BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2347708:Event:15835 DTSTAMP:20120215T060528Z SUMMARY:WE ARE THE MODS DESCRIPTION:WE ARE THE MODS\ndir. E.E. Cassidy\n2009, 35mm, color, 80m ins\n\nJuly 16th - 23rd\nFriday 16th: 7pm, 8:40*, 10:20*\nSaturday 17t h: 12:30\nSunday 18th: 5:20, 7pm, 8:40, 10:20\nMonday 19th: 5pm\nTuesd ay 20th: 9:15\n**Wednesday 21st: 7pm, 8:50\n**Thursday 22nd: 5pm, 10pm \n**Friday 23rd: 7pm, 8:45, 10:30\n\n*screening followed by Q+A with s pecial guests\n\nWinner Audience Award for Best Feature Film and Outst anding Soundtrack and Grand Jury Award Outstanding First US Dramatic F eature and Outstanding Screenwriting, LA Outfest 2009.\n\n\"A coming o f age story set in contemporary Los Angeles following teenage outsider Sadie who, uninspired by the dull humiliating rituals of sorority ini tiation, is devoted to her photography. Excluded from the school's soc ial mainstream, she meets and befriends new girl and fellow social out cast Nico. Part Mary Quant and part Edie Sedgewick, Nico is obsessed w ith mid '60s Mod culture and manages to be a style icon despite having Milroy's disease and walking with a cane. The blossoming friendship b etween the girls introduces Sadie to entirely new experiences, pushing the young photographer far beyond her familiar suburban world.\n\nWit h a storming soundtrack, a cast of exceptional new talent and an eye f or style, We Are The Mods depicts high school friendships and female r elationships without descending to coming-of-age movie cliché or appe aring too knowing. Instead, the film has an authentic and personal fee l that enables a real empathy with the two young women.\" synopsis fro m the Perth Film Festival\n\n**Short film screening before the feature s\nWednesday 21st - BOUTONNIERE is a dark comedy which tracks a simple teenage girl who's forced to endure her overbearing mother's exuberan t plans for a prom she'd rather not attend. It premiered at Sundance 2 009 and went on to win several awards including Best Comedy at the 200 9 LA Shorts Fest. Written and directed by Coley Sohn, BOUTONNIERE star s Wendi McClendon Covey and Sara Swain and features Zachary Quinto. Ru nning time - 10 minutes.\n\nThursday 22nd - OUR NECK OF THE WOODS\nBob Underwood's mundane life manufacturing plastic lawn-ornament deer is disrupted by an enchanting Georgian refugee; he decides to rescue herâ €”whether she needs it or not.\nDirector and Writer: Rob Connolly\n15 mins., color\nhttp://www.mold-o-form.com/\n\nFriday 23rd - MVG TESTS\n Concept, design, choreography and camera by Margo Victor creates an ex perimental self portrait of her admiration for the more ambiguous film s and music of the 60's & 70's. An homage to the influence of Peter Be rlin, Antonioni and Bruce Conner featuring Monique van Genderen and th e music of Eric Dolphy.\nTRT 3 minutes\n16mm color\nDirector: Margo Vi ctor\n\n\n\n\nFor more information visit http://www.downtownindependen t.com/events/we-are-the-mods DTSTART:20100716T080000Z DTEND:20100724T075900Z CATEGORIES:film, mods LOCATION:Downtown Independent WEBSITE:http://www.wearethemods.com URL:http://www.wearethemods.com CONTACT:213.617.1033 ORGANIZER;CN="Downtown Independent":http://www.downtownindependent.com /profile/30fiwdhzvk95d ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/kLhn6*15alFPq ctaqlg4tTXVHKI2xIB8BTXe6848yEwGcbbZJed0T5VH06ES7b*t6ecsxYg-txXrOaJ19aS rdEoprHIMuCEd/watm.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="David As encio":http://www.downtownindependent.com/profile/DavidAsencio ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Cessy Ve ga":http://www.downtownindependent.com/profile/CessyVega ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Max Elch lepp":http://www.downtownindependent.com/profile/MaxElchlepp ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Downtown Independent":http://www.downtownindependent.com/profile/30fiwdhzvk95d ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Vanessa Castro":http://www.downtownindependent.com/profile/VanessaCastro ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Beth De wey":http://www.downtownindependent.com/profile/BethDewey END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR