RDT's Young Dancer Workshop 2013 @ Repertory Dance Theatre (SLC: 7/15 - 7/19)

RDT's Young Dancer Workshop 2013 July 15-19, 2013 | Ages: 10-17 Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center  138 W 300 S, SLC, UT

Repertory Dance Theatre presents an In-Depth Dance Workshop for Young Dancers, ages 10-17. Students will have the opportunity to work directly with RDT company dancers and take classes in a variety of styles. This workshop will provide serious dancers and those that might be curious about a career in dance with an in-depth, creative, moving experience that will encourage growth and development in the art of dance and the skills of life.

*** Two Sessions Available ***

Session 1 | Ages 10-12 Time: 9 am - 1:30 pm Tuition: $175 (5 day workshop) Schedule 9:00 - 10:15 am Technique Class 10:30 - 11:30 am Composition / Improvisation 11:30 - 12:00 pm Lunch 12:00 - 1:15 pm Musical Theatre / Jazz 1:30 - 2:00 pm Stretch & Strengthen Click here to register ** Please note that this workshop requires at least 7 participants. If we do not have 7 people register by June 15, the workshop will be cancelled. Any students who are already registered will be contacted and either refunded or moved to another workshop. Session 2 | Ages 13-17 Time: 9 am - 4 pm Tuition: $215 (5 day workshop) Schedule 9:00 - 10:30 am Technique Class 10:45 - 12:00 pm Composition / Improvisation 12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 - 2:15 pm Jazz / African Dance 2:30 - 4:00 pm RDT Repertory Click here to register

Click here to learn more or email lynne@rdtutah.org with additional questions.

Seeing and Hearing Vietnam @ Cultural Celebration (WVC: 5/16)

NEWS: Utah Arts & Museums Awards $65,100 in Arts Education Grants

Utah Arts & Museums Awards $65,100 in Arts Education Grants

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Arts & Museums has granted $65,100 in Arts Education Grants for Schools and School Districts to 22 schools across the state representing 12 counties. Arts Education Grants provide funding for a comprehensive arts education project with one or more artists and/or access to the services of an artistic company. Arts education projects may be thematic and focus on a particular core area such as math, science, language arts and social studies through dance, theatre, music, storytelling, film/video, visual arts and creative writing. Applicants may also apply for an Artist-in-Residence to provide schools with one artist in the discipline of the applicant’s choice for a 40-hour residency. The intent of the residency experience is to nurture creation of artistic work by learners. 

Arts Education Teacher-Initiated Project Grants totaled $3,000. Teacher-Initiated Project Grants provide opportunities for teachers or administrators to gain knowledge and skills in an artistic discipline of their choice. This grant is for the classroom teacher who may not have a degree in one of the art forms and has a particular interest in increasing both knowledge and skills.

“Arts education is vital for building our communities,” said Lynnette Hiskey, Interim Director of Utah Arts & Museums. “We’re glad to offer this financial assistance to help schools and organizations work with professional artists, gain innovative tools that can be used to reach learners, and ensure quality arts education in our schools and our communities.”

The next deadline for Arts Education Grants will be March 1, 2014.

Arts Education Teacher-Initiated Projects Teacher and School	Award Amount
Sophia Esterman- Horizonte Instruction &             Training Center	$500
Shannon Erikson- Foothills Elementary	$500
Robert Lacey- Valley High School	$500
Dolly Scharf- Foothills Elementary	$500
Linda Dalton Walker- Midvale Middle School	$500
Francine Woods- Escalante Valley Elementary	$500

Arts Education Project/Artist-in-Residence Grant School or School District	Award Amount
Nebo Title VII Indian Education Program	$8,000
Bluff Elementary School	$7,000
Rees Elementary School	$6,500
Iron County School District	$6,000
Whitehorse High School	$5,400
Manila Elementary School	$3,900
Flaming Gorge Elementary School	$3,000
Garland Elementary School	$3,000
East Elementary School	$2,500
North Summit Elementary	$2,100
Helper Junior High School	$2,000
Viewmont High School	$2,000
Horizonte Instruction & Training Center	$1,600
Early Light Academy	$1,600
Hobble Creek Elementary School	$1,600
Bonneville Elementary School	$1,500
The Academy for Math, Engineering & Science	$1,500
Salt Lake Arts Academy	$1,500
Ensign Elementary School	$1,400
Cache County School District	$1,000
Mapleton Elementary School	$1,000
Sierra Bonita Elementary School	$1,000
Total Amount Funded	$65,100

For questions or assistance with the application process, please contact Katie Woslager, Grants Manager, at kwoslager@utah.gov or call 801.236.7550.

PRESS RELEASE: SLC Acting Company 2013 - 2014 Season

SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ANNOUNCES ITS 2013-2014 SEASON   Salt Lake Acting Company is thrilled to announce its stellar 43rd season of thoughtful, provocative, exciting, contemporary theatre. The 2013/14 season will feature World Premieres and award-winning plays. Salt Lake Acting Company is a professional theatre and works under a Small Professional Theatre contract with Actors’ Equity Association.   Executive Producers Keven Myhre and Cynthia Fleming relate, “Our goal is to bring to the Intermountain West the best in contemporary plays. SLAC’s 2013/14 season achieves that goal. Our open, adventurous audience is at the heart of this theatre and our subscribers’ support allows us to produce brave new work. If not for SLAC, these remarkable and diverse plays would otherwise not be produced in this area. We’re looking forward to expanding our education program with 8 free matinee performances for Title 1 schoolchildren (higher poverty, frequently educationally disadvantaged) for our children’s play – THE CAT IN THE HAT. Our University Professional Theatre program will continue to mentor student actors and will open up to include student stage management, and student designers. We’ll continue to partner with local non-profits and give back to a community that has given us so much.”    SLAC opens the season with the Tony nominated, scintillating, smart and sensual VENUS IN FUR by the always brilliant and hilarious David Ives, running September 25 – October 27, 2013. The lines between reality and fantasy are blurred when the determined, uninhibited actress Vanda wiles her way into an audition for Thomas, the young, writer-director of a new play. Power, masochism and seduction abound in this sexy, funny, unforgettable play that the New York Post proclaims is “Fantastically funny!”   The second show of the season is the winner of the New York Drama Critics Best Play Award. GOOD PEOPLE by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire will run October 30 – November 24, 2013. Set in working-class South Boston, this story looks at the struggles of a group of women trying to make ends meet. When tough, mouthy Margie encounters Mike, who got out of Southie and became a successful doctor, she’s forced to look at her life choices. GOOD PEOPLE is an affectionate look at the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’.   SLAC then presents its children’s show, THE CAT IN THE HAT based on the book by Dr. Seuss and adapted by Katie Mitchell from December 3 – December 28, 2013. This adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic, which stays true to the book, will be staged at SLAC for all to look. This beloved tale is told with sounds, music and noises, bringing to audiences young and old oh so much joyses. When the Cat comes to play on one wet rainy day, there is mischief around and Fish’s worries abound. The Boy and young Sue just don’t know what to do, your family won’t want to miss this, I wouldn’t, would you?   February 5 – March 2, 2014 will bring the World Premiere of Elizabeth Diggs’ GRANT & TWAIN, which was presented as part of SLAC’s New Play Sounding Series in 2013. Ulysses S. Grant was the hero of the Civil War. Mark Twain was the most famous writer in America. Twain had just broken a seven-year writer’s block to finish Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Grant had just been swindled out of all his money in a Ponzi scheme. In 1884 the two men forged an unlikely and unbreakable friendship. GRANT & TWAIN explores these two intriguing, complex characters in a story of friendship, courage, betrayal and triumph.   4000 Miles by Amy Herzog was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, winner of the 2012 Obie Award and Time Magazine’s Best Play of the Year in 2012 and will come to Salt Lake City audiences from April 9 – May 4, 2013. Leo is 21 and on a cross-country bike trip to run away from his problems, when he makes a stop to see his feisty 91 year old grandmother, Vera, in her rent-controlled West Village apartment. What starts as a one night visit turns into a month long stay which will infuriate and bewilder these two unlikely roommates. Their friendship will challenge their perceptions, push them outside of their comfort zones and finally show these two outsiders that they are not alone. The New York Times states, "A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama. . . A heartening reminder that a keen focus on life's small moments can pay off in a big way onstage."   The 2013-2014 season will close with the biggest summer party in Utah –  SATURDAY’S VOYEUR by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht. Celebrating its 36thAnniversary, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR will once again be a voice to the more liberal audience base in Utah. This funny, raucous, truly unique, musical satire written for us and about us will give Utahns a place to laugh at and love living in Utah. Bring your picnic and join SLAC June 25 – September 7, 2014.   SLAC NOTES Salt Lake Acting Company deeply thanks their many season subscribers, without whom this theatre’s work would not be possible.   Season tickets are available. For tickets call 801-363-7522, visit www.saltlakeactingcompany.org, or come to the box office at 168 West 500 North, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103.   SLAC is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 professional theatre founded in 1970 and is dedicated to producing, commissioning and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists.  SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC operates under a STP Actors Equity Association contract. SLAC is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group, a national organization for non-profit professional regional theatres, and the National New Play Network.

168 W 500 N | Salt Lake Cty, UT 84103 US

NEWS: U of U Graduate String Quartet Accepted to Juilliard Seminar

 U of U Graduate String Quartet

Accepted to Juilliard Seminar

The University of Utah School of Music Graduate String Quartet has been accepted into the Julliard String Quartet Seminar – one of the most prestigious in the country- for the weeklong intensive May 20-24, 2013.   The U of U quartet was chosen among applicants from around the world by submitting an audio recording of selected works.  

“This particular constellation of players seemed to have the talent and drive to try out for something this ambitious,” said director, Hasse Borup, Associate Professor and String Area Head who encouraged them to apply.  “This quartet is a symbiosis of four highly talented and accomplished string students, who has hit a very successful combination of ambition and ability. I am very proud of their achievements and desire to perform some of the greatest repertoire written at the highest level."

During the seminar, the quartet will receive intensive coaching and mentoring with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, have a rehearsal studio, and perform in a public concert at Juilliard.  The Juilliard Quartet is the longest serving and most illustrious quartet, and the knowledge they stand to gain from this experience is irreplaceable and will shape them as musicians. Members Melissa Combe, Violin, Jakob Hofer, Violin, Sunny Johnson, Viola, and Lauren Posey, Cello are elated at the opportunity.  “Its like working with music celebrities,” said Combe, “we’ll come back a much better group.”

Started in 2008, the School of Music Graduate String Quartet program offers dedicated string players serious quartet experience and the chance to log extensive performance opportunities on and off campus as musical ambassadors for the U of U.  Combe, Hofer, Johnson, Posey have been playing together since August of 2012, and say this group “just works.”

The quartet has worked hard to secure funds for the trip, as they are responsible for their own accommodations, meals, and incidental expenses while in New York City.  But it will be well worth it. “Spending an entire week with such the Juilliard Quartet is amazing,” said Combe, “Usually you only get a one-time coaching, but an entire week will really help us get dig into the pieces we are working on.”

The quartet will return to Salt Lake City in time to work with renowned Emerson Quartet violinist Philip Setzer at the School of Music Chamber Music Workshop June 16-20.  The summer Chamber Music Workshop has a long history of bringing distinguished artists to campus and Setzer is at the top of the list.   Setzer will perform in concert June 18^th at 7:30pm in Libby Gardner Concert Hall.  Accompanied byJason Hardink, piano and Hasse Borup, violin Setzer will perform works by Bartok, Ravel and Beethoven.   

ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC

The University of Utah School of Music offers a comprehensive program of music study on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The School of Music educates professionally-oriented students across the musical spectrum through rigorous musical and academic experiences; serves the art of music through performance, composition, research and publication; and functions as the state’s center for intellectual, educational, and cultural musical activities. It has been an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1952.

For more information on the Chamber Music Workshop see the School of Music website at music.utah.edu. For more on the Graduate Quartet see finearts.utah.edu.

NEWS: Author and Local Librarian Josh Hanagarne to Speak at Salt Lake City Public Library

Author and Local Librarian Josh Hanagarne to Speak at Salt Lake City Public Library

WHAT:  As part of his national book tour, Josh Hanagarne, librarian for The Salt Lake City Public Library and author of The World's Strongest Librarian, will speak at The City Library about living with Tourette's Syndrome, strongman training, and librarianship. Hanagarne, who has been celebrated for his wit and inspirational story, will sign books following his talk.  

WHEN: Thursday, May 16, 7:00 PM

WHERE: The City Library's Main Library Auditorium, 210 East 400 South.

OTHER DETAILS:

• This event is free and open to the public. 
• Books will be available for purchase before and after the event by sponsor Friends of the Salt Lake City Public Library & The Library Store
• Book trailer video provided by Penguin Group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lnlYOa1_f4M 
• Hanagarne's blog: http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/ 
• Hanagarne's bio provided by Penguin Speakers Bureau: http://www.penguinspeakersbureau.com/speakers/page/josh_hanagarne 

MORE INFORMATION:

Contact Julianne Hancock, 801-455-3432.

News: Utah Film Center Summer Slate

NHMU Science Movie Night

Tuesday, May 14 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

TWISTER

Directed by Jan De Bont

Rated PG-13 | 113 min | 1996 | USA

In this dizzying, effects-driven drama, two scientists (Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton) chase tornadoes in their quest to record and study them. Taking a backseat to the wild and visually mesmerizing storms are subplots concerning a failing marriage, childhood trauma and corporate ethics. The film received multiple Academy Awards for its spectacular sound and visual effects (including the famous flying cow).

DTH! Year-round

May 16 @ 7:00 PM

Brewvies

THE OUT LIST

Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
60 min | 2013 | USA

A diverse cross-section of Americans share personal and professional stories, both heart-wrenching and triumphant, of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer experience. From actor Neil Patrick Harris to athlete Wade Davis and politician Christine Quinn to the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, the subjects speak to the unique struggles and triumphs they have faced.

Other subjects include Wanda Sykes, Larry Kramer, Suze Orman, Dustin Lance Black, Cynthia Nixon, Lady Bunny, and Ellen Degeneres, among others.

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, May 21 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

LA CAMIONETA

Directed by Mark Kendall

Not Rated | 71 min | 2012 | USA/Guatemala

Presented in English and Spanish with English subtitles

Daily, dozens of retired school buses travel from the United States to Guatemala, where they are resurrected as brightly-colored "camionetas" that transport people to work each day. Since 2006, almost 1,000 “camioneta” drivers have been murdered for not paying extortion money to the local gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows the journey of one bus and the five men whose lives become intertwined with its resurrection.

Official Selection – 2012 SXSW Film Festival; 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, May 28 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

GOD LOVES UGANDA

Directed by Roger Ross Williams

Not Rated | 90 min | 2013 | USA

**Director Roger Ross Williams in attendance for a post-film Q+A.

A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.

Official Selection – 2013 Sundance Film Festival, 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival, 2013 San Francisco International Film Festival, 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, June 4 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

TRASHED: No Place For Waste

Directed by Candida Brady

Not Rated | 97 min | 2012 | USA

Narrated by and starring Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons, this environmental documentary looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. Visually and emotionally the film is both horrific and beautiful: an interplay of human interest and political wake-up call. But it ends on a message of hope: showing how the risks to our survival can easily be averted through sustainable approaches that provide far more employment than the current 'waste industry.'

Official Selection – 2012 Festival de Cannes; Winner: Audience Award – 2012 Maui Film Festival; Winner: Special Jury Prize – 2012 Tokyo Film Festival; Official Selection at 7 other Film Festivals

Through The Lens

Wednesday, June 5 @ 7:00 PM

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

THE SHORT GAME

Directed by Josh Greenbaum

Not Rated | 95 min | 2013 | USA

Screens in English, Mandarin and French with English subtitles

**Director Josh Greenbaum will be in attendance for a post-film Q+A moderated but Doug Fabrizio, host of RadioWest.

THE SHORT GAME follows the lives of eight of the best 7-year old golfers in the world as they train for and compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The annual tournament hosts 1500 young golfers from 54 different countries. THE SHORT GAME presents a fascinating and often funny portrait of a group of very young athletes, their families, and the narrow-focused, peculiar and highly competitive junior golf subculture.

Official Selection – 2013 SXSW Film Festival

Tumbleweeds

Saturday, June 1 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

WILL

Directed by Ellen Perry

Recommended for ages 9+ | 105 min | 2011 | UK/Turkey

In this crowd pleaser from the 2013 Tumbleweeds Film Festival, eleven-year-old Will Brennan is Liverpool FC’s biggest fan school. His life it turned upside down when his long-absent father reappears with tickets to the 2005 Champions League Final. Will’s dream of seeing his beloved team in one of their biggest matches is about to come true. Or is it?

NHMU Science Movie Night

Tuesday, June 11 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

JAPAN’S KILLER QUAKE

Not Rated | 53 min. | 2011 | USA

Filmed shortly after the devastating Tohoku earthquake of March 2011, this NOVA documentary examines the powerful geologic forces that unleashed the quake and how they brought Japan to the brink of a nuclear meltdown. Using exclusive footage and illuminating animations, the film follows the progress of the earthquake as it was generated under the Pacific Ocean, travelled throughout the Japanese mainland, and produced a destructive tsunami. After the film, join University of Utah Research Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics James Pechmann for a discussion of new understandings of the Tohoku earthquake and his research on earthquake hazards in Utah.

Tuesday, June 18 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

WHEN I WALK

Directed by Jason DaSilva

Not Rated | 85 min | 2012 | USA/Canada

**Director Jason DaSilva will participate in a post-film Q+A via Skype.

In 2006, the 25-year-old filmmaker Jason DaSilva was on a beach with his family when, suddenly, he fell down and couldn’t get back up. Doctors told him he had multiple sclerosis. Being a filmmaker, Jason picked up the camera, turned it on himself, and began filming the slow, difficult decline of his body and the miracles he encountered along the way. An emotional and inspirational documentary, When I Walk is an energizing film experience whose creative engine is its young filmmaker’s determination to live .

Official Selection – 2013 Sundance Film Festival; 2013 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival

DTH! Year-round

Thursday, June 20 @ 7:00 PM

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

Directed by Brian Dannelly

Not Rated | 90 min | 2012 | USA

This coming-of-age comedy-drama film written by and starring Chris Colfer, is also based on his novel. After senior Carson Phillips is struck by lightning and killed in his high-school parking lot. He recounts the way he blackmailed his classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. Featuring knock-out performances form Rebel Wilson and Allison Janey, Dermot Mulroney and Christina Hendricks.

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, June 25 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE

Directed by Stephen Maing

Not Rated | 86 min. | 2012 | U.S.A.

Screens in Mandarin with English subtitles.

**Director Stephen Maing in attendance.

HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE follows the journey of two of China’s first citizen reporters as they travel the country - chronicling underreported news and social issues stories. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras these formerly average citizens develop skills as independent one-man news stations while learning to navigate China’s new social media landscape and evolving censorship regulations - all while avoiding the risk of political persecution.

Official Selection – 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, 2012 Hot Docs Film Festival; Winner – Best Documentary – 2012 Little Rock film Festival; Winner – Documentary Special Jury Prize – 2012 Independent Film Festival Boston; Winner – Best Cinematography – 2012 Woods Hole Film Festival

Special Screening

Tuesday July 2 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

SIGN PAINTERS

Directed by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon

Not Rated | 90 min | 2013 | USA

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. Today, the proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade. SIGN PAINTERS is a history of the craft and features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States.

Tumbleweeds!

Saturday, July 6 @ 11:00 PM

City Library

CHICKEN RUN

Directed by Nick Park and Peter Lord

Rated G | 84 min | 2000 | USA

From the Academy Award-winning team behind the popular "Wallace and Gromit" shorts comes a feature-length animated adventure set at Tweedy's chicken farm, where any chicken who doesn't make her egg quota can meet a "fowl" fate. The action turns on the characters of Rocky (an American rooster) and Ginger (a British chicken) who, along with their fellow flock, are determined to break out from the sinister farm before they can be fried, filleted or fricasseed.

Science Movie Night

Tuesday, July 9 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE

Directed by Michelle Metivier

Not rated | 44 min | 2005 | Canada

Monster forest fires, big enough to be seen from space and hot enough to create their own weather, used to be a once-in-a-decade nightmare. But now, they're an everyday summer reality across vast stretches of North America. Authorities in Canada and the United States are bracing for increasing infernos each fire season. This provocative film raises questions about conventional methods of fighting fire, and whether decades of suppressing fire have simply made matters worse.

Special Screening - Presented by Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune Film Critic

Thursday, July 11 @ 7:00 pm

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

Salt Lake Tribune Film Critic Sean Means has been reviewing films for Utah audiences since July 1993. To celebrate his 20^th Anniversary, we’ve asked him to curate a film that he loved and then lead a discussion about it after the screening. Join us to celebrate his contribution to local film culture.

127 HOURS

Directed by Danny Boyle

Rated R | 93 min | 2010 | USA

Easily the best movie made in Utah in my 20 years as movie critic at The Salt Lake Tribune. More than that, though, it's a fascinating and absorbing survival drama, depicting Aron Ralston's survival and dissecting how his go-for-broke life got him into that predicament in the first place. Credit director Danny Boyle for making a movie that's surprisingly dynamic considering it's about a guy literally stuck in the same spot.

- Sean Means

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, July 16 @ 6:00 PM

City Library

DR. ATOMIC

Directed by Peter Sellars

Not Rated | 190 min | 2008 | USA

Representing the culmination of nearly two decades of collaboration between composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars, this modern opera focuses on the J. Robert Oppenheimer experiments that led to the creation of the atomic bomb. Baritone Gerald Finley plays the physicist and soprano Jessica Rivera sings the role of his wife in this 2007 production that features the Netherlands Opera Chorus and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Presented in partnership with Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Utah Symphony/Utah Opera.

Through The Lens

Wednesday, July 17 @ 7:00 PM

Rose Wagner Performing Arts

THE INSTITUTE

Directed by Spencer McCall

Not Rated | 91 min | 2012 | USA

**Director Spencer McCall will participate in a post-film discussion moderated by Doug Fabrizio, host of KUER’s RadioWest

THE INSITUTE follows the experiences of participants in a San Francisco-based phenomenon, where cryptic narratives and real worlds collide to produce unforeseen and often unsettling consequences. This fascinating takes the viewer on a journey into a secret underground organization teeming just beneath the surface of every day life.

Official Selection – 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival; 2013 Slamdance Film Festival; 2013 True/False Film Festival

DTH! Year-round

Thursday, July 18 @ 7:00 PM

Best of Fest

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, July 30 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

Films Without Borders

THE MOO MAN

Directed by Andy Heathcote, Codirected by Heike Bachelier

Not Rated | 98 min. | 2012 | United Kingdom

The remarkable story of a maverick farmer and his unruly cows, filmed over four years on the marshes of the Pevensey Levels. In an attempt to save his family farm, Stephen Hook decides to turn his back on the cost cutting dairies and supermarkets, and instead stay small and keep his close relationship with the herd. However farmer Hook's plans to save the farm do not always go down well with his 55 spirited cows. The result is a laugh-out-loud, emotional rollercoaster of a journey.

Official Selection – 2013 Sundance Film Festival; True/False Film Festival; 2013 Berlin International Film Festival

Tumbleweeds!

Saturday, August 3 @ 11:00 AM

City Library

FLUSHED AWAY

Directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell

Rated PG | 84 min. | 2006 | USA

FLUSHED AWAY tells the story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life....and a madcap adventure deep in the bowels of Ratropolis!

Films Without Borders – Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Day

Tuesday, August 6 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD

Directed by Peter Anthony

Not Rated | 95 min | 2012 | Denmark

Presented in English and Russian with English subtitles.

THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD tells the amazing story of Lt. Colonel Stanislav E. Petrov – a man who held the fate of the world in his hands for a few crucial minutes in history on the night of September 26, 1983. When an alarm went off saying that five American nuclear missiles had been launched against the Soviet Union, he followed his gut feeling and went against orders and protocol, in the process saving the world from nuclear holocaust.

Presented in partnership with Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Through The Lens

Wednesday, August 7 @ 7:00 PM

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

ROOM 237

Directed by Rodney Ascher

Not Rated | 104 min | 2013 | USA

**Director Rodney Ascher will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A moderated by Doug Fabrizio, host of RadioWest.

A documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's The Shining which continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery more than thirty years after its release. Using voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments, ROOM 237 investigates five very different points of view drawing the audience into a new maze, one with many ways in, but no way out.

Official Selection – 2012 Sundance Film Festival; 2012 Cannes Film Festival; 2012 New York Film Festival

Science Movie Night

Tuesday, August 13 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

KEY LARGO

Directed by John Huston

Not Rated | 101 min | 1948 | USA

As a destructive hurricane wreaks havoc outside, Army veteran Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), war-widow Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) and her invalid father-in-law face a worse storm inside the Temples' tumbledown Florida hotel in Key Largo. Frank merely stopped by to pay his respects to Nora, only to find the hotel commandeered by exiled gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson). Will the war-weary Frank step up to fight again?

Winner, Best Supporting Actress – 1949 Academy Awards

DTH! Year-round

Thursday, August 15 @ 7:00 PM

MY SUMMER OF LOVE

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski

Rated R | 86 min | 2004 | UK

A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. Complete opposites, each is wary of the other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction. Adding volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor - which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own rapture. "We must never be parted," Tamsin intones to Mona but can Mona completely trust her? 

Films Without Borders

Tuesday, August 20 @ 7:00 PM

City Library

BEYOND RIGHT AND WRONG: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness

Directed by Lekha Singh and Roger Spottiswoode

Not Rated | 90 min | 2012 | USA

This feature documentary tells the stories of people who both endured and perpetrated cruelty and aggression in the genocide in Rwanda, the violence in Israel/Palestine, and the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. This film focuses on extreme situations but is actually the human story of everyday possibilities in life. After the blood has dried, treaties are negotiated and screams have turned to silence, victims and perpetrators face an uneasy and painful peace. All wounds have not healed. The eighty-minute film portrays the resilience of humanity when facing the chasm between rage and acceptance.

UTAH FILM CIRCUIT MOAB

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Thursday, May 23 @ 7:00 PM

Moab - Star Hall

WAR WITCH

Directed by Kim Nguyen

Not Rated | 90 min | 2012 | Canada

Presented in French and Lingala with English subtitles.

Komona is only 12 years old when she is kidnapped by rebel soldiers and enslaved to a life of guerrilla warfare in the African jungle. Forced to commit unspeakable acts of brutality, she finds hope for survival in protective, ghost-like visions, and in a tender relationship with a fellow soldier named Magicien. Together, they manage to escape the rebels' clutches, and a normal life finally seems within reach. But after their freedom proves short-lived, Komona realizes she must find a way to bury the ghosts of her past.

Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film, 2013 Academy Awards; Nominee – Best International Film, 2013 Independent Spirit Award. Winner: Best Actress – 2012 Berlin International Film Festival; Winner; Best Narrative Feature and Best Actress – 2012 Tribeca Film Festival

Thursday, June 20 @ 7:00 pm

Moab - Star Hall

MOONRISE KINGDOM

Directed by Wes Anderson

PG-13 | 94 min | 2012 | USA

MOONRISE KINGDOM is the latest movie directed by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore).

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing offshore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way. 

Nominated – Best Writing-Original Screenplay, 2013 Academy Awards; Winner of 23 Awards

Thursday, July 25 @ 7:00 PM

Star Hall

BROOKLYN CASTLE

Directed by Katie Dellamaggiore

Not Rated | 102 min | 2012 | USA

**Post-film Q+A via Skype with the director.

At Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, New York, the team students want to belong to – is the chess team. IS 318 has won a record 26 national chess championships, a remarkable achievement for any school, let alone one where the majority of the students are living near the poverty line. Follow the students of the IS 318 chess club as they try to earn another national title. Along the way they show us that success comes from dedication, hard work and supporting each other and that playing chess is about much more than winning or losing – it is what helps them overcome the challenges in their lives.

Thursday, August 15 @ 7:00 PM

Star Hall

THE INVISIBLE WAR

Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering

Not Rated | 97 min | 2012 | USA

**Director Kirby Dick will participate in post-film Q+A via Skype.

THE INVISIBLE WAR is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem—today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of rape victims, this is a moving indictment of the systemic cover-up of military sex crimes, chronicling the women’s struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice.

Nominee, Best Documentary Feature – 2013 Academy Awards; Winner, Documentary Audience Award – 2012 Sundance Film Festival

VIRIDIAN

Second Thursdays @ 7:00 PM

Viridian Library + Event Center – 8030 S. 1825 W.

May 9             WAR WITCH

June13          MOONRISE KINGDOM

July 11           BROOKLYN CASTLE

Aug 8             THE INVISIBILE WAR

May                 WAR WITCH

June               MOONRISE KINGDOM

July                 BROOKLYN CASTLE

Aug                 THE INVISIBILE WAR

TRAVELING TUMBLEWEEDS

KAMAS – Third Wednesdays @ 4:00 PM

Kamas Theater – 30 N. Main St.

May 15           AZUR AND ASMAR

June 19         WILL (pg. #)

July 17           CHICKEN RUN (pg. #)

Aug. 21          FLUSHED AWAY (pg. #)

MOAB – Second Mondays @ 2:00 PM

Grand County Library – 257 E. Center St.

May 13           AZUR AND ASMAR

June 10         WILL (pg. #)

July 8             CHICKEN RUN (pg. #)

Aug. 12          FLUSHED AWAY (pg. #)

OREM – Second Saturdays @ 2:00 PM

Orem Public Library – 58 N. State St.

May 11           AZUR AND ASMAR

June 8                        WILL (pg. #)

July 13           CHICKEN RUN (pg. #)

Aug. 10          FLUSHED AWAY (pg. #)

PARK CITY – Third Sundays @ 3:00 PM

Jim Santy Auditorium – 1255 Park Ave.

May 19           AZUR AND ASMAR

June 16         WILL (pg. #)

July/Aug.       No Screenings to accommodate library renovations.

NOIR AT NIGHT

DARKNESS FALLS (AN OVERVIEW OF AND APPRECIATION FOR NOIR CINEMA)

By Jeff Michael Vice

Sometimes the best things come from the humblest beginnings. Take “noir,” a cinematic genre that takes its name from the French term for “dark.” 

For those unfamiliar with the term and the genre, noir films are categorized as such because of the darkness in in their style, composition, characters and subject matter. Rarely, if ever, do noir films have (Spoiler alert!) happy endings.

If Hollywood and its associated film lore can be believed, the creation of noir was at least in part, an accident. Allegedly, most of the filmmakers who invented and/or perfected the style were forced to work with limited budgets, because of the dire economic conditions at the time. That extended not only to the use of lighting and sets, but to which actors and writers could be employed.

If that’s the case, you can correctly say that noir was a “happy accident,” since some of our greatest filmmakers really found their voices working in that genre. Alfred Hitchcock’s career flourished when he made Strangers on a Train (1951), I Confess (1953), The Wrong Man (1956) and culminated that period with the more colorful, 1958 thriller Vertigo (more on that film later). Orson Welles later followed his acclaimed Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) with The Stranger (1946) and, even later, the gripping and grimy, 1958 thriller Touch of Evil, which forever cemented his reputation (more on him and that film later).

Hitchcock and Welles were far from the only directors associated with noir. Their European counterparts (among them, Fritz Lang, of Metropolis fame) dabbled in the style, and later the “New Wave” directors. While noir briefly died out in the United States during the 1980s, it has seen a revival of sorts, through the more colorful, “neo-noir” and “hipster noir” interpretations -- such as the 2005 Sundance Film Festival hit Brick and the tongue-in-cheek 2005 mystery-thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

And lest we forget, noir was largely responsible for giving us femme fatales. From The Big Sleep’s Lauren Bacall to Vertigo’s Kim Novak to Chinatown’s Faye Dunaway to L.A. Confidential’s Academy Award-winning Kim Basinger, noir has made the female the deadliest of the species.

To help cast a spotlight on this darkest-of-the-dark movie genre, the Utah Film Center presents “Noir at Night,” a series of monthly screenings throughout the month of July at the Gallivan Center that boasts five noir-film classics.

These films not only include works by recognizable, veteran directors like Hitchcock and Welles, it also includes one of the most recognized of all noir films and an unexpected, family friendly choice that spoofs the noir genre. Speaking of family friendly, the films are all rated either PG or PG-13, or would receive one of those ratings by today’s standards. Films selected for the series include:

Monday, July 1 @ Dusk

Gallivan Center Plaza - 220 S State St

THE MALTESE FALCON

Directed by John Houston

Not Rated | 100 min | 1941 | USA

One of the best known of all noir films, John Huston’s adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett mystery novel features most of the genre’s trademark characters. Cynical private eye (Humphrey Bogart’s Sam Spade), conniving mystery woman (Sam’s latest client, played by Mary Astor), Weaselly stooge (Peter Lorre), and corpulent, sweaty bad guy, Sydney Greenstreet. They’re all there.

Still, as familiar as the story might seem on paper – Astor’s character gets Sam involved in murder and intrigue – there are more than enough twists and turns to keep this tale interesting. It doesn’t hurt that the cast all seems to be having fun with this material. There’s a reason why this one is considered one of the classics of the form.

Monday, July 8 @ Dusk

Gallivan Center Plaza - 220 S State St

THE THIRD MAN

Directed by Carol Reed

Not Rated | 93 min | 1949 | UK

Acclaimed novelist Graham Greene collaborated with director Carol Reed and actor Orson Welles on this suspenseful, post-World War II mystery-thriller (Greene is credited with writing the adaptation of his novel, though Reed and Welles both provided uncredited re-writes and contributions). The film follows a pulp writer (hmmm … ) who tries to investigate the mysterious death of an old friend.

 “The Third Man” also re-united “Citizen Kane” co-stars Joseph Cotton, who plays the seemingly clueless novelist Holly Martins, and Welles, who plays the enigmatic title character, opportunistic black marketer Harry Lime. A subtle but effective score (courtesy of Anton Karas) just makes the tension build.

Monday, July 15 @ Dusk

Gallivan Center Plaza - 220 S State St

VERTIGO

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Rated PG | 1958 | 128 min | USA

The debate rages as to the true “noir-ness” of Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller, especially since it was shot and shown in color. But certainly in terms of its characters and subject matter, it qualifies as noir. A retired San Francisco detective, “Scottie” Ferguson (Jimmy Stewart), becomes obsessed with the woman he’s been hired to investigate (Kim Novak).

Vertigo is not only Hitchcock’s most colorful film; arguably, it’s his most creative one as well. From its use as set pieces, costuming, camera work and, as always, a terrific Bernard Herrman score, the film is an inarguable masterpiece. Along with Psycho and North by Northwest, it’s one of Hitchcock’s most fondly remembered features.

Monday, July 22 @ Dusk

Gallivan Center Plaza - 220 S State St

TOUCH OF EVIL

Directed by Orson Welles

Rated PG-13 | 95 min | 1958 | USA

Orson Welles’ initially-ignored, but-now-beloved noir-thriller follows Mike and Susan Vargas (Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh), honeymooners who run afoul of a drug cartel. Mike, a Mexican narcotics detective, also butts heads with a corrupt American lawman, Hank Quinlan (Welles).

Alternatingly tense, grimy and disturbing, the film’s reputation has grown over the years, due in no small part to Welles’ superb performance. Ironically, Welles was fired as director during the post-production process, and the original cut of the film was taken out of his hands. Luckily, Touch of Evil was restored and re-edited, after Welles’ death, from a print copy that was owned by Heston.

Monday, July 29 @ Dusk

Gallivan Center Plaza - 220 S State St

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Rated PG | 104 min | 1988 | USA

Live-action and animation collide in the hilarious and thrilling Disney comedy-thriller, which stars Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant, a broken-down private detective forced to hide and protect a popular “toon” accused of murder.

In addition to its smart use of noir trappings, the film also brings together various Disney, Warner Bros. and other cartoon characters. Plus, it features one of the most eye-popping “femme fatale” characters in human “toon” Jessica Rabbit (modeled by Betsy Brantley and voiced by Kathleen Turner), quite literally. If you’ve seen the movie, you know what we mean.

Utah-based writer and film critic Jeff Michael Vice is an aficionado of noir film, literature, music and comic books (especially Ed Brubaker’s superb Criminal series). He would also like people to listen to his movie reviews on X96’s Radio From Hell morning show, and watch them on Xfinity Utah’s Big Movie Mouth-Off.