nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society

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Joe bilancio
Festival Program Director
Rehoboth Beach Independent
Film Festival
pRogRammeRs message
i knew the Rehoboth beach independent Film
Festival audiences were film fanatics, but last
year you took it to a whole new level. braving
horrible weather and following detours, you were
determined to not miss a film! i love my job. it
really is the audience appreciation that motivates
me to continually program the best festival. So if
you keep braving the elements, i will keep rewarding
your efforts.
This year the festival is once again a blend of genres and films representing over 35
countries including Chad, the Occupied Territories of Palestine, Tibet and Georgia;
locations that generally do not offer many films. Country Spotlight will feature India
screening a blend of blockbusters and independent films showing just a little of the
breadth of that country’s film industry (the largest in the world). A sidebar on Action
films shows that independent films and action films are not mutually exclusive
and can work together in a perfect union of sophistication, intrigue and raw action.
Finally we look at controversial or difficult films and how rewarding they can be
if viewed in the proper framework and mindset. A few festival films use violence
and others slow, methodical pacing, to set the context of the films and help create
unease or drama that can’t be conveyed in other ways. So immerse yourself and
get the full experience of these films.
In the line-up there is an unusually high number of films that were nominated
by their respective countries in the Best Foreign Film category for the Academy
Awards: Chameleon (Hungary), Harishchandra Factory (India), Like Stars on Earth (India,
2009), I Killed My Mother (Canada), Letters to Father Jakob (Finland), Milk of Sorrow
(Peru, which was one of the five finalist for the award), The Other Bank (Georgia,
2009) and Protekor (Czech Republic). In addition 2 films, Polytechnique (Canada) and
Nora’s Will (Mexico) swept the major awards at their country’s version of the Oscars.
This year, as in the past the Documentaries include some of the best films you will
see. In a Summer Pasture, a Tibetan family resists the encroaching development in
the harsh landscape, In the film version of the best seller Freakonomics, the idea
of economics is expressed as human psychological response to incentives. It is a
powerhouse line up of directors each tackling one of the subjects. Client 9, The Rise
and Fall of Eliot Spitzer takes a look at politics gone awry while Waste Land follows a
New York artist back to Brazil where he creates portraits out of garbage, by those
who pick garbage for a living.
so here’s hoping for great weather, no major
detours and happy film going for all!
Joe bilancio
Festival Program Director
Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival