Summer 2008Paramus Series
Summer 2008Paramus Series
2008 Summer Recap:
6/23 - AMERICAN TEEN
AMERICAN TEEN - Documentary following the lives of four teenagers--a jock, the popular girl, the artsy girl and the geek--in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future. Filming daily for ten months, filmmaker Nanette Burstein developed a deep understanding of her subjects. The result is a film that goes beyond the enduring stereotypes of high school to render complex young people trying to find their way into adulthood.
Starring:
Hannah Bailey,
Colin Clemens,
Megan Krizmanich,
Mitch Reinholt,
Jake TusingDirector: Nanette Burstein
Screenwriter: Nanette Burstein
GUESTS: DIRECTOR NANETTE BURSTEIN
PRODUCER JORDAN ROBERTS
HOST: MARSHALL FINE
Official Site: Link
6/16 - MOVING MIDWAY
At Christmas 2003, New York-based film critic Godfrey Cheshire is visiting his family in North Carolina when his cousin Charlie Silver tells him something startling. Charlie inherited Midway Plantation, the ancestral home of his and Cheshire's extended family, and has been its devoted caretaker. But now Charlie and his wife Dena have made a decision: They want to move Midway - the antebellum manor house and several outbuildings - to a new location to escape Raleigh's encroaching sprawl. Can you really transplant a plantation? Will the "place" be the same if it is uprooted from the soil in which it has stood since 1848?
Charlie's plan provokes immediate controversy in Cheshire's tradition-minded family. For Cheshire, it brings back memories of the wild, strange and magical place Midway seemed when he was a child, and of the stories he heard there - stories of his mother's family, the Hintons, settling the area in the early 1700s, fighting in the Revolution, being invaded by Yankee troops in the Civil War, and surviving Reconstruction. Yet stories, Cheshire realizes, both convey and conceal. The reality of the Southern plantation was that it depended on the institution of slavery. In Cheshire's family, stories of slaves always depicted them as happy and devoted, which surely disguised a more painful, complex reality. In fact, Midway bred two sets of Hintons, one white, one black. For years, they have rarely encountered each other. But that begins to change as Cheshire sets out to chronicle Charlie's attempt to move Midway.
Godfrey Cheshire (Director, Writer, Producer) is an award-winning film critic based in New York City. A native of North Carolina, he co-founded Raleigh’s Spectator Magazine and began writing film criticism professionally in 1978. Since moving to New York in 1991, he has written for numerous national and international publications including The New York Times, Variety, The Village Voice, New York Press, Interview, Film Comment, Oxford American, and The Independent Weekly. His areas of special interest include cinematic representations of the South, Iranian film, and the transition to digital technology. A former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, he has twice received awards for best arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
Executive Producer: R.B. ReevesDirector: Godfrey Cheshire
Screenwriter: Godfrey Cheshire
Cinematographer: Jay Spain
Editor: Ramsey Fendall, Greg Loser
Composer/Music: Ahrin MishanOther Credits:
Ross McElwee (Consulting Producer),
Robert Hinton (Chief Historian/Associate Producer)
Guests: GODFREY CHESHIRE & ROBERT HINTONOfficial Site: Link
2nd Feature:
Bottle Shock
Based on the story behind the birth of the Napa wine industry, which culminates in the triumph of California wines over the French at the 1976 Paris Tastings.
Cast:
Freddy Rodriguez,
Chris Pine,
Rachael Taylor,
Eliza Dushku,
Bill Pullman
Directed by: Randall M. Miller
Produced by: Jody Savin,
Marc Toberoff, J. Todd Harris
Official Site: Link
6/9 - THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION
In 1970, Brazil and the world seem to have been turned upside-down, but 12 year-old Mauro's worries have nothing to do with the military regime which controls the country. His biggest dream is to see Brazil become three-time winner of the World Cup. Suddenly, he is torn from his parents and taken to live in a "strange" and fun-filled community called Bom Retiro, a district in Sao Paolo which is home to a large Jewish and Italian community, among other cultures.
Cast:
Michel Joelsas
Germano Haiut
Daniela Piepszyk
Simone Spoladore
Caio Blat Italo
Liliana Castro
Paulo Autran
Edgardo Moreira
Director
Cao Hamburger
Writers
Cao Hamburger Screenplay
Cluadio Galperin Screenplay
Braulio Mantovani Screenplay
Cao Hamburger Story ByProducers
Caio Gullane Executive Producer
Fabiano Gullane Executive Producer
Sonia Hamburger Executive Producer
Cao Hamburger Producer
Guest: Sal Scamardo
Sal Scamardo is currently President of City Lights Pictures and Home Entertainment, an emerging major independent film company based in New York City. His career in film and television spans over 22 years across a broad range of key executive positions including marketing, promotion, production, publicity, business development and acquisitions for a diverse mix of media companies including major studios Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios; major recording companies CBS Records and PolyGram and; independent film studios such as Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures and, now City Lights. Over the years he has also provided strategic media and content consulting for through his consulting firm for clients ranging from Broadway producers to major media companies such as Sony/BMG and HBO.
The Matador (2008)
Harold (2008)
Underground (2007/I)
Everything's Cool (2007)
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Descent (2007)
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (2007)
Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, O (2006)
Suicide Killers (2006)
Tamara (2005)
A Generation Apart (1984)
HOST: MARSHALL FINE
2008 Summer Series Opener!
6/2 - When Did You Last See Your Father?
When Did You Last See Your Father?: An unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with tender and heartrending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable to their children.
Starring:
Colin Firth,
Jim Broadbent,
Juliet Stevenson,
Gina McKee,
Claire Skinner,
Matthew Beard
Director: Anand Tucker
Writers David Nicholls, Blake Morrison
Guest: Director ANNAUD TUCKER
Director Anand Tucker and Jim Broadbent
Official Site: Link
