OCTOBER 21-25, 2015 PRESENTED BY COX COMMUNICATIONS AND DESERT DIAMOND CASINOS & ENTERTAINMENT LOFT FILM FEST 2015 Welcome to the Loft Film Fest! FESTIVAL STAFF I am so proud of the extraordinary lineup of lms and I’m thrilled that we get to bring them to Tucson for ve exciting days in October. festival executive director assistant managers PEGGY JOHNSON RAY BORBOA Film festivals should always be about discovery! I urge you to take some chances KYLE CANFIELD - see a lm that sounds unlike anything you’ve ever seen! Who knows - maybe festival directors PEDRO ROBLES you’ll discover a new director, a fresh face or your new favorite movie! JJ GIDDINGS BRENDA RODRIGUEZ JEFF YANC e 2015 Loft Film Fest will always be remembered as the one where you met volunteer coordinator Rita Moreno, Alfonso Arau, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana! In addition to managing director BRENDA RODRIGUEZ her many awards, Rita Moreno will be honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in ZACH BRENEMAN December! We’re proud to welcome Larry and Diana back for a 10th anniversary inventory specialist screening of Brokeback Mountain, just after Larry received the National festival programming consultant DAVID CORREA Humanities Medal from President Obama! Alfonso Arau is a Tucson favorite, MIKE PLANTE projectionists because, after all, he is El Guapo in ree Amigos! ANA HUMPHREY associate programmers DALE MEYERS We’re excited to add free outdoor movies this year in our newly improved parking SHAWNA DACOSTA KEISHA RICHARDSON lot! We’re adding valet parking from 5PM during the fest (free for pass holders!) JONATHAN KLEEFELD IZABELLA VANEK For the rst time, select lms will be in competition, a result of e Loft being MIKE WILKINS the only American festival member of the International Confederation of Art art director MATT MCCOY Houses. Look for the P so you can vote for the audience award. theatre floor staff CLARICE BALES All of us at the Loft are motivated by two things: a passion for lm and an equal development associates ADAM BUCHOLZ passion for our culturally-rich community! We hope you nd the 2015 Loft Film NICK KELSO TRENTON CASTILLO Fest a vibrant addition to the Tucson arts scene and from all of us - ENJOY! AMBER KLEEFELD BROOKE HARTNETT HALEY MCFEELY PEGGY JOHNSON administrative assistant LISA SCHAEFER festival executive director DANIELA ONTIVEROS A.J. SIMON MJ WATZ director of theatre operations MARYELLEN WHITMOYER ABOUT THE FESTIVAL JASON DENHOLM LENOX WIESE Celebrating its sixth year in 2015, e Loft Film Fest is dedicated to showcasing the best independent, foreign and classic lms, as well as celebrating the work of The Loft Film Fest is made possible in part by established and emerging directors, writers, producers and actors. e Loft Film the support of its generous members and our Fest, through its eclectic and diverse programming, aims not only to expand the audience for cinema that challenges, inspires and entertains, but also to honor incredible team of volunteers! those artists whose talent and passion bring that cinema to life. ADOPT A FILM FOR $500! Help us make this the best lm festival yet! When you adopt a lm you help us cover the screening and travel costs of bringing in award-winning lmmakers from across the globe along with the top lms from the world’s greatest lm festivals! As our way of saying thanks we’ll put your name on the screen before the lm, you will be personally thanked in the introduction at the screening and you’ll have our eternal gratitude. Your name will also be featured on our website and in select social media posts! IN ADDITION you will receive 2 passes to the Loft Film Fest ($250 value) and admission for two to a private cocktail party with Rita Moreno on October 22 (value: priceless as this is an invitation-only event - no tickets will be sold). FESTIVAL PASSES (INCLUDES FREE VALET PARKING!) General admission: $125 • loft members: $100 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS General admission: $10 • loft members: $8 The Loft Cinema tickets available at our box office or Board of Directors online at: LOFTFILMFEST.ORG THE LOFT CINEMA 520-795-7777 (showtimes) 3233 e speedway blvd 520-795-0844 (box office) tucson, aZ 85716 520-322-5638 (loft office) WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 & 22 01 BACK TO THE FUTURE DOUBLE 02 COURT FEATURE AND ENCHANTMENT UNDER wednesday, oct 21 at 7:30pm (screen 3) THE SEA PARTY! wednesday, oct 21 at 6:00pm (screen 1) TUCSON PREMIERE! party starts at 6:00pm • films start at 7:00pm Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai lm festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste General admission to double feature (includes party): prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and $10 • loft members: $8 • admission to party only: free grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and no tickets will be available for one film only. all tickets harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, will include the double feature. coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is Tamhane’s brilliant ensemble cast of professional and nonprofessional actors; PRESENTED BY BUFFALO EXCHANGE his aecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and his naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and Celebrate opening night of the 2015 Loft Film Fest AND Back to the contradiction. (Dir. by Chaitanya Tamhane, 2014, India, in Marathi, Gujarati, Future Day with a Back to the Future-themed party (Enchantment English, and Hindi with subtitles, 116 mins., Not Rated) Under the Sea!) in the Loft parking lot, featuring live ‘50s music, movie- themed snacks, a photo-op with an actual DeLorean and fashions from 1955, 1985 and 2015 courtesy of Bualo Exchange, to be followed by an indoor double feature screening of Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II. October 21, 2015 is international Back to the Future Day, celebrating the exact date Marty McFly travels to “in the future” in Back to the Future Part II. Get your Flux Capacitors charged and let’s all get back in time! BACK TO THE FUTURE e ingenious time travel comedy Back to the Future is a pitch-perfect combination of sharp satire, warm sentiment and sci- excitement. Michael J. Fox plays 1985 teen Marty McFly, whose mentor, Doc Brown (a brilliantly manic Christopher Lloyd), invents a time-tripping DeLorean that takes the kid back to 1955. When he inadvertently gets in the way of his teenage parents’ relationship (and causes his future mother, played by Lea ompson, to develop a crush on him!), Marty has to gure out how to give his nerdy father (a gloriously odd Crispin Glover) condence and get them back together to insure his own eventual existence. 03 PAULETTE Funny, touching and suspenseful, this love letter to American pop culture is one thursday, oct 22 at noon (screen 1) of the most purely entertaining lms of the 1980s. (Dir. by Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA, 116 mins., Rated PG) ARIZONA PREMIERE! BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II A crowd-pleasing comedy, Paulette tells the story of an older woman living alone Rather than rest on their laurels, Robert Zemeckis and writing partner Bob in the projects on the outskirts of Paris. Paulette’s meager retirement pension Gale completely reinvented the Back to the Future franchise with this audacious is not enough for her to make ends meet. When she notices some curious follow-up. In a bit of experimentation worthy of the French New Wave, Michael tracking outside her building one night, Paulette sees it as a sign of fate. As an J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd return for a sequel that spends most of its running ex-pastry chef, with a gift for commerce and cooking, she decides to start selling time not before or after the original story, but at the same time. A series of time- cannabis. But the other dealers refuse to accept Paulette’s unexpected success, travel complications send our hero Marty McFly and partner Doc Brown back to and she quickly nds herself in a spectacular series of events, allowing her to the 1955 of the rst lm, after a mishap in 2015 generates a parallel universe. prove herself in a remarkable and heroic way. (Dir. by Jerome Enrico, 2012, France, Even more elaborately plotted than the original, this highly ambitious sequel in French with subtitles, 87 mins., Rated R) Playing with the short lm On allows Zemeckis more opportunities for witty satire and cutting-edge special Vacation, Waiting to Die: An elderly couple tries to decide how to spend their eects. (Dir. by Robert Zemeckis, 1989, USA, 108 mins., Rated PG) vacation in Tucson. (Dir. by Greg Castro & Matthew Ramirez, 2015, USA, 7 mins.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 04 BOUNCE P 06 NARRATIVE SHORTS #1 P thursday, oct 22 at 12:45pm (screen 3) thursday, oct 22 at 2:45pm (screen 3) ARIZONA PREMIERE! One of two programs at this year’s fest featuring a diverse selection of incredible short lms from around the world. From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from Neolithic Scottish isles to modern soccer pitches, Bounce explores the little-known origins of our favorite LATINER sports. e lm crosses time, languages and continents to discover how the ball A young woman from Argentina comes to New York has staked its claim on our lives and fueled our passion to compete.