Down Time Jaz to screen at Family Fest,
Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles
FAMILY FEST
Sunday May 6
10 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Rudolpho’s Restaurant
2500 Riverside Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90039-4025
Appetizers, drinks, full menu available
Live music, a display of “auto-art”—(painted cars), a recycled music workshop and free trees all accompany a day of experimental and thought provoking films selected from countries around the world. For more information go to www.fringefest2007.com
Sponsors: Silver Lake Conservatory of Music
TreePeople will offer a seed planting station where adults and children can plant tree seeds to take home with them and grow the urban forest.
TreePeople's work is about helping nature heal our cities. Best known for planting and caring for trees, TreePeople has one of the nation's largest environmental education programs and also works with government agencies on critical issues. Using forest-inspired technologies, TreePeople addresses the nation's most urgent urban eco-problems including water and air quality, energy conservation and flood prevention. Started by teenagers in 1973, TreePeople's staff and volunteers have gone on to plant over two million trees in the Los Angeles area.
TreePeople revitalizes inner-city communities, brings neighbors together, and offers sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems. www.treepeople.org
10:00 a.m.
Ages 5 and up
FOUND SOUNDS BAHIA, USA, 2007, 28 minutes
Director/Producer/Writer: David Zucker
FOUND SOUNDS BAHIA, introduces us to the Brazilian youth group LACTOMIA which takes discarded materials and makes music, costumes and art that bridges the economic and racial divides and rebuild his community.
11:00 Followed by a demonstration/workshop with filmmaker David Zucker and a noted percussionist. www.projectfoundsound.com
12:00-1:00 p.m.
All ages
A series of short experimental, animated features from around the world:
DOWNTIME JAZ, Australia, 2002, 11 minutes
Director: Karen Pearlman
Producer: Richard James Allen
Writers/Choreographers: Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman
A delightful and infectious animated dance film, Down Time Jaz is a ferris wheel ride through family life from the point of view of the second child who must save the rest of her family from itself.
For more information on Down Time Jaz, click here.
PRINCE CINDERS, Great Britain, 30 minutes
Director: Derek Hayes
Producer: Iaian Harvey
Based on a book by Babette Cole adapted by Robert Llewellyn
An outrageous take on the classic fairy tale where the PRINCE can’t make it to the ball, left at home by his big mean stepbrothers. When his inept godmother visits and offers to turn him into a heroic muscleman, instead he becomes a big hairy ape!! Blissfully unaware of his primal state, Cinders makes into the ball creating havoc along the way.
BOY, Great Britain, 1995, 5 minutes
A film by Rosemary Lee and Peter Anderson
Producer: Anne Beresford and Margaret Williams, MJW Productions; BBC; Arts Council of England
A boy creates his own world of superheroes as he moves with playful agility through an empty coastal landscape.
LINNEA IN MONET’S GARDEN, 1993, Sweden, 30 minutes
Director/Writer: Lena Anderson, Christina Bjork
Produced by Linneafilm, Swedish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV Fund; Seymour Wishman
Straight from the best selling children’s book, a charming tale of a little girl’s love affair with the paintings of French Impressionist Claude Monet. Linnea travels off to Paris and then to Monet’s garden in Givenchy to discover the real places that served as inspiration for her favorite painter.
2:00 p.m. Live Music
All Ages
SPONGEBOB SQUARE PANTS and the HI SEAS BAND
The rock band spin-off from the Nickelodeon hit series SpongeBob SquarePants. The band features Tom Kenny, the well-known voice of the world's top animated character, SpongeBob SquarePants. Nick Records recently released SpongeBob & The Hi-Seas album “The Best Day Ever” that includes songs written by Kenny along with producer and fellow band member, Andy Paley. “The Best Day Ever” album has received widespread critical acclaim with pundits noting that its rock 'n roll undercurrents make it as enjoyable for rock-savvy adults as it is for kids. The music reflects a diversity of additional influences including garage rock, classic country and even Weimar-era cabaret. Reviews have nicknamed the album "Wet Sounds" in recognition of Brian Wilson's participation and the fact that the musical ambience of some of the tracks reflects the influence of The Beach Boys' masterpiece "Pet Sounds."
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Ages 9 and up
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA, 2005, Japan/US, 25 minutes
Directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Produced by Tetsujiro Yamagami
Susan Sarandan narrates, a documentary based on the award winning children’s book by the Japanese artist Toshi Maruki. Through Maruki’s heart rending but beautiful water colors illustrations, the film tells the story of a young girl and her family who live through the horrific bombing of Hiroshima. www.firstrunfeatures.com
Surviving 7th Grade, 2005, USA, 7 Min
Produced, Written and Directed by Amy Adrion
Best friends Kim and Dara endure the humiliations of 7th grade with a little help from a 6-year-old DJ, a 20-year-old stereo, some fierce moves and a rockin' beat.
SKYLAB, 2005, USA, 12:22 min
Written, Directed by Mark Landsman
Produced by Shani M. Rotkovitz
12 year old Benji Handle is convinced the sky is falling and strangely he’s right. In the hazy summer of 1979, a potential catastrophe looms just overhead. SKYLAB, the largest vehicle ever hurled into space is slipping from orbit and could crashing to earth at any moment. No one, including NASA can confirm exactly where or when the pieces will fall. No one that is, except Benji, who’s convinced the fiery craft is on a collision course with his house.
Deadtime Stories with Mariachi Goose and Friends, 2007, USA, 11min
Directors: John Jota Leaños and Sean Levon Nash
Producer: Burning Wagon Productions
Writers: John Jota Leaños and Sean Levon Nash
Website: www.leanos.net
Witness the Great Fall of Humpty Mariachi Dumpty! Uncover questions buried for generations! Explore the wonders of Muertolandia and all its curious inhabitants! Meet Jack & Jill, So White and the Seven Deadly Dwarves, Rapunzel, and the Diva Big Bad Wolf. Deadtime Stories with Mariachi Goose and Friends is Act II of an animated Mariachi Opera in Spanglish and other idiomas called, 'Imperial Silence’.
http://leanos.net/ABC.html
Featuring the display of the painted low riders and other art work…
5:30 Live Music
All ages
THE FLYPAPER CARTEL:
Described as “an underage acid trip” and “among the best in local music” by The LA Alternative Press, Silverlake’s own The Flypaper Cartel have been making waves in and around L.A. with their mix of vintage, rhythm based rock and danceable, crowd-pleasing harmonies. High school friends Flannery Lunsford, Noah Sheets, Martin Hirshland, Orson Newstat and Cal Christie have been performing since 2004, when their appearance at the Marshall High School Battle of the Bands won them a chance to play at the Greek Theater for two consecutive years. Since then, the boys of FPC have been all over town, with appearances at Sunset Junction, Warped Tour, Club Spaceland and more recently The Whisky, bringing with them a sound and live show that leaves crowds satisfied but always wanting more. www.theflypapercartel.myspace.com
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