TrindieFest @ Mt Carmel: Legacy Series Mt. Carmel Press Release Trinidad, Colorado----------As part of TrindieFest III, Trinidad’s truly independent film festival, the Mt Carmel community center will be screening a short series of programs of special interest to the Rocky Mountain southwest and honoring of Trinidad’s most accomplished players in the contemporary film industry. Dixie Webster-Davis Casting, Inc. lists over eighty-four titles in her twenty-five years of providing extras for major motion pictures and television programs in the center of the film industry. After establishing her expertise first in Trinidad as part of Big Bad John, she offered her services in the states adjoining Colorado and now has six films in release this year and another eleven under development. Notable among her credits are The Dark Knight Rises, Sideways and Thank You for Smoking; and soon to be released are an untitled Warren Beatty project and a feature documentary on the Pakistani education activist, Malala Yousafzai. Webster-Davis will also be accepting the inaugural C J Kaho Prize for achievements in media work; an award named for the first resident of Trinidad to become successful in the industry during the silent era. Originally a projectionist at a local theatre, Kaho began filming area activities to compliment the films shown in his theatre. He is most notable for filming the notorious, Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa in Mexico while working for Fox Movietone which was the basis for stories in The Saturday Evening Post and Boy’s Life magazines. Another graduate of Trinidad State Junior College, Christopher Massarotti, has also made waves with his independently produced feature length documentary, Milagro en el Pacocha, a story of faith, honor and courage which he filmed in Peru, Colorado, Croatia and Rome, Italy. The program viewed internationally on television, relates the story of the inexplicable survival of forty of the forty nine members of the submarine, the Pacocha; and the legacy of that event which has become an event of national pride in the South American country and detailed investigations around the world which can only be told with visual dramatization. Colorado film historian David Emrich will be celebrating the centennial of one of the earliest Colorado produced independent films, The Greater Barrier, which is one of the highlights of twenty years of the golden age of silent moviemaking in Colorado. Between 1904 and 1923 over three hundred feature films were made in the state during the migration of the industry from its origins on the east coast to settle eventually in California. This ‘contemporary’ western tells of an unusual conflict between the cowboys and Indians of that period [1914]: a love story set in the Pikes Peak region, and its dramatic resolution. Working in cooperation with the TrindieFest organizers, Kirk and Julie Loudon, the special series hosted by Mt Carmel is open to all ‘all festival’ passholders and can also be viewed with a ‘legacy series’ pass. Tickets are available at the SCRT Box office [131 West Main Street} or L & L Gallery [149 East Main Street].For more information, consult the TrindieFest website at trindiefest.org.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:57:57 +0000
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