If you are coming from out of the area, San Diego offers a wonderful climate, with many quilt shops and nearby attractions for the entire family. The Homewood Suites by Hilton is also an excellent neearby hotel that offers a nice breakfast and dinner, all at a very reasonable price.
PRESS RELEASE:
QUILT STARS GET READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UP IN STITCHED
SAN DIEGO – Quilting superheros and superstars share the
screen in Stitched, an entertaining film that follows three quilters who
stirred up controversy with their work.
In Stitched,
director Jenalia Moreno follows renowned quilters—Hollis Chatelain, Caryl Bryer
Fallert and Randall Cook—as they prepare their work for the 2010 competition,
known as one of the most prestigious in the field.
A former Houston
Chronicle reporter, Moreno was intrigued by the quilting world after
attending her first International Quilt Festival in Houston. The festival fills
an area equal to 11 football fields to offer the largest quilting event in the
U.S.
Quilting stands as one of the most popular crafts
in the nation—with more than 21 million quilt makers in the U.S. —ranging from
hobbyists to textiles artists whose work hangs on gallery walls. Throughout the
centuries, American quilt makers maintained the purity of their hobby by way of
relatively simple rules: careful assembly by hand, an even balance of color,
and a delicate layering of soft material.
However, with an explosion of interest in
traditional American crafts starting in the 1960s, quilt making witnessed a
dynamic evolution of forms. While colonial flags and family trees once
dominated the quilting world, some works incorporate paint, photography, and
themes as varied as world hunger and the effects of global warming.
Stitched explores
the contemporary quilting scene through the experiences of innovators who push
the art form into new terrain.
“There’s this idea that it’s kind of like
cheating to paint a quilt,” explains Chatelain, a controversial award-winner
whose painted quilts won best of show at the Houston festival in both 2004 and
2007. One of the film’s three central figures, Chatelain is known as one of the
quilting scene’s “superstar” instructors, passing down a new tradition of quilt
making that opens the field to techniques drawn from the fine arts.
Fallert, another star of Stitched, is widely recognized as the first quilter to win a
major award with a machine-made quilt. Once a mentor to Chatelain, Fallert runs
a renowned studio and workshop in Paducah, KY that encourages quilters to
develop his or her own personal style rather than simply follow quilting
tradition.
A former mentee of Chatelain, Cook sparked
controversy at the International Quilt Festival with his quilted depictions of
male nudes. In spite of the respect he garnered in recent years, Cook has yet
to secure a best in show prize. He is also featured in a Stretching for
Quilters exercise program produced by Moreno.
See why Stitched is garnering rave reviews from
quilters and non-quilters. The film was accepted in six film festivals. It won
audience favorite awards in two film festivals. And Director of Photography Tom
Gandy was nominated for a cinematography award in the Charlotte Film Festival. After
the film, ask Moreno and Gandy questions about quilting and the filmmaking
process.
WHAT: Stitched, San Diego premiere followed by a
Q&A with the director and director of photography
WHERE: 2825
Dewey Road, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92106
Phone: 619-546-4872
WHEN: Saturday, March 24 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Film
is 72-minutes long)
COST: $10
DVDs available for purchase after the screening
To schedule a special viewing of Stitched, contact:
Contact: Jena Moreno
(832)474-1214
5 comments:
Thanks so much for sharing this...you are just a wealth of information!!
Sounds like a fabulous film, would love to see it in that setting!! But I live a little too far away :^) Thanks for your help with my blot, I appreciate it tons!! ( http://quilttotheedge.blogspot.com/ test)
wow! that would be a cool thing to see......
I *LOVED* this film! the guild I'm joining had a screening on Thursday. It's a great film. Seriously you will laugh and cry... I love how it portrays the PASSION these artists have for quilting. It's also good to hear about how the three artists developed their creative voices.
Thanks so much for sharing the info. Hope to purchase the DVD for viewing in this area.
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