#dvf30

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

ngel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon, has been nominated for the American Historical Association's John E. O'Connor Film Award.

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Frank Mosley talks to #DIFF2018 about Casa de Mi Madre which also screened at #DVF30

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Saving Brinton has secured Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run in both New York City and Los Angeles, but your support is needed to bring this ”enchanting” (Smithsonian) film to a wide audience. #DocuFest

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Check out the trailer for the new @Showtime doc NEW WAVE: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT, premiering on Friday, March 30 at 8 pm ET/PT! We’re looking back at the most influential radio station in America, WLIR 92.7 

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Dallas VideoFest Memories

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Hello all, Wow! What a wonderful weekend we had for the Alternative Fictions Festival at the Angelika. Such great films and filmmakers, we had a great panel, just starting to process all this, so sorry it’s late. But of course, we being who we are, we keep going. So, this week I will be doing a talk at the Dallas Museum of Art on Thursday night about their Experimental Film and Video Series, Truth at 24 Frames a Second. This will be at 7 PM in the Horchow Auditorium. I’ll talk and show a few clips I really like, so come on by.  I will be writing about this for Theater Jones, so keep an eye out for that. Also on Thursday night, we have our episode of Frame of Mind with work from Baylor University  at 10 PM.  Next Thursday’s Frame of Mind is really special. I was given all the TV news footage from WFAA from 1960 to 1976 And also, next Wednesday we have the next horror film in the Chris Vognar Screening Room series, Don’t Look Now. What else is happening? Well, this week there are not one, but two festivals happening. The Lone Star Film Festival in Fort Worth has some really great films to check out, and lots of Bill Paxton. Also, if you missed Waking David at VideoFest, it is playing there as well. And the Second Annual Sheed Persian Film Festival will be at the Angelika with 12 Persian Films and a tribute to Abbas Kiarostami! The First Tuesday Festival is showing Seeing Through the Wall. The Texas Theater has Mansfield 66/67, which I have been hearing great things about, on Friday and Saturday nights. Tarkofksy’s, The Sacrifice (true cine files always come out for Tarkofsky) on Saturday and Sunday and the Alamo is showing The Shining at 7:00 on Tuesday which is great on a big screen and Dealt a great documentary that has been playing around for a while will be here with the director and the subject of the film on Friday night Have a great week. See you at the DMA on Thursday, Bart Weiss Artistic Director Dallas VideoFest 

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Badass Beauty Queen

The story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin using her beauty and brass to stand up against an oppressive juggernaut— the Chinese communist government. Drama, danger and fear follow Anastasia as she becomes the darling of the human rights community, traveling the globe to bring the world’s attention to an increasing list of China’s atrocities: the persecution of prisoners of conscience and live forced organ harvesting. An unlikely candidate to crusade against some of the world’s worst human rights violations, Anastasia puts everything on line to stay true to her conscience—including her father’s safety and her chance at the crown. #DocuFest

[ourdallasvideofestthings]

Bart Chat

It was a great Sunday, except for the Cowboys losing. The Museum of Street Culture had a great opening in Encore Park with good music and great art on the walls of The Stewpot building. Alan Govenar did a great job of putting this event together and you not want to miss his Extraordinary Ordinary  film on opening night at the first DocuFest. Indeed the DocuFest is coming up very, very soon (as in Thursday) and we are experimenting with the schedule by only showing sixteen features with one short program. We will also be at a new venue--The Studio Movie Grill on NW Highway in Theater 6. For those that remember, it was once The Grand Theater.

Here is a list of films where we will have the filmmakers. Thursday: Extraordinary Ordinary People-Alan Governar Dare to be Different-Ellen Goldfarm

Friday Bombshell the Hedy Lamarr Story- Alexandra Dean

Saturday: We don’t have Frederick Weisman coming, but do not miss Ex Libris or Saving Brinton. We don’t have the filmmakers, but we do have an archivist who is in the film, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, in attendance.  First Cowboys- Michael Meredith will be here and you never know how many of those Cowboys might show up (check out the photo above) Bill NYE the Science Guy-David Alvarado for Don’t Frack with Denton-Gramm Garett

Sunday Straight, No Chaser-Dave Zollar will be play Monk tunes afterwards. In the shorts program we will have Steve Mims from Beto vs Cruz the Fight for 2018, Jonathan Quam for Friday Nights in Fredricks, and Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky from Analogue People in a Digital World. While she will not be there, you will need to see Big Sonia. Andrea Simon will be here to present a film that we need to see today concerning  film and activism called ANGEL WAGENSTEIN: ART IS A WEAPON We will end the festival with, Escapes, a film about one of the writers and producers of both Blade Runner films. If you have any questions please email me [email protected] and please come out and see these films. If you want a handy, dandy two page list of programs here ya go: Dallas VideoFest DocuFest-All films at Studio Movie Grill NW Highway Bart Weiss Artistic Director Dallas VideoFest