STARDANCER’S WALTZ
Director: Diana Reichenbach
Run Time: 10:00
Screening Times (with filmmaker Q&A): 8:15pm, 9:00pm (doors 7:45pm)
Synopsis (Full): “Stardancer’s Waltz” is a collaborative project celebrating several internationally recognized artists from Georgia. The immersive fulldome animated film by Diana Reichenbach was inspired by a recorded concerto movement included on the 2016 released album by R.E.M. founding member Mike Mills “Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra," featuring Grammy-nominated violinist Robert McDuffie.
Each screening will be followed by a Q&A with Diana Reichenbach and will be presented in conjunction with the film festival opening night party.
Special Guest Bio: Diana Reichenbach is an award-winning multimedia artist specializing in immersive and architectural media. Her work has been screened in festivals and venues across five continents, and her recent commissioned work includes a multimedia artwork for Virgin Atlantic Airways featured at the Los Angeles Airport. As an artist, she is interested in communicating a uniquely personal, introspective moment of immersion. Specifically, she uses animation and sound to communicate these moments through time-based progressions of shifting color, form, texture, and movement.
Director: Jody Lambert (Q&A following screening)
Run Time: 88:00
Screening Time: 7:15pm - 9:30pm
Synopsis: Brave New Jersey is a comedy about a small town on the night of Orson Welles' legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast - the hoax that terrified millions into believing Martians were invading America. As the citizens of one New Jersey town are faced with what they believe is their last night on Earth, their lives will change forever. An alien invasion movie where the aliens never show up.
Cast: Tony Hale, Heather Burns, Anna Camp, Sam Jaeger
Special Guest Bio: Jody Lambert recently directed and co-wrote the comedy feature BRAVE NEW JERSEY starring Tony Hale, Anna Camp, Heather Burns, Mel Rodriguez and Dan Bakkedahl. Gravitas Ventures is releasing the movie August 4th, 2017 in theaters and VOD. He co-wrote and co-produced the DreamWorks drama "People Like Us” starring Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Pfeiffer and Olivia Wilde. He directed the award-winning documentary "Of All The Things" and was nominated for an Emmy for producing the multi-media project "Starved For Attention.” He's written projects for FilmNation, EndGame producer/star Jeremy Renner, Sony Pictures, producer Brett Ratner, FOX, Sony Television and producer Seth Gordon. He's also directed a bunch of shorts for Funny or Die.
Director: John Carroll Lynch
Run Time: 88:00
Screening Time: 7:15pm - 9:30pm
Synopsis: LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment.
Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut, "Lucky", is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Bedley Jr, Beth Grant
Director: Kirk West (Q&A with special guests following screening)
Screening Times: 5:45pm - 8:30pm
Synopsis: This is a story about home – a story about family and brotherhood. Between 1970 and 1972 a band of brothers used this Southern home as their base of operations; this home was called the Big House. The Big House became a refuge, a safe place that nurtured the creativity of a community. As the characters within the Big House shared the darkness and light that is life, a mystical bond was established. In the midst of a magical era of musical, cultural and political change, the Big House became a sanctuary, a greenhouse, in which a unique strain of music grew. For just a little while it’s time to leave the chaos of the world around us, to remember the music that ignored barriers, to recapture the good energy and to celebrate brotherhood. It’s time to remember those years’ it’s time to go home to the place the Allman Brothers Band called the Big House.
Special Guest Bio: Kirk West is first and foremost a music lover. He has never been able to get enough of the people, places, and things that comprise the life of a touring artist. In search of the richness that musicians and their music bring the world, his travels and life have taken him from his Iowa birthplace to far flung reaches of the globe, camera in hand.
Beginning in 1989, Kirk served as Tour Manager for the Allman Brothers Band for over 20 years. During his tenure, Kirk shot 10 Allman Brothers Band LP, CD or DVD covers, as well as over 15 picture sleeves for the group’s records. A renowned archivist, West also directed the critically-acclaimed Please Call Home documentary, which covered the early years of the Allman Brothers Band while living at the Big House in Macon, Georgia.
