August 5 - 6, 2005 Screening Schedule

2005 Hardacre Film Festival

We have confirmed and tentative personal appearances of THIRTEEN of our film submitters this year! It looks to be a unique and exciting opportunity for us to interact with some of America's newest and brightest rising film talents. Please mark your calendar and plan on joining us.

Friday, August 5th - 2005

7:00 p.m. "The Waiting Time"  
Filmmaker: Sasha Waters - Experimental Film,(16:30 min. 16mm)
Using her natural environment along with re-photographed footage this filmmaker expresses her subjective experience of pending motherhood and her own maternal sexuality.
www.room135.com

Discussion with filmmaker Sasha Waters will follow the film. (tentative)

7:30 p.m. "The Meaning of Life"  
Filmmaker: Don Hertzfeldt - Animation, (12 min. 35mm)
A vast study of time, life, death and evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.
www.bitterfilms.com

7:45 p.m. "Manual De Amor(Love Manual)"  
Filmmaker: Ricardo Molina Perez - Foreign/Drama. (21:00 min. 35mm)
Five characters whose lives pass in parallel, creatively console themselves of their loneliness.

8:10 p.m. "The Truth About Beef Jerky"  
Filmmaker: Fritz Junker - Comedy  (27:00 min. DVD)
This mercilessly satirical short is Dude Where¹s My Car meets Soilent Green meets Charlton Heston on hallucinogens. Beef jerky will never taste the same. Don¹t panic...it¹s organic!
www.thetruthaboutbeefjerky.com

Discussion with filmmaker Fritz Junker will follow the film.

8:45 p.m. "The Lady from Sockholm"
Filmmaker: Lynn Lamousin - PUPPETRY, (71 min. DVD)
Terrence M. Cotton, a washed-up gumshoe, finds himself knee high in debt. Enter Heelda Brum, a finely spun piece of hosiery who hires Cotton to find Darnell, her missing mate.
www.sockholm.com

Discussion with filmmaker/screenwriter Lynn Lamousin will follow the film

Saturday, August 6th- 2005
 

9:30 a.m.  "The Rain Has Forgotten Us"  
Filmmaker: Joel Sadilek - Drama, (14:00 min. 35mm)
The power of innocence in the face of despair as a drought has forced families to cut ties with the people, memories and land they know. It will take one special boy to show them how to believe again.

Discussion with filmmaker will follow the film. (tentative)

9:45 a.m.  "Henry A. Wallace"
Produced by STAMAT Comunications and IPTV - Documentary (57:00 min DVD)
As the country embraced him for his vision but rejected him for his expectations, Wallace who lived the American dream ultimately suffered its worst nightmare.
www.iptv.org

Discussion with film staff will follow the film. (tentative)

10:45 a.m. "Leela"
Producer: Kavita Munjal - Feature, (96:00 min 35mm)
With an award winning cast from India and music by leading Hindi film stalwarts this film in English marries Hollywood technical expertise to the Indian ethos. Based on the South Asian American community, Leela is a universal story that transcends ethnicity.
www.lemontreefilms.com

Lunch Break 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m. "Caveman: V.T. Hamlin & Alley Oop"  
Filmmaker: Max Collins - Documentary, (53:00 min. DVD)
This film tells the story of Vincent T. Hamlin, the innovative cartoonist and Iowa native, who created the dinosaur-laden comic strip Alley OOP, from which the popular 50's song derived.
www.maxallancollins.com

Discussion with filmmaker Max Collins will follow the film.
 

2:10 p.m. "Shell Ear"

Filmmaker: Satoru Sugita - Experimental/Foreign, (33:00 min 16mm)
The infusion of light, color and music tell the story of one man's grief. Losing his ability to hear the artistry of his violin he shares the pain of his loss with his companion who shares his passion for the violin.

2:45 p.m. "In Vivio"   
Filmmaker: Richard Newton - Experimental, (14:05 min. DVD)
A dance en plein aire - inspired by Margaret Morris, dancer, choreographer, & philosopher of the 1920¹s.

3:00 p.m. "Dante Ti Amo"  
Filmmaker: Richard Newton - Experimental, (:91 sec. DVD)
Dante loves you?

3:05 a.m.  "It's Fairtime! - Portrait of an American Fair"  
Filmmaker: Adam Perri - Documentary, (37:52 min. DVD)
An entertaining glimpse of the many faces, features, and events that make up the rural phenom that is the Iowa State Fair.

3:45 p.m. "Zhilkeletka"  
Filmmaker: Taylor Gentry - Student/EXP/Foreign Language. (15:00 min. DVD)
Inspired the short story ³Quadraturin² this film leaves you to wonder if we sometimes want more than we need.

Discussion with filmmaker Taylor Gentry will follow the film.

4:10 p.m. "Divine Intervention"  
Filmmaker: Drew Annis - Student/Animation/Comedy (6:00 min. 16mm)
Using live action and animation this short explores the relationship between religion and sports.

Discussion with filmmaker Drew Annis will follow the film.

4:30 p.m. "The Headmaster's Son"  
Filmmaker: Michael W. Schock - Student/Experimental Film. (6:00 min. 16mm)
A psychological Expressionist tale of a young man's struggle between his desire for a girl and the force of his oppressive father.

Discussion with filmmakerMichael W. Shock will follow the film.

4:36 p.m. "Grand Luncheonette"
Filmmaker: Peter Sillen - Documentary, (4:30 min. DVD)
This film documents the last days of one of 42nd Street¹s unforgettable hot dog counters. Its closing marks the final stage of the much-publicized gentrification of Times Square.
www.pumpernickelinc.com

4:40 p.m. "On Account of Amber"  
Filmmakers: C.E. Doss & Nick A. Bertelsen - Drama, (17:10 min. DVD)
One scorned him. One saved him. One set him free. A man released from prison finds out the true nature of the people in his life. What will he do to even the score?

http://www.onaccountofamber.com

Discussion with filmmaker C.E. Doss and Nick A. Bertelsen will follow the film.

5:00 p.m. "Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea"
Filmmaker: Chris Metzler - Documentary, (67:00 min. DVD)
Both beautiful and repulsive this documentary takes viewers to the Salton Sea.  
Once known as the Riviera of the West, it is now a fetid, stagnant, salty lake that coughs up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Nonetheless a cast of eccentric locals make this their home and hope their lake can be restored to its former glory.
www.saltonseandoc.com

Discussion with filmmaker Chris Metzler will follow the film. (tentative)

 
Dinner Break 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. "Sock Puppet Fiesta - West Sock Story"  
Filmmaker: Brad Hansen - Student/Puppets (15:00 min. DVD)
It¹s a tumble between black & white (socks that is), on the streets of Iowa City. Can two blend to bring peace or will the static continue?

Discussion with filmmaker Brad Hansen will follow the film.

7:30 p.m. "Ruckus"  
Filmmaker: Dean Ishida - Mockumentary, (18:00 min. DV)
It¹s now or never as four thirty-something men set out to fulfill their noble - yet misguided boy band dreams. Personal differences cause precious rehearsal time to tick away as they prepare for the music video shoot of their debut song.
www.funkyfreshruckus.com

Discussion with filmmaker Dean Ishida will follow the film.

7:50 p.m. "Genre"
Filmmaker: Don Hertzfeldt - Animation (5:00 min. 16mm)

7:55 p.m. "New York Talk"
Filmmaker: Michael Krivicka - Experimental, (3:30 min. 16mm)
A not so common view of the popular New York City lifestyle.
www.subwaymelodies.com

8:00 p.m. "riding GIANTS"
Filmmaker: Stacy Peralta - Documentary, (101 min. 35mm)
Using a fast-paced combination of classic archival photography, spectacular movie footage (both vintage & current), along with interviews from the greatest surfers, experts and storytellers - riding GIANTS captures the rich visual history of big wave surfing. This GIANT film begs to be seen on the Hardacre GIANT screen!
 www.ridingGIANTS.com

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