Posted on: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Fund-raiser to benefit Paradise film fest
Advertiser Staff
The Cinema Paradise Film Festival is still in its youthful phase, having debuted in 2002, but the fest's organizers, including director Sergio Goes, himself a documentary filmmaker, have plans for the future, and are working to put the festival on solid financial ground.
Advertiser library photo • April 2003 Patrons will be the stars in the creation of a live, interactive video hosted by storyteller Jeff Gere and members of the Loose Screws comedy group. Four camera crews will be documenting the evening and broadcasting it live throughout the restaurant on several screens.
Short films from this year's Cinema Paradise will be previewed, and silent films will be scored live by filmmaker and DJ Keith Kandell.
In the weeks following the show, ticketholders will receive a complimentary DVD copy of the video created.
Chef Glenn Chu will present a Eurasian feast to ticketholders. On the menu: dim sum at cocktail hour; a Nalo Farms mesclun greens salad; miso-marinated, seared salmon; chocolate torte and gourmet Italian coffees.
Tables of six are available by reservation.
The evening's top raffle prize is a trip to the 18th annual American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles, including two round-trip tickets on Aloha Airlines, a five-night stay at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and two All-Access passes to the festival.
That event, the longest-running film festival in Los Angeles, is one of the most influential film festivals in North America, featuring international competitions of new films from emerging filmmakers, global showcases of the latest work from the great masters and nightly red-carpet premieres.
6 p.m. Sunday
Indigo Restaurant
$100 ($55 is tax-deductible)
Reservation deadline: Friday. Call 550-0496. Make checks out to Cinema Paradise, note on the memo line the names of those attending, and mail to: Cinema Paradise, 758 Kapahulu Ave., Mo. 138, Ho-nolulu, HI 96816. Nathan Kurosawa, whose "Kamehameha" film was shown, won the first Hale Ki'i 'Oni'oni Award, a cash prize of $5,000, from the Movie Museum.
Cinema Paradise is accepting preview films in VHS format in a variety of categories including dramatic, documentary and animation, completed in or after January 2003 for the September 2004 festival. Entry fee (per film) is $40. Entry forms and additional information about the festival or "Cinema Under the Influence": www.cinemaparadise.org or 550-0496.
On Sunday, the fest will hold a fund-raiser, featuring a cocktail hour, gala dinner and raffle prizes at Indigo Restaurant, 1121 Nu'uanu Ave., in Chinatown, site of the Cinema Paradise independent film and documentary series, "Cinema Under the Influence," on the last Wednesday of each month.
Sergio Goes is an independent filmmaker and an organizer of the Cinema Paradise Film Festival, which will hold a fund-raiser Sunday. Goes made the 2002 documentary, "Black Picket Fence."
Last year, the Cinema Paradise festival doubled its attendance, drawing about 9,500 people, and featured crowd favorites such as the martial-arts film "Drunken Monkey," the critically acclaimed Brazilian film "Bus 174," and a film about the New York graffiti scene, "Bomb the System." Two youth film workshops each drew about 50 people.
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Cinema Paradise fund-raiser
