Sundial Film Festival Winner – 2009 October 17, 2009
The Sundial Film Festival was launched in Redding, CA in March 2009.
Mark your calendars for the next festival on March 10-13, 2010.
Cart, was the winner of the 1st Annual Sundial Film Festival. Jesse Rosten so brilliantly gave an inanimate object, a shopping cart, such personality. I will never look at abandoned shopping carts without thinking of this 10 minute masterpiece. I hope you enjoy watching it and that it wets your appetite to mark your calendar for the 2nd Annual Sundial Film Festival scheduled to be bigger and better in Redding, California on these dates: March 10-13, 2010.
If the first year of the Sundial Film Festival is an indicator, this is destined to be an annual event in the Northstate going forward.
The idea was actually conceived at my kitchen table in late 2007 – while my husband was Redding Rotary President and our son was home for a bit. Mark and Will Lascelles (who had gone to film school in Australia) were talking about the fact that so many communities have film festivals and why not Redding? This is a forward thinking community on many levels but we didn’t yet have a film festival.
Roll it forward slightly and the Sundial Film Festival committee was formed with Peggy O’Lea as the guiding light! There were frequent and regular meetings of this committee at CR Gibbs in Redding.
A year or so later? The 1st Annual Sundial Film Festival was held at the Cascade Theatre in Redding, CA. People were pleasantly surprised at how polished the first festival was – well attended and festive from start to finish.
Kathleen Kennedy, the well known producer of such films as
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt, is from Redding. Though she could not attend the festival due to a heavy schedule, she was present on screen saying how pleased she was that her community now had their own film festival.Along with the film festival, still photographers had an opportunity to submit photographs to be evaluated and judged. This will again be the case in the 2010 festival. There is no shortage of talent in the Northstate.
The Festival is already accepting film submissions as of this writing in October, 2009. There is no time like the present to get involved in this wonderful event that is on course to grow year in and year out. Whether it be film or photography you are interested in as a participant or spectator, there’s something for everyone here.
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Wonderful video….nice theme to it…I expect to see some sponsor pick it up and a shortened version appear on my t.v. as a commercial and make Jesse Rosten a nice sum of money.
Redding is certainly fortunate to have this film festival come together. Thank you, Mary, for sharing Redding’s Film Festival with those of us who couldn’t be there in person.