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The Three Rivers Film Festival

by Emily Bennett

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The 26th Annual Three Rivers Film Festival began this past Wednesday and is a great event that should not be missed! For those of you who are unfamiliar to the festival, it’s a film festival that shows independent, experimental and foreign films, documentaries, as well as some of the classics like Manhattan.

So here’s the schedule:

Friday Nov. 9
5:30 PF/PCA Member Show
Gallery opening includes a member screening. Melwood
7:00 The Nines
Editor Douglas Crise is scheduled to attend. Regent Square
7:00 The Rocket Harris
9:30 The Island Regent Square
9:30 Beauty In Trouble Harris
9:30 Double Feature, pt 1: Murder Party Melwood
11:00 Double Feature, pt 2: Blood Car Melwood

Sat. Nov. 10
2:00 Manual of Love Regent Square
2:00 The Rocket Harris
2:00 Rough Streets
reception at Melwood immediately following. Melwood
4:15 The Nines
Editor Douglas Crise is scheduled to attend. Regent Square
4:30 Times and Winds Harris
4:30 The Blue Eyed Six
Director Brian W. Kreider is scheduled to attend. Melwood
6:45 The Walker Regent Square
7:00 Kalkadoon Man with William Barton live
Reception at SPACE Gallery, immediately following.
Tickets – $10 available online. Harris
7:00 Mark McElhatten: Contemporary Cinema
Presented by the NYFF curator in person. Melwood
9:15 Persepolis Regent Square
9:15 Chronicle of an Escape Harris
9:30 Double Feature, pt 1Blood Car Melwood
11:00 Double Feature, pt 1Murder Party Melwood

Sunday Nov. 11
2:00 Chronicle of an Escape Harris
2:30 The Island Regent Square
3:00 Mark McElhatten: LaPore Tribute
Presented by the NYFF curator in person. Melwood
4:00 Times and Winds Harris
5:00 American Zombie Regent Square
5:00 The Blue Eyed Six
Director Brian W. Kreider is scheduled to attend. Melwood
6:30 Delirious Harris
7:00 Short Films Program A
Prizes announced and awarded. Melwood
7:30 The Band’s Visit Regent Square

Mon. Nov. 12
7:00 Manual of Love Regent Square
7:00 Chronicle of an Escape Harris
7:00 Guest curator: Adam Abrams Melwood
9:00 The Way I Spent the End of the World Regent Square
9:00 The Rocket Harris
9:15 Trigger Man Melwood

Tues. Nov. 13
7:00 The Way I Spent the End of the World Regent Square
7:00 Delirious Harris
8:00 Film Kitchen: Trailer Trash
Director Don Ramirez is scheduled to attend.
Reception at 7:00pm Melwood
9:00 Irina Palm Regent Square
9:00 Times and Winds Harris

Wed. Nov. 14
7:00 Irina Palm Regent Square
7:00 Trigger Man Melwood
7:30 Manhattan
reception immediately following. Harris
8:45 Short Films Program B
Prizes announced and awarded. Harris
9:00 American Zombie Regent Square

Thurs. Nov. 15
8:00 An Evening With Kenneth Anger
reception at Concept Art Gallery immediately following.
Tickets – $12 available online. Regent Square

The festival is put on by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and to see previous film festivals hosted by the organization, go to my post on the Janus Film Festival here.

For more information on movie descriptions, check out this weeks City Paper or visit the Film Festival’s website here.

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