T H E 2 0 2 4 T O P A N G A F I L M F E S T I V A L
THURSDAY OCT 17 at Froggy’s
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The Sound of Paint
THURSDAY OCT 17, 1:00-3:00 PM at Froggy’s
Q+A with Director Joshua Williams, artist Vincent DiGaetano and Gerry Fialka
RUNTIME: 70:00 USA
Director: Joshua Enoch Williams
The Sound of Paint tells the story of Venice street artist Vincent Di Gaetano as he navigates life on the Venice Boardwalk while creating some amazing artwork.
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Gerry Fialka Salon - The Revolution will be improvised: Cinema as shakeup.
THURSDAY OCT 17, 3:00 - 4:00 PM at Froggy’s
Cultural revolutionary Gerry Fialka interconnects activism, politics and cinema in this fiery interactive salon (media yoga session). "When Philosophy raised a dialectic, a debate toward what it calls Truth; Poetry raised a theater, a drama of truth." - Robert Duncan. "You don't have to be a communist to be anti-capitalist. It is enough to be a poet." - Jonas Mekas. Fialka will probe the motives and consequences of the acclaimed 1965 film of urban terrorist insurgency The Battle Of Algiers, which was obligatory viewing for the Black Panthers, and was used as a training film for Bush's Pentagon's special operations chiefs in 2003. Pauline Kael wrote "Gillo Pontecorvo is the most dangerous type of Marxist - a Marxist poet."
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Cracking the dream
THURSDAY OCT 17, 4:00 - 5:00 PM at Froggy’s
RUNTIME: 44:04
Director: Walter Spring
USA
A man goes on a dark journey into his dream of becoming a succesful actor.
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Canvasing The World: Topanga
THURSDAY OCT 17, 5:00 - 6:00 PM at Froggy’s
Q&A with cast & Producer
RUNTIME: 44:04
Director: Sean Diediker
USA
The series is a modern-day marriage of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road and Humans of New York and details host and director Sean Diediker’s quest to explore the interplay between art and the human condition. The series takes viewers on adventures to exotic locations to explore creativity, experience the people, and reveal the places that spark the inspiration for Sean’s original paintings. Every episode a place, every episode a painting.
THE MONK AND THE GUN
The Bhutanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards,
and was one of the 15 finalist films in the December shortlist.
THURSDAY OCT 17, 7-10 AT FROGGY’S
Directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji
Q&A following the screening with director Pawo Choying Dori
THE MONK AND THE GUN In 2006, as Bhutan prepares to hold its democratic election, Bhutanese government stages a mock election as a training exercise. In the town of Ura, an old lama instructs young monk Tashi to procure some firearms by way of preparation for the impending upheaval. Meanwhile, American visitor Ron Coleman arrives in the country to acquire for a weapons collector an antique rifle - which by chance falls into the monk's hands