5TH ANNUAL ORCAS ISLAND OCTOBER 4-8 / 2018 FILM FESTIVAL TIX & INFO: orcasfilmfest.com AWARD WINNERS AND OSCAR CONTENDERS ★MEET THE FILMMAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ELIZABETH CHOMKO / THURSDAY / 7:00 PM SEA VIEW Director/ Elizabeth Chomko OPENING NIGHT SOIREE / THURSDAY / 5:00 PM / FESTIVAL HUB (Random Howse) will introduce WHAT THEY HAD and participate in a The official opening event of the festival, a red carpet affair to welcome and introduce our post-screening discussion of her film. visiting artists and filmmakers. Soiree includes hors d’oeuvres by Red Rabbit Farm and a no-host bar by the Barnacle and Doe Bay Wine Company wines. This is one you can dress up for and have CAMERON YATES / THURSDAY / 7:30 PM ORCAS CENTER Director Cameron Yates will introduce fun getting your photo taken by Orcas Video. If you don’t have a Festival or Patron pass, be sure CHEF FLYNN and participate in a post-screening Q&A. to buy a ticket for your opening night film of choice to gain admittance to this exclusive event. MARC TURTLETAUB / FRIDAY / 7:00 PM OPENING NIGHT FILM: THURSDAY / 7:00 PM / SEA VIEW SEA VIEW Director Marc Turtletaub will introduce WHAT THEY HAD (Elizabeth Chomko, USA, 2018, 101 min): PUZZLE and participate in a post-screening Q&A. Director Elizabeth Chomko will attend the festival to present her acclaimed MATT ACOSTA / FRIDAY / 7:00 PM / ORCAS CENTER directorial debut followed by a post-screening Q&A. Hilary Swank, Blythe Production designer Matt Acosta will introduce the Danner, Robert Forster, and Michael Shannon star in this humor-infused film PROSPECT. family drama about a woman who returns home to help her Alzheimer’s- afflicted mother, while also grappling with her own past. JEAN-MARC VALLÉE / SATURDAY / 10:00 AM ORCAS CENTER Oscar-nominated and Emmy OPENING NIGHT FILM: THURSDAY / 7:30 PM / ORCAS CENTER Award-winning director Jean-Marc Vallee (Sharp CHEF FLYNN (d: Cameron Yates, USA, 83 min) Cameron Yates will attend to Objects, Big Little Lies) will present a not-to-be- introduce the film followed by a post-screening Q&A. Ten-year-old Flynn missed behind the scenes Masterclass. transforms his living room into a supper club, using his classmates as line cooks and serving a tasting menu foraged from his neighbors’ backyards. DINA EMAM / SATURDAY / 6:00 PM / ORCAS CENTER With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen and mother’s Producer Dina Emam will attend to accept the Festival’s camera and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world. Vanguard Award, introduce her film YOMEDDINE and participate in a post-screening Q&A. VANGUARD AWARD: SATURDAY / 6:00 PM / ORCAS CENTER OIFF will present the Festival’s inaugural Vanguard Award to the film MICHAEL ZAHS & JOHN RICHARD / SUNDAY YOMEDDINE, which had its recent world premiere as the first ever 2:00 PM / ORCAS CENTER Co-Director John Richard Egyptian film in competition at the and was just and film subject Michael Zahs will introduce SAVING BRINTON and participate in a post-screening discussion. selected as the official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film from Egypt for the 2019 . The Vanguard Award was MEGAN GRIFFITHS & SOPHIA MITRI SCHLOSS / SUNDAY created to honor a creative work that exhibits mastery and excellence 4:30 PM / ORCAS CENTER Director Megan Griffiths with a story that illuminates the power of the human spirit. Producer Dina and Star Sophia Mitri Schloss will introduce SADIE Emam, from Cairo, Egypt will be here to introduce the film and accept and participate in a post-screening Q&A. the award along with a $5,000 cash prize generously underwritten by Orcasong Farm. FESTIVAL MIXER / FRIDAY / 9:00 PM / FESTIVAL HUB (Random Howse) ADVANCE TICKET & PASSES: TUES & WED 11 AM - 5 PM / THURS 11 AM - 3 PM Enjoy a scratch cocktail or local beer with other film lovers at our festival mixer. Late night The Festival HUB (Random Howse) is the advance food, drinks and cinematic soundscapes by DJ CARE and the legendary Bruce Pavitt. This box-office location to purchase ticket & passes is an excellent opportunity to make connections with other festival goers and artists and in person, pick-up passes and get general infor- talk about the films you saw. mation. After 3pm on Thursday, all passes may be picked-up at the Sea View Theatre. LATE NIGHT PARTY / SATURDAY / 9:00 PM / FESTIVAL HUB (Random Howse) DAY-OF-SHOW TICKETS: Single Tickets can be pur- After a full day of cinematic adventures come join us for our five-year anniversary bash! chased in person at the Orcas Center and Sea View /DJ Jean-Marc Vallee, whose love of music shows up in all of his films will kick Theatre 30 minutes prior to showtime. off the night with his dance set followed by DJ Darek Mazzone, KEXP’s global music show PASSES: If you’re a film lover this is the way to go! Wo’POP and local favorite DJ CARE. Food and Drinks provided by the Barnacle and Crab Shack. You can choose the Patron ($500) or Festival pass ($200) which both include priority admission and YOUTH FILMMAKER’S WORKSHOP: (18 yrs. + under) Learn how to create a short film access to the opening night soirée and special under the guidance of Emmy-winning director Mike Stryker. Sponsored by Orcas Cars. events. Info: www.orcascars.com/film. ONLINE TICKETS: orcasfilmfest.com HUNGRY? Check out the list of local eats on our website: orcasfilmfest.com/localeats VISIT THE OIFF FESTIVAL HUB /DAILY 360/Virtual Reality Storytelling Lab at the FESTIVAL HUB (at Random Howse) (FREE) Friday 10/5 through Sunday 10/7 | 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM CRAB SHACK & The BARNACLE: James Beard Experience the wonder of immersive and experimental 360 storytelling created award-winning chef Christina Orchid and The by an array of talented international artists at the 360 Cinema Lab at the Festival Barnacle will host a pop-up restaurant & bar inside Hub. Curated by Seattle-based WonderTek Labs and sponsored by Rock Island the FESTIVAL HUB featuring locally sourced meals and T-Mobile, will feature a diverse lineup of global 360 arthouse cinema content and a fabulous selection of scratch cocktails, local carefully selected to complement the OIFF feature line-up. Go to orcasfilmfest.com. beers, and Doe Bay Wine Company wines. 2018 OIFF SCHEDULE

THURSDAY / OCTOBER 4 FRIDAY / CONTINUED WHAT THEY HAD / 7:00 PM / Sea View PUZZLE / 7:00 PM / Sea View Hilary Swank, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, and Kelly Macdonald stars as a suburban housewife who Michael Shannon star in this humor-infused family discovers an unexpected talent for solving jigsaw drama about a woman who returns home to help her puzzles, leading her to partner with a competitive Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother, while also grappling puzzle champion () and unlock passions with her own past (USA, 101 min). Director Elizabeth she had never before imagined (d: Marc Turtletaub, Chomko in attendance. USA, 103 min). Director Marc Turtletaub scheduled ★ to attend. CHEF FLYNN / 7:30 PM / Orcas Center ★ Ten-year-old Flynn transforms his living room into a BORDER / 9:30 PM / Sea View supper club. With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his Ali Abbasi’s Border follows the story of a border bedroom kitchen and mother’s camera, and sets out agent who uses her ability to sense or smell human to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world (USA, emotions to catch smugglers — but when one man 83 min). Director Cameron Yates in attendance. confounds her detection, she’s forced to confront a ★ new reality. Best Film, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film EL ANGEL / 9:30 PM / Sea View Festival (d: Ali Abbasi, Sweden/Denmark, 108 min). Loosely based on the infamous Argentinian serial killer dubbed “Death Angel,” this cautionary drama executive produced by Pedro Almodovar follows an SATURDAY / OCTOBER 6 innocuous-looking but deeply sinister thief whose law- lessness escalates exponentially when he takes up with JEAN-MARC VALLEE MASTERCLASS a career criminal (d: Luis Ortega, Argentina, 120 min). 10:00 AM /Orcas Center Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning direc- tor Jean-Marc Vallee (Sharp Objects, Big Little Lies, FRIDAY / OCTOBER 5 Dallas Buyers Club) will present a behind the scenes Masterclass demonstrating his creative process and WOMAN AT WAR / 11:00 AM / Seaview editing techniques using his most recent work HBO’s The director of Of Horses and Men winningly mixes Sharp Objects including a screening of the complete absurdist comedy and tense thriller, with Halldóra first episode. Geirharðsdóttir as a fearless eco-warrior, juggling ★ environmental action and foster motherhood THE BIG BAD FOX & OTHER TALES (d: Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland, 100 min). 10:00 AM / Sea View From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated THE LAST SUIT / 1:30 PM / Orcas Center Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heart- A heartfelt and charming journey begins when warming tale of animal misfits with pacing and visual Abraham, a spry octogenarian tailor and Holocaust spontaneity that harkens back to classic Looney survivor played by prolific Argentine actor Miguel Tunes shorts. In English and suitable for all ages. Ángel Solá, leaves his Buenos Aires home on a one (d: Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imkert, France, 80 min). way trip across Europe in search of the man who once saved his life (d: Pablo Solarz, Argentina, 92 BIRDS OF PASSAGE / 12:30 PM / Orcas Center min). Preceded by the short film Eve (d: Susan Bay Beginning in 1968 and spanning 12 years, this terrific Nimoy, USA, 21min). drama focuses on one desert-dwelling indigenous Waayu family and its rise and fall in the early days MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A / 1:30 PM / Sea View of the Colombian drug trade (d: Ciro Guerra and The world of musician, activist, provocateur, and Cristina Gallego, Colombia, 125 min). Sri Lankan immigrant M.I.A. is revealed through decades of previously-unseen personal diaries which MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT / 12:30 PM / Sea View anchor a kinetic documentary that is every bit as Classic film star Montgomery Clift’s legacy has been unconventional and uncompromising as the interna- a story of tragedy and self-destruction, but a more tional hip-hop star herself (d: Stephen Loveridge, Sri complicated picture emerges when his nephew dives Lanka, 94 min). into the family archives (d: Robert A. Clift, Hillary Demmon, USA, 88 min). DIANE / 4:00 PM / Orcas Center Stalwart actress Mary Kay Place is superb as a CAPERNAUM / 2:45 PM / Sea View regretful boomer who has grown older, but maybe An exploration of the lives of children living on the no wiser, in the haunting directorial debut executive fringes of Lebanese society, in this political and produced by Martin Scorsese. The top prize winner at heartbreaking story of a young boy who sues his the Tribeca Film Festival (d: Kent Jones, USA, 95 min). parents for bringing him into the world when they couldn’t properly care for him. Winner, Jury Prize, SORRY ANGEL / 4:00 PM / Sea View Cannes Film Festival (d: Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a 2018, 120 min). sprawling portrait of gay life in early 1990s France, Sorry Angel follows the intertwining journeys of a FREE SOLO / 3:00 PM / Orcas Center worldly writer confronting his own mortality and a A thrilling and suspense-filled portrait of the free so- curious, carefree university student just beginning to loist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve live (d: Christophe Honoré, France, 133 min). what has never before been achieved: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock ... the 3,000ft El PROSPECT / 7:00 PM / Orcas Center Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope On a remote moon, a teenage girl and her father (d: E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, USA, 97 min). (Jay Duplass) search for elusive alien gems. But they aren’t the only ones roaming the moon’s toxic forest in this lean, Northwest made sci-fi western about survival and wanting to get home (d: Zeek Earl, Chris ★= ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE Caldwell, USA, 100 min). Production Designer Matt Acosta scheduled to attend.★

SATURDAY / CONTINUED SUNDAY / CONTINUED YOMEDDINE / 6:00 PM / Orcas Center EVERYBODY KNOWS / 4:30 PM / Sea View An adventure-filled comedic road movie that tells Academy Award winner Asghar Farhadi (The Sales- the story of a remarkable friendship of two outcasts man) directs Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem in who discover the harshness of the world outside their this layered, psychological drama about a family leper colony when they embark to find their biolog- wedding interrupted by a shocking crime and some ical family (d: AB Shawky, Egypt, 96 min). Producer long-buried secrets (d: Asghar Farhadi, Spain, 133 min). Dina Emam Scheduled to attend. ★ SHOPLIFTERS / 8:30 PM / Orcas Center SWIMMING WITH MEN / 6:00 PM / Sea View This year’s surprise Cannes Palme d’Or winner is one A beautifully bittersweet British comedy packed with of Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s finest films, delightful performances – hailed ‘The Full Monty in about a loving, unconventional family making ends speedos’ – about an ordinary middle-aged man who meet on the margins of Tokyo (d: Hirokazu Kore-eda, stumbles across a rather unusual way to try and deal Japan, 121 min). with issues in his marriage (d: Oliver Parker, United Kingdom, 97 min). THE SISTERS BROTHERS / 8:30 PM / Sea View Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, and NON-FICTION / 8:30 PM / Orcas Center Riz Ahmed headline ’s (Dheepan) The promises and pitfalls of art in the age of digital comedic adventure western of two brothers sent to communication are probed in this comedy about a kill a prospector accused of stealing from a tyrannical Parisian publisher (Guillaume Canet) and his suc- crime boss (d: Jacques Audiard, USA, 120 min) cessful-actor wife (Juliette Binoche) adapting to the new media landscape (d: Olivier Assayas, France, 106 min). MONDAY / OCTOBER 8 DOVLATOV / 11:00 AM / Sea View BEN IS BACK / 8:30 PM / Sea View Six days in the life of Soviet dissident writer Sergei The unexpected homecoming of a mother’s (Julia Dovlatov are evocatively conjured in this visually Roberts) charming yet troubled prodigal son (Lucas enthralling tribute to one artist’s refusal to conform Hedges) forces her into a situation where she must (d: Alexey German Jr., Russia, 126 min). do all she can to prevent her family’s downfall (d: Peter Hedges, USA, 103 min). AND BREATH NORMALLY / 2:00 PM / Sea View A struggling Icelandic single mother forms an un- likely bond with a female asylum seeker from Africa SUNDAY / OCTOBER 7 as both fight to get their lives back on track in this HAPPY AS LAZZARO / 11:00 AM / Orcas Center impressively acted social-realist drama Direct from Cannes where it shared the Best Screen- (d: Ísold Uggadóttir, Iceland, 95 min). play award for its amazingly inventive script, Alice Rohrwacher’s seductive rural fable applies fairy-tale PETERLOO / 4:30 PM / Orcas Center logic to explore the troubled soul of Italy (d: Alice Acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Rohrwacher, Italy, 125 min). Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history where government-backed cavalry SERGIO AND SERGEI / 11:00 AM / Sea View charged into a peaceful crowd of 80,000 that gath- In this comedic reflection on how big events can ered to demand democratic reform in 1819. impact ordinary lives an amateur radio operator (d: Mike Leigh, United Kingdom, 153 min). in Cuba makes unexpected contact with stranded Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev during the col- DOGMAN / 4:30 PM / Sea View lapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 (d: Ernesto Daranas, In the latest from the director of Gomorrah, Cuba, 93 min). mild-mannered Marcello spends his days grooming dog and trying to avoid Simoncino, a former box- SAVING BRINTON / 2:00 PM / Orcas Center er and resident bully with whom Marcello uneasily In the Iowa countryside, Michael Zahs makes a coexists until a double-crossing prompts an act of remarkable discovery of old film cans including a vengeance. Winner, Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival lost Georges Méliés reel that belonged to America’s (d: Matteo Garrone, Italy, 102 min). greatest barnstorming movie-man undertaking a journey to save these cinematic treasures from WILDLIFE / 8:30 PM / Orcas Center turning to dust (d: Tommy Haines, John Richard, and In Paul Dano’s evocative and emotional directorial Andrew Sherburne, USA, 87 min). Subject Michael debut, a teenage boy in 1960s Montana experienc- Zahs and Director John Richard scheduled to attend. es the breakdown of his parents’ marriage and his ★ mother’s (Carey Mulligan) struggle to keep their lives COLD WAR / 2:00 PM / Sea View afloat after his father (Jake Gyllenhaal) leaves Pawel Pawlikowski’s formidable romantic drama (d: Paul Dano, USA, 104 min). features two musical performers in postwar Eastern Europe whose discontinuous love story is hindered ROMA / 8:30 PM / Sea View by obstacles of time, space, and politics. Winner, Best Alfonso Cuarón’s cogent and nuanced semi-autobi- Director, Cannes Film Festival (d: Pawel Pawlikowski, ographical feature chronicles one year in the life of Poland, 90 min). a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Winner, Golden Lion for Best Film, Venice Film Festival. SADIE / 4:30 PM / Orcas Center (d: Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 135 min). A compelling family drama focusing on 13-year-old Sadie played with quiet ferocity by Sophia Mitri Schloss (LANE 1974), the troubled daughter of a soldier serving overseas who resorts to extreme measures when her mother (Melanie Lynskey) begins dating another man (d: Megan Griffiths, USA, 96 min). Director Megan Griffiths and Actress TIX & INFO: orcasfilmfest.com Sophia Mitri Schloss scheduled to attend.★ PRESENTING PLATINUM GOLD SILVER

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