March 4-16 Film Festival Guide 2014
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PAGE SECTION TITLE FILM FESTIVAL GUIDE 2014 M A R CH 4 -16 CINEQUEST.ORG 408.295.FEST 1 TICKETS AND PASSES FESTIVAL PASSES FILM LOVER $145 FESTIVAL All Regular Film Screenings All Encore Day Screenings TICKETS REGULAR SCREENINGS* $250 GENERAL ADMISSION $10 MAVERICKS SILENT CINEMA SCREENING $10 Opening Night Screening & Party All Artist & Innovator Forums MATINEE** $7 Closing Night Screening & Party All Regular Film Screenings All Maverick Spirit Events All Encore Day Screenings STUDENTS*** $5 All Media Legacy Events SPECIAL EVENT TICKETS OPENING NIGHT / MARCH 4 Screening & Party $50 CLOSING NIGHT / MARCH 16 $50 VIP ALL ACCESS $500 Screening & Party VIP Lounge Access All Maverick Spirit Events MAVERICK SPIRIT EVENTS $15-50 VIP Gift Bag All Media Legacy Events WRITERS CELEBRATION $25 ALL DAY / Access to All VIP Soirees All Artist & Innovator Forums $15 AWARDS & Opening Night Screening & Party All Regular Film Screenings MAVERICK SPIRIT EVENT Closing Night Screening & Party All Encore Day Screenings BOX OFFICE INFORMATION The Cinequest Box Office at the Camera 12 will open on March 2, 2014. Operating hours will be 11 am – 6 pm daily. During the festival, our box offices at the Camera 12, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and the California Theatre will open 45 minutes prior to the first daily screening at each location. Tickets & passes are sold at all box offices. EXPRESS LINE ACCESS ONLINE TICKET PURCHASES Bypass the box office! Use our new print-at-home tickets feature to DONATION $100 skip that extra stop at Will Call and go directly to your event. While seats are available, tickets may be Holders form a special line purchased online up to an hour prior to the event. that has first access to theatre Online orders for festival passes placed after February 20 can be mailed only by selecting the FedEx seating. Must be held in addition Stella Artois salutes the delivery option. NO PO BOX DELIVERY. to valid ticket or pass. spirit of independent film. WILL CALL Will Call is located in the Camera 12 lobby. Please bring your picture ID and the credit card used for the ticket purchase to pick up your festival pass and/or tickets. Take advantage of our new print-at-home ticket feature to skip that extra stop at Will Call and go directly to your event. SOLD OUT SCREENINGS/EVENTS RUSH tickets for selected screenings or events may be available 20 minutes prior to start time. Tickets will be sold for cash only on a “first-come, first-serve” basis. If a RUSH ticket holder is not admitted, purchase price will be refunded. * Regular Screenings are films unassociated with special events. Opening & Closing Night films are special events. EXCHANGES/REFUNDS All ticket sales are final. If a screening/event is cancelled or rescheduled ** All weekday (Monday-Friday) screenings before 5:00 pm. or we cannot seat you, Cinequest will exchange the ticket for another screening/event (of equal or *** Valid Student ID required at Box Office. StellaArtois.com greater value) at the Cinequest Box Office located at the Camera 12. Always Enjoy Responsibly. FILMS ARE NOT RATED: Screenings/Events should be attended at your own discretion. © 2013 Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Stella Artois® Beer, Imported by Import Brands Alliance, St. Louis, MO CINEQUEST.ORG 408.295.FEST 3 Ad Name: SA Sundance Film Closing Date: 1/9/14 Trim: 8" x 10" Item #:PSA201310535 QC: CS Bleed: none Job/Order #: 257802 Pub: Cinequest Live: 7" x 9.5" WELCOME CINEQUESTERS CELEBRATION Special events and parties. Celebrate and connect around a love of film, food, drink, and each other. PAGES 6 - 12 Connect. The Cinequest Film Festival 2014 is about connecting People and Worlds. And the power of film and innovations to transform us INNOVATION through inspiring and meaningful connections. Forums, films, and events showcase the visions, The Cinequest Film Festival experience is an technologies, and creativity that improve today opportunity to connect audiences with human and reshape our future. emotion; with each other; with ideas. In doing so, PAGES 13 - 18 it allows the mission of Cinequest — to create, innovate and empower — to come to life. INSPIRATION Events and films bring you people and WHAT stories that uplift and inspire. PAGES 19 - 25 QUICK PAGE REFERENCE OPENING NIGHT 6 DO CLOSING NIGHT 7 THRILLS Thrillers, horror, and action VIP SOIREES & 8 MAVERICK MEETUPS films electrify and shock. PAGES 26 - 29 MARQUEE SPOTLIGHT SERIES 9 YOU DINER CIRCLE 10 FESTIVAL MAP 11 LAUGHS MAVERICK INNOVATOR AWARD 13 FEEL? Comedies of many types sure to MAVERICK SPIRIT CHEF 13 CINEQUESTERS make you laugh out loud. ARTIST & INNOVATOR FORUMS 14 CONNECT with the feeling PAGES 30 - 35 CREATE. INNOVATE. EMPOWER. PICTURE THE POSSIBILITIES 16 that you wish to have through VIP LOUNGE 18 emotional categories of films and events. Spectacular LIFE CINEQUEST is a vanguard CINEQUEST Picture the MEDIA LEGACY AWARD 19 Dramatic films reveal life as organization that fuses Possibilities (PTP) is a global premieres, forums, events, and people live it around the globe. creativity with technological youth and leadership movement WRITERS CELEBRATION 21 parties occur at the Cinequest innovation to empower, to empower creativity and PAGES 35 - 44 MAVERICK SPIRIT WRITER: 22 improve, and transform the lives innovation that improves lives Film Festival, in stunning NEIL GAIMAN of people and communities. and communities worldwide. venues equipped with supreme PTP gives youth the powers to FILM PROGRAM 22 - 46 CINEQUEST Film Festival create the world they envision. technologies – all within a four (CQFF) showcases premiere SILENT CINEMA 29 block walk in lovely downtown LOVE films, renowned and emerging CINEQUEST Mavericks Films showing romance, love, and artists, and breakthrough Studio creates innovative and FILM SCHEDULE 50 San Jose, capital of the falling in love in all its glories. technology—empowering global transformative motion pictures, extraordinary Silicon Valley. connectivity between creators, television, and distribution INDEX 54 PAGES 45 - 49 innovators, and audiences. paradigms. 4 CINEQUEST.ORG 408.295.FEST 5 CELEBRATION CELEBRATION THE GRAND SMALL SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY CHRISTOPHER SEDUCTION TIME MELONI OPENING NIGHT Cinequest opens in grand fashion as the lights dim, and we present an uproarious comedy from Cinequest 2014 culminates with dynamic energy, excitement, and celebration. Join writer/director CLOSING NIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 4 director Don McKellar (Last Night) and screenwriter Michael Dowse (Goon), starring a brilliant cast Joel Surnow (24, The Kennedys) and star Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU, True Blood) SUNDAY, MARCH 16 that includes Brendan Gleeson (“Mad-Eye” Moody from the Harry Potter films), Taylor Kitsch (Friday for a spectacular premiere screening of Small Time, also starring Dean Norris (Breaking Bad, 7 PM Night Lights), and Liane Balaban (Supernatural). Under the Dome), Devon Bostick (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods), Kevin 6 PM Nealon (Weeds, SNL), Garcelle Beauvais (Flight), Xander Berkeley (Taken), and Amaury Nolasco A decade after Jean-Francois Pouliot’s La Grande Séduction wowed critics, the brilliantly adapted SCREENING + PARTY $50 SCREENING + PARTY $50 (Transformers). English remake substitutes the quaint charm of rural Quebec with the rugged beauty of a tiny Complete your Cinequest experience Join us for a spectacular Opening Night Newfoundland coastal community. Some fathers encourage (and some coerce) their sons to join the family business. Al Klein (Meloni), by connecting with stars and the world screening of The Grand Seduction at the owner of a used car lot gets his dream when his son Freddy (Bostick) graduates from high school With the decline of jobs in the fishing industry and their friends and family taking jobs in the big city, premiere of Small Town. Conclude the night California Theatre. The post-screening and foregoes college in favor of selling cars with his old man. Klein is thrilled when Freddy moves in the residents of a small village are overjoyed by the prospects that a plastics manufacturer wants to and festival with an all-out bash: cocktails, celebration at The Glass House includes with him - it’s the first time these two have lived under one roof since Freddy was a kid. Klein’s ex-wife build a factory in their town. A bright future lies ahead for everyone—that is, until the “hammer drops” food, and music by DJ Contest winner at cocktails, world-class food by Justin’s, Barbara (Moynahan), on the other hand, is very far from thrilled. Klein watches Freddy transform and they learn the company requires a resident doctor serve the community…something they don’t two adjacent venues: The Farmers Union and great music. from an innocent young man into a seasoned car salesman. Klein sees Freddy becoming like him, have. Enter Dr. Lewis (Kitsch), a cosmetic surgeon who has been “banished” to the seaside haven. applying every trick in the book to unload cars. In Freddy, Klein sees himself clearly in the mirror, and La Piñata. Opening Night Screening Hilarity ensues as the community scrambles to charm Lewis to become their permanent doctor by leaving him with a tough decision to make. Closing Night Screening California Theatre attempting to be a sophisticated, worldly community, rather than the unrefined group they are. California Theatre 345 S. First Street Meloni and Bostwick are so thoroughly convincing that it’s hard to believe they aren’t real life father Director Don McKellar has previously had work shown at Cinequest with the 2000 short film and son. Add to this mix exceptional turns by the entire ensemble cast, and Surnow’s witty, intelligent 345 S. First Street Opening Night Party Elimination Dance and again in 2012, when he starred in I’m Yours. With his new film, McKellar script, and the experience is a layered story that is poignant, refreshing, and always entertaining.