Filmmakers/Talent attending St. Louis International Film Festival Day 10 Events 11/22 The Boxcar Children - 2:00pm Washington University/Brown Mark Dippé (co-director), Dan Chuba (co-director) Based on the first book of Gertrude Chandler Warner’s extraordinarily popular series. A computer-animated tale of family togetherness that relates the touching story of the four Alden siblings when they take to the road in 1920s America after they are orphaned. Features the voice talents of Zachary Gordon (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”), Martin Sheen, J.K. Simmons, and D.B. Sweeney. Druid Peak - 2:15pm Tivoli Theatre Marni Zelnick (Director) Stars Andrew Wilson, brother of Owen and Luke Sixteen-year-old Owen is a bully who lashes out against teachers, classmates, and family members. When his actions lead to the accidental death of a friend he is sent to live with his estranged father, a biologist who works on Yellowstones wolf-reintroduction program. Wildlike - 5:00pm Tivoli Theatre Frank Hall Green (Director) Stars Ella Purnell (Malificent), Bruce Geraghty (Hurt Locker), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek) Mackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent by her desperate and struggling mother to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska…the relationship takes an uncomfortably sinister turn, and Mackenzie is forced to run away. Lost and with no one else to turn to, she shadows a backpacker who proves an unlikely father figure with scars of his own. Growing Up and Other Lies - 5:30pm Tivoli Theatre Katherine Mustard (co-Director), Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs (co-Directors) Mustard receives the Women In Film Award Grodsky & Jacobs are STL natives Mustard also has the narrative feature I Believe in Unicorns Stars Adam Brody (The O.C.), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Amber Tamblyn (Two and a Half Men) After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan. Tribute to The Nicholas Brothers - 6:00pm Webster University/Moore Bruce Goldstein (Presenter), Dance St. Louis (co-presenter) Tribute features clips, home movies, and interviews Presented by Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New Yorks Film Forum, a friend of the brothers and writer and co-producer of a 1991 documentary on the team. Fayard & Harold Nicholas are among the greatest dancers of the 20th century. Despite racial hurdles, the self-taught African-American entertainers became one of the biggest musical acts of their time, headlining on Broadway, radio, television and movies and in vaudeville and nightclubs. Through a Lens Darkly - 7:30pm Washington University/Brown Thomas Allen Harris (Director) Explores the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. Levitated Mass - 7:30pm Washington University/Steinberg Douglas C Pray (Director) Pray receives the SLIFF Contemporary Cinema Award A sculpture of monolithic proportions 40-plus years in the making, its key component, a 340-ton granite boulder. The journey of this visually minimalistic piece took a mammoth group effort and years of planning, culminating in an 11-day journey. Director Doug Pray (Art & Copy, Hype!, Scratch) chronicles the entire epic process. Variety writes: Partly an exploration of an artists oeuvre, partly a procedural for logistically nightmarish transport, partly a record of an 11-day spontaneous happening, and partly an amalgam of different views on art, the film manages to appeal to art lovers, pop-culture disciples and high-concept skeptics and supporters alike. Amira & Sam - 7:30pm Tivoli Theatre Sean C. Mullin (Director) Stars Martin Starr of “Silicon Valley” and “Freaks and Geeks” & Paul Wesley of The Vampire Diaries Calling the film a “fine debut,” the Hollywood Reporter praises “Amira & Sam” as “a movie that handles race, class and militarism with a light touch.” On his return from Iraq, former Green Beret Sam lands a high-paying job at a Wall Street firm run by his cousin Charlie. He meets Amira, an illegal immigrant who fled Iraq after her brother was killed by U.S. soldiers, at the home of her uncle, who had once served as Sam’s interpreter. Caged Heat - 8:00pm KDHX Stace England (Musician) - performance England lives in Southern Illinois A Roger Corman film directed by Jonathan Demme A women-in-prison classic following a group of inmates who rise up against the sadistic warden. England and Screen Syndicate playing an album of songs inspired by Roberta Collins. Teacher of the Year - 8:30pm Tivoli Theatre Jason Strouse (Director), Randy & Jason Sklar (co-stars) Stars Matt Letscher (Her, Scandal), Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele) and St. Louis natives Randy and Jason Sklar In this raucous comedy, Truman High English teacher Mitch Carter stands out: Surrounded by a highly eccentric faculty, he has recently been named California Teacher of the Year. The honor leads to an attractive job offer with a much higher salary, but Mitch is torn between this opportunity to provide a better life for his family and his love for teaching. Tap or Die - 8:30pm Webster University Jackie Pare (Director) A performance by Central Visual and Performing Arts High Schools Underground Tappers The story of Derick Grant, an African-American choreographer determined to revive tap dance or die trying. In an epic struggle to resuscitate an art that peaked in the era of big bands, Grant holds auditions to bring his hip, rousing show, Imagine Tap, to Broadway. cinemastlouis.org/about-festival
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