popcorn tonight we're having a special show because we have on guests from the trenton film society to talk about two of their upcoming programs in march one is the regular oscar shorts program that they have had and the other is their regular film festival that they have films independent films from all over the world mostly short but sometimes some features as well a whole also from the trenton film society but she's a longtime volunteer just recently become part of the back office heiress backstage or whatever they call it at the trenton films ready so first i guess we'll talk about the us chris short program which is coming up when march first or third thursday friday and saturdays right before the oscars their brilliance and tell people how they can for the oscar shorts is you can buy a double feature and in addition with these seeing the movies there's also a reception that follows that that's twenty five dollars otherwise the ticket price i believe is ten dollars for each legion things that saturday night march third starts at six thirty pm and it's the animated shorts first and then the thirty minute interim ition where we'll have  random drawing from the correct winners in each category to get a pass to go to the trenton film vessel which is at the end of the month and the pass gives you access to all fifty three  lot of time with the shorts with me so let's talk a little bit about the oscar shorts and in those three categories animated films often because they are  when the homeowner has disappeared and you know it's just amazing all over the house in the kitchen in the pool you know your traditional fairy tales but with a twist and so there's it's sort of a retelling of little red riding hood snow white and the three little pigs combined together and modern to yeah how about the live action you have any favorites there are are just quickly to go over yeah it seems are sure yeah i mean i feel like  the live action films lot of the themes are really about how human connections can overcome crisis adversity you know being trapped you think there's a reason  documentary short some of which are not very short but yeah most years they're not very short yes but this year and i think in years past they've been often very difficult subjects and this year it's there are some difficult subjects timely the and but i feel like again there is there is a lot of hope in these documentaries which is very heartening the one that really was very positive is the one about the restaurant th is giving jobs to x convicts and training them in culinary arts yeah and giving them a chance to work and that was my favorite just i love food and it was you like that was a great s night i think we should say that the documentary category is split into two programs because they are longer so there's two different documentary programs that you can get tickets for or you can get a double feature of rights and we're showing them as a double feature together because and and both on the same they're not so easy and friendly program all five films are showing thursday in their entirety and we have an intermission and we'll have complimentary refreshments to you know so everybody can take a little break and then friday again the full program all five films so it's it's a hefty you know it's  say it's very easy to get to harry park at yes yes yes should not be put off by then and all right in fact i noted to make sure that we mentioned it that there was free parking at an average alley right by our works and then just walk is no reassurance right so the other program is also at the mail help write house and one of the dates for that one second through the twenty fifth so that is for full day thursday friday saturday and sunday then i would say to you listening to you discuss the after shorts a lot of the themes seem to be repeated so we have you know these not yet professional filmmakers i guess  doing you know very similar work to what you're going to see you know for sure yeah definitely so do you have any local filmmakers this year yes quite a few i mean we're just talking about  we have a number of films from pretty talented student filmmakers oh a documentary by a student from t c n j two other documentaries by villanova student and a lot of them so those three documentaries all sort of cover people overcoming adversity there's one about hope works which is a nonprofit in camden theirs which is called hope works a film called gold medal is about the special olympics and the other film people first is about a t c and a program for students with special needs  i'm not sure but also the filmmakers are coming it's exciting to be a titan to and i believe then possibly with their professors as well you know it'll be interesting to hear about the process and you having any kind of panel discussion on filmmaking  is storytelling you know when filmmakers go into the process of telling a story either about community or people that they have the perspective both kind of as an insider and sore and as an outsider so it sort of will be a discussion about their process like how do they go about telling this story and you know finding that that piece so it should be i mean i think it's really great yeah  primarily documentaries but maybe possibly some fictional films yes to for instance that we have we have a number of films that talk about you know  kind of like repression of gave you know being able to express one's mind sexuality like there's a i mean i don't think the filmmakers coming but but these are all great themes we had we do have one animated film with homosexuals theme and sort of coming to terms with that so sort of yeah the process of telling someone else's story in the case of like you know special effects team or telling one's own story and how to navigate  outlet to get these films seen outside of their country and again just some really powerful reims really well we should say that iran has a fantastic filmmaking tradition yeah it was kind of at one point considered like the new way of yeah yeah yeah realism you know yeah and curious to me i don't think people should think well that's a culture i don't understand it because one of the things these do these films do is bring people together and you techniques that it's like it's like a moving parts work rather than than a story but if you can get some sort of feeling from that as really a narrative then is there anything like that this here th kind of experimental music just sort of like a visual poem soundpost yeah so it's great that we get this you know kind of a real mix of yeah and some of it in very diverse for sure and that yes some of the spoken words are spoken words so yeah big range there why don't we just go over again exactly what the times are with the for the festival evenings day  ticket for this yet so trenton film festival is march twenty second second through the twenty fifth so the first night begins thursday at seven o'clock then continues again on friday starting at seven and then again at nine then we do saturday eleven saturday one fifteen three forty five is six o'clock and then eight fifteen so saturday is definitely the marathon and then coming back again sunday and as we mentioned the first thing we'll do to kick off today at twelve thirty will be the panel discussion followed by documentary  who attend the festival maryland has service industry for who you know watch the films within each category and make decisions on the best documentary the best animated etc but then numbers can be involved in the awards process because we do an audience favorite award and so which is often been a local film yes definitely people who bring their family and friends yeah know they have been really they have been really good here exactly so yes so we encourage anybody who comes to fill out their ballots to vote for their favorite films you can vote it's all it's a ranking system so you avon adult has got it down i don't i don't understand yeah she did i don't understand the system but i just trust her do you know get the tallies figure out the way to i just want to encourage our viewers there are so many reasons to stay home now with the things that are streaming and you can see short films now yes like you did anywhere but it's really fun to see them with other people yeah and then when it's over you discuss you may have been provoked about something but you've got some people right there and you can talk yeah i as opposed to seeing it at home alone it's really really really we're still doing film festivals playing a role in  keeping up a film can you know communication about film definitely a yeah and i thank you all the film talk a little bit about our lives you know you know is find one little kernel that applies you know definitely and carrie and i were both involved with the selection and will be the festival we get a lot of submissions we've got over i think a hundred and sixty six this year and so two thirds of the films that were submitted didn't you know didn't make assess was very carefully selected and curated and we have a panel of jurors who watches the films at least three up to maybe five people watch every have watched every single film rated them and then of those we on the selection committee sort of looked at the top rankings and you know so a lot of care is this sort of what you're saying yeah yeah so a lot a lot goes into it and and we see things emerge you know as i said we talk about perseverance overcoming adversity with a lot of films about the relation of relationship between children  parents and so when we put the films together we think about these things yes sort of expressing yourself expressing your sexuality being able to be brave enough to do that look you know there are the that yeah so there's just you know we hope that you can common you know that yes well please it's almost at a time where well i just want to thank you for coming and you know about the film and what you know you're in for yes ok yeah so please do patronize the trenton film festival which is going to be in the middle of march and then early march there's the oscar shorts in the same place mill hill playhouse in trenton