2014 film talk schedule

Workshops and Film Talks offer families an opportunity to engage in film topics beyond the screening.

The 5th Annual Providence Children’s Film Festival presents over a dozen family FILM TALKs. This series brings directors, screenwriters, actors and experts directly to our audiences to enhance, enrich and deepen the film-going experience. Post film conversations and programming offer the opportunity to engage in film topics beyond the screening, to help audiences of all ages better understand challenging and diverse subject matter and to spark even richer family conversations that reach beyond the Festival itself.

2014 Film Talk Schedule:

MAIDENTRIP

Maidentrip – Saturday, 2/15 at RISD Auditorium

6:20 – 7:42 pm Film Screening

7:45 – 8:15 pm Film Talk

Meet the Burgesses, a family of four who took a year to travel the world on their sailboat! They will share their own experiences and insights into what it’s like to journey on the world’s open waters.

Maidentrip – Sunday, 2/16 at Cable Car Cinema

1:50 – 3:12 pm Film Screening

3:15 – 3:45 pm Film Talk

Jim Dickson, a legally blind, solo sailor, will talk about his own travels on the open waters, and will take questions from the audience about the challenges and glories of his sailing adventures.

Gold Star Children

Gold Star Children – Saturday, 2/15 at Cable Car Cinema

4:30 – 5:28 pm Film Screening

5:30 – 6:00 pm Film Talk

Sometimes a film’s director lives right around the corner! Mitty Griffis Mirrer, is both a Rhode Island resident and a Gold Star child herself. She will be with us to answer questions about her film and the film’s powerful story of what children of fallen soldiers have and continue to go through.

Gold Star Children – Sunday, 2/16 at RISD Auditorium

6:50 – 7:48 pm Film Screening

8:00 – 8:30 pm Film Talk

Wunderkinder – Saturday, 2/15 at the Cable Car Cinema

6:05 – 7:41 pm Film Screening

7:45 – 8:15 pm Film Talk

Meet screenwriter and author Stephen Glantz (Clara’s War)

Join us in welcoming back, screenwriter, Stephen Glantz to discuss this powerful film.

YSAS Middle/High – Sunday, 2/16 at RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

11:50 – 1:10 pm Film Screening

1:10 – 1:40 pm Film Talk

As a follow up to the last short film, AZZA, a 16 year old student and her mother will offer their thoughts, experiences and decisions about whether the student would continue to wear a headscarf in her co-ed high school, School One, here in Providence, RI.

COST: FREE Screening (In partnership with Museum Gallery Night). Tickets required. Pick up at Museum day of show.

Hear This! …and more – Sunday, 2/16 at RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

2:10 – 2:55 pm Film Screening

3:00 – 3:30 pm Film Talk

Join Executive Director, Nancy McGuire Heath, of the RI School for the Deaf and a few of her students to discuss the intersections between the films and real-world deaf culture. Witness ASL interpretation, consider how these students experience language and learn a few simple ASL words.

COST: FREE Screening. Tickets required. Pick up at Museum day of show.

Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story

Once In A Lullaby – Sunday, 2/16 at RISD Auditorium

10:20 – 11:46 am Film Screening

11:46 – 12:16 pm Film Talk

Inspiring Chorale Director of the Wheeler School, Kristin Sprague, and her award-winning a cappella group, The 18 Wheelers, will perform a few songs and then join the audience for a Q & A session.

Once In A Lullaby – Saturday, 2/22 at RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

3:30 – 4: 56 pm Film Screening

5:00 – 5:30 pm RI Children’s Chorus performance and PCFF Awards ceremony

Rhode Island Children’s Principal Chorus led by Christine Noel, Founder and Artistic Director, will perform a short program. This award-winning ensemble of 60 singers is not to be missed.

Harold Lloyd’s SAFETY LAST!

Safety Last – Sunday, 2/16 at RISD Auditorium

12:45 – 1:58 pm Film Screening

2:00 – 2:30 pm Film Talk

Filmmaker and educator, Ryan Stevenson, will present and discuss the use of stereotypes in this iconic film. How has film changed in its representations of women, minorities and Jews since the days of early cinema?

Safety Last – Sunday, 2/23 – RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

3:20 – 4: 33 pm Film Screening

4:33 – 5:03 pm Film Talk

Filmmaker and educator, Ryan Stevenson will present and discuss the use of stereotypes in this iconic film. How has film changed in its representations of women, minorities and Jews since the days of early cinema?

COST: FREE Screening. Tickets required. Pick up at Museum day of show.

Druid Peak

Druid Peak – Sunday, 2/16 at Cable Car Cinema

4:00 – 5:51 pm Film Screening

5:51 – 6:21 pm Film Talk

Director Marni Zelnick will be on hand to answer questions about her beautiful, first feature length film (and perhaps she’ll tell a few stories about working with wolves). The Executive Producer will also be in attendance.

Druid Peak – Monday, 2/17 at Cable Car Cinema

6:30 – 8:21 pm Film Screening

8:21 – 8:51 pm Film Talk

Director Marni Zelnick may be on hand to answer questions about her beautiful, first feature length film (and perhaps she’ll tell a few stories about working with wolves). The Executive Producer will also be in attendance.

Le Tableau – Thursday, 2/20 at RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

6:00 – 7:32 pm Film Screening

7:32 – 9:00 pm Film Talk and art activity adventure in the RISD Museum

The RISD Museum’s Education Department will provide an art activity book and invite attendees to go beyond the film by exploring the museum’s collection to see “sketchies” and “all-dones”.

COST: FREE Screening (In partnership with Museum Gallery Night). Tickets required. Pick up at Museum day of show.

Youth Filmmaker Show – Sunday, 2/23 att RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

12:00 – 1:10 pm Film Screening of workshop and youth filmmaker films.

1:10 – 1:40 pm Film Talk

Join a few of this Festival’s youth filmmakers and actors to talk about their films and what it takes to create a movie!

Filmmakers: Dylan and Ethan Itkin, Salome Tkebuchava, Thomas Saccoccio, Cameron Harrington
Actors: Grace Keenan Kelly, Harry Wasser, Carson Laundry
Moderator: Mike Russo (filmmaker and educator)

COST: FREE Screening. Tickets required. Pick up at Museum day of show.

VENUES

3 venues (wheelchair accessible) conveniently located near downtown Providence within walking distance of one another:

RISD AUDITORIUM – 17 Canal Walk
CABLE CAR CINEMA – 204 South Main Street
RISD MUSEUM Metcalf Auditorium – 20 North Main Street