2016 03/09-03/15

SCENES IN THE CITY

'MR. INVINCIBLE' Director Vijay Rajan with supporting extra actors Mykael Gampon and RG Lord. The 90-minute feature film "about a smart and hilarious guy so distraught about the loss of a girl that he jumps off the building..but he learns he can't kill himself. Worse, he can see his future (but not his past)!" is showing during Cinequest on Sunday, March 6th @ 6:45PM, Saturday, March 12th @ 7:00PM and Sunday March 13th at 4:00PM.

Jojo, Angelo Boks (Jelly) and Xiao, collectively called "JAX" held a successful dinner charity show last Saturday, March 5 at the Mt Grange Hall in San Jose (guest performers include Laulette and Raymond Ritchie) for the benefit of The Leyte Dance Theater Group. The same show will also stage in LA, Monterey, Reno and also in Houston!

Bobby Eubank celebrated his 4th birthday last Saturday, March 5th in a Spiderman-themed party at their new house in Tracy. He is the youngest of Robert and Lita Eubank. Photo by Romy Guino-o

BAY AREA-BASED

JAMES FRANCO RECEIVES CINEQUEST MAVERICK AWARD

SEEN IN THE CITY:

(SAN JOSE, CA) – Bay Area based Hollywood Actor James Franco receives the Cinequest Film Festival 2016’s Maverick Spirit Award (along with this year’s co-recipients Rita Moreno, and Robert Hawk) last Sunday, February 28th – Mavericks whose work and lives speak strongly to the Cinequest legacy of empowerment through the fusion of innovation and creativity.

Cinequest’s most prestigious accolade, the Maverick Spirit Award recognizes those who stand apart from the crowd, willing to create and innovate from a place of personal yet global vision. The Maverick leads, tries the difficult if not impossible, and delivers original work and an original life. Women and men of passion, Mavericks take risks and are willing to fall or fail on the road to eventual success and creation. This spirit sums up the best of the worlds of cinema and the Silicon Valley.

Cinequest, voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers is a vanguard organization set in the Silicon Valley. Cinequest’s uniqueness and impact result from being ahead of the curve in the powerful integration of creativity and technology. Cinequest fuses the world of the filmed arts with that of Silicon Valley’s innovation to empower youth, artists, and innovators to create and connect - driving transformations and a better tomorrow. Cinequest does this through Cinequest Film Festival, Picture The Possibilities, and its sister company Cinequest Mavericks Studio.

Cinequest’s highest award has been received by outstanding artists and innovators including J.J. Abrams, Kevin Spacey, Rosario Dawson, Harrison Ford, William H. Macy, Gus Van Sant, Spike Lee, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sir Ian McKellen, Neil Gaiman, Alec Baldwin, and Sir Ben Kingsley. Please watch the Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award video to see past recipients in action.

The incredibly talented James Franco showcased his storytelling prowess during Cinequest’s Storytelling Reimagined Conclave special pre-festival event last Sunday. Cinequest presented Mr. Franco with its Maverick Spirit Award at that time.

Franco’s breakout role came in the 2001 TNT biopic James Dean for which he received a Golden Globe Award. Robert De Niro was so impressed with Franco’s performance that he personally cast him as the junkie son, Joey, in City by the Sea. Since then, Franco has amassed well over 100 acting credits, including 127 Hours, (Best Actor Academy Award nomination), Milk, Spider-Man trilogy, Pineapple Express, Oz the Great and Powerful, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Eat, Pray, Love.

Eager to continue the education he’d abandoned earlier, Franco, at age 28 (then a steadily employed actor), returned to UCLA for a BA in Creative Writing. He loved the course work so much that after UCLA, he immediately entered graduate degree programs in filmmaking (NYU), English/fiction writing (Columbia, Brooklyn College, Yale), and poetry (Warren Wilson College in North Carolina). One of the products of his studies is the short story collection, Palo Alto, published in 2010. Now, at 37, Franco has also donned the instructor’s mantel at NYU, USC, and UCLA. “I've been very fortunate. I had to work hard but had opportunities to do everything that I wanted. That's one of the reasons I'm teaching. I'm trying to give back to other people. That's what I guess I want to do now—continue to be creative in a way that I can give back.”

Cinequest Film Festival 2016 is happening March 1 – 13, 2016 in San Jose/Silicon Valley.

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