The 6th Annual
SALEM FILM FESTIVAL has arrived!
OCTOBER 14-21, 2011
In a hushed auditorium, a flicker of magic on the screen...
OUR FEATURED OPENING NIGHT FILM!
7:00PM A YEAR IN MOORING Salem Cinema
PACIFIC NW PREMIERE
 Filmmaker Chris Eyre
& Salem Screenwriter Peter Vanderwall in attendance
Disarming in its subtlety, A Year In Mooring is the quietly contemplative cinematic journey about renewal, redemption and the inevitability of change. Starring Josh Lucas in his first leading dramatic role, A Year In Mooring follows the story of a successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat. Walking an isolated line between solitude and redemption, he's watched by three equally mysterious residents: a beautiful, taciturn waitress (Ayelet Zurer), the veteran mariner (James Cromwell) trying to escape unpleasant memories of his own and a newly single father (Jon Tenney) eagerly enjoying his fresh-found freedom. Each will play a cautiously inadvertent part in helping him face his troubling past head on. Gifted Salem screenwriter Peter Vanderwall brilliantly scripted this wise, poignant film about hope, healing and deepest personal resolve. Followed by Q&A with our visiting filmmakers!
Chris Eyre's 1998 arthouse hit, Smoke Signals, garnered him critical acclaim and national attention, quickly becoming the unofficial visual anthem of Native people everywhere. A decade later, the film continues to instill pride among the Native community, with a new generation now laughing and crying at a story that hits home with so many Natives from around the country. After Smoke Signals, his successes led to People Magazine calling Chris Eyre "...the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time". Geoff Gilmore, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, has simply called him "a great American Filmmaker." Born in Portland and raised in Klamath Falls, Chris' creative talents became apparent at a young age. His ability to effortlessly, yet beautifully capture life in still images began in high school and after graduating from Mt. Hood in 1989, Chris was eager to continue his media studies and enrolled at the University of Arizona where he later received a bachelor's degree in Media Arts. The art of filmmaking would capture Chris' heart and  his art of storytelling has surely captured ours.
It was on a visit to Willamette University that Chris was introduced to Salem screenwriter Peter Vanderwall by Willamette Film Professor Ken Nolley. Their collaboration, creativity and kinship produced our wonderful Opening Night Feature, A Year In Mooring. In addition, on Saturday, October 15th at noon, Peter will present Writing Between The Lines: A Year in Mooring's Journey from Idea to Screen. He will share his experiences in writing a screenplay based on an idea conceived years earlier. He'll discuss the creative choices in further developing the script with director Chris Eyre and then adapting the script to a new location. He'll talk about how the story continued to develop through collaboration with the cast and crew during production and postproduction. And he'll show how several key scenes evolved from words on the page to images on the screen during the writing, filming, and editing phases.
TONIGHT!! Friday, October 14th
doors open at 3:00PM at Salem Cinema; 5:15PM at High Street Cinema; 6:15PM at The Grand
6:00PM I BECOME GILGAMESH Salem Cinema
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Filmmakers Juan Francisco de la Guardia
& Danny Nguyen in attendanceIn a dim, cluttered laboratory, Dr. Michael Sieggombe, a single father and professor of biology, lectures his class  on cancer and cell aging. The mood has been somber lately since his students learned of their professor's condition - he is being consumed by the very disease he has spent the latter part of his life studying. But soon two mysterious and contradicting characters will emerge to turn his world upside down and he will be shown a path that will not only allow him to beat the cancer, but cheat death itself. I Become Gilgamesh is a fantastic tale intertwining modern science, classic mythology, passion, lust and immortality. This psychological thriller will  have audiences on the edge of their seats, provoking those eternal questions: "What would you do to save your life? What would you do for immortality?"
Followed by Q&A with our visiting filmmakers!
6:00PM FILM SOCIALISME Salem Cinema
OREGON PREMIERE
Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with Film Socialisme, a magisterial  essay on the decline of European Civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes and historical revelations of pure cinematic beauty. A symphony in three movements, this disarmingly comic, avant garde film charms. Read more...6:00PM MORODER'S METROPOLIS High Street Cinema
 OREGON PREMIERE
Last year we offered up the opportunity to see the gorgeously restored version of this Fritz Lang masterpiece. This year, it's a whole new Metropolis experience!
In 1981, three-time Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder began a three-year endeavor to restore the science fiction classic, Metropolis. During this process, Moroder made the controversial decision to give the film a new, contemporary score, and added a pop music soundtrack featuring songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, including Pat Benatar, Billy Squier, Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler and Adam Ant. Read more...
FEATURED OPENING NIGHT FILM!
7:00PM A YEAR IN MOORING Salem Cinema
 PACIFIC NW PREMIERE
Filmmaker Chris Eyre
& Salem Screenwriter Peter Vanderwall in attendance
Disarming in its subtlety, A Year In Mooring is the quietly contemplative cinematic journey about renewal, redemption and the inevitability of change. Starring Josh Lucas in his first leading dramatic role, A Year In Mooring follows the story of a successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat. Read more...
7:00PM CIRCUS KIDS The Grand Theatre
 OREGON PREMIERECircus Kids is a film about an eclectic youth circus troupe from St. Louis who travel to Israel to join another troupe comprised of Jewish and Arabic children. It is a story of how a group of very different kids find out they are not so different after all. The St. Louis Arches is made up of children from a wide spectrum of social, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. Read more...
8:15PM EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE High Street Cinema
 PACIFIC NW PREMIEREFrom the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation. Read more...
8:30PM KITCHEN HAMLET Salem CInema
 WEST COAST PREMIERE
Filmmakers Daniel Elihu Kramer, Jeff Pence
& Brian Kettler in attendance
Hamlet, sworn to revenge by the ghost of his murdered father, struggles to cut himself off from those he loves in order to keep his promise. This contemporary telling of Shakespeare's play finds poetry and tragedy in the everyday setting of an isolated country house. Visually evocative, deeply felt and stripped of false pomp, Kitchen Hamlet features a remarkable perfomance by Patrick Shaw as Hamlet.  Shakespeare's tale of a son in mourning is set in a world we recognize as our own and Hamlet is stripped down to its essence. Director Daniel Elihu Kramer, an award-winning stage director, brings a contemporary energy to Shakespeare's language and cinematographer Mark Yeazel captures the lush promise of the world beyond the house and the deceptive depths of the world within. Removed from grand schemes of politics, Kitchen Hamlet provides a deep focus on Hamlet's personal relationships, on family and on loss.
Followed by Q&A with our visiting filmmakers!
8:30PM LOOK, STRANGER Salem CInema
 WEST COAST PREMIERE
Look, Stranger is a psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war torn world. Set in the urban wastelands and desolate forests of an unidentified world at war, Look, Stranger tells the story of a woman making a dangerous journey home from a refugee camp. When her guide is killed on the road in an arbitrary act of violence, the woman is forced to rely on an angry and disillusioned carrier, who agrees to travel with her for a price. Read more...
9:00PM OPENING NIGHT PARTY Christo's Pizzeria & Lounge
featuring music from Tonya Gilmore and Tent City!
only $20 or included with your VIP Pass
Salem Film Festival invites you to join us and celebrate
with our filmmakers, fabulous food, Gilgamesh Beer and live music!
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SALEM FILM FESTIVAL
VIP PASSES, TEN FLIX TIX & INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
FOR FILMS AND PARTIES ARE ON SALE NOW!
Advance passes and Ten Flix Tix punch cards are now available to purchase at Salem Cinema during regular business hours, online at BoxOfficeTickets.com or by visiting Travel Salem at 181 High Street NE.
If you purchased passes or ten flix tix in advance, your lanyard or punch card is available to pick up at Salem Cinema on Broadway. Please bring your receipt.
Walk-up hours at the Travel Salem Cafe are Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm. There is a small service fee for all tickets and passes purchased online at Box Office Tickets or through Travel Salem.
Individual advance tickets will only be available to purchase until one day prior to a film's showtime. After that time, you must purchase tickets at the Salem Cinema on Broadway, High Street Cinema or The Grand Theater on the day of the screening or event. The Grand and High Street will accept cash only.
Our fabulous film selections for the 2011 festival are up on the website or find a festival guide in the latest edition of Salem Weekly! Please continue to check salemfilmfestival.com for updates!
While all VIP Pass Holders are entitled to "priority seating" at all films and events, please note that seating is limited in all auditoriums, so you must arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to a show time when we are seating pass holders. After that time, when remaining tickets are released for purchase, you will need to join the line of ticket BUYERS to redeem your pass for a ticket. Admission to events at The Grand Theater and High Street Cinema is by cash or VIP pass only. No Salem Cinema passes, gift certificates, coupons or CineBucks may be used at any festival venue.
$125 VIP PASS
includes entrance into our Opening Night Festivities on Friday, October 14th
and Saturday, October 15th at Christo's as well as any additional events during the festival.
- As many films and film events as your heart desires during the entire eight days of the festival!
- Priority seating (up to 15 minutes before show time) for the entirety of the festival.
$70 TEN FLIX TIX
- The Flix Tix works much like a punch card. Priority seating is not an option as with the VIP Pass and is based on seating availability. We recommend that you redeem each punch for an advance ticket to any available film ahead of time to further ensure seating. Ten Flix Tix Holders will join the line of TICKET HOLDERS.
$8 INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
- Limited number on sale now!
- Individual ticket holders will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis 15 minutes prior to show time once pass holders have been admitted to the theater.
$20 OPENING NIGHT PARTY ~or~ $25 for OPENING NIGHT FILM + PARTY at Christo's Pizzeria
- Limited number on sale now! Party + Film option not available online.
$15 SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY at Christo's Pizzeria
- Limited number on sale now!
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO WVP HEALTH AUTHORITY,
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