Festival Week: MARCH 16th-22nd
GLOBAL FILM AND MIGRATION
2009 William & Mary/Williamsburg Global/Local Film Event
Events of the Culminating Festival : March 16-22, 2009
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Monday, MARCH 16TH
7pm:Once We Were Strangers (Emanuele Crialese 1997) (USA/Italy) - Williamsburg Library Theater
*Please NOTE:because the only available print of this film (Emanuele Crialese’s first film–see Nuovomondo/Golden Door below) is in dubbed Italian with no subtitles, we will show excerpts with explanation and then screen the understated yet uplifting, recent Italian Migration film:
L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio (Agostino Ferrente 2006) (Italy)
Both films presented by W&M Prof. Anita Angelone (Italian, Modern Languages and Literatures)
with a post-screening discussion and a FREE Pizza reception sponsored by CIAO (Colonial Italian American Organization)
Wednesday, MARCH 18th
6pm: FREE pre-screening Korean Food Reception co-hosted by W&M’s Korean-American Student Association
7pm: Failan (Hae-sung Song 2001) (South Korea) (115 minutes) - Williamsburg Library Theater
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Thursday, MARCH 19th
5:30pm:The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland 1927) (USA) (97 minutes) -Williamsburg Library Theater
Presented by Prof. Paul Buhle (Senior Lecturer of American Civilization, Brown University),
author of From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture. [Event co-sponsored by W&M’s American Studies Program]
7:00: Post-screening Q&A and discussion followed by a FREE Jewish Food Reception co-hosted by W&M’s Hillel Society
Williamsbug Regional Library Foyer
Friday, MARCH 20th
3pm: Immigrants in Italy: Five Short Films. Selected & presented by Edward Bowen - Kimball Theater
Asade (Daniele Balboni 2008) (21 minutes)
Adil & Yusuf (Claudio Noce 2007)(30 minutes)
Soli impazziti/Restless & Alone (Ram Pace 2007) (15 minutes)
L’oro rosso/Red Gold (Cesare Fragnelli 2007) (13 minutes)
Mare nostro/Our Sea (Andrea D’Asaro 2008) (20 minutes)
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5:30pm: FREE ITALIAN FOOD RECEPTION - Prepared by the W&M Italian House -Kimball Theater
7pm: Nuovomundo/Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese 2006) (Italy/France)
Presented by the director Emanuele Crialese, with post-screening Q&A - Kimball Theater
10pm: Cucarachas rojas/Red Cockroaches (Miguel Coyula 2003) (USA/Cuba),
Presented by the director Miguel Coyula, with post-screening Q&A - Kimball Theater
Interview with Miguel Coyula
10:30 pm: Migration Music and New Media - The Sadler Center, Chesapeake A
Live music: GUARCO and FRENCH LETTER
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Saturday, MARCH 21st
2pm: Coming of Age in the Age of Movies and Migration (Immigration Film for Children)
American Tail (Don Bluth 1986) (USA) (80 minutes) +The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin 1917) (USA) (20 minutes) - Williamsburg Library Theater
1pm: 40th Anniversary Screening: Memorias del Subdesarollo/Memories of Underdevelopment
(Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1968) (Cuba)
Presented by Prof. Ann Marie Stock (Hispanic Studies, W&M) Kimball Theater
Interview with Professor Stock
2:45pm: Memorias del desarollo/Memories of Overdevelopment (Miguel Coyula 2009) (Cuba/USA)
Rough Cut Presented by the director Miguel Coyula, with post-screening Q&A - Kimball Theater
4:30pm: Filmmakers’ Roundtable: Global Film and Migration, W&M Campus, The Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium
Emanuele Crialese, Miguel Coyula, Eszter Balint, Prof. Florence Martin (for Yamina Benguigui), Georg Koszulinski
7pm: Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch 1984) (USA), W&M Campus, The Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium
Presented by actor Eszter Balint and possible surprise guest
Sunday, MARCH 22nd
Noon: Le plafond de verre/The Glass Ceiling (Yamina Benguigui 2004) (France)- Kimball Theater
Presented by Prof. Florence Martin (French & Peace Studies, Goucher College) with post-screening Q&A
(Due to last minute health problems the director Yamina Benguigui will not be able to attend the festival)
3pm: Immokalee USA (Georg Koszulinski 2008) (USA)
Presented by the director, Georg Koszulinski, Kimball Theater
7pm: Inch’Allah dimanche (Yamina Benguigui 2001) (France/Algeria)- Kimball Theater
Presented by Prof. Florence Martin (French & Peace Studies, Goucher College) with post-screening Q&A
(Due to last minute health problems the director Yamina Benguigui will not be able to attend the festival)
9:30pm: After The Movies: Music and Migration - W&M Campus, The Sadler Center- Lodge One
Live Performance: Ezter Balint
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