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It is only human to want to improve, so each year the Port
Townsend Film Festival continues to tweak its programming. In what
sometimes feels like a compulsive drive to create the perfect
Festival, we add things one place, subtract in another, but mostly we
just add. Since our first year in 2000, we have added to our
programming, in roughly chronological order: films of topical
interest, the extension of Taylor Street Outdoor Movies to Sunday
night, Almost Midnight movies, street musicians, Formative Films,
the San Francisco-based National Public Radio program West Coast
Live!, the First Features sidebar, the continuous-run Drop-In Theatre,
the Kids Film Camp, and A Moveable Fest, taking four Festival films
to the Historic Lynwood Theatre on Bainbridge Island.
For 2006, we're adding two more innovations
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advanced tickets sales, and
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The Festival has often been criticized for relying on passes and last minute "rush" tickets for box
office sales, so this year the Festival is selling a limited number of advance tickets for screenings at
our largest venue, the Broughton Theatre at the high school. If successful, advance ticket sales will
likely be extended to all venues in future years.
Moviegoers who attend other Festivals will know that most larger Festivals introduce each movie
with a trailer to celebrate both the event and its sponsors. Some are clever, some are boring, almost
all become tiresome by the end of the Festival. But we have a treat for Port Townsend Festivalgoers. Inspired by Richard Miller's poster photograph, Festival founder, board member and
filmmaker Jim Ewing pioneered the effort and, along with board member and filmmaker Ian Hinkle,
is directing and producing a set of 52 unique trailers for screening before each film at the indoor
venues.
Like all filmmaking, the trailers are a true collaboration. We are especially grateful to Peter Lack, a
gifted musician and a fine composer, for writing and recording four original soundtracks that bring
an essential drive to the work, moving it from special to extraordinary. And the photographs
incorporated into the trailer come from the body of work created by our team of photographers
from 2005: Elizabeth Becker, Luke Bogues, David Conklin, and Harvindar Singh. This is entirely a
volunteer effort for which the Festival is most grateful.
It's our way of saying thank you to our year-round sponsors, the venue sponsors, and film sponsors.
Of course there are many more sponsors who we thank in other ways. We hope you will enjoy each
trailer you see and that they will prompt you to say thanks to these essential benefactors with a
round of applause somewhere along the way.
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Each year, the Port Townsend Film Festival selects a local artist to
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the 7th annual event, joining Marii Lockwood (2001), John Craig (2002),
provide the image for that year's poster. Richard Miller is the artist for
Steven Z. Kennel (2003), two-timer Max Grover (2000, 2004), and Linda
John Considine
Okazaki (2005) in the pantheon of Festival artists.
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Photography was a male right of passage in Richard Miller's family. Both
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his grandfather and his father were serious amateur photographers. He
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spent many hours as a child watching prints emerge from the
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his father's glass slides of Yosemite and Death Valley, holding them up
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to the window to see. As a teenager, he inherited his brother's
basement darkroom and enlarger when his brother went away to college. Richard's first cameras
were his grandfather's World War II era Zeiss Ikon and his father's Rollei from the 50s.
"Growing up near Yosemite in the1960s and '70s, I idolized Ansel Adams, read his books, hiked in
his mountains and imitated his style," Miller recalls.
He inherited his love of photography from his father.
"Ironically, I also inherited a genetic atrophy of the optic nerve that has left me legally blind for most
of my life," he says. "Not wanting to challenge my obvious physical limitations, I pursued
academics." He received a BA in History with an emphasis on American cultural history from the
University of California at Santa Cruz in 1979.
Check out up to three videos or
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At age 30, throwing logic aside, he returned to school to study advertising photography at Rochester
Institute of Technology.
About his inspiration for the Film Festival poster image, Miller says
"that on the ordinary level I wanted to express that wonderful
feeling of watching a classic movie under the stars on Taylor Street
while sitting on a straw bale."
"At a deeper level I wanted to explore how the process of projection,
whether in the human mind or in the cinema, allows our fantasies to
emerge out of light and become real."
After watching 15 films in 48 hours, the line between reality and
projected reality can blur, and "for me that can be a lot of fun."
"Just watch out for the gorillas," he added. Richard Miller's work can be viewed at Gallery 9 at 1012
Water St.
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The complete 7th annual Port Townsend Film Festival program is announced August 30. Check back
here for periodic updates or sign up for our newsletter to receive up-to the minute programming
and guest announcements
Special Programs
A Very Special Evening with Malcolm McDowell - IF...
Formative Films with Robert Osborne - Laura
Opening Night Film - LOL
Closing Night Film - The Whales of August
Almost Midnight Movies! - A Clockwork Orange and Brazil
Silent Movie - Hell's Heroes
Silent Movie - Show People
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Using the culture of hazing and persecutions among students and teachers in the British public
school system as its metaphor, IF... is a study of revolution against an autocracy that denies
individual freedom, a revolution symbolized by Mike Travis (Malcolm McDowell) demanding, "When
do we live?" Subject to ever escalating punishments, the students are beaten one by one with a cane
after which they are expected to "thank" their tormenter. Ultimately, a group of students headed by
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Director: Lindsay Anderson; Producer: Lindsay Anderson, Michael Medwin; Screenwriter: David
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Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Mona Washburn; Print Source: Paramount
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All movie-lovers have favorite films, movies that have touched them
in some way, creating a response that remains with them since first
viewing. This year's Formative Film curator is Robert Osborne, who
as a film historian is so associated with classic movies he might as
well have coined the term. After struggling to be a film actor with
little success, at the suggestion of his mentor Lucille Ball, he turned to his second love: writing about
movies. In 1965 he wrote the first of several official histories of the Oscar® at the request of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He maintains a weekly column in the Hollywood
Reporter, but he is best known as the prime-time host of Turner Classic Movies where he delivers
his vast and intimate knowledge in introductions before almost every film. Robert has been a
long-time friend of the Rose Theatre and the Port Townsend Film Festival, returning this year for the
fourth time.
Robert was a teenager when he saw what became one of his favorite films, Laura.
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Laura, a 1944 film noir, tells the story of a police detective who falls in love with the portrait of a
woman who has been murdered. The story begins with cop Mark McPherson investigating the
murder of a beautiful advertising director, Laura Hunt. McPherson interviews a newspaper
columnist, who relates how he fell under Laura's spell and used his influence and fame to advance
her career. McPherson also questions Laura's fiance, her wealthy aunt, and her loyal housekeeper.
Through the testimony of her friends and the reading of her letters, McPherson comes to know
Laura and slowly falls in love with the dead woman. He becomes obsessive - using the excuse of
trying to solve the murder, he hangs around her apartment and is at one point accused of falling in
love with a corpse. He falls asleep under her portrait, drunk, whereupon she enters, like a dream or
a ghost. It was not Laura who was murdered, but a model at the advertising agency. Laura's
resurrection starts the mysterious plot spinning in new directions. Is someone trying to kill Laura? Is
Laura, the woman McPherson has fallen in love with, a murderer?
Laura won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, black and white; and was nominated for Writing,
Director, Actor in a Supporting Role and Art Direction - Interior Decoration, black and white. In 1999
the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected
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Director and Producer: Otto Preminger; Original Story: Vera Caspary; Screenwriters: Jay Dratler,
Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt; Cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle; Editor: Louis Loeffler; Cast:
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
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with Director Joe Swanberg
The acronym LOL is Internet shorthand for "laugh out loud." A common
abbreviation for emails, message boards and text messages, it is meant to simplify
communication, but like many other technology- driven shortcuts, its meaning is
often misinterpreted. This film about technology addiction and its tendency to
damage human relationships follows a cast of characters who all seem to spend
most of their time looking into either computer or cell-phone screens. Their
dependence on technology and its products becomes increasingly poignant and relevant. The end
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Director: Joe Swanberg; Producer: Joe Swanberg; Screenwriters: Joe Swanberg, C. Mason Wells,
Kevin Bewersdorf; Cinematographer: Joe Swanberg; Editor: Joe Swanberg; Cast: Kevin Bowersdorf,
Joe Swanberg, C. Mason Wells, Tipper Newton, Brigid Reagan, Greta Gerwig, Kate Winterich; Print
Source: Joe Swanberg, [email protected]
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A stately, autumnal work by director Lindsay Anderson (If...).
Summer in Maine: times are changing. Whales no longer pass close
to shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters
who have a seaside home where they've summered for half a
century. Libby (Bette Davis) is blind, contrary, and getting ready to
die. Sarah (Lillian Gish) is attentive to her sister, worried about
continuing to care for her, and half-interested in an old Russian
aristocrat who fishes from their shore and offers them dinner. Sarah
invites him to join them, and Libby gets her back up. This
unassuming story of small moments nevertheless carries a large
supply of emotional freight. Critic Roger Ebert said of Lillian Gish's performance, "At her great age,
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Director: Lindsay Anderson; Producer: Mike E. Kaplan, Carolyn Pfeiffer; Screenwriter: David Berry;
Cinematographer: Mike Fash; Editor: Nicolas Gaster; Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price,
Ann Sothern; Harry Carey Jr.; Print Source: Mike E. Kaplan
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Published as a novel by Anthony Burgess in 1962, the controversial
1971 Stanley Kubrick film version of A Clockwork Orange is set in a
futuristic England, circa 1995. It follows the career of a young man
named Alex (Malcolm McDowell) whose main pleasures in life are
classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and random acts of
"ultra violence." Alex is alternately subdued, rehabilitated and
released to commit more mayhem throughout the film. One of the
central moral questions of A Clockwork Orange is the definition of
"goodness." Once he has undergone the aversion therapy, Alex
behaves like a good member of society, but not through choice; his
"goodness" is as artificial as the clockwork orange of the title.
But for all its serious intent and its nomination for a best picture OscarTM, the film's violence and
sexually explicit material alienated as many as it enthralled. It was condemned by the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting and withdrawn from circulation in
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Director: Stanley Kubrick; Producer: Warner Bros.; Screenwriter: Anthony Burgess (novel); Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay); Cinematographer: John Alcott; Editor: Bill Butler; Cast: Malcolm McDowell,
Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
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be of "poor quality." In addition, this film is Rated R-no one under 17 will be admitted without a
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Another look at the future. Set "somewhere in the 20th century" at
8:49 pm, the retro futuristic world of Brazil is a gritty urban hellhole
patched over with cosmetic surgery and "designer ducts for your
discriminating taste"; it appears to be almost post-apocalyptic in
nature. Life in Brazil has become so hopelessly overcomplicated that
entropy has taken over and the world appears to be on the
perpetual verge of complete mechanical failure on all fronts. This is
due not only to the enemies of the state (terrorists), but to the
insanely increasing amount of paperwork (a "bureaucratic
implosion") required to get anything done. Sound familiar? Upon
release, Brazil performed poorly at the box office. Audiences were
confused. Nonetheless, the film has become a cult favorite,
particularly among director Terry Gilliam's fans. In tone and setting,
it has similarities to Gilliam's later reality-twisting Twelve Monkeys.
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Director: Terry Gilliam; Producer: Arnon Milchan; Screenplay: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles
McKeown; Cinematographer: Roger Pratt; Editor: Julian Doyle; Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro,
Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm
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A powerful story of three outlaws who try to redeem themselves by
saving a newborn child, Hell's Heroes has had many incarnations
under different titles: The Three Godfathers (1919, 1936, and 1948)
and The Godchild (for television, 1974). In 1985, the French
reshaped the story as Trois Hommes et un Couffin (Three Men and a
Cradle) which Hollywood turned into Three Men and a Baby two
years later as a showcase for Steven Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Tom Selleck. In our version, the
story goes like this: When four men rob a bank, one is killed and the other three escape into the
desert where they lose their horses in a storm. Finding a woman who gives birth, they are made
godfathers only to learn that the baby's father was the man they killed in the holdup. When the
woman dies they head back with the baby, but they have little water and it is a 40-mile journey.
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Director: William Wyler; Producer: Universal Pictures; Screenplay: Tom Reed, C. Gardner Sullivan;
Cinematographer: George Robinson; Editor: Harry Marker; Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond
Hatton, Fred Kohler
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Marion Davies, one of the great comedians of the silent era, stars in this King Vidor chestnut that
has maintained popularity over the decades. In the story, Colonel Pepper brings his daughter,
Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at
Comet Studio doing comedies with him. But Peggy is discovered by High Art Studio and she leaves
Billy and Comet to work there. For her new image, she is now Patricia Pepoire and ignores Billy
when he sees her on location. When she is not longer wanted by the little people who do not
understand "ART", she plans to marry Andre to get a fake title. Billy
will not let her go without a fight. Davies' ability as a comedian was
repressed by her lover, William Randolph Hearst, who wanted her to
appear only in serious films. Show People preserves her delightful
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On Friday, September 8, at 7 pm, filmmakers from around the world
received a theme, a line of dialog and the name of a common
household prop via email. By Sunday night, September 10, again at
7 pm, - exactly 2,880 minutes (or 48 hours) later - filmmakers will
have produced a short film of less than 10 minutes that they will
have written, shot, edited, and scored, complete with titles and
credits - without any creative work done prior to 7 pm Friday.
One week later the top ten films from the 2006 Film 2880 contest will be shown at the historic Rose
Theatre on Saturday night during the 7th annual Port Townsend Film Festival. Films are judged on
originality, use of prop and dialogue, and adherence to the theme and production values.
Film 2880 exists to challenge the resourcefulness and creativity of filmmakers, film students and
anyone crazy enough to sign up. The annual filmmaking project was founded and is still managed
by filmmaker Peter Wiant, assisted by graphic designer Lou Faulkner. w
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Eyes Wide Open: The Secrets of Cinema Style
Doc Talk
Why Film Critics Matter
First Features
Digital Video, Celluloid Dreams
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Learn whyJaws may really be a Western, how Clark Gable inspired Bugs Bunny, what King Kong and
Citizen Kane have in common, and the weird cinematic secret that links Charles Laughton and Spike
Lee. Spend a few pre-Festival hours contemplating these and other movie teasers. Enjoy concise
interactive demonstrations on mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, and special effects
prepared especially for the Festival audiences. Admission: $5 (free to current PTFF members)
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Sometimes a passion will take us down the trail that leads to a film; sometimes just a chance
encounter. Look anywhere and you'll find an idea for a documentary film, but it takes more than
just an idea to bring a movie to the screen. Join our panel of documentarians���discussing
everything from the development of a story to making hard choices about what goes in a film and
what gets left behind on the editing-room floor. A forum for documentary lovers and documentary
filmmakers alike.
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Given the fact that dumb movies, panned unanimously by reviewers, win at the box office almost
every time, most critics are feeling pretty superfluous these days, paraphrasing the sentiment of
film critic and educator, Kathleen Murphy. Indeed, film critic A.O. Scott felt strongly enough recently
to defend the members of his profession in a prominent article in his home paper, the New York
Times. So, if their job is not to point the masses to movies they'll enjoy, just what is it they're
supposed to do? Do film critics even matter? This panel, led by Kathleen Murphy, thinks so.
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That distance between a short film and a full-length film can be a real stretch for filmmakers, like
the reach the short-story writer takes when she (or he) tackles a first novel. The forms are related,
but definitely not the same. Listen to and discuss with the directors of The Naked Ape (Daniel
Mellitz), Room 314 (Michael Knowles), and Say I Do (Ron Vignone) as they relay the challenges they
faced and how they dealt with issues with actors and continuity, producers and distributors, writers
and editors. Ask them, if you dare, what the current spending limit is on their credit cards.
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Filmmaking, it can be said, has been democratized. With the advent of digital video and the spread
of accessible technologies, more and more people are going out and just making films on their own.
Some great films this year at PTFF 2006 were shot digitally and edited in a living room somewhere.
So how has this changed what films get made? And seen? How are new voices breaking into the
mainstream? What are the problems with digital video when trying to tell a story? Is digital video
ready to make the leap to Hollywood?
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As curator of the 1 Reel Film Festival during Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival for the past six years,
Warren Etheredge has watched over 9,000 short films. One thing he knows for sure is that it's not
easy to make a good one. However, he has compiled a succinct guide for those who will try; ten
sure-fire methods for beating the odds and creating a short that stands tall amongst the
competition.
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Between Iraq and a Hard Place
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On March 20, 2003, this nation's second conflict with Iraq began as one response to the War on
Terrorism that began in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center and damage to
the Pentagon on 9/11. Among those engaged in the war were the members of the 3rd platoon of
Alpha Company (1st Battalion, 2nd Marines) who moved into Nasiriyah, Iraq on that first day. This is
their story. It is not a political tract; the film takes no position on the war. The men have a job to do
and the film shows us how they do it. As one trauma specialist says: if we support this war, then we
owe these men a debt; if we did not work hard enough to prevent the war, we still owe them a debt.
Audio and video footage taken by members of the platoon illustrate the story as do interviews with
the men and the counselors who work with combatants upon their return from the distress of war.
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Director: Rex J. Pratt; Producer: James Pratt; Screenwriter: Rex J. Pratt; Cinematographer: Rex. J.
Pratt; Print Source: Pratt Bros. Entertainment, [email protected]
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In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that
FBI agents had arrested 20 anti-war activists in and near a draft
board office in Camden, New Jersey. Five days later, Mitchell publicly
announced their indictment and included eight others linked to the
break-in. The major charges were conspiracy to remove and destroy
files from the draft board. If convicted, some faced up to 47 years in
federal prison. Among the group were four Catholic priests, 22
Catholic laypeople, and one Lutheran minister. The men and women
arrested that summer called themselves "America's conscience."
The government called them the Camden 28. This is their story.
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Director: Anthony Giacchino; Producers: Anthony Giacchino, David Dougherty; Cinematographer:
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How do dreams survive on the streets of New York City when you
both work and live on them? When you are an octogenarian
outsider artist whose only roof is a tarp? This is the story of Jimmy
Mirikitani, a Japanese-American born in the U.S. in 1920, whose
family returned to Hiroshima before World War II. Hoping to avoid
the Japanese draft, Jimmy returned to the U.S. where he was interned with other American citizens
of Japanese ancestry for the duration of the war. Life in the camps became the decisive season of
his life and desolate images of that experience appeared frequently in his work that also had a
brilliant side with his colorful portraits of dreamy kittens and fierce tigers. Living in Washington
Square Park on 9/11, he was rescued from the toxic dust from the collapse of the World Trade
Center towers by an admirer of his work. She took him into her own apartment, worked with him to
find his own quarters and then returned with him to the California internment camp for a
redemptive reunion. U
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Director: Linda Hattendorf; Producers: Linda Hattendorf, Masa Yoshikawa; Cast: Jimmy Mirikitani,
Tsutomu Mirikitani; Print Source: [email protected]
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This documentary tells the World War II story of a young, South
African, Jewish dancer, Sadie Rigal, who led a double life as a
performer "hidden in the spotlight," and as a member of the French
Resistance. Rigal (now Florence Waren) survived the Final Solution at
the famous Bal Tabarin music hall and rose to fame as the "best dancer in Paris," while rescuing
dozens of Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution. Fate, courage, compassion, and luck
contributed to Rigal's astounding survival. Dancing Lessons leads the viewer to consider the broader
spiritual issues surrounding acts of mercy and compassion. Never-before-seen archival film and
animated stills bring the epoch of the occupation to life. Interspersed among the seductive black
and white images, Rigal, her friends and associates speak through interviews that illuminate their
tales of courage and compassion, hope and horror. U
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Director: Mark Waren; Producer: Mark Waren; Cinematographer: Kevin Keating; Print Source: Amy
Strobel, Dramatic Risks, inc., [email protected]
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Fisher Poets is the story of a unique breed of commercial fishermen
who spin tall tales and weave true stories of life at sea through vivid
and powerful poetry. Strong of character and steeped in tradition,
these men and women from America's last great frontier share their
passions in tight rhymes and prose verse. The documentary joins
them at "The Fisher Poets Gathering" where amateurs and professionals alike prove that what they
take from the sea is more than the catch of the day, it's food for thought. "This is where I draft my
love letters to the industry," says fisherman Dave Densmore. He is just one of the salty characters
who tell the world how the food on their plate represents a community upon extinction. A fisher
poetry reading follows the screening. U
USSAA,, 22000066,, 4422 m
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Director: Jennifer Winston; Producer: Jennifer Winston; Cinematographer: Jennifer Winston; Print
Source: Jennifer Winston, [email protected]
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Two former NBC journalists, husband and wife, hit the road, traveling
13,000 miles through 32 states in search of "Independent America."
Sticking to secondary highways and only doing business with Mom and
Pop stores, the filmmakers discover a growing rebellion across the country, beginning in Port
Townsend where they interview opponents of a new Hollywood Video store. As the couple travels,
their reports feature a Starbucks that is vandalized in Colorado, supporters of an anti-big-box law in
Arizona who are compared to Nazis, and patriotic residents of America's "Fourth of July" capital in
Nebraska who start to turn on their new super center. It's a somber yet entertaining snapshot of a
country at loggerheads with the free market economy it so proudly mastered. U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 8811 m
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Director: Hanson Hosein; Producers: Heather Hughes, Hanson Hosein, Tom Powers; Screenwriters:
Hanson Hosein, Heather Hughes; Print Source: Independent America Media,
[email protected]
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An unflinching portrayal of survival and transformation, White
Shadows profiles Dalee Henderson, a famed celebrity hairstylist who
is diagnosed with AIDS and must reconcile himself to the changes
the disease affects upon his body and mind. A gay, African American
raised in the rural, segregated South of the 1950s, Dalee escaped to
the West Coast in the late 1970s where he achieved great professional and personal success,
amassing a wealth of friends by virtue of his gregarious nature. His life changed when he learned of
his HIV status, but his spirit and hope remain despite the deterioration of his body. U
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Director: Mialyn Hanna; Producer: Mialyn Hanna; Screenwriter: Mialyn Hanna; Cinematographers:
Juerg Walther, Michael Santi, Rudi Milanovich, Mialyn Hanna; Editor: Octavio Iturbe; Music: Philip
Glass; Print Source: Lemurian Films, [email protected]
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A tale of love, courage and immigrant ingenuity, Finding Thea is a
family saga that is an inspiration to generations. Throughout her life
and work, Norwegian-born Thea Foss became a pioneer archetype
for women in the first half of the 20th century when she established
the Foss Tug Company. The film combines rare archival footage and
photos along with contemporary reflections of her legacy along
Washington state's waterfronts. As historian Michael Sullivan
comments, the film explores the story of a strong woman who built
an empire without being an empire builder. U
USSAA,, 22000066,, 2255 m
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Directors: Lucy Ostrander, Nancy Bourne Haley; Producers: Lucy
Ostrander, Nancy Bourne Haley; Screenwriter: Nancy Bourne Haley;
Cinematographer: Don Sellers; Editor: Don Sellers; Music: Hale Bill & the Bopps; Print Source: Luna
Film & Video, [email protected]
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and Andrew Foss, but the veteran actors made millions laugh in the 1930s in
films based on Saturday Evening Post stories by Norman Reilly Raine who
used Thea Foss as his inspiration. Tugboat Annie was the first of three films
that later evolved into a 1950s television sitcom. U
USSAA,, 11993333,, 8866 m
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Director: Mervyn LeRoy; Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Screenwriters:
Norman Reilly Raine, Zelda Sears, Eve Green; Cinematographer: Gregg
Toland; Print Source: The Don McCune Library, 206-726-2650
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First Features
The Naked Ape
Room 314
Say I Do
Adios Momo (Goodbye Momo)
Bon Voyage
Go West
See You in Space
To Die in San Hilario
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Last year, the Port Townsend Film Festival launched a new series of three new films called First
Features. Each director was offering his first feature-length narrative film. Not knowing how to
anticipate the audience response, the three films were scheduled in one of the small venues for one
screening only. They all sold out and one, Hank Williams First Nation by Canadian auteur Aaron J
Sorensen, was named best narrative feature. An encore screening also sold out. So, this year we're
starting in a larger venue and each will be screened twice. If one should win the best narrative
feature, it will receive a third screening.
Moderating discussions about these films again this year will be Warren Etheredge, founder of
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WaarrrreennRReeppoorrtt, a blog dedicated to the empowering notion that "smarter audiences make
better movies." TheWarrenReport also stages three year-round film series in Seattle in addition to
regularly hosting free screenings and special events. Warren is also the Curator of the 1 Reel Film
Festival (at Bumbershoot) the nation's best attended celebration of short films. His panel, entitled
"More First Features," will be held Sunday at the BIAHC Upstage Theatre and Restaurant.
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From the Midwest heartland to the deserts of the Southwest, The
Naked Ape is a bittersweet dramatic comedy about friendships,
insecurities, rights of passage and the death of idealism. In this
coming-of-age tale about trying to run away from one's problems, the film's protagonists learn
instead that the real change has to take place within themselves. U
USSAA,, 22000066,, 111100 m
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Director: Daniel Mellitz; Producers: Daniel Mellitz, Kathy Mattes; Screenwriter: Daniel Mellitz;
Cinematography: Douglas Glover; Cast: Amanda MacDonald, Chelse Swain, Corbin Bernsen, Josh
Wise, Sean Shanks, Tony LaThanh; Print Source: Closed Door Productions, [email protected]
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How many stories can one hotel room tell? Well, in this case, five.
Five different couples in different relationship stages check into
room 314 (on different days) where they avoid and confront their
underlying tensions, desires, and, in every case, their need to be loved. The stories are told by ten
talented young actors who are on the verge of major careers. Some language. U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 110000 m
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Director: Michael Knowles; Producers: John Ramos, Laura Knight, Michael Knowles; Screenwriter:
Michael Knowles; Cast: Joelle Carter, Matthew Del Negro, Sarah Jenkins, Michael Knowles, Michael
Laurence, Jennifer Marlowe, Michael Mosely, Robyn Myhr, Todd Swenson, Monique Vukovic
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When Ben spontaneously changes the route to the place where he
and Sydney are to be married, his decision takes them down a road
neither was prepared to travel. To make matters worse, he's asked
his best friend to film the day, and is eager to capture every
moment. As things heat up and plans fall apart, their relationship is
put to the test, giving them (and us) a wedding day like no other. An unflinching and comical
exploration of the essence of marriage, Say I Do will leave you asking the most important questions
about the journey to happy-ever-after land and the detours along the way. U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 9900 m
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Director: Ron Vignone; Producers: Fred Schepisi, John Forte, Ron Vignone, Tricia Linklater;
Screenwriters: Ron Vignone, Joe Forte; Cinematographer: Christopher C. Pearson; Cast: Ben Koldyke,
David Belayche, Pamela Moore Somers, Rebecca Rosenak, Samuel Bliss Cooper; Print Source:
[email protected]
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Obdulio is an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan street boy who lives with
his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living although he
cannot read or write. He is not interested in going to school until he
finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a
charismatic magical"maestro." The watchman not only introduces
him to the world of literacy but also teaches him the real meaning of
life through the lyrics of the Carnival Pierrots during the mythical
nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan Carnival.
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Urruugguuaayy,, 22000055,, 110000 m
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Director: Leonardo Ricagni; Producer: Raul Pochintesta; Screenwriter:
Leonardo Ricagni; Cinematographer: Pablo Vera; Editor: Marcella
Senz; Cast: Mathias Acua, Jorge Esmoris; Print Source: Artmattan
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Martin, a young German, discovers that his father, with whom he did
not have a close, loving relationship, has died in Romania.
Nevertheless, Martin decides to give him a proper burial in his home
country and thus sets off to retrieve his corpse. Rather naive and full
of preconceptions, Martin finds himself up against the mundane
worries of the Carpathian state and instead of Count Dracula he
encounters common people in Romania. This award-winning film is a low budget comedy full of
surprises, in which the protagonist's harried mentality comes face to face with the simplicity of
Hungarian-Romanian life. G
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Director: Robert Ralston; Screenwriters: Robert Ralston, Felix Theissen; Cinematographer: Gyrgi
Boros; Cast: Felix Theissen, Krista B, Tibor P iff; Print Source: Gute Filme, info@gute-filme.com
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A gay couple, one a Muslim, the other a Serb, in war-torn 1992
Sarajevo outwits military authorities when one of the men passes
himself off as a woman a situation that lends an offbeat screwball
charm to a film that also presents the harsh realities and tragedies of
genocide. If being gay is difficult in more reasonable times and
places, it is just about impossible in Bosnia where prejudice against homosexuality is especially
heightened. Look for Jeanne Moreau in a brief cameo at the end of the film. The film has won
numerous Eastern European acting awards, and critics and audience prizes. Bosnian with English
subtitles. Some sexual situations. BBoossnniiaa--H
Heerrzzeeggoovviinnaa//CCrrooaattiiaa,, 22000055,, 9977 m
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Director: Ahmed Imamovic; Producers: Samir Smajic, Ahmed Imamovic; Cinematographer: Mustafa
Mustafic; Screenwriters: Enver Pushka, Ahmed Imamovic; Cast: Mario Drmac, Taric Filipovic, Rade
Serbedziji, Mirjana Karanovic, Jeanne Moreau; Print Source: [email protected];w
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This multi-layered feature tracks the romantic woes of four different
couples in the diverse locales of Moscow, Rome, Budapest, and a
space station orbiting the earth. A Russian astronaut pines for his
tightrope-walking lover. A criminal psychologist suppresses her
attraction for a suspected murderer, while her adopted daughter attempts to resist the charms of a
wooing biologist. And a hairdresser cares for an aging client whose ear she cut while distracted by
violent images on the television news. H
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Director: Jozsef Pacskovszky; Producer: Andrea Hormos; Screenwriters: Jozsef Pacskovszky, Pal
Sandor, Francisco Gzon; Cinematographer: Francisco Gzon; Cast: Eszter Balla, Marco Bomini, Foso
Nicoletta, Anna Gyorgyi, Ildiho Toth, Natalia Szeliversztour, Ferenc Hallai; Print Source: Magyar
Filmunio, kati.vajda@filmunio.hu
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A wild Spanish comedy of mistaken identity where a hardened
criminal hides out in a dusty village of eccentrics, only to discover
that they are cheerfully planning his death and burial. On the run
from a bank heist and flush with stolen cash, a hardened crook's
plans go awry immediately upon getting off the train in San Hilario
as the townsfolk mistake him for a rich former resident who is
scheduled to die and be buried in style. SSppaaiinn,, 22000055,, 110000 m
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Director: Laura Maa; Producer: Julio Fernandez; Screenwriter: Laura Maa; Cinematographer: Javier
G. Salmones; Editor: Bernat Vilaplana; Print Source: Filmax International, r.margolis@filmax.com
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Neo Noir in Color
Shop Locally
Endangered Species
The Familial Line
Jackson Pollack Was an Alcoholic (But He's Alright By Me)
Shorts International
Two Ends of a Continuum
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The somber American films of the 1940s and 1950s that the French later called film noir were born
out of cinema's original black and white images. The dark shadows, blinding whites bracketing and
infinite shades of gray were created by the silver nitrate processing chemical. The resulting brooding
light was the perfect setting for the cynical and pessimistic stories of the post-war period. Though
long past its heyday, film noir has never entirely disappeared as a movie genre. Here are five new
film noir shorts, but these are in color.
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The goal of the private detective is to find the truth, but sometimes the truth hurts. When the tables
are turned in a classic film noir setting, will Private Eye Lola Bumgard be foiled by the ominous
homme fatale? U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 1133 m
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Director: Melody Rock; Producer: Melody Rock; Screenwriter: Melody Rock; Cinematographer: Sean
Stiegemeier; Cast: Chantal Hediger, Daniel Lennox, Douglas Howington, Meredith Thomas, Michael
DeVorzon, Nicole Barre; Print Source: Rolling Eyes Productions, [email protected]
22.. SSlleeeeppeerr
Rosko's world has become a disjointed collection of random
moments. He finds himself snapping in and out of consciousness at
the wheel of his courier van, but even his dreams repeat scenes of
his ordinary life. AAuussttrraalliiaa,, 22000044,, 1111 m
miinn..
Director: Andrew Milner; Producer: Liz Fay; Screenwriter: Phil Jeng
Kane; Cinematographer: Peter Finkle; Cast: Kim Lane, Renee
McIntosh, Simon Scott; Print Source: Spitfire Films,
[email protected]
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Alice has settled for teaching since she couldn't make a living as a
freelance photographer. The mysterious murder of her niece
exposes that Alice is not really living life to the fullest. Nick helps Alice reclaim her passion for life
until a dangerous clue to her niece's murder comes to light. A bittersweet journey about love, loss,
and how to live in the moment. CCaannaaddaa,, 22000055,, 1166 m
miinn..
Director: Stacy Fish; Producers: Rajvinder Uppal, Stacy Fish, Tracy Long; Screenwriter: Stacy Fish;
Cinematographer: Sean Rooney; Cast: Charisse Baker, Chelah Horsdal, Melanie Papalia, Shawn
Bachynski, Woody Jeffreys; Print Source: sfi[email protected]
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A theory about predestination and a knack for finding trouble lead
to a missing pinky, a bloody nose and a dead body. So it's either
chance or fate when John Doe and his pal Anti end up in the middle
of Nowhere, Arizona—twice. U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 1199 m
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Director: Jeremy Rush; Producer: Jeremy Rush; Screenwriter: Jeremy
Rush; Cinematographer: Arunmani Palani; Cast: Einat Tubi, Hector
Bustamante, Seth Ayott, Silverio Avellino, Steve Howard; Print
Source: [email protected]
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A quiet night takes a dangerous turn when Julian receives a frantic phone call from his best friend,
Terry, who claims to have followed his unfaithful fiancée to a seedy hotel. To make matters worse,
Terry has staked out her room across the hall with gun in hand. Julian pleads with Terry to stay put
while he rushes to avert disaster. But is Terry truly as desperate as he seems? U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 2255 m
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Director: Alex Merkin; Producers: Evan Ferrante, Gary Gimelfarb, John Kilik, Mike Wiese;
Screenwriter: Jesse Mittelstadt; Cinematographer: Andrew Carranza; Cast: Adrian Grenier, James
Oliver, Jamie Benge, Natalie Smyuka; Print Source: Fivelion Productions, [email protected]
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Several filmmakers will be in attendance.
Films are made in every corner of the world; no more so than on the Olympic Peninsula. We offer
here six works by local filmmakers and/or about local residents. Some are works in progress; others
are completed films.
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Nathaniel Woodbury's animated view of the politics of oil. 17 min.
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Members of Mark Welch's video class at PTHS confront the Jedi. Directed by Theo Prins and
Cameron Spray. 7 min.
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Former PT resident Ben Jaynes takes a personal look at the daily lives of a commercial painter, a
truck driver, and a commercial fisherman. 18 min.
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PT-based Canadian filmmaker, Denise Kenney, helms a poetic and surreal story of a boy's downfall
into manhood. Photography by Ian Hinkle. 13 min.
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To celebrate his wife Willene's birthday before his death of Lou
Gehrig's disease, PT sculptor Russell Jaqua assembled iron-forging
friends from all over the US to forge and construct a large sculpture
that he designed as his legacy to her. Director Jane Champion. A
work in progress. 16 min.
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Not only plants and animals face extinction in our ever-changing world. So too do certain human
endeavors. Before scoffing at the three shorts presented here, remember the horse and buggy, the
typewriter, the steam locomotive.
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An unflinching, thought provoking documentary that profiles,
explores, and reveals the lives of real buckaroos, this film questions
whether traditional cowboy life can survive in the 21st century. From
their home on the range, cowboys speak for themselves and reveal
their love of the land, disdain for rules, and their surprising and
sometimes contradictory views on society. U
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Director: Kendall Nelson; Producers: Kendall Nelson, Curt Nelson, John Plummer; Cinematographer:
John Plummer; Print Source: Cinema-Story Entertainment, [email protected]
22.. RReeeeffnneett
Just off Lummi Island near Bellingham, there exists a dwindling
group of commercial fishermen that honors traditional fishing
methods and respect for the environment. They are reefnet
fisherman and this is their story. U
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Director: Sketch Pasinski; Producer: Sketch Pasinski;
Cinematographer: Sketch Pasinski; Print Source: [email protected]
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Exploring the strength and courage of Inupiat people struggling to
preserve their subsistence whaling culture in the Arctic region of
Alaska, this film shows how they are challenged by hostile weather,
intricate international politics, the potential opening of ANWR, and
aggressive off-shore oil exploration. The Inupiat whalers remain as
resolute as their icebound ocean. U
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Director: Jenn Hofman; Producer: Jenn Hofman; Screenwriter: Maria Williams; Cinematographer:
John Chester; Print Source: Nomad Films, nomadfi[email protected]
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Every family develops a rhythm, a line that is alternately taut and slack, melodious and cacophonic,
easy and difficult— rhythms by which we measure ourselves and others.
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A basic act of nurturing is depicted in this film of mothers and
children developing their own rhythms and styles of
communication. U
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Competition and possessiveness emerge quickly between siblings in
this brief sequence between a brother and sister. U
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Director: Hans Stiritz
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A 6-year-old girl who always obeys her austere mother can't resist something that could get her into
a lot of trouble. U
USSAA,, 22000066,, 66 m
miinn.. Director: Alexandra Fisher
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A Super 8 meditation on where do cats go when they dream? Catnap shows the secret world of
feline fantasy. CCaannaaddaa// U
USSAA,, 22000044,, 22 m
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In this award winning Netherlands documentary, a younger brother settles the score with his
domineering elder brother who knows how to do everything better even when it comes to making
films. N
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miinn.. Director: Wout Conijn
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After a pair of conjoined twins are separated, one recovers while the other remains in a coma.
Closer than any two people could ever be, they have never looked at one another in the eyes. This
film is about being alone for the first time. U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 1177 m
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One couple's struggle to determine whether or not to stay together. Their deeply connected
relationship stirs all the emotions with a simple look or comment. U
USSAA,, 22000066,, 1111 m
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A young woman descends into illness and, ultimately, death as her perceptions shift away from her
relationship with her supportive but helpless husband. Animated. IIrreellaanndd,, 22000055,, 1111 m
miinn.. Director:
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When a Vietnam War veteran asks his estranged son to paint his portrait, it becomes clear how
much the war has impacted his life and family. AAuussttrraalliiaa,, 22000066,, 1133 m
miinn.. Director: Alison Heather
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Six shorts using unusual approaches to film to tell their stories.
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Four separate pieces, each dealing with a different level of fantasy that involve a corn crib, a newly
hatched cicada, a hatch to another world, and two dancers who course through a world of light and
shadow. U
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Introduce razor blades and scissors to old vinyl records and you get Bump Tick Scratch. U
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Isabella Rossellini celebrates the centenary of her father, Italian film
director Roberto Rossellini's birth with this eccentric fantasy in
which she plays every character including David O. Selznick, Alfred
Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and her actress mother, Ingrid Bergman.
Her father, however, is represented by a giant belly which she loved
to hug as a child. CCaannaaddaa,, 22000055,, 1166 m
miinn.. Director: Guy Madden
(Rossellini's husband)
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Two dreams, his and hers, each person chasing love in their own
way and imagining it as they wish. IIttaallyy,, 22000055,, 99 m
miinn.. Director:
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A poem, a dance, a speeding motorcycle compose this cinematic
haiku in three movements that tells a simple love story. U
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As presented in this delightful film, attention deficit disorder (ADD) is
not so much a disability as it is an evolutionary trade-off that
encourages creative, rule-breaking thought necessary for human
progress. Using his own life in self-deprecating, humorous
examples, the director forms a stream of consciousness and multilayered narrative that emulates the day-to-day ADD experience.
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USSAA,, 22000055,, 2288 m
miinn.. Director: Scott Ligon
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Based in London, SHORTS INTERNATIONAL is the world's leading
short film brand with a catalogue of over 3,000 titles. It is the largest
distributor of the highest quality titles to leading broadcasters
including HBO, Canal+ and Sundance and has focused in recent
years on fast-changing technologies and their impact on the delivery
of short form content. The model that the SHORTS INTERNATIONAL
team has created has revived the life of many short films and
forwarded the careers of countless emerging artists.
Most recently, SHORTS INTERNATIONAL has teamed up with
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independent short films. They provide new films for sale and
download each month to consumers of short films.
With a focus on fast-changing technologies and their impact on the delivery of short films, SHORTS
INTERNATIONAL has also created new and exciting outlets specifically for short films, including
SHORTSTV™, a short film channel currently available across 3G mobile phone networks, SHORTSTV
CORTO™, a specifically programmed Spanish language version of the channel.
Carter Pilcher, CEO of Shorts International, will present a program of shorts that typify the type of
films being made for digital online presentation.
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These two films cover the troubled life of a 14-year-old and the creative pursuits of six women in
their 80s and 90s.
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A coming of age portrait that follows 14-yearold Emma Carney
through her turbulent first year of high school in Missoula, Montana.
Largely shot in the first person, Emma begins to document her
experiences following her release from an adolescent mental health unit. Struggling to stay afloat in
the public school system, Emma candidly details the obstacles surrounding her adolescence as well
as her methods of escape. U
USSAA,, 22000055,, 6600 m
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Director: Valerie Krex; Producer: Valerie Krex; Cinematographers: Emma Carney, Valerie Krex; Print
Source: CanalHouse Poductions, [email protected]
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Two Bay Area women travel throughout the region in search of
female role models— very old women, still active artists, living with
zest. Whatever their degree of talent, each embraces a daily routine
in which her special art form is an essential part. Each is spirited and
resilient—interpreting for herself a life worth living to the end. Still
Kicking honors the gift of age and poignantly illustrates that growing
old can be a time of creative expression and satisfaction. U
USSAA,, 22000066,, 3311 m
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Director: Greg Young; Producer: Greg Young; Cinematographer: Greg Young; Print Source: Golden
Bear Casting, [email protected]
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
A Night at the Opera
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A heartfelt fable of two children who are neighbors, classmates, and best friends. Although they
argue and tease one another, they pledge their mutual loyalty. When the divorced mother of one
decides to marry a foreigner so that she can escape the island nation, both children are upset and
run away to the farther reaches of Eastern Cuba. A nationwide search for the pair is launched as
they travel by train, bus, car, motorcycle, oxcart and on foot. (Subtitles) CCuubbaa//FFrraannccee,, 22000055,, 8800 m
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Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malbert; Producer: Nicholas Duval-Adassousy; Screenwriters: Juan
Carlos Cremata Malbert, Manuel Rodriguez Ramirez; Cinematographer: Alejandro Perez Gomez;
Editors: Angelica Salvador Alonzo, Sylvie Landra; Cast: Tarrau Broche, Milo Avila, Maria Jimenez;
Rodriquez, Vega Alamar, Pujols Acosta
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The archetypal English folk hero, Robin Hood is a courteous, pious
and swashbuckling outlaw of the medieval era who, in modern
versions of the legend, including this classic film, is famous for his
robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and
tyranny. He operates with his "seven score" (140 strong) group of
fellow outlawed yeomen ��� named the Merry Men, meaning
"companion or follower of [an]... outlaw," who were based in
hideouts in Sherwood Forest and Barnsdale Forest near the city of
Nottingham. The chief nemesis of the Merry Men is the villainous
Sheriff of Nottingham
who is overtaxing the people into poverty.Information drawn from
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Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley;Producer: Hal B. Wallis;Screenwriters: Norman Reilly
Raine, Seton I. Miller;Cinematographers: Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito;Editor: Ralph Dawson; Composer:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold;Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric
Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper
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The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both
opera singers are prevented from being together by the man's lack of
acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx
Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so
that the young lover can get his chance while humiliating his stuffy
and snobbish enemies. The film contains some of the brothers'
funniest routines. These were honed on stage, as the brothers
returned to touring new material on the road before filming began.
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Director: Sam Wood; Screenwriters: James Kevin McGuinness, George
S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Merritt B. Gerstad; Cinematographer:
Nacio Herb Brown; Editor: William LeVanway; Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty
Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont
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