CineSizzle Independent Film Series Kicks Off Today At Kayenta
Escape the sizzling summer heat in July by attending a curated film series featuring some of the most compelling independent films from the past two years.
The Center For the Arts at Kayenta is proud to announce their first ever CineSizzle Independent Film Series inside the Lorain Boccardo Theater, Thursdays through Sundays in July. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at www.KayentaArts.com.
The July film series includes four weeks of films, with 16 independent curated films. All films are presented through special arrangements and licensing with Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.
CineSizzle
Independent Film Series
Featured films include:
Thursday, July 6th, 7:30 PM – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp. Cast: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Isabella Rossellini, Joe Gabler, Shari Finkelstein, Samuel Painter.
Runtime is 90 minutes, and the film is rated PG.
- 2023 Oscar Nominee: Best Animated Film
- Best Animated Independent Feature: 2023 Annie Award
- Best Independent Film: 2023 Hollywood Critics Association Award
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family. (2021)
Friday, July 7th, 7:30 PM – A Thousand and One
Directors: A.V. Rockwell, Brad Weston, Oren Moverman, Lena Waithe, Rachel Jacobs.
Cast: Teyana Taylor, Aven Courtney, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Josiah Cross, William.Catlett. Runtime: is 117 minutes, and the film is rated R.
- Best Dramatic Film: 2023 Sundance Film Festival
After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City. (2023)
Saturday, July 8th, 7:30 PM – Origami in the Garden
Director: Barbara Bentree. Cast: Kevin Box, Jennifer Box, Robert J. Lang, Beth Johnson, Michael LaFosse, Richard. Alexander.
Runtime: is 84 minutes, and this film is not rated.
- Best documentary feature: 2022 Vegas Movie Awards.
An artfilm and a love story, Origami in the Garden is a journey of two artists as they strive to spread Peace and Inspiration throughout the world through sculpture. (2021)
Sunday, July 9th, 7:30 PM – R.M.N.
Director: Cristian Mungiu, Pascal Caucheteux, Jean Labadie
Cast: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu, Orsolya Moldován, Rácz Endre. Runtime is 125 minutes, and this film is not rated.
- Best Screenplay: 2023 Dublin International Film Festival
- Festival Winner of 2023 Berlin International Film Festival
- Nominee for Best International Co Production: 2023 Lumiere Awards
A non-judgmental analysis of the driving forces of human behavior when confronted with the unknown, of the way we perceive the other and on how we relate to an unsettling future. (2022)
Thursday, July 13th, 7:30 PM – Paint
Directors: Brit McAdams, Lyle Workman, Joel David Moore, Owen Wilson. Cast: Owen Wilson, Elisabeth Henry, Paul Kosopod, Michaela Watkins, Sonia Darmei Lopes.
Runtime is 96 minutes, and this film is rated PG-13.
The film centers on Carl Nargle, who has hosted Vermont’s number one painting show for nearly three decades. While Carl’s signature whisper has long kept viewers from Pittsfield to St. Albans breathlessly hanging on his every stroke, the station eventually hires a younger, better painter who steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves. (2023)
“The world-building in “Paint” is about challenging the wholesomeness of what makes a Bob Ross—the public broadcasting station that would make his soothing paint tutorial shows a phenomenon, the little town he would become a celebrity in, and the innocence with which he presented himself.” – RogerEbert.com.
Friday, July 14th, 7:30 PM – BlackBerry
Directors: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarroll, Jared Raab. Cast: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Cary Elwes, Rich Sommer.
Runtime is 124 minutes, and this film is rated R.
- 2023 Sloan Science on Screen Award: San Francisco International Film Festival
- Nominee for Best Film: Berlin International Film Festival
In 1996, amidst the booming technology industry in Ontario, Mike Lazaridis finds a corner of the market to stake his claim, crafting a new type of cellular phone with internet capabilities and a keyboard to promote work-life cross-functionality. Dubbing his creation a smartphone, Lazaridis soon finds himself flying too close to the sun as corporate greed and imitations soon encroach upon his creation. (2023)
Saturday, July 15th, 7:30 PM – A Love Song
Directors: Max Walker-Silverman, Jessica Kelly, Jesse Hope. Cast: Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas, John Way.
Runtime is 81 minutes, and the film is rated PG.
- 2022 NBR Award: Top Ten Independent Films
- NEXT Innovator Award:2022 Sundance Film Festival
- Best Performance: 2022 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award.
In the landscape of the American West, widow Faye has been calling this vast expanse her home, living off-the-grid and on her own. However, one day, her old flame Lito, himself a widower as well, arrives. While by a lake within the Colorado Mountains, the two rekindle and reminisce about old times and decide to spend the night together. (2022)
Sunday, July 16, 7:30 PM – Monica
Directors: Andrea Pallaoro, Anthony Burns, Dru Davis. Cast: Emily Browning, Patricia Clarkson, Trace Lysette, Adriana Barraza, Joshua Close.
Runtime is 106 minutes, and the film is rated R.
- Best Film: 2022 Venice Film Festival
- Best Feature Film: 2022 Annecy Italian Cinema Festival
- Nominee Best Feature: 2022 Chicago International Film Festival
The drama film centers on a trans woman named Monica. After 20 years away from home in the Midwest, Monica returns to be with her sick mother. Being back home with family triggers Monica’s memories of pain and rejection. But she realizes how far she has come in finding and forging her own identity. (2022)
Thursday, July 20th, 7:30 PM – Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
Director: Ashley Avis, Cast: Ashley Avis.
Runtime is 99 minutes, and is rated PG.
- Best Documentary: 2023 Sunscreen Film Festival
- Best Cinematography: 2022 DOC LA
- Best Documentary: 2022 Boston Film Festival
A sweeping, immersive journey into the world of wild horses that illuminates both the profound beauty and desperate plight they currently face in the Western United States. (2022)
Friday, July 21th, 7:30 PM – Rosebud Lane
Director: John Lacy, Cast: Tess Harper, Paul Pape, Josh Daugherty, Tyne Stecklein.
Runtime is 105 minutes, and this film is not rated.
- Beverly Hill 22 Film Festival
- Winner Golden State Film Festival 2022
- Winner 4theater Selection 2022
When a Hollywood filmmaker receives a card from his young son whom he has never met, he makes the difficult decision to go see him. Their lives then take a life-altering turn as drama surrounding the boy’s mother unfolds in the small town. (2023)
Saturday, July 22nd, 7:30 PM – Cairo Conspiracy
Directors: Tarik Saleh, Fares Fares. Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri, Makram Khoury, Mehdi Dehbi.
Runtime is 126 minutes, and this film is not rated
- Best Screenplay Winner: 2022 Cannes Film Festival
- Best Feature Film Winner: 2022 Lubeck Nordic Film Days
- Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film: 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt’s religious and political elites. (2022)
Sunday, July 23rd, 7:30 PM – Women Talking
Directors: Sarah Polley, Brad Pitt. Cast: Rooney Mara, Judith Ivey, Emily Mitchell, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil.
Runtime is 104 minutes, and is rated PG-13.
- Best Adapted Screenplay: 2023 Academy Awards Oscar Winner
- Best Screenplay, Adapted: 2023 Satellite Awards Winner: Best Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay: 2023 Critics Choice Awards Winner
A group of women lives in a secluded religious community. After experiencing a series of domestic and sexual abuse incidents, the women must confront the men who hurt them and endure the consequences of the choices they make. They face a complicated conundrum of commitment, faith, and self-preservation. (2022)
Thursday, July 27th, 7:30 PM – Close
Director: Lukas Dhont, Cast: Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Igor Van Dessel. Runtime is 104 minutes, film rating is PG-13.
- Best International Feature Film Nominee: 2023 Oscar
- Best Motion Picture Nominee: 2023 Golden Globes
- Best Director Winner: 2023 Film Festival Oostende
Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing. (2022)
Friday, July 28th, 7:30 PM – Days of Daisy
Director: Alexander Jeffery, Paul Peterson, Cast: Jency Griffin Hogan, Bryan Langlitz, Maddie Nichols, Toby Nichols.
Runtime is 96 minutes, and the film is not rated.
Daisy Bea spends her days as a high school librarian, stuck in a rut with both her personal and professional life. As her 40th birthday approaches, she starts to feel pressured to settle down and start a family. When the art teacher at Daisy’s school abruptly quits mid-term, Daisy takes it upon herself to give West High School students the art program that they deserve. Through her adopted profession, she begins to question the true meaning of parenthood and how she fits within those boundaries. (2022)
Saturday, July 29th, 7:30 PM – The Inspection
Director: Elegance Bratton, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Wilson, Kim Coleman. Cast: Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union, Bokeem Woodbine, Raúl Castillo.
Runtime is 95 minutes, and is rated R
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Nominee: 2023 Golden Globes
- Outstanding Independent Motion Picture Winner: 2023 Image Awards (NAACP)
- Best First Feature Nominee: 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life. (2022)
Sunday, July 30th, 7:30 PM – How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Director: Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, Forrest Goodluck, Natalie Sellers, Alex Highes, Adam Wyatt Tate. Cast: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane.
Runtime is 103 minutes, film is rated R.
- 2023 ReFrame Winner: ReFrame Stamp
- Best Film Nominee: 2023 Mar del Plata Film Festival International
- Political Film Festival Nominee: 2023 Hamburg Film Festival
With the climate crisis at a point of no return, a group of environmental activists come up with a daring plan to make their voices heard and disrupt an oil pipeline. (2022)
Film Dates: July 6-30-24 , 2023 – Nightly at 7:30 PM – Tickets: $12
Purchase tickets online at www.KayentaArts.com
About Kayenta Arts Foundation and Center For the Arts at Kayenta:
Kayenta Arts Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop and create an environment where diverse artistic endeavors can flourish. The Center For the Arts at Kayenta (CFAK) is our beautiful black box theater that brings our mission to the community. Southern Utahans come to CFAK to learn, express, appreciate and celebrate art in all forms.
The Kayenta Arts Foundation is supported in part by funding from Washington County and Ivins City RAP funds. KAF is also supported in part by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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