RI International Film Festival | Spogga : Brother Hash | Clear Currents

WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show – underwritten by National Grid and supported by Lifetime Medical and Emery’s Catering. Hosted this week by Bronwyn Dannenfelser.

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Bronwyn will speak first with Tommy Denucci, acclaimed writer/director/actor (who is also a Rhode Island native!) about the Rhode Island International Film Festival, happening this week, and his new film Almost Mercy available now on Netflix.

Next on, we’ll have Spogga, WaterFire’s iconic fire dancer, who will share his experiences fire spinning at WaterFire as well as creating and performing his original music down in New Orleans!

Finally, Tim Blankenship, our Interactive Media Manager, will tell us about Clear Currents, coming up at the next full lighting on August 20th, when canoeists and kayakers will paddle on the river with beautiful illuminated Japanese koi mounted to their boats.

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RI International Film Festival and a chat with Spogga Hash

WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show –
underwritten by National Grid
supported by Lifetime Medical
Hosted by Bronwyn Dannenfelser

Bronwyn’s guests will be writer/director and producer Richard Tilkin and executive producer Cindy Gruber of the film Aside From That – A Film About Everyone’s Least Favorite Topic: “How do we live, knowing we are going to die?” Is there a best practice for thinking about mortality? Aside From That will premiere August 7 at 4:45 p.m. in the RISD Museum‘s Metcalfe Auditorium. Tickets are available on the Rhode Island International Film Festival website (riiff2015.sched.org) and at the door.

Next Bronwyn is joined by actor Michael Cuomo and filmmaker Paolo Monico. Michael was a RIIFF 2011 Best Actor winner and is back at the film festival this year to be one of the speakers at the 2015 ScriptBiz workshops. Paolo’s film The Mother plays Friday Aug 7th 5:15 pm in the “The Abyss Stares Back” program. The film is dedicated to the memory of his father Sandro Monico.

Brother Hash : Spogga also will be joining us in studio to talk about his year’s at WaterFire as well as his music and art both in RI and New Orleans.

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