Two more days for KIFF:Ks Intl Film Fest at Glenwood Arts (95th/Mission) including Fade to Black. It's not about KCI. It's about Death With Dignity!

As a jury award winner for best Documentary, "Fade To Black" will show again at 5:15 on Wednesday Nov 6th.  Congratulations to everyone that worked on this project. View this email in your browser Chance to See the Jury Award Winners Come join KIFF at the Glenwood and see some Jury Award winning films. Congratulations to our Jury Award winning filmmakers! We are honored to have you as a part of this year's festival. Documentary Jury Award Winner Fade To Black Wednesday 5:15 PM Nov 8 Peter Short, the charismatic CEO of a major Australian company, learns that he has only months to live after he is diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer. Not wanting to face a painful death, Peter decides to source the lethal drug Nembutal, giving him the option to end his own life peacefully. With the help of a rogue doctor who supplies the drug to suffering patients, Peter sets out to have voluntary euthanasia legalised in Australia.  Director: Jeremy Ervine  Rating: N/A  Running Time: 01:24:00  Country: Australia Tickets I Am Still Here Wednesday 7:20 PM Nov 8 I Am Still Here is an award-winning story of 10-year old Layla, who was stolen from her family and thrown into America’s child sex industry. Stories of courage drawn from interviews with trafficking survivors are the foundation for the fictionalized account of Layla’s journey as she confronts the monsters of her past and embraces the hope of her future.  Director: Mischa Marcus  Rating: R  RunningTime: 01:44:00  Country: USA Tickets International Shorts #2 Wednesday 5:20 PM Nov 8 A State of Emergency(Germany/France) (12:20 min), April Fool's Day (Greece) (17:10 min), Jonah(Austria) (13:00 min), Mismatched Eyes (United Kingdom) (10:30 min), Nomfundo (South Africa) (15:00 min), The Shortest Are Always The Best (France) (16:10 min), To Die Yes But To The Sound Of Violins (USA) (14:00 min Tickets That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations * Wednesday 7:25 PM Nov 8 * Talent to attend THAT NEVER HAPPENED reveals the story of Canada’s first national internment operations between 1914 – 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in concentration camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed and in the 1980s a few brave men and women began working to reclaim this chapter in history and ensure future generations would know about it.  Director: Ryan Boyko  Rating: N/A  RunningTime: 01:15:00  Country: Canada Tickets Hoda's Story Wednesday 5:30 PM Nov 8 Twelve years in the life of a girl in Gaza who was blinded by a bullet. On 1 March 2003, 12-year old Hoda Darwish is hit in the head by a bullet while sitting at her desk in an elementary school in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. Hoda miraculously survives, but she wakes up from her coma asking when the daylight comes. The bullet blinded her. She struggles to come to terms with her altered life, doubting her will to live, amidst the endless violence in the Gaza Strip. Her family repeatedly brings her to Egypt in the hope that a medical operation would give back her eyesight. Her hope to be cured deprives her of the willpower to learn the techniques needed by visually impaired persons. After the 2009 war, Hoda is visited by Mervat, the girl who sat next to her when the bullet came. Mervat is in university now. The encounter is a life changing moment for Hoda. She admits she has wasted years, clinging to the hope of seeing again. In the years after, Hoda surprises everyone by improving her life in a remarkable way.  Director: Johan Eriksson  Rating: N/A  Running Time: 00:57:39  Country: State of Palestine Tickets Fruition-The Life And Dreams Of Nicolas Mueller Wednesday 7:30 PM Nov 8 Nicolas Mueller is one of the most revered and iconic snowboarders of all time. We live in a world which typically demands us to obey things we might not believe in. Nicolas shows how he tackled these obstacles in order to find his true path, a conscientious path towards self realization. This film offers an opportunity to get to know the king of style like never before. Almost entirely in his own words, Nicolas takes you through the important events in his life which lead him to where he is today. One of Nicolas’s central goals is to demonstrate the importance of following ones intuition. To learn how to rely on this relationship with yourself and to enjoy the journey it takes you on.  Director: Martin Luchsinger, Sean Fee  Rating: PG  Running Time: 01:05:00  Country: Switzerland

Why vote NO? Ballot language says "demolish (both) existing terminals". Would you buy a car or cell phone with a contract that says, first we crush your trade-in--and lookee! here's a picture of what we MAY give you to drive in two years.

The new KCI plan is clearly a scam. 

Sly's Used Cars! JUST SIGN HERE:  First we CRUSH your trade-in, SO THERE'S NO GOIN' BACK. 
We'll deliver you a brand new car...soon.  Fingers crossed!
If we can trust the airlines,
the ones that drag unruly passengers off. 

Lookie here, see the picture I had a buddy draw on a cocktail napkin  and then have a kid make a watercolor last month? 
TRUST US! 
We call this NEW KCI design the Cordish...I hope you'll like it.  Cuz your old car's gone.

Did T-Mobile demand you crush your old cell phone before handing you a new Samsung?
Hell no.  You're not that stupid. 

And did you believe Apple when some fat clown salesman
in a BBQ-stained bow tie
told you that a new iPhone X  would be free????

You would not buy a car--

or a big screen TV
or a cell phone
based on such a sketchy "contract"--no plans, no budget, just a promise based on a 30 DAY OLD watercolor sketch without furniture or people!


BEFORE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY VOTE:
Read the ballot language: it authorizes the "demolish existing terminals"--think about that.  A future blank check approval that legal eagles secretly embedded, to also include, down the road, without need for a future election: Wheeler downtown.  Who knows what the city might do with that?  Give it away to Richard Branson or Elon Musk or Jeff Bazos@Amazon??

THE OFFICIAL BALLOT LANGUAGE:
Shall the City of Kansas City be authorized to construct a new passenger terminal at Kansas City International Airport and demolish existing terminals as necessary, with all costs paid solely from the revenues derived by the City from the operation of its airports and related facilities, and without the issuance of general airport revenue bonds unless such general airport revenue bonds have received prior voter approval?



What's the rush?  The city is afraid you'll come to your senses, that's what.

Just vote NO.  They will be force to come back with a better plan.  Don't fall for "Lame Duck Dying for a Legacy Plaque" Sly James' idle threat, "If you don't do what I want, right now, we won't repair, we won't remodel, we'll just do nothing for 50 years."  My Dad tried those tactics in the 50's.  If I didn't detail his 1953 Studebaker before supper, he was gonna lock me in my room for 50 years. 

Finally, last week the City made a deal with Burns&Mac, the so-called losers in the bidding war.  All they had to do was make a token $20,000 contribution to the $1.6 million campaign fund, and the city will, in turn, award them a $50 MILLION contract to be the city's "Owner's Representative."

Corruption.  The City has an Aviation Department.  THEY are the Owner's Representative.  If they need to hire some engineers to supervise, they can hire them away from Burns & Mac--and I can assure you, it won't cost $50 MILLION!

You, me and Burning Man? 5:15p today at Ks Intl Film Fest, Glenwood Arts/(lower level of Ranchmart 95th & Mission

Start the Week With Independent Films Here's the lineup for Monday.  I'm VERY excited to watch Burning Man:into the Realm.  Airs one time only, 5:15pm.  Including a Q&A with the filmmaker.  In fact I volunteered to hand out ballots for the Audience Favorite Award--tho I am not paying $1.6 million, like Sly James is, to try to rig that election.   News travels fast as Sunday's announcements were made at KIFF, the Kansas International Film Festival at the Glenwood Arts/(Ranchmart/lower level). Jury Awards were given to D-Love (Narrative) and Fade To Black (Documentary).  These two films will be shown again, D-Love (5:10 Tuesday Nov 7), Fade To Black (5:15Wednesday Nov 8), so come take a load off with other KIFFsters and enjoy some more independent and international films.   Fade to Black is very informative and compelling, about Australians fighting for the right to use one dose of prescribed and dispensed Nembutal for a death with dignity, at home--at a time of their choosing, rather than be required to die in a hospital with palliative morphine injections.   I will not be able to attend Burning Man,  including the nude parade, but I sure look forward to seeing this documentary, Monday, one time only 5:15!! Here's the lineup for Monday.  I'm VERY excited to watch Burning Man:into the Realm.  Airs one time only, 5:15pm.  Including a Q&A with the filmmaker.  In fact I volunteered to hand out ballots for the Audience Favorite Award--tho I am not paying $1.6 million, like Sly James is, to try to rig that election.

Burning Man: Into The Realm * Monday 5:15 PM Nov 6 * Talent to attend Burning Man: Into the Realm is a documentary on the Burning Man festival, showcasing first-hand accounts that unite the participants in principles of self-expression, self-reliance and community effort. Burning Man draws people from all walks of life that shed their normal daily routines to participate in a week-long celebration of living out their dreams. Burning Man: Into the Realm takes us on a journey revealing what makes the event so popular.  Director: Oz Yilmaz  Rating: PG  Running Time: 01:22:00  Country: Canada Tickets In Exile: A Family Film * Monday 7:15 PM Nov 6 * Talent to attend Synopsis: Directed by Fabien Gaillard. Tom is an American living in Shanghai. Ever since his wife Ling died, Tom has lead a solitary life and fallen prey to depression. He roams the thrilling city, unable to put his life back together. One day, he finds hope upon meeting Bobo, a young woman who happens to resemble his former wife; but that’s their only thing in common. Bobo works as a hostess in a club and doesn’t seem interested in him, but he’ll try anything to win her over. China, Narrative, 92 minutes. Tickets Little Stones Monday 5:20 PM Nov 6   Little Stones unites the personal narratives of four women around the world using art to create positive change in their communities. From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, each of these women is contributing a stone to the mosaic of the women’s movement through their art.  Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sophia.  Rating: Unrated  Running Time: 01:27:00  Country: USA Tickets Twist Of Fate Shorts Monday 7:30 PM Nov 6 Balloon (Russia) (4:05min), Mountain Fever(Germany) (7:50 min), Percent (Russian Federation) (18:11min), Perception(USA) (18:47 min), This Modern Man is Beat (USA) (17:12), Unattended Item(United Kingdom) (13:00 min) Tickets Something For Everyone Shorts * Monday 5:25 PM Nov 6 * Talent to attend Asleep (Canada) (11:26 min), Big Joe's Big Slice (USA) (10:33 min), Change(USA) (13:29 min), Death in a Day (China) (14:05 min), El Audifono-The Earpiece (Spain) (14:58 min), Roasrio(Mexico) (10:08 min), The Body of Old (France) (19:59 min) Tickets Boys For Sale Monday 7:35 PM Nov 6  In the Tokyo district of Shinjuku 2 chome there are bars that specialize in “Urisen”, young guys who have sex with men. Featuring candid interviews and interspersed with animation detailing the awkward, sweet, and sometimes horrific situations these young sex workers experience, the boys for sale boldly tell their stories of life in the Tokyo underground. “Boys for Sale” is an illuminating look into a rarely seen world that tantalizingly shows the humanity of sex work.  Director: Itako  Rating: R  RunningTime: 01:16:00  Country: Japan   Tickets