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Show TCffT4: . V w Local Film Theaters Fill the Big-Bo- x Cineplex Void and locals SLFS brings independent films to opportunities for students Community Calendar Nov. 14 - Dec. 4 provides 14 Wesley Jarman Staff Writer Torture, Human Rights, and the New State of Exception, What is the difference between 16 Thursday Theatre Company s Facing East, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, 8 p.m., Nov. 3. Plan-- B 16-2- 17 ses Friday Utah Symphony. Finishing Touches with Garrick Ohlsson, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 10 a.m. &8 p.m. Outdoor Ice Rink Opens, Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 801-535-61- 10 9 p.m. Gallery Stroll, participating galleries, html stroll, com h'idw. ourcommun ityconnections. 6-- IMPROV! The Musical, The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 7:30 p.m., fit Nov. Broadway Centre Cinemas, which has six. Bakers goals are aligned with the SLFS mission statement: to educate, advocate and inform the Salt Lake community through cinema and foster film appreciation and in participation. We are interested the product and look at what our community is in need of and then we try to fill that void, said Baker. To do that, the SLFS listens to its Salt Lake comfilm munity, film critics, experts and festival circuits. It is only through tlais active plan that the SLFS has . 7 been able to bring independent films 7 to the Salt Lake audience, said Baker. Theatre manager, Andy Wijaya, Broadway Centre who has worked for the theater since 1997, looks forward to seeing more independent films arrive. He other film tlnd others working with the SLFS travel to the local festivals to see what films could be brought to Salt Lake audience. Ihe latest foreran hint that caught film The Life of Wijayas attention was the German TeUuridc Film the Others that Wijaya first saw at the film exFestival in September. I enjoy the alternative he said. These perience to the Hollywood experience, be shown here and they provide types of films need to cultures and through opportunities to see different of the them wc can become more perceptive. Some SLFS has brought more popular independent films the to the Salt Lake audience include Garden State, the Void. Amelie, Super Size Me and Touching 18 opportune student film makers. One such opportunity is at the new Nite at the Tower catte that Iheatre manager, said is Uke as a p Volume XXXX: Issue 7 SLFS ,, WeiLr nrdti indepcn. Jg J.mn 0n deped thc theatcrs patrons x to big-bogive in from tlc Cineplcxes are the umbrella that dependent films attention. We screens together and the non-pro- dent bu( ' , , were turned away because of availability and we were Brown said. However, only able to show 14 of them, because of the quantity of films submitted I think the be successful. Brown said program will continue to minfilms submitted should be kept to be about live Before utes and to submit the films bv 6 p.m. that day. and thc screening at 9 p.m., the content is reviewed time slots for the film are arranged. Other opportunifound by ties with the SLFS for film students can be visiting their Web site: www.saltlakcfilmmiety.org. Even for those who are not filmmakers, the SLFS has student discount days on Tuesday's to take advantage students of. Wijaya would like to see more Westminster attend on those days. We know exactly what school or . from because we get to campus the students are coming seen many see their student IDs, he said, and I havent discount The Westminster students come through to aspnmg p n 8. Tickets: 801-355-46- 28 Saturday International Film Scries: The Middle East. Zairian: The Man From the Reeds, 3 p.m. 801-355-AR- TS Tr tor to bring 17-1- Del Vance: Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah, Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 7 p.m. Time Capsule: A Century of Dance, Rose 138 W. Wagner Performing Arts Center, 300 South, 8 p.m. Tickets: od mLS it its mission 801-355-AR- TS 9. Cin-cplex- es, non-Hollywo- 7 p.m. Broadway Across America s Sweet Charity, Capitol Theatre, 55 W. 200 South, Tickets: Nov. 14-1- movies and films? Feature-lengt- h movies are shown in huge their marquees surrounded with bright, flashing lights, bathed in glamour, overloaded with pizzazz and shown to eager audiences. Films, on the other hand, are humbly mentioned. 'They are often undiscovered gems that hide in obto provide commuscure nities with film culture. At least that is what Tori Baker, Salt Lake Film Society (SLFS) executive director, likes to think. Baker has been working for the SLFS since 2004. The non-proSLFS shows its films at the Tower Theatre, which has one screen, and art-hou- Tuesday Mark Danner Into the Light of Day. (Q ,he fit f 23 Thursday 24 26 Friday Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday Lights On! Downtown area, beginning at 5 p.m. 801-535-61- 10, Sunday Utah Symphony. Messiah Sing-- 1 n, Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 7 p.m. Tickets: 1 Friday 2 Saturday 300 S. Broadway .Merchant Holiday Stroll, between 200 and 400 Last, noon Local Literary' Luminaries: Celebrating Writers, Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, noon-- 6 p.m. 801-524-82- 00, 14 15 Tuesday Samuel Beckett Festival, Main Library, through Nov. 30, 801-487-44- 56 Wednesday Cynthia Cruz and Jennifer Michael Hecht, Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-82- 00 17 Friday Black Chandelier Fall 2006 Runway Fashion Show, The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m. Mormon author Carol Lynn Pearson No More Goodbyes, Sam Wellers Zion Bookstore, 254 S. Main St., 801-328-25- 86 Page 9 |