A film festival for everyone.Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard EVENT PREVIEW Best of the Best Film Fest What: A film festival affiliated with the Eugene Celebration The Eugene Celebration is an annual community celebration and civic event held in downtown Eugene, Oregon, United States. Featuring bands and performers from throughout the Pacific Northwest, the three-day festival is held in early September and attracts more than 40,000 attendees highlighting award winning local films and films from throughout the state Where: McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette St., Eugene How Much: Free Information: Go to www.eugenecelebration.com/FilmFest.html CORRECTION (ran 9/9/2006): The next installment in the Best of the Archaeology Film and Video Festival series is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → , 110 W. Broadway. A story in the Ticket section on Friday listed the wrong date. It's called the Eugene Celebration, but the event's film festival, the Best of the Best Film Fest, highlights productions from throughout the state. And a few that came from much further away. The lineup includes a 40-year-old "Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. " episode,
videos made by local high school students, a documentary about a
California murder by a Eugene TV producer and a film about a neo-Nazi
who falls in love with a black woman in a mental institution.
Aside from a diversity of offerings, there may be no clearly defined identity for this film festival. But organizers say that's just the way they like it. "We're not only a film festival, we also wanted to make it fit with the (Eugene Celebration)," producer Katina Andoniadis said. `(We asked ourselves), `Who comes to the Eugene Celebration and what would they like to see?'' She hopes they want to see films about suicide, weird science projects, cosmic beings, health care, Iraq and the animal toll of Hurricane Katrina Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. .
Andoniadis says all of the films have won awards, and most of them have an Oregon connection. And, she says, pointing to today's "Star Trek" anniversary offerings, there is a bit of a science fiction bent to this year's festival. On this very stardate in 1966, the first episode of the show that inspired thousands of grown men to wear pointy point·y adj. point·i·er, point·i·est Having an end tapering to a point. ears first aired. Called the biggest franchise in Hollywood history, Star Trek spawned an empire that included an animated series, four spin-off series, 10 feature films, 70 million books, 120 different soundtrack albums and 40 video game titles. To celebrate the milestone, the Best of the Best will screen that first episode, aka "Man Trap," along with an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" that was co-written by Eugene's Eric Stillwell. The evening concludes with a showing of the fan film "Starship Exeter: The Tressaurian Intersection," directed by Portland's Scott Cummins. The event continues on Saturday with videos created by Eugene filmmakers and films from the annual Youth Visions high school video competition. Later in the afternoon, there will be screenings of films from the Eugene Film Festival and shorts from Portland's Forest Film Festival. Saturday's schedule includes a showing of the documentary "Inside Iraq." Portland filmmaker Mike Shiley examines the reality of life on the ground in Iraq without pushing a political view. Armed with a video camera and a homemade press pass, he travels through the Sunni Triangle The Sunni Triangle refers to a densely-populated region of Iraq to the northwest of Baghdad that is inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslim Arabs. The roughly triangular area's corners are usually said to lie near Baghdad (on the east side of the triangle), Ramadi (on the west side) and , Baghdad, the northern Kurdish region and the Shiite-controlled south in search of untold stories. Another of Shiley's films, "Dark Water Rising," is about the more than 50,000 cats and dogs Cats and Dogs A slang term referring to speculative stocks that have short or suspicious histories for sales, earnings, dividends, etc. Notes: In a bull market analysts will often mention that everything is going up, even the cats and dogs. left behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It closes the film festival on Sunday afternoon. "Neo Ned" - a film about race, love and fate that screened at the Ashland Independent Film Festival - is the final showing of the day on Saturday. Sunday opens with "Queen of the Mountain," a selection from the Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, followed by more short films from the Forrest Film Festival. The afternoon lineup features "The Boles Murders," a documentary by Davey Porter Davey Porter is the executive producer and co-creator of Nanna's Cottage -- a half-hour Saturday morning children’s television program. He is also president and CEO of Polara Productions. . The film re-examines a decades-old California murder that stumped sheriff's detectives and led to a re-opening of the case. Formerly a California newspaper editor, Porter now lives in Eugene. He is the co-producer of the children's TV show "Nanna's Cottage Nanna's Cottage is a children's TV series created by husband and wife producing team Davey Porter and Karen Sponsler-Porter. The show is about a 75-year old grandmother Abigale "Nanna" Macaroon, a world traveler and archeologist, who dispenses love and knowledge to ." Schedule Today 6:30 p.m. - Star Trek: "Man Trap" 8 p.m. - Star Trek: The Next Generation "Yesterday's Enterprise "Yesterday's Enterprise" is an episode of the 3rd season of . It contains some of the events surrounding the time-traveling Enterprise-C. Synopsis In Ten-Forward, Guinan introduces Worf to prune juice, a drink which he enjoys immensely (calling it "A warrior's " 10 p.m. - Starship Exeter: "The Tressaurian Intersection" Saturday Noon - Spotlight on Eugene: "Food"/"Dance" (Thaddeus Konar) 12:15 p.m. - Youth Visions: "Hallways" (Rachel Lytton, David Garfinkel, Brooks Robertson, Ashlyn McGraw, Andrew Holst, Yezi Wang), "Corridors of a Troubled Mind" (Roman Flock), "In Passing" (Brendan Albano), "The Perfect Suicide" (Nathan Arbuckle, Michael Osborn-Grosso, Aaron Rocha, Faye Tyson), "My 4 Extraordinary Years of High School" (Julian Thieme) 1 p.m. - Eugene Film Festival: "Moongirl" (Henry Selick Henry Selick (born November 30, 1952), is an Award-winning American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach. ), "Trout Grass" (David James Duncan David James Duncan is an American novelist, essayist, and fly-fisherman. He is the author of two bestselling novels, The River Why (1983) and The Brothers K (1992). ) 2:30 p.m. - Forest Film Festival: "Missing Pages" (Jerome Oliver), "Flight of the Dunni" (John Waller John Waller is an American Christian music singer-songwriter. He was the frontman for the band According to John; after the band broke up, he became a worship pastor in Colorado. ), "At Risk: Uninsured in America" (Jim Hill Jim Hill may refer to:
4 p.m. - "Inside Iraq" (Mike Shiley) 6 p.m. - "Neo Ned" (Van Fischer) Sunday Noon - Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival: "Queen of the Mountain" (Martha Goell Lubell) 1:30 p.m. - Forest Film Festival: "Smart Card" (James Oxford), "Solace" (Jonah Salander), "I Killed Zoe Day" (Powell Weaver), "The Vessel Pitches" (Jonathan Wysocki) 3:30 p.m. - "The Boles Murders" (Davey Porter) 5:30 p.m. - "Dark Water Rising" (Mike Shiley) Reach Lewis Taylor at 338-2371 or ltaylor@guardnet.com. |
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