Directed and edited by

Guido Santi and Tina Mascara

Executive Producers:

Andrew Herwitz, James White

Producers:

Julia Scott, Tina Mascara, Guido Santi, James White

Camera:

Ralph Q. Smith

Music:

Miriam Cutler

Screening Format:

DigiBeta

C

hris and Don: A Love Story is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From IsherwoodÕs Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany (the inspiration for his most famous work) to the coupleÕs first meeting on the sun-kissed beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life by a treasure trove of multimedia. BachardyÕs contemporary reminiscences (in the Santa Monica home he shared with Isherwood until his death in 1986) artfully interact with archival footage, rare home movies (with glimpses of glitterati pals W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky and Tennessee Williams), reenactments, and, most sweetly, whimsical animations based on the cat-and-horse cartoons the pair used in their personal correspondence. With IsherwoodÕs status as an out-and-proud gay maverick, and BachardyÕs eventual artistic triumph away from the considerable shadow of his life partner, Chris and Don: A Love Story is above all a joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple (Zeitgeist Films). Watch the trailer for Chris and Don: A Love Story.

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Zeitgeist Films in presenting Chris and Don: A Love Story.

Preceded by

Awkward

(Canada, 2008, 7 mins.)

Directed by

Kellie Benz

Producers:

Kellie Ann Benz, Christopher Shyer

With

Sasa Brown, Christopher Shyer, Lucie Guest, Jennifer McLean, Benjamin Arthur, Geoff Gustafson, Sarah Edmondson

Screening Format:

Beta SP

A

dinner party conversation is going smoothly until the kid sister arrives in this satire of social decorum. Probably the least Canadian Canadian film that you will ever see.

Rating:

Recommended for mature audiences.

Contemporary Arts Alliance wishes to acknowledge the partnership of Kellie Benz in presenting Awkward.

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