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November 2016 #loftfilmfest WED 09 – SUN 13 NOVEMBER 2016 ”Phantasmagorical programming and astute choice of guests.” –Filmmaker Magazine SPONSORED BY: THE LOFT CINEMA 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85716 LoftFilmFest.org 520.322.5638 THIS GUIDE PROVIDED BY THE LOFT CINEMA AND ZOCALO MAGAZINE OPENING NIGHT LFF04 ANIMATION, DOCUMENTARY, NARRATIVE SHORTS LFF10 2016 FEST FILM SCHEDULE LFF12 IN COMPETITION LFF16 LATE NIGHTS LFF19 Get your Tickets Loft Film Fest Loft Film Fest CICAE & Audience Staff Awards Awards INDIVIDUAL TICKETS FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Kirby Dick Social The Loft Film Fest is the only $10 General Admission Peggy Johnson Justice Award, named American festival member of $8 Loft Cinema Members FESTIVAL DIRECTORS after the Oscar-nominated the CICAE, the International J.J. Giddings | Jeff Yanc documentary filmmaker, Confederation of Art Houses. FESTIVAL PASSES is presented each year Founded in 1955, the CICAE MANAGING DIRECTOR $125 General Admission at the Loft Film Fest to is a network of 4,000 Zach Breneman a filmmaker whose work screens and 22 international $100 Loft Cinema Members PROGRAMMING CONSULTANTS displays a galvanizing passion film festivals that work Mike Plante | Aurélie Gomes for social change through to increase audience for OFFICIAL FEST SITE cinema. This year, the Loft excellent international LoftFilmFest.org FINANCE DIRECTOR Jonathan Kleefeld Film Fest is proud to present independent films. the 2016 Kirby Dick Social The CICAE Award will be ALL SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE AT ART DIRECTOR Justice Award to acclaimed determined by a 3-member The Loft Cinema Matt McCoy cinematographer, filmmaker jury, including Oscar®-winning 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES and human rights activist screenwriter and producer Tucson, AZ 85716 Amber Kleefeld & Nick Kelso Kirsten Johnson, director of Diana Ossana (Brokeback Cameraperson! ountain), Urszula Śniegowska, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS CONTACT Jason Denholm Artistic Director, American [email protected] The Lofty Achievement Film Festival in Wroclaw (520) 795-0844 VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Award is presented each year Poland and Sydney Brenda Rodriguez at the Loft Film Fest to an Levine, industry blogger OUTREACH COORDINATOR industry professional whose (SydneysBuzz) and author, Daniela Ontiveros career and body of work have with 40 years of experience in significantly contributed to the film industry. OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Christian Ramirez the world of cinema, and who Six films will compete for continues to inspire, entertain the CICAE Award, and these ASSISTANT MANAGERS and enlighten audiences. same films will also be Kyle Canfield, Ray Borboa, This year, the Loft Film Fest in the running for our Pedro Robles, and Jessi Kyte is proud to present the 2016 Audience Choice Award. Lofty Achievement Award Festival patrons will be given to internationally-acclaimed, a ballot at the screening cutting-edge filmmaker of each film. See the “In Alex Cox! Competition” section to see which films are eligible. Thank you to all of this year’s sponsors! CONGRESSMAN RON & NANCY BARBER IN-KIND DONATIONS: Kingfisher, Alejandro’s Tortilla Factory, Isabella’s Ice Cream, Peddlers and Sons, Chilttepica Salsa, Arbuckle Coffee, Standard Restaurant Equipment, Tucson Tamale Company, Alternative Baking Co. and Brushfire BBQ. THIS GUIDE PROVIDED BY THE LOFT CINEMA AND ZOCALO MAGAZINE Loft Film Fest: Opening Night! LFF04 1 Dominion 2 The Lure WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 7:30PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 7:45PM NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE ARIZONA PREMIERE Sponsored by UA Poetry Center PRESENTED BY THE DIRECTED BY Agnieszka PREVIOUS FESTS: Sundance Film NEW YORK FILM CRITICS SERIES DIRECTED BY Steven Bernstein Smoczyńska Festival, Fantastic Fest WINNER: 10 Awards including Special Jury 2016, USA, 101 mins., Not Rated 2015, Poland, in Polish with subtitles, 92 mins., Not Rated Prize, Sundance 2016 “Dominion is terrific … a daring, demanding meditation on “Abetted by impressive lo-fi effects work, the musical the poet’s final hours.” numbers alone come to resemble the wildest dreams of – Jonathan Holland, Hollywood Reporter every Eurovision show producer.” Dominion tells the dramatic story of the great Welsh poet - Guy Lodge, Variety Dylan Thomas (Rhys Ifans, Notting Hill) and his last day of sentient interaction with the world, for which he was both One dark night, at water’s edge, a family of musicians idolater and arch nemesis. Drink was his poison, and on that encounter aquatic sirens Silver and Golden. After assuring the particularly day in 1953, the poison was delivered via eighteen family that they won’t eat them up, the winsome mermaids are double scotches in less than eleven hours. But alcohol was not recruited to join the Figs and Dates band at a neon-lit Warsaw his only solace, as his poetic sensibility and his inventive use dance club. When Silver becomes romantically entangled with of language allowed him to transmogrify his imagined world beautiful blonde bassist Mietek, the more cunning Golden, who into something not only tolerable, but at times beautiful, if cannot escape her bloodthirsty nature and assimilate, worries still tinged with the bittersweet and maudlin. How these that her sister’s relationship will doom their shared dream of contradictory predispositions joined battle might be the swimming to a new life in America. real story of his final hours, as he examines his memory and This weird, wild, 1980s-set musical horror film wittily plays experience, his loves and his rage, while looking for meaning with the lust and repulsion the bewitching sisters create and peace. Featuring a stellar supporting cast including John with their combination of Barbie doll–smooth bodies and Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons), Rodrigo Santoro (Westworld), impressively long glittering mermaid tails. With a knack for Zosia Mamet (Girls) and Tony Hale (Arrested Development), both burlesque and the grotesque, first-time feature director Dominion is a revealing, moving and inventive look at a troubled Agnieszka Smoczyńska creates a world saturated in color literary genius. and Europop slickness that twists with absurdity and drips with blood. JOIN US under the stars for the opening night party, featuring PRECEDED BY THE SHORT FILM The Itching In this handmade, free champagne, delicious light h’ordeuvres and live music stop-motion collaboration, a shy wolf tries to connect with a starting at 6:30pm! group of hip, party-loving bunnies, but finds her body in revolt. Directed by Dianne Bellino, 2016, USA, 15 mins. With Elvis Mitchell, noted film critic and host of NPR’s The Treatment, and director Steven Bernstein in person. THIS GUIDE PROVIDED BY THE LOFT CINEMA AND ZOCALO MAGAZINE Loft Film Fest LFF05 3 The Martian with Astronaut 4 Tombstone Rashomon Mark Kelly FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 7:30PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT 6:30PM DIRECTED BY Alex Cox, 2016,USA, 83 mins., Not Rated DIRECTED BY Ridley Scott, 2015, USA/UK, 144 mins., Rated PG-13 A special Work in Progress Premiere screening with director Alex Cox, 2016 Lofty Achievement Closing Night of the Loft Film Fest 2016 will feature a special Science Award winner, in person! on Screen presentation of the acclaimed 2015 sci-fi drama The Martian, with an introduction and post-film discussion with American astronaut, retired Navy combat veteran and New York Times bestselling author, SPONSORED BY Old Tucson Studios Mark Kelly! Acclaimed filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, SPONSORED BY Congressman Ron and Nancy Barber Walker) appears at the Loft Film Fest for the Work in Progress Part of Science on Screen at The Loft Cinema Premiere of his latest film, Tombstone Rashomon, filmed at Old Tucson Studios. This screening will include a career highlight reel During a manned mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney and presentation of the Lofty Achievement Award before the (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and film, and a discussion with the director and other guests from left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds the production following the film. himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and been tirelessly recreated in films, television and western towns spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is ever since. No one has a monopoly on truth, and in Tombstone alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international Rashomon, the truth is shared by six conflicting perspectives. scientists work tirelessly to bring “the Martian” home, while his In doing so, the film’s narrative becomes prismatic and the crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue result is perhaps the most comprehensive telling of the most mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world important gunfight in American history. Filmed at the historic comes together to root for Watney’s safe return. Based on Old Tucson Studios by a crew of local filmmakers and recent Andy Weir’s best-selling novel, and directed by Ridley Scott film school graduates, Tombstone Rashomon is proud to have (Blade Runner, Alien), this gripping sci-fi adventure also stars its Work In Progress Premiere at The Loft Film Fest among the Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Jeff very folks who helped bring it to life! Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Donald Glover. The Lofty Achievement Award is presented each year at the JOIN US after the movie to celebrate The Loft Cinema’s Loft Film Fest to an industry professional whose career and body of 44th birthday with an outdoor party featuring free snacks work have significantly contributed to the world of cinema, and and birthday cake! who continues to inspire, entertain and enlighten audiences. This year, the Loft Film Fest is proud to present the 2016 Lofty Achievement Award to internationally-acclaimed, cutting-edge filmmaker Alex Cox! Science on Screen is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation with major support from the Alfred P.
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