Exclusive screening of CHICO & RITA May 16th

  The East Lansing Film Festival  and The Summer Solstice Jazz Festival present

CHICO & RITA

Directed by Fernando Trueba

94 minutes    In Spanish with English subtitles

 

Wednesday, May 16

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road

East Lansing

Tickets $10

To reserve tickets, email susanwoods@elff.com. Please indicate how many. Tickets can be picked up the night of the event. 

 

 

The Academy-Award nominated film, Chico & Rita, was featured in a Fresh Air broadcast with Terry Gross interviewing Director Fernando Trueba. Click on this link

 http://www.npr.org/2012/04/12/148298507/chico-rita-an-animated-film-with-a-cuban-beat to hear the fascinating interview. After listening to it, you will definitely want to come see the film!

SYNOPSIS

Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment. Incredible jazz Afro-Latino music from the great Cuban jazz pianist Bebo Valdes.

Watch the trailer:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmBLyItITA 

 

All proceeds benefit ELFF and SSJF

Call for Entries for 2012 ELFF now open!

Submit your film to the 15th Annual East Lansing Film Festival that will take place November 7-11, 2012!

Visit our Festival page for more info, click Call for Entries to download entry forms or submit online at www.withoutabox.com. 

Earlybird deadline May 15, 2012!

Check out the next Film Society screening, April 20-26!

Take Shelter

Directed by Jeff Nichols 

120 minutes    Rated R

Michael Shannon was nominated for an Academy Award for his amazing performance in this highly-acclaimed film. The film will grab you from the opening scene keeping you riveted in your seat. Then afterwards you will be discussing the film and its ending. 

Curtis LaForche (the incredible Michael Shannon) lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Even though they are struggling financially, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. 

Friday, Saturday, Sunday April 20, 21, 22

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall, MSU campus

 Tickets are $7, for seniors $5 and for students $3

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday April 24, 25, 26

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

WATCH THE TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5U4TtYpKIc

Don't miss Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, 1/31-2/5!

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

  Directed by Woody Allen

94 minutes   PG-13

 

If you haven't seen this film yet or if you want to see it one more time on the big screen, here is your chance. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, this romantic comedy immerses you in  Paris as never before. Gil (Owen Wilson) is a successful Hollywood screenwriter and a frustrated first-time novelist. He is visiting Paris with his fiance but wishes it was the 1920's, The Golden Age, when the City of Lights was teeming with writers, poets and artists. A midnight stroll brings that wish even closer.

 

Considered Woody Allen's best film since Annie Hall, this delightful movie is romantic, fanciful and extremely enjoyable.

 

WATCH THE TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRWfS2s2v4

Tuesday, January 31 & Wednesday, February 1

7:30pm

EL Hannah Community Center

819 Abbot Road, EL

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

Thursday, February 2

7:30pm ONLY

Friday, Saturday & Sunday February  3, 4 & 5

7pm & 9:15pm

Wells Hall

Red Cedar Road, MSU campus, East Lansing

(don't let the construction discourage you, it's open)

Tickets are $8, for seniors $6 and for students $3

PLEASE HELP THE FILM FESTIVAL IN ITS TIME OF NEED

Dear friends of the film festival,

The 2011 East Lansing Film  Festival was a great success on all levels - programming, organization, attendance. Unfortunately due to the chronic financial crisis, ELFF is experiencing a dire deficit that threatens its very existence.

 I am appealing to you to help ELFF get through this difficult time. We will be fundraising throughout the year with events, grant writing and a wide search for more sponsors. Yet if you donate now, your contribution will be tax-deductible for the year 2011.

Please make any size donation. Every little bit helps. They say it takes a village to raise a child. That now applies to holding a world-class film festival in mid-Michigan. Happy Holidays!

 With sincere humility,

 

Susan W. Woods

Director, East Lansing Film Festival

 

If you wish to pay by check, please make it payable to ELFF and mail it to:

ELFF, 210 Abbot Road, #48, East Lansing, MI 48823

Please be sure your address is available on the check or your return address so that we can mail you your tax receipt. Thank you!