Cinequest and The San Jose Film & Video Commission are proud to present winners from the 1998 Annual Joey Awards held this past November at the San Jose Fairmont. The Joey Awards were created 16…
1999
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Perhaps the most exciting applications of digital technologies are currently happening in the realm of digital cinematography. The new digital cameras and photographic technologies are not only offering a suitable alternative to 35mm film but also offering numerous creative advantages. This seminar will demonstrate the wonders of electronic cinematography (with groundbreaking footage) and will discuss the pros and cons of electric versus celluloid cinematography. This can't-miss symposium will be moderated by the world-renowned digital pioneer, Laurence J. Thorpe. Anybody who has heard Mr.
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"Gabriel is a beautiful man. He epitomizes for me the Modern European Man: dynamic, a great potential for hard work, for fun, for introspection, and he's a wonderful father, actor and writer. He makes me sick." - Liam Neeson The grace and intellect Gabriel Byrne brings to the screen is that of a dramatic poet. Using the most basic of human elements, he excites emotions with a simple look or truthful delivery of a word.
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With one swift push of a firing button, Vilmos Zsigmond's existence could have ended in 1956 as Russian tanks pushed their way through Hungary during its revolution. Not a man to be trifled with, however, Zsigmond found himself shooting over 10,000 feet of black and white documentary footage while dodging those tanksfilm which was later smuggled out with him and his colleagues to Austria. Needless to say, his film career started out with a bang. A native of Szeged, Hungary and son of a celebrated soccer player and coach, Zsigmond developed an interest in photography while in high school.
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We always hear about an actor leaving school to pursue a dream to be a star. Jennifer Beals made a tough and exceptional choice by evading the lures of Hollywood Celebrity and by choosing a determined path towards wisdom and completeness. Jennifer Beals performed a rare feat in starring in a blockbuster film while still a college freshman at Yale University and then continuing with tenacity to receive a degree in American literature from the school. A chapter complete.
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"When old actors come up to me and say, 'I don't know if I should do this role. It might be bad for my image.' I say, 'That's tough that you only have one image. My heart bleeds for you!' We are supposed to create raw people, explore life and communicate at the highest level; be it pain, joy or what have you. That's what I believe. I guess you could say it does become a philosophy's way of life." - Rod Steiger Actors don't play themselves. Often enough, they play an image that has been created for them and successfully developed over the years.
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Cinequest and The San Jose Film & Video Commission are proud to present winners from the 1998 Annual Joey Awards held this past November at the San Jose Fairmont. The Joey Awards were created 16 years ago to honor and to recognize the creative achievements in film and video. This series features a wonderful selection from the 1998 winners. San Francisco Production Group gives an intoxicating alpine visual of X-treme snowboarding with Never Stop Exploring. Red Sky Filmsâ What Little Girls Are Made Of? is a rockin' view of Stanford Women's Basketball.
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El Cid Rivera (Damian Young) is 33 and has never left Manhattan Island; neither have his childhood friends, whom he meets every day at the same bar around the same table. He's tired of his humdrum life and a going-nowhere career. And he's been saddled with the name of an epic hero played on-screen by Charlton Heston (his mothers favorite). Bouncing between dead-end jobs, El Cid struggles to find his calling, yet fears he'll never succeed on the epic scale his mother expects.
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Six-year-old Emmi Escher asks her mom, "Where's Toni?" Like many parents, however, Emmi's mother does not listen to her child until Toni never returns from school. In fact, Toni never even made it to school. Enter Inspector Anatole Wasser whose preliminary investigation turns up 11 other missing 10-year-olds who disappeared on the exact same day as Toni. Clues are insufficient. The only link between the children is their age and that each lives near a lake. The investigation at a dead end, police assure everyone they have plenty of leads in hopes that the kidnappers reveal themselves.
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The perfect way to end an evening - this collection of funny and provocative short films is a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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Things are not always what they seem, and sometimes the light can play tricks on the eyes. Altered perceptions and shifting points of view are the subject of this series of shorts. You may not know what to think or to believe until the final frame of many of these films ... and even then, who really knows? That seemingly hateful relationship may hide a true and real love (and vice versa). That double cross might just triple or even quadruple before the end of it all. That monster may turn out to be nothing at all or may be worse than you ever imagined.