Honorable Mention: Housing First in the Arctic
Runner UP: We Can't Eat Gold
Winner: Migration
Sunday, December 15, 2013
AIFF 2013: Shorts and Super Shorts
Super Shorts
Honorable Mention - Life
Runner Up - Separation Sonnet
Winner - Anatomy of Injury
Shorts
Honorable Mention - Luarence Relton - Real Life
Runner Up - Damn Girl
Winner - Jeannie Donohoe - Lambing Season
Honorable Mention - Life
Runner Up - Separation Sonnet
Winner - Anatomy of Injury
Shorts
Honorable Mention - Luarence Relton - Real Life
Runner Up - Damn Girl
Winner - Jeannie Donohoe - Lambing Season
AIFF 2013: Awards Animation
Second Runner Up - Mr. Super Juice -Mike Wellin
Runner Up - Blue (not here)
Winner - Mr. Hublot
AIFF 2013: Gala Awards Dinner
This is the Iranian table here to cheer on Pourya and Mona who did Everything Is Fine Here.
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| Pourya and Mona |
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| Lambing Season's Jeannie Donohoe (r) with biggest fans |
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| Mr. Super Juicer's Mike Wellins, Lisa Freeman, Jasper Thune |
AIFF 2013: 7 Cajas Was Great! Awards Ceremony Starts Soon
7 Cajas (7 Boxes) was a terrific action thriller - but it all takes place in the market area of Asunción, Paraguay. Most of the characters are presented in a way that their involvement in criminal activities is understandable if not excusable. All the loose ends get tied together - even ones I didn't realize were loose until they got resolved. A lot of fun.
I'm at Organic Oasis and folks are eating and the awards should start around 6 or 6:15pm. I'll post and tweet - @whisper2world and #ancff.
I'm at Organic Oasis and folks are eating and the awards should start around 6 or 6:15pm. I'll post and tweet - @whisper2world and #ancff.
AIFF 2013: Snowy Saturday Films - 'Benz', Benoit Cohen, and Matthieu Prada
We started downtown with Harlem Streetsinger, a documentary about Rev. Gary Davis, whose guitar playing was legendary. Nice piece of musical history and biography. Then to the library for Lion Ark and back downtown for Delinquent Dancers - a fun, but not quite successful Bollywood film about a group of boys who escape a detention center to take part in a televised dance contest.Then to Bear Tooth for You'll Be A Man. Each time we got back to the car, there was
another three or four inches of fresh snow to brush off.
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| 'Benz' Thamachart Siripatrachai |
'Benz' Thanachart Siripatrachai, a Thai film maker studying in New York and the creator of the charming The Words I Love has been staying with us and realized that I hadn't gotten any video of him yet. So I did at lunch between films. I'll edit it and put it up later.
Saturday's highlight for me was You'll Be A Man by Benoit Cohen who came from France with his producer Matthieu Prada for the showing. (And he'll be here for tomorrow's showing too.) Here's a bit of video of the two before the showing, talking about their arrival in Alaska.
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Here they are after the film answering questions from a clearly enthusiastic audience at the Bear Tooth.
The discussions continued on into the lobby.
I was hoping to get to bed before 2am today, but I've missed that deadline. I liked You'll Be A Man a lot, but I want to process it a bit before I write about it. It does play again Sunday - at 1:30 at AK Exp.
[UPDATE March 11, 2014 Youtube video replaces Viddler]
AIFF 2013: Sunday! Almost Over! What To See?
I think having just one car between us AND having one of the film makers staying with us made things a little more hectic this year. But there were lots of good films, lots of visiting film makers, but not enough time.
I'm headed for 7 Cajas at 11:30 am - I haven't seen this Paraguayan film that was one of the biggest Paraguayan films ever. People say it's good.
We saw You'll Be A Man Saturday night and it's a very good film. The film maker, Benoit Cohen, said, after the showing that it had a small release in France - but it was too normal to be a success in France. It's doing much better on the US festival circuit. Their characters, as troubled as they were, weren't committing adultery or incest. It is a very warm and touching film that explores relationships that are feared today because of the potential for abuse, but can be (and in this movie are) caring and needed. Very worth watching, especially so if you also understand French. The Director and Producer are in town and should be at the showing Sunday at AK Exp at 1:30pm. You can see a very short video of Benoit and Matthieu describing their arrival in Alaska.
Icebound was the opening night film - a documentary about the 1924 serum run to Nome. Think you know all there is to know? This film bursts a lot of myths about the run - including the Balto myth.
Lion Ark plays again at 3pm. You can watch my video with the director Tim Phillips here. I made this earlier in LA. It documents the rescue of 25 lions from illegal circuses in Bolivia.
Awards Ceremony starts at 4pm at the Organic Oasis. I'll try to blog them live and maybe tweet too. (@whisper2world, #ancff).
Here's the official schedule for SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 2013:
I'm headed for 7 Cajas at 11:30 am - I haven't seen this Paraguayan film that was one of the biggest Paraguayan films ever. People say it's good.
We saw You'll Be A Man Saturday night and it's a very good film. The film maker, Benoit Cohen, said, after the showing that it had a small release in France - but it was too normal to be a success in France. It's doing much better on the US festival circuit. Their characters, as troubled as they were, weren't committing adultery or incest. It is a very warm and touching film that explores relationships that are feared today because of the potential for abuse, but can be (and in this movie are) caring and needed. Very worth watching, especially so if you also understand French. The Director and Producer are in town and should be at the showing Sunday at AK Exp at 1:30pm. You can see a very short video of Benoit and Matthieu describing their arrival in Alaska.
Icebound was the opening night film - a documentary about the 1924 serum run to Nome. Think you know all there is to know? This film bursts a lot of myths about the run - including the Balto myth.
Lion Ark plays again at 3pm. You can watch my video with the director Tim Phillips here. I made this earlier in LA. It documents the rescue of 25 lions from illegal circuses in Bolivia.
Awards Ceremony starts at 4pm at the Organic Oasis. I'll try to blog them live and maybe tweet too. (@whisper2world, #ancff).
Here's the official schedule for SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 2013:
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Documentary Program | 94 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Juan Carlos Maneglia | Feature | 100 min.
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Alaska Experience Theater - Small Theater | ||||
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Documentary Program | 85 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Benoit Cohen 2013 | Feature | 87 min.
** Note: Filmmaker attending
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Alaska Experience Theater - Small Theater | ||||
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Daniel Anker 2013 | Documentary | 100 min.
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Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center | ||||
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Tim Phillips 2013 | Documentary | 97 min.
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Awards Gala | 210 min.
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Organic Oasis | ||||
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Best of Fest | 120 min.
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Bear Tooth Theatre |
Saturday, December 14, 2013
AIFF 2013: Sarah Knight Talks About Her Film Vino Veritas
It's 1:30 am Saturday. I saw Vino Veritas last night and I really want to be in bed now, but I have some video to share with folks who are thinking they might want to see this film.
It's a good film. It's in the Virginia Woolf genre - two couples together in a house and they start talking more candidly than normal. It's gentler than Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and last year's festival example of this genre, Between Us.
It's much too soon for me to write about this film. I need to think about it more. For example, Benz (who directed The Words I Love) asked me if I thought it made a difference that it was on Halloween. Yes, if it weren't Halloween we wouldn't learn that Claire had no identity of her own, except when she won the Halloween costume award each year. But as I thought about his question more, I realized that the three characters who took the truth serum wine, were all dressed in costumes that were not who they really were. The one who did NOT take the truth serum was dressed in his real life doctor gown.
I need more time to tease out insights like that.
Vino Veritas plays today (Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013) at 4pm at the Alaska Experience Theater. Bring your spouse.
In the meantime, you can watch the video of Sarah.
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| Knight (r) talking to audience member after showing |
It's much too soon for me to write about this film. I need to think about it more. For example, Benz (who directed The Words I Love) asked me if I thought it made a difference that it was on Halloween. Yes, if it weren't Halloween we wouldn't learn that Claire had no identity of her own, except when she won the Halloween costume award each year. But as I thought about his question more, I realized that the three characters who took the truth serum wine, were all dressed in costumes that were not who they really were. The one who did NOT take the truth serum was dressed in his real life doctor gown.
I need more time to tease out insights like that.
Vino Veritas plays today (Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013) at 4pm at the Alaska Experience Theater. Bring your spouse.
In the meantime, you can watch the video of Sarah.
AIFF 2013: Saturday- Oh Dear Too, Too Many Choices
First, sorry for pointing people toward the Inlet Towers yesterday for the Martini Matinee. It was at the Bear Tooth and well attended, including a number of film makers.
There's a lot on for Saturday that I haven't seen. The links and times and locations are on the schedule below from the Festival site. I'll try to point out films that I've seen and that I've liked:
Family Program
If you have kids: Go to Loussac either at 11 or 1 for the family program. Actually, I'd say it doesn't matter when you get there after 11 because the program repeats at 1.
Lion Ark
Also at Loussac will be Lion Ark which I saw in LA. A good action packed (in a good way) story about rescuing lions from illegal Bolivian circuses. You can see the short video I did in LA with the director Tim Phillips here.
Tales From The Organ Trade
This documentary looks at the world market for human kidneys. See a whole post on this film here. This film shows a lot of sides and raises the ethical dilemmas that make this so tricky.
Jonah and Life are two shorts that made an impression on me in the Global Village Shorts Program at 1:30pm.
Coffee Time, Slomo, and The Words I Love are all the kinds of films you want to see at a film festival. They're in Quirky Shorts (a good descriptor) at 2 pm at Anchorage Community Works - 349 E Ship Creek Ave.
Reel Life and Life are in the Reel/Real Life Short Narrative Fiction program at 3pm at AK Exp. theater. I'm trying to get up some video with Laurence Relton I did today. [It's up here now.] He directed Reel Life which is definitely worth seeing. I haven't seen the rest of this program so I can't comment.
Vino Veritas is a feature of the Virginia Woolf genre - two couple have dinner together and start peeling the layers of their relationships. This one differs from others in this genre in that none of the characters is actually mean. This is a good serious film that couples ought to see. I recorded some video last night of director Sarah Knight.
I'm headed for To Be A Man at 8pm, which I haven't seen yet. I've heard good things. It's a French movie about the relationship between a 20 year old man and a 10 year old boy. The film maker is scheduled to be here at 8pm at the Bear Tooth.
Not sure how much that helps. Lots of good things to see and unless you can clone yourself, it's hard to get it all in. Though you can sneak a look at the Sunday program to see if what you want to see plays Sunday again.
Saturday, December 14th
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Family Program | 88 min.
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Wilda Marston Theatre at Z. J. Loussac Public Library | ||||
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Documentary Program | 95 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Documentary Program | 98 min.
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Alaska Experience Theater - Small Theater | ||||
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Trevor Laurence, Simeon Hutner 2013 | Documentary | 77 min.
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Gay-La | 120 min.
screens with...
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Mad Myrna's | ||||
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Family Program | 88 min.
Same as the 11 am showing - see above
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Wilda Marston Theatre at Z. J. Loussac Public Library | ||||
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Shorts Program | 92 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Small Theater | ||||
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Documentary Program | 68 min.
screens with...
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Anchorage Community Works | ||||
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Shorts Program | 98 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Tim Phillips 2013 | Documentary | 97 min.
** Note: Filmmaker attending
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Wilda Marston Theatre at Z. J. Loussac Public Library | ||||
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Scott Walker 2013 | Feature | 105 min.
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Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center | ||||
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Sarah Knight 2012 | Feature | 96 min.
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Alaska Experience Theater - Small Theater | ||||
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Documentary Program, Snowdance | 90 min.
screens with...
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Anchorage Community Works | ||||
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samit kakkad 2012 | Feature | 94 min.
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Documentary Program | 96 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Small Theater | ||||
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Shorts Program | 240 min.
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Anchorage Community Works | ||||
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Shorts Program | 112 min.
screens with...
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Alaska Experience Theater - Large Theater | ||||
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Benoit Cohen 2013 | Feature | 87 min.
** Note: Filmmaker attending
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Bear Tooth Theatre | ||||
Friday, December 13, 2013
AIFF 2013: Lion Ark - Film Makers In Anchorage for Sat and Sun Showings
I've been holding up this video til Lion Ark was about to play here in Anchorage. I got to see the film and talk to the directors when we were in LA. They are due in Anchorage for the showings Saturday (3:30pm Loussac) and Sunday (3 pm AK Exp large theater)
This is somewhat like a reality show where you watch the animal rescuers plan their attacks on the illegal circuses that have lions. You hear them discuss how they helped get the Bolivian government to pass the strongest legislation around to prevent little circuses from using animals. While some (most?) have given up their lions, there are a few outlaw circuses left.
None of this is really spoiler material because it's the telling of the story that matters. Most, if not all, of the questions at the Q&A in LA were about the content of the movie, so afterward I focused my questions more on the movie making.
There's a little bit of disturbing video of beating of animals in the film, so the younger kids probably shouldn't see this. (It's PG 13)
There are a lot of Bolivians involved in the rescue and an important part of the film for me was that a number of them were brought with the lions to Colorado at the end, to see the lions' new home.
The program says the film makers will be there Saturday, and probably they'll be at the Sunday showing but I'm not sure.
With Tim Phillips and Jan Creamer in town for Lion Ark, Will Francome for One.For.Ten, and Laurance Relton here for Reel Life, you'd think Captain Cook had made Alaska an English colony. All their films are well worth watching. Will's interviews with people who have been released from death row after their convictions were overturned can be seen at the one.for.ten website.
Laurence's wonderful short film, Reel Life, plays as part of the Reel/Real Life Short Docs program at 3pm Saturday at the AK Exp Theater.
This is somewhat like a reality show where you watch the animal rescuers plan their attacks on the illegal circuses that have lions. You hear them discuss how they helped get the Bolivian government to pass the strongest legislation around to prevent little circuses from using animals. While some (most?) have given up their lions, there are a few outlaw circuses left.
None of this is really spoiler material because it's the telling of the story that matters. Most, if not all, of the questions at the Q&A in LA were about the content of the movie, so afterward I focused my questions more on the movie making.
There's a little bit of disturbing video of beating of animals in the film, so the younger kids probably shouldn't see this. (It's PG 13)
There are a lot of Bolivians involved in the rescue and an important part of the film for me was that a number of them were brought with the lions to Colorado at the end, to see the lions' new home.
The program says the film makers will be there Saturday, and probably they'll be at the Sunday showing but I'm not sure.
With Tim Phillips and Jan Creamer in town for Lion Ark, Will Francome for One.For.Ten, and Laurance Relton here for Reel Life, you'd think Captain Cook had made Alaska an English colony. All their films are well worth watching. Will's interviews with people who have been released from death row after their convictions were overturned can be seen at the one.for.ten website.
Laurence's wonderful short film, Reel Life, plays as part of the Reel/Real Life Short Docs program at 3pm Saturday at the AK Exp Theater.
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