Microcinema Schedule

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Come watch beautiful images dance upon a screen in your own neighborhood.  Shows begin promptly @ 8PM and are $5 (unless otherwise noted). The EPFC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Sell your TV and come to the cinema.

On the World Wide Web…
We’re excited to announce the new EPFC Dossier on CitizenShift, a social change website produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The current focus is This Is The LA River, the Fall 2007 EPFC Youth Documentary Film Project, but in upcoming months there will be lots more content, including stories about the brand new EPFC Filmmobile! Check it out: citizen.nfb.ca

In the EPFC Video Gallery Beginning Friday, May 1: KYTV – THE EARLY YEARS
KYTV is an on-going video project by Catherine Forster investigating the relationship between media and personality. Program runs continuously during EPFC store hours during the month of May. www.catforster.com FREE!

Thursday, May 1 – OPEN SCREEN – 8 PM
Our quarterly cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10 minute maximum. DVD, VHS, mini-DV, Super 8, 16mm. FILMMAKERS GET IN FREE!

Friday, May 2 – NEW INDIE: CARBUNCLE – 7:30 PM
Carbuncle, "a mobile home drama with a disabling sense of humor", concerns a director with Asperger's Syndrome making a movie about a mentally challenged woman in a mobile home park who is manipulated by her alcoholic social worker. The film was made on a micro-budget over the course of 5 years and premiered at the Milan Film Festival. Carbuncle, starring Shawn Lockie and Jim Eshom, is the first feature-length film from T. Arthur Cottam, award-winning director of Pornographic Apathetic and Filthy Food. $7 ADMISSION FOR THIS EVENT. FILMMAKER AND CAST MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE! http://www.myspace.com/carbunclemovie 

Saturday, May 3 – SENIORS DIGITAL FILMMAKING WORKSHOP – 11 AM – 1 PM
EPFC invites neighborhood seniors ages 60+ to join us for our FREE Introduction to Digital Filmmaking Workshop. Learn how to use digital cameras and basic computer editing software to make your own movie in a relaxed and informal setting. All materials and equipment provided by EPFC. No previous filmmaking experience necessary.

Saturday, May 3 – NEW INDIE: CARBUNCLE – 7:30 PM
See event listing for Friday, May 2. http://www.myspace.com/carbunclemovie 

Thursday, May 8  - EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO NIGHT – 8PM
A tantalizing evening of short experimental videos by Catherine Forster, Carole Kim, Xhiang Zhi’, Chelsea Tonelli Knight and Kim Collmer. CURATOR CATHERINE FORSTER IN ATTENDANCE!

Friday, May 9 – NEW INDIE: CARBUNCLE – 7:30 PM
See event listing for Friday, May 2. http://www.myspace.com/carbunclemovie 

Saturday, May 10 – NEW INDIE: CARBUNCLE – 7:30 PM
See event listing for Friday, May 2. http://www.myspace.com/carbunclemovie 

Sunday, May 11 – INTRODUCTION TO FINAL CUT PRO – 1 – 5 PM
Calling all interested adults (ages 20+) looking to learn the beauty and grace of digital editing! All equipment and materials provided by EPFC. Instructor: Sarah Morton. Class limited to 5 students; tuition is $60/$50 for members. Call or email to reserve a spot.

Sunday, May 11 – WORKS IN PROGRESS: DOCUMENTARY – 7 – 10 PM
An informal monthly workshop/lecture series for new and established filmmakers working on documentary films… Everyone welcome! $5 suggested donation.

Monday, May 12 – FILMMAKERS ALLIANCE SHOWCASE – 7:30 PM
Join us for the latest crop of local indies hosted by Filmmakers Alliance and get inspired to greenlight yourself! FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE! More info: www.filmmakersalliance.org

Thursday, May 15 – POTTER-BELMAR LABS PRESENT “FORTUNE” – 8 PM
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the ancient tradition of the magic lantern show to the 21st Century, inviting the audience to participate in a collective fortune-telling experience and presenting the results in music, sound and moving images. Original music and moving image compositions are interwoven with samples and soundscapes, generating a tapestry of allusion, abstract narration, and dreamlike hallucination. www.potterbelmar.org

Sunday, May 18 – 4TH ANNUAL EPFC YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL @ FARMLAB – 2 – 10 pm
A terrific celebration of youth media from around the city and around the world culminating with a potluck dinner and the premiere screening of City of Angels (Vol. II), short documentaries about Los Angeles made by the Spring 2008 EPFC Youth Film Class. Everyone welcome! FREE!
NOTE: THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL VENUE IS FARMLAB, 1745 N. SPRING ST., LOS ANGELES 90012, AT THE NORTH END OF THE CORNFIELD STATE HISTORIC PARK IN DOWNTOWN LA.

Thursday, May 22 – PXL THIS 17 - 8 PM
Gerry Fialka and his band of merry pixelators are back with the 17th annual PXL This film festival. Started in 1991 to celebrate moving image art made with the PXL 2000 Fisher Price toy video camera, the festival provides a forum for the community to share the viewing experience. Hours of fun for the whole family! FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE! www.indiespace.com/pxlthis

Friday, May 23 – MADE IN LA: A BENEFIT FOR GWA – 7:00 pm
Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a mega-trendy clothing retailer. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice. Proceeds from this screening go to support the Garment Worker Center - $10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.  Popcorn and beverages available. http://www.madeinla.com

Sunday, May 25 – INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTING – 1 - 5 PM
Make your movies shine with this terrific introductory course in cinematic lighting. All equipment provided by EPFC Instructor: Leonard Seagal. Tuition: $60/$50 EPFC members. Call or email to reserve a spot!

Thursday, May 29 – CAROUSEL OF STARS: A NIGHT OF SCOPITONE 16MM PRINTS  - 8 PM
Scopitone films are the 1960s ancestors of today's music videos. They were distributed on color 16mm film with a magnetic soundtrack, and were made to be shown on a Scopitone film jukebox. The first Scopitones were made in France around 1960, and the Scopitone craze spread throughout Europe (particularly in West Germany and England) before crossing the Atlantic to the United States in mid-1964. By the end of the 1960s, they were gone. Join us for a magical night of original Scopitone prints from the Wallfilm Archives Collection in dye transfer Technicolor. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass! Bobby Vee! Kay Starr! The Kessler Twins! and many more... Curators in attendance!

Saturday, May 31 – EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION: THE  MOTHER LODE - 8 PM
Peter Yates’s 75-minute film The Mother Lode is a “ghost-town opera” based upon strange-but-true events from the days of hardrock mining in the Eastern Sierra. Period photographs come to life through paper puppetry to sing of boom-and-bust dreams and betrayals. Part of a series of works using new media to empower the individual artist, it follows to the nth degree a do-it-yourself, low-budget aesthetic, with text, music, voices, instrumental performances, recording, sets, puppetry, masks, camera, and editing done almost entirely by the lonely filmmaker.

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