Press Release
August 2, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Bob Cooper, prguynow@yahoo.com
401-447-6474 Days/Evenings
T.J. Paolino, spiritfirst@yahoo.com, 310.313.4422
RIIFF to Premiere Canadian Filmmaker
Film “Arthur’s Paradise” to have United States Premiere
in Rhode Island
(Providence, Rhode
Island, USA) 'Arthur's Paradise' by
award winning Canadian filmmaker Luc Beauchamp will have its U.S. Premiere at
the 11th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 2:00 PM
The film, “Arthur’s Paradise” was premiered
at the Visions du Réel film festival and screening in Montreal
where critics called it a documentary, a fiction, and some even called it a “UFO”
movie. Academy Award-winning veteran
filmmaker Frederique Back summed it up as, "…a tour de force of
imagination and work."
The 50 minute film uses music as its only dialogue and
starts as a visual documentary of a farmer’s routine life on a pig farm in Quebec,
completely in harmony with the music he plays of opera singer Victoria
Rossellini on an old 33 record piped into the barn. But when the record disappears one morning,
all that changes into a surrealistic fantasy as the pigs go on a hunger strike,
chickens cluck out catastrophic warnings and the farmer frantically tries to
restore harmony by playing other music including opera, a disco celebrity, and even
an entire mariachi band chasing him around the barn. Order is finally restored to the farm by a
visitation from the Virgin Mary.
The filmmaker, Luc Beauchamp previously directed 'The Lion
and the Lamb' which was broadcast on The Sundance Channel in 1999 and won
"Best Short Film" at the South By Southwest Festival ( SXSW ). 'Arthur's Paradise' is
the first film he has written, directed and produced. The film is independently distributed by Netima.
For RIIFF tickets, visit their website at http://www.film-festival.org, or contact
them at 401.861.4445, the RIIFF office is at 268 Broadway, Providence,
RI. 02903.
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RIIFF info is here:
http://www.film-festival.org/ticketspasses.php
News Reporter info on the film is here: http://leparadisdarthur.com/DOSSIER_DE_PRESSE.html
Netima info is here:
http://www.netima.ca