| Please note: This retreat will be offered twice this year. For landlubbers: July 4-6 at the Pauline Center for Media Studies, Culver City. For ocean lovers: October 10-13: a Carnival Paradise Cruise: Long Beach-Ensenada, Mexico-Long Beach. For all information, including cost, visit www.WordnetTravel.com, click on Groups, and click on Catholic Media Cruise.
"The magic of movies and the Sacraments. The Holy Spirit revealed in challenging, surprising and delightful ways. Creative interchange. Mutual support. Imaginations on fire! Not bad for a retreat.
What a great experience!"
--Bob Bonnot, Deeper Dimensions |
Date: Friday, July 4 – Sunday, July 6, 2008
(The deadline for registration is June 28, 2008)
Location: Pauline Center for Media Studies
3908 Sepulveda Blvd
Culver City , CA 90230
pcms@paulinemedia.com
Web site: www.NationalFilmRetreat.org
“No motion picture subgenre has had so perplexing a success as the food movie. Generally defined as an arty romance centered around elegant cuisine, the food movie jumped to success with 1987's Babette's Feast, and kept its audience through such acclaimed sleepers as Like Water For Chocolate (the 1992 adaptation of Laura Esquivel's novel) and 1996's Big Night (a tale of two restaurant-owning Italians whose brotherhood is united through their culinary art). More recently, big studios have tackled the food movie's commercial prospects, leaving us with the Oscar-nominated Chocolat (2000) and Simply Irresistible (1999), in which Sarah Michelle Gellar is transformed into a brilliant chef through the help of her magical pet crab. Where these films thrive is in their ability to make audiences wish they could be eating that which they're confined to looking at….” Mark Palermo, The Odd Success of the Food Movie
“THE MAGIC OF MOVIES AND THE SACRAMENTS . THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED IN CHALLENGING , SURPRISING AND DELIGHTFUL WAYS . CREATIVE INTERCHANGE . MUTUAL SUPPORT . IMAGINATIONS ON FIRE ! NOT BAD FOR A RETREAT . W HAT A GREAT EXPERIENCE !”
--REV . BOB BONNOT , DEEPER DIMENSIONS
The National Film Retreat is an inter-faith project
of the Partnership for Spirituality and Film and the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals
The National Film Retreat is sponsored by
- Catholics in Media Associates, Hollywood
- Daughters of St. Paul , Boston , MA
- Deeper Dimensions, Los Angeles
- Loyola Productions, Los Angeles
- Family Theater Productions, Los Angeles
- Frank Frost Productions, Washington , DC
- Open Call, Hollywood, CA
- Pauline Center for Media Studies, Los Angeles
- St. Anthony Messenger Press, Cincinnati , OH
- Franciscan Friars, St. John the Baptist Province , Cincinnati , OH
And endorsed by
- Catholic Communicators of Southern California , Los Angeles
- City of the Angels Film Festival, Hollywood
Theme: Melting Pots: Food & Family
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? + Eat, Drink, Man, Woman +
TBA + Planes, Trains & Automobiles + What’s Cooking?
Location, directors, schedule, registration (pdf),
and accommodation information
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