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VideoFest to Celebrate 25th anniversary :: Sept. 27-30, 2012

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Location announced-Dallas Museum of Art

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Dallas, TX – The Video Association of Dallas has announced that the 25^th anniversary of its VideoFest will be Sept. 27-30, 2012 at its original home, the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas. Call 214-428-8700 for information or visit www.videofest.org.

VideoFest is now the oldest and largest video festival in the United States, and continues to garner critical and popular acclaim. Merging art and technology since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social relevance. Even in a Web 2.0 environment where everything is seemingly available on the Internet, the VideoFest provides curatorial guidance, a critical voice in the wilderness navigating the vast and diverse landscape of media, helping to interpret its cultural and artistic significance. The event provides a communal environment for real-time, face-to-face dialogue between makers and audiences.

Highlights of VideoFest 25 will include:

The winners of the 24 Hour Video Race (the 2012 race will be May 4 at the Angelika);

The winner of VideoFest Awards for narrative feature, narrative short, experimental, documentary feature, documentary short, animation and other;

The Texas Show, a juried compilation of short film and video by Texas artists;

Workshops for filmmakers;

The Program, curated visual art videos and installations, including work by Robert Frank;

VideoFest 25 jewelry designed by Brad Oldham;

Retrospective programming at The Power Station;

Shorts online first for voting, winners to be screened at DMA

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS

The mission of the Video Association is to promote an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to support and advance the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts. The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas also presents the 24 Hour Video Race, the Texas Show Tour, North Texas College Film Festival, Texas Independent Film Network screenings, Texas Fllmmakers Production Fund workshops, Three Star Cinema, and other programs throughout the year.

For press information: Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099, taylormadepress@gmail.com.

VIDEOFEST 25 FACT SHEET

WHAT: VideoFest 25

Presented by the Video Association of Dallas

WHERE:

At the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

WHEN:

Thursday, Sept. 27 7-11:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 28 7-11:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29 noon-11:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

TICKETS:

All-Festival Pass: $50

All-Evening Passes: Thursday or Friday $20

All-Day and Evening passes: Saturday or Sunday $25

Seniors (60 or older) and students with ID: $10 off

Some selected programs will be $6 per program available at event only

Special: 5 Films for $5 each, see any 5 films during the 4 days of VideoFest 25 for $25

Tickets will be available at the door or online at videofest.org

INFO:

Video Association of Dallas

T: (214) 428-8700

E: info@videofest.org

http://www.videofest.org

Press: Lisa Taylor, 214-914-1099, taylormadepress@gmail.com

Sign up for the Video Association Newsletter and Videomaker’s Resource List: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001PATbu7Y33LGmUMkarkySZQ%3D%3D

Join the Video Association of Dallas’ Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6575722334

Become a Fan of the 24 Hour Video Race: http://www.facebook.com/pages/24-Hour-Video-Race-of-Dallas/103277330637

Become a Fan of VideoFest 25: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-VideoFest/192194875617

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Eleventh Annual 24-Hour Video Race:: May 4-5, 2012

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Sign up now to enter

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The 11^th Annual 24-Hour Video Race, presented by The Video Association of Dallas, will commence at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 4, and end 24 hours later at 12-midnight on Saturday, May 5. The Angelika Film Center is at 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. To register, visit http://www.24hourvideorace.com or call 214-428-8700 or email videorace@videofest.org. The event is sponsored by Texas Commission on the Arts, Dallas Film Commission and Office of Cultural Affairs City of Dallas. Brainfood.com is the web sponsor.

The screenings of the work of all the entrants will be Tuesday-Thursday, May 8-10 with the finalists screened on Monday, May 14 at the Angelika Film Center. The winning videos will be shown at the 25th annual VideoFest in Sept. 27-30 at the Dallas Museum of Art and also on KERA –TV Channel 13’s program “Frame of Mind” and on You+Media Dallas. Team members should bring Race lanyards for admission to the screenings. (This includes teams who did not finish the Race.) Members of the general public can also attend. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. The screening schedule will be posted the Monday after the race.

Dallas film and video makers of all levels of experience are invited to participate in the race, both creatively and literally. Teams that do not make it to the finish line at midnight will not be included in the judging, All teams will be assigned four critical elements: one theme, one prop, one location and one line of dialogue. This year’s race participants will use H264 QuickTime files on USB drives.

Anyone with a camera and the willingness to race can participate. Past teams have included elementary school students to professional filmmakers. Student teams compete against other student teams and adult teams are categorized by team size rather than skill level.

Team Categories & Fees:
The 2012 24 Hour Video Race is limited to 100 teams. Teams are not registered until paid in full. You are strongly encouraged to field the size of team. After you register, you will be prompted to pay by PayPal, so get your credit card ready!

Pixelvision Division: K-High School: no limit on size.$75 per team + $5 per team member. Team captains must be 18 years of age or older, or adult mentor must register and supervise team. Team captain is responsible for providing VAD with written evidence that each participant under 18 has obtained the prior written consent of a parent or legal guardian to participate in the 24 Hour Video Race.

Futurevision Division: College; no limit on size

$75/team + $5/team member
Auteur Division: 1 or 2 members
$50 each member

Guerilla Division: 3-5 members
$150/team + $5/team member

Hollywood Division: 6 or more members
$200/team + $5/team member

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:

The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas presents the 24 Hour Video Race and other programs throughout the year.

For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099.

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24th Annual VideoFest :: September 21-25, 2011

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The 24^th Annual VideoFest will open September 21 with a special screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film Socialism. This special opening night event will be at 7 p.m. at The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. in North Oak Cliff. The remainder of VideoFest will take place at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station in Dallas, Sept. 22-25, 2011.

The oldest and largest video and film festival in the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional, national and international video and film artists that are hard to find at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to a movie, expect something different! This year we want to really show Dallas what VideoFest is all about; we want to rock the boat, push buttons, and take the new advent of media to the next level. We have opened a new category that we feel expresses exactly what we wish to achieve: The Subgenre. We are looking for music videos, skating videos, and similar projects that represent counterculture and subculture. These are the underground films, the Harriet Tubman’s, the Tyler Durdens, the middle fingers of cinema and television, if you will. For the fourth year in a row, the VideoFest will be presented thru iTunes.

Media Sponsor is D Magazine and Art + Culture.

Highlights of this year’s VideoFest will include:

the winner of the “Silence The Opera Singer” for Angelika theaters nationwide;

the winner of D Magazine’s “Dallas Stories” competition;

the winners of the 24 Hour Video Race;

the winner of 8^th Annual Albert Mayles Award for an emerging documentarian;

The Texas Show, a juried compilation of short film and video by Texas artists;

Guts N Glory, a live performance event where teams shoot 100 feet of film in sequence then VF develops it in time for event without the teams seeing it, meanwhile the teams create a performance piece to accompany their films

Siggraph Electronic Theater, the best selections from this annual computer graphics event;

The London International Advertising Awards, the best commercials from around the world;

and Slackers Dallas Style, marking the 20 Year Anniversary of the pivotal film Slackers by Texas Filmmaker Richard Linklater.

Patrons may purchase day passes ($25 or $35 depending on day) or All-Festival passes ($150) for over 150 programs making this Festival the best deal in town. Buy tickets online in advance or at the door day of show. Visit www.videofest.org for more information or call 214-428-8700.

ABOUT VIDEOFEST

VideoFest is now the oldest and largest video festival in the United States, and continues to garner critical and popular acclaim. Since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social relevance. Even in a Web 2.0 environment where everything is seemingly available on the Internet, the VideoFest provides curatorial guidance, a critical voice in the wilderness navigating the vast and diverse landscape of media, helping to interpret its cultural and artistic significance. The event still provides a communal environment for real-time, face-to-face dialogue between makers and audiences.

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS

The mission of the Video Association is to promote an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to support and advance the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts. The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas presents the 24 Hour Video Race, The Program at Conduit Gallery, the Texas Tour, the Youth Media Jam, Three Star Cinema, Rock n Reel, college showcases and other programs throughout the year.

For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099 or email taylormadepress@gmail.com

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TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL VIDEOFEST

WHAT: Twenty-Fourth Annual Video Fest

Presented by the Video Association of Dallas

WHERE:

At the Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane

* At The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd.

WHEN:

Wednesday, Sept. 21 7 p.m.*

Thursday, Sept. 22 7-11:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 23 7-11:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 24 noon-11:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 25 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

TICKETS:

All-festival passes: $150

All-Evening passes: Thursday or Friday $25

All-Day and Evening passes: Saturday or Sunday $35

Seniors (60 or older): $10 off

Some selected programs will be $6 per program available at event only

Tickets will be available at the door or online at videofest.org

INFO:

Video Association of Dallas

T: (214) 428-8700

E: info@videofest.org

http://www.videofest.org

Press: Lisa Taylor, 214-914-1099, taylormadepress@gmail.com

Sign up for the Video Association Newsletter and Videomaker’s Resource List: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001PATbu7Y33LGmUMkarkySZQ%3D%3D

Join the Video Association of Dallas’ Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6575722334

Become a Fan of the 24 Hour Video Race: http://www.facebook.com/pages/24-Hour-Video-Race-of-Dallas/103277330637

Become a Fan of the Dallas VideoFest: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-VideoFest/192194875617

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10th Annual 24-Hour Video Race :: May 13-14, 2011

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What can happen with a 24-hour burst of creativity? The 24-Hour Video Race strives to find the answer. The 10^th Annual 24-Hour Video Race, presented by The Video Association of Dallas, will commence at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 13, and end 24 hours later at 12-midnight on Saturday, May 14. The Angelika Film Center is at 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. For information, visit http://www.24hourvideorace.com, call 214-428-8700 or email videorace@videofest.org. Teams registering before May 1st will receive a 10% Early Bird Discount. CAM Audio is sponsoring this event. D Magazine is screening the Top 10 videos from past races at http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2011/03/24-hour-video-race-countdown-top-ten-videos-of-the-decade/

The screenings of the work of all the entrants will be Tuesday-Thursday, May 17-19 with the finalists screened on Monday, May 23 at the Angelika Film Center. The winning videos will be shown at the 24th annual VideoFest in September and also on KERA –TV Channel 13’s program “Frame of Mind.” Team members should bring Race lanyards for admission to the screenings. (This includes teams who did not finish the Race.) Members of the general public are also encouraged to attend. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. The screening schedule will be posted the Monday after the race.

The 24-Hour Video Race’s teams are divided in to five categories:

Pixelvision K-12 Teams

Futurevision Current College/University students and recent graduates

Auteur Professional or amateur teams of 1 or 2 members

Guerilla Professional or Amateur teams of 3 to 5 members

Hollywood Professional or Amateur teams of 6 or more members

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:

For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099.

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Update DADA Film Premiere :: October 10, 2010

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Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA)

Celebrates its 25^th anniversary

with Party, Scholarship Exhibition,

Fall Gallery Walk, Panel Discussions, and Film Premiere

The Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) celebrates its 25th anniversary year with a Fall Gallery Walk, an Edith Baker Art Scholarship exhibition, panel discussions for artists and the public, and an After Gallery Walk Party the weekend of Sept. 24, 2010. In honor of the 5th anniversary of the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, the film 25 Years of Dallas Visual Art premieres Sunday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

The festivities begin with a reception for the winner of DADA’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund on Friday, Sept. 24, 6–8 p.m., at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd. The DADA Scholarship Committee juried the seven finalists chosen by visual art faculty members of the Dallas County Community College District. The winner receives $4,000, a mentorship and an internship with a DADA member of his or her choice. The reception is free.

The annual DADA Fall Gallery Walk will be Saturday, Sept. 25. It begins with panel discussions to educate the public and artists from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther. Panel 1: “How to Start an Art Collection” is from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Panelists are Eddy Rawlinson, Rosemary DesPlas, Karol Howard and George Morton. Panel 2: “How to Photograph Your Art” is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Panelists are Harrison Evans, Ange Fitzgerald, and Kenda North. Tickets ($15 per panel) can be purchased online at www.dallasartdealers.org or at the door. Proceeds benefit the Edith Baker Art Scholarship.

The Walk (really a car ride) begins at 2 p.m. at any of DADA’s 37 member galleries, museums and nonprofit art spaces. This FREE event goes until 8 p.m. and allows art lovers to socialize and roam (in a car) from gallery to gallery all in one day. Donation jars for the Edith Baker Art Scholarship will be on hand along with refreshments, artists and art professionals. Maps for the Spring Gallery Walk will be available at each location or at www.dallasartdealers.org as a downloadable pdf. Hours may vary; please see individual listings. Call 214.914.1099 or e-mail info@dallasartdealers.org.

An After Gallery Walk Party will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass St. at Riverfront. In honor of the DADA art movement, the party will be multi-disciplinary, featuring the arts of fashion, visual art, theater, dance, music, cooking and bartending. Paper City, Wendy Krispin Caterer, Inc., Darian Thomas Fashion, and The Dallas Conservatory are sponsors. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased in advance at www.dallasartdealers.org or at the door.

In honor of the 5th anniversary of the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, the film 25 Years of Dallas Visual Art premieres Sunday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. The screening is included with admission to the museum. The film will include interviews with Dallas artists, gallerists, collectors and administrators who look back and forward at the Dallas art scene. This film has been made in partnership with You and Yours Productions.

ABOUT DADA

The Dallas Art Dealers Association is an affiliation of established, independent gallery owners and not-for-profit art organizations in the Dallas metropolitan area. DADA serves as a standard bearer for ethical practices in the art business, an educational resource for the community at large and as the facilitator of Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund that provides funding for visual art students. The Dallas Art Dealers Association, organized in 1985 by June Mattingly of Mattingly Baker Gallery, is a 501(c)(6) organization.

Like the Art Dealers Association of America, membership in DADA is by invitation of the board of directors. In order to qualify for membership, a dealer or non-profit space must have an established reputation for honesty, integrity and professionalism among their peers, and must make a substantial contribution to the cultural life of the community by offering works of high aesthetic quality and presenting worthwhile exhibitions. DADA is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of ethical practice within the profession and to increase public awareness of the role and responsibilities of reputable art dealers and non-profit visual art spaces.

ABOUT THE EDITH BAKER ART SCHOLARSHIP AND ARTIST CAREER DEVELOPMENT FUND

In celebration of its 20th anniversary in 2005, the Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) created the Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund honoring the respected owner and director of The Edith Baker Gallery in Dallas. One of DADA’s founding members, Edith owned and directed The Edith Baker Gallery for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2004. The Edith Baker Art Scholarship benefits a student pursuing study of the visual arts through a cash award and career development activities such as a gallery show, a mentorship and an internship. Proceeds from individual donations, annual DADA events and collection jars at each DADA member location support the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Visit www.dallasartdealers.org or e-mail info@dallasartdealers.org for more information.

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23rd Annual VideoFest Announces Winners

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The 23^rd Annual VideoFest Winners

Narrative Feature

Memories of Overdevelopment by Miguel Coyula

Honorable Mention

Mars by Geoff Marslett

Audrey and the Trainwreck by Frank Ross

Narrative Short

Big Hands by Aaron Holloway

Best Comedy Short

Wowie by Craig Webster

Best Documentary Feature

Goodbye How Are You? By Boris Mitic

Honorable Mention

Erasing David by David Bond

Forgetting Dad by Rick Minnich

Best Documentary Short

Bye Bye Now by Aideen O’Sullivan and Ross Whittaker

Best Experimental

5 Lessons and 9 Questions About Chinatown by Shelly Silver

Best Animation

Please Say Something by David O’Reilly

Best of Texas Show

Katrina’s Son by Ya’ke Smith

ABOUT VIDEOFEST

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS

INFO: Video Association of Dallas

T: (214) 428-8700

E: info@videofest.org

http://www.videofest.org

Press: Lisa Taylor, 214-914-1099, lisatmp@swbell.net

Sign up for the Video Association Newsletter and Videomaker’s Resource List: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001PATbu7Y33LGmUMkarkySZQ%3D%3D

Join the Video Association of Dallas’ Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6575722334

Become a Fan of the 24 Hour Video Race: http://www.facebook.com/pages/24-Hour-Video-Race-of-Dallas/103277330637

Become a Fan of the Dallas VideoFest: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-VideoFest/192194875617

Become our Friend on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dallasvideofestival

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VideoFest Films by Category :: September 23-26, 2010

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23rd Annual VideoFest– Sept. 23-26, 2010

FILMS ABOUT ANIMALS AND KIDS

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs

Kitty Wigs is a Dallas-based company that has been all over the press, from People magazine to The Tonight Show and more. Started by native Dallasite Julie Jackson in 2007, Kitty Wigs has garnered worldwide attention and even a book, now in its fourth printing. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the book with Fort Worth photographer Jill Johnson.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Rocky and Baylor’s Day-A Dogumentary

A day in the life of two golden retriever mutts Rocky and Baylor in Austin, Texas.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Jellyfish Sandwich

A hungry shark realizes the he is out of his favorite jelly. He goes a spree searching for his beloved a fruit-flavored gelatin. After failing to fulfill his hopes of finding more jelly around the town, the shark spots a cool jellyfish. He then wonders, ‘Are jellyfish made out of the jelly I eat in my sandwich everyday?’ I guess he’ll have to catch him to find that out.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Top Dog

Who will earn the title of Iron Dog? The Dock Dogs competition at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Grumpy Old Man

Lego stop motion animation

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Daylight: A Doodle Music Video

My name is Sadie Lidji, and I am 12 years old. I’m inspired by the lyrics of my favorite songs to make drawings and collages. Then, I connect those drawings with the song. I call them ‘doodle music videos’. They are visually fun to experience but a very tedious experience to create them, but in the end, it’s a very fulfilling feeling to have made a film that you know you have worked so hard on. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did in making it.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

The Gopher

Sparky, a 15 year-old rat terrier, is determined to catch the taunting gopher. Desperate to stop the ridicule, Sparky lets Chuco, a white poodle, in on the action. Will Sparky catch the Gopher? Will Chuco make a difference? Watch and see how the story unfolds.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4 p.m.

The Shrimp

The Shrimp is a meditative, lush and subtle documentary that follows the life cycle of a shrimp along the marshes of Savannah, Georgia.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:25 p.m.

The Sharecroppers

A brief exploration into a world that most city dwellers have never seen, The Sharecroppers explores the quiet struggles of America’s chicken farmers as they struggle to provide for themselves and their families. Essentially forced into upgrading their farms, these farmers have no choice but to perpetuate a never-ending cycle of debt – on pain of bankruptcy.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

Aliki

An encounter with a flamingo at an ancient salt lake in Cyprus

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

Zo Playroom

The Zo is a hand-drawn animated film about a child trapped in a nightmare house by the monster, the Zo.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

Endings

Emmy Ferguson is a 10 year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced breast cancer, has made a similar decision about the end of her life. They are all strangers to each other, but as Emmy embarks on a strange journey, and as the day’s events bring these three dying people together, through Emmy’s unique point of view, their lives are changed forever.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

Big Hands

A young girl builds a time machine to escape the loss of her tight knit family.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

Headphonics

This short video is built around several short loops of home video that are cross-faded and run through various sound responsive luminosity keys and colorizers. A zone out film. A reflection on my son’s growth. This is the fourth part of a series of yearly videos made with my son. This video was produced at the Experimental Video Center in Owego, New York.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Balrog 24/7

For their 4th annual elementary school play, the students decide to take a different approach. With a band to compose along side the show, the kids create a musical based on the hit game ‘Street Fighter.’

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Danzak

Nina is a 10 year old girl whose life dramatically changes when her father and Master Scissor Dancer asks her to fulfill her last wish.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Red Wednesday

Sholeh is a lonely little nine-year-old girl. She eats her lunch at a distance from her schoolmates and wonders why her Zoroastrian mother sends her to a Catholic school in the first place. But the greatest source of sorrow in Sholeh’s life is her sad mother’s failing health.

ANIMATION PROGRAMS

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

9 p.m.

Please Say Something

Please Say Something is a 10-minute short concerning a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant future. The final film was completed in January 2009 and contains 23 episodes of exactly 25 seconds each.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8:30 p.m.

Alone in the 475th

Inspired by journals written amid World War II this animated short explores a subjective interpretation of a soldier’s written words. As these journal entries are recited the filmmaker uses a mixture of animation and photographs to visualize a surreal experience based on the soldier’s actual written words.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:30 pm.

What Manner of Person Art Thou?

What Manner of Person Art Thou? is a 66 minute animated video which follows two characters, Yoder and Troyer, the only survivors of a deadly epidemic that struck two small colonies somewhere in the Northwestern United States.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

6 p.m.

Confessions of a Superhero

Confessions of a Superhero chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their living working as superhero characters on Hollywood Boulevard. This deeply personal look into their daily routines reveals their hardships and triumphs as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame. The Hulk sold his Super Nintendo for a bus ticket to LA; Wonder Woman was a mid-western homecoming queen; Batman struggles with his anger, while the psyche of Superman is consumed by the Man of Steel. Although the Walk of Fame is right beneath their feet, their own paths to stardom prove to be long, hard climbs.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

7:35 p.m.

Time for a Hero

A superhero musical

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Grumpy Old Man

Lego stop motion animation

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

The Zo

The Zo is a hand-drawn animated film about a child trapped in a nightmare house by the monster, the Zo.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5 p.m.

Fwd: Update on My Life

A hybrid live-action and animated documentary, Fwd: Update on My Life follows Dr. Deanie French, a professor and pioneer of internet-based learning and web accessibility, who decides one day to take a holiday from her prescription mood stabilizers and go on the Atkins diet. With newfound energy, she promptly leaves her husband and sets out starting up multiple businesses, making 10 new ‘special friends,’ and directing a documentary about her life. In this experimental biography, director and ‘special friend’ Nicky Tavares pieces together the humorous and tragic life story of Dr. Deanie French through a collection of interviews, personal emails, electronic greeting cards, and machinima footage, exploring Dr. French’s complex psychological and professional relationship with the internet and technology. Alternating and probing notions of the virtual and the real, Fwd: Update on My Life reflects upon our idea of reality as it nimbly navigates Dr. French’s fluctuating perceptions of the universe.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

7 p.m.

Sutro

Animated portrait of the eponymous television tower on the hill, guardian of fog and electronic signals in that earthshaking city by the Bay.

BLACK PROGRAMS

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

8:15 p.m

Freedom Riders

Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.

Black Cinemateque and South Dallas Cultural Center are sponsoring this presentation.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

6:15 p.m.

Memories of Overdevelopment

What happens when a socialist revolutionary intellectual asserts creative freedom? In Memories of Overdevelopment, ideological clashes and contradictions explode and fragment within a Cuban émigré while they spurt across the world stage. A kinetic, mesmerizing, subliminal collage, the film forges new cinematic dimensions with multiple planes fueling each other: a picaresque saga of desire and decomposition, a self-reflexive formal project about art reifying life and vice versa, a surreal foray into memory and the unconscious, and a searing critique of twentieth-century forces like genocide and totalitarianism.

CIVIL RIGHTS/POLITICAL PROGRAMS

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

8:15 p.m

Freedom Riders

Black Cinemateque and South Dallas Cultural Center are sponsoring this presentation.

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

8 p.m.

They Are Still There

The filmmaker, a military veteran, explores the impact of the war in Iraq on the lives of three North Texas residents: a mother, a soldier and an activist.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8:30 pm.

Barbershop Punk

The film tells the story of software engineer Robb Topolski, who was only trying to access turn-of-the-century barbershop quartet music (legally) when he made an unsettling discovery: his service provider was covertly participating in a practice to filter and control its users’ content. What followed would make him the unlikeliest of heroes in the “Net neutrality” debate and would force the federal government to focus on the policies carried out by the nation’s largest media corporations. Filmmakers Georgia Sugimura Archer and Kristin Armfield expertly interweave Robb’s inspiring personal battle against censorship with opinions on both sides of the issue from politicians, commentators and musicians, including Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye, who help put a fine point on what it means to really be “punk.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8 p.m.

Until Tomorrow Then

A mathematician figures out the exact time the world will end, and it’s sooner than he’d even anticipated. With time running out, he spends his last few days attempting to find forgiveness from the woman he’s always loved.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8:30 p.m.

We Love Germany: Thanks For Everything

“Sri Lanka ‘National Handball Team’ Disappears in Germany,” reported a small blurb on CBS News. Most surprised were the people of the small village of Wittislingen in Germany, who hosted the Sri Lankan team for a local tournament. After the match the Sri Lankans disappeared and were nowhere to be found. A brief inquiry yielded that a Sri Lankan national handball team never existed, and that the rather well organized scam enabled 23 illegal immigrants to obtain European Union visas. In We Love Germany: Thanks For Everything… Jenny Vogel deals with the aftermath of the incident, as she presents the story from the point of view of the villagers of Wittislingen.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

9:30 p.m.

Erasing David

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear – a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy – and the loss of it.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:30 pm.

What Manner of Person Art Thou?

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:45 p.m.

The Art of Jihad

“Yes, I carry explosives. They are called words.” In our heavily mediated world, words and images play an important role in the creation of misconceptions. In this film, three American artists combine those two elements to address and combat the prevalent stereotypes about Islam in the U.S.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

The Task of the Translator

Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘The Task of the Translator’ through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to the musings of a wartime doctor grappling with the task of a kind-of cosmetic surgery for corpses. Second, she witnesses a group of Classics scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin. And finally, she turns to a radio news report on human remains.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

5:45 p.m.

The Eternal Quarter Inch

Rising fundamentalism and a government that cites faith to defend war actions have helped grow a desperate society. The first part of the Bearing Witness Trilogy.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

Green Becomes Black and Blue (White Becomes Red)

Reconfigured events from protest to crackdown of the Green movement in Iran recorded by witnesses on cell phones and mini-cams. This work is inspired by a report that the government had changed the green bar on the Iranian flag to blue as an attempt to dis-empower the primary color symbol of the Green movement.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

ATK’s Statement of Environmental Stewardship

It is most strange and wondrous that the corporations that make the deadliest weapons on earth also enjoy proclaiming their ethical, community and environmental values. This video takes the ‘environmental stewardship’ statement of ATK, one of the world’s largest arms manufacturers, and performs it as a short, sacred opera. ATK’s Statement of Environmental Stewardship forms one part of The Cluster Project, an online exhibition of multimedia artworks exploring the universe of cluster bombs. The site is expected to launch in late summer 2010.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

9 p.m.

The t.A.T.u. Project

The t.A.T.u. Project addresses the social and political significance of the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. The film focuses on the marketing of singers Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova’s as a lesbian couple, as well as their politicized television appearances: on the Jay Leno Show during the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq, and on a Japanese TV show when they wore t-shirts that addressed a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

Noon

Dive

Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

12:40 pm.

Trash-Out

This deeply affecting and simple short shows workers cleaning out a house that has been foreclosed upon. What do the things left behind say about a family? What does an empty house say that was once a home? In a mere five minutes, TRASH-OUT makes a poignant statement on a timely subject.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

1:30 p.m.

Latch On

The politics of breastfeeding

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

Sins of My Father

Pablo Escobar, the most notorious and brutal drug lord in Colombia’s history, was gunned down in Medellín in 1993. After his father’s death, Juan Escobar fled to Buenos Aires, changed his name to Sebastián Marroquín, assuming a new identity to escape his father’s dubious legacy. For the first time since Escobar’s death, Marroquín comes forward to tell his father’s story. With heartfelt honesty, he recounts what it was like to grow up loving a father that he knew was his country’s number-one enemy. Unsatisfied with simply relating history, Marroquín requests a meeting with the sons of two celebrated Colombian political leaders who were among hundreds of victims that his father had killed in the 1980s.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:45 p.m.

Facing History

When my closest friend, a Brooklyn rabbi’s daughter raised among Holocaust survivors, refused to visit me in Germany, I understood her concerns. I’m not Jewish, but I too felt uneasy about moving to Germany for my husband’s academic sabbatical. Then, during my eight months in the small town of Tübingen, I met people who, after a while, began to tell me about their highly personal struggles with their country’s past.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5 p.m.

In the Wake of the Flood

Taking us behind the curtain of Margaret Atwood’s travelling medicine show, ‘In the Wake of the Flood’ offers a candid, revealing portrait of the author as activist oracle — Atwood is the ultimate camp counselor, mounting a pageant to save the planet with a birdsong in her heart and a silent spring in her step.”

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

The Last Castrato

The Last Castrato’ video narrates the story of two men whose lives intersect through unexpected circumstances, yielding unfortunate results. The main protagonist is going through major upheavals in his life. He has lost his son to war and is trying to come to terms with it. He is angry, furious, yet sad and confused. As a result, he is yearning for reconciliation with some of the unexplainable circumstances life throws at him, and possibly with himself as well. All of these emotions eventually yield tragic results when he unleashes his rage onto a stranger who he mistakes for a burglar breaking into his house. The stranger, a Muslim character, is only trying to return his wallet.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

6:15 p.m.

Memories of Overdevelopment

PROGRAMS ABOUT FILMMAKING AND TV

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

7 p.m.

A Film Unfinished

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings of the footage. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, and probes deep into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film.

3 Star Cinema is the community partner for this screening.

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

8:30 p.m.

Forgetting Dad

One week after a seemingly harmless car accident, a 45-year-old man suffers total amnesia. Sixteen years later, his filmmaker son investigates why his father’s memory never returned.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

10:30 p.m.

Never Trust a Woman

In this pulse pounding new thriller, The Love Boat’s Lauren Tewes answers the age-old question, ‘…does a cuckoo clock make music?’ from l’enfant terrible Michael Frost comes one of his latest cut-up process cinematic excursions that… may persuade you to never pick up an old telephone land line again.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

2 p.m.

No Subtitles Necessary

No Subtitles Necessary follows the lives of renowned cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond from escaping the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary to present day.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

7 p.m.

Girl with Black Balloons

The Chelsea Hotel is a New York City icon – ever wondered who lives in it? Girl with Black Balloons is no ordinary character study but a multi-faceted portrait of Bettina – a reclusive, artist living within the confines of Manhattan’s legendary lodgings. Reflexive and tender, the film develops a dialogue between filmmaker and subject born out of mutual respect, blurring the roles of confidante and muse. The result provides a fascinating insight into a unique life and graceful meditation on the powers of memory, creativity, order and discord.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

The Harvey Girl From Shanghai

The Harvey Girl From Shanghai is a fictional documentary about a film Orson Welles started to make with Judy Garland but was stopped mid-production.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

A Movie by Jen Proctor

A loving remake of Bruce Conner’s seminal 1958 found footage film A Movie using appropriated material from video sharing sites YouTube and LiveLeak.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

On 24

The May 24 finale of the political-action series 24 marks the end of one of the most stylistically fresh and politically controversial programs in broadcast TV history. The video essay series 5 on 24 examines various aspects of the show, including its real-time structure, its depiction of torture, and the psychology of its hero, counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

Filmpiece for Bartlett

A tribute to the late filmmaker Scott Bartlett (‘Off/On’, ‘Serpent’). A fountain in the Museum of Modern Art courtyard becomes a literal and figurative reflection upon Bartlett’s quote in Gene Youngblood’s ‘Expanded Cinema’: ‘There is a pattern in film work that could be the pattern of a hundred-thousand movies. It simply is: ‘Repeat and purify; repeat and synthesize; abstract, abstract, abstract.’

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

Green Becomes Black and Blue (White Becomes Red)

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8:15 p.m.

ATK’s Statement of Environmental Stewardship

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

Vault of Vapors

A weather diary series set in Oklahoma with a wistful tone and wispy environment. The TV is on and the porcelain is smeared with some residue atrocity from a previous passion. But all is well as emptiness persists beyond the four walls of this prairie mausoleum.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5 p.m.

Fwd: Update on My Life

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

10 Short Documentaries about My Childhood Home

10 Short Documentaries about My Childhood Home mixes old movie piano music, re-enactments with masks, observational documentary and old slides of my childhood to create a snapshot about the process of selling our family house and my mother’s subsequent move to an assisted living situation.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

Headphonics

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

6:15 p.m.

Memories of Overdevelopment

HEALTH PROGRAMS

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

8:30 p.m.

Forgetting Dad

One week after a seemingly harmless car accident, a 45-year-old man suffers total amnesia. Sixteen years later, his filmmaker son investigates why his father’s memory never returned.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:30 p.m.

What Manner of Person Art Thou?

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

The Darkness of Day

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the isolation, and the desire to escape are recorded on film in various contexts. Voice-over readings from the journal kept by a brother of the filmmaker’s friend who committed suicide in 1990 intermix with a range of compelling stories, from the poignant double suicide of an elderly American couple to a Japanese teenager who jumped into a volcano, spawning over a thousand imitations. While this is a serious exploration of a cultural taboo, its lyrical qualities invite the viewer to approach the subject with understanding and compassion.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

Grief Becomes Me

Poet Donna Hilbert’s life changed in an instant with her husband Larry’s sudden death. In the months following she addressed her grief in poetry, completing the acclaimed Transforming Matter. ‘This wondrous collection examines faith, grief, the afterlife . . .’ (Denise Duhamel) Six years later her life again changed dramatically when director Christine Fugate discovered her work and began translating it to film. Grief Becomes Me, a short film consisting of three poems, debuted at the LA Short Film Festival and the Long Beach Museum of Art. The short was the first in a trilogy of poems dealing with life, death and the afterlife. After the success of the short, Fugate decided to produce and direct a longer film Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story, an interweaving of documentary footage and narrative interpretations of Hilbert’s poetry.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

The Task of the Translator

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

5 p.m.

Burzynski

Ph.D biochemist, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, won one of the largest legal battles against the Food & Drug Administration in U.S. history. Dr. Burzynski and his patients endured a treacherous 14-year journey in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials for a new cancer-fighting drug. His groundbreaking medical and legal battles have brought revolutionary cancer treatment to the public. Upon completion, his treatment will be available the world over – sending a shock wave through the cancer industry.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

1:30 p.m.

Latch On

The politics of breastfeeding

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

Endings

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

10 Short Documentaries about My Childhood Home

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

Close to Home

Close to Home follows the story of a father broken from the loss of his son, and a daughter waiting for the father that she once knew.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

Big Hands

A young girl builds a time machine to escape the loss of her tight knit family.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Life’s Waltz

Life’s Waltz explores old age, loss, and love. Betty finds joy and purpose in playing the piano, gardening, and making the most of each day as a widow at her retirement community. Then we meet Bob and Dorothy, a married couple with a unique sense of humor about their transition into the same retirement community, health decline, and their love for one another. Our outsider to retirement communities is David, a “25-year-old inside of a 77-year-old’s body.” He commemorates his late wife and offers a profound perspective on love and loss as we age. Betty, Bob, Dorothy, and David, show us that old age is nothing to fear; it can be as wonderful as any other time in our lives.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Red Wednesday

HISTORY PROGRAMS

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

7 p.m.

A Film Unfinished

3 Star Cinema is the community partner for this screening.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8:30 p.m.

Alone in the 475th

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

1:45 p.m.

Polack

An in-the-closet Polish-American seeks the source of the Polack joke, but only finds new levels of rejection. Polack is a documentary film that incorporates personal journey, and archival and entertainment footage, while considering the history of Poland and contemporary social politics.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

2 p.m.

No Subtitles Necessary

No Subtitles Necessary follows the lives of renowned cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond from escaping the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary to present day.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3 p.m.

Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean

Living in the wake of the Idi Amin reign of terror and institutional discrimination, one Ugandan coffee farmer organized a group of Christian, Muslim and Jewish neighbors to challenge historical — as well as economic and environmental — hurdles by forming Delicious Peace Coffee Cooperative to enhance peaceful relationships and economic development. Partnering with a Fair Trade US distributor, the standard of living of the farmers is improving, peace is flourishing, and their messages of peace and fair wages are spreading to coffee customers in the US. Narrated by Ed O’Neill.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

8 p.m.

Mars

A new space race is born between NASA and the ESA when Charlie Brownsville, Hank Morrison, and Dr. Casey Cook compete against an artificially intelligent robot to find out what’s up there on the red planet. ‘Mars’ follows these three astronauts on the first manned mission to our galactic neighbor. On the way they experience life-threatening accidents, self doubts, obnoxious reporters, and the boredom of extended space travel.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:45 p.m.

Facing History

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

1 p.m.

Der Vater

Near the end of WWII, the vicious SS recruited every able man to fight on the front lines in an attempt to push back the allies and further eradicate the Jews. When Erich, a peaceful man and father of two, is recruited, tragic circumstances befall him and he is ordered to kill two Jewish children. Now he must decide between murdering the children or aiding in their escape, knowing that doing so will result in his own death.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5:45 p.m.

Bye Bye Now

Bye Bye Now offers a charming and poignant look at the gradual disappearance of phone booths in Ireland. With the advent of modern technology, the phone booth has all but vanished all over the world. In a loving tribute to this soon-to-be relic of the past, Bye Bye Now stands out as a nostalgic reminder of the communication of yesteryear.

LATINO PROGRAMS

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

Sins of My Father

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

6:15 p.m.

Memories of Overdevelopment

LESBIAN AND GAY PROGRAMS

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

9 p.m.

The t.A.T.u. Project

LITERARY AND THEATER PROGRAMS

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

Grief Becomes Me

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

The Task of the Translator

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

5:45 p.m.

A Pattern of Prophecies: an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth

This film is an exploration of Shakespeare’s scansion and the downfall of the notorious Scottish couple.

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2010

5 p.m.

In the Wake of the Flood

FILMS ABOUT MONEY

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:02 p.m.

Traders

A musical video based upon a day on the trading floor – and what really moves the markets.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:25 p.m.

The Sharecroppers

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

Noon

Dive

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2010

12:40 pm.

Trash-Out

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2010

12:40 pm.

Prim Limit

A plot of land is purchased in the online network of SecondLife and a simple question is asked: Where do discarded 3D objects go and can we build a dumpster to accommodate them?

MUSIC AND DANCE PROGRAMS

Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010

9:15 p.m.

Echotone

Austin is known worldwide as the “Live Music Capital of the World.” But what exactly does this mean? As nearly two dozen high-rises pop up throughout the city amidst an economic downfall, how does the working musician get along? This lyrical documentary provides a telescopic view in the lives of Austin’s vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city. Echotone is a cultural portrait of the modern American city examined through the lyrics and lens of its creative class.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8:30 pm.

Barbershop Punk

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

9:45 p.m.

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan’s America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation. Telling it like it is, the iconic Laurence Fishburne narrates EVERYDAY SUNSHINE, a story about music, history, fear, courage and funking on the one.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

7 p.m.

Eight Women

A portrait of eight women who are now in their eighties that reflects on the delicate balance of their lives as homemakers and members of a 1960s modern dance group. A rendering of the intersections of motherhood, marriage, and movement.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

7:30 p.m.

Keep Dancing

Keep Dancing seamlessly blends nine decades of archival film and photographs with present day footage. It tells a story through dance of the passing of time and the process of aging. After celebrated careers, legendary dancers Marge Champion and Donald Saddler became friends while performing together in the 2001 Broadway production of Follies. When the show closed, they decided to rent a private studio together, where they have been choreographing and rehearsing original dances ever since.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8 p.m.

Haggle

Two white students are approached by a black musician; who is trying to get his start in underground jazz by selling demo CDs on the street. The two lead him on to believe they will buy a CD, but in the process cause him to reflect on the legitimacy of making and selling his art.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

9 p.m.

The t.A.T.u. Project

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

7 p.m.

Sweet Dreams

Artist karaoke project shot on location in Second Life and starring Sunshine Hernandoz as herself.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

7 p.m.

I Can’t Wait to Meet You There

A consideration of embalming through mass media. A prayer for Kurt Cobain.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

7 p.m.

Fragments from Death Comes for Britney Spears! The musical

Ben Greenman and Erika Yeomans team up to create a dark parody on Britney Spears and the Industry of Gossip.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

7 p.m.

Sutro

Animated portrait of the eponymous television tower on the hill, guardian of fog and electronic signals in that earthshaking city by the Bay.

PROGRAMS ABOUT RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8 p.m.

Until Tomorrow Then

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:30 pm.

What Manner of Person Art Thou?

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:45 p.m.

The Art of Jihad

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

5:45 p.m.

The Eternal Quarter Inch

Rising fundamentalism and a government that cites faith to defend war actions have helped grow a desperate society. The first part of the Bearing Witness Trilogy.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

1 p.m.

Der Vater

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:45 p.m.

Facing History

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

6 p.m.

Some Days are Better Than Others

Some Days are Better Than Others is Matt McCormick’s poetic, character-driven debut feature-length film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Red Wednesday

FILMS ABOUT SEXUALITY

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

10:30 p.m.

Ain’t I a Woman

Ain’t I a Woman follows the story of Lesley, a transgender doll, to examine the gender binary at its intersection with technology and advanced capitalism. As Lesley proceeds through her transformation, the film exposes the ambiguity inherent in our socially constructed notions of gender and the way gender has been commodified and institutionalized by our social and economic systems.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

10:30 p.m.

Nothing Happened

Sex, drugs, diet tips. Girlfriends tell each other everything. But is there one topic that should stay off-limits?

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

10:30 p.m.

The Kelly Tapes

The Kelly Tapes’ is a dark comedy based on 18 answering machine messages left by a real life stalker in 1993. The original answering machine tape provides all of the dialog heard in the film in Kelly’s own voice.

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8 p.m.

Until Tomorrow Then

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

8:30 p.m.

Ireversible Architecture

We are all invaders and invading. Our personal infrastructure trembles. Today the imagination, the desire to be dynamic, lively, responsible and contemporary can close on itself-by program, by context, by habit, by instruction. We all need vigilance. How does self-insight offer the challenge of the unknown, upsetting personal infrastructures?

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Left Field

Left Field is the story of a unique community of misfits, artists, musicians, geeks, and party animals whose lives coalesce around the grade school game of kickball. The film centers primarily around the stories of Sarah Hart and KC Haywood, two modern American nomads in search of adventure who stumble upon a wild, fledgling community of anarchistic kick ballers upon their arrival in Chicago. They quickly find themselves immersed in a vibrant culture of creativity, love, play, and excess that embraces them as family. With the kickball league growing larger, structure, rules and competition creep into this anarchist’s Garden of Eden and threaten to destroy its innocence and purity. As the community deals with these new challenges, disaster strikes unexpectedly when a freak accident hospitalizes one of their own. After rallying to support their friend and each other during this difficult time, it becomes clear that love, friendship, and the zest for life triumph over tragedy.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

1:30 p.m.

Fast Girls, Slow Bikes: The Story of Denvers’ Mods ‘n Knockers

Fast Girls, Slow Bikes: The Story of Denver’s Mods ‘n Knockers tells the story of a tight knit all girls gang brought together by a mutual love of classic Vespa and Lambretta scooters.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

1 p.m.

Dovidjenja, Kako Ste? (Good-by How Are You)

Jokes as a weapon of resistance: how satire sustains a beleaguered culture.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

6 p.m.

Confessions of a Superhero

Confessions of a Superhero chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their living working as superhero characters on Hollywood Boulevard. This deeply personal look into their daily routines reveals their hardships and triumphs as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame. The Hulk sold his Super Nintendo for a bus ticket to LA; Wonder Woman was a mid-western homecoming queen; Batman struggles with his anger, while Superman’s psyche is consumed by the Man of Steel. Although the Walk of Fame is right beneath their feet, their own paths to stardom prove to be long, hard climbs.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

7 p.m.

The Voyagers

This summer, I began a hopeful journey into the unknown. This is a love letter to my fellow traveler.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

7 p.m.

The Necklace

A romantic weekend alone takes an unexpected turn for Matthew and Elizabeth when his mother’s diamond necklace goes missing.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

7 p.m.

Altarcations

Linda and Larry’s forthcoming wedding hits a snag when the local parish priest comes to their home to do some much-needed marriage counseling. As Larry’s anxieties about Linda’s draconian wedding plans escalate, the priest turns out to be much less of a moderator than an instigator.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

1:30 p.m.

Latch On

The politics of breastfeeding

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

6 p.m.

Some Days are Better Than Others

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Life’s Waltz

TEXAS SHOW-FILMS BY TEXANS

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

8 p.m.

THE TEXAS SHOW

Screaming

This is a phone call made at 4:49pm on June 22nd, 2009 in San Francisco, California.

Balrog 24/7

Danzak

Nina is a 10 year old girl whose life dramatically changes when her father and Master Scissor Dancer asks her to fulfill her last wish.

Mnemosyne Rising

Set to return to Earth, a deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks while in orbit around a newly-discovered moon.

Red Wednesday

Katrina’s Son

When a young boy loses his grandmother during Hurricane Katrina, he travels to San Antonio, Texas, in search of the mother who abandoned him years earlier.

Tough Crowd

An over-scheduled, harassed and self-absorbed daughter with her own family pays an overdue visit to Mom at her retirement home and withers from the disapproval she perceives the staff and other residents have for her–particularly in comparison with her dutiful bachelor brother, who was always Mom’s favorite.

A Veggie Tale

Can love survive a betrayal of meaty proportions?

Life’s Waltz

VISUAL ART PROGRAMS

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

Noon

Daylight: A Doodle Music Video

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:45 p.m.

Art Elimination Project

A short film in which an artist sets fire to, blows up and otherwise destroys some of his old artwork.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:45 p.m.

The Deep Ellum Mural Project

The Deep Ellum Mural project spearheaded by Frank Campagna, artistic wrangler

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:45 p.m.

Jerry Heggleman: The Enigmatic Eye

Jerry Heggleman: The Enigmatic Eye is a short documentary film about famed fake photographer Jerry Heggleman. The film follows Heggleman and his assistant John as they travel to visit Stonehenge.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

3:45 p.m.

The Art of Jihad

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

An independent video documentary, this is the first film to delve into the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive work that questioned everything by posing a set of creative and comedic alternatives.

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

4:45 p.m.

The Jeff Koons Show

A documentary on the life and work of artist Jeff Koons, told through the perspective of Koons himself, curators, gallerists, and fellow artists (Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel, etc.).

Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010

7 p.m.

Girl with Black Balloons

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

2 p.m.

Vault of Vapors

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

Below Sea Level

The Louisiana shore before the spill, ominous shots of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico (some of them destroyed by hurricanes) and the post-Katrina New Orleans are the subjects of this short piece. Partly filmed with a 360° panoramic camera, some of the footage is drawn from “Below Sea Level” – a panoramic video and sound work shown at MASS MoCA from April 2009 to February 2010.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown

You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

Girl Chit

Cosplay girls, urban farming and a Zamboni. The subtle trace of irreconcilable worlds.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

We Lived There

We Lived There recalls the mundane and sublime moments that make up a life lived.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

The Wind on Moon

The seer and the seen as explored through video.

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

3:30 p.m.

Free as a Bird

A surreal metaphor for freedom

Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010

5 p.m.

Fwd: Update on My Life

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23rd Annual VideoFest :: September 23-26, 2010

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23^nd Annual VideoFest– Sept. 23-26, 2010

Dallas, TX – The 23^nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film Center Sept. 23-26,2010. The oldest and largest video and film festival in the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional, national and international video and film artists that are hard to find at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to a movie, expect something different! For the third year in a row, the VideoFest will be presented thru I-Tunes. VideoFest is presented by Video Association of Dallas.

Patrons may purchase day passes ($25 or $35 depending on day) or All-Festival passes ($75) for over 150 programs making this Festival the best deal in town. Buy tickets online in advance or at the door day of show. Visit www.videofest.org for more information or call 214-428-8700. Sponsors include HBO, Kodak, Texas Film Commission, Dallas Film Commission, Dallas Film Society, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, and Texas Commission on the Arts.

ABOUT VIDEOFEST

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS

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TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL VIDEO FEST

WHAT: Twenty-Third Annual Video Fest

Presented by the Video Association of Dallas

WHERE: At the Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 23 7-11:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 24 7-11:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 25 noon-11:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 26 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

TICKETS: All-festival pass: $75

All-Evening passes: Thursday or Friday $25

All-Day and Evening passes: Saturday or Sunday $35

Seniors (60 or older): $10 off

Some selected programs will be $6 per program available at event only

Tickets will be available at the door or online at videofest.org

INFO: Video Association of Dallas

T: (214) 428-8700

E: info@videofest.org

http://www.videofest.org

Press: Lisa Taylor, 214-914-1099, lisatmp@swbell.net

Sign up for the Video Association Newsletter and Videomaker’s Resource List: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001PATbu7Y33LGmUMkarkySZQ%3D%3D

Join the Video Association of Dallas’ Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6575722334

Become a Fan of the 24 Hour Video Race: http://www.facebook.com/pages/24-Hour-Video-Race-of-Dallas/103277330637

Become a Fan of the Dallas VideoFest: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-VideoFest/192194875617

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24-Hour Video Race :: May 14-15, 2010

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What can happen with a 24-hour burst of creativity? The 24-Hour Video Race strives to find the answer. The 9^th Annual 24-Hour Video Race, presented by The Video Association of Dallas, will commence at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 14, and end 24 hours later at 12-midnight on Saturday, May 15. The Angelika Film Center is at 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. For information, visit http://www.24hourvideoracedallas.com or call 214-428-8700 or email videorace@videofest.org.

The screenings of the work of all the entrants will be Tuesday-Thursday, May 18-20 with the finalists screened on Monday, May 24 at the Angelika Film Center. The winning videos will be shown at the 23^nd annual VideoFest in September and also on KERA –TV Channel 13’s program “Frame of Mind.” Team members should bring Race lanyards for admission to the screenings. (This includes teams who did not finish the Race.) Members of the general public can also attend. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. The screening schedule will be posted the Monday after the race.

The 24-Hour Video Race’s teams are divided in to five categories:

Pixelvision K-12 Teams

Futurevision Current College/University students and recent graduates

Auteur Professional or amateur teams of 1 or 2 members

Guerilla Professional or Amateur teams of 3 to 5 members

Hollywood Professional or Amateur teams of 6 or more members

The 9^th Annual 24-Hour Video Race sponsors include Red Bull, Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Film Commission, Dallas Film Commission, Brad Abrams Glass, The Music Factory, Alford Media, National Endowment for the Arts, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Dallas, Mid-America Arts Alliance and Angelika Film Center.

In 2009, 80 teams participated and 76 finished on time. Over a thousand filmmakers and crew have raced across the finish line over the history of the race.

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:

For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099.

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22nd Annual VideoFest

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Dallas, TX – The 22^nd Annual VideoFest will be held at the Angelika Film Center Nov.5-8, 2009. During the festival, the winning teams from the 24-Hour Video Race in June, 2009 will also be screened.

The Annual VideoFest is the oldest and largest video festival in the nation and continues to exhibit a diverse range of works by regional, national and international video artists.

Since 1986 The Dallas Video Festival has specialized in fiercely independent, imaginative, unusual, provocative and sometimes description-defying electronic media. In fact, we’re the oldest and the largest video festival in the nation. In our 22 year history, we’ve screened or hosted over 4,000 different programs ranging from imaginative 30-second television commercials to mesmerizing video art, compelling documentaries, surrealistic animation, innovative digital features, intelligent, kid-friendly fare, thought-provoking panels and narrative shorts that surprise, inspire and entertain.

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:

The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas presents the 24-Hour Video Race and other programs throughout the year.22nd22

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22nd Annual VideoFest Announces Call For Entries

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Dallas, TX – The VideoFest has kicked-off its CALL FOR ENTRIES and hunt for cutting-edge work for its 22nd celebration of video and electronic media. The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be held at the Angelika Film Center Nov.5-8, 2009. It is the oldest and largest video festival in the nation and continues to exhibit a diverse range of works by regional, national and international video artists.

If your entry will push some buttons, we want you to send it in right away!

There are no thematic or content restrictions. Categories include any style or genre — experimental, documentary, animation, music video, feature, multimedia. We are also accepting entries shot and finished in high definition video. Texas entries under 25 minutes are eligible for a special program called the Texas Show.

Additional festival rules and information can be located at www.videofest.org. Entry fees $20 and up.

Deadline for entries is August 3, 2009
Late entries can arrive by August 11, 2009 for an additional fee.

And send entry to:
4329 Belmont Ave
Dallas, TX 75204-3033

E–mail festival@videofest.org or call 214.428.8700 for more information.

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Arts Advocacy Day :: Aug. 20, 2009

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Support the Arts in Dallas…attend Arts Advocacy Day

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Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the new Wyly Theatre in downtown Dallas Arts District

Presented by the Cultural Affairs Commission, City of Dallas and Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition

WHAT:

Arts Advocacy Day is an opportunity for everyone interested in the arts and arts education to learn how to successfully advocate for arts funding and how to create a greater awareness of the impact of arts and culture on a community. The featured speaker is Douglas C. Sonntag, Director of Dance, National Endowment for the Arts.

There will be workshops and panel discussions in the morning dealing with advocacy and public relations techniques. The cost for Advocacy Day is $35 and includes lunch and all workshops.

WHEN:

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 9:45 Welcome and Introductions

9:45 – 11:30 Panel Presentations

New Media Marketing and Communication: Anne Bothwell – KERA, Director Art&Seek, Jill Magnuson, Vice President Marketing and Communications, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Donna Harris, Owner/Publisher, Intownmix.

Economic Impact of the Arts: Mark Nerenhausen, CEO, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Phillip Jones, President/CEO, Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, Larry Kivett, Deloitte, LLP

11:30 – 12:30 Welcome by Mayor Tom Leppert

Lunch featuring Keynote Speaker, Douglas C. Sonntag

1:00 - 3:00 Private meetings with Dallas City Council members at City Hall

WHERE:

Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
2403 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Since 1997, Douglas C. Sonntag has served as the Director of Dance for the National Endowment for the Arts.. From 2004 to 2008 he was also the Director of the Office of National Initiatives where he supervised work on several signature Endowment programs. Previously, he served as program administrator and senior program specialist for the Arts Endowment’s Dance Program. From 1981-1986, Mr. Sonntag was general manager of the Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah as well as an associate instructor for the University of Utah’s Institute of Arts Administration and a staff specialist for the Department of Ballet. From 1980-81, Mr. Sonntag was the project director of the Utah Playwriting Conference, a joint project of the Sundance Institute and the Utah Arts Council. He has served as a judge for the American College Dance Festival/Dance Magazine Awards, and as a panelist for the Utah Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, and the Carlisle Project. He has spoken at and served on panels many organizations including Dance/USA, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the International Association of Blacks in Dance, and at the International Tanzmesse NRW in Dusseldorf, Germany, and the Monaco Dance Forum, Monte Carlo, Monaco. Mr. Sonntag attended the American College in Paris and the University of Utah graduating with a B.F.A. in Ballet and an M.F.A. in Theater with an emphasis in arts administration.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Due to ongoing construction and safety precautions, tickets will not be available at the door. Please park in the Arts District Parking Garage and you will be directed to the event site.

Joanna St. Angelo, President, Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition

Joanna@sammonsartcenter.org
214-520-7789

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Winners from the 24-Hour Video Race announced :: June 3, 2009

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Winners of the 8th Annual 24-Hour Video Race were announced on Wednesday, June 3 to a packed theater at the Angelika Film Center.

Sixteen winners completed a five-minute film in 24 hours, beginning Friday, May 22 at 11:59 p.m. and ending Saturday May 23 at midnight, in a competition sponsored by the Video Association of Dallas. A total of 89 teams started the Race, 67 finished on time and 12 late teams were screened but were not included in the judging.

A total of three finalists from each division were awarded first, second and third places. All winning videos will be shown at the 22nd Annual VideoFest November 5 – 8. Due to time constraints, only first and second place winners are guaranteed a screening on KERA –TV Channel 13’s program, “Frame of Mind.” Airtime to be announced.

The winners by category are as follows:

Pixelvision (K-12 Teams)
1. Landdolphins
2. Digital Death
3. Team Swine

Futurevision (Current College/University students and recent graduates)
1. Shoot or Die
2. Siloencer Films
3. View Finder Productions

Auteur (Professional or amateur teams of 1 or 2 members)
1. Elephant & Castle Productions
2. Blocknaw Productions
3. Original Dub Master

Guerilla (Professional or Amateur teams of 3 to 5 members)
1. Monochromatic Productions
2. Curtis Needs a Ride
3. GuD Films

Hollywood (Professional or Amateur teams of 6 or more members)
1. Whispering Eye (tie)
1. Brownian Motion (tie)
2. Palatia Motion Picture Group
3. The Depth of Fielders

The teams were given four elements, which had to be included in their films. This year the elements were:

Theme: Misunderstanding
Prop: An edible fruit or vegetable
Location: A street or traffic sign
Line of Dialogue: “…the one on the left.”

The 8th Annual 24-Hour Video Race sponsors include Alford Media, The Tape Company, AFI Dallas, The Music Bakery, Dallas Film Commission, Funimation Entertainment and HBO.

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:
The mission of the Video Association is to promote an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to support and advance the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts.

The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas presents the 24-Hour Video Race and other programs throughout the year.

For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099.

24 Hour Video Race :: May 22-23, 2009

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At the Angelika!

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What can happen with a 24-hour burst of creativity? The 24-Hour Video Race strives to find the answer. The 8th Annual 24-Hour Video Race, presented by The Video Association of Dallas, will commence at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 22, and end 24 hours later at 12-midnight on Saturday, May 23. The Angelika Film Center is at 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. For information, visit http://www.24hourvideoracedallas.com or call 214-428-8700 or email videorace@videofest.org.

The screenings of the work of all the entrants will be Tuesday-Thursday, May 26-28 with the finalists screened on Wednesday, June 3 at the Angelika Film Center. The winning videos will be shown at the 22nd annual VideoFest in November and also on KERA –TV Channel 13’s program “Frame of Mind.” Team members should bring Race lanyards for admission to the screenings. (This includes teams who did not finish the Race.) Members of the general public can also attend. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.

The 24-Hour Video Race’s teams are divided in to five categories:
Pixelvision    K-12 Teams
Futurevision   Current College/University students and recent graduates
Auteur        Professional or amateur teams of 1 or 2 members
Guerilla    Professional or Amateur teams of 3 to 5 members
Hollywood   Professional or Amateur teams of 6 or more members

The 8th Annual 24-Hour Video Race sponsors include Alford Media, The Tape Company, AFI Dallas, The Music Bakery, Dallas Film Commission, Funimation Entertainment and HBO.

In 2008, 96 teams participated and 64 finished on time. Winners included Last Minute Movie Makers, Manamal Productions, WhiteNoise Films, Palatia Motion Picture Group and The Video Mafia. Over 750 filmmakers and crew have raced across the finish line over the history of the race.

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Symposium :: April 24, 2009

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April Symposium – Tickets available online

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“Frank Welch-The Birthday: What Does It Mean to Make a Texas Modernism” a symposium on architect Frank Welch and his iconic project will take place Friday, April 24 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at Dallas Center for Architecture, 1909 Woodall Rodgers Frwy., Suite 100.

For speakers, schedule, and topics, see: http://www.uta.edu/architecture/symposium2009

Presented by Dallas Architecture Forum and the Oral History of Texas Architecture Program at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture, speakers will include Frank Welch, Mark Gunderson, Max Levy, Lisa Germany, Wanda Dye, Brad Bell, Jane Myers, Monica Penick, Greg Smith, William Palmore, Stephen Fox, and Kate Holliday.

An optional informal reception at an O’Neil Ford residence at 11535 Hilllcrest, will conclude the day from 6-7:30 p.m.

Individual tickets for the Symposium can be purchased for $40 and individual tickets for both the Symposium and the reception can be purchased for $50. Tickets are available online at https://payments.auctionpay.com/ver3/?id=w013769.

The sponsors of the Symposium are The University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture Oral History Program, The Dallas Architecture Forum, and The Dallas Center for Architecture. The reception is hosted by Ellen Terry and John Janik.

See www.dallasarchitectureforum.org for more information or leave a message at 214-764-2406.

ABOUT DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM
The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.

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VideoFest to Celebrate 25th anniversary :: Sept. 27-30, 2012

Location announced-Dallas Museum of Art

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Eleventh Annual 24-Hour Video Race:: May 4-5, 2012

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24th Annual VideoFest :: September 21-25, 2011

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10th Annual 24-Hour Video Race :: May 13-14, 2011

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*Update* DADA Film Premiere :: October 10, 2010

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23rd Annual VideoFest Announces Winners

The 23rd Annual VideoFest Winners

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VideoFest Films by Category :: September 23-26, 2010

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23rd Annual VideoFest :: September 23-26, 2010

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24-Hour Video Race :: May 14-15, 2010

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22nd Annual VideoFest

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22nd Annual VideoFest Announces Call For Entries

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Arts Advocacy Day :: Aug. 20, 2009

Support the Arts in Dallas…attend Arts Advocacy Day

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Winners from the 24-Hour Video Race announced :: June 3, 2009

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24 Hour Video Race :: May 22-23, 2009

At the Angelika!

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Symposium :: April 24, 2009

April Symposium – Tickets available online

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Update DADA Film Premiere :: October 10, 2010

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The 23^rd Annual VideoFest Winners

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