Fresno Filmworks' 2nd Annual World Film Festival
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
May 5, 6, 7, 2006
Duma
Short film: The Fan and the Flower
Saturday May 6, 2006
2:00 pm
The Tower Theatre
815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno
Festival passes:
$40 - Festival Pass includes all films & invitation to Opening Night Champagne
Reception
$20 - Opening Night Film & Opening Night Champagne Reception
$10 - General tickets
$8 - Student & Senior tickets
Synopsis
This beautiful adventure, the latest from legendary filmmaker Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion, Fly Away Home), has earned high praise and great reviews but is receiving only a limited theatrical release. Campbell Scott and Hope Davis star as the parents of Xan (Alexander Michaletos), a 12-year-old in South Africa who, when a crisis forces the farm family to move to Johannesburg, sets out by himself to return his pet cheetah Duma to the wild. Heading toward the Kalahari Desert, Xan and Duma encounter Ripkuna (Eamonn Walker), a drifter who can help them - if he can be trusted. Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan writes: "In a sane world, there would be dancing in the streets at the arrival of a film as magical and entertaining as Carroll Ballard's Duma." It's that rare family film, one that adults will also want to see on their own.
Directed by Carroll Ballard
2005, USA
Rated PG
35mm; 100 min.
Reviews for Duma
"Simultaneously innocent and sophisticated, this honestly emotional fable shows why every Ballard film--and his last was released almost a decade ago--is a special event."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Duma, and the sort of intelligent, visually rich filmmaking it represents, are endangered species."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Short Film
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The Fan and the Flower
An ill-fated romance between a fan and a flower magically creates a fairy-tale ending.
Winner of the Annie Award for Best Animated Short.
Directed by Bill Plympton. Narrated by Paul Giametti.
2005, USA; Video; 7 min.
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Advance tickets may be purchased at the following locations: Fig Garden Books in Fig Garden Village Shopping Center, The Movies located at 1435 N. Van Ness and the Tower Theatre Box Office, and all TicketMaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.com or at 485-TIXS
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