La Jolla High School is about to host its first film festival, thanks to senior and aspiring filmmaker Julian Clark. The event will be held Friday, May 11 at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium and is open to the public.
Filmmaker Pierce Kavanaugh, who grew up in La Jolla, said he received his first camera when he was 13 years old, a gift to his father that was re-purposed as his own.
The Girl Scouts, Outside the Lens, and the Junior League of San Diego have joined forces to present a screening of the documentary, “Miss Representation,” 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Sherwood Auditorium in the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, 700 Prospect St.
For 22 years, San Diego’s Jewish Film Festival has been presenting movies from all over the world about different facets of the Jewish experience. And now, even more than ever, you don’t have to be Jewish to find a movie to love.
A powerful film event that the New York Times calls the “cinematic conscience of the world,” runs Jan. 20-23 at the Museum of Photographic Arts.
It’s hard to believe Anna Halprin is 91 years old. A postmodern dance legend, based in Marin County, she is still performing, teaching, and creating new dances, as she has for the past seven decades.
The Second Annual San Diego Christian Film Festival runs 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. through Dec. 30 at La Jolla Marriott Hotel, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive. A special screening of the invited film “Hardflip,” is set for 5:30 p.m. Dec. 29. The film tells the story of a young skateboarder who struggles through a number of difficult life situations to find faith and re-unite with his father. “Hardflip” was filmed in and around San Diego and stars a number of professional skateboarders including Christian Hosoi, Bryan Sumner and Tim Byrne to name a few. The film also features in the lead roles, Rosanna Arquette, Randy Wayne, and John Schneider.
La Jolla Library will present a showing of “A Christmas Carol” at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 14.
Warren Miller Entertainment’s newest film, “Like There’s No Tomorrow,” will air at 6 and 9 p.m. Dec. 3 at San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla.
Seventeen “smart and provocative short films that will delight, engage, and challenge moviegoers,” constitute the ninth annual “alt.pictureshows,” set for 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St.Organized by filmmaker and MCASD’s film curator, Neil Kendricks, this year’s works push the envelope of what can be achieved in the short-film format, ranging from the winner of Best Short Film at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Matt Piedmont’s “Brick Novax’s Diary,” to the hard-hitting, kitchen-sink realism of British film director Daniel Mulloy’s “Baby.”
North Coastal News
