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EVENTS
Saturday, September 27, 4:45
Brian Henson
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SID THE SCIENCE KID
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THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PUPPETRY
In person: Brian Henson!
Brian Henson, co-CEO of The Jim Henson Company and award-winning director, producer and puppeteer, will present an overview of the history of puppetry used at The Jim Henson Company. Henson will explore the different technical achievements that have become part of the Company's legacy and have led to its groundbreaking development of the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio, a unique system that allows performers to voice and puppeteer computer-generated characters in real time. This revolutionary way of creating animated characters has most recently been used in the Company's newest production SID THE SCIENCE KID, currently airing on PBS Kids®.
Sunday, September 28, 9:00
APA Film Festival presents:
FLYING ON ONE ENGINE
Official Selection, South By Southwest 2008
FLYING ON ONE ENGINE tells the remarkable story of 78-year-old surgeon Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet, who travels to India every year to provide free surgery to children who suffer from congenital and other facial deformities. Since 1968, Dicksheet has run the India Project Plastic Surgery Camp, where hundreds of impoverished families wait in line for hours for the chance to receive a swift diagnosis and the promise of an appointment the following week. As a result, he has helped more than 50,000 children over the past four decades. Even more astounding is that he performs the surgeries in 12-hour marathon sessions, operating on dozens of children per day, hundreds of children a week--all while suffering from a near-fatal heart condition and bound to a wheelchair after a car accident left him partially paralyzed in 1978.
DIR Joshua Weinstein. US/India, 2008, color, 50 min. In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
With:
CROSSING LINES
CROSSING LINES tells the story of an Indian American woman's struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father.
DIR Leena Jayaswal, Indira Somani. US/India, 2007, color, 30 min. In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
Sunday, September 28, 9:00
This is a no pass engagement.
Tickets on sale now!
To purchase advance tickets, Click Here.
Day-of tickets will be available in the AFI Silver Theatre lobby approximately one hour before show time on Sunday, September 28.
Tuesday, October 14, 7:00 - Screening & Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 15, 9:15 - Screening only
SILVERDOCS Presents
SECRECY
Oct. 14 screening followed by panel discussion with the following special guests:
Robb Moss - Director, SECRECY
Peter Galison - Director, SECRECY
Mike Levin - formerly with the National Security Agency
Tom Blanton - Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Ben Wizner - Attorney, ACLU
The "classification universe" is invisible to most of us, yet the government's production of classified secret documents involves millions of people. And government secrecy is growing, vastly outpacing the circulation of open information. In a single recent year, the US government classified five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress; the cost is eight billion dollars a year--just to keep secrets secret. SECRECY explores the hidden world of national security policy by examining the many implications of secrecy, both for government and individuals. (note courtesy Sundance Film Festival)
DIR Peter Galison, Robb Moss. US, color, 85 min. NOT RATED
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