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| 16th Annual Sedona Film Festival Kicks Off This Week |
| Written by Randy Montgomery on Thursday, 18 February 2010 20:42 | |||
 A temporary venue has been set up across the street from the theatre at the Sedona Rouge Hotel and up the street at “Studio Live.” In all, 145 short and feature films from 18 countries will be shown. Venues aren’t the only addition this year. Two new series of programming have been added says Executive Director Patrick Schweiss, “We’ve introduced a track to the festival called ‘Sedona Green;’ environmentally and socially conscious films that feature sustainability and the artists’ role in getting messages out through film making.” In addition, the Sedona Community Foundation helped fund a series which features selections that are “safe and appropriate for families.” Not only will attendees get numerous celebrity sightings, they’ll get a change to see and hear them live before and after the films they are there to present. Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara (Ben Stiller parents) each have a film in the festival. When the World Breaks stars Stiller,  while Another Harvest Moon features Meara, Doris Roberts and Richard Schiff, all of whom are scheduled to attend. Many times, viewers will get to ask their favorite actor/actress questions about their role and what it was like to star in, or make the film they have just seen. Director Michael Moore will be on hand to present three of his films; Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story and the 20th Anniversary of Roger & Me. “Moore will be hosting and speaking at each,” says Schweiss. “An afternoon conversation session has been scheduled with the Director for Saturday afternoon as well.” A returning guest and audience favorite is Turner Movie Classics’ Robert Osborne, “whose name is synonymous with movies and movie history and having him adds a very special, and certainly memorable, element,” says Schweiss. Venues and celebrities aside, the film line-up is the star of the show, and Schweiss says “I can honestly say that these are the strongest 145 we’ve ever had in the festival. It was the hardest festival to schedule. We have Oscar nominated films showing at 9 am and at 9 at night. We’ve got a very exciting situation on our hands. We don’t have a bad film in the line up.” In terms of Academy Award submissions from around the globe, “We’ve got the Philippines foreign language entry. We have the country of Georgia’s entry. The Other Bank. Columbia’s entry, The Winds Journey. Norway’s which is Troubled Water.  We were fortunate enough to get the crème de la crème of foreign language films. We also struck gold with our animated films this year as well as our short films. Kavi is up for best live action short at the Academy Awards. Additional feature films include The Greatest starring Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan, Saving Grace B. Jones starring Connie Stevens and PollliWood directed by Barry Levinson. An 8-minute short film that should make you giggle is The Kinda Sutra. “It tackles the age old question of where babies come from. Animation is placed in from the Kama Sutra. Our Operations Director discovered it at the Telluride Film Festival,” explains Schweiss. Which films mov ed Schweiss the most? From the UK is the short Ronan’s Escape, “It’s a short which is one of the most haunting and most powerful message of any film in our line up and it has no dialog, It’s a gorgeous film.” As for feature films… “A Shine of Rainbows starring Aiden Quinn. We’re making it required viewing,” he laughs… “If you come to the festival. We’re requiring you watch it.” That’s a joke of course, but Schweiss says that “the film will make your heart grow ten times over.”
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Ronan's escape
Ronan's escape is a film made in Western Australia.by Smooth Motion films. It is not from the UK as reported in the article '16th Sedona film festival kicks off this week.'
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