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Geralyn White Dreyfous: Documentary Filmmaking and the Business of Independent Film
An interactive session with Geralyn White Dreyfous, who will discuss her role as a producer and as director of the Salt Lake City Film Center. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and to learn more about how independent film projects are financed and distributed.
4:00 p.m. Short Films
Two Films by Gayle Knutson
Gayle Knutson is a Minnesota Filmmaker who runs her own production company, Tundra Films.
If
There Were No Lutherans...Would There Still Be Green Jello?Meet the Church Sign Guy, Pastor Steve Molin of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minnesota, and see what he did to make his church stand out. (12 minutes)
Grandfather's Birthday
stars veteran stage, screen and television actor Robert Prosky in the touching story of an elderly widower excited to celebrate his 79th birthday. Winner of a regional Emmy Award. (18 minutes)
Academy Award Winning Student Films
Documentary: Cross Your Eyes
Keep Them Wide, Ben
Wu, Stanford University
A meditative portrait of artists with developmental disabilities. Imagination
can come from unexpected places. (22 minutes)
Animation (tie): Art’s Desire,
Sarah Wickliffe,
New York University
5:00 p.m. In
a Dream
Jeremiah Zagar, 2008
The story of Julia
Zagar and her husband Isaiah Zagar, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the
past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top
to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete. Produced by Geralyn White
Dreyfous. (80 minutes)
Ladies of the Land
Megan Thompson, 2007
Women are a fast-growing
demographic in American agriculture, and they are doing things differently.
Ladies of the Land tells the story of four women who never thought they'd
be farmers — but today have dedicated their lives to goats, grains and green
beans. (29 minutes) Alces Alces Uncut
George Desort, 2007
This film witnesses
the behaviors of two moose in an unedited take, observed and narrated by
wildlife biologist, John Vucetich. Alces Alces Uncut is as organic
and pure as the creatures themselves. (9 minutes) 8:00 p.m. Experimental Film
Establishing Shots
Chris McNamara, 2006
Focusing on the opening visuals of movies, this video disrupts these fundamental cues of time, place and character. Detroit Film Center Award winner, 2007 (12 minutes)
Foggy Mountains Break Down More Than Non-Foggy MountainsJessie Stead, 2006
Winner of the "Best of
the Festival" award at last years' Ann Arbor Film Festival, Foggy Mountains
is an insane, maddening, and exhilarating film combining nine different
versions of the bluegrass standard Foggy Mountain Breakdown, road movie
and music video elements, structural film strategies, cryptic narration,
and equal parts wonder, confusion, apprehension, nostalgia, and delirium.
(59 minutes)