January Festival Screenings

Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, CA
January 16th @ 7:13 PM and January 17 @ 3:53 PM
http://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/

Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Princeton, NJ
January 17th @ 1:00 PM
http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/peff/

Frozen River Film Festival
Winona, Minnesota
January 30th @ 10:00 AM
http://www.frff.org/

Screening across the pond, and others...

HomeGrown will be screening at the Corona Cork Film Festival in Ireland. Our first showing in Europe! And here are a few more screenings to be aware of.

Environmental Film Festival in the Nations Capital -Sneak preview screening
Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30 PM, Latelier theater, Washington DC
http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/news.php

Corona Cork Film Festival Cork, Ireland
Thursday, November 5th at 11:30 AM
http://www.corkfilmfest.org/

Ojai-Ventura Film Festival Ojai, California
Sat. Nov, 7th at 3 PM and Sun. Nov. 8th at 10 AM
www.ojaifilmfestival.com

Colorado Environmental Film Festival Golden, Colorado
Saturday Nov. 7th at 4 PM
www.ceff.net

Asheville Film Festival Asheville, North Carolina
Saturday Nov. 14th at 1 PM, Asheville Community Theater
www.ashevillefilmfestival.com

Yet more screening times

BendFilm Film Festival Bend, Oregon
Friday, October 9th, 12:30 pm, Tower Theater
Saturday, October 10th, 8:30 pm , McMenamins 2 http://www.bendfilm.org/

Mill Valley Film Festival San Rafael, CA
October 11, 1:00PM, CinéArts @ Sequoia 1
October 13, 6:45PM, Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 3
http://www.cafilm.org/mvff/

San Francisco Documentary Film Festival S.F., CA The Roxie theater
October 17 @ 7 PM & October 22 @ 9:15 PM www.sfindie.com

Sedona Creative Life Center
333 Schnebly Hill Road
Saturday, Oct. 17 7:00 pm www.stellarproductionslive.com

EcoFocus Film Festival Athens, Georgia
Oct. 17th, 18th 19th & 21st www.ecofocusfilmfest.org

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Hot Springs, Ark
Tuesday Oct. 20th at 5:55 p.m. and Oct. 21 at 11:40 a.m
www.hsdfi.org

Planet In Focus Film Festival Toronto, Canada
Sat. Oct. 24 at 3:00 PM Innis town Hall www.planetinfocus.org

Sold out crowd in Vancouver!

Lots of upcoming screening times

Chesapeake Film Festival Easton, Maryland
7:30 PM Sat., September 19 Historical Society Auditorium
http://www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com/

Atlantic Film Festival Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
7:05 PM, Fri, Sep 25 Park Lane – 7 http://www.atlanticfilm.com/

Sidewalk Moving Picture Film Festival - Birmingham, Alabama
5:00 PM, Sat, Sep 26, Young and Vann Building
http://www.sidewalkfest.com/

Syracuse, NY
Westcott Community Center
October 3, 2009
Two screenings: 10:30 am and 12:30 PM
http://www.alchemicalnursery.org/

Vancouver International Film Festival Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mon, Oct 5th 8:45pm Empire Granville 7 Th 5
Wed, Oct 7th 3:40pm Empire Granville 7 Th 5
Thu, Oct 8th 10:45am Pacific Cinémathéque http://www.viff.org /

Belmont World Film Belmont, MA (near Boston)
Mon. Oct. 5, 7:00 PM Studio Cinema www.belmontworldfilm.org

A few more screenings (revised)

Add a few more to the previous list...

San Francisco Doc Fest
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hot Springs, Arkansas)
Bendfilm Film Festival (Bend, Oregon)

Planet in Focus: Environmental Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
Colorado Environmental Film Festival (Golden, CO)
and

EcoFocus Film Festival (Athens, Georgia)

Screenings to date:

In the last couple of weeks HomeGrown has been offered spots in five new festivals. Whew. It seemed a good time to review all the festivals it's screened at to date.

Lincoln Center in NYC
St. Louis International
Cleveland International
Crossroads
Maryland film Festival
DeadCenter in OKC
Indianapolis Inernational
Woods Hole Film Fest.
Rhode Island International

and now...

Sidewalk Moving Picture FF (Alabama)
Chesapeake FF (Maryland)
Atlantic FF (Halifax, NS, Canada)
Vancouver International FF (Canada)
and perhaps best of all...
Mill Valley Film Festival (California)

Kind of a cool list, I think.

I'm off to a screening at the
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Sat. Aug 8 @ 3:00 pm
Columbus Theatre Arts Center
Providence , RI

The Film Yap review (Indianapolis) 4.5 Yaps!

More than a documentary about a tiny self-sufficient urban farm, “HomeGrown” is the story of a family bound together by their green ideals.   (4.5 Yaps)

Christopher Lloyd

read the full review at

http://www.thefilmyap.com/?p=1562

IBJ.com (Indianapolis Business Journal) review

Recommended:

“HomeGrown.” A divorced father and his three grown children manage to create three tons of produce every year from only 1/5 of an acre of land near a busy interstate exchange in Pasadena, Calif. The Dervaes family proves eccentric–-but likable–-as they discuss how they reduce their “eco-footprint” by their choices of energy sources, such as solar panels and biodiesel made from used vegetable oil from restaurants. May inspire viewers to buy non-electric mixers from an Amish catalog.—Rebecca Berfanger, special to IBJ

Cool People Care

See an article about HomeGrown at Cool People Care:

http://www.coolpeoplecare.org/article/2009/07/09/all-about-homegrown/

A big thank you to to Sam Davidson and Cool People Care!

IIFF dates set!

Indianapolis International film Festival screening dates:

July 19th at 7:30pm – DLH Theater

and

July 21st at 3:00pm – Toby Theater

A bunch of new Film Festival screenings!

deadCenter Film Festival
Oklahoma City, OK
Sat, Jun 13, 01:00PM
Kerr Auditorium

Indianapolis International Film Festival
July 15-25
Exact Screening date TBD


Woods Hole Film Festival
July 25-August 1
Exact Screening date TBD

Rhode Island International Film Festival
August 4-9
Exact Screening date TBD

Baltimore City Paper REVIEW

When Jules Dervaes killed off the lawn of his prim Pasadena bungalow in the late '80s to start a vegetable garden, his neighbors thought him odd. Twenty-plus years later, now that he and his three grown children reap 6,000 pounds of organic vegetables a year from their one-fifth-acre property, he's become a visionary among the urban homesteading movement. Robert McFalls' lush documentary--Southern California's Tuscan sun drenches everything in optimistic, golden hues--follows Dervaes' mission to free his family from the "cookie-cutter" life: They have solar panels, a small biodiesel refinery, and tools they've purchased from an Amish catalog. They buy food they can't grow from a co-op. The joy of their work beams from their faces. But their lives aren't without difficulty: they have no insurance, wrangle over money constantly, and complain about monotony--seasonal eating means eating the same thing every day. McFalls doesn't probe why Dervaes' wife left him early on, but the family's intense, unconventional dedication to their father's vision gives viewers a pretty good idea.
(Tim Hill)

Maryland Film Festival

A new screening at the
Maryland Film Festival
Saturday, May 9th at 1:30 pm
at the Charles Theater
1711 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD

Cleveland Plain Dealer review

Director Robert McFalls... wraps the story in a warm quilt of conversation, conviction and candlelight that can leave viewers time to ask themselves some questions.



Read the full review at
http://www.cleveland.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/03/polycultures_food_where_we_liv.html

Screening at Crossroads Film Festival

Just heard about a new screening at
Crossroads Film Festival
in Jackson, Mississippi
Sunday, April 5 at 7 pm

for details see
crossroadsfilmfestival.com

Cleveland International Film Festival!

Updated 3/06/09:

New Screening for HomeGrown at
Cleveland International Film Festival
A wonderful, well respected, and very well attended festival

Screening dates are
Thursday, March 26th @ 2pm
and Sunday, March 29th @ 4:40pm

The film will be screening with
The Road Ahead: The First Green Long March

for further details see
http://www.clevelandfilm.org/

Hope to see you there!