SXSW 2008 Film Screenings
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In A Dream
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Cast: Isaiah Zagar, Julia Zagar, Ezekiel Zagar Format: HDCam Runtime: 80 minutes More Info
screening in: Emerging Visions
Screening Times6:30 PM, Sunday March 9th - Alamo Lamar 1 1:30 PM, Tuesday March 11th - Alamo Lamar 1 4:00 PM, Thursday March 13th - Alamo Lamar 1 everything subject to change
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www.inadreammovie.com/
Synopsis:
The chaotic story of Julia Zagar and her husband Isaiah Zagar, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete. Director's Bio:
Jeremiah Zagar (director) was born in South Philadelphia in 1981. At nineteen he shot Delhi House, a documentary about a hospital and orphanage in India. The short premiered at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival and went on to screen at the Egyptian Theatre in LA and on PBS affiliates across the country. A year later, Zagar's The Unbelievable Truth was a semi-finalist in the student Academy Awards, screened at Tribeca and was named 'Best Narrative Short' in the Philadelphia Film Festival. Zagar's Baby Eat Baby premiered at the 2004 Florida Film Festival and was named 'Best Experimental Short' at the Atlanta Film Festival. His most recent short film Coney Island, 1945 was a precursor to In A Dream. It tells the story of his father's artistic awakening as a young boy in Coney Island. The short premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and went on to screen at SXSW, the Hamptons, and the Times bfi London Film Festival. It recently aired on WNET Channel 13 in New York as part of the Reel NY Film Festival. Zagar's first featureÐlength screenplay Paper Giant was given the Irene I. Parisi award in the Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition and he has finished a new script called Olive to be produced by his production company Herzliya Films. A graduate of Emerson College, Jeremiah lives in Brooklyn and teaches filmmaking to high-school kids. |
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