Festival opens its lens on region's best films.Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard Kelley Baker will be a busy man this weekend. Baker, aka the Angry Filmmaker, is the special host of the OpenLens Film Festival, which is happening tonight, Saturday and Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. 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. In addition to showing one of his own productions, Baker will be leading two filmmaking film·mak·ing n. The making of movies. workshops and appearing at a invitation-only reception and film screening. Now in its third year, the festival spotlights independent filmmakers from Southwestern Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. . Known for his sound design work on the films of Gus Van Sant SANT South African Native Trust (`Good Will Hunting," "Finding Forrester," "My Own Private Idaho') and Todd Todd , Sir Alexander Robertus 1907-1997. British chemist. He won a 1957 Nobel Prize for his study of nucleic acids and nucleotide structures. Haynes (`Far From Heaven'), Baker is also a director in his own right. His style has been described as "Bruce Springsteen meets David Lynch." Baker's 1999 film, "Birddog," was set in Portland and explored the themes of racism, greed Greed See also Stinginess. Almayer’s Folly lust for gold leads to decline. [Br. Lit.: Almayer’s Folly] Alonso Shakespearean symbol of avarice. [Br. Lit. and class. His latest work, "Kicking Bird Kicking Bird (b. Tene-angop'te) (?1835–75) Kiowa chief; born on the central Great Plains. Advocating peace with whites as a means of Indian survival, he signed his tribe's first treaty (1865), establishing the Kiowa reservation. ," was shot in 18 days on a budget of $5,000. A 7 p.m. screening of Kelley's newest production will kick off the festival today. The film tells the story of Martin "Bird" Johnson, a 17-year-old high school kid on the run from a number of different factors in his life. The showing will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a public reception. Saturday's schedule includes Baker's low budget filmmaking workshop, followed by a pair of screenings of independent films selected by this year's festival jury. The audience will vote for its favorite productions. Sunday's lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. kicks off with another Baker workshop, this one focused on sound design for films. A final afternoon screening of this year's selected productions follows. Award winners will be announced during an invitation-only wrap party on Sunday afternoon. The festival comes to a close with a screening of the best films from last year's Eugene Film Festival. This year's festival is divided into the following sessions, not all of which are open to the general public: Today 7 p.m. - Eugene premiere of "Kicking Bird" and director Q&A 9 p.m. - Public reception for host Kelley Baker Saturday 9 a.m. - Workshop: "Making the Extremely Low Budget Film" 2 p.m. - Festival "Filmmaker Afternoon" (invitation only) 7 p.m. - Screening: OpenLens Festival juried program 9:20 p.m. - Screening: OpenLens Festival juried program Sunday 9 a.m. - Workshop: "Sound Design for Independent Films" 1 p.m. - Screening: OpenLens Festival juried program 4 p.m. - Festival awards and filmmaker wrap party (invitation only) 7 p.m. - Best of the Eugene Film Festival FESTIVAL PREVIEW Third annual OpenLens Film Festival When: Today through Sunday Where: Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, 110 W. Broadway, How much: $5 per event; $3 for students and DIVA members; workshops are $40 or $25 for students and festival entrants (requires advance registration) Information: Call 344- 3482 or go to www.divamedia .proscenia.net/openlens |
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