EASTER Arizona
Premiere Director: Richard Caliban Producers: Brad
M. Gilbert, Will Scheffer, Christine K. Walker Set in a mythical town on the Nebraska
plains this poignant and sometimes humorous story is about a married couple who
have been running from town to town in hopes of escaping their past. Religious
and mythical allegories are blended with humor in this haunted couple's tale of
redemption and forgiveness. Screening Format: 35mm Length 92 minutes
Country: USA
THE
FLEW Arizona Premiere Director,Writer, Actor, Animator, Editor,
Composer: Clifton Childree A mechanical man, within an elaborate shooting
gallery at a victorian carnival falls in love with a broken down ride called,
The Wooden Embalmer. This compelling surrealistic story is shot in the
style of a silent "B" movie and successfully combines the techniques of
animation and live action. Category: Narrative Feature Screening
Format: Beta Length: 90 Minutes Country: USA
THE MUMMY AN' THE
ARMADILLO World
Premiere Director / Writer: J.S. Cardone A stranger with a secret stops in
the "Aramadillo Cafe" in Arizona. She sets in motion a desperate encounter
with the residents of this strange emporium. Category: Narrative
Feature Screening Format: 35mm Length: 100 minutes Country:
USA
SAINTS
AND SOLDIERS Arizona Premiere Director/Producer: Ryan
Little Producer: Adam Abel In mid-December 1944 Hitler’s army blitzkriegs
through the Ardennes forest into Belgium creating the terrible wintertime
offensive known as the “Battle of the Bulge.” Corporal Nathan “Deacon”
Greer and close friend Gordon Gunderson find themselves held captive with over
one hundred other Allied Soldiers in a snow-covered field near Malmedy,
Belgium. As panic and confusion ensues the German captors open fire on the
unarmed soldiers. Deacon, Gunderson and a handful of other soldiers escape
in to the nearby woods. Without weapons or food they take on the
unforgiving winter as they try to find their way back to Allied occupied
territory. Category: Narrative Feature Screening format:
DVD Length: 84 Minutes Country: USA
NARRATIVE
SHORT
ALL GOD'S
CREATURES Two drifters charged with murder become victims
themselves when the local constable introduces them to small-town vigilante
justice. Category:
Narrative short Screening Format: Beta Length: 26 minutes Country:
USA
BARELY
ALIVE Arizona Premiere Director: Mark Edward Lewis A modern day
tale about one man's pain of losing his wife to another woman, filing for
bankruptcy and the horror of organ harvesting. Category: Narrative
Short Screening Format: Beta Length:16 minutes Country:
USA
FIELD
TRIP World Premiere Director, Producer, Writer: Anita George In
the 1960's a group of second graders take a field trip. Category:
Narrative Short Screening Format: Beta Length: 3.5 minutes Country:
USA
LEATHERWING
BAT Arizona Premiere Director: EJ Barnes A gouche-on-paper
animation of a traditional Appalachian folk ballad. The bats and birds complain
and rejoice over their love lives night and day. Category: Narrative
Short Length: 3 minutes Screening Format: Beta Country:
USA NICE GUYS FINISH
LAST Arizona Premiere Director/Writer:Robert B. Martin Jr. A
universal comment on suffering the typical frustrations of adolescence. This
film explores the dysfunctional world of one teenage kid, Billy.
Category: Narrative Short Length: 14 minutes
Screening Format: 35mm Country: USA
TWICE
REMOVED World
Premiere Director: Heather
Hughes Producer: Stacie Fienstien This psychological thriller is about
Lucy, a young mother, who will do anything to keep her five year old daughter
safe. The little girl's imaginary brother has other plans. Based on the classic 1954 ghost story,
"Harry," by Rosemary Timperley. Category: Narrative Short
Length: 17 minutes Screening Format: DVD Country:
USA
WORLD INSIDE
ME Director: David
Takemura Set in Future-Tokyo this film follows an agoraphobic computer hacker
who meets the object of his desire while under the watchful presence of his
holographic companion. Category: Narrative Short
Screening Format: Beta Country: USA
DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE
SUNSET
STORY Director/Producer: Laura Gabbert Producer: Caroline
Libresco A funny and intimate documentary set in a Los Angeles retirement
home for “free thinking elderly.” The story centers on two
residents, Irja (81) and Lucille (95), close friends who, like the other
residents, cope with aging. The film follows their friendship as they
continue to live their lives as radicals by attending marches and engaging in
political debate. Category: Documentary Feature Length: 60
minutes Screening format: 35mm Country: USA
3 FEET UNDER - DIGGING
DEEP FOR THE GEODUCK Arizona Premiere Director, Producer,
Writer, Cinematographer: Justin Bookey The Geoduck ("gooey duck") clam sports
a phallic, three-foot-long neck and a life span of 160-plus years. It is
jokingly referred to as the Washington State Bird. This film explores how the
geoduck has garnered a quirky yet devoted following in the Pacific Northwest.
We follow "Jack," a long-time Seattleite who was raised in a kosher
Brooklyn home, as he prepares for his annual geoduck dig. Category:
Documentary Feature, Length: 63 minutes Screening Format: DVD,
Country: USA
POWER
TRIP Director: Paul Devlin AES Corp., the
massive American "global power company," has purchased the privatized
electricity distribution company in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet
Republic of Georgia. AES manager Piers Lewis must now train the formerly
communist populace that, in this new world, customers pay for their electricity.
The Georgians meanwhile, from pensioners to the Energy Minister, devise ever
more clever ways to get it free. Amidst hot tempers and high drama, Lewis
balances his love for the Georgian people with the hardships his company creates
for them, as they struggle to build a nation from the rubble of Soviet collapse.
Category: Documentary Feature Screening Format: 35mm
Length: 90 Minutes Country: USA (Shot in Tiblisi)
DOCUMENTARY
SHORT
THE PERFUMED
KILLERS United States Premiere Director: Jim Fahy Producer:
Caroline Bleahan On the evening of October 12, 1976 - at the height of
Argentina’s “Dirty War” - an Irish-born worker-priest, Pat Rice, was bundled at
gunpoint into the trunk of an unmarked police car in the shanty town of Buenos
Aires. Rice’s nightmare of torture, brutality and psychological terror at
the hands of Argentina’s most notorious death squad was just beginning.
This is the story of Rice’s captivity and the triumphant story of his
relationship with the woman he was jailed with, Fatima Cabrera.
Category: Documentary Short Screening: Beta Length: 26
minutes Country: Ireland
UNCOVERING GLEN
CANYON Arizona Premiere Director: Chris Van Bebber This
documentary examines the legacy and impacts of the Glen Canyon Dam on the
Colorado River. From interviews with water specialists and biologists this
film delves into our relationship with the wilderness and the difficulty of
repairing damage done to the environment. Category: Documentary Short
Screening Format: Beta Length: 24 minutes Country: USA
