Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 5, 1993 TAG: 9303050155
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WEST VIRGINIA FILM FEST OPENS NEXT WEEK
The West Virginia International Film Festival will kick off Thursday at the Capitol Complex's Cultural Center in Charleston, W.Va.The festival will end with the awards presentation to the winners of the filmmaking competition on March 27 at 7:30 p.m. The winners' films will be screened that night, too.
The Screening schedule:
March 11, 7 p.m.: "Feed," a documentary comedy about running for U.S. president in 1992, will be shown. "A Brief History of Time," follows at 8:30 p.m. It is based on Stephen Hawking's best seller of the same name.
March 12, 7 p.m.: "Wild Wheels." Here, filmmaker Harrod Blank drives his wildly decorated VW bug across the U.S. in search of other cars modified beyond recognition. At 8:20 p.m. Allison Anders' "Gas, Food, Lodging" will play. It explores what it is that makes a group of people in a small, dusty New Mexico town a family.
March 18: Dubbed Labor Night, with "Fast Food Women" starting at 7 p.m. This Appalshop film looks at lives of the women who fry chicken, make pizzas and flip burgers at four fast-food restaurants in eastern Kentucky. "Locked Out in America: Voices From Ravenswood" plays at 7:30 p.m. In this film, director Barbara Kopple profiles the impact of Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation's lock-out on its 1,700 steel workers and their families in the town of Ravenswood, W.Va. Kopple's "American Dream" follows at 8:20 p.m. This Academy Award winner for best feature documentary (1990) reveals how decisions of the company and the union led to heartbreak and poverty for workers in an Austin, Minn. labor strike in 1985-'86.
March 19: Begins with the 7 p.m. screening of "East Wind, West Wind - Woman Who Embraced the World," a world premiere documentary of life of Pearl Buck, America's first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature. At 9 p.m., "To Render a Life" plays. This is a portrait of a contemporary poor family in the rural South.
March 25: Animation Night begins with a five-minute claymation film, "Dark Light Dark," at 7 p.m. "Barefoot Gen," an animated story of a month in the life of Hiroshima, Japan in August 1945, follows. This is not recommended for children. The last animated film, "The Tune" plays at 8:45 p.m. In it, director Bill Plympton, satirizes different forms of American popular music.
March 26, 7 p.m.: "Broken Rainbow." Another Academy Award winner for best documentary feature (1985), this Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd film deals with forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians in northern Arizona. At 8:30 is the world premiere documentary "Almost Heaven," about 123-year-old Parkersburg nunnery and its inhabitants.
Awards night will begin with screenings of "Light Reflections" and "Analogies," short films by West Virginia artist and filmmaker James Davis, at 7 p.m.
Admission to screenings is $5 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens. For more information, call (304) 558-0220.