About
the Festival
We
will post the schedule of movies (as well as
information about the film, filmmaker, cast and crew) as soon
as possible.
General
schedule:
Saturday,
January 25th, 2003: We will be screening feature length and
short films from 10 a.m. till 8:00 p.m. at the Best
Western Hotel, New Hope, PA, followed by filmmaker's
reception from 8:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. Admission price ($30)
includes entrance fee and reception. If you plan to stay at the
hotel, be sure to mention the festival and you'll get an excellent
room rate. There are only 220 seats, so we advise you to
purchase tickets ahead of time.
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Ted
Tally
wrote the
Academy Award winning screenplay for The Silence of the
Lambs. He will speak on Saturday, January 25, at about
7:15 p.m.
Ted
Tally won the Oscar® for Best Adapted Screenplay for
The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the WGA Screen
Award, Chicago Film Critics Award and an Edgar from the
Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote the screenplays
of All the Pretty Horses, Before and After, The
Juror, and White Palace. For the Brian
DePalma film Mission to Mars, he served as an
associate producer.
For the theater
Tally has written Terra Nova (Obie and Dramalogue
Awards), Hooters, Coming Attractions (Outer
Critics Circle Award), Little Footsteps and Silver
Linings. His television scripts include The Comedy
Zone, Hooters, Terra Nova (BBC-TV), and
The Father Clements Story (Christopher Award).
Born in North
Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale
School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His
other honors include fellowships from the NEA and the
Guggenheim Foundation.
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One
of our featured speakers on Saturday will be Wayne Miller,
writer/producer/director of the short Hello Girls.
The short will screen a t11:40 and afterwards, Wayne will
answer questions. The movie is a fictional
account of a young woman who serves as a "Hello
Girl " with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in
WWI.
Miller
has reworked Hello Girls
into a feature-length screenplay, A Shade of
Gray.
Morgan O’Sullivan, renowned producer of such movies
as The Count of Monte Cristo and Braveheart
has expressed interest. Within the next four weeks, Miller
will have a meeting with Twentieth Century Fox to discuss
possibilities for his reincarnated script, which he hopes to
produce locally.
Wayne lives in Bucks County ,
Pennsylvania. He started
his company, Sugar
Moon Productions, in 1998.
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Featured
performers at the Indiefest reception,
Saturday, January 25, 2003, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Come
& shmooze!
Roia
Rafieyan Her
CD "Songs From Behind Locked Doors" provides
a fresh and compelling
take on the simplest of human emotions. Rafieyan, a music therapist
by trade, provides two songs from her album for the feature film,
"The
Mommy Track." , ("We Have No Pain," "I Want To
Go Home") . "Songs From Behind
Locked Doors" is available on the Dave The Cat
record label.
Karen
Gross is a journalist, actor, playwright and musician from
Doylestown, PA.
She has performed professionally at Philadelphia and Boston-area
venues and
is currently recording a full-length CD of original music. She
describes her
music as a mix of folk and pop influences.
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Sunday,
January 26th, 2003: We will feature a film and a conversation
with a local filmmaker from 9 am to noon at Artsbridge,
in the Canal Studios, 243 N.Union
Street, Lambertville, New Jersey. This event is free with a ticket
from Saturday's event, (all others - $10.00 admission) and
admission is "first come-first-served" because of
limited seating.
Louis
Massiah is the
founder and Executive Director of The
Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia. He has
made award-winning documentaries, such as "W.E.B. DuBois-A
Biography in Four Voices." Louis is a recipient of the
MacArthur Fellowship ("genius award"). Louis
was a physics and astronomy major at Cornell University, where he
was a teaching assistant to Carl Sagan. He is also an M.I.T visual
studies graduate.
SCRIBE
VIDEO CENTER, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, was
founded in 1982 as a place where people could work together and
gain skills in media making. Scribe Video Center seeks to explore,
develop and advance the use of video as an artistic medium and as
a tool for progressive social change. "Scribe" is a
metaphor for the use of video as a modern medium to record
significant contemporary concerns and events.
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Algonquin Indiefest, New Hope, PA
and Lambertville, NJ
Saturday, January 25, 2003 and Sunday, January
26, 2003
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