Friday, July 2nd AND Sunday, July 4th starting at 9 PM.
The Education Channel presents a selection of films made by local filmmakers and students from the 2010 Independents’ Film Festival.
Friday, July 2 starting at 9:00 PM
The Tempo of Tampa Bay (USF Class Project) Rhapsody(Sarah Wilson,USF) Pocket Full of Gold (Jeff Prugh, Brandon) Cinq (Dan Bakst, USF)
Friday, July 2 starting at 10:00 PM Ghosts of Ybor: Charlie Wall, the Documentary(Guzzo Brothers) I Would For You (Eric Polins, Tampa) Trunk (Seal Malone, U. of Miami grad, Tampa Resident)
Saturday, July 4 starting at 9:00 PM An Ale of a Tale (USF Class Project) Anchored(RSAD)
Saturday, July 4 starting at 9:30 PM American Colonies (Jason Kushner, USF graduate) Dim Sum (RSAD) What Lurks in the Dark (Blake High)
Saturday, July 4 starting at 9:30 PM An Image Cannot Be Static(Jason Kushner, USF graduate) Free Headshot (David Cooper, Deland) Oxygen (RSAD) I Reveal (Tim Compton, UT Grad, University of Miami)
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lecture Series - Making Your Mind Mondays throughout July, 10:00 AM & 8:00 PM Is there any more to mind than the brain? Does experience shape the way our brain develops? When we learn something new is our brain physically altered? In four presentations, Dr. Thomas M. Jessell and Dr. Eric R. Kandel help us puzzle out how the brain is organized, how it develops, how it controls behavior, and how it stores memory.
July 5: Mapping Memory in the Brain
July 12: Building Brains – the Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits
July 19: Plan of Action – How the Spinal Cord Controls Movement
Burning the Future: Coal in America Monday, July 26, 10:00 PM (replays: 7/28 - 9:00 PM) Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.
Royal Wedding (USA - 1951) Friday, July 23, 9:00 PM (replays: 7/25, 10:00 PM) A starkly beautiful story of a 12 year old Kurdish boy who must grow into manhood too quickly in order to follow in his father’s footsteps across the dangerous mountains at the Iraq-Iran border. The first feature film in Kurdish to achieve an international release. Directed by Hahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2000.
The DEVOlution of DEVO Sunday, July 11, 8:00 PM (replays: 7/12, 11:00 AM) Mark Mothersbaugh, founder of the extreamly influencial 1980’s new wave band DEVO, discusses his experiences in the frontiers of electronic and punk music. This is a must-see for fans of eighties new-wave, punk, and electronic music.
Maynard Dixon Art & Spirit Tuesday, July 13, 9:00 PM (replay: 7/15, 9:00 PM) Narrated by Diane Keaton, this beautiful documentary profiles the breathtaking art and complex life of artist Maynard Dixon, who painted the American West with a bold modernist approach emphasizing design, color and self-expression. The film is enriched with over four-hundred Dixon paintings and drawings, portraits of Dixon taken by his lifelong friend, Ansel Adams and family photographs and rare audio by his second wife, celebrated photographer, Dorothea Lange. Dixon biographers, Donald J. Hagerty and Linda Jones Gibbs share their expertise on the personal struggles that Dixon overcame to continue his quest to record the vanishing West. Film locations include Montana, Utah, Arizona, California and New Mexico, bringing Dixon’s paintings and drawings to life in the breathtaking panoramas of the land that he loved so deeply.
My Marlon & Brando (Turkey, 2008) Wednesday, July 14, 8:30 PM (replays: 7/17, 8:30 PM) In this unusual, poetic docudrama, Turkish actress Ayça Damgaci plays herself in a story about her long-distance, multicultural love affair with Kurdish actor Hama Ali Khan. After falling in love on a movie set in western Turkey, the two return to their homes —plying one another with heartfelt videos and passionate letters in English, their only shared language. The couple endures their separation for eighteen months, but when the United States prepares to invade Baghdad, Ayça becomes increasingly frustrated by the cultural and geographic barriers between them. Though frightened by the imminent bombing of Iraq, Ayça decides to undertake the harrowing journey to be with Hama, crossing one border after another as she swims against the tide of refugees fleeing the war. Winner, “Best New Narrative Filmmaker” award at Tribeca Film Festival, 2008
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