Lark Theater’s Blog


Sixth Annual Youth Film Festival
April 7, 2011, 3:38 pm
Filed under: Education, Family

The 2011 Sixth Annual Youth Film Festival was held on Sunday, April 3rd.  The festival featured twenty-nine juror-selected films, and was well attended by young filmmakers (ages 10-18) as well as their friends, families and supporters.

 

Our thanks and congratulations to those selected to compete in this year's festival. Submissions came from all over the state, as well as from NYC, Boston, Maryland and Indiana.

Congrats especially to this year's winners!

Although all of the films were worthy of praise, prizes were awarded in the following categories:

Best Music Film (ages 14-18) “Sleeping Lessons”
Kendra Bradanini (Urban School of San Francisco)

Best Documentary (ages 10-13) “Chinese Invention Express”
Joseph Osborn, Davidson Middle School, San Rafael, CA

Best Documentary (ages 14-18) : “Independence In Sight”
Lauren Lindberg & Bonita Tindle (Bay Area Video Coalition-BAVC)

Best Narrative Film (ages 10-13) “Lemonhood”
Kellen Abend, Luca Evans, Danni Hone, Leo Levy, Ben Olizar, Jadon Seitz, Benjamin Share, Jacob Share,  (Future Filmmaker Workshops)

Best Narrative (ages 14-18): “Driven”
Colin Patty (Cardinal Newman High School, Santa Rosa, CA)

Honorable Mentions: Best Narrative (ages 14-18):
“Roadkill” Alex Herz, Hall Middle School, Larkspur, CA
“Vantage” Cameron Billingham, (Bear River Valley School, Auburn, CA)

We would like to thank our jurors Jenna Capozzi, James Hirsch, Alexandra Mende, and Henrik Rutgersson.

We would also like to thank Best Buy, California Academy of Sciences Museum, Central Marin Rotary, Disney Museum, San Francisco Film Society, Stefano’s Solar-Powered Pizza, and the Twin Cities Police Authority for their support and generous donations of prizes for the festival.

We look forward to another great festival next year!

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Living and Learning
August 24, 2010, 3:22 pm
Filed under: Big Screen, Classics, Education, Foreign, Special Events
We love to experience film and live performance, and we especially enjoy talking about them afterwards: appreciation blooms in conversation, as perspectives are honed and insights shared. But we don’t get enough chance to talk in a meaningful way about art and film – much less to deepen our understanding by talking with people who have made a life of studying and reflecting on these things. So we’re creating some opportunities, and we hope you’ll join us. Program details can be found on our website.

World Cinema Workshops
This course will inform your cinematic adventures, allowing you to appreciate the cinema arts and speak confidently about this exciting and enriching art form. Each of three sessions will be devoted to a different aspect of world cinema, and each workshop includes a feature  length film.
  • French New Wave. Understand the seismic shift in filmmaking in the early 1960s that continues to influence independent film the world over.  Thurs., Oct. 7, 1 – 4pm
  • Ingmar Bergman was a master of a cinema of punctured spirituality and our tenuous place in the universe. His work offers an unparalleled exploration of the nature of the human soul.  Thurs., Oct 21, 1 – 4pm
  • Iranian Cinema. Iran has a greater percentage of women filmmakers than practically any other country, and its industry has learned to challenge prevailing systems in ingenious and stunning ways. Thurs., Nov. 4, 1 – 4pm
The workshops will be led by Garth Twa, whose extraordinary background, knowledge and experience are matched only by his passion and enthusiasm for film.

Exploring Opera (Dates and further info to be announce very soon!)
We’ll de-mystify this rich and powerful art form, learning about opera’s history, understanding the vastly different voice types, learning vocabulary, experiencing popular works and lesser-known gems and comparing differences in production, diction and conducting. Video performance clips bring the beauty and excitement of opera into class. The wonderful James Sokol guides this fascinating journey, which is an ideal accompaniment to our season of live simulcasts from the Met.

Sunday Salon Series
A Sunday Salon at the Lark Theater is a place to meet friends and neighbors, take in a movie and participate in a lively discussion. Films are not announced in advance — it’s a surprise! — and moderators are chosen for their knowledge and experience of the subject. Laugh, talk, think, discuss! Produced in association with the Emeritus College at College of Marin, a program of classes designed to meet the unique needs of older adult learners. Courses offered through Emeritus College seek to support the principles of quality of life, lifelong learning and creative retirement.
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