In person: Lead actress, co-director and co-writer Paola Mendoza and her mother Liliana Legge, along with co-director and co-writer Gloria La Morte charmed a State Theatre audience at the Saturday afternoon screening of the Spanish language film "Entre Nos."
The film, inspired by true life events, stars Mendoza portraying her mother's poignant struggle after arriving in the U.S. from Colombia.
In a Q-and-A session following the film, Legge said she agreed to the film as long as Mendoza played the role of the mother. Finding two child actors to play the son and daughter proved to be a bigger challenge.
The filmmakers combed churches and community centers and auditioned more than 500 kids before finding the two scene-stealing actors perfect for the parts.
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Movie-goers at a screening of "Roger & Me" Saturday night received pins and lint rollers. (Lint rollers play a part in the movie.) Director and film festival founder Michael Moore said he had been invited to show the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival shortly after it was released in 1989 but passing over the border at Sarnia, they weren't allowed to bring thousands of lint rollers into Canada. "You can have them here tonight, 20 years later," he said.
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Director and film festival board member Larry Charles asked Moore what he thought after watching "Roger & Me" again Saturday. "I'm mad," Moore said. "I tried to warn people 20 years ago. I think of all the grief I've had to take and for what?"
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Moore said he didn't have the Internet capacity he needed at his production offices on Front Street, so he had a T-1 line put in on his side of the street "and everyone on the block can use it."
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Moore said he feels vindicated by an appearance by Wendell Potter, former head of corporate communications at CIGNA, a major health insurance provide, on Bill Moyers' "Journal" last month. Potter said "Sicko" "hit the nail on the head."
He also told Moyers about a memo that was circulating between health care companies and members of Congress that threatened to send members of Congress "back to their districts" if they were supportive of Moore or his movie.
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Filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer of "Valentino: The Last Emperor" had the audience in uproarious laughter at a Sunday screening of his film about the iconic designer. The director described behind-the-scenes moments from the making of the film.
Valentino is shown in the documentary traveling with an entourage that includes a handful of pugs, trading barbs with his partner and perfecting his fashion creations.
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Leo Najar, artistic director of the Bijou Orchestra, which played during a screening of "Metropolis" Sunday at the State, said it's "not a silent film with orchestra accompaniment; it's a concert with movie pictures."
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