|
Freedom Cinema Festival
www.freedomcinemafestival.org
MEDIA ADVISORY:
January 18, 2005
For press and media
inquiries please call
1-800-503-5923 x 1
or email
press@freedomcinemafestival.org
Freedom Cinema Festival Hits Park
City Again
January 25-30
PARK CITY, Utah– Freedom Cinema Festival: Park City
provides a unique, alternative forum for leading grassroots
artists addressing socially and politically relevant themes.
The festival runs concurrently with the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival.
The second annual Freedom Film Festival features 64 provocative
films from around the world, including U.S. and world premieres.
Like last year, the Festival includes popular and affordable;
live music events, panel discussions with activist media,
and stand-up comedy.
‘‘While other festivals have done a good job of
including important political work in their program, the films
with the big stars and the big corporate money behind them
will continue to get the most attention at these festivals,’’
said Andrew Jon Thomson, the festival’s founder and executive
director.
''If there was a prize for 'Best Vibe' the Freedom Cinema
Festival would surely have won.’’ said Mark Achbar,
director of The Corporation, a 2004 Sundance Audience Award-winner.
‘‘There was a consciousness in all the organizers'
choices that did not pervade the larger festival down the
street.”
WHEN: January 25 to 30
WHERE: Main Street Mall, 2nd floor
333 Main Street (across from Egyptian Theater)
Park City, Utah
TICKETS/ SCHEDULE : 877.849.3231 or www.freedomcinemafestival.org
Film Highlights
* An Iraqi Lullaby For Children Who Are About To Die/ World
Premiere (Directors: Allie Light, Irving Saraf) An Iraqi mother
sings a lullaby to her children as bombs and artillery demolish
their world.
* Beyond Right and Wrong (Director: Dixie Gamble) A severely
mentally ill death row inmate’s tortured past becomes
his only salvation.
* Peaceable Kingdom (Director: Jenny Stein) A fourth-generation
Montana cattle rancher turns vegetarian.
* Searching For Angela Shelton (Director: Angela Shelton)
Filmmaker Angela Shelton discovers that 16 of 32 Angela Sheltons
she interviewed had been raped, beaten or molested.
* SHEM /US Premiere (Director: Caroline Roboh) A gay British
teenager travels to Eastern Europe to uncover his now-deceased
grandfather’s Jewish heritage.
* Seoul Train /US Premiere (Directors: Jim Butterworth, Aaron
Lubarsky, Lisa Sleeth) The life and death of North Koreans
trying to escape on an “underground railroad.”
* Livicated /Special Sneak Preview (Director: Eric Crown)
Rare interviews with Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh
as one man’s reggae archives move from Los Angeles to
Jamaica to become the first National Museum of Reggae.
Special Guests:
* Dana Williams, Mayor of Park City
* Jon Alpert, co-founder, Downtown Community Television Center,
Emmy award- winning documentary filmmaker and Exec. Producer
of Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story 2005 Sundance short
* Michael Franti, solo performer from Spearhead
* Greg Palast, BBC investigative journalist and filmmaker
* John Trudell, poet/actor/activist and subject of Sundance
film
* Danny Schechter, ''the news dissector'', Emmy award-winning
documentary filmmaker and media critic
* Winona LaDuke, Native American, ecological activist, 2000
Green Party VP candidate
* The Coup and Zion I, Socially conscious hip hop groups
* Barry Crimmins, Laura Kightlinger, Randy Credico, Comedians
This Festival is co-sponsored by Mother Jones Magazine, the
ACLU, Film Arts Foundation, and Speakoutnow.org.
|
