AIFF2013: On The Air - Tuesday Dec. 3 10 am and Wednesday Dec 4 at 2pm

TUESDAY


Steve Heimel's Talk of Alaska show will host:

• Tony Shepard, founder, Anchorage International Film Festival
• Jim Parker, volunteer program organizer
• Callers Statewide

on KSKA 90.1 FM in Anchorage and APRN stations statewide on Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 10 am.    Here's how you can participate:

• Post your comment before, during or after the live broadcast (comments may be read on air).
• Send e-mail to talk [at] alaskapublic [dot] org (comments may be read on air)
• Call 550-8422 in Anchorage or 1-800-478-8255 if you’re outside Anchorage during the live broadcast

For interested film makers who aren't in Alaska (yet) you can listen online. Just go to  Alaska Public Radio and click the red 'radio stream' on the left. 

Click image to get to Alaska Public Media, then hit the Radio Stream button

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4 at 2pm. 

Kathleen McCoy, on Hometown Alaska, will discuss both the Anchorage International Film Festival and the Indigenous World Film Festival that will have its 10th Anniversary in Anchorage January 17-18. 

Kathleen's guests will be: 

• Jim Parker, Director of Film Programming, Anchorage International Film Festival
• Steven Alvarez, program director, Indigenous World Film Festival

Kathleen asked if she could add me to part of the program, so I'm scheduled to be on the Wednesday broadcast too.

Participate:

• Call 550-8433 (Anchorage) or 1-888-353-5752  (statewide) during the live broadcast (2:00 – 3:00pm Wednesday Alaska time)
• Send e-mail to hometown@alaskapublic.org before, during or after the live broadcast (e-mails may be read on air)

I would also note that you can buy all film passes ($100) for the Anchorage International Film Festival online or at the Bear Tooth (the website says starting Thursday at Bear Tooth, but we got one Monday night already.)   Regular tickets are $8 a film, the opening night includes a party afterward and costs $30 ($15 if you have an all films pass.)  So, if you go to the opening night and see ten more films/programs/workshops, the pass is a good deal.

And tomorrow you can start buying tickets for the Friday opening night showing of Icebound, a film about the serum run to Nome that is memorialized each year in the Iditarod.  I suspect this one will sell out, so getting tickets early is a good idea.  The word premiere shows up, but it's not clear if it's an Alaska premiere or what.  It appears to have been shown on BBC4 in October.