The Utah Film Center Celebrates 10 Years of Film With a Special Evening With Geena Davis (SLC: Sept 28)

Media Alert Contact: Levi Elder September 13, 2011 lelder@utahfilmcenter.org - 801.746.7000 The Utah Film Center Celebrates 10 Years of Film With a Special Evening With Geena Davis Salt Lake City, Utah – To celebrate 10 years of creating conversation and community through film, the Utah Film Center kicks off a year-long series of special events with a Special Evening with Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis on September 28 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center at 7:00 PM. Ms. Davis will participate in a conversation about her life and career, on and off screen. The conversation will be followed by a screening of THELMA & LOUISE, which is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary, with a post-film Q+A featuring the film’s producer, Mimi Polk Gitlin. Ms. Davis will be interviewed by Leigh von der Esch, Managing Director of the Utah Office of Tourism, who worked to ensure that the iconic scenes of THELMA & LOUISE were shot in Utah. An Evening with Geena Davis is sponsored by Zions Bank with additional support from the Utah Office of Tourism. Tickets are available for $50.00 ($42.50 for Utah Film Center Members) at ArtTix.com for or by calling 888.451.2787. Upcoming events include Evenings with John Waters (Oct. 13) and Temple Grandin (Nov. 3), both at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Details for the events can be found at UtahFilmCenter.org and tickets are available at ArtTix.com. More details about all of our upcoming events and membership can be found at www.UtahFilmCenter.org, Twitter@UtahFilmCenter and Facebook www.facebook.com/Utah-Film-Center The Utah Film Center programs now encompass our year round programs including Films Without Borders, Creativity In Focus, Through the Lens and the Pioneer Park Picture Show; two annual film festivals, Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth and the Damn These Heels! LGBT Film Festival that also carry their own year-round programming. This year also marked the launch of the Utah Film Circuit, in Logan, Ogden, Moab and St. George, establishing a statewide network of community partners to recruit diverse audiences and resources for our independent, foreign, documentary, and children’s programming. The Utah Film Center brings the world of film to local audiences through free community screenings and discussions, outreach programs and visiting artists and industry professionals. Emphasizing social content and artistic excellence, we present the best documentary, independent and dramatic cinema year-round. We collaborate with various organizations to promote a diversity of ideas to provide forums for underrepresented groups and to develop new audiences for film. The Utah Film Center programs are generously supported by the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Rio Tinto, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Zions Bank, and Zoo, Arts & Parks. ###