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Film and Video Series | First Run Independent Films

First Run Independent Film in Madison! In a partnership with The Film Society of Summit, The Thomas Edison Film Festival, and others, we are showing films on our 12.5 foot wide screen with stereo sound in our intimate air-conditioned setting. And we are even selling freshly made popcorn.  Check back here for dates/times and new

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Film Society of Summit: Dancing in Fire: Khalikhane Fire-Walking and Ritual Healing in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal | Saturday June 8 2024 | 3:00 pm

Get Tickets Dancing in Fire Post-film discussion with director Alfred Pach This film documents for the first time the spirit and deity possession seances and the sacred Khalikhane fire-walking ceremony that occurred in a Hindu village in the Kathmandu Valley. It is an audio-visual sensory and multi-storied exploration of the experiences and responses to traumatic

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Film Society of Summit: Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World | Post-film Discussion with Director Michael Fiore | Sunday April 21 | 6:00 pm

Get Tickets VESELKA:  THE RAINBOW ON THE CORNER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD Post-film discussion with director and writer Michael Fiore New York City’s beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka is best known for its borscht and varenyky, but it has become a beacon of hope for Ukraine.  As the second-generation owner Tom Birchard reluctantly retires

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Film Society of Summit: Io Capitano | Sunday March 17 2024 | 5:00 pm

A “reverse shot” of the immigration experience which unfurls an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through

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Oscar-Nominated Short Film Double-Header !!| Friday February 23 2024 |3:00 pm Short Documentaries | 7:30 pm Short Live Action

https://youtu.be/E_sWJNh4Zqk?si=0aUucEfq55JFFUTX So nice, we’re doing it twice!  The Summit Film Society screens two of the three  2024 Oscar-nominated short film categories. 3:00 pm  Short Documentaries7:30 pm   Short Live Action Join us as we celebrate the special release of the year’s most spectacular short documentary and live action films, available to watch on the big screen

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Film Society of Summit: Driving Madeleine | Friday February 2 2024 | 7:30 pm

https://youtu.be/w_ZLwuO2eg8?si=TJ6KkKEuFZMysKSjhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E First Run Independent Film in Madison! The Summit Film Society screens a Drama directed by Christian Carion: Driving Madeleine All screenings are open to the general public. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased ahead of time or at the door. www.summitfilmsociety.com Get Tickets A Parisian taxi race full of humor and revelations”-Cinemania “A

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MLK Day | Monday January 15 2024 1:00 pm | Viewing and Discussion of the film: Ruby Bridges | AAUW of Madison & League of Women Voters Morristown Area

The Madison Branch of the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters of the Morristown Area have teamed up to show the film Ruby Bridges, followed by a discussion moderated by LWV members Dr. Cynthia Samuel and Judy Woop. AAUW Madison Information Link for this event. https://youtu.be/p1bvEbgdwBg?si=wXxX76NmHpjrAD7U Dr. Cynthia Elizabeth Samuel

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Film Society of Summit: Priscilla | Friday January 5 2024 | 7:30 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWk6BohVXk First Run Independent Film in Madison! The Summit Film Society screens a Drama directed by Sophia Coppola: Priscilla All screenings are open to the general public. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased ahead of time or at the door. www.summitfilmsociety.com   Get Tickets When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party,

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Stop Making Sense (40th Anniversary Remix) | Concert Film | Film Society of Summit | With a Post-viewing Conversation | Saturday November 11 2023 | 7:30 pm

Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Oscar-winning Director Demme captures the distinctive style of the legendary musical and visual artists. Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads’ most memorable songs.

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Joan Baez: I Am a Noise | Documentary | Film Society of Summit | With a Post-viewing Conversation | Sunday November 5 2023 | 4:30 pm

At the end of a 60-year career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large, history-making life, and the personal struggles she’s kept private. This immersive doc moves back and forth through time as it follows living folk legend Joan Baez on her farewell tour, covering everything from her civil rights work with MLK to her heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan to her incredible staying power (she’s 82!). Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage.

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Cancelled. RADICAL WOLFE | Documentary | Film Society of Summit | With a Post-viewing Conversation | Friday October 6 2023 | 7:30 pm

In 2015 Michael Lewis (bestselling author of Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short) went to Long Island to meet his hero Tom Wolfe. The result of those trips was the Vanity Fair article How Tom Wolfe Became… Tom Wolfe, which chronicled Tom Wolfe’s amazing arc from small town life in Virginia to the pinnacle of journalism and literature in New York City.

Radical Wolfe is an official adaptation of that article, complete with interviews and analysis from contemporaries, and the first film to chronicle the most impactful, controversial writer in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Film Society of Summit | The Power of Community: How One Town Stood Against Domestic Violence | Monday April 17 2023 | 2:00 PM | Panel Discussion with Kim Clerie and Director Markie Hancock

In the mid-1980s, when abuse insidiously took hold in the lives of three women, a small grassroots group of locals worked with the town of East Hampton and the local Rotary Club to establish a shelter called The Retreat, which opened in 1992. Director Markie Hancock uncovers a narrative of survival and empowerment as she

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Film Society of Summit | Women Talking | Saturday April 15 2023 | 7:30 PM

Nominated for best picture and best adapted screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards. Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand. Movies are back in Madison!! The

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Film Society of Summit | Fire of Love | Friday April 7 2023 | 8:00 PM

From National Geographic Documentary Films comes the extraordinary love story of intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died just as explosively as they lived — capturing the most spectacular imagery ever recorded of their greatest passion: volcanoes. Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the

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Thomas Edison Film Festival | Films on Ukraine | “City of Ghosts” & “Khuylo – War in Ukraine” | Friday March 24 2023 | 7:30 pm

As part of the Madison Community Arts Center’s programming around the month-long exhibit Don’t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War, running from March 1 through April 2, MCAC is partnering with the Thomas Edison Film Festival to present two films (ticket info below): City of Ghosts – City of Ghosts – Narrative – 15 min.

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Spotlight Kids: Workshop Weekend | January 27-29 2023

Spotlight Kids is celebrating ten years of providing performance opportunity to Madison area students by presenting a weekend of professional workshops, masterclasses, performances, Q&A’s, meet and greets, movie nights, and MORE! For specifics, visit the Workshop Weekend event page on the Spotlight Kids Website.

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Movie Night Hosted by Comedian Ian Wolsten: Sunday, August 7 2022 7pm

What could possibly go wrong? Our host, comedian Ian Wolsten and three stand up comics bring some movies to Madison. They try to convince us to watch one of them: Eric Knittel brings “Jackass Forever”Melissa Jouben brings “Saving Silverman”Chelsea Moroski brings “Addams Family Values” You bring a suggested donation of $10 (proceeds benefitting the Newark

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