GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN 12 PARTS - July 18-24, Daily at 7, 9:30pm
Philip Glass's achievements in music - film scores,
operas, symphonies - make him one of the most important composers of
our era, crossing divides between elitist concert halls and popular
venues. Director Scott Hicks (SHINE,
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS) gains access to confidants and situations that
the average documentarian could never obtain. The film traces an
eventful year in Glass' life, as he stages the opera WAITING FOR THE
BARBARIANS, writes his eighth symphony, scores several films, travels
the world and maintains a family with his fourth wife, Holly.
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NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: 1960s NIKKATSU ACTION CINEMA - July 25 - 28, Friday - Monday
The label said it all: Nikkatsu Akushon. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, action films from the Nikkatsu studio flooded the Japanese market. The genre included yakuza movies, urban dramas, jazz-inflected youth pictures, Eastern "Westerns," French New Wave-inspired emotional dramas and crime films. Less gritty realism than macho romanticism, Nikkatsu Action cinema was known for flashy stylistics, tortuous narratives, and a pantheon of male stars. In this series we present some of the studio's best films, featuring Nikkatsu's most enduring stars. Finally Seattle audiences can be exposed to this often artistic, always entertaining subgenre of Japanese cinema.
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OPERATION FILMMAKER - July 25 - 28, Friday - Monday
PANEL DISCUSSION AFTER SATURDAY MATINEE
Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stood in the rubble of the city's film school and explained to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a film maker had been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changed Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stopped channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decided to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to work on an American movie, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED.
Northwest Film Forum will be hosting a panel discussion following the Saturday 4:30 matinee screening
with several Seattle-based documentary filmmakers. What is the
relationship of the filmmaker to the individuals and communities they
portray? What is their responsibility in what is so often an unequal
relationship? Please join us and the guests below for this special event!
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Northwest Film Forum will be hosting a panel discussion following the Saturday 4:30 matinee screening with several Seattle-based documentary filmmakers. What is the relationship of the filmmaker to the individuals and communities they portray? What is their responsibility in what is so often an unequal relationship? Please join us and the guests below for this special event!
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For a full list of workshops, please click here. All students must register and pay tuition in advance. To register, please call Dave at (206)329-2629. Unless otherwise noted, all workshops take place at Northwest Film Forum, located at 1515 12th Ave, on Capitol Hill between Pike and Pine. For a map, please click here.
MULTI-SESSION CLASSES
Basic Videography
Four Tuesdays, July 15, 22, 29 & Aug. 5, 6:30-9:30pm
ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS
Flix Remix: A Found Footage Workshop
Saturday, Aug. 16, 1-4:30pm
SUMMER CAMPS FOR TEENS
Film School: Photography and Super 8 Filmmaking
Monday-Friday, Aug. 18-22, 11am-3pm
EQUIPMENT CERTIFICATIONS
Panasonic AG-DVX100
Three sessions to choose from:
Wednesday, July 23, 6:30pm
Monday, Aug. 25, 6:30pm
Tuesday, Sep. 23, 6:30pm