We are delighted to inaugurate a special section that recognizes Founder and Director, Scottsdale International Film Festival Festival women filmmakers. The topic of gender-based inequalities in Film Curator, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts RECORDING DEVICES Hollywood is legend. On the other hand, this Festival found reason Audio- and video-recording to program every single film based upon merit and not the gender Thank you for being part of the devices of any kind are prohibited of the director. In doing so, it just so happens that we also reveal an Scottsdale International Film Festival! inside the Festival auditoriums. exceptional lineup of new films made by women from around the As you know, Scottsdale Center for Admission will be denied to any world. This actuality should resonate as an eye-opener to anyone the Performing Arts and the Festival bankrolling filmmakers. recently joined together to bring our ticket or pass bearer who attempts A noteworthy piece of history in our community involves the original community expanded film programming, to enter with a recording device. If LGBTQ film festival known as the Out Far! Film Festival, which I and we are thrilled to launch this exciting a recording device is utilized, it will founded in 1997. Out Far! ran for 10 seasons before it was shuttered new collaboration. In celebration of the be forfeited and the operator will eight years ago, due in large part to positive shifts in an ongoing, Center’s 40th-anniversary season and be removed from the auditorium. nationwide dialogue. Today, LGBTQ films and filmmakers have the Festival’s 15th year, we have planned a very special opening Unauthorized recording will become part of the fabric of content regularly produced for main- night that beautifully ties together film and the performing arts in a be reported to the appropriate stream audiences. And luckily, the Out Far! audience remained loyal unique and compelling way. We look forward to seeing you on the authorities. by helping to seed the Scottsdale International Film Festival. As evening of Nov. 5 to celebrate with us! thanks, we programmed a tribute to those longtime/founding patrons NO SMOKING/ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES with a sidebar of exceptional alternative themes. Saturday night’s Smoking is not allowed in Festival Centerpiece film, Carol, is just one of the timely and relevant examples facilities; the use of electronic of the natural progression of what was once regarded as niche cigarettes is also prohibited. programming for a disenfranchised minority into the mainstream. Over the years our patrons have also built up a healthy appetite Ally Haynes-Hamblen for documentary films. In the formative days of the Festival, Interim Director, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts SCPA SMoCA

PAGE 7: SCPA ½ PAGE AD/ BISTRO AD ½ PAGE VERTICAL 8 Scottsdale International Film Festival — Nov. 5-9, 2015 TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM SCOTTSDALE INTERNATIONAL VIP PASSES, PACKAGES & TICKET INFO Pricing Single-Ticket Prices BEFORE the Festival Begins Single-Ticket Prices DURING the Festival Opening Night Film and Reception (Cash Bar)...... $39 (Includes Fees) Opening Night Film and Reception Ticket (Cash Bar)...... $39 (Includes Fees) Films Starting 9 a.m. to 12 Noon...... 2-for-$12 All Harkins Shea 14 Theatre Films...... $12 Films Starting After 12 Noon...... $12 *Student Discount (At the Door)...... $9 Children’s Animated or Children’s Live-Action Program...... $5 *Excludes opening night film/reception and closing night film. Valid student ID required.

HOW TO PURCHASE VIP PASSES, Ticket Packages VIP Passes PACKAGES AND TICKETS Opening night film/reception tickets are not included in packages and must be See up to 27 films, including the Opening Night film, for $265. VIP passes are only purchased separately. Must be purchased BEFORE Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. available for purchase BEFORE the Festival begins, until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Please read the instructions below before Nov. 4. making any purchase. VIP passes and Non-Member VIP Pass (Purple/Black-and-White)...... $265 Supporting-Level Members and Above: packages are only available for purchase Festival Discount Package...... $215 Reserved Seating Tickets Required on Opening Night before the Festival begins, until 5 p.m. on Build-a-10 Package...... $110 One VIP pass allows bearer into all Festival films and the opening night reception, which begins Wednesday, Nov. 4. Build-a-5 Package...... $55 at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Dayton Fowler Grafman Atrium of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Each VIP pass holder must preselect his/her Thursday film tickets online BEFORE THE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL DISCOUNT PACKAGE by Wednesday, Nov. 4. Appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages will be provided. Two soft drink Oct. 5 – Nov. 4 (no later than 5 p.m.) 26 TICKETS FOR $215 coupons will be included with each pass for redemption at the bar. VIP pass holders also receive Must be purchased BEFORE Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. priority position in lines and are admitted into the Harkins Shea 14 Theatre first. In the event of a ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com See up to 26 films, or share the tickets with friends and family! With this package, you must preselect your tickets at the time of purchase. sellout, however, no one is guaranteed a seat after the film has started. 866-811-4111 Please remember, you will be required to leave the auditorium after each screening/Q-and-A and join the line for your next film, so please Non-Members: plan your schedule accordingly. DURING THE FESTIVAL Does not include a ticket to the opening night reception and film. Reserved Seating Tickets Required on Opening Night Nov. 5–9 Purple/black-and-white VIP passes purchased without a membership require the buyer BUILD-A-10 PACKAGE to preselect his/her tickets online prior to Wednesday, Nov. 4. With this package, you 10 TICKETS FOR $110 – SAVE $10 must preselect your tickets at the time of purchase. Tickets are required for entry into all OPENING NIGHT VENUE Must be purchased BEFORE Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. auditoriums. One VIP pass allows bearer into the opening night reception. Appetizers and one With this package, you must preselect your tickets at the time of complimentary nonalcoholic beverage will be provided. Scottsdale Center for the purchase. Please remember, you will be required to leave the auditorium after each screening/Q-and-A and join the line for your next • There will be a no-host, cash bar at the opening night reception for additional beverages not Performing Arts film, so plan your schedule accordingly. included with the VIP pass. 7380 E. Second St. Does not include a ticket to the opening night reception and film. • The party is exclusively for VIP pass and opening night film/reception ticket holders. Scottsdale, AZ 85251 • Patrons must be 21 or older to be served alcoholic beverages. Box Office Hours on Nov. 5: BUILD-A-5 PACKAGE • VIP passes provide priority position in lines to see any Festival film at Harkins Shea 14 5 TICKETS FOR $55 – SAVE $5 10 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Theatre and also permit the holder to remain in the auditorium between films. Must be purchased BEFORE Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. • VIP pass holders must still arrive 30 minutes before their films start, and seating is not With this package, you must preselect your tickets at the time guaranteed to anyone once a film has started. of purchase. Please remember, you will be required to leave the Note: Opening night tickets will only be sold at auditorium after each screening/Q-and-A and join the line for your next • In the event of a sellout, no one is guaranteed a seat after the film has started. the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts film, so plan your schedule accordingly. • A limited number of VIP passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis. box office – not at Harkins Shea 14 Theatre. Does not include a ticket to the opening night reception and film. POLICIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFO

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SCHEDULE OF FILMS 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 pm 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm 8 pm 9 pm 10 pm 10:30am 12:15pm THURSDAY SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR Children's Animated Children's Live- 6pm OPENING NIGHT FILM: Landfill Harmonic November 5 THE PERFORMING ARTS Q & A Shorts Action Shorts ••••1 I ■

10am Imba 3:40pm Rock the FRIDAY THEATRE 1 11:35am Hilda 1:25pm Sea Fog 5:45pm Silver Skies 8:10pm Tumbledown November 6 Means Sing Casbah IQ & A I

8:20pm 9:30am Cuidad Delirio 11:30am Rock the 1:35pm Marina 3:55pm Theeb 6pm Carol THEATRE 1 Casbah The Benefactor

12:10pm Under 2pm A Gay Girl 9:45am Crimean 3:50pm Stink! 5:40pm The Yellow Eyes 8pm Anomalisa THEATRE 3 Construction in Damascus of the Crocodiles SATURDAY November 7 11:05am Three Windows 5:50pm My Friend 9:15am Rooftops 1pm Life in a Fishbowl 3:30pm The President 7:45pm Secrets THEATRE 4 and a Hanging Victoria of War

3:40pm Second THEATRE 6 9:05am Luna 11:10am In Her Place 1:25pm Court Coming 5:45pm Little England 8:15pm Locust

9am Home From THEATRE 7 Home

9am My Friend 10:55am Life in a 1:30pm 3:40pm The Girl King 5:45pm The Adderall 8:05pm Love the Coopers THEATRE 1 Victoria Fishbowl Baby Steps Diaries

9:45am Three Windows 11:50am A Gay Girl in 6:05pm Hitchcock/ 1:45pm Cuidad Delirio 3:55pm Glassland 8:10pm Sea Fog THEATRE 3 and a Hanging Damascus Truffaut SUNDAY November 8 9:30am Imba 11:05am Crimean 1:25pm The President 3:45pm Little England 6:20pm Hilda 8:15pm Under THEATRE 4 Means Sing Construction

THEATRE 6 9:10am In Her Place 11:25am Luna 1:35pm Court 3:50pm Secrets of War 5:50pm Second Coming 8pm Loreak

THEATRE 7 9:05am Home From Home

THEATRE 14 7:30pm Remember

THEATRE 1 10am Rooftops 11:50am The Yellow Eyes 2:10pm Theeb 4:10pm Right Footed 6:20pm Paul Taylor: 8:30pm The Girl King of the Crocodiles Q & A Creative Domain Q & A MONDAY November 9 8:35pm CLOSING NIGHT FILM: 10:05am Locust 12:25pm Loreak 2:15pm Glassland 4:05pm Baby Steps 6:10pm Marina THEATRE 14 Youth TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM Scottsdale International Film Festival 11

HIGHLIGHTS 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 pm 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm 8 pm 9 pm 10 pm Centerpiece Films ADVANCE SCREENINGS! Eight films are Arizona Advance Screenings and are also categorized as Centerpiece films, which are scheduled during the early evening and evening prime-time slots.

They are: The Adderall Diaries, Anomalisa, The Benefactor, Carol, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Love the Coopers, Remember and Tumbledown.

Please refer to the film listings on pages 14–23 Remember for summaries.

The Benefactor Love the Coopers Carol

Director’s Cut DON’T MISS THESE FILMS! Off the beaten path, the following 10 picks are certainly buzz-worthy and all films that I’m glad to have seen:

Court A Gay Girl in Loreak Damascus: Marina ...... The Amina Profile ...... My Friend Victoria ...... Court ...... Second Coming ...... Hilda Little England Three Windows Home From Home and a Hanging Little England

Home From Home Marina Good Fest! — Amy 12 Scottsdale International Film Festival — Nov. 5-9, 2015 TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM FEATURED FILMS Opening Night Film Closing Night Film

SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING Landfill Harmonic follows intact and provide a source SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING intention of returning to Writer: Paolo Sorrentino the Recycled Orchestra of hope for their town. The his music career, which he Producer: Nicola Giuliano, LANDFILL HARMONIC of Cateura, a Paraguayan film is a testament to the dropped a long time ago, Francesca Cima, Carlotta musical group that plays transformative power of YOUTH while Mick, a director, is Calori DIRECTORS: Brad Allgood, Graham instruments made entirely music and the resilience of COUNTRY: Italy/France/United still working, hurrying to Cinematographer: Luca Townsley out of recycled trash. When the human spirit. finish the screenplay of Bigazzi COUNTRIES: USA/Paraguay Kingdom/Switzerland their story goes viral, the his latest film. Both friends Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli YEAR: 2015 YEAR: 2015 RUNTIME: 84 minutes orchestra is catapulted into Principal Cast: The RUNTIME: 118 minutes know that their days are Music: David Lang LANGUAGE: Spanish with English the global spotlight. Under Recycled Orchestra of numbered and decide to subtitles the guidance of idealistic Cateura TIMES: Monday, Nov. 9, 8:35 p.m. face their future together. music director Favio But unlike them, no one TIMES: Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. Chavez, the Orchestra must Producer: Juliana Fred and Mick, two old else seems worried about navigate a strange new Penaranda-Loftus friends approaching the passing of time. PRESENTED BY Reception: (Cash Bar): 6 p.m. world of arenas and sold-out Cinematographer: Neil their 80s, are enjoying a Film: 7:30 p.m. concerts. However, when a Barrett, Timothy Fabrizio, vacation in a lovely hotel Principal Cast: Michael Concert: 9 p.m. natural disaster strikes their Brad Allgood in the foothills of the Alps. Caine, Harvey Keitel, Q-and-A: 9:30 p.m. country, Favio must find a Editor: Brad Allgood Fred, a retired composer Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano,

way to keep the Orchestra Music: Michael A. Levine and conductor, has no Jane Fonda

In the Spotlight SPECIAL ARIZONA SCREENINGS Sing, Love the Coopers, Paul Taylor: Creative Domain, PERFORMING ARTS Rock the Casbah, Second Coming, Silver Skies, Under We are pleased to offer 11 highly anticipated releases! These With an eye focused intently on the Festival’s collaboration Construction and The Yellow Eyes of the Crocodiles. films will be screened theatrically later this year (or in 2016), with Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, you will find six but you can be among the first to see: The Adderall Diaries, films with a tip of the hat to dance, symphony, choir and folk Anomalisa, The Benefactor, Carol, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Landfill DOCUMENTARIES music: Ciudad Delirio, Imba Means Sing, Landfill Harmonic, Harmonic, Love the Coopers, Remember, Theeb, Tumbledown Over the years, our patrons have built up a healthy appetite Paul Taylor: Creative Domain, Tumbledown and Youth. and Youth. for documentary films. This year, we are offering seven documentaries tackling a realm of timely sociopolitical, BACK IN THE USA WOMEN DIRECTORS musical, artistic, inspiring and humanitarian issues: A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Last year’s domestic film spotlight Less than 5 percent of the top-grossing Hollywood films Imba Means Sing, Landfill Harmonic, Paul Taylor: Creative was so well received that we decided to reprise it with 10 remarkable films and less than 15 percent of independent features are Domain, Right Footed, and Stink! directed by women. The Scottsdale International Film made entirely in the United States: Festival is keen to further the prospects of exceptional The Adderall Diaries, Anomalisa, The films made by female filmmakers. We proudly trounce the LGBTQ Benefactor, Carol, Love the Coopers, industry statistics by featuring a noteworthy 30 percent of The spirit of the Out Far! Lesbian & Gay Film Festival lives on Paul Taylor: Creative Domain, Right our lineup from women directors: A Gay Girl in Damascus: and could not be kept in the closet! We are proud to present Footed, Silver Skies, Stink! and The Amina Profile, The Adderall Diaries, Ciudad Delirio, the following four films: A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Tumbledown. Silver Skies Imba Means Profile, Baby Steps, Carol and The Girl King. TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM Scottsdale International Film Festival 13

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A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS: THE ADDERALL DIARIES ANOMALISA BABY STEPS THE AMINA PROFILE Centerpiece Film Centerpiece Film Director: Barney Cheng Director: Sophie Deraspe Director: Pamela Romanowsky Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson Country: Taiwan/Canada Country: Canada Country: USA Country: USA Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2015 Year: 2015 Runtime: 103 minutes Runtime: 84 minutes Runtime: 87 minutes Runtime: 90 minutes Language: English and Mandarin with English Language: English, French and Arabic with English subtitles subtitles TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 5:45 p.m. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m. TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 1:30 p.m., and Monday, TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2 p.m., and Sunday, Based on the best-selling memoir by Michael Stone (David Thewlis) is a Nov. 9, 4:05 p.m. Nov. 8, 11:50 a.m. Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries is successful motivational speaker with fans the story of an author (James Franco), across the country, but inside him sits a Danny and his boyfriend Tate long to have Montrealer Sandra Bagaria is having an paralyzed by writer’s block and an knot of anxiety that renders much of his a baby. When Danny’s mother (Ma) finds erotic and intellectual online romance escalating drug dependency, who is daily life meaningless. Everything and out about his plans, she is horrified by with Amina Arraf, a Syrian-American sucked down the rabbit hole of a high- everyone just seems the same to him. the idea of hiring a surrogate to carry her woman living in Damascus. As the Syrian profile murder case. As Elliott becomes But then Michael meets Lisa (Jennifer first awaited grandchild. Ma tries to stop uprising was being violently repressed, increasingly obsessed with the trial, his Jason Leigh) on a speaking-tour stop in Danny. However when she understands Arraf launched the blog A Gay Girl in own nightmarish childhood memories Cincinnati. Lisa is an anomaly. Michael that he is determined, she starts to control Damascus, which quickly became a source resurface, particularly of his cruel and and Lisa begin with prickly, cautious every aspect of the process. The foursome for respected news media reports of on- distant father (Ed Harris). But when his conversations and then move towards love. (Danny, Tate, Ma and the surrogate) must the-ground stories of resistance. But when estranged father returns with his own story But, unlike in a conventional Hollywood travel thousands of miles to Bangkok Arraf is abducted and Bagaria starts a to tell, fact and fiction become blurred in romance, that romantic arc is neither for the embryo transfer. The emotionally campaign to free her, no one – not even the an amphetamine-induced haze. – Tribeca simple nor obvious. The love scene at exhausting journey inevitably pulls Danny U.S. State Department – can find a trace Film Festival the heart of Anomalisa should instantly and Ma apart, as she still has unresolved of her. A modern love story shape shifts rocket up the list of cinema’s greatest. issues about Danny being gay and the non- into an international thriller as journalists Principal Cast: James Franco, Ed Harris, It’s intimate, awkward, heartbreaking traditional family that they are starting. and activists hunt for the real Arraf through Amber Heard, Christian Slater, and deeply erotic – despite the fact that the virtual world. Identities and avatars Cynthia Nixon the lovers are made of felt. – Toronto Principal Cast: Grace Guei, proliferate, fiction is reported as fact and International Film Festival Michael Adam Hamilton, Barney Cheng, nothing can be taken as truth. Superb Writer: Pamela Romanowsky Yvette Mercedes, Ai Fong Mo storytelling and cinematic style seamlessly Producer: James Reach, Principal Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, blends with erotica, news footage of the Joseph McKelheer, Vincent Jolivette, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis Writer: Barney Cheng uprisings. A true masterpiece of hybrid James Franco Producer: Stephen Israel documentary cinema. – Hot Docs Cinematographer: Bruce Thierry Cheung Writer: Charlie Kaufman Cinematographer: Kenneth Yeung Editor: Myron Kerstein, Marc Vives Producer: Rosa Tran, Charlie Kaufman, Editor: Hsiao-Yun Ku Principal Cast: Nilay Olçay, Sandra Bagaria Music: Michael Andrews Duke Johnson, Dino Stamatopoulos Music: George Shaw Cinematographer: Joe Passarelli Writer: Sophie Deraspe PRESENTED BY Editor: Garret Elkins Producer: Isabelle Couture, Music: Carter Burwell Nathalie Cloutier Editor: Geoffrey Boulangé, Sophie Deraspe A24 PRESENTED BY Music: Sam Shalabi TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM Scottsdale International Film Festival 15 WATCH THE TRAILERS Scan this code with your smartphone to see trailers of these great films.

THE BENEFACTOR CAROL CIUDAD DELIRIO CRIMEAN (KIRIMLI) Centerpiece Film Centerpiece Film Director: Chus Gutierrez Director: Burak Cem Arlıel Director: Andrew Renzi Director: Todd Haynes Country: Colombia/Spain Country: Turkey Country: USA Country: USA Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2015 Year: 2015 Runtime: 100 minutes Runtime: 117 minutes Runtime: 93 minutes Runtime: 118 minutes Language: Spanish with English subtitles Language: Turkish with English subtitles

TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 8:20 p.m. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9:30 a.m., and Sunday, TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9:45 a.m., and Sunday, Nov. 8, 1:45 p.m. Nov. 8, 11:05 a.m. Richard Gere delivers a bravura In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s performance as a rich eccentric man who seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol Javier, a shy Spanish doctor in a business Crimean has been adapted from Cengiz worms his way into the lives of a deceased follows two women from very different trip, meets Angie, a beautiful Colombian Dagcı’s first novel, Horrible Years, friend’s young daughter (Dakota Fanning) backgrounds who find themselves in an dancer and owner of a salsa school. published in 1956. The author, who passed and her new husband (Theo James). unexpected love affair in 1950s New Returning to Madrid, Javier does not feel away in 2011, had his entire body of work Writer-director Andrew Renzi’s narrative York. As conventional norms of the time right with his life and, encouraged by his focus on the culture of the Crimean Tatars feature debut, The Benefactor is a warm challenge their undeniable attraction, best friend, comes back to Colombia to and the suffering of the Crimean Turks. and winsome story that explores the pangs an honest story emerges to reveal the settle there for a while. Angie is working of the past and reflects on what it is to resilience of the heart in the face of with her talented young dancers for an During the Stalin era, when oppression be family. Renzi displays the nuances of change. A young woman in her 20s, audition to be part of Delirio, the most is at its peak in post-revolutionary Russia, a seasoned storyteller, constructing an Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk famous salsa show in the world. Javier Sadık Turan starts his education. He emotional labyrinth around an endearing working in a Manhattan department store and Angie will meet again, and live an watches in shock when Red Army soldiers and enduring Shakespearian character. and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when impossible romance between two cultures, barge into his classroom to declare that The Benefactor is a remarkable drama she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an full of obstacles and misunderstandings, the use of the Cyrillic alphabet will replace enlivened by incredible performances alluring woman trapped in a loveless, immersed in the world of salsa dancers in the Turkish alphabet. With the start of delivered by a versatile cast, bringing to life convenient marriage. As an immediate the town where dancing is the goal, the World War II, Crimean Turks are drafted Renzi’s powerful cinematic vision. – Tribeca connection sparks between them, the dream and life. by the Russians and sent into battle. Sadık Film Festival innocence of their first encounter dims and becomes an officer within the Red Army their connection deepens. While Carol Principal Cast: Carolina Ramirez, and, while struggling to survive, he and his Principal Cast: Richard Gere, breaks free from the confines of marriage, Julián Villagrán, Jorge Herrera fellow soldiers are taken prisoner by the Dakota Fanning, Theo James, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to Germans. Clarke Peters, Cheryl Hines, Dylan Baker question her competence as a mother as Writer: Chus Gutierrez, Elena Manrique her involvement with Therese and close Producer: Diego F. Ramirez, Principal Cast: Ali Barkın, Baki Davrak, Writer: Andrew Renzi relationship with her best friend Abby Elena Manrique Burç Kumbetlioğlu, Bülent Alkı, Producer: Kevin Turen, Jason Michael Berman, (Sarah Paulson) come to light. Cinematographer: Diego Fernando Jimenez Gülçin Santırcıoğlu, Joshy Peters, Jay Schuminutesky, Thomas B. Fore Editor: Ignacio Ruiz Capilla Murat Yıldırım, Selma Ergeç Cinematographer: Joe Anderson Principal Cast: Cate Blanchett, Music: Tao Gutierrez Editor: Dean C. Marcial, Matthew Rundell Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Choreographer: Blanca Li, Viviana Vargas Writer: Atilla Ünsal, Nil Ünsal Music: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Producer: Avni Özgürel Cory Michael Smith Cinematographer: Feza Çaldıran PRESENTED BY Editor: Deniz Kavalalı Writer: Phyllis Nagy Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley Cinematographer: Edward Lachman Editor: Affonso Gonçalves Music: Carter Burwell

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THE GIRL KING GLASSLAND HILDA HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT Director: Mika Kaurismäki Director: Gerard Barrett Director: Andrés Clariond Rangel Centerpiece Film Country: Finland/Canada/Germany/Sweden Country: Ireland Country: Mexico Director: Kent Jones Year: 2015 Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Country: USA/France Runtime: 104 minutes Runtime: 89 minutes Runtime: 88 minutes Year: 2015 Language: English and French with English subtitles Languages: Spanish with English subtitles Runtime: 90 minutes TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 3:55 p.m., and Monday, Languages: English, French and Japanese with TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 3:40 p.m., and Monday, Nov. 9, 2:15 p.m. TIMES: Friday, Nov. 6, 11:35 a.m., and Sunday, English subtitles Nov. 9, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 6:20 p.m. John (Jack Reynor) lives with his mother, TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 6:05 p.m. It’s the 1600s and Queen Kristina is set Jean (Toni Collette), in a social housing Susana Le Marchand, 63, a lonely on making Sweden the most sophisticated suburb and ekes out a meager living as a housewife ignored by her wealthy husband In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and Francois country in Europe. Having been raised as nocturnal taxi driver. John returns home one and alienated by their social milieu, hires Truffaut locked themselves away in a prince under strict Lutheran control, the morning to find his mother unconscious a new maid, Hilda. Hilda’s presence at Hollywood for a week to excavate the enigmatic, flamboyant and unpredictable from an alcohol overdose; however, this the house suddenly triggers an identity secrets behind the mise-en-scène in queen faces powerful resistance in was not the first time. Jean violently rejects crisis in Mrs. Le Marchand and makes cinema. Based on the original recordings her quest to educate her subjects and John’s attempts to help as well as his her reevaluate her life. She begins of this meeting – used to produce the end the bloody 30 Years War between intentions to unite the family. When Jean is remembering her revolutionary past and mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut – this Protestants and Catholics. Amid all this, offered an opportunity to recover, and with questions her luxurious but empty present. film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson Kristina struggles to come to terms with an no savings or insurance, John is forced to In the meantime, her dependency on Hilda of all time and plummets us into the world irresistible passion for her lady in waiting, offer his services to a petty criminal to help grows slowly and becomes an obsession. of the creator of Psycho, The Birds and the stunning Countess Ebba Sparre. Her pay for his mother’s costly rehab program. An obsession that, in the end, will come at Vertigo. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern quest to understand love runs parallel to John is subsequently faced with a life- a high price. art is elucidated and explained by today’s her quest to understand humanity and the changing task that may change him and his leading filmmakers violent and restrictive forces conspiring family’s lives forever. Principal Cast: Verónica Langer, against her. Torn between the conflict Adriana Paz, Fernando Becerril, Principal Cast: Bob Balaban (narrator) with of political and personal aspirations, Principal Cast: Toni Collette, Jack Reynor, David Gaitán, Eduardo Mendizábal, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, David Kristina chooses to make one of the most Will Poulter, Michael Smiley Anna Cetti Fincher, Olivier Assayas, controversial decisions in history. Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, Writer: Gerard Barrett Writer: Andrés Clariond Rangel James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Principal Cast: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Producer: Juliette Bonass, Ed Guiney Producer: Nicolás Celis Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn, Cinematographer: Piers McGrail Cinematographer: Héctor Ortega Hippolyte Girardot Editor: Nathan Nugent Editor: Yibrán Asuad Writer: Kent Jones, Serge Toubiana Music: Rodrigo Montfort Producer: Olivier Mille, Charles S. Cohen Writer: Michel Marc Bouchard Cinematographer: Nick Bentgen, Producer: Mika Kaurismäki, Anna Stratton, Daniel Cowen, Eric Gautier, Arnie Gelbart, Rainer Kölemel, Mihai Malaimare Jr., Lisa Rinzler, Wasiliki Bleser, Martin Persson Genta Tamaki Cinematographer: Guy Dufaux Editor: Rachel Reichman Editor: Hans Funck Music: Anssi Tikanmäki PRESENTED BY

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HOME FROM HOME (DIE ANDERE HEIMAT – IMBA MEANS SING IN HER PLACE LANDFILL HARMONIC CHRONIK EINER SEHNSUCHT) Director: Danielle Bernstein Director: Albert Shin Opening Night Film Director: Edgar Reitz Country: Canada/Uganda/United Kingdom/USA Country: South Korea/Canada Directors: Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley Country: Germany Year: 2015 Year: 2014 Countries: USA/Paraguay Year: 2013 Runtime: 73 minutes Runtime: 115 minutes Year: 2015 Runtime: 230 minutes Languages: Korean with English subtitles Runtime: 84 minutes Languages: German with English subtitles TIMES: Friday, Nov. 6, 10 a.m., and Sunday, Language: Spanish with English subtitles Nov. 8, 9:30 a.m. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 11:10 a.m., and Sunday, TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m., and Sunday, Nov. 8, 9:10 a.m. TIMES: Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 9:05 a.m. Imba Means Sing is the story of one little Reception: (Cash Bar): 6 p.m. boy – joined by two other choir members An affluent city woman arrives at a Film: 7:30 p.m. Set in a dreary, unforgiving mid-19th- – who is a big star. As the celebrity desolate South Korean farm where a Concert: 9 p.m. century German village in Hunsrück, drummer from the Grammy-nominated pregnant teenage girl and her mother have Q-and-A: 9:30 p.m. Home From Home captures the plight of African Children’s Choir, Moses relies on agreed to let her secretly adopt the hundreds of thousands of Europeans who his youthful resilience. Growing up in the girl’s unborn child. As the pregnancy The Recycled Orchestra is scheduled to appear and immigrated to faraway South America to slums of Kampala, Uganda, Moses and progresses and the three women fall into a perform after the film. They will also participate in a escape the famine, poverty and despotism his family lack enough resources for him new rhythm of life together, their business Q-and-A with the audience. that ruled at home. Their motto was: “Any to even attend the first grade. Moses is arrangement becomes more than they fate is better than death.” Edgar Reitz’s only 8 when the film begins, yet he knows bargained for. Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled film is a heart-wrenching drama and love all too well that this is a once-in-a-lifetime Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan story set against the backdrop of this opportunity to secure his future and change Principal Cast: Yoon Da-Kyung, Ahn Ji Hye, musical group that plays instruments forgotten tragedy. It encompasses a time of the course of his family’s life. We follow Hae-yeon Kil made entirely out of recycled trash. tribulation and illuminates the revolutionary Moses as he works for an education and When their story goes viral, the orchestra and intellectual spirit present in the souls spreads the magic of his African childhood. Writer: Albert Shin is catapulted into the global spotlight. who are the center of this tale. Producer: Albert Shin, Igor Drljaca, Under the guidance of idealistic music Principal Cast: Angel, Moses, Nina Yoon Hyun Chun director Favio Chavez, the Orchestra must Principal Cast: Jan Dieter Schneider, Cinematographer: Moon Myoung Hwan navigate a strange new world of arenas Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt, Producer: Erin Bernhardt Editor: Albert Shin and sold-out concerts. However, when a Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Kriese, Cinematographer: Jason Maris Music: Alexandre Klinke natural disaster strikes their country, Favio Philine Lembeck, Mélanie Fouché and a Music: Ryan Potesta must find a way to keep the Orchestra special appearance by Werner Herzog intact and provide a source of hope for their town. The film is a testament to the Writer: Edgar Reitz transformative power of music and the Producer: Christian Reitz resilience of the human spirit. Cinematographer: Gernot Roll Editor: Uwe Klimmeck Principal Cast: Recycled Orchestra Music: Michael Riessler of Cateura

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LIFE IN A FISHBOWL LITTLE ENGLAND LOCUST (SARANCHA) LOREAK (FLOWERS) Director: Baldvin Z Director: Pantelis Voulgaris Director: Egor Baranov Director: Jon Garaño, José Mari Goenaga Country: Iceland Country: Greece Country: Russia Country: Spain Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Runtime: 128 minutes Runtime: 132 minutes Runtime: 124 minutes Runtime: 99 minutes Language: Icelandic with English subtitles Language: Greek with English subtitles Language: Russian with English subtitles Language: Basque (Euskara) with English subtitles

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Three different tales of three different Set during the 1930s and 40s on the In this Russian erotic thriller, a small-town Nothing is technically wrong with people, all of whom end up having a lasting picturesque Greek island of Andros, boy and a big-city girl meet at a vacation Ane. According to her doctor, she is effect on one another. Twenty years after part of the Cyclades archipelago with a getaway, where they have a harmless just experiencing a rare case of early a horrible personal tragedy, a middle-aged long history of military embroilment and summer fling. Once her holiday ends, the menopause. And while the news is writer still drinks himself into oblivion every seafaring turmoil, Little England is not girl returns home and promptly receives a upsetting to childless Ane, she finds little day. A young single mom moonlights as only the title of this film but also the name marriage proposal from a wealthy suitor. comfort in her husband Ander, who rarely a prostitute to make ends meet. A former of a shipping enterprise introduced to Soon after, the small-town boy comes to utters more than a few words to her. soccer star is recruited into the snake pit of the viewer as the story progresses. The the city looking for her. Lust turns to love, When a bouquet of flowers is delivered international banking and loses touch with opening scene of rolling ocean waves and and the modern-day Romeo and Juliet to Ane’s door, her spirits are lifted and his family. crashing surf is a forbearance of the story’s begin to devour everything and everyone she assumes Ander is finally expressing schedule of turbulent events. in their path. The once seemingly harmless sympathy for her condition. But after she Principal Cast: Þorsteinn Bachmann, summer fling becomes a long-term, thanks him for the thoughtful gesture, he Hera Hilmarsdóttir, Principal Cast: Penelope Tsilika, complex, frenzied and passionate affair with curtly denies responsibility. During the next Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson Sofia Kokkali, Anneza Papadopoulou, significant consequences for all concerned. several weeks, Ane continues to receive a Andreas Konstantinou, Maximos Moumouris new, anonymous bouquet of flowers every Writer: Baldvin Z, Birgir Örn Steinarsson Principal Cast: Anastasiya Akatova, Thursday. Although the flowers increasingly Producer: Ingvar Þórðarson, Júlíus Kemp Writer: Ioanna Karystiani Paulina Andreeva, Evgeniya Dmitrieva annoy Ander, Ane relishes in the idea of Cinematographer: Jóhann Máni Jóhannsson Producer: Yiannis Iakovidis having a secret admirer. That is, until the Editor: Sigurbjörg Jónsdóttir Cinematographer: Simos Sarketzis Writer: Oleg Malovichko flowers stop arriving. Told through multiple Music: Ólafur Arnalds Editor: Takis Yiannopoulos Producer: Alexander Tsekalo, perspectives, Jon Garaño’s and José Marí Music: Katerina Polemi Konstantin Ernst Goenaga’s poignant and engrossing film Cinematographer: Yuri Korobeinikov explores how one of the simplest acts of Editor: Olga Shentorovich kindness reinvigorates a woman’s life and Music: Alexei Aygi, Oleg Chubykin how she returns the favor. – Cleveland International Film Festival

Principal Cast: Josean Bengoetxea, Nagore Aranburu, Itziar Ituño, Itziar Aizpuru, Egoitz Lasa, Ane Gabarain, Jox Berasategi

Writer: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga Producer: Xabier Berzosa, Aitor Arregi, Fernando Larrondo Cinematographer: Javier Agirre Erauso Editor: Raúl López Music: Pascal Gaigne TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM Scottsdale International Film Festival 19 WATCH THE TRAILERS Scan this code with your smartphone to see trailers of these great films.

LOVE THE COOPERS LUNA MARINA MY FRIEND VICTORIA (MON AMIE VICTORIA) Centerpiece Film Director: Dave McKean Director: Stijn Coninx Director: Jean-Paul Civeyrac Director: Jessie Nelson Country: United Kingdom Country: Belgium/Italy Country: France Country: USA Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2015 Runtime: 104 minutes Runtime: 118 minutes Runtime: 95 minutes Runtime: 118 minutes Language: Dutch and Italian with English subtitles Language: French with English subtitles TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9:05 a.m., and Sunday, TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 8:05 p.m. Nov. 8, 11:25 a.m. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 1:35 p.m., and Monday, TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 5:50 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 9, 6:10 p.m. Nov. 8, 9 a.m. Love the Coopers follows the Cooper clan After losing their baby, Grant and Christine as four generations of extended family visit an old friend with a new partner in his Italy, 1948. Young Rocco is growing up in As an 8-year-old orphan, Victoria (Keylia come together for their annual Christmas isolated and idyllic seaside house. During Calabria, until one day his father Salvatore Achie Beguie) is taken into the home of a Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a a long weekend, secrets are revealed and decides to leave for Belgium, where he white bourgeois family for a single night, series of unexpected visitors and unlikely the life of the dead child is lived out in a strives to earn money by working in coal fueling her dreams of comfort and privilege events turn the night upside down, leading series of fantastical dreams that become mines. Very soon he sends for his family. for the rest of her life. As an adult (now them all toward a surprising rediscovery of an opportunity for spiritual healing. Rocco becomes a migrant overnight, beautifully played by Guslagie Malanda), family bonds and the spirit of the holiday. with all the consequences this entails. she reconnects with the youngest son Principal Cast: Ben Daniels, Dervla Kirwan, Rocco wants to be like other youngsters, of her host family, bearing his child after Principal Cast: Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Stephanie Leonidas, Michael Maloney become someone and have a purpose in a brief affair. All the while she drifts Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Jake Lacy, life. Against his father’s wish and better from job to job, independent yet lacking Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, Writer: Dave McKean, Allen Spiegel judgment, he seeks an escape through focus – except for that one night from her June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Olivia Wilde Producer: Simon Moorhead music and love. The amazing story is based childhood and its revelations. Director Cinematographer: Antony Shearn, on the childhood memories of the Italian- Jean-Paul Civeyrac manages a treatise Writer: Steven Rogers Luke Bryant Belgian singer Rocco Granata. on race and class that’s subtle, moving Producer: Michael London, Jessie Nelson, Editor: Dave McKean, and refreshingly non-didactic, refusing to Janice Williams Emily Rosen-Rawlings Principal Cast: Matteo Simon, reduce the characters to symbols. Music: Iain Ballamy Evelien Bosmans, Luigi Lo Cascio, – Film Society of Lincoln Center Donatella Finocchiaro, PRESENTED BY Chris Van Den Durpel, Warre Borgmans, Principal Cast: Guslagie Malanda, Cristian Campagna Nadia Moussa, Catherine Mouchet, CIBSFILMS Pascal Greggory, Alexis Loret, Writer: Rik D’hiet, Stijn Coninx Pierre Andrau Producer: Eyeworks Cinematographer: Lou Berghmans Writer: Jean-Paul Civeyrac Editor: Philippe Ravoet Producer: Philippe Martin Music: Michelino Bisceglia Cinematographer: David Chambille Editor: Louise Narboni Music: Frédéric Junqua 20 Scottsdale International Film Festival — Nov. 5-9, 2015 TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM FESTIVAL FILMS

PAUL TAYLOR: CREATIVE DOMAIN THE PRESIDENT REMEMBER RIGHT FOOTED Director: Kate Geis Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Centerpiece Film Director: Nick Spark Country: USA Country: Georgia Director: Atom Egoyan Country: USA/Ethiopia/Philippines Year: 2013 Year: 2014 Country: Canada/Germany Year: 2015 Runtime: 82 minutes Runtime: 118 minutes Year: 2015 Runtime: 82 minutes Language: Georgian with English subtitles Runtime: 95 minutes Director Kate Geis and Producer Robert Aberlin are Jessica Cox is scheduled to present the film and scheduled to participate in a post-film Q-and-A. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 3:30 p.m., and Sunday, TIMES: Sunday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. participate in a post-film Q-and-A. Nov. 8, 1:25 p.m. TIMES: Monday, Nov. 9, 6:20 p.m. Remember is a gripping thriller in which TIMES: Monday, Nov. 9, 4:10 p.m. The president and his family rule the land the darkest chapter of the 20th century Among the most acclaimed with a draconian fist, enjoying a privileged collides with a contemporary mission of Born without arms as the result of a choreographers in American history, Paul and luxurious existence at the expense of revenge. Zev Guttman (Academy Award severe birth defect, Jessica Cox never Taylor has been reinventing the roles of his miserable and oppressed subjects. winner Christopher Plummer), a 90-year- allowed herself to believe that she could music, movement and theme in dance for After a coup d’état uproots his position of old struggling with memory loss, is living not accomplish her dreams. An expert nearly 60 years. In that time, he has offered power, the president’s wife and daughters out his final years in a serene retirement martial artist, college graduate and only glimpses into his creative process. are flown out of the country as he stays home. A week following the death of his motivational speaker, Jessica is also the Creative Domain is a rare, in-depth behind with his grandson, who is too young beloved wife Ruth, he suddenly gets a world’s only armless airplane pilot, a documentation of how he creates a single to grasp the unfolding events. After his mysterious package from his close friend mentor and an advocate for people with dance. In 1998, director Matthew Diamond personal escort and bodyguards turn on Max (Academy Award winner Martin disabilities. Directed by Emmy Award- released Academy Award-nominated him, he is forced to disguise himself and Landau), containing a stack of money and winning filmmaker Nick Spark, Right Dancemaker about the story of the then flee into the countryside to avoid capture. a letter detailing a shocking plan. Both Zev Footed chronicles Jessica’s amazing 69-year-old choreographer, his life, his He soon learns that he is now the country’s and Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and story of overcoming adversity and company and his dances. Creative Domain most wanted fugitive and begins a perilous the same sadistic guard was responsible follows her during a period of two years is the next chapter in the creative life of journey with his grandson, his only ally. for the death of both their families – a as she becomes a mentor for children Taylor. Through the lens of award-winning Posing as street musicians, the pair blend guard who, immediately after the war, with disabilities and their families, and a cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, Taylor’s in with a band of haggard political prisoners escaped Germany and has been living disability rights advocate working in the nonverbal communication with his dancers just released from jail as they travel towards in the United States ever since under an United States and abroad. is revealed. Below the surface of this dance the coast to an awaiting ship that will take assumed identity. Max is wheelchair-bound and the many works that came before, them to safety. but in full command of his mental faculties; Principal Cast: Jessica Cox, is Taylor’s power of acute observation, with his guidance, Zev will embark on a Patrick Chamberlain revealing a side to his choreography that is Principal Cast: Misha Gomiashvili, cross-continental road-trip to bring justice strangely prophetic. Dachi Orvelashvili, la Sukhitashvili, once and for all to the man who destroyed Writer: Nick Spark Guja Burduli, Zura Begalishvili, both their lives. Producer: Nick Spark, Lisa Yuchengco Principal Cast: Paul Taylor, Lasha Ramishvili Cinematographer: Bill Megalos Michael Trusnovec, AnnMaria Mazzini, Principal Cast: Christopher Plummer, Editor: Susan Metzger Amy Young, Robert Kleinendorst, Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Martin Landau, Bruno Ganz, James Samson, Michelle Fleet, Marziyeh Meshkiny Jurgen Pruchnow, Heinz Lieven, Parisa Khobdeh, Sean Mahoney, Producer: Mike Downey, Henry Czerny, Dean Norris Jeffrey Smith, Eran Bugge, Vladimer Katcharava, Sam Taylor Francisco Graciano, Laura Halzack, Cinematographer: Konstantine-Mindia Writer: Benjamin August Jamie Rae Walker, Michael Apuzzo, Esadze Producer: Robert Lantos, Ari Lantos Aileen Roehl, Michael Novak Editor: Hana Makhmalbaf, Cinematographer: Paul Sarossy Marziyeh Meshkiny Editor: Christopher Donaldson Producer: Kate Geis Music: Christian Siddell Music: Mychael Danna Cinematographer: Tom Hurwitz Editor: Kate Geis PRESENTED BY Music: Peter Elyakim Taussig A24 This film has been generously sponsored by Transatlantic Tax. 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ROCK THE CASBAH THE ROOFTOPS (LES TERRASSES) SEA FOG (HAEMOO) SECOND COMING Director: Laïla Marrakchi Director: Merzak Allouache Director: Sung-bo Shim Director: Debbie Tucker Green Country: Morocco/France Country: Algeria Country: South Korea Country: United Kingdom Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Year: 2014 Runtime: 100 minutes Runtime: 92 minutes Runtime: 111 minutes Runtime: 105 minutes Languages: Moroccan and French with English Languages: Arabic with English subtitles Languages: Korean with English subtitles subtitles TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 3:40 p.m., and Sunday, TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 9:15 a.m., and Monday, TIMES: Friday, Nov. 6, 1:25 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 8, 5:50 p.m. TIMES: Friday, Nov. 6, 3:40 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 9, 10 a.m. Nov. 8, 8:10 p.m. Nov. 7, 11:30 a.m. As busy, working parents, Jackie and From dawn till dusk, paced by the calls to Kang, a long-time captain of the Junjin, is Mark have not been intimate in quite some A Moroccan family comes together for prayer, a surprising crowd wanders about disheartened to learn that his ship has been time. However, Jackie abruptly discovers three days in their home following the on the rooftops of Algiers – closed spaces sold by its owner, leaving Kang’s entire that she is pregnant. She knows it is not death of their patriarch, the influential that have become open air mirrors to the crew in danger of losing their livelihoods. her husband Mark’s, but claims she has businessman Moulay Hassan (film legend contradictions, the violence, the intolerance Swallowing his pride, Kang pays a visit not been with anyone else either. The Omar Sharif), to share their memories and of the endless conflicts that mar Algerian to Yeo, a human-trafficking broker, and unnerving side effects of her pregnancy to grieve his loss, according to Muslim society. The film takes place during one decides to take on the dangerous job begin to affect her mental state, creating tradition. They have left the beach behind day, focusing on the destinies of various of smuggling illegal migrants into South turmoil within the family that is only made and swapped swimsuits for djellabas as characters, friends and families, all with Korea. When the Junjin arrives at the worse by Mark’s fury. Second Coming everyone gathers in a show of mourning. their own singularity and their appropriation pickup point, a violent storm forces the follows the close-knit family during the However, sparks start to fly when prodigal of these terraces that dominate the city. boat to stall in the open waters, inevitably course of a year as they navigate their daughter Sofia jets in from New York after Their stories start slowly and show different pitting Kang’s crew against the migrants. way through family life and cope with an several years away. The youngest, she facets of Algiers today. They all have in As tension and unrest spread throughout unexplainable pregnancy. made a new life for herself as an actress common a tragic event in their lives, and the Junjin, a dense sea fog envelops the in America, but she only ever gets roles as the calls to prayer echo all along the boat and tragedy unfolds in the mysterious Principal Cast: Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, terrorists on U.S. TV. Her return provides escalation of their squalid living. It is a depths of the fog. Kai Francis-Lewis, Sharlene Whyte the opportunity to settle some scores with perspective on Algiers seen from above her sisters, as the order once maintained contrasting with the lowness that the city Principal Cast: Kim Yoon-seok, Writer: Debbie Tucker Green by Moulay breaks down. Between laughter reveals. Park Yu-chun, Han Ye-ri Producer: Polly Leys, Kate Norrish and tears, a collective hysteria leads each Cinematographer: Ula Pontikos of the women to face up to some home Principal Cast: Adila Bendimerad, Writer: Shim Sung-bo, Bong Joon-ho Editor: Mark Eckersley truths that have boiled beneath the surface Nassima Belmihoub, Ahcene Benzari Producer: Bong Joon-ho, Cho Neung-yeon, Music: Luke Sutherland for years. Lewis Taewan Kim Writer: Merzak Allouache Cinematographer: Hong Kyeong-pyo Principal Cast: Morjana Alaoui, Producer: Jacques Bidou, Editor: Kim Sang-bum, Kim Jae-bum Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Marianne Dumoulin Music: Lee Seung-chul Hiam Abbass, Omar Sharif Cinematographer: Frederic Derrien Editor: Sylvie Gadmer Writer: Laïla Marrakchi Producer: Stephanie Carreras Cinematographer: Pierric Gantelmi d’Ille Editor: Jennifer Augé Music: Laurent Garnier, Robin Coudert 22 Scottsdale International Film Festival — Nov. 5-9, 2015 TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM FESTIVAL FILMS

SECRETS OF WAR SILVER SKIES STINK! THEEB (WOLF) Director: Dennis Bots Director: Rosemary Rodriguez Director: Jon J. Whelan Centerpiece Film Country: Netherlands Country: USA Country: USA Director: Naji Abu Nowar Year: 2014 Year: 2015 Year: 2015 Country: Jordan, Quatar, United Kingdom, United Arab Runtime: 94 minutes Runtime: 96 minutes Runtime: 90 minutes Emirates Languages: Dutch with English subtitles Year: 2014 Actor Jack McGee and filmmakers Rosemary and TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 3:50 p.m. Runtime: 100 minutes TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 7:45 p.m., and Sunday, Nestor Rodriguez are scheduled to appear and Languages: Arabic with English subtitles Nov. 8, 3:50 p.m. participate in a post-film Q-and-A. Stink! opens with a foul smell, a pair of kids pajamas and a single father trying to TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 3:55 p.m., and Monday, Tuur and Lambert are best friends in a Nazi- TIMES: Friday, Nov. 6, 5:45 p.m. find out what that smell could possibly be. Nov. 9, 2:10 p.m. occupied Dutch village who pass their days But instead of getting a straight answer, playing soldiers and exploring local caves, What happens when you buy into the director Jon J. Whelan stumbles on an even Theeb tells the story of one boy’s journey mimicking a war that seems far removed from American Dream – work hard, save money bigger issue in America, which is that some to adulthood after the death of his father. their everyday lives. When Maartje joins their to retire and have fun – to finally live your products on our store shelves are not safe When Theeb (Jacir Eid) finds his Bedouin class, the young girl immediately stands out. life your way and the financial rug is pulled – by design. Entertaining, enlightening and tribal life interrupted by the arrival of The boys embrace their new friend, forming out from under you? You get into action, at times almost absurd, Stink! takes you on a British army officer on a mysterious a unique bond based on shared adventures, come together and laugh like hell. Silver a madcap journey from the retailer to the mission, Theeb’s older brother Hussein secrets and mischief. Ultimately, the realities of Skies is a feel-good movie, but still honest laboratory, through corporate boardrooms, agrees to escort him on a treacherous war find even them – Lambert’s father, a Nazi and real. down back alleys and into the halls of journey across the Arabian desert. An sympathizer, is named mayor of their town, Congress. Follow Whelan as he clashes ambush occurs and Theeb, although just and Tuur discovers his own father and brother Principal Cast: Mariette Hartley, with political and corporate operatives, all a young boy, comes to quickly understand have joined the resistance. Meanwhile, Maartje Barbara Bain, George Hamilton, trying to protect the darkest secrets of the that if he is to survive he must live up to is hiding a secret of her own, one that not Jack McGee, Valerie Perrine, Alex Rocco, chemical industry. You won’t like what you the attributes of the wolf, of which he was only threatens to tear the new friends apart, Jack Betts, Heather McComb smell! named, and learn about adulthood, trust but could lead to devastating consequences and betrayal. for anyone involved in keeping it. Secrets of Writer: Rosemary Rodriguez Principal Cast: Jon J. Whelan War puts both the danger and the humanity of Producers: Fred Roos, Arthur Sarkissian Principal Cast: Jacir Eid, Hassan Mutlag, wartime friendships squarely on the shoulders Cinematographer: Nancy Schreiber Writer: Bryan Gunnar Cole, Jon J. Whelan Hussein Salameh, Marji Audeh, Jack Fox of three children who must face extraordinary Editor: Francis Zuccarello Producer: Jon J. Whelan circumstances with a maturity far beyond their Cinematographer: Daniel Carter Writer: Naji Abu Nowar, Bassel Ghandour years. Editor: Bryan Gunnar Cole Producer: Bassel Ghandour, Rupert Lloyd Music: Erin O’Hara Cinematographer: Wolfgang Thaler Principal Cast: Maas Bronkhuyzen, Editor: Rupert Lloyd Joes Brauers, Pippa Allen, Loek Peters, Music: Jerry Lane Eva Duijvestein, Nils Verkooijen, Annemarie Prins, Stefan de Walle, This film has been generously René van’t Hof, Luc Feit sponsored by E. Stewart.

Writer: Karen van Holst Pellekaan Producer: Reinier Selen, Harro van Staverden, David Jan Bijker, Donato Rotunno, Martin Dewitte, Brigitte Baake Cinematographer: Rolf Dekens Editor: Peter Alderliesten Music: André Dziezuk r-...SPONSORED BY ~ TICKETS AT SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM Scottsdale International Film Festival 23 WATCH THE TRAILERS Scan this code with your smartphone to see trailers of these great films.

THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING TUMBLEDOWN UNDER CONSTRUCTION THE YELLOW EYES OF THE YOUTH Director: Isa Qosja Centerpiece Film Director: Rubaiyat Hossain CROCODILES (LES YEUX JAUNES Closing Night Film Country: Kosovo Director: Sean Mewshaw Country: Bangladesh DES CROCODILES) Director: Paolo Sorrentino Year: 2015 Country: USA Year: 2015 Director: Cécile Telerman Country: Italy/France/United Kingdom/ Runtime: 94 minutes Year: 2015 Runtime: 88 minutes Country: France Switzerland Languages: Albanian with English Runtime: 105 minutes Languages: Bengali with English subtitles Year: 2014 Year: 2015 subtitles Runtime: 122 minutes Runtime: 118 minutes TIMES: Friday, Nov. 6, 8:10 p.m. TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 12:10 p.m., and Languages: French with English subtitles TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 11:05 a.m., and Sunday, Nov. 8, 8:15 p.m. TIMES: Monday, Nov. 9, 8:35 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, 9:45 a.m. Years after the accidental death of TIMES: Saturday, Nov. 7, 5:40 p.m., and her folk-legend songwriter/husband Roya, a modern middle-class Monday, Nov. 9, 11:50 a.m. Fred and Mick, two old friends In a traditional village in Kosova, Hunter, Hannah (Rebecca Hall) Muslim woman struggles to find approaching their 80s, are a year after the war (2000) when has yet to fully accept her small- herself in the sprawl of urban Two sisters who have nothing in enjoying a vacation in a lovely people are rebuilding their lives, town life in Maine without him. She Bangladesh. After being replaced common: Josephine, a historian hotel in the foothills of the Alps. the female school teacher Lushe spends her days contemplating by a younger actor for the who specializes in the 18th Fred, a retired composer and is driven by her inner conscience a book she would like to write character of Nandini – the epitome century and who is challenged conductor, has no intention of to give an interview to an on Hunter’s life and work, and of Bengali womanhood and central by contemporary life, and the returning to his music career, international journalist, telling her indulging in a fling with a local character of Rabindranath Tagore’s outrageously beautiful Iris, who which he dropped a long time that she and three other women meathead (Joe Manganiello). But political play Red Oleanders – she leads the futile life of a wealthy ago, while Mick, a director, is still from the village were raped by when she is approached by brash delves into a psychological journey Parisian. One evening during working, hurrying to finish the Serbian forces. When the news New York academic Andrew (Jason and battles to reconstruct Nandini, a fancy dinner with socialite screenplay of his latest film. Both is published, the male villagers Sudeikis), intent on penning his reclaiming her identity and sexuality friends, Iris boasts about writing friends know that their days are start being suspicious about own biography of her late husband, in the process. As she sets the a novel. Trapped in her own numbered and decide to face their wives. Hannah is roused into action. play in a modern-day, ready-made lie, in exchange for money, she their future together. But unlike Initially wary of his intentions, garment factories in Dhaka, her persuades her sister, who has them, no one else seems worried Principal Cast: Irena Cahani, she decides to collaborate with journey to establish her individuality been dumped by her husband about the passing of time. Luan Jaha, Donat Qosja, him on the book, leading them as a middle-class woman is and is swamped by debt, to write Xhevat Qorraj, Mirjana Karanovic, both to surprising discoveries. As juxtaposed with the journey of her the novel, which Iris will claim is Principal Cast: Michael Caine, Aurita Agushi, Leonora Mehmetaj, Hannah and Andrew dig deeper housemaid Moyna. her own. The book’s success will Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Orik Morina, Doresa Rexha, into Hunter’s life and death, they change their relationship forever Paul Dano, Jane Fonda Granit Ukaj come to their own revelations Principal Cast: Shahana Goswami, and radically transform their lives. about what it means to live, and Rahul Bose, Rikita Nandini Shimu, Based on the runaway best-seller Writer: Paolo Sorrentino Writer: Zymber Kelmendi to love. Tumbledown is a comedic Mita Rahman by Katherine Pancol. Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Producer: Shkumbin Istrefi, love story with heart, humor and Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori Mentor Shala tenderness. – Tribeca Film Festival Writer: Rubaiyat Hossain Principal Cast: Julie Depardieu, Cinematographer: Luca Bigazzi Cinematographer: Gokhan Tiryaki Producer: Rubaiyat Hossain, Emmanuelle Beart, Patrick Bruel, Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli Editor: Agrom Vula Principal Cast: Rebecca Hall, Khona Talkis Alice Isaaz, Quim Gutierriez Music: David Lang Jason Sudeikis, Dianna Agron, Cinematographer: Martina Radwan Blythe Danner, Griffin Dunne, Editor: Sujan Mahmud Writer: Charlotte de Champfleury, PRESENTED BY Joe Manganiello, Richard Masur Music: Shayan Chowdhury Cécile Telerman Producer: Manuel Munz Writer: Desiree Van Til Cinematographer: Pascal Ridao Producer: Kristin Hahn, Editor: Marie Castro Aaron L. Gilbert, Margot Hand Music: Fred Parker Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney Editor: Sandra Adair, Suzy Elmiger Music: Damien Jurado, Daniel Hart

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FANTASTIC JOURNEYS: ANIMATED SHORTS FANTASTIC JOURNEYS: LIVE-ACTION SHORTS Thursday, Nov. 5, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, 12:15 p.m. Presented by the Children’s Seattle International Film Festival Presented by the Children’s Seattle International Film Festival For ages 7+. One film has very brief subtitles. For ages 7+. Three films have subtitles, although much of the storytelling is nonverbal. 65 minutes 62 minutes

Zip around the world with this dazzling selection of high-energy, high-imagination shorts. The kids in this collection of award-winning films aren’t afraid to strike out on their own, Join a space-alien potato on his zany adventures, witness the creation of the alphabet, in journeys small and grand. These girls and boys find their own ways through woods and sing along with a brave little octopus and grow up along with a rebellious daughter made run-down cities, bustling markets and the canals of Venice. Take a walk with them and of frosting, in this vibrant celebration of creativity. feel a spark of inspiration as you see the world anew.

ZEBRA VISITOR Julia Ocker, Germany, 2:45 minutes, Nonverbal Tatiana Skorlupkina, Russia, 4:08 minutes, Nonverbal See how a zebra changes his stripes! A stuffed tiger from a faraway world drops in on a snowy day to play with dogs. WOMBO Daniel Acht, Germany, 8:02 minutes, Mostly nonverbal THE MAGIC TIME An alien lands on earth and is chased by a dog, ends up Kine Aune, Norway, 9:16 minutes, Nonverbal in a vegetable basket and nearly gets cooked for dinner! Adapted from Sami legends, this is the story of a Why? Because he just happens to look like a potato! reindeer-calf and his journey to become a grown white buck. THE NUMBERLYS William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, THE NEW SPECIES USA, 11:23 minutes, English Katerina Karhánková, Czech Republic, Friends 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 set out to create each letter of 6:18 minutes, Nonverbal the alphabet and bring color, creativity and jellybeans to Some children come across an old bone and try to their world. imagine what kind of animal it might have belonged to. Sounds of Nature

TRAMPOLINE SOUNDS OF NATURE Maarten Koopman, Netherlands, Simon Weber, Switzerland, 7:45 minutes, Nonverbal The Dive 2:29 minutes, Nonverbal A boy who likes to play video games discovers that the Imagine that the movie screen is a big trampoline. Can forest can be just as thrilling. you see a family of ducks walking across it? How about people? Or a cow?

Papa Cloudy’s Restaurant THE DIVE PAPA CLOUDY’S RESTAURANT Balloons Delphine Le Courtois, France, 9:51 minutes, Mostly Akiko McQuerrey, USA, 5:51 minutes, English nonverbal, some French with English subtitles An octopus sings about overfishing and inspires Papa BALLOONS A boy stands on a high dive, about to step into the Cloudy to make sustainable dishes with love. Sitora Takanaev, USA, 5:02 minutes, English unknown. Is he ready to fly? Decorations A girl is feeling sad when she finds a new way to bring happiness to herself and others: balloons! DECORATIONS Mari Miyazawa, Japan, 7 minutes, Nonverbal THE GIRL AND THE GONDOLA Growing up is literally the icing on the cake for a mother Abbe Robinson, Italy/United Kingdom, 11:42 and daughter. minutes, Italian with English subtitles Ten-year-old Carla dreams of following in her father’s TRADITIONAL HEALING footsteps, but 900 years of Venetian tradition is standing Sprout Raymond Caplin, Canada, 2:24 minutes, Nonverbal her way. Anatole’s Little Saucepan A young woman dances in a devastated forest. Then a SPROUT miracle occurs. 100 MILES Ga-eun Yoon, South Korea, 20 minutes, ANATOLE’S LITTLE SAUCEPAN Tamas Tatai, United Kingdom, 7:15 minutes, Nonverbal Korean with English subtitles Eric Montchaud, France, 5:47 minutes, English A boy who likes model trains goes on a trip to bring a A family is preparing for their grandfather’s ancestral Little Anatole is always dragging his saucepan behind him. special gift to his favorite person, someone who loves offering but they’ve forgotten sprouts. Young Bory goes It fell on him one day and nobody knows why. trains as much as he does. out to buy some. This is her first time alone in the city.

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ROBERT ABERLIN Empowerment Fund, whose mission is Netherlands. He has gone on several driver, whitewater river runners, public With ballroom- to reach underserved women through tours around Europe, South America, school principals, Eric Carle and Paul dancing parents economic, social and political programs, Central America, North America, Asia Taylor. Previous dance projects include and a ballet-dancing creating opportunities for them. She also and the Middle East, directing the profiles of Miranda Weese, Albert Evans, I sister, Robert co-directed the short film Unleashing Recycled Orchestra at prestigious venues Patrick Corbin and Terry Dean Bartlett. Aberlin found himself Creativity for Free Arts of Arizona. The around the world. Landfill Harmonic, Since 2006, Geis has been the primary loving ballet and film documents the healing ability of the acclaimed film about Favio and his documentarian of the world-renowned modern dance from a young age. He creativity and the arts. Her idea of making Recycled Orchestra, has been presented children’s book author and illustrator Eric has served as a board member of Snug a documentary about her native country in film festivals around the world since Carle. In 2010, she was commissioned Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island became the first step for her in creating March 2015. to produce a film about Mr. Carle called and on the boards of several New York awareness regarding children’s causes Eric Carle: Picture Writer, The Art of the City dance companies, including Paul in Paraguay. Landfill Harmonic, her latest JESSICA COX Picture Book, which was honored by the Taylor and Think Dance, and acts as an endeavor, hits close to home and has Jessica Cox has American Library Association as a notable adjunct adviser to Cora Dance. While become her love project. famously eliminated children’s video of 2012, and exhibited working as a banker and then as the the words “I can’t” in Leonard Marcus’ groundbreaking business manager and a teacher at a New FAVIO CHÁVEZ from her vocabulary. exhibition at the New York Public Library, York private school, he began making Favio Chavez Although born without The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books documentary films. He co-produced two completed his higher arms as the result Matter. Geis was born in Wiesbaden, award-winning documentaries, both of education studies of a birth defect, she has never allowed Germany, and was introduced to ballet as which appeared on WNET, the New York ·.-#... in engineering of that to be a limiting factor. While she a child going to the Kirov in St. Petersburg, City PBS station: Lesson of September, ~ human ecology suffered from self-esteem issues early Russia, with her foreign-service parents. ·~ ~ ··· which explored how a New York school and philosophy. on and physical challenges throughout She studied ballet and retired at 13 when dealt with the trauma of 9/11, and Broken He studied music at the Municipal Arts her life, Cox managed to overcome and she saw the film Chariots of Fire. Running, Brotherhood, in which men who attended Institute of Asuncion and orchestral achieve, earning a college degree and a as it turns out, was not her passion, but Colgate University examine the decisions direction with Miguel Angel Gilardi and Taekwondo black belt, learning to drive a filmmaking was. She is a graduate of they made during the era of the Vietnam Leon Burke, among others. From 2006 car with her feet, type with her toes and, in Northwestern University and is a member War through the prism of today. Aberlin to 2007, he worked for the IDB in the 2008, fly an airplane. That feat landed her of the board of trustees of the Eric Carle has also been involved in producing project called “Proyecto Procicla,” in in the Guinness Book of World Records Museum of Picture Book Art. several short pieces on film for The Paul the landfill of Cateura in Asuncion as a and led to an audience with the pope, Taylor Dance Company and for Poly Prep technician and manager of education meetings with heads of state and a great Country Day School, where he presently programs, interacting with the different deal of media attention. Recently married, works. associations of garbage collectors from Cox continues her journey. In the present, this landfill. In 2006, he began to teach she has turned the tables on her so-called ALEJANDRA AMARILLA music to the children of the garbage “disability,” allowing it to enable her as a Born in Asuncion, collectors, becoming the first music motivational speaker and advocate in the Paraguay, Alejandra teacher in this landfill community. That United States and beyond. In the future, Amarilla is the same year, he created the Recycled there is no telling where her feet will take founder and executive Orchestra, which he has directed ever her. Her website is Rightfooted.com. producer of Landfill since. In 2010, Favio and the Orchestra Harmonic, and was became the main subject of the KATE GEIS also responsible for the film’s story documentary Landfill Harmonic, which Kate Geis is an concept. Integrating philanthropy and a followed their lives for the next five years. Emmy Award- commitment to community service into her In 2012, the documentary released a winning documentary daily life and vision, Amarilla has aided a promo and Favio’s work became known producer. She began variety of social causes. She travelled to internationally. He has been invited to her career at Saturday Africa in 2008 with Athletes for Africa to give TEDtalks and conferences in Spain, Night Live and went support programs in Northern Uganda Argentina, the Netherlands, El Salvador, on to produce documentary programming that provide education and therapy to Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. He has for WNET, Channel 13, History Channel, former child soldiers and their families, appeared and collaborated in important A&E and Metro TV. Her subject matter as well as basic necessities for families publications about social work and music has been a diverse exploration of in displacement camps. Amarilla has education. 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JACK McGEE JULIANA PENARANDA- comedy series. He has also appeared Wheels. Most recent episodes include: Born and raised in LOFTUS in Law and Order: SVU, The Good Wife Marvel’s AKA Jessica Jones for Netflix the South Bronx, Juliana Penaranda- and ER. and Outsiders. Her episode of The Good veteran character Loftus began her Wife (“Cleaning House”) was named actor Jack McGee is career working ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ by Entertainment Weekly one of the 10 the youngest of eight in production for Rosemary Rodriguez best episodes of TV in 2010. Rodriguez children. Admittedly, numerous primetime wrote and directed also directed The Pregnancy Pact for this may have been his impetus to strive to television shows in Colombia. After the feature film the Lifetime Network, which was the get noticed – and successfully so, as he completing her bachelor’s degree, she Acts of Worship. network’s fourth-highest-rated movie with was the president of his senior class and a moved to the United States. She then The film premiered 24 million viewers. Rodriguez wrote and star football player at Cardinal Hayes High completed her master’s in film and video at Sundance directed her second feature, Silver Skies, School. Shortly thereafter, he realized he at American University in Washington, Film Festival, was nominated for two with George Hamilton, Valerie Perrine, had a knack for performing and joined D.C. After 9/11, she directed and Independent Spirit Awards, including Barbara Bain, Alex Rocco, Jack McGee the 1960s rock band The Young Rascals. produced a documentary about Aid the John Cassavetes Award for “Best and Mariette Hartley, executive-produced Eventually transitioning into acting, he Afghanistan, an organization fighting for Feature,” and received a glowing review by Fred Roos (The Godfather movies, was able to make ends meet as a New the right to educate women. She has from The New York Times. After that, St. Vincent) and Arthur Sarkissian (Rush York City firefighter in the late 1970s. also produced three feature films and Rodriguez was accepted into the John Hour movies). Rodriguez’s next feature is Appropriately so, McGee got his first big established her own production company, Wells Fellowship, where she began Loose Girl, based on the memoir by Kerry part in the 1985 firefighter film Turk 182, Hidden Village Films, with the purpose television directing. Her episodic TV Cohen, executive-produced by Fred Roos. and then moved to Hollywood, where he of producing films of social relevance. work includes The Good Wife, where She is also developing the Showtime TV appeared in a number of feature films, In 2012, she was one of eight women she is a regular director (15 episodes, series Florent starring Alan Cumming. television movies and TV series. His most selected by the American Film Institute including the 100th), Denis Leary’s and Rodriguez is the fourth vice president of notable television role has been as Chief for their Directing Workshop for Women. Peter Tolan’s Rescue Me (where she was the Directors Guild of America and lives in Jerry Reilly on FX’s edgy firefighter drama Juliana plans to pursue the production the first woman director in five seasons), New York and Los Angeles with her stand- Rescue Me. He also starred as Police of the political thriller film she has under Empire, Manhattan, Elementary, Vegas, up comedian husband, Nestor Rodriguez. Captain Mike Sutton on USA Network’s development, after completing the Rake, AMC’s Low Winter Sun and Hell on original series Common Law opposite Landfill Harmonic documentary film. Michael Ealy, Warren Kole and Sonya Walger. McGee has recurred on NBC’s NESTOR RODRIGUEZ Up All Night and in the Spike TV series Along with Fred Players. He also guest-starred on such Roos and Arthur MODERATORS TV series as Hawaii Five-0, Drop Dead Sarkissian, Nestor Diva, Rizzoli & Isles, CSI: Miami, Criminal Rodriguez executive- Minds, CSI: NY and Castle. Additionally, produced the new McGee appeared in the Tom Tykwer feature Silver Skies, action-thriller The International alongside starring George Hamilton, Valerie Clive Owen and Naomi Watts and Father Perrine and Jack McGee. Rodriguez of Invention with Kevin Spacey. He starred also produced Acts of Worship, which in the critically acclaimed film The Fighter premiered at Sundance Film Festival and opposite Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale went on to receive three Independent and Melissa Leo, in Moneyball with Brad Spirit Award nominations, including Pitt and New Year’s Eve directed by Garry the John Cassavettes Award for “Best Marshall. He was most recently seen Feature.” Winner of KTLA’s Find Me a DARRELL COPP JANET ROBINSON in Gangster Squad with Ryan Gosling, Comic! competition, Rodriguez is also a Darrell Copp received his B.S. in Janet Robinson has been teaching film Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emma Stone. comedian, who has opened for Jon Lovitz communication and performance arts studies at Scottsdale Community College McGee will soon be seen in CBS’ new and performed at The Ice House, Laugh from Eastern Michigan University and his since 2000. With years of experience in comedy series The McCarthys as Arthur Factory, The Comic Strip and The Improv. M.A. in communication from ASU. 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TAKI ERNST WHITNEY NELSON DURRIE PARKS passions, he directed a short MICHAEL TUCKMAN speaks fluent was born is an award- narrative dance film as his is a veteran of the independent Japanese and and raised in winning record senior thesis. film industry, beginning possesses a Scottsdale, Ariz. and film his career at The Cinema special passion She received producer and MICHAEL SIMONYI Guild, where he created for Asian film. an A.A.S. founder of the is a foreign film the company’s theatrical degree from Fashion Institute Arizona Film Society. buff and former distribution division. He now SANDRA FROMM of Technology and her B.A. world music provides theatrical booking is passionate in art studies from Arizona CYLAN SHAFFER critic who has services to independent film about film and State University. Whitney has discovered his assisted with distributors and also works sees more than a performing arts background love for the arts Scottsdale International Film directly with filmmakers to 100 a year. and was trained in classical while taking Festival’s programming for release their films under their Along with her ballet and many other dance a number of 11 years. own banners. He has served as love for travel, styles at a local studio for more film courses. a panelist and juror at multiple she is an ardent supporter of than 15 years. Shaffer also studied dance at film festivals and is a frequent foreign films. the University of Arizona School participant in film industry panel of Dance. Combining his two discussions. 2015 Print Source

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