Black Bear Film Festival All Access Gold Pass
A $300.00 value for just $200.00
See our website for complete schedule of screenings on the
https://blackbearfilm.com/
Includes Two Cocktail Parties:
Friday, October 13: Opening Night Red Carpet Reception at 6:00pm and Film screening, Sympathy For Delicious
Saturday, October 14: Make Me Famous Doc at 6:00pm & 80’s Music Afterparty at Forest Hall Studio immediately following the screening
Must See Independent Film Screenings:
OPENING NIGHT
Sympathy For Delicious
Drama - 96m
Directed by Mark Ruffalo - Written by Christopher Thornton - Starring Christopher Thornton, Laura Linney, Juliet Lewis and Orlando Bloom
When a motorcycle accident leaves up-and-coming DJ Dean O’Dwyer paralyzed, he abandons his turntables for the world of faith-healing.
Make Me Famous
Documentary - 93m
Directed by Brian Vincent
A madcap romp through the 1980’s art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski.
Lakota Nation vs United States
Documentary
Directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli
A chronicle of broken treaties and the Lakota Indians fight to reclaim control of the Black Hills
The Sweet Taste of Freedom
Drama Short
Emmy Nominated Director: Matthew Penn
A man facing a long prison sentence has 48 hours to put his life in order.
Hayseed
Whodunnit Murder Mystery
Directed by Travis Burgess
Set in a small Midwest town, "Hayseed" follows the investigation of a church congregation after their reverend is found dead.
Past Lives
Drama
Directed by Celine Song
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
NEPADOC
Experimental Documentary
Directed by David S. Heineman
NEPADOC is a documentary about intersections of environment, industry, and identity in Northeastern Pennsylvania over the past 300 years. Inspired by non-verbal documentary films NEPADOC blends 4K cinematography, local historical footage, and a sweeping score into a dizzying and contemplative meditation on culture, place, and public memory.
Forty Years in a Box
Documentary
Directed by Shira Levin
Opening a box of 40 year-old 16mm film footage leads the filmmaker down an unexpected path into an exploration of time, aging and self-acceptance.
Classic Film – Time After Time
Presented by John DiLeo
Mixing thrills, comedy, romance and fantasy, Time After Time is a standout film from 1979 you should have seen but probably didn’t!
H.G Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has built a time machine and he plans on using it to travel to a Utopian paradise in the future, but before he can, Jack the Ripper, on the run from police, uses it to escape and travel to 1979. Wells follows and enlists the help of a bank teller named Amy (Mary Steenburgen) to catch Jack before he continues his killing spree.
Followed by film discussion led by John DiLeo
PLUS 3 Short Film Segments of award nominated submissions on the Main Stage
Your Gold Pass purchase also supports our Film Salons offered free to the public at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Saturday, October 14