Columbus International Film + Video Festival

Early Bird Film Screening 11/11 at The Gateway Film Center
Dressed
Thursday November 11 7.00PM
Gateway Film Center
1550 North High Street
Columbus, OH
The Documentary, "DRESSED" is a compelling story of a young clothing designer from Weinland Park in Columbus, Ohio, Nary Manivong, who defied the odds of a broken childhood and homelessness to reach his ultimate dream, a show of his collection at New York Fashion Week. A truly inspiring story that unfolds against the backdrop of the fashion industry in New York and the streets of Weinland Park. Woven within his story are accounts and commentary from leading fashion industry experts, students and designers who relate their own perspectives about what it takes to make it in the highly competitive world of fashion.
Main Festival Week 11/16-11/21
The Rivals
They shared a state but were worlds apart
Tuesday November 16 7.00PM
Gateway Film Center
1550 North High Street
Columbus, OH
This is a documentary film about competing social classes, sports and ambitious kids from opposite sides of the track. It’s a film about injuries, victories and opportunities and measuring up to the status quo. It just happens to be about high school football and it just happens to be set in Maine. It is the tale of two communities, one white collar and one blue, united by a common dream: winning the State Championship. The physical conflict takes place on the playing field, but the real story is how these two communities see themselves and what they teach their kids about the game of life, the pride of place, the passion of tradition and the careful balance between success and respect.
http://www.rivalsmovie.com/
Special event admission pricing is just $5. Tickets will be available available at the box office and are available at http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=22812&rdate=11/16/2010
This just in-
Once again the fabulous folks from Brothers Drake Meadery will be at the Gateway doing a mead tasting before the film. Mead starts at 6, movie at 7. Come early and party with us!

Award Winning Student Films From Around The World
Thursday, November 18 · 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Canzani Center, Columbus College Of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Ave (just south of the giant ART)
Columbus, OH 43215
Check out these amazing award winning student films from around the world! Admission is just $5 (free for students and CIF+VF members). Parking is free in CCAD lots.


Which Way Home

Friday, November 19 · 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Ave (just south of the giant ART)
Columbus, OH 43215
Best Of Festival and Academy Award Nominated Film, Which Way Home is an amazing journey into the other side of illegal immigration. As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States. The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call "The Beast." Director Rebecca Cammisa (Sister Helen) tracks the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year-old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow.
They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones.
Parking is free in CCAD lots.
Admission is just $5 (free for students and CIF+VF members).

Saturday Morning Cartoons From Around The World
Saturday, November 20 · 10:00am - 11:00am
Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Ave (just south of the giant ART)
Columbus, OH 43215

For children of all ages.

Come and join us for a morning of amazing international award winning animation. This year we have animations from Australia, Ireland, Canada and the United States. Admission is free for kids and students of all ages, free for CIF+VF members, all others just $5 at the door. Parking is free in CCAD lots.


Movies + Mead, Animations 4 Adults 3

Saturday, November 20 · 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Canzani Center, Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Ave (just south of the giant ART)
Columbus, OH 43215

The Columbus International Film + Video Festival and Brothers Drake Meadery present an evening of Animation 4 Adults 3, a Night of Movies + Mead. Join us for an evening of animation, experimental films, an awards ceremony for visiting filmmakers from around the world and one of Columbus' best parties. Cartoons (including the Ohio premiere of Bill Plympton's "The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger"), experimental films (including "My House is Cloudy" an experimental animated short from Iran), live music, free food, free beer (from Stella Artois) and free Brothers Drake Fine Mead (our very own local meadery). All for only $10 (free for CIF+VF members), a fantastic deal.
Parking is free in CCAD lots.


Percy Schmeiser: David Versus Monsanto

Sunday, November 21 · 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Gateway Film Center
1550 North High Street
Columbus, OH

Imagine that a storm blows across your garden - and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for over 50 years. A few days later, representatives of a large multi-national corporation secretly visit your home, only to return later and demand that you surrender all your vegetables and seeds. Then, they file a lawsuit against you for the illegal use of patented and genetically-modified seeds that you never planted or used.
... and what's more -- the court rules in favor of the corporation!
Yet, you still fight back....
Admission is just $5. To buy tickets on line:
http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=22812&rdate=11/21/2010
The fabulous folks from Brothers Drake Meadery will be at the Gateway doing a mead tasting before the film. Mead starts at 3.30, movie at 4.30. Come early and party with us!
Kroger and the CIF+VF

For those of you that have registered their Kroger Plus cards to the Film Council of Greater Columbus, Inc, a big thanks for helping Kroger donate over $1000 and counting so far to the CIF+VF! To continue that good work (and so easy and free) apparently after 6 months you have to re enroll with the Film Council of Greater Columbus, Inc at the Kroger site. It's even easier this time, just log on to http://www.kroger.com/mykroger/Pages/community_rewards.aspx (hopefully you can remember your sign in and password-I know I always have trouble remembering) and choose us again. For those of you who have never signed up now is a great time to start, just follow the instructions at http://www.chrisawards.org/donate/ It's easy and free. You can help Kroger help us bring great films to Columbus. Thanks so much.