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Film festival set tonight in Kent Event to be held at Kent Stage

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Matthew Fredmonsky
January 25, 2008

By Matt Fredmonsky

Record-Courier staff writer

A kaleidoscope of images ranging from peaceful to bizarre and downright peculiar will flood The Kent Stage tonight for the fifth annual Standing Rock Cultural Arts International Short Film Festival.

Think of it as a film projector personified with attention deficit disorder and a serious addiction to caffeine. A roughly three-minute film by Carl Palmer, titled "Bug Out," is a collage of historic images captured from America's atomic bomb tests and accompanied by Palmer's own mellow soundtrack.

Twenty different artists will show as many films during three segments of the festival, which begins at 8 p.m. in downtown Kent.

Jeff Ingram, executive director of SRCA, said Kent residents who attend are privy to a truly original festival.

"Come on down for the visual extravaganza and multicultural fun," Ingram said. "We've got filmmakers from Spain, Ireland and Canada this year, and we've never had filmmakers from those places before."

The first segment of the festival will feature independent films from around the world including documentaries, animation, short comedies, collages and music videos. The displaying artists' homes vary from local northeast Ohio roots to Australia, England and Canada.

The second segment showcases last year's "Best of Fest" and people's choice award winner Dustin Grella. Grella will show a new piece and last year's award-winning chalkboard animation "Glimpse."

During the festival, audience members will decide this year's winning films. Grella also will walk the audience through the filmmaking techniques applied to his award-winning film.

The third segment will be the shortest, lasting about 15 minutes, and will feature two silent films by local artist Mike Hovancsek and will be accompanied by live music by the band Root Doctor's Revenge. Tickets for the festival are $10 each and $7 for seniors and students. More information is available online at www.standingrock.net and www.kentstage.org.

Tom Simpson, owner of the stage and president of the Main Street Kent board of directors, said he is expecting between 300 and 400 people for the festival.

"Events like the film festival and the folk festival ... and the other events that we have downtown all help build the rejuvenation of downtown," Simpson said. "Kent becomes more of a destination place every time we have one of these events."




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    Posted by music7977 January 25, 2008
yousaidit

Does everything have to be Democrats and Republican?

Can they not have a story about something going on good in the community on the front page for one day out of seven?

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    Posted by yousaidit January 25, 2008
It's not which is more newsworthy, it's which shows the Democrats in a better light.

Having the "award winning artists" on the front page is better than having the armed robbers on the front page.

In case you're wondering, neither one of those groups have high representation in the Republican party...

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    Posted by auburn smith January 25, 2008
I realize the reporter did not decide where to place this story in the paper but did it really rise in prominence to page one when the editors or layout people could have reported an armed robbery at McDonald's where people were bodily threatened? This was on the back page of the front section. Which is more newsworthy?

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