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12:40 PM: Nature Film – Toadally Awesome!

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Genre: Nature Documentary
Director: Mary Scott
Run Time: 5-minutes
Release Date: 2010
“Toadally Awesome” is an action packed wildlife adventure featuring the famous Sonoran Desert Toad! See moths, beetles and antlions get snapped up with some amazing tongue work. See the toads lurk and hop and at times even fly through the air! See a famous toad wrangler working with the actors! See it all at the Arivaca Film Fest!..Director Mary Scott
Mary Scott is an multi-media artist living in Arivaca, Arizona.  Her films, soundscapes and photography reflect her immersion and mindfulness of the natural world.

7:50 PM: Preview – Valentina Tereshkova (TRAILER ONLY)

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Director & Editor: Bart Santello - Arivaca, Arizona
Music: Richard Bone & A Produce
Production Company: Psychotropic Films
Genre: Avant Garde
Release Date: 2011
Run Time: Approx 27-minutes

Valentina Tereshkova – The First Woman in Space is the first film of a series on early space travel by local Arivaca filmmaker Bart Santello. This film delivers media images from the early Russian Space Program in the form of a tone-poem depicting a perception of history. Valentina is the filmmakers artistic presentaton of historical events surrounding the orbital space flight of Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on June 16, 1963.

Director’s Statement: I’m excited that this Russian space film kind of ‘birthed’ itself out of the pre-production visualizations I have been creating for my forthcoming film on the Apollo Space Program.  This film continues my textured examination of the symbiotic relationship between humans and technology.”  Bart Santello – Filmmaker

01/27/10 Update: Sorry - This film will not be completed in time for this year’s film exhibition – A 3-minute preview trailer of the movie will shown instead. ..Bart Santello – Director “Valentina Tereshkova”

1:00 PM: Documentary – Talking with the Moon Princess

“I understand that there will be questions,
 but there will not always be answers…”
A multi-media documentary film that weaves video and animation,
Talking with the Moon Princess is a story of a young woman exploration into her own adoption, that takes her imagination back to the country of her birth: China - a place she barely remembers.  After meeting adoptive families in her own community, she attempts to recreate her history from a fragmented past.
Writer & Director: Priscilla Tseng Hefley
Production Company: Jade Elephant Productions
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 2004
Run time: 17-Minutes
Priscilla Tseng Hefley was adopted from Guangzhou, China in the early 1980s. Her family was able to complete the adoption process with only the help of some Chinese friends and an interpreter. Her passion for working as an advocate for Chinese adoptees coupled with her love for documentary filmmaking led to the development of her film, Talking with the Moon Princess. The film was awarded a generous grant from the University of Arizona’s Jack and Vivian Hanson Film Institute and was the winner of the 2007 University of Arizona sponsored Lunafest film competition. Most recently, her film was accepted into the 2009 Open APPerture film festival. Currently, Priscilla is transitioning to television production and is working in Los Angeles.