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 films in
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 5th Annual WILD ROSE INDEPENDENT FILM
FESTIVAL (founded by Kimberly Busbee and James Serpento) beginning
Thursday 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 26th, with Saturday, October 27
slated as an all-day event!
Saturday, October
27 will begin with a workshop 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 a
workshop 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 prestigious Award 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 by Film Threat) about a pre-pubescent 15
year old who tries to become a man, Patrick Smith’s animated short
Puppet, 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, and Keepers 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 documentary by 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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