August 2 - 3, 2002 Screening Schedule
Note: These
screening times are tentative and subject to change. Please check our website
during the week before the festival.
Friday, August 2nd, 2002
* These Friday
night films are meant for a mature audience. Some of these projects are rather
demented. You've been forewarned....
7:00pm - "HATCHING BEAUTY" - Experimental film. Honorable Mention. (10 mins.)
A stop-motion, live-action, found footage frolic where the high cost of living
for a single mom collides with the profit-driven biotech industry and their
weird inventions. Eve considers selling her ovum in a world where everything is
for sale if you are in the right gene pool.
7:15pm - "COFFEE DATE" - Student Film, Honorable Mention (17 mins.) Todd has high expectations for his first blind date, but the woman of his dreams is something else altogether.
7:35 - "IN THE RED" - Best Experimental Film. (4 mins.)
Humorous yet reverent tribute to menstruation mimics the look and tone of 1950s
instructional videos, except this blonde in a house-dress would rather
demonstrate how to make homemade maxi pads than how to clean an oven.
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7:45pm - "MONDO PLYMPTON" - This feature-length film is a fantastic animated
journey through the strange brain of off-the-wall animator Bill Plympton,
featuring his classic shorts, plus some of his newer work and stories from his
animated life. (80 mins.)
* This is a special screening, not shown in competition.
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Saturday, August 3rd,
2002
10:00am - "THE BOOK AND THE ROSE" - Short Film Finalist (29 mins.)
Set in 1942, John acquires an old book with intriguing handwritten notes. He
corresponds with the previous owner - an d it promises to be more than just an
exchange of letters. Based on a short story by Max Lucado about two people
brought together by fate.
10:30am - "THE BREAD, MY SWEET" - Best Feature Film (90 mins.) A corporate executive is torn between the love for his biscotti bakery and climbing the corporate ladder. A journey to a place where work is hard and people believe that doing the outrageous thing is better than doing nothing at all.
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Lunch Break 12:00-1:00pm
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1:00pm
- "RAVENS" - Best Documentary (15 mins.)
Love, hate and revenge.... an emotional accusation against ex-president Slobodan
Milosevic.
1:15pm - "THE WATCHING OF THE WATCHED" - Animation Finalist (3 mins.)
Pressures of society come to a boil and the results are chaotic, changing the
way things are perceived.
1:20pm - "UP" - Experimental Film Finalist - (15 mins.)
In all of us lives a Dreamer. When the world of our Dreamer collides with that
of our Realist, the Dreamer is fatefully doomed. But the real tragedy is our
failure to recognize the one destroying our Dreamer is an overlooked resident:
our own Doubter inside us.
2:15pm - "THANKSGIVING" - Short Film, Honorable Mention - (16 mins.)
Thanksgiving is a time to spend with family, Rich had hoped it wouldn¹t be his
own.
2:30pm - "ROMEO & JULIET REVISITED" - Short Film Finalist (26 mins.) This film picks up right where Shakespeare left off, the same language and settings but with a continuation and ending which the bard himself would have chuckled at.
3:15pm - "THE SUMMER HOUSE" - Best Short Film (12 mins.)
A novelist wishing to escape the distractions of the city rents a rural home for
the summer, until a former tenant disturbs his solitude.
4:00pm - "A MAN THING" - Best Foreign Short Film (27 mins.) A young boy struggles with life. His father beats him, his soccer coach thinks he has talent and he just wants to save a dogs life.
4:30pm - "PAPILLONS DE NUIT" - Best Foreign Feature (79 mins.)
This urban tale, based on John Patrick Shanle's play of the same title, is the
story of Danny and Roberta, children of today¹s angry and unpredictably violent
society. They believe they live in a world that excludes them from dreams,
emotions, and hope. Is it too late to move forward and allow love¹s redemptive
power to resurrect them?
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Dinner Break 6:00 - 7:00pm
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7:00pm - "SINGING STICKS" - Animation Finalist ( 4 mins.)
Mythical folkloric dance that tells the tale of a ritual held secret for
centuries. This work was created entirely with hand-carved rubber stamps.
7:15pm - "LOVE STINKS" - Short Film, Honorable Mention (10 mins.) The actual film title is: The Downward Trajectory of Relationships in the Species Homo Erectus (as told by David Attenborough) or . . . Love Stinks
7:20pm
- "AT FIRST SIGHT" - Best Student Film (5
mins.) A young man sees a girl across the street and attempts to meet her. what
you see next is what he imagines will happen. When he comes back to reality, he
has missed his opportunity with her. Life is what happens while you are planning
other things.
7:30pm - "MONSOON WEDDING" - This ensemble comedy/drama, set in India's Punjabi
culture, depicts a few days leading up to a modern wedding ceremony, with
relatives flying in from all over the world. Not all is perfect in the wedding
preparations. The rains are coming ... and so is the family.
* This film is a special screening, not shown in competition.
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