Thursday, February 4, 7:30 p.m., The Sea View Theatre
— from Donna Laslo / Jared Lovejoy, OIFF —
We are still basking in the success and fun we all had from our recent Orcas Island Film Festival 2015. Five of our films from this year are nominated for Academy Awards. One of our films, Room, is nominated for three Academy awards. This speaks volumes about the kind of quality films were are getting, thanks to Carl Spence.
UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENT FEB. 4: Here’s a treat for you — a return engagement from OIFF 2015! This was such a hit during the festival that folks have been urging us to do it again; so here you go…
FREE TO ROCK (VIEW TRAILER HERE)
Advance tickets are available at freetorock.
Join in the discussion! After FREE TO ROCK showing, there will be a panel discussion with producer Nick Binkley, Joanna Stingray (who is featured in the film) and Valery Saifudinov, one of the first Soviet rockers.
FREE TO ROCK is directed by four-time Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. FREE TO ROCK is a documentary film that explores the soft power of rock’n’roll music to open hearts and minds and to plant dreams in the imagination of youth behind the Iron Curtain. It covers the years 1955 to 1991, and rock’n’roll music’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to ending the Cold War. Rock’n’roll music became the Sound of Freedom to youth behind the Iron Curtain as it quickly spread like a virus across Western Europe and into Eastern Europe and the USSR, inspiring young people everywhere to question authority and the Communist system. The U.S. documentary film FREE TO ROCK tells the story of how, as a critical form of free expression, rock’n’roll music was instrumental in bringing down the Iron Curtain, and leaving open the question of what rock music’s role against the current retrograde regime in Russia might be.
All net proceeds to benefit Orcas Island Film Festival, SAVE THE DATE for this years’ festival: Oct. 7-10
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