Classic, amateur and international film fans all have somewhere to be as local film festivals get rolling this week.
The Driftwood Players “Classic Movies” film series continues at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, with Blake Edwards’ 1961 comedy “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.
Based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same title, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” is the story of Holly Golightly (Hepburn), a young, jet-setting woman in New York City who meets a young man Paul Varjan (Peppard), when he moves into her apartment building. He is being kept by a wealthy, older woman, but wants to be a writer. She is working as a high-priced escort and searching for a rich, older man to marry. Things get complicated when they each in turn falls for, and inspire, the other.
Tickets are $5 general per film, available by calling 425-774-9600 or at www.driftwoodplayers.com. The film screens at the Wade James Theatre, located at 950 Main St., Edmonds.
Edmonds Community College’s annual International Film Festival continues Feb. 10 with 2001’s “Kandahar,” a haunting, open-ended drama by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh). Set (and shot) during the Taliban era in Afghanistan, it chronicles an Afghani-Canadian woman’s search (based on the actress’ real experience) through the harsh and beautiful landscape of Afghanistan for her despondent sister.
Co-sponsored with the University of Washington’s Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center, the films show at 4:30 and 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Feb. in 128 Mountlake Terrace Hall, on the college’s campus, located at 20000 68th Ave. W. in Lynnwood. Admission is free and the series is open to the public. For more information call 425-640-1313.
The Cascadia Community College Festival of Short Films features a day of informative sessions with Hollywood professionals and short films submitted by students from universities, community colleges and high schools from the Puget Sound region. Awards will be provided for best film, best documentary, best animation, best high school film and best film voted by the audience. The city of Bothell TV station will also air the winners on BCTV 21.
The Festival of Short Films will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7 in Cascadia’s building. Each session is $15, or an all-day pass is available for $40. For a complete schedule and registration information, go to www.cascadia.ctc.edu and click on the film festival link, or call 425-352-8862.
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