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Show The United States Looking back on last year's festival, however, there are some lasting impressions. There was the movie "On The Nickle," which we knew nothing about but liked the sound of. It turned out to be, for us, a wonderful experience. exper-ience. There was the discussion dis-cussion with Robert Redford of "Ordinary People" and there was a chance to sit in on a cinematography seminar. se-minar. Remembering those we are forming a plan of attack for this year. For one thing, we are going to see what video is all about. Up to now, we have thought of video as small screen newsreel type shorts. It is, however, much more than that, it is a means of documenting our society and it is also evolving into an art form. Last year, the video entries were a side show to the main film events this year, headquartered at Shadow Sha-dow Ridge, the video productions produc-tions promise to offer as much excitement as the films at the Egyptian and Holiday Village Cinemas.. . We are also going to select a few new films that sound interesting and which will probably not be picked up for national distribution, films we don't think anybody else will like. Among these will be some of the regional shorts just for the purpose of supporting local filmmakers. film-makers. In addition to a select number of screenings, our plans include one seminar. Hopefully, the professionals will be able to elevate our critiques above the level of "well, ya know, I liked it." Last but not least, we would like to attend one premiere, in order to say we saw it before our exroom-mate exroom-mate in Boston sees it, in order to catch a glimpse of one or two stars, in order to have an excuse to dust off our high heel sneakers. After all how often does Hollywood come to P.C.? Tickets for all of the following events are available avail-able at the double decker Film Festival bus in the Alpha Beta parking lot. Seminars The Eye of The Beholder: The Art of Watching A Film (Leader: Roger Ebert) (Saturday, (Sa-turday, Jan. 23; Sunday, Jan. 24; Monday, Jan. 25; and Tuesday, Jan. 26). Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times film critic and co-host of PBS' "Sneak Previews," will discuss audience appreciation appre-ciation from the critic's point of view, emphasizing a study of what is considered to be one of the best films ever made, "Citizen Kane." The Fine Art of Conversation: Con-versation: Director Meets Actor in The Creative Process. Pro-cess. (Leader: to be announced) announ-ced) (Saturday, Jan. 23 and Sunday, Jan. 24). A leading motion picture director will discuss the "Director Meets Actor" process and recognizing recogni-zing that talent. Clips from selected films will be shown and discussions will include some recognizeable actors from those selected films. Yes, There Are Movies Made for Under $3 Million (Leader: Joe Dante) (Monday, (Mon-day, Jan. 25; Tuesday, Jan. 26 and Wednesday, Jan. 17). Director Joe Dante ("The Howling") will lead this session on various elements of low budget filmmaking including scripting, marketing market-ing techniques, business options op-tions in production, and the aesthetics of independent filmmaking. Speakers joining join-ing Mr. Dante include: Director John Sayles ("Return ("Re-turn of The Secausus' Seven"), Producer Debra Hill ("Halloween I and II"), Producer Cinematographer Dick Bowen ("Street Music"), and Marketing Specialist Jeff Dowd. The Use of Sound, Light, Magic and Clever Marketing Mar-keting to Make a Great Film Even Better (Leader: Sidney Ganis) (Thursday, Jan. 28 and Friday, Jan. 29). Sidney Ganis, Senior Vice President, Presi-dent, Lucasfilm, Ltd., will include in his discussion the successful marketing of "Raiders of The Lost Ark." The mystery behind the Lucasfilm special effects will be presented by Industrial Light & Magic's Vice President Presi-dent and General Manager, Thomas Smith. And Where It Stops, Nobody Knows: The Video Phenomenon (Wednesday, Jan. 27; Thursday, Jan. 28; Friday, Jan. 29 and Saturday, Satur-day, Jan. 30)- Topics will include the evolution of documentarynews do-cumentarynews works, exchanges video art and commercial have taken, integration inte-gration of film and video technology including inventions inven-tions in experiment, and the marketing future for video independents. Speakers include: in-clude: Documentarian Joh Alpert, Video Critics David Antin and David Ross, Video Artist Bill Viola, Sprocket Systems' (Lucasfilm) (Lucas-film) Project Coordinator Ed Catmull, Zoetrope's Electronic Elect-ronic Cinema Specialist Thomas Brown, and Larry Kirkman, Director of TV and Video Services at the American Ameri-can Film Institute. Exchange Sessions Small-Group Professional Exchange Sessions. These sessions are aimed at generating gener-ating lively interchange among top professionals and participant film and video makers. Speakers will include in-clude representatives of major ma-jor studios and talent agencies, agen-cies, networks, cable, and independents, among others. Documentary Finalists Between Rock and a Hard Place Vividly chronicles I ir'.vr": I . I S ' x " ' ! .., . . X i " ,1 . 1 Jurors at the Festival include: Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Sun-Times film critic and host of PBS "Sneak Previews" (pictured (pic-tured above): Taylor Hackford, Oscar winning documentary documen-tary filmmaker; Barbara London, Curator, Video Department, Depart-ment, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. City; David Ross, Chief Curator, University Art Museum,, U.C. Berkeley; David Antin, Video art critic and historian, U.C. San Diego; Nori Sato, nationally recognized video artist, Seattle, Seat-tle, Wash.; Jon Alpert, independent news journalist; ' ' KtfiKo T.M'R'o'IiiJe'pe'H'acnt Vieo artist;'" |