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Presented by Bread Garden Market, Little Village, and FilmScene
DIALOGUE: Filmmaker and Iowa alum Erin Casper in person!
Vino Vérité returns in March with the breathtaking red-hot love story of two volcanologists living life on the edge. University of Iowa alum Erin Casper earned the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at Sundance this year for her work on the film, and will join us to discuss her work breathing life into this remarkable story from an amazing archive of footage.
The Vino Vérité series features talented new voices and established filmmakers influenced by the vérité tradition in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Each selection is paired with hand-selected wines from Bread Garden Market.
Tickets: $20 public / $15 members / $10 students. Includes wine tasting, film, dessert and filmmaker reception.
7:30 Dessert & wine tasting
8:00 Screening begins promptly
9:35 Filmmaker Q&A
"One of the most heartwarming movies about scientists ever made." — RogerEbert.com
"A spellbinding experience." — Variety
"Fire of Love is amazing, a feat of feats. Powerful, all around." — Film Inquiry
ABOUT FIRE OF LOVE
Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft die in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing some of nature's most explosive imagery. Working with the incredible archive left behind by these daring explorers, Casper and the filmmaking team weave Miranda July's poetic narration into a mesmerizing big screen thrill worthy of the wanderlust, curiosity and passion of this miraculous couple.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Erin Casper is an Emmy-nominated documentary editor and the co-recipient of the 2022 Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition for Fire of Love. Her selected editing credits include Risk, American Promise (winner of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking and nominated for three Emmys); Roll Red Roll, and The Last Season. Erin is a frequent panelist and mentor for Sundance, Tribeca, Gotham, and True/False, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Erin holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa with Honors in Journalism and Art.
Sundance Film Festival (2022) — World Premiere
Sundance Film Festival (2022) — WINNER: Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award
True/False Film Festival (2022) — Official Selection
SXSW Film Festival (2022) — Official Selection
"This film is about wonder, not balance, and it turns us delirious in the white heat of this pair's chaotic, unflinching passion." - Time Out
"Ethereal, elliptical in its construction and eerily beautiful." - Rolling Stone