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The CIFF DAY 7 / TUESDAY / 3.25.2014 Visit Ireland with Multitasker The BUZZ The Buzz is your source for the latest festival highlights Sean Lackey and best bets for films each day. You can also catch “The Buzz” video program with Meaghan Earley on ocky River native Sean Lackey is a Facebook or YouTube. For more information visit www.clevelandfilm.org/social. certified public accountant that always wanted to make people laugh. So he WHAT’S BUZZING AT THE 38TH CIFF Rgot involved with Second City in Cleveland Tuesday, March 25, 2014; Day 7: in the late 1990s. Wake up to an unconventional cross-species He took classes there with people who romance with “All About the Feathers” at had no theater or acting experience—just 9:20 a.m. It’s the story of a man and his best like him—and his class consisted of salesmen, friend—a rooster. teachers and Sam Kinison impersonators. Take a trip back in time at 11:40 a.m., to the “As I took classes, I became better,” he says. world of chimney sweeps in 19th-century Italy, with “The Black Brothers,” as a group of boys “And when I stunk, I tried to make myself sold into indentured servitude come together to better.” recover their stolen power. He admits that the people that make it to Morgan Nanekia Photo: Director Sean Lackey hopes to go on to make many more films See “Transfusión” at 2:10 p.m. Director the stage are the people that work the hardest in his hometown of Cleveland. Robert Lemon will take you into the controversial and don’t give up. world of the taco trucks appearing all over the “I have never given up, never will,” he says. There will be family, friends, cast and crew in nation. In addition to being a CPA and a comedian, the audience to cheer for Lackey. They will Keep young Sebastian company through Lackey is also an actor, writer, producer and also be looking for themselves; many of them “The Empty Hours,” starting at 4:25 p.m. When director. He began writing “The Yank” in are also in the film. Sebastian’s uncle falls ill, the 17-year-old finds 2004. “It’s a dream for them as well as myself to himself in charge of a seedy pay-by-the-hour motel. “I’m proud I can multitask, but it isn’t easy,” see ‘The Yank’ on the big screen,” he says. Screen “Watchers of the Sky” at 6:30 p.m. he admits. He’ll be in the audience with everyone else tonight and learn about Raphael Lemkin, the The film takes place in Cleveland and watching their reactions. German lawyer who coined the word “genocide” Ireland. Lackey, as lead character Tom Murphy, Even if you are not related to Lackey, or and campaigned tirelessly to make it a heads from Cleveland to the Emerald Isle for Irish, you may enjoy the film. It is a light- recognized crime against humanity. a friend’s wedding. While he’s there, his Irish- hearted film that doesn’t use “below the belt” Follow “The Winding Stream” at 8:55 p.m. American parents encourage him to find a humor, Lackey explains. and learn all about the Carters, America’s bride of his own, a nice Irish girl. The movie was funded entirely by local hidden Royal Family of music. You’ll be amazed “The people of Ireland wrapped their arms investors, with the help of the Ohio Film at just how many songs had their beginnings with the Carters. around us and gave us a big hug,” he says. The Office. Finally, join us for our Pan-African Shorts cast and crew worked hard while there, but “The people who invested in ‘The Yank’ Program in its one screening tonight at also played hard. “When we finished each day, invested in me,” he says. “They could see 9:45 p.m. We’ll be screening a quintet of shorts we celebrated to all hours.” my passion in the project and knew that I that will show you a brand-new side of the His screening at the Cleveland International wouldn’t stop until the movie succeeds.” African experience. Film Festival will also be a cause for celebration. —Anne M. DiTeodoro Find out the latest information about these films and other festival events by picking up The Daily, reading the festival website and, of course, seeing as many films as you can. SHOWING TONIGHT AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE The Cleveland International Film Festival returns to Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood for the fifth consecutive year. The historic Capitol Theatre is another Gordon Square Arts District star that shines in its splendor. HOPELESS HOPEFUL is playing today at 7:00 p.m. THE YANK is playing today at 9:15 p.m. Photo: Janet Macoska Janet Photo: Festival Updates Always Hopeful ne of the best ways into the film Added Screenings: industry is surprisingly simple: make Saturday March 29th friends. Waltz for Monica 9:10 am OCoraly Santaliz has been working in the Sunday March 30th business since 1998, when she took a small The Yank 9:40 am acting role in one film and a production Antarctica: A Year on Ice 11:45 am assistant position in another. Since then, she has The Sax Man 4:45 pm become an accomplished script supervisor for films in both Puerto Rico and the mainland Late Additions: U.S., including high-profile titles like “Fast Five” Saturday March 29th and “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” Now she In addition to her work on feature-length films, Coraly Santaliz has Last Days in Vietnam 12:45 pm has worked her way up to directing her own worked as a script supervisor on popular television shows like To Be Takei 3:00 pm feature-length film, “La Espera Desespera,” or “Homeland” and “Eastbound & Down.” Sunday March 30th “Hopeless Hopeful.” She credits both her long “Trying to rob a bank is not as easy as he had Last Days in Vietnam 3:45 pm experience on film sets, and all of the friends thought,” she says. “This is not really a bad guy, To Be Takei 5:00 pm that she made during that time, with the success and he doesn’t know how to do it. In the Check for the latest festival updates of her film shoot. process, he complicates things even more, and on Twitter or Facebook. Or visit “All the crew I worked with knew me that’s when the funny part really comes.” www.clevelandfilm.org/festival/updates because we worked together on so many Her role as a script supervisor helped her when movies, so it was working with my friends,” it was finally time to write and produce her own she explains. “My workmates all supported script, because she had thoroughly absorbed the me and gave 100% on this project, so it was an rules and conventions of visual storytelling. She awesome experience.” also had an enormous pool of talent to draw on Challenge Match At first glance, the premise of “Hopeless from her colleagues over the years. The Challenge Match is the CIFF’s annual Hopeful” looks like an unlikely site for a Her advice to aspiring filmmakers is straight- fundraising campaign, and the only time of the year that we ask for your support (we do comedy: a man coping with his wife’s forward enough: “Work in the film industry, not send out solicitation letters at any time). potentially terminal illness, and his inability even if you work as a production assistant or The challenge to you – our audience – is to to pay for her medical care, hatches a plan to something, because you’re starting out with raise $100,000, which will be matched by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. rob banks to pay the bills. Santaliz takes the people, and you start getting to know the film health-care crisis very seriously. set, and that really helps you by the time you We are $49,112 closer to “It always bothers me that if you don’t have really get to do your own.” —Lara Klaber reaching our goal of $100,000 money, you can die,” she says. “I didn’t want to A $10 DONATION QUALIFIES YOU FOR make a huge drama, because we all know the SHOWING HOPELESS HOPEFUL ONE OF THESE FABULOUS PRIZES!! situation, so I made it a little bit funny.” TODAY is playing today at 7:00 p.m. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM(S): Your family The humor is not found in the problem itself, can visit all of the area’s most popular but in the hare-brained solution her protagonist museums with tickets for the Aquarium, comes up with. Botanical Gardens, MOCA, Natural History THE Museum, Rock Hall, Science Center and ONLINE the Zoo. SIDEWAYS, LOT 2: Whether you’re a Visit The Daily online edition at serious collector or a casual cinephile, www.clevelandfilm.org/festival/the-daily. you’ll love this case of 12 bottles of wine from around the world. TODAY’S ONLINE VERSION INCLUDES: OUR WINNING SEASON: You’ll enjoy • The Human Experiment tickets to 2014 Indians, Cavaliers and (Playing today at 6:45 p.m.) Browns games, autographed gear from Documentarian Dana Nachman talks about the the Cavs, dinner and merchandise from effects of toxic chemicals on humans. Great Lakes Brewing Company and packaged meats for tailgating! • Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution (Playing today at 8:00 p.m.) Stop by the Challenge Match table in the Myriam Fougère records the often overlooked Tower City Cinemas lobby to donate.