Film Focus: Short Cuts

The Wild & Free Film Festival once again previews its November fest with a special outdoor screening at Elings Park. The original Jurassic Park will show on a massive 50-foot screen on October 16 as part of a family-friendly event with live music, food trucks, beer and wine, an all-ages costume contest, and an interactive Nonprofit Adventure Village. Visit www.wildandfreefilm.org

Juke Box Hero, twice named a finalist for the Sundance Feature Film Lab for its screenplay, will be shown in its finished feature form at the Ojai Underground (616 Pearl St.) on October 17 in a homecoming for filmmaker Q&A about the film and its journey with co-writer, director, actor, and producer Sherrie Richman, a Nordhoff High School grad. The story of an unlikely relationship between an ambitious rock musician and a compassionate nursing-home caregiver stars Jade Tailor and Brendan Sexton III.

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UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center’s new season continues with Reality TV: Confessions from the Inside on Saturday afternoon, October 17, when a panel brings together producers and personalities from some of television’s most popular reality shows for a candid, behind-the-scenes conversation. Moderator Hunter Hargraves of CSU Fullerton will be joined by Sol Dean of Love Island USA; Jeff Jenkins, producer of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives; RuPaul’s Drag Race co-executive producer John Polly; and J. D. Roth, executive producer of The Biggest Loser.  

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