Opening Night Film and Party - Eden Court
Stellar performances by Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Kimberly Williams-Paisley, (Father of the Bride) and Stephnie Weir (MADtv) make for a potent combination in the World Premiere of Paul Leuer’s sweet and funny tale of ambition, family and the difference a day makes.
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Closing Night Film and Party - Take
Cinequest is thrilled to present director Charles Oliver’s Take as our Closing Night Film for the 2008 Cinequest. Featuring a haunting and resolute performance by Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, The Riches) and an intense portrayal of a desperate man by Jeremy Renner (North Country, S.W.A.T.), Oliver beautifully constructs a powerful film about a man looking for salvation and a woman looking for the closure she needs to go on living.
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Maverick Spirit Event - Danny Glover
In more ways than one, it’s nearly impossible to pin Danny Glover down. When he isn’t working on one of the multiple film projects he has lined up far into the future, he’s more likely than not to be flying off to yet another activist event, lending his support for justice and equality for the disenfranchised and the poor. You get the feeling he could almost wave to himself as his planes fly past each other in opposite directions.
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Maverick Spirit Event - Michael Keaton
After dabbling in the arena of stand up comedy, Michael Keaton found his true calling as an actor. His quirky sense of humor in Night Shift (1982), Mr. Mom (1982) and Tim Burton’s horror-comedy Beetlejuice (1988) catapulted his film career. However, Keaton’s encounter with Burton did not end with Beetlejuice when the eclectic director cast him as the millionaire crime-fighter in Batman.
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Maverick Spirit Event - Michael Arndt
“I wrote Little Miss Sunshine when I was unemployed, living in a small, one-bedroom walk-up in Brooklyn and slowly burning through my hard-earned savings. I had quit my job and given myself a year off, hoping to write a salable script in that time. It was the financial equivalent of jumping off a cliff and trying to build an airplane on the way down. I had never made a dime from creative writing. I had no credits, no agent, no publishing history. I was—in every external—a complete and total loser…. What I did have, though, was an enormous sense of happiness and purpose…(finally, I could write full-time!) and boundless, delusional self-confidence.” —Michael Arndt, Academy Award® Winner Best Original Screenplay (2006) Little Miss Sunshine. From the forward of Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script
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Maverick Spirit Event - Bobby Moresco
Producer and writer Bobby Moresco is one of the most dynamic individuals in the film business today. Following enormous success with his Academy Award® winning films Million Dollar Baby and Crash, Moresco Productions is aggressively working on a variety of projects in film and television. This conversation will provide a glimpse into the workings of one of the most exciting production companies in the business. Moresco is joined on the stage with producing partner Mark Harris. Harris’s remarkable career has spanned several decades and involves working in the business from a variety of capacities. His lengthy and impressive resume includes projects with the top names in the business, and he has developed and managed top talent organizations. Don’t miss this exciting conversation with two powerhouse names in the business.
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Film and Technology Forums
These not-to-miss presentations from industry leaders expose filmmakers and film fans to the people and technologies that aid the creation and delivery of Maverick, independent and international cinema. As Chris Gore, author of The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide has stated: “This festival is one that sets the trends and is actually ahead of the trends. Other festivals are copying Cinequest; I see it all the time…You find the future of film at Cinequest.” Empower yourself via exposure to cutting-edge technologies as well as insight and how-to knowledge from leading film professionals.
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Cinequest Music Events
Featuring a superb line-up of music artists, Cinequest unleashes sounds that will move and groove you. Discover new artists and have a blast with Cinequest's Music Discovery Parties and events.
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Adobe Youth Voices
Adobe Youth Voices creates breakthrough learning experiences that enable youth to explore and comment on their world through state of the art multimedia tools. Cinequest partners with Adobe in 2008 to provide a platform for Youth Voices films from around the globe at the Cinequest Film Festival.
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Silent Films at the California Theatre
The Stanford Theatre Foundation presents silent films at the California Theatre.
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Cinequest Vuze Audience Favorites
Cinequest Film Festival now offers the Vuze Audience Favorites competition. It's the new and improved generation of Cinequest's Viewers' Voice—now on Vuze.com, a high-def entertainment platform with 11 million users, and 500,000 more added every week. Check out the winners at Cinequest Film Festival.
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