Thursday, February 24, 2011
Film / Free Shit / Swag Living for 32
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on 02.24.11 at 01:15 PM
Fresh from Sundance, Kevin Breslin's short documentary Living for 32 follows Colin Goddard, a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and antigun activist. It screens Friday 2/25 at 7:15 p.m. in the Peace on Earth Film Festival. Q&A with Breslin follows. Trailer after the jump.
Friday's program includes Curt Fissel's Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean, about an interfaith fair trade cooperative, 6 p.m., and Iman Zawahry's comedy about an American Muslim woman cop investigating a pig theft, UnderCover, 6:55 p.m.
Bob Hercules's documentary about the firebrand St. Sabina's pastor, Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger, screens at 8:30 p.m. with Amy Krause Rosenthal's animated Kindness Thought Bubble, followed by Q&A with Hercules and cinematographer Keith Walker, then an opening night party.
Saturday 2/26 screenings 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Highlights include Bertram Verhaag's "documentary thriller" Scientists Under Attack: Genetic Engineering in the Magnetic Field of Money, about "how Agro-Chemical multinational corporations victimise international scientists to prevent them from publishing their scary findings," 12:20 p.m. and Jacob Bender's Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours, about moderate Jews and Muslims challenging extremism among their coreligionists, 7:40 p.m.
Sunday 2/27 screenings 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m., including Loving Lampposts, a documentary about autism by Todd Drezner, father of an autistic son, 5:10 p.m., and The Rowan Waltz, Alyona Semenova and Alexandra Smirnov's drama about girls clearing unexploded bombs in northern Russia after World War II, 6:45 p.m.
All screenings are at the Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
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Ode to Oscar, old and new
For 83 years you’ve made dreams come true!
A gilded knight, crusaders sword,
You compel the contest to unfold.
On top of a reel of angled spokes
You represent the many folk
Who make us dream and laugh and cry
And let our troubled worlds pass by.
Now Colin, Natalie, and the rest,
Have bared their souls and joined the best.
How much this little statue means
To everyone in the world – it seems!
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