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Lovelight
Movie Lover's Weekend
& Film Festival features
Larry Peerce
and Robert Port
Feb.
3-5, 2005
Charlotte,
NC
The
Light Factory in Charlotte, NC, hosts its second annual Lovelight
Movie Lover's Weekend & Film Festival in February. Organizers
promise a weekend filled with screenings, guest stars, educational
seminars, parties, paparazzi, and prizes.
The weekend kicks
off with a screening of the lost 1967 classic "The Incident,"
Thursday, Feb. 3rd, at Phillips Place Cinema, preceded by a reception
at the J. Richards Gallery at 6:00pm. Palm D'Or
Award Winning Director Larry Peerce will be on hand to
introduce his film and take questions afterwards.
[Tickets for this
event are $20 per person. An All Access Pass to all of the Lovelight
weekend's events is $110.]
The Incident
is a gripping urban drama filmed in black-and-white the true story
of two thugs who take a group of passengers hostage on a New York
subway. It's based on Ride with Terror, a 1963 television
play by Nicholas E. Baehr.
The Incident's
all-star cast includes Tony Musante and Martin Sheen
(in his first film role) as psychopathic teenagers, Beau Bridges,
Brock Peters and Ruby Dee, Jack Gilford and Thelma
Ritter (in her last performance), Ed McMahon, Robert Fields
and Donna Mills in her first movie role.
Larry Peerce
directed the daring racial commentary One Potato, Two Potato,
for which he won the coveted Palm D'Or at Cannes
in 1964. Other directing credits include such classics as:
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Goodbye,
Columbus,
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A Separate
Peace,
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The Other
Side of the Mountain,
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Two Minute
Warning and
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Love Child,
in addition to several television series.
Friday,
February 4th, 7pm in the McGlohon Theater at Spirit Square,
Lovelight presents Twin Towers, winner of the
Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, followed by a question-and-answer
session with the film's acclaimed director, Robert Port.
The film follows the story of New York Policeman Joe Vigiano,
killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers.
[Admission to Friday
night's event is $10 per person, but is free for all emergency
service workers.]
On
Saturday, February 5th, Port presents a day-long seminar,
"Hollywood How To: He Who Writes is King" at Consolidated
Theatre's Phillips Place Cinemas. Topics include:
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Developing
and Nurturing Concepts;
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Tailoring
your project to a network or studio;
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Writing
for television vs. film;
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What makes a good scene and composition;
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Directing
with new technologies;
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the Almighty distribution game;
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plus a screening of the Academy Award winning short documentary
Twin Towers.
Port
was named president of Maury Povich's MoPo Entertainment
in 1997. Currently he is producing a prime time documentary for
ESPN, and recently finished a biopic on the life of the infamous
LAPD Chief Daryl Gates. Hollywood Division, a one
hour pilot/drama he co-created and co-wrote for Fox, went to pilot
last season.
This year's Lovelight
Film Festival theme is The 5 Senses. Entries are limited
to 5 minutes in length. Winners will be announced Saturday evening
during an award ceremony at Time Lounge.
Visit the Light
Factory website for more information.
More News from the Light Factory:
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Ken Burns recently stopped by
to talk with the 28 high-school students participating in
the first Media Literacy Project.
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Winter classes at the Light Factory
include:
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Digital Movie Making Crash Camp:
3 sessions starting with screen writing and ending with
post production edits.
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Digital Filmmaking for Teens
(12 - 17): “One Minute Movie.”
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