Saturday

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1:30 p.m.
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)

7:00 p.m. Documentary Shorts

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 Mountains
Jessie 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)