Do you love foreign and independent films?

Would you like to become involved in the MacNider Art Museum's Foreign and Independent Film Series?

Here are several ways that YOU can help:

• Volunteer - All the films in the Foreign and Independent Film Series are chosen by a volunteer film committee. The committee meets periodically to select films, choose showing dates, and fundraise.
• Donate to the Film Fund - It costs over $200 to show each film. This fee covers shipping and copyright costs. A donation, in any amount, will help the Foreign and Independent Film Series stay free and open to the public for years to come.
• Come and Watch the Films!! - The Film Series would not be possible without all our loyal Foreign and Independent Film Series viewers. THANK YOU!

For more information about the Foreign and Independent Film Series please e-mail Mara Linskey or call 641-421-3666.

We had a wonderful response to 2008's Films in February, Movies in March! Thank you to everyone who attended the films and shared your positive responses. Below is a listing of the films shown in the 2008 series.

Sunday, February 3:

LA VIE EN ROSE
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, legendary French singer Edith Piaf's life is explored in this biopic. Raised in poverty, Piaf's magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the biggest stars of the period made her a star known around the world as the Little Sparrow. But her attempts to tame her tragic destiny resulted in her untimely death. In French and English with English subtitles

HBO Films; Directed by Olivier Dahan; Rated PG-13; 140 minutes; 2007

Sunday, February 10:

WHO THE @#%$^ IS JACKSON POLLACK?
Teri Horton, a 73 year-old long-haul truck driver, picked up a painting in a thrift shop. When she attempted to sell it in a garage sale, a local art teacher recognized the painting as a possible work by famed American artist Jackson Pollock. What followed pitted a blue-collar worker against the highest and mightiest people in the art world and would perhaps change forever the way art is authenticated.

Documentary Feature; Picturehouse; Directed by Harry Moses; Rated PG-13; 74 minutes; 2007

Sunday, February 17:

SWIMMING UPSTREAM
This true story tells of young Aussie Tony Fingleton growing up in a home with a drunken abusive father who is always pitting his sons against one another. Tony discovers his talent in swimming and also finds that his champion stroke might be his only chance to win his father's heart. He went on to be one of Australia's most famous and beloved swimmers.

MGM/UA; Directed by Russell Mulcahy; Rated PG-13; 114 minutes; 2005

Sunday, February 24:

PAPER CLIPS
This compelling documentary tells the story of a rural Tennessee middle school class that goes on a quest to collect six million paperclips to represent each Jewish person killed in the Holocaust.

Documentary Feature; Miramax Films; Directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab; Rated G; 82 minutes; 2004

Sunday, March 2:

DEEP WATER
This film documents a disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race. Amateur Donald Crowhurst takes off in a cobbled together trimaran in an effort to save his family with the huge cash prize. When he gets into trouble with his boat he makes a decision to cheat on the home stretch and this film follows both the race and the way the sea gripped and changed everyone who challenged it.

Documentary Feature; IFC Films; Directed by Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell; Rated PG; 92 minutes; 2007

Sunday, March 9:

PAN'S LABYRINTH
This chilling fairytale is set against the backdrop of the fascist regime in 1944 Spain. Ofelia is a lonely and dreamy child who finds a magical world inside a stone labyrinth, where she encounters the legendary faun Pan, who tells her she must complete three dangerous tasks to return to her underground home. Ofelia uses this fantasy world to deal with the real world filled with post-war Fascist repression. In Spanish with English subtitles

Picturehouse; Directed by Guillermo del Tgoro; Rated R; 112 minutes; 2007

All films will be shown at the MacNider Art Museum's Salsbury Room on Sundays at 2 pm unless otherwise noted.

Special thanks toThe MacNider Film Committee and to our sponsors who make this film series possible:
Terry MacGregor, Dr. Bob Powell, Dean Genth, Louise Kaufman, Kathy Kinsey, Johanna Morgan and generous individual sponsors.