Event

Classical Arts Film Festival: FILM BLOCK ONE

The event begins with two very special documentary films, each having a unique approach to the celebration of the arts as well as an insight into the passion that drives individuals to pursue an arts profession.

Film One:
CARVING THE DIVINE
Directed and Produced by Yujiro Seki
The documentary Carving the Divine offers a rare and intimate look into the life and artistic process of modern-day Busshi practitioners of a 1400 year lineage of woodcarving thats at the heart of Japanese, Mahayana Buddhism.

Film Two:
PLAYING WITH FIRE - Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting
Directed by Allan Miller
Produced by Allan Miller & Gina Maria Leonetti
Jeannette Sorrell, told by the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Orchestra that no one will hire a woman conductor, forms her own Baroque orchestra, Apollos Fire, to immediate acclaim. This is the first film that shows how a conductor converts the dots on a printed score into musical phrases she can hear, and how the musicians almost miraculously transform her expressive gestures into an exciting performance.

There will be a gala reception during the intermission between both films.