Watch the five live-action short films nominated for the Oscar.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010  7 p.m. at the Five Points Theatre

The Door – Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
A man and his family deal with the terrible aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
A young man dreams of becoming a magician, while his exasperated father wishes he would find himself a job.

Kavi – Gregg Helvey
An Indian boy and his parents are forced to work as slave labor in a brick kiln.

Miracle Fish – Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
An eight-year-old boy receives an unusual paper fish for his birthday.

The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Two men move into an apartment and find themselves entangled in its terrifying history.

Jacksonville Film Festival members get a ticket and concession discount!

Watch the five short animated films nominated for the Oscar.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010,  7 p.m  Five Points Theatre

French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert
A businessman drinking coffee in a Parisian café discovers that he has lost his wallet.

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
An old woman tells her own version of the Sleeping Beauty story to her terrified granddaughter.

Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin
In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man cops pursue a criminal Ronald McDonald.

A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park
As a serial killer threatens the city’s bakers, Wallace and Gromit, now bakery owners, meet a mysterious woman and her poodle.

The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) – Javier Recio Gracia
The Grim Reaper and a self-satisfied doctor battle over the life of an elderly woman.

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Independent Film in Jacksonville is alive and well and we have this great, FREE event on Monday at the 5 Points Theatre to prove it. The DoorPost Film Project Screening will show all four winners of the 2009 Short Film Contest.

The Doorpost Film Project exists to encourage truth-seeking visionaries by honoring their creativity as filmmakers, serving them in the context of building community and sharing their discoveries with the world so that others may have hope.

The Butterfly Circus

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La Premiere

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The Rift

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Guest Room

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Come see short films and documentaries from Bangladesh, Burma, Kenya, and other countries, and meet the filmmakers who produced them at the 5 Points Theatre on January 21. The filmmakers are visiting the Jacksonville as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program.

Doors for the free screening open at 5:30 p.m. Donations benefit the International Visitor Corps of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Film Festival.

“Juno,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Thank You for Smoking”—these are just a few of the wonderful independent films I’ve seen over the years.

Don’t get me wrong I love a good Hollywood blockbuster like “The Dark Knight” or “Pirates of the Caribbean” but there’s something so real and refreshing about a film that retains the artistic vision of the director and relies much more on story than action or special effects.

Indie films like the recently released “Precious” also touch on issues that many of the large movie studios shy away from. They give us a broader perspective about life and the realities we and others we may not usually cross paths with face.

When I moved to Jacksonville, there was no venue dedicated to these lower-budget, truly imaginative films made by new and emerging directors.

Then one of the things on my wish list, besides learning to surf (now moved to the 2010 list), came true. The 5 Points Theatre reopened in November of 2008 as a theatre dedicated to art house and indie films.

That wasn’t the only cool thing about its reopening. As I read more about Jacksonville’s early 20th century movie-making roots, I learned that the 5 Points Theatre had been a big part of that legacy.

Built in 1927, the 5 Points Theatre was the first theatre in Florida and the third in the country to show “talkies” or talking movies.

Did you know that the theater is reported to have had the longest run of “The Godfather” of any theater in the country?

When Jack Shad and Pete Moseley who own the building and the theatre were looking at what to do with the venue after it has spent much of the 80’s and 90’s as a playhouse and a nightclub, all that history factored into their decision.

“We looked at other options for the space – restaurants, event space, etc. – but it just seems to want to be a theatre,” Jack highlighted.

“We think there’s a need for a venue to show independent film. There are just not that many places that will take a chance on locally made films or non-blockbuster type movies.”

As someone who makes documentaries, that’s music to my ears.

Locally and independently produced films don’t have access to the big marketing and distribution budgets that the big studios offer. So if the directors of these films want them to be seen, the best place to reach audiences is through community venues like the 5 Points Theatre.

Sure you can rent the DVD in a couple of months, but a theater gives you a chance to meet people with similar interests and have a discussion with them about a film.

That’s community.

Indie film like other arts and cultural offerings makes a city like Jacksonville vibrant and draws people from other parts of the country looking to relocate to an interesting, affordable city with a thriving arts scene.

Jaxindiefilm.com is your central resource for local and independent film in Jax. We’ll feature interviews with local filmmakers and a place for them and film lovers to connect and build community.

Have an upcoming film event? Finished a new film? Send us an email three weeks in advance: news@jaxindiefilm.com

As the big movie season begins, I look forward to bringing people together to watch something a little different, not quite off the beaten path… but maybe a slight detour from the route you normally take.

See y’all at the movies!

If you can’t wait to see this local film when it opens Friday night at Five Points Theater, or if you just want to see the stars walk down the red carpet, come on out to the Florida Theatre on Wednesday, November 4 for one of the biggest film events this town has ever seen.

From the Florida Theater website:

The pre-show reception begins in the Florida Theatre lobby at 6pm and includes free drinks and free parking. After the stars make their way down the red carpet, the screening of the film will begin at 8pm.

Tickets are $38.50. Dress is black tie. You can purchase them from the Florida Theatre’s box office, Ticketmaster, or from the film’s website.

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Will your band’s video be shown? Get it to us on DVD by Thursday evening and it can be.

Also check out the art show “Strategies for Making Time Stand Still” at Underbelly. And, the theatre will be showing the locally made film “Chiaroscuro, Baby” with a Q&A with director Anthony Kilburn at 9 pm.

The City of Jacksonville is bringing back the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Street Festival on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Florida Theatre at Midnight.

There will also be a street festival in front of the theatre starting at 8 p.m. with a Rocky Tribute Band, Costume Contest, and more. Last year, the theatre sold out so we are encouraging people to buy their tickets early.

Pre-sale
$10 per person (admission ticket only)
$15 (includes admission ticket and a prop package)
$5 (prop package only)

Day of Show
$13 per person (admission ticket only)
$20 (includes admission ticket and a prop package)
$7 (prop package only)

The 5 Points Theatre will show Casablanca on Friday, October 2nd at 7 pm for free! We re-opened the theatre a year ago with a free showing of Casablanca, and wanted to run it again as our 1st anniversary approaches.

Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is a bitter, cynical American expatriate in Casablanca. He owns and runs “Rick’s Café Américain”, an upscale nightclub and gambling den that attracts a mixed clientele of Vichy French and Nazi officials, refugees and thieves. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed that he had run guns to Ethiopia to combat the 1935 Italian invasion, and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco Franco’s Nationalists.

The 5 Points Horror Film Festival will run October 23rd to the 30th. It features a mix of current independent horror films (Pontypool and Dead Snow), documentaries (Zombie Girl).

We’ll also feature classics, really old classics (the original Mummy and Frankenstein), locally made stuff (Zaat and local shorts), Rocky Horror, and a visit from TROMA’s Lloyd Kaufman.

We Want Your Films!

If you’ve created a horror film, we want to know. We have a few places open in the schedule and want to get the local film community involved with this festival. Send an email to news@jaxindiefilm.com and let us know.

Tentative Schedule

October 23rd
7pm – Nightmares in Red, White & Blue (Documentary)
9pm – Pontypool (Independent)
11pm – Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 Classic)

October 24th
3pm – Frankenstein (the original 1931 Classic)
5pm – Carnival of Darkness (Short Films)
7pm – Zombie Girl (Documentary)
9pm – Dead Snow (Foreign)
11pm – An American Werewolf in London

October 25th
3pm – The Invisible Man (1933 Horror Classic)
5pm – Locally Made Short Films
7pm – How to be a Serial Killer (Horror/Comedy)
9pm – Cannibal Holocaust (70’s Classic)
11pm – Secret Horror Classic!

October 26th
80’s Horror Night – Films TBD

October 27th
TBD

October 28th
7:30pm – Zaat (Locally-made Horror Classic)

October 29th
7pm – Class of Nuke’em High (Horror/Comedy)
9pm – Q&A with TROMA filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (unconfirmed)
9:30pm – Poultrygeist (Horror/Comedy)

October 30th
11pm – Halloween Party

You can catch this powerful documentary at the 5 Points Theatre October 18th-22nd. In addition to the film, we are planning a question and answer session with the one of the film makers. Stay tuned for further details.

Crude is three years in the making, this feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet.

The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures.

Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.