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Experimental Cinema . Screens at East Bay Media Center's Performance Space . Date + Time TBA
Thematic 'Outer Space!' Experimental films curated by Jeff Wengrofsky of NYC
Screenings Saturday October 26th . Times TBA at East Bay Media Center Performance Space
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Screens Saturday November 2nd . Time TBA . Q+A follows with Japanese Filmmaker Yuri Kageyama
Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space.
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Hippie Family Values Trailer (Seckinger, 2017) from Hippie Family Values on Vimeo.
Screens Saturday . October 26 - 7:30pm . Q+A follows with Filmmaker - Director Beverly Seckinger, in personat East Bay Media Center Peerformance Space
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clip from film from Mayfilms on Vimeo.
Screens at East Bay Media Center Performance Space . TBA
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"Redlined, a Legacy of Housing Discrimination" - Ron Chavez, California Community Builders
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Matryoslaka by Liv Kane - Student Film
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The Trump Swamp Song - David Puls - Young Producer
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Berkeley Mid and High School students Free Admission to any film screening.
Berkeley Community College Students Free Admission to any film screening.
No One is turned away for lack of green, i.e. Free Admission if you can't afford the ticket prices.
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Jeff Adachi and Mel Vapour at BVFF 2017
JEFF ADACHI passed away on February 22, 2019.
BVFF will miss this legendary
Public Defender of San Francisco and Independent Filmmaker.
EBMC + BVFF are deeply saddened by the passing of our dear colleague,
friend and filmmaker, JEFF ADACHI.
Our sincere condolences go out to Jeff's wife, Mutsuko and daughter.
Wera Von Wulfen, Jeff Adachi + Cole Woodman
at BVFF 2017, Adachi's "Defender" Screening.
JONAS MEKAS Dead at 96.
"Godfather of Avante Garde Cinema" - 01. 23. 2019
Photo Edu Bayer - New York Times
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AGNES VARDA - French New Wave film pioneer dies at 90, March 29, 2019
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Zhaoyu Zhou - The Last Dance - USC Animation Screen Shot
Selections from USC School of Cinematic Arts
6:30 – Match – Danny Munoz - 3 mins – Animation
“Best Love Story & Superb Compositing Award”
An alone and rejected lost sock in a Laundromat meets an unlikely pair.
6:35 – The Last Dance – Zhaoyu Zhou - 3 mins – Animation
“Grand Festival Masterpiece in Animation Award”
An experimentation motion visualization film about romance from ancient china.
6:40 – 7/8ths of the Way There – Mary Gerretsen - 25 mins – Documentary
“Best Student Documentary Award”
In the wake of a terminal diagnosis, a couple reflects on the lives they’ve lived, the people they’ve loved and the penile implant that one of them is about to receive.
7:05 – The Plague – Federico Torrado Tobon - 21 mins - Thriller/Horror
“Best Thriller Award”
In a dystopian world, teenage siblings Julie and Julian take refuge in a secluded forest cabin to avoid becoming infected by a mysterious and deadly plague. When a stranger comes in need of help their lives are changed forever
7:30 – 15 mins Intermission
7:45 – The Craftsman – Sanford Jenkins - 13 mins – Drama
“Grand Festival Drama Award”
Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.
8:00 – Eggs, Bacon, Zombies – Sherry Y. Shi - 14 mins – Comedy
“Best Dark Comedy Award”
After an unexpected one-night-stand, Rachel is now awkwardly trapped in the house with last night’s lover because… well… zombies.
8:15 – Mammoth – Ariel Heller - 22 mins – Drama
“Grand Festival Audience Award”
Caught between his own grief and sense of family duty, Paul drives his care-free terminally ill brother, Elliot, on a farewell tour to Mammoth California, where Elliot plans to end his life under the Death with Dignity Act.
8:40 – DRIP – Christopher West – 13 min – Thriller/Horror
“Best Acting & Screenplay Award”
A young woman moves into a new apartment and begins to discover signs that she might not be alone.
8:55 – Just Say No – Davey Jarrel - 5 min – Animation
“Funny Bone Animation Award”
An overly empathetic gorilla needs to make an important delivery.
9:00 – WOLVES – Chester Howie, Sam Frickleton, Madison Stevens - 14 min – Drama
“Grand Festival Award for a Dramatic Student Film“
When a seasoned police officer attempts to save a boy from committing suicide, she makes a personal discovery that will forever change her life.
5:00 – The Pushouts – Katie Galloway, Dawn Valadez and Daniella Suega - 56 mins – Documentary
“Grand Festival A ward: Best of Documentary”
THE PUSHOUTS interrogates crucial questions of race, class, and power - and the promise and perils of education - at a particularly urgent time.
6:00 – 30 min Intermission
6:30 – Scenes from a Visit – Neil Ira Needleman - 9 mins – Experimental
“Best Dramatic Experimental Film”
After traveling for several months, a documentary filmmaker visits the remote home his aging parents bought. During the visit, he comes to realize that the years are catching up to his octogenarian father, an artist with a vivid imagination.
6:40 – Too Close – Emily O Brien - 8 mins – Experimental
“Best Experimental Film Series: Secrets of the Deep”
A couple’s odd sibling love story
6:50 – A Mushroom Trip – Olga Guse - 7 mins – Experimental
“Best Experimental Film Series: Secrets of the Deep”
A walk through the magical, mystical world of mushrooms.
7:00 – Changing – Adina Even Zohar - 4 mins – Music Video
“Best Animated Music Video”
Animated music video following the story of a young girl struggling with her self- worth
7:05 – Hangover –Danny Golden – Directed by Zachary T. Scott - 5 mins – Music Video
“BVFF 2018 Official Selection: Music Video”
Have a drink, Take the edge off. What's the worst that could happen? Certainly, not a night filled with drinking, drugs, aliens and ex's, right? Wrong!
7:10 – 15 mins Intermission
7:30 – In Your Face: The Neil Zlozower Story– Beate & Declan Maynes - 92 mins - Documentary
“Grand Festival Award: Best Rock n’ Roll Documentary”
Have a drink, Take the edge off. What's the worst that could happen? Certainly, not a night filled with drinking, drugs, aliens and ex's, right? Wrong!
2:00 – Wilder Than Wild: Fire, Forests & the Future – Kevin Whiten & Stephen Most– 56 mins – Documentary
“Grand Festival Award: Environmental Documentary”
This Award-Winning Documentary reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high severity wildfires and explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these fires.
3:00 – 15 min Intermission
3:15 – Detroit’s Rivera – Julio Ramos - 35 mins – Documentary
“Grand Festival Award: Best Experimental Documentary”
Detroit's Rivera (2017) documents the making of the murals by Diego Rivera in the city of Detroit between 1932 and 33. Based on extensive archival work, the agile montage of historical footage and vintage materials offers a singular poetic approach to the interface between the mural art, industrial cinema, factory work and the social struggles during those agitated years of deep economic depression in the U.S.
3:50 – Recording Device – David Finkelstein - 25 mins – Experimental
“Grand Festival Audience Favorite Award”
A poetic exploration of the ways we store our memories, and their effects, both corrosive and illuminating.
4:30 – Vessel – Zack Kasten – 19 min – Experimental
“Best Experimental Film”
A Hollywood silent film
Tickets: General Admission $10. Donation, Students, Elders, Disabled $5. Donation, No One turned away for lack of green.
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. LINDA BROWN . JEFF WELLER . PAUL KEALOHA BLAKE . INDER SINGH . LAMA . TODD KERR .
. GEORGIA WRIGHT . TAYLOR WELLER . TYLER STAFFORD .
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DETROIT'S RIVERA - JULIO RAMOS - Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 8pm
NUESTRO PAIS - Mayra A. Flores - USC Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 8:45pm
DEFENSORES de Paz - H. Carabali - Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 9pm
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CAN YOU HEAR ME - Allen Willis circa 1975 Screens Friday Nov. 2 at 10pm
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Screens Saturday October 27 at 8pm - SOLD OUT!
Rock music and rock photography are synonymous for the wild lifestyle of their rockstars
with one common demeanor: Neil Zlozower: in-your-face-madman-photographer.
The daily activities of “Zloz” as part of the rock ’n’ roll stage show, his work in the studio
plus a behind the scenes look at his private life, are well documented and collaborated
by friends, family, colleagues and the stars themselves.
Featuring members of:
Kiss, Guns n’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Van Halen, Korn, Rob Zombie,
Ratt, Anthrax, Slipknot, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Henry Rollins, and many more..
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Screens Friday . October 26 . 8pm . Berkeley Premiere . Pre Screening Schmooze 7pm - SOLD OUT!
Documentary 2018 by Katie Galloway, Dawn Valadez, Daniella Sueuga - 56 minutes
I WAS IN PRISON BEFORE I WAS EVEN BORN. So begins the story of Dr. Victor Rios who,
by 15, was a high school dropout and gang member with three felony convictions and a death wish.
But when a teacher's quiet persistence, a mentor's moral conviction, and his best friend's murder converge,
Rios's path takes an unexpected turn.
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Screens Friday November 2 at 8pm
"A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Frescos
and the murals' agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression.
The documentary's remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor,
public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism." - Julio Ramos
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Screens Sunday October 28 at 2pm - SOLD OUT!
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Screens Sunday November 4 at 6pm.
Invitational Curator Jeff Wengrofsky presents Nine Experimental Films on the theme of dreams on film.
Wengrofsky will be available for a Q+A following the films.
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Vessel - Zack Kasten . Experimental . 19 minutes
Hangover / Danny Golden - Zachary T. Scott - Music Video - 5 minutes
Changing - Adina Even Zohar - Music Video - 4 minutes
Scenes from a Visit . Neil Ira Needleman . Experimental . 9 minutes
After traveling for several months, a documentary filmmaker visits the remote home
his aging parents bought. During the visit, he comes to realize that the years are catching up to his octogenarian father,
an artist with a vivid imagination.
Recording Device . David Finkelstein . Experimental . 24.5 minutes
A poetic exploration of the ways we store our memories,
and their effects, both corrosive and illuminating.
Loungers: Proof of Concept - Zachary T. Scott - 9 min - Web Series
The Web Series follows three roomates as the apocalypse starts.
Zombies, talking bongs and some family fun infomercials.
ZOO - Andrew Schrader . Experimental . 9 minutes
This Absurdist Documenrary chronicles the zoo animals upcoming escape attempt -
and the deranged zookeeper's efforts to stop them.
Prufrock - Gerald Varney . Elder Producer . 14 minutes
A collage video depicting the poem "The lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot
with an original narration by David Gonzales.
Foreign Film Sequences with Subtitles - Tony Armlin - Elder Producer / Experimental - 7 minutes
Compilation of film footage from the 1970's
Growing Apart: Episode 3# When it Rains . Zachary T. Scott . 8 minutes
The conclusion to.....Whatever dude!
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Selections from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts -
Drama, Animation, Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi, Documentaries, Social Change & Comedies
LAST DANCE - Zhaoyu Zhou - Animation - 3 min - USC
THE PLAGUE - Federico Torrado Tobon - Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi - 21 min - USC
MAMMOTH - Ariel Heller - Drama - 22 min - USC
EGGS, ZOMBIES, and BACON - Sherry Y. Shi - Comedy - 14 min - USC
THE WOLVES - Chester Howie - Drama - 14 mins - USC
7/8TH'S OF THE WAY THERE - Mary Gerretsen - Documentary - 25 min - USC
CRADLE - Devon Manney - Animation - 15 min - USC
DRIP - Christopher West - Thriller/Horror - 13 min - USC
NUESTRO PAIS - Mayra A. Flores - Animation - 6 min - USC
Anti-Bullying Project - Santiago Trinidad . Young Producer . Public Service Announcement . 60 sec - BHS
Don't Blame Yourself. Bullying Is Never Your Fault.
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"Citizen Clark" - SOLD OUT! November 4 screening
"DEFENDER" - SOLD OUT! November 3 screening
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Mel Vapour presents Santiago Rizzo, the producer of "QUEST", the GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD for BEST FEATURE,
with Todd Kerr, publisher of Berkeley Times.
Alice Walker introduces the "Citizen Clark . . . A Life of Principle" documentary,
Mel Vapour introduces Joseph C. Stillman, the producer of "Citizen Clark" to the BVFF 2017 audience,
BVFF presents Grand Festival Documentary Award to Joseph C. Stillman,
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Joseph C. Stillman renders a Q&A following the screening of his Grand Festival Award winning documentary
on Ramsey Clark at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2017. Check out the article below from Oneonta, New York:
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"The Ito Sisters" - Q+A - BVFF 2017
Mel Vapour, Antonia Grace Glenn, Greg Pacificar and Paul Kealoha Blake
after Antonia and Greg received their Grand Festival Award for the "THE ITO SISTERS"
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SOLD OUT!!
Feature Film just added for this Sunday Nov. 5 at 6pm- Producer Santiago Rizzo
will be in person with a Q&A following the film.
Screens Sunday November 5 . 6pm - SOLD OUT!!!!!
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Jack Foley reads from Kerouac, as Al Hinkle looks on during opening of BVFF2017.
Hinkle, one of Kerouacs pals,was interviewed by Foley who appears in Nic Saunders 'The Good Blonde'. Foley also accepted The Grand Festival Award on behalf of Nic Saunders of the UK.
7:30 - Featuring on stage Q&A with Al Hinkle and Jack Foley with an exclusive Intro from Nic Saunders in the UK prior to the film.
8:00 - The Good Blonde – Nic Saunders - Short Feature – 23 min. - U.S. Premiere
A short film based on the short story by Jack Kerouac, "Good Blonde". Tired, the Hitchhiker takes a break on the beach when a beautiful stranger comes and lies down next to him changing both their lives forever. Filmed entirely on location in Big Sur and San Francisco. Featuring Philip Bulcock, Kasia Halpin, Al Hinkle and Kirk Baltz.
8:30 - Intermission
9:00 - Dead Pan - Gracie May - Animation - 4 min. - USC
Wendy tries to go on a date with loveable Orc Lurtz, but the date is interupted by her drunken ex Peter Pan.
9:05 - Lion Dance - Zheng Kang - Animation - 6 min. - USC
It's love at first sight for Jian and Ayumi, during the city's Annual Lion Dance - but will they be able to find each other during this busy event.
9:11 - Mosquito: The Right of Passage - Brian Vincent Rhodes - Animation - 7 min. - USC
A mosquito on her first hunting trip with her mother tries to confess that she doesn't like blood.
9:20- Nose Hair - Louis Mortin - Animation - 10 min. - USC
While playing a game with his friends young Nate realizes that he has an unusual condition.
9:30 - Once a Hero - Xia Li - Animation - 8 min. - USC
A boy wants to be a superhero, He becomes friends with a girl who is bullied by all classmates, until one day, he is forced to make a choice, Betray the girl or not?
9:40 - Once Upon a Line - Alicja Jasina - Animation - 7 min. - USC
A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he suddenly falls in love. what follows is a short portrait of a difficult relationship marked by a struggle for control and identity. The ending gives hope for a new beginning and a change in perspective.
9:48 - The Meltdown - Connor Kerrigan - Animation - 12 min. - USC
A sarcastic physicist at a nuclear testing facility finds himself in a sticky situation after his ineptitude leaves the facility in great danger.
10:00 - Today - Katherine Duffy - Animation - 7 min. - USC
Father and daughter team up to tell a story of adventure, asparagus, and secret agents to pass the time before they return home from the hospital.
4:30 - Selections from East Bay Media Centers’ Summer Teen Media Camp 2017 – Young Producers - 70 min.
5:50 - FORGET – Coby Hilelly – Young Producer – 8 min.
A drama which follows a traumatized police officer who abandons his pregnant wife after a tragic shooting at an elementary school.
6:00 - Our Treasure – Jelina Liu – Young Producer – 6 min.
A short documentary highlighting the work done by the Aikuma Project, a Bay Area based organization that is dedicated to preserving the world's threatened languages.
6:10 – Over the Trees (L'Autre Cote) – Emma Alluyn – Student Filmmaker – France - 17 min.
The young Marek lived on the edge of the world. One day, He decided that his true life was waiting for him beyond the trees.
Paul Blake, Emma Alluyn, accepts Grand Festival Award Student Filmmaker - Mel Vapour - BVFF
6:30 - INTERMISSION
7:00 - Patrick’s Dilemna – Daniel Julien - Documentary - 47 min.
A docu-drama examining cultural differences between San Franciscans and Parisians through the eyes of expatriates living in both cities as well as the personal story of a fictional character.
7:50 - Intermission
8:15 - Spirit of the Arts - Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts - Documentary - 10 min.
Originally painted in 1982, in the heart of the Mission District , the spirit of the arts mural gets restored by its original painters.
8:30 - China Test Girls - Frankie Latina - Trailer - Music Video - 2:05 - Starring Danny Trejo, Sasha Grey, Mark Borchardt
A fashion photographer gets more than he bargained when a roll of film contains sinister images. Soundtrack by Yoko Ono.
8:35 - Something Old Something New Summertime - Jack Easterday - Music Video - 7 min.
A performance of 14 local musicians all over the age of 65, serious about their music and live to perform.
8:45 - HAND 2 HAND - A7PHA - Zack Kasten - Music Video - 3 min.
A7PHA IS DOSEONE & MESTIZO; Made in Oakland.
8:50 - Not Tonight - Protextor - Zack Scott - Music Video - 5 min.
Disco Baby! Only this time it's after the Apocalypse.
8:55 - Folk Zero - Go Fever - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4 min.
Living out of your car is all fun and games until your inner demons manifest and try to kill you!
9:00 - Surface Tension - Good Field - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4 min.
Surface tension baby! it happens when a guy likes a girl or a girl likes a guy or a guy likes a guy or a girl likes a girl;
but in this case, One's a Sea God and the other is a Sky God. What happens after they spend a day with each other......
9:05 - Melting Sky - Ghost King - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.
Cult rituals and fantastic deaths are what make this Ghost King music video stand out! Oh and the rock'n guitar solo
that looks like something out of Event Horizon or a Rob Zombie flick! WARNING: stobe lights are used in this video!
9:10 - I Hate Myself ( and Everyone Else ) - Talkies - Zack Scott - Music Video - 2 min.
A neighborhood is terrorized by a smiling hooligan! Will he get his comeuppance? Watch and find out!
9:15 - INTERMISSION
9:30 - WHAT WEEE ARE - Alessio Daniel Griffin de Marchi - Experimental - Italy - 5 min
Planting the seeds, growing the future.
9:35 - Your Cage Is Ready - Kit Young - Experimental - 4 min
A Neo-Brutalist essay on contemporary life in the USA.
9:40 - Come (Vieni) - Chiara Scarfo - Experimental - Italy - 5 min
It's a call out of any places, towards any place of emptiness, Come and see, Everything is upside down.
9:45 - Novia - Chiara Scarfo - Experimental - Italy - 2 min
I've always wanted to marry under a waterfall, but yet I did not know that it would be "my first marriage", the one with myself.
9:50 - TRANSITIONS - Aurele Ferrier - Experimental - 13 min
A journey from the civilizing void of the desert of a maximal urban, capitalistic and hedonistic density, which in the case of Las Vegas assumes some bizarre expression. The film is a contemplation without any people or moving machines in it, focusing on the built and designed.
3:00 - The Linen Closet - David Finkelstein - Experimental - 22 min - BEST of FESTIVAL - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
A poetic depiction of the inner world of an older woman experiencing mental confusion and isolation from hearing loss.
Short Films Extravaganza - Selections from University of Southern Californias First Look Festival 2017
3:30 - The Julie Stories - Julio Vincent Gambuto - Comedy - USC - 15 min
Big Julie wants his shot at the American Dream, but he has to get his first ten customers before he can "get rich quick".
3:45 - Red Hot Frog - Kristie Ko - Comedy - USC - 13 min
When a new colleague threatens the status quo, an overlooked employee hires a hit man to take care of her.
4:00 - The Best and the Loneliest Days - Qjanzhu Luo - Comedy - USC - 16 min
A comedy about a group of chinese students in LA get together for the perfect Lunar New Year's party, but things didn't end up as planned.
4:20 - The Theory of Optimal Control - Avi Glick - Comedy - USC - 19 min
After losing his fiance, a suicidal control freak finds himself deeply intertwined with an uncontrollable force.
4:40 - Kate & Lily - Grey Cusack - Comedy - USC - 13 min
When an old friend resurfaces, a self-conscious hipster takes keeping up appearances a little too far.
5:00 - My Loyal Audience - Megan Seely - Comedy - USC - 12 min
A dark comedy about a teenage girl who is insecure and polite with her family but turns to the camera and tells us her true feelings.
5:15 - Fanny Pack - Uttera Singh - Comedy - USC - 10 min
A rebellious Indian-American girl is pursued by her father through an airport as she tries to keep her secret.
5:30 - INTERMISSION
6:00 - Last Dance - Josh Litman - Thriller - USC - 25 min
A former assasin has to rescue his granddaughter after she is brutally abducted from her birthday party.
6:25 - RAE - Aaron Rovner - Thriller/Sci-Fi - USC - 13 min
When an office robot attempts to express it's affection for a co-worker, the fragile balance between the employees in the office is pushed to a tipping point.
6:40 - An Illusion of Red and White - J.A. Conway - Horror - USC - 25 min
An unexpected tragedy causes a backwoods farming family to slowly disinegrate.
7:05 - Jeff - Adam Linzey - Thriller - USC - 17 min
A british electrician working in Los Angeles, questions his sobriety after he thinks he saw his bestfriend commit a crime.
7:25 - 88'SEOUL - seongho Heo - Thriller - USC - 17 min
The confrontational tension between North and South Korea in 1988, reflected through the relationship between a double agent and the director of the ANSP.
7:45 - Bert - Aaron Bush - Horror - USC - 15 min
A young girl escapes the oppression of her alcoholic mother with the help of her best friend, Bert.
8:00 - INTERMISSION
8:15 - The Ballerina, Her Shoemaker and His Apprentice - Eva Ye - Drama - USC - 16 min
in 1930's London, a young man stumbles into the refined world of ballet pointe shoemaking and learns to earn his name.
8:35 - Cal & V - Timothy Offor - Drama - USC - 13 min
Two lovers stuck at a crossroads until Cal places his successful movie career on the line and try and win Vanessa back.
8:50 - Amelia's Closet - Halima Lucas - Drama - USC - 17 min
When classmates bully 11 year old Amelia, she begins to secretly steal from them and hide the items.
8:00 - DEFENDER – Jeff Adachi and Jim Choi - Documentary – 75 min. Q&A to follow
This insightful documentary focuses on San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi as he and his team, take on the high-profile case of 22-year-old Michael Smith, who pleads not guilty after he is charged with nine counts of resisting arrest. Pulled off a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train along with his girlfriend, Smith is wrestled to the ground, the arrest captured on the attending officers’ body cameras.
9:30 - INTERMISSION
10:00 - The Suitcase - Abi Damaris Corbin - Drama - USC - 21 min
The ordinary life of a Boston bred baggage handler is turned upside down when he steals a suitcase that contains terrorist plans. Inspired by true events on 9/11.
10:25 - SPARK - Juan Martinez Vera - Drama - USC - 19 min
Oscar, a young Venezuelan student sparks a social media movement using an innovative cell phone application to circumvent the censorship in his country.
10:45 - The Wasteland - Brian Brooks II - Drama - USC - 13 min
Unheard by his family and bullied by his peers, a mentally unstable teenager struggles to arm himself against the mounting pressures of adolescent life.
11:00 - When Pigs Fly - Andrew Wood - Drama - USC - 15 min
At his brothers funeral, Al, a washed up, perpetually tipsy man, comforts his mourning niece with a story of how he once found a magic tree that could bring all his drawings to life.
3:00 - VOICES FOR FREEDOM:The Hyers Sisters' Legacy - Documentary - Susheel Bibbs - 30 min
In 1877, when nightriders terrorized African-Americans and black-face minstrels ridiculed them across the land, The Hyers Sisters (African-American, opera prodigies) arose to become Voices For Freedom. Q&A Follows
4:00 - Citizen Clark… A Life Of Principle – Joseph C. Stillman - Documentary – 90 min. Q&A Follows
Introduction of the film by Alice Walker, in person.
This is a film about former U.S. Attorney General and Humans Rights Activist Ramsey Clark. Narrated by Martin Sheen. This is a 'work in progress'.
6:00 - An Exploration of Our History - Doug Harris - Documentary - 10 min. Q&A Follows
Berkeley filmmaker, Doug Harris, discovers his family's history of escaping slavery in 1855 from Virginia to Canada through the Underground Railroad.
7:30 - KUPAL – Kazem Mollaie – Feature - 81 min. - Iran
Kupal is the story of a hunter and a taxidermist, called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. On the last day of the year, moments before the turn of the year, he faces an unexpected challenge. Co-Sponsored with Diaspora Arts Connection.
9:30 - RAIMBO: The Most Deadly Gay Soldier the World Has Ever Known - K-von - Comedy - 23 min.
The most deadly gay soldier the U.S. military has ever created just went rogue on a solo mission to rescue one of his own . He is RAIMBO.
USC Documentaries
1:30 - Into The Trenches - Jacob Fadley - Documentary - USC - 23 min
A near-fatal train accident triggers a reluctant journey of healing for a veteran from the Iraq wars.
1:55 - There Goes the Neighborhood - Angelique Molina - Documentary - USC - 27 min
Follows an extended black family of View park, California as they experience demographic changes and reflect on their shifting community.
2:30 - Manmade Waters - Dustin Elm - Documentary - USC - 23 min
Examines whether or not aquaculture is a viable solution to rapidly declining fish populations.
2:55 - AL IMAM - Omar Al Dakheel - Documentary - USC - 19 min
Muslim singer/songwriter turned spiritual leader Ani Zonneveld takes a stand for justice through activism and a progressive practice of Islam
3:15 - INTERMISSION
4:00 - The Ito Sisters – SOLD OUT! - Antonia Grace Glenn - Documentary – 83 min. Q&A Follows
The Ito Sisters is a documentary film capturing rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to their United States and their American - born children.
SOLD OUT!
6:30 - Quest - Santiago Rizzo - Feature - Starring Lou Diamond Philips, Dash Mihok - SOLD OUT!!!!!
SOLD OUT!
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2017
"DEFENDER" - Jeff Adachi and Jim Choi - Documentary - 75 min.
Screens Friday November 3 - 8pm
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"THE ITO SISTERS" Dec. 3rd 2pm Screening is Sold Out!!
A second screening has been added at 4pm - Tickets available now!
"THE ITO SISTERS" - Screening Sunday Dec. 3 at 2pm (SOLD OUT)
2nd show at 4pm has been added at EBMC - $10. -$15 at the door.
"THE ITO SISTERS" - Documentary - Antonia Grace Glenn - 83 min.
SPECIAL "ENCORE" SCREENING - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 - 2pm -SOLD OUT!!!!
A 4pm screening has been added -TICKETS AVAILABLE for the 4pm screening
"THE ITO SISTERS" - Documentary - Antonia Grace Glenn - 83 min.
Screens Again SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 - 2:00pm Q & A to follow.
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"KUPAL" – Kazem Mollaie – Feature - 81 min. - Iran
Screens Saturday evening, November 4th at 8pm.
Co-Sponsored with Diaspora Arts Connection.
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"THE GOOD BLONDE" - Nic Saunders - Short Feature - 23 min. - U.K.
Screens Friday October 27 - 8 pm.
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"Citizen Clark...A Life of Principle" - Joseph C. Stillman - Documentary - 90 min.
Screens Saturday November 4th at 4:00pm . Q&A to follow.
Introduction of the film by Alice Walker, in person.
This is a 'work in progress' .
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"An Exploration of Our History" - Doug Harris - Documentary - 10 min.
This short documentary is comprised of excerpts from the feature length 90 minute film being produced about my uncle Uzikee Nelson, who is an acclaimed Washington, DC artist/sculptor.
Screens Saturday November 4th at 6pm
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"VOICES FOR FREEDOM-The Hyers Sisters' Legacy" - Documentary - Susheel Bibbs - 30 min.
Screens Saturday November 4th at 3:00pm Q&A follows.
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Spirit of the Arts - Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts - Documentary - 10:04
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Two lives at knife's edge, meeting over one fire...unfurling the darkest elemental notions life has to offer.
"Not Tonight" - Protextor - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4:45 min.
"Folk Zero" - Go Fever - Zack Scott - Music Video - 4:10 min.
"Melting Sky" - Ghost King - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3:02 min.
"I Hate Myself" (and Everyone Else) - Talkies - Zack Scott - Music Video - 2:08 min.
"Surface Tension" - Good Field - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3:38 min.
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"China Test Girls Trailer" - Frankie Latina - Trailer - 2:05 - Danny Trejo, Sasha Grey
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Selections from the University of Southern California's First Look 2017 Festival
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Documentaries
Comedy
Drama
Animation
Thriller
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"WHAT WEEE ARE" - Alessio Daniel Griffin de Marchi - Experimental - 5 min.
"TRANSITIONS" - Aurele Ferrier - Experimental - 13 min. - Switzerland
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"Over the Trees" (L'Autre Cote) - Emma Alluyn - Student Filmmaker - 17 min. - France
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"Patrick's Dilemna" - Daniel Julien - Documentary - 47 min.
Screens Saturday October 28th - 7:00pm
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"The Linen Closet" - David Finkelstein - Experimental - 22 min.
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"Raimbo" - Comedy 2017 - K-von - 23 min.
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"Come" (Vieni) - Experimental - Chiara Scarfo - 5 min. - Italia
"Novia" - Experimental - Chiara Scarfo - 2 min. - Italia
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"Your Cage is Ready" - Experimental - Kit Young - 4 min.
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FORGET - Young Producer - Coby Hilelly - 8 min.
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Our Treasure - Young Producer - Jelina Liu - 6 min.
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Berkeley Video & Film Festivals 2016 and earlier
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25th Annual BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2016
Concludes with great Berkeley Audiences and superb Cinema!
A Very Special Thank you to all of the Filmmakers that contributed to BVFF 2016
OCTOBER 28,29,30 + NOVEMBER 4,5,6, 2016
EAST BAY MEDIA CENTER PERFORMANCE SPACE
All Films screen at East Bay Media Center Performance Space
1939 Addison Street - Downtown Berkeley Arts District
Scroll Down for Screening Schedule
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Tickets are available by calling (510) 843-3699
$15. Saturdays - All Day Pass and 7:00pm and later
$10. - Fridays and Sundays General Admission
*$5. -*Students, *Elders, *Disabled - All Days - All Day Pass
or use PayPal below:
Please indicate which ticket day and the amount - with your name / phone#
tix will be at the ticket window .
Sponsors of BVFF 2016
Tony & Natasha & The 25th Annual Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2016
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VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:
The BVFF 2016 Audiences
The BVFF 2016 Filmmakers
Georgia Sommers Wright
Todd Kerr, Publisher, BERKELEY TIMES
Nicole Heirich, EAST BAY EXPRESS
John Dorn, DAILY CAL
BERKELEYSIDE
Gar Smith, BERKELEY DAILY PLANET
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts Los Angeles
Columbia College Hollywood
Taylor Weller, East Bay Media Center & BVFF Intern
Tony and Natasha Improv
Claudia Insenga, BVFF Promotion
Inder Singh, Fast Imaging & Red Tomato Pizza
L A Wood, Berkeley Citizen & EBMC Board of Director
Steve Nicol, Lococo's Pizza Donations
Paul Kealoha Blake, Pres. EBMC
Deans Signs, Dean and Suman, Berkeley
Lorenzo DeStefano
Earl and Jan Crebs, 360 Church
Kali Persall, Film Reviewer
Pilar Shen-Berro, BHS Jacket Film Reviewer
Moses Mascuch, BHS Ads
Lisa Bullwinkle
International Tailors, Zoltan
Fallout Shelter TShirts, Markus, San Francisco
Travis LeMaster, Downtown Berkeley Association
Verna Lim
Warren Croyle - Reality Films
Videomaker Magazine
Professor Avelardo Valdez, USC School of Social Work - Los Angeles
Richard G. Shalhoub, Shalhoub - Orlacchio , Law Firm, Boston,MA
City of Berkeley - RLF
Dedicating the 25th BVFF 2016 to the late Dayle Bartlett,
our friend and advocate.
In Memory of Dayle 'Sundown' Bartlett . 1946 - 2016
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FEST PICS
Jeff Adachi accepts his Grand Festival Award for RACIAL FACIAL
Claudia Insenga and her BVFF Gang at the 25th BVFF on Friday Nov. 4
Amir Soltani accepts Grand Festival Award and Q&A for DOGTOWN REDEMPTION
Eve Ma accepts her MASTERS OF RHYTHM Award
Auden Bui and her friend after screening her 'LOST CITY OF TOMORROW' short film.
Elgin Jackson, filmmaker accepts his FEEL THE BERN COMEDY Award,
Mel Vapour and Film Reviewer Kali Persall
Vapour, Tom Glass and maestro Eugene Corr, Producer of 'GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA'
Kealoha, filmmaker Stacy Poulos acepts her award for 'SARAH SMITH: INTO THE LIGHT'
Music Video
USC Professor Lalo Valdez, Attorney-Filmmaker R.G.Shalhoub and Mel Vapour after screening "HOMEGIRLS" by Elizabeth Cirillo, USC School of Cinematic Arts Award Winner
Vapour and Maestro Lorenzo DeStefano wax philosophic.
Attorney-Filmmaker R.G.Shalhoub and EBMC Board of Director L A Wood
Kelly Duane de la Vega, co-producer of "THE RETURN" and family.
Lorenzo DeStefano answers questions about his 'HEARING IS BELIEVING' doc.
Jeremy Neilsen's Columbia College-Hollywood film "LOST" and BVFF Intern Taylor Weller.
Andrew Schrader's "ALL WE DID WAS LIVE" short doc, transfixed the BVFF audiences.
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Daily Planet BVFF Article by GAR SMITH
All Films Screen at East Bay Media Center Performance Space 1939 Addison Street Downtown Berkeley Arts District - TICKETS: (510) 843-3699 - maketv@aol.com
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"THE RETURN" - Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega - Loteria Films - Documentary - 84 min.
Screens Sunday, October 30, 4:30pm followed by a Q&A
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'HEARING IS BELIEVING" - Lorenzo DeStefano . 99 min. Screens Saturday, October 29, 7pm
Q&A to follow screening with Producer Lorenzo DeStefano
Second Screening Sunday, November 6, at 6pm
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Grand Festival Enlightenment Award
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"Here Come The Videofreex" - Directed by Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin, 79 min.
Screens Sunday, October 30, 2pm, Q&A follows screening with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Videofreex pioneer activist.
Grand Festival Pioneer Award
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Best of Festival - Short Documentary
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"JASMINE" - Narrative Feature - by Dax Phelan - Screens Saturday, November 5, 9pm.
Grand Festival Award - Feature
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Grand Festival Award - Best Cross Cultural Documentary
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BVFF Jury Award - Feature
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Best of Festival - Jury Award - Documentary
"DOGTOWN REDEMPTION" - Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush - Documentary - 94 min.
Screens Saturday, November 5, 7pm
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Best Political - Experimental Short
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"ALL WE DID WAS LIVE" - Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer - Doc. - 20 min.
Best of Festival Award - Best Locally Produced Short Documentary
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Best of Festival Award - Best Low Budget Short
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Best Foreign Comedy
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Grand Festival Awards - Four Outstanding Music Videos
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Best of Festival Adult Contemporary Music Video
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The Time Machine - Comedy - by Lorne Miller
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Hive - Experimental - Duygu Nazli Akova -Turkey
Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Short Experimental
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Best Ethnographic Music Documentary Award
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Grand Festival Award - Young Producer
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Short Feature - Makan Talayeh and Tautis Skorka
Grand Festival Award - Dramatic Short
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The Human Mirror - Marc Nadal - Short Feature - Spain
Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Short
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MY CLAIRE - Rajendra Thakurathi - Drama - 14 min. USC
Best Film School Jury Award
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Grand Festival Award - Best Thelma+Louise Post Apocalyptic Sci Fi Drama
Nora and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a rugged
post-apocalyptic world. When a stranger arrives and Daph disappears,
Nora has to go to extreme measures to get back what's her's.
Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Documentary
Former gang members Maria and Joselyn attempt to start new lives while overcoming
the temptations of addiction and street life.
Documentary - 21 min.
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Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Sci-fi Short
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Channeling an ancient Peruvian tradition, a suburban family airs out grievances
on Christmas Day with a series of bare-knuckle brawls. Comedy - 14 min.
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BEST FILM SCHOOL NARRATIVE SHORT
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Best Film School Director Award
A young man troubled by his legendary fathers suicide
travels to a small town in search of answers from his
father's former band mate.
Drama - 14 min.
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Best Film School Jury Award
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BEST FILM SCHOOL SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Explores the ways in which artists are re-appropriating the surplus of
single use plastic bags as their medium to create artworks.
Short Documentary - 16 min.
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Best Film School Outstanding Story
A by-the-book federal agent and his desperate ex-girlfriend
struggle with and unplanned pregnancy in a near future America
where ROE v. WADE has been overturned.
Drama - 17 min.
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Best Film School Screenplay
A kid who doesn't fit in and who needs to learn to
understand and accept what makes him different.
Drama - 12 min
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BEST FILM SCHOOL WACKY ANIMATION
A father starts a journey to figure out the best way to protect
his son from seeing filthiness of this crime-ridden city.
Animation - 7 min
Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Horror
A young girl is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man hell bent
on building a family by kidnapping women and forcing them to play into
his fantasy. But this time he just may have kidnapped the wrong girl.
Horror -14min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Animation
Robert Wagner narrates the romance of two lovers who spend more time screaming than they do embracing.
Animation - Drama -14 min.
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BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2017 ENTRY FORM
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25th Annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2016
SCREENING SCHEDULE - PROGRAM BVFF 2016
FRIDAY OCTOBER 28
FILM SCHOOL FRIDAYS
Featuring outstanding short films from the
USC School of Cinematic Arts - Los Angeles
7:00 - LOST CITY OF TOMORROW - Auden Bui - Drama - 16 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Story
A cynical human has an unexpected encounter with an android in space.
7:20 - GENGHIS KHAN CONQUERS THE MOON - Kerry Yang - Drama - 17 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Sci fi /Drama
In Genghis Khan's last days, a Wizard sends him to the Moon. His greatest conquest becomes a spiritual clash, between one man's need and the silence of the Universe.
7:40- LEND A HAND FOR LOVE - John Alan Thompson - Romantic Comedy/Animation - 14 min. - Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Animation
Robert Wagner narrates the romance of two lovers who spend more time screaming than they do embracing.
7:55 - HOMEGIRLS - Elizabeth Cirillo Doc - 21 min
Grand Festival Award - Best Film School Documentary
Former gang members Maria and Joselyn attempt to start new lives overcoming the temptations of addiction and street life.
8:15 - INTERMISSION
8:30 - TAKANAKUY - Austin Kolodney - Comedy - 11 min.
Grand Festival Award - Film School Comedy
Channeling an ancient Peruvian tradition, a suburban family airs out grievances on Christmas Day with a series of bare-knuckle brawls.
8:45 - WARM SMOOTH MEAN - Jess Maldaner - Drama - 14 min.
Best Film School Director Award
A young man troubled by his legendary father's suicide, travels to a small town in search of answers from his father's former bandmate.
9:00 - POKEY POKEY - Jake Zhang - Animation/Comedy - 7 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Wacky Animation Concept
A father starts a journey to figure out the best way to protect his son from seeing filthiness of this crime-ridden city.
9:10 - PRISONER - Matthew Edwards - Drama - 21 min.
Grand Festival Award - Film School Short Feature
Stranded behind enemy lines, a war-weary American takes a young German soldier prisoner and forces him to lead the way back to safety.
9:30 - INTERMISSION
FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURES
9:45 - MOUSSE – John Hellberg - Comedy - 42 min. - Sweden
Grand Festival Award in Comedy
What could be easier than robbing a small tobacco shop on the outskirts of town? The ultimate hit for some fast cash.Mousse is a man of pride and principles and fed up.But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
3:45 - PRIVY - David Finkelstein - Experimental - 20 min.
A young women is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy life. “PRIVY" uses oblique, poetic language, fanciful images and musical interludes. Based on an improvisation by actors David Finkelstein and Ian W. Hill.
4:10 - LIFTER - Selkin Fedor - Comedy - 12 min. - Russia
Best Foreign Comedy
Alexey is a novice sportsman. He is arranging a course of power lifting trainings for his grandfather, who is going to marry shortly. Despite the advanced age of his grandfather, the bride is dreaming of all the wedding traditions. One of them is that the groom must carry her across a bridge.
4:25 - HIVE - Duygu Nazli Akova - Experimental - 4 min. - Turkey
Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Experimental Short
"Hive" takes a look at the unplanned urbanization, which has been paraded under the guise of "urban renewal", Istanbul has been undergoing for many years. This situation is conveyed through the visualization of Marx's Bee and machine metaphor. This video focuses on the worker's conditions, contract labor and urban renewal.
4:30 - THE RIDE - Waylon Bacon - Short Feature - 15 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Low Budget Short
A young man accepts a ride from a traveling salesman that goes horribly, horribly wrong. Starring Clinton Roper Elledge, Armen Babasoloukian, & Norma Burgess. Written & Directed by Waylon Bacon. Produced by Joel O'Neal and all of our fantastic Indiegogo Backers!
4:45 - INTERMISSION
5:00 - GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA - Eugene Corr - Doc - 87 min. Q&A Follows
Grand Festival Award - Best Cross Cultural Documentary
Teen baseball between Oakland, California and Havana, Cuba.
7:00 - INTERMISSION
7:15 - HEARING IS BELIEVING - Lorenzo DeStefano - Music Doc. - 99 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Music Documentary 2016
Q&A Follows with Lorenzo DeStefano
In a world filled with Noise, there is another Sound worth Hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.
9:30 - INTERMISSION
9:45 - SARAH SMITH: INTO THE LIGHT - Stacy Poulos - Music Video - 4 min.
Best of Festival Adult Contemporary Music Video
Take an inspiring journey with Sarah Smith, best adult contemporary artist, as she belts out a heart-felt riveting performance from reflection to healing. ‘Into The Light’ a song by Sarah Smith and Dermot Grehan.
9:55 - RACIAL FACIAL - Jeff Adachi - Educational - 8 min.
Grand Festival Award - Educational Film
Racial Facial is an Award Winning eight minute film on the history of racism in America. www.racialfacial.org
10:00 - SWEET TALK: YOUR TOUCH - Zack Scott - Music Video - 5 min.
Grand Festival Awards - Four Outstanding Music Videos
Sweet Talk, Austin's local rocker band kicks ass with their new Music Video full of broken down cars, creepy Hosts and some good old fashion glam zombies!
10:05 - THE EASTERN SEE: THE FOOL - Zack Scott - Music Video - 5 min.
The Eastern Sea, Austin Texas local band, kicks ass with their new music video full of space ice cream, lights in the sky and an alien autopsy date night! Totally sick.
10:10 - A. SINCLAIR: THEY BREED AND SAY HELLO - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.
A. Sinclair's, music video where a dude learns the radical horror's of blacking out! Directed by Zachary T. Scott, Cinematography by Taylor Camarot, Staring Sam Stinson.
10:15 - A. SINCLAIR: YOU GOT A HEART - Zack Scott - Music Video - 3 min.
A man wakes up, to his heart being ripped from his chest. Now he has to get it back!
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
2:00 - HERE COME THE VIDEO FREEX – Jon Nealon & Jenny Raskin - Doc. - 79 min.
Q&A Follows
Grand Festival Pioneer Award
HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX starts in 1969. America is undergoing cultural and political revolutions, but you’d never know it by watching TV. Young CBS executive Don West creates a secret project to tell the stories of the counterculture ignored by TV news. He hires a group of young people who have embraced a brand new medium – video. They named themselves the Videofreex and on CBS’s dime, they traveled the country in an RV taping footage the networks could never get. Mary Curtis Ratcliff, one of the Videofreex pioneer activists will provide a Q & A following the screening of the film
4:30 - THE RETURN - Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega - Doc - 84 min.
Q&A Follows
Grand Festival Award - Best Documentary
The Return depicts the struggles of two newly released former lifers as they deal with restoring relationships, avoiding personal triggers, finding meaningful employment, and managing the mental health problems which had previously contributed to their imprisonment.
6:30 - INTERMISSION
6:45 - LEFT ON PURPOSE - Justin Schein, Eden Wurmfeld, David Mehlman - Doc. - 95 min.
Best of Festival - Special Jury Award for Documentary
A feature length documentary that confronts the growing issues of depression, isolation and aging through an intense character driven story of the relationship between filmmaker and subject. It provides a rare cinematic look at what it means to be a friend to someone in pain.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4
4:45 - ROSIE - Kimberly Vela - Young Producer - 12 min.
Grand Festival Award - Young Producer
This story follows a teen girl through the emotional repercussions of getting an abortion and the healing process that derived from a new friendship.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 FILM SCHOOL FRIDAYS
Short Films from Columbia College - Hollywood, California
5:00 - 1000 WAYS TO BREAK UP - Jon Walkup, Kenneth Beckerdite, Richard Eggly -
Comedy - 8 min.
A relationship break-up artist travels the country to help couples with problems break up forever
5:10 - LOST - Jeremy Nielsen, Director and Rebecca Clark, Producer - Drama - 14min. Peter, a mentally disturbed cocaine dealer and lost boy, ends up sleeping with and killing his rival- another of his kind.
5:25 - WHACK THE FOLLY - Peter Zaragoza, Director & Jeremie Jej-Porcin, Producer - Comedy - 29 min.
An offbeat lawyer must overcome his over-indulgent behavior in order to repay a shady business man known as The 'Shark'
5:55 - INTERMISSION
Friday November 4th
FILM SCHOOL FRIDAYS
Short Films From University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts - Los Angeles
6:15 - OUT OF THE BAG - Aidan Bradbury-Aranda - Doc. - 16 min.
Best Film School Environmental Documentary
A short documentary exploring the ways in which artists are re-appropriating the surplus of single-use plastic bags as their medium to create artworks, with varying intentions: from raising environmental awareness, to expressing the conflict of personal emotions.
6:30 - THE FOG - Ted Martland - Drama - 14 min.
Best Film School Jury Award
An acting class becomes an unexpected battle for a young combat veteran.
6:45 - LIMITLESS POTENTIAL - Philip Bastian & Fangso Liu - Sci fi - 12 min.
Best Film School Narrative Short
In the palm of his hand a middle schooler named Bob can generate limitless amounts of energy. One day while getting bullied at school, Bob accidentally blows up a kid. He must escape the cops while learning to understand and accept his power. This film is about a kid who doesn't fit in and who needs to learn to understand and accept what makes him different.
7:00 - REAL BOY - Kelly Luu - Drama - 14 mins.
Best Film School Fantasy Short
A disconnected, young boy grieves the tragic loss of his father through a friendship with a child-like robot
7:15 - IN THE BASEMENT - Matt McGregor - Horror - 13 min.
Best Film School Horror Film
A young girl is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man hell-bent on building a family by kidnapping women and forcing them to play into his demented fantasy. But this time he just may have kidnapped the wrong girl.
7:30 - INTERMISSION
7:45 - MY CLAIRE - Rajendra Thakurathi - Drama - 14 min.
Best Film School Jury Award
My Claire is about a broken man, who deteriorates after the passing of his wife, who must return to help him move on with his life.
8:00 - SANCTITY - Eric Adrian Marshall - Drama - 17 min.
A by-the-book federal agent and his desperate ex-girlfriend struggle with an unplanned pregnancy in a near-future America where Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
8:20 - THE LOTUS GUN - Amanda Milius - Drama/Sci fi - 25 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Thelma+Louise Post Apocalyptic Sci Fi Drama
Nora and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a rugged post-apocalyptic world. When a stranger arrives and Daph disappears, Nora has to go to extreme measures to get back what’s hers.
8:45 - INTERMISSION
FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURES
9:00 - BROKE - Heath Davis - Feature - 98 min. - Australia
BVFF Jury Award - Feature
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan. Starring: Steve Bastoni, Brendan Cowell, and Max Cullen.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
4:50 - MONSTER MOVIE - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 21 min.
A mash-up salute to 1950s Monster Movies
5:15 - SKETCH - Elgin Jackson & Chase McGaffie - Comedy - 6 min.
Feel The Bern Award
Just two guys who have nothing going for them but one thing, Loving to hate on people trying to make it.
5:25 - THE TIME MACHINE – Lorne Miller - Comedy - 20 min.
Woman breaks up with man. Man goes back in time and meets himself. Gets over breakup.
5:45 - SLICES - Larry Barnes - Experimental - 35 min.
A series of abstract vignettes. Motion pictures. Each frame is a complete artistic image fused with a self composed and performed electronic music soundtrack
6:20 - My Phenix City Story - Neil Ira Needleman - Experimental - 4 min.
Best Political - Experimental Short
Some thoughts about the changing nature of violence over the years- in real life and on the screen.
6:25 - ALL WE DID WAS LIVE - Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer - Doc. - 20 min.
Best of Festival Award - Locally Produced Short Documentary
A look in how gentrification in Berkeley and Albany, CA has displaced residents of former Albany Bulb park, and how they live in the aftermath of their eviction.
6:45 - INTERMISSION
7:00 - DOGTOWN REDEMPTION - Amir Soltani & Chihiro Wimbush - Doc. - 94 min.
Q&A Follows
Best of Festival - Jury Award - Documentary
Shot over eight years, DOGTOWN REDEMPTION is not only the intimate story of recyclers in West Oakland but a journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addiction, prejudice and poverty.
9:00 - INTERMISSION
9:15 - JASMINE - Dax Phelan - Feature - 80 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Feature
On the one-year anniversary of his wife’s unsolved murder, a grieving husband (Jason Tobin, "Better Luck Tomorrow") becomes obsessed with a mysterious interloper (Byron Mann, "The Big Short," "The Man with the Iron Fists") who he believes is responsible for her death. Co-starring Eugenia Yuan ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny," "Revenge of the Green Dragons") and Sarah Lian ("Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong").
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
2:00 - ADI AT THE CONFLUENCE - Joor Baruah - Documentary - 20 min.
Best of Festival Award - Short Documentary
Through a series of encounters with the indigenous Adi people around the old town of Pasighat in the remote Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on the border of India and China, Adi At the Confluence, portrays the resilience of this unique tribe amidst a confluence of issues related to their land, water and identity.
2:30 - THE GREAT TRANSMISSION - Guna Foundation - Documentary - 55 min.
Grand Festival Enlightenment Award
The film traces Tibetan Buddhist literature’s epic journey through history, and one refuge lama’s modern efforts to preserve these texts. It closes with a pressing inquiry into whether Tibet’s culture can survive.
3:30 - OCCAM'S RAZOR - Makan Talayeh and Tautis Skorka - Short - 18 min.
Grand Festival Award - Dramatic Short
A series of unexplainable events plague a group of young travelers at an isolated motel in Death Valley in the winter of 1986.
4:00 - MASTERS OF RHYTHM - Eve Ma - Music Doc. - 28 min. Q&A to follow
Best Ethnographic Music Documentary Award
The music video, shot in Peru, stars three of the world's finest percussionists. They play the Cajon, sing, dance and talk about their rich Afro-Peruvian culture.
4:45 - INTERMISSION
5:00 - HEARING IS BELIEVING - Lorenzo DeStefano - Music Doc - 99 min.
Grand Festival Award - Best Music Documentary
In a world filled with Noise, there is another Sound worth Hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.
6:45 - INTERMISSION
7:00 - The Human Mirror – Marc Nadal - Short Feature - 16 minutes - Spain
Grand Festival Award - Best Foreign Short
Based on the real story of a 17-year-old girl with social anxiety having no contact with the outside world. Never leaving her home, she watches the cruelties being reported by the media daily, resulting in a tragically horrific breakdown.
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The East Bay Media Center is wrapping up its 24th Berkeley Video and Film Festival (BVFF) this weekend with screenings drawn from more than 75 independent films from the US, Switzerland, Russia, and Ireland. Thanks to an exclusive partnership with the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts the BVFF will also spotlight a host of "masters-degree" short films and animations. In addition to an array of Jury-selected features and documentaries, the BVFF also includes outstanding shorts and experimental cinema.
The last three days of festival's offerings will be held at the East Bay Media Center's performance space at 1939 Addison Street in Berkeley's Downtown Arts District. Space is limited so it's advisable to secure tickets in advance. Tickets are also available at the door at a 'pay what you can' rate.
Email maketv@aol.com, or call 510-843-3699 for more info and to order tickets.
Here's the schedule for the BVFF's Final Weekend
Friday November 13
5:50pm - Infrastructures - Aurele Ferrier - Experimental - 23 minutes - Switzerland
The film involves a journey through a landscape of infrastructures that are common to an everyday reality of routine. Yet here we find these environments are deserted. This allows attention to focus instead on the design and spatial arrangements of the objects, which become centrally present. Infrastructures involves a series of seven tracking shots. A steady flow of objects in various contrived arrangements passes by the eye.
6:30pm - Suggestive Gestures - David Finkelstein - Experimental Feature -75 minutes
A journey into a labyrinth, where a variety of dazzling verbal, musical ad visual textures lead to a mystery at the center.
7:45pm - Q & A with David Finkelstein
8:00pm INTERMISSION
8:30pm - NOWRUZ: Lost and Found - K-Von - Comedy - Best Comedy Documentary Award - 82 minutes
In his movie, K-Von discovers he was not informed about a huge holiday known as NOWRUZ (Persian New Year) celebrated by over 300 million people worldwide. Instead of getting mad at his Iranian father for not sharing, he grabs a camera crew and sets out to learn as much as he can, inviting the viewer to join along on his quest.
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Grand Festival Award in Documentary - Andrew Young
Best Documentary Director - C.B. Hackworth
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Grand Festival Award - Feature
Best Song Ever Award -"Maraschino Moon"
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Grand Festival Award - Best Student Films 2015
USC School of Cinematic Arts
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The Peckinpah Award 2015 - Short Feature
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'Suggestive Gestures' - Experimental Feature - David Finkelstein - Best Experimental Feature Award
An oneiric, surprising odyssey through seductive, hyperreal and overwhelming spaces that float somewhere between the screen and your body. Piloted by expansive and elastic improvisation, the work unfolds into continually unpredictable and astonishing new territories. -Jesse Malmed (Nightingale Cinema) on David Finkelstein’s “Suggestive Gestures”
A poet's journey though corridors of liquid geometry where words float and echoes are visual; where portals open onto morphing gardens with unlimited horizons. -Mike Kuchar on David Finkelstein’s “Suggestive Gestures”
Mel Vapour, Left and David Finkelstein with Best Experimental Feature Award 2015
Best Foreign Experimental Film 2015
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Best Student Film Director - Justin S. Lee
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'Resistencia:The Fight for the Aguan Valley' - Documentary - Jesse Freeston
Best Music Video 2015
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Best Short Philosophic Film 2015
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Best Student Love Letter Film 2015
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Best 'Plein Air' Short Film 2015
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Best Experimental Art Film 2015
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Best Revisionist Experimental Film 2015
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Best Foreign Short Film 2015
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Rachel Zurcher with her award for "Lavender".
Best Young Producers Short Film 2015
Kimberly Vela with her award for her film "Found".
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BERKELEY VIDEO & FILM FESTIVAL 2016 ENTRY FORM
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BVFF 2016 entry form
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