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San Luis Obispo International Film Festival announces 2015 premieres 

The 21st annual San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) recently announced the premiere screenings of seven new films that will make their debut amidst the hills, beaches and wine country of San Luis Obispo County, California, from March 10 to 15.

“For our festival’s 21st anniversary, we are proud to have assembled a lineup of never-before-seen films, as well as movies and documentaries that are making their first North American, West Coast or Californian debuts,” said Festival Director Wendy Eidson. “As our festival comes of age this year, so too does our commitment to supporting original and independent filmmakers, directors and producers by exposing audiences to their inspiring, funny, thought-provoking, and unforgettable stories.”

World premieres

Frieda Caplan in Fear No Fruit

Frieda Caplan in Fear No Fruit

• Fear No Fruit
Premiere: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 7 p.m. at Alex & Faye Spanos Theatre
Frieda Caplan and Producer/Director Mark Brian Smith will be in attendance for a Q&A. The film chronicles the career of Frieda Caplan (the “Queen of Kiwi”), the first woman to break into the L.A. wholesale produce business, introducing more than 200 exotic fruits and vegetables to the U.S., and culminating in San Luis Obispo, at Cal Poly State University, where the tireless 91-year-old received an honorary doctorate last June, 2014.

• Dream On
Premiere: Friday, March 13, 10 a.m. Downtown Cinemas
Director/Producer: Roger Weisberg
In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the journey of Alexis de Tocqueville and investigates the perilous state of the American Dream after decades of rising income inequality and declining economic mobility.

Out and Around

The subjects of Out and Around, Jenni Chang & Lisa Dazols

• Out & Around
Directors: Ryan Suffern & Lauren Fash
Producers: Megan Oliveira & Susan Graham
Premiere: Friday, March 13, 2015, 7 p.m. Mission Cinemas
In attendance for Q&A will be the subjects of the documentary, Jenni Chang & Lisa Dazols, directors Ryan Suffern & Lauren Fash, producers Susan Graham & Megan Oliveira, and executive director of the “It Gets Better” Project, Ted Farley. When Jenni and Lisa vowed to follow a life of adventure together, they had no idea that their promise would lead them to leave their 9-5 jobs, pick up a video camera, and travel through Asia, Africa and South America in search of the people who are leading the movement for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality.

• Sabre Dance
Director: Ilya Rozhkov
Premiere: Thursday, March 12, 7:30 p.m., La Perla Del Mar
In this delightful and quirky short film, after giving a performance to the people of Spain, world-famous composer Aram Khachaturian is showered with praise and even gets an opportunity to meet Salvador Dali.

• My Name Is David
Director: Chris Gallego Wong
Producers: Keith Powell & Jonathan Whittaker
Premiere: Saturday, March 14, 4 p.m. Downtown Cinemas
Director Christopher Gallego Wong and co-writer/ actor Keith Powell will be in attendance for Q&A. An obsessive-compulsive workaholic with a severe addiction to prescription drugs finds an abandoned package that could be the key to his happiness, or the catalyst that spirals his world completely out of control.

North American premiere

• The Emissary
Director: Rudy Dobrev
Producers: Rudy Dobrev & Andrea Harrison
Premiere: Friday, March 13, 7 p.m. Palm Theatre
Emmy-award winning actress Margo Martindale (August Osage County) plays the lead in this film loosely based on Bellini’s opera Norma and inspired by the final days of opera legend Maria Callas.

West coast premiere

• Girl On The Edge
Premiere: Friday, March 13, 6 p.m. Fremont Theater
Director: Jay Silverman
Producers: Bethany Cerrona & Jay Silverman
Director Jay Silverman and actress Taylor Spreitler will be in attendance for Q&A. Hannah Green—a seemingly normal teenager with a tragic past—is targeted, manipulated, and victimized by an online predator through a dating app and struggles to regain stability in her life with the help of an unconventional adolescent treatment program that uses equine or horse therapy to empower its troubled girls.

California premiere

Hollywood Don't Surf raises the question, “Will Hollywood ever get it right?”

Hollywood Don’t Surf raises the question, “Will Hollywood ever get it right?”

• Hollywood Don’t Surf
Co-directed by Greg MacGillivray and Sam George
Premiere: Surf Nite in SLO, Thursday, March 12 at 6 p.m. Fremont Theatre.
Following screening, Greg MacGillivray will present the 4thAnnual Spotlight Award to Writer/Director, John Milius. Also in attendance: Big Wednesday cast members Gary Busey, William Katt, Lee Purcell, Denny Aaberg, Darrell Fetty, Rick Dano and surfers Ian Cairns and Peter Townend. The ultimate celebration and dissection of surfing highlighted in Hollywood movies, the feature-length documentary film looks at surf films through the lens and insights of various movie titans, A-list directors, stars and surf legends, and raises the question, “Will Hollywood ever get it right?”

To learn more about the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, visit SLOfilmfest.org, or email Festival Director Wendy Eidson at wendy@slofilmfest.org.

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