The Father & the Bear Director: John Putch 84 minutes A retired character actor with diagnosed dementia (WIL LOVE), longs to perform at his beloved summer theater one last time. Against his daughter’s wishes (DENDRIE TAYLOR), he accepts a role from the newly installed artistic director (DAVID DeLUISE) who is unaware of the man’s condition. Hollywood […]
Moviemaking in Small Towns: Q&A with Hollywood Director John Putch
Moviemaking in Small Towns: Q&A with Hollywood Director John Putch Hear from this Los Angeles based director about his inspiration for his film Father and the Bear. Listen to what it was like to film in his home town of Chambersburg, PA. and how to make movies outside of Hollywood. […]
Immigration Documentary Block
East of Salinas Director: Laura Pacheco & Jackie Mow 53 minutes EAST OF SALINAS begins with 3rd grader José Anzaldo telling us what he wants to be when he grows up. His parents work from sun up to sun down in the heart of California’s “Steinbeck Country,” the Salinas Valley. With little […]
Incarcerating Us
Incarcerating Us Director: Regan Hines 84 minutes Incarcerating US is a feature-length documentary that exposes America’s prison problem and explores ways to unshackle the Land of the Free through vital criminal justice reforms. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the history of the […]
Bloodletting
Bloodletting Director: Stuart Connelly 77 minutes When the deadly crash of a prisoner transport van spares the lives of Nick and Guy, two convicts chained together, their cobbled-together escape plan hinges upon using an off-the-beaten-path farmhouse as a hideout. But things aren’t exactly as they seem at that desolate farm… And […]
Made In Reading Shorts
American Standard Director: Justen Patrick Lander 17 minutes After waiting years for his daughter to visit, Edward Bracket decides to escape his nursing home. Film website: http://www.justenpatrick.com/terrestrial.html Classic Car Night at Bowmansville Days 2015 Director: David Speace 12 minutes This short documentary highlights some of the classic cars on display at the […]
Jumbo Wild
Jumbo Wild Director: Nick Waggoner 60 minutes Jumbo Wild is a gripping, hour-long documentary film that tells the true story of the decades-long battle over the future of British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Valley and highlights the tension between the protection of wilderness and the backcountry experience and ever-increasing development interests in […]
Heredity
Heredity Director: Carlos G. Vergara Montiel 100 minutes Tati will do whatever to bring her husband Pedro, back to the reallity. He believes he is a child because of a physicologist disorder that he suffers. Film Website: http://www.biomanos.com Screening Information Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 12pm R/C Reading Movies 11 & IMAX Theater […]
Friday Shorts
Dead Giveaway Director: Ian Kimble 31 minutes After a long and reckless night in Philadelphia, Jill awakens to the slaughtered remains of a man she does not recognize. Determined to prove her innocence, she seeks the help of her best friend, Lia, to sift through the foggy memories of the previous […]