As treasured friends of the festival, we want to assure you that there will be many more film festivals in Rochester’s future. However, the Board of Directors has decided to reschedule the 2012 Festival for May, 2013. As you probably know, the Festival has been plagued by a depleted staff and serious funding challenges. Despite a lot of hard work this fall, we could not overcome this “perfect storm” of bad stuff. We simply ran out of time to raise the funding needed for a great 2012 festival.
We will spend the coming year hiring an Executive Director, building up our board, and lining up sponsors and support for 2013. We will then be in great shape to produce a terrific festival in 2013. The BEST EVER.
We know we can count on you to keep in touch and watch our progress. We will see you again in the Spring of 2013.
Sincerely,
Nancy McAfee
Board Chair
360/365 Rochester Film Festival
As many not-for-profit arts organizations have found, 2011 has been a very difficult year for fundraising. Public funds have become scarce, and corporate sponsorship budgets have not expanded to make up for shortfalls elsewhere.
360|365 has faced our share of fundraising difficulties this year, which are threatening our ability to produce the 2012 Film Festival. In fact, in order to hold the Festival in May, we would need to start investing dollars in December – dollars we don’t currently have.
With this stark reality in mind, the 360|365 Board of Directors has announced that if we do not raise significant funds by November 30, we must cancel the 2012 Film Festival. If that happens, we would spend the year strengthening our financial picture and preparing for a strong 2013 Festival.
But between now and then, we are reaching out to the Greater Rochester community in hopes that we can raise enough funds to make our 2012 Film Festival happen. Individuals and corporations that are interested in supporting our community’s largest Film Festival are welcome to contact us at SeeYouAtTheMovies AT film360365 DOT com
The board is committed to making 360|365 a stronger organization. We thank you for your continued support, and hope you will help spread the word that 360|365 is an exciting, worthwhile asset that the entire Rochester community should support!
Entries for our 2012 Festival are now officially open. And we can’t wait to see what new films you’ve all made this past year!
360 | 365 seeks a broad and diverse spectrum of new films and videos to engage, inspire, and celebrate with our audiences in Western, NY. Our Open Call for Work is now accepting submissions for consideration into its 11th season, May 2 – 7, 2012. Films and videos of all lengths and formats completed after January 1, 2010 are invited to enter including Narrative, Documentary, Shorts, and Children/Young Adult Programming.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – 360|365, Rochester’s acclaimed international film festival, is bringing green-themed movies to Greentopia Sept. 17 and 18.
Presented by Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, the 360|365 Green Film Series will be an on-screen celebration of nature and environmentally themed films. The series will showcase films documenting timely topics and exploring the critical relationship between humans and the environment.
“Monroe County is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the green film series as part of the first-ever Greentopia Festival,” said Monroe County Executive Brooks. “This film series is a wonderful example of what individuals, companies and organizations are doing to make our world and local community a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly place.”
The 360|365 Green Film Series will be held in Club Roar, 233 Mill St. in Brown’s Race. The dozen films represent the broad gamut of environmentally thoughtful and gorgeous on-screen artistry, including recently filmed documentaries as well as 40-year-old animated shorts that prove “going green” has been an important topic for decades.
Films include (in the order of their showtimes):
The Green Horns (2010, 50 minutes)
Sat., Sept. 17, 11 a.m.
Following the screening, join a Q&A session with Erin Bullock of Mud Creek Farms
ROCHESTER PREMIERE! The news is in from urban, suburban and rural districts alike: America wants more young farmers and more young farmers want a piece of America. It will take millions of these young and much hipper protagonists to care for our ecosystems and serve our country healthy food in the years to come. The Greenhorns enable this critical meeting between minds, bodies, and land by helping young and aspiring farmers to navigate career paths, build skills, and connect with each other.
A comic allegory depicting a runaway “city” devouring its environs. A farmer has an encounter with the “city” and deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.
Following the Saturday screening, join a Q&A with filmmaker Judith Helfand via Skype
Everything’s Cool is a film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of self-appointed global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy – AND FAST. Hold on… this is bigger than changing your light bulbs.
Comfort Zone (a film in progress) (2011, 70 minutes = 30 mins for film + 40 mins for panel)
Sat., Sept. 17, 3:15 p.m.
Following the screening, enjoy a panel discussion featuring:
Dave Danesh, Filmmaker
Sean Donnelly, Filmmaker
Kate Kressmann-Kehoe, Filmmaker
Kimie Romeo, Environmental Educator, RIT and Upstate Green Business Network
Katrina Korfmacher, Environmental Policy Analyst, University of Rochester
Bob Siegel, Executive Director, Cool Rochester
A locally-produced documentary taking the global issue of climate change to a local and personal level. Using the Rochester, NY area as their backdrop, three locally-based filmmakers bring the viewer on an intimate journey of what is at stake in Western NY while exploring the challenges of meaningful change. Join the filmmakers for a sneak preview of the beginning of the film, followed by an opportunity to ask questions both of the filmmakers and local experts.
Corner Plot (2010, 10 minutes)
Sat., Sept. 17, 4:30 p.m.
Amid the tangle of commuter traffic, shopping malls and office buildings that define life inside the beltway rests a one-acre piece of farmland under the care of 89-year-old Charlie Koiner. With the help of his only daughter, Charlie continues to work his land, share his produce, and enjoy the farm life he’s always known. Corner Plot explores one man’s steadfast authenticity in a changing world.
Following the screening, join a Q&A session with John Brown
This film is a celebration of the landscape of mountain bike racing during a weeklong mountain bike stage race in Patagonia, Chile. Following an international team, Jamis Bicycles, the film documents the life of professional racers as they explore the people, food and countryside of Chile, train in the mountains of the Patagonia region, and ultimately compete in the grueling competition known as Trans Andes Challenge.
Darkside of the Lens offers a surreal, ethereal, passionate and personal glimpse into the life and motivations of an ocean-based photographer – working on a magical, yet isolated, frozen and dangerous stretch of the Irish coastline. Through poignant, poetic narrative, the film eventually transcends itself as an abstract reflection of one photographer’s ideals, to become a voice for the art form. Land, sea and wavescapes illustrate the grandeur of this environment, and huge explosions of water bring its realities home, as the photographer swims through the epicenter of it all.
A compelling documentary four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. Following the personal experience of three main characters at the height of local tension, The Pipe is a story of a community divided, and the prospect of a pipeline that can bring economic prosperity or destroy of a way of life shared for generations.
On planet Earth, the Goddess of Fertility is lovingly sowing the seeds of life, which brings her into direct conflict with her partner, Death. He wants her to slow down.
HELIOTROPES documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most primitive and sophisticated means, to simply stay in the light. Based on the poem by Brian Christian.
Summer Pasture is set 15,000 ft above sea level, on the breathtakingly beautiful and inescapably lonely plateaus of Eastern Tibetan, which have been home to nomads for the last 4,000 years. The film explores the romanticism and hard realities of living off the land in an historic moment in Tibet’s history, when the choice between tradition and modernity is anything but simple.
Nazareth College and 360 | 365 Film Festival are ready to showcase the 12 finalists in a special screening during the2011 Rochester Teen Film Festival, a collaborative, juried media competition for youth in the Rochester region. The finalists were selected out of 63 entries from 13-18 year olds in the greater Rochester area. The 12 teen filmmakers will be at the festival at the Little Theatre on August 3, at 5:30 p.m., to present their films, and judges will then decide who receives “Best of the Fest” awards. A free reception also follows the screening at the Little Theatre Cafe. All finalist films will also be shown at the 360 | 365 Film Festival in 2012. For more information, visit www.film360365.com/school or contact Dr. Brian Bailey, Nazareth College assistant professor of education, at (585) 389-2764 or bbailey2@naz.edu.
The Rochester Teen Film Festival is an annual celebration of youth filmmakers, which honors the work of urban, suburban and rural teenagers. An integral part of Nazareth’s and 360 | 365’s mission is education of Upstate New York youth and emerging filmmakers. The festival gives teenagers the opportunity to share their stories with each other and the Greater Rochester Community.
360 | 365 interactively engages filmmakers and film-loving audiences in education, discovery and celebration through the medium of film in all aspects and directions, 365 days a year. The organization, located in the very birthplace of motion picture film, Rochester, N.Y., encourages amateur shorts filmmaking with its Shorts Contests, hosts conversations with filmmakers via its New Director Series, and culminates its efforts in an annual five-day Film Festival. For more information about 360 | 365, visit www.film360365.com.
Founded in 1924, Nazareth College is located on a close-knit, suburban campus in the dynamic, metropolitan region of Rochester, N.Y. The College offers challenging academic programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs in health and human services, education, and management. Nazareth’s strong cultures of service and community prepare students to be successful professionals and engaged citizens. The College enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students.
For more information, check the website at http://film360365.com/school/film-camp or contact Allison Weise, Camp Director at (585) 764-4483 or allison AT vitalwork DOT com .
In our last email wrap to the filmmakers, we asked people to keep us in the loop on where their projects go so we can promote them. (ie last email re: THE FIRST GRADER). We screened LOUDER THAN A BOMB twice – AMAZING film!!—- and now it will begin a theatrical roll out. And look below – they are now using a quote from our very own Dayna from CITY!!!!
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Louder Than a Bomb launches its nationwide theatrical rollout with a run at the IFC Center in NYC from May 18-26. Co-directors Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel will be in attendance at the evening screenings May 18-21, along with two of the film’s stars—Nate Marshall & Nova Venerable. Tickets and showtimes available on Monday, May 16 after 6:00 pm.
We need your help to spread the word!
UPCOMING CITIES
Seattle – Opens May 6
Columbus – Opens May 13
Chicago – Returns May 20
Boston – Opens June 3
Palm Springs – Opens June 3
Amherst, MA – Opens June 3
Washington, DC – Opens June 10
Portland, OR – Opens June 10
Salem, MA – Opens June 17
More dates to come! For the latest info, visit the LTAB site or find us on Facebook.
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT LTAB
“Inspiring and electrifying…If the Louder Than a Bomb finals were telecast the way high school sports are, I have a feeling their audience would grow by the minute.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“An affecting and superbly paced celebration of American youth at their creative best…” Robert Koehler, Variety
“Four Chicago high-school poetry teams dazzle, inspire and kick serious ass with words as they prep for the world’s biggest youth poetry slam. Thankfully their journey is never saccharine. What it is: powerful and exhilarating.” Liz Plosser, TimeOut Chicago
“It’s impossible to be unmoved by these school kids, some from badly broken homes, who eloquently reveal their inner emotions on stage…It’s a get-up-and-clap kind of movie.” Tim Basham, Paste Magazine
“One of the most inspiring and exhilarating documentaries in months, or maybe years…Vibrant and moving.” Steve Pond, The Wrap
“A genuinely stirring hometown chronicle. As these writer/performers collaborate with their colleagues, mentors and notebooks en route to the competition, “Louder Than a Bomb” becomes an ode to Chicago’s diverse voices. Irresistible.” Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“This probably isn’t the most criticky way to start a review, but I love this movie so much” Dayna Papaleo, Rochester City Newspaper
“What 2002′s hit Spellbound did for spelling bees, this inspiring documentary does doubly well for high school spoken-word poetry slams. The ending isn’t as neatly uplifting as you might expect, but you’ll be riveted until the final explosive verse.” Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly
“Louder than a Bomb is an exhilarating film, presenting a great range of talents. There are poems and performances here that are funny, others moving, and the whole of the film is brimming with vitality. Many of these poems took me by surprise. I think all kinds of poetry can do that when we’re lucky.” W.S. Merwin, U.S. Poet Laureate
“Calling ‘Louder Than a Bomb’ a documentary is doing it a disservice. It is an important film acted by real-life kids with real-life issues. It has drama and an arc that most dramatic films struggle to achieve. The soundtrack is powerful and engaging. This movie explodes off the screen and into your heart.” Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Founder and New Music Seminar Co-Founder/Co-Director
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Some news from Sam Feuer, director of our Audience Favorite Narrative film, THE FIRST GRADER.
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Hi… We are excited to announce that for each view of THE FIRST GRADER trailer on YouTube, our friends at Capella University will donate fifty cents to promote education worldwide! The money will go to Reading is Fundamental, South Sudan Institute, and Kakenya Center for Excellence… All you have to do is watch the video…
Please share the link below with family and friends! It’s doesn’t cost you a thing…
THE FIRST GRADER, will begin it’s theatrical run in the USA on May 13th (theaters listed below)… Canada on May 20th… UK on June 24th… Australia/NZ on June 30th… Japan on July 30th… Kenya and South Africa on Aug 5th… Singapore/Brunei on Sept 1st… And will be spreading throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe and more to come with your support…
THE FIRST GRADER tells the remarkable uplifting true story of an 84 year-old ex Mau Mau Freedom Fighter in Kenya that enrolls in the first grade for the first time in his life after the Kenyan government offers free education for all. It was directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl), written by Ann Peacock (The Chronicles of Narnia) and stars Naomie Harris (of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, 28 Days Later, Miami Vice)
Winner of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival Audience Prize, Toronto Film Festival Audience Prize – runner-up to A King’s Speech, Sedona Film Festival Best Director’s Choice and the Audience Choice Award, The Pan African Film Festival Audience Choice Award, Palm Beach Film Festival Best Feature Film Award, Nashville International Film Festival Audience Choice Award and the Rochester 360/365 Film Festival Audience Prize for Best Narrative Film.
