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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Auditorium School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 South Columbus Drive
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Registration
7 p.m.
GUERILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST
directed by Robert Stone
GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST brings into sharp focus the mood of the early 1970s, a mood that
inspired the formation of the first radical domestic terrorist cell to become a media sensation in the United
States, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The SLA wreaked havoc on the West Coast and our national psyche for over two years, leaving behind a rich trove of paranoid recordings and scores of violent acts,
including the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst who would subsequently join the SLA under the alias
"Tania."
Q&A with Robert Stone following the film.
9 p.m.
WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED
directed by Peter Gilbert
Fifty years after the Supreme Court's groundbreaking civil rights decision, Brown v. Board of Education, this film looks at the unsung heroes in the struggle for desegregation in America. Intimate interviews, eyewitness accounts, and original footage combine to tell the stories of students, teachers, lawyers, and judges whose determination and courage forever changed the nation.
Q&A with Peter Gilbert following the film.
Friday, October 22, 2004
Auditorium, School of the Art Institute
280 South Columbus Drive 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
Sponsored by (Chicago, Illinois and Indiana Film Offices)
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Latest Trends in Digital Technology
moderated by Tom Fletcher
Peter Gilbert (With All Deliberate Speed, Vietnam: Long Time Coming), Richard Brauer (Barn Red), Keith Walker (Media Process Group), Representative of I^3
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Trend or Fad: Political Documentaries
moderated by Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert (With All Deliberate Speed, Vietnam: Long Time Coming), Bob Hercules (Forgiving Dr. Mengele), Cheri Pugh (Forgiving Dr. Mengele), Robert Stone (Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst)
12:15p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own 1:30p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Making It Happen: The Creative Producer
moderated by Billy Higgins
Lee Mayes (Scary Movie, Multiplicity, Rudy), Kirkland Tibbels (Adam and Steve, Latter Days, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me), Steve Jones (Wild Things, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), John Digles (Design), Bob Brown (Dee Dee Rutherford, Purple Rose Films)
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Directed By: The Craft of Directing
moderated by Dan Moore
Dylan Kidd (P.S., Rodger Dodger), Gary Sherman (Deathline, Dead and Buried), Christian Otjen (Reeseville), Anthony Collamati (The Apologies)
Friday Night Film and Party
Auditorium, School of the Art Institute
280 South Columbus Drive 7:00 pm P.S.
written and directed by: Dylan Kidd
Roger Dodger director Dylan Kidd upends his debut’s withering world-weary tone in P.S., a thoughtful, tender, and torrid romantic fable of coincidence and mystical second chances. Laura Linney (Mystic River, You Can Count On Me) stars as Louise, an admissions officer at a prestigious New York City arts school.
With Topher Grace, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Paul Rudd.
Q & A with Laura Linney and Dylan Kidd following the film moderated by Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune
World Premiere IFP/Chicago’s 2004 Production Fund Short Film
THE APOLOGIES
Written/Directed by: Anthony Collamati
Format: 35mm
Running time: 17 minutes
A man returns to the town he left seventeen years ago to make amends with the family of a woman he raped
Executive Producer: Kathy White
Cast: Jack Forbrich, Mick Webber and Melissa Sienicki
9:30 pm Friday Night Party
Sponsored By: Kat Lei Productions
Chicago Athletic Association
12 S. Michigan Ave.
Saturday October 23, 2004
Auditorium, School of the Art Institute
280 South Columbus Drive 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
Sponsored by (Chicago, Illinois and Indiana Film Offices) 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. TBD
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. The State of Indie Film 2004
moderated by Bob Hudgins
Anthony Kaufman (indiewire, Village Voice), Ray Pride (New City), Kirkland Tibbels (Latter Days, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me), Erin Heidenreich (Cinetic Media), Tom Quinn (Magnolia Pictures), Bryan Wendorf (Chicago Underground Film Festival)
12:15p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own 1:30p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Getting Distribution for Your Independent Film
moderated by Anthony Kauffman
Tom Quinn (Magnolia Pictures), Erin Heidenreich (Cinetic Media), John Lange (Lange Film Releasing), Kirkland Tibbels (Latter Days, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me), Bob Brown (Dee Dee Rutherford, Purple Rose Films)
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. In the End It All Depends on the Script
moderated by Gary Sherman
Steve Conrad (Weatherman), Tim Kazurinsky (SNL, About Last Night), Mike Meiner (Dee Dee Rutherford, Diet), Catherine Crouch (Stray Dogs), John Bessmer (IFP Market Finalist), Graham Drysdale (Golden Hugo Winner, Lovely)
Special Work in Progress Screening
Auditorium, School of the Art Institute
280 South Columbus Drive
5:00 p.m. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
Directed by Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh
Forgiving Dr. Mengele tells the remarkable story of Eva Moses Kor--who, with her ten-year-old twin sister, Miriam, walked out of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, at the very front of a line of prisoners filmed by Russian filmmakers at the liberation of the camp. But, as Eva eventually discovered, her liberation from Auschwitz was only a physical one. She has spent the rest of her life struggling to achieve her psychological and spiritual liberation. The issue of forgiveness forms the core of this remarkable film, which examines how and why a victim of extreme physical and emotional torture chose to heal her wounds by forgiving her oppressors.
The filmmakers will present excerpts from this work in progress for audience discussion and feedback.
5th Annual Flyover Zone Short Film Festival
Sponsored by the Michigan Film Office and the Missouri Film Office
Hosted by Richard Moskal, Director of the Chicago Film Office
Auditorium, School of the Art Institute
280 South Columbus Drive
7 p.m. Screening of IFP/Chicago's 2004 Production Fund Short Film
THE APOLOGIES
written and directed by: Anthony Collamati
Announcement of IFP/Chicago’s 2005 Production Fund Recipient
Elizabeth Donius and Ericka Frederick
Flyover Zone Festival
Ten Short Films representing the Best Shorts of the Midwest
Presentation of Audience Award
Presentation of the Best of the Fest Award
Flyover Zone Reception
Sponsored by Cliff Dwellers, Borg Warner Building
200 S. Michigan Ave, 22nd Floor
9 p.m.
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Auditorium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 South Columbus Drive 12 - 1 p.m. Registration
1 p.m.
REESEVILLE
directed by Christian Otjen
An intimate look at the secrets of a small Wisconsin town, Reeseville, is a darkly layered story where past events run deep through the characters’ associations. David Meyer (Brad Hunt) returns to his home town on the same morning his elderly dad is found hanging from the rafters of the family home -- an apparent suicide that coroner Zeek (Mark Hamill) suspects might be homicide. The local sheriff (Brian Wimmer) takes the case too firmly in hand, while David romances his sister (Majandra Delfino) and flirts with Jason’s sometime girlfriend (Missy Crider). When Zeek finds a buried car in David’s father’s swamp, events demonstrate that “Everything’s big in a small town.”
Q&A following the film
4 p.m. THE SHOESHINE GUY
Chicago ScriptWorks live, staged reading
Sponsored by the Illinois Film Office
7 p.m. DEATHLINE
directed by Gary Sherman
Starring: Christopher Lee and Donald Pleasence
Mind the doors! The last surviving descendent of Victorian tunnel workers trapped by a cave-in dwells within the maze-like tunnels beneath the London Underground, occasionally emerging from the shadows in search of (human) food. Plague-ridden, and incapable of speech, this all-too-human monster elicits genuine pathos in no small part due to Hugh Armstrong's amazing performance. Donald Pleasance is the eccentric plice inspector who investigates when a senior government official goes missing after a night on the town.
British Film Institute Top Ten British Horror Films of the 20th Century
This screening will be only the third U.S. screening ever of Director Gary Sherman's uncut Director's version of this film.
Q&A with Gary Sherman moderated by Mike Wilmington following the film.
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