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Thursday, November 10 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents DEATH BY DESIGN 4:00pm What is the cost of our digital dependency? Consumers love, and live on, their smartphones, tablets and laptops. A cascade of new devices pours endlessly into the market, promising even better communication, non-stop entertainment and instant information. By 2020, four billion […]
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Thursday, November 10 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT 6:30pm In this wildly innovative and incredibly funny film, all Hell breaks loose when the daughter of God – who turns out to be a cantankerous, vindictive slob living in Brussels – informs Earth’s mortals of the exact dates of their […]
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Thursday, November 10 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents KUNG FU THEATER 7 GRANDMASTERS Rare archival 35mm screening Hosted by Dan Halsted 9:00pm A kung fu teacher sets out to prove he is the greatest fighter by finding and defeating the 7 Grandmasters. One by one, he fights their wide variety of animal styles […]
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Friday, November 11 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NW PREMIERE MAN VS. SNAKE: THE LONG AND TWISTED TALE OF NIBBLER 4:00pm Man vs. Snake tells the story of Tim McVey (the gamer not the bomber) who in 1984, on a single quarter (and over forty-four hours of non-stop play) was the first person […]
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Friday, November 11 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents SORCERER 6:30pm In a remote South American town, four expatriates on the run from the law are offered $10,000 and legal citizenship if they will transport a shipment of dangerously unstable nitroglycerin to an oil well 200 miles away. Led by Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), […]
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Friday, November 11 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NW PREMIERE NERDLAND 9:00pm Aspiring actor John (Paul Rudd) and would-be screenwriter Elliot (Patton Oswalt) are two LA dudes approaching their 30th birthdays without yet becoming the megawatt superstars they know they were meant to be. Making up for what they lack in brains and […]
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Saturday, November 12 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents LOCALS ONLY: CELL-2-SCREEN COMPETITION SCREENING 12:30pm FREE ADMISSION! Hosted by the Olympia Film Collective Co-presented by The Olympia Film Society and The Olympia Film Collective, the Locals Only Cell-2-Screen Competition is your chance to watch local filmmakers show off their skills in two-minute short films […]
Saturday, November 12 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents WATERSHIP DOWN 3:00pm With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, […]
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Saturday, November 12 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents NW WONDERS JOANI: QUEEN OF THE PARADIDDLE Post-film Q&A with Valerie Agnew 5:00pm “An important film about a seminal female drummer that paved the way for all women in music. Joani was a fearless leader in the gay community during a time when homosexuality wasn’t […]
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Saturday, November 12 The 33rd Annual Olympia Film Festival presents WORLD’S GREATEST DAD 7:00pm with guest of honor BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT in person to accept Outstanding Achievement in Directing Award plus post-film Q&A $15 general / $10 members When the son of high school English teacher Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) accidentally kills himself, Clayton writes a […]
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