Screen gems
Posted: August 7, 2009 at 3:55 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — Half of the movies made for the recent
Little Rock 48 Hour Film Project
will be screened at the Riverdale 10 at 7 and 8:45 p.m. Monday, with the rest screened at the same times Tuesday and Wednesday. All screenings are at Riverdale and tickets are $10 for individual screenings, with a pass for all the sessions costing $28.
Winners will be in the running for top honors at Filmapalooza, the 48 Hour Film Project's annual awards. Each city's winning films will be available for online viewing at 48.tv.
The "Heifer Moo-Vies" series of free documentaries continues every Sunday through Aug. 30 at
Heifer Village
on the Heifer International site in downtown Little Rock. Each film begins at 3 p.m. and is followed by a brief, moderated question-and-answer session.
On Sunday, a double feature consisting of Nourish and Ladies of the Land will be screened.
Other films in the series are The Greening of Southie on Aug. 16, and a double feature on the "Critical Mass" bicycle movement consisting of the films We Are Traffic and Return of the Scorcher on Aug. 23. The series wraps up on Aug. 30 with Teachings of the Tree People, a documentary about Gerald Bruce Miller, the leader of the Skokomish Indians in the Pacific Northwest.
For a complete schedule, visit heifer.org/heifervillage or call (877) 870-2697 outside Little Rock or (501) 907-8800 within central Arkansas.
As We Forgive, a beautifully realized, heart-wrenching documentary written and directed byArkansas native Laura Waters Hinson, will be shown on AETN at 9 p.m. Aug. 21. The film, about the campaign for reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda as told through the stories of two Tutsi survivors and the two Hutu men who murdered their families, is narrated by Mia Farrow.
On Aug. 21, a trailer for director James Cameron's highly anticipated movie Avatar will be released and select IMAX theaters will screen extended 3-D footage. The trailer will also be available online.
MovieStyle, Pages 35 on 08/07/2009
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