Cincinnati World Cinema

Essential Event Info
W H A T :

FISH TANK

Director Andrea Arnold, UK, 2009, running time 121 minutes, in English

Genre: Drama

Post-Film Discussion: led by Greg Newberry & Tim Swallow, Thursday

HOME FREE

Director Greg Newberry, Ft. Thomas KY, 2002, running time 11 minutes

Genre: Short film, satire

W H E N :

Thursday, October 14, 7:30 pm

Social hour and cash bar, 6:30 pm

Repeats: Saturday, October 16, 6:45 pm

W H E R E :

The Carnegie Arts Center
1028 Scott Blvd., Covington KY 41011 859-491-2030

Easy Access, Free Parking:
Printable PDF parking map
Printable JPG parking map
Interactive directional map
Printable map and written directions

T I C K E T S :

Tickets are $8* in advance and $10* at the door.

Tickets for students and Enjoy the Arts members with valid ID are $8*, available only at the door.

Single tickets for Cincinnati Film Festival pass holders are $5, available only at the door.

The discounts and special pricing above are stand-alone - they cannot be combined.

* NOTE: Any ticket physically sold by the CARNEGIE incurs a $1.00 facility charge IN ADDITION to the face value of the ticket -- this applies to tix purchased in advance by phone or in person, and at the door.

How to get Tickets

On-line:

By phone:

The Carnegie,
859-491-2030, Tue-Fri 12-5p

Tollfree,
877-548-3237, Mon-Fri 9a-7p

In person at these area locations
(click each location for a map):

Clifton-Ludlow Avenue,
Sitwell's Coffee House
513 281 7487

Mt. Lookout Square,
Lookout Joe Coffee Roasters
513 871 8626

Northside-Hamilton Ave,
Shake It Music & Video
513 591 0123

Downtown Cincinnati,
Coffee Emporium
513 651 5483

Tickets will also be sold at the door, subject to availability.

Cincinnati Film Festival &
Covington Full Spectrum

Cincinnati World Cinema's presentation of Persian Cats and Fish Tank is offered in collaboration with the Cincinnati Film Festival and also comprises the Full Spectrum Cinema portion of Covington's 2010 Full Spectrum arts festival.

The Cincinnati Film Festival runs October 8 through October 16, offering a wide variety of feature and short films at various venues. Check out the schedule and film details by clicking the CFF graphic.

Now in its sixth year, Full Spectrum celebrates the creative artists of the region, Covington's artistic heritage and offers a diverse sampling of entertainment and art forms. Beginning on October 1 and running on weekends through October 30, the CBC Hyper Hop, Wee Fairy Folk Fest, Art Off Pike, Full Spectrum Cinema, World Music Fest and Zombie Crawl await your participation! Find out more - click on the Full Spectrum graphic to visit the site.

Home Free

Filmed in the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, Home Free is an eleven-minute dramatic satire that touches on some of the local establishment's least-favorite topics: panhandling and homelessness. Director Greg Newberry's allegorical exercise adds advertising, the church, talent agents and TV motivational gurus to his look at street life. Funny and engaging, the experience is provocative with a serious undertow.

Co-produced by Cindy Bashore, the ensemble cast includes local acting luminaries Bob Elkins, Lonell Childred, Giles Davies and Sylvester Little, Jr. Home Free was an official selection at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and the Zeitgeist International Film Festival in San Francisco. It won Best Actor laurels in Ireland at the Dublin Film & Music Fest and also won Best of Show at Underneath Cincinnati.

A member of the Writer's Guild of America, screenwriter/director Greg Newberry will be a post-film discussion leader, talking with the audience about Persian Cats and Home Free. Along with filmmaking, Greg recently wrote and directed his first stage play, Riding Shotgun, which premiered at NKU. In addition to pursuing his muse, Greg creates the cool advertising we see for the Newport Aquarium.

FISH TANK

Swimming in a world with few options ...
a story of innocence, cynicism, rage, defiance, longing and hope

An emotionally complex and poignant portrait of vulnerability and social realism, FISH TANK is the story of Mia, a teenage girl who lives with her self-absorbed single mother and little sister in a housing project outside of London. She's strong (but flawed), high-strung and frequently angry, with a slightly feral quality.

Mia is driven to escape her environment by becoming a hip-hop dancer. But her focus on music and dance is sidetracked by the appearance of her mom's handsome new 30-something boyfriend Connor, resulting in mounting erotic tension and suspense as a disastrous love triangle produces unforeseen revelations and consequences.

Michael Fassbender (Hunger, Inglorious Basterds) and newcomer Katie Jarvis give outstanding performances that compliment Andrea Arnold's inspired writing and direction. Arnold won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp (2004), and both FISH TANK and her first feature, Red Road (2006), took the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

As Chris Docker writes, "Vibrant, gritty and riveting, but in a way that entertains powerfully. As pulsating and funny as Trainspotting, its momentum is overpowering. We never know what is going to come out of Mia's mouth or where events will lead. As if that wasn't enough, the story mercifully avoids kitchen-sink drama, excessive violence, drugs, getting pregnant, grand larceny, car crashes and all the other cliché-ridden devices to which cinema-goers are usually subjected. Tightly controlled, Fish Tank attacks with a potent and thought-provoking arsenal of story-telling."

ACCOLADES

Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics Score: 94% fresh Metacritic score: 81 IMDB 7.5

Larry Thomas reviews Fish Tank and Persian Cats on WVXU, 89.7 FM. You can read it here, or listen online.

"Brilliant ... nearly flawless ... the contradictions of adolescence have rarely been conveyed with such authenticity and force." ~ A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"Wonderful. I'm telling you... seek out FISH TANK because it is absolute dynamite."
~ Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

"It's been a good while since I've seen a movie whose most powerful sequence was both unforeseen and entirely unpredictable as it played out."
~ Joe Morganstern, The Wall Street Journal

"An exhilarating gift. Katie Jarvis hits you like a shot in the heart...filled to bursting with the beauty and raw terror of life." ~ Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Breathtaking. Transcendent...keeps you in suspense until the last frame ... an open and deeply humanist vision." ~ David Edelstein, NPR/New York Magazine

"Grade-A Vivid, you can't take your eyes off Katie Jarvis."
~ Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"I wish all British films were this good." ~ Chris Docker, Eye for Film

AWARDS

Winner:
American Film Institute Festival Best Film, New Lights Competition Award
BAFTA Film Award Outstanding British Film, Andrea Arnold
British Independent Film Award Best Director, Andrea Arnold
British Independent Film Award Most Promising Newcomer, Katie Jarvis
Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, Andrea Arnold
Chicago International Film Festival Best Supporting Actor, Michael Fassbender
Chicago International Film Festival Special Jury Prize, Andrea Arnold
Edinburgh International Film Festival Best British Performance, Katie Jarvis
Evening Standard British Film Awards Best Film, Andrea Arnold
Fantasporto Directors' Week Awards Best Film, Andrea Arnold
Fantasporto Directors' Week Awards Best Screenplay, Andrea Arnold
London Critics Circle Film Awards British Director of the Year, Andrea Arnold
London Critics Circle Film Awards British Film of the Year
London Critics Circle Film Awards British Supporting Actor of the Year, Michael Fassbender
London Critics Circle Film Awards Young British Performer of the Year, Katie Jarvis
Motovun Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize, Andrea Arnold
Motovun Film Festival Propeller of Motovun, Andrea Arnold
Norwegian International Film Festival Film Critics Award, Andrea Arnold

Nominated:
British Independent Film Award Best Actress Katie Jarvis
British Independent Film Award Best British Independent Film
British Independent Film Award Best Screenplay Andrea Arnold
British Independent Film Award Best Supporting Actor Michael Fassbender
British Independent Film Award Best Supporting Actress Kierston Wareing
British Independent Film Award Best Technical Achievement, Robbie Ryan, for Cinematography.
Cannes Film Festival Best Film (Palm d'Or), Andrea Arnold
Empire Awards UK Best Newcomer, Katie Jarvis
European Film Awards Best Actress, Katie Jarvis
European Film Awards Best Director, Andrea Arnold
European Film Awards Best Film
Irish Film & Television Awards Best Supporting Actor, Michael Fassbender
London Critics Circle Film Awards British Actress of the Year, Katie Jarvis
London Critics Circle Film Awards British Supporting Actress of the Year, Kierston Wareing
Stockholm International Filom Festival Best Director, Andrea Arnold

Larry Thomas reviews Persian Cats and Fish Tank on WVXU, 89.7 FM. You can read it here or listen online here.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR, ANDREA ARNOLD

In just a few short years, director Andrea Arnold has joined the top rank of British filmmakers. She is no stranger to major accolades and awards, nor to CWC audiences. Her short film Wasp (shown by CWC as part of Oscar Shorts), received an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short film and also won at Sundance, Toronto, the Aspen Shortsfest and Palm Springs, among others. Her feature film debut, Red Road (CWC 2007), won at Cannes, BAFTA, the British Film Institute Awards, and elsewhere.

Andrea Arnold was born April 5, 1961 in Dartford, Kent, England and grew up as the oldest of four children in a council house in Dartford. In the late seventies, at age 18, Arnold moved to London where she found work as an actress and television presenter in the 1980s children's television show "No. 73." In 1990 she presented and wrote for the environmental awareness show for teens, "A Beetle Called Derek."

Later in the nineties, Andrea gave birth to a daughter and also developed an interest in filmmaking. She attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and created short films - Milk (1998), Dog (2001) and Wasp (2003). She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Live Action Short Films Branch) in 2005.

Next, in 2006, came her first feature film, Red Road, one of a planned set of three conceptually-related dogma-style films by different first-time directors. Set on a grim, windswept housing estate in Glasgow, the revenge-themed story centres on a CCTV (security TV camera) operator who develops an obsession with someone she observes, for reasons that become clear through the progress of the film. The picture has won the British director comparisons with established names such as Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier. Screen International critic Allan Hunter said the film was "likely to emerge as one of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film Festival (2006)." It went on to win the Jury Prize at Cannes that year, and she later received the 2007 BAFTA for Best Newcomer for directing Red Road.

In 2009, Arnold's second feature length film, Fish Tank, followed a similar international trajectory. Nominated in multiple categories at the European Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, Chicago International and Cannes Film Festival, Fish Tank was named Outstanding British Film at the BAFTA awards, won Best Film at the AFI Festival in the US and won a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Learn more about Andrea Arnold:

Fish Tank Official Website
IMDB
New York Times: filmmaker profile, film review, Andrea Arnold talks about working with Katie Jarvis.

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Essential Event Info W H A T : FISH TANK Director Andrea Arnold, UK, 2009, running time 121 minutes, in English Genre: Drama Post-Film Discussion: led by Greg Newberry & Tim Swallow, Thursday HOME FREE Director Greg Newberry, Ft. Thomas KY, 2002, running time 11 minutes Genre: Short film, satire W H E N : Thursday, October 14, 7:30 pm Social hour and cash bar, 6:30 pm Repeats: Saturday, October 16, 6:45 pm W H E R E : The Carnegie Arts Center 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington KY 41011 859-491-2030 Easy Access, Free Parking: Printable PDF parking map Printable JPG parking map Interactive directional map Printable map and written directions T I C K E T S : Tickets are $8* in advance and $10* at the door. Tickets for students and Enjoy the Arts members with valid ID are $8, available only at the door. Single tickets for Cincinnati Film Festival pass holders are $5, available only at the door. The discounts and special pricing above are stand-alone - they cannot be combined. NOTE: Any ticket physically sold by the CARNEGIE incurs a $1.00 facility charge IN ADDITION to the face value of the ticket -- this applies to tix purchased in advance by phone or in person, and at the door. How to get Tickets On-line: By phone: The Carnegie, 859-491-2030, Tue-Fri 12-5p Tollfree, 877-548-3237, Mon-Fri 9a-7p In person at these area locations (click each location for a map): Clifton-Ludlow Avenue, Sitwell's Coffee House 513 281 7487 Mt. Lookout Square, Lookout Joe Coffee Roasters 513 871 8626 Northside-Hamilton Ave, Shake It Music & Video 513 591 0123 Downtown Cincinnati, Coffee Emporium 513 651 5483 Tickets will also be sold at the door, subject to availability. Cincinnati Film Festival & Covington Full Spectrum Cincinnati World Cinema's presentation of *Persian Cats* and *Fish Tank* is offered in collaboration with the Cincinnati Film Festival and also comprises the Full Spectrum Cinema portion of Covington's 2010 Full Spectrum arts festival. The Cincinnati Film Festival runs October 8 through October 16, offering a wide variety of feature and short films at various venues. Check out the schedule and film details by clicking the CFF graphic. Now in its sixth year, Full Spectrum celebrates the creative artists of the region, Covington's artistic heritage and offers a diverse sampling of entertainment and art forms. Beginning on October 1 and running on weekends through October 30, the CBC Hyper Hop, Wee Fairy Folk Fest, Art Off Pike, Full Spectrum Cinema, World Music Fest and Zombie Crawl await your participation! Find out more - click on the Full Spectrum graphic to visit the site. Home Free Filmed in the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, *Home Free* is an eleven-minute dramatic satire that touches on some of the local establishment's least-favorite topics: panhandling and homelessness. Director Greg Newberry's allegorical exercise adds advertising, the church, talent agents and TV motivational gurus to his look at street life. Funny and engaging, the experience is provocative with a serious undertow. Co-produced by Cindy Bashore, the ensemble cast includes local acting luminaries Bob Elkins, Lonell Childred, Giles Davies and Sylvester Little, Jr. *Home Free* was an official selection at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and the Zeitgeist International Film Festival in San Francisco. It won Best Actor laurels in Ireland at the Dublin Film & Music Fest and also won Best of Show at Underneath Cincinnati. A member of the Writer's Guild of America, screenwriter/director Greg Newberry will be a post-film discussion leader, talking with the audience about *Persian Cats* and *Home Free.* Along with filmmaking, Greg recently wrote and directed his first stage play, Riding Shotgun, which premiered at NKU. In addition to pursuing his muse, Greg creates the cool advertising we see for the Newport Aquarium.		FISH TANK Swimming in a world with few options ... a story of innocence, cynicism, rage, defiance, longing and hope An emotionally complex and poignant portrait of vulnerability and social realism, *FISH TANK* is the story of Mia, a teenage girl who lives with her self-absorbed single mother and little sister in a housing project outside of London. She's strong (but flawed), high-strung and frequently angry, with a slightly feral quality. Mia is driven to escape her environment by becoming a hip-hop dancer. But her focus on music and dance is sidetracked by the appearance of her mom's handsome new 30-something boyfriend Connor, resulting in mounting erotic tension and suspense as a disastrous love triangle produces unforeseen revelations and consequences. Michael Fassbender (Hunger, Inglorious Basterds) and newcomer Katie Jarvis give outstanding performances that compliment Andrea Arnold's inspired writing and direction. Arnold won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp (2004), and both FISH TANK and her first feature, Red Road (2006), took the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. As Chris Docker writes, "Vibrant, gritty and riveting, but in a way that entertains powerfully. As pulsating and funny as Trainspotting, its momentum is overpowering. We never know what is going to come out of Mia's mouth or where events will lead. As if that wasn't enough, the story mercifully avoids kitchen-sink drama, excessive violence, drugs, getting pregnant, grand larceny, car crashes and all the other cliché-ridden devices to which cinema-goers are usually subjected. Tightly controlled, Fish Tank attacks with a potent and thought-provoking arsenal of story-telling." ACCOLADES Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics Score: 94% fresh Metacritic score: 81 IMDB 7.5 Larry Thomas reviews *Fish Tank* and *Persian Cats* on WVXU, 89.7 FM. You can read it here, or listen online. "Brilliant ... nearly flawless ... the contradictions of adolescence have rarely been conveyed with such authenticity and force." ~ A.O. Scott, The New York Times "Wonderful. I'm telling you... seek out FISH TANK because it is absolute dynamite." ~ Andrew O'Hehir, Salon "It's been a good while since I've seen a movie whose most powerful sequence was both unforeseen and entirely unpredictable as it played out." ~ Joe Morganstern, The Wall Street Journal "An exhilarating gift. Katie Jarvis hits you like a shot in the heart...filled to bursting with the beauty and raw terror of life." ~ Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "Breathtaking. Transcendent...keeps you in suspense until the last frame ... an open and deeply humanist vision." ~ David Edelstein, NPR/New York Magazine "Grade-A Vivid, you can't take your eyes off Katie Jarvis." ~ Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "I wish all British films were this good." ~ Chris Docker, Eye for Film AWARDS Winner: American Film Institute Festival Best Film, New Lights Competition Award BAFTA Film Award Outstanding British Film, Andrea Arnold British Independent Film Award Best Director, Andrea Arnold British Independent Film Award Most Promising Newcomer, Katie Jarvis Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, Andrea Arnold Chicago International Film Festival Best Supporting Actor, Michael Fassbender Chicago International Film Festival Special Jury Prize, Andrea Arnold Edinburgh International Film Festival Best British Performance, Katie Jarvis Evening Standard British Film Awards Best Film, Andrea Arnold Fantasporto Directors' Week Awards Best Film, Andrea Arnold Fantasporto Directors' Week Awards Best Screenplay, Andrea Arnold London Critics Circle Film Awards British Director of the Year, Andrea Arnold London Critics Circle Film Awards British Film of the Year London Critics Circle Film Awards British Supporting Actor of the Year, Michael Fassbender London Critics Circle Film Awards Young British Performer of the Year, Katie Jarvis Motovun Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize, Andrea Arnold Motovun Film Festival Propeller of Motovun, Andrea Arnold Norwegian International Film Festival Film Critics Award, Andrea Arnold Nominated: British Independent Film Award Best Actress Katie Jarvis British Independent Film Award Best British Independent Film British Independent Film Award Best Screenplay Andrea Arnold British Independent Film Award Best Supporting Actor Michael Fassbender British Independent Film Award Best Supporting Actress Kierston Wareing British Independent Film Award Best Technical Achievement, Robbie Ryan, for Cinematography. Cannes Film Festival Best Film (Palm d'Or), Andrea Arnold Empire Awards UK Best Newcomer, Katie Jarvis European Film Awards Best Actress, Katie Jarvis European Film Awards Best Director, Andrea Arnold European Film Awards Best Film Irish Film & Television Awards Best Supporting Actor, Michael Fassbender London Critics Circle Film Awards British Actress of the Year, Katie Jarvis London Critics Circle Film Awards British Supporting Actress of the Year, Kierston Wareing Stockholm International Filom Festival Best Director, Andrea Arnold *Larry Thomas reviews Persian Cats* and Fish Tank on WVXU, 89.7 FM. You can read it here or listen online here.** ABOUT THE DIRECTOR, ANDREA ARNOLD In just a few short years, director Andrea Arnold has joined the top rank of British filmmakers. She is no stranger to major accolades and awards, nor to CWC audiences. Her short film Wasp (shown by CWC as part of Oscar Shorts), received an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short film and also won at Sundance, Toronto, the Aspen Shortsfest and Palm Springs, among others. Her feature film debut, Red Road (CWC 2007), won at Cannes, BAFTA, the British Film Institute Awards, and elsewhere. Andrea Arnold was born April 5, 1961 in Dartford, Kent, England and grew up as the oldest of four children in a council house in Dartford. In the late seventies, at age 18, Arnold moved to London where she found work as an actress and television presenter in the 1980s children's television show "No. 73." In 1990 she presented and wrote for the environmental awareness show for teens, "A Beetle Called Derek." Later in the nineties, Andrea gave birth to a daughter and also developed an interest in filmmaking. She attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and created short films - Milk (1998), Dog (2001) and Wasp (2003). She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Live Action Short Films Branch) in 2005. Next, in 2006, came her first feature film, Red Road, one of a planned set of three conceptually-related dogma-style films by different first-time directors. Set on a grim, windswept housing estate in Glasgow, the revenge-themed story centres on a CCTV (security TV camera) operator who develops an obsession with someone she observes, for reasons that become clear through the progress of the film. The picture has won the British director comparisons with established names such as Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier. Screen International critic Allan Hunter said the film was "likely to emerge as one of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film Festival (2006)." It went on to win the Jury Prize at Cannes that year, and she later received the 2007 BAFTA for Best Newcomer for directing Red Road. In 2009, Arnold's second feature length film, Fish Tank, followed a similar international trajectory. Nominated in multiple categories at the European Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, Chicago International and Cannes Film Festival, Fish Tank was named Outstanding British Film at the BAFTA awards, won Best Film at the AFI Festival in the US and won a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Learn more about Andrea Arnold: Fish Tank Official Website IMDB New York Times: filmmaker profile, film review, Andrea Arnold talks about working with Katie Jarvis.
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