NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL AND THE STUDIO AT SAGE HILL PRESENT FREE CINEMA SAGE HILL SCREENING OF THESE AMAZING SHADOWS
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Community Cinema Event to Feature Q&A with Director Paul Mariano
Cinema Sage Hill, a free community film series, presented by Newport Beach Film Festival and The Studio at Sage Hill, to feature free screening of These Amazing Shadows, followed by a Q&A with director Paul Mariano.
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Film Synopsis: What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," by the Library of Congress and listed on the National Film Registry. These Amazing Shadows tells the history and importance of The Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 525 films includes selections from every genre - documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how American movies tell us so much about ourselves...not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves.
An Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival, These Amazing Shadows features interviews with Christopher Nolan, Tim Roth, John Waters, Barbara Kopple, Rob Reiner, Julie Dash, Wayne Wang, Robert Rosen, Zooey Deschanel, Caleb Deschanel, John Lasseter, George Takei and Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress. www.TheseAmazingShadows.com
The Newport Beach Film Festival and The Studio at Sage Hill began their cultural collaboration in the fall of 2009 with the launch of Cinema Sage Hill free community film series. Created to foster an appreciation and an awareness of independent films and expose audiences to compelling subjects and perspectives, Cinema Sage Hill showcases diverse and thought provoking independent documentary films from around the world. A sampling of past films include The Cove (Academy Award® winner, Best Documentary), Food Fight, Climate Refugees, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Clay Marzo: Just Add Water, The World We Want and Warrior Champions. www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com
