Film Society Sponsors Special Events In December and January

December 3, 2008

Following is a schedule of Special Events sponsored by the Mesilla Valley Film Society during December and January. These are in addition to regular scheduled films.

Thursday, Dec. 11– Come to the NM Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum for a special FREE screening of Untamed Frontier, a western made in 1953, starring Joseph Cotten and Shelley Winters and meet former bronco buster and current cowgirl poet, Gale Ginn. Ginn was the riding double for the women stars of this film and others. Gale will briefly discuss her career on horseback and her work with Cotten, Alan Ladd and other Hollywood stars of the era! Please call 522-4100 for details.

Friday, Dec. 12, 10.15 pm–You are invited to a documentary screening event of collaborative projects by NMSU History, Art, CMI and Education students. Students in History 400/500, in collaboration with Cinematography and Advanced Editing students from CMI, produced four short documentaries this semester. The films will be screened at the Fountain Theatre. There will be a small admission charge for the screening.

Sunday, Dec 14, 11 am., the final film in our Second Sunday Documentary Series– Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm (74 minutes, not graphic! Come and see the film with the most buzz ever!!) ”Diamonds aren’t a girl’s best friend in Power & Passion, Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori’s delightful, even inspirational, survey of the historical attitudes, treatments and controversies attending female orgasm — in particular, its stellar medical-technological helper, the vibrator.” (from Variety) Admission $5 (no discounts, sorry!)

Saturday, Dec 20, 4 pm…a free screening of Invisible Children (1 hr). What started out as a film-making adventure in Africa transformed into much more, when the three young Americans’ (Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole) original travels took a divine turn, and they found themselves stranded in Northern Uganda. They discovered children being kidnapped nightly from their homes and subsequently forced to become fight as child soldiers. This film is dedicated to exposing this tragic, and amazingly untold, story.

This film focuses in on four young boys: Jacob, Thomas, Tony, and Boni. Through their eyes, we relive the terror of abduction, courage of survival, the heartbreak of losing a brother, and the innate joy- found only in a child. The three filmmakers were amazed to find many things in common between these kids and kids in America, themselves included.

Saturday, Jan. 17,10 am…back again by popular demand…The Silence of Cricket Coogler. This screening will include a guest appearance by author Paula Moore, whose detailed and insightful book, Cricket in the Web, is being released in paperback this month. Book sales will be through Coas My Book Store, and will also include another book about the Coogler case, Murder Near the Crosses, by Pete Sandman, the son of one of the police officers assigned to the case. Admission is $5.

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