welcome to this special edition of belmont journal and it is a special edition because we have with us a special guest and i'd like to welcome ellen gettleman from the belmont world film and the belmont family right and that's going to take place in january so it's coming right up it may even be january by the time you see this so it's let's we want to tell people about the films this year right right yeah and which which how many times have you done this so many years they were doing and it's a compilation of the films of george melly as who many people consider the father of cinema and the father special effects and it will be accompanied by live score is he is the confirmed father special rexy was doing things that now you can do and in a minute but he was doing things like taking heads off i found bodies and putting the mouse where so well let's take a look at a little bit now we're going to saturday january th the films that are coming up there's a couple of special programs you want to tell us about it st there's what's new from west and studio would west and would studio right one of those well those filmmaking arm of scholastic books and they make animated versions of some of their best children's books and sometimes they they actually do animated versions of books that have been published by other houses so if there's one fi people are helping us co present this film because it is one of the things being considered for the oscar for best and all of them yeah it's not hasn't been narrowed down yet but it is definitely consider other yes and there have been many articles about it that it is probably it may course there's a lot of competition this year but a lot of people are sort of figuring that it might it could win a slot at least as a nominee ok so for your consideration great that was a great preview i want to see that you know when the birds wow it is yes i mean it's the artistry is amazing and it's a combination of cells and paintings it's really it's really a spectacular movie and it's sort of a movie for a time where fear is gripping society and this is it's the fear causes a virus and this little boy i just learns or and tries to find the rosie and moosa right and they are from what country belgium ok that's bad ironically they're in dutch which is there's only subtitled it subtitled right and all one important thing is any film that subtitled we will have someone you'll be able to follow what's happening in the film ok so that's coming up on saturday i think we have some trailers of both of those so when we take a look at the preview of xix and rosie and moosa right now and we're back here the special edition of belmont journal with all gentleman from the belmont world film family festival we were looking at a preview of xix and he wanted to say something about the movie right way so sort of it's it's  belgian answer to animal it's a it's a completely animated film and it has almost the look and feel of an animated film but it's but it has a belgian sensibility and it's a good follow up to tito and the birds because it's our whole reason we show films from around the world right yeah so he's actually american but he's dutch and not a bunny there is one episode where he goes to the netherlands ok so that's sunday now let's move ahead to films in the afternoon the st thing we want to talk about and see look let's go and take a look at the preview now for a film called part of a program that is called presented by the real abilities film festival boston what's that about what and are there about children with disabilities ok who who actually go beyond their disability to have a to achieve pretty cool film and we test when we test it people say oh you have to show this film oh yeah and it's really it's amazing it's about some children at a school for the blind and to bat and they want to sing on a reality t v show kind of like an american i don't know where like a day more like america's got talent and so they they escape under the cloak of night and one the one of the one of the children who has partial eyesight and when i but he's about to lose his eyesight so he kind of leads them except that they get caught and so they and they don't want to get caught so they instead of taking a bus they walk i was tibet and china and then they get picked up and all right we're back here with the special edition of belmont journal focusing on the family film festival which is taking place across three theaters between belmont and arlington and includes cambridge it is going has some scary parts so i would recommend if your child doesn't like scary scary things i wouldn't recommend it but it's not too scary because it's animated and it's about you know it's about people who about animals so it's not about  and we're back with belmont journal special edition with gettleman talking about the family film festival now we're up to monday afternoon a film that we're going to be talking about and seen a preview for is jim button and luke the engine driver but all of this doesn't get done by itself this film festival there are some important sponsors you want to mention a couple of them sure sure well i'm happy to say bad we have been supported for many years running by the mass culture council with two generous grants and we're awaiting word from a few other from a few other local cultural councils and pardon us cultural council but also the grab a star foundation and actually the cultural office of the consul general of china ok as a sponsor but are presenting sponsor as jackson while not park school and it's a school they very much like we are made up of a lot of international school lot of culture a lot of nations really right it should but you yeah that's right they can only lead to understanding that we've actually seen it in action where i've where people have watched a film and they never really understood great everybody watched subtitled movies because i enjoyed so many of them when i was a kid growing up and i realize it isn't something that is pushed as much but i think that when you look at films in general there's so much out there that people are  by not just trying to get in the sea you can really follow the action you can follow the emotion of any movie really right and part of the reason why we have the family festival is because films from other countries tend to rely more on story telling the right to special effects or you know there were ok mares you know they may they may be you may be producing a film in belgium or join a but you're thinking about the audience who's going to see it beyond that right right and is very few special effects which that doesn't mean they're boring right but they might do a special effects but it's not c g i it's you know it's a special effect that really wows you you know and the one in the film and in the afternoon on monday is actually one such example eight it's an example of you know you don't we're all one family and you don't have to be family you don't have to be have the same glad to be family but they have this magical train named emma and i can travel even in the desert and there's all sorts of very really amazing magical special effects that are all done with a camera not with the city you know let me ask you a question in the room of time have you seen all these will we see all of them but of course i have back now with all good omen with the family film festival from belmont world film and the closing film of the whole weekend is something called crossroads it's going to have its massachusetts premiere you want to talk a little bit about that movie sure sure so this is a really i know people are tired of inspiration but it's it's a pretty inspirational film it's about a charter school in north carolina and the sports director decides that he wants to start a lacrosse team ok and some of the student there are a lot of low income african american students at the school and he suggests that these students become across players well to them not as a white as snow white but it's actually not i started it africa yeah but it is to them it was a white person's sport and they did they formed a team and they found a coach a former top ophthalmologist and he was looking for something to do as wife actually volunteered him and so was this is a documentary ok it's a time i didn't pick up on that right away but yeah ok yeah so that it's a true story yeah i think we have a clip from crossroads right right so let's take a look at that now will be right back i'm so proud of you guys the little guy really can rise and fight against the big crave me first business will be all right so we're back here and to wrap up our special coverage of the belmont world film family film festival i'm here with ellen gettleman we just saw a preview of crossroads is there anything else you want to tell us about i know there's a lot of stuff you want to talk about we could talk about this for another thirty minutes but  so i think that's why probably people also are inclined to look more at documentaries now more than ever because people are looking for i don't see truth but they will look at a real story that doesn't  members of the military are free and people can buy festival pass for just fifty dollars that gets them admission into every single program that's where it really good value yeah especially our live events are twelve dollars each so that's t four dollars right there ok yeah so we've been here you've been watching a special edition of belmont journal and we've been talking about the family film festival for two thousand and eighteen which runs