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| For Immediate Release | Contact: Felicia M. Torrez |
| February 23, 2009 | Phone: (559) 934-2132 |
Get Real Film Festival at West Hills College Coalinga
The Fourth Annual Get Real Film Festival opened last week and is free to students, West Hills' faculty and staff and the community is welcome as well. All shows will begin at 5 p.m. A list of featured films is included below. For more information on the Get Real Film Festival, contact Scott Sutherland at (559) 934-2712.
Get Real Film Festival line-up:
-Thursday, Feb. 26
"Man on Wire"
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Director James Marsh brings Petit's extraordinary adventure to life in this 2009 Oscar nominated film.
-Thursday, March 12
"Encounter Point"
"Encounter Point" moves beyond sensational and canned images to tell the story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who sacrifice their safety, public standing and homes in order to press for a grassroots movement for nonviolence and peace. This film works well as an introduction to a conflict often generalized and misunderstood.
-Thursday, March 26
"Up the Yangtze"
In China, it is simply known as "The River." But the Yangtze—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather's youth to trace the surreal life of "farewell cruise" that traverses the gargantuan waterway.
-Thursday, April 2
"Best in Show"
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show, and a film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. Celebrate (belatedly) April Fool's Day with this award winning "mockumentary" from director Christopher Guest.
-Thursday, April 16
"I.O.U.S.A"
I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. Director Patrick Creadon helps demystify the nation's financial practices and policies by interweaving archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America's current economic situation.
-Thursday, April 23
"Flow: For the Love of Water"
Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause in Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century-The World Water Crisis. Celebrate Earth Day with this informative and surprising film.
-Thursday, May 7
"American Teen"
The documentary hit of Sundance 2008, American Teen offers up irresistible archetypes of everybody's high school years: the jock, the nerd, the prom queen. Filmmaker Nanette Burstein focuses on these easily-relatable figures by spending the school year with the senior class at Warsaw High in Warsaw, Indiana, a close-quarters town where, it seems, the lives of the adults are not so different from the lives of the teens.