OCFF 2014 Program
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PROGRAM GUIDE 1 OAKCLIFFFILMFESTIVAL.COM FILMS & EVENTS THIRD ANNUAL OAK CLIFF OPENING NIGHT SAILOR BEAR PRESENTS (110 MIN) 7 P.M. – JUNE 19 – TEXAS THEATRE FILM FESTIVAL > Producers David Lowery, James M. Johnston, and Toby Halbrooks Special secret screening of a new film produced by Sailor Bear Productions, better known as Toby Halbrooks, James Johnston, and 2014 David Lowery. Texas Premiere - Filmmakers in Attendance TO BE TAKEI (93 MIN) 9:30 P.M. – JUNE 19 – TEXAS THEATRE > Directors Jennifer M. Kroot and Bill Weber Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei boldly journeyed from a WWII internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband Brad on this star’s playful and profound trek for life, liberty, and love. DFW Premiere WELCOME TO THE THIRD ANNUAL OAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL June 19–22 at the historic Texas Theatre, Kessler Theater, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, and other CLOSING NIGHT venues in North Oak Cliff. Led by the Aviation Cinemas team, who took over operations at the Texas OCFF FESTIVAL AWARDS 7:30 P.M. >> JUNE 22 >> TEXAS THEATRE Theatre in December of 2010, and backed by the 501 3(c) Oak Cliff Foundation, the Oak Cliff Film Festival features the very best of Oak Cliff’s theater venues, highlights the popular restaurants and bars in the area, and seeks to showcase the best of independent and brave filmmaking of all stripes from Oak Cliff, THE BETTER ANGELS (95 MIN) 8 P.M. Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth, and Austin, as well as the rest of the country and the world. > Director A.J. Edwards and Producer Terrence Malick The story of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked This year the Festival is celebrating the legacy of pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge whose him forever, and the two women who guided him to immortality. innovations include the zoopraxiscope, a device many consider to be the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope, Texas Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance which projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion, led to the development of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system. OCFF hopes to highlight the craft and the artistry of film and honor the tradition of work going back to Muybridge. 2 3 FILMS & EVENTS SPOTLIGHT FEATURES NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION THE DOG LIMO RIDE (100 MIN) 10 P.M. – JUNE 20 – TEXAS THEATRE (83 MIN) 3:30 P.M. – JUNE 21 – KESSLER THEATER > Directors Allison Berg and François Keraudren > Directors Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater An intimate portrait of John Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino’s Ten friends recount the unbelievable true story of renting a limousine character in Sidney Lumet’s Oscar®-nominated Dog Day Afternoon. for an annual event and, after 24 hours of indecency, intoxication, Original Story Writer P.F. Kluge in Attendance possession, trespassing, kidnapping, and assault, find themselves stranded and left for dead in the middle of nowhere. By combining BUZZARD narration of the actual participants with feature-length re-creation, this (97 MIN) 9:30 P.M. – JUNE 20 – BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER telling of “the greatest bar story ever told” marries broad subject with > Director Joel Potrykus experimental form. Texas Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus WILD CANARIES checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes (102 MIN) 9 P.M. – JUNE 21 out. Filmmaker in Attendance JEFFERSON TOWER (FREE ROOFTOP SCREENING) > Director Lawrence Levine MANAKAMANA A Brooklyn couple suspects foul play when their rent-controlled (118 MIN) 12:45 P.M. – JUNE 21 – TEXAS THEATRE neighbor suddenly drops dead. > Directors Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship YOUNG BODIES HEAL QUICKLY at the legendary Manakamana temple. Texas Premiere (102 MIN) 3:30 P.M. – JUNE 22 – KESSLER THEATER > Director Andrew T. Betzer SUMMER OF BLOOD Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the “accidental” killing of a young (86 MIN) 6:45 P.M. – JUNE 21 – BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER girl. Their destination is their estranged father’s desolate compound on > Director Onur Tukel the sea shore. Texas Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates, his luck turns when JOY KEVIN a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god. (62 MIN) 8 P.M. – JUNE 22 – BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER Texas Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance > Director Caleb Johnson A tiny dancer (Tallie Medel, The Unspeakable Act) and her comedian WANDA THE WONDERFUL husband find cohabitation at odds with their art. Joy Kevin is the often (80 MIN) 6 P.M. – JUNE 22 – KESSLER THEATER funny and sometimes dark exploration of whether true love is more > Director Carolyn Macartney likely to make a house into a home or a bonfire. Wanda was a 1920s-era Wild West sharpshooter. She had four husbands— Texas Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance but only shot one of them. World Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance MOOD INDIGO (131 MIN) 4:45 P.M. – JUNE 22 – TEXAS THEATRE > Director Michel Gondry Eminently inventive auteur Michel Gondry finds inspiration from French novelist Boris Vian’s cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (Amélie, Coco avant Chanel) and Romain Duris (L’Auberge Espagnole, De Battre mon Coeur 4 5 S’est Arrêté). FILMS & EVENTS DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION REPERTORY THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA DOG DAY AFTERNOON (73 MIN) 7:15 P.M. – JUNE 20 – BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER (125 MIN) 7 P.M. – JUNE 20 – TEXAS THEATRE – 35MM > Director Jessica Oreck > Director Sidney Lumet A descent into Eastern Europe’s haunted woodlands uncovers the A man robs a bank to pay for his lover’s operation; it turns into a hostage secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding situation and a media circus. of man’s place in nature. Texas Premiere Original Story Writer P.F. Kluge in Attendance WATER LIKE STONE STOP MAKING SENSE (87 MIN) 4:15 P.M. – JUNE 21 – BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER (88 MIN) 5:45 P.M. – JUNE 21 – TEXAS THEATRE – 35MM > Directors Zack Godshall and Michael Pasquier > Director Jonathan Demme Water Like Stone is an impressionistic portrait of Leeville, a fishing The 30th anniversary of Jonathan Demme’s innovative concert movie for village in Coastal Louisiana. It is a documentary about people living in the rock group The Talking Heads. a dying landscape. It is an elegy. It is an ode. It is a journey through a world all but forgotten. Texas Premiere - Filmmaker in Attendance PEEPING TOM (101 MIN) 3:15 P.M. – JUNE 21 – TEXAS THEATRE – 35MM YAKONA > Director Michael Powell (85 MIN) 12:45 P.M. – JUNE 22 – TEXAS THEATRE A young man murders women and uses a movie camera to film their > Directors Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda dying expressions of terror. Yakona is a visual experience through the crystal-clear waters of the San Marcos River and its headwaters at Spring Lake. Follow the river on an impressionistic journey from its point of view as it flows from source EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER to sea, through the changing seasons, through time and memory. (60 MIN) 3 P.M. – JUNE 22 – TEXAS THEATRE – 35MM Experience its relationship with the natural world and its interactions > Director Thom Andersen with humankind. Through Yakona, the voice of the river calls on Dean Stockwell narrates this 1975 doc about pioneering photographer humanity’s higher nature, inspiring its protection by revealing its beauty and cinematographer Eadweard Muybridge. Filmmaker in Attendance and life-giving spirit. Filmmakers in Attendance FIGHT CHURCH (83 MIN) 3:30 P.M. – JUNE 22 – BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER > Directors Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel Fight Church is a feature-length documentary about the confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, including ministries which train fighters. The film follows several pastors and popular fighters in their quest to reconcile their faith with a sport that many consider violent and barbaric. Faith is tried and questions are raised. Can you really love your neighbor as yourself and then punch him in the face? Texas Premiere 6 7 FILMS & EVENTS SHORT FILM PROGRAMS NARRATIVE SHORTS 1 1 P.M. >> JUNE 21 >> KESSLER THEATER STONE CARS THE IMMACULATE RECEPTION (14 MIN) (17 MIN) > Director Reinaldo Greene > Director Charlotte Glynn Stone Cars is a coming-of-age love story set in the shacks of Khayelitsha It’s 1972 in the hard-working steel town of Pittsburgh. Joey, 16, the township, one of the most dangerous areas in the world. April is faced middle of three boys, shy and still very much a kid, wants to grow up with a decision that she will ultimately have to live with the rest of her and be like his dad and brother, strong charismatic steelworkers. Joey life. Texas Premiere has his chance to prove himself when the girl he has a crush on ends up at his house to watch the infamous playoff game between the Steelers and the Raiders. Texas Premiere JONATHAN’S CHEST (15 MIN) > Director Christopher Radcliff BE WITH ME (THE NOTEBOOK) Everything changes for Alex, a troubled teenage boy, when he is awoken (15 MIN) one night by someone claiming to be his brother, who disappeared > Director Zach Clark years earlier.