1978, 11TH ANNUAL HUMBOLDT INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
Festival Organizer, 1978
Dan Dagnes
Judges, 1978
Frank CapraThe Director of Academy Award winners such as “It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Deed Goes to Town,” and “You Can’t Take it With You,” Capra will divide his time between films presentations and student-directing workshops at HSU. Two of Capra’s Films — “Lost Horizon” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” — Will be shown at the Minor Theatre in Arcata on April 7 and 8, to complement the director’s visit. And, according to festival organizers, there will be a special tribute to Capra the first evening of the festival.
Marcia LucasThe wife of film director George Lucas has to her credit the editing of “American Graffiti,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “Taxi Driver,” and “New York, New York.” Her Work on “Star Wars” has earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Les BlancBlanc is well-known by cinema fans for his documentaries which use America’s regional music to capture what San Francisco columnist Joel Selvin recently called “a piece of vanishing America — regional culture untouched by the global village.” Blank’s films have rendered the New Orleans Mardi Gras (“Always for Pleasure” — which will be shown at Cannes this May), the blues (“The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins,” “Hot Pepper”) and rural Cajun culture (“A Well Spent Life” and “Dry Wood”)
Don LloydLloyd who specialized in soundtrack composition, is returning for a fourth time to the festival.
FESTIVAL FINALIST
299 Foxtrot – S. Martin Shelton
Turnabout – Richard Haverinen
Notes on the Popular Arts – Saul Bass
Sea in the Clouds – A Chronicle of Lake Tahoe – David Phillips
The Mouth that Roared – Douglas Sandberg
The Preparatory – Terence Cahalan
Á Toute Bêtise – Edward Jones
Dark Clouds Over the Lake Lone Birds Flies Through the Rain – Corwin Fergus
A Sports Suite – Mike O’Connell & Rick Harper