Posted on: Thursday, September 23, 2004
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Catch last night of indie film festival
Advertiser Staff and News Services
The closing night of the Third Annual Cinema of Paradise festival has come too soon.
Tonight is your final chance to view one of the 100-plus independent films being shown at the Varsity Theater.
A highlight is "September Tapes" at 7:30. Director Christian Johnson uses tapes found in the Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan and offers behind-the-scenes glimpses of war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. It is the first non-Afghan film shot in the war-torn country since the toppling of the Taliban.
Cost is $8 at the box office or $6 at www.cinemaparadise.org. At 10 p.m., head over to the Buddha Bar for the closing night celebration and awards ceremony. J-Boogie and Club DJ provide the entertainment, and the Movie Museum will present the Hale Ki'i'iuoni'oni Award for local filmmaking. Cost is $10.
Maori cultural tour begins tonight
The Polynesian Cultural Center is the first stop of the Dalvanius Memorial USA Tour, kicking off tonight. The concert features leading New Zealand and Maori entertainers the Patea Maori Club and the Fascinations, who will pay tribute and feature works of the late Dalvanius Prime.
Prime dedicated his life and music career to bringing the Maori culture, song and dance before mainstream New Zealand audiences and the world.
The tour will make stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and St. George, Utah.
The concert will take place at the center's Hale Ohana at 7 p.m. General admission is $6, $3 for center employees and BYUH students, with proper ID. 293-3333.
FINAL WORD
"There is a reasonable part of my audience that this is going to make very angry."
Bruce Springsteen | In Rolling Stone magazine, discussing the October anti-Bush "Vote For Change" tour he is organizing with Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks and others.
