We're back at Brothers Drake with more award winning short films:

The Stagecoach Bar: An American Crossroads- an excerpt from Jennifer Tennican's CIFVF Bronze Plaque winning film about the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson, Wyoming.

Silver Chris award winner SHACHARIT – A MORNING PRAYER. In Steven Loring's short film set int an Old World, ultra-orthodox synagogue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we intimately observe the daily sunrise prayer service - and hear the story of one congregant, an Hasidic rabbi, who traces his journey to this segregated life back to a McDonald's in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Silver Chris Award winner Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is an intimate portrait of her intense personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a powerful critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crooked Beauty reshapes mental health stigmas through a new healing culture and political model for living with madness as a tool of creativity, inspiration and hope.

http://www.crookedbeauty.com/


Free.

The Columbus Film Council presents:

The 60th Columbus International Film + Video Festival’s
Saturday Morning Cartoons From Around The World at First Night

First Night of Film

A Tooth Tale 6:17 Ron Fleischer
Flawless Life 4:00 ÖZGÜL GÜRBÜZ
Ladies Knight 10:00 Joe Rothenberg
Finding My Magic- Children’s Rights Series 5:00 Eve Ash
China Fantasia 8:00 Joe Chang
My Home 20:00 Calvert Waller III

A Tooth Tale
This traditionally animated short tells the story of Tommy Malloy, a 6-year old boy who loses his first tooth. When he learns that the Tooth Fairy will give him money for it he hatches a plot to trap and shake her down for all her loot. The rhyming dialog and art direction pay homage to the cartoons of the 1950's and 1960's.

Flawless Life
One day a homeless man finds something and it changes his life . . .

Ladies Knight
Sir Knightly wants to kiss the Princess, but she thinks he's a dweeb. When a fire-breathing Dragon arrives, the Princess finds him way 'hotter' than Sir Knightly, so she rides off with the Dragon to his castle. Against the advice of the Singing Sword, Sir Knightly sets off to rescue the Princess with the help of his trusty steed, Doofus. Ladies Knight is a fairy-tale musical featuring five original musical numbers, including the show-stopper 'She's Not Into You.'

Finding My Magic
Finding My Magic is an award-winning educational resource created to assist young children (aged 4 to 11 years) to build confidence and communication skills, and to develop an awareness of their rights and responsibilities. Inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Save the Children Australia. Finding My Magic was created by psychologist, Eve Ash and features Australian Olympic champion, Cathy Freeman OAM.

China Fantasia
An animation from China based on traditional Chinese instruments and music.

My Home
My Home is the story of a persistent and self-indulgent beaver who is not a very good neighbor. That is, until he meets a precocious no-nonsense turtle.
In Oneida society, the oral tradition is very important and represents the soul of the Oneida people. From generation to generation children are taught about their Oneida traditional beliefs from an Elder who has the ability to speak with meaning and confidence.

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

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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.