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Filmmakers as well as film aficionados are invited to attend
this year's National Film Retreat scheduled for July 23-25
at Loyola Marymount University. Organized around the theme,
"Matters of Conscience," the event is sponsored by Paulist
Productions, Family Theater Productions, Loyola Productions,
Catholics in Media Associates, the Catholic Academy for Communication
Arts Professionals and the Pauline Center for Media Studies.
According to Pauline Sister Rose Pacatte, a contributing
film reviewer and essayist for The Tidings, the weekend event
will offer a whole new way to experience retreat as a time
apart and a brand new "space" for individual reflection and
group interaction focusing on the integration of faith and
life. Interested participants are encouraged to log on to
the event website at www.nationalfilmretreat.org Payment and
registration are due June 25.
Student
filmmakers
Entries are being accepted through July 1 for the ninth
annual Angelus Awards honoring college-level student films
that explore the complexity of the human family with creativity,
compassion and respect. Started by Hollywood-based Family
Theater Productions in 1996, the awards competition celebrates
films that uphold and communicate themes and values such as
the triumph of the human spirit, equality, dignity, spirituality,
tolerance and respect for diversity, peacemaking and hope.
 Some
of the Angelus Awards 2004 Honorary Committee actor members
include: Karen Allen, Angela Bassett, Dame Judi Dench, Kevin
and Susan Dobson, Melissa Gilbert, Patricia Heaton, Anjelica
Huston, Lupe Ontiveros, Christopher Reeve, Geoffrey Rush,
John Travolta and Billy Dee Williams. Also lending their names
to the honorary committee are directors Tony Bui (a 1996 Angelus
Award winner), Lawrence Kasdan and Frank Oz.
The awards ceremony will be held Oct. 23 at the Directors
Guild of America in Hollywood. Among the nearly $25,000 in
prizes awarded that evening will be a new $1,500 screenwriting
award sponsored by Act One Writing for Hollywood as well as
the prestigious $10,000 Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking
Award, one of the highest cash awards available for student
filmmakers. For more information, log on to: www.angelus.org
---Paula Doyle
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