Screenings
Upcoming:
Converstation with Harold Channer, Cable Channel
34
May
2, 2005, 10.30 AM through 11.30 AM
with excerpts from BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST and KALAMA SUTTA: SEEING
IS BELIEVING
Two experimental feature films by Holly Fisher, both of which had World
Premiers at THE BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 1992 and 2000 respectively.
Past
Screenings
International
Berlin Film Festival, Forum for New Cinema
Berlin, Germany
February 7 - February 18, 2001
4th
Amnesty International Film Festival
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 28 - April 1, 2001
The Digital Talkies Festival
New Delhi, India
April 2001
The
10th Arizona Film Festival
Tuscon Arizona, USA
April 19 - April 29, 2001
hARTware
Projekte
May 11 - July 7, 2001
Con
University
of Utah campus
Union theatre (in the Union building)
April 8, 2002
Wake
Forest University
Scales Fine Arts Center
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
Washington,
DC Premiere Showing
April 16, 2002, 7pm and 9.30 pm
Visions,
1927 Florida Ave., NW
Goethe
Institute/German Cultural Center
Saturday April 27, 2002 - 11:15 am,
"Crimes of War...and Consequences" Conferencew
Free
Speech TV
«Kalama Sutta» is being broadcast daily, beginning March
15, running
through April. Film is followed by complete speech of Vandana Shiva,
filmed by Holly Fisher
at Hague Appeal for Peace, Spring 1999: "Global.....
Women
of Burma Day
Film show, cultural dance, music and fund raising dinner
June 22, 2002, Saturday, from 6 p.m. to 10.p. m.
Warm Springs Community Center
47300 Frenald Street, Fremont, CA 94539
docshop/New
York
Tuesday, August 20th
Pioneer Theater, New York City
Los
Angeles: Filmforum at the Egyptian Theater
Sunday, September 29 at 7pm
The American Cinematheque
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
11th
Feminale, International Women's Film Festival
Cologne, Germany
Friday, October 4, 2002 at 5:30 pm
Auditorium of the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Academy
of Media
Arts, Cologne) at the Overstolzenhaus, Rheingasse 6-8, Cologne
San
Francisco Cinemateque at San Francisco Art Institute
Sunday, October 6 at 7:30 pm - SF
800 Chestnut Street, in North Beach, two blocks up the
hill from Columbus (cross street in Jones).
6th
Annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival
November 3, 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Kalama Sutta screening Sunday, 7pm
Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre at 88 West Pender Street.
11th
Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
November 6, 2002$
presented by Amnesty International USA
Screening opening night, 7pm, Frye Art Museum
General Admission : $5.00
Student/Senior/Disabled : $3.00
Filmmaker will be present
screening info available at www.amnestyusa.org/filmfest
or call: 206-622-9250 (Frye Art Museum)
7th
Annual Amnesty International Film Festival Vancouver
November
8, 2002.
Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
Screening opening night: Friday November 8, 10:30pm
Burma
Festival 2002
Oxford University, December 8, 2002, St. Hugh's College
Alma Mater of Aung San Suu Kyi
December 10, Tuesday - Birmingham: City Council House
Sponsored by West Midlands Groups of Amnesty International
December 12, Thursday - Swansea University
December 15, London. Boston Arm
CALARTS (California
Institute of the Arts), Los Angeles CA
Holly Fisher will be artist-in-resident from Feb 28 - March 7.
Screenings:
Friday Feb 28, 4pm - Kalama Sutta: Seeing is Believing
Tuesday, March 4, 7pm - Bullets For Breakfast
Bijou Theater, in Main Bldg, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway, off Rt 15, take McBean exit, heading north
49th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
June 14 - 20, Vasser College, New York
Holly Fisher has been invited as "featured guest".
The
focus of the seminar will be "committed cinema".
Sunday, September 21, 2003 Filmhous
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9ND
Box Office: +44 (0) 131 228 2688
Web: http://www.filmhousecinema.com
3 CONTINENTS FILM FESTIVAL
12 – 21 September, Rosebank Mall, Johannesburg
19 – 28 September, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
KALAMA SUTTA will be screened as follows:
Johannesburg
14th and 19th September
Cape Town
21st and 26th SeptemberFor more information, visit www.3continentsfestival.co.za
or contact: Karam
Jeet Singh on 073 204 1297. Johannesburg Festival Office 011 403 0651/011
403 9368 or Cape Town Festival Office 021 788 5462.
The Two Boots Pioneer Theater
Presented by Amnesty International and The Flaherty Film Seminar
155 East 3rd Street @ Avenue A - (212) 254 - 3300
(212) 254 - 3300
Saturday, March 20, screening & panel discussion, 5 –
8:00pm
Sunday, March 21, screening @ 7:pm
Tickets on sale 30 minutes before show time
The Saturday screening is followed by a panel discussion about art and
political change. Participants are available for interviews,
and include:
Naw May Oo, a Karen refugee from Burma, is a Director
of Communications for the Free Burma Coalition in Washington, DC. Since
1998, May Oo has been lobbying internationally
for the plight of the internally displaced people in Burma and the stateless
refugees in Thailand. She is one of the main
protagonists in Kalama Sutta.
T. Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia & Pacific,
Amnesty International USA and former prisoner of conscience in Sri Lanka,
has served as the United Nations
representative for Peace Brigades International and as
a consultant to the Quaker United Nations office.
Karen Connelly is the author of six books of nonfiction
and poetry, the most recent being The Border Surrounds Us. Her best-selling
book, Touch The
Dragon, A Thai Journal, won the Governor General’s
Award for Non-Fiction, and was also a New York Times Notable Travel
Book of the Year in 2002. Her
novel The Lizard Cage, about a Burmese political prisoner
and the child-labourer he befriends, will be published by Random House
in 2004. She is also aworking photographer. Travelling
frequently in Asia, Europe, and Canada, she makes her home
in rural Greece. Her poetry is included
in Kalama Sutta.
Jenn Guitart is a graduate student in the Department
of Anthropology and the Program in Culture and Media at New York University;
she is also an
experimental writer and a novice filmmaker. She is interested
in the notion of experimental art
and media transforming the world.
Holly Fisher is an independent filmmaker, teacher,
and editor of feature documentaries including 1989 Academy Award nominee
“Who Killed Vincent Chin?”
From the early 1970s she has made numerous experimental films including
her first feature “Bullets for Breakfast” (1992), which
premiered at The Berlin International
Film Festival and received the Best
Experimental Film Award at The Ann Arbor Film Festival; also “Rushlight”
(1984) and “From the Ladies”
(1987). Selected screenings include The Museum of Modern Art; two Whitney
Museum Biennials; and The Flaherty Film Seminar.
Margarita De la Vega- Hurtado moderates the panel discussion.
A film scholar, she is the Executive Director of the Flaherty Film Seminar.
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