CARNY has been invited to screen at the Big Sky Film Festival in Missoula Montana, considered one of the top doc film festivals in the world.
Date: February 16th, 11:15 AM -Wilma Theater1 in Downtown Missoula
I’ll be there too!
for info, go to: http://bigsky.bside.com/2009/films/carny_bigsky2009
**********************************************************************************************
CARNY DOC screens at the acclaimed St Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF). Virginia, cinematographer/collaborator on CARNY will be on hand for Q and A post screening.
date: November 22nd time: 3:30 pm theater: Tivoli Theater
*************************************************************************************************
Virginia will discuss her work, ‘CARNY:Americana on the Midway’ and ‘Views from a Box Car: Freight Train hopping across America‘ at Photo Midwest.
Virginia has been invited to show work and talk about her methods of immersion into the lives of carnival workers and train hoppers as part of her photography at the Chazen Museum for Photo Midwest.
date: October 9th time: 7pm location: Chazen Museum more info: http://photomidwest2008.org
*************************************************************************************************
CARNY Doc receives BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Brooklyn International Film Festival June 2008
CARNY Doc has been screening in the following festivals
True/False (3 sold out screenings), Hot Docs (3 sold out screenings), and BIFF.
*************************************************************************************************
CARNY:Americana on the Midway (the book which inspired the documentary), won a Bronze Medal in the POP CULTURE category at the 2008 Independent Book Publisher’s AWARDS(to be shared with good friend Isis Acquarian in her memoir ‘The Source Family’. Hooray for New Age Hippies and Carnies (whom maybe never to be in same category ever again!)
*************************************************************************************************
CARNY: Americana on the Midway images will be on exhibition at Umbrage Gallery, 111 Front Street, Ste 208, DUMBO, Brooklyn , NY from July 3rd to August 14th with opening reception July 10th. Hours- 12 to 5pm, M-F.
