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1:30 PM
Student Film Program (112 min)
Admission Price - Donation
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CREDITS & SYNOPSES |
The Paradigm Shift
Comedy - 26 min - USA |
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Director: Jon Barr
Writer: Jon Barr, Sam Holdren
Producer: Sam Holdren
Cast: H. Michael Walls, Nicholas Wilder
Synopsis: When history professor Arthur Collins, a rebellious activist, assigns his class to design a plan to assassinate the President of the United States , the repercussions are immediate - particularly upon his teaching assistant T.K., a timid young man whose reluctance to choose a side plants him right in the middle.
Web site: N/A |
Cigarettes and Fresh Air
Drama - 20 min - USA |
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Director: Brian McDermott
Writer: Brian McDermott
Producer: Brian McDermott
Cast: Arnold Kendall, Bill Armstrong, Gillian Nicoletti
Synopsis: Inside an assisted living center, an elderly man tries his best to resist group therapy sessions so he can go outside and smoke his cigarettes in peace.
Web site: N/A |
In Glass
Documentary - 16 min - USA |
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Director: Rory Abel
Writer: Rory Abel
Producer: Rory Abel
Cast: Glenn Abel
Synopsis: A documentary recounting fused glass artist Glenn Abel’s struggle with cancer.
Web site: N/A |
Gods of Light, Idols of Mud
Experimental - 22 min - USA |
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Director: Jeremy Moss
Writer: Jeremy Moss
Producer: Jeremy Moss
Cast: Larissa Fedoryka, William Jones, Aaron White
Synopsis: Three individuals in the modern world are driven to escape their lives and act out.
Web site: N/A |
Four Thorns for Aidan
Drama - 28 min - USA |
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Director: Josh Smith
Writer: Josh Smith
Producer: Ray Ting, Josh Smith
Cast: Adrian Sanchez, Danielle Leigh Rosenthal, Kimberly Curless
Synopsis: A young adult tries to reconcile with his painful past through a naďve child he accidentally kidnaps while stealing a car.
Web site: N/A |
4:30 PM
Program 1 (119 min)
$8 Ticket
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CREDITS & SYNOPSES |
Jakob and the Angels
Fantasy - 13 min - USA |
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Director: Ronald Lehmann
Writer: Audrey Niffenegger, Justin Haden
Producer: Julie Ford, Olga Gonzales
Cast: Dan Flannery, Gene Janson, Rachel Stuart
Synopsis: A man who prizes his solitude hires a team of thug-like exterminators to expel a flock of noisy angels from his attic. Amidst the ensuing mini-Armageddon, he begins to regret exterminating his only companionship.
Web site: www.myspace.com/jakobthemovie |
The Ballad of Thaddeus Lowe
Animation - 5 min - USA |
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Director: Kelly Jones
Writer: Kelly Jones
Producer: Kelly Jones
Cast: Kelly Jones (Voice Over)
Synopsis: Who knew you could spy from a hot air balloon! The Ballad of Thaddeus Lowe highlights the life of the one time aeronaut and pioneer. A true historical figure, Thaddeus Lowe's passion for hot air balloons lead to a career as the first member of the Union Army Balloon Corp during the Civil War. The catchy tune and colorful characters in this ballad will ensure that Thaddeus Lowe will never be forgotten! Song, Dance, Guns, and War! What more could you ask for?
Web site: N/A |
Against the Wind
Drama - 10 min - USA |
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Director: Dan Masucci
Writer: Dan Masucci
Producer: Joe Masucci
Cast: Michael F. Hayes
Synopsis: In the twilight of his life, Ned reflects on his past, his remaining years, and discovers how his role in life has changed.
Web site: www.againstthewindshort.com |
Playdate
Comedy - 21 min - USA |
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Director: Laurence Langton
Writer: Laurence Langton
Producer: Laurence Langton
Cast: Carl Wilson, James Wilson
Synopsis: Young Kevin is bribed by his mother to meet Bragan, the awkward, home-schooled son of her friend from the gym. Expecting the worst from the forced meeting, Kevin discovers looks can be deceiving, as Bragan takes him on an imaginative summertime adventure.
Web site: N/A |
Lustig
Drama - 17 min - USA |
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Director: John F. Black II
Writer: John F. Black II
Producer: Ruben F. Rios II
Cast: Scott Carter, Jeff Wincott, Ilka Fischer
Synopsis: A story of a hero told by a coward.
Web site: www.lustigthemovie.com |
Gone (Bill Madden)
Music Video - 3 min - USA |
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Director: Andrew Watson
Writer: Bill Madden
Producer: Bill Madden
Cast: Johnny Pulcinella
Synopsis: Fusing film and music in a metaphorical environmental warning alert, Bill Madden raises questions on what it means to be alive and grapple with the consequences of war and the assault by big business on our planet.
Web site: N/A |
Pin Down Girl: The Story of Ethel Brown
Documentary - 20 min - USA |
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Director: Fyffe Aschenbrenner
Writer: Fyffe Aschenbrenner
Producer: Fyffe Aschenbrenner
Cast: Ethel Brown
Synopsis: “Pin Down Girl: The Story Of Ethel Brown”, is a look at an alternative to the fifties housewife. Ethel Brown escaped poverty and learned a lot about life while she worked through the early 50's as a professional wrestler.
Web site: N/A |
Losing Her
Drama - 30 min - United Kingdom |
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Director: James Killough
Writer: James Killough
Producer: James Killough
Cast: Catherine Walker, Will Houston, Shannon Wake
Synopsis: Helen loses her grandmother somewhere in the labyrinthine galleries of the Tate Britain Museum , but finds something magical in the company of a precocious child artist and the little girl's father.
Web site: www.purefilm.co.uk/losingher.htm |
7:00 PM
Program 2 (120 min)
$8 Ticket
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CREDITS & SYNOPSES |
Rebel Song
Drama - 15 min - United Kingdom |
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Director: Simon Arthur
Writer: Simon Arthur
Producer: Pamela Nelson
Cast: James Grant, Alyth McCormack, Jeff Rudom
Synopsis: A woman and two men play out their broken lives amongst the swaying trees, singing hymns of love, lust and murder.
Web site: N/A |
Raccoon and Crawfish
Animation - 8 min - USA |
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Directors: Shaun Foster, Heather Carpini, Calvert J. Waller, Peter Hale, Mark Edwards, Karabo Legwaila
Writers: Shaun Foster, Heather Carpini, Calvert J. Waller, Peter Hale, Mark Edwards
Producer: Shaun Foster
Cast: Pete Hale, Bobby Crawford
Synopsis: Based on an Oneida Indian legend, a hungry raccoon searches for food and finds a crawfish on a quest for glory. Their battle will decide the fate between an ego full of pride or a belly full of food.
Web site: www.raccoonandcrawfish.com |
The HusBand
Comedy - 13 min - USA |
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Director: Wade Ballance
Writer: Wade Ballance
Producer: Barri Ballance, Shad Hamedani
Cast: Wes Bailey, Connie Walrond
Synopsis: When a dog misbehaves, you use a shock collar. When a husband misbehaves you use the HusBand.
Web site: www.mayanmoonfilms.com |
Graw
Drama - 10 min - USA |
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Director: Joseph Pettinati
Writer: Josephe Pettinati
Producer: Emily Burnett
Cast: Spencer Gaskins, Yinka Oriola
Synopsis: A masked scavenger stealing from the victims of a horrific disaster is forced to decide between saving his bounty or his life.
Web site: www.crackerjackies.com/graw/graw_home.html |
Expendable
Comedy - 18 min - USA |
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Director: David Maliki !
Writer: Todd Croak-Falen, David Maliki !
Producer: Todd Croak-Falen, David Maliki !
Cast: Andrew Giordano, Marc Bossley
Synopsis: A day in the life of the anonymous henchmen to a James Bond-style super-villain. The World's Fifth-Largest Evil Organization has a great health plan.
Web site: www.areyouexpendable.com |
Roosevelt
Documentary - 11 min - USA |
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Director: Ron Stanford
Writer: Ron Stanford
Producer: Ron Stanford
Cast: Roosevelt Bassett
Synopsis: This row-house artist has lived in the big city his entire adulthood, but his worldview is rooted in a one room school in the South Carolina flatlands. Roosevelt expresses himself with discarded inner city demolition materials that he finds on Philadelphia sidewalks. He has his own theory of art.
Web site: www.stanford-creative.com |
24 Frames
Animation - 18 min - USA |
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Director: Brad Pattullo
Writer: Brad Pattullo, John Chrisman
Producer: Brad Pattullo, John Chrisman
Cast: Brad Pattullo
Synopsis: 24 Frames is a stop-motion animated black comedy mockumentary about a stop-motion animated film production at an art college in the southern U.S. The crew, which consists mainly of ambitious animation students, aspires to adapt a children's book into an animated film to impress the school's president, who also happens to be the director's mother-in-law. Incompetence, artistic differences, and a series of grisly mishaps soon cause the production to spiral out of control as the would-be filmmakers struggle to finish the project.
Web site: N/A |
Absolute Zero
Docu-Drama - 27 min - Australia |
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Director: Alan Woodruff
Writer: Alan Woodruff
Producer: Alan Woodruff
Cast: Ian Wilmoth, John Murphy, Sally Lightfoot
Synopsis: An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a railway worker after becoming trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon; told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hours.
Web site: N/A |
9:30 PM
Program 3 (122 min)
$8 Ticket
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CREDITS & SYNOPSES |
Alicja Wonderland
Drama - 20 min - Poland |
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Director: Martin Gauvreau
Writer: Martin Gauvreau
Producer: Martin Gauvreau
Cast: Agnieska Pekala, Tomek Borkowski
Synopsis: The modern adventure of a girl called Alicja.
Web site: www.levelgate.com |
Hipster Girl
Music Video - 5 min - USA |
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Director: Michael Licisyn
Writer: MC Lars (Song), Michael Licisyn (Concept)
Producer: Tommy Avallone
Cast: MC Lars, Alicia Gallagher
Synopsis: Music video for post-punk laptop rapper MC Lars.
Web site: www.mixednutsproductions.com |
Enormous Nuclear Potato
Comedy - 26 min - USA |
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Director: Michelle A. Barnes
Writer: Michelle A. Barnes
Producer: Michelle A. Barnes
Cast: Burt Scoggins, Monica May, Amanda Beck
Synopsis: A small-town couple becomes famous overnight when they discover the world’s largest potato.
Web site: N/A |
Ramona's New Dresser
Drama - 11 min - Ukraine/USA |
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Director: Bohdana Smynova
Writer: Bohdana Smyrnova
Producer: Sergie Krasikau
Cast: Natalia Klimas, Beth Cartier
Synopsis: When climbing a tree in New York , Polish immigrant Paulina gets a hole in her stockings. Someone’s got to stitch it.
Web site: www.myspace.com/ramonasnewdresser |
Serendipity Studios
Documentary - 8 min - USA |
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Director: Jeffrey Hill
Writer: Jeffrey Hill
Producer: Jeffrey Hill
Cast: Sam McKinney
Synopsis: Eastern Kentucky artist, Sam McKinney, shares his inspirations and philosophy.
Web site: N/A |
Displacement
Horror - 18 min - USA |
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Director: Matthew Berardi
Writer: Matthew Berardi, Kyle Klaus
Producer: Kyle Klaus
Cast: Kyle Klaus, David Von Roehm
Synopsis: What if you could not distinguish the dream world from the real world? Maerd (Kyle Klaus) is displaced somewhere in between. As Maerd's world unravels before his eyes, he is sent on a downward spiral into the unknown.
Web site: www.myspace.com/displacementmovie |
Fantasie in Bubblewrap
Animation - 4 min - USA |
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Director: Arthur Metcalf
Writer: Arthur Metcalf
Producer: Arthur Metcalf
Cast: Arthur Metcalf
Synopsis: An animation/live-action hybrid in which the audience is offered a glimpse into the lives of a society of vocal bubblewrap.
Web site: www.metclaflovesyou.com |
Vanished Acres
Fantasy - 30 min - USA |
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Director: Adam Bolt
Writer: Adam Bolt
Producer: Michael Silberman
Cast: John Adrian Riley, Matthew Solari, Tim Henning
Synopsis: In this surreal tale, an old farmer discovers his deceased wife had an affair with his scarecrow, uncovering a haunted past.
Web site: www.vanishedacres.com |
Note: Programs are subject to change.
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