PETER BROSNAN’S LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DeMILLE at the FLICKERS RHODE ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL
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Date(s) - Aug 10, 2016
6:00 pm
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FLICKERS RHODE ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL
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Peter Brosnan’s documentary The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille will be featured in the 20th Annual Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film will screen on August 10 at 6:00 p.m. at the Providence Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille has been selected from over 5,000 submissions from 60 countries for the Official Competition, and will be in contention for Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature Film. The film was produced by Francesca Judge, Dan Coplan, and Peter Brosnan, with associates Bruce Cardozo and Richard Eberhardt.
About the film:
Cecil B. DeMille produced his first version of The Ten Commandments in 1923. For this epic film he built a massive city of the Pharaoh on the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. When he’d finished shooting, he buried the entire structure. In the early 1980s Peter Brosnan was sitting in a bar when he heard this story and decided to hunt for the set. After years of wandering in the dunes, he found the set and began digging it up.
This film tells the story of two determined men, C.B. DeMille and Peter Brosnan. DeMille’s forty-year career was book-ended by two versions of the story of Moses. Brosnan has spent thirty years excavating what remained of the 1923 Ten Commandments set. Part Maltese Falcon, part Raiders of the Lost Ark, and part Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille shows how Brosnan had to contend with archaeology, county politics, disappearing cinema history, and angry Native Americans. In the end, it was worth it. The treasures he unearthed from the desert sands are awe-inspiring.
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