"Einstein's God Model"  Sci-Fi Thriller

7:00pm Wed May 24

Q&A Director & New Haven native Philip Johnson

Meet n' Greet with refreshments served

 

  APPROVED - Better See It Before It's Too Late

"LYAO Comedy Shorts I"

7:00pm Wed May 31

From The Darkest To The Wackiest To The Sublime.. Don't Miss This One Time Show

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Over a decade ago, John Ubaldo, aka "John Boy," a successful Wall Street investment banker decided to call it quits. Distraught over the loss of his best friend in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, John traded in his high finance career for 185 acres of land on the Battenkill River in Cambridge, NY, to live a quiet life as a small farmer. John wanted to farm the way it was done 100 years ago, raising a variety of livestock and crops. His only goal was to raise delicious and nutritious food for himself and his extended network of family and friends. But John's dream of living an uncomplicated traditional agrarian life gets complicated when he comes up against Big Agriculture (Big Ag) and realizes that his methods are not in sync with today's prevailing agricultural methods. John, the very private farmer, becomes a passionate and outspoken activist lobbying for GMO labeling, animal rights, the preservation of crop diversity and the reduction of chemical fertilizers to help preserve small farms and rural America. 

The Lavender Scare

Wed June 14

6:00pm VIP Meet n' Greet Reception For All Ticket Holders

7:00pm Film And Q&A With NYC Director: Josh Howard

What Senator Joseph McCarthy Did To Destroy Lives In Hollywood, 

President Dwight Eisenhower Did To Destroy The Lives Of LGBT 

Government Employees Leading To A 40 Year Witch Hunt.

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"We have information that you are a homosexual. What do you have to say in your defense?" Trailer

That's the question federal agents asked countless U.S. government workers in a forty-year campaign to remove gay men and lesbians from the federal workforce.

Tens of thousands lost their jobs.  And then, from a community under siege, a hero stepped forward. With the United States gripped in the panic of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be "security risks" and orders the immediate firing of any government employee discovered to be gay or lesbian. It triggers a vicious witch hunt that ruins tens of thousands of lives and thrusts an unlikely hero into the forefront of what would become the modern LGBT rights movement.

The Lavender Scare is the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being homosexual.

In 1953, President Eisenhower declared gay men and lesbians to be a threat to the security of the country and therefore unfit for government service. In doing so, he triggered the longest witch hunt in American history. Over the next four decades, tens of thousands of government workers would lose their jobs for no reason other than their sexual orientation. The actions of the government had an unintended effect.  They inadvertently helped ignite the gay rights movement. In 1957, after thousands had lost their jobs, a Harvard-trained astronomer named Frank Kameny became the first person to fight his dismissal.  His attempts to regain his job evolved into a lifelong fight for the rights of LGBT people. 

The Lavender Scare is a compelling story of one man's fight for justice.  And it is a chilling reminder of how easy it can be, during a time of fear and uncertainty, to trample the rights of an entire class of people in the name of patriotism and national security  TRAILER

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"Thomas Chapin: Night Bird Song"

Wed June 28

Destined to be among the great jazz virtuosos, sax, flute master and

Connecticut Native: Thomas Chapin was nearing the pinnacle of his meteoric rise when leukemia took him at the age of 40. 

6:00pm Leukemia Society VIP Fundraiser Party

FREE Donor Registration Courtesy: Love, Hope Strength Foundation

7:00pm Film And Q&A With Director/Producer/Writer: 

Stephanie J. Castillo 

This 90-min. music documentary presents the life and music of 90's jazz legend Thomas Chapin who left us too soon. 

Destined to be among the great jazz virtuosos, sax and flute master Thomas Chapin was nearing the pinnacle of his meteoric rise when leukemia took him at the age of 40. Decades later, his passionate life and incandescent music continue to inspire new generations of artists and musicians. The new documentary THOMAS CHAPIN, NIGHT BIRD SONG draws an intimate portrait of a musical explorer who transcended the boundaries of jazz and dissolved the distinctions between sound and music. Because of this film, he will no longer be only a footnote in jazz. His indelible mark on jazz will be known.

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Beautifully Scary explores the landscape of modern, contemporary classical music in America in the 20th century and beyond. The film highlights the founding and successive generations of composers representative of trends in modern classical music. Interviews with some of the most influential American composers will give the viewer a better sense of both the circumstances that shaped this tradition, and the creative visions that have emerged from it. The overall purpose is to bring greater attention to the innovative work being done, and it's importance to the fabric of modern American culture. 

The film contains a short history of modern music in America, highlighting some of the great American composers (Ives, Copeland, Cage, Bernstein) through archival photos and film footage combined with short musical excerpts. This section also includes brief references to the earlier European influences (Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky).
Using personal interviews, the composers talk about their lives and work that has helped contribute to the form. They also discuss their music, and the effect of their approaches to composition upon the contemporary music scene.

The program includes several short excerpts from performances of works by several of the featured composers. The instrumental forces range from solo and small instrumental combinations, to full orchestra, showing the broad expressive range of this unique music.
Beautifully Scary: Contemporary Music in America is a documentary film project developed in partnership between Rocky Mountain PBS (RMPBS), Beyond Definition Films, and director Russ Wiltse.

FilmFest52 Classic Cine Series

"The Third Man"

The Ultimate In Film Noir 

7:00pm Wed - TBA

Followed by discussion

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