BETTER CITIES FILM FESTIVAL
Tuesday, January 24
6:30pm – 8:00pm (Doors 6pm)
@ The FOCUS Lab
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Join us for the Capital Region premiere of the Better Cities Film Festival. A 75-min program of short films all about amazing urban tales.
The Better Cities Films Festival is an annual festival that takes place in Detroit, MI, screening the best short films about urban stories around the world. We will be screening a 75-min "best of the festival" selection, with stories from Alabama, Dublin, Cape Town, Toronto, and Albany!
John Paget, of First Main Films and the Better Cities Festival producer, will join us after the screening for a Q&A.
TICKETS: $10 GA/$5 students. Scholarship opportunities are available.
Films:
11th Street Bridge Park: Leading with Equity (d. Michael Skinner & Jon Michael Shink)
The Rural Studio (d. Jeff Durkin)
Marmalade Lane (d. Jim Stephenson)
Ballyfermot Play Park (d. Bonnie Dempsey)
Biking While Black (d. Yolanda Davis-Overstreet)
Langa Bicycle Hub (d. Rashiq Fataar, Matthew Griffiths)
Precollinear Park. A Placemaking Experience (d. Umberto Sala)
Small Town Spirit: Tenino, WA (d. John Paget)
Urban Resilience (Toronto) (d. Chrystelle Maechler, Andreas Krätschmer)
Reimagining Albany’s Waterfront (d. Derek Baranksi)
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JOHN PAGET has worked as a documentary filmmaker and freelance director of photography since 1992. He has shot and directed several award-winning and nationally broadcast feature documentaries on iconic American topics including Route 66, Elvis Impersonators and Alcatraz Prison.
Paget’s exceptional storytelling instincts and craftsman-like approach to cinematography have put him in high demand as a freelance director of photography; he’s traveled worldwide to produce commissioned projects for international non-profits, TV networks, and Fortune 500 companies.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, in 2005 Paget moved east to Buffalo, New York. He made several celebrated short films about Buffalo (This Place Matters, Buffalo: America’s Best Designed City) that captured and helped catalyze the rustbelt city’s revitalization. In 2016, the American Advertising Federation of Buffalo honored Paget with the Alex Osborn Award for Creativity.
Paget is the co-founder of First+Main Films, the creative studio dedicated to telling stories about cities, towns and neighborhoods through films that foster civic pride, build community and spark imagination.
