2008 ONFilm Festival Schedule of Events

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2008 ONFilm Festival Events

Tuesday, March 25: Panel discussion of Film/Media, Power & Change: Film and Video's Role in Enabling an Engaged Citizenry

7:00 p.m.

Amidst unprecedented technological change, opportunities now abound for increased citizen participation in public life via media. With the arrival of low-cost video and film production equipment as well as new avenues of distribution via the Internet and other new technologies, citizens now have unprecedented opportunities for a more active voice in the political life—both locally and nationally. This panel will explore how these lower barriers to participation can or should be exploited in Hampton Roads, and in particular, how film and video can enable a more engaged and active citizenry. Moderated by: Jeff Jones of Old Dominion University Panel features Virginia Senator John Miller, Fred Schecker, Senior Producer for HamptonRoads.com, Bert Schmidt, President and CEO of WHRO, Hampton Roads Public Broadcasting; and Tom Robotham, Editor of Port Folio Weekly - [Location: University Theatre]

Thursday, March 27: President's Lecture Series: Mia Farrow
7:30 p.m.	Actress and activist Mia Farrow will be on campus to give a President's Lecture Series address, "With Knowledge Comes Responsibility: The Darfur Crisis." - [Location: North Cafeteria, Webb University Center]

Tuesday, April 1: OPEN MIC PATRIOT’S PROTEST

12:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC PATRIOT’S PROTEST Don’t let others tell you how to live your Life Don’t let others take away your Liberty And don’t let others prevent your Pursuit of Happiness Americans have a rich heritage of public speaking; we don’t let others speak for us. So, on Tuesday, April 1st at 12:30, come to the steps of Webb Center and tell the world what you think at our first OPEN MIC PATRIOT’S PROTEST. SPEAK your peace! REGISTER TO VOTE on the steps of Webb Center. Music by 89.5 WHRV FM’s Paul Shugrue, host of Out of the Box Vote America: The World is Listening! - [Location: Steps of Webb University Center]

Evening Slate

Saturday, March 29

7:00 p.m.

All the President's Men (1976) Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. Honoring Mayor Paul Fraim, Councilman Randy Wright and all members of the Norfolk City Council the 2008 ONFilmFest opens with a screening of “All the President’s Men.” Actor Robert Walden, who played Donald Segretti, will be on hand to discuss the film with audience members. Music by the ODU Jazz Quartet. Reception following. - [Location: University Theatre]

Sunday, March 30
7:00 p.m.	Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987) Jeremy Kagan has served as the director, writer, and producer of numerous feature films and television episodes, from The West Wing (1999) to The Chosen (1981). Join him at the Naro for a screening of Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8. - [Location: NARO Expanded Cinema - 1507 Colley Ave] - Reception following Sponsored by Town-N-Gown.

Monday, March 31: CLASSICS NIGHT at the ONFILM FEST: Dr. Bill and Mr. Smith
7:00 p.m.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The well-known film from director Frank Capra features the optimistic crusade of a newly elected senator to change the ways of Washington (129 minutes). - Introduced by former Congressman G. William Whitehurst, Kaufman Lecturer in Public Affairs - Reception following, sponsored by Town-N-Gown - [Location: University Theatre]

Tuesday, April 1

7:00 p.m.

Charlie Wilson's War (2007) A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire? Base on a true story. Directed by Mike Nichols. Introduced by Senior Fulbright Fellow Dana Heller, Professor and Director of the Humanities Institute and Graduate Program. Music by members of the Tidewater Guitar Orchestra. - [Location: Chrysler Museum Theater] - Reception a la Russe following

Wednesday, April 2

7:00 p.m.

The Situation (2006) Philip Haas (The Music of Chance, 1993; Angels and Insects, 1995) is lecturer in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and will be at the Naro to introduce The Situation, his recent dramatic version of romance, espionage and great-power politics in the Iraq War. A Q&A with Philip Haas will follow the film. - [Location: NARO Expanded Cinema - 1507 Colley Ave]

Thursday, April 3

7:00 p.m.

Missing in America (2005) A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter. Features Danny Glover, recipient of the 2008 ONFilm Lifetime Achievement Award. Director Gabrielle Savage Dockterman will be present to discuss the film. - [Location: University Theatre] Sponsored by the Old Dominion University Alumni Association and the Office of Alumni Relations

Friday, April 4: "LUNAFEST, Short films made by, for, and about women"
Reception: 6:30 p.m.; Show Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.	Featuring LUNAFEST filmmakers Sophie Barthes, Jesse Epstein, and Rui Kawahara Sponsored by the Women's Center and LUNA, the makers of the Whole Nutrition Bar for Women $3 for Students with University ID $10 General Admission All proceeds benefit The Breast Cancer Fund and the YWCA of South Hampton Roads Introduced by Alexa Priddy, Assistant Director, ODU Women’s Center Location: Room 102 Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Bldg (MGB) For tickets & more information, contact 757-683-4109 To learn more about LUNAFEST, visit www.lunafest.org To see a complete list of LUNAFEST films playing click here
	HAPPINESS: Iwona buys a box of happiness at a strange discount store and has to decide what to do with it. 11 min. Director: Sophie Barthes, New York, NY Screenings: DokuFest – Kosovo, Era New Horizon – Poland, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (nominated Best Female Director), Nantucket International Film Festival (Showtime Tony Cox Award Best Screenplay in a Short Film), South by Southwest, Sundance Film Festival.
	DAIKON ASHI: A young girl struggles with adolescent rebellion and the reality of family ties. 90 min. Director: Ru Kuwahata, Brooklyn, NY Screenings: Dong-A LG Animation Festival – Korea (2nd Prize), New York International Children’s Film Festival, Melbourne Animated Film Festival – Australia, Parsons DV and Animation Festival – New York, NY (Student Academy Award Regional Finalist)
	THE GUARANTEE: A dancer’s comical story about his prominent nose and the effect it has on his career. Director: Jesse Erica Epstein, New York, NY Screenings: AFI / Silverdocs Documentary Festival – Silver Springs, MD, Full Frame Documentary Festival – Durham, NC, Newport International Film Festival (Best Short)
Friday, April 4: All Night Film Screening
	Forget Democracy…. Join us for the "If I Were King of the Forest Festival!" Benefit for Theatre & Film Studies. $5 donation suggested … come for one, stay for all! Cartoons between Features! $1 Concessions: Popcorn, Sodas, Candy
10:00 p.m.	The Princess Bride (1987) "Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair. - True love has never been a snap." - Starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Fred Savage, Robin Wright Penn, Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, Carol Kane, Billy Crystal, Anne Dyson, Margery Mason - [Location: University Theatre]
12:00 a.m.	The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick, Terry, Gladys W. Allison, John Ballas, Franz 'Mike' Balluck, Josefine Balluck - [Location: University Theatre]
2:00 a.m.	Howls Moving Castle (2004) When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, she has only one chance of breaking the spell… - Starring: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mitsunori Isaki, Yo Oizumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Daijiro Harada, Haruko Kato, Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Lauren Bacall, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer - [Location: University Theatre]

Saturday, April 5: Closing Gala at the Granby Theater

8:00 p.m.

Danny Glover will accept the ONFILMFEST Lifetime Achievement Award from WTKR’s Barbara Ciara during the closing gala. Celebrate the ONFILMFEST with the actors, directors and Film Fest cast; dance at the ONFILM GALA to music of the Rhythm Kings! Hors d'ouvres and cash bar. Sponsor/Donor reception from 7-8pm. VALET PARKING available. Important Parking Information Valet parking for the event will be available at the York Street parking garage. Guests may self-park at the Freemason Parking Garage, which is conveniently located near the Granby Theatre.

Daytime Program

Monday, March 31: Cold War Politics and Culture
9:00 a.m.	L'America (1994) Two Italian businessmen seek their fortune, at the expense of the local population, in the wreckage of post-communist Albania (116 minutes). - Introduced by Joe Cosco, Department of English, ODU - [Location: Hampton/Newport News Room, Webb University Center]
	Threads (1984) This BBC-produced docu-drama explores the impact of a nuclear exchange upon Sheffield (110 minutes). - Introduced by Regina Karp, Department of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program in International Studies, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
12:00 p.m.	Goodbye Lenin (2003) A young man tries to maintain the fiction of an enduring East Germany in an isolated apartment for the sake of his ill mother (121 minutes). - Introduced by Frederick Lubich, Department of Foreign Languages, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
2:30 p.m.	Dirk Simon, Director, Between the Lines Between the Lines is the first documentary out of Germany which explores the complexities and tragedies endured by those who served as border guards on the Berlin Wall. [more info] - Introduced by Regina Karp, Department of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program in International Studies, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]

Tuesday, April 1: The Middle East and America in the Wake of 9/11
9:00 a.m.	The Pianist (2002) Director Roman Polanski explores the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the brilliant Polish Jewish pianist witness to the unfolding nightmare brought to Poland by the Nazis (150 minutes). - Shown as background to the 4:00 p.m. presentation by Professor Alison Landsberg - [Location: Hampton/Newport News Room, Webb University Center]
	Wag the Dog (1997) Politicians and media professionals engineer a foreign conflict for the sake of domestic political gain (97 minutes). - Introduced by Jesse Richman, Department of Political Science, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
11:00 a.m.	Turtles Can Fly (2005) Soran Ebrahim plays a Kurdish boy in a refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border in the first film made in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Directed by Bahman Ghobadi from Iran. In Farsi with English subtitles (98 minutes). - Introduced by Fran Hassencahl, Department of Communication and Theater Arts, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
2:00 p.m.	Afghan Women: A History of Struggle (2007) Join the filmmaker Kathleen Foster for a screening and discussion of her documentary. This film captures the resilience and courage of women who risk their lives on a daily basis to stand up for their rights. It examines the drafting of the Afghan Women’s Bill of Rights by women from across Afghanistan at a 2003 conference in Kandahar. The women look at their struggle for equality in the context of the country’s tumultuous political history, and describe the many challenges women continue to face in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Introduced by Daniel O’Leary, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at ODU and joined by Steve Rosenthal, Hampton University and Mimi Rosenthal, EVMS. - [Location: University Theatre]
4:00 p.m.	Empathy and the Politics of Identification: Negotiating the Other in Roman Polanski's The Pianist Alison Landsberg is Associate Professor of American Cultural History and Film in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. She is the author of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia, 2004). She encourages students and the public to attend the 9:00 a.m. April 1 showing of The Pianist (see above). [more info] - Introduced by Stephen Pullen, Communication and Theatre Arts, ODU - [Location: Mills Godwin Life Sciences Building, Room 101]

Wednesday, April 2: Civil Rights in the Americas
9:00 a.m.
	Salt of the Earth (1954) Written and produced by members of the original "Hollywood Ten," the film explores a labor strike by Hispanic workers in the American Southwest (94 minutes). - Introduced by Lou Lombardo, Department of Sociology, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
11:00 a.m.	Blue Collar (1978) The robbery by three Detroit auto workers of their union's safe leads to a series of complications (114 minutes). - Introduced by Tim Seibles, Department of English, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
1:30 p.m.	Forgiveness (2004) A former policeman in South Africa seeks forgiveness from the family of one of his former victims during the apartheid era (112 minutes). - Introduced by Tim Nevin, Department of History, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
3:30 p.m.	9500 Liberty Join filmmakers Annabel Park and Eric Byler, who have been at the center of the national debate on immigration because of their "interactive documentary" on YouTube. Early excerpts of 9500 Liberty, featuring many examples of citizen exchange and debate in Prince William County, have drawn national attention and even global interest. [more info] - Introduced by Angelica Huizar, Department of Foreign Languages, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]

Thursday, April 3: Asian Diasporas
12:00 p.m.	Second Class Veterans (2002) This documentary chronicles the struggles of Filipino-American veterans of World War II (27 minutes). - Introduced by Araceli Suzara, Department of Sociology, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
2:00 p.m.	"Monsters, Military Bases, and Other Anxieties of Influence: Korean Cinema in the Age of Globalization" Christina Klein, is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. Her published work explores foreign policy and American perceptions of Asia, such as Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (2003), as well as contemporary Asian film, such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Diasporic Reading" in Cinema Journal (2004). [more info] - Introduced by Lorraine Lees, Department of History, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
3:30 p.m.	Carma Hinton, George Mason University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, History and Art History The award-winning documentary filmmaker Carma Hinton is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor at George Mason University. She lived in China until age 21 and then received a Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. In her work she has explored the Tiananmen Square tragedy (The Gate of Heavenly Peace, 1995) and the Cultural Revolution (Morning Sun, 2003). [more info] - Introduced by Jin Qiu, Department of History and Director of Asian Studies, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]

Friday, April 4: The Politics of Gender
8:00 a.m.	Lucia (1969) The anthology directed by Humberto Solas tells the story of three Cuban women from different generations and social classes swept up in the long history of revolution and social change in Cuba (161 minutes). - Introduced by Andrew Gordus, Department of Foreign Languages, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]
1:00 p.m.	ODU Student Filmmaking Presentations and Awards Second annual presentation of the Stephen E. Konikoff Student Filmmakers Award for excellence in student filmmaking. Winning films screened. - Introduced by Konrad Winters, Department of Communication and Theater Arts, ODU - [Location: University Theatre] Konikoff Submission Form
4:00 p.m.	Made Over in America (2007) [trailer] Join Bernadette Wegenstein, co-producer and -director, for a documentary exploration of America's fascination with surgical makeover (65 minutes). Bernadette Wegenstein, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University [more info] - Introduced by Jennifer Fish, Department of Women's Studies, ODU - [Location: University Theatre]

Saturday, April 5: Filmmaking in Hampton Roads
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	In cooperation with the Hampton Roads Film Office and the Virginia Production Alliance Hampton Roads Chapter, the ONFilm Festival will have its 2nd annual Career Day Expo. This is an opportunity to reach students as well as other patrons to the festival for jobs and interns. The expo will be surrounding "Filmmaking in Hampton Roads," a panel discussion on the ups and downs of filming in our region. Moderator: Stephen Pullen, Department of Communication and Theater Arts, ODU. Call for Entries - [Location: University Theatre]
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Panel discussion, Filmmaking in Hampton Roads