__Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, Tyler Hubby (dir), 96min, 2016__

__BIFF USA: Documentary Feature__

__Opening Night Spotlight__

__Director Tyler Hubby in attendance.__

Playfully tracing the life and times of experimental filmmaker, minimalist musician, community activist and long time University at Buffalo professor of Media Study Tony Conrad, Tyler Hubby’s comprehensive twenty year project incorporates archival materials, interviews with luminaries of the music and art worlds including Moby and Tony Oursler, as well as impromptu street performances by Conrad.

[Watch the trailer for Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuVATqHtKd0&t=15s)

Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

Playfully tracing the life and times of experimental filmmaker, minimalist musician, professor and community activist Tony Conrad.

North Park Theatre

__Gold Star__, Victoria-Negri(Dir.), USA, 85 minutes, World Premiere

A personal and beautifully drawn debut feature from writer/director Victoria Negri – who stars as Vicki, a floundering New York City-based twenty-something called back home to Connecticut to care for her elderly father (Robert Vaughn) following a debilitating stroke.

Preceded by: __Marceline Blurr__

A charming nod to the French New Wave, Nadia Mata Portillo finds magic in a young French women’s visual impairment as she explores a canvas as vast as New York itself in Marceline Blurr.

Gold Star (w/ Marceline Blurr)

After dropping out of music school, Vicki drifts aimlessly between her family's house in CT and an itinerant existence in New York. 

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

__Trew Calling__, Greg Robbins (dir), 90min, 2016

__BIFF USA: Narrative Feature__

__Local Centerpiece__

Orchard Park native Tracey B. Wilson stars in Greg Robbins’ tender and uplifting drama as Trew (Wilson), a women floundering through life until she encounters an unexpected visitor (Kevin Sizemore) who alters the course of what is to come.

[Watch the trailer for Trew Calling here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frX0Db3IADo&t=24s&index=2&list=PLjGMJEtYVoBV3iXsaDJrucc328aROh8do)

__Preceded by: The Bus Stop__



Trew Calling

A women flounders through life until she encounters an unexpected visitor who alters the course of what is to come.

__INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]__, Adam and Zack Khalil (dirs), 75min, 2016

__BIFF USA: Documentary Feature__

__Post-Colonial Spotlight__

__Director Zack Khalil in attendance.__

Experimental video artists Adam and Zack Khalil use personal interviews, animated drawings, performance, and provocative intercutting in their feature debut. They make a bold case for the Ojibway people to be their own storytellers while seeking a cure for the damage inflicted by colonization via a spiritual reconnection with tradition.

[Watch the trailer for INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./], here!](https://vimeo.com/151626238)

INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]

Personal interviews, animations and performances edited together make a bold case for the Ojibway people to be their own storytellers.

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

__Lovesong__, So Yong Kim (dir.), 84min, 2016

__BIFF USA: Narrative Feature__

A tender, haunting and beautifully crafted film by So Yong Kim (Treeless Mountain, For Ellen), Lovesong explores the founds of motherhood, childhood, and maturity tracing the relationship of Sarah (Riley Keough) a young mother and her old college friend Mindy (Jena Malone) in this ode to self-discovery and forbidden love. A Strand release.

[Watch the trailer for Lovesong here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HanL_BrSc&t=10s&index=31&list=PLjGMJEtYVoBV3iXsaDJrucc328aROh8do)

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Oct 7-10 2016

Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

7:00 PM Friday October 7, 2016

North Park Theatre

Gold Star (w/ Marceline Blurr)

9:15 PM Friday October 7, 2016

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Trew Calling

1:15 PM Saturday October 8, 2016

North Park Theatre

INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]

1:00 PM Monday October 10, 2016

North Park Theatre

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Lovesong

7:45 PM Monday October 10, 2016

North Park Theatre

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