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WEEK of March 13, 2006 |
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Bridge Film Festival Ready to Roll at BFS on April 22, 2006 by Joan Martin Film aficionados and aspiring filmmakers of all ages are invited to attend the 7th Annual Bridge Film Festival at Brooklyn Friends School on Saturday, April 22, 2006. A celebration of Quaker ideals in action, the all-day Festival will screen short films (12 minutes or under) created by Middle and Upper School students at Quaker schools and Friends Meetings worldwide. “The goal of the Festival is to promote value-based filmmaking and to broaden dialogue on topics such as integrity, equality, non-violence, and social justice,” said Andy Cohen, BFS media teacher and founder/director of the Festival. “Participants at the Festival can expect to see a wide range of genres including animations, documentaries, music videos, public service shorts, comedies and dramas. (The deadline for film entries is April 3, 2006.) A full program of workshops, film screenings and special presentations is set for the day of the Festival. A total of five workshops—animation, one-minute documentary, digital media challenge, writing workshop, and film critique—will be offered to attendees from noon until 4 pm. See workshop descriptions.
A Brooklyn-themed buffet dinner, with jazz performed by BFS students, follows at 5 pm., with the main event—the finalist film screenings—beginning at 6:30 pm. A panel of four judges—Bobby Baldridge, Michael Epstein, Andrew Guidone, and Patricia Schall—will provide an immediate and honest critique of the finalist films screened at the Festival. The screenings are followed by a brief intermission and then a talk with this year’s “Featured Filmmakers” Jeffrey Wright and Carmen Ejogo. Jeffrey Wright has acted in more than 30 films, including the title role of Basquiat, and in Syriana, The Manchurian Candidate, Ali, Shaft, and Angels in America, for which he won the Golden Globe Award. Jeffrey’s wife, Carmen Ejogo, has had lead and featured roles in such films as Sally Hemings, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Lackawanna Blues and Boycott, in which she played Coretta Scott King to Jeffrey’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Jeffrey and Carmen, who live in Brooklyn, will screen several segments from their films and have a dialogue with the audience about the arts of acting and filmmaking. With advance registration, admission to the workshops and festival film screening is $20 per person ($25 on the day of the festival). Admission to the screening alone is $9 per person for adults and $7 for students. Dinner is $10 per person. Advance registration is encouraged due to space limitations.
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