JUNE 1–6 2016 1 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 1 Inform
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
JUNE 1–6 2016 1 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 1 Inform. Welcome The Santa Cruz Film Festival has been bringing creative, independent films to our community since 2002. We’ve exhibited more than 1,500 independent films by national and international filmmakers as well as films and videos produced Entertain. in the greater Santa Cruz County and Monterey Bay area. Many of the films we screen are independent filmmakers’ only chance to show their work to the public. This year the festival kicks off with an opening event at the Del Mar Theater on June 1 and continues with four days of Inspire. screenings at the new Colligan Theater and two other venues within the Tannery Arts Center from June 2-5. The Colligan Theater construction was completed in the fall of 2015, and Jewel Theater Company opened their first theatrical performances in November. We have been looking forward to the opportunity to join the other artists and arts organizations present at the Tannery, and now that the Colligan Theater is completed, we have found a new, vibrant home for the Santa Cruz Film Festival. This year’s exciting lineup includes several EarthVision themed documentaries about the environment, as well as creativity and arts-based themes to honor our new home in the Tannery Arts Center, as well as LGBT issues to partner with the Santa Cruz Pride events occurring the same weekend as this year’s film festival. Our offering includes many other relevant, incisive topics as well as narrative films to thrill and delight you—some 45 films in all. For four days, we will be screening a dozen or so films daily at our three venues: The Colligan Theater, the Tannery World Dance Center, and the Radius Art Gallery, all located within the Tannery Arts Center. The festival will occur during our monthly First Friday Art Walk when artists open their studios to the public, and during Thursday Art Market where musicians and artisans exhibit on the Tannery courtyard. This year’s Santa Cruz Film Festival is going to be a true artistic experience. It’s all happening within a diverse arts community in a city where interesting and unusual are the norm. Catherine Segurson Director Santa Cruz Film Festival, 2016 GoodTimes.SC SantaCruz.com delighted sponsor of 2 SANTASanta CRUZ FILM Cruz FESTIVAL Film2016 Festival SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 3 The Colligan Theater Thursday Art Market 4-7pm Located at 1010 River street, The Colligan Theater has 182 seats Thursday Art Market features live with two aisles and more distance music, artist demonstrations, and between rows for better leg room. guest chefs with rotating menus in With a higher rise from one row to the central courtyard at the Tan- the next there is a better view of nery Arts Center action on the stage. Inside you’ll enjoy the spacious lobby with FREE & family friendly! concessions bar, and outside you’ll find a beautifully landscaped patio and garden, relics of the old Tannery, and also dozens of free adjacent parking spaces exclusively for theater patrons. First Friday Art Walk Artist studios at the Tannery open from 5-9pm. Tour the 85 different artist studios Tannery World Dance Center in between film screening. Musicians will perform on the Tannery courtyard. Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center is a studio, performance, and cultural space housed inside the Tannery Arts Center. Our Saturday Music unique hub is surrounded by loft artists, galleries, sculptures, and an Santa Cruz, CA based alternative “saltwater rock” Stormy ArtBar & Cafe. The Black Box the- Strong formed in 2006 and will offer a tsunami of salty melodic ater is home to professional dance anthems. Stormy is the son of a California commercial fisher- artists from all over the world. We man and the inspiration of his own near death experiences at have code-accessed, clean, public sea provide for honest lyrics soaked in raw emotion that splice restrooms and ample, free parking! seamlessly with award winning song-writing. His songs will leave you cast a drift, melodies swimming around inside of your head long after the show is over. Radius Art Gallery Radius Gallery is a professional art The Art Bar and Café venue and gallery at the Tannery Arts Center showcasing the work Located on the center courtyard of local, regional and internati- of the Tannery Arts Center, the art onal artists. Curated exhibitions bar and café offers a variety of cre- are year-round and present all atively inspired appetizers, salads, art disciplines. Radius Gallery is soups, sandwiches, and deserts. also available to rent for events, The bar menu includes a variety receptions, workshops, and other of creative cocktails named after creative projects. artists, as well as wine, champagne, and craft beers. The ArtBar is open daily from 10:30-11:00pm. 4 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 5 120 Days: Director: Joel Tait Potrykus resides in Grand Rapids, MI USA, where he continues to work with his filmmaking band, Sob Undocumented in America Noisse. Buzzard (2014) (SXSW) is the final installment in his DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Animal Trilogy, following the feature film Ape (2012) (winner of Tannery World Dance Best Emerging Director, Locarno Film Festival) and the super 8 Saturday, June 4 short Coyote (2010). 4:45 pm One hour, 20 minutes An Acquired Taste DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Radius Gallery Saturday, June 4 4:45pm, One hour, ten minutes Synopsis: In exchange for Miguel Cortes agreeing to leave the country voluntarily and paying a $5,000 bond, a North Carolina immigration judge offers him 120 days to get his affairs in order be- fore leaving his wife and two daughters in the United States. Cortes has 120 days to weigh his options about returning to Mexico alone or risk changing his name and disappearing back into another U.S. city illegally to keep his family together. Director: Ted Roach is a director, producer and editor who Synoposis: Why kill your own food? Defying factory farms, a has worked in the film and digital media industries for almost young, mindful generation learns to hunt as a way of connec- twenty years. His productions have screened in over 40 film ting with the source of its sustenance. An Acquired Taste delves festivals, won many awards, and have been broadcast interna- into the inner conflicts of a new urban breed: locavore hunters. tionally. Director: Trained as a conservationist, Vanessa LeMaire made her screen debut as a host for the French TV environmental show Ushuaia Nature in 1998. An Acquired Taste marks her debut as a feature-film producer/director, for which she was The Alchemist Cookbook awarded a fellowship by The Moving Picture Institute. NARRATIVE FEATURE Tannery World Dance Thursday, June 2 9:15pm Synoposis: Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for autho- rity, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous. 6 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL 2016 7 The Anthropologist Directors: Michael Coleman’s behind-the-scenes work has been featured in such films as Director Brett Morgen’s The DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane and Metallica: Through the Del Mar Theater, Wednesday June 1st, Opening night Never. In November of 2009, Michael launched the SoundWo- 7:30 pm rks Collection videos series. The SoundWorks Collection takes Colligan Theater you behind the scenes and straight to the dub stage for a look Thursday, June 2 into audio post-production for feature films, video games, and Noon original soundtrack composition. Emmanuel Moran is a documentary filmmaker whose film and television credits include Director Morgan Spurlock’s The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Mansome, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, A Day In the Life, Inside Man, Director Ellen Goosenberg’s Wartorn and No Dog Left Behind. With a back- ground and focus in music production he also continues to produce music for film. Boone Synoposis: The Anthropologist presents the parallel stories DOCUMENTARY FEATURE of two women: Margaret Mead and Susie Crate, two major Colligan Theater anthropologists studying how we negotiate disruptions of Saturday, June 4 traditional ways of life. Told through the perspective of the two 2:30 pm, One hour 15 mins women’s daughters, the film explores means for coping with change, whether through encounters with the outside world or unprecedented environmental changes, such as melting permafrost, receding glaciers, and rising tides. Director: Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger. Ironbound Films is a documentary film production company run by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger. Ironbound’s films have aired on PBS and CNN, and won multiple awards, including Sundance and New York Times Critics’ Pick, and NY1 best documentary awards. Two earlier films have been nomi- nated for Emmy awards. Synopsis: Boone tells the story of three young goat farmers as The Art of Listening they come to terms with the physical and emotional grit requi- red to live in deep relationship with the land. This experiential DOCUMENTARY FEATURE film is a visceral meditation on the sacrifice and struggle of a Colligan Theater lifestyle born of self reliance; a sensual homage to the heart Thursday, June 2 and soul of a farmer. 2:30 pm Director: Christopher LaMarca was named one of the 25 New Faces of Film for 2014 by Filmmaker Magazine.