Whitworth College is hosting the 3rd annual Leonard A Oakland Film Festival, which starts tonight (February 17th) with Favela Rising, a documentary situated in a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) in the middle of a drug gang war. The film centers around former drug trafficker Anderson Sá, who has embraced the power of music and the arts to help his community rise out of the deadly situation that is their everyday life. Favela Rising will be preceded by the short film Five Feet High and Rising, at 7PM in the Weyerhaeuser Hall Robinson Teaching Theatre.
Friday, February 18th, the festival will screen Sony Pictures Classics film I’ve Loved You So Long. Two sisters, Juliette and Léa, are separated when Juliette is sent to prison for 15 years. When she’s released, she moves in with Léa, Léa’s husband, two adopted daughters and father-in-law. They struggle to cope with Juliette’s re-assimilation into a world that had left her far behind during the years she was incarcerated.
The final film of the festival will be a Norman, the locally produced tale of a troubled teen who lies about having the stomach cancer that is killing his father. He tries to manage the situation, but it quickly escalates beyond his control. Norman, in its premiere presentation, begins at 7 PM.
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Tom Dineen – who has written 136 posts on Film And Video Enthusiasts of Spokane.
Born in California and transplanted to Spokane WA at a young age, Tom Dineen graduated with a degree in film and video production and business and started his career working for a local film production company. After a short stint in the industry, Tom became active in the community as an organizer of the FAVES group and has administered the FAVESblog.com web presence and emailing lists. Tom has also been involved with organizing several short films produced in the Spokane area as well as Reel Spokane and the 50 Hour Slam events.
