January 2, 2025 • 32 mins
Talked with Donald E. Ephraim, Co-founder, The Donald E. Ephraim Sun & Stars International Film Festival (SASIFF), Terri Sriberg, SASSIF Co-Chair and Gary Schweikhart, PR-BS about the upcoming Sun and Stars International Film Festival, (SASIFF). It's runs from January 23-February 2nd. There are 27 premiere screenings (18 at the Kraivs Center's Rinker Playhouse and then 9 at EVO Entertainment Delray Marketplace). The festival starts off with "LIZA: A TRULY TERRIFIC AND ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY" at the Kravis on 1/23 7:30pm (there are a few tickets left). There will be a Q&A. Other movies include Midas Man, Housewife of the Year, That They May Face the Rising Sun (starring Barry Ward), There's Still Tomorrow, Yasmeen's Element, Broken Dolls, Days of Happiness, Ex-Husbands, My Sunshine, Troll Storm, Wild Diamond, Universal Language, Aution, Bad Shabbos, The Glory of Life, Never Alone, Of Dogs and Men, Pink Lady, Yaniv, Holy Cow, The French Italian, First Case, Eternal You and Bashido. SASIFF supports Morse Life senior care programs. SASIFF also does movie screenings throughout the year for organizations in the community. Listeners can find out more about the Festival movies, buy tickets, become a sponsor/make a donation at www.sasiff.org.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host Stev nep Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things happening. And just remember the
other week we spoke to Redina from Palm Beach Drama Works.
They got all kinds of great plays happening. This is
their twenty fifth season. Coming up February fourteenth through March
second is The Humans and going up in a couple
of weeks it's the Pearl Birk Festival of New Plays.
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So this is where they get new play rights submitting
their work, they select them and then they actually produce
into professional readings of his play. So it's going to
be Friday, January seventeenth, afternoon and evening, Saturday afternoon and
evening and Sunday afternoon on January nineteenth, and albeit that
one checking out, Alba, I can't wait to see these.
You can buy the script subscription to all the plays,
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or you can do individual ticket pricing. Just go to
Palm Beach Drama Works dot org and all the details
are right there for you and to help me tell
you more about all the fun things were happening. But
welcome to my guests, Gary Schweiker, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Gary, Hey dev how are you today?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Good?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Happy New Year, Same to you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And what I'm going to do is cover both the
sacred and the profane. First, the Sacred at Mounts Botanical Garden.
From January sixth to the eleventh, they have, for the
second year in a row, the Sacred Arts tour monks
from India and they have five days of exhibits and
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presentations and pet blessings and it's just a miraculous five days.
But then we go to the profane, which is the
opening of Culture and Cocktails. It's our twentieth and final
season of Culture and Cocktails, and we're opening with the
great comic writer Alan Swibel. He has won Emmys, He's
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won Tony's, he was one of Gilda Radner's writers. He
wrote for Billy Crystal, he appeared, he wrote for just
so many TV show and of course this is the
fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Oh wow, so he
should have a lot of great, hopefully profane stories about that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I can't wait to hear those that sounds amazing. And
of course the monks at Mount's the so called they
do that mendala where they create it with the sand. Yes,
but that people you got to go see that, make
that part of your week. And they can go to
Mounts dot org to mind out all the times, right perfect, yes, right,
very cool. And of course I all spoke with Edwin
from Spading Museum the other week and they are doing
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their Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Brunch coming up on
January twentieth. Definitely want to get your tickets for that.
It is a great day. The one of our guest speaker,
simply go to Spadymuseum dot org and you can buy
your tickets there. And we also spoke to Benji Stoot.
He works for pbc ARMS, so it's Palm Beach County
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Environmental Resource Management Division and they do work in all
the natural areas in Palm Beach County. There's poddle, there's kayaking, hiking,
all kinds of fun things. So coming up on Monday,
it's the Nature Scavenger Hunt, So that's gonna be fun
when it's from nine thirty to eleven thirty at Royal
Palm Beach Pines Natural Area and then on January the
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eighth there's a swamp trump in Cyprus Creek North Natural Area.
Simply go to www. PBCERM, PBC r M dot com
and all the different events and stuff are listed on
there for you. And there's a request out from Palm
Beach Film Society announcing calls for submissions for Swedefast Palm
Beach and that is going to be happening in conjunction
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with the Lub Film Festival in March saw March twenty eighth,
So simply go to swedefestpb at gmail dot com submit
the request of the movie you want to make. And
these are like the little four minutes spouce with found objects.
They're goofy, they're funny. So it's a lot of fun
for you and the kids to do while they're on break.
It's a fun thing to do. Gary. What else do
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you have?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, you know, the Palm Bagehakes Festival recently announced the
cast for their upcoming free production of Shakespeare by the
Poems of As You Like It and that will be
running January thirtieth to February second, and looking for laughs.
The Cravis Center recently announced upcoming appearances by John Lovett's
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Somebody Else. Going back to Saturday Night Live, which we
talked about earlier for Culture and Cocktails. John Lovitz was
a major player on Saturday Night Live, and he'll be
performing at the Cravis Center. Person hall on, Let's see
what date is this? Oh, it's January twenty fourth or
twenty sixth Friday and Sunday. And then there's a member's
only tour. Is Becky Robinson coming up at February first?
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So always very fun and exciting things at the Craft Center.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh absolutely, and even go to cravisdot orger. Make sure
you go to Cravis dot org. You can pick your seat,
you can do that. You can also reach out to
the box office five six, one, eight three two show.
I've got all kinds of great things happening there. I
know in the Crafts series season this year is really cool.
They've lay missed coming up later, all kinds of good things.
Speaking of coming up, though, we want to talk to
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our guests for today, So Gary indushn't you. We have
two new friends, Terry Spreiberg and Donald Ephraim. Good morning,
Good morning morning. So you guys are from the Donald M.
E Fhram, Sun and Stars International Film Festival presented by
Morse Life. Correct. Correct, So this is so cool. Donald,
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welcome to the show. Please tell the listeners and I
a little bit about I'm gonna call it sassip to
make it easier for everybody. What makes the film festival?
What makes it unique?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Well, Terry probably is best to answer that in terms
of uniqueness.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Thank you, and I'm going to call you Don and
not be so formal. I'd like to mention that the
wealth of experience of our co founder, John Ephram, whose
long career as an entertainment lawyer. We're representing a number
of film reviewers, among them Siskel and Ebert, who I
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remember very well from my younger years. I don't think
I missed a review. They were just terrific and now
I get to be with their agent, manager, guru, etc.
So it's very unique to be having an experience like this.
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We also have a terrific artistic director, Barbara Shares, who
is also from Chicago, as John is. She was longtime
director of programming for the prestigious Jeane Siskel Film Center
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It
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took a little time to find our fantastic staff who
have taken the Donalds Mvy from Sun and Stars International
Film Festival, which I won't say again call it sassive
to another level.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think that's fantastic, you guys. It takes a lot
to get something started and getting it all coordinated. It's
like I know at the radio Stason in I Heeart,
we do events and we'll try one and it looks
good on paper, and then everybody gets there it's like, okay,
we need five more porta potties, we needed six work esures.
You know, you learn as you go kind of thing.
So you've been doing the film festival for a while now.
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I like it, just different names, but I like that
the Sun and Stars because that way it's in Florida,
the Sun and all the stars are coming out even
at night and in person. So tell me a little
bit about opening nights, Sassage opening night film on January
twenty third.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, January twenty third, the opening night, and you know,
I'm very excited about this as a gay man, nothing
excites me more. Our opening night film is Liza, a
truly terrific and absolutely true story everything you've ever wanted
to know or didn't know or heard or thought you
heard or gossiped about Liza Minelly. It's going to be
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in that film. And I'm so excited that the director
of that film, Bruce Stavid Klein, will actually be here
for the screening and the film will be again on
January twenty third at the Rinker Playhouse at the Cravis Center.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh that's a nice venue, too, very nice venue. Will
he available for like questions afterward, a little of meet
and greet.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
He is going to do a Q and A with
the audience, So it's going to be very very special occasion.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Let me add to that too that tickets are going
very fast. It's almost sold out, so that if anyone
is interested in doing that, I would advise them to
get their tickets.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Soon and then go to Gravis dot org and get
their tickets there. Yes, make it very convenient for everybody.
So it's January twenty third opening night. How long does
the film festival run for?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
It runs from the twenty third of January to the
second of February, and we break it up between doing
it at the Cravis and doing it in del Rey.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh very cool? Is that way? People north south they
can get to one of the movies. I like it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yes, Yes, we've tried to cover the whole county.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, because I know in the past you'd play one
at this movie theater, the one out west, then one
way up north, and I think the coordination of that
would be a little challenging.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And this is so much similar this year because there's
a total of twenty seven premiere films at the festival.
The first eighteen are at the Cravis Center Reaker Playhouse,
in the last nine at the EBO Entertainment Center at
Delray Marketplace. Very convenient for both.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh, I like that very much.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
All right, So we're starting it with Eliza, which I
think is going to be so much fun. Then who's
coming next after Liza? What's the next film after Eliza?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Is Days of Happiness is the next film, which is
about a young conductor who has her father as a
manager and her troubles having her dad supervised her career,
which is not going in the direction in which she
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thinks it should go.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
A lot of people can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh, yeah, I can totally relate to that.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And she is also a gay woman and it's not
her father's kind of life, and she wants to live
her own life.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Which leads me to the next part of it. So
sassaf Is screening of our variety of films is obviously
one of them. There's comedies, documentaries, international films, films about
or directed by women, So good on you for that one.
I like that one. There's gonna be some Jewish theme films,
also some LGBTQ plus films, so obviously The Days of
Happiness is an example of one of those films. Yes,
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so don which one of Sassaf's twenty seven premiere screenings
are you personally most excited about?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, that's sort of like asking you know, which of
your children is your favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's me, I'm your favorite. I'm always telling me mom
that I knew that.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
But there's so many films, and really it's hard to
pick out just one. There're twenty seven in total. But
the Florida premiere of Liza is something special. As Gary said,
she's an icon. The movie is fabulous, entertaining and a
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terrific documentary with appearances and interviews with other famous stars.
And as I said, since it's nearly sold out, we're
looking for the possibility of having a second screening either
during the festival or thereafter. Other films like The Glory
of Life, which is an unusual and beautiful German Austrian
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story about Franz Kafka, which I particularly loved.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
It's also his hundredth birthday. I think twenty twenty four
was his hundredth birthday.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And midas Man, which again is the Beatle movie. Bad
Chobist which is a black comedy, ex Husbands which are
three generations of men and their women starring Griffin.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Dunn, who's going to be in Palm Beach to kick
off the week of the festival, coming to a morse
Life event their morse Life Literary Society at the Colony Hotel.
Very exciting to have him come to kick off the
week of celebrating our celebration.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
There's also There's Still Tomorrow, which is a surprise Italian story,
and finally Holy Cow, a coming of age French comedy drama.
On our website there's a complete list in with synopsis
of all these films so that they can look at it.
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They can look at the time of them when they're
showing and get information and make.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Their selections and they can buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yes, very important so what's the website.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
The website is sassif sasif dot org.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Make it easy, I love it, see yep, make it
easier for people to go get their tickets. I like that.
So I love how there's a such a variety of films.
That's a very good thing that we appeal to more
folks that come try out the different movies. And I
always tell people, if it's a movie, it may not
be when you normally go to, but it's a film festival,
go to the movie because if there's anything about it
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that appeals to you, you're gonna like the movie. That's
what been my personal experience. I love going to different
movies and trying them out. I'm the action girl, like
the comedy. Action, not so much chick folks.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
They're a samurai move the way of a samurai movie.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh I'm in with a lot of action. We see
those kind of things so well. When I grew up
in Pennsylvania with very like here in Florida, when it rains,
rains like what maybe half an hour ish and then
it's done. In Pennsylvania it rains the entire day, so
you're off for a Saturday. Our parents would be like okay,
and they turn the TV on and we'd watch the
old Godzilla movies. So I just remember being fascinated by
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that in the Samurai movies because that would be what
they would play on the local station on a rainy
Saturday afternoon. So Scott used to those. So to me,
it's like a fun, in a way comforting kind of
movie to go watch those.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We have a breakdown of the kinds of movies that
we have. As a matter of fact, we have four comedies,
we have four documentaries, we have seven solely women directed
and two co directed movies. We have eight Jewish films,
and we have four LGBTQ movies. And as to the
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countries that are involved the international films, they're four from France,
two from each of the following countries Japan, Canada, Germany, Austria,
Ireland and Israel, and then one each from Belgium, Denmark, UK, Finland,
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Italy and Pakistan. Portugal.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh very nice, And that's the nice aspect of an
international film festival. You get movies from all around the world.
So I had a coworker who would go to visit
Israel on her vacations. What did you do? She's like,
I watched TV and we're like what because the movies
were so different there, and she was fascinated by like
that there was not a lot of as many restrictions
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as we have in the US, and she was just
fascinated by it. So she would go meet friends for drink,
dinner and drinks. But then she go watch movies.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I'd like to mention too, John, which we haven't the
two Irish movies which are really interesting. One stars Barry Ward,
who was a well known Irish actor, and I found
both of them very different and something that you would
not ordinarily see in this area. So I hope that
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people come out to see you.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Remember Carrie wasn't one of the Irish films. Housewife of
the Year, Yes, which is a documentary that just won
the Best Documentary award at the Galway Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Awesome see top tier movies. I love it, okay. And
then when Barry Ward's in is that they may face
the rising st.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Yes, very interesting movie and he's a terrific actor. The
scenery is magnificent. Oh, Ireland is beautiful. Ireland is so
that's very exciting too. And it's a sleeper.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I like those one of you slide them in. It's
very cool, Terry. What is the Obviously it's a film festival,
but it's also nonprofit and people benefit. Who benefits from
the sassaf.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Morse Life Health System benefits. John Ephrim is the major contributor,
but Moose Life is the ultimate underwriter and the beneficiary
of the proceeds from the festival. Morse Life is a
charitable and not for profit organization that serves more than
thirty six hundreds per day on its campus in West
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Pound of each and through its community outreach program. I'm
the vice chair of Morse Life and have been heavily
involved and introduced Dawn to Morse and he has become
a staunch supporter, and both of us really admire what
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Morse Life does with healthcare and residential services for seniors.
We have short term healthcare, long term healthcare, home healthcare
care management, meals on wheels throughout the county, and a
PACE program which takes care of indigen seniors who want
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to age in place. And we've built a reputation and
tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion.
So you can enjoy yourself by coming to the movies
and helping the those who need it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, I think that's a phenomenal cause. So thank you
for doing that.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I work briefly in healthcare of doing case management with
folks who want to stay in the community, super low
level of income, and sometimes all they needed was the
nurse to come out and arrange their mets, so we'd
make that happen. Or they needed meals on wheels, so
we'd make that happen, and they were able to stay
in the community and be independent for many more years,
and then they would go, you know, through residential care
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or if they need a little bit more help, right right, So,
and I like that you have that variety as well.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
They can stay on our campus for all different levels
of care, which is very wonderful. Oh we go to them.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh that's really cool. That's really good. And that's very
much needed because our population in the area is aging
because we've very much years that are retired here, which
makes perfect sense. So and I'd like to know it's there,
gonna be there when I get there. So you gotta
keep this going nice for like another thirty forty years
for me. So if people want to donate directly, to
Morse Life or to the film vessel. Can they become
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a sponsor and do not as well?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Absolutely, we would love to have people's sponsor any part
of the film festival and come out and look at
the campus. We have a fabulous art collection and it's
quite impressive and John and I are thrilled to be
able to do this and offer all these things to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Where is more life located.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
We're on Haverhill Road between forty fifth just south of
forty fifth Street, very conveniently located, beautiful buildings and great food,
great people who work there.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Now don back to you, how do you pick the films? Makes?
What called to you to get you to pick these
films this year?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well, we are We're fortunate to have this. Our incredible
artistic director Barbara Shires, who's an expert in identifying great
films and his reviewed in this case about seventy to
eighty films. Then Terry and I screen all the films
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that Barber's picked, and our emphasis is on relevance to
our audience, and we reviewed forty five to fifty films
and as a result of all of us had very
interesting discussions, oh more than interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, and I think it's good that you guys were
roomed together because you have different perspectives and different interests,
so you're going to be representing part of the public,
right right.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
We try not to think of what we personally like.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Well, you also want what you personally because you're gonna
have a favorite, you know, So Terry, I know you
have a favorite. I already asked Don what's his favorite?
What's your favorite in the film festival.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh, it's very tough for me. I love the Lies
of Opening Night. Bad Shovis is a piece of work.
I think that's a good description for that, and very
very black comedy, and there are just so many others.
I can't really other than those couple. I don't want
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to give it away or spoil it for anyone, but
we have great films this year, and I hope everybody
takes advantage.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
We should add that the two other movies we haven't mentioned.
One is Universal Language. It's a Canadian movie, which is
a very strange and interesting comedy. It's shortlisted for an
Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Film. Also The Kiss,
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a Denmark film in which we have the US premier,
and that's about a pennyless soldier who meets a baron's
beautifully beautiful daughter who happens to be handicapped. Barbara goes
through and tries to identify the best films from film
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festivals at can Tribeca, Sun Dance Toronto and others, and
then picks those and presents those to us for our
determined the audience.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Relevan looking through the movies, reads them the descriptions before you,
it's got here. The one that appeals to me is
called Wild Diamond, and that one, you know, working class
folks south of France trying for the Kardashian lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yes, there's a young woman trying to find herself and
find a place for herself in a rough environment environment,
I guess you would say. And it's the story of
her getting herself together and find finding herself with a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I think a lot of people can relate to that. Yes,
And I'm one of those people who's very fast. Social
media was not available when I was young, because some
of the things my friends and I got up to
we're still here. So now, Gary, I know you excited
about Liza. Liza. What other movie on the the lineup
calls to you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
There's other movies. The two that I'm really interested in,
and both you know, have recognizable people in it is
Bad Shabbas with Kiras Sedgwick, and I'm been a fan
of hers ever since The Closer. And then Andy, I
think you mentioned ex Husbands with Griffin Dunn, who not
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only is starting this movie, but he has a new
book out that's really been, you know, heading the best
seller lists. So both of those our films that I
think are a great appeal. And then Don had also
mentioned Midas Man. You'd asked Terry earlier. What came after
Liza Well on the very next day is Midas Man,
which again is about Brian Epstein. So it's like the Beatles,
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and that's a story that ties into rock and roll,
It ties into his Jewish ancestry as being the role
he played with the Beatles. It ties into the fact
that he's a gay man. So all three, it fitts
in so many different categories of the films that are
being offered this year and the Sudden Stars International Film Fest.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, so like that one movie has a lot of
touchstownes just in the one movie you.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Know that brings up an interesting point, and that is
that most of our films cut across more than one
level of interest, and that some have two, three, some
have four. And again when you go through our brochure,
you can we have listed in there what those levels
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are and you can make a judgment based on that.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And some of the movies are in English, some are
of the language with elish subtitles called yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Yes Well.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
One of the films being directed by a woman is
our closing film this year, which is the French Italian
and that was directed by Rachel Walder, and it's a
comedy about a culture clash on New York City's Upper
West Side. That's going to be fine. But the other
film by women you mentioned, They're Still Tomorrow, which is
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Italy's biggest box office hit in many years. While Diamond,
the film you asked about by Agatha a writing juer,
it was it competed for the Palm Door at cann
and then Holy Cow by Luis Classier, which wasn't a
youth prize at can. So good films by really interesting women.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I love it. And I like how the arts are
including women more and more, and I know people make
a concerted effort to make sure they're included, so I
know you guys do that as well, So thank you.
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And speaking of women, let's not forget Liza.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean, that's such a good film. And Don, I'm
glad to hear that they're willing and open to doing
a second screening because, like you said, the first one's
almost completely sold out. So the Rinker is a nice venue,
but it's more intimate venue, so it does sell out quickly.
So they can go to sassaf dot org to get
their tickets, yes, or to me or Cravis dot org,
whichever is more convenient for you. So Terry is a
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personal prediction or Don, which film do you guys think
will surprise the audience the most? Because I know you
have different opinions.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Are we thinking about that, John.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Well, I think we are. I think you and I
don't agree, but I think exactly. I think it's a
Midas man. I think that a lot of people don't
realize that that one person was responsible in a major
way for the success of the Beatles and what he
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had to go through to do it. And I don't
think I'm giving anything away by saying that he died
very young and it would have been interesting to see
had he lived longer, what might have happened.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And they had such an impact for the time he had,
so imagine the bigger impact they don't have with him
them or other.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Artists, right, but Terry had a difference.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And I think Broken Dolls, which what's about directed by
Tracy Whiffle, who is a woman, and she's fairly local,
and that is a very big surprise. She's also making
a personal appearance and with a Q and A and
I don't want to give anything away, but it is
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a story relating to the Holocaust and a Jewish film,
but it isn't a Jewish film because it crosses over.
And very interesting movie. And I thought that has the
most surprising ending. But we disagree.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
We'll say maybe we should take a vote from the attendees.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh absolutely yes. Let them go to the website vote
for their favorite right, and then that first, I think
is an extra bonus. That is so cool. I love it.
So we talked about like the benefits with Morre's life
as the you know charity part besides the annual film festival.
What else does SASSIV do throughout the year.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Oh, we do when we do an everythings John, you
want to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Well, we screened films throughout the year and that's the
way we spend our evenings.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
As a matter of fact, not all of our evenings,
that's not all correct.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
But but a good money and we have a mini
summer festival where we bring movies to our Morsh Life
Campus for the residents. We also work with the community
to offer films and expertise to various venues such as
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country clubs, community centers, shopping centers, movie theaters, churches and synagogues.
So it's all year we're working.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
So for listeners who have an organization that might be
interested in having a screening, can they.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Reach out to you guys, Oh yes, yes, yes, so.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
On the website or their phone never to reach it better?
Which way is better to reach it?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Yep? Or they can.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Can call them wars and let them though they would
like to do a movie screening with Sassaf right right
after we our chat today, What is the one thing
if people only remember one thing about Sassaf, what would
you like that one thing to be. I know Gary's
gonna say.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Like, well, shall we do it together? Yes, we'd like
them to buy tickets my tickets by often right, all
kidding aside. Other than buying tickets, we would we would
hope that the audience would appreciate the world class quality
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of our films. Please go to our website and see
in detail what we offer. Take advantage of our expertise
in selections, which we believe are amazing and among the
best new films available.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I also have a phone number two. If somebody can't
figure out how to work the website, there are or
get onto our website, they can call the fest office
at five six one two two zero six seven three five.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So mistering with that phone number one five six one.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Five six one two two oh six seven three five.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Perfect. So that's th reach you guys at the festival office.
I like that. I like It's very cool. So, Gary,
is there anything you'd like folks to remember about the
upcoming festival?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Twenty seven premiere films, twenty seven of them, each and
every one a premiere, from a USA premiere to a
Florida premiere to a Palm Beach County premiere, all at
the Sun and Stars International Film Festival, and for more information,
do check out their website at Sasiff dot org, Chael.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Both of us forgot to mention we have one more
person appearance from the comedian who's appearing in the French Italian.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Oh yes, ike you fama dude. He's the star and
comedian of the French Attalian, which is closing.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Night's gonna be available for discussion afterward as well. I
love that so that you said that. Sunday, February second,
seven pm and that's at the EVO Entertainment Dellery right
Cary Delray Marketplace. So folks coming out get your tickets.
Go to the website s A, S I. F F
dot org or Cravis dot org, which everyone is more
convenient for you. Come. I have a fun night. Popcorn
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butter all the time, all this stuff butter with little popcorn.
Maybe that's how my family doesn't right. Well, guys, thank
you so much for coming in and talking with us today.
And I'm doing such a cool thing in the community.
It's very much appreciated. I think definitely needed to help
broaden our perspectives about what's happening in the world.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Thank you very much. We appreciate your having us today
and hope to see you all your your your listeners
at the movies.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So I hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. If you
need more information, feel free to reach out to me
Home Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'll forward
on the details. Don't forget, You'll always download the show's
podcast on our iHeartRadio app. Hope for everybody has a
wonderful weekend. I'm dev Nev and this has been my perspective.
Remember life is good, so be your healthiest QEW and
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let's get out there and live it. Until next week, enjoy.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host Stev nep Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things happening. And just remember the
other week we spoke to Redina from Palm Beach Drama Works.
They got all kinds of great plays happening. This is
their twenty fifth season. Coming up February fourteenth through March
second is The Humans and going up in a couple
of weeks it's the Pearl Birk Festival of New Plays.
(00:29):
So this is where they get new play rights submitting
their work, they select them and then they actually produce
into professional readings of his play. So it's going to
be Friday, January seventeenth, afternoon and evening, Saturday afternoon and
evening and Sunday afternoon on January nineteenth, and albeit that
one checking out, Alba, I can't wait to see these.
You can buy the script subscription to all the plays,
(00:51):
or you can do individual ticket pricing. Just go to
Palm Beach Drama Works dot org and all the details
are right there for you and to help me tell
you more about all the fun things were happening. But
welcome to my guests, Gary Schweiker, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Gary, Hey dev how are you today?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Good?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Happy New Year, Same to you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And what I'm going to do is cover both the
sacred and the profane. First, the Sacred at Mounts Botanical Garden.
From January sixth to the eleventh, they have, for the
second year in a row, the Sacred Arts tour monks
from India and they have five days of exhibits and
(01:30):
presentations and pet blessings and it's just a miraculous five days.
But then we go to the profane, which is the
opening of Culture and Cocktails. It's our twentieth and final
season of Culture and Cocktails, and we're opening with the
great comic writer Alan Swibel. He has won Emmys, He's
(01:52):
won Tony's, he was one of Gilda Radner's writers. He
wrote for Billy Crystal, he appeared, he wrote for just
so many TV show and of course this is the
fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Oh wow, so he
should have a lot of great, hopefully profane stories about that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I can't wait to hear those that sounds amazing. And
of course the monks at Mount's the so called they
do that mendala where they create it with the sand. Yes,
but that people you got to go see that, make
that part of your week. And they can go to
Mounts dot org to mind out all the times, right perfect, yes, right,
very cool. And of course I all spoke with Edwin
from Spading Museum the other week and they are doing
(02:31):
their Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Brunch coming up on
January twentieth. Definitely want to get your tickets for that.
It is a great day. The one of our guest speaker,
simply go to Spadymuseum dot org and you can buy
your tickets there. And we also spoke to Benji Stoot.
He works for pbc ARMS, so it's Palm Beach County
(02:52):
Environmental Resource Management Division and they do work in all
the natural areas in Palm Beach County. There's poddle, there's kayaking, hiking,
all kinds of fun things. So coming up on Monday,
it's the Nature Scavenger Hunt, So that's gonna be fun
when it's from nine thirty to eleven thirty at Royal
Palm Beach Pines Natural Area and then on January the
(03:13):
eighth there's a swamp trump in Cyprus Creek North Natural Area.
Simply go to www. PBCERM, PBC r M dot com
and all the different events and stuff are listed on
there for you. And there's a request out from Palm
Beach Film Society announcing calls for submissions for Swedefast Palm
Beach and that is going to be happening in conjunction
(03:36):
with the Lub Film Festival in March saw March twenty eighth,
So simply go to swedefestpb at gmail dot com submit
the request of the movie you want to make. And
these are like the little four minutes spouce with found objects.
They're goofy, they're funny. So it's a lot of fun
for you and the kids to do while they're on break.
It's a fun thing to do. Gary. What else do
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you have?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, you know, the Palm Bagehakes Festival recently announced the
cast for their upcoming free production of Shakespeare by the
Poems of As You Like It and that will be
running January thirtieth to February second, and looking for laughs.
The Cravis Center recently announced upcoming appearances by John Lovett's
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Somebody Else. Going back to Saturday Night Live, which we
talked about earlier for Culture and Cocktails. John Lovitz was
a major player on Saturday Night Live, and he'll be
performing at the Cravis Center. Person hall on, Let's see
what date is this? Oh, it's January twenty fourth or
twenty sixth Friday and Sunday. And then there's a member's
only tour. Is Becky Robinson coming up at February first?
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So always very fun and exciting things at the Craft Center.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh absolutely, and even go to cravisdot orger. Make sure
you go to Cravis dot org. You can pick your seat,
you can do that. You can also reach out to
the box office five six, one, eight three two show.
I've got all kinds of great things happening there. I
know in the Crafts series season this year is really cool.
They've lay missed coming up later, all kinds of good things.
Speaking of coming up, though, we want to talk to
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our guests for today, So Gary indushn't you. We have
two new friends, Terry Spreiberg and Donald Ephraim. Good morning,
Good morning morning. So you guys are from the Donald M.
E Fhram, Sun and Stars International Film Festival presented by
Morse Life. Correct. Correct, So this is so cool. Donald,
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welcome to the show. Please tell the listeners and I
a little bit about I'm gonna call it sassip to
make it easier for everybody. What makes the film festival?
What makes it unique?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Well, Terry probably is best to answer that in terms
of uniqueness.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Thank you, and I'm going to call you Don and
not be so formal. I'd like to mention that the
wealth of experience of our co founder, John Ephram, whose
long career as an entertainment lawyer. We're representing a number
of film reviewers, among them Siskel and Ebert, who I
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remember very well from my younger years. I don't think
I missed a review. They were just terrific and now
I get to be with their agent, manager, guru, etc.
So it's very unique to be having an experience like this.
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We also have a terrific artistic director, Barbara Shares, who
is also from Chicago, as John is. She was longtime
director of programming for the prestigious Jeane Siskel Film Center
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It
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took a little time to find our fantastic staff who
have taken the Donalds Mvy from Sun and Stars International
Film Festival, which I won't say again call it sassive
to another level.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think that's fantastic, you guys. It takes a lot
to get something started and getting it all coordinated. It's
like I know at the radio Stason in I Heeart,
we do events and we'll try one and it looks
good on paper, and then everybody gets there it's like, okay,
we need five more porta potties, we needed six work esures.
You know, you learn as you go kind of thing.
So you've been doing the film festival for a while now.
(07:21):
I like it, just different names, but I like that
the Sun and Stars because that way it's in Florida,
the Sun and all the stars are coming out even
at night and in person. So tell me a little
bit about opening nights, Sassage opening night film on January
twenty third.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well, January twenty third, the opening night, and you know,
I'm very excited about this as a gay man, nothing
excites me more. Our opening night film is Liza, a
truly terrific and absolutely true story everything you've ever wanted
to know or didn't know or heard or thought you
heard or gossiped about Liza Minelly. It's going to be
(07:56):
in that film. And I'm so excited that the director
of that film, Bruce Stavid Klein, will actually be here
for the screening and the film will be again on
January twenty third at the Rinker Playhouse at the Cravis Center.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh that's a nice venue, too, very nice venue. Will
he available for like questions afterward, a little of meet
and greet.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
He is going to do a Q and A with
the audience, So it's going to be very very special occasion.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Let me add to that too that tickets are going
very fast. It's almost sold out, so that if anyone
is interested in doing that, I would advise them to
get their tickets.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Soon and then go to Gravis dot org and get
their tickets there. Yes, make it very convenient for everybody.
So it's January twenty third opening night. How long does
the film festival run for?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
It runs from the twenty third of January to the
second of February, and we break it up between doing
it at the Cravis and doing it in del Rey.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh very cool? Is that way? People north south they
can get to one of the movies. I like it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yes, Yes, we've tried to cover the whole county.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, because I know in the past you'd play one
at this movie theater, the one out west, then one
way up north, and I think the coordination of that
would be a little challenging.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And this is so much similar this year because there's
a total of twenty seven premiere films at the festival.
The first eighteen are at the Cravis Center Reaker Playhouse,
in the last nine at the EBO Entertainment Center at
Delray Marketplace. Very convenient for both.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh, I like that very much.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
All right, So we're starting it with Eliza, which I
think is going to be so much fun. Then who's
coming next after Liza? What's the next film after Eliza?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Is Days of Happiness is the next film, which is
about a young conductor who has her father as a
manager and her troubles having her dad supervised her career,
which is not going in the direction in which she
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thinks it should go.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
A lot of people can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh, yeah, I can totally relate to that.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And she is also a gay woman and it's not
her father's kind of life, and she wants to live
her own life.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Which leads me to the next part of it. So
sassaf Is screening of our variety of films is obviously
one of them. There's comedies, documentaries, international films, films about
or directed by women, So good on you for that one.
I like that one. There's gonna be some Jewish theme films,
also some LGBTQ plus films, so obviously The Days of
Happiness is an example of one of those films. Yes,
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so don which one of Sassaf's twenty seven premiere screenings
are you personally most excited about?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, that's sort of like asking you know, which of
your children is your favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's me, I'm your favorite. I'm always telling me mom
that I knew that.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
But there's so many films, and really it's hard to
pick out just one. There're twenty seven in total. But
the Florida premiere of Liza is something special. As Gary said,
she's an icon. The movie is fabulous, entertaining and a
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terrific documentary with appearances and interviews with other famous stars.
And as I said, since it's nearly sold out, we're
looking for the possibility of having a second screening either
during the festival or thereafter. Other films like The Glory
of Life, which is an unusual and beautiful German Austrian
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story about Franz Kafka, which I particularly loved.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
It's also his hundredth birthday. I think twenty twenty four
was his hundredth birthday.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And midas Man, which again is the Beatle movie. Bad
Chobist which is a black comedy, ex Husbands which are
three generations of men and their women starring Griffin.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Dunn, who's going to be in Palm Beach to kick
off the week of the festival, coming to a morse
Life event their morse Life Literary Society at the Colony Hotel.
Very exciting to have him come to kick off the
week of celebrating our celebration.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
There's also There's Still Tomorrow, which is a surprise Italian story,
and finally Holy Cow, a coming of age French comedy drama.
On our website there's a complete list in with synopsis
of all these films so that they can look at it.
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They can look at the time of them when they're
showing and get information and make.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Their selections and they can buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yes, very important so what's the website.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
The website is sassif sasif dot org.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Make it easy, I love it, see yep, make it
easier for people to go get their tickets. I like that.
So I love how there's a such a variety of films.
That's a very good thing that we appeal to more
folks that come try out the different movies. And I
always tell people, if it's a movie, it may not
be when you normally go to, but it's a film festival,
go to the movie because if there's anything about it
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that appeals to you, you're gonna like the movie. That's
what been my personal experience. I love going to different
movies and trying them out. I'm the action girl, like
the comedy. Action, not so much chick folks.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
They're a samurai move the way of a samurai movie.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh I'm in with a lot of action. We see
those kind of things so well. When I grew up
in Pennsylvania with very like here in Florida, when it rains,
rains like what maybe half an hour ish and then
it's done. In Pennsylvania it rains the entire day, so
you're off for a Saturday. Our parents would be like okay,
and they turn the TV on and we'd watch the
old Godzilla movies. So I just remember being fascinated by
(14:00):
that in the Samurai movies because that would be what
they would play on the local station on a rainy
Saturday afternoon. So Scott used to those. So to me,
it's like a fun, in a way comforting kind of
movie to go watch those.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We have a breakdown of the kinds of movies that
we have. As a matter of fact, we have four comedies,
we have four documentaries, we have seven solely women directed
and two co directed movies. We have eight Jewish films,
and we have four LGBTQ movies. And as to the
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countries that are involved the international films, they're four from France,
two from each of the following countries Japan, Canada, Germany, Austria,
Ireland and Israel, and then one each from Belgium, Denmark, UK, Finland,
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Italy and Pakistan. Portugal.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Oh very nice, And that's the nice aspect of an
international film festival. You get movies from all around the world.
So I had a coworker who would go to visit
Israel on her vacations. What did you do? She's like,
I watched TV and we're like what because the movies
were so different there, and she was fascinated by like
that there was not a lot of as many restrictions
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as we have in the US, and she was just
fascinated by it. So she would go meet friends for drink,
dinner and drinks. But then she go watch movies.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I'd like to mention too, John, which we haven't the
two Irish movies which are really interesting. One stars Barry Ward,
who was a well known Irish actor, and I found
both of them very different and something that you would
not ordinarily see in this area. So I hope that
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people come out to see you.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Remember Carrie wasn't one of the Irish films. Housewife of
the Year, Yes, which is a documentary that just won
the Best Documentary award at the Galway Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Awesome see top tier movies. I love it, okay. And
then when Barry Ward's in is that they may face
the rising st.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Yes, very interesting movie and he's a terrific actor. The
scenery is magnificent. Oh, Ireland is beautiful. Ireland is so
that's very exciting too. And it's a sleeper.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I like those one of you slide them in. It's
very cool, Terry. What is the Obviously it's a film festival,
but it's also nonprofit and people benefit. Who benefits from
the sassaf.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Morse Life Health System benefits. John Ephrim is the major contributor,
but Moose Life is the ultimate underwriter and the beneficiary
of the proceeds from the festival. Morse Life is a
charitable and not for profit organization that serves more than
thirty six hundreds per day on its campus in West
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Pound of each and through its community outreach program. I'm
the vice chair of Morse Life and have been heavily
involved and introduced Dawn to Morse and he has become
a staunch supporter, and both of us really admire what
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Morse Life does with healthcare and residential services for seniors.
We have short term healthcare, long term healthcare, home healthcare
care management, meals on wheels throughout the county, and a
PACE program which takes care of indigen seniors who want
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to age in place. And we've built a reputation and
tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion.
So you can enjoy yourself by coming to the movies
and helping the those who need it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, I think that's a phenomenal cause. So thank you
for doing that.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I work briefly in healthcare of doing case management with
folks who want to stay in the community, super low
level of income, and sometimes all they needed was the
nurse to come out and arrange their mets, so we'd
make that happen. Or they needed meals on wheels, so
we'd make that happen, and they were able to stay
in the community and be independent for many more years,
and then they would go, you know, through residential care
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or if they need a little bit more help, right right, So,
and I like that you have that variety as well.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
They can stay on our campus for all different levels
of care, which is very wonderful. Oh we go to them.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh that's really cool. That's really good. And that's very
much needed because our population in the area is aging
because we've very much years that are retired here, which
makes perfect sense. So and I'd like to know it's there,
gonna be there when I get there. So you gotta
keep this going nice for like another thirty forty years
for me. So if people want to donate directly, to
Morse Life or to the film vessel. Can they become
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a sponsor and do not as well?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Absolutely, we would love to have people's sponsor any part
of the film festival and come out and look at
the campus. We have a fabulous art collection and it's
quite impressive and John and I are thrilled to be
able to do this and offer all these things to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Where is more life located.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
We're on Haverhill Road between forty fifth just south of
forty fifth Street, very conveniently located, beautiful buildings and great food,
great people who work there.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Now don back to you, how do you pick the films? Makes?
What called to you to get you to pick these
films this year?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well, we are We're fortunate to have this. Our incredible
artistic director Barbara Shires, who's an expert in identifying great
films and his reviewed in this case about seventy to
eighty films. Then Terry and I screen all the films
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that Barber's picked, and our emphasis is on relevance to
our audience, and we reviewed forty five to fifty films
and as a result of all of us had very
interesting discussions, oh more than interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, and I think it's good that you guys were
roomed together because you have different perspectives and different interests,
so you're going to be representing part of the public,
right right.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
We try not to think of what we personally like.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Well, you also want what you personally because you're gonna
have a favorite, you know, So Terry, I know you
have a favorite. I already asked Don what's his favorite?
What's your favorite in the film festival.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh, it's very tough for me. I love the Lies
of Opening Night. Bad Shovis is a piece of work.
I think that's a good description for that, and very
very black comedy, and there are just so many others.
I can't really other than those couple. I don't want
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to give it away or spoil it for anyone, but
we have great films this year, and I hope everybody
takes advantage.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
We should add that the two other movies we haven't mentioned.
One is Universal Language. It's a Canadian movie, which is
a very strange and interesting comedy. It's shortlisted for an
Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Film. Also The Kiss,
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a Denmark film in which we have the US premier,
and that's about a pennyless soldier who meets a baron's
beautifully beautiful daughter who happens to be handicapped. Barbara goes
through and tries to identify the best films from film
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festivals at can Tribeca, Sun Dance Toronto and others, and
then picks those and presents those to us for our
determined the audience.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Relevan looking through the movies, reads them the descriptions before you,
it's got here. The one that appeals to me is
called Wild Diamond, and that one, you know, working class
folks south of France trying for the Kardashian lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yes, there's a young woman trying to find herself and
find a place for herself in a rough environment environment,
I guess you would say. And it's the story of
her getting herself together and find finding herself with a
lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I think a lot of people can relate to that. Yes,
And I'm one of those people who's very fast. Social
media was not available when I was young, because some
of the things my friends and I got up to
we're still here. So now, Gary, I know you excited
about Liza. Liza. What other movie on the the lineup
calls to you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
There's other movies. The two that I'm really interested in,
and both you know, have recognizable people in it is
Bad Shabbas with Kiras Sedgwick, and I'm been a fan
of hers ever since The Closer. And then Andy, I
think you mentioned ex Husbands with Griffin Dunn, who not
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only is starting this movie, but he has a new
book out that's really been, you know, heading the best
seller lists. So both of those our films that I
think are a great appeal. And then Don had also
mentioned Midas Man. You'd asked Terry earlier. What came after
Liza Well on the very next day is Midas Man,
which again is about Brian Epstein. So it's like the Beatles,
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and that's a story that ties into rock and roll,
It ties into his Jewish ancestry as being the role
he played with the Beatles. It ties into the fact
that he's a gay man. So all three, it fitts
in so many different categories of the films that are
being offered this year and the Sudden Stars International Film Fest.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, so like that one movie has a lot of
touchstownes just in the one movie you.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Know that brings up an interesting point, and that is
that most of our films cut across more than one
level of interest, and that some have two, three, some
have four. And again when you go through our brochure,
you can we have listed in there what those levels
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are and you can make a judgment based on that.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And some of the movies are in English, some are
of the language with elish subtitles called yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Yes Well.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
One of the films being directed by a woman is
our closing film this year, which is the French Italian
and that was directed by Rachel Walder, and it's a
comedy about a culture clash on New York City's Upper
West Side. That's going to be fine. But the other
film by women you mentioned, They're Still Tomorrow, which is
(24:56):
Italy's biggest box office hit in many years. While Diamond,
the film you asked about by Agatha a writing juer,
it was it competed for the Palm Door at cann
and then Holy Cow by Luis Classier, which wasn't a
youth prize at can. So good films by really interesting women.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I love it. And I like how the arts are
including women more and more, and I know people make
a concerted effort to make sure they're included, so I
know you guys do that as well, So thank you.
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And speaking of women, let's not forget Liza.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean, that's such a good film. And Don, I'm
glad to hear that they're willing and open to doing
a second screening because, like you said, the first one's
almost completely sold out. So the Rinker is a nice venue,
but it's more intimate venue, so it does sell out quickly.
So they can go to sassaf dot org to get
their tickets, yes, or to me or Cravis dot org,
whichever is more convenient for you. So Terry is a
(25:56):
personal prediction or Don, which film do you guys think
will surprise the audience the most? Because I know you
have different opinions.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Are we thinking about that, John.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Well, I think we are. I think you and I
don't agree, but I think exactly. I think it's a
Midas man. I think that a lot of people don't
realize that that one person was responsible in a major
way for the success of the Beatles and what he
(26:29):
had to go through to do it. And I don't
think I'm giving anything away by saying that he died
very young and it would have been interesting to see
had he lived longer, what might have happened.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And they had such an impact for the time he had,
so imagine the bigger impact they don't have with him
them or other.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Artists, right, but Terry had a difference.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
And I think Broken Dolls, which what's about directed by
Tracy Whiffle, who is a woman, and she's fairly local,
and that is a very big surprise. She's also making
a personal appearance and with a Q and A and
I don't want to give anything away, but it is
(27:13):
a story relating to the Holocaust and a Jewish film,
but it isn't a Jewish film because it crosses over.
And very interesting movie. And I thought that has the
most surprising ending. But we disagree.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
We'll say maybe we should take a vote from the attendees.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh absolutely yes. Let them go to the website vote
for their favorite right, and then that first, I think
is an extra bonus. That is so cool. I love it.
So we talked about like the benefits with Morre's life
as the you know charity part besides the annual film festival.
What else does SASSIV do throughout the year.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Oh, we do when we do an everythings John, you
want to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Well, we screened films throughout the year and that's the
way we spend our evenings.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
As a matter of fact, not all of our evenings,
that's not all correct.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
But but a good money and we have a mini
summer festival where we bring movies to our Morsh Life
Campus for the residents. We also work with the community
to offer films and expertise to various venues such as
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country clubs, community centers, shopping centers, movie theaters, churches and synagogues.
So it's all year we're working.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
So for listeners who have an organization that might be
interested in having a screening, can they.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Reach out to you guys, Oh yes, yes, yes, so.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
On the website or their phone never to reach it better?
Which way is better to reach it?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Yep? Or they can.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Can call them wars and let them though they would
like to do a movie screening with Sassaf right right
after we our chat today, What is the one thing
if people only remember one thing about Sassaf, what would
you like that one thing to be. I know Gary's
gonna say.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Like, well, shall we do it together? Yes, we'd like
them to buy tickets my tickets by often right, all
kidding aside. Other than buying tickets, we would we would
hope that the audience would appreciate the world class quality
(29:35):
of our films. Please go to our website and see
in detail what we offer. Take advantage of our expertise
in selections, which we believe are amazing and among the
best new films available.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I also have a phone number two. If somebody can't
figure out how to work the website, there are or
get onto our website, they can call the fest office
at five six one two two zero six seven three five.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So mistering with that phone number one five six one.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Five six one two two oh six seven three five.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Perfect. So that's th reach you guys at the festival office.
I like that. I like It's very cool. So, Gary,
is there anything you'd like folks to remember about the
upcoming festival?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Twenty seven premiere films, twenty seven of them, each and
every one a premiere, from a USA premiere to a
Florida premiere to a Palm Beach County premiere, all at
the Sun and Stars International Film Festival, and for more information,
do check out their website at Sasiff dot org, Chael.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Both of us forgot to mention we have one more
person appearance from the comedian who's appearing in the French Italian.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Oh yes, ike you fama dude. He's the star and
comedian of the French Attalian, which is closing.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Night's gonna be available for discussion afterward as well. I
love that so that you said that. Sunday, February second,
seven pm and that's at the EVO Entertainment Dellery right
Cary Delray Marketplace. So folks coming out get your tickets.
Go to the website s A, S I. F F
dot org or Cravis dot org, which everyone is more
convenient for you. Come. I have a fun night. Popcorn
(31:36):
butter all the time, all this stuff butter with little popcorn.
Maybe that's how my family doesn't right. Well, guys, thank
you so much for coming in and talking with us today.
And I'm doing such a cool thing in the community.
It's very much appreciated. I think definitely needed to help
broaden our perspectives about what's happening in the world.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Thank you very much. We appreciate your having us today
and hope to see you all your your your listeners
at the movies.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So I hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. If you
need more information, feel free to reach out to me
Home Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'll forward
on the details. Don't forget, You'll always download the show's
podcast on our iHeartRadio app. Hope for everybody has a
wonderful weekend. I'm dev Nev and this has been my perspective.
Remember life is good, so be your healthiest QEW and
(32:22):
let's get out there and live it. Until next week, enjoy.
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