Jazz in Vicksburg today - free to the public...

Jazz in Vicksburg

 

 

Dr. David Miller wants you to know about the updated 40th Anniversary Jazz Festival event this weekend

 

Friday, April 23 4:00 – 7:00 PM

 

The Vicksburg, 801 Clay Street Street, Vicksburg

 

Jazz music - Free to the public!

 

Performances - SouthEast Jazz All-Stars, ASU Jazz Combo, MS Jazz Educators

And now the choice for Animated short film...

 Many thanks to Stacey Mahoney and the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation for partnering with us to present this year's Oscar Nominated Short films.

On Sunday, April 18, the Vicksburg audience watched the 5 hopefuls and three more animated films,, choosing If Anything Happens, I Love You as the likely Oscar winner.

Vicksburg Audience Chooses Oscar hopeful short film

 

The Present

Our audience saw the five nominated Live Action Short films at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center on Saturday, April 17. Afterwards they voted for their Oscar prediction, and their choice was The Present, a Palestinian film many had seen once before when we presented the MANHATTAN SHORT festival at Martin's in October. The film tells the story of a Palestinian man and his daughter who just want to go into town to buy a refrigerator as a gift for his wife (her mother). The film makes the point that such a seemingly simple task is not so easy in a system where the rights of one group are restricted by another.

 

Coming in second was a tough topical film with a similar theme: Two Distant Strangers in which a black man simply wants to get home to his dog, but his path inevitably intersects with that of a white cop, who seems to find fault with him no matter how he behaves.   

 Two Distant Strangers

 

The Oscar nominated Animated Short films will be presented at the SCHF Auditorium on Sunday, April 18 at 5:30 PM. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased in advance: https://shortsvicksburg2.brownpapertickets.com/

Oscar Nominated Shorts at Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation

The Westside Theatre Foundation is partnering with the SCHF to present this year's Oscar Nominated Short Films.

The Live Action Shorts will be shown in the Auditorium of The Southern Cultural complex 

 

 7 PM on Saturday, April 17 

 

the Animated Short Films will screen at 5:30 PM on Sunday, April 18. 

This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place in late April.

 

 

The nominated films, which were just announced, are: 

LIVE ACTION SHORTS (Estimated Running Time: 125 minutes)

Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski (USA, 19 min.)

The Letter Room – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan (USA, 33 min.)

The Present – Farah Nabulsi (Palestine, 25 min.)*

Two Distant Strangers – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe (USA, 25 min.)

White Eye – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman (Israel, 21 min.)*

 

*The Present and White Eye were both in the MANHATTAN SHORT which we showed at Martin's in 2020.  The subtitles have been redone so that they look much better and much more readable.

 

ANIMATED SHORTS (Estimated Running Time: 94 minutes)

Burrow – Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat (USA, 6 min.)

Genius Loci – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise (France, 16 min.)

If Anything Happens I Love You – Will McCormack and Michael Govier (USA, 12 min.)

Opera – Erick Oh (USA, 9 min.)

Yes-People – Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson (Iceland, 8 min.)

PLUS A SELECTION OF ADDITIONAL ANIMATED SHORTS (from the shortlist):

The Snail and the Whale (UK/Germany, 26 min.)

Kapaemahu (USA, 7 min.)

To Gerard (USA, 8 min.)

 

Tickets are $10 for each night or $18 for both if purchased together. Space will be limited due to social distancing, so tickets should be purchased in advance if possible.

 

https://shortsvicksburg3.brownpapertickets.com/

New York International Children's Film Festival online (save with discount code)

 

The New York International Children’s Film Festival kicks off March 5-14! For the first time ever, the Oscar-qualifying film festival for children and teens will take place completely online, making its groundbreaking programming available to families nationwide!

Tickets are on sale NOW! Our Vicksburg audience can use code TOUR21 to save $3 off Single View tickets and $5 off All Access Passes! Learn more at nyicff.org

@nyicff #nyicff

What is a Sweded Film Festival? We've got one for you...

Well, It's been awhile, but the Strand has a new virtual offering for you: a Sweded Film Festival

https://sweded.vhx.tv/products/sweded-film-festival-strand-theatre 

Check it out, watch it, (for only $3.99) and benefit the Strand...

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 “Sweded” films are inspired by Michel Gondry’s 2008 film Be Kind, Rewind , 

which sees two video - store workers create brief - but - bizarre 

remakes of real movies, unintentionally creating a must - see fad 

Mega - blockbusters, beloved classics, arthouse indies, even 

concert films have all been given the unique treatment known as “sweding ” for the first - 

ever nationwide Sweded Film Festival  for Creative Re - Creations 

“Sweded” versions of 

Die Hard , 

Air Force One , 

No Country for Old Men , 

The Lighthouse , 

The Wizard of Oz , 

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 

and 

Stop Making Sense 

showcase the passion, humor, creativity and – as a result of the pandemic – incredible ingenuity of movie lovers, whose fast - and - cheap, homemade versions of these and other movies will be included i Creative Re-Creations comes almost one full year after thousands of movie theaters around the country closed their doors 
and darkened their screens in the wake of COVID 19. 

“It’s been an extraordinarily difficult year for independent movie exhibitors and for 
film fans, but we remain undaunted, and our Sweded Festival is a way to celebrate 
everything we love about movies,” said Brian Mendelssohn, owner of Row House Cinema, 
which launched The Sweded Film Festival for Creative Re-Creations 
four years ago as a local event in Pittsburgh and is taking it national for 2021.

 “The exuberance and immense creativity of the entrants is wonderful to see – silly, passionate, inspired and sometimes downright crazy.” 

Virtual cinema releases help independently owned cinemas make up for the revenue 
lost during this historic time.
Half of the revenue of each virtual or real - world ticket sold to 
The Sweded Film Festival for Creative Re - Creations will aid theaters that are continuing to struggle with lost revenue due to the ongoing COVID - 19 pandemic and its related closures. 

A virtual cinema ticket to The Sweded Film Festival for Creative Re - Creations 
will cost just $3.99 – a bargain price that organizers hope will spur more movie fans watch the 
fan - made short films and help support independent cinemas. 

https://sweded.vhx.tv/products/sweded-film-festival-strand-theatre 

MANHATTAN SHORT 2020 winners announced...3 fathers & 3 daughters

 Again, we want to thank Martin's at Midtown for making it possible for us to get this year's MANHATTAN SHORT in front of the Strand audience. It was a fun place to see a movie, and maybe we can get together again there.

The Vicksburg audience was in perfect alignment with the worldwide audience in their choices for best films and actor.

The big prize goes to the Palestinian film about a father and daughter's 

experiences bringing home a fridge

In Macedonia

another father tries to take a gift to his daughter.

Another father (in Finland) has to decide whether to get his daughter a dog.

The best actor award goes to the father with the fridge...

Thanks to everyone who came to our presentations of the films at Martin's. 

By the time it was all over, I think we had almost figured out how to make it work.

Hope to see you back at the Strand someday soon.