Friday Night Aug. 6th 2010
Tickets
Screening room A
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
6 PM - Expansive Grounds (Documentary)
Germany
Preview
personal exploration of the filmmaker’s
identity as German caused by the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in
the center of Berlin is at the heart of this film.
Her observations are
recorded during the years of 2003-2007, from the beginning of construction
until two years after the memorial opened to the public.
Through
conversations with visitors, asking about their feelings and emotional
responses to the memorial, she was led to reflect
on her family’s role
during the Nazi era and about the significance of collective guilt.
At its
core, this is a film about the one woman’s innermost feelings: feelings of
guilt, her convictions in the 1960s, and her attitudes today are explored in
this German story of every day life
7:10 PM - Plant Girl (Short Drama) Canada
Preview
Lily has been lonely since her mother left. Her
father, Chuck, seems more distant every day. So when Lily discovers a small
ear growing in the garden, she nurtures the plant into her best friend. A
short drama from Affolter Entertainment, “Plant Girl” is a fantastical tale
of growth, truth and hope.
7:45 PM - Babylon 2084 (Short Sci-Fi) Germany
Preview
E90-1248 is working as a sorter of building
material in one of two towers which are facing each other in an endless
expanse of water. His life is dedicated to the growth of the tower, because
the water level is rising.
When an accident happens, he finds himself in the bottom storey of the
building, a place where all those people are shunted off to, whom the upper
storeys of the tower can no longer accommodate. E90-1248 becomes aware of
the fact that the tower is well on its way to destroy itself and that he is
the only person able to save the human race from perishing.
8:15 PM - The Killing of Mary Surratt (Short Drama)
Preview
Boardinghouse innkeeper Mary Surratt was tried,
convicted and executed for conspiring to assassinate President Lincoln.
Within two months of being charged with the crime she would be dead;
swinging from the gallows in Washington D.C.
8:45 PM - 41st Annual Emmy Winner - "Warrant Unit" (CBS TV Pilot)
9:15 PM - Academy Award nominated - Binta and The Great Idea (Short)
Javier Fesser's live action short Binta and the
Great Idea (AKA Binta y la Gran Idea) - a Spanish-Senegalese co-production -
concerns Binta, a seven-year-old girl who lives with her fisherman father in
a small village on the banks of Senegal's Casamance River. Binta is
fortunate and blessed enough to be able to attend school and receive an
education, but her cousin, Soda, lacks the same privilege. Binta's humanist
father suddenly has an idea that could change the world and ease the
suffering of mankind, and he determines to implement it.
9:45 PM - Adeem (Short Drama) Lebanon
Preview
In one of the tight streets of a quiet village, stood a two-story house with
a courtyard... People started gathering around the house, for today is the
wedding of one of its residents… The whole street was decorated and was fit
for a wedding. The women were preparing to receive and welcome the groom,
while the men waited in salon inside the house. Some were villagers and
others were military soldiers. The courtyard began to crowd and one of the
villagers suddenly yells at the top of his voice: “They have arrived…they
have arrived...!” Everybody runs to welcome the groom; young girls start
throwing petals and rice which was a tradition in the village. Men start
cheering...and hands start stretching outwards to caress the coffin that
just arrived, which had a large photo of the hero who had died for his
country – “The Shaheed” … he was the awaited groom. In the midst of tears
and laughter we hear a combination of sounds; heart beats, a clock ticking
and people’s faraway voices… The clock on the wall suddenly stops ticking
and the clock hands start moving in the opposite direction to take us back
in time, which relates to the fact that there is an ending for everything
and everyone.
10:00 PM - Stunt Demo
10:15 PM - Magnum Farce (Animation)
10:30 PM - Deeper and Deeper (Suspense Thriller /
Partial Nudity)
Preview
The classic story of "boy meets girl" goes
horribly wrong when, Ryan, a charming young bank teller falls hard the
moment he lays eyes on the seductive, yet older, Angelica. Consumed by his
curiosity, Ryan begins stalking Angelica, desperate to know more about her.
He stumbles upon the perfect opportunity to spy on the woman of his dreams
when he is hired by Dolores as a part-time maintenance man and moves into an
apartment across the street from Angelica.
As the line separating love and lust becomes harder to define, his growing
fascination sends him deeper into a bizarre world of obsession and
infatuation, but things are not always what they seem in this twisty tale of
psychological suspense.
* 12 Midnight - Networking Party in hotel lounge
Saturday Aug. 7th 2010
Tickets
Film Screenings (see
schedule below)
Convention (11 AM - 9 PM)
Lectures (see schedule)
Fight scene eliminations - 11 AM (Screening room B)
* Acting eliminations - 11 AM
(Screening room A)
Special Effects Competition - Horror
Body Burns (hands
on) Seminar
(Additional fee $75 without burn suit, $40 with burn suit / $20
directors for filming)
Screening room A
Saturday
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
12 Noon - Dynamite Swine - (Feature
Comedy)
Preview
72 min
While attempting to save his girlfriend’s “hair
salon for the homeless,” a run-n-gun gambler falls $10K in debt to a
sadistic Russian quadriplegic and must enter the biggest card tourney of his
life in order to save the salon, his ass, his brother’s ass and the life of
a pig named Porky!
1:15
PM - Taylor's Trophy (Short Drama Comedy - United Kingdom)
Preview
21 Min
"A
work shy wide boy, attempts to solve the mystery of his local pub's burglary
and claim a reward that will settle his debt with a threatening criminal.
Through a series of flashbacks and voice-overs, we witness the fumbled
investigation..."
1:35 PM - Micro Films
Letter to Parents
Copper Penny
Empty Days
Calamity 666
DemiUrge Emesis
Crossing the Line
Lettuce Break Bread
Envirometer
2:40 PM - Indie
Music Videos
"Scarborough Fair" - Other
"Il Silenzio del Mare" - Other
"Crazy" - Alternative
"Love Me or Die" - Alternative
"Let Me In" - Indie
"Jackhammer" - Indie
"They Can't Deport Us All" - Rap
"Switch Hit Resistor" - Pop
"Lili Roquelin" - Pop
"Kill For You" - Rock
Poster
"Come Over After" - Rock
3:55 PM - Want (Short - Drama)
4:20 PM - Winter Wheat (Feature - Drama)
5:55 PM - Walk Right In (Documentary)
Preview
Created
as part of the War on Poverty, the Yale Summer High School brought
underprivileged students from across the country to the Yale Divinity
School during the 1960s. In 1968—a time of great national upheaval—a small
group of educators redefined the enterprise. Drawing on the “Great Books” of
Western literature, they tackled sensitive issues of race, tolerance, and
personal identity, as they searched together for that which eluded the
nation—a sense of community and the values which ground people and bind them
together. Walk Right In captures that summer through first hand
accounts, following students from their moment of selection to the
culmination of the program, to where they are today—a compelling reminder of
the importance of inclusive and effective education and its impact across
the generations.
7:25 PM - Unit 30 (Short Horror Comedy)
Not everything is as it seems when Scully and
Mulder, no relation to Dana or Fox, move into the 'perfect' planned
community. They soon cross paths with a mysterious package sent to an
address that doesn't exist. Mundane situations gradually begin to get off
kilter for the pair, and with Mulder's curiosity piqued, the duo decides to
solve the mystery behind Unit 30. In the vein of Tales From the Crypt/Darkside,
Unit 30 is a campy mystery with a surprising conclusion.
7:55 PM - Frank and Barry (Short Horror Comedy)
A horror -buddy- love triangle- vampire comedy.
8:25 PM - First Day (Short Comedy) 25 Min
Preview
It’s JONAH SULLIVAN’s First Day at his new job, and he’ll need
all the help he can get to fit in. Luckily, he has plucky Human Resources
representative STEPHANIE KURPLEWICZ to show him around the office, and the
sage advice of seen-it-all coworkers BOB RINGO and ZACH MONTGOMERY to put
him on the right track. Can this sheltered former telecommuter manage to
find friends, a philosophy, and the coffee machine?
8:55 PM - Scrum (Short Suspense Thriller) 22 Min
Arvin is convinced his wife, Emma, is having an
affair with her golf teacher. He kidnaps and tortures the golf pro, and
calls his brother, Simon, to assist. Simon kills people for a living, but he
has good reason to believe his brother is insane. Nonetheless, having
witnessed firsthand the abuse Arvin suffered as a child, Simon finds himself
paralyzed by guilt when he tries to stop Arvin from going too far.
9:25 PM - On Her Own ( Feature Drama )
95 Min
11:05 PM - Clemency (Short Horror)
18 min
Preview
Arthur Poe (Cris D’Annunzio) is a
sadistic killer who likes to torture his victims. In 1993, he was captured
and subsequently convicted by the state of Virginia for several gruesome
murders. Poe received a sentence of death. Years later and days before his
execution, the newly elected governor granted Poe clemency based on a
testimony given by a forensic psychologist during Poe’s murder trial. The
testimony convinced the governor that Poe deserved psychiatric care rather
than death. Many were outraged by the governor’s act of leniency. A reporter
(Maury Morgan) confronts Poe in an interview seeking to shed light on the
emotionally charged topic. What she learns can never be forgotten or
forgiven.
11:25 PM - A Tiger in The Dark (Drama)
18 Min
*Networking Party in hotel lounge
Screening room B
Saturday
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
12 Noon - Aground 2027 (Short Suspense
Thriller - Australia)
The Nation of Australia is under War in 2027 due to an Asian
influx in Population. Two brothers struggle to deal with the truth of being
under attack. It tests them physically and both emotionally, reflected by
the pains of War.
12:15 - Pack of Pain (Short Action - United Kingdom)
Preview
An exiled cop uncovers a governmental
conspiracy to tackle the issue of population control in a radically inhumane
way.
12:30 PM - Vivie De Pie. Las Guerras De Cipriano Mera (Documentary - Spain)
“LIVING
ON YOUR FEET” explores the
personality of Cipriano Mera, and the ideals and feats of an era that turned
his life into one great adventure, and made him the privileged protagonist
of an intense journey through history in pursuit of utopia. It is the story
of a free man who refused to die on his feet or live on his knees.
2:45 PM - Still Life (Short Drama - South Korea)
3:10 PM - Don't Touch It (Short Family)
"Don't
Touch It" is a story about little Anthony, a young boy who can't tell the
good guys from the bad. When Anthony is led to believe that playing with
yourself makes you go blind, he searches for answers but can't find the
right one. In the end, it seems as though Anthony must find his own way,
when his father steps in and gives him the guidance he needs.
3:30 PM - Under The Hood (Short Drama)
Preview
An attractive woman attempts to get her car fixed
at a back-street repair shop, while evading the unwelcome harassment of the
sleazy manager, and trying to provoke the laid-back mechanic into action -
leading to some unexpected consequences when their conflicting desires are
frustrated.
3:45 PM - Jamal and Rome (TV Pilot)
Preview
Jamal and Rome is a web
series, a dramatic comedy about two young men who find meaning in life
through the help of each other. One of the characters is Rome, a drug dealer
whose dad passes away in Iraq and his mother, to support herself, marries a
wealthy doctor. Rome never gets along with his step-father (as he feels this
will betray his real father) and moves out to live on his own. The other
character is Jamal, whose mother left when he was little. He feels
disconnected with his father who has raised him all his life. Since Jamal
has no mother, his personality is that he is very dependent on women to fill
that empty gap in his life, however, love and luck are not in his fate.
4:15 PM - High School Gig (Feature Drama)
Preview
Teresa Velazquez is a young immigrant that turns
to prostitution in order to survive a tough economical crisis. The twist:
she picks up her clients from the crowded halls of her very own high school.
Hiding the truth from everyone, Teresa builds up a clientele and things
begin to look up. At the height of her entrepreneurial business she will
pick up one last client that will blow her house of cards to the ground and
will turn her world upside down.
5:45 PM
- Tow (Feature Drama)
Preview
A small town drama that follows two lost souls on
a journey of murder, betrayal and a new found love that just might be
powerful enough to save them both.
7:15 - Hostile Denial (Feature
Suspense Thriller)
Mike, a highly decorated police
detective, was never good at balancing his professional life with his family
life. No matter his love for his wife and young son, his actions only drove
a wedge into his relationships. After losing his job and his
marriage...evidence arises that Mike may be involved in a series of violent
murders. With his former partner, Bill, who was also his best friend, hot on
his trail...Mike tries to put together the broken pieces of his life. As the
clues unfold...Mike becomes more uncertain of his own innocence...is he, or
is he not responsible for these brutal killings? And at what lengths will he
go to to find out?
9:45
- The Death of Alice Blue (Feature Horror Comedy)
90 min
11:15
PM - Steak Dreams (Short Comedy)
15 Min
11:30 PM - Ghost Walk
(Experimental Art)
4 Min
*Networking Party in hotel lounge
Screening room C
Saturday
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
12:00 Noon - Complaints Choir
(Documentary)
1:00 PM - Shadow Boxing (Feature)
2:25 PM - The Vern (Drama Comedy)
115 Min
Preview
Running from a violent, vengeful New York
crime family, former minor league baseball star Vern Cons his way into a
sleepy Texas town, but soon finds himself embroiled in a world of sex,
drugs, and murder more sordid than what he left behind. Chased by drug
dealers, the law, and his crazed half-brother, the hapless Vern must get to
Los Angeles before his young son becomes the next victim.
4:30 PM - I Killed You Cause I Had To! (Feature Suspense Thriller)
87 Min
6:00 PM - Popular (TV Pilot)
6:30 PM - The New Mother (Short Horror Student Film)
38 Min
7:08 - Scissu (Short Crime Drama) 27Min
7:35 PM - Shadows of Sepulveda (Short Drama) 25 Min
8:00 PM - God's Country, Off Rt. 9 (Feature Drama
Comedy) Preview
Tagged a loser by his ex-girlfriend, his best friend, and
the shady guys who bankrolled his grad-school film project, Bruce Brewster
is drowning in debt and desperate for a new direction. Help comes in the
form of a deal his estranged father pitches: a pile of cash in return for
Bruce coming back home to family-values country to play the role of loyal
son in Dad's well-financed political campaign. What's the worst that could
happen? Bruce takes the bait and heads home, only to become romantically
entangled with a former high school classmate who is connected in an
inconvenient way to his father's campaign.
9:45 PM - The Isle of Succession (Feature Sci-Fi) 147
Min
The Isle of Succession
revolves around Beagon and Melisande, a married couple living on a secluded
island. When the Calder family decides to move onto the island, the couple
witness their primitive lives slowly change as the threat of civilization
creeps in from the mainland. Prime Minister Shae and his Chairmen, in the
nearby town of
*Networking Party in hotel lounge
Sunday Aug. 8th 2010
Tickets
Sunday Film Screenings -
see schedule below
Convention (11 AM - 6 PM)
Lectures (see schedule)
* Acting Finals - 1:00 PM (Screening room A)
Fight Scene Finals - 11 AM Screening room A
Special Effects Competition - Sci-Fi
Stunt Driving (hands
on) Seminar
(Additional $40 fee driver, car supplied / $20 directors for
filming)
Indie Gathering Award Presentations (Screening Room A Sun 4 PM)
Screening room A
Sunday
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
12:00 Noon - Positioning (Short Comedy)
A couple have trouble finding their way, both in the car and
in the bedroom. Could a GPS be the solution?
12:10 PM - America's Dairyland (Short Documentary)
12:20 - Trails End (Short Western Drama)
12:30 - Double Dilemma (Short Drama)
Preview
“Jeff
is a slacker who inherits a house from one of his aunts. When he arrives at
the house, he tries switching on a light, but there is no electricity in the
house. So, he decides to look for some candles. He starts digging through a
closet and finds some candles. A strange looking box catches his attention.
There are pictures on the box that look like instructions. Upon further
examination, Jeff accidentally drops his cell phone into the box. It
automatically closes, starts to glow and then stops. Jeff opens the box and
inside are two identical cell phones. Amazed, he begins duplicating
different things; subsequently duplicating a $20 bill. It works, so he
starts a mass reproduction process of $20 bills. The doorbell rings and a
lady asks for some charity money, but Jeff just slams the door in her face!
Greedily, he continues making money throughout the whole night under candle
light. In the morning, he decides to buy himself a new car. He runs out of
the house with the money in a duffel bag. While Jeff is at a car dealership
looking at cars, at home, the box overheats and catches fire because he has
overused it. As Jeff wants to pay for the car and opens the duffel bag, all
of the money vanishes into a cloud of smoke. He does not understand what
happened. Without a car, he returns to the house, which he discovers to be
completely burned down.”
12:45 Wild Nature: The Urban Gorilla (Short Comedy)
1:00 PM - * Acting Finals
1:40 PM - Running Away With Blackie (Short Drama)
“Running Away With Blackie” takes a complex and thought-provoking look into
the lonely and desperate life of Jetty. Along with his best and only
friend; his dog Blackie, he travels cross country where he ends up at an
isolated motel. Here he encounters some unusual characters who serve as a
constant reminder of what he has been trying to run away from all along.
When he encounters a strange figure he learns the only one who stands in his
way is himself, and can no longer run away with Blackie.
2:00 PM - Accidental Art (Short Comedy) 6 Min
2:15 PM - Cleveland's TOP (5) 2010 48 Hr Film Festival films
30 Min
Screening room B
Sunday
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
11:45 AM - Last Call (Short Horror)
5 Min
12:00 Noon - Pontiac's Rebellion
(Documentary)
1:35 PM - Backyard (Short Drama)
A young child playing in his backyard witnesses
his neighbor having an affair.
1:45 PM - Underground Sonata (Short Drama Crime)
2:00 PM - Foreclosed (Short Horror Comedy)
Preview
Cancer took his wife. Bank took his house. Nothing left to lose.
2:20 PM - Pilgrimage (Short Comedy)
2:35 PM - Dark Heart (Short Suspense Thriller) 16 Min
2:55 PM - A Plea to Mary (Short Crime Drama)
10 Min
Preview
Tim is a religious young man who believes in God.
He needs money and makes a bad decision by going to a bad man named Herb for
help. This leads to Tim going on the run from a killer named Lou after
visiting Herb at his house. He needs to make a choice to return to God and
hope that his faith in God can save him or die at the hands of a killer.
3:10 PM - Hard to be Me (TV Pilot)
Preview
43 Min
Poster
Kevin Hamilton likes to express himself through
his art. When his COMM 101 teacher turns out to be the intimidating Dr.
Candice Wilkes, Kevin is thrown for a loop. When Wilkes assigns a weekly
video-log (vlog), not only does Kevin have to use coherent words to pass his
course, he must do so on a weekly basis while mastering the technology.
During the course of Kevin’s exploration, we meet his quirky art school
friends, and his loving, but slightly unusual family. The episode is shown
from multiple perspectives, including three girls who are viewing the vlog,
and a retired couple who are learning about the technology for the first
time.
Indie Gathering Award Presentations
(Screening Room A Sun 4 PM)
Screening room C
Sunday
“Filmmakers may be available
for Q&A after their film screens”
11:00 AM - Guys With Girl Problems (TV
Pilot) Preview
"Guys With Girl Problems" is a comedy series
depicting the struggles facing young men in today's relationships. These
guys face problems with dating, sex, old relationships, new relationships,
marriage and everything in between. In the times when you feel like you
might be at your worst, it's your friends and family that keep you going,
and sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself. That's what this series is
all about.
11:30 AM - Right Side Up (TV Pilot)
12:00 Noon - Gila Monster: The Adventures of Adrean Manx (Short Crime Drama)
12:15 - Pink Slip (Short Comedy) 15 Min
12:30 PM - Penalty (Short Drama)
16 Min
Preview
Evelyn, a young woman barely making ends meet,
works a second job as a house cleaner for a wealthy older man. While working
she finds a large amount of money hidden away. After being accused of
stealing by the man's son and she is on the verge of losing her job. Evelyn
turns to her only family for help, her cousin Anthony, an earnest under
privileged young man. Anthony must decide how far he will go to help his
cousin get out of poverty.
12:50 PM - The Hitchhikers (Short Crime Drama)
Preview 16 Min
Don and
Jimmy head to Tijuana for a quick, fun filled day. But an encounter with the
local police leaves the pair stranded, with no way to get back home. Worse,
they are now being followed by menacing strangers. Desperate to get back to
L.A., Don and Jimmy get a ride with a preacher heading back to Long Beach.
But in this crazy world, Don and Jimmy are about to learn that it's
sometimes hard to tell who's your friend and who's your enemy
1:10 PM - Solitude (Short Drama) 18 Min
Preview
This experimental surreal drama about two
star-crossed couples' intertwining movies is divided into two loosely
connected segments. The first centers on a lonely woman, Marcia, who is
searching for a connection and finds it in her encounter with offbeat
slacker Barry. In the second story, Barry is more handsome and more secure
with Andie, in a romance right out of a Hollywood movie.
1:30 PM - A Puppet Intervention (Documentary)
72 min
Poster
2:45 PM -
Never Escape (Feature Suspense Action)
74 min
