STAFF Executive Director Cliff Froehlich Sponsors Artistic Director Chris Clark Operations Supervisor Mark Bielik Contents 20 Assistant Operations Supervisor Brian Spath Volunteer Coordinators ARTISTS/FILMMAKERS Thomas Crone, Kate Poss Program Cover/Poster Dan Zettwoch Marketing Consultant Filmmaker Awards Tom Huck Film Cheri Hutchings Tribute Reels Diane Carson and Print Traffic Coordinator Kathy Corley (John Sayles/ Descriptions Stephe Raven Maggie Renzi) and RD Zurick Venue & Interns Joanna Firestone, (Peter Greenaway) 24 Abby Hendren, Jackie Huang, Ticket Info Elona Johnson, Kim Karner, FESTIVAL TRAILERS Documentaries 24 Lauren Kayarian, Erin Martin, Produced by Coolfire Media 12 Features 32 Sarah Mayersohn (www.coolfiremedia.com) Shorts 56 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Director David Johnson Sidebars Chair Jay L. Kanzler Animator Ariel Acosta First Vice Chair Sharon Tucci Editor Patrick Vaughan 13 Second Vice Chair Jilanne Barnes Sound Design Brent Johnson Treasurer Barry Worth Crew Chris Benson, DP; Secretary Delcia Corlew Dave Kube, gaffer; Film Board Members Kathy Corley, Paul Knubley, art department; Special Tony Davis, Amit Dhawan, and Kristine Petrus, makeup Georgia Frontiere, Carrie Houk, Gear Bad Dog Pictures Schedule Locations City Museum Events David Johnson, Joneal Joplin, Bobbie Lautenschlager, (Mad Scientist) and Monarch 36 Restaurant (Speed Dating) 16 McGraw Milhaven, Charles Poole, Eric Rhone, Jean Shepherd, Talent Joe Hanrahan Mary Strauss, Jill Tresback, (Mad Scientist) and Now Talent Awards J. Kim Tucci, Elizabeth Tucker, Management (Speed Dating) Jane von Kaenel, 18 Scott Wibbenmeyer Award-winning purveyors of comics, books, apparel, toys and more. 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Currents 101: George Patrick Caleb Jouin Bingham September 7 – October 12 – December 9 March 9, 2008 One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park St. Louis, Missouri 63110 314.721.0072 www.slam.org Tuesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm; Friday, 10 am–9 pm; Closed Monday MA I N V E N U E S General Info & Tickets Tivoli Theatre ADVANCE TICKET SALES TICKET PRICES TIVOLI Advance tickets for programs at this Individual tickets are $10 each or $8 6350 DELMAR BOULEVARD venue are for sale at the Tivoli box office. for Cinema St. Louis members and Box-office hours are 5-10 p.m. Monday- students with current and valid ID. Plaza Friday and 2-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. OTHER DISCOUNTS Saint Louis Art Frontenac No phone sales. For tickets online, visit Museum programs are $8 for members of tickets.landmarktheatres.com. the Art Museum. COCA programs are $8 for Cinema PLAZA FRONTENAC Advance tickets for members of COCA. LINDBERGH BOULEVARD programs at this venue are for sale at the SIX BEFORE SIX Weekday screenings on AND ClAYTON ROAD Plaza Frontenac box office. Box-office hours Nov. 9 and Nov. 12-16 before 6 p.m. at the are 2-9 p.m. daily. No phone sales. For tickets Tivoli Theatre and Plaza Frontenac are Saint Louis online, visit tickets.landmarktheatres.com. specially priced at $6. No other discounts are SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM Advance tickets valid for these tickets. Art Museum for programs at this venue are for sale at the 1 FINE ARTS DRIVE, FREE EVENTS Art Museum box office. Box-office hours are FOREST PARK The following events are free and open to the 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Satur- public. No ticket is required. day and Sunday, with extended hours from Family Shorts Program on Nov. 10 at the Webster 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday. No online sales. For Art Museum; St. Louis Directors Seminar tickets by phone, call 314-655-5299. University on Nov. 10 at the Tivoli; Lo-Fi Saint Louis WEBSTER UNIVERSITY, COCA, AND MOORE AUDITORIUM, Seminar on Nov. 10 at the Tivoli; “The 470 EAST LOCKWOOD AVENUE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Advance tickets Naked Kiss” With James Gunn on Nov. 10 for programs at these venues will be on sale at Webster U.; NFF Coffee With the Film- by phone only. Box-office hours are 1-4 p.m. makers on Nov. 11 at the Tivoli; Q&A With COCA Monday-Friday. For tickets, call 314-289- 524 TRINITY AVENUE James Gunn and Scott Foundas on Nov. 11 4154. at the Tivoli; Neal Gabler on Walt Disney ONLINE TICKET SALES on Nov. 15 at the Art Museum; Films at the Washington For shows at the Tivoli and Plaza Frontenac Pulitzer: Water Films With Peter Green- University only, tickets may be purchased in advance at away on Nov. 17 at the Pulitzer Foundation; tickets.landmarktheatres.com. There is a $1 “Drowning by Numbers” With Peter STEINBERG HAll AUDITORIUM, FORSYTH AND SKINKER per-ticket service charge. At the Tivoli, pick up Greenaway on Nov. 18 at the Art Museum; BOULEVARDS your tickets at the box-office window. At Plaza Closing-Night Party and Awards Presen- Frontenac, either see the box-office attendant tation on Nov. 18 at Mandarin. or use an automated kiosk at the box-office SPECIAL-EvENT counter. Bring the credit card that you used FEStiVAL PUNCH-PASSES Festival Punch-Passes are available for 10 VENUES to purchase the tickets and the confirmation tickets ($90), 20 tickets ($175), and 30 tickets number. Online sales are limited to full-price ($250). Festival Punch-Passes are available FILMS AT THE PULITZER tickets only ($6 or $10); Cinema St. Louis at the Tivoli and Plaza Frontenac box offices Water Films With Peter Greenaway member and student discounts can only be at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17: in advance and at all venues on day of show. obtained in person because ID is required. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Festival Punch-Pass-holders are required to 3716 Washington Boulevard DAY-OF-SHOW TICKET SALES obtain a ticket for each film attended, either ClOSING-NIGHT PARTY Tivoli, Plaza Frontenac, Webster U., COCA, and in advance or day of show; a hole will be at 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18: Washington U. box offices will open a half-hour punched in pass for each ticket purchased. Mandarin, 44 Maryland Plaza before the first show; Art Museum box office Festival Punch-Passes can be used to purchase WWW.CINEMASTLOUIS.ORG will open an hour before the first show. multiple tickets for the same show. Festival Festival Website Punch-Passes can be used at all venues. 1 2 GENERAL INFO & T I CKETS AT & T S T. LO U I S INTERNATIONA L F I L M F E STIVA L cinemastlouis.org SLIFF groups its films into thematically organized programming streams called sidebars. AFI Project: 20/20 is an Low and Behold, The Memory Thief, AFI American Film Institute Orphans, Ruzzian Roulette, Shelter, PROJECT: (AFI) international ini- When a Man Falls in the Forest 20/20 Curiosity tiative designed to en- of Chance hance cultural exchange, understanding, and ANHEUSER-BUSCH afRICAN/ collaboration through filmmakers and their afRICAN-AMERICAN SIDEBAR films from the U.S. and abroad. It is an SPONSORED BY ANHEUSER-BUSCH unprecedented cultural diplomacy effort Films from Africa and movies that relate to the that is supported by the U.S.’s cultural agen- black experience in the U.S. and the world. cies — National Endowment for the Arts America the Beautiful, Another Man’s (NEA), National Endowment for the Human- Garden, Banished, Darius Goes West, ities (NEH), Institute of Museum and Library Dry Season, Enough!, Honeydripper, Services (IMLS), the President’s Committee Low and Behold, Ruzzian Roulette, A on the Arts and the Humanities, and the Walk to Beautiful, We Are Together Department of State — and it is a component of the Department of State’s Global Cultural A diverse survey of Initiative. Through workshops, seminars ANIMATION contemporary anima- and appearances at film festivals, cultural SIDEBAR tion. centers, museums, and educational venues, Aardman Animations, Chicago 10, Project: 20/20 filmmakers will promote Disney Shorts (with Neal Gabler), My Juno mutual understanding, while nurturing film- Friends Tigger and Pooh, Persepolis, making excellence. Representing 10 coun- Shorts Programs 4-6 tries, 2007 AFI Project: 20/20 introduces a multicultural roster of films signifying a A sampling of universal perspective that challenges us to ARCHIVAL classic works. examine, reflect, and celebrate diversity. PRESENTATIONS Afghan Muscles, American Fork, Big Crossroads (with New Music Circle), Dreams Little Tokyo, Cyrano Fernandez, Drowning by Numbers (with Peter Disappearances, Spine Tingler Greenaway), The Iron Horse (with organist Stan Kann), The Naked Kiss AMERICAN (with James Gunn) INDEPENDENT SIDEBAR Movies explor- The best of current American indies. ART AND MUSIC ing the world of American Fork, Big Dreams Little Tokyo, SIDEBAR art or featuring The Curiosity of Chance, Ghost Image, music. When a Man Falls The Gymnast, Lovely by Surprise, Crossroads (with New Music Circle), in the Forest cinemastlouis.org AT & T S T. LO U I S INTERNATIONAL F I L M F E STIVA L SIDEBAR S 1 3 Films at the Pulitzer: Water Films With Programs for children The Savages (Fox Searchlight), Son of Peter Greenaway, The Iron Horse (with faMILY of all ages. Rambow (Paramount Vantage), Taxi to organist Stan Kann), Punk’s Not Dead, fiLM Disney Shorts (with the Dark Side (THINKfilm), The Walker SIDEBAR The Samba Poet, Shorts Program 3, Neal Gabler), Family (THINKfilm) Strange Culture, Twisted, A Walk into Shorts Program, 48 Angels (13 and the Sea older), Mahek, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, Of Love and Eggs, Son of Rambow INBaSELINE NEW FILMMAKERS FORUM Works from the cine- (13 and older), A Year in My Life ASiaN SPONSORED BY INBasELINE SIDEBAR matic hotspot of Asia.