From: The Loft Cinema <info@loftcinema.ccsend.com> On Behalf Of The Loft Cinema
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 8:06 AM
Subject: The Loft Film Fest starts today!
LOFT FILM FEST 2022
OCTOBER 12 - OCTOBER 20
The 12th annual Loft Film Fest, which lights up the screens at The Loft Cinema starting today, will not only showcase a stellar collection of award-winning features, documentaries and short films over the course of the nine- day event, it will also celebrate the people who make the movies happen with an exciting line-up of special guests from the world of cinema, including this year's Lofty Achievement Award recipients Jacqueline Bisset, Gary Farmer and Wes Studi!
A limited number of festival badges are still available! Badge holders gain entry to all 45 films and events screening at this year's festival.
TONIGHT'S SCREENINGS & EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Weds, Oct 12 at 6pm
Free Admission!
The opening night party, on the patio at The Loft CInema is the perfect way to get in the festival mood! Starting at 6pm, enjoy a medley of culinary delights catered by the Desert Diamond Casino! And top it off with a free glass of champagne to kick off the fest in style! The menu includes sandwiches, crudites, antipasto and seasonal fruit!
QUANTUM COWBOYS
Weds, Oct 12 at 7pm
Pre-Sale Ticket Limit Reached - All Remaining Tickets Available At The Door.
Live pre-show music performance by Howe Gelb, Thøger Lund and Gabriel Sullivan!
Filmmaker Geoff Marslett, actor Lily Gladstone, actor Gary Farmer, actor Kiowa Gordon, actor John Way, producer Bill Way, and music composer/actor Howe Gelb in attendance for post-film Q&A!
SUBJECT
Weds, Oct 12 at 7:30pm
With Producer & "Subject" Margaret Ratliff in attendance
This powerful rallying cry for the film industry puts some of most successful documentaries of the past three decades under the microscope, revealing the impact their commercial success has had on the lives of the onscreen participants.
AWARDS SCREENINGS
POWWOW HIGHWAY
WITH GARY FARMER
IN PERSON
Thursday, October 13
at 7:30pm
Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) is a committed activist battling a suspicious land-grab. Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer, in a performance Roger Ebert calls "one of the most wholly convincing I've seen") is a serene spiritual warrior guided by sacred visions. But when Buddy's estranged sister is framed and jailed in New Mexico, the two men take Philbert's rust-wrecked '64 Buick on a road trip that makes some very unexpected stops along the way.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS WITH
WES STUDI IN PERSON
Friday, October 14 at 7pm
James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel gets a kinetic, romantic, action-packed retelling courtesy of acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann in this Oscar-winning adventure set against the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war. Featuring Wes Studi in a riveting, career-launching performance, stars as the vengeful Magua.
LOREN & ROSE WITH JACQUELINE BISSET
IN PERSON
Wednesday, October 19
at 7pm
Writer/director Russell Brown also in attendance.
A single meal frames this three-act story of the indelible bond between Loren, a promising filmmaker, and Rose, a storied actress looking to reinvigorate her career. Kelly Blatz and Jacqueline Bisset star with a chemistry that is at once authentic and intoxicating.
SPECIAL EVENT SCREENINGS
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
Friday, October 15
at 1:45pm
Filmmakers Jeff Kardesch and Sasha Reist in attendance!
Spanning a range of styles, emotions, and techniques, this year's collection of short films offers something for everyone. The vision of these directors is a glimpse into the promising future of filmmaking.
Free Outdoor Screening
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Friday, October 14 at 7pm
This screening will take place outdoors in the grass amphitheater at Himmel Park, 1000 N. Tucson Boulevard. Please bring your own seating.
See the new documentary, Lynch/Oz, a look at the strange and wondrous influence of The Wizard of Oz on the cinema of David Lynch. Showing at Loft Film Fest 2022!
1-800-HOT-NITE
Saturday, October 15
at 4pm & Wednesday, October 19 at 11:15am
Filmmaker Nick Richey and producer/star Ali Richey in attendance on Saturday, October 15
When 13-year-old Tommy loses his parents to a drug raid he turns to a phone sex operator (his fairy godmother) for help as he embarks on an urban odyssey to escape foster care with his two best friends, Steve and O'Neill.
ANATOMY OF AN ARTHOUSE: 50 YEARS OF THE LOFT CINEMA IN TUCSON
Saturday, October 15
at 7pm
Filmmakers Mike Plante and Jason Willis, and select documentary interview subjects, in attendance for a post-film Q&A
Anatomy of an Arthouse is a new documentary film about The Loft Cinema, one of the country's longest-running independent cinemas.
A CELEBRATION OF FILMS FROM GREENLAND
Sunday, October 16
at 3pm
Curated by Bill Bering, founder of TULLUT, focusing on indigenous films and filmmakers from the Arctic Circle: Sapmi, Greenland (Inuit), Nunavut (Inuit), Alaska (Inuit) and Russia (Sakha).
Bill will introduce the films and do a post screening Q and A.
Closing Night
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Thursday, October 20
at 7:30pm
Followed by a closing night party on our front patio.
In Ruben Östlund's wickedly funny Palme d'Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty.
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