This program explores the work of individual filmmakers, resources that present, preserve or produce motion image media and classic and cutting edge film and motion image media from around the world. There will be dialogue with important and knowledgeable people from the world of motion image production.
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season dates and times below.
Refreshments will be served and there will be a Cash Bar at each of the viewings
unless otherwise noted
Admission:
(pay at door)
$7 General Public
$5 SAMFA Members
$2 Seniors, Students & Military
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6:00 pm
San Angelo native and documentary filmmaker Hector Galán will give
a presentation entitled, Retrospective: A Look at the Works of Hector Galán
including selections from Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads
which will premier on PBS, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 7:00 pm
Film, Frida, directed by Julie Taymor. Mexican with English subtitles. Starring
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas.
Winner of two Academy Awards this biography follows the life of Mexican artist
and activist, Frida Kahlo, through her emotional and physical challenges and
her marriage to painter, Diego Rivera.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 7:00 pm
Dr. Gloria Duarte, English professor at Angelo State University will give
a presentation entitled, Gayle Western Cunningham: From Local
Cowgirl to Hollywood Movie Star. Gayle was a San Angelo native and 2008 is
the 100th anniversary of her birth. Following will be the Roy Rogers and Dale
Evans movie, Bells of San Angelo, directed by William Witney. A great action
and color 1947 western with Roy and Dale having to reluctantly team up to
break up a silver smuggling gang on the Mexican border. Songs by Sons of the
Pioneers.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 7:00 pm
Jeffery Mills, Executive Director, Documentary
Alliance, Houston, will present a program about the work of the Documentary
Alliance, with clips from 3 different documentaries including Before
the Curtain Rises: The Story of a Texas Theater Empire
Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 7:00 pm
Film, Princess Mononoke, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. This feature length Japanese
animated film is a complex mythical tale that raises questions about mankinds
place in the natural world. It was the biggest box-office hit in Japanese
history.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 7:00 pm
21st Annual Best of the Fest video program by the Dallas Video
Association
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 7:00 pm
Director Andrew Garrison and producer Nancy Bless will introduce and discuss
the moving documentary, THIRD WARD TX, about artists and neighbors who are
breathing life into their historically black Houston neighborhood and collide
with
real estate developers. This film is shown in collaboration with the Southwest
Alternate Media Project, Houston.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 7:00 pm
Film, Like Water for Chocolate, directed by Alfonso Arau. Mexican with English
subtitles. Starring Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torne. Striking film
set in the early 20th century about a young woman who finds solace in her
cooking when her lover marries her sister.
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m
Dinner at the River Terrace Restaurant
Enjoy a wonderful dinner with a Like Water for Chocolate theme in a beautiful
setting. This will be a fundraiser for the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
and a separate fee will be charged. More details to follow later.
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