Lost Film Fest

So, it looks like Peter Wintonick decided to host Lost Film Fest @ IDFA!! Holy moley!! Yay!! I’m going to be flying over to Europe a bit earlier than I expected. xo Scotty
IDFA 20th Anniversary Celebration Event (LUSTRUM)
Tuchinski 1 Theatre Regulierstraat Amsterdam
14:00- 17:00
Related and included Screenings of Operation Homecoming
and Dear America begin at 10:00am in the Munt
Free to all Delegates and Guests to IDFA, but you must Get your Tickets !!
Public can order thru the IDFA box office

This year IDFA hosts a Special 20th Anniversary Celebration (or Lustrum) with festive, positivist and spirited contributions from important filmmakers, musicians, activists, thinkers, poets, cabaret sketch artists and comedians. The Celebration’s key themes spring forth from the lessons of war, social engagement with the world, and how the quest for documentary truth by independent artists sometimes clashes with mainstream media’s interpretations of reality.

All around the world these days, documentary filmmakers are again on the front-line barricades, building on a legacy of resistance and organizing going back to the Sixties in the States. Times may have changed from Vietnam to Iraq. Our worldview may have grown less ideological, more complex and confused. Our new world is no longer framed by overt ideologies, but by values of social and economic justice. But the essential role of documentary to put a human face on war and peace, to speak the truth, has never wavered. With an array of important guests and activists, this centerpiece IDFA event is expected to get us all up off our seats and into a positive space again. Films in this year’s IDFA programme, from reflections like Dear America: Letters Home from Viet-Nam and F.T.A. to contemporary films like Operation Homecoming and Deserter are the ties that bind us to the notion that Truth can be found in the Documentary form.

GUESTS :
Hosted by Dutch TV personality Sophie Hilbrand and Bert Bakker; Musicians Mother Tongue from Peter Entell’s Shake the Devil Off; Stand up comedian Jan Jaap Van der Wal; Media Critic Noam Chomsky from MIT (USA); IDFA director Ally Derks; Filmmaker Bill Couturié director Dear America; Richard Robins director Operation Homecoming; South African activist Marion Cloete from Louise Hogarth’s Angels in the Dust; Chile’s Ariel Dorfman in Peter Raymont’s A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman; Dr. James Orbinski Dignitas/Doctors Without Borders in Patrick Reed’s Triage: The Dilemma of Dr. James Orbinski; Risa Morimoto director Wings of Defeat; Producer Diane Weyermann Chicago 10; Rick Rowley director Deserter; Director Maziar Bahari IDFA TOP 10 / Retrospective; Musiclip from Green Day / John Lennon’s Working Class Hero (Amnesty International Darfur Campaign); Luis Moreno Ocampo Darfur Now; Scott Beibin director LostFilmFest  Also pending: US activist Tom Hayden Chicago 10, Christopher Hartley activist priest in Bill Haney’s The Price of Sugar, Larry Flynt, Sean Penn (tbc) War Made Easy