nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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Joe bilancio<br />
Festival Program Director<br />
<strong>Rehoboth</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> Independent<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
pRogRammeRs message<br />
i knew the <strong>Rehoboth</strong> beach independent <strong>Film</strong><br />
Festival audiences were film fanatics, but last<br />
year you took it to a whole new level. braving<br />
horrible weather and following detours, you were<br />
determined to not miss a film! i love my job. it<br />
really is the audience appreciation that motivates<br />
me to continually program the best festival. So if<br />
you keep braving the elements, i will keep rewarding<br />
your efforts.<br />
This year the festival is once again a blend of genres and films representing over 35<br />
countries including Chad, the Occupied Territories of Palestine, Tibet and Georgia;<br />
locations that generally do not offer many films. Country Spotlight will feature India<br />
screening a blend of blockbusters and independent films showing just a little of the<br />
breadth of that country’s film industry (the largest in the world). A sidebar on Action<br />
films shows that independent films and action films are not mutually exclusive<br />
and can work together in a perfect union of sophistication, intrigue and raw action.<br />
Finally we look at controversial or difficult films and how rewarding they can be<br />
if viewed in the proper framework and mindset. A few festival films use violence<br />
and others slow, methodical pacing, to set the context of the films and help create<br />
unease or drama that can’t be conveyed in other ways. So immerse yourself and<br />
get the full experience of these films.<br />
In the line-up there is an unusually high number of films that were nominated<br />
by their respective countries in the Best Foreign <strong>Film</strong> category for the Academy<br />
Awards: Chameleon (Hungary), Harishchandra Factory (India), Like Stars on Earth (India,<br />
2009), I Killed My Mother (Canada), Letters to Father Jakob (Finland), Milk of Sorrow<br />
(Peru, which was one of the five finalist for the award), The Other Bank (Georgia,<br />
2009) and Protekor (Czech Republic). In addition 2 films, Polytechnique (Canada) and<br />
Nora’s Will (Mexico) swept the major awards at their country’s version of the Oscars.<br />
This year, as in the past the Documentaries include some of the best films you will<br />
see. In a Summer Pasture, a Tibetan family resists the encroaching development in<br />
the harsh landscape, In the film version of the best seller Freakonomics, the idea<br />
of economics is expressed as human psychological response to incentives. It is a<br />
powerhouse line up of directors each tackling one of the subjects. Client 9, The Rise<br />
and Fall of Eliot Spitzer takes a look at politics gone awry while Waste Land follows a<br />
New York artist back to Brazil where he creates portraits out of garbage, by those<br />
who pick garbage for a living.<br />
so here’s hoping for great weather, no major<br />
detours and happy film going for all!<br />
Joe bilancio<br />
Festival Program Director<br />
<strong>Rehoboth</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> Independent <strong>Film</strong> Festival