THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO the 2007
Flickerings program have been posted, including
a list of this year's Film Showcase films and filmmakers, along with a
page describing the workshops and discussions. Our idea of what Flickerings is has been evolving over the past six years, in large part through interaction with the participants as we've all discovered together just what people are looking for in this venue. To our surprise, we've acquired several very different and faithful audiences: veteran cinephiles and newbies, novice and working filmmakers, along with fans of the shorts program who are usually curious enough to stick around to see what exotic flavor of subtitled film we'll be playing for the Morning Movie. We've got attendees who are vitally interested in the formal aspects of film -- in the films as film -- and others who are more interested in the content or topics particular films address. We could easily fill the entire program keyed to any one of these individual emphases, and balancing the mix over four days is a real challenge; we think the juxtaposition and diversity is exactly suited to
Cornerstone Festival and, like the festival, has become both incredibly fruitful for all of us involved and central to our identity as a film venue.
This year's Flickerings program will be shooting from all sorts of angles. The seminars, workshops and discussions cover a range of aspects of film production and the background of specific films. The
Featured Screenings program is probably our most accessible yet, with a focus on "J-Pop!", from
anime to peppy teen movies to darker films that express more worrisome aspects of Japanese youth culture.
Paul Nethercott will be screening a film and giving a seminar on these broader issues of the culture, both at
Flickerings and the
Imaginarium. (He'll also be bringing over a case of
Manga Messiah to distribute, brand new Gospel
manga comics by Japanese artists.) Our
2007 Showcase program will present one of the most diverse and exciting programs yet, and many of the filmmakers plan on being present at the festival. Congratulations to all those filmmakers selected for the Showcase and thanks to everyone who sent a film!
(It's not too early to start thinking about next year's Film Showcase. See the
2007 Entry Info to get an idea of what we're looking for and how it's done.)
