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First annual Kern Projections Film Festival films and schedule announced
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0 responses Thirty-eight films, ranging from one-hour-plus documentaries and fictional films to three-minute music videos, will be shown at the first annual Kern Projections Film Festival, Oct. 10 to 14 at the Spotlight Theater in Bakersfield. The films and videos were selected out of more than 70 submissions from across the U.S. and Ireland. Several submissions from Kern County filmmakers will be shown at the festival.

The festival will screen films in the categories of fiction, documentary, animation, and music videos. The first film to be shown at the festival will be, “Behind Forgotten Eyes,” a documentary directed by Anthony Gilmore which candidly looks at the legacy of the use of 200,000 Korean girls and women as sex slaves by the Japanese during World War II. “Behind Fogotten Eyes” will show on Oct. 11 at 6 p.m.

Two other films featured at the festival are “Handmade Puppet Dreams III” — an animated film made by Michelle Rene Bousquet and produced by Heather Hensen, daughter of Muppet Creator Jim Hensen, that compiles the work of independent artists and their handmade crafts created for the camera; and “Speed Dating” — a fictional film by Irish director Tony Herbert about the obsessions and perils of speed dating. Brandon Trost, a young filmmaker from Frazier Park will have a music video and two fiction films shown at the festival. Visit: www.kernprojections.com to browse through 33 other films and videos by national and local filmmakers.

Two-hour screenings will be held Thursday and Friday nights beginning with the first screening at 6 p.m. Saturday screenings will be held throughout the day beginning at 10 a.m. and screenings will begin on Sunday at 1 p.m. Visit: www.kernprojections.com/schedule.htm for a complete screening schedule and descriptions of films.

Submissions were screened throughout the summer by 39 members of the Bakersfield community. Expert judges selected the winners in the submission categories. Winners will be announced at the festival awards dinner on Oct. 14 at the Metro Galleries in downtown Bakersfield. The best local entry will receive $1000, donated by The Bakersfield Californian.

Beginning Oct. 9 tickets can be purchased at the Spotlight Theater. For more information about the festival, call Shirley Kirkendall at 578-0171.

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