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WE ARE THE GIANT Q&A at the Music Hall Tonight

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WE ARE THE GIANT transports viewers to the front lines of the Arab Spring through the courageous stories of six extraordinary people grappling with the dilemma at the heart of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight, or to advocate change through peace and non-violence.

WE ARE THE GIANT director Greg Barker will participate in a Q&A moderated by Los Angeles World Affairs Council president and former foreign correspondent Terry McCarthy after the 7:20 PM screening tonight at the Music Hall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1-5zbBqU8E

Danny Glover and Filmmakers at the Music Hall for CONCERNING VIOLENCE Q&A’s

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From the director of The Black Power Mixtape, CONCERNING VIOLENCE is a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late ’60s and ’70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.

CONCERNING VIOLENCE co-producer Danny Glover will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, December 12. Robin Kelly, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History of UCLA, will moderate. Professor Kelley’s most recent book, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times, explores the relationship between jazz and Africa in the era of decolonization and Civil Rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK7kXlMI7iI

100 DAYS Q&A’s this Weekend at the Playhouse

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When a cold fish telecommunications executive returns to his small island town for his estranged mother’s burial, he learns about the Taiwanese tradition that mandates him to marry within 100 DAYS so that the parent’s spirit can transition peacefully. When a typhoon leaves him stranded for three days, he rekindles a romance with his free spirited childhood sweetheart, who is engaged to marry a local villager.

100 DAYS director Henry Chan, and Emmy winner for A to Z, Scrubs and Moesha, along with the 100 DAYS producers, will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:30 and 9:55 PM screenings on Friday, December 12 and after all screenings on Saturday and Sunday, December 13 and 14.

http://vimeo.com/108748331

TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER Q&A’s this Weekend at the Playhouse

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Angelino Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in July 2010 after a 25-year killing spree in which it is thought he could have killed over a 100 victims, potentially making him the worst serial killer in history. Significantly his arrest was not the product of painstaking detective work but completely accidental, the result of a computer DNA match that linked him to a possible 20 victims. Franklin now awaits trial. TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER looks into how it was possible for all this to happen.

TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER filmmaker Nick Broomfield, cinematographer Barney Broomfield and subject Pam Brooks will participate in Q&A’s at the Playhouse after the 7:20 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, December 12 and 13 and after the 4:40 screening on Sunday, December 14. Nana Gyamfi, attorney, subject of the film, activist and member of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, will join them for the Friday Q&A. KPFK’s Margaret Prescod, subject and founder of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, will join them for the Saturday screening.

THE COLOR OF TIME Q&A with James Franco Saturday Night at the Music Hall

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James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, and Zach Braff star in THE COLOR OF TIME, a dramatic and riveting look at the life and work of iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams. Williams (Franco) has a beautiful, adoring wife (Kunis) and a young son. But as he prepares for a reading in New York City and struggles to create new work, he is haunted by memories of his past—from his first sexual encounter to a later tragic loss.

James Franco will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 PM screening of THE COLOR OF TIME at the Music Hall on Saturday, December 13.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWtiOUq7rRk

THE IMMORTALIST Q&A’s at the NoHo

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THE IMMORTALISTS is the story of two eccentric scientists struggling to discover medical breakthroughs to create eternal youth. And yet they fight to gain support for their cause in our world, which they call a world “blind to the tragedy of old age.” Bill Andrews is a lab biologist and famed long-distance runner racing against the ultimate clock. Aubrey de Grey is a genius theoretical biologist who conducts his research with a beer in hand. They differ in style and substance, but are united in their common crusade: to cure aging or die trying. They publicly brawl with the old guard of biology who argue that curing aging is neither possible nor desirable. As Andrews and de Grey battle their own aging and suffer the loss of loved ones, their journeys toward life without end ultimately become personal.

THE IMMORTALISTS filmmakers David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg and subjects Bill Andrews and Molly Sheridan will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:30 PM screenings Thursday-Saturday, December 11-13. Executive producer Chuck Braverman will join them for the Thursday screening.

http://vimeo.com/43515949

BEFORE I DISAPPEAR Q&A’s at the NoHo 7

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A troubled young man and his straight-laced niece embark on a thrilling odyssey through New York City in the heartrending drama BEFORE I DISAPPEAR, based on an Oscar-winning short. As his life hits rock bottom, twenty-something Richie decides to end it all, only to have his half-hearted suicide attempt interrupted by an urgent request from his sister to baby-sit her precocious daughter. So begins a madcap tour of Manhattan after dark, as uncle and niece find unexpected bonds in the unlikeliest of places.

BEFORE I DISAPPEAR actor Paul Wesley will participate in a Q&A after the 1 PM screening at the NoHo on Sunday, December 7. Producer Terry Leonard will participate in Q&A’s after the 8 PM screenings on Friday, December 5 and Sunday, December 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosMzZh916I

MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS Q&A’s with Filmmaker Tom Berninger and His Brother, Matt of The National

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MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS is a truly hilarious, unusual, and moving film about two brothers, Matt and Tom Berninger.  Matt, the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band The National, finally finds himself flush with success. His younger brother, Tom, is a lovable slacker – a filmmaker and metal-head still living with his parents in Cincinnati. On the eve of The National’s biggest tour to date, Matt invites Tom to work for the band as a roadie, unaware of Tom’s plan to film the entire adventure.

MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS subject-filmmaker Tom Berninger and his brother Matt will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:10 and 9:30 screenings at the Music Hall on Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OeSAUNvpvY