As part of our Black, Bold & Brilliant series, Utah Film Center, in partnership with KRCL, is excited to announce our upcoming film screening and post-discussion of Blurring the Color Line – Wednesday, December 6th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Library. What did it mean to be Chinese in Black spaces during segregation? Follow director Crystal Kwok’s journey of discovery, as she digs into the ways her grandmother’s family navigated life as grocery store owners in the black neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia. Blurring the Color Line is a personal family story told alongside memories from the larger Chinese and Black communities in Georgia, which opens up uncomfortable but necessary conversations around anti-Black racism and the deeply rooted structure of white power and Chinese patriarchy. Which fountain did the Chinese drink from? Where did they sit on the bus? An important entrance into all of our connected histories which many of us never knew or dared speak about. Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team and Ze Min Xiao, President and CEO of the Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging. Purchase your ticket at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/blurring-the-color-line

Watch trailer HERE https://youtu.be/ApVNh-eF6Lg?feature=shared

As part of our Black, Bold & Brilliant series, Utah Film Center, in partnership with KRCL, is excited to announce our upcoming film screening and post-discussion of Blurring the Color Line – Wednesday, December 6th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Library. What did it mean to be Chinese in Black spaces during segregation? Follow director Crystal Kwok’s journey of discovery, as she digs into the ways her grandmother’s family navigated life as grocery store owners in the black neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia. Blurring the Color Line is a personal family story told alongside memories from the larger Chinese and Black communities in Georgia, which opens up uncomfortable but necessary conversations around anti-Black racism and the deeply rooted structure of white power and Chinese patriarchy. Which fountain did the Chinese drink from? Where did they sit on the bus? An important entrance into all of our connected histories which many of us never knew or dared speak about. Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team and Ze Min Xiao, President and CEO of the Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging. Purchase your ticket at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/blurring-the-color-line

Watch trailer HERE https://youtu.be/ApVNh-eF6Lg?feature=shared

As part of our Black, Bold & Brilliant series, Utah Film Center, in partnership with KRCL, is excited to announce our upcoming film screening and post-discussion of Blurring the Color Line – Wednesday, December 6th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Library. What did it mean to be Chinese in Black spaces during segregation? Follow director Crystal Kwok’s journey of discovery, as she digs into the ways her grandmother’s family navigated life as grocery store owners in the black neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia. Blurring the Color Line is a personal family story told alongside memories from the larger Chinese and Black communities in Georgia, which opens up uncomfortable but necessary conversations around anti-Black racism and the deeply rooted structure of white power and Chinese patriarchy. Which fountain did the Chinese drink from? Where did they sit on the bus? An important entrance into all of our connected histories which many of us never knew or dared speak about. Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team and Ze Min Xiao, President and CEO of the Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging. Purchase your ticket at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/blurring-the-color-line

Watch trailer HERE https://youtu.be/ApVNh-eF6Lg?feature=shared

As part of our Black, Bold & Brilliant series, Utah Film Center, in partnership with KRCL, is excited to announce our upcoming film screening and post-discussion of Blurring the Color Line – Wednesday, December 6th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Library. What did it mean to be Chinese in Black spaces during segregation? Follow director Crystal Kwok’s journey of discovery, as she digs into the ways her grandmother’s family navigated life as grocery store owners in the black neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia. Blurring the Color Line is a personal family story told alongside memories from the larger Chinese and Black communities in Georgia, which opens up uncomfortable but necessary conversations around anti-Black racism and the deeply rooted structure of white power and Chinese patriarchy. Which fountain did the Chinese drink from? Where did they sit on the bus? An important entrance into all of our connected histories which many of us never knew or dared speak about. Featuring a roundtable discussion by the Black, Bold & Brilliant team and Ze Min Xiao, President and CEO of the Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging. Purchase your ticket at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/blurring-the-color-line

Watch trailer HERE https://youtu.be/ApVNh-eF6Lg?feature=shared

Utah Film Center’s Through the Lens Fall Film Series, in partnership with KUER’s Radiowest, is offering the community a FREE film screening of the documentary, Subject on Wednesday, December 13th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Public Library. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022, Subject examines documentary film participants in acclaimed films such as The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square - examining the highs and lows that commercial success has on these individuals and ethics and responsibilities inherent to documentary filmmaking. Following the film, KUER's Radiowest host, Doug Fabrizio, hosts a lively discussion with film subject and filmmaker, Margaret Ratliff. Register for this FREE event at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/subject/ Watch the Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOsTLb07Jg

Utah Film Center’s Through the Lens Fall Film Series, in partnership with KUER’s Radiowest, is offering the community a FREE film screening of the documentary, Subject on Wednesday, December 13th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Public Library. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022, Subject examines documentary film participants in acclaimed films such as The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square - examining the highs and lows that commercial success has on these individuals and ethics and responsibilities inherent to documentary filmmaking. Following the film, KUER's Radiowest host, Doug Fabrizio, hosts a lively discussion with film subject and filmmaker, Margaret Ratliff. Register for this FREE event at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/subject/ Watch the Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOsTLb07Jg

Utah Film Center’s Through the Lens Fall Film Series, in partnership with KUER’s Radiowest, is offering the community a FREE film screening of the documentary, Subject on Wednesday, December 13th at 7 pm at the Downtown Salt Lake City Public Library. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022, Subject examines documentary film participants in acclaimed films such as The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square - examining the highs and lows that commercial success has on these individuals and ethics and responsibilities inherent to documentary filmmaking. Following the film, KUER's Radiowest host, Doug Fabrizio, hosts a lively discussion with film subject and filmmaker, Margaret Ratliff. Register for this FREE event at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/subject/ Watch the Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOsTLb07Jg

Bea Arthur as the owner of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Long scenes entirely of Wookies bleating at each other, without subtitles. Harvey Korman, in drag, as a four-armed Space Julia Child. Six minutes of Jefferson Starship performing for Art Carney and a bored Imperial Guard. Mark Hamill, fresh from his near-fatal motorcycle accident, slathered in pancake makeup. A salacious holographic burlesque from Diahann Carroll. Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.” Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day? To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared—a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today. Kozak explains how the Special was one piece of a PR blitz undertaken by Lucas and his colleagues as they sought to protect the emerging franchise from hostile studio executives. He shows how, despite the involvement of some of the most talented people in the business, creative differences between movie and television writers led to a wildly uneven product. He gives entertaining accounts of the problems that plagued production, which included a ruinously expensive cantina set; the acrimonious departure of the director and Lucas himself; and a furious Grace Slick, just out of rehab, demanding to be included in the production. ​ Packed with memorable anecdotes, drawing on extensive new interviews with countless people involved in the production, and told with mingled affection and bewilderment, this never-before-told story gives a fascinating look at a strange moment in pop-culture history that remains an object of fascination even today. Please join us for what may be the most fun we have all year with author Steve Kozak, as he reads from, discusses, and signs copies of his new book, A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened. This event is free and open to the public, and will begin shortly after 7 :00 p.m.

This screening of Church and State is in honor of Utah’s 10th anniversary of the Marriage Equality Act. Featuring a post-film discussion with director Holly Tuckett, hosted by Doug Fabrizio.

An inexperienced gay activist joins forces with a tiny Salt Lake City law firm to try and topple Utah's ban on gay marriage. The lawsuit soon paves the way for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalizes same-sex unions nationwide.

You can reserve your spot at: https://utahfilmcenter.eventive.org/schedule/655287bd864b900039e351cc

Utah Film Center is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Utah’s Marriage Equality Act with a free community film screening of the documentary "Church & State", on Wednesday, December 20th at 7pm at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake. "Church & State" is the improbable story of a brash, inexperienced gay activist and a tiny Salt Lake City law firm that joins forces to topple Utah’s gay marriage ban. The film’s ride on the bumpy road to equality in Utah offers a glimpse at the Mormon church’s influence in state politics and the squabbles inside the gay community that nearly derailed a chance to make history. "Church & State" is a story of triumph, setback and a little-known lawsuit that should have failed, but instead paved the way for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay unions nationwide. Following the film Doug Fabrizio will host a post-film conversation with "Church & State" film director Holly Tuckett. Reserve your FREE spot at: https://utahfilmcenter.org/film/church-state/ Watch the Film Trailer at: https://youtu.be/Q215_EU1zDo