Arivaca Independent Filmmakers Exhibition
AREA FILMMAKERS NIGHT
Friday March 1st
6:30pm - 9:00pm
- - - Teaser - - -
The Trail to Yesterday - 1918
a restoration and presevation film project by Bart Santello
In the heart of the silent era of film, Metro Pictures Corporation came to Arivaca, Arizona and
made a feature-length movie. It was released in May of 1918, then disappeared. One
hundred years later, the last surviving degrading nitrate copy was discovered by Arivaca
filmmaker Bart Santello in a film archive in Amsterdam. Now being painstakingly restored,
this this project has several more years work to be preserved in its orignal form. Presented
here will be a 2-min. teaser of this forthcoming restored and reassembled 1918 feature film.
Bart Santello is a experimental filmmaker & photographer.
“ What could be more exciting than to find a lost film, but then add
to that discovery was that it was made in a town where you live.
For the community, the state and film history, it’s both an honor
ans an opportunity you just can’t let go of.” - Bart Santello
Dark Was The Night
a Short film by Adam Ray
Tucson filmmaker Adam Ray will showcase his short work ‘Dark Was the Night” a spooky-
mystery filmed in Arivaca. While stranded in a remote desert a pair of indie filmmaker sleuths
look to find evidence for the existence of the legendary Baboquivari monster.
Will they become stalked by the elusive creature they came to record?
Adam based the concept for the film on a series of articles he wrote for Arivaca’s Connection
newspaper in 2018. Local organic farmer John Rueb at Forever Yong Farm in Moyza, plays ‘the
rancher’ and local filmmaker Bart Santello recorded sound and took part in the production.
Directed by: Adam Ray
Production & Sound: Bart Santello
Production Assistant: Ezra Milla
Starring: A.J. Bailey & Sara Jackson
with John Rueb & Guy Atchley
A Taxman Extertainment Film - 2018
Adam Ray is a independent
filmmaker and photographer from
Tucson. Recent short films
included: Coyote, Bored, Matchbox
and 'The Dome' which won Best of
Arizona at the 2017 Arizona
International Film Festival.
For more information on “The Trail To Yesterday” see this link - - >
a short film by
PAUL McCREARY
Paul McCreary has a knack for drawing and illustration and thus had an idea to turn his
collection into a short film, where cartoon graphics are snapshots that parody life. Paul
has been a regular contributor to the Arivaca Film Exhibition. Previous
screenings include “Slab City” about a eclectic town in the Desert of
California and “Whirlybirds” featuring a retired Green Valley welder who
makes wind-driven yard art. Paul and his wife Becky live in Green Valley.
Anna is an experienced
producer, production
manager and creative
director, who also runs
the business of Creatista.
Scott has 30-years experience
writing, producing, directing and
photographing just about every
sort of media project you can
imagine. Scott's background is in advertising
and marketing.
Özlem Ayse Özgür is a multimedia artist and filmmaker.
She is the creative director of Cool Genie Pictures film
production company. She has worked on numerous
documentary films and shorts, including "Home is in the
Heart," her MFA thesis film on homeless people in San
Francisco, and "Taste Bud Memories," her latest film on
refugees, foodways, and Tucson community members.
She is currently in production with an international team
on the feature documentary "Asikli Höyük."
Taste Bud Memories
is a documentary film
focusing on local food and
refugees in Tucson, AZ. The
film aims to promote
understanding of refugees’
experiences by connecting
food resources, local
geography and the public at
large in a broader discourse
about food and food security
through people’s individual
stories about food. We all eat
food, food is not only the
physical manifestation of our
relationship with the natural
world, it is also the common
denominator across cultures.
Through both food and food
stories we will explore the
experience of refugees who
live in Tucson, and their
similarities with the Tucson
community they are now a
part of. This film is supported
and co-produced by the
Southwest Folklife Alliance
Inc. & Iskashitaa Refugee
Network. Made possible by a
grant from Arizona
Humanities.
CREDITS:
“TASTE BUD MEMORIES”
A Film by Özlem Ayse Özgür
Edited by: Leslie Ann Epperson
Cinematography by Özlem Ayse Özgür a
nd Clarice Bales
Co-Producers: Southwest Folklife Alliance
and Iskashitaa Refugee Network
Produced and Directed by Özlem Ayse Özgür
Cool Genie Pictures Productions /
CoolgeniePictures.com
GARLIC HARVEST at Forever Yong Farm
a mico-short film by Bart Santello
I have been volunteering for the garlic harvest each Spring at
Forever Yong Farms in Moyza on the Arivaca Road. Being good
friends with the owners John and Yong Rueb and seeing the good
spirit of the volunteers and fun surrounding the harvest, I decided
to begin filming and assembling a short documentary on the
Rueb’s and their organic farm. This short work is the beginning of
that documentary project, codified into a micro-short (4-min). It’s a
fun piece that provides the framework for a more comprehensive
film in the future. - Bart Santello, Arivaca, Arizona
Bart Santello is a local
filmmaker and organizer
of the Arivaca Film
Exhibition
Nogales High School International Baccalaureate Students Present
a historical account of Emiliano Zapata a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution
Luke Brennan’s history class at Nogales High School will be showing their latest historical
documentary “Zapata” featuring Arivaca’s Rudy Morales as Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa and
Edgar Tavera as Emiliano Zapata! Zapata is one of the most revered national heroes of the
Mexican Revolution. Zapata was a practical revolutionary who sought the implementation of
liberties and agrarian rights. Luke says this is the student’s most polished work yet.
