Directed by Sam Peckinpah, and featuring scenes cut from the original release, Major Dundee stars Charlton Heston and Richard Harris as officers from opposite sides of the Civil War who band together to hunt down a band of Apache renegades. Sunday August 24, 7:00 to 11:00 pm.

Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami BeachTickets are Available from TicketMaster for $10.00

Sunday August 24, 1:00 pm. Free.
Handmade Movies World Premiere!
Take a first look at films made by hand at Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Screening! Handmade collage films created by young people in the 2008 Rewind/Fast Forward’s 16mm scratch film workshop will get their first screening 24 hours after their creation. Archive staff will inspect the films and transfer them to video overnight in time for The Screening - the first chance that you - and the workshop participants - will have to see these films on the big screen!

Sunday August 24, 1:00 pm. Free.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida,
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130

Invasion of the Historians

2pm Sunday, August 24, 2008 FREE

Dr. Paul George, Miami’s walkingest, talkingest historian, invades the Archives in search of Interama, South Florida’s grandest, gaudiest boondoggle. Among his finds: workers creating detailed clay models of the site, billboards promising Interama's imminent construction, and several directors of the project making promises nobody could keep. It's a long, strange story, documented by local TV news, home movies, amateur films, video art and documentaries, selected from the ever-growing holdings of the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives.

While at the Historical Museum, don't miss "Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream," a multi-sensory exhibition that recaptures Miami's 1960s vision of a futuristic fair and crossroads of the Americas. See Interama drawings by such world-renowned figures as architectural renderer Hugh Ferriss and architects Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn.

Historical Museum of Southern Florida,
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, 33130

Restoration Premiere: Restored for Review After 25 Years!
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33139
“Video Art South Florida” produced by Local videomaker Victor Velt in 1983, this survey of 10 independent video works by local artists has been digitally restored and transferred for a “repremiere” screening at the 2008 Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival. South Florida Artists on the program: Glenn Abbot, Mike Burger, Bill Cummings, Eileen Eliot, L.A. Hawks, Howard Mathis, Sam Rosenthal and Malgorzata Samek. Co-presented by the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Vasari Project and Art Services and Exhibitions Department. $10.00 Pre-registration required, space is limited, includes Reception.

This panel discussion brings together several local filmmakers, including: Mark Baker, WPBT; Joshua Miller and Sam Rega, Good Cop Bad Cop Productions; in a forum designed to shed light on the methods (and madness) that goes into producing media works that utilize archival images. Moderated by Kevin Wynn, Miami-Dade TV Producer and one of the organizers of the 2008 Rewind Fast Forward Film and Video Festival.

The Panel

• Mark Baker, Senior Producer, WPBT

In 1976, Mark Baker began his television career as a cameraman at WPTV Channel 5 the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was promoted to Studio Supervisor then Director for weekend news and public affairs programs. In 1979, Mark joined WPBT Channel 2 in Miami for the studio production of two groundbreaking public television programs, ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A.?, the first bilingual sit-com, and Nightly Business Report. In 1989 he was promoted to Field Production Supervisor and worked as the director of photography for arts, cultural and historical productions. From 1983 through 1995 Mark also moonlighted as a freelance Steadicam operator and jib cameraman on numerous network sports and entertainment programs. In 2000, WPBT promoted Mark to Special Projects Producer for the magazine show, New Florida and national documentaries like The Flying Days of Riddle Field and Anatomy of a Hurricane. In 2007, he became Senior Producer and is currently writing and producing for the PBS series, Wild Florida while directing historical documentaries like Miami: Reflections on the River. Mark’s programs have earned many awards of distinction for WPBT.

• Joshua Miller & Sam Rega Writers, Directors, Producers, Editors, Good Cop Bad Cop Productions

As University of Miami Motion Picture majors, Joshua Miller and Sam Rega wanted to create their own personal project in addition to what is traditionally offered by the university. In late 2005, a panel was hosted by the University which detailed some of the media events related to Arthur Teele’s suicide. This panel piqued Miller and Rega’s curiosity to the controversial events surrounding Arthur Teele’s demise. They made a proposal to the School of Communication and were granted a budget to create the documentary. Two years later, the film premiered at the “Miami International Film Festival” on March 1, 2008.

During 2007, Miller and Rega produced an award winning independent film, “The Room,” which swept the “2007 Miami Canes Film Festival” winning 6 awards including “Achievement in Producing” and “Best Film.”

• Brooke Roberts Webb, “War Comes To Miami Beach” and “Miami Beach: “Fabulous Fifties”

My relationship with the Wolfson Florida Moving Image Archive started when I worked as a Curator for the Historical Museum of Florida, most notably collecting historic footage for the exhibition "Shipwrecks and Rescues" (2004). In 2006 as a freelance filmmaker creating a project for the Historical Museum's Miami Beach exhibit I again had the fortune to work with Barron. The resulting two pieces "War Comes to Miami Beach" and "Miami Beach: Fabulous Fifties" used extensive footage from the 1940s and '50s. Both of these projects were subsequently accepted to several film festivals, including The Palm Springs International Shorts Film Festival and the Delray Beach Film Festival.

Work: I work as a freelance editor and cameraperson. Projects include various local bands like Samantha Natalie and the Oscar Fuentes Combo, and internationally-known musicians Jet and Iggy Pop. Other clients include Amnesty International, Miami-Dade College and the Sabrina Cohen Foundation.

• Robert Rosenberg, Tigertail Productions

Robert Rosenberg is an independent filmmaker, film festival director and programmer, and arts presenter. Rosenberg's credits include the feature film Before Stonewall, which received an Emmy Award for Best Historical program after a theatrical run in the United States and widespread international distribution. He has worked as a curator and producer for many film festivals and arts organizations, including most recently as the Founding Director of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, an internationally recognized event, and the Associate Director of Tigertail Productions, one of Miami's foremost presenters of contemporary live performance. He has been a guest lecturer and instructor in film production, as well as director of film seminar programs, at a number of film festivals and institutions

August 23, Saturday from 2pm to 3:30pm

Miami Beach Public Library
227 22nd Street
Miami Beach, FL 33139

On TV and in person, untold numbers of people have learned to paint the Conni Gordon way…And now it’s your turn. Artist and art teacher Conni Gordon brings her patented method of art instruction back to Miami Beach for an In-Person Paint Party. Even if you’ve never picked up a brush, Conni will have you painting like a pro. While Conni Gordon’s career as an art instructor and motivator has spanned the globe, Miami Beach has always been her home base. Now Conni’s back — to celebrate her life in art as only she can - with palette and paint!

-See Conni on County Connection Click Here!

In between lessons, check out "Think It, Ink It, Link It, Then Synch It", an exhibition devoted to the art of Conni Gordon and her students. And watch Conni in action on-camera in vintage clips from Conni’s TV shows.

Saturday, August 23, 4pm to 6pm

Miami Beach Public Library, 227 22nd Street

Miami Beach, Florida 33139

Saturday, August 23, 2008

A workshop for young people who will make films by scratching, bleaching, splicing and manipulating film stock. where local Teenagers and Parents/Guardians learn the secrets of hand editing 16mm film. Let’s make a film! And let’s make it not with cell phones, not with handicams, not with digital cameras, but with…Hand tools. Hand tools? Today we all live in the digital moment and it’s hard to believe that at one time all media images were, to some extent, handmade. Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Workshop will introduce teens to the fun and nearly lost art of creating moving images with found footage, tape splicers, film reels and real motion picture projectors! Call 305.375.1505 to reserve your edit station! Space for Cut, Scratch, Splice and Spool: The Workshop is limited to teenager and parent or guardian pairs. The public can view these films the following day at a special screening.

Marvel at a brand new Widescreen print of Frank Tashlin’s 1956 film, “The Girl Can’t Help It”

Starring Jayne Mansfield, with outstanding live performances by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, The Platters, The Girl Can't Help It, based on book by Garson Kanin, tells the story of a gangster who hires down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend a singing star.

A CRITERION PICTURES RELEASE OF A 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM

Friday, August 22, 8:00 pm. $10.00. Advance Purchases at Ticketmaster

Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach, FL 33139
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Let South Florida art historian and critic Helen Kohen guide you through the sketchy past of Miami’s art scene, back to the days (1960) when the Miami Museum of Modern Art was housed in a boom-era mansion and artist Bill Hutton protested Miami’s overdevelopment (in 1965!) with an art show at the Stuffed Shirt Lounge, all captured by local TV news, home movies, amateur films, video art and documentaries, selected from the ever-growing holdings of the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Vasari Collection and the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives. Reception to follow sponsored by Friends of The Library. Before the program, or during the reception, explore “Highly Variable - See Movie,” an intriguing exhibition of the art and/or science of South Florida artist Albert L. Robinson, on view at the Main Public Library.

Invasion of the Historians: Art on Film + Video

Art in Miami Before Art Basel…WAY Before Art Basel! Free Event!
Thursday, August 21, 7:00 pm. Free.
Miami-Dade Public Library, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami