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The Loft Cinema’s annual film festival returns this weekend, aiming to expose Tucsonans to more than 30 ‘diverse’ and ‘eclectic’ movies
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The Loft Cinema is hosting its fourth annual Loft Film Fest through the weekend. The festival will provide one-time screenings of foreign, local, independent and classic films with the goal of showcasing emerging directors, writers, producers and actors.
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Alex Guyton
his weekend is shaping up to be one of the busiest for Tucson’s only arthouse cinema. The Loft Cinema will host its annual Loft Film Fest this weekend, with dozens of films on tap that can’t be found in large theater franchises, in an effort that gives Tucson access to some of this year’s most
diverse films. This marks the festival’s fourth year, said Jeff Yanc, the festival’s co-director, adding that roughly 3,100 patrons attended last year and he’s confident that at least as many people will attend this year. His optimism comes from the quality of this year’s films, he said. “I think we get better films every year,” Yanc said. “I think this is our strongest lineup,
this year, in terms of films.” As co-director of the Loft Film Fest, Yanc traveled as far as the Sundance Film Festival to see the films beforehand, in order to help hand-pick those to be screened this weekend. Yanc said he had a very specific idea in mind when looking for films. “The two words that I would most often use to describe it are ‘diverse’ and ‘eclectic,’ so that’s what we’re looking for,”
Yanc said. “We want a broad range of film so that there’s not too many films of the same kind at the festival.” Among the more than 30 films on the agenda this weekend are “Dear Mr. Watterson,” a documentary about the man behind the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”; “Willow Creek,” a “Blair Witch Project”-esque horror about the search for Bigfoot; and “Faust,” a telling
of the classic tale of a man who sold his soul to the devil. One of the titles featured at the festival is the documentary “Tatanka,” which was directed and shot by Jacob Bricca, an assistant professor in the UA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television. The subject of the documentary is Bricca’s father, Kit, who was an activist
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