coLAB Arts

coLAB Film Fest continues to bring the most forward thinking American film to New Brunswick with its latest installment, focusing on queer film and film makers.

coLAB FILM FEST: QUEER(ING) FRAME
Thursday, November 12 at 7pm
@ THE DEN (700 Hamilton Street, Somerset, NJ)

$5 at the door
Food will be provided, cash bar

Featuring:

“Who’s the Top” by Jennie Livingston
(official selection of the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, Frameline, and Outfest)

“Freeheld” by Cynthia Wade
(Academy Award winner for best documentary short subject, Special Jury Prize winner at 2007 Sundance Film Festival)

“Cupcake” by Emily North

CALL FOR ENTRIES

coLAB Film Festival : Queer(ing) Frame
This festival aims to showcase the diversity and potential of the queer filmmaking community, as well as to explore the diversity and potential of the word ‘queer’. coLAB Film Festival: Queer(ing) Frame will also present short film Who’s The Top? from Jennie Livingston, New Queer Cinema pioneer and director of acclaimed landmark documentary Paris Is Burning. Tapping a wide range of subjects from Busby Berkeley musicals to the Lesbian Sex Wars, Who’s The Top? is a fantastical S/M musical comedy in which one writer finds her true self by determining who’s the bottom.

Deadline: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
1. We will need both a preview copy AND a final exhibition copy.
PREVIEW COPY: can be either a playable DVD or a link to an online video
EXHIBITION COPY: must be a QuickTime file (.mov or .dv), with resolution between
640×480 and 1440×900. Files will be recompressed onto a DVD, so make sure you
send something of high quality.
In addition, please be sure to email (to filmfest@colab-arts.org) or include a text file
with a short filmmaker biography.
2. Films may be as short as the filmmaker desires, but must not exceed 30 minutes.
3. Submissions should be sent to:
coLAB Film Festival, c/o Collaborative Arts, 5 Lorain Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
4. Submission fee is $5, payable via PayPal, check or money order. Make check or
money order payable to: Collaborative Arts.

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Email us at FILMFEST@COLAB-ARTS.ORG.

Sunday, July 26 at 7pm, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). $6 tickets are available at the door and ONLINE HERE.

coLAB’s core includes some of the most talented and exciting artists in New Jersey. The Membership Showcase is an opportunity to see their work realized in stripped down productions. Featured work includes theater, film, music, and dance. Friday, July 17 feature coLAB members Dan Swern and Jack Leary. Sunday, July 26th features members Jessica Lipman and Avianna Perez.

• Untitled, a short film by Jessica Lipman.

Street corners, basements, classrooms, bars, dance studios.  Abandoned
spaces, forgotten spaces. Dancers of Insurgo Stage Project, a New
Brunswick-based experimental dance and theatre troupe, use multiple
forms of expression to take up, and take back, New Brunswick spaces.

Jessica Lipman is a Studio Mentor in the Rutgers English Department’s
Plangere Culture Lab, and is the Collaborative Arts Series Coordinator
of coLAB Film Festival.  Currently, she is the resident videographer
of Insurgo Stage Project.  She made this film in collaboration with
Insurgo Stage Project’s director, Avianna Perez, as well as the
dancers of Insurgo Stage Project.

• Untitled, a new solo dance piece with text by Justin Woo and Avianna Perez. Performed by Avianna Perez.

Intention, objective, purpose, direction, aspiration.  In her latest work,  Avianna Perez explores these ideas in hopes of arriving at a new understanding of her intention as an artist (and as a human), and why these questions are important.

coLAB film festival is a series that aims to showcase and support local film while bridging Hub City artists with national and international figures. Our aim is to provide filmmakers, supporters, artists, and audiences with a space to communicate, collaborate and share in the diverse experience of film. We aim to empower our community while sharing in a communal conversation about film. Film is meant to be shared, deliberated, and challenged—so let’s do just that.

coLAB film festival: Emerging Jersey Film is first within a triannual short film festival series. Our first festival thematically will showcase New Jersey films. After screenings, there will be a moderated Q&A session with the audience members and filmmakers!

EVENT DATES:
April 22, 2009 (5-9pm)
April 29, 2009 (6-9pm)

Location: The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.

FILM SLATE

April 22, 2009
Marcus Tamkin — Nuts (6m)
David Sananman — Untitled (00208) (54s)
Calvin Theobald — Hot Lunch (10m)
Laila Ozols-Gillespie– Before the Fall
Jing Shao — Listen (9m)
Laila Ozols-Gillespie– Untitled
Gary Powell — Shadows Are Falling (11m)
Laila Ozols-Gillespie– Untitled
James H. Carter II: The Deterioration of Joy (12 m)
Laila Ozols-Gillespie–Untitled
Daniel Pillis: Endgame Endgame Endgame (3m30s)
Laila Ozols-Gillespie –Untitled
Omata Daniel Onoda — The Dream of Alice and Chris (18m)

April 29, 2009
Joanna Wyzgowska — Ciao Bella! (11m, 30s)
Basem Hassan — Finding Myself (1m, 3s)
Vernon Howl — Home (3m2s)
James Lee –Unrequited (7m)
Will Zullo — Yellow #5 (16m)
Basem Hassan — Creative Block (2m, 27 s)
Emily North — The Apple Videos (3m28s)
Jessica Lipman — Untitled (5m)
Basem Hassan — Bounce (30s)
Pilar Timpane — Ink on Rice (teaser) (6m)
Basem Hassan — Reveal — (4m, 48s)
Jing Shao — Training Wheels (5m)
Daniel Pillis: Tulip Anatomy (2m)

April 22, 2009
5-6pm: Live music by The Delfields on Zimmerli Veranda/Seating
6:15-7:30pm: Screening
7:30-8:00pm Moderated Q&A
8:00-9:00pm: Reception

April 29, 2009
6:00-6:15pm: Seating
6:15-7:30pm: Screening
7:30-8:00pm: Moderated Q&A
8:00-9:00pm: Reception
10:00pm: Live music at Tent State University, Voorhees Mall, featuring FUSE with special guests Slient Knight, Reason Beings, St. Joe Louis, Medinah Starr…

Dress to impress.

Admission is free of charge.

Screenings begin at 6:15pm. Please arrive promptly, as seating is limited.

Film Festival Planning Committee:
Pilar Timpane
Jessica Lipman
Steve Dolnack

See you at the festival!