SCREENING SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1st - 7:10 pm

7:10 - "IN PASSING" - Alan Miller - Short Experimental Feature - 4:44 - From the BVFF + USC Archives...

"A story about two people, FALLING in love"

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7:30 - "DIRT" - David Finkelstein - Feature length Experimental Film - 79 minutes - USA

"DIRT" is an extended poetic meditation on the American relation to the soil, and the energies buried within it. Notions of "dirtiness" and "cleanliness" are re-examined. Centuries of history, of conquering and re-conquering, lie beneath our feet, and the return of the vanquished is inevitable. There has also always been an alternative possibility, within the American landscape, inspired by indigenous culture, of a more peaceful relationship with the soil, the resting place of our ancestors.

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9:20 - Zack Kasten -

 

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, - 7:30 pm

 

7:30 - "55 STEPS" - Feature - Directed by Billie August - Starring Hilary Swank, Helena Bonham Carter, and Jeffrey Tambor.

"55 STEPS" is based on the inspiring true story of the unlikely relationship between an outrageous and wickedly smart Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter), a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a workaholic patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank).

Colette Hughes will be in the audience - with a Q + A to follow.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 - TBA

 

 

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STAIRWAY TO THE STARS - Lorenzo Destefano - Short Narrative Feature - 25 min. Bay Area Premiere

Screens Saturday October 29, at 7:30pm

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD - SHORT NARRATIVE FEATURE

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BEFORE THEY TAKE US AWAY - Antonia Glenn - Documentary - 80 min. - BAY AREA PREMIERE

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD - DOCUMENTARY - JURIES CHOICE

Screens Sunday, October 30th,

*2:00pm SCREENING SOLD OUT!

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Review by JOHN SEAL - BerkeleySide 2022

Q+A following the film with the producers and a self evacuee in the film Howard Yamamoto

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Joseph C. Stillman and Jeri Wachter at BVFF 2022 - photo - BerkeleyTimes

Screens Friday October 28th 7:30pm - WEST COAST PREMIERE - Documentary - 100 min

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD - DOCUMENTARY - STATE OF THE NATION

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SPONTANEOUS ARTIFACTS - David Finkelstein - Experimental Feature - 77 min

Screens Saturday October 29, at 8:15pm - World Premiere

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD - EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE

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EAST OAKLAND COUNTER NARRATIVES - Cheryl Fabio - Documentary - 80 min -

Screens Saturday October 29 - 5:15pm

Best Urban Commentary Award

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PESCAMARE - Andrea Lodovichetti - Documentary - 60 min - Italy - Screens Friday October 28 - 5pm

BEST OF FESTIVAL - DOCUMENTARY

Focuses on the intense lives of fishermen in Italy, how they deal with the demanding and difficult lives they must lead out on the seas and how they grapple with the struggles of being away from family as well as the challenges of being in a risky line of work.

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FORT COLLINS and FOUND FOOTAGE - Tony Armlin - Two Experimental Cinemas - 5:23 and 6:53

WIG TALES - Birdie Donnelley - Documentary - 19:21

Screens Friday October 28 - 6:15pm - *( All three films screened consecutively )

Experimental Cinema Jury Award

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Mel Vapour and Tony Armlin at BVFF 2022 receiving his Award-10.28.2022 - photo Kealoha

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SWEET DISASTER - Vandal Moon - Zack Kasten - Music Video - 3:45

Screens Friday October 28 - 9:30pm

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS AWARD - MUSIC VIDEO

Vapour and Zack Kasten receiving his award 10.28 22 - Photo - Kealoha

 

 

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BURNING SPHERE - Zack Kasten - Music Video - 5:52 -

Screens Friday October 28 - 9:35pm

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD - MUSIC VIDEO

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WOMEN MINOR SPECULATIONS - Nicole Hewitt - Experimental Cinema - 59:00 - Croatia

Screens Saturday October 29 - 3pm

BEST FOREIGN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA AWARD

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SELECTIONS FROM SUMMER TEEN MEDIA CAMP 2022 - East Bay Media Center - Berkeley - 7@ Young Teen Producers

Screens Saturday October 29 - 1:30pm

WHY MORE BLACK AMERICANS SHOULD TRY CAPOEIRA - Chinwe Oniah and Kelly Whalen - Short Documentary- 8:38 min

Screens Saturday October 29 - 4:15pm

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

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ROUTINE - H. Dyllan Hobeck - Young Producer - 8:32

Screens Saturday October 29 - 4:45pm

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD - YOUNG PRODUCER

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Karen Weinstein at BVFF Q+A after screening her 1970 documentary.

ABORTION AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS 1970 - Karen Weinstein, Mary Summers, Jane Pincus, Catha Maslow - 28 min

Screens Saturday October 29 - 2:15pm

Four feminist activists in Boston worked together to make the film with two actresses, a Bolex camera with 16 mm film, audio recordings of women telling their stories, footage of women’s discussion groups and demonstrations, Newsreel clips, black and white photos, and handmade signs. Over the years, they transferred the 16mm film to VHS and then DVDs. They worked with editors to make recent updates on computers, then downloaded to vimeo.  While the technology has changed,  the fight for women’s rights continues.

ARCHIVAL VIDEO AWARD

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FA DEATH - Ali Vilan - Short Feature - Iran - 18:48 -

Screens Friday October 28 - 4:30pm

BEST FOREIGN  SHORT FEATURE

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#MY CORONA - Phil Gorn - Feature - 90 min.

GRAND FESTIVAL - BEST FEATURE AWARD

SF BEAT - Allen Willis - Archival Selection of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti - City Lights, S.F. East Bay Media Center- 1973 - 11 min.

A COLLECTION OF ECCENTRICITIES - David Finkelstein - Experimental - 17.5 min.

CAR JACK - Michael Winingham - Short Feature - 10 min.

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT FEATURE - BEST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SHORT FEATURE

BON AND THE WEST - Andrea Heckman, Tad Fettig and Ted O'Neil - Documentary - 92 min.

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD IN DOCUMENTARY

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ITCHY BOOTS - Noraly Schoenmaker - Netherlands - YouTube Videos - 9:54 min.

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CONJUNTO BLUES - Nicolas Valdez, a collaboration between Teatro Vivo of Austin, TX and San Antonio's Historic Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. - Arts - 58 min.

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD IN THE ARTS

19Seventy Free - Louis Bryant III & Ama Yah Harrison - Short Feature - 20 min

THE ALLEN WILLIS FILMMAKERS AWARD 2021

Louis Bryant III & Ama Yah Harrison receive the Allen Willis Filmmakers Award from BVFF Director Mel Vapour

ISOLATE - Kit Young - Experimental - 5:05 min.

THE GRAND FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTAL EXPLODING EXISTENTIAL AWARD

ABRIDGED ENTROPY - Kit Young - Experimental - 9:50 min.

BEYOND WORDS - Kit Young - Experimental - 5:23 min.

Wa Papo - Doug Harris - Arts - 10 min.

FINDING THE ITALIANS: A GRANDDAUGHTER'S JOURNEY - Giovanna Capone - Documentary - 93 min.

ITALIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARY

Giovanna Capone accepts her award after an extraordinary screening of her doc.

 

SPACE CASE - Zachary T. Scott - Short Feature - 18 min

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD FOR SHORT FEATURE

BLIPSWITCH - SHOCK THE VOTE - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.

GOOD FIELD - COYOTE - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4 min.

BEST OF FESTIVAL FOR MUSIC VIDEO

DRUMSET - Evie Ladin for MoToR/dance - Arts - 3:25 min.

 

Tuning the harp - Luca Capponi - Documentary - 9:50 min.

 

IMAGINED GALLERY - Tony Armlin - Animation - 8:37 min.

G-moders - Sean Choy - Animation - 6:28 min.

 

LIFELESS PEDALS - Kea Morshed - Young Producer - 9:31 min.

 

Ghetto Black Theater - The O.P. The Old Playa - Elgin Jackson - Comedy - 4 min.

MIRA - Hannnnnnnie - Short, Short, Really Short Feature - 0:36 min - Official Selection

BEST SHORT, SHORT, REALLY SHORT FEATURE AWARD

 

PEREZ ANIMATIONS GACHA - Morena and Giada Perez and Zoe Richards - Young Producers Animation - Summer Teen Media Camp 2021

BEST SILENT YOUNG PRODUCERS SHORT ANIMATION

 

East Bay Media Center's Summer Teen Media Camp 2021

GODZILLA ON A BUDGET - Benjamin Stoffmacher- 4:38 min. - East Bay Media Center's Summer Teen Media Camp 2021

 

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IN THE STRANGE PURSUIT OF LAURA DURAND - Dimitris Bavellas - Road Movie/Comedy/Music - Greece - US PREMIERE

Screens Saturday, October 31 at 6:30pm and Sunday, November 1 at 6:30pm - Limited Seating - Physically Distanced.

This is not an online event. Seats still available.

DONT KNOW WHAT - Thomas Renoldner - Animation - Vienna - Screens 4:05pm Saturday

FINAL MOMENTS - Dax Phelan - A Covid-19 PSA - Screens Saturday 1:00pm

BROVID 19 - Waylon Bacon - Comedy - Screens Sunday 2:50pm

PROMISED LAND - Zack Kasten - Music Video - Mestizo & Controller 7 - Screens Saturday 4:00pm

BEDLAM - Ken Rosenberg and the Bedlam Team - Documentary - 86 min. - Grand Festival Award - Best Documentary

Screened Virtually Online and in the BVFF Performance Space - Saturday, October 31 at 1:15pm and Sunday, November 1 at 1:15pm.

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November 1, 2020 - "THE BADGER" and "GABRIEL" article in Tehrans Daily.

Click on the above Tehran Times logo: will direct to the article on the BVFF 2020 Festival or scroll down to read it.

THE BADGER - Kazem Mollaie, Director - Sina Saeidian, Producer - Feature / Fiction - Iran - 93 min.

Screens Saturday October 31 - 4:15pm and Sunday November 1 at 4:30pm

 

GABRIEL - Yousef Kargar - Narrative Short - Iran - 20 min - Best of BVFF Cinematography Award - Screens Saturday 5:55pm

ITCHY BOOTS - Video Log - YOUTUBE - Noraly Schoenmaker - Best International Motorcycle Video Log - Netherlands

Screens Virtually -

Itchy Boots - Behind The Scenes - December 18, 2020: Noraly making videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiBNvDXbX3c&ab_channel=MotorrijdersNL

 

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http://bikeindia.in/interview-noraly-schoenmaker-dutch-damsel-on-a-mission/

SPIRAL GARAGE - David Finkelstein - Experimental - Screens Sunday 5:55pm

ANALYSIS PARALYSIS - Adrian Arias - Short - Art

Experimental Video #2 ABSOLUTE FILM-ABSOLUTE VIDEO - Tony Armlin - Experimental - Screens Saturday 3:50pm

BEAUTY, BRAINS & PERSONALITY - Emmett Loverde - Feature - 92 min

Screens Sunday, November 1 - 3:30pm - limited seating remains

Emmett Loverde ( right ) received The Best Director Award at BVFF 2020

Awards presentation Sunday November 1 at BVFF Performance Space to Emmett Loverde.

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PLURIVERSE - Kit Young - Experimental - Screens Sunday 5:30pm

HEALING CIRCLE ARTWORKS RELAXATION MEDITATION - Mary Curtis Ratcliff - Elder Producer - Screens Saturday - 3:35pm

LOVE IS ALWAYS LOSING - Michael L.D. Lena - Short Feature - Screens Saturday 3:00pm

THE SPECTRE'S BRIDE - Francesca Borgatta - Trailer - Screens Saturday 3:45pm

INSTANT- Jeremy Lu - Young Producer - Animation - 5:18 - Screens Saturday 3:20pm

Mi Granito de Arena (My Little Grain of Sand) - Grace Sandman - Student Filmmaker

DACAmented - Sammy Campbell, Emma Greally, Kate Parker - Short Feature/Young Producer/Documentary

LOKANATHA DASS - Lokanatha (Larry) Decker - Elder Producer

A TRIP TO CHINA - Gyong Tae Roh - Experimental

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Kate McKinley, Carla Blank, Mel Vapour and "News from Fukushima", producer Yuri Kageyama

Regina Mason, Todd Kerr and Sean Durant.

Women of the Gulag - Directed by Marianna Yarovskaya, Produced by Paul Gregory - Documentary - 53:00

A new documentary film based on Hoover Institution scholar Paul Gregory’s book by that name, is among the ten films on the 2019 Oscar Awards’ short list for “documentary (short subject).” The film is directed by Russian-American film maker Marianna Yarovskaya of Mayfilms and produced by her and Gregory.

Screens at the East Bay Media Center Performance Space . Friday, November 1 - 7:30 pm Q+A to follow.

clip of the film from Mayfilms on Vimeo.

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Screens Sunday November 3 - 4:45 pm - A poetic exploration of the strategies for unleashing creativity,

both scattershot and focused, experimental cinema . Screens at East Bay Media Center's Performance Space.

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Hippie Family Values Trailer (Seckinger, 2017) from Hippie Family Values on Vimeo.

Screens Saturday . October 26 - 7:30pm . Q+A follows with Filmmaker - Director Beverly Seckinger, in person.

Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space.

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'Secrets of Outer Space: Into the Great Beyond!' - Ten Experimental films curated by Jeff Wengrofsky of NYC

Screenings Saturday October 26th . 9:15pm at East Bay Media Center Performance Space - Q+A to follow screenings.

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Screens Saturday November 2nd . 6:00 pm. Q+A follows with Japanese Filmmaker Yuri Kageyama

Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space.

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FILM SCHOOL FRENZY

Outstanding short student selections in Animation, Drama, Documentary, SciFi, Horror and Social Change.

These are selections from some of the finest film school filmmakers from one of the very best film schools!

Go to above program for a list of all USC films that are screening, see FILM SCHOOL FRENZY FRIDAY OCTOBER 25

Starts at 7:00pm at East Bay Media Center Performance Space.

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Screens Saturday Nov. 2, 7:45 pm at East Bay Media Center Performance Space. Q&A to follow.

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Screens Sunday, October 27 3:30 pm at East Bay Media Center Performance Space .

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A Battle for School Integration in Ohio - Screens 3:00 pm Sunday, October 27

At East Bay Media Center Performance Space

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Azadeh - Mir Abbas Khoravinezhad - Short International Film - Iran - 10 mins.                         

Azadeh is living in the village with her mother and brother and desires to visit her father in the city.

Her mother and brother won’t allow her to leave.

Screens Friday, November 1 at 6:30 pm

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MOCA MALL - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 5 mins. Screens Saturday, October 26 - 6:50pm

earthy, emotional, mystical artwork vs. chic, opulent, sexy commercial exhibitionism, dark voodoo vs. neon-lit capitalism,

raw and rough creation vs. polished and sophisticated 'professionalism', personal statements vs. banal messaging,

desperate art born of poverty and political turmoil vs. imagery that reflects a ridiculously extravagant and glitzy lifestyle...etc.

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Screens Sunday October 27 at 5:30 pm - Spectre’s Bride - Francesca Borgatta - Short Feature - 30 mins.                                                  

A spectre kidnaps an abandoned bride for a wild night’s journey. This film is made with puppets, and is set to the music of Antonin Dvorak

Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space - Berkeley

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Discorporate Hierarchies#3 - Kit Young - Experimental Cinema

Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space - Screens Sunday, November 3, 5:10 pm.

Alternative Facts - Jon Osaki - Documentary - 65 mins. - Screens 4:15 pm, Saturday, November 2nd

at East Bay Media Center Performance Space

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Screens Sunday October 27 at 1:30 - Bullies - Daniel Bydlowski - USC School of Cinematic Arts - 27:40

A 10 year old boy is relentlessly bullied until he discovers a secret beneath his school, that promises to keep him safe –                   

if he’s willing to play by the rules.

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Aunty Emma - Rea Chupek & Casey Lapidus - Student Film - 11 mins. - AWARD

Screens Sunday November 3 - 5:20 pm                             

Aunty Emma, an elderly woman, who desperately longs for a sincere connection with someone

since the recent loss of her husband, is forced to take in a renter, Kara. Their conflicts showcase their vulnerabilities

and how respecting others can lead to a fulfilling friendship.

 

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RAIN by Crosby Morgan - Zack Kasten - Music Video - 5 mins. Screens Saturday, November 2, 3:25 pm.

Music Vid for Crosby Morgan

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I Couldn't Help Myself - Adina Zohar - Music Video-Animation - 4 mins. Screens Saturday, November 2, 3:00 pm.

A woman looking through notebooks from her childhood is reminded of past hopes, dreams, past loves, and disappointments.

"Redlined, a Legacy of Housing Discrimination" - Ron Chavez, California Community Builders

Screens Sunday, November 3, 3:30 pm.

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1970's by Tredici Bacci - Zachary T. Scott - Music Video - 5 min

It's the swingin' '70's and this crime scene has more than meets the eye. A music video for Tredici Bacci's 1970's.

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Screens Saturday October 26 at 6:30 - Miss Rivers - Quinnolyn Benson-Yates - Short Feature - 11 mins.                                        

During a sleepover with her best friend, a girl confronts her crush on her best friend’s mother!

The film explores numerous themes such as love in various forms. “Miss Rivers” won both

Filmmaking and Screenwriting Awards at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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Matryoslaka - Liv Kane - Student Film - 6 min - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - Friday, November 1, 6:45 pm

An elderly man receives a visit from an unknown woman. They discuss tea, the Russian language and love.

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SPOTLIGHT: Student Loan Dreams, Debt and Determination - Leviticus Williams / First Republic Bank - 27 mins - Documentary - Q&A to follow.

Screens Sunday, November 3 at 2:30 pm - Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space.

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ST. MARTIN'S SHUFFLE - Paul T. Morgan - 6:38 - Short

Can a man go from Killer to Lover?

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The Trump Swamp Song - David Puls - Young Producer - Screens Saturday October 26, 7:00 pm

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"SAMUEL OF POSEN" - The "lost" 1910 Silent Movie starring M. B. Curtis of 'Archival Berkeley Provenance' - 3 mins - Screens Sunday, October 27 - 2:25pm

From the Library of Congress - Courtesy of Berkeley historian Richard Schwartz; he will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jeff Adachi and Mel Vapour at BVFF 2017

 

JEFF ADACHI passed away on February 22, 2019.

BVFF will miss this legendary

Public Defender of San Francisco and Independent Filmmaker.

EBMC + BVFF are deeply saddened by the passing of our dear colleague,

friend and filmmaker, JEFF ADACHI.

Our sincere condolences go out to Jeff's wife, Mutsuko and daughter.

Wera Von Wulfen, Jeff Adachi + Cole Woodman

at BVFF 2017, Adachi's "Defender" Screening.

JONAS MEKAS Dead at 96.

"Godfather of Avante Garde Cinema" - 01. 23. 2019

Photo Edu Bayer - New York Times

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AGNES VARDA - French New Wave film pioneer dies at 90, March 29, 2019

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Zhaoyu Zhou - The Last Dance - USC Animation Screen Shot

Selections from USC School of Cinematic Arts


 6:30 – Match – Danny Munoz - 3 mins – Animation
“Best Love Story & Superb Compositing Award”
An alone and rejected lost sock in a Laundromat meets an unlikely pair.
 
6:35 – The Last Dance – Zhaoyu Zhou - 3 mins – Animation
“Grand Festival Masterpiece in Animation Award”
An experimentation motion visualization film about romance from ancient china.
 
6:40 – 7/8ths of the Way There – Mary Gerretsen - 25 mins – Documentary
“Best Student Documentary Award”
In the wake of a terminal diagnosis, a couple reflects on the lives they’ve lived, the people they’ve loved and the penile implant that one of them is about to receive.
 
7:05 – The Plague – Federico Torrado Tobon - 21 mins - Thriller/Horror
“Best Thriller Award”
In a dystopian world, teenage siblings Julie and Julian take refuge in a secluded forest cabin to avoid becoming infected by a mysterious and deadly plague. When a stranger comes in need of help their lives are changed forever
 
7:30 – 15 mins Intermission
 
7:45 – The Craftsman – Sanford Jenkins - 13 mins – Drama
“Grand Festival Drama Award”
Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.
 
8:00 – Eggs, Bacon, Zombies – Sherry Y. Shi - 14 mins – Comedy
“Best Dark Comedy Award”
After an unexpected one-night-stand, Rachel is now awkwardly trapped in the house with last night’s lover because… well… zombies.
 
8:15 – Mammoth – Ariel Heller - 22 mins – Drama
“Grand Festival Audience Award”
Caught between his own grief and sense of family duty, Paul drives his care-free terminally ill brother, Elliot, on a farewell tour to Mammoth California, where Elliot plans to end his life under the Death with Dignity Act.
 
8:40 – DRIP – Christopher West – 13 min – Thriller/Horror
“Best Acting & Screenplay Award”
A young woman moves into a new apartment and begins to discover signs that she might not be alone.
 
8:55 – Just Say No – Davey Jarrel - 5 min – Animation
“Funny Bone Animation Award”
An overly empathetic gorilla needs to make an important delivery.

9:00 – WOLVES Chester Howie, Sam Frickleton, Madison Stevens - 14 min – Drama
“Grand Festival Award for a Dramatic Student Film“
When a seasoned police officer attempts to save a boy from committing suicide, she makes a personal discovery that will forever change her life.

 


5:00 – The Pushouts – Katie Galloway, Dawn Valadez and Daniella Suega - 56 mins – Documentary
“Grand Festival A ward: Best of Documentary”
THE PUSHOUTS interrogates crucial questions of race, class, and power - and the promise and perils of education - at a particularly urgent time. 
 
 6:00 – 30 min Intermission
 
6:30 – Scenes from a Visit – Neil Ira Needleman - 9 mins – Experimental
“Best Dramatic Experimental Film”
After traveling for several months, a documentary filmmaker visits the remote home his aging parents bought. During the visit, he comes to realize that the years are catching up to his octogenarian father, an artist with a vivid imagination.
 
6:40 – Too Close – Emily O Brien - 8 mins – Experimental
“Best Experimental Film Series: Secrets of the Deep”
A couple’s odd sibling love story
 
6:50 – A Mushroom Trip – Olga Guse - 7 mins – Experimental
“Best Experimental Film Series: Secrets of the Deep”
A walk through the magical, mystical world of mushrooms.
 
7:00 – Changing – Adina Even Zohar - 4 mins – Music Video
“Best Animated Music Video”
Animated music video following the story of a young girl struggling with her self- worth
 
7:05 – Hangover –Danny Golden – Directed by Zachary T. Scott - 5 mins – Music Video
“BVFF 2018 Official Selection: Music Video”
Have a drink, Take the edge off. What's the worst that could happen? Certainly, not a night filled with drinking, drugs, aliens and ex's, right? Wrong!
  
7:10 – 15 mins Intermission
 
7:30 – In Your Face: The Neil Zlozower Story– Beate & Declan Maynes - 92 mins  - Documentary
“Grand Festival Award: Best Rock n’ Roll Documentary”
Have a drink, Take the edge off. What's the worst that could happen? Certainly, not a night filled with drinking, drugs, aliens and ex's, right? Wrong!

 

 
 
2:00 – Wilder Than Wild: Fire, Forests & the Future – Kevin Whiten & Stephen Most– 56 mins – Documentary
“Grand Festival Award: Environmental Documentary”
This Award-Winning Documentary reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high severity wildfires and explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these fires.
 
3:00 – 15 min Intermission
 
3:15 – Detroit’s Rivera – Julio Ramos - 35 mins – Documentary
“Grand Festival Award: Best Experimental Documentary”
Detroit's Rivera (2017) documents the making of the murals by Diego Rivera in the city of Detroit between 1932 and 33. Based on extensive archival work, the agile montage of historical footage and vintage materials offers a singular poetic approach to the interface between the mural art, industrial cinema, factory work and the social struggles during those agitated years of deep economic depression in the U.S.
 
3:50 – Recording Device – David Finkelstein - 25 mins – Experimental
“Grand Festival Audience Favorite Award”
A poetic exploration of the ways we store our memories, and their effects, both corrosive and illuminating.
 
4:30 – Vessel – Zack Kasten – 19 min – Experimental
“Best Experimental Film”
A Hollywood silent film

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DETROIT'S RIVERA - JULIO RAMOS - Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 8pm

NUESTRO PAIS - Mayra A. Flores - USC Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 8:45pm

DEFENSORES de Paz - H. Carabali - Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 9pm

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CAN YOU HEAR ME - Allen Willis circa 1975 Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 10pm

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Screens Saturday October 27 at 8pm - SOLD OUT!

Rock music and rock photography are synonymous for the wild lifestyle of their rockstars
with one common demeanor: Neil Zlozower: in-your-face-madman-photographer.

The daily activities of “Zloz” as part of the rock ’n’ roll stage show, his work in the studio
plus a behind the scenes look at his private life, are well documented and collaborated
by friends, family, colleagues and the stars themselves.

Featuring members of:
Kiss, Guns n’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Van Halen, Korn, Rob Zombie,
Ratt, Anthrax, Slipknot, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Henry Rollins, and many more..

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Screens Friday . October 26 . 8pm . Berkeley Premiere . Pre Screening Schmooze 7pm - SOLD OUT!

Documentary 2018 by Katie Galloway, Dawn Valadez, Daniella Sueuga - 56 minutes

I WAS IN PRISON BEFORE I WAS EVEN BORN. So begins the story of Dr. Victor Rios who,

by 15, was a high school dropout and gang member with three felony convictions and a death wish.

But when a teacher's quiet persistence, a mentor's moral conviction, and his best friend's murder converge,

Rios's path takes an unexpected turn.

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Screens Friday November 2 at 8pm

"A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Frescos

and the murals' agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression.

The documentary's remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor,

public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism." - Julio Ramos

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Screens Sunday October 28 at 2pm - SOLD OUT!

This one-hour documentary reveals how fire suppression and climate change

have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high intensity wildfires

and explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these fires.

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Screens Sunday November 4 at 6pm.

Invitational Curator Jeff Wengrofsky presents Nine Experimental Films on the theme of dreams on film.

Wengrofsky will be available for a Q+A following the films.

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Vessel - Zack Kasten . Experimental . 19 minutes

 

Hangover / Danny Golden - Zachary T. Scott - Music Video - 5 minutes

Changing - Adina Even Zohar - Music Video - 4 minutes

Scenes from a Visit . Neil Ira Needleman . Experimental . 9 minutes

After traveling for several months, a documentary filmmaker visits the remote home

his aging parents bought. During the visit, he comes to realize that the years are catching up to his octogenarian father,

an artist with a vivid imagination.

 

Recording Device . David Finkelstein . Experimental . 24.5 minutes

A poetic exploration of the ways we store our memories,

and their effects, both corrosive and illuminating.

 

Loungers: Proof of Concept - Zachary T. Scott - 9 min - Web Series

The Web Series follows three roomates as the apocalypse starts.

Zombies, talking bongs and some family fun infomercials.

 

ZOO - Andrew Schrader . Experimental . 9 minutes

This Absurdist Documenrary chronicles the zoo animals upcoming escape attempt -

and the deranged zookeeper's efforts to stop them.

 

Prufrock - Gerald Varney . Elder Producer . 14 minutes

A collage video depicting the poem "The lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot

with an original narration by David Gonzales.

Foreign Film Sequences with Subtitles - Tony Armlin - Elder Producer / Experimental - 7 minutes

Compilation of film footage from the 1970's

Growing Apart: Episode 3# When it Rains . Zachary T. Scott . 8 minutes

The conclusion to.....Whatever dude!

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Selections from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts -

Drama, Animation, Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi, Documentaries, Social Change & Comedies

LAST DANCE - Zhaoyu Zhou - Animation - 3 min - USC

THE PLAGUE - Federico Torrado Tobon - Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi - 21 min - USC

MAMMOTH - Ariel Heller - Drama - 22 min - USC

EGGS, ZOMBIES, and BACON - Sherry Y. Shi - Comedy - 14 min - USC

THE WOLVES - Chester Howie - Drama - 14 mins - USC

7/8TH'S OF THE WAY THERE - Mary Gerretsen - Documentary - 25 min - USC

CRADLE - Devon Manney - Animation - 15 min - USC

DRIP - Christopher West - Thriller/Horror - 13 min - USC

NUESTRO PAIS - Mayra A. Flores - Animation - 6 min - USC

Anti-Bullying Project - Santiago Trinidad . Young Producer . Public Service Announcement . 60 sec - BHS

Don't Blame Yourself. Bullying Is Never Your Fault.

 

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"THE ITO SISTERS" Dec. 3rd 2pm Screening is Sold Out!!

A second screening has been added at 4pm -

"THE ITO SISTERS" Dec. 3rd 2pm Screening is Sold Out!!

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BVFF 2017 November Screenings - Advance Tickets $10. :

"QUEST" - SOLD OUT! November 5 screening

"The Ito Sisters" - SOLD OUT! November 5 screening

"Citizen Clark" - SOLD OUT! November 4 screening

"DEFENDER" - SOLD OUT! November 3 screening

"Voices for Freedom: The Hyers Sisters' Legacy" - SOLD OUT!

"USC Film School Shorts" + "KUPAL" - SRO

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$10. - Fridays and Sundays General Admission

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Mel Vapour presents Santiago Rizzo, the producer of "QUEST", the GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD for BEST FEATURE,

with Todd Kerr, publisher of Berkeley Times.

 

 

 

 

Alice Walker introduces the "Citizen Clark . . . A Life of Principle" documentary,

Mel Vapour introduces Joseph C. Stillman, the producer of "Citizen Clark" to the BVFF 2017 audience,

BVFF presents Grand Festival Documentary Award to Joseph C. Stillman,

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Joseph C. Stillman renders a Q&A following the screening of his Grand Festival Award winning documentary

on Ramsey Clark at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2017. Check out the article below from Oneonta, New York:

http://www.thedailystar.com/news/local_news/on-the-bright-side-local-director-s-documentary-wins-prize/image_eb9b988d-8126-5c5d-a371-cc13461af899.html

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"The Ito Sisters" - Q+A - BVFF 2017

Mel Vapour, Antonia Grace Glenn, Greg Pacificar and Paul Kealoha Blake

after Antonia and Greg received their Grand Festival Award for the "THE ITO SISTERS"

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SOLD OUT!!

Feature Film just added for this Sunday Nov. 5 at 6pm- Producer Santiago Rizzo

will be in person with a Q&A following the film.

Screens Sunday November 5 . 6pm - SOLD OUT!!!!!

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Jack Foley reads from Kerouac, as Al Hinkle looks on during opening of BVFF2017.

Hinkle, one of Kerouacs pals,was interviewed by Foley who appears in Nic Saunders 'The Good Blonde'. Foley also accepted The Grand Festival Award on behalf of Nic Saunders of the UK.

7:30 - Featuring on stage Q&A with Al Hinkle and Jack Foley with an exclusive Intro from Nic Saunders in the UK prior to the film.

8:00 -  The Good Blonde – Nic Saunders - Short Feature – 23 min. - U.S. Premiere
A short film based on the short story by Jack Kerouac, "Good Blonde". Tired, the Hitchhiker takes a break on the beach when a beautiful stranger comes and lies down next to him changing both their lives forever. Filmed entirely on location in Big Sur and San Francisco. Featuring Philip Bulcock, Kasia Halpin, Al Hinkle and Kirk Baltz.

8:30 - Intermission

9:00 - Dead Pan - Gracie May - Animation - 4 min. - USC

Wendy tries to go on a date with loveable Orc Lurtz, but the date is interupted by her drunken ex Peter Pan.

9:05 - Lion Dance - Zheng Kang - Animation - 6 min. - USC

It's love at first sight for Jian and Ayumi, during the city's Annual Lion Dance - but will they be able to find each other during this busy event.

9:11 - Mosquito: The Right of Passage - Brian Vincent Rhodes - Animation - 7 min. - USC

A mosquito on her first hunting trip with her mother tries to confess that she doesn't like blood.

9:20- Nose Hair - Louis Mortin - Animation - 10 min. - USC

While playing a game with his friends young Nate realizes that he has an unusual condition.

9:30 - Once a Hero - Xia Li - Animation - 8 min. - USC

A boy wants to be a superhero, He becomes friends with a girl who is bullied by all classmates, until one day, he is forced to make a choice, Betray the girl or not?

9:40 - Once Upon a Line - Alicja Jasina - Animation - 7 min. - USC

A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he suddenly falls in love. what follows is a short portrait of a difficult relationship marked by a struggle for control and identity. The ending gives hope for a new beginning and a change in perspective.

9:48 - The Meltdown - Connor Kerrigan - Animation - 12 min. - USC

A sarcastic physicist at a nuclear testing facility finds himself in a sticky situation after his ineptitude leaves the facility in great danger.

10:00 - Today - Katherine Duffy - Animation - 7 min. - USC

Father and daughter team up to tell a story of adventure, asparagus, and secret agents to pass the time before they return home from the hospital.

 

 

 

 

4:30 -  Selections from East Bay Media Centers’ Summer Teen Media Camp 2017 – Young Producers - 70 min.

 

5:50 - FORGET – Coby Hilelly – Young Producer – 8 min.                                                                                                     

A drama which follows a traumatized police officer who abandons his pregnant wife after a tragic shooting at an elementary school.

6:00 - Our Treasure – Jelina Liu – Young Producer – 6 min.                                                                                                     

A short documentary highlighting the work done by the Aikuma Project, a Bay Area based organization that is dedicated to preserving the world's threatened languages.

 

6:10 – Over the Trees (L'Autre Cote) – Emma Alluyn – Student Filmmaker – France - 17 min.                                            

The young Marek lived on the edge of the world. One day, He decided that his true life was waiting for him beyond the trees.

Paul Blake, Emma Alluyn, accepts Grand Festival Award Student Filmmaker - Mel Vapour - BVFF

 

6:30 - INTERMISSION

 

7:00 - Patrick’s Dilemna – Daniel Julien -  Documentary - 47 min.                                                                                     

A docu-drama examining cultural differences between San Franciscans and Parisians through the eyes of expatriates living in both cities as well as the personal story of a fictional character.

 

7:50 - Intermission

 

8:15 - Spirit of the Arts - Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts - Documentary - 10 min.

Originally painted in 1982, in the heart of the Mission District , the spirit of the arts mural gets restored by its original painters.

 

8:30 - China Test Girls - Frankie Latina - Trailer - Music Video - 2:05 - Starring Danny Trejo, Sasha Grey, Mark Borchardt

A fashion photographer gets more than he bargained when a roll of film contains sinister images. Soundtrack by Yoko Ono.

 

8:35 - Something Old Something New Summertime - Jack Easterday - Music Video - 7 min.

A performance of 14 local musicians all over the age of 65, serious about their music and live to perform.

 

8:45 - HAND 2 HAND - A7PHA - Zack Kasten - Music Video - 3 min.

A7PHA IS DOSEONE & MESTIZO; Made in Oakland.

 

8:50 - Not Tonight - Protextor - Zack Scott - Music Video - 5 min.

Disco Baby! Only this time it's after the Apocalypse.

 

8:55 - Folk Zero - Go Fever - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4 min.

Living out of your car is all fun and games until your inner demons manifest and try to kill you!

 

9:00 - Surface Tension - Good Field - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4 min.

Surface tension baby! it happens when a guy likes a girl or a girl likes a guy or a guy likes a guy or a girl likes a girl;

but in this case, One's a Sea God and the other is a Sky God. What happens after they spend a day with each other......

 

9:05 - Melting Sky - Ghost King - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.

Cult rituals and fantastic deaths are what make this Ghost King music video stand out! Oh and the rock'n guitar solo

that looks like something out of Event Horizon or a Rob Zombie flick! WARNING: stobe lights are used in this video!

 

9:10 - I Hate Myself ( and Everyone Else ) - Talkies - Zack Scott - Music Video - 2 min.

A neighborhood is terrorized by a smiling hooligan! Will he get his comeuppance? Watch and find out!

9:15 - INTERMISSION

 

9:30 - WHAT WEEE ARE - Alessio Daniel Griffin de Marchi - Experimental - Italy - 5 min

Planting the seeds, growing the future.

 

9:35 - Your Cage Is Ready - Kit Young - Experimental - 4 min

A Neo-Brutalist essay on contemporary life in the USA.

 

9:40 - Come (Vieni) - Chiara Scarfo - Experimental - Italy - 5 min

It's a call out of any places, towards any place of emptiness, Come and see, Everything is upside down.

 

9:45 - Novia - Chiara Scarfo - Experimental - Italy - 2 min

I've always wanted to marry under a waterfall, but yet I did not know that it would be "my first marriage", the one with myself.

 

9:50 - TRANSITIONS - Aurele Ferrier - Experimental - 13 min

A journey from the civilizing void of the desert of a maximal urban, capitalistic and hedonistic density, which in the case of Las Vegas assumes some bizarre expression. The film is a contemplation without any people or moving machines in it, focusing on the built and designed.

3:00 - The Linen Closet - David Finkelstein - Experimental - 22 min - BEST of FESTIVAL - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

A poetic depiction of the inner world of an older woman experiencing mental confusion and isolation from hearing loss.

Short Films Extravaganza - Selections from University of Southern Californias First Look Festival 2017

3:30 - The Julie Stories - Julio Vincent Gambuto - Comedy - USC - 15 min

Big Julie wants his shot at the American Dream, but he has to get his first ten customers before he can "get rich quick".

3:45 - Red Hot Frog - Kristie Ko - Comedy - USC - 13 min

When a new colleague threatens the status quo, an overlooked employee hires a hit man to take care of her.

4:00 - The Best and the Loneliest Days - Qjanzhu Luo - Comedy - USC - 16 min

A comedy about a group of chinese students in LA get together for the perfect Lunar New Year's party, but things didn't end up as planned.

4:20 - The Theory of Optimal Control - Avi Glick - Comedy - USC - 19 min

After losing his fiance, a suicidal control freak finds himself deeply intertwined with an uncontrollable force.

4:40 - Kate & Lily - Grey Cusack - Comedy - USC - 13 min

When an old friend resurfaces, a self-conscious hipster takes keeping up appearances a little too far.

5:00 - My Loyal Audience - Megan Seely - Comedy - USC - 12 min

A dark comedy about a teenage girl who is insecure and polite with her family but turns to the camera and tells us her true feelings.

5:15 - Fanny Pack - Uttera Singh - Comedy - USC - 10 min

A rebellious Indian-American girl is pursued by her father through an airport as she tries to keep her secret.

5:30 - INTERMISSION

6:00 - Last Dance - Josh Litman - Thriller - USC - 25 min

A former assasin has to rescue his granddaughter after she is brutally abducted from her birthday party.

6:25 - RAE - Aaron Rovner - Thriller/Sci-Fi - USC - 13 min

When an office robot attempts to express it's affection for a co-worker, the fragile balance between the employees in the office is pushed to a tipping point.

6:40 - An Illusion of Red and White - J.A. Conway - Horror - USC - 25 min

An unexpected tragedy causes a backwoods farming family to slowly disinegrate.

7:05 - Jeff - Adam Linzey - Thriller - USC - 17 min

A british electrician working in Los Angeles, questions his sobriety after he thinks he saw his bestfriend commit a crime.

7:25 - 88'SEOUL - seongho Heo - Thriller - USC - 17 min

The confrontational tension between North and South Korea in 1988, reflected through the relationship between a double agent and the director of the ANSP.

7:45 - Bert - Aaron Bush - Horror - USC - 15 min

A young girl escapes the oppression of her alcoholic mother with the help of her best friend, Bert.

8:00 - INTERMISSION

8:15 - The Ballerina, Her Shoemaker and His Apprentice - Eva Ye - Drama - USC - 16 min

in 1930's London, a young man stumbles into the refined world of ballet pointe shoemaking and learns to earn his name.

8:35 - Cal & V - Timothy Offor - Drama - USC - 13 min

Two lovers stuck at a crossroads until Cal places his successful movie career on the line and try and win Vanessa back.

8:50 - Amelia's Closet - Halima Lucas - Drama - USC - 17 min

When classmates bully 11 year old Amelia, she begins to secretly steal from them and hide the items.

 

                                                                                                            

 

8:00 -  DEFENDER – Jeff Adachi and Jim Choi - Documentary – 75 min.  Q&A to follow                                                               

This insightful documentary focuses on San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi as he and his team, take on the high-profile case of 22-year-old Michael Smith, who pleads not guilty after he is charged with nine counts of resisting arrest. Pulled off a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train along with his girlfriend, Smith is wrestled to the ground, the arrest captured on the attending officers’ body cameras. 

9:30 - INTERMISSION

10:00 - The Suitcase - Abi Damaris Corbin - Drama - USC - 21 min

The ordinary life of a Boston bred baggage handler is turned upside down when he steals a suitcase that contains terrorist plans. Inspired by true events on 9/11.

 

10:25 - SPARK - Juan Martinez Vera - Drama - USC - 19 min

Oscar, a young Venezuelan student sparks a social media movement using an innovative cell phone application to circumvent the censorship in his country.

 

10:45 - The Wasteland - Brian Brooks II - Drama - USC - 13 min

Unheard by his family and bullied by his peers, a mentally unstable teenager struggles to arm himself against the mounting pressures of adolescent life.

 

11:00 - When Pigs Fly - Andrew Wood - Drama - USC - 15 min

At his brothers funeral, Al, a washed up, perpetually tipsy man, comforts his mourning niece with a story of how he once found a magic tree that could bring all his drawings to life.

 

3:00 - VOICES FOR FREEDOM:The Hyers Sisters' Legacy - Documentary - Susheel Bibbs - 30 min              

In 1877, when nightriders terrorized African-Americans and black-face minstrels ridiculed them across the land, The Hyers Sisters (African-American, opera prodigies) arose to become Voices For Freedom.  Q&A Follows                                                                                                                                                                                                  
4:00 - Citizen Clark… A Life Of Principle – Joseph C. Stillman - Documentary – 90 min. Q&A Follows                                  

Introduction of the film by Alice Walker, in person.                                                                                                                               

This is a film about former U.S. Attorney General and Humans Rights Activist Ramsey Clark. Narrated by Martin Sheen. This is a 'work in progress'.

6:00 -  An Exploration of Our History - Doug Harris - Documentary - 10 min. Q&A Follows                                            

Berkeley  filmmaker, Doug Harris, discovers his family's history of escaping slavery in 1855 from Virginia to Canada through the Underground Railroad.                                                                           

7:30 - KUPAL – Kazem Mollaie – Feature - 81 min. - Iran                                                                                     

Kupal is the story of a hunter and a taxidermist, called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. On the last day of the year, moments before the turn of the year, he faces an unexpected challenge. Co-Sponsored with Diaspora Arts Connection.

9:30 - RAIMBO: The Most Deadly Gay Soldier the World Has Ever Known - K-von - Comedy - 23 min.      

The most deadly gay soldier the U.S. military has ever created just went rogue on a solo mission to rescue one of his own . He is RAIMBO.     

   

 

USC Documentaries

1:30 - Into The Trenches - Jacob Fadley - Documentary - USC - 23 min

A near-fatal train accident triggers a reluctant journey of healing for a veteran from the Iraq wars.

1:55 - There Goes the Neighborhood - Angelique Molina - Documentary - USC - 27 min

Follows an extended black family of View park, California as they experience demographic changes and reflect on their shifting community.

2:30 - Manmade Waters - Dustin Elm - Documentary - USC - 23 min

Examines whether or not aquaculture is a viable solution to rapidly declining fish populations.

2:55 - AL IMAM - Omar Al Dakheel - Documentary - USC - 19 min

Muslim singer/songwriter turned spiritual leader Ani Zonneveld takes a stand for justice through activism and a progressive practice of Islam

3:15 - INTERMISSION

4:00 - The Ito Sisters – SOLD OUT! - Antonia Grace Glenn -  Documentary – 83 min. Q&A Follows                                                          

The Ito Sisters is a documentary film capturing rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to their United States and their American - born children.

SOLD OUT!

6:30 - Quest - Santiago Rizzo - Feature - Starring Lou Diamond Philips, Dash Mihok - SOLD OUT!!!!!

SOLD OUT!

 

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2017

 

"DEFENDER" - Jeff Adachi and Jim Choi - Documentary - 75 min.

Screens Friday November 3 - 8pm

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"THE ITO SISTERS" Dec. 3rd 2pm Screening is Sold Out!!

A second screening has been added at 4pm - Tickets available now!

"THE ITO SISTERS" - Screening Sunday Dec. 3 at 2pm (SOLD OUT)

2nd show at 4pm has been added at EBMC - $10. -$15 at the door.

 

"THE ITO SISTERS" - Documentary - Antonia Grace Glenn - 83 min.

SPECIAL "ENCORE" SCREENING - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 - 2pm -SOLD OUT!!!!

A 4pm screening has been added -TICKETS AVAILABLE for the 4pm screening

"THE ITO SISTERS" - Documentary - Antonia Grace Glenn - 83 min.

Screens Again SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 - 2:00pm Q & A to follow.

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"KUPAL" – Kazem Mollaie – Feature - 81 min. - Iran

Screens Saturday evening, November 4th at 8pm.

Co-Sponsored with Diaspora Arts Connection.

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"THE GOOD BLONDE" - Nic Saunders - Short Feature - 23 min. - U.K.

Screens Friday October 27 - 8 pm.

 

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"Citizen Clark...A Life of Principle" - Joseph C. Stillman - Documentary - 90 min.

Screens Saturday November 4th at 4:00pm . Q&A to follow.

Introduction of the film by Alice Walker, in person.

This is a 'work in progress' .

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"An Exploration of Our History" - Doug Harris - Documentary - 10 min.

This short documentary is comprised of excerpts from the feature length 90 minute film being produced about my uncle Uzikee Nelson, who is an acclaimed Washington, DC artist/sculptor.

Screens Saturday November 4th at 6pm

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"VOICES FOR FREEDOM-The Hyers Sisters' Legacy" - Documentary - Susheel Bibbs - 30 min.

Screens Saturday November 4th at 3:00pm Q&A follows.

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Spirit of the Arts - Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts - Documentary - 10:04

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"HAND 2 HAND" - A7PHA - Zack Kasten - Music Video - 3:00 min.

Two lives at knife's edge, meeting over one fire...unfurling the darkest elemental notions life has to offer.

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"Not Tonight" - Protextor - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4:45 min.

"Folk Zero" - Go Fever - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4:10 min.

"Melting Sky" - Ghost King - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3:02 min.

"I Hate Myself" (and Everyone Else) - Talkies - Zack Scott - Music Video - 2:08 min.

"Surface Tension" - Good Field - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3:38 min.

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"China Test Girls Trailer" - Frankie Latina - Trailer - 2:05 - Danny Trejo, Sasha Grey

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Selections from the University of Southern California's First Look 2017 Festival

USC School of Cinematic Arts

Documentaries

Comedy

Drama

Animation

Thriller

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"WHAT WEEE ARE" - Alessio Daniel Griffin de Marchi - Experimental - 5 min.

"TRANSITIONS" - Aurele Ferrier - Experimental - 13 min. - Switzerland

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"Over the Trees" (L'Autre Cote) - Emma Alluyn - Student Filmmaker - 17 min. - France

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"Patrick's Dilemna" - Daniel Julien - Documentary - 47 min.

Screens Saturday October 28th - 7:00pm

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"The Linen Closet" - David Finkelstein - Experimental - 22 min.

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"Raimbo" - Comedy 2017 - K-von - 23 min.

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"Come" (Vieni) - Experimental - Chiara Scarfo - 5 min. - Italia

"Novia" - Experimental - Chiara Scarfo - 2 min. - Italia

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"Your Cage is Ready" - Experimental - Kit Young - 4 min.

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FORGET - Young Producer - Coby Hilelly - 8 min.

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Our Treasure - Young Producer - Jelina Liu - 6 min.

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BVFF 2018 Entry Form

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Berkeley Video & Film Festivals 2016 and earlier

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25th Annual BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Concludes with great Berkeley Audiences and superb Cinema!

A Very Special Thank you to all of the Filmmakers that contributed to BVFF 2016

OCTOBER 28,29,30 + NOVEMBER 4,5,6, 2016

EAST BAY MEDIA CENTER PERFORMANCE SPACE

All Films screen at East Bay Media Center Performance Space

1939 Addison Street - Downtown Berkeley Arts District

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Sponsors of BVFF 2016

Tony & Natasha & The 25th Annual Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2016 

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VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:

The BVFF 2016 Audiences

The BVFF 2016 Filmmakers

Georgia Sommers Wright

Todd Kerr, Publisher, BERKELEY TIMES

Nicole Heirich, EAST BAY EXPRESS

John Dorn, DAILY CAL

BERKELEYSIDE

Gar Smith, BERKELEY DAILY PLANET

University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts Los Angeles

Columbia College Hollywood

Taylor Weller, East Bay Media Center & BVFF Intern

Tony and Natasha Improv

Claudia Insenga, BVFF Promotion

Inder Singh, Fast Imaging & Red Tomato Pizza

L A Wood, Berkeley Citizen & EBMC Board of Director

Steve Nicol, Lococo's Pizza Donations

Paul Kealoha Blake, Pres. EBMC

Deans Signs, Dean and Suman, Berkeley

Lorenzo DeStefano

Earl and Jan Crebs, 360 Church

Kali Persall, Film Reviewer

Pilar Shen-Berro, BHS Jacket Film Reviewer

Moses Mascuch, BHS Ads

Lisa Bullwinkle

International Tailors, Zoltan

Fallout Shelter TShirts, Markus, San Francisco

Travis LeMaster, Downtown Berkeley Association

Verna Lim

Warren Croyle - Reality Films

Videomaker Magazine

Professor Avelardo Valdez, USC School of Social Work - Los Angeles

Richard G. Shalhoub, Shalhoub - Orlacchio , Law Firm, Boston,MA

City of Berkeley - RLF

Dedicating the 25th BVFF 2016 to the late Dayle Bartlett,

our friend and advocate.

In Memory of Dayle 'Sundown' Bartlett . 1946 - 2016

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FEST PICS

Jeff Adachi accepts his Grand Festival Award for RACIAL FACIAL

Claudia Insenga and her BVFF Gang at the 25th BVFF on Friday Nov. 4

 

Amir Soltani accepts Grand Festival Award and Q&A for DOGTOWN REDEMPTION

 

 

Eve Ma accepts her MASTERS OF RHYTHM Award

Auden Bui and her friend after screening her 'LOST CITY OF TOMORROW' short film.

Elgin Jackson, filmmaker accepts his FEEL THE BERN COMEDY Award,

Mel Vapour and Film Reviewer Kali Persall

Vapour, Tom Glass and maestro Eugene Corr, Producer of 'GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA'

Kealoha, filmmaker Stacy Poulos acepts her award for 'SARAH SMITH: INTO THE LIGHT'

Music Video

USC Professor Lalo Valdez, Attorney-Filmmaker R.G.Shalhoub and Mel Vapour after screening "HOMEGIRLS" by Elizabeth Cirillo, USC School of Cinematic Arts Award Winner

Vapour and Maestro Lorenzo DeStefano wax philosophic.

Attorney-Filmmaker R.G.Shalhoub and EBMC Board of Director L A Wood

Kelly Duane de la Vega, co-producer of "THE RETURN" and family.

Lorenzo DeStefano answers questions about his 'HEARING IS BELIEVING' doc.

Jeremy Neilsen's Columbia College-Hollywood film "LOST" and BVFF Intern Taylor Weller.

Andrew Schrader's "ALL WE DID WAS LIVE" short doc, transfixed the BVFF audiences.

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Daily Planet BVFF Article by GAR SMITH

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2016-10-28/article/45057?headline=Movies-in-the-Margin-br-The-25th-Annual-Berkeley-Video-and-Film-Festival-2016--Gar-Smith

All Films Screen at East Bay Media Center Performance Space 1939 Addison Street Downtown Berkeley Arts District - TICKETS: (510) 843-3699 - maketv@aol.com

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SCROLL DOWN FOR SCREENING SCHEDULE

 

"THE RETURN" - Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega - Loteria Films - Documentary - 84 min.

Screens Sunday, October 30, 4:30pm followed by a Q&A

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'HEARING IS BELIEVING" - Lorenzo DeStefano . 99 min. Screens Saturday, October 29, 7pm

Q&A to follow screening with Producer Lorenzo DeStefano

Second Screening Sunday, November 6, at 6pm

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Grand Festival Enlightenment Award

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"Here Come The Videofreex" - Directed by Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin, 79 min.

Screens Sunday, October 30, 2pm, Q&A follows screening with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Videofreex pioneer activist.

Grand Festival Pioneer Award

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Best of Festival - Short Documentary

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"JASMINE" - Narrative Feature - by Dax Phelan - Screens Saturday, November 5, 9pm.

Grand Festival Award - Feature

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Grand Festival Award - Best Cross Cultural Documentary      

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BVFF Jury Award  - Feature  

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Best of Festival - Jury Award - Documentary    

"DOGTOWN REDEMPTION" - Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush - Documentary - 94 min.

Screens Saturday, November 5, 7pm

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Best Political - Experimental Short                        

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"ALL WE DID WAS LIVE" - Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer - Doc. - 20 min.

Best of Festival Award - Best Locally Produced Short Documentary

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Best of Festival Award - Best Low Budget Short

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Best Foreign Comedy  

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Grand Festival Awards - Four Outstanding Music Videos

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Best of Festival Adult Contemporary Music Video 

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The Time Machine - Comedy - by Lorne Miller

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Hive - Experimental - Duygu Nazli Akova -Turkey

Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Short Experimental

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Best Ethnographic Music Documentary Award  

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Grand Festival Award - Young Producer      

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Short Feature - Makan Talayeh and Tautis Skorka

Grand Festival Award - Dramatic Short

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The Human Mirror - Marc Nadal - Short Feature - Spain

Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Short

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MY CLAIRE - Rajendra Thakurathi - Drama - 14 min. USC

Best Film School Jury Award

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Grand Festival Award - Best Thelma+Louise Post Apocalyptic Sci Fi Drama   

Nora and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a rugged

post-apocalyptic world. When a stranger arrives and Daph disappears,

Nora has to go to extreme measures to get back what's her's.

Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Documentary

Former gang members Maria and Joselyn attempt to start new lives while overcoming

the temptations of addiction and street life.

Documentary - 21 min.

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Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Sci-fi Short

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Channeling an ancient Peruvian tradition, a suburban family airs out grievances

on Christmas Day with a series of bare-knuckle brawls. Comedy - 14 min.

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BEST FILM SCHOOL NARRATIVE SHORT

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Best Film School Director Award

A young man troubled by his legendary fathers suicide

travels to a small town in search of answers from his

father's former band mate.

Drama - 14 min.

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Best Film School Jury Award

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BEST FILM SCHOOL SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Explores the ways in which artists are re-appropriating the surplus of

single use plastic bags as their medium to create artworks.

Short Documentary - 16 min.

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Best Film School Outstanding Story

A by-the-book federal agent and his desperate ex-girlfriend

struggle with and unplanned pregnancy in a near future America

where ROE v. WADE has been overturned.

Drama - 17 min.

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Best Film School Screenplay

A kid who doesn't fit in and who needs to learn to

understand and accept what makes him different.

Drama - 12 min

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BEST FILM SCHOOL WACKY ANIMATION

A father starts a journey to figure out the best way to protect

his son from seeing filthiness of this crime-ridden city.

Animation - 7 min

Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Horror

A young girl is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man hell bent

on building a family by kidnapping women and forcing them to play into

his fantasy. But this time he just may have kidnapped the wrong girl.

Horror -14min.

Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Animation

Robert Wagner narrates the romance of two lovers who spend more time screaming than they do embracing.

Animation - Drama -14 min.

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BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2017 ENTRY FORM

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25th Annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2016

SCREENING SCHEDULE - PROGRAM BVFF 2016

 

FRIDAY OCTOBER 28

FILM SCHOOL FRIDAYS                                                                                                                                                                                 

Featuring outstanding short films from the

USC School of Cinematic Arts - Los Angeles

 

7:00 - LOST CITY OF TOMORROW - Auden Bui - Drama - 16 min. 

Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Story                                 

A cynical human has an unexpected encounter with an android in space.


7:20 - GENGHIS KHAN CONQUERS THE MOON - Kerry Yang - Drama - 17 min. 

Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Sci fi /Drama          

In Genghis Khan's last days, a Wizard sends him to the Moon. His greatest conquest becomes a spiritual clash, between one man's need and the silence of the Universe.

7:40- LEND A HAND FOR LOVE - John Alan Thompson - Romantic Comedy/Animation - 14 min. - Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Animation

Robert Wagner narrates the romance of two lovers who spend more time screaming than they do embracing.

7:55 - HOMEGIRLS - Elizabeth Cirillo Doc - 21 min 

Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Documentary

Former gang members Maria and Joselyn attempt to start new lives overcoming the temptations of addiction and street life.

8:15 - INTERMISSION


8:30 - TAKANAKUY - Austin Kolodney - Comedy - 11 min.

Grand Festival Award - Film School Comedy                                                                     

Channeling an ancient Peruvian tradition, a suburban family airs out grievances on Christmas Day with a series of bare-knuckle brawls.

8:45 - WARM SMOOTH MEAN - Jess Maldaner - Drama - 14 min.            

Best Film School Director Award                                      

A young man troubled by his legendary father's suicide, travels to a small town in search of answers from his father's former bandmate.

9:00 - POKEY POKEY - Jake Zhang - Animation/Comedy - 7 min.   

Grand Festival Award - Best Wacky Animation Concept                                      

A father starts a journey to figure out the best way to protect his son from seeing filthiness of this crime-ridden city.

9:10 - PRISONER - Matthew Edwards - Drama - 21 min.

Grand Festival Award - Film School Short Feature                                                                 

Stranded behind enemy lines, a war-weary American takes a young German soldier prisoner and forces him to lead the way back to safety.

9:30 - INTERMISSION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURES                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
9:45 - MOUSSE – John Hellberg - Comedy - 42 min. - Sweden

Grand Festival Award in Comedy                                                                                      

What could be easier than robbing a small tobacco shop on the outskirts of town? The ultimate hit for some fast cash.Mousse is a man of pride and principles and fed up.But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?

 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 29

3:45 - PRIVY - David Finkelstein  - Experimental - 20 min.                                                        

A young women is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy life. “PRIVY" uses oblique, poetic language, fanciful images and musical interludes. Based on an improvisation by actors David Finkelstein and Ian W. Hill.

4:10 - LIFTER - Selkin Fedor - Comedy - 12 min. - Russia   

Best Foreign Comedy                                                     

Alexey is a novice sportsman. He is arranging a course of power lifting trainings for his grandfather, who is going to marry shortly. Despite the advanced age of his grandfather, the bride is dreaming of all the wedding traditions. One of them is that the groom must carry her across a bridge.

4:25 - HIVE - Duygu Nazli Akova - Experimental - 4 min. - Turkey              

Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Experimental Short                               

"Hive" takes a look at the unplanned urbanization, which has been paraded under the guise of "urban renewal", Istanbul has been undergoing for many years. This situation is conveyed through the visualization of Marx's Bee and machine metaphor. This video focuses on the worker's conditions, contract labor and urban renewal.

4:30 - THE RIDE - Waylon Bacon - Short Feature - 15 min.     

Grand Festival Award - Best Low Budget Short                                                     

A young man accepts a ride from a traveling salesman that goes horribly, horribly wrong.  Starring Clinton Roper Elledge, Armen Babasoloukian, & Norma Burgess. Written & Directed by Waylon Bacon.   Produced by Joel O'Neal and all of our fantastic Indiegogo Backers!

4:45 - INTERMISSION

5:00 - GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA - Eugene Corr - Doc - 87 min. Q&A Follows

Grand Festival Award - Best Cross Cultural Documentary                            

Teen baseball between Oakland, California and Havana, Cuba.  

7:00 - INTERMISSION


7:15 - HEARING IS BELIEVING - Lorenzo DeStefano - Music Doc. - 99 min.

Grand Festival Award - Best Music Documentary 2016

Q&A Follows with Lorenzo DeStefano 

In a world filled with Noise, there is another Sound worth Hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.

9:30 - INTERMISSION

9:45 - SARAH SMITH: INTO THE LIGHT - Stacy Poulos - Music Video - 4 min.

Best of Festival Adult Contemporary Music Video                      

Take an inspiring journey with Sarah Smith, best adult contemporary artist, as she belts out a heart-felt riveting performance from reflection to healing. ‘Into The Light’ a song by Sarah Smith and Dermot Grehan.

9:55 - RACIAL FACIAL - Jeff Adachi - Educational - 8 min.

Grand Festival Award - Educational Film                                                                    

Racial Facial is an Award Winning eight minute film on the history of racism in America. www.racialfacial.org 

10:00 - SWEET TALK: YOUR TOUCH - Zack Scott - Music Video - 5 min.  

Grand Festival Awards - Four Outstanding Music Videos

Sweet Talk, Austin's local rocker band kicks ass with their new Music Video full of broken down cars, creepy Hosts and some good old fashion glam zombies!

10:05 - THE EASTERN SEE: THE FOOL - Zack Scott - Music Video - 5 min.                             

The Eastern Sea, Austin Texas local band, kicks ass with their new music video full of space ice cream, lights in the sky and an alien autopsy date night! Totally sick.

10:10 - A. SINCLAIR: THEY BREED AND SAY HELLO - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.   

A. Sinclair's, music video where a dude learns the radical horror's of blacking out!  Directed by Zachary T. Scott, Cinematography by Taylor Camarot, Staring Sam Stinson.

10:15 - A. SINCLAIR: YOU GOT A HEART - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.                            

A  man wakes up, to his heart being ripped from his chest. Now he has to get it back!                                                                                                                                      
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30

2:00 - HERE COME THE VIDEO FREEXJon Nealon & Jenny Raskin - Doc. - 79 min.

Q&A Follows              

Grand Festival Pioneer Award                                                                                                                 

HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX starts in 1969. America is undergoing cultural and political revolutions, but you’d never know it by watching TV. Young CBS executive Don West creates a secret project to tell the stories of the counterculture ignored by TV news. He hires a group of young people who have embraced a brand new medium – video. They named themselves the Videofreex and on CBS’s dime, they traveled the country in an RV taping footage the networks could never get.   Mary Curtis Ratcliff, one of the Videofreex pioneer activists will provide a Q & A following the screening of the film

4:30 - THE RETURN - Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega - Doc - 84 min.

Q&A Follows    

Grand Festival Award - Best Documentary

The Return depicts the struggles of two newly released former lifers as they deal with restoring relationships, avoiding personal triggers, finding meaningful employment, and managing the mental health problems which had previously contributed to their imprisonment.
 

6:30 - INTERMISSION

6:45 - LEFT ON PURPOSE - Justin Schein, Eden Wurmfeld, David Mehlman - Doc. - 95 min.

Best of Festival - Special Jury Award for Documentary

A feature length documentary that confronts the growing issues of depression, isolation and  aging  through an intense character driven story of the relationship between filmmaker and subject. It provides a rare cinematic look at what it means to be a friend to someone in pain. 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 4:45 - ROSIE -  Kimberly Vela - Young Producer - 12 min.

Grand Festival Award - Young Producer                                                                    

This story follows a teen girl through the emotional repercussions of getting an abortion and  the healing process that derived from a new friendship.                    

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 FILM SCHOOL FRIDAYS

Short Films from Columbia College - Hollywood, California

5:00 - 1000 WAYS TO BREAK UP - Jon Walkup, Kenneth Beckerdite, Richard Eggly -

Comedy - 8  min.                                                                  

A relationship break-up artist travels the country to help couples with problems break up forever

5:10 - LOST - Jeremy Nielsen, Director and  Rebecca Clark, Producer - Drama - 14min.            Peter, a mentally disturbed cocaine dealer and lost boy, ends up sleeping with and killing his rival- another of his kind.

5:25 - WHACK THE FOLLY -  Peter Zaragoza, Director &  Jeremie Jej-Porcin, Producer - Comedy - 29 min.                                                                                                            

An offbeat lawyer must overcome his over-indulgent behavior in order to repay a shady business man known as The 'Shark'

5:55 - INTERMISSION

 

Friday November 4th

 

FILM SCHOOL FRIDAYS

Short Films From University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts - Los Angeles

6:15 - OUT OF THE BAG - Aidan Bradbury-Aranda - Doc. - 16 min.            

Best Film School Environmental Documentary                             

A short documentary exploring the ways in which artists are re-appropriating the surplus of single-use plastic bags as their medium to create artworks, with varying intentions: from raising environmental awareness, to expressing the conflict of personal emotions.

6:30 - THE FOG - Ted Martland - Drama - 14 min.     

Best Film School Jury Award                                                              

An acting class becomes an unexpected battle for a young combat veteran.

6:45 - LIMITLESS POTENTIAL - Philip Bastian  & Fangso  Liu - Sci fi - 12 min.         

Best Film School Narrative Short                

In the palm of his hand a middle schooler named Bob can generate limitless amounts of energy. One day while getting bullied at school, Bob accidentally blows up a kid. He must escape the cops while learning to understand and accept his power. This film is about a kid who doesn't fit in and who needs to learn to understand and accept what makes him different.


7:00 - REAL BOY - Kelly Luu - Drama - 14 mins.

Best Film School Fantasy Short                                                                       

A disconnected, young boy grieves the tragic loss of his father through a friendship with a child-like robot

7:15 - IN THE BASEMENT - Matt McGregor - Horror - 13 min.

Best Film School Horror Film                                                

A young girl is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man hell-bent on building a family by kidnapping women and forcing them to play into his demented fantasy. But this time he just may have kidnapped the wrong girl.

7:30 - INTERMISSION


7:45 - MY CLAIRE - Rajendra Thakurathi - Drama - 14 min.

Best Film School Jury Award 

My Claire is about a broken man, who deteriorates after the passing of his wife, who must return to help him move on with his life.

8:00 - SANCTITY - Eric Adrian Marshall - Drama - 17 min.                                                              

A by-the-book federal agent and his desperate ex-girlfriend struggle with an unplanned pregnancy in a near-future America where Roe v. Wade has been overturned.

8:20 - THE LOTUS GUN - Amanda Milius - Drama/Sci fi - 25 min.   

Grand Festival Award - Best Thelma+Louise Post Apocalyptic Sci Fi Drama                              

Nora and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a rugged post-apocalyptic world. When a stranger arrives and Daph disappears, Nora has to go to extreme measures to get back what’s hers.

8:45 - INTERMISSION


FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURES

9:00 - BROKE - Heath Davis - Feature - 98 min. - Australia

BVFF Jury Award  - Feature                                                             

A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan. Starring: Steve Bastoni, Brendan Cowell, and Max Cullen.  

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5

 

4:50 - MONSTER MOVIE - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 21 min.                                  

A mash-up salute to 1950s Monster Movies

 

5:15 - SKETCH - Elgin Jackson & Chase McGaffie - Comedy - 6 min.  

Feel The Bern Award                                   

Just two guys who have nothing going for them but one thing, Loving to hate on people trying to make it.

5:25 - THE TIME MACHINE – Lorne Miller - Comedy - 20 min.                                    

Woman breaks up with man. Man goes back in time and meets himself. Gets over breakup.

 

5:45 - SLICES -  Larry Barnes -  Experimental - 35 min.                                                                      

A series of abstract vignettes. Motion pictures. Each frame is a complete artistic image fused with a self composed and performed electronic music soundtrack

6:20 - My Phenix City Story - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 4 min.    

Best Political - Experimental Short                        

Some thoughts about the changing nature of violence over the years- in real life and on the screen. 

6:25 - ALL WE DID WAS LIVE - Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer - Doc. - 20 min. 

Best of Festival Award - Locally Produced Short Documentary                                           

A look in how gentrification in Berkeley and Albany, CA has displaced residents of former Albany Bulb park, and how they live in the aftermath of their eviction.            

6:45 - INTERMISSION


7:00 - DOGTOWN REDEMPTION - Amir Soltani & Chihiro Wimbush - Doc. - 94 min.

Q&A Follows     

Best of Festival - Jury Award - Documentary                                                                             

Shot over eight years, DOGTOWN REDEMPTION is not only the intimate story of recyclers in West Oakland but a journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addiction, prejudice and poverty.

9:00 - INTERMISSION

9:15 - JASMINE  - Dax Phelan - Feature - 80 min.     

Grand Festival Award - Best Feature                                                               

On the one-year anniversary of his wife’s unsolved murder, a grieving husband (Jason Tobin, "Better Luck Tomorrow") becomes obsessed with a mysterious interloper (Byron Mann, "The Big Short," "The Man with the Iron Fists") who he believes is responsible for her death. Co-starring Eugenia Yuan ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny," "Revenge of the Green Dragons") and Sarah Lian ("Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong").                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6

2:00 - ADI AT THE CONFLUENCE - Joor Baruah - Documentary - 20 min.            

Best of Festival Award - Short Documentary              

Through a series of encounters with the indigenous Adi people around the old town of Pasighat in the remote Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on the border of India and China, Adi At the Confluence, portrays the resilience of this unique tribe amidst a confluence of issues related to their land, water and identity.

2:30 - THE GREAT TRANSMISSION - Guna Foundation - Documentary - 55 min.           

Grand Festival Enlightenment Award

The film traces Tibetan Buddhist literature’s epic journey through history, and one refuge lama’s modern efforts to preserve these texts. It closes with a pressing inquiry into whether  Tibet’s culture can survive. 

3:30 - OCCAM'S RAZOR - Makan Talayeh and Tautis Skorka - Short - 18 min.               

Grand Festival Award - Dramatic Short     

A series of unexplainable events plague a group of young travelers at an isolated motel in Death Valley in the winter of 1986.

4:00 - MASTERS OF RHYTHM - Eve Ma - Music Doc. - 28 min.  Q&A to follow    

Best Ethnographic Music Documentary Award                       

The music video, shot in Peru, stars three of the world's finest  percussionists. They play the Cajon, sing, dance and talk about their rich Afro-Peruvian culture.

4:45 -  INTERMISSION


5:00 - HEARING IS BELIEVING - Lorenzo DeStefano - Music Doc - 99 min.

Grand Festival Award - Best Music Documentary

In a world filled with Noise, there is another Sound worth Hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.

6:45 -  INTERMISSION

 

7:00 - The Human MirrorMarc Nadal - Short Feature - 16 minutes - Spain

Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Short

Based on the real story of a 17-year-old girl with social anxiety having no contact with the outside world. Never leaving her home, she watches the cruelties being reported by the media daily, resulting in a tragically horrific breakdown.

 

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The Berkeley Daily Planet

The Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Screens Friday, Saturday & Sunday November 13,14 & 15

Gar Smith
Friday November 13, 2015 - 03:19:00 PM
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The East Bay Media Center is wrapping up its 24th Berkeley Video and Film Festival (BVFF) this weekend with screenings drawn from more than 75 independent films from the US, Switzerland, Russia, and Ireland. Thanks to an exclusive partnership with the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts the BVFF will also spotlight a host of "masters-degree" short films and animations. In addition to an array of Jury-selected features and documentaries, the BVFF also includes outstanding shorts and experimental cinema.

The last three days of festival's offerings will be held at the East Bay Media Center's performance space at 1939 Addison Street in Berkeley's Downtown Arts District. Space is limited so it's advisable to secure tickets in advance. Tickets are also available at the door at a 'pay what you can' rate.

Email maketv@aol.com, or call 510-843-3699 for more info and to order tickets. 

Here's the schedule for the BVFF's Final Weekend 

 

Friday November 13 

5:50pm - Infrastructures - Aurele Ferrier - Experimental - 23 minutes - Switzerland 

The film involves a journey through a landscape of infrastructures that are common to an everyday reality of routine. Yet here we find these environments are deserted. This allows attention to focus instead on the design and spatial arrangements of the objects, which become centrally present. Infrastructures involves a series of seven tracking shots. A steady flow of objects in various contrived arrangements passes by the eye. 

6:30pm - Suggestive Gestures - David Finkelstein - Experimental Feature -75 minutes 

A journey into a labyrinth, where a variety of dazzling verbal, musical ad visual textures lead to a mystery at the center. 

7:45pm - Q & A with David Finkelstein 

8:00pm INTERMISSION 

 

8:30pm - NOWRUZ: Lost and Found - K-Von - Comedy - Best Comedy Documentary Award - 82 minutes 

In his movie, K-Von discovers he was not informed about a huge holiday known as NOWRUZ (Persian New Year) celebrated by over 300 million people worldwide. Instead of getting mad at his Iranian father for not sharing, he grabs a camera crew and sets out to learn as much as he can, inviting the viewer to join along on his quest. 

 

Scroll down for the 2015 BVFF Program Schedule

Grand Festival Award in Documentary - Andrew Young

Best Documentary Director - C.B. Hackworth

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Grand Festival Award - Feature

Best Song Ever Award -"Maraschino Moon"

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Grand Festival Award - Best Student Films 2015

USC School of Cinematic Arts

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The Peckinpah Award 2015 - Short Feature

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'Suggestive Gestures' - Experimental Feature - David Finkelstein - Best Experimental Feature Award

 

An oneiric, surprising odyssey through seductive, hyperreal and overwhelming spaces that float somewhere between the screen and your body. Piloted by expansive and elastic improvisation, the work unfolds into continually unpredictable and astonishing new territories. -Jesse Malmed (Nightingale Cinema) on David Finkelstein’s “Suggestive Gestures”

 

A poet's journey though corridors of liquid geometry where words float and echoes are visual; where portals open onto morphing gardens with unlimited horizons. -Mike Kuchar on David Finkelstein’s “Suggestive Gestures”

https://vimeo.com/65109210

 

Mel Vapour, Left and David Finkelstein with Best Experimental Feature Award 2015

Best Foreign Experimental Film 2015

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Best Student Film Director - Justin S. Lee

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'Resistencia:The Fight for the Aguan Valley' - Documentary - Jesse Freeston

Best Music Video 2015

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Best Short Philosophic Film 2015

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Best Student Love Letter Film 2015

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Best 'Plein Air' Short Film 2015

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Best Experimental Art Film 2015

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Best Revisionist Experimental Film 2015

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Best Foreign Short Film 2015

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Rachel Zurcher with her award for "Lavender".

Best Young Producers Short Film 2015

Kimberly Vela with her award for her film "Found".

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BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2016 ENTRY FORM

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BVFF 2016 entry form

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BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2015 ENTRY FORM

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Friday January 9 - Best of BVFF 2014 Series Screenings

THE MAGIC SHOES -  Sahand Nikoukar  - Short Feature - 19 minutes -BVFF Grand Festival Award Student Visionary
BUTTERFLY DREAMS - Venkat Kaishnan - Short Feature - 22 minutes - BVFF Grand Festival Award Student Visionary
THE INVISIBLE PEAK -  Gary Yost -  Short Documentary - 21 minutes - BVFF Golden Bear Award
PAPER LOTUS - JC Chang, David Chen, Jennifer Ng - Drama - 30:00 - USC Student Film - BVFF Student Masters Award
IN PASSING - Alan Miller - Comedy - 5 minutes - BVFF Audience Favorite Award
 
Friday January 16 - Best of BVFF 2014 Series Screenings

BY CHANCE -  Frieda De Lackner -  Short Feature -13 minutes - Grand Festival Award Short Feature
LOVE JANINE POMMY VEGA
- Tom Knoff - Kurt Hemmer - 50 Minutes - Grand Festival Award Arts


Friday January 23  -
Best of BVFF 2014 Comedy Screenings

CHRIS'S BRISS
- Garen Thomas, DeShaun Thompson, Delmar Washington - Comedy -11:30 USC Student Film
IN PASSING - Alan Miller - Comedy - 5 minutes - BVFF Audience Favorite Award
COLUMBUS DAY
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Scotty Cornfield - Comedy - 9 minutes - Grand Festival Award Comedy
THE MAN TO CALL - Zack Scott - Comedy Short - 13 minutes - Visionary Award - Special Jury Mention
MANUFACTURED MEMORIES - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 5 minutes
FREEDOM - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 5 minutes


Friday January 30 - Best of BVFF Screenings

AGE OF REASON - Andrew Schrader, Jordan Harris, Philip Marlatt - Feature - 93 minutes Grand Festival Award Feature


Tickets $5.00 All -Screenings start at 7pm at EBMC Performance Space
1939 Addison Street Downtown Berkeley Arts District

Advance Tix Available,  Festival Pass $15. for 3@ Friday evenings

 

Finally, Back by popular request!

The BVFF Long Sleeve Tee.

Sizes: Large & Medium, Black with White imprint on front and both sleeves as shown.

They ain't cheap!

Call: 510.843.3699 or email: maketv@aol.com for orders/info - limited supplies.

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BVFF 2014 Review East Bay Express by AJ Kiyoizumi

Berkeley Video & Film Festival Starts this Weekend

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/CultureSpyBlog/archives/2014/10/28/berkeley-video-and-film-festival-starts-this-weekend

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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/30/the-it-list-five-things-to-do-in-berkeley-this-weekend-115/

Saturday November 8 Screenings, Mel Vapour (left) awards Bob Holman (right) the GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD IN DOCUMENTARY,

SPECIAL JURY MENTION, for LANGUAGE MATTERS with BOB HOLMAN.

 

Friday November 7 Screenings SOLD OUT - STANDING ROOM ONLY for BY CHANCE by Frieda De Lackner

and AGE of REASON by Philip Marlatt , Andrew Schrader and Jordan Harris. GLOBE TROT by Mitchell Rose,

THE MAN to CALL by Zack Scott, COLUMBUS DAY by Scotty Cornfield and FREEDOM by Neil Ira Needleman.

Special Thanks and KUDOS to these phenom filmmakers.

 

BVFF 2014 attendees Tom Glass and Pep Panos of Berkeley, attending BVFF 2014 every screening, breaking the record for most films screened at a BVFF. They broke the previous record held by Dr. David Woodrow of New York, by screening 74 films, smashing Woodrow's record of 45 films.

 

Grand Festival Award Audience Favorite - IN PASSING by Alan Miller - USC School of Cinematic Arts

Mel Vapour, BVFF Director, Jon Hammond, Musician, and Tom Glass, Musician at BVFF 2014 Opening Night.

Berkeley California -- It was really great to be at Opening Night of the 23rd Annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2014 at

East Bay Media Center this evening! Wonderful screening of movies tonight from USC Film School, the picture and audio quality in East Bay Media Center is outstanding!

Great job Mel Vapour and EBMC Team! Jon Hammond - photo Hammond Associates

 

 

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 - STUDENT FILM MARATHON

SELECTIONS FROM USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS – FIRST LOOK 2014
Student Filmmaker’s - Drama - 202 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7pm
Screening Twelve short Dramatic films from the FiRST Film, FiRST Look Festival 2014 bringing together the rich diversity, creativity, and talent from the USC student body across multiple disciplines and art forms in film, television, film production, animation, or interactive media. Screening of BA and MFA student works.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 - STUDENT FILM MARATHON

SELECTIONS FROM USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS – FIRST LOOK 2014
Student Filmmaker’s - Drama & Comedy - 148 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7pm
Screening 10 short Dramatic and Comedy films

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 - STUDENT FILM MARATHON
Student Filmmaker’s - Documentary and Animation - 200 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 2:30pm
Screening short Documentary and Animation films

Intermission - 6pm

THE MAGIC SHOES - Sahand Nikoukar - Student Filmmaker’s, 19 minutes.
Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7:00pm
After moving to Los Angeles in 1992, a nine-year-old Iranian boy wants to impress his new classmates with a pair of Air Jordan basketball shoes, thinking they will make him fly like Michael Jordan! The Magic Shoes is a USC Graduate Thesis film shot on Super 16mm film.

ARENA - Martin Rath - Short Feature, 23 minutes - Poland - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7:30pm A hitchhiker is taken in by a remote Polish mountain community. Tested by the hardened locals and the unforgiving harshness of his new environment he constitutes his presence in the mountains. But whom do we have to prove of what we’re made of?

Intermission - 8pm

RUNAWAY DAY - Dimitris Bavellas - Feature, 86 minutes - Greece - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 8:15pm
Independent film trying to depict the effect of crisis in modern-day Athens while paying at the same time homage to sci-fi B-movies

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2

PRAYERS OF THE ANCIENT ONES – Barry Schieber, Pema Gelleck, Guna Foundation - Documentary, 56 minutes
Screens at EBMC Performance Space - Screens at 2:30pm
The World Peace Ceremony, founded in 1989, an annual event that’s united the most ancient of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

THE INVISIBLE PEAK - Gary Yost - Documentary, 21 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space Screens at 4pm
The script, movingly narrated by Peter Coyote, provides both a historical and spiritual overview of place, and the long continuum of humans relating to and caring deeply for the peaks of Mt. Tamalpais.

BON IN DOLPO: Ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom - Then And Now - Andrea Heckman - Documentary, 56 minutes Screens at EBMC Performance Space Screens at 4:30pm
Explores the story of ancient Zhang Zhung and Bön traditions that have persisted for centuries in Dolpo where ancient texts and practices have been preserved. Followers of Bön receive oral teachings and transmissions from teachers in a lineage unbroken from ancient times until the present day.

CULTURAL HERITAGE - A Village In The Clouds - Chan Wai - Radio Television Hong Kong - Documentary, 22 minutes
Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 5:45pm
Jiuzhaigou Valley is located in Central China. Tibetan’s respect for nature is passed on generations by generations. They believe that there is a soul in every creation. It had used to be a place allowing the coexistence of human and nature.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6

SMART CHIMP! – Marc Wilson - Animation, 6 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 6:30pm
Shows the struggles of Bobo, a research subject in a cognitive - enhancement experiment, to outwit the two human researchers keeping him caged.

MANUFACTURED MEMORIES - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental, 5 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 6:40pm Our memories anchor us to essential parts of our identity. Without them, we are adrift. The narrator of this story is adrift in a place that is unfamiliar. Like me, he’s aware that he has memory issues. And, like me, he compensates by manufacturing “memories” to replace the ones he’s lost. Some of my manufactured memories appear in this video.

LOVE JANINE POMMY VEGA - Tom Knoff & Kurt Hemmer - Arts, 50 minutes
Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7pm
A moving tribute to a female poet finding her voice among some of the most revered men of the counterculture.
BAWDY, The Movie – Larry Paros - Animation, 20 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 8:45pm
Sex… Easier done then said. See our sexual organs brought to life before our eyes. Watch them perform acts, which you’ve only dreamt about.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7

FREEDOM – Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental, 5 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 6:35pm A subtle elegy to the excesses of capitalism. A delicate ode to overabundance. A sedate celebration of the moral imperative to buy. An understated tribute to those whose cups runneth over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

COLUMBUS DAY – Scotty Cornfield - Comedy, 9 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 6:45pm
If you’re a con man, tourists are usually pretty easy targets Usually.

THE MAN TO CALL - Zachary T. Scott - Short Feature, 13 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7pm
When the cops bust the city’s biggest mob king Pin, they have to call an ex-cop (old school) who got kicked off the force for his brutal interrogation acts which consist of wet willys, Indian burns and many more. Will Donny be able to hold out? Watch to find out!

GLOBE TROT - Mitchell Rose - Experimental, 5 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7:15pm
An international crowd-sourced dance-film project, as filmmakers on all seven continents each shoot two seconds of dance by choreographer Bebe Miller.

BY CHANCE - Frieda De Lackner - Short Feature, 13 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7:30pm
Two People meet by chance in a museum and have an instant connection that could possibly change their lives.
THE AGE OF REASON - Philip Marlatt - Feature, 93 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 8:15pm
After his alcoholic father sabotages his chance at becoming a major league pitcher, Oz seeks a way out of the suburbs but he won’t leave his sister Kayli, and his best friend, Freddy, behind.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8

INVINCIBLE CITY - David Finkelstein - Experimental, 21 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 3:30pm In a city of dead ideas, dry, brittle conversations, and trembling, crystallized buildings, two men seek the proper approach to take towards the end of the world. Should one sit back, writing notes in a crumbling notebook, or should one rush headlong into the flames.
MY HAPPY PLACE - Kit Young - Experimental, 9 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 3:55pm
This Video was a short in a video feedback environment I built. I also created the robotic devices used to manipulate the props and cameras. It Is part of my “Our Favorite Shows” video series which serves as an alternative to “normal” TV content.

DR. WEISSBERG AND THE MEANING OF LIFE - Mitchum Nathaniel Ray - Short Feature, 4 minutes
Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 4:10pm
Window into the Professor’s subconscious darkens. The meaning of life is told.

YODELAY KILL YOU - Alfred Ham - Comedy, 8 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 4:15pm
The Frustration of living with a messy, careless, annoying roommate. How must they be handled?

HEAVENKID: TIME-SPACE DOOR – Meng-Ying Lin, Ping Tan - Animation, 12 minutes Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 4:25pm
ToTo and Ahya enter a Time-Space Door and forget who they are. HeavenKid rescues them from their fantasy world.
BALI BODY & SPIRIT - Henry Young - Documentary, 24 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 4:45pm

Intermission - 5:15pm

BUTTERFLY DREAMS - Venkat Kaishnan - Short Feature, 22 minutes - Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 6pm A young child laborer in India sees a way to pursue her dream to learn to read and write when an educated man comes to her village.

Intermission - 6:30pm

LANGUAGE MATTERS with BOB HOLMAN - David Grubin - Documentary, 120 minutes
Screens at EBMC Performance Space - 7pm
Includes interviews with songmen, linguists, and poets, including songman Charlie Mangulda, the only living speaker of Amurdak, an Aboriginal language once common in Australia’s Northern Territory. The film also features original music and songs in Welsh, Hawaiian
and Aboriginal languages. When we lose a language, we lose a part of ourselves. Q&A follows with Bob Holman.

BERKELEY VIDEO and FILM FESTIVAL 2014 FESTIVAL WRAP EVENT at EBMC Performance Space - 9:30pm
Featuring The Peter Barshay Trio, Refreshments and more. Evening Tickets: $15.00 for Language Matters with Bob Holman film and event.

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'THE FIFTH HORSEMAN' Produced and Dircted by Kari Barber wins BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2013

BEST OF FESTIVAL . GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD for BEST STUDENT FILM - USC Cinematic Arts

Kari Barber - Producer and Director of 'The Fifth Horseman'

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Friday Night November 1 at BVFF 2013. Zachary Scott receives the Reality Films Award

for Student Filmmaking, for his short film, "We Need To Talk", an Epiphone electric guitar and DVD's. 

Zachary Scott - 'We Need To Talk" , Mel Vapour, BVFF Director, BVFF intern Olga ' Svetlana' Sanchez

Berkeley's News | The Daily Californian

Friday, November 8, 2013

USC student films featured in Berkeley Video and Film Festival

By | Staff

 

The Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2013 program’s weekend of 67 student films opened Friday in a night of excellent curatorial choices, pristine film innovation. The five-and-a-half hour program opened with three films submitted by students from unspecified schools and the remaining twelve films were created by students of the University of Southern California Film School. While a five-and-a-half hour marathon can be exhausting to sit through, the vast variation in cinematic quality, narrative innovation and subject matter within this program was enough to retain acute interest throughout the night.

The small East Bay Media Center welcomed the crowd of audience members to get comfortable with homemade enchiladas, cold lemonade and a warm, intimate theater before the program began. The first and third films, “Iris” and “Cuvee,” displayed strong cinematic qualities in writing, direction and lighting, but the high level of mastery over these points made the films’ weaker details increasingly prominent. For example, while “Iris,” a film about the risks of counterfeited identity in an enticing future world, had a captivating storyline and well-crafted lighting, the nonprofessional acting and editing were made exceedingly apparent.

However, the second film, Zachary Scott’s “We Need to Talk,” embraced the materials at its disposal to create a consistently successful product. A story of a man who unknowingly marries a professional assassin, “We Need to Talk” integrates intentionally campy effects — freeze-frames on individuals providing their descriptions as assassins — with strong acting talent, smooth editing and a succinct storyline that moved visually: The protagonist stumbles through his house, accidentally killing a number of assassins. The film was independently funded, and Scott used his low budget to his advantage. After the screening of his film, Scott received the Reality Films Award for his excellence in capturing a range of horror genres from zombie to teen scream to B-horror.

After the presentation of Scott’s award, the night’s curator, Mel Vapour, introduced the projects from the University of Southern California students with great admiration and excitement. With a wide variety of films, from documentaries about family myths and black culture in Los Angeles to narratives ranging from horror stories to historical epics to musicals to teen dramas, the USC selection was riveting. As Vapour explained, he selected USC films specifically because he considers their program to be the world’s center for professional film training; Friday’s films held up to this standard. The lighting, staging, framing and overall aesthetic  of each film were pristine, the storylines were fascinating and the the acting and editing in each film were executed at a professional Hollywood level.

While the success of these USC films attest to the dedication, skill and talent of each filmmaker as well as to the quality of the school and training they receive, it is important to note that the the substantial amount of funding allotted to these films provided access to resources — on-location shooting, professional editing and shooting equipment, etc.—  that contributed to their polished Hollywood quality.

While each USC film glowed with professionalism, one in particular that stood out was Gil Marsden’s “Bluebird Street,” about a community of women who are taught to live “perfect” ’50s housewife-style lives — but devoid of men. What was so impressive about this film was its modern use of the musical genre, which is generally absent from today’s screens except in recycled Broadway productions. Its songs complement the quaint tone of the film’s environment and introduce the story’s turn from peaceful to horrific as a man is abducted for trying to court one of the women. While each film at this festival was beautifully executed, this revitalization of a medium unseen on American screens today — the movie-musical — was especially compelling.

The student films screened through the Berkeley Video and Film Festival were professionally constructed and well selected.

It was a night of incredible filmmaking.

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Below:

Michael McClure accepts Grand Festival Awards for Colin Still's 'Abstract Alchemist of Flesh' and Nic Saunder's 'One Night at the Aristo', Friday, October 25th at the BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2013 at East Bay Media Center - Berkeley

Pics from Friday Night:

https://picasaweb.google.com/102823651275162242877/BVFF2013Friday1025#slideshow/5939841439265815426

Review of 'ABSTRACT ALCHEMIST OF FLESH' in Daily Cal by Cara Cerino

http://www.dailycal.org/2013/10/27/abstract-alchemist-flesh-offbeat-look-beat-writer/

Michael McClure at S.F. County Zoo circa 1964-ish. Frame from Abstract Alchemist of Flesh

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25th - SOLD OUT!!!!

The Party in Taylor Mead’s Kitchen – Jeffrey Wengrofsky
Documentary, 10 minutes
Screens at 7:15pm

One Night at The Aristo – Nic Saunders – U.S. Premiere
Experimental, 24 minutes
Screens at 7:30pm

Intermission

Abstract Alchemist of Flesh – Colin Still – U.S. Premiere
Arts, 55 minutes
Screens at 8:10pm

Intermission

Moment of the Making – Jesse Block
Arts, 4 minutes
Screens at 9:20pm

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26th


The Ghosts of Jeju – Regis Tremblay – Pax Tibi Productions
Documentary, 80 minutes
Screens at 4:00pm

Epistolary Fusillades – David Finkelstein
Experimental, 18 minutes
Screens at 5:30pm

The Storm– Charles Denson
Documentary, 20 minutes
Screens at 5:50pm

EVENING SCREENINGS

The Joke That Is My Life – Neil Ira Needleman
Comedy, 11 minutes
Screens at 7:15pm

Revolution – Produced and directed by Rob Stewart
Documentary, 85 minutes
Screens at 7:30pm

Intermission

The Terence McKenna Experience:

Where The Only Laws Are Laws of The Human Imagination – Ken Adams
Experimental, 68 minutes
Screens at 9:15pm

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27th

The Healthiest Man on Earth – Gary Turchin
Arts, 26 minutes
Screens at 3:00pm

Her Mother’s Love – Sage Drake
Short Feature, 9 minutes
Screens at 3:30pm

Summer Teen Media Camp 2013
Teen Videos, 45 minutes
Screens at 3:45pm

Fire Ruin Renewal– Margaretta K. Mitchell
Documentary, 23 minutes
Screens at 4:30pm

Budapest: An American Quest – Lynn Schneider
Ethnographic, 28 minutes
Screens at 5:00pm, Q&A to follow

15 min Intermission

A Charming & Quaint Tale of Brutal Revenge – Neil Ira Needleman
Short Feature, 8 minutes
Screens at 6:00pm

Border Woman/ Mujer Frontera – Adrian Arias
Experimental, 4 minutes
Screens at 6:10pm

Machete Maidens Unleashed! – Veronica Fury and Mark Hartley
Documentary, 84 minutes
Screens at 6:20pm
Wear a Halloween mask-costume and get half off your ticket.

15 min Intermission

The Substance – Albert Hofmann’s LSD – Martin Witz
Documentary, 90 minutes
Screens at 8:00pm

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1st
Student Films Marathon

Iris – Justin S. Lee
Student Filmmaker, 6 minutes
Screens at 5:45pm

We Need To Talk – Zachary T. Scott
Student Filmmaker, 15 minutes
Screens at 6:00pm

Cuvée – Shareef Salaam
Student Filmmaker, 16 minutes
Screens at 6:20pm

The Fifth Horseman – Kari Barber
Narrative, USC Student Film, 30 minutes
Screens at 6:40pm

The Case of the Missing Garden Gnome – Alberto Belli
Narrative, USC Student Film, 18 minutes
Screens at 7:10pm

Mein Schloss – Amy Adler
Documentary, USC Student Film, 26 minutes
Screens at 7:30pm

15 min Intermission

Haven’s Point – Anna Elizabeth James
Narrative, USC Student Film, 14 minutes
Screens at 8:15pm

Bluebird Street – Gil Marsden
Narrative, USC Student Film, 14 minutes
Screens at 8:30pm

The Most Girl Part of You – Mark Cummins
Narrative, USC Student Film, 18 minutes
Screens at 8:45pm

Of Sand and Sea – Erik Howell
Narrative, USC Student Film, 19 minutes
Screens at 9:05pm

How to Change the World – Yili Li
Narrative, USC Student Film, 18 minutes
Screens at 9:25pm

15 min Intermission

Shaya – Amir Noorani
Narrative, USC Student Film, 19 minutes
Screens at 10:00pm

Beyond the Echo of the Drum – Lori Webster
Documentary, USC Student Film, 20 minutes
Screens at 10:20pm

Genderfreak – Rebecca Louisell
Narrative, USC Student Film, 19 minutes
Screens at 10:40pm

If Attacked – Ian Becker
Narrative, USC Student Film, 17 minutes
Screens at 11:00pm

Waking up – Yuta Okamura
Narrative, USC Student Film, 11 minutes
Screens at 11:20pm

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd
Student Films Marathon

iBook Workshop for the Independent Producer with Ken Adams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Film and media artist Ken Adams will offer an introduction to Apple's iBook as a medium for artists. 

His presentation will draw on his current authoring projects, including: Blue Rumi, Billy the Kid, and The Terence McKenna Experience.

Hands-on workshop with filmmaker and graphic designer Ken Adams of Austin, Texas.
Starts at 2:00pm to 3:00pm. Q&A with Ken Adams to follow.

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Intro Animation – Einar Baldvin
USC Student Film, 32 seconds
Screens at 3:30pm

Mr. Blue Sky – Einar Baldvin, Sullivan Brown, Robert Calcagno, Lisa Chung, Miguel Jiron, Amy Lee Ketchum
 USC Student Film, 4 minutes
Screens at 3:31pm

The Collector’s Gift – Ryan Kravetz
USC Student Film, 9 minutes
Screens at 3:35pm

Shadow Factory – Yizhou Li
USC Student Film, 2 minutes
Screens at 3:44pm

<file not found> – Maria Sequeira
USC Student Film, 5 minutes
Screens at 3:46pm

Badbloom, FL – Ryan Gillis
USC Student Film, 2 minutes
Screens at 3:51pm

The High Five Apprentice – Tom Kanter
USC Student Film, 8 minutes
Screens at 3:53pm

Register Rap! – Joshua Weisbrod
USC Student Film, 2 minutes
Screens at 4:00pm

Gecko’s Gamble – Matthew Steidl
USC Student Film, 5 minutes
Screens at 4:02pm

Geometry – Simo Liu
USC Student Film, 2 minutes
Screens at 4:07pm

Bob Hope – Careen Ingle
USC Student Film, 8 minutes
Screens at 4:09pm

Shape Dance – Lou Morton and Amy Lee Ketchum
USC Student Film, 3 minutes
Screens at 4:17pm

Tailypo – LaMar Ford
USC Student Film, 4 minutes
Screens at 4:20pm

Platter – Lou Morton
USC Student Film, 1 minute
Screens at 4:24pm

The Sixth Stage – Jordan Prieto
USC Student Film, 3 minutes
Screens at 4:25pm

Sad John – Junjie Zhang
USC Student Film, 3 minutes
Screens at 4:28pm

Spotlight – Simon Wilches-Castro
USC Student Film, 3 minutes
Screens at 4:31pm

Tomato Adventure – ShihChieh Chiu
USC Student Film, 2 minutes
Screens at 4:34pm

Hu’s Game – Seong Young Kim
USC Student Film, 8 minutes
Screens at 4:36pm

Earth Brain Wrinkle – Dustin Reno
USC Student Film, 2 minutes
Screens at 4:44pm

The Shopgirl – Diana Ling
USC Student Film, 4 minutes
Screens at 4:46pm

Baboon – Einar Baldvin
USC Student Film, 3 minutes
Screens at 4:50pm

Ladies Knight – Joseph Rothenberg
USC Student Film, 9 minutes
Screens at 4:53pm

A Few Words In Favor of God – Neil Ira Needleman
Short Feature, 4 minutes
Screens at 5:10pm

10 min Intermission

Mysteries of the Human Voice – Veronica Fury, Bettina Dalton and Stefan
Documentary, 50 minutes
Screens at 5:25pm, Q&A with Dr. Krzysztof Izdebski

15 min Intermission

Gyre – Lindsay Morrison
Narrative, USC Student Film, 18 minutes
Screens at 7:00pm

Eddie Puzynski – Jeremy Michael Cohen
Narrative, USC Student Film, 17 minutes
Screens at 7:20pm

Willowbrook – Ross Cohen
Narrative, USC Student Film, 16 minutes
Screens at 7:40pm

Paulie – Andrew Nackman
Narrative, USC Student Film, 11 minutes
Screens at 8:00pm

Canto de Familia – Lindsey Villarreal
Documentary, USC Student Film, 19 minutes
Screens at 8:15pm

In Brotherhood – Nabila Lester (Act I), Stephen Parsey (Act II), Devin Law (Act III)
TV Pilot, USC Student Film, 43 minutes
Screens at 8:35pm

15 min Intermission

Exedia Nation – Tyrell Lloyd
Narrative, USC Student Film, 18 minutes
Screens at 9:35pm

Tina for President – Carmen Emmi
Narrative, USC Student Film, 14 minutes
Screens at 9:55pm

An Early Summer – Lu Lu
Narrative, USC Student Film, 17 minutes
Screens at 10:10pm

Bingo Night – Conor Fetting-Smith
Documentary, USC Student Film, 22 minutes
Screens at 10:30pm

10 min Intermission

Elie’s Overcoat – Erik Howell
Narrative, USC Student Film, 15 minutes
Screens at 11:05pm

Traffic Cone – Victor Ridaura
Narrative, USC Student Film, 8 minutes
Screens at 11:20pm

Psychosis – Ian Christian Blanche
Narrative, USC Student Film, 15 minutes
Screens at 11:30pm

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd
Student Films Marathon

The Unknown Craftsman – Rachel Zurcher
Young Producer, 5 minutes
Screens at 4:15pm

America – Sophie Le Neveu
Young Producer, 4 minutes
Screens at 4:25pm

The People of People’s Park – Madeleine C. Shiber
Young Producer, 8 minutes
Screens at 4:35pm

15 min Intermission

Deja-Vous – Christabel Savalas
Short Feature, 7 minutes
Screens at 5:00pm

Between Brothers – Erik Douglas
Narrative, USC Student Film, 16 minutes
Screens at 5:15pm

Josephine and the Roach – Jonathan Langager
Narrative, USC Student Film, 15 minutes
Screens at 5:35pm

A Second Chance – David Aristizabal
Documentary, USC Student Film, 23 minutes
Screens at 5:50pm

All the Splendour of the Years – Charlene Wang
Narrative, USC Student Film, 20 minutes
Screens at 6:15pm

15 min Intermission

Jody’s Bra – Janine Sides
Narrative, USC Student Film, 14 minutes
Screens at 6:50pm

Found – Anthony Bushman
Narrative, USC Student Film, 19 minutes
Screens at 7:05pm

Lost Dog – Vanessa Pantley
Narrative, USC Student Film, 12 minutes
Screens at 7:25pm

The Chemist – Jeff Toye
Narrative, USC Student Film, 14 minutes
Screens at 7:40pm

The Grift – Kelly Nygaard
Narrative, USC Student Film, 9 minutes
Screens at 7:55pm

15 min Intermission

Stepping Out? – Yaminah McKessey
Documentary, USC Student Film, 22 minutes
Screens at 8:20pm

unSETTLED – Joselito Seldera
Narrative, USC Student Film, 18 minutes
Screens at 8:45pm

Penny Arcade – Karl Stieg
Narrative, USC Student Film, 12 minutes
Screens at 9:05pm

This Time Tomorrow – Lucy Marie Eagleson
Narrative, USC Student Film, 14 minutes
Screens at 9:20pm

Delikadesa – Lea W. Dizon
Narrative, USC Student Film, 16 minutes
Screens at 9:35pm

Midnight – Talia Lidia
Narrative, USC Student Film, 12 minutes
Screens at 9:55pm

 

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One of the 2013 BVFF Awards from REALITY FILMS will be an Epiphone Guitar - Rock On

 

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ANDREW YOUNG ( right ), former Ambassador to the United Nations, former Mayor of Atlanta and civil rights pioneer, accepts the Grand Festival Award for his documentary "CHANGE IN THE WIND", from BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL'S WIL HUBERT ( left ) in Atlanta, Georgia, April 8, 2013

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For those that missed these outstanding films in past years at the BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVALS, we screened the Best of the 2011 & 2012 selections in February. All Screenings and Advance Tickets available at: EAST BAY MEDIA CENTER PERFORMANCE SPACE - 1939 ADDISON STREET . DOWNTOWN BERKELEY ARTS DISTRICT . 510.843.3699 . Tickets: $5. each night . Advance Tickets on sale NOW!

 

DS+R  - Checkerboard Film Foundation - 54 minutes Documentary -
*BEST OF FESTIVAL AWARD DOCUMENTARY 2012 - Architecture and Design team – Diller Scofidio + Renfro - examined through the lens of two important urban projects: the High Line and Lincoln Center.
 

Space Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
by Laura Harrison and Elizabeth Federici - 78 minutes
GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD DOCUMENTARY - BVFF 2011
Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators.

The Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multidisciplinary artwork that questioned the boundaries of architecture and predicted much of the technology we now take for granted. 

at East Bay Media Center - Performance Space
1939 Addison Street - Berkeley Downtown Arts District  
Tickets: $5. Advance tickets available now
 

Click on the above graphic - link for the complete 2012 BVFF Schedule

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Hotel for Filmmakers and Festival attendees:

Hotel Shattuck Plaza

2086 Allston Way - Downtown Berkeley - 510-845-7300

www.hotelshattuckplaza.com/

 

http://www.berkeleyvideofilmfest.org/BVFF%202011%20Selections.html

Click the above graphic for the BVFF 2011 Program and Films

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Click above pic for Official Selections

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Examiner Interview BVFF 2010 - by Jason-Louise Graham:

http://www.examiner.com/art-world-in-san-francisco/the-berkeley-video-and-film-festival-2010-interview-with-director-mel-vapour-review

Berkeley Daily Planet Preview of BVFF 2010 - by Justin De Freitas:

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2010-09-21/article/36320?headline=Berkeley-Film-Festival-at-the-Shattuck-This-Weekend

San Francisco Sentinel - BVFF 2010by Justin De Freitas:

http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=89380

Ed Sharpe's Award from Glendale Arizona:

http://www.glendalestar.com/news/article_cbc8c37e-d6da-11df-a7cd-001cc4c03286.html

 

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In our cinematic memories -

Allen Willis 2011 . Roberts Blossom 2011 . Richard Randall 2011 . Todd Godwin 2011. Loni Ding - 2010

CLICK HERE FOR OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2009

CLICK HERE FOR BV+FF 2009 PICS

BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2009
An Independent Cinematic Marathon

BV+FF’s two day event this year, features outstanding and challenging independent new cinema from Italy, Cuba, Germany, Venezuela, Great Britain, and the USA, as well as, 15 local San Francisco Bay Area Filmmakers being represented.

Since our previous BV+FF, we have witnessed a regime change in Washington, and a global economic collapse, however, the spirit of indie cinema prevails, as witnessed by this years remarkable filmmakers and their substantive creative endeavors.

Our screening selections in 2009, reflect the very best works of over one hundred and fifty submissions. Sit back, relax, and let these filmmakers inform, shock and entertain you. - Mel Vapour, Director BV+FF

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” - Jean-Luc Godard

2008 OPENING NIGHT MICHAEL McCLURE AWARD VIDEO

MORE BVFF 2008 McCLURE VIDEO

Click "2008 Official Selections Box" above for link

BVFF 07 AWARDS NIGHT

BVFF 07 PRESS REVIEWS

2007 PROGRAM

2007 AWARDS

THE 19th 2010 BERKELEY VIDEO + FILM FESTIVAL
Founded by award winning independent filmmakers who were involved with the "independent underground cinema revolution" in the early and mid-1960's, THE BERKELEY VIDEO + FILM FESTIVAL was created in 1990 to provide a venue for independent film and videomakers creating works that challenge and confront our notions of "Electronic Cinema."

BV&FF programs and screens original works, all which have been juried by a screening committee of professional media makers at mainstream film theaters in Berkeley, California, home of the free speech movement. The festival issues awards in each category and promotes the individual filmmakers by insuring that their works receive media attention, press reviews and screen presence.

The rapid growth of THE BERKELEY VIDEO + FILM FESTIVAL in the past decade reflects the increased interest in independent electronic cinematography, locally and globally. BV+FF continues to provide a context for everyone interested in independent media making today.

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