Main Line Film Festival - April 4, 2009 - Wayne, PA 19087
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Main Line
Film Festival

April 4, 2009
Wayne, PA
19087
FILMS

Each program will be followed by a 10 minutes Q & A with the
filmmakers in attendance.

Official Selections
(alphabetical order followed by director and country)

Appliance Night Out - Peter J. Casey - US
Call Waiting - Tim McDermott - US
Hey - Guy Ben Shetrit - Israel
In Silent Spaces - Safiya Songhai - US
Just Be Simple - Brian Troy - US
Lady Feet - Christopher Toppino - US
Lost? - Miles Kalbach - US
Out of the Holes of the Rocks - Jeremy Moss - US
Porque Hay Cosas Quen Nunca Se Olividan - Lucas Figueroa - Spain
Rifle Workbook - Vincent Caldoni - US
Rogue 379 - Douglas Choi - US
Rose - Hoku Uchiyama - US
The Boundary - Julius Onah - US
The Institute of Seánce - Kevin Corcoran - US
The Optician - Jane McGee - United Kingdom
Zwischen Licht und Schatten - Fabian Giessler - Germany
Appliance Night Out
3 min - United States
Director: Peter J. Casey
Writer: Peter J. Casey
Producer: Peter J. Casey
Cast: Gene Goldstein, Greg
Kinman, Joshua Chrome
Synopsis: A washer and a dryer go to an exclusive dance club for a night of
partying.
Web site:

Call Waiting
15 min - United States
Director: Tim McDermott
Writer: Tim McDermott
Producer: Sam Sero
Cast: Mary Sharples, Andrew
Malkasian, Dave Coleman
Synopsis: A secretary born with telephones attached to her torso learns
how to be comfortable in her own skin.
Web site:

Hey
4 min - Israel
Director: Guy Ben Shetrit
Writer: Guy Ben Shetrit
Producer: - Guy Ben Shetrit
Cast: Song by Eatliz
Synopsis: Sci-Fi fantasy journey of a little girl with a special pet friend, a
huge toad.
Web site:
www.eatliz.com
In Silent Spaces
14 min - United States
Director: Safiya Songhai
Writer: Safiya Songhai
Producer: James Tyler
Cast: Victoire Charles, Yao
Asantewa, James Crosland III
Synopsis: After the death of her mother during the 911 attacks on America,
Sade is more consumed with seeing signs of the dead than attending to
the world of the living
Web site:
www.mpirefilms.com
Just Be Simple
10 min - United States
Director: Brian Troy
Writer: Brian Troy
Producer: Brian Troy
Cast: Scott Yannick, Karla Shantz,
Steve Crum
Synopsis: Marcus Williams is an unknown screenwriter, broke, balding and
forty. Already in debt to his parents and with rent pending in two weeks,
Marcus sets out to write the ultimate screenplay. All he has to do is be
simple. The should be easy. Right?
Web site:

Lady Feet
29 min - United States
Director: Christopher Toppino
Writer: Christopher Toppino
Producer: Christopher Toppino,
Dan Campis, Kelly Bogan
Cast: Kirstin Dahmer, Kaitlin Dale,
John Farley
Synopsis: A series of glimpses into the lives of a dynamic,young
threesome reveals secrets-in-the-making as characters search for identity
in sex, art, the city and each other.
Web site:
www.ladyfeetmovie.com
Lost?
4 min - United States
Director: Miles Kalbach
Writer: Miles Kalbach
Producer: Miles Kalbach
Cast:
Synopsis: A stop-motion video created from close to 3,400 individual
photographs set to music.
Web site:

Out of the Holes of the Rocks
11 min - United States
Director: Jeremy Moss
Writer: Jeremy Moss
Producer: Charlotte Forrsman
Cast: Mitchel Marcu, Rachel
Johanson
Synopsis: Two rituals frame the story of a steadfast Morman girl and her
boyfriend who is reluctant to be a missionary.
Web site:
www.mossery.com
Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca
Se Olvidan
13 min - Spain
Director: Lucas Figueroa
Writer: Lucas Figueroa
Producer: Lucas Figueroa
Cast: Nicolo Urbinati, Victor
Menegas, Emiliana Olmedo
Synopsis: Naples Italy, 1950. Four friends are playing soccer out on the
street when their ball is accidentally kicked into the evil old lady's yard.
They'll never play with their ball again... and for that the revenge will be
deadly.
Web site:
www.porquehaycosasquenuncaseolvidan.com
Rifle Workbook
6 min - United States
Director: Vincent Caldoni
Writer: Vincent Caldoni
Producer: CK Lichenstein II
Cast: Alela Diane, Natasha Natraj
Deborah Marchant
Synopsis: A mysterious and angelic figure presides over a ceremony
populated with surrealistic hill-folk as they perform a series of bizzarre,
miniature rituals...leading to a most unexpected climax.
Web site:

Rogue 379
14 min - United States
Director: Douglas Choi
Writer: Douglas Choi
Producer: Mari Beckman
Cast: Todd Cahoon, Charlene
Amoia, Victor Bevine
Synopsis: When a CIA assassin is manipulated into committing a wrongful
murder, he must overcome the psychological paranoia and moral
challenges of this life-or-death ordeal.
Web site:
www.douglaschoi.com
Rose
33 min - United States
Director: Hoku Uchiyama
Writer: Hoku Uchiyama
Producer: Michael Silberman
Cast: Kathryn Robinson, Phillip
Rogers, Blaine Miller
Synopsis: A rural American fairy tale about a little boy's friendship with the
ghost of a murdered teenage girl haunting the woods near his house.
Web site:
www.hokuuchiyama.com
The Boundary
12 min - United States
Director: Julius Onah
Writer: Julius Onah, Matthew
Taponier
Producer: Julius Onah
Cast: Alexander Siddig,
Christopher Mann, Jacqueline
Antaramian
Synopsis: A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances
they would never hope for.
Web site:
www.theboundaryfilm.com
The Institute of Seánce
9 min - United States
Director: Kevin Corcoran
Writer: Kevin Corcoran, Susie
Anderson
Producer: Kevin Corcoran
Cast: Susie Anderson, Jim
Haigney, Janet Benton
Synopsis: Murder! The director of the County Institute of Science is found
dead in her office, clutching a handful of feathers. A pool of blood, a locked
door, no witnesses—the local constabulary is confounded. The Institute's
eccentric sponsor convenes a séance in hope of discovering the truth. Can
the victim return from beyond the grave to offer a clue to her own demise?
And if she does, will she come alone?

Web site:
www.instituteofseance.com
The Optician
15 min - United Kingdom
Director: Jane McGee
Writer: Jane McGee
Producer: Christopher Billows
Cast: Chris Barrie, Carolyn,
Tomkinson
Synopsis: Befuddled optician, John, is in love with his assistant Barbara.
Can a pair of magic glasses help him win her heart?
Web site:
www.theopticianshortfilm.com
Zwischen Licht und Schatten
13 min - Germany
Director: Fabian Giessler
Writer: Fabian Giessler
Producer: Fabian Giessler
Cast: Liane Düsterhöft, Dietmar
Obst
Synopsis: Fading Away is a short film about Martha and Herbert, an old
married couple. Their life together is portrayed in a series of brief episodic
scenes, telling of Martha's gradual retreat into her own little world, where
reality and imagination seem to overlap and Herbert's desperation at his
wife's condition and his concerns about their future together.
Web site:
www.zwischenlichtundschatten.de