PLANEAT is the story of three men's life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. With an additional cast of pioneering chefs and some of the best cooking you have ever seen, the scientists and doctors in the film present a convincing case for the West to re-examine its love affair with meat and dairy. The film features the ground-breaking work of Dr. T Colin Campbell in China exploring the link between diet and disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's use of diet to treat heart disease patients, and Professor Gidon Eshel's investigations into how our food choices contribute to global warming, land use and oceanic deadzones.

With the help of some innovative farmers and chefs, PLANEAT shows how the problems we face today can be solved, without simply resorting to a diet of lentils and lettuce leaves.

Planeat is the winner of the Central Ohio Green Education Fund (COGEF) Award for 2012.


Admission is just $5. Parking is available for $1 in the Gateway Parking Garage.
You can buy tickets in advance on line here or at the theater the day of the show.

The CIFVF and Brothers Drake Fine Meads present an evening of Movies+Mead. Join us for an evening of animation, experimental films, an awards ceremony for visiting filmmakers from around the world and one of Columbus' best parties. Cartoons, movies, live music (Steve Perakis and Friends), food (Explorers Club, pattycake bakery, Taste By Design, Yellowbrick Pizza, Da Lvee, Guggisberg Cheese, Earth Fare, Till, Cafe Brisio), beer (from Stella Artois), Luna Kombucha, and the Brothers Drake Fine Mead! ! All for only $15 or 2 for $25 (free for CIFVF members), a fantastic deal. (Don't be late, last year we sold out.)

Featuring:

RED TULIPS
A story about forgetting
Shanti Thakur - visiting filmmaker

Arthur And The Bunnies - Best Of Festival Winner
Dana Turken - visiting filmmaker

Polly, Jennifer and Melissa
Diego Ramirez

Contact
Mitchell Rose - visiting filmmaker

Colosse- A Wood Tale
Yves Geleyn

Flawless Life
Özgül Gürbüz

Hollywood Express
Derek Frank

The Canzani Center is on the campus of the Columbus College Of Art & Design at the corners of Cleveland and Gay Streets (just south of the giant ART). Parking is free in CCAD lots.

Saturday Morning Cartoons From Around The World
For children of all ages

Canzani Center, CCAD corner of Cleveland & Gay
60 Cleveland Ave (just south of the giant ART)
Columbus, OH

Come and join us for a morning of amazing international award winning animation. This year we have animations from Australia, India, Turkey, China, and the United States. Admission is free for kids and students of all ages, free for CIFVF members, all others just $5 at the door. Parking is free in CCAD lots.

On Friday November 16, 2012 the Columbus International Film + Video Festival, in partnership with Stonewall Columbus, will present the award winning film Cloudburst. Starring Oscar®-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as Stella and Dot, an aging couple who escape from a nursing home in Maine and drive to Nova Scotia on a quest to be legally married. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life's ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Molly (played by Genie Award-winner Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown and make their way to Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal. It's a last-gap bid to stay together. En route to Canada, they pick up a young hitchhiker, Prentice, played by newcomer Ryan Doucette. A small-town boy turned modern dancer, he is returning to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother. Despite his bravado, Prentice is a confused and wounded soul who has much to learn from Stella and Dot as they wage their own unexpected battle – after three decades, can they keep their family together?

The screening takes place in the Canzani Center Auditorium on the campus of the Columbus College Of Art & Design, at the corner of Cleveland Avenue and Gay Street (at the south base of the 10-story ART sculpture). Parking is free in CCAD lots. While the screening starts at 7.30 p.m., we invite our audience to attend a free exhibition and reception at the Canzani Center Gallery at 6.30 p.m. The exhibition features works by Donald Moffet. An original member of ACT UP and the 1980s AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, Moffett has been—and continues to be—a persistent and influential presence on the New York art scene. His poetic, provocative, and at times humorous paintings—from landscape and nature to politics and history—fearlessly address issues that resonate today such as the rights of openly gay men and women to serve in the military, the aesthetics of gay subcultures, and the rampant scandals that mar our political landscape. www.ccad.edu/ccad-campus/campus-map.

Admission to the Gallery is free. Admission to the screening of “Cloudburst” is free for students with id, Stonewall members, CIFVF members, CCAD staff, Trailblazers. For all others a $5 donation is encouraged.

An evening of award winning short films from the Student Division of the CIFVF. Curated by Division Chairs Matt and Nicolette Swift. Free for CIFVF members and students with id. All others just $5. Parking is free in CCAD lots.

Born To Dance This Way
Jerell Rosales

Past Their Prime
Becca Friedman

Bittersweet
Peter Bicknell, Andrew Kappel

Dreamland
Alla Volkova

Reception 6.00 pm before the films
Films at 7.00 pm

Join the CIFVF and Stonewall Columbus for an evening of award winning international LGBT short films made by filmmakers from Venezuela, Canada, Bermuda, and the US.

Meet filmmaker/actor Jean-Pierre Bergeron (Alone With Mr. Carter) at the reception from 6pm-7pm. At 7pm we will be screening:

I Like My Boyfriend Drunk
Coffee & Pie
Alone With Mr. Carter
The Commitment
El Nido Vacio

Jean-Pierre Bergeron will do a brief q+a after his amazing short film Alone With Mr. Carter.

Admission is just $5. You can buy tickets in advance:
here
Or at the box office on day of the show.

Coffee & Pie Trailer from Andrew Stoneham on Vimeo.

The Columbus International Film + Video Festival is more than just movies. It's a community festival that wouldn't be possible without the contributions of hundreds of volunteers, donors and sponsors.

As a thank you to our generous local sponsors who help bring the best food and film in Columbus together, we invite our audience to support those who support us on Tuesday, November 13th for Sponsor Appreciation Day.

Breakfast, lunch or dinner — restaurant, bakery, café, bar, or food truck — let our sponsors know how much you appreciate their support of the Columbus International Film + Video Festival.

Our food sponsors to date:
pattycake bakery
Taste By Design
Yellowbrick Pizza
MoJoe Lounge
Cup O' Joe
Staufs
Explorers Club
Till Dynamic Fare
Cafe Brioso
Earth Fare
Brothers Drake Meadery
Da Levee

Ignore the map link btw, it's a weird WordPress glitch.

La poesie de Kiyumi, la broderie de Sayuru (Kiyumi's Poetry and Sayuru's Embroidery)
30 minutes
Director: Satoru Sugita

Kiyumi says that for her, writing poems is like placing fallen leaves on withered branches. She says she places words as if gently returning the leaves to their original place without ever watering them and expecting them to bloom. Every time Kiyumi writes one poem, her friend Sayuru embroiders one leaf on a book cover that she will use to cover Kiyumi's rainbow colored book of poetry.

The Columbus International Film + Video Festival is thrilled to be a part of the Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington’s Art off the Square @ The MAC: November on November 11th. A FREE open house experience (starting at 1pm), Worthington Christian student coordinators Will Hejduk and Madision Safer Thomas Worthington High School student coordinators have a MACTASTIC year planned of artistic fun for the family including music exploration, literature, the visual arts or film related activities and demonstrations. The film screens at 4PM as a perfect tie in to the The PNC Arts Alive Worthington Sayama Arts Exchange exhibition at the MAC.

The PNC Arts Alive Worthington Sayama Arts Exchange exhibition:
Sister cities since 1999, Sayama, Japan and Worthington, USA share cultures deeply rooted in the arts.
Create a lasting memory by experiencing this rare opportunity of more than 100 artists from both cultures converging at the McConnell Arts Center, in the USA and at the Citizens Exchange Center/City Hall in Sayama, Japan. The exhibition will be on display August 30, 2012 - January 6, 2013, divided into two exhibition series. August 30 – October 21: preview work by the Worthington Area Art League that will be exhibited in Sayama, and October 25 – January 6: work by the Sayama Artist Association and Sayama Citizen Society of Fine Arts.

The open house and film screening are free, a small fee and registration is needed to attend the writing workshop before the film.

A treatment is the often overlooked first step in screenwriting. It is the narrative description of a proposed feature, short film, documentary or television production, outlining the balance between character development and plot advancement. The treatment’s purpose is to sell the proposed project to those who can bring the story to production — studios, producers, directors and independent investors. It is both a legal and creative device to secure the prospective value of the story and to define why the screenwriter believes it has the potential for critical acclaim and commercial success.

Learn the tips and tricks to crafting and protecting your stories through this interactive workshop that will examine film treatment techniques of critically acclaimed and commercially successful films. This workshop is also ideal for those interested in the creative process by which a series of ideas becomes a marketable screenplay.

Presenter: J.R. McMillan has a BA from Marshall University with a concentration in Journalism and Mass Communications and has worked as an opinion writer, columnist, photographer, publicist and public radio producer. An associate member of the Writers Guild of America East, J.R. McMillan teaches workshops in script development to aspiring screenwriters.

$25 or free for Director level CIFVF members
To register:

http://www.mcconnellarts.org/wp/archives/10044

Scholarship spots dependent on financial need are available. Please contact the Columbus Film Council at shalpern@columbusfilmcouncil.org for information about scholarship opportunities.

Thursday, October 25
7.30-8.30
This workshop is free.

The Revolution Will Be Televised: New Techniques and Technologies in Political Documentary Filmmaking

With the proliferation of handheld camcorders and cellular video, traditional news networks and online outlets are increasingly relying on first-person perspective in reporting. From Egypt to Wisconsin, our understanding of world events is shaped by average citizens armed, not with guns, but with cameras. Citizen journalism is everywhere. But who should you trust — and why?

This interactive workshop will teach you to distinguish fact from fiction in political reporting, including the camera tricks often used to make a civil protest look like an unruly mob or hundreds look like thousands. Participants will also learn about the history of election protection from documentary volunteers in central Ohio and just how critical citizen journalism has become in ensuring the transparency and integrity of the democratic process.