Artists Rights sets sights on kid stuff
Co-hosted by the Colbert Foundation and skedded for Nov. 14-18, event includes a street festival on Rodeo Drive as well as an auction of French luxury goods benefiting Artists Rights. Proceeds will go toward the org's campaign, which aims to teach kids the meaning of creativity.
On Nov. 15, students will meet with French craftsmen at the Directors Guild of America and on Nov. 16 merchants will host the Rodeo Drive fest.
"We recognize that the key to the film industry is the next generation and its understanding of artists rights," said Kathy Garmezy, Artists Rights exec director. "The first step of that is what goes into the making of a film."
Separately, on Oct. 18 at the Hamptons Intl. Film Festival, Artists Rights will sponsor a 30th anniversary screening of "In the Heat of the Night," which is the first of four film fest screenings titled "The Big Picture Program."
Scheduled to attend "In the Heat of the Night" and a post-screening discussion are the pic's director Norman Jewison, producer Walter Mirisch, actors Rod Steiger and Lee Grant, cinematographer Haskell Wexler and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
