Nashville, TN – On First Art Saturday, April 3 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., The Arts Company and Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) present the Fourth Annual Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) Official Preview. In a campy Trailer Park Drive-In setting, the gallery’s Avant-Garage will showcase the ultimate sneak peek film experience. Walk into the collaborative world of art & film, including meeting Film Festival artistic personnel, hearing about this year’s exciting offerings, as well as viewing insightful trailers on the “drive-in screen” of coming attractions at this year’s festival. In addition, there will be a popcorn machine, theater candy, and tours of a real trailer!  The 2010 Nashville Film Festival takes place April 15-22, 2010, at the Regal Green Hills Cinema in Nashville. The Festival recently announced its opening night film “Nowhere Boy," a biopic exploring the childhood of a creative, spirited and curious John Lennon growing up in post-war Liverpool.  To purchase tickets and to find out the latest information on films and panels, please visit www.nashvillefilmfestival.org. 

 

For four years, The Arts Company and Nashville Film Festival have previewed the upcoming prestigious film festival. As partners in art, they have collaborated to design and unveil commemorative film posters, screen special highlights of the festival (past and present), and create unique art exhibitions focusing on the art of film. Highlighted past art has included the works of local graphic artist and illustrator Jonathan Richter, acclaimed photorealist painter John Baeder, and LIFE legendary photographers, among others. 

 

“We are proud to host the film festival folks again this year at The Arts Company,” states Anne Brown. “As partners in art, the two organizations have enjoyed wonderful artistic and cinematic explorations together and this year is going to be one of the most exciting as we feature art and film in a classic drive-in setting. We believe it will be a fun time for everyone and a great chance to preview what’s coming up at this year’s groundbreaking Nashville Film Festival.”

 

 

The longest-running film festival in the South, Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) also ranks among the most prestigious, continually garnering accolades and notice from a wide range of entertainment and trade publications, including the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal online, MovieMaker Magazine, Film Festival Today, IndieWire, Variety, Billboard, New York and Script Magazine. Between 2003 and 2009, NaFF attendance numbers doubled, capped off with a staggering 26% increase in festival attendees between 2006 and 2007. In 2009, nearly 23,000 film lovers, entertainment professionals and industry insiders from all over the world made the trek to NaFF, enjoying 258 films from 48 countries, incisive industry panels, music showcases and spirited party mixers. Among the diverse group of celebrities who have attended NaFF in the past either as film presenters, award recipients or film fans are William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Sheryl Crow, William H. Macy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Patricia Neal, Rob Thomas, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray McKinnon, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Walton Goggins, Craig Brewer, Harmony Korine, Al Gore, Nicole Kidman, Kiefer Sutherland, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Patrick Swayze, Rick Schroder, John Waters, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, Harry Belafonte, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Moore, Kevin Smith, Barbara Kopple, and D.A. Pennebaker. Nashville Film Festival is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and receives funding from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, The Memorial Foundation, Nashville Metro Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, Ragsdale Family Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, and its generous patrons and sponsors.

 

Established in December 1996, The Arts Company continues to be an arts cornerstone on Fifth Avenue in downtown Nashville and a prime destination for fresh, original, contemporary artwork in photography, painting, and sculpture, by artists from emerging to legendary.  The gallery website, www.theartscompany.com, is available 24/7 for reviewing and previewing artist portfolios and gallery and outside exhibitions sponsored throughout the year by the gallery. The Arts Company also “Partners In Art” with a variety of non-profit organizations, including Artrageous, Southern Festival of Books, AIGA Nashville, and Nashville Film Festival, among others. In addition, the Company has recently launched a new enterprise, The Arts Company Press, dedicated to developing and publishing art-related book projects.   Information on First Saturdays is also available on the website, as well as regular entries on Facebook, Twitter, our Blog, and Flickr. Regular gallery hours are:  10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday. 

 

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(Image from Made in LA)

The School of Humanities of the College of Arts and Sciences of Lipscomb University, in cooperation with the Nashville Film Festival is offering a free screening of the documentary Made in LA.

A feature documentary following three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21.

(Shamblin Theater is located in the Bennett Campus Center across from Collins Alumni Auditorium in the center of the Lipscomb campus. For more information, e-mail Ted Parks at ted.parks@lipscomb.edu)

Welcome to the world’s largest garbage village located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. The Zaballeen (Arabic for garbage people) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect—far more than other recycling initiatives. But now a multi-national corporation threatens their livelihood. Follow three teenage boys born into the business who are forced to make choices that will impact the survival of their community.

 

 

Hello members!

We have been invited to a sneak screening of Youth In Revolt on Tuesday, January 5th at 7:30 pm at Regal Green Hills.

To attend this screening you MUST print out the attached pass and bring it to the screening to gain admission.  Each pass will admit two guests.

  

Enjoy,

Ted

 

Go to our website and print a Comcast VIDEO ON DEMAND – FREE COUPON to SPIKE LEE’S new film Passing Strange!!!

 

 Passing Strange: In this astounding and explosive documentary, Spike Lee captures the eponymous Broadway musical show written by singer/songwriter Stew. The story concerns the uneasy relationship of a young black man with his life.

 

Also, please support our partners at the Nashville Jewish Film Festival who are gearing up for their festival Nov. 7-12. 

Please click here for their schedule.

 

 

     We still have have a limited number of passes to X Games 3D the Movie tonight.  One pass per member and each pass is good for 2.

 

Please RSVP with your name to ted@nashvillefilmfestival.org if you would like to attend and remember that seating is first-come first-served and therefore not guaranteed. Don't forget to bring your current membership card. 

 

NOTE: Cell phones and/or recording equipment may not be allowed in the theaters and you will probably be asked to surrender them at the door.  It may be a good idea to leave such items in your car.

 

 

Enjoy!

Ted