Sundance films at Kindlingsfest
Published 3:21 pm Monday, July 9, 2012
Feature films selected from the Sundance Film Festival will be screened at Orcas Island Community Church as part of KindlingsFest 2012 this July.
“Chasing Ice” tells the story of National Geographic photographer James Balog, who deployed revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Balog travels with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dogsled across three continents, risking his career and his well being in pursuit of the biggest story in human history. The film won the Sundance cinematography award and the Seattle International Film Festival audience favorite award. “Chasing Ice” will show on Friday, July 29 at 8 p.m.
“For the Bible Tells Me So” explores Christian responses to homosexuality by following five professing Christian families with a gay son or daughter. A Sundance Film Festival nominee for Grand Jury Prize and winner of SIFF’s audience award for best documentary, the film will show on Thursday July 28 at 9:30 p.m.
KindlingsFest is celebration of art and ideas where they intersect with the spiritual. In keeping with this year’s KindlingsFest theme, “Crabbed Age and Youth Cannot Live Together: Towards Creating An Intergenerational Future In A Fragmented Age,” each featured film addresses an issue that younger and older generations tend to disagree about.
Dr. Jeff Keuss of Seattle Pacific University will lead discussions after each film screening, and at lunch the next day.
A third film (title to be announced) will be shown on Wednesday evening at 9:30 p.m. The public is welcome to attend KindlingsFest in full, or just the film events. For more information or to register for KindlingsFest call 376-6422 (10 a.m. – 3 p.m. M-F), or visit http://www.thekindlings.com/kindlingsfest/.
