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Julie Moggan’s “Guilty Pleasure.” Image courtesy of Full Frame.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced it will open on Thursday, April 14 with the U.S. premiere of Julie Moggan’s documentary “Guilty Pleasures.”

“Guilty Pleasures” chronicles the impact of Mills & Boon romance novels upon the lives of five individuals, including a novelist, a male model and three female readers. Moggan, known for her non-fiction work for the BBC and Channel 4, will be on hand at Carolina Theatre’s Fletcher Hall for the debut of her first feature length documentary.

The 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival takes place April 14-17 in Durham, N.C.

The full release from the festival follows.

Durham, N.C., – February 24, 2011 – The 14th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will open with the U.S. Premiere of “Guilty Pleasures.” Director Julie Moggan’s vibrant feature traces the experiences of five individuals from around the world marked by their particular connections to Mills & Boon romance novels. We meet a successful romance novelist whose female pseudonym produces countless bestsellers, a male cover model in search of a soul mate and three women enraptured by paperback romances, whose perceptions of relationships are entangled with the scripted portrayal of courtship. as they navigate love in a modern age, we are captivated by their endearing and all-too-human journey.

“We are thrilled to host ‘Guilty Pleasures’ on Opening Night,” said director of programming, Sadie Tillery.  “The film is an awesomely colorful, musical celebration of the desires and realities of the people it portrays. In examining the collision of fantasy and day-to-day life, the film offers a rare combination of levity and heart and serves as a reminder that documentary can be humorous while heartfelt.  We could not ask for a more festive opening to our 2011 event.”

Julie Moggan’s extensive travels and background in anthropology have led her to making documentaries that focus on the beauty, drama and humor in everyday life. she has made films for the BBC and Channel 4, and “Guilty Pleasures” is her first feature length documentary.

“Full Frame has a reputation for showing some of the most inspiring films around to huge audiences of passionate documentary lovers,” said director Julie Moggan. “So it’s a thrill and honor to have our U.S. premiere of ‘Guilty Pleasures’ at this festival. We hope that our romance novel documentary will get things off to an entertaining and uplifting start.”

Moggan will attend the premiere, along with a number of subjects from the film. The Opening Night Screening will take place the evening of Thursday, April 14 in the Carolina Theatre’s historic Fletcher Hall. The Screening is sponsored by the American Tobacco Campus and Capitol Broadcasting Company. The Opening Night Party will follow the screening next door at the Durham Arts Council. one of the Festival’s oldest traditions, the Opening Night Party will again be hosted by Giorgios Hospitality Group. Tickets for both the Screening and the Party are available to passholders beginning March 24 and on sale online April 4.

The 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will be held April 14-17, in Durham, N.C., with Duke University as the presenting sponsor. Passes can be purchased online at fullframefest.org.

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There is a saying: “Friends are like stars… you can’t always see them, but they are still there.” And so it is for The Friends of the Grand County Library (FOL), a non-profit organization which raises funds for special library programs, such as the summer reading program.

Less visible during the winter months, The Friends have been busy behind the scenes, planning and preparing for their high visibility season, which is about to begin.

Used book sales are ongoing at branch libraries throughout Grand County, but summer is when The Friends host large scale sales in connection with community events such as Art Affair and Kremmling Days.

Marla Gall, The Friends treasurer said, “Sales of used books account for approximately 45 percent of the money FOL raises each year. In 2009, the organization raised over $41,000 for the library district, $18,000 from book sales. All proceeds from our events are distributed to the libraries.”

Nancy Abbott, President of the FOL said, “In these times, the Grand County Libraries are especially important to our communities. Funds from FOL help fund programs for children and adults, bring in speakers and performers and buy additional library equipment.”

FOL board members and volunteers, in concert with library staff, have been soliciting, sorting and boxing donations of books in preparation for the 2010 summer sales.

Fiction and non-fiction, hard cover and paperback, the wide variety of used books means that there is something for every age and interest. History, western, cookbooks, mystery, spiritual/inspirational, self help/do it yourself, business/computer/technology, sports, romance, and children’s books are just some of the categories you will find. Books on tape, DVD’s, and other media are also for sale.

Don’t miss these opportunities to discover books for yourself, family, and friends. Books are a wonderful way to pursue your interests, develop new skills, enjoy leisure time and expand your knowledge of the world we live in. Gifts of books to children and grandchildren encourage them to read, learn and have fun with books.

And in these times of environmental awareness and economic belt tightening, recycling reading materials makes perfect sense. So as you tackle spring cleaning, think about donating books you no longer need or want, so others can use and enjoy them. Donations of books in good condition are welcomed at any of the branch libraries (no magazines or encyclopedias please). Donations to the Grand County Library are tax deductible, so remember to ask for a gift receipt for your tax records.

In addition to book sales, Friends of the Grand County Library host other fund raisers. Watch for notices of upcoming events in Skyline News and fliers at libraries and local businesses.

To paraphrase a Colorado author, Douglas Pagels, a friend is a great thing to have and a great thing to be. To learn more about The Friends of the Grand County Library, how to become a member and/or a volunteer, contact: Nancy Abbott at

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Now, who would think to start a film with shots of boobs? I don’t mean Amber Heard-style boobs. I mean more the garden variety sort, and getting mauled, no less, in the dread ritual of the mammogram, to the jaunty tune of “No Shoes.”

Well, Nicole Holofcener has done just that in “Please Give,” one of many surprises and subversive acts on tap from the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. Now in its 9th year, the fest appears to embrace a wide-open, frontier mentality to programming. So the lineup includes a few trainwrecks and amateurish efforts. But the fest’s wide reach brings you both the latest from an indie stalwart such as Holofcener, and the excitement of discovering new talent, getting in on the ground floor, so to speak, of a career. Like ballsy J.Bateson with “The Disappearance of Alice Creed”; or the gifted Lee Isaac Chung with “Lucky Life,” even if this meditation on mortality fails fully to cohere.

Holofcener (“Lovely and Amazing”) builds up her stories in the manner of an impressionist painter by the accretion of disparate moments that do miraculously cohere. The minimal plot of “Please Give” revolves around a New York couple (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt) who are itching to annex the adjacent apartment after its elderly occupant passes along. The setup taps into New York’s real estate greed, in this case running up against the tenacious grasp on life of an old woman – and a comically disagreeable one at that. Tweaking the mix are the woman’s two granddaughters – one a technician who gives the mammograms from the opening montage (It girl Rebecca Hall), the other a foxy facialist (Amanda Peet).

Through Keener, her cinematic double, Holofcener gently mocks liberal guilt and the impotence of good intentions in a city where the homeless sprawl outside luxury high rises. Also on display is her trademark theme of women tyrannized by worries about body image, here personified by a teenage daughter fighting a losing battle with zits. Holofcener doesn’t do much with cinematography; her strengths are transparently natural dialog and characters of good will struggling to find their way in a mean world. A trademark moment: after grandma dies a discussion ensues over which elevator should remove her. Like Noah Baumbach, Holofcener is a counterpoise to formulaic studio films, a highly stylized naturalist bringing us bulletins from the 21st century.

Among the fest’s weaker offerings so far, count Alex Mar’s “American Mystic,” which follows America’s marginalized souls into trailer camps and towns called Morpheus, California, as they sit beside their plastic Jesus and talk about healing, visions, or “identifying as a witch.” It mainly makes you sad for America. “Meskada” by Josh Sternberg is a police procedural with nice touches of noir and a feel for blue collar America, but the sound is garbled and the community conflicts muddily drawn.

Inspired by a poem by Gerald Stern, “Lucky Life” by Lee Isaac Chung uses a dreamy, fractured narrative about four close friends a few years out of college who rally round one who is gravely ill at a seaside cottage. The main events happen offstage: the friend dies young, the wife of the narrator-writer miscarries. Flashbacks find the friends hanging out on the beach, treasuring the time together; a flash forward a couple assembling a crib in a scene that milks everyday frictions for comedy.

The glorious cinematography ranges from ingenious framing, to static camera setups from mid distance that watch a scene play out, to the quixotic use of archival footage. A sex scene is conveyed through the couple’s sounds playing over the ocean’s while the camera pans along a table. Though this mystical and strangely moving film is a tad long and still in search of an ending, Chung is a talent to watch.

A reworking of the kidnapping scenario, “The Disappearance of Alice Creed,” a first feature by J. Bateson, is good nasty fun. (You can catch in theaters come August 6). Two lowlifes (Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston, superb) abscond with rich girl Alice (Gemma Artherton, fearless) and hit up her dad for two million – mere pocket change for our titans of Wall Street. Familiar stuff, but Bateson turns it into a game of wits between the three principals, each with an unreadable agenda.

At first I was turned off by the screaming and bondage imagery (girl gagged, spreadeagled on the bed, etc.). And some yucky stuff involving a toilet. “The Brits have a long tradition of toilet humor,” Bateson explained at a party. Since the girl is often naked, the cuffs and restraints have erotic overtones, which did nothing for me, a nice girl from Queens. But I was seduced by the plot twists coming fast and furious, and the game of Who’s faking who out? “When you have a cast of just three,” Blakeson told me, “the story is free and damn well better be inventive.” It’s almost like a Bach fugue, I say. “If you want to put it that way,” he laughs. What does he like about Tribeca? “It’s young and not set in its ways, reinventing itself year after year.” Kind of in the spirit of his film.

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