CARLA FORTE @ “S P E A K I N G I N C I N E M A”

“S P E A K I N G   I N   C I N E M A”

A series of events at MBC celebrating cinema as a art-form!

Filmmakers
CARLA FORTE
JILLIAN MAYER
MONICA PEÑA
and Filmmaker Magazine Editor in Chief SCOTT MACAULAY

Discussing
Miami Female Filmmakers:
Three Points of View
ECTOTHERMS, RESET, I AM YOUR GRANDMA,
HEARTS OF PALM, #POSTMODEM, THE HOLDERS,
LIFE & FREAKY TIMES OF UNCLE LUKE, INTERRUPTA,
MAKEUP TUTORIAL: HOW TO HIDE FROM CAMERAS 

When: 22 Oct 2015
 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Miami Beach Cinematheque at Historic City Hall, 
1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach 33139

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Miami Filmmaker Carla Forte on shooting hundreds of dogs in action and her impromptu poem on inspiration

Independent Ethos
--Hans Morgenstern

This month, The Miami Beach Cinematheque will hold its seventh installment of its Knight Foundationsponsored discussion series called Speaking In Cinema. Usually, the bi-monthly event features a local film critic, an out-of-town film critic and a guest filmmaker (this writer was one of the first guest critics). This time they are bringing together three Miami-based filmmakers for a very special installment of the series, and this is the first in what will be a series of interviews with the three filmmakers, who are all showing films in a retrospective series leading up to their talk. Meet Carla Forte. 

Not too long ago, this writer reviewed the Hungarian film White God (White God takes the easy route to schlock over allegory– a film review). The most impressive thing about the movie was how the filmmakers wrangled 200 dogs and sent them marauding through the streets of Budapest. There was another film shown a few months earlier at the Miami International Film Festival that had a similar scene, Forte’s documentary The Holders. In it she explores the fate of many animals left at animal shelters (it’s often not pretty). Forte makes no apologies for the film’s bias toward animal rights. Writing via email, she says, “We need people in shelters who believe in not killing and who can confront the problem with compassion and respect.”

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