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Archives for August 2019

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Since bursting onto the music scene in 1967, Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years.  Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music and soul.  As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas like no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven Platinum albums.  Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts simultaneously, she won 10 Grammy ® Awards on 26 nominations and attained a level of stardom the Tucson native never could have fathomed. In LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, Ronstadt is our guide through her early years of singing Mexican canciones with her family; her folk days with the Stone Poneys; and her reign as the “rock queen” of the ‘70s and early ’80s.  She was a pioneer for women in the male-dominated music industry; an early advocate for human rights, and had a high-profile romance with California governor Jerry Brown.  Ultimately, her incredible voice was lost to Parkinson’s disease, but her music and influence remain as timeless as ever.  With moving performance footage and appearances by collaborators including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved made generations of fans fall in love with her — and the sound of her voice.

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Screening Info

Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 2:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the ultimate cult classic that brings out the weird in everyone. Featuring an all star cast, a cooky storyline and amazing music, the film by itself is great fun. But when you add the audience antics, it’s a event worth staying up late for…

The Thursday night (October 31st -yes, that’s Halloween!) screening will be preceded by a reception at The Peanut Bar. There WILL be a costume contest, bring on your best Riff Raff, Dr. Frank-n-Furter and Janet costumes and get ready to kick off your ReadingFilmFEST weekend with a little weirdness and absolute fun!

Attendees of the Rocky Horror costume party at the Peanut Bar must be 21 years of age or older to attend and must show proper ID, especially those in costume.


Thursday Screening Info

Date: Thursdays, October 31, 2019 at 10:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10
RiffRaff Special: $25 (For Thursday screening only. Includes ticket, entry to reception, 1 free drink, and prop bag)
Prop Bag:
$5


Friday Screening Info

Date: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 10:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10
Prop Bag: $5

Filmmaker Panel – International Distribution for Indie Filmmakers

We’ve been there, you kill yourself to make your film: max out your credit cards, fund raise, grant write, and beg your friends and family to get that film made. Now what? The fantasy of getting the sweet distribution deal after your festival premiere feels more and more like, well… just a fantasy.

Conversation with Judd Taylor, Acquisitions Consultant for Prince Films and Glass House Distribution, on the opportunities available to independent filmmakers on the international marketplace. We’ll discuss what types of films are most likely to get the attention of international distributors and how to make the connections to be successful in this market.

Judd Taylor

Judd Taylor

Judd Taylor programs for the Chandler International Film Festival and sits on the Tribeca Film Festival Screening Committee where in 2019 he recommended Burning Cane, winner of 3 major awards. He recently joined the Slamdance Film Festival providing coverage and reading screenplays for their Screenplay Competition. Judd is also an Acquisitions Consultant for worldwide sales companies Prince Films and Glass House Distribution. He previously sat on the Screening Committee for Cleveland International Film Festival and was on the Board of Directors and Associate Director of Programming for the DTLA Film Festival where films he programmed and recommended won multiple awards. Previous to joining the festival world, Judd worked in acquisitions for Alchemy on auteur Gaspar Noé’s Love, sleeper hit MEET THE PATELS, WELCOME TO ME, and THE HUMBLING. Judd was also Head of Marketing at Cinema Management Group where he marketed Oscar nominated worldwide hit LOVING VINCENT.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 10am
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Female Filmmaker Panel: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Film

Panel discussion with industry veteran Anne Hubbell and Women’s Weekend Film Challenge founders Tracy Sayre and Katrina Medoff chat with ReadingFilmFEST Creative Director Tracy Schott about being a woman in the film industry in 2019. How far have we come really? What’s next?

Jessie Garcia

Jessie Garcia

Jessie Garcia spent 26 years in television news and was Wisconsin’s first female sports anchor. She is a former Green Bay Packers sideline reporter and former host of “The Mike McCarthy Show” and “The Mike Holmgren Show.” Jessie has written eight books of fiction and non-fiction. She is currently the Broadcast Director at Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate, WTMJ. Jessie has also taught journalism at four universities. This is her first documentary. The idea came from a book she wrote about Olympic athletes and she simply knew she had to make it into a documentary.

Anne Hubbell

Anne Hubbell

Anne Hubbell is a respected film industry veteran with 20 years of extensive corporate, not-for-profit and production experience.  She co-founded Tangerine Entertainment, the first production company and community builder focused on media by women directors.  As Vice President of Motion Picture at Kodak, she negotiates contracts and consults on studio and independent movies, episodic content, commercials and music videos, and is a liaison to the global film community at large. Anne is also the Program Director for 51Fest, an event presented by Women in the World and IFC Center, celebrating the voice and vision of the female majority through screenings and conversations, all by or about women. Her producing credits include MODERN PERSUASION (2020), THE SECOND (2018), KEEP THE CHANGE (2017), THE LAST LAUGH (2016), PAINT IT BLACK (2016), GAYBY (2012), LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE (2004), seasons of IFC’s Independent Focus (2001) and iFilm@IFC (1999), along with independent shorts and web content.  She began her career in not for profit programming and management as Managing Director of The Theater Offensive in Boston and Executive Director of IMAGE Film & Video Center in Atlanta, and consulted for dozens of domestic and international film festivals and events.  She serves on the boards of NY Women in Film & Television, the NY Production Alliance and Rooftop Films, and is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America.

Katrina Medoff

Katrina Medoff is the founder and co-director of the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge (WWFC), a women-in-film initiative that places professional filmmakers on crews that write, shoot and edit a short film in just one weekend. Through the WWFC, she and her business partner, Tracy Sayre, have produced 24 films to date with more than 500 professional female filmmakers in New York City. These films have already been selected for more than 50 film festivals, including the HBO Women in Comedy Festival and Fantasia Film Festival. One WWFC film won “The Spy Who Dumped Me” Female Storyteller Film Contest and was screened before the blockbuster movie starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon in LA. Katrina and Tracy will be launching the WWFC in Los Angeles in 2020.

Katrina also works independently in the film industry as an actor, writer and producer. Her recent projects include the feature film “Ask for Jane,” now playing in select theaters, as well as short films that have screened at SOHO International Film Festival, Queens World Film Festival and more.

Tracy Sayre

Tracy Sayre

Tracy Sayre is a screenwriter, producer, and director. Her short film “Lily+Mara” starred Oona Laurence and Meghann Fahy and recently had its broadcast debut on PBS. She has helped hundreds of writers unlock their creative block through her organization Writers Work. She is currently the co-director of the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge (WWFC), a women-in-film initiative that places professional filmmakers on crews that write, shoot and edit a short film in just one weekend. Through the WWFC, she and her business partner, Katrina Medoff, have produced 24 films to date with more than 500 professional female filmmakers in New York City. These films have already been selected for more than 50 film festivals.


Panel Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 11am
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Made In Reading Block

Moonlight Massacre

Moonlight Massacre: Building the Haunt

Director: Jason Hugg
Runtime: 75 minutes

For years Halloween enthusiast Branden Moyer has constructed a haunted house in his backyard, gathering thousands of visitors. With no more room to expand his home haunt, Moyer takes his hobby to a new level by building a massive 4,000 square foot haunted attraction in the middle of a busy shopping plaza.

The documentary, Moonlight Massacre: Building the Haunt, follows Moyer over a 5 month period, from June to October, as he and his crew attempt to build a professional haunted house.

Make Love Your Religion

Make Love Your Religion

Director: David Nazario & Robert Buzzard
Runtime: 2 minutes

Book trailer.

Wandering Mind

Wandering Mind

Director: Tommy Duncan 3rd
Runtime: 13:25 minutes

Two weary homeless men, Lynwood and Keckly, get lost on deserted tracks following a train whistle that Keckly swears he heard just around the bend. Lynwood is tired and wants to stop, but Keckly wants to continue in hopes of finding this train. Along the way, the two homeless men happen upon a coin that drives a jealous wedge between them, causing a fight in which they discover this mysterious train. Inside the train is where greater mysteries await, as if forces the men to look into the mirror at themselves to see what they’re really made of. It’s a tale of self discovery, compassion, and some good ol’ fashion tough love that help these two out for the tough times ahead, and tests the strength of their friendship


Screening Info

Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 3pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Saturday Shorts Block

Trap Fishing

Trap Fishing

Director: David Helfer Wells
Runtime: 7 minutes

Get up close and personal with one of the last remaining trap fishing families in Rhode Island. Meet Corey Wheeler Forrest, her father Alan Wheeler and brother Luke Wheeler. Learn the art of trap fishing and what it takes to make a living on the water.

Old Man’s Heavy Sleep

Director: Mostafa Rostampou
Runtime: 15 minutes

This film is about the modern human family where loneliness is bold and dominant. We show the life of an old man who’s left alone after his children leave. He desires death because of this deadly loneliness. His only companion is a man who lives downstairs.

Drum Taps

Director: H. Paul Moon
Runtime: 11:32 minutes

A Union soldier awakens in a southern battlefield. Is the war over?
(A cinematic setting of Civil War poems from Walt Whitman’s “Drum-Taps” in “Leaves in Grass.” 2019 is the bicentennial year of the poet’s birth.)

You Went On With Your Dying

Director: Amin Ghashghaiyan Raz
Runtime: 20 minutes

Today my mother died. Maybe I did not know yesterday. I had a phone call from the nursing home. For the first time, after a long time, I thought to my mother, at this moment and at the end of the day will I be survived?

The Angel and The Stockbroker

Director: Kevin Hejna
Runtime: 11:21 minutes

A thief breaks into a Stockbroker’s apartment. She finds her mark about to jump from the roof. Can the most unlikely person talk him down from the ledge?

Punishment

Punishment

Director: Jalal Veisi
Runtime: 11 minutes

A soldier who is in love with a girl in the archives of the garrison who…

Intermedium

Intermedium

Director: Erik Bloomquist
Runtime: 20 minutes

An obsessive-compulsive teenager struggles to learn the value of compromise while adjusting to her new home (and butting heads with the ghost of the boy who haunts it).

Leaps And Bounds

Leaps and Bounds

Director: Jessie Garcia
Runtime: 16 minutes

The athlete and his coach from the University of Pennsylvania who revolutionized track and field by inventing two key techniques in the late 1800’s, and the controversial Olympics that followed.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 4pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

The Pollinators

 

The Pollinators

Director: Peter Nelson
Runtime: 92 minutes

Much of the food on our tables comes from the intrinsic act of pollinating the flowers that become the fruits, vegetables and nuts we eat, but agricultural practices, pesticides and politics are making that simple act of nature more difficult everyday.
 Honey bees pollinate one third of the food we eat, yet alarmingly honey bee populations in this country have fallen by half since the 1940’s and continue to decline. Honey bees are threatened by indiscriminate pesticide use, disease, industrial scale monoculture farming and powerful corporate lobbying interests that work to influence the EPA and USDA, who are our gatekeepers for a safe agricultural system. Our very food system is under threat and rests on the wings of these tiny insects and the commercial beekeepers that move them from farm to orchard pollinating crops that native pollinators can no longer adequately accomplish.
This film will follow migratory beekeepers and their bees throughout a growing season, joining them as they stop to pollinate the myriad plants and trees that depend upon honey bees to grow and produce our food. Much of the work moving bees is done at night when the bees are in their hives so few people actually get to see what these beekeepers do. Throughout the journey we will meet farmers, scientists, chefs and academics to give perspective to this complex food system that we all depend on. We will explain the problems of modern large scale agriculture, offer ideas on how it can be improved and learn about these pollinators that are a subculture of agriculture and a vital cornerstone of our entire food system. It’s a cinematic road trip that will result in a feature length documentary film about the importance of pollination to our food system, the complex interrelationship between migratory beekeepers, their bees and the agriculture system that needs these migratory honey bees in order to grow the food we eat.


Screening Info

Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 12:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Horror/Thriller Block

Shifter

Shifter

Director: Matthew Marder
Runtime: 12 minutes

When an agent infiltrates a Russian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia and steals mysterious files, the Russians kidnap a woman they believe to be the culprit. But it may be a case of mistaken identity…

The Hour After Westerly

The Hour After Westerly

Director: Nate Bell & Andrew Morehouse
Runtime: 24:44 minutes

Davis Harwell (Peter Jacobson) is a meticulous man whose life has grown comfortably dull. But when he nods off at the wheel and wakes up a full hour later with no memory of what happened to him, he is presented with a tantalizing mystery. Why does he have visions of a lighthouse, a row of cottages, and a beautiful woman (Shannyn Sossamon) he’s never met before? Davis sets out to find the answer, but what he discovers is far more disturbing than he bargains for.

Until the Wheels Fall Off

Until the Wheels Fall Off

Director: David Hall
Runtime: 8:33 minutes

A tranquil park within the Zombie Apocalypse, finds a withering zombie who can’t catch a meal, until an undead angel comes to his rescue.

PRINCESS

Director: Raylee Magill
Runtime: 9:35 minutes

A girl has a chance meeting of a lifetime….or two.

Pupil

Director: Meysam MUYINI
Runtime: 14:38 minutes

A reverse chronology in five segments about a man who starts his day with a headache like everybody else, but he suffers from some vague flash memories that he does not know where they come from, memories which tell about an abduction.

Women’s Weekend Film Challenge presents… EMPTY

Director: Cameron Morgan
Runtime: 5:33 minutes

Chantal and her partner, Maria, arrive at their daughter’s school for their everyday pick-up and are alarmed when the school is empty. EMPTY follows a mother’s harrowing journey as she tries to find her missing daughter in a Kafka-esque world. 


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 10pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Ape Canyon

 

Ape Canyon

Director: Joshua Land & Victor Fink
Runtime: 73 minutes

n the midst of a quarter-life crisis, Cal Piker drags his big sister Samantha along on a Bigfoot-hunting expedition. And nothing – not the adventure turning out to be a scam, not being abandoned in the woods to die, not a confrontation with an uncommonly large nuclear physicist, not a police pursuit, and certainly not Samantha’s protests – will stop Cal from making his way to Ape Canyon.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 8:30pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass

Boarding Pass

Director: Mehdi Rahmani
Runtime: 84 minutes

Neda has decided to transit narcotics by swallowing them to solve her financial problems. The job, however has its own dangers.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 8pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

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