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Lunafest Film Festival on April 15th |
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by Colleen
Email: art.theatre.events (nospam) gmail.com (unverified!) |
13 Apr 2006
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LUNAFEST is a national short film festival that stimulates discussion & raises money for the Breast Cancer Fund & local nonprofits. Lunafest comes to our community on April 15th to Boardman's Art Theatre. |
LUNAFEST COMES TO BOARDMAN'S ART THEATER APRIL 15TH at 2PM
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LUNAFEST films are by women & for women.
LUNAFEST is a national film festival that stimulates discussion & raises money for the Breast Cancer Fund & local nonprofits. What better way to spend $10? ($8 for students/seniors)
All the details, below...
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All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to benefit Planned Parenthood and the Breast Cancer Fund.
Please support this important event in our community.
WHAT MOVIES ARE BEING SHOWN?
BACKSEAT BINGO: An animated documentary about the romantic lives of senior
citizens
Awards: Official Selection Telluride Film Festival, Official Selection AFI
Fest, First Prize Animation Magazine Student Award
ONE WEEKEND A MONTH: Meg, a busy single mom receives a phone call that her
National Guard unit will be activated for duty in Iraq in two weeks. She
struggles to figure out who will take care of her children. Awards: Official
Selection Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection AFI Fest
TAHARA: Amina, an Egyptian housewife in Los Angeles under pressure from her
mother; she must decide whether to circumcise her daughter or abandon the
tradition. Awards: Santa Barbara Int'l FF, Victoria Independent Film
festival, DC Independent FF
BLESSING: Maya, home for her brother's graduation, is forced to deal with
their often overbearing, sometimes embarrassing mother, Asha, seemingly
oblivious to her daughter's feelings. Asha is not without surprises, forcing
Maya to rethink her opinion of her mother. Awards: Santa Cruz Film Festival,
LA Film Festiva
TWILIGHT: A story about loss, despair and the possibility of redemption, set
in the Russian city of St. Petersburg during its strange White Nights, when
darkness never falls. A woman, Masha searches fruitlessly, through morgues
and down alleys, for a daughter who disappeared three years previous.
Awards: SF Int'l Film Festival, Telluride International Film Festival,
Princess Grace Foundation's Cary Grant Award
PERFECTION: From infancy, an Asian American woman learns the game of
perfection. But if your goal is perfection, will the game ever end? Milton
Bradley's game Perfection mirrors an Asian American woman's struggle to
achieve success and her parent's approval. Ultimately she must decide
whether to end the game. Awards: LA Film Festival, San Francisco Int'l Asian
America FF, Seattle Int'l FF, Vancouver Int'l FF
LAYING DOWN ARMS: The story of two women who forge an unlikely friendship
through a mistaken phone call. Janet, a troubled young woman, and Esther,
and elderly holocaust survivor, engage in a conversation that transforms
both of their lives.
MABEL'S SAGA / LE VOYAGE DE MABELLE: The film blends animation with a lush
musical landscape in which Mabel, juggling the demands of work, teenagers
and an elderly mother, is confronted with hot flashes and chin hairs. In a
touching, funny film without words that celebrates menopause as a natural
transition, rather than a medical condition to be feared, Mabel finds
herself the unassuming heroine of her own adventure of aging. Awards:
Winner- Montreal World Film Festival, Best Short- Atlanta Film Festival
WHO DO THE PROCEEDS BENEFIT?
The event is being held as a benefit for the Breast Cancer Fund and Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois, which is the area's oldest and largest reproductive health care provider. Their seven health centers throughout East Central Illinois serve over 14,000 clients each year, ensuring women in our community can receive the safe, responsible reproductive health care that is essential to the empowerment of women and their physical wellbeing.
WHAT IS LUNAFEST AND WHO SPONSORS IT?
LUNAFEST, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year as the only national touring festival of films by, for, and about women is a film festival that features a variety of genres, including documentaries and animated shorts. Starting with just eight stops on its inaugural 2001 tour, LUNAFEST is expected to top 100 markets this year as it celebrates its fifth anniversary.It's produced by LUNA®, the whole nutrition bar for women™, and provides a national platform for emerging women filmmakers to share their
stories.
HOW DO I GET TICKETS?
Tickets are on sale now at the Boardman's box office @ 126 west church st., in downtown Champaign. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. (This event is expected to sell out, so purchase your tickets in advance!)
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
Send an email to Colleen Cook at art.theatre.events (at) gmail.com or Kathie Spegal at kspegal (at) ppeci.org. More information is also available at www.boardmansarttheatre.com |
See also:
http://www.boardmansarttheatre.com
http://www.lunabar.com/lunafest
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