This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

EGYPTIAN THEATRE, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

2:00 PM: LEVIATHAN / SWEETGRASS
$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor  

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and ‘Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

LEVIATHAN, 2012, Dir. Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 87 Min, Grasshopper Films, USA

Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts – at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville’s inspiration for Moby Dick; it is today the country’s largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month.

LEVIATHAN follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning fisherfolk into images, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel present a vivid, almost-kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine.

FORMAT: DCP

SWEETGRASS, 2009, Dir. Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 101 Min, Grasshopper Films, USA

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

FORMAT: DCP

7:00 PM: *******: THE MOVIE
$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Jeff Tremaine

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and ‘Jeff Tremaine: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount

COUNTRY: USA

10:00 PM: GIMME SHELTER
$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Egyptian Theatre | ‘This Is Not A Fiction’

Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: USA

LOS FELIZ THEATRE, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

12:30 PM: LOST LOST LOST
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | ‘This Is Not A Fiction’

LOST LOST LOST, comprised of fourteen years of footage, documents Jonas Mekas’ early years in New York as he and his brother Adolfas build their new life in America, discovering the city and the burgeoning film and arts community of the 1950 and 60s downtown scene.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: USA

4:00 PM: BROTHER'S KEEPER
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with filmmaker Joe Berlinger

Joe Berlinger’s Personal 35mm Print!

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and ‘Joe Berlinger: An American Cinematheque Tribute’

This compelling documentary details the strange-but-true murder trial of Delbert Ward, accused of the mercy killing of his brother in rural upstate NY.

FORMAT: 35mm

COUNTRY: USA

10:00 PM: CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Pre-recorded Q&A with filmmakers Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill

Los Angeles Premiere!

‘This Is Not A Fiction’

This intimate documentary reveals the story of a fierce rock ‘n’ roller, actress, muse and mother who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Using the words of her unpublished memoir, Anita brings us deep into her world, with the help of a supporting cast that includes her family – Marlon, Angela, and their father Keith Richards. Never-seen-before home movies and family photographs show life with the Rolling Stones: this is a bittersweet tale of adventure and misadventure. From Barbarella to the Swiss Alps, and the Lower East Side of New York, Anita Pallenberg was a woman ahead of her time.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Magnolia Pictures

COUNTRY: USA