2017 Free State Film Festival

movies music and arts ideas that i'm here again for free state film festival i'm j mcintyre and today on tv every census will preview the two dozen seventeen free state film festival which kicks off tuesday and runs through sunday marlowe angeles one of the artistic directors of the free state film festival marlowe it is great to see you again think he can survive to be back to tell than seventeen marks the sixth year of a free state film festival back to two thousand eleven and remind me what cdo behind the original film festival what has really fun story a taxicab out from a short film for slow that we gave rock had developed their tour in twenty ten and i said working around that time and isis saw the potential in that program aquino atlanta such an amazing talent for festivals to clear or walk of all i ever location so much understands their unique eateries it's a vibrant music scene everything you see the community out in about all the time during the summer so i presented idea to seize intake and

wreck at the time for a five year plan for the freeze it possible to have a name back then and thought of like what really this thing could transform into and i think ideas behind it has to celebrate all that we do during the year you know we're always creating arturo is now working with other artists and to many members are coming in as audience members just a wonderful wave to to celebrate everything that we do and a larger scale for nina outside artist in and they connect with our local press and think it's a really unique planned you just mentioned you started this with a five year plan but this is the year six so tell me how the festival has changed through the years in what's next for you have we had a lot of growth in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen twenty sixteen we received a grant from the national endowment for the arts to expand a program and since we started just accounts we were able to the program music an outburst terms of really toss ninety outside digital art with that perhaps an education she was a huge part of it being able to teach kids are in the community

and showcase the films that was an amazing opportunity and says that we didn't have that funding for it this year and two we had reduced funding from our city and have limits and how much funding could be alive oh allocated to us tolls and so this is our opportunity to take a breath and kind of reflect what we've done in the past where we might wanta go in the future and one thing that we thought was important was to maintain the brand image of at the festival was to keep the programming going so we did comedy in march we did a family fun series in january and then we decided let's tickets weekend june ants really focus streamline or programming during saddam's time onstage concerts and live comedy and the setting and really kind of go back to be fixed in a way and to be able to provide the themes of the program to be very consolidated is it back to me from the festival before it was that there was so much that he's firm lost an ad for like you have to pick and choose what you can go to this for making sure that you can go to

everything c getting a full experience so we have ideas programming this year are connected to the film programming so for example the opening night is through streets and it's a dynamic documentary about ferguson and the killing of michael brown and what happens that community after that and before that film screenings at liberty hall where quaint you have a happy hour and leiber diner people can come together and talk about some of those issues particularly activism is for social justice and how that impacts us here in lawrence so that's kind of the they have the thing that we're trying to do is really have these ideas programming make this a whole package a whole full the cree are experiencing the phones the music ends the ideas programming costs combined together you know i've really enjoyed the vessel in previous years but i have to agree with you that i remember especially leicester looking at the counter of events and thinking okay there's two things i wanna go to you at the same time i can go to this film and this and then i can go into that lecture and this

event and you really did have to pick and choose so this year there's a little bit more of a flow to the festival exactly yes it's dramatically based say even the whole area just basic programming for the films was considered an easy and activism sometimes that kind of a literal way where i have a great memory about dolores huerta and she was a labor rights activists from the chicano movement back like the sixties all through today she still goes out for women's march and a speech says and activate her community burns that's a liberal or a citizen activism and then we also have just like you know morse attacks on activism like the scent of rain and lightning we have a young girl to have to try to unravel the mystery of her parents' debts and she's taking an actor for all we had thought that all three women caught the treaty and that those other cheek and all that running character and their exact role and she has to go it ends visit a friend of hers and she has to find her independence which is all there like her and daughter and thunder lot archive debating whether to let her go and

do this road trip across the country and see it's given permission and she done that and so it's interesting just considers perils from the character's point at you and the dutchman trees and scrub all across the board well how did you decide which films too except for the festival it's the hardest thing and the most fun thing i think about the stump so we'd i kept you have curated and then half submission so we had open collared wilkinson at their phones and then i also discuss see whats out there you know looking at different festivals what i think lawrence audiences are intrigued by that went that was from sundance which seemed like yet the minute a dozen of the sundance we need to secure more ants and as a documentary called rumble begin to rock the world it's all about the native american influence and rock n roll music and popular music across the board and that oneness that delicate speak to our community were of music lovers here that you could live music scene have haskell university it right in our community

ends that seems like something that where they needed to be screened in a communal setting we cannot civility can talk about it beforehand even talk about it afterwards and really experienced that with your neighborhood what's that process look like when you're specifically curing a film how do you go out and convince a filmmaker that yes you should bring your film to the free state for just all the stuff with it easier when i first started we were unknown so we had no track record and searle that makes it really hard for the first thing that we did in those early years and the crushing of the risky southern california film school so we it's called the itch trojan matthew and so even though you kind of connected it even though i know they're used to have this technique and so i go on i sent out my left hand snoop festival and he really one of bullets in the middle of the country but three artistic a vibrant helen we really showcase thoughtful films hear things that people talk about afterwards so i can find out you know maybe there's a look a connection for a film sometimes to the needy they're screenwriter grew up in

kansas city so there's some kind of tie in with somebody that i know says a lot of that nasa that was gotten doing we've shown such strong films mean we really i think it's amazing the kind of work that we are here and that it's easier said it could approach a filmmaker in say last year we said this tome that and we showed this film in twenty fourteen and they were like wow thats really impressive but says the system my favorite films i cannot the festival last year so even though we are a smaller programming be only shows like under ten films were sent us will sell hundreds of homes are very selective the quality of the songs as talk not so easy to kind of you know use those wesley bell there's this is a first of all this is the kind of programming media cannot join us said that with this emissions the city's open calls that i get and then they can read through that's my thumb programming committee people watch things could really use and we kind of see like you know what's a great fit and then how the films work together in sort of like as or we had documentaries or we blow our and there is a need to make sure that we squeeze a couple more narrative films are way that kind of thing

i'm curious how many submissions do you generally get hundreds of submissions it a lot on the hell beat out of the book of them came from the short films so that's easier to punish then that monday feature films but some really wonderful work and to me that's the best of like i like to be surprised by something survive however filmmaker haven't heard of anything about that movie and it sucked into it that's a felony to say that you know it that's completely cure but there's nothing known as influences going into that this is the storyteller one precinct meeting keating to another person do stories and i think that's just really beautiful well speaking of the films let's talk about some other ones you'll be highlighting this week and we're excited and we talk a lot about ronald just very briefly but that's one that i think is going to be super powerful thing that everyone needs to see and it's an educational experience because you're getting the roots of a lot of music like delta blues and jazz and how native americans have directly influence that those styles of music and link wray is one of the featured a

musician's that's highlighted in that song and he has that wonderful instrumental guitar a song called rumble and actually the inspiration the kind of threads through this film and you get to see like how the surface people like iggy pop and other musicians like the romance and how matt music that they have been inspired by indigenous sounds and that film is showing on friday night june thirtieth at six o'clock before that there's another happy hour yes so every day before the fancy get to hang out with us in a different restaurant what establishment and talk when the film's themes of programming recommended just music it's gonna be really wonderful trundled lot of friends that have cleaner city will be there and chatted as programmatic a friday which is about and it is music session is all about contemporary native sounds and she skated kind of get us all ready to go for the stock by teaching us like where did you know certain tax come from prison the inspirations and water your public transit connect music today to a clip from that movie yes

and betrayal it from apathy fast and susman is produced by chris christie z and disrupted by a two one of the filmmakers and they did their previous work which i really loved was a documentary about representation of native americans and how it says is their frustration to see music documentaries that's really wonderful book of the trailer listen there was a song came on the radio a guitar instrumental changed everything ms brennan that's right music this is fully supported when the most

influential heavy metal drummers in the world are suggesting ed davis he was a caution hold grudges out lady and sustain this one evil it's the only thing i listened to his news unveiling of this of the ominous in my car these people were indians in arizona just reasons why didn't anyone else know that who was this season will feel you know when they hit of the season is also disappeared well it has

been is going to lead the peak rumble the indians who brought the world it's playing at the free state film festival on friday evening june thirtieth at six pm i'm visiting with marlow and so she's one of the creative directors for the free state film festival that this gnome as it ends lewis the dakota access pipeline permit and buffy sainte marie was an activist and musician who i just adore and i think that really speaks to that the themes of our festival this year like the really trying to translate your historical roots of everything and have and texas today so even there were gay were getting a lot of history and the second entry are also saying like ok with the fuel us to do good work into future wonderful or at another farm unlike senators shirley in nineteen seventy four which is a film

directed by esther a cheerio and she will be in attendance at the screening she says female director at a seattle she's very prolific and women in films movements which is very personal to me like i think that's something that hollywood as an industry and in a kind of films need to get behind when women stories on screen in that song was actually gorgeous and it takes place in the seventies nineteen seventy four against the name it's about a young girl she's thirteen years old and her mother is an activist who was an economy in her hippie commune and then she gets kind of kicked out of the sky mean cause she's very she's a very strong principles and if anything doesn't fit with her she does break slits so she can cause of the spat upon kind of lifestyle and she has a couple kids and you to see the impact that the hat and this young girls crying at so lets dishes tolman this year's bayou that was the fact that if they give his contacts of like ok if you live by your principles how does that affect people around you so i think this young girls' coming of age story is so profound because she's tiny

situations there's always this impending doom you see her character is what i hope or anyone to protect her and you could hear the way it has really left leaves on her own scavenging for food and all these kind of things that are very you know out of the context of her mom's really resistant to any kind of societal context resistance against judicial parenting modes and discovers freestyle type of living and the impact that has an adolescent sets a very strong performance by new coming and i think it's going to be just incredible screening here in lawrence let's get plain nineteen seventy four a listen i told you to leave the union it can take everything with us if we don't get attached to material goods lane big lesson and it

is embracing the freedom the pope mr i clean he went and said this is also was called essays that she had a similar experience growing up throughout northern california so it is a very personal phone for her innocence courts lee directed and every or try to just do a film that i just think is visually stunning and this one fits that bill because the cinematography just the feelings and revoked from it it's very artistically done and i think one of those films that you need to go and find and you don't be scrolling and netflix and i watch it i'm a thirty inch tv know you can see the parts center of protest and a big screen does have that full cinematic viewing experience you have talked about that before what is the day you get from going to the festival that you don't

get watching these films at home would i get personally is the exit there's a couple things that one thing that i love that scene in film in a festival or you just any kind of the lyric does that experience feel to lose yourself i think it's kind of storytelling features stark the screen is he huge i was fine i'm free from destruction just gets sucked into that temporal space with somebody for two hours and i think that's a pretty unique experience to be able to just embody yourself in a story i live that character's experience when you're home on the tv kids are common in dogs get some food like all these other distractions are happening see you there but you're not present or interfere at least i feel like i'm there with these characters living their stories i think the other wonderful thing missing in the festival express was talking about afterwards and a lot of times that means carrie the director like where did they come from making the stomach inspired them were some of the challenges in being able to have that immediacy of watching a film and you know just being in the room

with them experiencing that i think is truly eat a festival and then lastly now my favorite things that just pulls just talking in the lobby after a felon and that's probably my first thing preventing any film set of cases that some people remember like having to talk about it for hours that i got for dinner afterwards as having the partition just a minute bill it better be beside like adonis anything that was kind of nice now it's indeed stirring it should be given you to think and to mobilize and just two analyze your feelings about you know i have that experience at that two thousand fifteen free state film festival you said the movies he's beautiful when she's angry which was really powerful and i went out to dinner afterwards and although it was not at my table there were a group of people two tables over there were still talking about that film and it was really fun to eavesdrop on them and it just to hear what they were thinking about the film and what they remembered about the various areas of the women's rights movement and

that conversation that really carried on well after the lights were up that makes you so happy to hear that can never really at that that's what some about having very early on in the first moment in the twenty twelve or twenty thirteen it was cully that the cosmonauts we've had on the festival and we shot a funk of compliance which was very country ceo and people i could unite i think it was three hours that you were a naughty debating that we know that this is out of that study get an art center at closing time exactly those that you know we went out to buy them either continue at about your third maybe we are so excited to share the surgery might think this is a film lust caution by freezing festival alumni like robinson is coming back for a second time he was here with the sublime beautiful couple years ago and it was such a wonderful beautifully directed film they're so excited to see what he was doing next so i saw the snow much that was

just gorgeous and it's a movie it's based on a book buying antique car and it's what you know most college in midwestern american gothic story so it's a murder mystery and it's basically about a woman whose parents had been killed and then the murder is being released from prison so you have to figure out ok you know how to emotionally deal with this fact and then she'd count explores in her community a little bit it comes to the realization that he might be innocent or some rumblings so she because practically activists is one of our themes and she has to get out there caution people uncovered coups and what i really love about it is that it's told in such a non traditional way there's a lot of cross storytelling we're getting one seen from one time period of the new jumping forward reaching back and having to get your bearings that ever be able to be thrown into the phone and i needed bigger so that's it so she's figured out a prickly is an awful thing that the context of what who this character is what the motivation is there some twists and that a just a lovely preference very lead actress my command around and she's from a film called it follows which actually lived

so i think you can explain have a clip from it so therefore we show that clip you get the card was a winner of the two thousand to eleven kansas notable book for her but the scent of rain and lightning and keep your prisons archives we have an interview with arthur it seep card who lives in the kansas city area but the battle of them the story started deep in the heart of kansas i was at a panel discussion in manhattan kansas and was a discussion that was being given by law enforcement personnel from the big western states and there was a man who has both a sheriff and a police chief and there was a forensics expert and there was a judge there was a public defender and there's a prosecuting attorney and i was fascinated by everything they had to say about what it's like to work in these these vast kansas counties that have very few people but a whole lot of land not much of a tax base so they don't have a whole lot of money and there's a two things that really made me her career so one was that if you're going to have a

case of a wrongful conviction it could happen in a county like that and it could happen for those very reasons so there aren't very many people and suspicion falls immediately and the most likely suspect who they said is likely to be a young man who's been in trouble before and may not be major trouble he may have had a drunk driving conviction he may have been picked up for a little bit of vandalism or stealing tools but because these counties don't have much in the way of major crimes it's pretty much human nature to look at the person who looks the most suspicious then you add to that the fact that i am their law enforcement people may be purple we get people that they don't have any experience with major content and so you know intimate experience it's easy to find moses it's likely suspect they don't have their own crime labs they're all sorts of reasons that could point the way toward a wrongful conviction and and that got me interested right there and anyone who has read the senate really wanting we'll see how that plays into the plot of this book the second thing that they talked about

that really made my ears perk up because it's something that i'm interested in and they talked about influential people in candidates and they talked about how sometimes even really good people people who are deeply involved in the community and meanwhile can use their influences in ways they don't even know they're using it and then imported into being for good or for ill just in a long time and explored it to a divergence more planes into that player power in small towns in the virgin small planes that there was a story of conscious to critics emmeline use of power by powerful people in small in a small town and it's a difference laurie in the senate realigning because i was interested they are in what happens if you do have really good people and they really are trying hard to be good citizens in their small town and in their county though it the best intentions in the world they do something with really

horrendous the circumstances and outcomes and so those law enforcement people inspired me to write this book but i always find to know i think one of the reasons that those mainly target my ears is in the states that this stage in my career in order to spend so much time working on about it has reason they're really really grabs me an unusual has haunted me for some time and one of the things that i've been interested in for a long time is the whole issue of capital punishment and the issue of wrongful conviction i had done a little bit of work for the innocence project in kansas city to saunter work a very little bit that but i'd also written previously couple books that were basically anti death penalty box and this is not a death penalty but per se but it is a look at what happens when somebody is freed from prison because ostensibly he did not actually commit the crime for which he's been serving a long term and he goes back to the

community where he was accused of the crime and what i discovered is that community does not always believe the new evidence and there can be families of survivors who even when confronted with what is incontrovertible evidence that this person did not hurt their loved one can let go of those decades of bitterness and hatred and the desire for revenge which is on the one hand really to bet on the other hand it's really understandable if your whole being has been consumed for its a twenty twenty five years with paying somebody and with wishing the worst for them and suddenly overnight year informed all sports he didn't do it and he's going to have to live in this small town where this crime was committed for you lost a loved one i just something most humans can let go of all that emotion just overnight and so this is the story of that as well and then there's one other element but i kept thinking how particularly in a

place where there are very many people say there's up a murder and let's say that both the victim and the perpetrator have little families there you both people involved at the victim and that's a plus perpetrator are young man and they have a lot of the channel wife they each have a child you just starting out in life that the children of those two people are attracted to one another they end up growing up together once the survivor of her father's murder and once the survivor of his of his father's alleged crime and they have it seemed to me so much in common that nobody else has in common with them that in a way they can understand each other in a way that no other human being can understand them and if you have that depth of commonality with a natural attraction between the two you might have an interesting love story so on top of the whole criminal element and on top of the family saga

element and on top of that them the whole business about power plays and small communities i also wanted to add i wanted to see what would happen in a lonely since i wasn't what if these two people felt an attraction for each other that adam had nothing to do with what there had happened to their fathers that they had to struggle with what happened to their fathers in order to answer the question of what to do about their attraction for one another so all of those things women to the big part of making up this novel and then my task then became an always becomes how do you tie this had arthritis together in a story that people will enjoy reading which i hope they do so with all that swirling around in terms of themes that you lie to explore plus some of the characters from the scent of rain and lightning into that setting i mean carrie johnson of rain and lightning as gertie lender who when the story opens is a twenty six year old who is going to be

teaching english in the local high school jedi has grown up with as the daughter and granddaughter and niece of the most powerful and wealthy ranching family in the county and around when she was three years old her father was murdered and her mother disappeared and so jodi has lived her life in this little town and this under populated county is she's she says it's like having been surrounded by a temple babysitters is everybody loves her family their respective family they are indebted to her family and some of them don't love her voice was and so she has felt accosted and taken care of all of her life over the same time struggling to go to be herself and to be able to step out of that and and and think for herself and get out from under the influence and power of this family that you love so that's jodi and then they at one of the other major characters and he is the son of the man who's been in prison for twenty three years and in the opening of this story joe d's three rancher uncles appear surprising her

to let her know that billy crosby sense has been committed and that he is returning bad day to small planes and so that sets up the situation for what she has to deal with and what the whole family in the town have to deal with too that was nancy picard in an interview we did back in two thousand eleven when her book the sun rain and lightning was named a kansas notable book that book has now been made into a film which you're featuring of the free state film festival marlowe to tell us about the slum less esoteric that you think that clip because as a couple reasons it's really wonderful that we have two strong films that are adaptations so the family just totally nineteen seventy four as an adaptation of a memoir which is a completely different style of that adapting from literature and the thunder primary and just the idea of having to you know figure out the complex plots like what's important to the characters and what you want to throw in years silva is the new ones and the visualization of the story of subsidy because ford

explorer that topic in a pod cast actually the west of the country is doing a live recording of their books club podcast honestly presented by audio reader and its debut a wonderful experience because you talk about the process of adapting and books to movies live the screenwriters from both films there in the director's says can be really cool experience and that'll be the same day that both of these films are shelling which is july first well you're a filmmaker yourself what are some of the pitfalls and dangers of taking out book or a short story and making it into a film there are wonderful things that happened with that process i think it's on busy you allow yourself to and how the film had its own life like i think sometimes when film struggle at peace insist they're trying to remain to think paul addresses ina should have a different feeling than reading the public issues can adapt it straight away there's no point to make in this movie you know like the shots but there and the but

for that when you're able to you give it up for some rain and to give the visual storytelling of filmmaking and take center stage you can be a really cool process so my favorite adaptations go back like raymond chandler you know like that where it's like you've read a really <unk> many see this movie become nothing alike but the thing is they're like the themes are intact and there's some guy like that super strong that's conveyed in it but it has its own life and i think both of these films in particular they're just you could just tell that the director was given that made put their voice and their vision and then remain completely chewed of these teams are so strong and to come across in both films so we heard an interview where that new zipcar the author of the sound of rain and lightning marlowe we've got a film clip from that film can you set it up for us guess what i love about this the senate really being is the idea of turkish

inspiration and her protagonist has to become very strong and very active citizen covering this history on her own trying to get information and people in her community about what happened her parents like you know stores to doubt that this killer has been released actually get it and then it's a question of ok that would have and so in this scene it's really strong she goes to a bar and cheese trade and cover something and of the man who's there so i think you're going to have this clip was a really strong performance with the battle isn't how many people don't change thank you oh nice not fair mess out there if i asked you how many and you say not a banana and some don't mean do you know any jews were really

cool that you you know something you're not telling me you're going to make soon do it soon you do we've had on i don't know i don't i think iran will really enjoy

seeing this notice if you read the book and then he can come and cut a figure out like okay what was that were the differences between the book and the film or if you know nothing about used to be taking up on this right which is really fascinating and just a beautiful story well you mentioned that there are a number of film festivals across the country you're familiar with what makes the free state film festival unique her small curated festival in this really vibrant artistic talent and i love the fact that if you go to a film you'll see the same people going to the philanthropic week and with that provides the community is a connection sea of things to talk about like he said what her restaurant in other patrons they were talking about the same time that you just come from that opportunity to connect with them or you waiting in line for a movie you see your neighbor their own year able to do that i think that's really powerful i think the officer just trying i'm percentage of artists that are here that i think are discussions are fantastic but sometimes we get other festivals you like it kind of mundane questions like oh

how much does your budget eric olin year was the personnel making this town right unit is very simple questions our audience is get to the bottom of everything you'd that's touched upon in the film they will talk for ever at that singing that they find interesting thing that upsets them are something that you know really gets them going and i think that's incredible to set every time we have the lakers and tolerance for the festival that's one of things they say to me that they was amazing because a lot of the cells i didn't see it that's the one that sticks with me we had barry crimmins here with his specter tree couple years ago coming likely and heat that film had played at you also to philip hundred festivals from sundance all over the country in any team here we were the last one on his thoughts and he just was so in lesotho the programming he was the key renee the response from the audience the connection people that he had and the lobby was the whole experience of lawrence and just the way that we're wearing the east here like we wanna know

you know why things happen we wanna know if i'm in the future and we he works at it talk about it and he really connected with that and so you we were so honored that he brought his comedy special here last year which was right ever threaten ceo and then now he's back this year to do a totally new show and i love this work that he's doing right now coal atlases means because another thing that activates them variously huge activist throughout his career of his sexual abuse victims like really helping them changing as to but i mean really changing people's lives honestly and so he talks about what the effect that it's hand him personally and its comedic it's heartfelt its storytelling at its finest sing very return here for that he'll be here friday june thirtieth for nine thirty two to eleven pm we have a clip from barry crimmins and his performance last year i'm a pacifist people get mad

at their pacifist with allies as give their precious well you don't know until i witnessed though along and figures siegel you've seen samuelson about lately emily really just speaks to the heart of the festival like he such an aspiring artist himself he's a brilliant writer plan for mary ellen you know he had this documentary that was out last year and there's even in the

works a film about heroin from jet appetite out that as being kind of work done and were so excited for him for that and that he's just the heart and soul of what we do here and just really trying to get ideas out and connect with people and he's just an impact and i think it's because of the familiar really just connects with people and i mean he's just been a great advocate for it for another person has been featured at the two thousand seventeen friess a film festival is k u alumni nikki glaser tommy about that evening yes we're so excited to have her here i think are suggested is doing comedy programming airports are people asking when he'd get nikki glaser full time is no or so excited and as she has been a comedy central for a few years now she's definitely a favorite there she can see on inside amy schumer doing sketches all the time she's a very cutting edge comedian of the recent interviews with her and she talks about its female representation in being

a female comic and what that is like and she found she had a wonderful show called not safe with nikki glaser that was on comedy central perry raso about sexuality and she found it was a really quick speeds for her because she felt before that that everything was about look like he really isn't enough mediocrity to be conscious of the image that you're presenting to the public and to have this television show she said you know i feel comfortable now taking myself out there to hunt always like you've been pretty easy to get my voice out there and we need to be heard and so we're so excited to welcome her we just might get people riled up and it's experiencing something completely new that we have presented your partner before and just a really great comedian and we have a clip from her as well in the year twenty ten thirty seo married

no kids not jaundice believe the kind where you might wanna baby i sometimes think i was still a baby recently and my mom's answers they tell you look under building their baby looks more comparable to an idea of someone steaming it was so acute that when i was scared to look at maybe but the more you look at it just like you an ingenue and i was just like i want to be a baby has a really great stay home hands you know my sister is pregnancy asked doesn't know is he's having i have a feeling it's going to be regret by carrying

<unk> know and i'm dying to know the sax she had to concede that but she won't tell me it's private ahmed that's why it's interesting by a poet i'd been a relationship now for three years so are almost an end and yeah we lived together we fight all i wasn't for it so to find land century sometimes i'm a lot nicer than it feels like something you'd find on like a spa menu you know what your church ever silent treatment today what is it with that well i'd during a massage or mrs will lave next you on their table with his back to take out his phone and start going through it just when you think he's asleep will start clearing his throat and signed himself to sleep you know he's still awake but choosing not to talk zero

cry yourself to sleep but you can be certain antidepressants so you take out your phone important where this around binders of of all the single men to circle in your house like sort of like a ignored women's shelter like that would be great if i could show up there and we can receive here like yes fines mean like he's not looking for real change will be afterwards art center on wednesday june twenty eight from seven thirty to nine thirty pm as you mentioned nikki glaser is performance can be a little raw it's probably for mature audiences only definitely in the path of free state festival has also had some films that were suitable for family it's likely have on this year's agenda that might be better to take the kid still we have a quarter

fouls called my life as ezekiel to stop motion animated film that was nominated for an academy award and this story on what us it makes me cry but it's about this guy young boy he's an orphan and he goes to live in or finance and he finds really a community with a kid they are there as a police officer there who kind of stuff kind of resonance and mentorship insisted coarsely meat found a very touching story and respected to sell on july first and one of the features to live free save film festival you bring back this year gimmick is a collection of short films that was always the heart of all the pistol i think to us are or station that we started destroying for fans of the very beginning so i think the certain format is under eight it's the tech industry stories it's really a way to capsize as spice of life that moment in time i think where short films triumph is when you're able to you not worried the character's backstory you design a plunger audience in the experience of thing in the moment and we have some really great work in this mine that

have excited that we're showing it's called not for sale edition by cigarette years he was here in town and what i love about the film is a superstar it's a couple minutes in length and just a micro short so it does there's something about that is almost like a haiku at a moment in time and i think it really shows her strong narrative style well anything else you'd like to highlight about the week went and i really said about it's event called caffeine in cinema we did this last year and decade coffee and so we combine coffee sampling was some discussion and say this you're having some critics come in and talk about the body of work together and so it seems that are relevant and all of the film's things are different presentation in style and substance across the canon of work and to your family said about this because it does a program or provide it or can experience said he see every film that should be a story and veiled that telling a bit said caesar one of opportunity will come together and experience what they've heard they just it's wrapped a week and talk about it and it's the final day of the

festival so you will have seen well for people who maybe can't make that time commitment to go to all of the films i want to give them your best sales job that it's still worth going to even if you can only hit an inventor to definitely elements of unesco fannie and barry crimmins has a compass the elkhart festival and he's so excited that we're not doing passes this year's season have to look out and see laminate seth would mean that he'd pick and choose what everyone says and initially ticket this year and it's you know you can come to one thing you can come to a happy hour in nazi the phone just enjoy that discussion you know with the community members or eating can experience not to talk to you where can you find out more information every state festival can even get everything festival that work may have other sometimes other tickets and other information in movie trailers or actor okay well thank you so much david

as jesus eighty nine is a date aimed at demonstrating prices higher now batman features band at this year's free state festival that man will play in concerts on the lawrence arts center main stage on thursday june twenty nine and albers is the other creative director of the freeze that festival then the chicano batman they pull in some of our roots i was a sort of americana but it's also psychedelic it's r and b and it certainly has that latin influence in the whole thing and that's really relevant i've never any anything like the men never sing them live i can't wait to see them in person but i think they're you know they've got the attention of the other notable x you know they opened up for alabama shakes and bad jack white and they were just on conan o'brien i think has little while ago

i am anyway i think that for that sir for the show is it's a movie ended film that movie and a film it's a movie in a concert that you get to see which maybe there are dolores will play it and then chicano batman will play out a form right after that in previous years big music act has taken place out on the street in front of art center that's not the case this year it changed you know there have been shifts and in in the funding structure within the city the city had funded that element of the free state festival in the past and the city had changed the way it was it was giving out those grants and so we had to change without and investors though the way the way that it is we're nonprofit arts center and we have a lot of programs be on the festival that were were operating every day trying to accomplish and so that one you know that element of the festival was was one

that was right i'm a pretty steep hill to climb to try to make it happen it's it's a it's a bohemian and a lot a way of not just financially it's it's a big operation for for an organization like us to pull off so you know we want this festival to be the best that it can be and i think you do we marlowe and i as the people who are your curated and the various elements of this didn't hesitate to keep focusing on what is really strong about the press about this operation and that and working with what you've got which is what we all have to do in in the world we live in so so it's it has a stellar lineup and you know who knows how this thing will hold will play out you know after it's over and i am really curious about the sort of ripple effect the ripple effect we've gotten from years past with this festival has really been quite healthy and i think theres traction and there's momentum come you know i think for those that are going to choose to participate to come to them to the films and the performances you know i'm excited to see what

happens from that because i think it is concentrated i think the themes are relevant and important and it's entertaining and yet it's enlightening engaging all of those big e words i guess is her it's important and i think thats that's the organization's role is to be producing opportunities like that for the community and is there one event that you're really looking forward to at this year's festival are not a narrow it down to la and i think the chicano batman concert i think is is really intriguing end and i can't wait to hear them in that space the theaters basically out of the three hundred seat theater it's it's great for concerts in my opinion i and alabama like that i'm really excited to hear them in that room i think the films a rumble seems really intriguing and it's a love learning about music in the history of music and this one seems really fascinating and it's a

it's a it's got all right the right marks so far i've not seen and i'm looking forward to seeing them and them and honestly i think you know as maron i've talked and plotted and planned i think the bee platforms that were putting together for these conversations to happen with community members you know there's a lot of me in that meal you know or people can engage with each other in a way that they would not have probably done otherwise it was prompted by this this experience through the festival and i think those are you know i think that speaks to the to what art can do and that it's a meaningful it's important and i think it's for the community you know i can speak to that myself i know last year when i went i ran into a couple of neighbors people i know that i thought oh i didn't even know you liked fell more i didn't know you were interested in this issue it never occurred to me that you would be at this kind of event and it really made a ten x and in a way a bed surprised me

tell you this steve as well they do it i think about that you know my nine to five job that they are centers exhibitions director think about how you engage people with with the work that you have whether it's visual art of film or music and i think the festival and bodies different avenues of access for people for some people it's the subject matter for some people it's the director of the actor or the performer i am and all of those are legit and and there's a hierarchy there and i've been to my eye but what i love about that is he yells people in the room and there is a common denominator that will survive threat altogether from for that experience for those people but it is to your point there are people that could come out that i would not have guessed but i you know i think we need more about those kinds of things happening everywhere not just in morris and you mentioned that your normal job at the arts center is

and solutions director and i know in previous three stage festivals you've then in charge of their art part of it and last year there was a very iconic cloud sculpture out in front of the lawrence arts center that was really really cool for people to come to the festival this year looking for art i know it's not going to be going on at the same level that in what we can they engage in art during the festival than i think we've heard the end of the shift their there are shifts that happen between the previous years and this year you know we have final friday will be happening that week and we have four brand new exhibitions albee five exhibitions on display at the wadsworth center coming up in mid july is the national african american quilt conference it's coming to lawrence and were participating in that so we'll have three equals exhibitions it will be opening up that evening from

ours from from all over the country and then the art center as an artist in residence program and our print making artist in residence will be opening up her solo exhibition so that all opens on friday of the year of the festival and that certainly integrated into the program it's not it's it's a different function you know the products we worked out worked on in the past were much more about being out in space and down you know we chose to to not do that this year and for a variety of reasons and they're practical reasons and they're you know i think the local conferences is a really interesting and an important one to have to pay attention to in your work glad to be a part of that so those will all be up in on display you'll see all the quotes as you go into to the movie and all week long will be installing those but i am there but the other things you'd like us to highlight about

everything festival this year you know it's incredibly accessible inaccessible price wise it's really affordable i'm in all the all the ticket events are listed on the web site and it's easily you can do it on your phone if you wanted it's very accessible i think the subject matter is really it's really important it's important for people to hear this is the only way they can engage to you know get in and you know some are more bullets if you're getting an education by seeing the films and listening to the presenters and the performers on some more than others i think that's the least we can be doing and i think more it touched on that earlier about you know our responsibility and in today's world on being gauged this is a part of that and i think might what i've gained out of being not just one of the people helping to make it happen but a participant in getting

to know some of the performers and some of the creators is that deeper level of conversation and i am a better understanding of history a better understanding this year i think it's going to be you know we're really focusing on some timely topical current term things i'm really interested and excited to tell how bad and as i spoke earlier about the report that i think that's you know that's to let vets the legs to something like this if you can get something we've got people who continue beyond the conversation in the lobby for the restaurant of the bar directly after you know but there are things that can happen years down the road that started somewhere and maybe it started here at this at this time and this time those are the kinds of projects that i really get into an and i get really excited about it i think the free state festival has as the yam the elements for those sorts of interactions in relationships to be to be formed and so you know that sounds a little

esoteric and a little heavier but i am honestly i think that's where it's out and if you have a good time while you're doing it i think there's those norman that either and it is good time that's a fun way to totally premature to be great to see they're there thank you and all there is is one of the creative directors of the free state film festival which kicks off tuesday june twenty seven and continues through sunday july second you can find out more there website priest a festival i'm kate mcintyre special thanks to take your concerns given heaters for help with today's program at our present is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas oh oh