Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 29, 2009 under Bel Air Film Festival | 
Chasing The Lotus
The second annual Bel Air Film Festival, presented by Gem Shopping Network, has announced it’s official selection of films to be screened in Bel Air and throughout greater Los Angeles from November 13th-17th. The festival will hold 35 films screenings and 4 red carpet events bringing together the community of Bel Air and entertainment industry. The festival showcases some of the most creative films and filming talent of today bringing industry tastemakers, green-lighters, and film fans all together for this unique festival experience.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 30, 2008 under Bel Air Film Festival |
The first annual Bel Air Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of films to be screened in Bel Air and Beverly Hills from November 14 until November 19, 2008.
November 14th
Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting With Light
This short documentary film on the life of Louise Dahl-Wolfe draws upon her art and her personality. The documentary reviews how Dahl-Wolfe “discovered” Lauren Bacall, who at the time was a young actress (seventeen years-of-age) and worked as a model. It was Dahl-Wolfe’s photos of Bacall that film producer Harry Warner saw, and subsequently asked Bacall that she come to Hollywood for a screen test. As a result, Bacall was cast opposite Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not (1944).
James Gill Full Circle
This is the story of pop artist James Gill and his meteoric rise to fame in the art world. This Texan goes from unknown to a museum acquired artist in less then 3 months. He is chosen as one of the top american artists in the San Palo exhibit along with Warhol, Rosenquist and Lichtenstein.Then at the zenith of his career, he walks away leaving behind celebrity status after running with the likes of Tony Curtis and John Wayne. Thought to be dead by those in the art world, after a 30 year hiatus, he returns with a bold, new style. This time around he carries with him a renewed sense of self, serenity and wisdom. He is not chasing the ghost of Warhol but hope to catch up with Picasso and Rembrandt.
Leo
The Helping Hands Community Outreach has placed Leo into a job that he can enjoy and feel proud of. An alone and quite man, whose simple gratification comes from videogames, movies and childish romantic crushes. Slow and always left out, this office gopher is always happy to be the first one in, and the last one to leave. Leo is the teddybear surrounded by foxes and wolves, a pure victim in a hungry world of corporate finance. A melting pot of people, whose reasons for being there range from mere enjoyment of numbers, to the need to claw the corporate ladder of success. Who and how they ascend can sometimes be unkind and criminal, but once in a while someone comes to orchestrate the perfect crime. A deployment of deception over the course of years. This is no gun-toting hold up but a slow casual walking away with the grandest of treasure… Penny by penny over time, dripping from the innumerable accounts, someone from this small firm has remained incognito… till now.
November 15th
7:00pm | Aidikoff Theater | 150 South Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills 90212
Carissa
“Carissa” is a documentary short that tells the story of Carissa Phelps. Last year, Carissa graduated with both a law degree and an MBA from UCLA. But when she was 12, she was homeless and forced into prostitution in Fresno. The film tells Carissa’s inspirational story as we travel back with her to the places it happened.
“Carissa” has won jury prizes at four film festivals, including Best Documentary Short at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and was featured in USA Today and on Good Morning America. It is directed by David Sauvage, a classmate of Carissa’s at UCLA and son of documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage. The film is also Executive Produced by Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and Jamie McCourt, Owner and President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and sponsored by Virgin Mobile and the Los Angeles Dodgers Dream Foundation.
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Heckler
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark. Winner of the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and AFI Film Festival. Produced by Jamie Kennedy and Michael Addis. Directed by Michael Addis
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November 17th
3:00pm | Aidikoff Theater | 150 South Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills 90212
“The Jill and Tony Curtis Story”
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story proves the key to fulfillment comes from something much more rewarding than fame or fortune. Screen legend Tony Curtis himself claims he’s never been happier than he is now. Meeting the young, beautiful Jill Vandenberg in 1992, he could not have imagined how much she would change his life. An award-winning equestrian, Jill grew up loving horses and broke down in tears at her computer one day upon discovering how each year over a 100,000 horses of all ages, often in the best of health, are being brutally slaughtered for human consumption overseas. Right then and there Jill knew her life’s purpose. And when she told Tony-who rode in many films-the terrifying fate of these horses, he offered to do all he could to help her rescue them. Jill and Tony Curtis are a fascinating couple whose double-life adventures, though non-stop, never distract them from what matters most. Join them in a great variety of experiences, including an actual slaughter auction in Utah (never before filmed, since cameras are forbidden); Tony’s private art studio in Nevada, where the acclaimed painter transforms a blank canvas into a work as colorful as his conversation; a celebrity convention in Los Angeles that includes Debbie Reynolds and Angie Dickinson; the many happenings at Shiloh, the horse rescue they founded in a desert valley not far from Las Vegas; and their visit to the nation’s capitol-where, along with Bo Derek, Jill and Tony share their compassion to persuade representatives and senators to vote for a bill to stop the slaughter of horses in America. Whether feeding an infant burro with a giant baby bottle or telling anecdotes about Marilyn Monroe to captivated students, Tony never loses his legendary humor. All leads up to Jill and Tony truly knowing fulfillment as they celebrate the rescue of their 400th horse.
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November 19th | Free Event
Blessed Is The Match Sponsored by the Zigi Siering Institute
7:00pm | American Jewish University | 15600 Mulholland Dr., Bel-Air. California 90077
Honoree: Producer Marta Kauffman (Friends)
Q & A by Director Roberta Grossman following the screening.
Blessed is the Match
Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Hungary’s Jews. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal - first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.
With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh.
RSVP to Tosha at tpetronicolos@ajula.com
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