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Texas is Represented in This Global
Film Showcase Celebrating
International Women's Day, March 8 - 5:00 PM
 Announcing the Fourth Annual Short Film Showcase, hosted by Women in Film and Television International, WIFT Houston, and HCC Northwest (Town & Country Campus) Audio/Film Department. The screenings will take place in the recently opened HCC Screening Theater in the Performing Arts Center (to the right of the bookstore on campus), 1060 W. Sam Houston Pkwy North, Houston 77043--that's in West Houston on the NE corner of I-10 and the Beltway.
Pre-event pricing:
WIFT Members & HCC Students, $5
General Public, $8
At the Door: $10
Note: Unsold seats will be available free to HCC Students (with proof of enrollment) on a first-come-first-served basis beginning at 4:45 PM on
screening date.
"This is one of my favorite events of the year!" exclaims Eileen Hoeter of Vancouver, Canada, current Chair of Women in Film and Television International. "For 25 years, I have been involved in an International Women's Day celebration, and in all my years nothing matches the vitality of attending the WIFTI Showcase. This is WIFTI's fourth year producing the Showcase and it is always an unbelievable event! It's truly inspiring to think that women around the world are watching films by women, all together on the same day."
There are currently 182 events planned from over 18 different countries to mark this March 8th occasion. Women in Film Chapters are participating in China, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Sweden, and 12 cities throughout the U.S. For more details visit. www.WIFTI.org.
Making this year's showcase even more exciting for Texas, filmmaker Kat Candler's project, QUARTER TO NOON, a last-minute entry at the urging of WIFT Houston, was among the final selections. It will be the closing featured short shown around the world as another successful showcase comes to a close.
Kat Candler has been teaching film classes and camps since 2001. She's worked with Expanding Your Horizons Youth Conference, Video Association of Dallas, Southwest Alternate Media Project, American Youthworks, The Austin Film Society, The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, Skill Point Alliance and The Austin School of Film. She helped create and teach the Austin-based Summer Film Camp for Girls. She's currently a Lecturer at the University of Texas and teaches her own classes at Arts and Labor Productions.
Her inclusion in the program for Houston means we'll have some representatives who worked on QUARTER TO NOON here with us to introduce it and participate in the Q & A following its screening. Though Kat had originally planned to be here, she will be returning from NY at the time of our screening and had to postpone a trip here, but she does promise to do a workshop for WIFT Houston on short filmmaking later this year. Her composer/editor Brian Satterwhite is planning to be with us and possibly the cinematographer, and maybe others. More on Kat Candler at www.candlerproductions.com; and on composer Brian Satterwhite at www.nuancemusic.com.
WIFTI INTNERNATIONAL SHOWCASE LINEUP
TAKE 3
12 minutes
New Zealand
Owen Hughes~ producer
Roseanne Liang~ director
Comedy
The audition room is a minefield for three Asian actresses who are expected to be Asian in ways they are not completely comfortable with. When the humiliations mount, they transcend their rivalry in one gleeful act of solidarity, empowering themselves with the very stereotype that they've been subjected to.
MONTREAL 1944
18.5 minutes
Montreal, Canada
Vanya Rose ~ director/writer/producer
Drama
Three part poetic portraits taking place throughout the 20th century in Montreal Canada. Explore the modest home of an immigrant family in 1944 through the eyes of an imaginative little girl. All the creative ways in which children see the world around them are captured through her point of view. From winning a game of hide and go seek to being tempted by a bushel of ripe apples, she finds contentment and distress in the limits of her own house.
LOVE LETTERS
8 minutes
Australia
Peggy Yabevula - producer/cinematographer
Nick Khoo - director
Drama - Premiered at WOW Festival 2008
Steve, an 8 year old corresponds with 8 year old Theresa, in Africa, through a sponsorship organization which only allow communication until she is 18. Before the contact is cut off, he has to tell her how he really feels.
EDGAR and ELIZABETH
17 minutes
Australia
Melissa Kelly - producer
Renee Webster - director
Romantic Comedy - WOW Festival 2008
Work place attraction, loneliness and love in a surreal world. A recalcitrant photocopier leads two unlikely people into a romance.
ONE SHOE SHORT
8 minutes
Sydney, Australia
Jackie Van Beek - producer/director/writer/editor
Comedy - Premiered at WOW Festival 2008
On a town camp in Alice Springs Australia, a boy searches for a pair of shoes so his friend can go to school.
FORGET MY NAME
11 minutes
New York, New York, USA
Julia Kots~ director/writer
Frederick Bouchardy - producer
Dark Comedy
The cynical host of a radio call-in program that offers helpful hints for a successful suicide pays a visit to a momma's boy to aid in "taking care" of his death-obsessed mother... and soon has doubts about offing herself. A pitch-black comedy that would make Harold and Maude proud.
QUARTER TO NOON
14 minutes
Austin, Texas, USA
Kat Candler~ director/writer/producer
Greg Omelchuck~ producer
Ray Pena~ producer
Aman Satterwhite~ producer
Drama/Comedy/Fantasy
Enclosed in a stale office with a single door and a single window and several framed "Best Worker" Awards A worker works. She is good at her job. Consistent, dedicated, and high performing. However, when she discovers a new world outside her office window... she escapes to it.
About Kat Candler: Kat Candler (Writer, Director): In 1996, Candler graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Creative Writing and a love for storytelling. Through her friends at the FSU film school, she got sucked into the world of film. In 2000 Candler debuted her first feature film cicadas at the Austin Heart of Film Festival where it picked up the audience award for Best Feature Narrative. cicadas went on to screen at several festivals picking up more awards and eventually airing on PBS.
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| Directions to HCC NW Screening Theater in the Performing Arts Center
Women In Film & Television Houston
P.O. Box 981104
Houston, Texas 77098
Hotline: 713-788-8075 |
About WIFT Houston
Women In Film & Television Houston, a Texas corporation formed in 1995, is an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. It is an affiliate chapter of Women In Film & Television International, with 40 chapters worldwide and over 10,000 members internationally. The Houston Chapter has approximately 200 members, consisting of women, men, industry-related and supporting businesses, educational institutions, and college students who are in pursuit of a career in visual media. The organization
Women In Film & Television Houston
P.O. Box 981104
Houston, Texas 77098
Hotline: 713-788-8075
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