| The Plaza Theatre’s Midnight Film Festival features some fun and wacky fare every weekend through July and August. All showings start at 12 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. The summer program includes cult classics like Repoman as well as a singalong to Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Grease. Pink Floyd and the yellow brick road unite in The Dark Side of Oz, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show screens on the August long weekend. For a complete listing, you can visit www.theplaza.ca. The Plaza Theatre is located at 1133 Kensington Road N.W.
Emmedia continues its summer workshops, including the One Push Skateboarding Skate Camp, which runs July 31 to August 23 for kids between the ages of 11 and 15. Future Peraltas can improve their skateboard manoeuvres and gain experience shooting and editing a camp video. Call 268-3800 or check out www.calgaryskateparks.com for all the deets.
The Uptown Stage & Screen is looking for a Full-Time Film Programmer. Apply if you’ve got the chops to book, promote and market fine films. Details are at www.theuptown.com.
The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) presents Youth by Youth Cinema, a competition for young Alberta filmmakers from grades 4 through 12. The deadline for submissions is August 3, 2007, and submission guidelines and forms are available at their website, www.calgaryfilm.com. The CIFF programming committee will choose the best films to be screened at the 2007 festival and a separate jury will decide on the winners of the competition. Good luck, young Coppolas!
The Calgary Public Library is quite proud of its DVD collection, boasting that it’s better than ever. Have you ever known a library, or librarian, to lie? Well, now you can borrow more DVDs at once, find recent acquisitions in the library’s new and notable section and check out many more feature films in its catalogue.
Activists don’t take the summer off – the next film in the Arusha Action Film Series is Our Daily Bread, which looks at industrial food production and high-tech farming. The film screens on Wednesday, July 18 at 7 p.m. at the Plaza Theatre in Kensington. |
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