Oct. 3, 2007
CONTACT: Kimberly Busbee,
515/707-1533
ARIESWORKS ENTERTAINMENT
PRESENTS
2007 WILD ROSE INDEPENDENT
FILM FESTIVAL
5th
Annual International Film Festival
at the Fleur Cinema and Café,
Screening independent filmsin competition including: features, shorts, animation,
documentaries and student films from around the world
and featuring
LEW HUNTER
as Keynote Speaker and
workshop presenter
Produced by AriesWorks
Entertainment
Des Moines-based company, AriesWorks Entertainment, will
present the
5 th
Annual WILD ROSE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (founded by Kimberly Busbee
and James Serpento) beginningThursday evening,
October 25 and continuing through Sunday, October 28 at the Fleur Cinema and
Café, 4545
Fleur Drive.
Sponsored by the Iowa Film Office, The Iowa Motion Picture
Association, The Iowa Scriptwriters Alliance, and the Greater Des Moines
Convention and Visitors Bureau
, the Wild
Rose
films were selected from nearly 200
entries
.The Wild Rose will offer
screenings of top independent and student films
from across the state of Iowa, the United States, and from around the world.
Screenings will take place in
the evening on Thursday, October 25 and Friday the 26 th
, with Saturday, October
27 slated as an all-day event!
Saturday, October 27
will begin with aworkshop for filmmakers
presented by
Mr.
Hunter will serve as the Wild Rose’s
Keynote Speaker
and offer the mini-workshop, “Everything You Want to Know About
Filmmaking But Were Afraid to Ask”. Also, there will be
aworkshop on documentary filmmaking presented by
filmmakers Lonnie Senstock and Chance Williams, who made
Once in a Lew Moon, a biopic about Mr. Hunter,
currently in post production. The Wild Rose’s Saturday will continue with more
screenings of international and Iowa films
and will end with the prestigiousAward
Ceremony in the evening, featuring
Capstone Speaker, Steve Schott, a producer of the
newly released
Just a few of the films
foreign films Oct. 25-27 include Saving Mom and
Dad from France,
Droomtijd (Dreamtime) from
Shorts include Confessions of a Late Bloomer
by Jen McGowan;
(rated 3 stars byFilm Threat) about a pre-pubescent
15 year old who tries to become a man, Patrick Smith’s animated shortPuppet,and Juli Kang’s
Damn the Past,a
UCLA graduate thesis musical about what happens when a singing mute meets the
girl of his dreams.
Feature length films include among others, To Touch the Soul
, by
Ryan Goble and Teresa Hagen, an Accolade Award winning documentary about college students teaching
art to HIV positive children in Cambodia,Greetings From The
Shore, by Greg Chwerchak and
starring
Paul Sorvino, about love, loss and pirates, andKeepers of Eden,a documentary by Yoram Porath and Chris Gambale,
narrated by Joanne Woodward and shot in the
rainforests of Ecuador about the Huarani people and their fight against oil
companies for survival .
Iowa filmmakers will once again be ably
represented, with screenings including among
others the feature film
Indelible by Rick
Amundson, the documentary
A
Little Salsa on the Prairie by Kent Newman, the short films,Snipe Hunt, by
Terry Daily,
The Final
Chapter by Mas Gardner, End of the
Sawdust
Trail
by Andy Brodie, On Dasher,
On Dancer by Patrick McConville and the student short,
This is Bela by
Sean Studer.
On
Sunday, October 28, the
WRIFF
will present an “out of competition” special
presentation of the film
Monster Camp, a quirky and fascinating behind the scenes documentaryby Cullen Hoback and
Aaron Kirk Douglas about Live Action Role Playing
participants (LARPers); a true story about a world where seemingly ordinary
people
transform themselves into dwarves,
sorcerers, lizard people, dragons and more in order to escape their daily
lives.
Those wishing to attend Lew
Hunter’s filmmaking workshop contact festival director Kimberly Busbee at 515-707-1533
or at
bobbusbee@aol.com.
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