Thursday, January 15
Designates films with no queer-content, but the filmmaker(s) identify as LGBT
6:00 PM
Mary and Max (Opening Night Film, Premieres)
Director/Screenwriter: Adam Elliot
Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana
(Australia, 2008, 92 min., color and b/w)
Narrated by Australian performer Barry Humphries (the incomparable Dame Edna), this clay animation film brings to life an unlikely pen pal relationship between a 44-year-old obese, Jewish man with Asperger's syndrome in New York City, and an odd, chubby 8-year-old girl in Melbourne nursing a crush on her Boy George-loving, cake-decorating neighbor.
Eccles Theatre, Park City
9:30 PM
Mary and Max (Opening Night Film, Premieres)
Director/Screenwriter: Adam Elliot
Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana
(Australia, 2008, 92 min., color and b/w)
Narrated by Australian performer Barry Humphries (the incomparable Dame Edna), this clay animation film brings to life an unlikely pen pal relationship between a 44-year-old obese, Jewish man with Asperger's syndrome in New York City, and an odd, chubby 8-year-old girl in Melbourne nursing a crush on her Boy George-loving, cake-decorating neighbor.
Eccles Theatre, Park City