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Screens Wenesday, February 1, 8:00am and Thursday, February, 2 5:00pm
Hot tip, Thursday's screening is the big deal.
Met Phyllis today outside the Metro and was she cool. Eighty-five and a beauty queen. Go see her film!
Update: The film is great! Playing to packed houses and they've added an extra screening tonight! Friday, February 3, at 7pm.
My highlight is when Phyllis sings a wonderful, knowing and heartfelt rendition of Gershwin's "The Man I Love." You'll have to see it in the theater, but here is Billy Holiday's version:
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Now that I got that off my chest I can see more clearly the panels from this weekend.
The Writers' Panel – It Starts with the Script – could have easily been the writer/producer/actor/director panel with so many of the panelists working in all of those roles at one time or another, often on the same film. It made for a rich talk about creativity and process and most importantly authenticity. Mike Mills (Beginners) and Will Reiser (50/50) both have semi-autobiographical films and JC Chandon (Margin Call) and Tate Taylor (The Help) also took on subjects they knew well. Jim Rash (The Descendants) was also on the panel. What struck me was the truly collaborative way these people worked together, best exemplified by The Help, optioned by Taylor before the book was even published and co-starring Octavia Spencer a long-time friend of both Taylor and author Katherine Stockett. If you can create authentic work with people you enjoy working with, it doesn’t get any better than that.
The Women’s Panel, long a favorite of mine, just didn’t gel. All of the women were producers, some for larger corporations (Pixar, Dreamworks), and others for smaller production companies or independent. I think it got off on the wrong track right at the start with a leading question about how few women are in the business as directors, et al, but this was a group of producers and there are a significant number of women producers in the business – not much to talk about. Also, the panelists were younger and it’s been my experience that for many women 50 and younger, especially successful ones, the tired old trope of discrimination really doesn’t factor in. For women who came of age in the 1970s and beyond it’s been a different world. Once that question fell flat it just never recovered. And then the Q&A began and I was inspired to write my earlier post. Aye yi yi!
Next weekend will be the Directors’ Panel , Saturday, February 4 at 11am and the Producers’ Panel, Saturday, February 4 at 2pm both at the Lobero. See www.sbiff.org for ticket info.
Image: Women’s Panel (l-r) Dede Gardner (Tree of Life), Leslie Urda ng (Beginners), Melissa Cobb (Kung Fu Panda 2), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Picture Paris), Madelyn Hammond (moderator), Denise Ream (Cars 2) photo by Robert Redfield
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As a follow up to Amy's post, here is your handy Dos and Donts guide to open mic Q & A:
Please DON'T:
Promote your film, that's why we have the press room, events, and releases. It's also printed on schedules everywhere.
Lecture the audience. I didn't buy a ticket to hear a rant from an audience member.
or Talk about your issues. (This is not your therapist's office.)
Tell your life history, or run through your cv. I'm sure it's very impressive, this is not the time.
Don't ignore the nervous laughter and groans from the audience. We can be a forgiving people but when you've pushed it to far it can get ugly.
and finally Don't ignore the answer you're given and keep talking. Your time is up.
BUT DO ask a relevant question. Keep it short and thank the speaker for their answer.
and thus concludes this Public Service Announcement.
image: creative commons license by evan forester
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Reasons why you should go to the closing reception for Molly Hahn's show at The French Press.
1. All prints are $20 - $40
2. Sales benefit McKinley School's ICAN program providing art classes to elementary school children.
3. You can also pick up a copy of her book Izzy's Ukelele Adventure and have it signed.
4. The images are so whimsical and fun you can't help but smile.
5. You can go and still make it to the 7pm Film Festival shows.
Sunday, January 29, 5-7pm 1101 State St.
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For the past few years the Santa Barbara International Film Festival has had some of the most spectacular events in Santa Barbara. A big reason is that they have enlisted the services of architect Britton Jewett to conceptualize and build the sets for the opening galas. While personally I'm not a fan of this year's choice of Clockwork Orange as a theme for a party - were the droogs going to come? - but Britt, working with the architecture students at Orange Coast College managed to create a setting that worked.
[Updated] One of the elements of the set was a mirrored mobius strip. Here's Britt's response to why a mobius:
"The möbius form is a physical reference to Alex's character transformation in the film. In the beginning he is the villain and at the end he is the victim of the state rehabilitation program. The möbius has a form where a single surface maps both the interior and exterior, the inside becomes the outside. The image gallery of movie stills are reflected in the möbius, Alex is seen distorted on the interior and exterior of the möbius following the story and visual style of the film."
Documenting the process here: http://sbiff2012.wordpress.com/
and you're nothing without a Facebook Page
Need a soundtrack? KCSB's Ted Coe put together a Clockwork Orange playlist for his Freak Power Ticket show this week. Listen here: KCSB
Can't get enough? Russ Spencer made a short film about the 2008 Installation
Images by Robert Redfield
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As we embark on the film festival season I thought this was a timely message about why women need to write and direct film. An extra from the film Miss Representation that just screened at Sundance:
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Getting stoked to check out this year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival and am really liking this app they have to sort through the schedule, see what other people are looking at, and generally getting set to see some films!
Andrew Bird, The Cafeteria Man, and the panels are all on my schedule. What are you planning to see?
** The only complaint is that the app only works in iPhones so I'm stuck with the internets while on the go. This is definitely a first world problem so I'll move on.
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This regular event features some wonderful Santa Barbara artists. On Saturday you can see E. Bonnie Lewis reprise Freda, channeling her late grandmother. Molly Hahn, children's book author and artist will also be there premiering her new ukelele tunes.
$12 at the door. A portion of the proceeds benefit Transition House.
Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way, SB
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Get a jump on tomorrow's 1st Thursday by checking out the opening reception for a new show of Marie Schoeff's work at Jane Deering's gallery. This is the first for Jane's season and it is not to be missed.
Marie Schoeff / TRACES
Wednesday . January 4th . 6-8pm
Jane Deering Gallery
128 E. Canon Perdido Street . Santa Barbara
from the press release:
TRACES refers to absence, memory and loss, all of which point to the source of what is left behind. A trace is proof of something that once existed but is now gone, a memory made tangible. To draw is to leave a remnant of the movement of the hand as it follows the eye or the imagination of the maker. Likewise, to trace is to discover by investigation. For me as an artist, to create through tracing is a methodology that enables me to conjure up an elusive image.My images come from within, from personal experiences and observations lodged in my memory. The images in this exhibition have their genesis in the human body, in particular the female form and its capacity for sustaining and giving life. I find a parallel between my subject matter – the female body -- and the generative quality of the trace drawing technique. Both are capable of transformation.This exhibition will feature dry point prints and trace drawings which were made during the last two years. During this time, I turned to printmaking as a means of expanding my practice. Drawing has always been integral to my studio work and is the essential beginning of these works. -- Marie Schoeff
Please also join us at the gallery on
Thursday . January 12th . 6-8 pm
for a conversation with Marie Schoeff about the breadth of her work :
drawings . prints . paintings
Marie Schoeff has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. Her works are in numerous museum, private and corporate collections. She is currently featured in ‘The View from Here’ works from the permanent collection at Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Schoeff received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Hunter College, NY. She lives in Santa Barbara and teaches at Santa Barbara City College.
image: Marie Schoeff . Coil-Fourth 2011 . drypoint . 30x22 inches
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I can personally vouch for the wonderful Meghan Lehman... Perfect opportunity to fulfill that New Year's Resolution to spend less time on the couch!
7:30 Lily and Marley
8:30 Meghan Lehman
9:30 Ian Tepper
Doors open at 6:30 for dinner
Ticket price is $7
All ages show
and Soho's new menu is local and sustainable in addition to being as tasty as ever.
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living the art-full life in the sleepy seaside village of Santa Barbara
