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Festival Presents 21 World and U.S. Premiere Feature Films Fort Lauderdale, FL – The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) announced its highly anticipated film line-up for the 26th edition, September 22, 2011, featuring 6 World Premieres, 15 U.S. Premieres and 61 Florida Premieres. FLiFF (www.FLiFF.com) will present features, documentaries, shorts and student films from the U.S. and around the world, including Spain, Italy, France, U.K, Russia, Fiji, and South Africa, Sweden, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Italy, France, Portugal, over 40 different countries in all and will host filmmakers, producers, and actors to represent and discuss their films. The festival takes place October 21 - November 11. “We’re looking forward a great festival this year,” comments FLiFF President and CEO, Gregory von Hausch. “The program offers an eclectic array of films; some reflect political and environmental concerns and others range from young love to how to keep love alive after 50. There are knee slapping comedies to edge of your seat thrillers, films that reflect other cultures as well as ours at home, films for families and films about families. There’s a party every night, live concerts, filmmaking seminars and for the first time in three years, films will be presented at three area theater venues. We’ll also launch the Inaugural year for FLiFF on Location: Grand Bahama Island with a four-day fest.” FLiFF revs up October 21 with screenings at two locations, Sunrise Civic Center and Cinema Paradiso. the line-up includes: There Once Was An Island, a verite-style film directed by Briar March that shows us, first -hand, the human impact of an environmental crisis. Round Trip (Viaje Redondo) from Mexico directed by Gerardo Tort is a tender lavender tale about two women searching for what they want in life and blazing new frontiers together. The East Coast Premiere of About Fifty is a modern comedy that reaffirms it’s never too late to start over again. Directed by Thomas Johnston About Fifty stars Wendie Malick, Drew Pillsbury and Martin Gottlieb. Garcia (from Spain), directed by Jose Luis Rugeles, is laced with comedy yet fraught with peril as a man’s routine existence takes an unexpected turn when his wife is kidnapped. The official Opening Night on October 22, sends the festival into full gear with the Florida Premiere of The Artist directed by Michel Hazanavicius. Charming and clever, The Artist, pays homage to the age of silent film with all of the glamour and romance of the times as it tells the story of the interlinked destinies between a rising young starlet and a silent movie superstar whose career is on the decline at the advent of the talkies. The film features an all-star cast including: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Malcolm McDowell. Actress Penelope Ann Miller will be presented with a Career Achievement Award and will attend the opening night festivities held at Bailey Hall on Broward College campus followed by the FLiFF Starry Starry Night Gala at The Signature Grand. Earlier in the afternoon of October 22nd, at 2:00pm, FLiFF will present the Southeast Premiere of My Week With Marilyn, which is based on Collin Clark’s diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, published nearly 40 years after he met Marilyn Monroe on the set but, one week was missing and was published some years later– this is the story of that week. Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne portray Monroe and Clark in My Week With Marilyn along with an all-star cast. Also, at 4:00pm, October 22nd Senator George McGovern, the idealistic statesman who came to prominence during another time of war and political division, will receive a Lifetime Achievement in Humanity Award at a special screening of the Oscar-winning film, All The President’s Men, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. McGovern will do a post-screening Q&A. Both screenings will be held at Bailey Hall on Broward College Campus. FLiFF’s Centerpiece Film is the re-make of Patrick Leconte’s scrumptiously literate 2002 crime drama, The Man on the Train, starring rock musician Larry Mullen, Jr. and Hollywood veteran Donald Sutherland. At this spotlight event, held November 1 at Cinema Paradiso, Mullen will be presented with FLiFF’s Star on the Horizon Award and will take questions from the audience via a live webcast Q&A. The event will be followed by the Centerpiece Party at the Downtowner Saloon. FLiFF closes with the Florida Premiere of Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus. The passionate, well-crafted story stars Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as two young people who fall head-over-heals in love but, whose perfect relationship and trust is tested when geography sets them apart for extended periods of time. Like Crazy also stars Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Finola Hughes, Chris Messina, Ben York Jones and Jamie Thomas King. Closing night festivities will take place November 11 at Cinema Paradiso with the FLiFF Wrap Party and Film Awards presentation at The Manor entertainment and restaurant complex. Additional feature films to be presented during the festival include the Florida Premieres of: David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, the adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s 2002 stage play, portrays the turbulent relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud as they struggle to treat a troubled patient. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley. Butter, in the tradition of Best In Show and Election, Butter, is a tale of competition at its most cut-throat. The straightforward, albeit merrily twisted, comedy about American life and culture stars Jennifer Garner, and Hugh Jackman. Starring Jennifer Garner as Laura Pickler and Ty Burrell Late Bloomers, directed by Julie Gavras stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a couple trying to keep their marriage fresh as they gracefully grow older together. Edward Burn’s Newlyweds stars Burns, Kerry Bishé and Caitlin Fitzgerald in a tale of the untold pleasantries that comes with marriage such as the in-laws and extended family. Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin stars Elizabeth Olsen as “multi-named lead”, a damaged woman haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing a cult. Hugh Dancy, Sarah Paulson and John Hawkes round out the cast. Of the documentaries featured, two are World Premieres, The Legend of Ivan Tors and How To Start a Revolution. The Legend of Ivan Tors showcases the incredible career of the screenwriter who became an anti-violence and animal rights maverick, zoologist, adventurer and almost single-handedly established the South Florida film industry as well as changed the way non-human animals were treated in the entertainment industry. How to Start a Revolution is the remarkable untold story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp, the world’s leading expert on non-violent revolution. FLIFF also presents two Florida Premieres: Jessie’s Dad tells the story of Mark Lunsford’s transformation from an uneducated truck driver to a savvy activist after losing his 9-year-old daughter to a convicted pedophile. The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, chronicles the little-known story of Allied airmen imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the waning months of World War II. On October 24, FLIFF will present a tribute to actor Dennis Haysbert at which time the festival will present a Career Achievement Award to the actor best remembered for his role in the Oscar nominated film Far From Heaven as well as hit TV series 24 and The Unit. A Q&A with Haysbert will follow the presentation and a catered reception will be held in his honor at the Seventh Street Wine Company within walking distance of Cinema Paradiso where the event will be held. Dennis Haysbert, will also join Penelope Ann Miller at the Starry Starry Night Gala on October 21. November 5th FLiFF will present actor Dennis Farina with a Lifetime Achievement Award prior to the Florida Premiere of his new film The Last Rites of Joe May. Directed by Joe Maggio, the film chronicles the last days in the life of an aging, short money hustler who is presented with one last shot at greatness. Farina, whose acting career includes such films as Get Shorty, Crime Story and Midnight Run will discuss his career during a Q&A. A reception will precede the presentation at Cinema Paradiso. Farina will also field audience questions at a screening of the film on November 4th at Sunrise Civic Center. FLiFF also honors three-time Oscar nominated actress, Piper Laurie ( The Hustler, Carrie, Children of a Lesser God) with a Lifetime Achievement Award at a special screening of The Grass Harp; an encore presentation from the 1995 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival for which she earned FLiFF’s Best Actress Award. Piper will autograph copies of her new book , Learning to Live Out Loud, during a 6:00pm reception, after she will discuss her career during a moderated Q&A by notable film historian, Foster Hirsch. The event will be held at Cinema Paradiso followed by party at The Pillars Hotel. Peter Ford, the son of Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell will autograph his new book, Glenn Ford: A Life, during a reception at Cinema Paradiso followed by a moderated Q&A and a screening of the original 1957 film starring Glenn Ford, 3-10 to Yuma. As the festival continues in Fort Lauderdale , the festival will launch it’s Inaugural offshore component, FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, October 27 – 30, 2011. As a part of the ongoing efforts in film development, the Ministry of Tourism & Aviation, FLiFF and the Grand Bahama Island Tourism Board, will present the festival program at the brand new, state of the art Canal House at Pelican Bay Hotel. The festival will feature an array of programs and events, including: Movies made in The Bahamas, Underwater Cinematography Workshop, American Independent and World Cinema films, complimentary outdoor screenings, an International Student Film Competition , and the Inaugural Grand Bahama Youth Film Competition’ Winner’s Screening; a competition is for young filmmakers (aged 14 to 18 years old). Travel packages are available for residents and tourists.
Additional Highlights of this year’s
FLiFF include:
FOR ADDITIONAL EVENT HIGHLIGHTS AND COMPLETE LISTING OF FILMS, PLEASE SEE BELOW.
The 26th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
October 21-November
11
Film Line-Up
American Indie
Features
A DANGEROUS METHOD - American Indie Feature / Florida Premiere Director: David Cronenberg / France-Ireland-United Kingdom-Germany-Canada / 2011 / 93 min / English
Director David Cronenberg adapts Christopher
Hampton's 2002 stage play depicting the turbulent relationship between
Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and his mentor Sigmund Freud (Vigo Mortensen)
as they struggle to treat a troubled patient (Keira Knightley).
ABOUT FIFTY - American Indie / East Coast Premiere Director: Thomas Johnston / USA / 2011 / 88 min / HDCam / English
Writers Martin Grey and Drew Pilsbury
star alongside Wendy Malick in a film that explores the simple yet comical
truth that it’s never too late to start over again, even at age 50.
Golf-buddies, Adam who is going through a trial separation from his
wife, and Jon who's losing work to the more efficient youth, decide
to take off on a weekend journey to let loose and re-live their youth.
Within the struggles to fit in with the younger crowd, they are forced
to come to grips with their “mid-life crisis”.
BUTTER - American Indie / Florida Premiere directed by Jim Field Smith/ USA / 2011 / 90 min / English
In the tradition of Best In Show and
Election, Butter, a tale of competition at its most cut-throat is a
straightforward, albeit merrily twisted, comedy about American life
and culture. Starring Jennifer Garner as
Laura Pickler
and
Ty Burrell at her husband Bob, Iowa's long-reigning champion
butter carver. When Bob is pressured to retire, the indignant Laura
decided to enter the competition herself. Her odds of victory fall below
100% with the arrival of an unlikely yet formidable contender: 10-year-old
Destiny (Yara Shahidi), the African-American foster child of local couple
Julie and Ethan (
Alicia Silverstone and Rob Corddry). And that’s
not all. Bob’s would-be mistress, bad-girl stripper Brooke (
Olivia
Wilde) also declares her candidacy, as does his #1 fan, Carol-Ann
(Kristen Schaal). Facing three opponents, mocked by her stepdaughter
Kaitlen (Ashley Greene) and furious with her husband, Laura resolves
to do whatever it takes to win. And if that means resorting to sabotage
– and recruiting her dim-witted former boyfriend Boyd (
Hugh Jackman)
as a co-conspirator – then so be it.
DEADHEADS- America Indie / Florida Premiere Director: The Pierce Brothers / USA / 2011 / 95 min / HDCam / English
A return to 1980s’ style comedy-adventure
movies like BACK TO THE FUTURE and THE GOONIES, the Pierce Brothers’
winning combo of gory horror action, smart humour and heartfelt emotion
follows zombie slackers Mike and Brent as they travel across country
to find the former’s old girlfriend and love of his life. As
a zombieland Abbott and Costello, actors Michael McKiddy and Ross Kidder’s
chemistry and timing are superb. And you’ll just love Markus Taylor
as the lumbering Cheese in this Road Trip of the Living Dead that’s
hilarious and surprisingly sweet.
DON'T FADE AWAY- America Indie Feature / Florida PRemiere Director: Luke Kasdan / USA/ 2009 / 90 min / HDCam / English
Don’t Fade Away,
starring Mischa Barton, Ryan Kwanten, and Beau Bridges, details the
seemingly easy life of Jackson White. With looks, brains, and athletic
ability, the world's possibilities seemed limitless. But, when
he came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the music industry, he
was so seduced by money and status that he los track of who he was.
Now, with both his personal and professional lives on the edge of ruin,
he's been called home to care for his dying father. While in North
Carolina, he'll have to confront the friends he lost touch with and
the girl he never met
DR. LIMPTOOTH – American Indie Feature / Southeast Premiere Director Matt Jespersen and Maclain Nelson USA / 2011/ 95 min / HDCam / English
Starring Gary Cole, Julie Gonzalo and
Adam Johnson - directors Matt Jespersen and Maclain Nelson bring us
the tale of Wayne Gretzky (Johnson) a vampire who can't grow his teeth.
His impotence began when he inadvertently killed Mary Lipinsky, the
love of his life, 300 years ago. To take his mind off the pain, he teaches
college history--who better? All attempts at regaining full power are
futile until a new semester brings freshman Chris Keller, dead ringer
for his wife comes along…
THE ENCORE OF TONY DURAN- America Indie Feature / East Coast Premiere Director: Fred A. Sayeg / USA / 2011 / 85 min / English
Chronicling the day Tony Duran hits
bottom, the tick-tock of a human train-wreck, Tony is a singer washed-up
20 years ago: fat, drunk, broke, unemployed and trapped-- clinging to
his house and 12 year old Mercedes, neither he can afford anymore; a
victim of the economy, raging against universe, alienated and facing
the rest of his life in dread. He turns to crime to turn a buck, and
proves incompetent even at that. In disgrace, having lost his
friend's money, Tony stands in judgment, and Jerry forces from him the
TRUTH about his downward spiral. Jerry sets Tony on a path of human
transformation and redemption; he makes Tony sing again.
THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY – American Indie /Florida Premiere Director: Joe Maggio / USA / 2011 / 104 min / HDCam / English
Dennis Farina stars in as Joe May,
an aging, short money hustler who, despite a life of loss and failure,
has always believed that a glorious destiny awaited him. Now in his
sixties, his health failing and resources dwindling, Joe is presented
with one last shot at greatness...
LEADING LADIES - Amer Indie Director: Daniel Beahm and Erika Randall Beahm / USA / 2010 / 102 min / English
The Camparis are a family of women
in which everyone knows her place. Sheri is the larger-than-life, overbearing
stage mom. Once a young and beautiful ballroom champion, Sheri now lives
vicariously through her youngest daughter Tasi, the darling of the local
amateur ballroom circuit. Sheri’s oldest daughter, Toni, is Tasi’s
practice partner, the wallflower who must quietly support them all.
Find out what happens to each as they reexamine their roles in modern
life and on the dance floor and learn to "Let Love Lead”.
LIKE CRAZY- America Indie Feature / Florida Premiere & Closing Night Film Director: Drake Doremus / USA / 2011 / 89 min / 35mm / English
Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones stars
as two young people who fall madly in love. Jacob, an American,
and Anna, who is British, meet at college in Los Angeles and fall madly
in love. It’s the purest kind of romance—they’re each other’s
first significant attachment. When Anna returns to London, the couple
is forced into a long-distance relationship. Their perfect love is tested,
and youth, trust, and geography become their biggest enemies.
Like Crazy also stars Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston,
Oliver Muirhead, Finola Hughes, Chris Messina, Ben York Jones and Jamie
Thomas King.
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE – American Indie Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Sean Durkin / USA / 2011 / 120 min / 35mm / English Elizabeth Olsen stars as "multi-named lead", a damaged woman haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing a cult.
Hugh Dancy, Sarah Paulson and John
Hawkes round out the cast.
NEWLYWEDS – America Indie Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Edward Burns / 2011 / USA / 93 min / HDCam / English
Kerry Bishé, Caitlin Fitzgerald and
writer/director Edward Burns star in a tale of the untold pleasantries
that comes with marriage such as the in-laws and extended family.
Such is the predicament Buzzy (Burns) and Katy (Fitzgerald) find in
the delightfully dark comedy, NEWLYWEDS. Buzzy is a successful
personal trainer in Tribeca. Katy has found her niche managing
a restaurant. They're perfect for each other – due to rarely
seeing each other, thus not falling into same manholes that other couples
do. All is perfect, until the mixture of the two families along
with an addition of a half sister begins to stir up all sorts of trouble.
Throw in an ex-husband, a self-imposed exiled former lover, and a befuddled
sexually deprived brother-in-law and this alphabet soup spells dysfunctional.
THE PILL – America Indie Feature Director: J.C. Khoury / USA / 2011 / 83 min / English
You meet someone at the bar, one thing
leads to another, and the next thing you know you're waking up wondering
(and potentially regretting) exactly what took place the night before.
Such is the case for Fred (Noah Bean), who starts to panic when his
free-spirited one night stand, Mindy (Rachel Boston), informs him that
she's not on birth control; but for some reason isn't too concerned.
Fred, determined not to become a father, is forced into an all-day adventure
with Mindy that is filled with awkward social situations. While searcing
for a solution, Mindy starts to grow on the overly anxious Fred, and
urges him to make a decision that will change the rest of his life.
SILVER TONGUES – America Indie Director: USA / 2011 / 88 min / HDCam / English
Lee Tergesen and Enid Graham star as
a pair of lovers who travel from town to town, and take on different
identities in each new place. Driven by an insatiable appetite for change
and with no regard for consequences, they manipulate, toy with, and
forever alter the lives of the strangers they meet. However, with each
performance, their deceitful game spirals ever more out of control.
One lie leads to another and in the end escape becomes impossible. Both
morally ambiguous and sophisticated, SILVER TONGUES takes you to the
brink of the unexpected
TURBINE -American Indie Feature. Director: Isaak & Eva James / USA / 2011 / 86 min / HDCam / English
Nick, an adulterous New Yorker, relocates
to the Midwest with his wife Sarah. Nick is in pursuit of a career in
wind energy, while Sarah wants desperately to make a fresh start at
beginning a family outside of the city. Nick soon forms a unique bond
with a wealthy local farmer and discovers that the secret haunting him
is not so easily left behind in this erotic and darkly surreal drama
set against the wind turbines of rural Missouri.
VAMPERIFICA – America Indie Feature / Florida Premiere
Director: Bruce Ornstein / USA /
2011 / 95 minutes / HD / English WALK A MILE IN MY PRADAS – America Indie Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Joey Sylvester / USA / 2011 / 87 MIN / HDCam / English Tony Parisi (Nathanial Marston) is a real “man’s man” and all around “good guy”. He works hard at his job. He’s a loyal friend and fully devoted to his fiancé. He happens to also be completely homophobic. Tony takes great pleasure in ridiculing his new, gay co-worker, Steve (Tom Archdeacon). That is until fate intervenes and Tony finds that he is suddenly gay, while Steve learns he has mysteriously turned straight. Now, truly a man’s man, Tony must scramble to straighten out in time for his wedding. But, not before he walks a mile in Steve's shoes.
Also starring Tom Arnold, Mike Starr
and Dee Wallace.
World Cinema Features
ANDANTE- World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Satoshi Kaneda / Japan / 2010 / 108 min / DVD / Japanese w/English sub-titles
Chika, though a talented pianist and
attractive young woman, is one of an increasing number of agoraphobics
in Japan. Approaching 30 and nearing the tenth year of having locked
herself into her childhood bedroom, she ignites her father's rage when
he has to beg Chika's boss (his former student) to allow his immature
daughter to keep her job. The pressure from her parents to succeed,
along with the harsh surrealities of Japanese culture cause her to flee
to the countryside where she meets Shinpei, the, a rice farmer who responded
by snail mail to her bottled S.O.S. Enjoying the delicious fruits of
her labor, Chika's love of life is reborn through her new found respect
of herself.
ANDROS - World Cinema / U.S. Premiere Director: Matthew McCoy / Bahamas / 2010 / 55 min / DVD / English
This film explores the natural resources
of largest island in The Bahamas. Andros is known as the major
source of fresh water for Nassau, the capital of The Bahamas, and is
famous for its bonefishing as well as a home to land crabs, tarpon,
turtles, iguanas, birds and the third largest barrier reef in the world,
giving it the potential to become an international eco tourism mecca.
This documentary provides the opportunity to meet the people who live
there and learn about the issues they face.
ANOTHER SENSE - World Cinema Feature / U.S Premiere Director: Yuri Grymov / Russia / 2010 / 105 min / Russian w/English sub-titles
In the life of little Gleb everything
is fine. He loves a girl Nastya and they decided to get married,
when they grow up. Gleb is blind, and he defines the whole world around
him by touching or based on his grandfather's words. And most
important, what Gleb keeps in memory from his childhood: "The main
thing is not looking; the most important seeing.” Suddenly,
he recovers his sight and the world turns out to be totally different.
THE ARTIST - World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Michel Hazanavicius / France / 2011 / 100 min / Silent w/English insert-titles
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is
a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death
knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra
Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits.
THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies. The
film features an all-star cast including: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo,
John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Malcolm
McDowell.
CAIRO EXIT - World Cinema / Florida Premiere Director: Hesham Issawi / Egypt / 2010 / 96 min / Arabic w/English subtitles
Director Hesham Issawi details a girl’s
dreams of freedom through 18 year-old Amal’s battle with the decision
to escape illegally to Italy with her Muslim boyfriend or remain with
her Coptic Orthodox Christian family. In seeing the sacrifices and unbearable
difficulties of a poor woman in Egypt through her sister and best friend,
she seeks out her own journey.
DELHI IN A DAY - World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Prashant Nair / INDIA / 2011 / 88 min / English & /Hindi w/English subtitles
When the money of an idealistic British
traveler disappears in a nouveau-riche Delhi home, the staff of the
house are blamed and given twenty-four hours to replace it or face the
consequences. The film moves sweetly between the upper middle
class country clubesque family with varying degrees of indifference,
to their servants that fear for their jobs constantly, to the privileged
twenty-something British tourist who yearns to show compassion but is
hesitant due to the complexities of custom. Throughout it all
there is comedy and a richness of discovery making DELHI IN A DAY a
sensory treat.
ESPIRAL- World Cinema Feature / East Coast Premiere Director: Jorge Pérez Solano /Mexico / 2009 / 90 min / Spanish w/English sub-titles
With the desire to improve their lives,
men migrate without realizing that destroy what they want to save, their
families.This is the story of Diamantina and Aracely, two youths from
the Mixtec Oaxacan starting to see his men north in search of economic
improvement. Santiago tries to raise money in order to marry Diamantina.
Macario looking out of poverty his family. When the men returned to
the people, and nothing is equal. Both want to recover what they
left behind in the past, Santiago courting the daughter of Diamantina,
Macario seeking forgiveness from his wife and children by abandoning
them.
GARCIA – World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Jose Luis Rugeles / Colombia / 2010 / 100 min / Spanish & Portuguese w/English sub-titles
Garcia is 58-year old security guard
who is about to accomplish his lifelong dream of buying his wife a house,
when his life takes an unexpected turn when his wife Amalia is kidnapped
for a hefty ransom. Director Jose Luis Rugeles brings a story of the
series of perilous adventures that will lead to the secret behind his
wife’s disappearance.
THE IMMATURI - World Cinema Feature / U.S. Premiere Director: Paolo Genovese / Italy / 2011 / 108 min / Italian w/English sub-titles
Giorgio , Lorenzo , Piero, Luisa, Virgilio,
Francesca : what do these 38-year-olds have in common? Twenty years
ago they were classmates, but above all they were friends, they were
a group. Then something happened and the group broke up. Soon they’ll
become a group again, at least for a few days: the Ministry of Education
has annulled their high school graduation exams and they’ll have to
take them again, or witness the annulment of all qualifications acquired
thereafter. And so, with a few more wrinkles and a little less hair,
we’ll see them together again, like old times. With the desire to
savor again the taste of youth, but with a greater or lesser awareness
that that period has ended.
KROMOV- World Cinema Feature / U.S. Premiere Director: Andrey Razenkov / Russia / 2009 / 112 min / Russian w/English sub-titles
The scene of the film’s action is
gorgeous Paris in the beginning of the XX century. The characters in
the play are immigrants from Russia. The main intrigue is concentrated
on the hunt for 250 millions in gold, left over in the Paris banks after
the fall of the Tsar Russia. This capital is under the control
of count Kromov, a former attaché of the Russian Empire in France.
Nevertheless he does not consider the money is his and does not take
it, which only adds to the enthusiasm of those who are eager to make
their fortune in troubled times.
LATE BLOOMERS
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World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere MABUL – World Cinema Feature / Southeast Premiere Director: Guy Nattiv / Israel / 2011 / 100 min / Hebrew w/English sub-titles
Everything in Yoni’s (Yoav Rotman)
life is complicated. He’s almost 13, a gifted student, but physically
undeveloped and desperate to change that before his up-and-coming Bar
Mitzvah. He’s sells his homework to buy a bodybuilding “wonder powder”.
Every night, Yoni lifts weights tied and he’s tries to find a way
to deepen his voice. Suddenly, the arrival of his 17 year old
autistic brother, Tomer (Michael Moshonov) not only turns Yoni’s life
upside down, but also shakes the already unstable foundations of the
entire Roshko family.
MAN ON THE TRAIN- World Cinema Feature/Florida Premiere & Centerpiece Film Director: Mary McGuckian / Canada-Ireland / 2011 / HDCam / English
Rock musician, Larry Mullen, Jr stars
opposite stars opposite Hollywood veteran Donald Sutherland in this
re-incarnation, of Patrick Leconte’s scrumptiously literate
2002 crime drama
Man on the Train.
Sutherland stars as the retired literature professor, who, in his own
parlance, seems cut out of the mold of J. Alfred Prufrock. Refined
and restrained, he lives alone in the posh home his mother left him.
The stale professor, however, is stirred by a chance meeting with his
psychological and professional opposite, a laconic criminal (Mullen)
who rides into town on a train. This mystery man is in cahoots to rob
the local bank, the very day that the Professor is to have heart surgery.
Opposites do attract in this witty character study as the Professor
takes in the itinerant to stay a few days in his comfy manse.
THE MATCHMAKER - World Cinema Feature Director: Avi Nesher / Israel / 2011 / 112 min / Hebrew w/English sub-titles
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa
in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele,
a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater
that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves.
As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his
work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni's cousin,
who has just returned from America and is full of talk of women's rights,
free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik's life collide
in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through
a summer that changes him forever.
MEHERJAAN – World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Rubaiyat Hossain / Bangladesh / 2011 / 119 min / 35mm / English and Benglai & Urdu w/English sub-titles
In 1971, during Bangladesh’s war
of independence, Meher falls in love with a soldier from the enemy side.
When her love is discovered, she is shamed and silenced by her family
and society. Today, 38 years after the war, Meher has a visitor
she cannot turn down. Sarah—a ‘war-child,’ Meher’s cousin Neela’s
daughter, who was given away for adoption has come back to piece together
her past. Together, these two women must re-tell history through
their stories in order to cut through the stigmas and walk into light.
MISS TACUAREMBO - World Cinema Feature / U.S. Premiere Director: Martin Sastre / Uruguay / 2010 / 90 min / DigiBeta / Spanish w/English sub-titles
A Young girl who grew-up under the
influence of Flashdance is looking for her fame via a television contest.
Maybe she could escape her boring life between a Christian theme park
and a small village at the end of the world. Where’s there’s
hope...there’s a way. An hilarious musical with all telenovelas,
TV reality and religious cliché possible! featuring South American
star Natalia Oreiro together with Rossy de Palma...Super catchy tunes
for the all family!
MONTEVIDEO – World Cinema Feature / U.S. Premiere Director: Dragan Bjelogrlic / Serbia / 2011 / 140 min / 35mm / Serbian w/English sub-titles
In Belgrade, during the spring of 1930,
Tirke is a boy from Čubura that is forced to choose between a factory
job and football. After much thought, he stays faithful to his true
love – football. During this time, you couldn’t earn a living
by playing football – but you could live for football. Only
Moša Marjanović was paid for every goal. Suddenly, an official
letter of invitation arrives stating that the team has been invited
to compete in the First World Football Championship to be held in the
summer of 1930 in Montevideo.
MOTHERS – World Cinema Feature Director: Milcho Manchevski / Macedonia-France-Bulgaria / 2010 / 123 min / Macedonian w/English sub-titles
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher
to the police even though they never saw him and condemn an innocent man.
Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly
brother and sister who have stopped talking to each other many years
ago. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small
town. The DNA leads to a journalist who was reporting on the murders.
Did he kill by night, write by day? Three days after his arrest, he
is found in his cell, his head in a bucket of water. Was it suicide or
murder? Every story is true, but one of them is real. Employing
an innovative structure, the three stories in MOTHERS highlight the
delicate relationships of truth and fiction, of drama and documentary.
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN- World Cinema Feature / Southeast Premiere Director: UK / 2011 / 96 min / DCP / English
Featuring an all-star cast, My Week
With Marilyn brings us to the early summer of 1956, when 23 year-old
Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to
make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the
set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united
Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle
Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright
Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account
The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing
and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn –
this is the story of that week. Also starring Emma Watson
and Judy Dench
ODD ONE OUT – World Cinema Feature / U.S. Premiere Director: Paweł Wendorff / Poland / 2010 / 87 min / Polish w/English sub-titles
The film is a surreal collage of interrelated
threads revolving around history of thirty-year-old Kuba who, with his
parents’ encouragement, decides to take his first job. Though
none too convinced, he starts work as a delivery man. Having set out
on his first delivery soon, he witnesses a traffic accident. He ends
up giving a statement at the police station. And his plans begin to
unravel. By a twist of fate Kuba has no idea about the significance
of the part he will have to play on this particular day.
REFRACTAIRE – World Cinema Feature / U.S. Premiere Director: Nicolas Steil / Luxembourg – Switzerland / 2011 / 100 min / French w/English sub-titles
François, a 21-year-old, is living
in Luxembourg, which Nazi Germany has just annexed. His father collaborates
with the fascist regime, forcing Francois to go to German university.
François commits a first act of disobedience by leaving this place
that preached racial hatred. Now he is facing a Cornelian choice:
to become forcibly enrolled and leave for the Russian front to fight
the Allies or to become a draft dodger, buried alive in the cold and
damp mines for months on end without seeing the light of day, the only
hope being the Liberation.
SAVIORS IN THE NIGHT – World Cinema Feature Director: Ludi Boeken / Germany / 2011 / 95 min / English and German & French w/English sub-titles
Based on the memories of Marga Spiegel,
published in 1965, she describes how the courageous farmers in southern
Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried {named Menne} and their
little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from deportation
to the extermination camps in the East. The film tells this story of
survival with a sense for the absurd in daily life and not without the
typical Westphalian humor.
SILVER CASE - World Cinema / World Premiere Director: Christian Filippella / Italy/US / 2011 / 87 min. / NTSC / English
In Tinseltown, the world of scheming
reaches a nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator'
hatches a plan to undermine the future success of the 'Master', his
shady arch rival. His plot begins with the delivery of a silver briefcase.
But the case goes missing, which sets off a chain of events that are
not part of the plan. The Senator engages the best of his team to locate
the package but doesn't count on the tenacity of two thugs who have
the mysterious prize in their possession.
VIAJE REDONDO- World Cinema Feature /Florida Director: Gerardo Tort / Mexico / 2009 / 102 min / Spanish w/English sub-titles
Two women searching for what they want
in life – search together and blaze new frontiers in this sweet, tender,
often sexy tale of longing. Fer and Lucia are casually in a bus
stop. After a misunderstanding between them, Lucia accepts a ride in
Fer´s car so that she can get to her destination. Despite their differences,
in the adventure and in the game of rivalry and complicity that exists
between them, they create bonds of sympathy.
THE WOMEN ON THE 6 TH FLOOR- World Cinema Feature / Florida Premiere Director: Philippe Le Guay / France / 2010 / 104 min / French w/English sub-titles
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini,
Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating
peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain,
Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children are away at boarding school.
The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish
maid Maria (Natalia Verbeke). Through Maria, Jean-Louis is introduced
to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth
floor, the servants’ quarters. He befriends a group of sassy Spanish
maids (Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Berta Ojea, Nuria Sole, Concha Calan),
refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there’s more to life
than stocks and bonds. The women’s influence on the house brings change…
muy rápido!
THE ZERO HOUR – World Cinema Feature /East coast Premiere Director: Diego Velasco / 2010 / Venezuela / 102 min / DVD / Spanish w/English sub-titles
A gritty fast paced heist film set
in Caracas, during the 24 hours of a controversial medical strike in
1996. It follows Parca, a tattooed hitman as he takes an entire hospital
hostage in order to save his girlfriend. What seemed as a perfect plan
will end in a frenetic outcome, as Parca is forced to come to terms
with his past, and as he discovers that his worst enemies are closer
than he ever imagined. A love story told in the midst of chaos, LA HORA
CERO is a timely and universal story about the mythic rise to power
and the inevitable fall from grace.
Documentaries
American Indie,
World Cinema & Sunshine Celluloid
ABANDON SHIP: The Sinking of the SV Concordia – World Cinema Documentary / Florida Director: Dianne Carruthers-Wood / Canada / 2011/ 49 min / HDCam / English
Director Dianne Carruthers brings us
the nail-biting account of the journey of 48 Canadian students and 16
crew members through the sinking of the SV Concordia in 2010. Stranded
with no means of communication and only four life-rafts, we follow through
their memories and handheld footage during the darkest hours until their
miraculous rescue.
A NEW KIND OF LISTENING – American Indie Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Kenny Dalsheimer / USA / 2009 / 57 min / English & Captioned subtitles for hearing impaired
A New Kind of Listening that takes
us inside the creative work of the Community Inclusive Theater Group
where Richard Reho inspires cast members, some with disabilities, to
be writers, actors and dancers in an overcoming fashion. We bear witness
to Chris Mueller-Medlicott’s journey from a lonely, withdrawn adolescent
to co-director of the theater group. The result is a groundbreaking
film that will revitalize spirits in doing what it takes to be heard.
CONCERT – American Indie Documentary / World Premiere Director: Richard Warren Rappaport / USA / 2011 / 56 min / DVD / English
Live the American singer-songwriter
Richard Warren Rappaport’s introspective look into the world of music,
art and creativity as every song has a story and every story has a song.
THE COOL SCHOOL- America Indie Documentary Director: Morgan Neville / USA / 2008 / 86 min / DVD / English
THE COOL SCHOOL is an abject lesson
in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process.
The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed the LA
art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of
competitive, often brilliant artists, including Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha,
Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Moses and Robert Irwin. The Ferus
also served as launching point for New York imports, Andy Warhol (hosting
his first Soup Can show), Jasper Johns, and Roy Lichtenstein, as well
as leading to the first Pop Art show and Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective.
What was lost and gained is tied up in a complex web of egos, passions,
money, and art. This is how LA came of age.
DOG POO - World Cinema Documentary / U.S. Premiere
Director:
James Boldiston / Argentina-Australia-France-
The only film you can
step in, 'Dog Poo - the truth at last' is the first feature film that
gets down with doggies poo poo. Shot in 8 countries, the secret life
of dog poop is brought out in glorious detail. From Harvey Milk's
pooper scooping laws in San Francisco and onto poo detection in the
outback of Australia, the truth about poop comes to the surface.
FLORIDA CRACKERS: The Cattlemen
and Cowboys of Florida –
Sunshine Celluloid Documentary
John Michie details the story of a
little-known pioneer culture dating back to 1521, when Spanish explorer
Juan Ponce de Leon landed in what is now Florida and introduced the
first cattle and horses into North America. Decades later, additional
settlers arrived and established missions as well as cattle ranches
and thus giving rise to the first cowboys and cattle industry in America.
HAPPY - World Cinema Documentary / Florida Director: Roko Belic / USA / 2011 / 77 min / English + Various w/English sub-titles
In 2005, director Tom Shadyac ('Liar
Liar', 'Patch Adams' and 'Bruce Almighty') handed Roko Belic a New York
Times article about the new science of happiness. The article ranked
the United States down at number 23 on its list of happiest countries.
Shadyac, himself dissatisfied with his luxurious Beverly Hills lifestyle,
suggested the two collaborate on a documentary investigating the sources
of genuine human happiness. How can America be one of the richest countries
in the world and nowhere near the happiest?
HOLLYWOOD TO DOLLYWOOD – American Indie Documentary / Florida Director: John Lavin / USA / 2011 / 79 min / DigiBeta / English
Twin brothers Gary and Larry Lane had
one dream: get a script into their idol’s hands- Dolly Parton.
This is the story of their cross-country journey from RV parks and Bars
through the floods of Nashville and even an Oklahoma Tornado.
The journey also becomes a discovery of their hopes, fears, and ambitions
as they strive towards their dream.
THE HOPEFUL – America Indie Documentary / Florida Premiere Director: Brendan Kirsch / USA /2011 / 92 min / Blu-Ray / English
The two-year journey of young man whose
dream is to become a Division I college quarterback. From Charlotte,
North Carolina, Cody Keith is the son of a wealthy family who became
the center of a very heated social discussion on the ethics of transferring
high schools for athletic purposes. To avoid the growing media attention,
the family moves to Los Angeles, where Cody has one last shot at earning
a Division I college football scholarship. Surrounded by pressure and
critics who are waiting for him to fail, Cody finds himself on a personal
journey of self discovery - and realizes that playing the game for himself
is the most gratifying experience he ever could have hoped for.
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION - World Cinema Documentary / World Premiere Director: Ruaridh Arrow / UK / 2011 / 87 min / HDCam / English
RUARIDH ARROW educates us about the
remarkable untold story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp, the
world's leading expert on non-violent revolution. This new film reveals
how Gene's work has given a new generation of revolutionary leaders
the weapons needed to overthrow dictators and provided people with the
power to change their world.
ISLANDS OF LIFE - World Cinema Documentary / East coast Premiere Director: Bo Boudart / Bahamas / 2011 / 70 min / HDCam / English
More than 50 years ago, the islands
of the Bahamas were being sold to wealthy individuals. The fisheries
were endangered, flamingos were being hunted to near extinction, forests
were cut down, and the fisheries were being depleted. As a result, the
Bahamas National Trust was formed and has created 26 national parks
on 1 million acres of land and sea. This documentary shows the results
of Bahamians’ conservation efforts-from the rich forests that shelter
parrots and crabs, to the colorful reefs that nurture fish, turtles
and other natural wonders.
JESSIE’S DAD – Sunshine Celluloid Documentary / Florida Premiere Director: Boaz Dvir / USA / 2011 / 50 min / English
This film tells the story of Mark Lunsford’s
transformation from an uneducated truck driver to a savvy activist after
losing his 9-year-old daughter to a convicted pedophile. A blue-collar
“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “Jessie’s Dad” follows Mark
as he visits Capitol Hill and state capitals to urge lawmakers to wise
up and crack down on child predators. The film offers a behind-the-scenes
look at a single father haunted by the knowledge that a child molester
held his daughter within an earshot for three days. Mark channels
his anger toward making a difference for all American children, pushing
for the passage of Jessie’s Law, which toughens penalties against
sex offenders.
THE LEGEND OF IVAN TORS - American Indie Documentary /World Premiere
Director: Scott Cardinelli / USA
/ 2011 / 108 min / English LOST AIRMEN OF BUCHENWALD – American Indie Documentary / Florida Premiere Director: Mike Dorsey / USA / 2011 / 117 min / HDCam / English
In the summer of 1944, 168 airmen from
the US, England, Canada and other Allied countries were captured in
Paris by the German Gestapo and sent to the infamous "Koncentration
Lager Buchenwald" in Germany. Falsely accused of being "terrorists
and saboteurs," the airmen became part of a very controversial
moment in history that their home countries tried to hush-up. This film
gives us the first-hand story via interviews with the seven surviving
members including the heroic commanding officer of the group while hiding
with the French Resistance to the darkest corners of the Holocaust,
where they struggled to survive as Germany collapsed under the weight
of the advancing Russian and Allied armies.
PARAISO FOR SALE- - World Cinema Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Anayansi Prado /Panama / 2011 / 73 min / HDCam / English w/Spanish sub-titles & Spanish w/English sub-titles
What price would you pay for paradise?
And who would you be willing to take it from? The pristine Archipelago
of Bocas del Toro, Panama attracts retirees and developers from the
U.S. with its crystal clear waters and its island culture. In PARAISO
FOR SALE, filmmaker, Anayansi Prado, returns to her homeland to document
the effects the fast-growing migration is having on the local community.
PARAISO FOR SALE explores issues of modern day colonialism, residential
tourism, global gentrification and reverse migration, by revealing that
immigration between Latin America and the US is not just a one-way street.
THE POWER OF TWO-
World Cinema Documentary/Southeast Premiere
The Power Of Two offers an intimate
portrayal of the bond between half-Japanese twin sisters Anabel Stenzel
and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, their lifelong battle with the fatal genetic
disease cystic fibrosis (CF), survival through miraculous double lung
transplants, and improbable emergence as authors, athletes, and advocates
for organ donation and those suffering from CF in the U.S. and Japan.
MARATHON BOY – World Cinema Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Gemma Atwal / India-UK-USA / 2010 / 99 min / HDCam / English & Oriyan w/English sub-titles
This dynamic epic follows 4 year-old
Budhia, rescued from poverty by Biranchi Das, a judo coach and operator
of an orphanage for slum children in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.
When Budhia displays a remarkable talent for long-distance running,
Biranchi nurtures his gift, heralding him as a folk hero. But after
golden child Budhia breaks down during a world-record 65 kilometer run,
public opinion begins to turn on the guru and his disciple, and soon
the two are swept up in a maelstrom of media controversy and political
scandal.
MARY AND BILL – American Indie Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Andrew Napier / USA / 2011 / 49 min / HDCam / English
Mary and Bill is a feature length documentary
about Mary Stroebe, a 90-year-old triathlete, and Bill Wambach, an 83-year-old
high jumper. We follow them immediately after they experience health
related problems, where Mary has broken her leg while down-hill skiing
and Bill, who smoked for 45 years, is recovering from a heart attack.
Despite these physical ailments, Mary hopes to complete the Lifetime
Fitness triathlon and Bill will attempt to win the National Senior Olympics.
Through their amazing commitment, both Mary and Bill prove that age
is just a number.
MINDS IN THE WATER – American Indie Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Justin Krumb / USA / 2011 / 85 min / HDCam / English
Minds In The Water is a feature-length
documentary following the quest of professional surfer Dave Rastovich
and his friends to protect dolphins, whales and the oceans they all
share. Through Dave's journey—a five-year adventure spanning the globe
from Australia to the Galapagos, Tonga, California, Alaska and Japan—we
see one surfer’s quest to activate his community to help protect the
ocean and its inhabitants.
MISS SOUTH PACIFIC: Beauty and the Sea – World Cinema Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Mary Lambert / USA / 2011 / 40 min / DigiBeta / English
What does a beauty pageant in Suva,
Fiji have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, as it turns out. 'Miss
South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea' is a short documentary film about
the 2009-2010 Miss South Pacific Pageant that brought contestants, or
Queens, from all the major Pacific Island Nations to compete in a week
long pageant for the crown of Miss South Pacific. Addressing the theme
of Climate Change and its impact on Pacific Island countries, the Queens
eloquently and passionately implore judges, spectators, and the world
at large to reduce global carbon emission lest their island homes will
be lost to rising seas. Is it too late to turn back the tide? Watch
Miss South Pacific and see.
SCISSORS AND GLUE
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World Cinema Documentary / U.S. Premiere THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND – World Cinema Documentary Director: Briar March / New Zealand / 2010 / 80min / English, Takuu & Tok Pisin w/English sub-titles
What if your community had to decide
whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available?
This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of
Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying
tidal flood rips through their already damaged home, the Takuu community
experiences the devastating effects of climate change first hand.
Three intrepid characters Teloo, Endar and Satty, allow us into their
lives and their culture and show us first-hand the human impact of an
environmental crisis. They take us on their personal journeys as they
consider whether to move to an uncertain future in Bougainville or to
stay on Takuu and fight for a different, but equally uncertain, outcome.
TRAPPED BY DRUGS – World Cinema Documentary Director: Peru-France / 2010 / 55 min / Spanish & French w/English Voice-over
They are young and dream of easy money:
more and more Europeans fall into the trap of trafficking cocaine. They
are recruited by the South American cartels on the European territory.
Their new destination: Peru, where the drug is trading 20% cheaper than
in Colombia. Traffic, odd jobs, extortion: what are the rules to survive
in an outsized prison where money makes the law. Among these
new European smugglers there are more and more women, who are often
pregnant to escape notice during the security inspection.
TROUPERS – America Indie Documentary / Southeast Premiere Director: Saratoga Ballantine & Dea Lawrence / USA / 2011 / 85 min / DVD / English
What's the craziest career choice anyone
can make and spend over 80 years pursuing that path? "Troupers"
gives new meaning to the phrase, "hang in there". Meet 12
talented, successful people who beat the odds, followed their dream
and are still working well into their 80's and 90's. These are the journeymen
actors, the ones you see in a movie or TV show and who seem really familiar.
"Troupers" takes a humorous look at how this fearless group
survived parental disapproval, the black list, divorce, debt, rejection,
disappointment, depression, the depression, bad acting coaches, nasty
casting directors, and decades of auditions to do what they wanted to
do: Act.
Special Retro
Film Tribute Screenings
3:10 to YUMA Special Screening with Peter Ford book signing Glenn Ford: A Life and Q&A
Based on a short story by Elmore Leonard
(and the first Leonard story to be filmed),
3:10 To Yuma
stars Glenn Ford and Van Heflin and was directed by Delmer Daves. By
the time they made
3:10 to Yuma, both Ford and Heflin were established
as first-rate film actors, but what set Ford’s performance apart in
this film was his casting against type as the story’s villain, Ben
Wade. Set in the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, Wade, leader of a gang
of outlaws, is captured and must be transported to court on the 3:10
train to Yuma. Desperate for cash after suffering through a long drought,
rancher Dan Evans, played by Heflin, agrees to a $200 fee to join another
man in escorting Wade to the train. The film includes a well-constructed,
suspenseful plot, which coupled with the fine acting and direction,
makes 3:10 to Yuma stand out among western films.
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN Special Screening with Senator George McGovern Q&A & Award Presentation Director: Alan J. Pakula / USA / 1976 / 138 min / English Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in the Oscar-winning film that takes place in 1972 as a seemingly minor page 4 story of a break-in to the Democratic Party National Headquarters at Watergate Office Complex in Washington, DC is assigned to Washington Post reporter, Bob Woodward. Director Alan J. Pakula brings us Woodward's discovery of intrigue, deceit, greed, paranoia and lust for power, which would culminate in the only resignation of a U.S. President in history.
THE GRASS HARP Special Screening with Piper Laurie Q&A and Award Presentation
Set in a small 1940s Alabama town,
the film follows Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) as he is sent to live
with his father's maiden cousins, the sweet Dolly (Piper Laurie) and
the overbearing Verena (Sissy Spacek), following the death of his mother.
He soon discovers that the Talbo household is anything but normal. After
also losing his father, Collin grows to be close to Dolly and Catherine
(Nell Carter) and becomes acquainted with the eccentric townspeople,
from the gossip-loving barber (Roddy McDowall) to a traveling evangelist
with fifteen illegitimate kids (Mary Steenburgen). To escape Verena's
oppression, Dolly, Collin, and Catherine run away to an old tree house
in the woods. Their rebellion sparks a series of events that change
their lives and the entire town as well
Short Films
19 GIORNI DI MASSIMA SICUREZZA – World Cinema Director: Enzo De Camillis / Italy / 2010 / 12 min / DVD / Italian w/English sub-titles
A true story experienced by De Camillis
and his wife, Anna. And it is she who writes from prison, the past 19
days in jail without knowing why this unjust detention.
BAD INFLUENCES- America Indie Director: Kate Emery / USA / 2010 / 16 min / DVD / English
Enter the hilariously sick mind of
Jillian, a timid hypochondriac with a vivid imagination. Instead of
making real friends, she hangs out with the diseases she thinks she
has: Influenza, Asthma and Mono. Jillian moves into a rural, germ-ridden
town just in time for her freshman year of high school. Her “friends”
tag along, ready to keep her safe from the hazards of a ninth-grade
social life. When a renegade upperclassman named Dave encourages Jillian
to emerge from her shell, she must make a real human connection or remain
sick forever.
HOLD FOR LAUGHS
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America Indie
Margaret's life sucks. A shy thirteen
year old freshman at an all-girls Catholic high school, she's got braces
and a baby face. The other girls make fun of her and the boy she longs
for doesn't know she exists, not to mention her parents are getting
divorced and her dog is dying. But by night, Margaret is precocious,
confident, and full of witty and irreverent observations, as she transforms
into Margaret Rose, stand-up comic.
HYPNOCUS-POCUSED - America Indie Director: Victor Suarez / USA / 2011 / 12 min / DVD / English
A casual hypnosis goes bananas!
NEVO Directed by William Djuric /USA / 2011 / 26 min / HDCam / English
By day, Chris works the busy kitchen
of a trendy New York City restaurant. While the City sleeps, Chris assumes
his alternate identity, Nevo. On what was supposed to be the start of
a relaxing weekend from the stress his daytime job, Chris’s world
is turned upside down when he discovers all his work defiled by a new
and mysterious rival.
Short Film Programs
And To All A Good Night A QUIRK OF FATE – World Cinema Director: Marco Riedl Germany / 2011 / 40 min / HDCam / German w/English sub-titles
Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles
isn’t a realist“, says Billy Wilder. A quirk of fate leads Luke
Hallow to risk violating his parole and losing his newly won freedom
to save the life of his nine-year-old daughter, Noel. Only a miracle
can keep him from losing everything… forever.
BUNCE - Short Film Program, And to All a Good Night / World Cinema Director: Peter Cattaneo / United Kingdom / 2010 / 11 min / DVD / English
12 year-old Stephen Fry Secundus isn’t
popular with his headmaster. Unhappy with the pitiful offerings of the
tuck shop, Fry, often ventures out of bounds to the village candy shop.
But when one trip too many catches up with him, and he is threatened
with the exclusion from Christmas festivities, Fry’s only hope lies
with Bunce, the frightened new boy he’s taken under his wing.
CAPTURING SANTA - Short Film Program, And to All a Good Night / World Cinema Director: Peter Cattaneo / United Kingdom / 2010 / 11 min / DVD / English
Nine-year old Chris O’Dowd has had
enough of Christmas gift disappointment and thus determines that it’s
time to show Santa Claus who’s boss. And so, young Chris embarks on
a cunning plan to catch his life-long nemesis.
CAR PARK BABYLON- Short Film Program, And to All a Good Night / World Cinema Director: Bill Bailey & Joe Magee United Kingdom / 2010 / 11 min / DVD / English
Tis the season of merriment...shops
alive with the lights, happy people, the cheer is contagious...ah, its
a wonderful life!
Short and Sweet (GLBT Shorts) DREAMING AMERICAN- Short Film Program, GLBT Shorts Director: Lee Percy / USA / 2011 / 25 min / DVD / English
After escaping a dangerous past a young
man fights to keep his body, his dignity and his dream alive. Survival
is the first order of business in New York City and when success comes
within his grasp he finds himself up against an uncaring immigration
bureaucracy. Based on a true story, "Dreaming American" is
a humorous, sad, and always compelling story of courage, living by one's
wits, and the struggle to make it in America.
CATCH 22- Short Film Program, Sunshine Celluloid Director: Mario Fernandez / USA / 2011 / 10 min / DVD / English
What would you do if you knew you're
friends husband was having an affair? Would you keep the secret or would
you tell her? Morgan finds out that her Best Friend's husband is having
an affair. She is crossed between keeping the secret or exposing it.
In an effort to seek guidance, she visits her friend Crystal. Crystal
persuades Morgan to trust her with the secret, a secret that Crystal
was not ready to hear.
CONDUIT- Short Film Program, Sunshine Celluloid Director: Alyn Darnay / USA / 2011 / 13 min / DVD /English
In this riveting and powerful, yet
uplifting drama, about how unexpected events can hold tremendous pain
and limit one’s ability to go on, famed surgeon Susan Peck sits at
a tipping point. One year after the accident that forever changed her
life, and took away her will to live, she titters on the brink of a
tragic decision. Into her life comes a message that can change the course
of her life, or end it.
SOME THINGS ARE WORSE THAN BEING GAY- Short Film Program, GLBT Shorts Director: Regine Richards / USA / 2011 / 6 min / DigiBeta / English
Leah, a young Jewish woman has decided
to come out to her parents and while she expects the worst, they react
surprisingly well until they learn that their daughter's girlfriend
is not Jewish.
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED- Short Film Program, GLBT Shorts Director: Drew Stephens / USA / 2011 / 11 min / Blu-Ray / English
Is love an obsession or addiction?
Modern socio-political issues play out in the fragile romance between
two Filipino-American men. On this date night, Vince is ready to take
their relationship to a new level - until he discovers that Jerry's
problems with a former addiction have resurfaced. Instead, Vince must
decide if he will continue to fight for the relationship, or acknowledge
that perhaps his love alone will never be enough.
WITH THIS RING- Short Film Program, GLBT Shorts Director: Michael Jacoby / USA / 2011 / 13 min / DVD / English
In this romantic thriller two men meet
for the first time – and have the most unusual encounter.
Love Is A Four Letter Word AMORES CIEGOS - Short Film Program, Love is a Four Letter Word Director: Marisé Samitier / Spain / 2011 / 23 min / HDCam / Spanish w/English sub-titles
The story revolves around four people
consumed by jealousy, deceit and betrayal. Marta suffers because she
can’t have children. Her husband has an affair with Mila, Marta’s
own sister, and single mother of Daniel. Their lives turn around when
Daniel’s father, shows up.
BUZZ-KILLER - Short Film Program, Love is a Four Letter Word Director: Heland Lee / U.S.A. / 2011 / 113 min / DVD / English This is on-line dating gone awry. But luckily, neither Josiphyne nor Larry knew what happened.
Everyone deserves a second chance.
DISTILLED LOVE- Short Film Program, Love is a Four Letter Word Director: Joe Kicak / Canada / 2010 / 14 min / Betacam SP / Engligh
Hoping to fix the crack in their relationship,
Rene locks himself and his hipster girlfriend, Emma, in their apartment.
His personal remedy for their woes is a weekend-long, cold turkey detox
for Emma. But as her alcohol withdrawal takes hold, the couple discovers
addiction is not the only problem they need to face.
LAST WORDS OF THE HOLY GHOST- Short Film Program, Love is a Four Letter Word
Director: Ben Sharony / USA / 2011
/ 19:35 / HDCam / English PROPOSAL- Short Film Program, Love is a Four Letter Word Director: Chris King / USA / 2011 / 16 min / DigiBeta / English
Haunted by memories of a lost love,
a lonely man finally decides to move on with his life. With family wedding
ring in hand, he gathers the last bit of courage he needs before asking
the biggest question of his life. Based on a true story.
One Life For Yourself THE LIFE SMUGGLERS - Short Film Program, One Life for Yourself – One for Your Dreams Director: David W. Wells / USA / 2011 / 25 min / English & Spanish w/English sub-titles
Two retirees from Phoenix, Arizona
run prescription drugs from Mexico to help pay for a wife's medical
bills. But when their work suddenly includes people smuggling, it becomes
much more ethically complex.
NORTH ATLANTIC - Short Film Program, One Life for Yourself – One for Your Dreams Director: Bernardo Nascimento / Portugal-UK / 2010 / 15 min / HDCam / English & Portuguese w/English sub-titles
An isolated air traffic controller
in the Azores connects with a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over
the North Atlantic.
PIZZANGRILLO- Short Film Program, One Life for Yourself – One for Your Dreams Director: Marco Gianfreda / Italy / 2011 / 15 min / Blu-Ray /Italian w/English sub-titles
Tired of life, Ettore, 65 years old,
everyday tries to find the courage to drive himself and his three wheeler
down a country ditch. When Luca, his 10 year old nephew, finds out about
his grandfather's intentions, he decides to furtively follow him.
THINGS TO DO - Short Film Program, One Life for Yourself – One for Your Dreams Director: Daniel Jameison & Ana Maria Belo / Australia / 2011 / 7 min / DVD / English
One night and day in Tim and Sara’s
life. How far do you go for the one you love? How much can you sacrifice?
How much can you ask? What do you really need to be happy?
Pas De Deux AN EVENING WITH MY COMATOSE MOTHER - Short Film Program, Pas De Deux Director: Jonathan Martin / USA / 2011 / 33 min / HDCam / English
Dorothy Pritchard thought she had it
easy; house sit for the wealthy Poe's on All Hallows Eve while collecting
a cool paycheck. That was, until, she was introduced to the Poe's comatose
mother living upstairs. As the dark of the night comes, and as the approaching
storm blacks out the neighborhood, Dorothy soon finds herself on a nightmare
ride through hell that she can only beg to be woken up from.
HOMECOMING – World Cinema Short Film Director: Lorian James Delman / France/ 2010 / 46 min / DVD / English & French w/English sub-titles
Paul Berling is suffering from a grave
kidney disease. When he returns to his native village in France in order
to seek out help from his brother, he discovers that the home he left
isn't what it used to be. Caught between his pride and his health, he
battles to find a solution for both
MISH MUSH - Short Film Program, Pas De Deux Director: Amar Chebib / Syria –Canada / 2010 / 18 min / HDCam / Arabic w/English sub-titles
Upon being drafted for military service,
Ahmad, a determined young Syrian poet, decides to flee the country.
Consequently, he is forced up against a complex bureaucracy, conservative
family, and reluctant lover. En route to Lebanon, he discovers himself
in an unexpected place, an apricot orchard.
STUFFER- Short Film Program, Pas De Deux Director: Jake Silbermann / USA / 2010 / 20 min / HDCam / English
A female Sgt. returns from the front
lines of Afghanistan to her husband and daughter for fear that they
will foreclose on their home. But she is coming home with a secret
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED- Short Film Program, Pas De Deux Director: Dave Porfiri & Linda Duvoisin / USA / 2011 / 11 min / DVD / English
The Nashville Sit-ins of 1960 were
among the most important events of the Civil Rights Movement. Over a
period of several months, college students from Fisk University and
other schools staged a very well-organized, non-violent protest at downtown
lunch counters. The protests culminated in the mayor agreeing to end
segregation of lunch counters on the steps of City Hall with the eyes
of the nation watching. It was just the first step in ending segregation
in all facets of life throughout the city and it inspired similar movements
throughout the South.
A YOUNGER MAN- Short Film Program, Pas De Deux Director: John Howard Swain / USA / 2010 / 10 min / English
“Come grow old with me, the best
is yet to be.” A Younger Man is a short film that explores the choices
you make when life cheats you out of the best. Rosa, a woman who has
been saddled with the all consuming task of caring for her dying husband
makes a bold choice that will unite her with a young passionate man
and the two embark on a deceptive journey that begins with murder
Sunshine Celluloid CAPTAIN FIN- Short Film Program, Sunshine Celluloid Director: Kevin James O’Neil / USA / 2011 / 15 min / HDCam / English
Hank Gunner was arrested for manslaughter
in 1975 after he killed a man in a bar fight. He was sentenced
to life in prison without parole. His wife Carol made the decision to
protect Hannah by keeping his whereabouts a secret. Many years later,
Hank receives a visit from Hannah his now eighteen-year-old daughter.
The visit becomes more than a rekindling of their relationship and they
find a way to be together forever.
FORGOTTEN SOUL- Short Film Program,
Sunshine Celluloid GHOSTWRITER- Short Film Program, Sunshine Celluloid Director: Jay Mogavero / USA / 2011 / 15 min / DVD / English
Aaron Drake is a successful mystery
novelist, who has been stricken with writer's block since the unexpected
death of his wife. After over a year of being unable to string a sentence
together he discovers the beginning of a new novel in the tray of his
computer printer.
MARIO SANCHEZ: PAINTER OF MEMORIES- Short Film Program, Sunshine Celluloid
Director: Jack Ofield / USA
/ 2007 / 14 min / BetaSP / English NUTS FOR PIZZA- Short Film Program, Sunshine Celluloid Director: David Andrade / USA / 2011 / 2 min / DVD / English
Nuts to nuts! The only food Squirrely
craves is delivered in 30 minutes or less. But for a squirrel, fresh
pizza’s an unobtainable dream, until fate delivers Matt, the slacker
delivery boy. It’s man versus nature showing just how far one determined
squirrel will go when he’s Nuts For Pizza. The film represents a new
wave of filmmaking techniques and is the world's first online collaborative
animated short film.
Surreal Reality A VIDENTE - Short Film Program, Director: Darcyana Moreno Izel / Brazil / 2011 / 15 min / DVD / Portuguese w/English sub-titles
After a psychic suggests that her fiancée
Rogerio is cheating on her, Carmen plays a dangerous game to discover
the truth at any cost. Reality and fantasy become intertwined in this
uproarious comedy, where nothing is exactly the way it appears.
EKO - Short Film Program, Surreal Reality Director: Goran Kapetanovic / Sweden / 2004 / 16 min / BetaSP / Swedish & Bosnian w/English sub-titles
Things are going pretty well for Sonja.
She left the ex-Yugoslavian war and lives peacefully with her family
in Sweden. The normal life she is trying to live is interrupted by her
trauma from the war. Sanja struggles alone with her trauma, but when
she goes on a weekend trip with his family then everything begins to
change. Her son is in danger.
FRIENDLY STRANGERS - Short Film Program, Surreal Reality Director: Katsumi Funahashi / USA / 2010 / 14 min / DVD / English
One morning, a computer tech, Peter
Benson is finishing up his household chores. he receives an unexpected
visit from a young married couple, Angie Taylor(Amber Ford) and Derek
Taylor(Aaron Macerelli). The Taylor's are planning to buy the
house next door and are seeking information about the quality of their
perspective neighborhood, so Peter invites them in.
INVISIBLE -
Short Film Program,
Surreal Reality
Victor is an African immigrant who,
as a child, witnessed the slaughter of his family. He has now vanished
into London, working as an anonymous street sweeper. But violence seeks
him out once more and he realizes that to regain his humanity he must
become ‘visible’ again.
THE POND - Short Film Program, Surreal Reality Director: USA / 2010 / 20 min / HDCam / English
A heartbroken young woman sets about
scattering her husband's ashes on the pond in an apple orchard they
had both loved. But the waters of the pond hold a secret, and when a
stranger appears unexpectedly, the very fabric of reality is ripped
apart and she must choose between sacrifice and oblivion.
SPLITSCREEN - Short Film Program, Surreal Reality Director: James Griffiths / UK / 2011 / 2min / DVD / Silent
The screen is split down the middle.
On the left we witness the world through the eyes of a woman. On the
right we see the world through the eyes of a man. Although they live
thousands of miles apart, their lives seem to be inextricably linked.
Survival of the Fittest
AFTERSHOCK -
Short Film Program,
Survival of the Fittest
Aftershock tells the dramatic story
of Baojia, a man who loses his family in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.
Subsequently, he becomes an illegal immigrant in New York City working
for a cruel boss. With nothing but bitter memories and hardship, he
struggles to make a human connection.
BEEP - Short Film Program, Survival of the Fittest Director: Haytham Saqr / UAE – Egypt / 2011 / 5 min / DVD / No dialogue Mr. K, the invariably common man, his life passes by as an allegorical equivalent of modern life that is based on work and shopping. A life wasted over a bunch of equipment and devices, which in spite designed to provide easy living, they turn into death machines.
A tempo that hastily transits between
home, work and mall summing up human life into a number of digits and
beeps.
BURNED - Short Film Program, Survival of the Fittest Director: Phyllis Toben Bancroft/ USA / 2011 / 20 min / HDCam / English
Burned is the story of a young woman’s
struggle to cope with her life after returning home from serving in
the Iraq war. Monica Wilson is a young female veteran who is struggling
with accepting the fact that she is suffering from the silent scars
of post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home from the war
in Iraq. As a result of her unwillingness to accept her scars
of combat, she self medicates with alcohol and must find her own way
to get back on track.
PERHAPS TOMORROW - Short Film Program, Survival of the Fittest Director: Sandy Garfunkel / USA / 2010 / 21 min / HDCam / English
Annie has detached herself from her
friends and her work, and seems desperate to find a connection with
a world other than her own. She thinks there is only one path to resolution,
but unexpectedly, her daily lunch routine becomes the key to making
peace with the ghosts of her past.
SOLD - Short Film Program, Survival of the Fittest Director: John Irwin / USA / 2010 / 13 min / HDCam / English & Spanish w/English sub-titles
Set on the backdrop of human trafficking
and sex trade happening in America, and told through the eyes of a young
journalist named Maya, who goes undercover to do an investigative article
on the treatment of illegal immigrants in America.
UNA CARRERITA, DOCTOR! (A DOCTOR'S JOB) - Short Film Program, Survival of the Fittest Director: Julio O. Ramos / Peru / 2011 / 10 min / HDCam / Spanish w/English Subtitles
A doctor forced by circumstance to
also drive a cab finds himself challenged by his latest fare.
Wise Beyond Their Years BOY IN THE TREE - Short Film Program, Wise Beyond Their Years
Director: Aneel Ahmad / Pakistan
/ 2011 / 14 min / DVD / Punjabi w/English sub-titles EXTINCTION- Short Film Program, Wise Beyond Their Years
Director: Kevin McCarey /
USA / 2011 / 30 min / Blu-Ray / English & Xhosa w/English sub-titles
FRESH SKWEEZED
-
Short Film Program,
Wise Beyond Their Years
Maggie, a street smart 11 year old,
is stifled by a shaky home-life and constant torment from the neighborhood
bully. With a fair share of moxie and a talent for the hustle, this
little spitfire is fighting for more than just stability in her turbulent
surroundings. Her life's turned sour and she has no choice but to make
a stand.
PROTECT THE NATION - Short Film Program, Wise Beyond Their Years Director: C. R. Reisser / South Africa, Germany / 2011 / 16 min / DVD / English & Zulu w/English sub-titles
When faced with the unexpected kindness
of a stranger, a young boy begins to question himself. Does he have
the courage to do what's right?
SMALL DESIRES
-
Short Film Program,
Wise Beyond Their Years The Wonder of it All
KITCHEN TABLE-
Short Film
Program,
The Wonder of It All LIGHTWEIGHT- Short Film Program, The Wonder of It All Director: Randy Kovitz / USA / 2011 / 23 min / DVD / English
Elizabeth lost her job. She lost her
boyfriend. Now she's in Pittsburgh, staying with her mother. Suddenly,
she can't keep her feet on the ground. Literally. It's not convenient.
MIYUKI’S BELLS- Short Film Program, The Wonder of It All Director: Ken Ochiai / Japan / 2011 / 20 min / DVD / Japanese w/English sub-titles
Against her will, Miyuki must leave
Tokyo and take her two young half-brothers to the country home of their
quirky grandmother, but when they arrive she will discover that she
had to leave her home in order to find it.
PENNY- Short Film Program, The Wonder of It All Director: Benj Thall / USA / 2011 / 18 min / HDCam / English
An expert plumber, on a quest to save
an aging city fountain, learns that with a little faith, a single penny
can make even the most unlikely of wishes come true
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