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Thursday, September 24, 2009
ScreenPeace Film Festival starts Oct. 4
The Dayton International Peace Museum will hold its annual ScreenPeace Film Festival, starting in October.
It will feature six movies, all of which offer a different perspective on peace.
Each film will be screened on a Sunday, first in the afternoon at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs and then in the evening at The Neon in Dayton.
Thomas Girvin, who spends 10 months every year organizing the event, said the event is first, intended to support the Peace Museum.
“We have the only peace museum in the country… People should be proud of that,” he said. “The ScreenPeace festival is here to support that.”
The films selected to be shown over the six-week period have different degrees and interpretations of peace, some coming from resolution after war, some representing personal forgiveness.
The last film screening session will include the works of area children from age elementary school to teen years.
“The final program is to see what students’ vision of peace is,” he said. “We always think of peace as geopolitical, but I have a feeling for a fourth grader peace might be not getting beat up on the playground.”
And as a graduate of the USC film school and a screenwriter himself, Girvin can’t help but discuss the true ‘film’ part of the film festival. Anyone could go rent a lot of the movies, but the big screen experience is important, he said.
“The peace themes in films is often a little more subtle than violence,” he said. “One needs to experience them in proper setting on the big screen to get the subtle nuances.”
Film schedule
Each film with be screened twice on Sundays. First at 12:30 p.m. at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs; and second, at 7 p.m. at The Neon in Dayton.
The tickets series is $39 for all movies. Individual movies are $6.50.
Ticket order forms are available at ScreenPeace.org. The forms should be sent to Dayton International Peace Museum - ScreenPeace, 208 West Monument Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45402-3015. Or they can be ordered by phone at (937) 227-3223.
The movies are:
* Cry Freedom, Oct. 4: The story of black activist Stephen Biko and the white journalist who together worked to end to apartheid.
* Emerald Forest, Oct. 11: After cultures collide and environment is damaged, peace is the casual in a rain forest. It is based on a true story.
* David and Fatima, Oct. 18: The love story of an Israeli boy and Palestinian girl in present-day Jerusalem.
* To End All War, Oct. 25: The true story of a Bridge on the River Kwai POW camp, with a message of forgiveness.
* Hair, Nov. 1: The singing and dancing paean to the 1960s vision of peace, love and joy.
* ScreenPeace Student Film/Video Contest winners. Nov. 8:
Elementary, high school, and college students from Miami Valley portray their own concepts of peace.
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LGBT fest brings cinematographer home
The fourth annual LGBT Film Festival on Friday through Sunday, Sept. 25-27, at the Neon Movies, 130 E. Fifth St., will be a homecoming for Collin Brazzie.
The 2002 Chaminade-Julienne High School graduate, who grew up in Vandalia, was cinematographer on the short film “Last Call,” which will be part of the festival’s Saturday lineup.
“It was completed as part of my thesis. I grew up going to movies at the Neon, so having one play there is a real dream come true,” said the Los Angeles resident, who recently completed his MFA in film production/cinematography at Chapman University.
“Last Call” follows a man named Gavin who is trying to reconcile with a former lover when he is killed in a car accident. “In a purgatorial bar, he’s given a chance to look at three moments in his life without altering them,” Brazzie said.
It was his second collaboration with director Nick Corporon. “We are submitting it all over the world,” Brazzie said.
More information about the LGBT Festival is available at www.dayton lgbt.com.
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Free Day Saturday at Carillon Park
Thanks to Smithsonian magazine, museums around the country will be offering free admission on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.
Locally, Carillon Historical Park will participate.
It’s the fifth annual event which last year attracted 200,000 nationally.
To gain free admission, visit www.smithsonian.com/museum day to download your Museum Day admission card. Attendees must present the Museum Day Admission Card to gain free entry to participating institutions.
Each card provides access for two people, and one card is permitted per household. To learn what museums are involved, check out www.smithsonian.com/museumday.
