Monday, April 9, 2007

Coming up:

JUNE 20: WHEN PIGS FLY, by Eric Breitenbach & Phyllis Redman
One quadriplegic, 20 acres and 700 pigs are the setting for this film that probes the complicated relationships that emerge when fate and obsession converge upon a family. When Pigs Fly provides an unflinching look at a family coping with one member’s physical disability and increasingly eccentric behavior. Individual rights of self-determination are raised as a family walks the fine line between love and obsession, passion and madness.

JULY 18: BAD BOYS OF SUMMER, by Loren Mendell & Tiller Russell
Every spring 24 convicts taste the cool, crisp air of freedom. Not by stepping outside the prison walls, but by putting on a pair of spikes and picking up a glove. And for four months, they’re not just inmates, they’re...ballplayers. Bad Boys Of Summer follows the charismatic coach of the San Quentin Giants through his final season with the prison baseball program as he tries to change the lives of the men on his team.

AUGUST 15: 19 ARRESTS, NO CONVICTIONS, by Judy Irving
Directed by acclaimed local filmmaker Judy Irving (Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill), Nineteen Arrests, No Convictions looks at bar owner George Farnsworth, the oldest person to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco on New Year’s Day.

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