Thomas Edison Film Festival at Pocono Cinema

88 South Courtland Street,East Stroudsburg PA 18301

21 May, 2022

Description

Thomas Edison Film Festival presents selected shorts from the 41st Annual Festival Tour at the Pocono Cinema & Cultural Center The Pocono Cinema & Cultural Center presents the Thomas Edison Film Festival on Saturday, 21, 2022, at 1:00 pm. Admission is free, but donations are strongly encouraged. The program will be presented in-person by festival director Jane Steuerwald and will include a Q&A with filmmakers Jim Hollenbaugh and Caleb Smith, both from Pennsylvania. Award-winning films from Australia, France, the UK and the US - representing animation, documentary, experimental, narrative and screen dance genres - will be screened. Program to include: Allowed – Experimental - by Zillah Bowes, Cardiff, UK; Miles and Kilometres – Experimental - by Sonali Gulati, Richmond, VA, US; A Parisian Circus – Documentary - by Hugo Besson, Paris, France; Babbit and the Dream Tree – Narrative - by Jeremy Mann, Oakland, CA, US; My Brother is Deaf – Documentary - by Peter Hoffman Kimball, Bethesda, MD, US; The Sticklet Weaver – Documentary - by James Hollenbaugh, Harrisburg, PA, US; Alone beneath the Northern Lights – Documentary - Valentin Boitel-Denyset, Paris, France; Lost Horse Valley – Experimental - by Caleb Smith, Harrisburg, PA, US; Ten Degrees of Strange – Animation - by Lynn Tomlinson, Owings Mills, MD, US; Dawn – Documentary - Timon Birkhofer, Pasadena, CA, US; Rivage (The Shore) – Narrative - by Lisa Fuchs, Paris, France; Charon – Narrative - by Yannick Karcher, Strasbourg, France; and Digital Afterlives – Screen Dance - by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman, Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia. Since 1981, the mission of the Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) has been to promote innovation in the art of the moving image, and the films that are the centerpiece of the festival honor Edison’s vision. The festival’s relationship to Thomas Edison’s invention of the motion picture camera and the kinetoscope and his experimentation with the short film is an essential part of our mission. Shorts are the essence of the festival - not a sidebar to feature films. TEFF is a socially conscious, modern, fiercely independent traveling showcase reaching out to diverse audiences with provocative, timely, edgy and compelling new works by both accomplished and emerging filmmakers.