For our full coverage of the High Falls Film Festival, click here.
It’s
back. And this time, it means business. The second annual High Falls Film
Festival returns to Rochester with the best cinema has to offer… or, more
specifically, movies that highlight the involvement of women in film, both in
front of and behind the camera. Running from October 30 to November 3 at the
Little Theatre (240 East Avenue), and the Dryden and Curtis Theatres at the
George Eastman House (990 East Avenue), the Festival offers some of the best
independent and foreign films out there, including seven winners from this
year’s Sundance Film Festival (see our interview with Waldo Salt Screenwriting
winner and Fairport native Gordy Hoffman on page 11).
           But High
Falls is more than just movies. There will be a handful of very interesting
seminars, a chance to meet Bart Simpson, and, of course, parties at which you
might run into your favorite celebrity.
           You can buy tickets through Ticket
Express (in person only at 100 East Avenue). Same-day tickets can be purchased
at the venue of that particular screening, but not until one hour before the
event begins. They’ll run you $7.50 apiece, but packages are available if you
plan on going hog wild. And you should: Last year’s Audience Award winner — No Man’s Land — went on to topple the
unstoppable Amélie in Oscar’s Foreign
Film race.
For our full coverage of the High Falls Film Festival, click here.
For more information, visit the official site at
www.highfallsfilmfestival.com.
This article appears in Oct 23-29, 2002.
