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What the Heck Does a Producer Do Anyway?
A FRIEND INDEED:
Snap, will conduct the Q&A following the film. She will talk about how Snap’s focus is to help empower families, care providers and advocates to support individuals with developmental disabilities in their local community to lead successful lives.
Director: Lane Wyrick
We are also proud sponsors, with Snap, of a film festival devoted to the topic. On Oct. 16, 2010, at the Port Angeles High School Auditorium, the Sprout Film Festival presents a day of film and activities that highlight the diversity and joy that the differently able experience. Call 360-6818642 for details.
The Bill Sackter Story Friday, Noon, Simpson Cinema
With Bob Rosen Saturday, 9:00am, Pope Marine In this day of big-budgeted, over-the-top, 3D, computer graphic, colossal summer blockbusters, there is nothing to compare with the production of Black Sunday, a 1977 film produced by Bob Rosen and directed by John Frankenheimer. It began with one of those “cocktail napkin” deals like a scene right out of the movies. Bob and a Paramount Films lawyer finalized an agreement to make a film based on the book Black Sunday by Thomas Harris. The problem: Bob had only 90 days to write a script, scout the locations (the Super Bowl, as one) and choose a cast. Black Sunday is about an Israeli counterterrorism operative who tries to stop a plot organized by an unbalanced Vietnam vet and a member of Black September, the Arab terrorist group that wishes to dramatize the Palestinian liberation cause. They plan to assassinate the president of the United States and to murder the entire Super Bowl stadium audience by flying a Goodyear Blimp into the capacity Orange Bowl crowd. With the use of clips from the film, Bob will reveal the back-story of how he managed to produce this film and live to tell the tale. His account of the process is funny, fantastic and frustrating. You won’t want to miss it. Bob Rosen is a Hollywood icon. He has produced or supervised over 50 films during his career. Some of these films include The Challenge, Prophecy, Little Big Man, The French Connection II and the critically acclaimed box office hit The Crow. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Bob began his career as a director for films and television where he worked on such memorable classics as Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel. He produced Gilligan’s Island and was executive producer of the pilot for Hawaii Five-O. 12 2010 Port Townsend Film Festival
A Community with Heart Includes Everyone The Port Townsend Film festival is honored to welcome Snap, our local support agency for people with intellectual and physical disabilities. Snap presents a remarkable documentary of courage, compassion and joy. A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story is an inspirational and engaging featurelength documentary about the real-life story of a nearly forgotten man. At the age of 6, Bill Sackter was abandoned by his family and became a ward of the state. He lived in a mental institution for 44 years and would never see his family again. After his release, he had a chance encounter in 1972 with a college student, Barry Morrow, who saw a spark of joy in Bill’s eyes. This encounter changed both of their lives forever. Over the years, Barry, his wife and many other caring people embraced and accepted Bill as a part of their extended families. With a harmonica, a warm cup of coffee and an incredible embrace of life, Bill grew from a neglected man into a national and international hero for people with intellectual disabilities. The movie introduces the real people behind the story and includes film, video footage and photographs of Bill, along with interviews with the people who knew him best. Bill Sackter’s life story was made famous by the award winning made-for-TV movie Bill (1981) starring Mickey Rooney (Bill Sackter) and Dennis Quaid (Barry Morrow). Jenell DeMatteo, executive director of
Snap, a United Way nonprofit agency of Clallam and Jefferson counties, has served the developmental disabilities community since 1998. It is a member of the Community Advocacy Coalition and offers programs to over 600 individuals and 150 families that include life skills and selfawareness, social inclusion and well-being, and family education and empowerment. Through their annual residential camp programs, weekly classes and monthly dances, Snap helps people with disabilities learn to advocate for themselves when possible, overcome depression, and maintain health, function, self-determination, independence and active engagement in their lives. For more information about this wonderful organization, please visit their website: snapcc.org. Snap is a 501(c)(3) private nonprofit organization. USA/2008/90 min