— from Orcas Island Film Festival —
You will have four new films to choose from this week. From this week forward we will add a film a week to our library. The proceeds from our virtual cinema will continue to support the Sea View Theatre, our beloved local cinema during this challenging time when their doors must remain closed to protect the community.
| NOW PLAYING |
 The Etruscan Smile USA | 2019 Dramedy | 105min In this heartfelt and uplifting dramedy based on the best selling novel by José Luis Sampedro, Brian Cox (HBO’s SUCCESSION) delivers a career-defining performance as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory’s life will be transformed, just when he least expects it, through a newly found love for his baby grandson. Also starring JJ Feild, Thora Birch, Peter Coyote and Rosanna Arquette. Watch Trailer and Buy Ticket Here |
 The Best of Cat Video Fest 2020 USA | 2020 Comedy | 45min For the first time ever, CatVideoFest is available to screen virtually outside of theaters! Long time CatVideoFest curator extraordinaire Will Braden has crafted a 40-min “treat” of a reel specifically designed for home-viewing, which includes the very best videos from CVF’s illustrious history. The Best of CatVideoFest is being offered on a sliding scale with 75% of the proceeds going to support The Sea View Theatre. The suggested ticket price is $7.50 BUT you can pay as little as .99 cents or as much as $100 or even more to support The Sea View. Watch Trailer and Buy Ticket Here |
 The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Canada | 2019 Documentary | 150min In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Anne (now 86) retraces her steps, and with letters and stunning, original 16mm film footage offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today. Both the world’s first “giraffologist,” whose research findings ultimately became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps, and the species she loves have each experienced triumphs as well as setbacks. The Woman Who Loves Giraffes gives us a moving perspective on both. Watch Trailer and Buy Ticket Here |
 Straight UpUSA | 2019 Comedy/Romance | 95min Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex. Writer-Director-Star James Sweeney delivers a razor sharp rom-com that’s equal parts Classical Hollywood and distinctly 21st century, exploring just how elastic our definitions of love and sexuality can get. Watch Trailer and Buy Ticket Here |
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