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16 To Life
Director: Becky Smith |
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09/19/2009 at 5:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 118 minutes
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Becky Smith and Nicholas Downs are scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: MethodFest 09 - Best Picture & Best Supporting Actress |
| Kate is a rural American teenager whose angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays. Kate’s irreverent fantasies of sexual awakening and guilt, fueled by obsessive reading of books on bizarre subjects (currently the Chinese Cultural Revolution) drive this explosive day. Kate is turning 16 and has never been kissed! Before the clock strikes midnight, Kate will learn more about love than most 16-year-olds could imagine. And Kate will learn what a 16-year-old American girl has in common with a 16-year-old Chinese girl half a world, and a cultural revolution, away. |
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Agent Orange: 30 Years Later
Director: John Trinh |
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09/18/2009 at 6:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 56 minutes
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John Trinh is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Gold Remi Award at the 42nd WorldFest, Houston International Film Festival 2009, Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in LA 2008 |
| “AGENT ORANGE: 30 YEARS LATER” directed by John Trinh, is a documentary film about the victims of Agent Orange 30 years after the Viet Nam War. The goal of this documentary film is to make the viewers aware of the impact of dioxin on the environment and the people. |
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Angels, Devils and Men
Director: Lindsay Shonteff |
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09/18/2009 at 8:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 80 minutes
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Angels, Devils & Men is a provocative satire about the afterlife and the greatest mystery of all – show business! God is cast in the role of the Almighty Producer as he directs his headstrong angels. Representing unruly earthlings, the flamboyant angel Mark exasperates the Almighty while on assignment.
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Ante
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09/21/2009 at 5:20 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 82 minutes
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| Awards Received: Worldfest Houston - Gold Remi Award |
| When down-on-his-luck Sam Bailey takes a wrong turn and winds up lost at a remote farm, his bad luck gets even worse. A psychotic housewife frames him for murder. In a desperate attempt to turn the tables on the killer, Sam g ambles with his own innocence in order to save it. When his greedy Russian wife learns of his plan, she ups The Ante with her own crazy scheme – playing with Sam’s life to cover her bet. |
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Baker, The
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09/19/2009 at 8:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 86 minutes
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| Awards Received: Connecticut Film Festival – Audience Favorite Award , Worldfest Houston – Special Jury Remi Award, Gold Remi Award for Best Editing Film Festi val – Audience Favorite Award, |
| THE BAKER stars Damian Lewis, who is the lead in the NBC show LIFE, and Michael Gambon (Dumbledore in HARRY POTTER). It is a romantic comedy about a hit man who tries to quit by going to a small Irish village. . He’s mistaken for the new town baker and falls in love with the town veterinarian. When his true identity is revealed, the town, in their own quirky way, saves him. |
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Begging for Billionaires: The Attack on Property Rights in America
Director: Philip Klein |
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09/19/2009 at 5:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 60 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best of Fest, Minnesota International Film Festival and Best Documentary at Texas Dance International Film Festiva |
| The documentary film Begging for Billionaires exposes how city governments seize private property from everyday citizens, and then hand it over to billionaire developers for private, high-end retail and housing developments, absurdly justifying their actions as “community economic development.” Although eminent domain (government seizure of property) has in the past been relegated to important public projects like schools, courthouses and highways; the film shows how it is today being used to aid private enterprise – presumably in exchange for political contributions and other forms of support. The story is told through a mix of guerrilla journalism, expert interviews, and the stories of those who have been victimized. Vague, elusive definitions of “blight,” tax breaks for the wealthy, the destruction of affordable housing family businesses, government harassment, and shady back room deals are all part of the equation. |
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Bright Star
Director: Jane Campion |
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09/19/2009 at 8:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 118 minutes
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| The Jane Campion embraced by 1990s arthouse audiences but who’s been missing of late makes an impressive return with “Bright Star.” Breaking through any period-piece mustiness with piercing insight into the emotions and behavior of her characters, the writer-director examines the final years in the short life of 19th-century romantic poet John Keats through the eyes of his beloved, Fanny Brawne, played by Abbie Cornish in an outstanding performance. Beautifully made film possesses solid appeal for specialized audiences. |
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Broadcast Blues
Director: Sue Wilson |
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09/23/2009 at 5:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 77 minutes
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Sue Wilson is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Outstanding Environmental Vision, Sacramento International |
"Death Squads." "They're going to euthanize Grandma." "Obama is a Nazi." Lies and misinformation dominate the political scene today, and the media is complicit in promoting propaganda. Whatever happened to factual reporting?
Broadcast Blues shows how media policies squelch facts and empower hate, and reminds us that We the People have the power to reshape those policies so America can get the truth again. Featuring Danny Glover, Naomi Judd, Phil Donahue, Helen Thomas, Amy Goodman, Rush Limbaugh, Ed Schultz and many others, this award winning documentary blasts falsehoods, reveals the court ruling that news does not have to be true, and shows stories of real people who have been damaged and even killed by reckless broadcasters. |
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Callous
Director: Joey Lanai |
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09/23/2009 at 7:40 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 100 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best Picture - Riverside International Film Festival, Best Picture - Indie Fest USA Independent Film Festival |
Based on true events, CALLOUS is an unpredictable and violent ride on the shoulders of Garrett Blackfoot. This once abused fragile boy, now a single father haunted by the demons of a childhood that is best forgotten.
In denial of his native american lineage, he is brought face to face with the reality that there is a spiritual plane and the things he saw in the shadows as a child may be more than just imagined.
His own mother is the catalyst of his painful youth and devourer of his future. Wrought with best intentions for his daughter, a race against time to save his dying brother and the unresting effort to contain a rage sewn from the seeds of despair, abandonment and revenge. |
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Director: Michael Moore |
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09/18/2009 at 8:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 120 minutes
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On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene far wider than Flint, Michigan. From Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Michael Moore will once again take filmgoers into uncharted territory.
With both humor and outrage, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal…and 14,000 jobs being lost every day.
Capitalism: A Love Story is both a culmination of Moore’s previous works and a look into what a more hopeful future could look like. It is Michael Moore’s ultimate quest to answer the question he’s posed throughout his illustrious filmmaking career: Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do? |
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Caught In The Act
Director: Matt Lipsey |
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09/21/2009 at 7:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 92 minutes
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| A hilarious, heart-warming comedy about deceit and integrity, friendship and folly, and the triumph of humanity over greed. Set in the beautiful Welsh valleys, it tells the story of a corrupt parish council embezzling EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar. |
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Crimson Mask
Director: Elias Plagianos |
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09/20/2009 at 3:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 85 minutes
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Josh Burrow is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Kent Film Festival March 2009-Audience Choice Award, Twin Rivers Media Festival 2009-Best Feature Film, Hoboken International Film Festival 2009-Grand Prize Best Feature Film, Rainier Film Festival 2009-Best Feature Film by a First Time Director, Jersey Shore Film Festival 2009-Best Feature Film, Long Island International Film Expo 2009-Jury Prize Best Feature Film-Best Editing-Best Lead Actor, Washougal International Film Festival 2009-Most Ambitious Film, INDIEFEST USA @ Disneyland 2009-Best Editing |
| Two desperate men, from different worlds, find themselves unwitting pawns in an ancient ritual. Greed, Lust, Pride, Anger, and Envy have consumed the lives of Thomas Caine, a seemingly wealthy businessman, and Parker, a down on his luck pro wrestler. Both are overwhelmed with insurmountable debts and struggling to break free by any means. As their lives quickly unravel, so does an age-old secret conspiracy that leads the two men down a deadly path of redemption. |
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Cwcw
Director: Delyth Jones |
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09/21/2009 at 7:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 167 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best International Feature Film in the South Africa Film Festival, Best Feature Film in The Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada |
| CWCW is the story of JANE JONES, a jobbing writer on a soap opera called FAMILY DOCTOR starring DR GARETH. A total misfit in the workplace, her marriage to the actor SAM LLYWELYN who plays DR GARETH is a disaster zone due to alcoholism and her inability to break free from him. Finally, she runs away with a complete stranger to another village. They re-invent themselves as other people. The dream cannot last. JANE cannot run away from herself or from her old life. Her past catches up with her when a new doctor moves into the village called DR GARETH. Her life turns into a chaotic blur of fantasy and reality, sanity and insanity. What is real in the end? Will we ever know? |
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Day After Peace
Director: Jeremy Gilley |
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09/21/2009 at 7:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 82 minutes
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| The Day After Peace charts the remarkable 10-year journey taken by award winning filmmaker Jeremy Gilley to establish a day of Peace on September 21st. During the course of his mission the camera follows Gilley as he galvanizes the countries of the world to recognize this as an official day of ceasefire and non-violence. |
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Death Of Alice Blue, The
Director: Park Bench |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 86 minutes
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| Alice Blue is a new creative intern at Raven Advertising. Unfortunately for her it's run by vampires. A group of eccentrics enlist her aid in thwarting their nefarious schemes. But there's a complication. There’s the possibility that she herself may be genetically predisposed to being the greatest vampire ever, and the only one who can save the dying breed. Alice is forced to confront herself and make a stand, whatever the outcome. |
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Devrim Arabalar
Director: Tolga Ornek |
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09/22/2009 at 7:45 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 120 minutes
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| “Devrim Arabaları” roughly translated as “Cars of the Revolution” is the emotional story spanning 130 days behind the first car produced in Turkey in 1961, a year after the military seized power. The film revolves around seven engineers and their families who believed that proving that a car could be done; and by doing it a country’s destiny could be changed for the better. |
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Director's Cut, The
Director: Paul Komadina |
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09/20/2009 at 1:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 87 minutes
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| Awards Received: 22nd WA Screen Awards - Early Careers Section (Australia) Original Music Composition, Cinematography, Editing , The Indie Gathering 2009 (USA)- Star Award - Horror / Comedy Feature - 3rd place |
A bloody black comedy set in the harsh Australian outback, The Director’s Cut follows a motley crew of filmmakers attempting to shoot a period drama on a deserted farm, miles from civilisation. The gang barely begin filming when one of them is found dead. Desperate to survive they turn on each other.
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Favorite Son, The
Director: Howard Libov |
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09/22/2009 at 5:20 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 88 minutes
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| Awards Received: Hoboken Film Festival: Best Cinematography, Best Director, Worldfest Houston: Gold Remi Award for Best Theatrical Feature Film |
| Astory of family, dreams deferred, and a final chance at redemption. David Paxton (PABLO SCHREIBER: Desire Under the Elms, HBO’s The Wire, Vicki Cristina Barcelona), nearing the end of his minor league baseball career, returns to his hometown as much les s the hero he once assumed he would become. He meets Joan and her son Ross (CONNER PAOLO: Gossip Girl, Alexander, World Trade Center, Mystic River), but his overheated romancing of Joan makes her wary, and his attempt to mentor Ross meets with the boy's undisguised contempt. David's simmering rage threatens to erupt into violence. But David and Ross, a disturbed 12-year-old heading down a path of increasing destructiveness, somehow start up a most unlikely, mostly clandestine, friendship that leads David to confront the dark secrets that haunt both their lives. He must become a father figure in a way he never imagined, and in so doing become a genuine hero off the field. |
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Fowl Play: The Untold Story of the Incredible Edible Egg
Director: Adam Durand |
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09/18/2009 at 6:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 58 minutes
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| National surveys show that the majority of Americans are opposed to the inhumane treatment of farm animals. In fact, Americans are in opposition to the very treatment animals face every day on factory farms. This disconnect that people have between the food they buy and the industries they support is exactly what agribusiness counts on to maintain its bottom line. A group of animal advocates discuss humanity's relationship with animals as they work to expose the hidden cruelty of the American egg industry. |
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Garbage Dreams
Director: Mai Iskander |
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09/19/2009 at 2:45 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 82 minutes
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| Garbage Dreams' follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic for "garbage people." Far ahead of any modern "Green" initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect. When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community. |
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Ghosts Of Zagreb
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09/24/2009 at 5:40 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 52 minutes
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Jadran Boban is scheduled to attend |
| This is a parallel journey through the streets of Croatian capital Zagreb and memories of five surviving members of one of the strongest illegal anti fascist movements in ocuppied Europe in World War II. They describe that times as horrifying and terrible, but the most romantic period of their life. While the sentiments for Nazi - aligned regime revive in contemporary Croatia, they face depression and disappointment, relive fears and review decisions they once made. This documentary becomes a travelogue through a hidden world of spirits that still remains in foyers and yards, on the stairs and in the passages of the old Zagreb, witch, just like the men who witnessed its history, disappear every day. |
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Good Soldier, The
Director: Lexy Lovell / Michael Uys |
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09/23/2009 at 7:20 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 79 minutes
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'The Good Soldier' follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it means to be a good soldier.
Here's what Jason Albert of the 'Onion' had to say after a sneak preview:
'It’s hard to imagine watching a more affecting movie than 'The Good Soldier' because it may be as affecting a movie as I’ve ever seen. It took one seemingly simple question—What makes a good soldier?—and reduced the answer to its essence. That being, the ability to kill other human beings. Using the voices of veterans from WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and Iraq, each gave this exact same answer, and they all spoke not only of their guilt and regret, but also of how at some point during their time in the military they needed to kill. Their reasons were different, but the training that gave them the skills and permission was not. I found it both hard to watch and hard to turn away from, and I know I’ll never look at the words “collateral damage” in the same way again. Really powerful stuff.' |
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House Of Numbers
Director: Brent W. Leung |
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09/20/2009 at 3:10 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 90 minutes
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Producer David Syner scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: The Star Award Best Documentary -The Indie Gathering Film Festival - Cleveland, Ohio, Winner - Best of Festival- Washougal International Film Festival, Winner - Best of Festival- Docuwest Film Festival, Best Documentary- Motor City Film Festival, Golden Ace Award- Las Vegas International Film Festival |
| In House of Numbers, an AIDS film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten. This is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players; in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. House of Numbers could well be the opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic gone awry. |
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How I Got Lost
Director: Joe Leonard |
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09/19/2009 at 3:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 87 minutes
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| Awards Received: Grand Jury Prize at Dances With Films, Emerging Filmmaker Prize at Oxford International Film Festival, Best Narrative at St Louis Filmmakers' Showcase, New Filmmakers' Forum at St Louis International Film Festival |
On September 11, Jake and Andrew got drunk. After they tried to give blood. After they called their parents. A year later, the hangover still lingers. Andrew spends his days on Wall Street, and Jake has given up writing fiction to cover sports. But now Andrew has a plan. It is a plan with no plan. Ditch New York. Hit the road, going nowhere. And Jake follows along, as he always has. But when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Andrew is forced to reveal the real reason for the trip... On the road and in small town Ohio, Andrew and Jake discover that sometimes you have to get lost to figure out where you’re going.
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In/Significant Others
Director: John Schwert |
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09/20/2009 at 1:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 98 minutes
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A follow-up to the festival hit Among Brothers, John Schwert’s second feature In/Significant Others is a multi-narrative drama that navigates through the different lives of one city’s residents, each of whom is connected to the same local homicide investigation.
This ensemble cast of characters includes an Iraq War vet returned home to an emotionally disturbed wife, a new father living in the shadow of a successful older brother, a sister caught up in a web of addiction, and a cameraman who attempts to exploit the reality behind all of their stories, or at least his version of them. |
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Ingredients
Director: Robert Bates |
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09/20/2009 at 1:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 66 minutes
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Robert Bates is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Silver Sierra Award-Yosemite Film Festival |
American food is in a state of crisis. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise, food costs are skyrocketing, family farms are in decline and our agricultural environment is in jeopardy.
INGREDIENTS explores a thriving local food movement as our world becomes a more flavorless, disconnected and dangerous place to eat. |
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Left Field
Director: Ben Steger |
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09/24/2009 at 5:20 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 84 minutes
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Chris Batte is scheduled to attend |
Left Field is the story of a unique community of misfits, artists, musicians, geeks, and party animals whose lives coalesce around the grade school game of kickball. The film features Sarah Hart and KC Haywood, two modern American nomads that stumble upon a wild, fledgling community of anarchistic kickballers upon arriving in Chicago.
They quickly find themselves immersed in a vibrant culture of creativity, love, play, and excess that leads down an unexpected, fateful road. |
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Lefty
Director: Todd Looby |
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09/24/2009 at 7:25 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 88 minutes
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Todd Looby is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Winner: 'Best Feature' Iowa Independent Film Festival |
Homecoming, home-wrecking, and home team are all themes in a wry drama set deep in the heart of Chicago’s Irish American subculture. Prodigal son Danny Malone (Madden) comes home to his indulgent mother and bullying father after an absence of thirteen years as his best friend Fudd (Phelan) arrives home from Iraq. Danny, harboring a potentially fatal secret, and Fudd, with his dark memories, are pulled back into the boozy embrace of the old neighborhood, where the bonds of schoolyard loyalties have been loosened by adult failures, jealousy, and infidelity. Director Looby evokes the South Side milieu with the accuracy and affection of an insider, including the adrenalin-rush chaos of the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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Living Dark: The Story Of Ted the Caver
Director: David Hunt |
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09/18/2009 at 8:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 113 minutes
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| Based on the internationally popular 'Ted the Caver' Internet legend, Living Dark tells the story of two estranged brothers, reunited for their father's funeral. Attempting reconciliation, the brothers stumble upon the sealed entrance to a cave, and are slowly forced to confront the true, nightmarish cause of their father's death. |
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Man With A Movie Camera
Director: Dziga Vertov |
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09/20/2009 at 7:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 67 minutes
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Alloy Orchestra will be attending |
This Film Will Be Scored by the ALLOY ORCHESTRA.
One show only on Sunday, September 20th at 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
Some films are so revolutionary, so influential, that their sui generis originality and verve can still be felt even decades after their first impact, long after their innovations have been absorbed by subsequent generations. Dziga Vertov's Man With the Movie Camera is this kind of film, retaining much of its power and irresistable energy despite the nearly eighty years that have passed since its creation. Vertov created a moving portrait of city life in every sense of the word, both emotionally affecting and viscerally thrilling, built on the pulsing rhythms of its cutting and its perfectly calibrated shifts from frenetic passages to languid interludes. It's no accident that Vertov frequently returns to images of industrial mechanisms, since the rhythms of pumping pistons often drive this thoroughly modernist, industrial age film. The film encompasses an overview of the life of a city from its earliest spasms of wakening in the morning to the twilight calm of evening. Vertov was ambitiously trying to include images representing the entirety of human life and experience, from such mundane acts as getting up in the morning, going to the beach, going to work, to the big life-changing events of birth, death, marriage and even, cheekily, divorce. Vertov's film is a kaleidoscopic view of the life cycle itself, with so much detail and activity crammed into a twenty-four hour period, itself condensed into barely over an hour of images. |
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Map Reader, The
Director: Harold Brodie |
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09/19/2009 at 12:45 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 90 minutes
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| Awards Received: Spirit of the Independent Award 2008 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Golden Reel Award, Best Children's Film 2009 Tiburon International Film Festival, Golden Ace Award, Best Narrative Feature 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival, Best Feature 2009 ReelHeART International Film Festival |
| Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his small-town New Zealand life by immersing himself within a world of maps. Yet his seemingly-happy isolation is broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the verge of voyaging into the world on her own. Alison is Michael’s peer, whose grace betrays darker secrets. Suspended beside it all is Michael’s single mother Amelia, who cherishes her son, while simultaneously pushing him away. |
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No. 4 Street Of Our Lady
Director: Barbara Bird, Judy Maltz and Richie Sherman |
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09/23/2009 at 7:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 90 minutes
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| Awards Received: Grand Prize for Best Documentary 2009 Rhode Island International Film Festival, CINE Golden Eagle Award 2009, Accolade Award for Excellence in Film 2009, Best Feature Documentary, 2nd Prize 2009 Athens International Film Festival, Silver Palm Award 2009 Mexican International Film Festival |
No. 4 Street of our Lady tells the remarkable, yet little-known, story of a Polish-Catholic woman who rescued 16 Jews during the Holocaust by cleverly passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer.
This film reflects on the painful moral dilemmas that acts of rescue and survival often entail and reveals how traumatic events of the past continue to play out years later.
On the eve of World War II, more than 6,000 Jews lived in Sokal, a small town in Eastern Poland, now part of Ukraine. By the end of the war, only about 30 had survived, most of them rescued by Francisca Halamajowa. For close to two years, Halamajowa hid her Jewish acquaintances in her tiny home and cooked and cared for them, right under the noses of German troops camping on her property and hostile neighbors. Two families were hidden in the hayloft of her pigsty, and one family in a hole dug under her kitchen floor. In the final months of the war, she also provided shelter to a German soldier who had defected – an act that almost cost her her life. |
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Nosedive
Director: Erik Novák |
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09/23/2009 at 5:10 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 105 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best Direction - 2nd Drake IFF 2008 |
| This story is a fairytale taking place in one of Budapests not very romantic corner. It is an urban legend about a young outlaw, a beautiful woman, and the worst adventure in life. Drugs, maffia, friends, love, betrayal, revenge and death. The protagonist of the film after having served a term of imprisonment for dealing with drugs gets realised. At the prison-gate he swears to himself to get on the right track. However his friends lead him into vice again and he is entrusted to do even bigger tasks then his earlier businesses. |
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Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank!
Director: David Silberberg |
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09/22/2009 at 7:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 75 minutes
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| About the zealously unconventional life of artist, film-maker, art-car maven, and non-conformist Harrod Blank, following him from adolescence to adulthood, from his youth growing up in the woods with chickens to his multi-faceted career as creator and head of a nation wide art-car movement. Weathering rejection, embarrassment, and sacrafices, Blank uses his energy to rail against society's mass produced mentality and reliance on visual imagery by using those media for his own wild self-expression. 'The pressure to conform is incredible, ' says Blank, 'but I don't care what people think. The reason I'm alive is to create.' Covering 20 years of creative projects and girlfriends. With opinions from Blank’s family, friends, and film-making father Les Blank. |
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On Paper Wings
Director: Ilana Sol |
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09/22/2009 at 5:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 67 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best Documentary at the Tacoma Film Festival (WA), Best Documentary at the Kent Film Festival (CT), Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the NW Film and Video Festival (OR), Film Excellence Award from Film Alliance Oregon |
In 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would unite the Japanese and American civilians affected by this incident.
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Other Side Of Paradise, The
Director: Justin D. Hilliard |
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09/18/2009 at 5:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 115 minutes
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Justin D. Hillard is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Best of Fest - Southern Winds Film Festival |
| A highly entertaining comedy about a girl named Rose who embarks on a journey of self-discovery on the way to her first gallery opening. Along the way, she picks up Alex, the newly single friend she's always had feelings for, and her misfit younger brother Jamie, who recently was released from prison. On the road trip, the trio encounter off-the-wall characters and hilarious cameos that chew up the Texas countryside. In the end, the three must come to grips with their own issues of trust, abandonment, love, and ultimately hope. |
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Out In Silence
Director: Dean Hamer |
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09/19/2009 at 8:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 56 minutes
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| The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy and a quest for change in the small Pennsylvania hometown he left long ago. Drawn back by a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school, Wilson takes viewers on an exhilarating journey through love, hate, and understanding in rural America. |
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Play On
Director: David Story |
| Showing on
09/24/2009 at 7:45 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 99 minutes
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Al Dekin & David Story are scheduled to attend |
There's the road less traveled. There's the road to redemption. And somewhere in between is a one way ticket to Kansas City for wayward Scottish rugby star Keir Kilgour.
Even at the highest level, rugby didn't pay players until the mid-1990s; it held on to the amateur ideal longer than any other sport. And now, greedy but talented Keir and his old school father, rugby legend Finlay Kilgour, find themselves stranded on opposite sides of that ideal. When Keir's drive for fame and money collides with his quest for love and respect from his critical father, things get ugly. Starring renown Welsh actor Chard Hayward and, in his feature film debut, Chard's real life son Adam Gray-Hayward as the reel life father and son. |
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River Ran Red
Director: Dr. J. Michael Hagopian |
| Showing on
09/21/2009 at 5:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 59 minutes
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Carla Garapedian is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Best International Historical Documentary, @ 2009 New York International Film & Video Festival, Second Place 'Silver Screen Award', Category: History,Biography @ 2009 U.S. International Film & Video Festival |
Through the testimony of thirty eyewitnesses, The River Ran Red depicts the search for survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, perpetuated by the Ottoman Turkish government.
The film discusses the causes of the Genocide, in the context of Armenian and Turkish history. Major sequences include: deportation orders of Armenians; reports by American Missionaries and consuls; the treatment of orphaned children and their exile in the desert; drowning; forced conversion to Islam; loss of identity and secret telegrams on relocation and massacre. |
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Rounds
Director: Mark Atienza |
| Showing on
09/21/2009 at 5:10 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 100 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best Drama Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Actor at the @ 9th Breckenridge Festival of Film. |
| Friendships are what defines people. Rounds follows Jensen, Terry and WIll the best of friends, on the journey to find the thing we all look for...seeking out our path and finding love along the way. All questioning the choices they make and what is most important. Jealousy,forgiveness and regret will battle all three as they face to discover the only real thing in life..Friendship. |
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Speaking In Tongues
Director: Ken Schneider/Marcia Jarmel |
| Showing on
09/22/2009 at 7:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 60 minutes
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| Awards Received: SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FILM FESTIVAL: Audience Award for Best Documentary |
| With intimate, verité scenes that take us beyond rote arguments and stereotypes, SPEAKING IN TONGUES, introduces us to four ordinary kids doing something that's extraordinary only in the U.S.—they are becoming bilingual and biliterate in the public schools. Jason, the “English language learner,” Kelly, the “heritage language learner,” Julian, the “middle class Caucasian,” and Durrell, the “low socioeconomic child,” prove to be more than nodes on a demographic graph. As they chart a course through school life—oral presentations, birthday parties, science fairs, sports, barbecues, and graduations, we see the opportunity their emerging bilingualism offers—and the challenges it presents. |
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T Is For Teacher
Director: Rohan Spong |
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09/20/2009 at 5:45 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 70 minutes
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| This feature length documentary charts the experiences of four transgendered school teachers who wished to transition whilst employed within the North American school system. Australian Director Rohan Spong travels to New York, Minneapolis, New Mexico and Arizona to interview these teachers about their struggles and triumphs, and the outcome of each transition. The film engages in issues such as gendered bathrooms, the impact of transition on students and the depiction of transgendered people by mainstream American media. Along the way, he engages students, parents, school administrations, a newspaper editor and conservative church groups in a discussion about the lessons learned from bearing witness to these remarkable transwomen’s courage. |
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Tar Creek
Director: Matt Myers |
| Showing on
09/20/2009 at 7:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 96 minutes
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Matt Myers is scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: Audience Choice, Director's Choice at the 3rd Southern Winds Film Festival |
| This area was home to one of the largest lead and zinc strikes on the planet. Now it’s home to America's worst environmental disaster. Acid mine water in the creeks, stratospheric lead poisoning in the children, and impetuous sinkholes that collapse more than 50 feet. This place is the stuff of science fiction. Except Tar Creek is located in northeastern Oklahoma. America's Heartland. |
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Tracks
Director: Josh Rosenberg |
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09/23/2009 at 5:20 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 80 minutes
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Josh Rosenberg |
| Awards Received: Special Jury Prize of 2009 Wisconsin Film Festival |
Claire and Catherine (Cat) are two high school students who like many seem to always be looking for something - Claire for a way out of her old life and Cat for a way into something new.
Claire's family life definitely leaves something to be desired; her mother believes the pieces are all there, but they just won't fit together no matter how hard she tries to force them. This leaves Claire wandering amidst a world of happy faces looking for a connection.
Cat's family seems to be perfect. But this outward appearance cannot completely mask the cracks that are beginning to surface.
The two girls meet and seem to perfectly complement each other - Claire the free-spirited senior mentor to the innocent younger Cat.
During an emotionally trying two-weeks the girls build a friendship that could last forever, but forces outside their control intervene. Cat and Claire are desperate to stay together, but are they willing to pay the price?
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Tre Lire, Primo Giorno
Director: Andrea Pellizzer |
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09/24/2009 at 5:10 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 89 minutes
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| A small troop of nurses - who still did not decide about what to do with their life - decides to follow an old patient who propose to them to follow him immediately across Italy and find a Tre Lire, the most precious Italian stamp known, dated January the 1st 1860. For the four protagonists, the journey and all it brings will change their lives for ever and nothing will be the same as before, |
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True North
Director: Steve Hudson |
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09/20/2009 at 7:20 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 96 minutes
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| Awards Received: Celtic Film & TV Festival – Bronze Torc Award for Best Feature Film, Cherbourg-Octeville Festival – Best Film, Young People’s Jury Award, Best Actress (Angel Li), Ourense Ind. Film Festival – Grand |
| The skipper of the Scottish trawler (Gary Lewis: ERAGON, BILLY ELLIOT, GANGS OF NEW YORK) has worked for more than thirty-two years to buy his fishing vessel but is bankrupt and about to lose his ship to the bank. While in the port of Ostend, Belgium, the skipper’s son Sean accepts a large sum of money to smuggle Chinese illegal immigrants to Scotland in an attempt to help his father keep the trawler. With the help of a deckhand (Peter Mullan: TRAINSPOTTING, BRAVEHEART) looking for easy money, they hide the group in a store below the boatswain store. When one of the Chinese dies, despair is triggered leading the crew to tragic actions. |
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Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
Director: Alex Karpovsky |
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09/24/2009 at 7:35 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 83 minutes
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Described by the New York Times as "Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv", TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi have become living legends in their field. Their performances of entirely improvised, character-driven, often hilarious and wholly original one-hour plays have mesmerized audiences worldwide.
Exploring the folds of faith that underlie their relationship and the transcendental forces that govern their improvisation, TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP features an unforgettable live performance recorded at New York's Barrow Street Theater. |
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Vincent: A Life In Color
Director: Jennifer Burns |
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09/19/2009 at 12:30 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 96 minutes
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Jennifer Burns scheduled to attend |
| Vincent P. Falk is Fashion Man. Clad in brightly colored suits; Vincent twirls on Chicago's many bridges, performing fashion shows for the passing tour boats. As he spins his way through the city, tourists and locals alike are left to wonder just who is this strange man. Over the course of one boat season, we follow Vincent and begin to unravel the mystery that surrounds him. Vincent started out in this world as a blind orphan. He was always going to be different. It was a fact of life he couldn't escape, so he decided to embrace it. If people were going to notice Vincent, he would decide why, when, and how they would notice him. And so, he spins on. |
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Virtually A Virgin
Director: Péter Bacsó |
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09/19/2009 at 5:00 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 105 minutes
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| Boróka (Júlia Ubrankovics) decides to celebrate her 18th birthday in style by spending the night with her lover, János (Ferenc Hujber), in an exclusive hotel. The money runs out in a blink of an eye, the romantic dream sours and János forces his girlfriend into prostitution and ends up swapping her for a Harley Davidson motorcycle... |
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White On Rice
Director: Dave Boyle |
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09/19/2009 at 12:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 85 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best Screenplay, Outstanding Newcomer (Justin Kwong)-25th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Creative Vision Award -4th Disorient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon |
'White on Rice' tells the comedic story of Jimmy (Hiroshi Watanabe, 'Letters from Iwo Jima'), a misguided 40-year-old divorcee trying to navigate his way through a new life in America and out of his sister Aiko's (Japanese Academy Award winner Yuuki Nae) basement.
Disgraced by his disgruntled brother-in-law Tak (Mio Takada, 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien'), the immature yet adorable Jimmy spends his nights desperately in search of a new wife who shares his love of dinosaurs and geology. |
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Woman's Prison
Director: Katie Madonna Lee |
| Showing on
09/22/2009 at 5:10 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 108 minutes
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Katie Madonna scheduled to attend |
| Awards Received: New York Women in Film & Television Award. |
When her mother is murdered by her father, Julie Ann Mabry is confronted by a life of hardship and poverty. Taken in by her Evangelical relatives, she begins to adopt new convictions in an effort to reconnect with her mother. Slowly, the threads of her new life begin to unravel and Julie Ann is sent to prison. It is there she finds the freedom and community she had sought so long, yet it does not come without a price.
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Zombie Girl
Director: Justin Johnson |
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09/19/2009 at 2:15 PM Buy Individual Tickets |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 89 minutes
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ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE chronicles the creative passion of Emily Hagins, an extraordinary pre-teen girl following her filmmaking dreams.
Most twelve-year-olds are busy with friends, homework, and online chatting. So is Emily, but she found time to write and direct a feature-length zombie movie as well. ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE documents the exhilarating and heartbreaking two years it took her to make it.
With the help of her mother as agent, crew, and biggest fan, Emily launches an epic adventure in genre filmmaking, battling everything from budget shortfalls to self-doubt, all while coming of age as a teenager.
Emily has the vision and her mom has the driver’s license. Together, their journey is an enlightening look at a growing world of young moviemakers and the bloodiest mother/daughter story you’ve ever seen. |
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