CENTERPIECE FILM: 7000 MILES
Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 8:00 PM
FEATURE NARRATIVE | 81 MIN | English | USA
Directed by Amy Glazer | Written by Colette Freedman
Produced by Jen Prince, Jhennifer Webberley, Alixzandra Dove Rothschild, Amy Glazer, Deborah Glazier

General Admission $10 | Student + Children $8

When Jo, a young pilot, returns to Molokai, Hawaii in 1977 for her grandfather’s funeral, she discovers that her grandmother’s quickly encroaching short-term memory loss reveals some long-hidden secrets. Challenged by her grandmother to live her life on her own terms she finds herself at a crossroads when that could mean revealing her grandmother's long-buried secrets. An essential film for those who love history, aviation or a good mystery. Featuring Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me, Hot in Cleveland) and introduces Alixzandra Dove as Jo Standish. A portion of the proceeds will go to relief agencies in Hawaii.

About the Director

Amy Glazer
Director

Director/Producer Amy Glazer began her career in theater, directing numerous award-winning plays in the San Francisco Bay Area theaters including TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, San José Rep, Eureka Theatre, Traveling Jewish Theatre, the Edinburgh Theater Festivals, and Assembly Theater. Amy served as an Associate Artist at Magic Theatre for eight years and as Associate Artistic Director at The San Francisco Playhouse for six years, where she also directed numerous plays including “world” and “west coast premieres”.

Expanding her portfolio, she began adapting plays into films. The Surrogate (formerly titled Beautiful Dreamer (2022)), her fourth such adaptation, is an homage to the Bay Area, her home for the past 30 years and won her Best Director and Supporting Actors for Wendie Malick and Louis Ozawa at the LA MethodFest, A Pick of the Week by the SF Chronicle, Mick LaSalle writes Amy Glazer's “The Surrogate” is a penetrating study of contemporary urban life. Her film "Kepler's Dream"(2016) starring Holland Taylor and Kelly Lynch received the Silver Award for Family Favorite at the Mill Valley International Film Festival. Hollywood Reporter called it a "family film charmer". In her 2010 film "Seducing Charlie Barker", Theresa Rebeck went on to win The Grand Prize Award at the Canada International Film Festival, Best American Indie Award at the Ft Lauderdale International Film Festival and Best Filmmaker Award at the Jersey Shore Film Festival. Mick LaSalle in the SF Chronicle writes of Glazer "an accomplished filmmaker her "Seducing Charlie Barker" was one of the sharpest comedies of the year.” Other films include "Drifting Elegant"(Steven Belber, 2006) which premiered at Mill Valley International Film Festival, garnering critical praise in Variety and the SF Chronicle and her short film "Ball Lightning" (Barry Gifford, 2003), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.