Fallbrook Film Festival
Name of Festival: Fallbrook International Film Festival
Since: 2009
When: April 5 – 11, 2013
Where: Fallbrook, California, USA
Website: www.fallbrookfilmfestival.com/
About the Festival: "The Fallbrook Film Festival exists to showcase creative, diverse and compelling works of cinematic art from features to shorts to documentaries. The number one, two and three scoring criteria are excellence in storytelling, technical execution, and meaningful purpose. That purpose can mean to entertain, to inform, to make you think, to make you laugh or to make you cry. Located in Southern California, Fallbrook and its surrounding communities are a beehive of creative energies: artists, sculptors, writers, actors, musicians, dancers and just plain folks… all having one thing in common, the love of film. So in 2006, the non-profit Fallbrook Film Factory was formed to foster filmmaking activities similar to community theatre, and out of that evolved the successful Fallbrook Film Festival ... Fallbrook was also the home to one of Hollywood’s all-time filmmaking legends, Frank Capra, who spent much of his time on his Fallbrook ranch during the height of his filmmaking career. We have been most fortunate to gain the support of the Capra family, allowing us to host a very special award in his name."
Fallbrook International Film Festival to Now Include Action Films
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The Fallbrook International Film Festival has added what they describe as a "new and exciting" category to their 2013 festival: Action! The festival is welcoming filmmakers everywhere to submit their best action packed films for a chance to be featured in this category.
This new category was added not only because of the festival’s expansion, but also because of the action/stunt community’s past involvement. Both Director David Ellis, who is known from everything from his stunts in Scarface and his Second Unit Directing in Master and Commander along with legendary stunt Director Dick Ziker, whose work can be seen in films such as Die Hard and Second Unit Directing in Charlie’s Angels, have both been honored at the festival. Rich Minga, who sits on the Board of Directors, is also an acclaimed stuntman and can be seen in everything from Miami Vice to 2 Fast 2 Furious.
The festival welcomes filmmakers' submissions, with the late deadline extending through November. The next festival will again be hosted at the UltraStar Cinemas in Bonsall, California April 5, 6, & 7, 2013.
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Fallbrook Film Festival Announces 2011 Winners; Colin Heart Kay wins Best Film
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The 2011 Fallbrook Film Festival had 68 films in competition; four were nominated for best of show in each category; and the following films were announced as award winners at the festival’s Gala at the Pala Casino Spa and Resort on Sunday.
For Best Documentary Feature: John Muir In the New World, directed by Catherine Tatge. Nearly a century after John Muir’s death, he is remembered in this beautiful film as California’s most beloved environmental hero.
Best Narrative Feature: Colin ♥ Kay [Colin Heart Kay], directed by Sebastian Ho Conley. When Brooklyn-based cartoonist Colin Jenson breaks up with longtime girlfriend Kay Ho, he pulls out all the stops to win her back, including dragging her into his world of illustrated cartoons. Life definitely imitates art in this micro-budget gem that seeks to answer the age-old question: What is love?
Best Narrative Short: Sudden Death! directed by Adam Hall. Finally, a musical where everyone dies.
For Best Documentary Feature: American Masters series’ John Muir in the New World – premiering April 18 on PBS (check local listings) – directed by Catherine Tatge. Nearly a century after John Muir’s death, he is remembered in this beautiful film as California’s most beloved environmental hero.
Best Documentary Short: She Wore Silver Wings, directed by Devin Scott. Told by Jean Landis, this is the true story of the Women Air Force Service Pilots — the joys and triumphs of being needed to fly military aircraft for the Army in WWII. The challenges and dangers. The heartbreak and insolence of being abruptly disbanded.
Best Animation: Sharfik, directed by Karina Gazizova. An almost unbearable siege threatens to suck the last drop of life out of a once warm family.
Best Student Film: The Response, directed by Andrew Spieler. In the early hours of the 1992 LA Riots, Shauna, a seasoned African-American paramedic is forced to confront an incensed and dangerous mob after her idealistic white partner, Rick, violates protocol in hopes of saving a severely wounded child.
The Frank Capra Award: Heal, directed by Mian Adnan Ahmad. This short feature tells the poignant story of a young boy whose special gifts enable him to help his stricken teacher rise above the shattering effects of the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan to recapture hope. The Capra Award is given to the film that best uplifts the human spirit, as Capra’s films did so eloquently.
Audience Choice Award: Listen To Your Heart, directed by Matt Thompson. A touching musical drama that follows struggling songwriter Danny Foster (Kent Moran) and a wealthy hearing-impaired girl (Alexia Rasmussen) as they fall in love against all odds and the wishes of her controlling mother (Cybill Shepherd).
2011 Fallbrook Film Festival Screens 71 Films; Military Films Make the Cut
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The 2011 Fallbrook Film Festival will run April 8, 9 and 10 at the UltraStar Cinemas at River Village in Bonsall.
“We have a wonderfully eclectic lineup of films in the festival this year. There truly is something of each ‘flavor.’ We have ethnic films, hip hop, thrillers, documentaries, sci-fi, family films, films about immigration, fantasies — you name it! And many of the filmmakers will be present for Q&As with the audience.”
The festival opens Friday with the feature-length crime drama In/Significant Others. The film navigates through the lives of a town’s residents, each of whom is connected to the same homicide investigation.
Some other films accepted in the festival includes:
Pumzi, a Kenyan/South African sci-fi film (Best Short Film at Cannes International Film Festival and screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010), set in East Africa 35 years after World War III’s battles over water. Pumzi is nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Fallbrook Film Festival.
Journey Home explores photojournalist Monty Marsh's journey along the transatlantic slave trade route and being Black in America today. Journey Home is nominated for Best Documentary Short.
The Response, in which a bi-racial team of paramedics must go into harm’s way during the 1992 LA riots to help a critically injured youth. The Response has been nominated for Best Student film in this year's festival.
May I Be Frank, a feel-good and funny feature documentary, follows the 42-day vegan food transformation of a down-and-nearly-out man seeking love.
Full Circle: Stitches in Time is an up-tempo exploration of the renaissance of needlecraft and fabric arts. Fiber artists, sit ’n stitch participants and quilters take the viewer on a colorful update of one of today’s hottest crazes.
Independent films with military themes are also noticeable on this year’s festival lineup. The films include:
She Wore Silver Wings, nominated for Best Documentary Short, is about a woman who dreamt of flying as a girl and ultimately became a WASP — one of the unsung heroes of WWII.
World of Wargames, about two elite units of warriors who combat each other in a unique field of battle to determine the fate of the world.
Beneath the Same Sky, about 10-year-old James whose mother is deployed, providing him a lesson in sacrifice and a test of courage.
Killing Memories, a documentary of five Vietnam veterans who return to battle sites of 40 years before to confront their memories of the war.
For a full list of films and screening times, visit www.FallbrookFilmFestival.com.
The festival closes with best-of-show screenings at the Bonsall UltraStar Cinemas, April 11 through 14.
