Worldly Wednesday Movies You Haven’t Watched

‘W’ is for Wednesday and what a coincidence that this A to Z Challenge letter falls on this day of the week. Since traveling was on my mind earlier, I decided to share two movies about Wednesday that I found from filmmakers around the world. One is a short film and the other one is a feature film that I did not know about and I‘d be surprised if anyone else in the blogosphere who resides in U.S. has watched either of these movies. Now is a chance to plan for an entertaining weekend with film treats from overseas.

Wednesday
British director Rob Sorrenti takes the “boy meets girl” storyline to another level in this movie. The story is about a girl and boy who were born on the same day, in the same hospital and they meet years later in the same place when their paths cross. The movie runs for 24 minutes and won “Best Short Film” at the 2007 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival.

Wednesday
(actually, 'Wednesday' is the English translation for the movie’s original title, “Sreda”)
Victor Kossakovsky is a Russian filmmaker who made this 1995 documentary that chronicles his mission to locate 100 people including men and women who were born on his birthday, Wednesday, July 19, 1961 in Leningrad, a place that is now known as St. Petersburg. This documentary shows his results of trying to interview those that he found. It appears to have won an award at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival.

These movies were also selected for this list because they have all screened and won awards at film festivals, making them great additions to my Film Festival Wednesdays series. Enjoy!

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Keys to Film Festival Knowledege and a Jeopardy Bet

'K' is for “Knowledge” today and you all reading this are invited to play a little Jeopardy styled game with me because I bet you didn't know much about these film festival movies that are listed here until visiting this blog today. Answer one of the following clues with the correct movie title and I will write a future blog post on the topic of your choice. You may need to do a little research, depending on your knowledge and experience in keeping up with film festival news and related happenings. If so, just consider it to be a very fun little film related scavenger hunt.

Arlee Bird over at Tossing It Out already won my David Duchovny Dare game earlier this month and now I'm hosting another activity for bloggers, brands, companies, services and movie goers to get recognized while also learning about film festivals and independent films in the process.....this is the day for Film Festival Wednesdays after all!

Jeopardy Category: Film Festival Movies

$400 – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival is screening this Dick Maas movie about a battle to save children in Amsterdam from being slaughtered by a bloodthirsty bishop and his minions.

$800 – One of the stars of ABC's “Boston Legal” co-produced this comedy short film about a black man who is married to a white woman and he later learns that her family used to own his ancestors; which screened at the Connecticut Film Festival this past weekend.

$1200 – The European Film Festival screened this film recently, about a young female whose future becomes uncertain when her boyfriend gives her an untimatum after finding out that she is pregnant.

$1600 – Following the Cannes Film Festival screening of this movie about criminals who rob a bar at gunpoint and must wait to retrieve a code for the safe, in May, the film is reportedly scheduled to have a limited released in London theaters.

$2000 – A Tokyo director made this film about one middle class family whose cramped but drama free atmosphere becomes chaotic thanks to an unwelcome visitor who takes over their home and print shop; which was screened a few weeks ago at New Directors/New Films presentend by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society at Lincoln Center in New York City.

If you're not familiar with the famous Jeopardy TV show that airs on ABC in the United States, you CAN still play this game. Just remember to provide your answer in the form of a question.

For example....

If I was playing and the clue was: This movie blog hosts a King Dong series in which actor Vincent D'Onofrio won twice.

My answer would be: What is The Madlab Post?

You Got it? Good!

Now play! Leave your answer with your comment.

UPDATE as of Saturday, April 16, 2011: This Jeopardy game is now closed. The Answers and Winners are announced below. You can still find out more information about these films by going to the film festival websites.

And remember......the first person with the correct answer to any one of these questions Wins this Film Festival Wednesdays Jeopardy game and will get a future post on this blog written on the topic of his or her choice.-NOW CLOSED. ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND BELOW GAME RULES AND REGULATIONS.

This post was inspired by a Jeopardy writing exercise from the Writercize blog and written as part of my continuing participation in the A to Z Challenge.

GAME RULES AND REGULATIONS:

*You must have a blog, website, online store, twitter account or some way for me to contact you if you've won. I strongly recommend that you do not place an email address in your comment. There is a URL option in the comment box for you to add a website or online profile, if you desire.

***The author and editor of the Madlab Post blog (that would be me) reserves the right to determine the angle in which all editorial content will be posted as well as the and no offensive, hateful or other inappropriate content will be published if the nature of said content is not informative in some manner or intended to be used as a catalyst for sparking positive discussions.

Saturday, April 16, 2011 UPDATE:

Here are the answers to this Jeopardy game:

$400 - Sint (Also called “Saint” in North America)
$800 - I Own You
$1200 - Cairo Exit
$1600 -Four Hours (also titled as 4 Hours; starring Paul Bibbs)
$2000 - Hospitalité

Alana is the WINNER!
Congratulations to Alana for playing and having the correct answer for the $2000 clue!

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Edinburgh Film Festival Elements

'E' is for “Edinburgh,” as in The Edinburgh International Film Festival, for today's addition to my A to Z challenge posts. This film festival is located in the United Kingdom and has been around for more than 60 years. It's held at an independently operated theater called Filmhouse Cinema and this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival is scheduled to run from June 15th to June 26th, 2011.

Steven Spielberg's “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” premiered at this film festival among other notable films. Filmhouse Cinema has 3 screens, making it a cozy place to enjoy films such as the Italian selection with English subtitles, “The Man Who Will Come” (Now Playing, by the way!).

Since these last several days have seen the relaunching of Madlab Post themes that were stalled or collecting dust for a while such as the King Dong series, I'm also taking this opportunity to relaunch my Film Festival Wednesdays series starting with the Edinburgh International Film Festival highlight.

With that out of the way, I remember an online conversation with a young girl who lived down south while promoting one of my movies back in 2006 and was surprised when she told me that she wanted to see independent films but did not know of any film festivals in here area. Even though we were several states and thousands of miles apart, I could think of at least 3 festivals in her area that she could visit and could not understand why she had no idea that they existed.

I asked myself the following questions:

-Were these festivals not advertising enough?

-Was this particular movie fan just not that diligent enough to find out about where new movies are playing?

-Are most movie fans just unaware of or ignoring the media in which film festivals are advertised in?

I still haven't found the answers to these questions but would like to do what I can to help movie lovers find events such as film festivals in their area, where they can check out some obscure films and foreign films while also possibly meeting the actors and directors behind these movies.....something not often offered at your local cineplex. Seriously, when was the last time a huge star greeted you and said “thanks for watching this film” when you were at your local movie theater? We don't exactly expect Jake Gyllenhaal to greet us at the theater when we go to see “Source Code,” do we?

This is one of the many perks that make visiting film festivals so wonderful!

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