After the screening of STRAD STYLE @ Hot Docs 17 w/ director Stefan Avalos & subject Danny Houck in a Q&A moderated by Senior Programmer Sarafina De Filice on April 28, 2017.
The Interview with Stefan Avalos the Director of the Award Winning Film Strad Style took place on April 25, 2017 by interviewer Shael Stolberg.
Synopsis A backwoods dreamer, living in rural Ohio with an obsession for ‘Stradivari’ and all things violin, through the magic of social-media, convinces a famous European concert violinist that he can make a copy of the most famous and valuable violin in the world. Fighting time, poverty, and most of all – himself – Danny […]
2017 Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury Award Winner for Best Doc Fri, Apr 28th @ 5:30 PM Sun, Apr 30th @ 1:00 PM Fri, May 5th @ 6:00 PM Sun, May 7th @ 6:30 PM Danny Houck, a self-described “nobody” living in a ramshackle farmhouse in the sticks, pours all his time and energy into […]
Festival Screening – September 29, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Globe Downstairs Residing in the slums of Cateura – a community built on a landfill – the Recycled Orchestra creatively finds beautiful ways to utilize the one thing they have an abundance of: trash. Using only discarded items they find at the local dump, the […]
OPENS AUGUST 21 IN LOS ANGELES “A SURREAL, MOVING, INFURIATING and PERSUASIVE argument that in South Sudan, there’s nothing ‘post’ about colonialism.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times “PROVOCATIVE and UNAPOLOGETICALLY POLITICAL filmmaker Hubert Sauper returns to the kind of African situations that characterized his Oscar® – nominated Darwin’s Nightmare.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles […]
Film Synopsis: A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel’s emotion and tears. It is based on a real Mongolian nomadic story narrated by my grandmother. (Français): Ce film d’animation expérimentale est basé sur l’histoire vraie de nomades mongoles. Narré par ma grand-mère, il raconte la relation […]
ALIVE INSIDE Special Opening Night Event Friday, August 15 – 7:00pm Tivoli Cinemas in Westport At this special opening night event Michelle Niedens from the Heart of America Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association will lead an Audience Q&A. LIVE INSIDE is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the […]
