PERSPECTIVES photographed by Amalia Caputo 2008 TRFF event schedule August 21, 2008 (Thursday) Animation for Kids created by Kids   Kids Factory Flicks A Two River Children's Film Festival partnered with Small Factory Productions and Prevention First .......................................................................................................... Time: 6:00 - 8:00PM Place: Clearview Cinemas Red Bank Adults $5.00, Children are FREE! For Ticket Reservations call 732.212.1088 or Clearview Cinemas Red Bank Box Office!   Provost’s Spring 2008 Film Series You Say You Want To Start A Revolution... March 20, 2008 (Thursday) Place:Pollak Theater   REDS .......................................................................................................... Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Panel: Dr. Thomas Pearson (History), Dr. Stanley Blair (English)   April 9, 2008 (Wednesday) Place: Wilson Auditorium   TWO WOMEN (Do zan) .......................................................................................................... Time: 4:30 PM - 7:15 PM Panel: Dr Saliba Sarsar (Political Science), Dr. Katherine Parkin (History)   April 21, 2008 (Monday) Place: Wilson Auditorium   STRIKE .......................................................................................................... Time: 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM Panel: Dr. Thomas Pearson (History), Dr. Brian Greenberg (History)   April 13, 2008 (Sunday) Two River Film Festival Special Screening   Saving Marriage .......................................................................................................... Time: 2:30 PM Place: The Paramount Theater on the Broadwalk Ocean Avenue between Fifth and Sunset FREE and open to public Please RSVP to eventoffice@aol.com :: click her for more detail ::   April 12, 2008 (Saturday) Two River Film Festival Salutes Groucho! Place: Pollak Theater   Animal Crackers .......................................................................................................... Time: 1:00 PM     Duck Soup .......................................................................................................... Time: 3:00 PM     Horse Feathers .......................................................................................................... Time: 4:15 PM     April 16, 2008 (Wednesday) TRFF/NOFFA Environmental Film Selection of 2008 Place: Clearview Cinemas, Red Bank   Sharkwater .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM - 8:28 PM Sponsored by National Ocean Film Festival Alliance, Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University, Clearview Cinemas Alliance Films     April 19, 2008 (Saturday) Place: Pollak Theater   An Evening with Groucho ...................................................................................................................................... Performance   Latin American Realities January 23, 2008 (Wednesday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Secrets of Lost Empires: The Inca .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM Q & A  Professor Bill Mitchell   January 25, 2008 (Friday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Time: 6:00 PM Lecture: Latin America There and Here: A Taste of Brazil and Peru with Professors Bill Mitchell and Kathy Smith-Wenning     House of Sand (Topic: Brazil) .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM Sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics.  Followed by Q & A Professor Megwen Loveless   January 28, 2008 (Monday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Central Station .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics  (Topic: Brazil). Followed by Q & A Professor Aaron Ansell   January 30, 2008 (Wednesday)     Time: 11:30 AM Magill Commons Club Room 107 Faculty Forum: with Professor Aaron Ansell on Race and Development in Rural Brazil .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM Wilson Hall Auditorium Lecture: with Joan Gero, American University, on Gender and Power in the Ancient Andes   January 31, 2008 Thursday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Black Orpheus (France) (Topic: Brazil) .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM Followed by Q & A with Patricia  Salzman, Montclair University   February 1, 2008 (Friday) Place: Wilson Hall Auditorium   Time: 6:00 PM- 7:00 PM Welcome: by Provost Tom Pearson, Lecture: Representations of Latin America with the artists: Saya Woofalk, Gregorio Aparicio, Loida Gavilán, and Betty Seminario Coello .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Reception: Art From Latin America , The 800 Gallery   February 4 , 2008 (Monday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Bye Bye Brazil (Topic: Brazil) .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM followed by Q & A Professors Aaron Ansell and Megwen Loveless   February 6 , 2008 (Wednesday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Agouti's Peanut (Topic: Tropical Forest People) .......................................................................................................... Film screening Time: 7:00 PM Followed by Q & A  with Professor Bill Mitchell   February 11 , 2008 (Monday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Quilombo Country (Topic Brazil) .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM Followed by Q & A  Professors Sean Mitchell and Hettie Williams   February 15 , 2008 (Friday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Soy Andina (Topic: Peru) Documentary/Dance .......................................................................................................... Film screening Time: 7:00 PM Followed by Q & A with film director Mitchell Teplitsky   February 18 , 2008 (Monday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Dias de Santiago (Lima) (Topic: Peru) .......................................................................................................... Film screening Time: 7:00 PM Followed by Q & A Professor Bill Mitchell   February 20 , 2008 (Wednesday) Place: Wilson Hall Auditorium   Hands of God (Topic: Peru) .......................................................................................................... Film screening Time: 7:00 PM Followed by Q & A Professor Bill Mitchell   March 3, 2008 (Monday) Place: Pollak Theatre   Time: 6:00 PM Welcome: by Dean Stan Green Illustrated closing lecture: If the World is Flat, Why are there so Many Bumps? The Economic Crisis in Peru and Latin America  by Professor Bill Mitchell.  Followed by book signing of the award-winning book Voices from the Global Margin with Professor Mitchell.     Time: 7:00 PM Perspectives on Latin America from Chile and Argentina by Professors Rosemary Barbera and Ken Mitchell     State of Fear : the Truth about Terrorism (Topic: Peru) .......................................................................................................... Time: update!!! Monday March 3, 08 at 7:30 PM Followed by Q & A with Professors Rosemary Barbera, Ken Mitchell, Aaron Ansell and Megwen Loveless   schedule of events of TRFF 2007 October 4, 2007 (Thursday) Presented by the Performing Arts Series at Pollak Theater Monmouth University http://www.monmouth.edu/arts/ Place: Pollak Theater   On Tip Toe: Gentle Steps to Freedom (56mins) California Newsreel -- Performing Arts Series Pollak Theater at Monmouth University http://www.monmouth.edu/arts/ .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:00 PM   Ladysmith Black Mambazo Performance .......................................................................................................... Time: 8:00 PM     October 12, 2007 (Friday) Celebration of the Magnificient Thoroughbred Place: Pollak Theater   A Day at the Races Sensational comedy from brothers Groucho, Harpo and Chico as they put a sanatorium in a spin when they try and save it with the help of one of the patients who owns a racehorse. .......................................................................................................... Time: 9:00 AM     The Last Victory (58mins) presented by Two River Film Festival http://www.cobosfilms.nl This film follows the passionate struggle of the small town district of Civetta, Italy, as for months they prepare for the horse race IL PALIO. .......................................................................................................... Time: 11:00 AM   First Saturday in May (96mins) presented by Two River Film Festival Hennegan Brothers http://www.thefirstsaturdayinmay.com Heartbreak and hope abound in this engrossing documentary about the holy grail of horse racing the Kentucky Derby.  Two brothers travel from Arkansas to Dubai and on to Churchill Downs to trace the paths of six rising equine stars, including the heroic Barbaro, and the people, passion and dreams at the core of this breakneck competition. .......................................................................................................... Time: 3:30 PM     October 24, 2007 (Wednesday) Daily Double Two River Film Festival 2007 Fundraiser Place: Clearview Cinemas, Red Bank Price: $15 Tickets at Clearview Cinemas Box Office   First Saturday in May (96 mins) ...................................................................................................................................... Pre Reception: 5:45 PM @ Bodega Shoppe 15 Mechanic St off Broad, Red Bank Screening Time: 7:00 PM Reception Time: 8:40 PM @ Ashes Restaurant, 33 Broad St.,Red Bank Present ticket stub for Free drink at Cigar Bar   November 2, 2007 (Friday) Place: Pollak Theater   El Benny - (PG) (120 mins) DVD, World Cinema Perspectives Sponsored by The Latino Chamber of Commerce of Monmouth County Introduction by Professor Ronald Frangipane, Associate Professor, Department of Music & Theatre Arts. Rive Gauche Entertainment .......................................................................................................... Time: 10:00 AM - 12:05 PM   The Truth About Tooth - (PG) (10 mins) Short Documentary .......................................................................................................... Time: 12:05 PM     * A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar - (PG) (89 mins) DVD, Reel Social Perspectives Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University .......................................................................................................... Time: 12:15 PM - 1:43 PM   Into Great Silence - (G) (162 mins) DVD, World Cinema Perspectives Zeitgeist Films Ltd. Introduction by John G Lynch, Chairman Two River Film Festival .......................................................................................................... Time: 1:43 PM - 4:30 PM   Freeheld - (PG13) (38 mins) Short Documentary/LGBT Wide Angle Perspective Sponsored by All Lifestyles Included (ALI), Monmouth University Sponsored by Stand Up And Be Counted, Monmouth University Lieutenant Films Inc. .......................................................................................................... Time: 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM   Pre-Reception Friday night Permit # 08003091 ...................................................................................................................................... Time: 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - (PG13) (112 mins) Opening Night Premiere Miramax.com Time: 7:00 PM .......................................................................................................... Q&A w/ Producer Jon Kilik   Wilson Hall Reception ...................................................................................................................................... Time: 9:15 PM   November 3, 2007 (Saturday) Place: Pollak Theater   Alosha (76 mins) Children / Family Choice Spotlight on Faculty Films / Melnitsa Animation Studio Introduction by Tom Pearson, PhD Time: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM .......................................................................................................... Alosha Q&A --Voice-over Artist Bill Timoney Time: 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM   Tupperware - (G) (60 mins) Reel Women Selection Blueberry Hill Productions .......................................................................................................... Time: 11:30 AM - 12:35 PM   Making Trouble - (G) (85 mins) Spotlight Women and Film Jewish Women's Archive .......................................................................................................... Time: 12:35 PM - 2:05 PM   Two Tickets to Paradise - (R) (90 mins) Surprise Film .......................................................................................................... Time: 2:05 PM   Note By Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (80 mins) Children / Family Choice Founder’s Selection Documentary Sponsored by the Monmouth County Arts Council info@plowproductions.com Time: 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM .......................................................................................................... Note By Note Q&A with Director Ben Niles Time: 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM   Sensational City - (G) (3 mins) Tarik Cherkaoui Loops: A Portrait of Caddie’s Life - (G) (13 mins) M.R. Dhar, Modega Pictures McClaren’s Negatives - (G) (10 mins) Reel Short Perspectives MJSTIP Films .......................................................................................................... Time: 5:45 PM - 6:30 PM     Pre-Reception Sponsored by The Two River Times Saturday night Permit # 08003092 Gallery at Pollak Theater .......................................................................................................... Time: 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM     Surprise Award Winning Film From Cannes Film Festival - (PG) PERSEPOLIS (95 mins) A Sony Pictures Classics Premiere Sponsored by The Two River Times 35mm Spotlight Centerpiece Premiere .......................................................................................................... Time: 7:30 PM - 9:05 PM   November 4, 2007 (Sunday) Place: Pollak Theater   * A Walk to Beautiful - (R) (85 mins) Diversity Film/ Wide Angle on Women’s Issues Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University Introduction by Professor Nancy Mezey, Assistant Professor of Sociology. http://www.walktobeautiful.com .......................................................................................................... Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM   * All In This Tea - (G) (70 mins) Spotlight Documentary Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University Les Blank, Flower Films .......................................................................................................... Time: 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM   Lawrence of Arabia - (PG) (220 mins with Intro) OUT OF THE VAULT ONE NIGHT ONLY! Academy Award Spotlight Film Sony Pictures Entertainment Time: 12:45 PM - 4:30 PM .......................................................................................................... Intermission .......................................................................................................... * Lawrence of Arabia Q&A/ Monmouth University Centerpiece Panel Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University Provost Thomas S. Pearson ,  moderator ; Dr. Daniel Kelleher, MD, Psychiatrist ; Dr. Saliba  Sarsar, Professor of Political Science; .......................................................................................................... Time: 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM "Does History Repeat Itself?"  "The Lessons of 'Lawrence of Arabia' for Current Middle Eastern Policies and Politics" Moderator: Provost Thomas Pearson, PhD Panelist: Saliba Sarsar, PhD Associate Vice President for Academic Program Initiatives Daniel Kelleher, MD Psychiatrist Dr. Toby Jones, Prof. of History Rutgers University More to come...   Place: Clearview Cinemas, Red Bank   Theater A Theater B The Relationship Expert - (R) (6 mins) Spotlight Premiere A married couple attends their first counseling session. Director: Paul C. Morrissey Cast: Eddie Pepitone. .................................................................. Time: 7:00 PM Closing Night Premiere * Nanking - (R) (88 mins) Spotlight Premiere Documentary Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University Professor Kenneth R. Stunkel,  Department of History & Anthropology. Think Film Company .................................................................. Time: 7:30 PM Closing Night Premiere The Walker - (R) (107 mins) Spotlight Premiere Think Film Company Rated R .................................................................. Time: 7:00 PM     Theater A Theater B The Relationship Expert - (R) (6 mins) The Walker - (R) (107 mins) Think Film Company .................................................................. Time: 9:15 PM Berlin - (R) (85 mins) All Box Office Proceeds from Berlin Screening Benefit 180 .................................................................. Time: 9:30 PM   November 19, 2007 (Monday) Two River Film Festival presents Holocaust/Genocide Signature Symposium 2007 Preserving the Truth for the 21st Century: Combating Internet and Media Myths VIP Reception by Invitation Only Place: Two River Theater, Red Bank Admission Free to Students! REGISTRATION/ CONFIRMATION REQUIRED FOR ALL PaneList: - Mark Weitzman - Director of the Task Force against Hate and Terrorism and the Associate Director of Education for the Simon Wiesenthal Center - Jared Cohen - a member of the Policy Planning Staff responsible for public diplomacy, Muslim World Outreach, and North Africa   * Darfur Diaries - (PG13) (56mins) Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University http://www.darfurdiaries.org ...................................................................................................................................... Time: Time: 9:30 AM & 6:45 PM @ Two River Theater Reception (VIP invitation only): 6pm @ Two River Theater, Red Bank sponsored by Branches   * Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence - (PG13) (58mins) Sponsored by Stand Up and Be Counted, Monmouth University http://www.twocatstv.com ...................................................................................................................................... Time: 9:30 AM & 6:45 PM @ Two River Theater Reception (VIP invitation only): 6pm @ Two River Theater, Red Bank sponsored by Branches