37th cleveland international film festival :: April 3 - april 14, 2013
Film Festival Blog
March 24th, 2007 @ 1:20pm

Saturday afternoon is off to a great start!

What a wonderful day this already is! Our noon round has all gone into the theaters, and now we're gearing up for the 2:00 round!

We'll be starting at 1:45 with Crude Impact, a very relevant documentary about the state of our nation's dependency on oil, and what we should expect over the next few decades. This will be accompanied by a Film Forum panel featuring Linda Abraham-Silver, the President and Executive Director of the Great Lakes Science Center, Michael Jung, Assistant to Governor Strickland's Energy Advisor, and Richard Stuebi, energy industry specialist for the Cleveland Foundation. The topic of the panel will be: Can we address global climate change and our culture's deep and complex dependence on oil at the local level? Will our local efforts make a global difference? Or is it already too late? Talk about a topic that hits all of us where we live!

In lighter fare, we'll also have the very popular Family Shorts Program at 1:45, which is on Stand-By, so get here early. Then at 2:00, The King and the Clown will begin. This is South Korea's biggest box office hit of all time, and a very lovely late addition to our festival schedule.

Rounding things out at 2:15 are Motherland Afghanistan which will have a Filmmaker Q&A afterwards with Director Sedika Mojadidi and Editor Roger Schulte, and Pleasant Moments, a brilliant film from the Czech Republic.

Things are heating up for the afternoon, so make sure to buy your tickets early if you haven't already! We have some spectacular things in store.

Posted by Lara Klaber

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