The 7th Annual Omak Film Festival
Omak Theaters and Wenatchee Valley College Omak Associated Students announce the Omak Film Festival Winter 2010. Each film will play one week with discount matinees on Saturday & Sunday. Wenatchee Valley College Omak Students with current ASB cards will be admitted free with one guest to these films.
The films will play nightly at 6:30 PM and also 1:30 PM matinees on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ticket Prices are $7.50 for adults and $5.00 for children 11 years and under and also $5.00 for everyone at the matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 PM.
Wenatchee Valley College Omak students with current ASB cards are admitted free with one guest to these films.
An Education - A very bright girl on the cusp of her 17th birthday, finds herself in a whirlwind romance with the much older David (Peter Sarsgaard). Prior to meeting him, Jenny was working hard at secondary school to ensure getting to Oxford University. When she sees the lifestyle David can provide, one she never imagined could be hers, she's hooked and thoughts of Oxford are forgotten. Then, when things are looking pretty good for Jenny with the dashing (yet a little too smooth) David, the truth hits her like a ton of bricks.
Jenny goes from being a bright eyed school girl and a sophisticated young lady, all the way back to questioning if she really knows who she is at all. 'An Education' won the Audience Choice award and the Cinematography award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Precious - Precious’s mother, Mary, played with operatic fervor by the comedian Mo’Nique, dispenses a daily ration of humiliation and abuse. The constant verbal and physical violence she directs at her daughter would be shocking even without the monstrous crime that hangs over their dim, dirty apartment like a cloud. Precious, overweight and illiterate - and played by an extraordinarily poised first-time actress named Gabourey Sidibe - has a young daughter and is pregnant for a second time. The alternative high school teacher helps her find her way and helps her find the person she truly is.
Nine - Tells the story of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a world famous film director as he confronts an epic mid-life crisis with both creative and personal problems. He must balance the many women of his life, including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), and his mother (Sophia Loren).
Young Victoria - The 63 year reign of Queen Victoria is perhaps one of the most documented and popularly known historical reigns in British history.
On the one hand, her story lacks the theatrics of earlier royals thanks to a change in social climate and attitudes, and on the other her story is one that perpetuates because it is notably human. Taking on the earlier years of her life where the budding romance between herself and the German Prince Albert was taking forefront, director Jean-Marc Vallée who has only until recently remained in the unbeknownst shadows of the industry here takes Victoria's story and captures that human element so vital to her legacy. It's a story that feels extremely humble considering its exuberant background, and yet that's partly what gives it a distinct edge here that separates it from the usual fare.
Papers - The story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status.
There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and yet risk deportation to countries they may not even remember.
65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers” and the door to their future slams shut. It is against the law to work or drive. It is difficult, if not impossible in some states, to attend college. Currently, there is no path to citizenship for these young people.
Graham Street Productions produced this film in partnership with Film Action Oregon. They are working in collaboration with the youth who want to tell their stories as well as community organizations around the country who are working to change immigration policy on behalf of these young people.
For the Next 7 Generations - The Grandmothers are respected medicine women and shamans from the Americas, the Arctic Circle, Asia, and Africa. All say they received the message, in visions and prophecies, that at a crucial historical moment they would be called onto the world stage to help lead the human race into a new era of healing, cooperation and peace.