Freedom Cinema Festival Hits Park City Again January 25-30

Freedom Cinema Festival Hits Park City Again January 25-30

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The second annual Freedom Film Festival features 64 provocative films from around the world, including U.S. premieres. The Festival also includes live music events, panel discussions of activist media, stand-up comedy, and graphic arts/cartooning.

"While other festivals have done a good job of including important political work in their program, the films with the big stars and the big corporate money behind them will continue to get the most attention at these festivals," said Andrew Jon Thomson, the festival's founder and executive director.

"If there was a prize for 'Best Vibe' the Freedom Cinema Festival would surely have won," said Mark Achbar, director of The Corporation, a 2004 Sundance Audience Award-winner. "There was a consciousness in all the organizers' choices that did not pervade the larger festival down the street."

WHAT: Freedom Cinema Festival provides a unique, alternative forum for
leading grassroots artists addressing socially and politically
relevant themes. It runs concurrently with the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival.

WHEN: January 25-30

WHERE: Main Street Mall, 2nd floor
333 Main Street (across from Egyptian Theater)
Park City, Utah

TICKETS: 877.849.3231 or http://www.freedomcinemafestival.org/

Highlights (for complete schedule of films go to
http://www.freedomcinemafestival.org)/

* An Iraqi Lullaby For Children Who Are About To Die/ World Premiere
(Directors: Allie Light, Irving Saraf) An Iraqi mother sings a lullaby
to her children as bombs and artillery demolish their world.

* Beyond Right and Wrong (Director: Dixie Gamble) A severely mentally ill
death row inmate's tortured past becomes his only salvation.

* Peaceable Kingdom (Director: Jenny Stein) A fourth-generation Montana
cattle rancher turns vegetarian.

* Searching For Angela Shelton (Director: Angela Shelton) Filmmaker
Angela Shelton discovers that 16 of 32 Angela Sheltons she interviewed
had been raped, beaten or molested.

* SHEM /US Premiere (Director: Caroline Roboh) A gay, good-looking 19-
year-old abandons a life of pleasure to search for his great-
grandfather's grave somewhere behind the former iron curtain.

* Seoul Train /US Premiere (Directors: Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky,
Lisa Sleeth) The life and death of North Koreans trying to escape on an
"underground railroad."

* Livicated /Special Sneak Preview (Director: Eric Crown) Rare interviews
with Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh as one man's reggae
archives move from Los Angeles to Jamaica to become the first National
Museum of Reggae.



Source: Freedom Cinema Festival

CONTACT: Karen Pomer, +1-310-463-7025, krpomer@aol.com for Freedom
Cinema Festival

Web site: http://www.freedomcinemafestival.org/


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