Newport Beach Film Festival

TODAY

FEATURE FILMS

* EDWARDS ISLAND 7 CINEMAS

11:30 a.m.

“Clandestine Marriage”

United Kingdom, 1999

Dir.: Christopher Miles

Prod.: Tim Buxton, Steve Clark-Hall, Rod Gunner, Jonathan Stables

Cast: Joan Collins, Nigel Hawthorne, Natasha Little, Paul Nicholls,

Timothy Spall

Running time: 90 minutes

1776 England is setting for exuberant, sexy, relevant comedy

1:15 p.m.

“Stonebrook”

United States, 1998

Dir.: Byron W. Thompson

Prod.: Matthew P. Garcia, Byron W. Thompson

Cast: Seth Green, Zoe McLellan, Brad Rowe

Running time: 90 minutes

Green and Rowe form a hip tag team in fast-paced college con thriller

5:45 p.m.

“A Reasonable Man”

South Africa, 1998

Dir.: Gavin Hood

Prod.: Paul Raleigh, Gavin Hood

Cast: Janine Eser, Ken Gampu, Gavin Hood, Graham Hopkins, Loyiso Gxwala,

Nigel Hawthorne, Vusi Kunene, Nandi Nyembe, Ian Roberts

Running time: 103 minutes

Lawyer and his photojournalist wife on African wilderness sojourn come

across tragic incident at a Zulu village

8 p.m.

“Oriundi”

Brazil, 1999

Dir.: Ricardo Bravo

Prod.: R.A. Gennaro, Virginia W. Moraes

Cast: Paulo Autran, Paulo Betti, Anthony Quinn, Leticia Spiller

Running time: 97 minutes

Attended by director

Quinn gives brilliant performance as patriarch and Italian immigrant

nearing the end of his life

10 p.m.

“Fallen Arches”

United States, 2000

Dir.: Ron Cosentino

Prod.: Ron Cosentino, Libby Osborn

Cast: Karen Black, Carmine Giovinazzo, Justin Louis, Peter Onorati,

Richard Portnow

Running time: 100 minutes

Attended by director

Two brothers from New York live in rundown L.A. apartment with their

alcoholic mother

* ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

NONCOMPETITION

1:30-3 p.m.

o7 Locals only: free admission

This is the place for local film buffs to show off their wares. Q&A;

follows with the filmmakers.

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“Welcome to Heck”

United States

Dir.: Jim Call

Empty, broken down, lonely place exists deep inside all of us -- called

Heck

“Retreat”

United States

Dir.: Todd Portugal

Music video on domestic violence awareness

“Mariela’s Kitchen”

United States

Dir.: Lorette Bayle

Set in a small village in South America, this is an emotionally powerful

and visually stunning narrative about a young fisherman who loves two

women.

3 p.m.

Feature Specials

“Scottsboro: An American Tragedy”

United States, 2000

West Coast Premiere

Dir.: Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker

Prod.: Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker

Running time: 96 minutesRecently screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

A potent film, exposing another sample of this country’s appalling

injustices to black Americans.

SHORT FILMS

3:30 p.m.

“This Guy is Falling”

United StatesDir.: Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith

World’s gravity turns off accidentally and nice guy saves the day

“Swap Meet”

United States

West Coast premiere

Dir.: David Schweizer

Young woman at flea market, where objects transport her to other times

and places

“Maid of Honor”

United States

Dir.: Jennifer Arnold

Two liberated lesbians find commitment to nonmonogamy tested when one

participates in ex-girlfriend’s straight wedding

“Flight of the Stone”

Germany

Dir.: Susanne Horizon-Franzel

Witty pixilation follows stone, thrown in anger, in flight around the

world

“Genesis”

Spain

Dir.: Nacho Cerda

Unnamed sculptor is unable to cope with wife’s death, creates series of

poignant statues in her image