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JUNE 13 - 16 At the Mary Pickford Theatre Cathedral City, CA Tickets and info available
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Art Exhibits at Incredible Artist and the Pickfair Promenade, hosted by Rick Pantele. Featuring amazing work from Craig Semetko, Kimberly Zsebe, Scott Christopher, Elizabeth Christopher, Gordy Grundy, Chris Redman and many more... THURSDAY Theatre 1
FRIDAY
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Programs Start :15 Minutes After the Hour
Programs Start :30 Minutes After the Hour
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1:00 PM
Ganghis Blues (Doc)
Supercharge Me (Doc)
Donner du Temps au Temps (Giving Time to Time) (Doc)
4:00 PM
Vive Le Roi by Five Knives (Music Video) Battery Man (Doc)
Flowing Grasses (Doc)
Get Together Girls (Doc)
7:00 PM
The Extinction of the Saber Toothed Housecat (Short) The Golden Scallop (Feature)
Little Block Of Horror Shorts Carnivores, Zombie Family, Affliction, Venus vs. Mars, The Box, Bouquet of Consequence, Mirror Box
10:00 PM
The Last Night of Baby Gun (Short) Joy de V (Feature)
Rabid Love (Feature)
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Midnight
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6:30PM 7:30PM Boys & Girls Club Program
Theatre 1
Theatre 2
Theatre 3
Programs Start :15 Minutes After the Hour
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10:00 AM
Santa Fe University of Art & Design Shorts Program: Young Aileen, A Cracked Day , Miss Fortunate, Not So Quiet World, Memoriam Call, Slender, Shots, Parallel, The Boston Post
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1:00 PM
The Uprising (Short) We Win or We Die (Doc) Living On One Dollar (Doc)
The Amateur (Feature)
Up In Smoke (Doc)
4:00 PM
The Wonderful Life of Kyle (Doc) Beyond The Call (Doc)
What Isn’t There (Feature)
Shorts Compilation #2
7:00 PM
American Road (Doc)
Junction (Feature)
Para Mi Hermano (Short) Dreamer (Feature)
10:00 PM
LIVE - Comedy Film Nerds (Live Performance)
Crazy For Swayze-Point Break (Feature)
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Midnight
An Elegy for Eden (Short) Paranormal Movie (Doc)
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Red Clay, 88 Miles to Moscow, Low Lifes, Scenes from the Suburbs
SATURDAY Theatre 1
10:00 AM
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Midnight
Theatre 2
Theatre 3
Programs Start :15 Minutes After the Hour
Programs Start :30 Minutes After the Hour
Dazed & Confused (Feature)
Dance Of Liberation (Doc)
Helena Beat (Music Video) Curfew (Short) Down And Dangerous (Doc)
Hands Of Eros (Doc) Wolf Dog Tales (Short) Lost Bird Project (Doc)
Solar Revolution (Doc)
Insatiable (Short) B-Side (Feature)
The Getaway (Feature) Special Screening Poetry Reading at ACE Hotel w/ Michael Madsen
Land Of 1000 Chances (Music Video) GMO OMG (Doc)
2 Scoops Of Love (Short) How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song (Feature)
The Second Cooler (Doc)
The Box (Short) Avarice (Feature) Lonely (Music Video) The Advocate (Feature)
The Sandwich Nazi (Short) Greatest Movie Ever Rolled (Feature)
Incident On Highway 73 (Feature) Vigilante Diaries (Feature)
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Programs Start :15 Minutes After the Hour
Programs Start :30 Minutes After the Hour
10:00 AM
I Want to Be Me (Doc) Happy (Doc)
Friends in Therapy (Short) Hustler (Music Video) Cinema Six (Feature)
Wild Horses & Renegades (Doc)
1:00 PM
(2:00 PM) A Stroll Through the Park: An Asbury Symphony Feat. Shepard Fairy (Doc)
The Sun is on Fire (Short) 2nd Serve (Feature)
Field of Amapolas (Feature)
Rebel, Rebel, Rebel (Short Doc) Downloaded (Doc)
Hybrids (Short) The Man in the Silo (Feature)
Best of SDSU Shorts & WALLY! Award Winner: Mis-Taken Identity, Vagabond Psalm, The Summer Redaction, Big Kid Stuff, Corollary, PlaneWhite Tee, Chomp
4:00 PM
7:00 PM
Crazy For Swayze Road House (Feature) TRT: 114 min
NICOL RAGLAND As an artist and photographer, Nicol Ragland travels the world in search of stories that evoke images of truth and the art of being human. A love of photography and the wisdom of the indigenous has taken her to work as a photojournalist in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, India, Nepal, Thailand, Belize, Costa Rica, Kenya, Morocco, Rwanda, Peru, Indonesia and Timor Leste. Her current documentary project is focused on The Hadzabe tribe of Tanzania, one of the last remaining tribes of hunter-gatherers in the world. An avid environmentalist advocating for social justice, she aligns her work to serve numerous non-profit organizations including St. Jude’s Hospital, Global Service Corps. of Tanzania, International Fund for Animal Welfare, The Millennium Village of Rwanda, World Neighbors and The Cine Institute of Haiti.
For the past ten years, Nicol has been influenced and informed by her time spent with the Indigenous and continues to engage in a long term photographic exploration into humanity’s relationship to culture, the wild, sustainability of the planet and how best we can, collectively, navigate a way out of the disease of disconnection that plagues modernity. As a fine art series, ‘Between Two Worlds’ is meant to subvert separatist thinking by poetically reflecting back the destruction of life amongst the speed of our industrialized society. Nicol aspires to push the dimensions of visual possibility, personal meaning and metaphorical potential while questioning the boundaries of rule. Born and raised in Oklahoma. BA Environmental Science – University of Denver. BA Photography – Colorado Institute of Art. Nicol currently calls Venice, California home. Dan Eldon In 1993, artist and photojournalist Dan Eldon was covering the famine and unrest in Somalia for Reuters News Agency when UN forces bombed the residence of warlord Aidid. Enraged loyalist supporters violently retaliated, murdering Eldon and three other western journalists. Although his life was short, Eldon lived his years with voracious passion, leading an aid mission across Africa, working as a graphic designer for Mademoiselle Magazine, publishing a book, directing a short film and creating 17 extraordinarily powerful volumes of art work, all before the age of 22. In the pages that fill the bulging journals, Eldon reveals imagistic insight into his extraordinary perspective on the world. Filled with snapshots of his life growing up as a young expatriate in Kenya, explosive images taken in war-torn Somalia and detailed drawings of the world around him, the journal works blend the photographic reality with the transient ephemera of his everyday to create a vivid blueprint of Eldon’s imagination. James Klienert, Artist, Photographer and Activist “My interest in documenting American’s wild horses began while working on my film ‘Spirit Riders’ about the birth of an American Indian peace movement, as well as learning about the removal of these beautiful wild animals while living in Wyoming,” says James
Anaquad Kleinert. “I’m excited for the opportunity to share my five year journey on Documentary Channel, and I hope this film will not only educate viewers about the disturbing, massive removal of our horses but to inspire change to the future of these precious animals.” Background: James Anaquad Kleinert was not your normal, everyday kid. When other kids were throwing snowballs and sledding, he was experimenting with aerial ski jumping in his back yard in rural Wisconsin. No one in his family could quite understand his drive and intent to train for this “dangerous sport” except for his grandfather, who was of Seneca American Indian heritage and understood the trials and tests of young boys. From this simple start, James became a World Cup competitor in freestyle aerials, and a top action, environmental and Native American filmmaker. Filmmaker: Today, James Anaquad Kleinert continues to release film projects dealing with Native American, environmental and action sport themes from his company, Moving Cloud Productions. His works include: Wild Horse Spirit, is airing on the National PBS show Natural Hero’s and recently won an Emmy. Featuring actor Viggo Mortenson (Lord of the Rings, Hidalgo) the film educates and moves audiences to take immediate action to save America’s wild horses. (7 minutes) Spirit Riders: Riding To Mend the Sacred Hoop, an award-winning documentary that James Anaquad Kleinert worked on over a period of ten years. Currently showing a 15-minute clip on HBO. com, Spirit Riders is the companion documentary film to Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Capturing the ruggedness, beauty and raw emotions of the spirit rides of the Lakota Indians as they ride in the four directions on horseback, James Anaquad Kleinert shares their quest to raise consciousness and spread a message of peace and unity throughout all nations on Mother Earth. The film features actor Viggo Mortenson Lord of the Rings, Hidalgo), narration by Peter Coyote and Floyd Red Crow Westerman, with a soundtrack featuring the works of Native American Grammy-winner Bill Miller, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen and singer/songwriter Lauren Monroe, Keith Secola, Robert Meribal, Stumpa, Peter Buffet, and Medicine Dream.
SUNDAY
Shorts Compilation #3
Ready or Not, Donald Cried, John & Claudia, Curfew
Robert Zuckerman, Photographer Will Smith calls him ‘Picasso.’ Jerry Bruckheimer, Denzel Washington and Michael Bay vie to have him on their film sets. Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced him to President Bill Clinton by saying “This is Robert Zuckerman, the best photographer I have ever worked with.” As a photographer in the motion picture industry, Robert Zuckerman’s images have become the advertising and publicity campaigns for such films as “The Crow,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Any Given Sunday,” “Training Day,” “Terminator 3,” “Bad Boys 2”, “National Treasure,” “Transformers,” “Pursuit of Happyness” and “The Great Debaters,” among others, as well as television series including “The Shield,” “Rescue Me” and “Nip/Tuck.” He has done recent album cover and movie poster photography for Will Smith and was invited to be the personal photographer for the family of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz. Whether on or off the set, his connection is to emotional content, to the feeling present in the subject and in the moment. Zuckerman has photographed countless weddings, family portraits, and pregnancy pictures – anything where there is spirit and love in the room, from the inner city to the mansions of Malibu. “For me, photography as much as possible has become an integration of life and craft. Through it I am able to give value to people’s lives and derive value in my own life, beyond making a living.” www.robertzuckerman.com
10:00 PM
Bible Quiz (Doc)
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To Be Announced Award Winner or 2nd Showing of Popular Film
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SNEAK PEEK Leagalize It (Doc)
Cherry Waves (Short) Mariachi Gringo (Feature)
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Friday 14th
Saturday 15th
7PM Los
7PM T.B.A.
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8PM Blasting
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Mumblers The Rebel Noise Miracle Dolls Family Wagon The Record Company Gram Rabbit
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Echo Lost & Found Pssstols Tramps In Stereo Patrick Sweany
Saturday, June 15th
AMFM SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, June 13th
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Benefit Concert for the Boys and Girls Club of Cathedral City with a performance by the Van’s Warped tour favorites Miracle Dolls. The Dolls will be donating their guitars to the Club and we strongly encourage all artists to donate a little something to these wonderful kids. • Location: The Boys and Girls Club of Cathedral City 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm - VIP Opening Night Gala featuring live music, limited open bar and food as well as a gallery showcasing the work of Robert Zuckerman, Craig Semetko, Dan Eldon and many more... • Location: The Mary Pickford Theater, 2nd Floor Mezzanine 9:00 pm – 12:00 am - Celebrity Indoor Kart Racing at Xceleration with live music from The Pharmacy (DJ Pedro Bass and the Medic) and JF//Discord, food and drinks provided by Paradiso and the likes of Michael Madsen from Reservoir Dogs, Billy Wirth from The Lost Boys, Peter Shinkoda from Falling Skies, David Zayas of Dexter, Tinsel Korey from Twilight and Avarice, and many more... • Location: Xceleration Indoor Kart Track Official After Party at the ACE Hotel and Swim Club featuring REUNION with DJ Day and DJ Jeremy Soul.
Friday, June 14th
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm - VIP Artist Lounge featuring DJ and acoustic sets from top artists from LA and the Coachella Valley, as well as a limited open bar and food service for our special guests. • Location: The Mary Pickford Theater, 2nd Floor Mezzanine 7:00 pm – 2:00 am - Live concerts with a Beer and Wine Garden hosted by the Tilted Kilt • Location: Cathedral City Town Square 10:00 pm - Showcase by the “COMEDY FILM NERDS” live at the Mary Pickford • Location: The Mary Pickford Theater All day - Art exhibits at Incredible Artist featuring amazing work from Craig Semetko, Kimberly Zsebe, Scott Christopher, Elizabeth Christopher, Gordy Grundy, Chris Redman and many more. • Location: Incredible Arist and the Pickfair Promenade, hosted by Rick Pantele All day - Pet adoptions with the Palm Springs Animal Shelter hosted by the Friends of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter • Location: The Pickfair Promenade
Industry Insider Panels
Saturday June 15th - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND FILM: A Panel Conversation This panel will focus on the blurring of boundaries between art and film and explore several questions: -What motivates artists to explore narrative cinema and some filmmakers to choose to define their work as “art” versus “cinema”? - What can projects originating in the art world learn from financing and distribution in film, and how can filmmakers better learn to navigate the art world? -How does the idea of co-ownership in media-based works become more widely understood, relevant and accepted? Films are art in themselves-whether it’s in the subject matter or presentation. More artists are turning to film and new media, acknowledging that cinema can be the most powerful way to convey their aesthetic. The art and film worlds are increasingly communicating and colliding, but there is a need for ongoing discussion about how these forms can be funded together to benefit the filmmaker and the artist, especially in the arena of creating and inciting social change. What can these worlds learn from each other? Join us for this thought-provoking conversation. Panelists: Nicole Ragland: Documentarian, Artist, Photographer Bernadine Santistevan: Writer, Director, Producer (Wolf Dog Tales) Adrian Belic: Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematographer (Beyond the Call) Amir Masud: Director, Writer, Producer (Affliction, We Win or We Die) Moderator, Talia Kosh, Esq.: President, New Mexico Attorneys for the Arts
11:00 am – 2:00 pm - Industry “Insider” Panels featuring studio executives, film producers and directors, music supervisors and many other members of the entertainment industry’ (See Below) • Location: Cathedral City Council Chambers, 3rd Floor of City Hall 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm - Off site pool party at the Curve Palm Springs featuring sets from top DJs • The Curve Palm Springs 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm - VIP Artist Lounge featuring DJ and acoustic sets from top artists from LA and the Coachella Valley, as well as a limited open bar and food service for our special guests. • Location: The Mary Pickford Theater, 2nd Floor Mezzanine 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm - Michael Madsen poetry reading at the ACE Hotel and Swim Club • Location: ACE Hotel and Swim Club 7:00 pm – 2:00 am - Live concerts with a Beer and Wine Garden hosted by the Tilted Kilt • Location: Cathedral City Town Square All day - Art exhibits at Incredible Artist featuring amazing work from Craig Semetko, Kimberly Zsebe, Scott Christopher, Elizabeth Christopher, Gordy Grundy, Chris Redman and many more. • Location: Incredible Arist and the Pickfair Promenade, hosted by Rick Pantele All day - Pet adoptions with the Palm Springs Animal Shelter hosted by the Friends of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter • Location: The Pickfair Promenade
Sunday, June 16th
10:00 am – 2:00 pm - Industry “Insider” Panels featuring studio executives, film producers and directors, music supervisors and many other members of the entertainment industry (See Below) • Location: Cathedral City Council Chambers, 3rd Floor of City Hall AMFM Awards ceremony and the presenting of the Fourth Annual Dennis Lee Hopper Award to Actor and Artist Viggo Mortensen • Location: TBA • Time TBA 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm - Off site pool party at the Westin Mission Hills featuring sets from top DJs • Locations: Westin Mission Hills Rancho Mirage 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm - VIP Artist Lounge featuring DJ and acoustic sets from top artists from LA and the Coachella Valley, as well as a limited open bar and food service for our special guests. • Location: The Mary Pickford Theater, 2nd Floor Mezzanine 6:00 pm – 12:00 am - Live concerts with a Beer and Wine Garden hosted by the Tilted Kilt • Location: Cathedral City Town Square All day - Art exhibits at Incredible Artist featuring amazing work from Craig Semetko, Kimberly Zsebe, Scott Christopher, Elizabeth Christopher, Gordy Grundy, Chris Redman and many more. • Location: Incredible Arist and the Pickfair Promenade, hosted by Rick Pantele All day - Pet adoptions with the Palm Springs Animal Shelter hosted by the Friends of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter • Location: The Pickfair Promenade
Saturday June 15th - 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ALT CINEMA: COMMERCIALS, VIDEOS & WEBISODES This panel discussion will focus on telling stories in art forms outside of feature films. Panelists: Kim Waltrip: Producer, Kim & Jim Productions (Hit & Run) Alethea Root: Director, Producer, Writer, Truth 13 Productions (Part Time Fabulous) Charlie Van Winkle: Writer, Director, Killer Inside Productions, Commercials Christian Sesma: Director, Producer, Writer, Seskri Productions (Vigilante Diaries) Doug Mark, Esq.: Entertainment Attorney, Mark Music and Media Law Moderator, Rich Henrich: Writer, Producer, Founder & CoDirector of AMFM Festival Saturday June 15TH - 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm POWER OF STORY: CHANGE THIS This panel discussion will focus on filmmakers that are turning the lens toward the real stories in our world in an effort to create change. Panelists: Amir Masud: Director, Writer, Producer (Affliction, We Win or We Die) James Kleinert: Writer, Director, Producer (Wild Horses & Renegades) Vanessa Crocini: Writer, Director (Get Together Girls) Tonia Madenford: Director, Producer (Solar Revolution) David Albert Pierce, Esq.: Entertainment Attorney, Pierce Law Group LLP Moderator, Rich Henrich: Writer, Producer, Founder & CoDirector of AMFM Festival
Sunday, June 16TH - 10:00 am – 11:00 am HOLLYWOOD POV This panel discussion will focus on the challenges, strategies, pitfalls & epiphanies from the frontlines of the industry. Panelists: Todd “TQ” Jefferson: Vice President, Marvel Games Henry Eshelman: Platform Media Group Donna Freed: Phaz2 Sandy Holmes: Phaz2 Morgan Land: Writer (RX, Iceman) Moderator, Rich Henrich: Writer, Producer, Founder & CoDirector of AMFM Festival Sunday, June 16TH - 2:30pm – 3:30 pm – SPECIAL LOCATION Mary Pickford Theatre 2 FAIR USE IN ART AND FILM: A Panel Discussion This panel discussion will turn on the use of the fair use and appropriation in art and film and how this fair use doctrine is being strengthened by artists and filmmakers who utilize fair use in their work, the history and importance of appropriation art in our culture and how fair use is vital to our creative future. Panelists: Michael C. Donaldson, Esq.: Entertainment Attorney, Donaldson & Callif, LLP Kimberly Zsebe: Artist, Photographer Matthew Millan: Director, Producer, and Cinematographer (We Win or We Die) Moderator, Talia Kosh, Esq.: President, New Mexico Attorneys for the Arts