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A special presentation of Paul Seydor?s Oscar-nominated short to round a spectacular celebration of Peckinpah?s work.
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A family remembrance with Fern Lee Peter, Sam Peckinpah?s sister.
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Reflections from the East and Back mixes narrative works with documentary and even includes one that falls nicely in-between. Reflections from the East and Back offers a number of views of the lives of people of several different cultures and how they interact, compare or contrast with familiar ones. From the United States, Japan, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, and even Mongolia, Reflections from the East and Back touches on ways of life that are strikingly different from ours while feeling nothing but familiar.
Chris Garcia
Will be Okay - dir. Hoon Ryoo
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Cinequest is proud to present a collection of student shorts that goes across all bounds of film. From around the nation, many of the top film schools, smaller schools and local institutions are represented. The subjects stretch from the highly comedic to the subtle and dark. This year?s selection from the next generation of filmmakers is sure to instill confidence in the future of film.
Chris Garcia
NOTE: Screening will include an intermission.
Amal (Sheridan College) - dir. Richie Mehta
The Arsonist (USC) - dir. Myles Sorensen
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Cinequest is proud to present a series of shorts that are centered on the Ds: world?s that are Dark, Dangerous and Delightful. Our environs, both real and imagined, are explored with determined diligence and thoroughly probed. Taking films from around the globe, The Ds is a melding of sights and sounds from everywhere into a package that only magnifies the power of each individual part. The Dark and Dangerous visions of a man?s personal universe and of urban fantasy slip in with delightful romance and comedies and films that are slightly askew.
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A compelling series of shorts for today?s world, Show and Tell takes a look at that which we show every day and what we have to say about it. Stories are diverse, featuring Debra Jo Rupp (That 70?s Show) as a stand-up comic trying to make us hate her ex, explorations of how gay youth deal with their sexuality, a Yiddish tale of a little girl and her rabbi father and a woman waiting to see how a storm will ravage her world. Show and Tell makes you take a look at the world around you?and the ones we hope are never seen.
Chris Garcia
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Perhaps no area of film has changed so much over the years as animation. Animated World explores the depths of animation through thirteen films that range from the small and poignant to the over-the-top and uproariously funny. Computer animation has changed the world of film and is well represented with films of an artist?s interview, a tale of the space age, Dragons and Knights and political commentary. Stop motion animation stories feature a teddy bear in love, Greek produced tragedy, a tale of an egg and a strange balloon.
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This year, Cinequest is pleased to present the fantastic crop of documentaries that comprise this year?s DocuNation. The slate of films covers the world around us, beneath us and behind the veil through cameras wielded with truth and grace. Several local works search out the truth behind our peculiar way of Bay Area living. DocuNation will introduce the audience to fascinating people, like an opinionated Centurian, a sea urchin diver or an early computer graphics pioneer and his daughter. Digital video lives with traditional film in a truly diverse DocuNation.
Chris Garcia
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Short films try to raise us to get a better look at the world that all too often passes us by. This program of shorts takes a look at worlds both foreign and familiar from perspectives we seldom encounter.
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There are as many types of funny as there are types of people to laugh, and this year Cinequest endeavors to bring our loyal audiences a broad sampler platter of hilarity. Through odd-colored glasses, we are treated to a world where robots assist children until it is time to musically march off to war, where your arch-nemesis is also your lover, and where writing haiku can also get you all the Spam you can handle.