2000

August 5, 2000 screening schedule

9:30am - "Moss Family Diary" (9 mins., 16mm) Finalist
Trust, dignity, and perseverance kept this Iowa dairy running for a large part of the 20th Century. What will the future hold for these small family operations?

9:45am - "Knowing" (15 mins., 35mm) Finalist
An old man's worst nightmare becomes a reality when he refuses to accept his time is up.

10:00am - "Grandfathers Birthday" (17 mins., 35mm) Honorable mention
This film stars veteran stage/screen/television actor Robert Prosky in the touching story of an elderly widower excited to celebrate his birthday. The film follows Grandfather's day, and the range of emotions he feels as he comes to grips with the simple realities of his life.

10:20am - "Jingle Hell" (88 mins., 16mm) Honorable mention
An amusing film about the time of year when the grown children struggle to make it back to Mom and Dad' house for the holidays. Once again bringing their problems with them. You can't go home again. . . but at Christmas, you have to.

1:00pm - "Dominant Seventh" (22 mins., 35mm) Best Short Film award
This beautifully photographed film tells the story of a desperate father who does not appreciate the prodigious musical talents of his nine-year-old son. After smashing his son's most precious possession, the man digs himself deeper into a hole, until finally finding a ray of hope.

1:30pm - "Coming To Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians" (85 mins., 18 mm) Best Documentary award
This impressive documentary tells the dramatic story of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), a charismatic, obsessive artist/photographer who set out at the turn of the century to document traditional Indian life before it disappeared. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2000 and will be broadcast on PBS later this year.

3:00pm - "Rest Stop" (11 mins., 16mm) Finalist
Produced in a USC graduate film class, this gritty urban film follows a homeless kid as he introduces a teenage runaway to the grim realities of life on the street.

3:15pm - "Water & Power" (19 mins., 35mm) Honorable Mention
Jim can move water across the desert as he works along the Los Angeles Aqueduct, but can't negotiate the currents that separate him from his wife in this portrait of a working class couple in a high desert town.

3:40pm - (21 mins., 16mm) Best Student Film award
A boy's romantic quest through the streets of Dublin becomes a religious pilgrimage, merging the sensual and the sacred. This ambitious student film is based on the short story by Irish author James Joyce.

4:10pm - "The Hi-Line" (104 mins., 35mm) Best Feature Film award
Vera Johnson is two years out of high school, still living with her parents, and yearns for life beyond the limits of her small Montana town. Her wish comes true when a stranger arrives, turning her world upside down. Vera is forced to re-examine her identity, but in doing so, frees herself from the past, making way for a future filled with unlimited possibilities. This film was an Official Selection at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

7:00pm - "The Tell-Tale Vibrator" (9 mins., 16mm) Finalist
A single woman, whose parents are visiting for dinner, becomes unnerved by a buzzing noise coming from her bureau. This amusing film has been an official selection at over a dozen international film festivals, seen by audiences from New York to Krakow, Poland.

7:15pm - "kalin's prayer" (30 mins., 16mm) Best Experimental Film award
This debut film is the award winning, visually trippy ride of a charismatic, crack addicted lesbian model as she battles for the love of the civil rights attorney who comes to her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma and confronts the secret that is tearing them apart.

8:00pm - "Buena Vista Social Club" (104 mins., 35mm)
*Not shown in competition
From acclaimed director Wim Wenders ("Wings of Desire", "Paris Texas"), this vibrant film reveals the astonishing real life stories of a talented but over-looked group of Cuban musicians. From the crumbling barrios of their native Havana, to their triumphant, sold out concerts in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall, it's an unforgettable, deeply emotional journey into the passion, pride, and humanity of the artists whose music sparked a world wide musical phenomenon.

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