Join us for a fabulous opening party at The Penthouse at One East Avenue, offering views of the city skyline to Lake Ontario from the 11th floor wrap-around terrace and glass-walled party room. Mingle with visiting filmmakers and film fans and enjoy decadent desserts, hors d'oeuvres, and a cash bar plus live movie-themed music from the band Backstory, also playing rock and R&B classics.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
Engage with filmmakers and festival fans from a front-row-seat during an intimate and informal one-hour talk.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The Little Theatre will screen The Wedding Invitation (Rainy Kerwin, USA 2016, Narrative Feature Film, 88 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Rainy Kerwin.
Three best friends will endure heartbreak, humiliation, and hangovers to find dates to the 1980s prom-themed wedding of a lifetime. After receiving their wedding invitations, they have one week to track down their crushes and turn them into "plus ones." Their drunken and walk-of-shame missions will require them to break all of the rules of dating and take control of their own fates to make it happen. But with a dose of courage and the support of their girlfriends anything's possible, in this film that's been called "Bridesmaids meets Sex and the City."
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The Little Theatre will screen Women Outward Bound (Maxine Davis, USA 2016, Documentary Feature Film, 66 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Maxine Davis.
Fifty years ago girls were not allowed to participate in the rigorous U.S. Outward Bound Wilderness School … well, until 24 women broke that barrier, among them the film's director. Find out how one month of surviving in the woods changed them, and history, forever.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The Little Theatre will screen To Keep The Light (Erica Fae, USA 2016, Narrative Feature Film, 85 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Erica Fae.
Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in the 1870s. When a stranger washes up on shore, secrets hidden in deep waters come to light, and she is forced to confront both her past and her future. Shot on an island off the coast of northern Maine, To Keep the Light paints a landscape of stark, aching beauty, and reveals the inner life of a woman who is, literally and figuratively, at the edge of society.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The Little Theatre will screen Thank You For Bombing (Barbara Eder, Austria 2015, Narrative Feature Film, 100 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Barbara Eder.
Thank You for Bombing accompanies three frontline correspondents in Afghanistan to their working place in conflict areas, sharing insight into their daily routine aside from cameras and satellite phones. This fictional behind-the-scenes war drama is a trilogy of cautionary tales about the journalists' day-to-day lives and fateful decisions, walking the fine line between reporting the events and becoming the story, in a frenzied media environment where ephemeral news headlines are prescribed by popularity ratings.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
A hands-on 16mm workshop presented by Kodak. Free participation, space limited, registration required.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The Little Theatre will screen Te Ata (Nathan Frankowski, USA 2016, Narrative Feature Film, 105 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Te Ata.
Storyteller Te Ata was invited to perform at The White House in 1933 for FDR's first state dinner — an early highlight of a career that spanned six decades. Te Ata earned international fame presenting a unique one-woman show of American Indian heritage and culture to audiences across the United States, Canada, and Europe. She set her sights on Broadway and what she thought was her life's dream. Audition after audition she was rejected and Te Ata instead pursued her passion of storytelling.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The Little Theatre will screen Sugar! (Shari Berman, USA 2016, Narrative Feature Film, 81 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Shari Berman.
Responding to a dare, Leslie, a 50+ Indiana piano teacher (Tony-award winner Alice Ripley) secretly forms an all-woman rock band, Sugar. At the same time, her husband, a conservative Republican, runs for Congress. The band quickly goes viral as "MILF" musicians. When her husband (SAG Award Winner Robert Clohessy) and college-bound daughter discover the secret, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Leslie has a clandestine affair with a younger bartender and while being caught between responsibilities and dreams, she almost destroys the band. But victory is in the air …
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]
The High Falls Film Festival has partnered with Kodak to present the Shorts Shot on Film program. Shorts submitted to this year's festival, which were created using film, were entered into consideration for the second annual KODAK Vision Award, which marries the festival's mission with Kodak's commitment to supporting the achievement of women in the industry.
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]