Here in Louisville for the Flyover Film Festival. The photo at right was snapped by the director Allison Anders (of Ashland, KY), the recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award, on her flight in from Los Angeles.
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LA Film Festival
On Sat, June 26th, at this year’s LA Film Festival, I’ll be participating in and moderating this year’s Actors Coffee Talk. The festival also holds them for screenwriters and directors, and they’re all very popular. Past participants include Jodie Foster, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Roth, and Melissa Leo. Yeah. : )
The other two participants with me this year are a pair of not-too-shabby actors, Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, 24…) and James Cromwell (Babe, 6 Ft Under…). It should be a blast as I ask them all sorts of inappropriate and irrelevant questions.
The Hollywood Reporter’s piece is here, Variety’s here, and the LAFF’s page and ticket link is here (then go down to ‘C’ for ‘Coffee Talk: Actors’ on June 26th at 1pm).
Elder Abuse Awareness
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is held annually on June 15. As part of the events surrounding this call-to-action, the National Center on Elder Abuse is once again running my PSA on the issue in movie theatres around the country. (A short article on that is here.) The PSA on YouTube is here, and my post last year on the PSA is here.
A couple articles on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day are here and here.
(Apparently, I have to get this out of my system today, so: herehearhierheerhareherehearheearheeeeerrrrreee. Whew.)
And some FAQs on Elder Abuse are here. Here’s perhaps the most important one, a general definition of elder abuse. If you see elder abuse, or evidence of it, please report it to the authorities immediately.
Flyover Film Festival 2010
Next weekend I’ll be headed back home to Louisville, Kentucky for the 2nd Annual Flyover Film Festival, all at the KY Center for the Arts. The festival is produced and sponsored by the Louisville Film Society, which, despite having meon the Board, still somehow manages to run screenings and events and all sorts of terrific things in Louisville throughout the year.
This year the festival offers a terrific line-up of films and panels (I’m moderating one on film finance at 12pm Saturday). We’re offering a Youth Media Summit, so local colleges can show off their film and media depts to local high students, and we’re giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to acclaimed Kentucky-born director Allison Anders.
Finally, we’re hosting a special screening of Sundance winner Winter’s Bone, starring Louisville’s own fast-rising star Jennifer Lawrence. Also, she and I will be holding a Youth Acting panel at 10:30 am Sunday. Like all the panels and events, it’s open to the public.
The info’s all here.
Asssscat!
There are just so many tempting directions to take that title… But we have ground to cover, people, so that’s a riff for another day. (sigh.)
Asssscat! is the name of a regular show at the fabulous UCB comedy theatre (which held the ‘Lost’ show two weeks ago – posts here and here).
The set-up: Using a suggestion from the audience, a guest monologist spills his guts for 5-10 minutes by sharing his thoughts, feelings, or a meaningful story from his past. Then a group of improv comedians comes up on stage, takes those guts, and spins them into comic gold. Then we do it again: Suggestion, guts, comic gold. Repeat until guest dies.
So who are these mystery monologists? UCB website: “Some guest monologists are talented celebrities, others are screwed up weirdoes.”
This Saturday’s monologist and guts-spiller? I am he. It should be loads of fun — for everyone else. (Kidding!) I’m sure it’ll be a blast.
The UCB schedule is here, and the show description and link to tickets is here.
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