Chashama Film Festival's blog

November 10 -13, 2011!

Opening Night, "What if Cannabis Cured Cancer?"

Followed by 33 other intensely fascinating films. Education is key to reform.

chashama Film Festival

At a time of widespread economic and political instability, when the world needs unification and peace, we believe uncensored media is vital to create an informed and understanding population. With film as our medium of choice, we seek to convey what is genuine: genuine compassion, genuine questions, and genuine ideas. Art is our action. Our action is essential.

The 2011 festival — Chaos Theory: The Rise and Fall of Societies

In its fourth year, chashama Film Festival invites artists to explore the current state of flux in the world, with a focus on societal change brought on by clashing philosophical and sociological ideals. We highlight the work of filmmakers who are not afraid to explore the outer limits of social stability and ask: What next? How do we respond to social changes that are too vast and too rapid for us to comprehend, let alone control? What can we do, individually and as a society, to avert disaster? What would mass disruption and instability mean for the future of humanity? 

Our distinguished panel of jurors select productions that examine how both behavior and ethos contribute to groups that flourish and groups that fail. The work of our international contributors, which addresses a variety of social situations and dynamics, offers a fascinating analysis of the theme for viewers to consider.

Venue Location 

chashama Film Festival_November 13, 2010 We will be exhibiting the following Films: +3 added

8th Wonderland ,Nicolas Alberny
Artists of the Great Western Divide ,Diran Lyons
Cold April ,Mike SmithRivera
Ice Cream Boy ,Allon Schemool
Lefty ,Todd Looby
Phone Sex Grandma ,Jack Truman
Previous Tenants ,Regina Robbins
Qui Es Tu? ,Chloe Jenden
Taxy ,Danilo Santos
The System ,Trenton Lepp
This is Arnold, this is Randolph…. ,Rick Kariolic
Virtual JFK ,Koji Masutani
Woman Warrior Exposed (Sigourney Weaver Remix , Desiree D’Alessandro

VENUE LOCATION 415 West 43rd Street NYC 10036

We Will be exhibiting films from 12pm-8:30pm roughly: times may tweak a little, due to Technical difficulties/Questions and Break
In this Order:
12pm Lefty
1:45 Phone Sex Grandma
2:00 Taxy
2:45 Previous Tenants
3:30 The System
4:00 Qui Es Tu?
4:30 Virtual JFK
6:00 Cold April
6:30 Artists of the Great Western Divide
7:00 8th Wonderland
Woman Warrior Exposed (Sigourney Weaver Remix) (2min) will screen at various times during the day
Ice Cream Boy(2min) will screen at various times during the day
This is Arnold, this is Randolph….(8min) will screen at various times during the day.

Again, we are going to do this grassroots. We will email and post about the screenings. Please do the same!  Copy and paste onto blogs, newsletters, personal websites, etc.
Thank you all for giving us a chance to screen some interesting movies.

Festival Director
Rick Kariolic