The air was crisp outside with a slight fog settling over the small town of Granite Bay which is a suburb of California’s capitol city, Sacramento. On the evening of Friday, November 17, the parking lot of a local community church was packed, the café located in the church courtyard was open for business but not because of a church service. Bayside Church was hosting its first annual 7C’s Film Festival. Silver and white balloons lined the entrance to the gymnasium-styled church building and...
5TH SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL CREST THEATRE - JULY 14-16 & 22-23, 2006 In July 2006, the 5th annual Sacramento French Film Festival will be held over two consecutive weekends. The exciting film selection will represent the best of contemporary French cinema including, for the first time in the Festival’s history a North America Premiere, along with many Northern California and Sacramento premieres. Classic masterpieces, outrageous Saturday Midnight movies as well as French and local sh...
Environmental Films Showcase Sunday, 4-3After a morning presentation by acclaimed Producer Director John Daly (Platoon, Salvador) The Sacramento Film Festival and UC Davis Environmental Health studies present an afternoon of Environmental Visions, Sunday, April 3rd at the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom. This amazing program begins at 1:15pm with - Environmental Visions at Home – a documentary program showcasing four compelling stories about Northern California, its environmental challenges and t...
This year’s Sacramento Film Festival features over 70 films from around the world including two outstanding international shorts programs: The first, Around the World in 80 Minutes examines life from five different parts of the world. From China comes Wen Jun Yang’s “Sojourn”, about a drifting freelance female writer, who meets a man from Shanghai. “Will she stop her drifting life and stay with her lover?” The story takes place in contemporary Shanghai. The filmmaker will be in atten...
Sacramento’s Premier Local Film EventA Place Called Sacramento 2004Each year Access Sacramento hosts the original local film celebration, A Place Called Sacramento (PCS). PCS starts in the spring as a screen-writing contest to commission ten exciting new films. Over the summer, filmmakers work with Access Sacramento support for a premiere in October at the Crest theater. The program has gained so much in popularity that it has discovered many new film artists and even inspired other film conte...
DIGITAL DAYS 2004 TEEN FILMMAKER AWARDS ANNOUNCEDRichard Corwin and Gretchen Miller, producers of Digital Days 2004 at the 19th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, announced the winners for the Teen Filmmaker program as:* Amanda Weiss, "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat," Cal Arts, Valencia, CA* Cole Sanchez, "Fridge," Rancho Marrieta, CA* Carolyn Chrisman, "Ascension Rites," Anacapa School, Santa Barbara, CA * Austin Madison, "Boy Meets Rex," Sacramento, CA* Daniel Howard, "Jai Yen-C...
Cousteau Tradition Revived at Santa Barbara International Film FestivalJean-Michel Cousteau's latest film, "Sharks at Risk," in its English language debut, will screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 7th at 1:15 pm in Victoria Hall, 33 W. Victoria Street. This is part of the "Special Screenings" section of the 19th annual event. With reports of shark attacks increasingly in the news, Cousteau revisits what is known about shark behavior and compares myth to reality. ...
