Ann Arbor Film Festival invites to Larry Flynt, Steve Kurtz...

Following the recent First Amendment legal victory by the Ann Arbor Film Festival, famed free speech advocate and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt will be in attendance. He will join producer/director Joan Brooker-Marks for a no-punches-pulled Q&A following the screening of her new tell-all documentary Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone which plays on Saturday, March 29th at 7:30pm.

Also on Saturday at 10:00pm, Steve Kurtz will join the Q&A following a screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson's Strange Culture, which utilizes a creative approach to examine and re-create the bizarre F.B.I. arrest of the Buffalo artist Kurtz due to bio-terrorism charges. Still on trial, Kurtz will be joined by Lucia Sommers from the Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund, who can answer questions he cannot address for legal reasons. Earlier on Saturday at 5:30pm, the festival is honored to welcome cinematographer extraordinaire Ellen Kuras, along with her co-director Thavisouk Phrasavath, following a screening of their 23-year-in-the-making documentary The Betrayal (Nerakhoon). Rounding out this "All-Star Saturday" is Jim Finn, to present a world premiere of his anticipated The Juche Idea. Mixing together North Korean archival propaganda films, the Juche teachings of Kim Jong-il, and a documentary exploration of a modern day Korean artist residency, Finn has created a masterful work examining the underpinnings of North Korean culture and media.