French film festival kicks off 3 day event

ALI BASH Reporter @roundupnews

Pierce will be hosting a French Film Festival, which will screen a series of six French films with no charge starting on Nov. 1 with decided to make the most of his hobby by displaying his crystals for sale at vintage markets.

“This one is galena, white quartz and pyrite,” Suarez said. “This combination is so powerful. The pyrite is for good luck, the galena is a grounding stone and the white quartz is for the energy.”

Suarez said he has been coming to the vintage market for a year from Northridge to live out his passion.

“I like this vintage market because it’s not that big and I get a really good reaction from it,” Suarez said.

He said the biggest interaction he receives is from children.

“Thirty percent of my clients

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“The students are bored from watching documentary movies,” Assistant Professor of French Denis Pra said. “The movies we are presenting are more are children,” Suarez said. “Some of those children love crystals and when I started selling and sharing my crystals I never thought that thirty percent of my clients were going to be children.”

Setting up can take time and energy from carrying heavy stones that weigh up to one ton, according to Suarez.

“They help me, but all the heavy lifting I do by myself so that way nobody gets hurt,” Suarez said. “I’ve been doing this construction and heavy loads since I was 19 years old.”

Despite the heavy weights in the way and long hours of stocking the booth, Suarez said he enjoys every independent in style, another way to see the world and to think about life.”

The movies being screened will explore a variety of topics such as socialism in the Le Crime de Monsieur Lange to religious extremism in Timbuktu.

The festival will open with minute of the hobby.

“I don’t feel the tiredness because it’s the things that you do for fun,” Suarez said.

Laurie Loredo has been a shopper and collector at the vintage market for about a year and visits from Ventura County. She said the vintage hats she buys from the market give her confidence..

“If you’re going to stand head and shoulders above the crowd you might as well have a well-dressed head,” Loredo said.

Loredo said her favorite score of the day was a twenty-dollar vintage pink kimono.

“I usually shop for vintage clothes a welcome speech from Interim President Larry Buckley followed by an introduction from Olivier Ngo, the higher education and french language attaché from the French consulate.

[For the full story visit theroundupnews.com] and some of the brand-new boutique clothing,” Loredo said. “It could be whatever. Vintage jewelry, sometimes the plants.”

Sharon Burr comes to the vintage market from Ventura with her emotional support dog, Cupcake. She said she has come to the flea market many times and was previously a student at Pierce.

“It’s just fun interacting with the people and with the sales people,” Burr said. “They’re nice, and it’s just fun to get a bargain.”

The Topanga Vintage Market will be back Nov. 25 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mason Entrance.

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