Friday, April 18, 2014

TFF Schedule of Events: Friday, April 18


Schedule of Events
Friday, April 18

For more information or tickets, visit tupelofilmfestival.net

Screen 4
§  Children’s Presentation
o   10:30 am – 11:30 am
§  “Jake’s Safari”
·      Free
§  Japanese Film Screenings (Presented by The Japan-America Society of Mississippi)
o   1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 
§  “Brave Story”
·      Adapted from Miyuki Miyabe’s popular novel and manga, Brave Story received critical recognition the very next year at the Japanese Academy Awards, and tells the fantastic story of a young boy ’s desperate efforts to reunite his parents through powers he could never have imagined.
o   3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
§  “ROBO-G”
·      “Robo-G” is the latest creation of the acclaimed comedic director and writer Shi- nobu Yaguchi, whose story of the Kimura Electrical Company’s human(oid) entry into the world-renowned Japanese robot industry will have you in stitches.
o   6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
§  “Always: Sunset On Third Street 3”
·      “Always: Sunset on Third Street 3” is set in 1964 Tokyo as Japan, having emerged from the shadow of World War 2 and experienced a period of rapid economic growth, pre- pares to host the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The inhabitants of Third Street live amidst all the change in their usual optimistic ways, but a turning point for the familes is looming.

Screen 3
§  Documentary
o   12:00 pm – 1:27 pm
§  “The Silent Epidemic: The Untold Story of Vaccines” [PG]
·      This film “Silent Epidemic” explores the actual medical record and historic evidence to prove that the wide spread use of vaccines is based on shoddy and suspect science.
·      Q&A With Filmmaker(s)
§  Short Block
o   1:35 pm – 1:50 pm
§  “These Foolish Things” [PG]
·      A surprise visitor brings a young widow a reason to smile and softens her loss.
o   1:51 pm – 2:22 pm
§  “Alice Agonistes” [PG]
·      When a stranger enters Alice’s house, she cannot imagine how his story could change her (and his) life forever. Memory, fear and horrific self-discovery take everyone by the throat.
o   2:23 pm – 2:40 pm
§  “Tupelo Bound” [PG]
·      A short reflective documentary which follows Nick Stevenson, an actor on the cusp of break- ing through, as he rides his motorcycle more than 1,100 miles from New York to Tupelo, Mississippi to attend a festival which is screening a film in which he stars.
o   2:41 pm – 2:52 pm
§  “American Montage” [G]
·      An immingrant arrives in America and witness class warfare during the Great Recession.
o   2:53 pm – 2:57 pm
§  “Mile High Pie” [G]
·      Mile High Pie takes a look at the famous mile high meringue at Ed & Kaye’s in Benton, Arkansas.
§  Documentary
o   3:10 pm – 3:23 pm
§  “Unwarranted Influence” [PG]
·      A look at what President Eisenhower described as the military industrial complex.
§  Short Block
o   3:30 pm – 3:37 pm
§  “A Mutual Friend” [PG]
·      A man’s jealously takes a dangerous turn.
o   3:38 pm – 3:45 pm
§  “Echoes” [PG]
·      After a terrible accident in the woods, Joel is confronted by two old friends whose mission threatens his life
o   3:46 pm – 4:12 pm
§  “Kane” [PG]
·      After losing what meant most to him, the man behind the masked hero KANE decides to let the people he protects fend for themselves
o   4:13 pm – 4:49 pm
§  “The Right Regrets” [PG]
·      The Right Regrets depicts a bittersweet and poignant long distance romance between twice-divorced American woman, Lily McHenry and charismatic and never-before-married Englishman, Charles Wickham.
·      Q&A With Filmmaker(s)
§  Music Video
o   5:00 pm – 5:05 pm
§  “Destined to Be” [PG]
·      The song, “Destined to Be,” and it’s music video are about losing the one person you hold closest to your heart. The song was written and performed by the group Sould Out, who originates out of Birmingham, AL.
o   5:06 pm – 5:10 pm
§  “Life On Earth”
·      Aulnay-sous-Bois. One of the harshest Parisian suburbs. In the middle of the ghetto, locked up behind the gates of a school, teenagers, their teachers, canteen staff, su- pervisors, a cleaning lady... Everyone seems to be daydreaming, inhabited by se- cret desires. The time of the song, played by the music teacher and his class, the school, a closed world, prison-like, seems to be floating on air, as if by magic. Life becomes wonderful, cheerful, like the coming of spring
·      Q&A with filmmaker(s)
§  Documentary
o   5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
§  “Life, Liberty & Resilience” [G]
·      An African-American WWII veteran and grandson of a slave re-traces his segregated roots and his U.S. Navy service on Iwo Jima. From poverty to war, pharmacy to interracial mar- riage, ‘Life, Liberty & Resilience’ takes a look at how Joe LaNier, in his own words, is able to overcome life’s hurdles and lead an amazing, loving and forgiving life.
§  Special Screening
o   7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
§  “Capote” [R]
·      Special screening “Tribute to Phillip Seymour Hoffman” with special guest and friend, Frank Vitolo. Begins at 7:30 pm

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