1999, 32ND ANNUAL HUMBOLDT INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
A warm welcome to the 32nd Humboldt International Film Festival. We, the directors, cannot begin to express our surprise that we actually managed to pull off an event of this magnitude. We’ve had fun, made some friends, learned more than we ever would have imagined, and seen some really cool films.
For those who are unaware, the Humboldt International Film Festival is the oldest student-run film festival in the world and runs at the longest continuously running film house in the United States. It began in 1968 by two students who wanted to bring film up to the North Coast and has grown a great deal over the last thirty-one years.
This year, we continue to celebrate and share the best in student and independent films from around the world. We received over 130 films in every category, which our student screening committee narrowed down to pass on to our visiting judges, who then selected the award winners, which we present Saturday night. We are also presenting two other nights of screening from festival entries as well as films by our visiting filmmakers and free workshops during the festival week.
We have greatly enjoyed working to bring you this opportunity to catch a glimpse of the rising stars in independent filmmaking and we thank you all for your support.
FILM FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTORS
SMILEY BROWN
JOHN KLUMP
EMILY WEEMS
FILM FESTIVAL JUDGE
LINDY LAUB
Lindy Laub is an award-winning short filmmaker and screenwriter, as well as a cinematographer for a number of short films. As a cinematographer, her film work includes Parcel Post, Sweet Jail: The Sikhs of Yuba City, and Dark Exodus, all of which won awards. She co-wrote the screenplay of For the Boys with Neal Jimenez and Marshall Brickman. Her directorial efforts include Shikse, a story about a Gentile and the son of Holocaust survivors, which has brought her many awards at a number of international film festivals, and tonight’s film They Come at Night. They Come at Night depicts the unfolding of a relationship between two women in Los Angeles: one seemingly just another Latina face, but actually a well-educated El Savadoran political refugee, the other a respected therapist undergoing her own sort of recovery.
Ms Laub received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from SUNY-Buffalo and worked as a photographer before turning to film. She has taught at UCLA, UCSB, and presently is an assistant -professor of screenwriting and film at the University of Texas at Austin.