SQUEEGEE BANDIT COMES CLEAN IN EUGENE
Happenings:
New Zealand documentary film SQUEEGEE BANDIT returns to DIVA gallery for screenings Friday Jan. 23 and Saturday Jan. 24 at 7pm. DIVA and Laughing Matters have brought the film back in response to demand for more showings after Squeegee Bandit screened as part of the Eugene Celebration Film Festival in September.
Director Sándor Lau, who now resides in Eugene, will attend and answer questions after the screenings.
Squeegee Bandit tells the story of Starfish, a Maori man who survives by washing car windows at intersections on the mean streets of South Auckland, New Zealand. The film follows Starfish’s struggles through nine months, three cars, two women, thirty residences, three weeks of homelessness, a hundred run-ins with the cops, one court date, a kilo of marijuana, a closet full of skeletons, finding God and the Zen of window washing.
Squeegee Bandit is the winner of several awards, including an Air New Zealand Screen Award (NZ's Oscars) and has played in film festivals in seven countries. The film was released theatrically in New Zealand and earned four-star reviews from New Zealand’s largest newspapers, the New Zealand Herald and Sunday Star-Times.
"I wanted to tell a small, intimate, story of one man’s life to tell a big story about sin and redemption and the human soul. With everything I do, I try to craft characters so the audience can see themselves in the people on screen," says the director. Lau, who went to New Zealand to attend film school as a US Fulbright Scholar, stayed seven years and has recently returned to the US. Mr. Lau has been a resident of Eugene since 2007.
Admission $5 at the door. DIVA is at 110 W. Broadway.
More at: www.squeegeebandit.com. To schedule interviews or receive preview screeners, contact: Katina Andoniadis | Laughing Matters | (541) 505-4721 | katina@laughmat.com Trailer, high-resolution stills and audio clips: http://www.squeegeebandit.com/press_kit.html~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Katina just finished production on an educational video working with the fine folks of Behind the Scenes Productions . Producer, Director Deb McManman set Katina and fellow actor, Greg Black, loose to improvise their way through scenes playing all the characters in the video. While the topic is a serious one, Celiac Disease, Ms. McManman wanted to create a fun video that instructs people on how to enjoy life in spite of their diagnosis. Stay tuned for the release date and a brief video clip
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Katina Adapts Jungle Book for Dance Theatre of Oregon
After last year's sold out performances of Pippi Longstocking, DTO brings to the stage a colorful new interpretation of the Rudyard Kipling classic. Adapted for the stage by award winning playwright Katina Andoniadis and directed by Pamela Lehan-Siegel and Marc Siegel, the poignant tale comes to life in music, dance, poetry and drama. Meet Mowgli and his friends and foes as the young performers of the DTO II Children's Company lead this lively Jungle Book drama! Also on the program is the premiere of Midway composed by Ken Malucelli, highlighting the energetic DTO I Company in new choreography.
Hult Center – Soreng Theater
Friday, February 1 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 2 at 2:30 pm
http://www.HultCenter.org
http://dtodance.org/
Hey I won!! - My one act play, A Whole New Life, won first place in the National 2007 League for Innovation in Community College Student Literary Competition.
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Other Events:
Laughing Matters: Inner Spaces Workshop
presented by Director Katina Andoniadis
Laughing Matters: Inner Spaces combines improvisational theatre and dance, releasing us to explore our artistic selves. A Laughing Matters: Inner Spaces workshop is a time for playful exploration and joyful discoveries. Come laugh, play and dance with us!
The hero’s journey we make through this life involves challenge, growth and change. We might as well have a good time along the way. And life is much more fun when it’s spent with a crowd of folks singing, laughing and holding one another up. As they say, “It’s all good” Laughing matters! Let’s play!
For more info and to pre-register please contact: Laughing Matters Katina Andoniadis 541-505-4721 laugh@laughmat.com
Laughing Matters: Laffercize
A hilarious body, mind and spirit workout
Laughter is a great therapeutic device, morale booster, and fun raiser. There's nothing like a good laugh to link people together and to stimulate creative processes.
Laughing Matters offers a series of laughter workshops for groups, organizations and private parties. Laughing Matters workshops are custom built to meet your needs. Get a group of folks together and Director Katina Andoniadis will lead a 2-hour workshop designed to get the funny bone tickled.
Laughing Matters workshops introduce a variety of theatre games and exercises to playfully open people up to hidden parts of themselves to make joyful discoveries about who they are, how they tick and to gain a better understanding of others. It's fun, fast paced, and releases us in new ways.
Director Katina Andoniadis' favorite style of theatre is improvisational because it asks that we be spontaneous and true to the moment. The experience is exhilarating in that it asks the participant to find what is True right there in the moment.
A Laughing Matters workshop is a time for playful exploration and joyful discoveries. Come laugh, play and dance with us!
Giggle Parties. Laugh Sessions. Good times guaranteed for all. For more info: info@laughmat.com 541-505-4721
Improvise World Peace Empathy Training Workshop
What do these hard hitting issues have to do with you? A lot! These are the very issues that destroy a thriving community from the inside out. Where do these problems come from? How do we address what is hidden?
Improvise World Peace is a workshop that is designed to allow people to look into themselves in a non-confrontational format and to discern the roots of pre-judgement. What causes us to avoid a person before we take the time to get to know them? How do other people see you? What type of "messages" are you sending?
Improvise World Peace uses theatre games and exercises to stimulate dialogue around hidden issues. Groups work together to playfully uncover the sources of prejudice. This is a fun and lively way to make discoveries about alienation and "otherness".
For more info: info@laughmat.com 541-505-4721
