Soul Fabric Films is proud to announce the World Premiere Screening of our recently completed documentary, Last Hat in Town - the portrait of three maverick westerners and their relationship to the rapidly changing Rocky Mountain West.

The film will show twice as part of the 30th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival. Each screening will be followed by a question and answer session with the Director and Producer of the film, and one or more of the main characters.

The screening dates and times are the following:

World Premiere Screening - Monday November 12th - 7 pm - Starz FilmCenter

Repeat Screening - Sunday November 18th - 12:30 pm Starz FilmCenter

You can purchase tickets (beginning Oct 26th) for both screenings by visiting this link for LAST HAT IN TOWN on the denverfilm.org website, or by visiting lasthatintown.com and following the link from there.

Here's a snippet of what's being said about the film:
"This beautiful and emotionally resonant film tells the story of individuals struggling
to shape their lives in a Western landscape ravaged by petroleum extraction.
What is most extraordinary about Last Hat in Town
is the depth and intimacy of the filmmaker's relationship with his subjects.
Viewers get to know and care about each of the film's characters, and, in the process,
come to a complex understanding of the social, environmental,
and economic impacts of the shift from ranching to drilling."
- Adele Horne, director of "The Tailenders,"- 2007 Spirit Award winner

Anal Shah's film Laxmi at the Gate will premiere at the 2007 Viennale.

2007 BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) has announced (excerpt from website) The Education and Outreach Committee has selected six extraordinary short films from 30 submissions by 10 Southern California film Schools. A special reception, screening and award presentation of the submissions will take place Thursday, June 21st, 7pm at AFI-Mark Goodson theater. All BAFTA/LA Voting Members in attendance will receive a ballot, the ballots will be counted and the evening will conclude with presentation of the awards to the winners. The winner will receive a year's non-voting membership to BAFTA/LA. The finalist include the following two CalArts students:
Miwa Matreyek, alumnae '07, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM program, film title: DIGITOPIA
Chih-Ming Chang, alumnus '05, MFA, Experimental Animation program, film title: IN SEARCH OF THE PUPPETEER

Cy Kuckenbaker, alumnus '06, MFA, Film Directing program has been selected for consideration, for his film THE ORPHANS, in the Second Cilect Prize Competition, Bulgaria. The Second Cilect Prize Winner and four Honorable Mentions will be announced July 31, 2007.

The Melbourne 6th Annual Int'l Animation Festival (MIAF), June 19-24, 2007, located in ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) Cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. Another remarkable year of journeying far and wide to find the gems that will screened in this years line up. The following CalArts selections were included:

Suzan Pitt, faculty, Experimental Animation, film title - EL DOCTOR
Isabel Herguara, alumnae, MFA, Experimental Animation, film title - BLINDMAN'S BLUFF
Nick Fox-Geig, alumnus '04, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM, film title-THE FOXHOLE MANIFESTO
Dillon Markey, student, MFA, Experimental Animation, film title - HELLO, MY NAME IS JOE
Brian Bloss, alumnus '06, BFA, Experimental Animation, film title- WITHOUT AN OF
Dae In Chung, alumus '07, Experimental Animation, film title - STRIPS OF ILLUSION
Young-Jin Yoon, student, BFA3, Experimental Animation, film title- A WAR ON 35MM
Matt Nealon, student, BFA3, Character Animation, film title - TENECOH KOCMOCA
Leonardo Matsuda, student, BFA3, Character Animation, film title - THRISTY IGUANA
Miwa Matreyek, alumnae '07, MFA, Experimental Animation/IM program, film title: DIGITOPIA
I-Huan Chen, student, MFA2, Experimental Animation, film title - PASSING BY
Nancy Parczyk, alumnae '07, Experimental Animation, film title - PAIN'T

Wenchung Lu, student, BFA3, Character Animation program was invited to screen his film "Word Fisher's Secret Piano", at the 14th Annual Shorttakes Film Festival, May 2007. Additionally, Wenchung was invited to screen his piece "The Shoes" at the Munich Int'l Short Film Festival, June 14-20, 2007. The screening was held at the Mathaeser, the largest movie theatre in Munich.

Will Kim, alumnus '07, Character Animation was invited to screen his senior film "Naked Branches" at the 14th Annual UCLA Shorttakes Film Festival, May 2007.

Betzy Bromberg, Program Director and faculty, Program in Film and Video screened her film A DARKNESS SWALLOWED at the Bradford International Film Festival, England and the Barcelona Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB) in Spain. She also had a full retrospective of her films at the 9th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI).

Nina Menkes, Facuty, Program in Film and Video, will be have a "Special Premiere" in NYC at The Museum of Modern Art on June 21st at 7pm of her new feature PHANTOM LOVE (2007). The film has also been invited to numerous international film festivals, including the Viennale 2007, in Vienna, Austria, where PHANTOM LOVE will screen along with a complete retrospective of all Menkes's film 1981-the present.