| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | DavidPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 February 12, 2012 Two children thrown together: Yoav, Jewish, and David, Muslim, meet in a city environment of religious tensions and suspicions, and ask themselves two enduring questions: "How can I fit in?" and "Can we be friends?" An important film for all ages. | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/12/12 | Chandler |
NaomiPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 February 12, 2012 All the elements of a psychological thriller are here. A May-December marriage on the brink. A mother prepared to do whatever to protect her "boy." Unease and uncertainty joined with suspicion. A surprise conclusion awaits you.
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/12/12 | Peoria |
Orthodox Stance Presented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Camelview Five Luxury Theatre February 12, 2012 Dimitriy Salita, Russian, immigrant and Orthodox Jew follows a traditional route out of poverty: Boxing. It is truly that sport's story of "body and soul."
This Hebrew/English/Russian documentary has English subtitles.
Director Jason Hutt will be guest speaker.
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/12/12 | Scottsdale |
The People vs. Leo Frank Presented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Camelview Five Luxury Theatre February 13, 2012 A troubling, boldly depiction of murder mere words cannot convey. It takes this powerful docudrama to convey the shocking and tragic events as they unfolded in 1913 Atlanta.
Guest Speaker: Ben Loeterman, Writer/Director/Executive Producer | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/13/12 | Scottsdale |
The People vs. Leo Frank Presented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 February 14, 2012 A troubling, boldly depiction of murder mere words cannot convey. It takes this powerful docudrama to convey the shocking and tragic events as they unfolded in 1913 Atlanta.
Guest Speaker: Ben Loeterman, Writer/Director/Executive Producer | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/14/12 | Chandler |
Project Humanities: PreciousPresented by Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus February 14, 2012 This film screening of precious : based on the novel push by sapphire, accompanied by discussion, is a kickoff event for Project Humanities.
Project Humanities is a university-wide initiative involving all four campuses - Tempe, West, Polytechnic, and Downtown Phoenix - with the expressed goal to show the interactions among humanities and other areas of scholarship and human endeavor.
Event Location: Cronkite Building, Room 128
ASU Downtown Phoenix campus | Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | 02/14/12 | Phoenix |
| Je Taime I Love You Terminal | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/15/12 | Scottsdale |
| The Matchmaker | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/15/12 | Scottsdale |
The Human Resources ManagerPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Camelview Five Luxury Theatre February 16, 2012 Life and death come together in this film. An Israeli Manager is forced to return the remains of a woman to her native Rumanian village. He and perhaps you, too, learn much about life from this journey of trials and tribulations.
This drama is presented in Hebrew, English, Romanian, w/ English subtitles. | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/16/12 | Scottsdale |
| Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/16/12 | Scottsdale |
RemembrancePresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 February 19, 2012 An epic romance spanning three decades: a Polish partisan and Jewish woman forge an unshakeable bond during the Holocaust. After escaping from a Nazi death camp, Tomasz and a pregnant Hannah are forcibly separated, each convinced the other has died. Flash from 1944 Poland to 1976 Brooklyn, where an older Hannah - now a married mother - glimpses a TV interview that rocks her to the core. The realization that her lost love may be living triggers a spiral of unresolved emotions and moral... | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/19/12 | Chandler |
My Best EnemyPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 February 19, 2012 Wonderful acting and directing make this "edge-of-seat" thriller work. With all its escapades and questions raised you will want to see how it all plays out.
This Drama/Dark Comedy is presented in German w/ English subtitles.
Guest Discussion Leader:
Chandler Crossroads 12 - Bill Goodykoontz, Chief Film Critic, Gannett and Film Critic, Arizona Republic. | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/19/12 | Chandler |
The MatchmakerPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 February 19, 2012 The matchmaker is a mystery. Is he a Holocaust survivor with a hidden past, a shady business man or more on a mission as a mentor to a teenager coming of age than in business? Watch, enjoy, and perhaps find some answers.
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/19/12 | Peoria |
DavidPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Camelview Five Luxury Theatre February 19, 2012 Two children thrown together: Yoav, Jewish, and David, Muslim, meet in a city environment of religious tensions and suspicions, and ask themselves two enduring questions: "How can I fit in?" and "Can we be friends?" An important film for all ages.
Guest Speaker at Camelview 5: Rabbi Darren Kleinberg
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/19/12 | Scottsdale |
RemembrancePresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Camelview Five Luxury Theatre February 19, 2012 An epic romance spanning three decades: a Polish partisan and Jewish woman forge an unshakeable bond during the Holocaust. After escaping from a Nazi death camp, Tomasz and a pregnant Hannah are forcibly separated, each convinced the other has died. Flash from 1944 Poland to 1976 Brooklyn, where an older Hannah - now a married mother - glimpses a TV interview that rocks her to the core. The realization that her lost love may be living triggers a spiral of unresolved emotions and moral... | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/19/12 | Scottsdale |
| My Best Enemy | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/19/12 | Scottsdale |
| The People vs. Leo Frank | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/20/12 | Peoria |
Orthodox Stance Presented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 February 21, 2012 Dimitriy Salita, Russian, immigrant and Orthodox Jew follows a traditional route out of poverty: Boxing. It is truly that sport's story of "body and soul."
This Hebrew/English/Russian documentary has English subtitles.
Guest speaker: Harvey Prezant, former boxer, now a boxing judge and trainer.
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/21/12 | Peoria |
P.a.v.e. spring speakers series: Thinking Outside the Box OfficePresented by ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU Lyceum Theatre February 21, 2012 Critically acclaimed digital filmmaker Jon Reiss discusses "Thinking Outside the Box Office" when he visits the ASU Tempe campus Feb. 21 as the next p.a.v.e speaker. Named one of the 10 digital directors to watch by Daily Variety, Reiss is director of the documentary feature Bomb It, which explored the world of graffiti art. His experiences with marketing his film became the inspiration for his book, Think Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution in the... | ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | 02/21/12 | Tempe |
DavidPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 February 22, 2012 Two children thrown together: Yoav, Jewish, and David, Muslim, meet in a city environment of religious tensions and suspicions, and ask themselves two enduring questions: "How can I fit in?" and "Can we be friends?" An important film for all ages.
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/22/12 | Peoria |
The MatchmakerPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 February 23, 2012 The matchmaker is a mystery. Is he a Holocaust survivor with a hidden past, a shady business man or more on a mission as a mentor to a teenager coming of age than in business? Watch, enjoy, and perhaps find some answers.
Guest Speaker: Chandler Crossroads 12, Rabbi Dean Shapiro | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/23/12 | Chandler |
RemembrancePresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 February 23, 2012 An epic romance spanning three decades: a Polish partisan and Jewish woman forge an unshakeable bond during the Holocaust. After escaping from a Nazi death camp, Tomasz and a pregnant Hannah are forcibly separated, each convinced the other has died. Flash from 1944 Poland to 1976 Brooklyn, where an older Hannah - now a married mother - glimpses a TV interview that rocks her to the core. The realization that her lost love may be living triggers a spiral of unresolved emotions and moral... | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/23/12 | Peoria |
My Best EnemyPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 February 23, 2012 Wonderful acting and directing make this "edge-of-seat" thriller work. With all its escapades and questions raised you will want to see how it all plays out.
This Drama/Dark Comedy is presented in German w/ English subtitles.
Guest Speaker
Arrowhead 18, Peoria - Paul Wieser, Holocaust Expert
| Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/23/12 | Peoria |
Everything Is Terrible! presents DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!Presented by FilmBar at FilmBar February 23, 2012 Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone's favorite found footage chop shoppe) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history. EIT! asks but a few simple questions: 1) "What if we made a movie composed ENTIRELY out of dog-related found footage?"; 2) 'What if this magickal movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, was also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 masterpiece... | FilmBar | 02/23/12 | Phoenix |
Jurassic Park - Movie viewing and discussion with PaleontologistPresented by Arizona Museum of Natural History at Arizona Museum of Natural History February 24, 2012 Come and experience this block buster movie sensation like never
before, with a real, live, AzMNH paleontologist! Written by Michael Crichton, and directed by Steven Spielberg, Jurassic Park is a one of a kind action, adventure film that does not disappoint. Spielberg brings an island full of dinosaurs to life with groundbreaking animations, and stunning computer generated imagery! Got dino-questions? You're in luck! Following the showing, you can take part in a lively, scientific... | Arizona Museum of Natural History | 02/24/12 | Mesa |
Yoo-Hoo Mrs. GoldbergPresented by Phoenix Jewish Film Festival at Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 February 26, 2012 First via radio, then by TV, the depressed American public took this warm, loving Jewish mother into their homes and hearts. See how Gertrude Berg, as Mollie, brought to life an imagined cast of characters. | Phoenix Jewish Film Festival | 02/26/12 | Chandler |
ASU Spring 2012 Diversity Scholars Series: Reception and Keynote AddressPresented by ASU Office of Institutional Inclusion at Arizona State University - Walter Cronkite Building February 28, 2012 The Diversity Scholars Series provides the opportunity for discourse with nationally and internationally recognized scholars and leaders in higher education. We are especially interested in bringing visibility and understanding to current intergroup, multicultural, diversity and social justice research, policy making and teaching practices in higher education.
Presented by The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost of the University
Co... | ASU Office of Institutional Inclusion | 02/28/12 | Phoenix |
The Almost Famous Film FestivalPresented by The Almost Famous Film Festival at Phoenix Art Museum March 1, 2012 Watch the Top 20 entries show at the Phoenix Art Museum. They announce awards for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Actor Team, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Special Effects, Best Edit...
No money - but everyone gets highly coveted title credit and a shiny new copy of the DVD.
| The Almost Famous Film Festival | 03/01/12 | Phoenix |
Film Festival at PVCC - Maria Full of GracePresented by Paradise Valley Community College at PVCC Center for the Performing Arts March 7, 2012 Maria Full of Grace is a Colombian film that documents the poverty and subjugation of a country dominated by drug cartels. Many young women find the only way out of such financial misery is to become drug mules, dangerously transporting cocaine in their bodies to the U.S.
| Paradise Valley Community College | 03/07/12 | Phoenix |
| Discovery Film Series: Crooked Earth | Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 04/13/12 | Scottsdale |
Talk CinemaPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts April 17, 2012 Audience members are the critics at this sneak-preview film series that screens award-winning indie and foreign films before their theatrical release. Always a surprise, the films are selected from leading festivals by critic Harlan Jacobson. Screenings are introduced and followed by moderated conversations hosted by distinguished guest speakers.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 04/17/12 | Scottsdale |
The 7th Annual Student Film FestivalPresented by ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Harkins Valley Art Theater April 23-April 24, 2012 This traditionally sold-out event showcases the work of dozens of filmmakers eager to see their work on the big screen. The festival highlights the best emerging talent in Film and Media Production in the ASU School of Theatre and Film, the first in the nation to offer an ethical approach to filmmaking. Audience members can pick their favorite in the 10-minute film competition. This event is co-sponsored by the ASU Student Film Association.
| ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | 04/23/12- 04/24/12 | Tempe |
Movies in the ParkPresented by Biltmore Fashion Park at Biltmore Fashion Park March 2-April 27, 2012 Enjoy free classic favorites under the stars every Friday nights during March and April 2012 in the center lawn. During Movies in the Park, enjoy special To-Go Dining Deals at participating Biltmore Fashion Park restaurants.
Schedule:
March 2 - Back to the Future
March 9 - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
March 16 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
March 23 - Princess Bride
March 30 - The Fugitive
April 6 -... | Biltmore Fashion Park | 03/02/12- 04/27/12 | Phoenix |
Talk CinemaPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts May 8, 2012 Audience members are the critics at this sneak-preview film series that screens award-winning indie and foreign films before their theatrical release. Always a surprise, the films are selected from leading festivals by critic Harlan Jacobson. Screenings are introduced and followed by moderated conversations hosted by distinguished guest speakers.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 05/08/12 | Scottsdale |
The Politics of 1950s American Film: On the Waterfront (1954)Presented by ASU - Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Northwest Regional Library July 25, 2011 - Ongoing The Arizona State University Center for Film, Media, and Popular Culture with grant support from the Arizona Humanities Council presents a four film series, The Politics of 1950's American Film.
The series is hosted by Jeremy Carr, visiting research fellow at the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture, who will present three of the four films. Each session will begin with an introduction, providing historical information and previewing the themes to be shown in the film. A... | ASU - Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture | 07/25/11- Ongoing | Surprise |
DolphinsPresented by Arizona Science Center at Arizona Science Center September 25, 2011 - Ongoing Follow marine biologist, Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, Dr. Bernd W?rsig and Dr. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez, as they research the communication of wild dolphins with innovative scientific methods. From rarely seen fish-herding behavior to a close-up look at complex communication activities, Dolphins offers a fascinating new perspective on the lives of dolphins and their remarkable intelligence.
| Arizona Science Center | 09/25/11- Ongoing | Phoenix |
Hubble 3DPresented by Arizona Science Center at Arizona Science Center October 17, 2011 - Ongoing Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hubble 3D will take you on an unprecedented voyage through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mystery of our celestial surroundings. Experience never-before-seen 3D flights through the farthest reaches of the universe, and accompany spacewalking astronauts on some of the most difficult and important endeavors in NASA's history.
Presented in the Science Center's IMAX Theatre, the film will offer an inspiring and unique look... | Arizona Science Center | 10/17/11- Ongoing | Phoenix |