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BOARD, STAFF, AND FESTIVAL STAFF
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LETTERS8
HOW TO FEST
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FEATURED GUESTS
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FESTIVAL OCCASIONS
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FESTIVAL FIELD TRIP
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LIVE MUSIC AND FILM
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CINEMA ON THE VERGE
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SPECIAL GUESTS
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TEXAS TALENTS 28
SPOTLIGHT ON HOUSTON 29
MEET THE MAKERS 30
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
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Scott Atlas
Kelly and Frank Hogan
Lubov Tamrazova
Elizabeth and Tim Beeton
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Jackie and Paul Clote
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FILM SYNOPSIS
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ABOUT HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY
VENUES12
WRITER’S CIRCLE $2,500 +
FESTIVAL GUILD $500 +
PROGRAM CONTENTS
Sharon Adams
Jerry and Nanette Finger Foundation
Joan Morgenstern
Stephen Adger
Jackson Hicks
Cynthia Neely
Anonymous
Sis Johnson
Beverly Pastorini Olson
Susan Cooley
Ann Kennedy
Sima Sharifian
Françoise and Edward Djerejian
Lily and Hamid Kooros
Y. Ping Sun
Charles Dove
Dinah Chetrit and Rich Levy
Jennifer Elkins
Mary Sue McGovern
REFERENCE # PAGE #
ALL THE LABOR
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ANNUNCIATION, THE 40
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION
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ART HARD 41
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
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BALLAD OF THE WEEPING SPRING, THE 28
BECOMING TRAVIATA
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BEFORE THE SPRING AFTER THE FALL
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BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF 6
JAMES BROUGHTON
CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
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CHASING SHAKESPEARE
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CUTIE AND THE BOXER
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DAZED AND CONFUSED 39
ENZO AVITABILE MUSIC LIFE
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ERNEST & CELESTINE
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HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION
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HIP HOP SHORT FILMS 7
HONOR FLIGHT: ONE LAST MISSION
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HOUSTON BALLET: BREAKING BOUNDARIES 13
HOUSTON SHORT FILM FUND FILMS
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JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
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JEREMY ROURKE: LIVE MUSIC AND 16
ANIMATION
LOVE SONGS OF TIEDAN, THE 29
MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK
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MY NAME IS FAITH
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NARCO CULTURA 44
NEBRASKA
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NORTH OF SOUTH, WEST OF EAST
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ONE CHANCE
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PARIS, TEXAS 45
PERSISTENCE OF VISION
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PHILOMENA
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PORTRAITS OF WOMEN ARTISTS 17
RÉQUIEM NN
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SHEPARD & DARK
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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES
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SNEAK PREVIEW
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STOLEN MAN, THE 31
TEXAS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE
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THEY ALL LIE
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TIME SHIFT: THE FILMS OF SCOTT STARK
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UNREAL DREAM: THE 2
MICHAEL MORTON STORY, AN
VOLUNTEER, THE 32
VIOLA / ROSALINDA
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WILD STYLE
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WITNESS: PALESTINE / PASOLINI’S 37
LAST WORDS
YELLOW TICKET, THE
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BOARD MEMBERS
HONORARY BOARD
MISSION STATEMENT
Houston Cinema Arts Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting innovative films, media installations, and
performances that celebrate the artistic process and enrich Houston’s culture and urban vitality.
CORE VALUES
• Appreciation of the creative process
• Collaboration across arts disciplines, organizations and communities
• Cross-cultural understanding
• Transformative cinematic experiences
• Local economic development through the arts
• Arts education that will inspire the next generation of artists and audiences
HISTORY
In just six years, Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) has put the nation’s fourth largest city on the map among film industry professionals,
artists, and film aficionados as a premier showcase for the moving image and the creative process. Although the society is still working
to expand public awareness, its founding illustrates how Houston’s cultural entrepreneurship is taking off along with our diverse population
and economy.
In 2007, then-Mayor Bill White asked arts philanthropist and former trial attorney Franci Crane to head a task force to stimulate film
culture in Houston. She and a team of cultural leaders came back several months later with the recommendation that Houston sponsor
cinematic programming that celebrates the visual, performing, and literary arts. This unique focus on films “by and about artists“
accomplished two goals: it filled a niche in the broader film festival world that was sorely underrepresented, and it identified Houston,
internationally, as a thriving arts city that celebrates innovative films, media installations, and performances.
HCAS received 501(c)(3) status in September 2008 and presented a weekend Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and
Rice University. HCAS launched its inaugural five-day film festival in 2009. In addition to its now-annual Houston Cinema Arts Festival,
held in November, HCAS presents a variety of initiatives and programs including a growing schedule of year-round screenings, events,
performances, and guest lectures.
Houston Cinema Arts Festival is the most ambitious of the HCAS programs. This year marks the 5th anniversary of the five-day, multi-venue
festival, which includes over 50 narrative and documentary films, an interactive video installation gallery, 16mm screening room, live multimedia
performances, panel discussions, Meet the Makers workshops, and free outdoor and student field trip screenings. In its relatively short history,
HCAS has brought notable guest artists, such as Tilda Swinton, Alex Gibney, Guillermo Arriaga, Isabella Rossellini, John Turturro, Shirley
MacLaine, Rick Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Fisher Stevens, and Robert Redford among many others, to the Festival.
HCAS is proud to collaborate on many of its programs with a number of Houston’s finest arts, cultural, and other nonprofit organizations.
Partners have included The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Inprint, Blaffer Art Gallery, Cynthia
Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston PBS, Houston Ballet, HGOco-Houston Grand Opera, Aurora Picture Show, Southwest Alternate
Media Project, Texas Children’s Hospital, and others. Current initiatives in progress include expansion of educational outreach with Houston
Cinema Arts Festival on the Road to take films about the arts to Houston-area high schools and internship programs with the University of
Houston Valenti School of Communications and Houston Community College Film Department.
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Bill White
Joanne King Herring
Larry Wright
Stockard Channing
Judith Ivey
Lynn Wyatt
Alex Gibney
Richard Linklater
Stephen Harrigan
Lois Stark
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Franci Crane, Chair/President
Fredericka Hunter
Pamela Powers
Sharon Adams, Secretary
Toby Kamps
Ann Davis Vaughan
Jim Derrick, Treasurer
Mary Lampe
Monique Ward
Tom Estus
Marian Luntz
Mark Wawro, Vice President
Delicia Harvey
Jolene McMaster, Assistant Treasurer
Michael Zilkha, Vice Chair
Michelle Hevrdejs
Vance Muse
Andrew Huang
Cynthia Petrello
ADVISORY BOARD
Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado
Amy Hobby
Beverly Pastorini Olson
Charles Dove
Kent Kubena
Franklin Sirmans
Sarah Eaton
Patrick Kwiatkowski
Mimi Swartz
Karen Farber
Gary Meyer
Vicky Wight
Rick Ferguson
Maureen McNamara
Andrea Grover
Cynthia Neely
S TA F F
Trish Rigdon, Executive Director
Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director
Angelina von Graff, Operations Manager
Hermine Benard, Marketing Associate
F E S T I VA L S TA F F
Julie Berry, Chief House Manager
Jenny Conte, Graphic Designer
Anthony Fennell, Assistant Technical Director
Todd Green, Outreach Coordinator
Christopher MacMillan-Ramirez, Technical Director
Brianna Mills, Sponsorship, Membership, and Special Event Coordinator
Vicky Wight and Maureen Herzog, Catalogue Writers
Susannah Mira, Local Travel/Hospitality Coordinator
Angi Watkins, House Manager
Anna Sykes, House Manager
Tchernavia Sessum, Volunteer Coordinator
Jamaal Felix, Shane Ford, AmyJo Foreman, Christine Nguyen, Interns
PUBLIC RELATIONS
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PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY
Adorable Creative, Videography / Editing
Daniel Ortiz
Amy Lephew Anna Veselova
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Having just completed programming the fifth annual Houston Cinema
Arts Festival, I’m in a reflective state of mind. I’ve been doing this job
since the festival’s inception, feeling lucky and grateful to be able to
weave an unusually wide range of films and live performances and
installations and workshops into the mix. This is the Houston Cinema
Arts Festival because “film festival“ is an inadequate description of
what we do here.
From the beginning, we had a taste for “live cinema“ performances,
especially live music and film events. In our first year, the band Dengue
Fever accompanied The Lost World and Kid Pan Alley led McGregor
School kids in performing songs for the silent classic Peter Pan (a school
outreach effort that has blossomed into our fully grown Festival Field Trip
program, described on page 21). This year’s musical performance lineup
includes klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals performing her score for the silent
film The Yellow Ticket, two members of The Gourds doing an acoustic
set after All the Labor, a musician/animator from San Francisco (Jeremy
Rourke), and Chinese “er ren tai“ singers leaping off the screen, where
they act in the visually and musically spectacular The Love Songs of
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impressively as this year. I am immensely grateful to Deborah Colton for
helping us bring Jonas Mekas, the 90-year-old “godfather of avantgarde cinema,“ to Houston, where he will show a film in Cinema 16
and launch an exhibition in Colton’s gallery. I’m also thrilled that, in
the same year, and thanks to our long-term collaborator, Aurora Picture
Show, we’re bringing Barbara Hammer for three programs, including
a live cinema performance called Witness: Palestine at Aurora and a
master class at the Glassell School of Art on November 3. The only
reason Barbara is not called “the godmother of avant-garde cinema“
is that this title is generally given to Maya Deren, whose films and
programs inspired both Hammer and Mekas, and who is honored in
the film Hammer is screening here, called Maya Deren’s Sink. Our
honoring of avant-garde pioneers is extended this year by the marvelous
documentary portrait, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton.
Jonas Mekas
Jeremy Rourke: Live Performance
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All the Labor
Interactive and sculptural media installations have always supplemented
the traditional theatrical experiences we provide. In our first year, we
brought over from Europe a self-contained structure called H-Box, which
people entered to view avant-garde media. The immersive experience
we’re offering this year is in the Cinema 16 Gallery we’ve built in
Festival Headquarters downtown. A 4-screen feature film surrounds
24 viewers on wheeled chairs; it’s an ingeniously constructed, funny,
impressively filmed and acted debut feature by the Brooklyn-based visual
artist Meredith Danluck called North of South, West of East.
The Cinema 16 Gallery will also host other “Cinema on the Verge“
avant-garde artists, who will present works throughout the festival
week. Experimental media artists making personally crafted, typically
non-narrative works have been featured from the start, but never as
Big Joy: The Adventures of
James Broughton
The individual media artists working in low budgets are complemented,
as always, by independent and studio feature filmmakers, stretching
the horizons of commercial filmmaking (think of Tilda Swinton’s and
Luca Guadagnino’s presentation of I Am Love in 2009 or Black Swan in
2010). This year, we’re honoring Ron Yerxa, a producer who fights the good
fight against blockbuster domination, case in point being his successful
navigation of Alexander Payne’s magnificent new black-and-white (!)
feature, Nebraska, to its release later this year by Paramount Vantage.
He’s bringing the film to us first, accompanied by formerly SNL comedian,
currently rising film actor Will Forte. Immediately following Nebraska
on Saturday, November 9, will be Yerxa’s other November release,
Charlie Countryman, starring Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood,
and accompanied here by director Fredrik Bond.
Nebraska
North of South, West of East
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Charlie Countryman
When we brought Guillermo Arriaga from Mexico City in 2009, we
signaled our interest in scanning the globe for great international talents.
This year, in addition to the director, Hao Jie, producer, Xiaomei Xing,
and three actors accompanying The Love Songs of Tiedan, we are very
honored to host the Colombian photographer Juan Manuel Echavarría,
who will be presenting a photo installation in addition to his first feature
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DEBORAH COLTON GALLERY
2445 North Blvd, 77098 | 713-869-5151 | www.deborahcoltongallery.com
Free parking is available in the parking lot.
RICE UNIVERSITY
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND RICE MEDIA CENTER
6100 Main Street, 77005 | 713-348-7529 (Rice Media Center) | 713-348-4854 (Shepherd School of Music)
METRORail Stops: Hermann Park/Rice U. or Memorial Hermann Hospital/Houston Zoo
Parking available at Greenbriar Lot ($1 per entry per day), West Lot 1 ($1 per 20 min, $11 daily max), Central Campus Garage, BRC Garage, Founder’s Court Lot,
North Lot (nights and weekends), Lovett North Saddlebag Lot (nights and weekends), and North Annex Lot (all $1 per 12 minutes, $11 daily maximum).
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL HOTEL
THE SAM HOUSTON HOTEL
1117 Prairie St, 77002 | 832-200-8800
METRORail stop: Preston station (5 min walk)
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BOX OFFICE
WORTHAM BOX OFFICE
501 Texas Ave, 77002 | 832-487-7041
Hours: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MON–FRI
METRORail Stop: Preston station (9 min walk)
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1001 Bissonnet Street, 77005
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PROJECT ROW HOUSES (ELDORADO BALLROOM)
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510 Texas Ave, 77002
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CINEMA ON THE VERGE GALLERY AND
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501 Texas Ave, 77002
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1117 Prairie Street, 77002
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2445 North Blvd, 77098
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HOW TO FEST
TICKETS
Purchase tickets online at www.cinemartsociety.org. On the screening day, tickets will only be on sale as rush tickets (cash only) at each
venue on a first-come, first-served basis.
In person: WORTHAM BOX OFFICE
501 Texas Ave Houston, TX 77002 | 832-487-7041
Hours: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MON–FRI
When purchasing tickets, motorists are encouraged to use the ticket-buyer parking zone on Prairie St., between Smith and Bagby St. Parking
is free for 20 minutes in the specified curbside location.
SINGLE TICKET PRICES
GENERAL STUDENTS AND
SENIORS (WITH ID)
Regular Screenings
$12
Matinee Screenings
$10
Premiere Screenings/Live performance $15
$13
Opening Night Screening and Party
$25
$22
Cinema Arts Celebration
$15
$10
(includes Cinema on the Verge)
$10
$8
FESTIVAL PASSES
Passes include special Festival benefits – more information at www.cinemartsociety.org
All Access $600
Weekend$150
One-Day$80
For student and senior discounts, please go to Wortham Box Office or Festival venue Box Office with your ID.
Prices include service charge. All sales are final – no refunds or exchanges for any reason. Prices do not include parking. Parking information
is listed on page 12 under “VENUES.“ Rush tickets are cash only, subject to seating policy.
Passes and single tickets do not include membership privileges. Special discounts apply for Houston Cinema Arts Society members. Want
to become a member? Memberships start at $25. Learn more at www.cinemartsociety.org or contact HCAS at [email protected]
SEATING POLICY
Pass holders will be admitted for early-arrival priority seating 30 min. prior to published screening time. Single ticket holders will be
admitted 15 min. prior to the screening. All unoccupied seats will be released at 10 min. prior to screening and sold as rush tickets on a
first-come, first-served basis (cash only) until all seats are filled.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
METRORail offers a fast, safe, and convenient way to travel. The 7.5 mile light rail Red Line takes passengers across Downtown via Main
Street. The line also connects Downtown to other major Houston destinations such as Midtown, the Museum District, the Texas Medical
Center, Reliant Center, and the South Fannin Park & Ride lot. Multiple bus lines can also take you to all our festival venues. A round-trip
ticket is only $2.50 for adults and $1.20 for students/seniors. Tickets can be purchased from any ticket vending machine, located on
each rail platform or when boarding a bus.
The new METRO Day Pass offers unlimited local bus and light rail service until 2 a.m. the next day – just $3.00 a day for adults and
$1.50 for students, seniors and disabled riders. METRORail tickets can be purchased from METRO ticket vending machines, located on
every rail platform. The new DAY PASS is available at select retailers and at the METRO RideStore located at 1900 Main Street. For more
information, visit www.RideMETRO.org or call 713.635.4000 for details.
Houston B-cycle is a bike sharing program that works as an additional transportation alternative for people living and visiting Houston.
Membership to the system can be purchased online or at any kiosk. Rides under 60 min incur no usage fee. Add $2 for each additional
½ hour. www.houston.bcycle.com
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Anna Karina from LE PETIT SOLDAT
courtesy of Rialto Pictures
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Richard Linklater is not just a well-known Texas director, whose Austin-filmed Slacker helped
to establish the American independent feature movement in the ’90s. He is a renowned
cinephile and founder of the great Austin Film Society. Because he loves cinema, was born
in Houston, and raised in nearby Huntsville, Rick has been a big supporter of the Houston
Cinema Arts Festival since its inception. He came in 2009 with Me and Orson Welles and
brought his friend Ethan Hawke to join him in presenting Tape in 2011. And so, in 2013,
our fifth anniversary year, we are very pleased, at long last, to honor Richard Linklater with
the Levantine Cinema Arts Award. 2013 also happens to be the year Rick made one of
the finest and most popular films of his career, Before Midnight, following 2012’s equally
well-received Bernie. His storied career continues to take surprising and delightful turns, a
trajectory our festival is determined to emulate.
The Levantine Cinema Arts Award honors a leading actor, director, or other creative artist who has
stretched the boundaries of cinematic expression throughout an illustrious career. It is sponsored by
Levantine Films, an independent motion picture development, financing, and production company
aiming to promote understanding and inspire dialogue across cultures, captivating audiences, and
challenging stereotypes through the power of great storytelling.
M I DTOW N , W E H E A R YO U . . .
BUBBLES+BRUNCH
ON BAGBY
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 6:00 PM
SUNDANCE (WITH TRACY LETTS)
SUNDAYS 11AM-3PM
FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 6:15 PM, SUNDANCE
SUNDANCE (WITHOUT TRACY LETTS)
Featuring Midtown’s Largest Patio
High Energy Music + Vibes
Delectable Entrées + Libations
FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 9:00 PM
MFAH
In December, the Weinstein Company will release the star-studded film version of Tracy Letts’
play August: Osage County, featuring a stunning ensemble cast headed by Meryl Streep and
Julia Roberts. Letts won both the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Drama for his play,
and is likely to gather more awards for the screenplay. August: Osage County is not the first
play he’s adapted for the screen himself, having written the scripts William Friedkin directed
of his plays Bug and Killer Joe. This year, Letts triumphed in his other profession, as actor,
by winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in Broadway’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, and by hounding Claire Danes in his role as the investigating senator on Showtime’s
Homeland. We are thrilled to have Tracy Letts participate in a discussion with the Alley Theatre’s
Gregory Boyd following our November 7 screening of August.
Church’s movie career had a second coming with his Academy Award-nominated and
Independent Spirit-winning role as an aging playboy (not cowboy) in Sideways. Many roles
in commercial and indie features have followed, but Church is about to draw major accolades
again for his hilarious performance in the upcoming feature film we’re going to sneak preview.
delectable elixirs + light bites
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20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
Raised in Laredo, Thomas Haden Church started his career in entertainment as a DJ in
Brownsville, Texas. After moving back to California, his birthplace, to pursue acting full-time, he
achieved television stardom as the dimwit mechanic Lowell Mather on Wings in 1990. That
stardom allowed him to move back again to his favored state of Texas, where, this time, he
proved that his rugged cowboy features (put to good use in Tombstone and Broken Trail)
were more than just a look. He purchased the 2,000-acre Jake Short Ranch in Bandera
County, and now runs four cattle ranches and a commercial beef operation in the vicinity.
m o n d ay- s at u r d ay 4pm - 7pm
1911 bagby street, houston, tx + midtown
DAZED AND CONFUSED
(713) 652-0711
www.mrpeeples.com
SNEAK PREVIEW OF A NEW FILM STARRING
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH
FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 5:45 PM
MFAH
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OPENING NIGHT RED CARPET AND PARTY AT THE MFAH
CUTIE AND THE BOXER
WITH DIRECTOR ZACHARY HEINZERLING AND ARTISTS
USHIO AND NORIKO SHINOHARA
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
7:00 PM SCREENING OF CUTIE AND THE BOXER AND Q&A WITH
ZACHARY HEINZERLING AND USHIO AND NORIKO SHINOHARA
9:00 – 11:00 PM AFTER-PARTY IN THE MFAH CULLINAN HALL WITH MUSIC BY
THE GRATEFUL GEEZERS
DELICACIES PROVIDED BY WHOLE FOODS
Cutie and the Boxer is a candid and highly entertaining New York love story exploring the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed
boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. Director Zachary Heinzerling pays tribute to these two very charismatic
artists showing their sometimes volatile and always complex relationship with a raw yet loving approach.
Zachary Heinzerling, originally from Houston, Texas, and now living in New York, received the Directing Award at this year’s
Sundance Film Festival for his feature debut, Cutie and the Boxer. He and his artist subjects, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, will present
the Houston premiere of their film.
An exhibition of artwork by Ushio and Noriko Shinohara will be on display at Zoya Tommy Gallery at 4411 Montrose.
Zachary Heinzerling is a director and cinematographer, who has worked on several films for HBO, including three Emmy Award®–winning
documentaries, as a field producer and camera operator. In 2011, he attended the Berlinale Talent Campus, a six-day creative summit
sponsored by the Berlin International Film Festival, and was selected as one of 25 filmmakers for the New York Film Festival’s Emerging
Visions program that same year. This is Heinzerling’s first feature as director.
Ushio Shinohara was born in Tokyo in 1932. An iconoclast and provocateur from an early age, Ushio quickly left an imprint on the
nascent postwar art scene in Japan, where in 1960 he founded a group called Neo-Dadaism Organizers and caused an uproar with
his performance-based “Boxing Paintings“. Ushio left Japan for New York in 1969 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Ushio
has been featured in exhibitions nearly every year since his career-making 1955 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum show. Most of his solo
exhibitions have been at galleries in Japan, with group shows at galleries in New York, L.A., and parts of Europe. His work is in the
public collection of dozens of museums in Japan, as well the MoMA in New York.
Born and raised in rural Japan, Noriko Shinohara left for New York at the age of 19 to pursue her fascination with art. Often working
in the shadow of her husband’s fame, Noriko has exhibited widely in New York and Japan in the last 15 years. Her paintings are
marked by an idiosyncratic exuberance and often take inspiration from Hokusai, National Geographic magazine, and the nude body.
After decades working with pastels and oils, Noriko began exploring etching in 1995 and has since reinvigorated her oeuvre with
the new medium.
CINEMA ARTS CELEBRATION
SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
MR. PEEPLES, 1911 BAGBY ST
Houston Cinema Arts Society members, sponsors, and guest artists gather for fun, food and libations.
Check www.cinemartsociety.org for location and more details. Tickets for non-members are available for purchase.
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Over the past three years, Houston-area high schools have embraced the Field Trip Program
at Houston Cinema Arts Festival. These screenings have tripled in attendance since inception
and are an integral part of Houston Cinema Arts Society and Festival programming.
The Field Trip Program allows schools to receive free admission to select shows that hold
educational value. Following the film, artists and filmmakers discuss the movie making
process with the students. This is an amazing opportunity for the students to learn more
about careers in the cinematic arts.
HCAF 2013 welcomes several new schools, along with many returning classes, to screenings
on Thursday and Friday, November 7-8, and Monday, November 11! This year’s fantastic
Field Trip films are Chasing Shakespeare, Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer, Ernest &
Celestine, and An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story.
In the past, schools like Spring Branch ISD have even made their own videos commemorating
their trip to HCAF. We look forward to encouraging students all over Houston for many
more years to come.
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ALL THE LABOR
THE YELLOW TICKET
WITH GUEST DIRECTOR DOUG HAWES-DAVIS AND AN ACOUSTIC SET BY THE HARD PANS (JIMMY SMITH AND CLAUDE BERNARD OF THE GOURDS)
WITH ALICIA SVIGALS AND MARILYN LERNER
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 7:30 PM | MFAH
FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 9:30 PM | SUNDANCE CINEMAS
A live multi-media event featuring a new score by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals, reanimating a silent cinematic classic starring famed
Polish actress Pola Negri. Remarkably progressive for its time, the film explores anti-semitism, gender bias, and human trafficking
in Imperialist Russia. Svigals crafted a lush score, blending Klezmer and other folk and classical traditions. In addition to violin and
vocals by Svigals, the concert/screening includes piano by Canadian virtuoso Marilyn Lerner, whose work spans the worlds of jazz
improvisation, the klezmer, and 20th century classical music.
Blazing performances and candid interviews convey the life, labor, and brotherhood of The Gourds, an Austin band beloved around
the world for its genre-jumping music and unpretentious vibe. A label-defying, gregarious gang of friends, their primary motive is to
have fun and create great music together. Stick around after the screening for a Q&A with director Doug Hawes-Davis and a short
acoustic set by The Hard Pans, otherwise known as Jimmy Smith and Claude Bernard of The Gourds.
Doug Hawes-Davis co-founded High Plains Films in 1992 with Drury Gunn Carr. Since then, the filmmaking duo has collaborated
on nearly 30 documentaries. Their most recent feature film, All the Labor, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March of 2013. In 2012, their feature documentary Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison, a co-production of ITVS and Montana Public
Television, was broadcast on the national PBS series, Independent Lens. In 2007, their documentary feature, Libby, Montana, was
broadcast nationally on the acclaimed PBS Series, POV, and was nominated for a National Emmy Award the following year.
Alicia Svigals, the founder of the Grammy-winning The Klezmatics, is the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler. Alicia almost singlehandedly
revived the tradition of Klezmer fiddling, which had been on the brink of extinction until she released her debut CD Fidl in the 1990s.
She has taught and toured with violinist Itzhak Perlman, who recorded her compositions, and composed for the Kronos Quartet.
She has been featured on NPR’s New Sounds Live, and composed music for theater, dance, and film, including the score to Tony
Kushner’s A Dybbuk for Judith Helfand’s P.O.V. documentary A Healthy Baby Girl.
The Hard Pans are Jimmy Smith and Claude Bernard, also of The Gourds. The recently formed band describes their music this way:
“Shed Rock. Low/No budget Music for any alignment.“
Co-presented with the Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Fair and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Alicia Svigals
Jeremy Rourke: Live Music and Animation
JEREMY ROURKE:
LIVE MUSIC AND ANIMATION
SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 8:15 PM | CINEMA 16
Jeremy Rourke is a self-taught animator and musician living in San Francisco. Using paper, paint, shadows, wood, old photographs,
new photographs, flowers, tape, pens, pencils, leaves, and sticks to make his animations, his works (which are set to his own music) have
been shown at film festivals around the country. During live performances, Rourke tries “really extra hard to magically enter the
movie screen.“ In 2011, he was named “best new animator/musician“ by SF Weekly, which elaborated: “Jeremy Rourke is the kind of artist we love.
He follows what inspires him, which in this case is stop-motion animation and music, teaching himself what he needs to get there and
along the way producing great work that inspires others. One of his movies, Out to See, places cutouts of assorted figures (a man
in an overcoat, a ship, a truck, owls, old-timey bicyclists, fish) in modern-day San Francisco. The song is a mixture of up-tempo and
melancholy; Rourke reflects this dichotomy in his images by placing emotive characters into ever-changing scenery that is always
surprising, yet (despite its fast pace) never feels hurried. Did we mention he writes and performs the music too?“
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All the Labor
The Love Songs of Tiedan
THE LOVE SONGS OF TIEDAN
WITH DIRECTOR HAO JIE, ACTRESSES GE XIA AND YELAN JIANG, ACTOR FENG SI, AND PRODUCER XING XIAOMEI
SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 7:00 PM | ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER
Feng Si, who plays the lead role of Tiedan, joined by the actresses Ge Xia and Ye Lan, will perform Chinese folk music at the conclusion
of the program. They will also join the guest director and producer for a post-screening Q&A.
Chinese director Hao Jie delights with his lively musical comedy about a young man’s romantic obsession spanning several decades.
A larkish tribute to the er ren tai form of bawdy folk singing practiced for centuries in the Northwestern mountainous region of China,
The Love Songs of Tiedan was shot in a village in this region and acted mostly by native nonprofessionals. A graduate of Beijing Film Academy’s Directorial Department, Hao Jie’s debut film, Single Man, was completed in 2010 and
screened at festivals including the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival. It was
subsequently screened in competition at TOKYO FILMeX 2010 to great acclaim, and won the Special Jury Prize. The Love Songs of
Tiedan is his eagerly-awaited new film, and his first in two years.
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BARBARA HAMMER:
EXPERIMENTAL AND QUEER CINEMA PIONEER
PROGRAMS AT THE CINEMA 16
AND OTHER LOCATIONS
MASTER CLASS: SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 1:00 – 5:00 PM, GLASSELL SCHOOL OF
ART, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
ARTIST PORTRAITS: THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 4:00 PM, CINEMA 16
PERFORMANCE AND FILM: FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 7:00 PM AURORA PICTURE SHOW
MEREDITH DANLUCK’S
NORTH OF SOUTH, WEST OF EAST
AN IMMERSIVE FOUR-SCREEN INSTALLATION:
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 AT 1:00 PM AND 4:00 PM
THURSDAY, NOV. 7 AT 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM, AND 9:30 PM
FRIDAY, NOV. 8 AT 1:00 PM
FRIDAY, NOV. 8 AT 6:30 PM
SATURDAY, NOV. 9 AT 4:00 PM WITH MEREDITH DANLUCK
SUNDAY, NOV. 10 AT 6:15 PM AND 8:45 PM
This immersive four-screen feature film installation by Meredith Danluck is a
fun and feverish ride, a remarkable achievement in multi-linear storytelling
and pop-culture black comedy. North of South, West of East will screen
daily during the Nov. 6-10 Festival in the Cinema 16 to an audience of 24
people seated on swivel chairs, surrounded by four screens.
Danluck tells “a darkly humorous tale of small-town folks as they try to make
sense of a posthope America“ (Shari Frilot). Each of the four characters’ (the
Cowboy, the Rebel, the Immigrant, and the Actress) trajectories play out on
separate screens across four walls. Shot on location in Detroit, Michigan, and
Marfa, Texas, the film features performances by Ben Foster, Stella Schnabel,
and Sue Galloway, and a soundtrack by Marfa punk band Solid Waste.
Meredith Danluck graduated from the School of Visual Arts, and currently
lives and works in New York. She recently completed both the Directors Lab,
and the Screenwriters Lab at Sundance Institute in Utah, after exhibiting
North of South, West of East as part of the New Frontier program at the
2013 Sundance Film Festival. Her film Fight Scene was chosen as part of
the Cinema Series on MOCAtv in 2012. Her films have screened at major
institutions, including MoMA, PS1, Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, and
El Reina Sofia, as well as film festivals SXSW, TIFF, DOC NYC, Margaret
Mead, and Hamburg International. She has had solo exhibitions at Ballroom
Marfa, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and been included in group exhibitions
at Palais de Tokyo, PS1, Renwick Gallery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, and
Matthew Marks Gallery.
Meredith Danluck will also present Art Hard, her portrait of artist Jim Denevan’s
journey to western Siberia to create, on icy Lake Baikal, the world’s
largest painting, on Friday, November 8 at 9:00 PM in the Cinema 16
Screening Room.
North of South, West of East
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Jonas Mekas
Barbara Hammer is a visual artist working primarily in film and video, who has
made over 80 works in a career that spans more than 30 years. Hammer will
present three of her works during HCAF 2013, in addition to conducting a
special master class on her full body of work three days before the festival.
JONAS MEKAS:
GODFATHER OF AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA
FILM: SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES, FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 3:00 PM, CINEMA 16
GALLERY TALK: SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 2:00 PM, DEBORAH COLTON GALLERY
EXHIBITION: LIFE GOES ON…I KEEP SINGING, NOV. 9 – DEC. 28,
DEBORAH COLTON GALLERY
A leader and esteemed practitioner in the American avant-garde cinema movement, Jonas Mekas has exhibited his work in museums, festivals, and biennales worldwide. Mekas, 90, will present his feature Sleepless Nights Stories, which
debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011, and also conduct a tour
of his exhibition at the Deborah Colton Gallery during HCAF 2013.
Inspired by the classic Arabian One Thousand and One Nights, Sleepless
Nights Stories follows Mekas, a chronic insomniac, through 1,001 sleepless
New York nights. Mekas creates a deeply personal visual diary, recollecting
stories as he keeps late-night company with artist friends, including Yoko Ono,
Patti Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, Hans-Ulrich Obrist,
and Harmony Korine, together with brothers and sisters, sons and daughters.
Deborah Colton Gallery will present select photographic works and video
installations by Mekas in an exhibition entitled Life Goes On…I Keep Singing
during HCAF 2013. In addition to still frame photographs from several of
Mekas’ works, the gallery will screen WTC Haikus (2010, 14 min.) and a
video created for the exhibition, Fragments of Paradise (2013, 6 min.). The
Gallery will host a Q&A with Mekas and Deborah Colton on Sunday, Nov. 10,
at 2:00 PM.
Mekas currently lives in New York City, where he moved from his native
Lithuania in 1949. The legendary filmmaker, poet, artist, and critic has published
over 20 books of prose and poetry that have been translated into more than
12 languages. Mekas became a key figure in the postwar American avant-garde
film movement as a Village Voice film critic and co-founder of the Film-Makers’
Cooperative and Anthology Film Archives. His film The Brig was awarded the
Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. Other Mekas’ films include
Walden (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Lost, Lost, Lost
(1976), Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), Scenes from the Life of
George Maciunas (2002), As I Was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of
Beauty (2000), and A Letter from Greenpoint (2005).
Barbara Hammer
Cathy Lee Crane
Hammer’s films of the 1970s are considered pioneering works of experimental
and queer cinema. These, along with her optically printed films of the ’80s and
documentary film essays of the ’90s, have been celebrated in recent retrospectives
at MoMA, Tate Modern, and Jeu de Paume.
On Sunday, Nov. 3, 1:00-5:00 PM, Hammer and HCAS Artistic Director Richard
Herskowitz will conduct a tour through four decades of Hammer’s career,
interspersing screenings of Hammer classics (including Optic Nerve, Dyketactics,
Sanctus, Nitrate Kisses, and Generations) with introductions and class discussions. Introducing Barbara Hammer: A Glassell School Master Class will be
open for $30 admission at Glassell School of Art at Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston (MFAH).
On Nov. 7, Hammer will present her films Lover Other (2006) and Maya Deren’s
Sink (2011) in Portraits of Women Artists at Cinema 16 at 4:00 PM. Surrealist
1920s artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, lesbians and heroic anti-Nazi
resisters, come to life in Lover Other, a hybrid documentary. Maya Deren’s Sink
explores experimental film pioneer Deren’s concepts of space, time, and form
through visits and projections filmed in her Los Angeles and New York homes.
On Nov. 8, Hammer will present Witness: Palestine, a tribute to Pasolini, at
the Aurora Picture Show. In this live cinema event, Hammer deftly layers film
practice, politics, and performance. Inspired in form by Italian artist Fabio
Mauri’s 1975 performance, in which he projected Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The
Gospel According to St. Matthew onto Pasolini himself, Hammer has created a
work of startling intimacy and urgency. Moved by the stories of men and women
she met while on the first LGBTIQ Solidarity Tour of Palestine in January 2012,
Hammer sought to find a way to share their voices in a manner that would
underline the humanity and vulnerability of her subjects.
TIME SHIFT:
THE FILMS OF SCOTT STARK
SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 1:00 PM, CINEMA 16
Scott Stark’s films, videos, and installations are kinetic revelations that can
be shocking, mesmerizing, and narratively rich. Each is a distinctive cultural
and aesthetic adventure with its own conceptual rigor. His most recent film is
the masterful The Realist (2013), a “doomed love“ melodrama peopled with
department store mannequins and located in the visually heightened universe
of clothing displays, fashion islands, and storefront windows.
“I see each film/video project as a ’first film’ with its own cinematic language,
one that the viewer learns and engages with as the piece unfolds. This language
is shaped by the particular mechanics of each medium, in the same way
verbal language is shaped by the mechanics of the human mouth. Thus each
film charts the possibility of a pre-cinema experience, one that might have
evolved had not narrative and commerce been cinema’s prevailing motivational
forces“ (Scott Stark).
Stark has produced more than 60 films and videos since 1980. Additionally,
he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film
and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images.
Scott’s films and videos have shown internationally, including recent one-person
shows at MoMA and the Pacific Film Archive. His films have won several
awards including four Black Maria awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a
MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Co-presented with the Blaffer Museum’s On Screen series.
RÉQUIEM NN:
A FILM AND A PHOTO INSTALLATION
WITH GUEST ARTIST JUAN MANUEL ECHAVARRÍA AND
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARGARITA DE LA VEGA-HURTADO
PHOTO INSTALLATION ON VIEW NOV. 2-10
RÉQUIEM NN SCREENING AND ARTIST’S TALK: THURSDAY, NOV. 7,
7:00 PM, RICE MEDIA CENTER
RÉQUIEM NN SCREENING AND ARTIST’S TALK: SUNDAY, NOV. 10,
3:45 PM, CINEMA 16 AT THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS
Along with Witness: Palestine, which complements the Pasolini retrospective at the
MFAH Film Department, HCAF and the Aurora Picture Show will present Cathy Lee
Crane’s Pasolini’s Last Words and a reconstruction of Fabio Mauri’s installation,
Intelletuale, featuring a projection of Gospel According to St. Matthew on a shirt
and jacket standing in for the murdered filmmaker-poet, Pasolini.
We are proud to present the Houston premiere of Réquiem NN, directed by
an acclaimed Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría, in which a community
defies the culture of violence by keeping alive the memory of the disappeared.
An installation of Echavarría’s Réquiem NN photographs will be on view at
the Festival Headquarters throughout the Festival.
The program is co-presented with Aurora Picture Show.
Since 2006, Echavarría has traveled to Colombia’s Puerto Berrío cemetery
to document the rituals of people who tend and decorate the graves of No
Names (NNs), unidentified victims of guerilla violence. He has done this first
through photography (also titled “Réquiem NN“), then in the video “Novenario
en espera,“ and now through the film. Réquiem NN is ultimately a tale of
resistance and resilience.
Scott Stark
Réquiem NN
An established artist with a cinematic vision, Echavarría’s work is easily at
home at art galleries and film theaters. He has been featured at the Venice
Biennale, MoMA, the San Francisco and Toronto Film Festivals, and the
Flaherty Film Seminar, among other venues. He is featured at the Musée
du Quai Branly in Paris this September within the collective exhibition
“Nocturnes de Colombie,“ as part of the PHOTOQUAI, Photography Biennale
of World Images.
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TWO FILMS FROM BONA FIDE PRODUCTIONS:
NEBRASKA AND CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
THE HIP HOP FILMS OF CHARLIE AHEARN
FEATURING WILL FORTE, FREDRIK BOND, AND RON YERXA
JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 9:30 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
ACTOR WILL FORTE AND NEBRASKA SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 5:45 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
CHARLIE AHEARN’S HIP HOP SHORT FILMS SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1:00 PM, CINEMA 16
DIRECTOR FREDRIK BOND AND CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 9:15 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
WILD STYLE SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 9:45 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
MEET THE MAKERS: MAKING CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN AND NEBRASKA
SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 11:00 AM, CINEMA 16
“At a time when it has never been tougher to get a movie made, credit is due to indie
producers Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger, who have slowly but surely turned out quality
indie pics ever since they hung their Bona Fide Productions shingle back in 1993…
Check out their movies: Steven Soderbergh tearjerker “King of the Hill“ (1993), Alexander
Payne high school satire “Election“ (1999), wedding comedy “The Wood“ (1999), Anthony
Minghella Civil War drama “Cold Mountain“ (2003), Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s
adaptation of bestseller “The Bee Season“ (2005), Todd Field’s suburban drama “Little
Children“ (2006), high school comedy “Hamlet 2“ (2008) and Miramax’s Jennifer
Aniston comedy “The Switch“ (2010). None of these movies were obvious, or easy. They
were pushed up the hill by two stubborn people who never give up“ (Anne Thompson,
Indiewire, Aug. 14, 2012).
On the 30th anniversary of the pioneering hip hop movie, Wild Style, we are proud to host director Charlie Ahearn with his classic film and
its follow-ups, including his new feature documentary, Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer.
Wild Style, directed by Charlie Ahearn, was first screened in 1982 and went on to become the classic hip hop movie. His video Doin’ Time
in Times Square was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1992. After producing a number of Artist Portrait Videos (on Kiki Smith, Tom
Otterness, John Ahearn, Martin Wong, and Jane Dickson), Charlie Ahearn wrote and directed his next feature film, Fear of Fiction, starring
Melissa Leo, which opened theatrically in July of 2000 in New York City. In 2002, Ahearn co-authored Yes Yes Y’all, an oral history of the
first decade of hip hop with many photos by Ahearn. Ahearn has steadily been producing documentaries such as Richard Hunt, Sculptor
(2010) and hip hop musical shorts, his latest being All City Take It to the Bridge. Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer opened theatrically in
New York in August of 2013.
Ron Yerxa is one of the most creative and courageous film producers in Hollywood. He and
partner Albert Berger have made independently-minded films within the Hollywood studio
system, and they have fought hard to get the visions of great directors like Alexander Payne
(Election, Nebraska) and authors like Tom Perrotta (Little Children) on screen. In the case of
Nebraska, it took seven years to get the film into production the way Payne saw it: in glorious
black-and-white. And the casting was courageous too, paying off with career-making and
remaking performances by Saturday Night Live star Will Forte and legendary actor Bruce Dern.
In the case of Charlie Countryman, also being released theatrically in November, they took
a chance with an acclaimed director of commercials with a strong visual sensibility, Fredrik
Bond, and a script that had long resided on the infamous Hollywood “Black List“ (high quality
scripts that studios have admired but feared to finance).
We are pleased to welcome Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions and preview his two upcoming
releases, Nebraska and Charlie Countryman, with special guests Will Forte and Fredrik Bond.
Ron Yerxa
WILL FORTE was 32 before he came to the public’s attention on Saturday Night Live, but had
been working in comedy since 1997. He joined the world famous The Groundlings and was
hired as a writer for several series, including The David Letterman Show, 3rd Rock from the
Sun, and That ’70s Show. In 2002, Forte joined Saturday Night Live as a writer and cast
member. Forte wrote the screenplay for The Brothers Solomon (and had the leading role of
childlike Dean Solomon) and played the title role and co-wrote the SNL film MacGruber. In
August 2012, he was cast (and was first choice) in the much-anticipated Alexander Payne film
Nebraska. He also stars in the upcoming Life of Crime, the adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s
novel The Switch.
Swedish-born FREDRIK BOND became obsessed with the 1970s British advertising and American
films in his childhood, subsequently relocating to London in 1999 to work in commercials.
Ranked by Campaign Magazine as one of the “World’s Hottest New Directors,“ Bond went
on to win over a dozen British Television Advertising Awards. For his Heineken “Entrance“
and “Date“ commercials, he received prestigious Gold Lion awards at the Cannes Lions
International Festival of Creativity and his fourth Directors Guild of America nomination.
Charlie Countryman is his first feature. He now lives in Venice, California.
RON YERXA, following his graduation from Stanford University, worked as a journalist and
a high school teacher in East Los Angeles. He joined Time Life Films as a story analyst and
then worked as an executive at CBS and Sovereign Films before becoming an independent
producer. He and Albert Berger formed Bona Fide Productions in 1993, and their acclaimed
productions include King of the Hill (1993), Election (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), Little
Miss Sunshine (2006), Little Children (2006), and Ruby Sparks (2012).
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Will Forte
Fredrik Bond
Charlie Ahearn
Matías Piñeiro
MATÍAS PIÑEIRO: A NEW VOICE IN ARGENTINE CINEMA
VIOLA/ROSALINDA FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 6:15 PM
THEY ALL LIE SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 12:00 PM
THE STOLEN MAN SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 1:00 PM
“Only 31, Matías Piñeiro has already established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary world cinema,“ writes critic
Dennis Lim. “His playful, mysterious films, about the power of desire and of language draw freely on theater and literature while remaining
fully cinematic, at times calling to mind the youthful works of the French New Wave masters Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer.“
“Matías Piñeiro is a key member of the latest wave of talented directors enlivening the perennially youthful Argentine cinema. Sharing a
similar predilection for formally innovative and often daringly experimental filmmaking as such otherwise diverse Argentine directors Lisandro
Alonso, Mariano Llinás, and Alejo Moguillansky, Piñeiro has written and directed critically acclaimed and interlocked fiction films that
together offer an ambitious yet artfully playful meditation on narrative, performance and history. Piñeiro’s intricately structured and skillfully
topographical narratives reveal plots within plots, unfolding entrancing mirror games that render characters and plot as smooth surfaces over
which meanings glide and ricochet, resisting easy interpretation“ (Harvard Film Archive).
In his two most recent films, Pineiro plays off of two Shakespeare plays. In Rosalinda, a group of actors travel to El Tigre to rehearse William
Shakespeare’s As You Like It. In his latest film, Viola, he ingeniously fashions out of Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night a seductive roundelay among
young actors and lovers in present-day Buenos Aires. Mixing melodrama with sentimental comedy, philosophical conundrum with matters of the
heart, Viola bears all the signature traits of a Piñeiro film: serpentine camera movements and slippages of language, an elliptical narrative
and a playful confusion of reality and artifice.
Piñeiro will visit HCAF and present his four features: They All Lie (2009), The Stolen Man (2007), Rosalinda (2011), and Viola (2012).
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AL REINERT PRESENTS
AN UNREAL DREAM: THE MICHAEL
MORTON STORY
CLOSING NIGHT FILM WITH SPECIAL GUESTS AL REINERT, MICHAEL
MORTON, JOHN RALEY, MARCY GARRIOTT, AND JOHN DEAN
SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 7:00 PM
Wrongly convicted in 1986 for the brutal murder of his wife, Michael Morton spent
25 years in Texas prisons before Houston attorney John Raley, working with the New Yorkbased The Innocence Project, won the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder
scene. This evidence ultimately exonerated him and identified the real killer. Upon his
release in 2011, Morton riveted the world with his lack of bitterness or anger, as he
focused his future on fighting for legal reform and reaching out to his estranged son.
NORRY NIVEN PRESENTS
CHASING SHAKESPEARE
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 11:00 AM, MFAH (WITH NORRY NIVEN)
SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 6:45 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
Chasing Shakespeare recounts the beginning, end, and
rebirth of a love affair between William (Danny Glover)
and Venus (Tantoo Cardinal) in rural Arkansas. Told in
flashbacks, William, now mourning the passing of his
beloved, recalls how his younger self (Mike Wade) first
fell for the Shakespeare-loving Venus (Chelsea Ricketts), a
member of the mystical American Indian Lightning Clan.
This emotional and dream-like narrative is masterfully
spun by the Dallas-based director, Norry Niven.
Born and raised in Texas, Norry Niven graduated from a
film program at UT Arlington, where he recently returned
to teach. He spent his post-college years in L.A. as a
director for the Hollywood-based The End, cutting his teeth
shooting music videos alongside such directors as Zack
Snyder and Tarsem. Returning to Texas, he started Stone
Core Films, arguably the most successful commercial
production company in the Southwest, and has recently
launched Three (One) 0, a commercial production company
in Los Angeles. For his commercial work, he was recently
honored at the 2013 Addys. Niven’s first feature as
director, Chasing Shakespeare, has won awards and
acclaim at numerous festivals, including SXSW, Fort
Lauderdale, and AFI Cannes.
HOUSTON FILM COMMISSION
PRESENTS
TEXAS FILMMAKERS
SHOWCASE
SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 12:15 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
The Texas Filmmakers Showcase is a special screening
event consisting of the best Texas short films and videos.
Each year, the program is presented for selection to
executives and industry professionals in the Hollywood film
community, with subsequent screenings around the country.
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“Documentarian Al Reinert effectively emphasizes understatement in “An Unreal
Dream: The Michael Morton Story,“ recounting an outrageous miscarriage
of justice without a trace of manufactured melodrama or visual hyperbole.
Indeed, the pic’s rivetingly straightforward style of storytelling is a perfect
match for its subject, a soft-spoken Texas man who comes across in oncamera
interviews as remarkably composed and equanimous for someone who spent
a quarter-century behind bars after being wrongly convicted of murder...The
details of Morton’s wrongful conviction and incarceration are vividly reported
with a subdued simplicity that serves to only increase the pic’s capacity to
upset, if not enrage“ (Variety).
Al Reinert is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He co-wrote
the screenplays for the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 and Final Fantasy: The Spirits
Within, but is best known for directing and producing For All Mankind, about NASA’s
Apollo program. For All Mankind won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at
the 1989 Sundance Film Festival. The film was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Documentary in 1990, and Reinert received a Best Screenplay nomination
for Apollo 13 in 1996. He has said: “I have always considered myself a journalist at
heart. I started on a newspaper and worked up to magazines, then documentaries
and Hollywood screenplays, and tried my hand at fiction along the way, but true
stories have always inspired my best work. To me real life is not only more authentic
than make believe but more visceral, more unbelievable and genuinely dramatic.“
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
All of the films are screened at Sundance Cinemas and will be accompanied by guest directors.
––John Carrithers’ Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries
NOV 11 AT 6:45 PM
Join us for our second screening of the new documentary that chronicles the history of
the internationally acclaimed Houston Ballet.
––Vicky Wight’s The Volunteer
NOV 11 AT 7:15 PM
Winner of Best Narrative Feature at this year’s Urbanworld Film Festival, The Volunteer
is Vicky Wight’s first feature.
Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries
NOV 12 AT 7:00 PM
Winner of Slamdance’s Feature Documentary Audience Award, My Name is Faith is a
powerful story of a 13-year-old girl working to overcome a troubling past. Born to a drugaddicted mother, she and her baby brother lived in harrowing conditions before being
adopted by co-director Tiffany Sudela-Junker and her husband.
HOUSTON BALLET: BREAKING BOUNDARIES
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS FROM THE HOUSTON BALLET, PAST AND PRESENT
SUNDAY, NOV. 10, 4:00 PM, MFAH
MONDAY, NOV. 11, 6:45 PM, SUNDANCE CINEMAS
John Carrithers is a Houston-based filmmaker who served as Director of Photography
on several recent feature documentary projects including: Mothers At War, a film
about women combat veterans; 38 Pieces, a documentary about the Byzantine Frescoes
rescued by Dominique de Menil, directed by Susan and Francois de Menil; and
Relocation Arkansas, a chronicle of Japanese Americans growing up in an internment
camp in Arkansas during WWII. Carrithers has also created numerous works for
Houston Grand Opera, Asia Society Texas, and the MFAH, among others.
After dramatically leaving her successful but soul-crushing career, forty-something Leigh
finds herself wondering if there’s more to life, to love, to everything. Overwhelmed by
apathy and a vague sense of guilt, she decides to volunteer at a local soup kitchen.
––Tiffany Sudela-Junker’s My Name is Faith
JOHN CARRITHERS PRESENTS
The documentary, receiving its world premiere at HCAF, chronicles the history of the
internationally acclaimed Houston Ballet, from the early impact of the Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo in the 1930s and ’40s in inculcating a love of dance among
Houstonians, to the determination and perseverance of a handful of Houston’s
founding families, to the making of legendary ballet stars through color-blind casting,
diplomatic struggles, and international incidents and exposure to the world’s best
artistic talent, to its place today as the fourth largest ballet company in America
with a facility unmatched in the United States. Among the noted Houstonians featured
are Jesse H. Jones II, Isaac and Tony Arnold, Lucia Bryant, and Eugene Loveland;
along with internationally renowned choreographers Debbie Allen, Ben Stevenson,
Christopher Bruce, and Trey McIntyre; and star dancers Carlos Acosta, Li Cunxin,
and Janie Parker.
This year, five days of festivities are not enough. HCAF’s Spotlight On Houston will be a
two-day post-fest experience, November 11-12, celebrating the vitality of the filmmaking
community of Houston and its environs.
––World premiere of SWAMP’s Houston Short Film Fund
NOV 12 AT 6:45 PM
Texas Filmmakers Showcase
With a desire to help Houston-area filmmakers develop their craft, Southwest Alternate
Media Project (SWAMP) inaugurated the Houston Short Film Fund in 2013. The winning
filmmakers completed their projects in early October, with the help of professional
mentors arranged by SWAMP. The films will have their first public screening at this
event, accompanied by earlier work of the artists.
––Honor Flight: One Last Mission
NOV 12 AT 2:00 PM
Minute Maid Park (501 Crawford St)
Chasing Shakespeare
Houston Ballet: Breaking
Boundaries
The Volunteer
Houston Short Film Fund
My Name is Faith
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INTRODUCTION TO THE 2013 PROGRAM
RICHARD HERSKOWITZ, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
Each day, November 8-10, festival guest artists and speakers will gather for lively conversations on how films of
quality manage to get made and seen, and other topics of mutual, passionate interest. On Saturday, November 9, a
variety of festival guest filmmakers will gather at the Festival Headquarters for our annual Meet the Makers Brunch,
sharing behind the scenes stories – along with coffee and pastries – with audience members. On November 8 and
10, guest artists in this year’s festival will present workshops on film scoring and on feature film production.
documentary, Réquiem NN. And, from Argentina, we’re bringing
Matías Piñeiro, whose narrative explorations of theater, art, and
literature have been exciting the worldwide festival circuit. Since, at
31, he has only four features under his belt, we’re actually able to do
a complete retrospective of this exciting new talent.
All programs are free!
Finally, Texas filmmakers have always been a big part of our festival
and one in particular, Richard Linklater, has been here in Year One,
Year Three, and now in Year Five to receive the Levantine Cinema
Arts Award. This year has seen the triumphant release of Rick’s
Before Midnight and the 20th anniversary of Dazed and Confused,
which we’ll present in glorious 35mm. On the very same night,
November 8 at the MFAH, Richard Linklater will cede the stage to
the nearby cattle rancher Thomas Haden Church, who has roped us
a sneak preview of his latest comedy. I’ve seen it, and it’s his best
comic performance since Sideways.
SCORING FOR SILENT FILMS
Réquiem NN
NOV. 8, 2:30 – 3:15 PM, RICE UNIVERSITY, SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Alicia Svigals, founder of The Klezmatics and composer of the score for The Yellow
Ticket (performed on Thursday, November 7 at the MFAH), accompanied by pianist
Marilyn Lerner, will discuss the history of music for silent film with some demonstration
of how different musical concepts are used in scoring.
MEET THE MAKERS BRUNCH
NOV. 9, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS,
1201 MAIN ST. AT POLK
An eclectic mix of filmmakers, artists, and distributors participating in this year’s festival
will chat about the films they have brought to Houston, sharing their experiences and
life lessons with each other and the audience waking up to another lively festival day.
MAKING CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
AND NEBRASKA
WITH RON YERXA, FREDRIK BOND, AND WILL FORTE
NOV. 10, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS,
1201 MAIN ST. AT POLK
Accomplished producer Ron Yerxa (Cold Mountain, Little Miss Sunshine) has two films
opening in theaters this November, Nebraska and Charlie Countryman. Both screen
in the festival on Saturday, November 9, at Sundance Cinemas. Those who wish to
delve deeper into the logistics of mounting big budget features with artistic integrity
should come to this session and hear Yerxa, Bond, and Forte share their experiences.
The Love Songs of Tiedan
Films about the arts are, of course, the heart and soul of this festival,
and there are too many great ones for me to recount here, so I just
encourage you to plunge into our catalogue or website, read the
descriptions, and attend what intrigues you. I will highlight, though,
the best arts documentary I saw at the Sundance Film Festival this
year, Cutie and the Boxer. It became our opening night film when I
learned that its director, Zachary Heinzerling, is a born-and-bred
Houstonian, and that he could bring the incredibly talented and
colorful artist subjects, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, to join him for
his homecoming. And, from September’s Toronto Film Festival, the
prize I really wanted to bring to Houston was August: Osage County,
which will be presented by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts. I’ll also point out a lineup, on Saturday,
Nov. 9 at Sundance Cinemas, that particularly intrigues me: Harry
Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, on the great actor, who turns out to also
be a great singer, followed by Shepard & Dark, about the decadeslong friendship of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, accompanied by
director Treva Wurmfeld and producer Amy Hobby. Capping the
night will be Wim Wenders’ Houston-filmed Paris, Texas, written by
Sam Shepard and starring Harry Dean Stanton!
Cutie and the Boxer
Richard Linklater
Dazed and Confused
The Texas focus is bigger than ever this year, as we bring one of
Texas’ most acclaimed filmmakers, Al Reinert (For All Mankind,
Apollo 13), to present his An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton
Story on closing night, preceded by the world premiere of John
Carrithers’ documentary Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries. It’s
a cliché to cite the big-ness of this state, but it truly is too huge this
year to fit into our five-day festival. This is why we’ve added two
more days to our tail end and are pleased to present our Spotlight
On Houston November 11 and 12, featuring four programs of
world-class works by Houston-area filmmakers.
August: Osage County
An Unreal Dream:
The Michael Morton Story
Houston Ballet: Breaking Boundaries
On November 13, we’ll let you get on with your life.
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Ron Yerxa
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Fredrik Bond
Will Forte
Shepard & Dark
Marilyn Lerner
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A Solo Exhibition of Jonas Mekas created
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Public Artist Reception including a Q+A
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Sunday, November 10th at 2:00 pm
Jonas Mekas: the founder of Anthology Films in
New York, the filmmaker, poet, writer, and artist
Films include a video created for this exhibition,
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WEDNESDAY
OTHER
1:00 PM
21 NORTH OF SOUTH, WEST OF EAST
7:00 PM
OPENING NIGHT
10 CUTIE AND THE BOXER
4:00 PM
WITH ZACHARY HEINZERLING, USHIO
AND NORIKO SHINOHARA
WITH NORRY NIVEN
12:45 PM
WITH ZACHARY HEINZERLING, USHIO AND
NORIKO SHINOHARA
3:40 PM
12 HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
33 THE YELLOW TICKET
WITH ALICIA SVIGALS AND MARILYN
LERNER
4 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
WITH TRACY LETTS
9:40 PM
45 PARIS, TEXAS
NOV 8
FRIDAY
46 SNEAK PREVIEW WITH THOMAS HADEN CHURCH
9:00 PM
39 DAZED AND CONFUSED
WITH RICHARD LINKLATER
LEVANTINE CINEMA ARTS AWARD PRESENTATION
42 BEFORE THE SPRING AFTER
THE FALL
WITH JED ROTHSTEIN
6:30 PM
26 SHEPARD & DARK
WITH TREVA WURMFELD AND AMY HOBBY
9:30 PM
22 ONE CHANCE
1:00 PM
12 HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION
3:30 PM
40 THE ANNUNCIATION
WITH CARY WOLFE
6:15 PM
9:30 PM
1 ALL THE LABOR
WITH DOUG HAWES-DAVIS AND AN ACOUSTIC
SET BY JIMMY AND CLAUDE OF THE GOURDS
6:15 PM
1:00 PM
4:00 PM
17 PORTRAITS OF WOMEN ARTISTS
WITH BARBARA HAMMER
7:00 PM
9:30 PM
1:00 PM
3:00 PM
27 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES
WITH JONAS MEKAS
6:30 PM
36 VIOLA / ROSALINDA
9:30 PM
9:00 PM
WITH MATÍAS PIÑEIRO
15 JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
41 ART HARD WITH MEREDITH DANLUCK
WITH CHARLIE AHEARN
7:00 PM
25 RÉQUIEM NN
WITH JUAN MANUEL ECHEVARRÍA AND MARGARITA DE LA VEGA-HURTADO
RICE MEDIA CENTER
10:30 AM
15 JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET
PHOTOGRAPHER
WITH CHARLIE AHEARN
PROJECT ROW HOUSES ELDORADO BALLROOM
2:30 PM
MEET THE MAKERS: SCORING FOR SILENT FILMS
RICE UNIVERSITY SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC
7:00 PM
37 WITNESS: PALESTINE / PASOLINI’S
LAST WORDS
WITH BARBARA HAMMER AND CATHY LEE CRANE
AURORA PICTURE SHOW
NOV 9
SATURDAY
2:45 PM
18 MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN
BLACK
WITH JONATHAN HOLIFF
5:45 PM
20 NEBRASKA
WITH RON YERXA AND WILL FORTE
9:15 PM
8 CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
SUNDAY
3 APPROVED FOR ADOPTION
4:00 PM
13 HOUSTON BALLET:
BREAKING BOUNDARIES
WITH JOHN CARRITHERS
7:00 PM
CLOSING NIGHT
2 AN UNREAL DREAM: THE
MICHAEL MORTON STORY 7 HIP HOP SHORT FILMS
23 PERSISTENCE OF VISION
WITH CHARLIE AHEARN
6:30 PM
WITH KEVIN SCHRECK
43 ENZO AVITABILE MUSIC LIFE
7:00 PM
WITH MEREDITH DANLUCK
9:45 PM
16 JEREMY ROURKE: LIVE MUSIC AND ANIMATION
WITH TODD HAGOPIAN AND SHAUL SCHWARZ
38 WILD STYLE
1:00 PM
31 THE STOLEN MAN
28 THE BALLAD OF THE WEEPING
SPRING
6:45 PM
9 CHASING SHAKESPEARE
NOV 11
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER
10:00 PM
CINEMA ARTS CELEBRATION
MR. PEEPLES (1911 BAGBY ST)
11:00 AM
MEET THE MAKERS: MAKING CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN AND NEBRASKA
WITH RON YERXA, WILL FORTE AND FREDRIK BOND
1:00 PM
30 TIME SHIFT: THE FILMS OF SCOTT STARK
WITH SCOTT STARK
3:45 PM
25 RÉQUIEM NN
WITH JUAN MANUEL ECHEVARRÍA AND MARGARITA DE LA VEGA-HURTADO
6:15 PM
24 PHILOMENA
8:45 PM
6:45 PM
13 HOUSTON BALLET: BREAKING
BOUNDARIES
WITH JOHN CARRITHERS
7:00 PM
19 MY NAME IS FAITH
WITH TIFFANY SUDELA-JUNKER
MINUTE MAID PARK (501 CRAWFORD ST)
NOV 12
FILMS
WITH MARY LAMPE AND THE FILMMAKERS
32 THE VOLUNTEER
WITH VICKY WIGHT AND AUNJANUE ELLIS
2:00 PM
47 HONOR FLIGHT: ONE LAST MISSION
TUESDAY
6:45 PM
14 HOUSTON SHORT FILM FUND
7:15 PM
SPOTLIGHT
ON HOUSTON
MONDAY
WITH HAO JIE, GE XIA, YELAN JIANG, XIAOMEI XING,
AND FENG SI
MONDAY
NOV 12
7:00 PM
29 THE LOVE SONGS OF TIEDAN
NOV 11
TUESDAY
8:15 PM
WITH CHARLIE AHEARN
WITH AL REINERT, MICHAEL MORTON, JOHN
RALEY, MARCY GARRIOT & JOHN DEAN
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4:00 PM
44 NARCO CULTURA 4:00 PM
4:15 PM
1:00 PM
SUNDAY
1:15 PM
3:30 PM
WITH ALFRED CERVANTES AND THE FILMMAKERS
NOV 10
NOV 10
WITH RON YERXA AND FREDRIK BOND
10:00 AM
MEET THE MAKERS BRUNCH
SATURDAY
12:15 PM
35 TEXAS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE
NOV 9
12:00 PM
34 THEY ALL LIE
HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS FESTIVAL
5:45 PM
3:45 PM
JAMES BROUGHTON
FRIDAY
3:00 PM
5 BECOMING TRAVIATA
10:30 AM
NOV 8
11:00 AM
11 ERNEST & CELESTINE
12:50 PM
6 BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF
THURSDAY
11:00 AM
NOV 7
NOV 7
CINEMA 16
FESTIVAL HQ
SUNDANCE 2
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
SUNDANCE 8
NOV 6
NOV 6
MFAH
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1 ALL THE LABOR
WITH DIRECTOR DOUG HAWES-DAVIS
FEATURING A LIVE ACOUSTIC SET BY JIMMY SMITH AND
CLAUDE BERNARD OF THE GOURDS
SUNDANCE 8 | FRI, NOV 8 | 9:30 PM
Genre-defying, boundary-pushing, unpretentious, gregarious, quirky — all
words that describe The Gourds, an Austin-based alt indie roots band that
has been making music for two decades. While the five, now middle-aged
guys have ten albums to their credit, their live performances have inspired
a passion in audiences that proves, according to veteran documentarian
Doug Hawes-Davis, “they’ve tapped into something really powerful and
unique.“ Piling themselves and their equipment into their road-weary tour
van, the guys hit the highways from coast to coast to coast, relentlessly
playing 150 gigs a year.
In All the Labor, Hawes-Davis and team introduce viewers to the energy
and excitement of the band’s live performances, while painting an intimate
portrait of talented songwriters and musicians at the top of their game.
Comprised of candid conversations, blazing concert scenes, on-tour media
interviews, and insight from friends and family, the film captures the
unbreakable backbeat and creative spark of the group dubbed by the
New York Times as “the national band of Austin.“
Shot over the course of eight months and featuring archival footage captured
nearly 20 years earlier, All the Labor fittingly premiered at Austin’s SXSW
Film Festival in March 2013.
“Great acts don’t always get the credit they deserve,“ writes music journalist
Kathy McConnell at concertblogger.com. “Breaking the typical music
documentary mold of an artist’s quick rise to fame and the destruction that
then ensues, All the Labor presents the audience with the deeper discovery
of a band’s genuine relationship with their music. Rather than capitalizing
through their music, The Gourds live through their music, and the audience
won’t be able to leave this film without a sincere respect for that.“
2 AN UNREAL DREAM: THE
MICHAEL MORTON STORY
WITH AL REINERT, MICHAEL MORTON, JOHN RALEY,
MARCY GARRIOTT, AND JOHN DEAN
MFAH | SUN, NOV 10 | 7:00 PM
Truth can be more surreal than fiction, and An Unreal Dream: The Michael
Morton Story proves it. Wrongly convicted in 1986 for the brutal murder of
his wife, Morton spent 25 years in Texas prisons before Houston attorney John
Raley and members of the New York-based The Innocence Project won
the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene that ultimately
exonerated him and identified the real killer. Upon his release in 2011,
Morton riveted the world with his lack of bitterness or anger, as he focused his
future on fighting for legal reform and reaching out to his estranged son.
Variety critic Joe Leydon observes that “the film’s title comes from a 1923
quote by Justice Learned Hand: ’Our procedure has been always haunted
by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.’
This fine SXSW Documentary Spotlight audience award-winner makes the
nightmare quite real.“
Director Al Reinert is a two-time Academy Award® nominee, as a documentary
filmmaker (For All Mankind) and as a screenwriter (Apollo 13), and his
storytelling prowess is evident in this compelling tale of justice miscarried.
As the filmmakers note, “Morton’s unreal dream was and is a powerful
journey through despair and abandonment to a greater freedom than most
of us know, but all can appreciate.“
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: AL REINERT
SCREENWRITER: AL REINERT, JOHN DEAN, NELLIE GONZALEZ
CINEMATOGRAPHER: LEVIE ISAACKS
COMPOSER: RICH BROTHERTON AND CHUCK PINNELL
EDITOR: JOHN ALDRICH AND JASON WEHLING
PRODUCER: MARCY GARRIOT, AL REINERT, JOHN DEAN
NARRATOR: NELLIE GONZALEZ
RUNNING TIME: 90MIN
3 APPROVED FOR ADOPTION
SUNDANCE 8 | SUN, NOV 10 | 1:15 PM
Brilliant graphic novelist Jung Henin was five years old when a Belgian family
adopted him from Korea. Through a mixture of live action footage showing
Jung’s first visit to Korea as an adult and beautiful animated flashbacks
telling the story of Henin as an orphan, the film is a unique and illuminating
memoir of Jung’s life.
Known as Jung throughout his childhood, the character navigates the complex
emotional and ethnic landscape intrinsic to multicultural adoptions. As a
young boy, he adapts quickly but, never feeling like he truly fits, Jung
slowly grows resistant to everything around him. Expertly rendered with
Jung’s own stunning animations, the directors have created a funny and
touching story about a boy trying to find his place in the world. It also
paints an honest picture of the challenges faced by cross-cultural adoptees.
Approved for Adoption won the Magritte Award for Best Editing in 2012
and has garnered multiple audience awards at festivals around the world.
Co-presenting partner: Consulate General of France.
BELGIUM, FRANCE, 2012
DIRECTOR: LAURENT BOILEAU, JUNG HENIN
CINEMATOGRAPHER: REMON FROMONT
SCREENWRITER: LAURENT BOILEAU, JUNG HENIN
EDITOR: EWIN RYCKAERT
COMPOSER: SIEGFRIED CANTO AND LITTLE COMET
CAST: MAXYM ANCIAUX, CATHY BOQUET, MAHÉ COLLET, CHRISTELLE CORNIL,
WILLIAM CORYN
RUNNING TIME: 70MIN
WITH TRACY LETTS (THUR, NOV 7)
SUNDANCE 8 | THUR, NOV 7 | 6:00 PM
August: Osage County tells the dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story
of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged
until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up
in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. With outstanding
performances from Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and more, the film is a
lively and unflinching exploration of the crumbling connections of one family.
Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name made its Broadway
debut in December 2007 after premiering at Chicago’s legendary
Steppenwolf Theatre earlier that year. It continued with a successful
international run and was the winner of five Tony Awards in 2008, including
Best Play.
A frontrunner for Oscar nominations, the film is directed by John Wells, one
of the most prolific writers, directors, and producers for television, film, and
stage. Over the past two decades, Wells has been a creative force behind
some of primetime’s biggest hit series, including ER, The West Wing, and
Third Watch.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: JOHN WELLS
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ADRIANO GOLDMAN
SCREENWRITER: TRACY LETTS
COMPOSER: GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA
EDITOR: STEPHEN MIRRIONE
CAST: MERYL STREEP, JULIA ROBERTS, CHRIS COOPER, EWAN MCGREGOR, ABIGAIL BRESLIN,
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, JULIETTE LEWIS, MARGO MARTINDALE, DERMOT MULRONEY,
JULIANNE NICHOLSON, SAM SHEPARD, MISTY UPHAM
RUNNING TIME: 130MIN
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: DOUG HAWES-DAVIS
CINEMATOGRAPHER: BRENDAN CANTY, DRURY GUNN CARR, KEN FURROW,
DOUG HAWES-DAVIS, JUSTIN LUBKE, TRAVIS MORSS, DAMON RISTAU, GREG SNIDER,
TIMM STOTTS, MIKE WOOLF
EDITOR: DRURY GUNN CARR AND DOUG HAWES-DAVIS
RUNNING TIME: 97MIN
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5 BECOMING TRAVIATA
Becoming Traviata is an exhilarating account of the creative process and a
rousing, uniquely accessible rendition of Verdi’s glorious opera. Director
Philippe Béziat, known for his innovative documentaries on classical music,
trains his cameras on a 2011 production of La Traviata helmed by the
celebrated stage director Jean-François Sivadier. The heart of the film is the
intense collaboration between Sivadier and charismatic soprano Natalie
Dessay. With an emphasis on stunning, psychologically revealing gestures,
they work out a naturalistic, erotic, emotionally direct interpretation of Violetta
that is mirrored by the immediacy of the in-rehearsal performances.
Of Béziat’s creation, Tom Huizenga of NPR notes, “Verdi wanted the audience
members to see themselves in the characters onstage. And something similar
happens in Becoming Traviata. Watching Béziat’s film, which in French is
titled Traviata et nous (Traviata and Us), we come a little closer to seeing
ourselves, backstage, struggling to bring our own realities to life.“
FRANCE, 2012
DIRECTOR: PHILIPPE BÉZIAT
CINEMATOGRAPHER: RAPHAËL O’BYRNE, HICHAME ALAOUIE, NED BURGESS,
MATTHIEU POIROT-DELPECH
EDITOR: CYRIL LEUTHY
COMPOSER: GIUSEPPE VERDI, THOMAS DAPPELO
CAST: NATALIE DESSAY, JEAN-FRANÇOIS SIVADIER, LOUIS LANGRÉE
6 BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES
7 HIP HOP SHORT FILMS
OF JAMES BROUGHTON
WITH CHARLIE AHEARN
Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with
artistic expressions -- painting, theatre, film, poetry. At its center was the
groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. Big Joy explores
Broughton’s passionate embrace of a life of pansexual transcendence and
a fiercely independent mantra: follow your own weird.
Charlie Ahearn, director of the now-classic hip hop film Wild Style (1983)
and documentary portrait Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer (2013), will
present a selection of musical shorts created over the past five years. These
works include collaborations with hip hop pioneers, such as Grandmaster
Caz and young groups like NINE11THESAURUS, and take the viewer on
a musical ride to Berlin, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and across New York.
A spirited documentary exploring the life of James Broughton, a pioneer
of experimental cinema, visionary poet, and bard of Gay Liberation, Big
Joy is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Broughton’s luminous life and personality.
His remarkable story spans the postwar San Francisco Renaissance, his
influence on the Beat generation, escape to Europe during the McCarthy
years, a lifetime of acclaim for his joyous experimental films and poetry
celebrating the human body, finding his soulmate at age 61, and finally,
his ascendancy as a revered bard of sexual liberation.
Broughton won a grand prize at the Cannes film festival in 1954, published
23 books of poetry, and dedicated his life to the celebration of joy. Credited
for playing a key role in creating the independent film scene flourishing
today, Broughton believed art and film could broaden our perspectives
and heal our hearts. The filmmakers intersperse Broughton’s diaries, poems,
and experimental films, weaving an entertaining and complex tribute.
Candid interviews with friends, family, and Broughton himself round out
this unflinching exploration of his remarkable life and his lifelong pursuit to
find his own “Big Joy.“
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: STEPHEN SILHA, ERIC SLADE, DAWN LOGSDON
CINEMATOGRAPHER: IAN HINKLE
EDITOR: DAWN LOGSDON
COMPOSER: EVAN SCHILLER AND JAMI SIEBER
CAST: JAMES BROUGHTON, NEELI CHERKOVSKI, JACK FOLEY, ALEX GILDZEN,
ANNA HALPRIN
RUNNING TIME: 82MIN
CINEMA 16 | SAT, NOV 9 | 1:00 PM
––Bongo Barbershop (8 min., 2005)
Hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Caz meets new African MC Balozi Dola
rhyming in Swahili.
––Busy on the Beach (4 min., 2006)
Busy Bee and his bullhorn takes us on a hip hop tour of his Baltimore ’hood
“the beach.“
––Brothers Fantastic (7 min., 2007)
Brothers Rob and Kev (of The Fantastic Five in Wild Style) practice rhymes
and harmonies at home.
––Busy on the Autobahn (11 min., 2008)
Wild Style the Sampler’s Euro club tours with Chief Rocker Busy Bee as he
checks the Berlin Wall graffiti.
––Eskalators on the One Train (3:45 min., 2009)
Eskalators take over New York’s One Train creating chaos and music from
South Ferry to the South Bronx.
––Las Vegas Flip (8 min., 2010)
What happens in Las Vegas...
––Subway Sampler (8 min., 2012)
Dreamlike NYC train scenes with performers.
––Claudius on the One Train (5:30 min., 2012)
Prodigy violinist enthralls subway.
––All City Take It to the Bridge (6:35 min., 2010)
with DOA, NINE11THESAURUS, Lucky Chops. Bushwick youth hip hop
meets brass band on Brooklyn Bridge.
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8 CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
WITH DIRECTOR FREDRIK BOND AND PRODUCER
RON YERXA
SUNDANCE 8 | SAT, NOV 9 | 9:15 PM
Following his mother’s death, and prodded by her ghost, Charlie Countryman
travels to Bucharest to free his mind and heart. There, he meets and falls in
love with Gabi, a beautiful Romanian girl. Unfortunately, Gabi happens to
be married to a violent and mentally unstable crime boss with a gang of
thugs at his disposal. Armed with little more than his wit and naïve charm,
Charlie endures one bruising beatdown after another to woo Gabi and
keep her out of harm’s way. Finally his exploits of blind valor create such
a mess that he’s left with only one way out: to save the girl of his dreams,
he has to die.
A raw and rollicking tale, Fredrik Bond’s feature debut explores the dark
side of love and gallantry against the backdrop of a seedy and vibrant
Bucharest. Bond is a highly acclaimed commercials and music video director,
and the terrific musical choices (by Sigur Rós and M83, among others)
and striking visuals manifest this background. But Bond also knows how
to bring out the best in his superb cast, as the Hollywood Reporter notes:
“With a scruffy demeanor and wide-eyed enthusiasm, LaBeouf projects
a degree of emotional recklessness that’s both disarming and disconcerting
to watch. Wood blends so capably into the role, with her distinctly European
bearing and Romanian-accented speech, that she easily conceals her
American origins. As her violent and unpredictable ex, Mikkelsen is chillingly
proficient…“
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and screened in competition
at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: FREDRIK BOND
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ROMAN VASYANOV
SCREENWRITER: MATT DRAKE
EDITOR: HUGHES WINBORNE
COMPOSER: MOBY
CAST: SHIA LABEOUF, EVAN RACHEL WOOD, RUPERT GRINT, MADS MIKKELSEN,
VINCENT D’ONOFRIO, MELISSA LEO
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WITH DIRECTOR NORRY NIVEN
MFAH | THUR, NOV 7 | 11:00 AM | FESTIVAL FIELD TRIP
SUNDANCE 2 | SUN NOV 10 | 6:45 PM
Chasing Shakespeare is an enchanting love story about a young Native
American woman’s search for her destiny and her widower husband’s
attempts to reunite with her after her death.
Based on a screenplay by James Bird, Chasing Shakespeare recounts the
beginning, end, and rebirth of a love affair between William (Danny
Glover) and Venus (Tantoo Cardinal) in rural Arkansas. Told in flashbacks,
William, now mourning the passing of his beloved, recalls how his younger self
(Mike Wade) first fell for the Shakespeare-loving Venus (Chelsea Ricketts),
a member of the mystical American Indian Lightning Clan. Though society,
circumstance, and familial pressures conspire to keep them apart, William
finally makes his way to New York City, joining Venus in a traffic-stopping,
impromptu performance of the Bard’s The Tempest. In the present, William
begins seeing visions of his departed wife – visions his grown son attributes
to a declining mental state until son and father share one last miraculous,
life- and love- affirming moment together.
With stunning performances from Danny Glover, Oscar®-nominated
Graham Greene, Chelsea Ricketts, Mike Wade, and Ashley Bell, this film
is an emotional and dreamlike experience that is not to be missed.
Born and raised in Texas, director Norry Niven is the founder of a Dallasbased commercial production company, Stone Core Films, and Los Angelesbased Three (One) 0, and he has directed spots around the world for clients
like Electronic Arts, McDonalds, Ford, Showtime, HBO, Nestle, Disney,
and Visa, among others.
MFAH 11/7 11:00 AM - This screening is part of the festival field trip
program. Pass holders are welcome but seating is not guaranteed. Please
contact us if you plan to attend at [email protected]
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: NORRY NIVEN
SCREENWRITER: JAMES BIRD
CINEMATOGRAPHER: NORRY NIVEN
EDITOR: PETER TARTER
COMPOSER: ERIC KAYE
PRODUCER: LOREN BASULTO
CAST: DANNY GLOVER, TANTOO CARDINAL, GRAHAM GREENE, CLARENCE GILYARD JR.,
CHELSEA RICKETTS, ASHLEY BELL, MIKE WADE
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WITH ZACHARY HEINZERLING AND USHIO AND
NORIKO SHINOHARA
MFAH | WED NOV 6 | 7:00 PM
SUNDANCE 8 | THUR NOV 7 | 12:45 PM
Cutie and the Boxer is a candid and highly entertaining New York love
story exploring the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter
Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Of the film the New York Times
says, “Cutie and the Boxer is a movie that makes you feel less like a
spectator than a guest, a friend welcomed into the home of an odd and
fascinating couple.“
The two met in New York in 1973, Ushio, a 41-year-old painter and sculptor,
and Noriko, a 19-year-old student. Director Zachary Heinzerling pays
tribute to these two very charismatic artists showing their sometimes volatile
and always complex relationship with a raw yet touching approach. Ushio
is known for his abstract paintings, upon which he uses boxing gloves
to apply paint, and for his fantastical cardboard figures, while Noriko has
gained attention for her inky cartoon-like drawings. Having for years dealt
with money troubles and a sense of persistent competition, the film deftly
explores how the couple’s lifetime collaboration is eternally exhilarating
yet rife with conflict. Eric Kohn of Indiewire writes: “Heinzerling’s beautifully
shot, painfully intimate look at the aging couple’s struggle to survive amid
personal and financial strain is both heartbreaking and intricately profound.
This is a story about creative desire so strong it hurts.“
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: ZACHARY HEINZERLING
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ZACHARY HEINZERLING
EDITOR: DAVID TEAGUE
COMPOSER: YASUAKI SHIMIZU
CAST: USHIO SHINOHARA, NORIKO SHINOHARA, ETHAN COHEN
RUNNING TIME: 82MIN
11 ERNEST & CELESTINE
SUNDANCE 8 | FRI, NOV 8 | 11:00 AM | FESTIVAL FIELD TRIP
Based on the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, Ernest &
Celestine is a visually stunning, enormously entertaining new film from the
creators of Kirikou and the Sorceress, The Triplets of Belleville, and The
Secret of Kells. It won the César® Award for Best Animated Feature and
numerous festival prizes.
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding
subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of
the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is
an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for
ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long
before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and
mice-eating communities.
Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps across genres and influences to capture
the kinetic, limitless possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a gorgeous
watercolor painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel color palette
bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling and brilliant
comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster Keaton, Bugs Bunny,
and the outlaw romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde. Bringing it all together
is the on-screen chemistry between the two lead characters – a flowing,
tender, and playful rapport that will put a smile on your face and make
your heart glow.
SUNDANCE 11/8 11:00 AM - This screening is part of the festival field
trip program. Pass holders are welcome but seating is not guaranteed.
Please contact us if you plan to attend at [email protected]
FRANCE, 2012
DIRECTOR: STÉPHANE AUBIER, VINCENT PATAR, BENJAMIN RENNER
ANIMATOR: MICHAEL CROUZAT, GAELLE THIERRY, SERGE UMÉ, STÉPHANIE HAULET
SCREENWRITER: DANIEL PENNAC
COMPOSER: VINCENT COURTOIS
CAST: LAMBERT WILSON, PAULINE BRUNNER, ANNE-MARIE LOOP, PATRICE MELENNEC,
BRIGITTE VIRTUDES, LÉONARD LOUF
RUNNING TIME: 80MIN
12 HARRY DEAN STANTON:
PARTLY FICTION
SUNDANCE 2 | FRI NOV 8 | 1:00 PM
“I don’t give anything away,“ Harry Dean Stanton cautions Sophie Huber
as her poetic tribute commences. By focusing less on the enigmatic actor’s
few words, but instead on his expressive physiognomy, and listening while
he sings and plays harmonica (music being his true love), the film offers
up everything we need to know about this quiet Kentucky man who
also happens to be one of the most powerful character actors of all time.
Stanton has a career that spans six decades and more than 200 film and
television projects, including standout turns in the classic features Paris,
Texas and Repo Man.
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of
the iconic actor, comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his
200 films, and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs.
Stunningly lensed in color and black-and-white by Seamus McGarvey,
the film explores the actor’s enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited
talents as a musician, and includes candid reminiscences by David Lynch,
Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson, and Deborah Harry.
Uncensored, unguarded moments, and wry humor illuminate scenes filmed
at locations like Stanton’s home and his favorite local watering hole, Dan
Tana’s. Stanton discusses his friends Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, how
his family influenced his musical leanings, the women he almost wed, and
his preference for film over theatre. The poignant collage reveals the essence
of a fascinatingly opaque and charismatic man.
SWITZERLAND, 2012
DIRECTOR: SOPHIE HUBER
CINEMATOGRAPHER: SEAMUS MCGARVEY
EDITOR: ANGELO CORRAO AND RUSSELL GREENE
PRODUCER: CHRISTIAN DAVI, CHIEMI KARASAWA, CHRISTOF NERACHER,
THOMAS THÜMENA
CAST: HARRY DEAN STANTON, DAVID LYNCH, SAM SHEPARD, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON,
WIM WENDERS, DEBORAH HARRY
RUNNING TIME: 77MIN
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13 HOUSTON BALLET: BREAKING BOUNDARIES
WITH DIRECTOR JOHN CARRITHERS AND SPECIAL GUESTS
FROM THE HOUSTON BALLET
MFAH | SUN, NOV 10 | 4:00 PM | FREE
SUNDANCE 8 | MON, NOV 11 | 6:45 PM | FREE
The documentary chronicles the history of the internationally acclaimed
Houston Ballet, from the early impact of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
in the 1930s and ’40s in inculcating a love of dance among Houstonians,
to the determination and perseverance of a handful of Houston’s founding
families, to the Houston Ballet’s place today as the fourth largest ballet
company in America with a facility unmatched in the United States.
The documentary captures the voices of many key players who helped
propel Houston Ballet to its current international stature. The film traces
the directorships of each of Houston Ballet’s five artistic directors since the
company’s founding in 1955, featuring photos and historical footage of
the company’s performances from the 1970s onward, in addition to footage
that evokes the company’s vibrant present. It also features interviews with
the four living artistic directors of Houston Ballet, dancers from the 1970s
to the present, and board leaders and dance critics who have closely
followed the company’s development. Among the noted Houstonians
featured are Jesse H. Jones II, Isaac and Tony Arnold, Lucia Bryant, and
Eugene Loveland; along with internationally renowned choreographers
Debbie Allen, Ben Stevenson, Christopher Bruce, and Trey McIntyre; and
star dancers Carlos Acosta, Li Cunxin, and Janie Parker.
Co-presenting partner: Houston Ballet.
Free screening, first-come, first-served; seating not guaranteed.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: JOHN CARRITHERS
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14 HOUSTON SHORT FILM
FUND FILMS
SUNDANCE 8 | TUES, NOV 12 | 6:45 PM
With a desire to help Houston-area filmmakers develop their craft, Southwest
Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) inaugurated the Houston Short Film
Fund in 2013. The winning filmmakers completed their projects in
early October, with the help of professional mentors arranged by
SWAMP. Music, score, and sound FX were provided by Barry Coffing of
musicsupervisor.com. The films will have their first public screening at this
event, accompanied by earlier work by the artists.
Projects include:
––Kathryn Kane, Sing-Song: a ’50s period film following Jeannette, a little
girl consumed with resentment toward her older sister, the seemingly
perfect Carol Anne, but she soon learns her sister is the true solace in an
unfair world.
––Lauren Kelley, Burlap Interior: a stop motion animated short that depicts
everyday life situations in the interiors of automobiles in a jittery absurd
nonlinear narrative.
––Douglas Newman, Bellows and Buttons: a profile of Gabbanelli Accordions,
one of Houston’s musical treasures for over 50 years.
––Jerry Ochoa, This Neighborhood: a deeply disturbed man, who spends
his days spying on people and his nights murdering them, is convinced
he has to kill everyone to save mankind.
15 JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET
PHOTOGRAPHER
WITH DIRECTOR CHARLIE AHEARN
PROJECT ROW HOUSES | FRI, NOV 8 | 10:30 AM | FESTIVAL FIELD TRIP
For over thirty years, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz has
documented New York street life, most famously in his legendary images
of the early hip hop scene, collected in his book Back in the Days. Of
Shabazz, Nicolas Rapold of the New York Times noted, “anybody who
doesn’t appreciate the spirit captured in Jamel Shabazz’s photographs
doesn’t get New York.“
Director Charlie Ahearn’s lively documentary gives voice and context to
the evocative images created by Shabazz. The film traces his life from his
army service days and his time as a corrections officer to his work as a
groundbreaking photographer, capturing the pioneers of a revolutionary
music and style. With interviews from Shabazz himself, hip hop historian
Fred “Fab 5 Freddy“ Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, and more,
the film is a vibrant portrait of the origins of the worldwide phenomenon
known as Hip Hop.
Charlie Ahearn’s first film, Wild Style, was released in 1983. After directing
Fear of Fiction and multiple documentaries, Ahearn co-authored the book
Yes Yes Y’all. Released in 2002, the book is an oral history of the first
decade of hip hop. Currently, Ahearn produces documentaries and resides
in New York City.
16 JEREMY ROURKE: LIVE MUSIC AND ANIMATION
WITH JEREMY ROURKE
CINEMA 16 | SAT, NOV 9 | 8:15 PM
Jeremy Rourke is a self-taught animator and musician living in San Francisco.
Using paper, paint, shadows, wood, old photographs, new photographs,
flowers, tape, pens, pencils, leaves, and sticks to make his animations, his
works (which are set to his own music) have been shown at film festivals
around the country. During live performances, Rourke tries “really extra
hard to magically enter the movie screen.“ In 2011, he was named “best new animator/musician“ by SF Weekly,
which elaborated: “Jeremy Rourke is the kind of artist we love. He follows
what inspires him, which in this case is stop-motion animation and music,
teaching himself what he needs to get there and along the way producing
great work that inspires others. One of his movies, Out to See, places
cutouts of assorted figures (a man in an overcoat, a ship, a truck, owls,
old-timey bicyclists, fish) in modern-day San Francisco. The song is a mixture
of up-tempo and melancholy; Rourke reflects this dichotomy in his images
by placing emotive characters into ever-changing scenery that is always
surprising, yet (despite its fast pace) never feels hurried. Did we mention he
writes and performs the music too?“
Co-presenting partner: Project Row Houses.
PROJECT ROW HOUSES 11/8 10:30 AM - This screening is part of the festival
field trip program. Pass holders are welcome but seating is not guaranteed.
Please contact us if you plan to attend at [email protected]
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: CHARLIE AHEARN
CINEMATOGRAPHER: CHARLIE AHEARN
EDITOR: CHARLIE AHEARN
COMPOSER: CRESH FRAZE
CAST: FAB 5 FREDDY, ROBERT GARCIA, AARON GOODSTONE, KRS-ONE
RUNNING TIME: 81MIN
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17 PORTRAITS OF WOMEN
ARTISTS
WITH DIRECTOR BARBARA HAMMER
CINEMA 16 | THUR, NOV 7 | 4:00 PM
Pioneer of LGBT cinema, Barbara Hammer will present her films Lover Other
(2006, 55 min) and Maya Deren’s Sink (2011, 30 min). Lover Other is
a collage of photographs, documents, interviews, lyrical passages, and
dramatized scenes that recalls the lives of two surrealist artists and lesbian
Resistance fighters, whose work and whose fate has largely been forgotten:
Claude Cahun and her girlfriend and lover Marcel Moore. Cahun and
Moore, stepsisters who fell in love around 1910, are regarded as the first
lesbian couple to live and work together as artists. When the Germans
occupied Jersey, France, in 1940, the two girlfriends embarked upon a
campaign of artistic resistance, putting up posters, writing manifestos and
pamphlets, with which they hoped to incite the occupying forces to mutiny.
In 1944, both women were arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to
death; the majority of their artistic output was destroyed. They were
released from imprisonment after the island was liberated in May of 1945.
Claude Cahun was never to recover from the experience.
Maya Deren’s Sink explores the avant-garde film pioneer Deren’s concepts
of space, time, and form through visits and projections filmed in her L.A.
and NY homes. Light projections in Deren’s intimate space evoke a former
time and space providing entry into the homes of an influential filmmaker
we will never know. The film reclaims the spaces that inspired her work
in order to share it with audiences. Time and space are collapsed as film
locations of the ’40s are re-imagined in the present.
Performances by an actor, based on Deren’s film and writing, as well as
overlooked biographical insights, reveal a creative personality untouched
by convention. Voices of the past speaking from doorways, windows, and
picture frames include the current L.A. and NYC home owners: Teiji Ito’s
second wife, Judith Malina, Carolee Schneemann, Ross Lipman, and others.
The experimental soundtrack is compiled and augmented by the music of
Teiji Ito (Maya’s third husband) and Tavia Ito, Teiji’s daughter.
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18 MY FATHER AND THE MAN
IN BLACK
WITH DIRECTOR JONATHAN HOLIFF
My Father and the Man in Black is the revealing story of ’bad boy’ Johnny
Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for
his father in the shadow of a legend. Saul Holiff was a concert promoter
when he met and started managing Johnny Cash in 1958, and it was under
Saul’s guidance during the ’60s that Cash ascended to music superstardom.
However, in 1973, Saul quit, and the effects of his influence have been
largely overlooked.
Being constantly on the road with Johnny meant that Saul spent very little
time with his young son, Jonathan, and even after Saul quit, father and
son remained estranged. However, when Saul committed suicide in 2005,
Jonathan discovered a storage locker filled with a staggering amount of
Johnny Cash memorabilia that included gold records, concert posters,
newspaper clippings, handwritten letters between Cash, Holiff, and June
Carter, and more than 60 hours of audio between the singer and his
manager, plus Saul’s audio diary dating back to 1965. Sorting through
the material, Jonathan was able to illuminate his father’s life as Johnny’s
manager during a tumultuous time in the singer’s career, as well as Saul’s
persistent internal conflict about being an absent parent. Holiff the younger
acts as narrator for the documentary and employs dramatic reenactments,
as he shares his discoveries and realizations with the audience.
Reviewer Holly McKay of FoxNews.com observes, “This is never before
seen or told information that will shock and surprise.“ Steve Rose of the
Guardian (UK) calls it “a fresh angle on the Cash mythology, and a long
way from Walk the Line.“ And Sheila O’Malley of RogerEbert.com concludes,
“In such a revelation, one can find forgiveness, empathy. That’s what the
film is all about.“
19 MY NAME IS FAITH
WITH DIRECTOR TIFFANY SUDELA-JUNKER
SUNDANCE 2 | TUES, NOV 12 | 7:00 PM
Listed as one of Indiewire’s 10 Hottest Docs to watch, My Name is Faith is
the powerful story of a 13-year-old girl working to overcome a troubling past
and accept and embrace the love that now surrounds her. Born as Brianna
to a drug-addicted mother, she and her baby brother lived in harrowing
conditions before being adopted by co-director Tiffany Sudela-Junker and
her husband, a couple fully invested in raising their children to be whole,
happy, and strong.
Winner of Slamdance’s Feature Documentary Audience Award, the film is
a moving look at one brave girl’s struggle to find her place in the world
and a place in the structure of her new adoptive family. Although suffering
from posttraumatic stress disorder and reactive attachment disorder, Faith’s
attempt to heal from her traumatic past is engaging, enlightening, and
filled with hope.
USA, 2012
DIRECTOR: JASON BANKER, JORGE TORRES-TORRES, TIFFANY SUDELA-JUNKER
CINEMATOGRAPHER: JASON BANKER
EDITOR: JORGE TORRES-TORRES
RUNNING TIME: 82MIN
20 NEBRASKA
WITH ACTOR WILL FORTE AND PRODUCER RON YERXA
Alexander Payne’s latest brilliant effort, Nebraska, tells the story of an
aging booze-addled father, Woody (Bruce Dern), convinced that a million
dollar prize awaits him in Nebraska. His mild-mannered son Dave (Will
Forte), tired of explaining reality to his stubborn dad and pacifying his
exasperated mom (June Squibb), agrees to drive Woody all the way to
Lincoln. More than a father/son road trip, this hilarious and touching story
is an ode to small-town life and a son’s desire to forge a relationship with
his impenetrable father.
Payne’s longtime director of photography, Phedon Papamichael, paints an
immense backdrop with breathtaking imagery shot throughout the plains
states, including Wyoming and South Dakota. Featuring miraculous
performances by Bruce Dern and Will Forte, Nebraska is at once moving
and mirthful. “The sharp comic edges, based on a close understanding of
Midwestern reserve, form just one element in Payne’s greater emotional
pattern. Filled with wonderful characters and composed in the most expressive
black-and-white in years, Nebraska is a portrait of a way of life and of the
single life of one quiet man“ (New York Film Festival).
Payne’s last feature film, The Descendants, won an Academy Award® for
Best Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe® for Best Drama. Nebraska
was nominated for the Palme d’Or® at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival,
where Bruce Dern won the Best Actor Award.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: ALEXANDER PAYNE
CINEMATOGRAPHER: PHEDON PAPAMICHAEL
SCREENWRITER: BOB NELSON
EDITOR: KEVIN TENT
COMPOSER: MARK ORTON
CAST: BRUCE DERN, WILL FORTE, JUNE SQUIBB, BOB ODENKIRK, STACY KEACH
CANADA, 2012
DIRECTOR: JONATHAN HOLIFF
SCREENWRITER: JONATHAN HOLIFF
EDITOR: NICK HARAUZ AND ROB RUZIC
COMPOSER: MICHAEL TIMMINS
PRODUCER: TANYA LYN NAZAREC, JENNIFER PHILLIPS, JONATHAN HOLIFF
CAST: JOHNNY CASH, SAUL HOLIFF, JUNE CARTER CASH
RUNNING TIME: 87MIN
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21 NORTH OF SOUTH, WEST
OF EAST
WITH MEREDITH DANLUCK (SAT, NOV 9, 4:00 PM)
CINEMA 16 | DAILY SCREENINGS WED-SUN
This immersive four-screen feature film installation by Meredith Danluck,
shot on location in Detroit, Michigan, and Marfa, Texas, is a fun and
feverish ride, a remarkable achievement in multi-linear storytelling and pop
culture black comedy. North of South, West of East will screen daily during
the Nov. 6-10 festival in the Cinema 16 gallery to an audience of 24
people seated on swivel chairs, surrounded by four screens.
“North of South, West of East is a unique cinematic event that tells four
stories, but is one coherent film, with plots that are compelling, funny,
twisted and insightful. A portrait of post-modern America (or “post-hope,“
as Danluck describes it), the four cardinal directions of the title imply both
a sprawling cross-continental landscape film and a film located exactly
nowhere (where is “north of south“?). The four characters represent archetypes of American struggle: the auto-worker (Ben Foster) and the cowboy
(James Penfold), the out-of-work actress (Sue Galloway) and the hustling
immigrant (Erik Quintana). Each are comically out of step with the times,
stumbling into epiphanies. Galloway’s disarmingly dim-witted ways lead
her on a misguided Mary Kay makeup mission, but when she’s literally run off
the road, she discovers her inner sassiness. Foster’s gas-huffing grease monkey
is clearly looking to delude himself, but uncovers within the underbelly of
Americana a genuine weirdness he could never fantasize.
Inspired equally by late-night television and avant-garde cinema, in dividing
the viewer’s attention Danluck creates an experience that is fragmented
and ephemeral, fitting for the story’s themes. Like the characters on their
road trips, the audience has agency in their choices — but you’re just as
likely to disappear into your lifelong dream as you are to get smacked
in the face with cold french fries. Either way, it could only happen here,
wherever here is, in America“ (Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Rooftop Films).
Purchase your ticket the day of, directly at the door; screening included
with All Access, Weekend, and Day passes.
22 ONE CHANCE
From the director of The Devil Wears Prada, One Chance is the remarkable
and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by
day and an amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube
phenomenon after being chosen by Simon Cowell for Britain’s Got Talent.
Yet there is much more to Potts’ story. One of four children born to a bus
driver and a supermarket cashier, Paul (James Corden) grew up in Bristol
listening to his parents’ opera records and discovering his vocal gift by
singing in local choirs. Paul worked as a mobile phone salesman and was
deeply in love with Julie-Ann (Alexandra Roach), a romance that began as
an online courtship. Life was good, but there was a deep yearning in Potts
that would not disappear. “Corden brings marvelous coherence to Potts’
turbulent trajectory of ambition and frustration, while Roach is just lovely as
the partner whose unwavering belief helps see him through. One Chance
is about more than one chance — it’s about a whole life spent preparing
to make a dream come true“ (Toronto Film Festival).
Fresh from celebrating his Tony Award-winning Broadway run in One
Man, Two Guvnors, BAFTA winner James Corden (The History Boys) stars
as Paul Potts and is supported by an acclaimed ensemble cast that includes
Julie Walters, Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Jemima Rooper, Valeria
Bilello, and rising star Alexandra Roach.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: DAVID FRANKEL
CINEMATOGRAPHER: FLORIAN BALLHAUS
SCREENWRITER: JUSTIN ZACKHAM
EDITOR: WENDY GREENE BRICMONT
COMPOSER: THEODORE SHAPIRO
CAST: JAMES CORDEN, ALEXANDRA ROACH, JULIE WALTERS, COLM MEANEY,
JEMIMA ROOPER, VALERIA BILELLO
23 PERSISTENCE OF VISION
WITH DIRECTOR KEVIN SCHRECK
Innovative and visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger
Rabbit?) has worked in filmmaking for more than 50 years. For 25 of
those years, he toiled on what he believed would be his masterpiece, an
animated feature based on a Persian folk tale, which he called The Thief
and the Cobbler. In the wake of his Oscar® accolades for Who Framed
Roger Rabbit?, Warner Bros. put up $25 million to produce the film.
With a reputation as an innovator and perfectionist, Williams focused
his efforts and those of his creative staff on endlessly perfecting a series
of dazzling sequences. The experimentation astonished all who saw the
results, but never seemed to end. Then, a producing partner embezzled
production fund and, in 1992, the completion bond company seized the
work that had been done to date, and Williams never got to see his vision
come to life. He has refused to talk about it since.
In what the Hollywood Reporter calls a “fascinating slice of film history,“
filmmaker Kevin Schreck weaves together mind-blowing animation, rare
archival footage – including interviews with Williams discussing plans for
the project – and exclusive comments from key animators and artists who
worked with Williams, to present a tale of creative genius gone horribly
awry. Williams went on to become one of the greatest teachers of animation,
and his The Animator’s Survival Kit is a treasured resource to both aspiring
and experienced animators.
CANADA, 2012
DIRECTOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER: KEVIN SCHRECK
EDITOR: MAUREEN GOSLING AND KEVIN SCHRECK
COMPOSER: ADI YESHAYA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: PETER ESMONDE, BILL PRENDERGAST, KIT PRENDERGAST,
IZAK RAPPAPORT
CAST: OMAR ALI-SHAH, HOWARD BLAKE, JULIANNA FRANCHETTI, RICHARD WILLIAMS,
ROBIN WILLIAMS, ROBERT ZEMECKIS
RUNNING TIME: 83MIN
24 PHILOMENA
A sensation at the recent Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, Philomena
was a runner-up for Toronto’s People’s Choice Award. Based on the
2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, The Lost
Child of Philomena Lee, Philomena details the efforts of a mother who
conceived a child out of wedlock and gave him away for adoption in the
United States. Philomena’s Irish Catholic community didn’t take kindly to her
situation, so, following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract
that wouldn’t allow for any sort of inquiry into her son’s whereabouts. After
starting a family years later in England and, for the most part, moving on
with her life, Lee met Sixsmith, a BBC reporter with whom she decided to
discover her long-lost son.
“Showing us her softer side, Dame Judi Dench gives a tour de force performance as Philomena, one that is perfectly complemented by Steve Coogan
as Sixsmith. True masters of their craft, Dench and Coogan have a natural
chemistry onscreen, and their wry humor lifts the film’s more somber
moments“ (Toronto Film Festival).
Unanimously regarded as one of Britain’s finest directors, Stephen Frears’
past work includes My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid,
Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons, and The Grifters, for which he was
nominated for an Oscar®. Steve Coogan, the great comic actor, proves to
be a terrific screenwriter as well, supplying bright dialogue for himself and
his wonderful co-star, Dame Dench.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: STEPHEN FREARS
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ROBBIE RYAN
SCREENWRITER: STEVE COOGAN, JEFF POPE
EDITOR: VALERIO BONELLI
COMPOSER: ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
CAST: JUDI DENCH, STEVE COOGAN, SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK, MARE WINNINGHAM,
ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN, MICHELLE FAIRLEY,
RUNNING TIME: 98MIN
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: MEREDITH DANLUCK
PRODUCER: MATTHEW SHATTUCK
CINEMATOGRAPHER: JAKE BURGHART
EDITOR: EILEEN KENNEDY
COMPOSER: JOHN FRASIER CARPENTER
CAST: BEN FOSTER, JAMES PENFOLD, SUE GALLOWAY, ERIK QUINTANA
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25 RÉQUIEM NN
WITH DIRECTOR JUAN MANUEL ECHAVARRÍA AND
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARGARITA DE LA VEGA-HURTADO
RICE MEDIA CENTER | THURS NOV 7 | 7:00 PM
CINEMA 16 | SUN, NOV 10 | 3:45 PM
PHOTO EXHIBITION | CINEMA 16 | NOV 2-10 | DAILY
Directed by an acclaimed Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría, Réquiem
NN is an evocative documentary film, in which a community defies the
culture of violence by keeping alive the memory of the disappeared.
The town of Puerto Berrío, which sits on a bend near Colombia’s Magdalena
River, has been at the center of the conflict between various armed groups
such as guerrillas, the army, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers, enduring
uninterrupted cycles of violence. For over 30 years, local townspeople
have fished out the remains of victims of violence, called No Names
(NNs), drifting downstream. Yet for over several years now, the locals have
adopted these unidentified corpses and baptized them. They decorate and
visit their graves and honor their memory as one would for a lost family
member—all because, according to their faith, this guarantees divine protection
and special favors.
Since 2006, Echavarría has traveled to the Puerto Berrío’s cemetery to
document these rituals, first through photography and now through film.
With a lyrical and reflective eye, the film addresses the ways in which we
respond to violence by portraying a community that restores the value and
dignity of life, while confronting bitter cruelty and loss.
HCAF will also present an exhibit of Echavarría’s photographs at the Festival
Headquarters. Juan Manuel Echavarría is an established artist with a
cinematic vision, whose work is easily at home at art galleries and film
theaters. He has been featured at the Venice Biennale, MoMA, the San
Francisco and Toronto Film Festivals, and the Flaherty Film Seminar, among
other venues.
On November 7, 7PM at Rice Media Center, join a special screening
of Réquiem NN and a discussion with Juan Manuel Echavarría and Luis
Duno-Gottberg, Duncan College Master, Associate Professor Caribbean
and Film Studies at Rice University.
26 SHEPARD & DARK
WITH DIRECTOR TREVA WURMFELD AND PRODUCER
AMY HOBBY
Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early
1960s and, despite leading very different lives, remained close friends
ever since. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Buried
Child) and an Academy Award®-nominated actor (The Right Stuff), while
Dark was a homebody who supported himself with odd jobs. Through the
decades, they stayed bonded by family ties. Dark married an older
woman named Scarlett, and Shepard married her daughter. For years,
the two couples lived together, until Shepard broke away for a relationship
with Jessica Lange in 1983, leaving Johnny to help father his first son.
Nevertheless, he and Dark continued writing to each other, amassing
hundreds of letters.
Director Treva Wurmfeld began filming the two friends in 2010 during a
period of transition and reflection for Shepard. At the time, he had quietly
ended his relationship with Lange and agreed to publish his correspondence
with Dark. The task required them to meet and sift through years of their
shared history, stirring memories both good and bad.
Steve Dollar of the Wall Street Journal describes the film as “tragic and
tender, full of the passion of lives lived fully on their own terms.“ Wurmfeld
captures these complex lives over eighteen months, tapping into subjects
of love, illness, fatherhood, money, art, grief, passion, and isolation. A
richly emotional story, Shepard & Dark is an arresting exploration of the
joys and perils of long-term friendship.
USA, 2012
DIRECTOR: TREVA WURMFELD
CINEMATOGRAPHER: TREVA WURMFELD
EDITOR: SANDRA ADAIR
COMPOSER: GRAHAM REYNOLDS
CAST: SAM SHEPARD, JOHNNY DARK
RUNNING TIME: 92MIN
27 SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
STORIES
WITH JONAS MEKAS
CINEMA 16 | FRI, NOV 8 | 3:00 PM
Director Jonas Mekas, 90, continues to enthrall audiences by recording the
seemingly mundane happenings in his life. Unable to sleep, Mekas escapes
into 25 intimate stories with luminaries including Marina Abramovic, Patti
Smith, Yoko Ono, and Louis Garrel. Björk even gives him a ride to the
airport. We travel with Mekas through apartments to art openings, dinner
parties, backstage rooms, bars and clubs, sharing his curiosity and vigor
for his friends and their worlds. A delightful and relaxing time vacuum,
Sleepless Nights Stories invites the audience on a deeply personal journey
helmed by one of the greatest avant-garde filmmakers living today.
Mekas writes: “The subjects of the stories cover a wide range of emotions,
geographies, personal anxieties, anecdotes. These are not very big stories,
not for the Big Screen: these are all personal big stories… And yes, you’ll
also find some provocations… But that’s me, one “me“ of many. The very
question What is a story? is a provocative question.“
Co-presenting partner: Deborah Colton Gallery.
USA, 2011
DIRECTOR: JONAS MEKAS
CINEMATOGRAPHER: THOMAS BOUJUT, LOUIS GARREL, JONAS LOZORAITIS,
JONAS MEKAS, BENN NORTHOVER
EDITOR: ELLE BURCHILL, JONAS MEKAS
COMPOSER: DAN ZHU
CAST: RAIMUND ABRAHAM, MARINA ABRAMOVIC, BJÖRK, HARMONY KORINE,
YOKO ONO, PATTI SMITH, THOMAS BOUJUT, LOUIS GARREL, PHONG BUI, LOUISE BOURGEOIS
28 THE BALLAD OF THE
WEEPING SPRING
Nominated for nine Israeli Academy Awards, with wins for Best Original
Music, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Production Design, and Best Costume
Design, The Ballad of the Weeping Spring is a story of a legendary band
reuniting to play an emotional final concert. The film centers on Jossef,
once the leader of a Mizrahi band (a unique musical form combining
Middle Eastern and North African influences), and his old band-mate,
Avram. Torn apart by a tragic car accident, the two friends have been
estranged for years until Avram falls gravely ill and needs to see their lost
symphony performed before an audience. In the wake of the accident,
Jossef has been living in seclusion, far from his old life. He must now
somehow summon the courage to return to his friend and see their dream
realized.
Shot in Israel but taking place in a mythical place and time, Benny Toraty’s
highly entertaining film draws imagery from classic American and Sergio
Leone Spaghetti Westerns, creating a stylized and captivating world coupled
with a truly engaging soundtrack.
Of the film, Screen Daily says, “a period piece in every sense, though
the period itself is not quite clear, Toraty’s film has to be commended not
only for the remarkable use of its sets, locations and costumes and for the
soundtrack which serves as the picture’s backbone, but also for the evident
sympathy it displays towards all its characters, even those with a distinct
villainous inclination.“
Co-presenting partner: Consulate General of Israel.
ISRAEL, 2012
DIRECTOR: BENNY TORATY
CINEMATOGRAPHER:AMNON ZLAYET
SCREENWRITER: BENNY TORATY
EDITOR: YOSEF GRUNFELD
COMPOSER: MARK ELIYAHU
CAST: URI GAVRIEL, YIGAL ADIKA, DUDU TASSA, NIR LEVY, URI KLAUZNER, ADAR GOLD,
ISHTAR, MARK ELIYAHU
RUNNING TIME: 106MINUTES
COLOMBIA, 2013
DIRECTOR: JUAN MANUEL ECHAVARRÍA
CINEMATOGRAPHER: OMAR GUTIÉRREZ
EDITOR: ALAN WILD GUERRERO
RUNNING TIME: 68MIN
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29 THE LOVE SONGS OF
TIEDAN
WITH DIRECTOR HAO JIE, ACTOR FENG SI, ACTRESSES
GE XIA AND YELAN JIANG, AND PRODUCER XIAOMEI XING
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER | SAT, NOV 9 | 7:00 PM
Chinese director Hao Jie delights with his lively musical comedy about a
young man’s romantic obsession spanning several decades. A larkish tribute
to the er ren tai form of bawdy folk singing practiced for centuries in the
Northwestern mountainous region of China, The Love Songs of Tiedan is
shot in a village in this region and acted mostly by native nonprofessionals.
The temporary prohibition of er ren tai is just one obstacle that Tiedan
(Feng Si) must cope with. As a child, the precocious Tiedan becomes
deeply attached to his beautiful neighbor Sister May. As an adult, he ends
up having various romantic complications with all three of her children—
identified only as First Daughter, Second Daughter, and Third Daughter.
Sister May is the pupil and the singing partner of Tiedan’s father, a man so
devoted to er ren tai that he will get into serious trouble during the Cultural
Revolution for practicing a “feudal“ form of entertainment.
Director Hao Jie focuses on male desire as in his debut, Single Man, a film
that earned him an international reputation as one of China’s most exciting
new independent directors. But The Love Songs of Tiedan, according to
critic Berenice Reynaud, draws from a broader “range of cinematic and
visual styles from ethnomusicology to musical to comedy to expressionism.“
Hao also pushes the envelope of romantic longing and obsession much
further than in his previous work.
Co-presenting partner: Asia Society Texas Center.
CHINA, 2012
DIRECTOR: HAO JIE
SCREENWRITER: HAO JIE, GE XIA
CINEMATOGRAPHER: DU PU
EDITOR: BAEK SEUNG-HOON
COMPOSER: XIAO HE
CAST: FENG SI, YELAN JIANG, WEICHENG SHI, DU HUANRONG, GE XIA, FENG YUN,
LI YUQIN
RUNNING TIME: 91MIN
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30 TIME SHIFT: THE FILMS OF
SCOTT STARK
WITH SCOTT STARK AND MICHAEL SICINSKI
CINEMA 16 | SUN, NOV 10 | 1:00 PM
Austin-based media artist Scott Stark’s newest work is entitled The Realist,
which is both ironic and absolutely spot-on. For over thirty years, Stark’s
work has explored the capacities of both film and video to warp, distort,
compress, and distend the contours of time and space. But in so doing,
Stark has produced an odd sort of “realism,“ one that asks us to look and
listen deeper than the surface of things. Tonight’s program is about making
things strange, and perhaps getting reacquainted with an ordinary world
we thought we knew well.
Time Shift: The Films of Scott Stark is a co-presentation of the Houston Cinema
Arts Festival and the Blaffer Museum’s On Screen series, supported by the
University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. On
Screen programmer and film critic Michael Sicinski will moderate a Q&A
with Scott Stark following the screenings.
––Hotel Cartograph (1983, 12 mins.)
Stark runs roughshod over a labyrinthine carpet that consumes our field of
vision. No one is escaping from Tessellation Row.
––Speechless (2008, 13 mins.)
Drawn from a medical textbook on the clitoris, these 3D images of vaginas,
once passive before the clinical gaze, bound back to life. Viewer discretion
is advised.
––Shape Shift (2004, 2 mins.)
Stark’s own body under the lens, morphed and fragmented, screwed and
chopped.
––The Realist (2013, 36 mins.)
A look into the secret lives of mannequins. Consumerism’s tremulous
unconscious. A ballet méchanique struggling to achieve its grand jeté.
Digital Video for Dummies.
31 THE STOLEN MAN (EL HOMBRE ROBADO)
WITH DIRECTOR MATÍAS PIÑEIRO
Matías Piñeiro’s debut feature is steeped in Argentinean literary history,
specifically the work of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. It stars María Villar
as Mercedes, a woman who steals from museums, fencing the goods to
different antique dealers. One day, Mercedes spies Andres (Francisco
García Faure), the fiancé of her best friend Leticia (Romina Paula), acting
suspiciously friendly with another woman. Mercedes decides to follow
the pair.
“Piñeiro’s sparkling debut film breathlessly follows a clever, capricious
young woman as she carefully interweaves friends and lovers into an intricate
web of secretive yet often unexpectedly compassionate games. Together
with her best friend and fellow tour guide at a rival Buenos Aires historical
museum, Piñeiro’s headstrong heroine attempts to tame the unpredictable
course of her heart, eccentrically drawing inspiration from Sarmiento’s
magnum opus, Facundo. With its grainy 16mm black and white cinematography, its political sub- and super- texts and its compelling portrait of impetuous youth, The Stolen Man recalls the alternately sober and
sprightly nouvelle vague of Jean Eustache and Jacques Rivette“ (Harvard
Film Archive).
32 THE VOLUNTEER
WITH VICKY WIGHT AND AUNJANUE ELLIS
SUNDANCE 2 | MON, NOV 11 | 7:15 PM
Winner of Best Narrative Feature at this year’s Urbanworld Film Festival,
The Volunteer is Houston resident Vicky Wight’s first feature. Her short film,
Coffee, premiered at SXSW in 2009.
After dramatically leaving her successful but soul-crushing career, fortysomething Leigh finds herself wondering if there’s more to life, to love, to
everything. Overwhelmed by apathy and a vague sense of guilt, she decides
to volunteer at a local soup kitchen. There, she meets Ethan, a troubled
drifter with whom she begins an electric, but turbulent affair. Following a
series of troubling encounters, Leigh begins to realize Ethan’s charm may
be masking a difficult past. This quiet, yet affecting film features moving,
understated performances, while deftly exploring the world of a woman
in transition.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: VICKY WIGHT
PRODUCER: BRIDGET STOKES
CINEMATOGRAPHER: CHRIS TEAGUE
SCREENWRITER: VICKY WIGHT
EDITOR: VERONICA RUTLEDGE
COMPOSER: TIM EASTON
CAST: AUNJANUE ELLIS, EBON MOSS-BACHRACH, HILL HARPER, SCOTT WOLF,
MARY BETH HURT, EISA DAVIS, NOAH GRAY CABEY, WILL JANOWITZ
RUNNING TIME: 95MIN
ARGENTINA, 2007
DIRECTOR: MATÍAS PIÑEIRO
CINEMATOGRAPHER: FERNANDO LOCKETT
SCREENWRITER: MATÍAS PIÑEIRO
EDITOR: ALEJO MOGUILLANSKY
CAST: MARÍA VILLAR, ANA CAMBRE, FRANCISCO GARCÍA FAURE, DANIEL GILMAN
CALDERÓN, ROMINA PAULA
RUNNING TIME: 91MIN
Co-presenting partner: Blaffer Art Museum.
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33 THE YELLOW TICKET
WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT BY ALICIA SVIGALS AND
MARILYN LERNER
MFAH | THUR, NOV 7 | 7:30 PM
Enjoy a live multi-media event featuring a new score by violinist Alicia
Svigals, reanimating a silent cinematic classic starring famed Polish actress
Pola Negri. Negri embodies a woman’s struggle to overcome adversity in
a story of secret identities, heroic measures, and triumphant love. Remarkably
progressive for its time, the film explores anti-semitism, gender bias, and
human trafficking in Imperialist Russia.
Svigals has crafted a lush score, which she performs live with jazz pianist
virtuoso Marilyn Lerner. Klezmer and other Eastern European folk traditions, 20th century classical composers such as Béla Bartók and Ernest
Bloch, European café music, and contemporary improvisation, inspire
the composition.
The Yellow Ticket production was commissioned by the Foundation for
Jewish Culture’s New Jewish Culture Network, a league of North American
performing arts presenters committed to the creation and touring of innovative
projects. The Yellow Ticket received its debut at the Washington Jewish
Music Festival presented by the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community
Center through a commission made possible by the Arthur Tracy “The
Street Singer“ Endowment Fund.
Co-presented with Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Fair and
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
GERMANY, 1918
DIRECTOR: VICTOR JANSON, EUGEN ILLÉS
SCREENWRITER: HANS BRENNERT, HANS KRÄLY
CINEMATOGRAPHER: EUGEN ILLÉS
CAST: POLA NEGRI, HARRY LIEDTKE, VICTOR JANSON
RUNNING TIME: 63MIN
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34 THEY ALL LIE (TODOS MIENTEN)
“In a masterfully executed juggle with the past and the present, the young
Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro seduces us into a strange universe
filled with intrigue and mystery. A group of young artist types has settled
in a house in the country, where they become part of a network of romantic
entanglements, while mysterious conspiracies take shape. They live a
bohemian life, where secretive alliances are formed between the sexes,
while they tell stories, find hidden bottle messages, play music, record
mysterious cassette tapes, paint pictures, get drunk and make out. The past
and history blends into their youthful existence, and Piñeiro’s fascination
with Argentina’s history can be clearly felt. The Argentinian writer and
politician [Domingo Faustino] Sarmiento is apparently the ancestor of one
of the female protagonists, and they read aloud from his diaries, while
trying to form a link between the past and the present“ (CPH Pix).
The Harvard Film Archive calls this “a giddy kaleidoscope of differed
meaning that playfully channels the high postmodernism of William Gaddis. Piñeiro explores a cool stylistic restraint in They All Lie, deploying precision
mise en scène to transform the rambling country house that is the film’s sole
location into a series of inter-nested boxes and closets in which strange
skeletons inevitably wait. With their zealous embrace of Sarmiento’s
introspective writings, Piñeiro’s youthful and self-absorbed characters once
again become the delightfully improbable vehicles for thoughtful reflections
on the history of modern Argentina.“
ARGENTINA, 2009
EDITOR: DELFINA CASTAGNINO
CAST: ROMINA PAULA, MARÍA VILLAR, JULIA MARTÍNEZ RUBIO, PILAR GAMBOA,
JULIÁN TELLO, JULIÁN LARQUIER TELLARINI, ESTEBAN BIGLIARDI, ESTEBAN LAMOTHE
RUNNING TIME: 75MIN
35 TEXAS FILMMAKERS
SHOWCASE
WITH ALFRED CERVANTES AND THE FILMMAKERS
The Texas Filmmakers Showcase, organized by the Houston Film Commission,
is a special screening event consisting of the best Texas short films and
videos. Each year, the program is presented to executives and industry
professionals in the Hollywood film community, with subsequent screenings
around Texas throughout the rest of the year.
––Cork’s Cattlebaron by Eric Steele (15:15 min.)
Two men sit down for a life-changing steak dinner in Omaha, Nebraska.
––The Garden and the Wilderness by Craig Whitney (27:19 min.)
A poetic re-imagining of the Western genre, The Garden and
the Wilderness examines the dramatic themes of life on the frontier,
refracted through the lens of 21st century realities. ––Hellion by Kat Candler (6:25 min.)
All hell breaks loose when Petey is left with his hell raising brothers. But
things go from bad to really, really bad when dad comes home. ––Little Lions by Tony Costello (9:56 min.)
Cosmo spends his days roughhousing with this little brother and sister, and
the games don’t stop when he discovers an injured bird in their backyard.
Little Lions is the story of a boy who’s just starting to figure it out. ––Vincent Valdez: Excerpts for John by Angela & Mark Walley (11:53 min.)
Two years in the making, this short documentary film captures the creative
process of artist Vincent Valdez. Filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley
follow Valdez as he creates a series of works dedicated to his childhood
best friend John Holt Jr., an Army combat medic, who died in 2009
after serving in Iraq. ––Vultures of Tibet by Russell Oliver Bush (21:01 min.)
In rapidly developing Western China, sky burial, a sacred ritual in which
the bodies of Tibetan dead are fed to wild griffon vultures, becomes a
popular tourist attraction.
36 VIOLA / ROSALINDA
“Matías Piñeiro is one of contemporary Argentine cinema’s most sensuous
and sophisticated new voices. In his latest film, Viola, he ingeniously fashions
out of Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night a seductive roundelay among young
actors and lovers in present-day Buenos Aires. Mixing melodrama with
sentimental comedy, philosophical conundrum with matters of the heart,
Viola bears all the signature traits of a Piñeiro film: serpentine camera
movements and slippages of language, an elliptical narrative and a playful
confusion of reality and artifice.
In Rosalinda, a group of actors travel to El Tigre to rehearse William
Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Luisa, who plays Rosalind in the play, terminates
a current romantic relationship over her cell phone. During preparations,
she alternates between rehearsing and daydreaming, and starts to slowly
embody Rosalind, transforming into the object of desire of other cast members
on the island. During those sun-soaked hours, love strikes between the players,
and the roles between the actress and the character confuse themselves in a
rare mixing of joyful artifice and anguishing uncertainty. But once rehearsals
are over and everyone returns to reality, the romantic bliss between
the cast members and their own partners awakens in her a foolish and
irrepressible desire“ (Film Society of Lincoln Center).
VIOLA:
ARGENTINA, 2012
COMPOSER: JOHN AYLWARD AND JULIÁN TELLO
CAST: MARÍA VILLAR, AGUSTINA MUÑOZ, ELISA CARRICAJO, ROMINA PAULA
RUNNING TIME: 63MIN
ROSALINDA:
ARGENTINA, 2011
CAST: ALBERTO AJAKA, AGUSTINA MUÑOZ, MARÍA VILLAR
RUNNING TIME: 43MIN
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37 WITNESS: PALESTINE, A
LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE,
AND PASOLINI’S LAST WORDS
WITH BARBARA HAMMER AND CATHY LEE CRANE
AURORA PICTURE SHOW | FRI, NOV 8 | 7:00 PM
Houston Cinema Arts Festival and Aurora Picture Show present a night of
Pasolini-inspired films by two accomplished filmmakers, Cathy Lee Crane
and Barbara Hammer, both in attendance. The evening starts off with
Cathy Lee Crane’s sixty-minute documentary Pasolini’s Last Words. Known
as one of Italy’s most important filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini was first
and foremost, one of its poets. Combining staged and archival material,
this elegiac essay considers Pasolini’s brutal murder in 1975 alongside the
texts he published or left unfinished during his last year.
Following the documentary, renowned avant-garde filmmaker and pioneer
of queer cinema, Barbara Hammer will present a live cinema performance. In
Witness: Palestine Hammer layers film practice, politics, and performance.
Moved by the stories of men and women she met while on the first LGBTIQ
Solidarity Tour of Palestine in January 2012, Hammer sought to find a way
to share their voices in a manner that would underline the humanity and
vulnerability of her subjects. Upon seeing Intellettuale (1975) by Fabio
Mauri, who projected Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew
(1964) onto Pasolini himself, she found the answer. In this performance,
Hammer assembles a group of twelve volunteers from the audience, each
of whom dons a large white T-shirt. Thus attired, these participants become the
three-dimensional screens, onto which Hammer projects films of Palestinians
telling their stories: a man tells of losing his village when he was six, a
sister speaks about her brother killed by a rubber bullet, a farmer says he
cannot travel to his land to plant – the stories of suffering, hardship, and
loss are spoken one by one.
Co-presenting partner: Aurora Picture Show.
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38 WILD STYLE
20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
WITH DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER
WITH DIRECTOR CHARLIE AHEARN
A must-see for anyone interested in the culture and history of hip hop,
Charlie Ahearn’s seminal film is regarded as the first movie celebrating the
emergence of what would become a worldwide phenomenon. The film’s
narrative follows Ray, the city’s hottest and most elusive graffiti writer, as
he struggles between staying an outlaw artist and moving into the limelight
and getting paid.
A raucous and exuberant ride, Wild Style showcases graffiti, breakdancing,
free-style MCing, and DJing, all original and defining elements of hip hop
culture. Rare footage and appearances by Fab 5 Freddy, George Lee
Quiñones, Lady Pink, Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Queen
Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, and Grandmaster Flash, all basically playing
themselves, makes for an electric film experience not to be missed.
2013 marks the 30th Anniversary of the film Wild Style. Ahearn’s latest
film, Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer, as well as a collection of his hip
hop short films will also screen at this year’s Festival.
USA, 1983
DIRECTOR: CHARLIE AHEARN
COMPOSER: CLIVE DAVIDSON, JOHN FOSTER
SCREENWRITER: CHARLIE AHEARN
EDITOR: STEVEN C. BROWN
COMPOSER: FAB 5 FREDDY, CHRIS STEIN
CAST: GEORGE LEE QUIÑONES, FAB 5 FREDDY, PATTI ASTOR
RUNNING TIME: 82MIN
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MFAH | FRI, NOV 8 | 9:00 PM
Included in Quentin Tarantino’s list of the 10 greatest films of all time,
Richard Linklater’s cult classic has become part of the lexicon of film history
and thus required viewing for aspiring filmmakers (and stoners). On its
twentieth anniversary, Linklater told The Daily Beast what inspired his
unique take on the teen movie genre: “I wanted to capture the feeling of
driving around, trying to be cool. It was tone and atmosphere. That’s what
was churning around inside me. The mooood.“
Set on the last day of school at Lee High School in the suburbs of Austin,
Texas, the film follows the activities of a group of students as they celebrate
the arrival of summer. When classes end, the incoming freshman boys are
hunted down and hazed by the senior boys, while the incoming freshman
girls are rounded up and suffer the same fate at the hand of the senior girls.
Randall “Pink“ Floyd, the school’s star football player, is asked to sign a
pledge promising not to take drugs during the summer or do anything that
would “jeopardize the goal of a championship season“. Eventually, the
student’s various paths lead to an awesome keg party at the Moontower.
Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film as “art crossed with anthropology“
with a “painful underside.“ In her review for the Austin Chronicle, Marjorie
Baumgarten praised Matthew McConaughey’s film debut stating, “He is a
character we’re all too familiar with in the movies but McConaughey nails
this guy without a hint of condescension or whimsy, claiming this character
for all time as his own.“
USA, 1983
DIRECTOR: RICHARD LINKLATER
CINEMATOGRAPHER: LEE DANIEL
SCREENWRITER: RICHARD LINKLATER
EDITOR: SANDRA ADAIR
COMPOSER: HARRY GARFIELD
CAST: JASON LONDON, WILEY WIGGINS, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, JOEY LAUREN
ADAMS, MILLA JOVOVICH, ADAM GOLDBERG, ANTHONY RAPP, MICHELLE BURKE,
PARKER POSEY, BEN AFFLECK, SHAWN ANDREWS, RORY COCHRAN
40 THE ANNUNCIATION
PRESENTED BY CARY WOLFE
Eija-Liisa Ahtila has explored and experimented with narrative storytelling
in her films and cinematic installations. In her earlier works, she has dealt
with the unsettling human dramas at the center of personal relationships.
Her later works, however, deal with more profound and basic artistic questions.
Her skillfully crafted narratives and touching portrayal of characters have
captured the public’s interest and won critical acclaim worldwide.
In The Annunciation, one of the central motifs of Christian iconography is
constructed and re-enacted through the moving image. It is based on the
narrative from the Gospel of Luke (1:26-38) and paintings of the Annunciation
in which artists have, in various periods, depicted their visions of the
gospel’s events.
In this Annunciation the events are set in the present. The projected images
consist of material made during the film’s preparation and the actual
reconstruction of the event. The film material was shot mainly during the
frosty winter season of 2010 in the snowy Aulanko nature reserve in southern
Finland and on a set depicting the artist’s studio and the scene of the
Annunciation. All the actors, apart from two, are non-professionals and
attend the Helsinki Deaconess Institute for women’s support services.
The Annunciation originated, like many of Ahtila’s works, as a multi-screen
installation. For the theatrical version shown here, it will be seen as a
34-minute three-screen version and a 38-minute single-screen film.
FINLAND, 2011
DIRECTOR: EIJA-LIISA AHTILA
SCREENWRITER: EIJA-LIISA AHTILA
EDITOR: HEIKKI KOTSALO
CAST: SATU MÅKINEN, ELISE LAAKSONEN, TARU OLLILA
RUNNING TIME: 72MIN
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41 ART HARD
WITH MEREDITH DANLUCK
CINEMA 16 | FRI, NOV 8 | 9:00 PM
Land artist Jim Denevan journeys to Lake Baikal in southwestern Siberia
with one mission: to create the world’s largest work of art.
Atop nine square miles of ice, he and his crew face off against the
elements and their own emotional breaking points, hoping to carve their
places into the lake’s storied and sacred history. In his quest to venerate a
body of water deemed spiritual by many in the region, Denevan broke his
own record for creating the world’s largest artwork, originally set in the
Nevada desert in 2009.
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42 BEFORE THE SPRING AFTER THE FALL
WITH JED ROTHSTEIN
In 2008, the filmmakers were following a group of young heavy metal
musicians in Egypt who offered an unconventional perspective on the
Muslim world. Oppressed by a government that banned their music, the
kids struggled to retain a small bit of freedom. Then one spring, Hosni
Mubarak’s 28-year grip on the country was broken, and what had been
a story about the struggle for the right to free expression — the right to
rock — became a story about the battle for the future of Egypt.
As funny as it is dramatic, Art Hard is a visually stunning portrait about
a man’s artistic process, his comedic nature, his struggle to stay sane, and the
people who help him do so. Denevan’s Siberian project was commissioned
by the ANTHROPOLOGIST, an online space supported by Anthropologie
that supports the work of inspiring individuals.
Before the Spring After the Fall portrays a few remarkable young people
—sons of a jailed political dissident and the leader of the only female
metal band in the Middle East — as they seek to reshape their country,
defining themselves as individuals in the process. With their music as the
soundtrack, we follow them into a transformed world, where the political
becomes the personal, where uncertainty is the only constant.
USA, 2010
DIRECTOR: MEREDITH DANLUCK
CINEMATOGRAPHER: JAKE BURGHART
EDITOR: MEREDITH DANLUCK
COMPOSER: JOHN FRASER CARPENTER
CAST: JIM DENEVAN, CALEB COE, ZACHARY HANDL, PETER HINSON
RUNNING TIME: 74MIN
Director Jed Rothstein was nominated for an Academy Award for his short
film Killing in the Name. In October, Before the Spring After the Fall won
Best Documentary Feature at the Bend Film Festival.
USA/EGYPT, 2013
DIRECTOR: JED ROTHSTEIN
PRODUCER: LIZ GARBUS, ALLYSON LUCHAK, AND JED ROTHSTEIN
CINEMATOGRAPHER: TOM HURWITZ
EDITOR: KEITH REAMER, KATE TAVERNA
RUNNING TIME: 72MIN
43 ENZO AVITABILE MUSIC LIFE
In this unforgettable portrait, Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme
captures the passion and brilliance of Enzo Avitabile, a world-renowned
Neapolitan saxophonist and singer/songwriter. Demme, a long admirer
of Avitabile’s music, deftly investigates the fusion of Neapolitan music,
world music, and jazz, while at the same time exploring Naples, a city of
treasures and contradictions.
As Enzo creates amazing new music with collaborators from all over
the world, including Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club, Naseer
Shamma, Daby Touré, and Trilok Gurtu, we learn about his commitment to
musical research and his love of musical experimentation. A unique and
lively personality, Avitabile’s life is a passionate and colorful world from
which Demme paints a truly engaging portrait.
Jonathan Demme began his film career as a writer and producer for Roger
Corman in 1971, and has gone on to direct and produce more than 30
movies. Demme’s films, which have been nominated for 20 Academy
Awards®, include Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, The Manchurian
Candidate (2004), and The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the
Oscar® for Best Director in 1991.
ITALY, 2012
DIRECTOR: JONATHAN DEMME
CINEMATOGRAPHER: VINCENZO PASCOLO
EDITOR: GIOGIÒ FRANCHINI
COMPOSER: ENZO AVITABILE
CAST: ENZO AVITABILE, ELIADES OCHOA, NASEER SHAMMA
RUNNING TIME: 80MIN
44 NARCO CULTURA
WITH DIRECTOR SHAUL SCHWARZ AND PRODUCER
TODD HAGOPIAN
To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narcotraffickers have become iconic outlaws – new models of fame and success.
They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, a new American dream fueled
by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon
from within, exposing cycles of addiction to the money, drugs, and violence
rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Directed by an award-winning photographer and filmmaker, Shaul Schwarz,
Narco Cultura captures the devastation wreaked by drug cartels. A new,
hugely successful phenomenon has risen from the bloodshed, making
superstars out of musicians, whose music portrays the traffickers as glamorous
outlaws. With stunning imagery, Narco Cultura follows these musicians in
performance and interacting with gangers wanting to be immortalized
with their own theme tunes. Focusing on a narcocorrido singer in El Paso,
Texas, and a crime scene investigator in neighboring Ciudad Juárez, the
film vividly portrays both the allure and the human cost of the war on drugs.
Schwarz’s exceptional film screened in competition at this year’s Sundance
Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Fantastic Fest.
USA, 2013
DIRECTOR: SHAUL SCHWARZ
CINEMATOGRAPHER: SHAUL SCHWARZ
EDITOR: BRYAN CHANG, JAY ARTHUR STERRENBERG
MUSIC: JEREMY TURNER
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45 PARIS, TEXAS
46 SNEAK PREVIEW OF A NEW FILM STARRING THOMAS HADEN CHURCH
Following our screening of Shepard & Dark, we are pleased to present
Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders’ classic Paris, Texas, filmed in Houston.
The film is one of Wim Wenders’ most critically acclaimed and successful
movies, winning a number of international prizes including the Palme
d’Or® for Best Film in 1984.
WITH SPECIAL GUEST ACTOR THOMAS HADEN CHURCH,
DIRECTOR MEGAN GRIFFITHS, AND WRITER/PRODUCER
EMILY WACHTEL
A haunting road movie, with screenplay by the acclaimed playwright Sam
Shepard, Paris, Texas tells the tale of Travis, a man lost in his own private
hell. Presumed dead for four years, he reappears from the desert on the
Mexico border, world-weary and an amnesiac. He traces his brother Walt,
who is bringing up Hunter, his seven-year-old son, whom Travis abandoned
at Walt’s door several years before.
We can’t tell you the title of this upcoming release, but we can say
it features an inventive and hilarious performance by Thomas Haden
Church. Come see this sneak preview in advance of its U.S. premiere
and meet Thomas Haden Church, director Megan Griffiths, and writer/
producer Emily Wachtel, who will engage in a post-film discussion with
Variety and CultureMap film critic Joe Leydon.
As virtual strangers, Hunter and Travis begin to build a wary friendship
and conspire to find Travis’ wife Jane and bring her back to be a real
family.
In his 1984 review, Roger Ebert said of the film, “Paris, Texas is a movie
with the kind of passion and willingness to experiment that was more common
fifteen years ago than it is now. It has more links with films like Five Easy
Pieces, Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, than with the slick arcade
games that are the box-office winners of the 1980s. It is true, deep, and
brilliant.“
MFAH | FRI, NOV 8 | 5:45 PM
47 HONOR FLIGHT: ONE LAST
MISSION
MINUTE MAID PARK | MON, NOV 11 | 2:00 PM
Honor Flight: One Last Mission is an inspiring documentary about living
World War II veterans and a community coming together to give them
the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands
of WWII veterans to Washington, D.C. to see the memorial constructed
for them in 2004, nearly 60 years after their epic struggle. The Honor
Flights are meant to give something back to these humble heroes, but their
selflessness and profound appreciation for freedom transforms everyone
they meet.
Free tickets to the Honor Flight: One Last Mission screening at Minute
Maid Park as part of the Houston Astros’ Veterans Day Salute presented
by Occidental Petroleum are available online at
mlb.com/hou/community/salute_to_vets.jsp
USA, 2012
DIRECTOR: DAN HAYES
CINEMATOGRAPHER: BENJAMIN GASKELL, DAN HAYES
COMPOSER: JOSH CHRISTIANSEN, ALEXANDER MAAS EDITOR: HAWK JENSEN CAST: BERT BRACH, EARL BRUSS, JOE DEAN
RUNNING TIME: 83MIN
With extraordinary performances from Harry Dean Stanton (subject of
another 2013 HCAF film, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction) as Travis and
Nastassja Kinski as Jane, the film also boasts a soundtrack by Ry Cooder, ideally
suited to the film’s sun-bleached landscapes and melancholy undertones.
USA, 1984
DIRECTOR: WIM WENDERS
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ROBBY MÜLLER
SCREENWRITER: SAM SHEPARD
EDITOR: PETER PRZYGODDA
COMPOSER: RY COODER
CAST: HARRY DEAN STANTON, NASTASSJA KINSKI, DEAN STOCKWELL, AURORE CLÉMENT,
HUNTER CARSON
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Houston Cinema Arts Society’s mission is to present innovative films, media installations, and performances
that celebrate the artistic process and enrich Houston’s culture and urban vitality.
Your membership can help us fulfill this mission.
HCAS membership provides free, individual and family entertainment year-round. Members can attend events
and screenings almost every month. In 2012-2013, HCAS invited members to several events co-presented
with great organizations, such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, SWAMP, Houston Museum of African
American Culture, Reelabilities: Houston Disabilities Film Festival, QFest, and many more. Also, HCAS presented
Julydoscope, a free evening of Art, Dance, and Film at Discovery Green - open to the public.
On a regular basis, members are invited to advance screenings presented by major film distributors.
During the Houston Cinema Arts Festival in November, members are privy to special announcements and
get VIP treatment.
In 2014, HCAS will continue to offer year-round programming and will develop its educational outreach
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
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