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The Ojai Movie Society’s SHOOTING FOR THE STARS
wraps with mountaineering journey doc WILD LIFE
Summer time Movie Collection closes profitable
Free-to-the Public Movie Collection
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
Ojai, CA (October 3, 2023) – The Ojai Movie Society closes out this yr’s version of the group’s well-liked Free-to-the-Public Summer time Movie Collection this Friday, October 6 with Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s visually arresting documentary Wild Life.
Co-presented with Lodge El Roblar, the collection kicked off with Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn Sundance hit Going Varsity in Mariachi on July 28 and adopted with classics and beloved favorites (together with The Princess Bride and Singin’ within the Rain), that film followers, cinephiles, and households alike thrilled to in outside screenings on the Libbey Bowl (210 S. Sign Avenue) all through the summer season.
OFS Vice President, Nicholas Weissman, mentioned, “We’ve been thrilled with the turnout to this yr’s summer season season at Libbey Bowl. We’ve had the twice the turnout of our earlier yr and it’s due to the assist of this vibrant group – coming collectively to take pleasure in nice movies without cost beneath the celebs.”
Kris Tompkins in Wild Life
The Summer time Movie Collection concludes on October 6 with Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Wild Life, which follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic, decades-spanning love story as wild because the landscapes she devoted her life to defending. After falling in love in mid-life, Kris and the outdoorsman and entrepreneur Doug Tompkins left behind the world of the massively profitable outside manufacturers they’d helped pioneer – Patagonia, The North Face, and Espirit – and turned their consideration to a visionary effort to create Nationwide Parks all through Chile and Argentina.
Vasquez and Osborn’s Sundance hit Going Varsity in Mariachi opened the collection on July 28 with filmmakers Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn showing in-person to introduce the screening. Rob Reiner’s beloved basic The Princess Bride (1987), Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Mild (2019), Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s the all-time musical favourite Singin’ within the Rain (1952), and Benh Zeitlin’s magical realism surprise Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) adopted because the Ojai Summer time Movie Collection deftly combined classics, entertaining musicals, and massive display indie hits to the delight of their audiences.
For tickets for Friday’s screening, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/ojai-film-society-49453718643, and extra info on the Ojai Movie Society may be discovered at: https://www.ojaifilmsociety.org/.
In regards to the Ojai Movie Society:
Based in 1988, the mission of the Ojai Movie Society is to current high quality impartial, international, documentary, and basic movies to the Ojai Valley, outside, in group without cost.
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