DECEMBER 1
FILMS & GUEST SPEAKERS
7:30 PM
Short Film
FELIX
6 mins | Directed by: Allison Otto
Twice a month for the last 40 years, Felix Belmont has hosted a radio show on KVNF in the small town of Paonia, Colorado, spinning big band music of the ‘30s and ‘40s. Today, at 99 years old, he is believed to be the world’s oldest public radio host. In this endearing short film, Belmont shares the ingredients to life well-lived: a great love affair, a rich relationship with music and just the right amount of top-shelf scotch.
Feature Film
SATAN & ADAM
79 mins | Directed by: V. Scott Balcerek
One day, in the 1980s, a young white man, badly bruised by a failed affair of the heart, finds himself in Harlem and stops to listen to a street musician playing the blues. Nervous that he is the sole white face to be seen in any direction but compelled by the force of the street performer’s music, he asks if he can play along on his harmonica. Thus is born a most unlikely but enduring partnership. No less unlikely, the almost inconceivable course of that partnership’s trajectory is tracked by the filmmakers through its entire 22-year history.
Post-Film Q&A
Q&A WITH SCOTT BALCEREK
2018 Filmmaker – Satan & Adam
Scott Balcerek is a filmmaker and musician. He produced and edited More Than A Game, a feature documentary about LeBron James, which was released by Lionsgate and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He also directed RePlay, a Gatorade branded doc series featuring Eli and Peyton Manning that received numerous advertising accolades, including eight Gold Lions at Cannes. Prior, Balcerek was the senior visual effects editor for George Lucas’ Star Wars films Episodes I and II, as well as Ang Lee’s The Hulk and Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm. He attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles while editing a short documentary, Street Songs, which received a Student Academy Award. He spent more than 20 years shooting his most recent film, Satan & Adam (Mountainfilm 2018). It is his first feature film as a director.
