One Take Film Festival - Saturday | Beyond the Nest (Rochester)

One Take Film Festival - Saturday


*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 04/27/2019
Year 3 of the One Take Documentary Film Festival happens in 2019! This Rochester, NY Film Festival has grown out the Little Theatre's highly successful monthly documentary series that began in 2012. It celebrates and promotes the art of non-fiction filmmaking and stimulates public understanding and appreciation of the documentary film. Over the course of four days (April 25–28), we’ll celebrate the art of documentary filmmaking in its many forms. We seek films that inspire, surprise, challenge, enlighten, and entertain us.

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WNY Short Films - Saturday, April 27, 2019 10:30am
Join us For Docs and Donuts!

  • FAMILY REWRITTEN Directed by Yasmin Mistry [13 min] - Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identifies as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that holds her family together suddenly snaps.
  • POPO Directed by Emma Donaher [9 min] - A portrait of Mariana Liaw, or Popo to her grandchildren.
  • IT WILL BE LIKE MAGIC Directed by Mustafa Hussain [16 min] - Hasan is a 16-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Chicago who fleed the genocide in Burma.
  • MS. JACKSON Directed by Nate Bellavia [13 min] - Facing an uncertain round of cancer treatments, Ms. Jackson has unflinching optimism.
  • THE FIGHTER Directed by Boris Shirman [13 min] - Enmanuel is a 25-year-old illegal Dominican immigrant in the Bronx who is pursuing higher education, a boxing career, and military service to make reparations to his life. 
  • LEFT UNSAID Directed by Traci Westcott [9 min] - Army veteran Tabitha Emo’s service continues she helps take care of her step-father. 
  • THIS IS SYRACUSE Directed by Eden Strachan [13 min] - A story about a city in crisis and the people who are trying to save it. 
  • COMING BACK Directed by Emily Hunt & Boris Shirmann [2 min] - Spending half his life in prison, Thomas is re-entering a world of smartphones and colors.
  • WE ARE ITHACA Director Becky Lane / Executive Producer Robyn Wishna  [7 min] - More than 1,200 people participated in a community portrait project in Ithaca, NY. 

* The inaugural Election Day Grant, funded by the Rochester Documentary Filmmakers Group, will be presented to Julie Gelfand prior to the screening. *

 

Ear Docs: A Discussion Of Podcast Documentaries - Saturday, April 27, 2019 1:00pm
Podumentaries: A discussion of podcasts and documentaries.

More: Documentaries not only work on screen, but they work in audio form. Hear from podcast producers about the elements that make a good story and keep people listening for more. Plus, learn about how producing an documentary in podcast form is both similar and different from one on screen.

Featuring: Veronica Volk, WXXI, producer of Exited and Finding Tammy Jo podcasts, Chris Lindstrom, host of the Food About Town podcast, Scott Fitzgerald, owner of Roc Vox Recording & Productions, Chris Parkhurst, host of This Documentary Life

Moderator: Juan Vazquez, WXXI, Digital Engagement Facilitator

 

The Biggest Little Farm (Live Score Screening With Jeff Beal) - Saturday, April 27, 2019 3:00pm
In testament to the complexity of nature, the film follows two dreamers on an odyssey to bring harmony to their lives and the land. John and Molly Chester make a choice that takes them out of the city and into the foothills of Ventura County, naively endeavoring to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete coexistence with nature – on land depleted of nutrients and suffering from a brutal drought. The film chronicles eight years of daunting work and outsized idealism as they attempt to create the utopia they seek. They realize that to survive they will have to reach a greater understanding of the intricacies of nature, and of life itself – a call to arms to those who wish to follow in her footsteps.

LIVE SCORE SCREENING AT THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC - Rare is the opportunity when you can sit in an intimate space and absorb an accomplished orchestra performing in harmony to a spectacular Sundance-selected film. Five-time Emmy-winning composer and Eastman School of Music alumni, Jeff Beal will conduct the score live-to-picture for the film The Biggest Little Farm. Performed by The Empire Film and Media Ensemble, this will be the world premiere of a live score for The Biggest Little Farm.

This screening will be held in Room EEW 415 of the Eastman School of music and followed by an Q&A moderated by legendary film critic, Jack Garner.  

 

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - Saturday, April 27, 2019 6:30pm
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammed Ali, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature. 

Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a collection of literature and personality, the film includes discussions about her acclaimed works, her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature, and her time teaching at Princeton. 

With this rich compilation of interviews and artwork, along with troves of archival and historical material, The Pieces I Am crafts a wondrous portrait of Morrison that is both intimate and reverent. As in her writing, Morrison leaves audiences feeling recognized, seen, and acknowledged. 

Screening will be followed by a panel discussion with WOC Art Collaborative members: Tamara Leigh, Tianna Mañón, and Delores Jackson Radney 

 

American Movie - Saturday, April 27, 2019 9:30pm
There may be no more heroic journey from a more delusional character, thus no more American a story, than American Movie. Tracing Mark Borchardt’s laudable, drive to craft his independent horror film Coven – the hoped-for sales profits from which would go toward the financing of his pet project, the feature-length drama Northwestern. 

Chris Smith’s film is sympathetic and revealing of the madness that is artistic drive. Smith’s gift is to never overly chide his subject, simply letting the events that transpired during the making of this witchy indie film play out. Along the way, we meet a veritable menagerie of dreamers and enablers that provide the documentary with much of its charm.

A testament to fortitude, and a genuinely entertaining film, American Movie remains a peerless documentary. Twenty years after its initial release, it remains a vital part of the non-fiction canon, a warm look at artistic folly that speaks to the delusional dreamer in all of us.

 

Also!

Guy Higgins and Friends return to create and curate music between films in the Little Cafe for the 3nd annual One Take Film Festival!

 


*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.

Organization:

The Little Theatre

Location:

240 East Ave.
Rochester, NY, 14604
United States

Phone:

585-258-0400
Contact name: 
The Little Theatre Film Society
Email address: 
The event has already taken place on this date: 
04/27/2019
Time: 
10:30 - ?
Price: 
Individual Film Tickets on sale! $11 each, $7 for seniors/students/members of the Little & The Roc Doc Film Group; TFF Passes are Available Here! All Access Pass General: $85 All Access Pass Students, Seniors, Members, Roc Doc Group: $70

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