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41st Athens International Film + Video Festival

History

The Athens International Film and Video Festival was founded in 1974, and since then has presented independent films from around the world. The Festival is sponsored by the Athens Center for Film and Video, a project of the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University.

The Competition Process

Each year, a Prescreening Committee comprised of artists, students, and community activists watch all the films and videos entered in the competition. After all entries have been watched, the prescreeners evaluate all entries to determine films to include in public screenings.

Cash prizes are awarded by guest jurors, in four categories: documentary, experimental, narrative, and animation. Festival Jurors will be announced just prior to the Festival. Awards will be announced on the final day of the Festival.

Competition films are then programmed around various themes that emerge from the films selected; our intention is to group films into shows that reflect a common thematic thread.

Festival Staff

Director: Ruth Bradley

Technical Direction: Dan Bruell, Dan Moray
Athena Cinema, Head Projectionist: Hsin-ning Chang
Graphic Designer: David Colagiovanni

Athena Cinema Staff

Operations Director: Alexandra Kamody
Head Projectionist: Hsin-ning Chang
Assistant Managers: Jordan Froomkin, Julie Vinson, Sean Rickey & Connor Baker
Design: Kathryn Potraz & Stanislav Semukhin
Office Assistant: Ashley Thomas
Concessions and Projection: Corinne Barnhart, Jake Caputo, Taylor Clark, Jacob Core, Derek Cravens, Julianne Davis, Josh Edwards, Zach Godwin, David Gundling, Shawn Hughes, Nils Illokken, Joe Lyon, Dillon Olmedo, Megan Popke, Nicaylen Rayasa, Quintin Schomaker, Brittany Seals, Joe Skyrm, Joe Votaw and Jackque Wong

Festival Workers: The students of Film Festival Practicum and Media Arts Management.

Contact us:

Mailing Address:
Athens Int’l Film and Video Festival
P.O. Box 388, Athens, OH 45701
Phone: 740-593-1330
Fax: 740-597-2560 fax
Email: filmfestival@ohio.edu
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Science on Screen®: PARTICLE FEVER

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The Science of the Smallest Particle

A discussion about the basic science of the “smallest” particles, as well as the scales by which energy and matter are studied at many levels by physicists, led by OU’s Dr. David Ingram.

About the film

Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist? Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.

About the speaker

David Ingram has been curious about electronic materials and devices ever since he was 9 years old, when his uncle took him and his family to an open house at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, England, where his uncle had worked since the start of World War II. As an experimentalist, he works on growing new materials and studying their properties. A classic method of making semiconducting devices is to use ion implantation. With this method, one can take any isotope of any element in the periodic table and implant it in a substrate. This led him into the study of the interaction of energetic particles with matter and now into areas of applied nuclear science where low energy nuclear physics and materials science intersect.

 

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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

 

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

 

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Running Time: 99 Minutes99 MIN
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Watching a film won't make you smarter, but if there ever was one that could, it would be "Particle Fever," a movie so mind-bending you can almost feel your brain cells growing as you're watching it.

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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OEFFA Presents: GMO OMG with Director Jeremy Seifert – One Night Only on April 26th

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Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In GMO OMG, the encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing global movement to take back what we have lost. Has the global food system been irrevocably hijacked? Is there still time to reclaim its purity, protect biodiversity and save ourselves?

“illuminating” – Ernest Hardy, Village Voice

“Constantly provocative and intriguing” – Mark Adams, Screen Daily

OEFFA presents a FREE screening of the documentary, OMG GMO, including a panel discussion with director Jeremy Seifert. Sponsored by Horizon Organic and Chipotle Mexican Grill with support from Rich Gardens Organic Farm,Green Edge Organic Gardens, Shagbark Seed & Mill, Snowville Creamery, and Pleasantview Farm.

 

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Running Time: 90 Minutes 90 MIN
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Tim’s Vermeer

Watch Trailer Director: Teller
Cast: Penn Jillette and Tim Jenison

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, (Video Toaster, LightWave, TriCaster) attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically – 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning a decade, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney and eventually to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen’s Vermeer.

“Unexpectedly dazzling.” – Tom Long, Detroit News

“A fascinating new documentary about art, obsessions, ideas and answers.” – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

Playing March 28th – April 10th

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Running Time: 80 Minutes80 MIN
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Sustainability Series: THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE CLIMATE CHANGE, CAPITALISM & COMMUNITY

Watch Trailer Director: John Ankele & Anne Macksoud
Writer(s): John Ankele & Anne Macksoud
Cast: Bill McKibben, Joanna Macy, Roger Payne, Richard Heinberg, Gus Speth, Stephanie Kaza, Nikki Cooley and Ben Falk.

Examines the challenges that climate change poses and discusses meaningful action that can be taken by individuals and communities. THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE accepts the consensus of scientists that climate change has already arrived, and asks, what is keeping us from action?

The film features thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics and spirituality discussing how we can evolve and take action in the face of climate disruption. They urge us to open ourselves to the beauty that surrounds us and get to work on ensuring it thrives.

Amongst those featured are Bill McKibben, Joanna Macy, Roger Payne, Richard Heinberg, Gus Speth, Stephanie Kaza, Nikki Cooley and Ben Falk.

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Running Time: 56 Minutes56 MIN
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The Monuments Men

Watch Trailer Director: George Clooney
Writer(s): George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Robert M. Edsel (book) and Bret Witter (book)
Cast: Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Cate Blanchett, Dimitri Leonidas, George Clooney, Hugh Bonneville, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, and Matt Damon

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.

“As a film, it is riveting, suspenseful, harrowing and exciting, and somehow, it also manages to be something rare among war pictures-a big-scale entertainment.” – Rex Reed, New York Observer

“It’s a graceful, engaging film.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine

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Running Time: 118 Minutes118 MIN
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STAND and REACT TO FILM Screening, April 7th: The Act of Killing

Watch Trailer Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christin Cynn
Cast: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara
Language: Indonesian, English

Anwar Congo and his friends have been dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster scenes, and galloping across prairies as yodelling cowboys. Their foray into filmmaking is being celebrated in the media and debated on television, even though Anwar Congo and his friends are mass murderers. Medan, Indonesia. When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, Anwar and his friends were promoted from small-time gangsters who sold movie theatre tickets on the black market to death squad leaders. They helped the army kill more than one million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, and intellectuals in less than a year. As the executioner for the most notorious death squad in his city, Anwar himself killed hundreds of people with his own hands.

This is a FREE one night only screening sponsored by STAND and REACT TO FILM.

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Running Time: 115 Minutes115 MIN
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Nymphomaniac: Volume II

Watch Trailer Director: Lars von Trier
Writer(s): Lars von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Williem Dafoe, and Stacy Martin

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II picks up with the story of Joe’s adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications.

“Newcomer [Stacy] Martin and old-hand [Charlotte] Gainsbourg anchor these two films with performances you can’t take your eyes off.” – Dave Calhoun, Time Out

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Running Time: 123 Minutes123 MIN
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Moms Weekend: THE WIZARD OF OZ

Watch Trailer Director: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Writer(s): L. Frank Baum, Noel Langley, Edgar Allan Woolf, Florence Ryerson
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, and Billie Burke

L. Frank Baum’s classic tale comes to magisterial Technicolor life! The Wizard of Oz stars legendary Judy Garland as Dorothy, an innocent farm girl whisked out of her mundane earthbound existence into a land of pure imagination. Dorothy’s journey in Oz will take her through emerald forests, yellow brick roads, and creepy castles, all with the help of some unusual but earnest song-happy friends.

“In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.” – Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly

“A work of almost staggering iconographic, mythological, creative and simple emotional meaning, at least for American audiences, this is one vintage film that fully lives up to its classic status.” – Todd McCarthy, Variety

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Nymphomaniac: Volume I

Watch Trailer Director: Lars von Trier
Writer(s): Lars von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Mia Goth, Shia LaBeouf, Stacy Martin, Stellan Skarsgård, Uma Thurman, and Williem Dafoe

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME I is the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who is discovered badly beaten in an alley by an older bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who takes her into his home. As he tends to her wounds, she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young-adulthood (portrayed in flashback by newcomer Stacy Martin).

“A ferociously entertaining experience in which one finds von Trier at the peak of his craft, linking together ideas about female sexuality, fly-fishing and artistic creation with equal amounts of playfulness and intellectual rigor.” – Scott Foundas, Variety

 

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