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A PORTRAIT OF ST. LOUIS AT 250 YEARS Screens Thursday at The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
A PORTRAIT OF ST. LOUIS AT 250 YEARS screens Thursday, July 17th at 7:00pm at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Blvd.) as part of The St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase.
The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. The Showcase screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or films with strong local ties. The various film programs that will screen at the Showcase range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Filmmakers of all ages within a 120 mile radius of St. Louis are strongly encouraged to submit their works, or at the very least attend the event to celebrate with us and the amazingly talented St. Louis filmmakers.
In the late 1800s, films were direct representations of life – a train entering a station, workers leaving a factory – and by the 1920s, a whole genre of cinema documenting daily life had emerged: the so-called city symphonies. In honor of the 250th birthday of St. Louis, this film offers a contemporary take on the city symphony, providing an elegant and loving collective portrait of some of the people and places that make up our city.
Over a period of 8 months filmmaker Eric Wilkerson and his intern Hazel Mullan shot A PORTRAIT OF ST. LOUIS AT 250 YEARS at over 60 locations in the City of St. Louis (and one location outside the city). They wanted to give people in the future a kind of visual time-capsule of city life in 2014; much like the “city symphony” films of a bygone era.
With all the talk of our 250 years of history, they wanted to portray the fact that our history is still being written and that there are things happening in the city today that make this history exciting and important.
A PORTRAIT OF ST. LOUIS AT 250 YEARS screens Thursday, July 17th at 7:00pm at The Tivoli Theater
Tickets for all film programs from July 13-17 at the Tivoli are $12 each; $10 for students with valid and current photo ID and for Cinema St. Louis members with valid membership cards. Advance tickets are on sale at the Tivoli Theatre box office (5-10 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday). No phone sales, but tickets can be purchased online. Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance tickets may be purchased at https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com. There is a $1 per-ticket service charge.
For a 2014 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase program, go HERE
http://www.cinemastlouis.org/sites/default/files/downloads/2014/2014ShowcaseProgram.pdf
For more information about The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, call Chris Clark at 314-289-4152 or e-mail chris@cinemastlouis.org.
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