Newport Beach Film Festival

March 29, 2001 12 AM PT

A schedule of events through April 5. Unless otherwise marked, all

films will be shown at Edwards Island 7 Cinemas, 999 Newport Center

Drive, Newport Beach, and are $5. Tickets are available by calling (888)

464-2468 or at o7 https://www.tickets.com.f7

TODAY

7 p.m.

The Sting

o7 United Statesf7 , 1973

Producer: Tony Bill, Robert L. Crawford

Director: George Roy Hill

Screenwriters: David S. Ward, David W. Maurer

Cast: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray

Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Heffernan, Dana Elcar, Jack

Kehoe, Dimitra Arliss, Robert Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland

Running time: 129:00

o7 Winner of seven Academy Awards in 1973, “The Sting” reunites

Robert Redford, Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill for a story

about two con men who swindle a racketeer out of a small fortune and, at

the same time, avenge the death of a friend.

f7 * Film will be shown at Edwards Big Newport. Opening night gala

will be held at 9 p.m. at the Newport Marriott. $75. Black tie optional.

FRIDAY

11 a.m.

Terminal Rite (Rito Terminal)

o7 Mexico, 1999f7

Producer: Milt Valdez Salazar

Director: Oscar Urrutia Lazo

Screenwriter: Oscar Urrutia Lazo

Cast: Angeles Cruz, Guillermo Larrea, Guillermo Rios, Soledad Ruiz,

Rafael Valazco

Running time: 100:00

o7 After leaving the native community where he has been documenting

local rituals, a photographer has several strange experiences. He returns

to the community to seek answers. f7

11:30 a.m.

An Unfinished Symphony

o7 United States, 2001

f7 Producer: Bestor Cram

Directors: Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros

Running time: 59:00

o7 Set over Memorial Day 1971, “Unfinished Symphony” depicts

Operation POW, which captured the nation’s attention when an instance of

civil disobedience resulted in more than 400 veterans and townspeople

being incarcerated in the town’s garage.

1:30 p.m.

Maze

o7 United States, 2000f7

Producer: Debbon Ayer

Director: Rob Morrow

Screenwriter: Rob Morrow

Running time: 98:00

o7 A sculptor with Tourette’s syndrome finds himself in the middle of

a love triangle that starts when his best friend abandons his longtime

and, unbeknownst to him, pregnant girlfriend.f7

2 p.m.

Short Films: Action In My Shorts

Dinner Time

Director: Benjamin Goldsmith

Running time: 13:22o7 A mysterious desert outlaw terrorizes a small

town whenever he rides through. No morsel of food is safe. Try to stop

him? He stops you. Today, however, he might just meet his match.

Hitclown

Director: Chris Mancini

Running time: 13:00

o7 A clown for children’s parties hates her job and her life. A hit

maf7 no7 sees his life as one torturously long death sentence. They

accidentally switch bags, and decide they like the other’s job betterf7

I Want to Die (Quiero Morir)

Director: Gemma Felius

Running time: 14:50

o7 A hospitalized paraplegic psychopath assassin dreams of dying. A

cop, whose life was ruined when his wife and child were killed, is the

assassin’s last chance to be “disconnected.”

The Rain

Director: David Beatty

Running time: 15:00

o7 In an environmental nightmare, two men encounter a freak

occurrence of nature that threatens more than just their lives.

Cadaverous

Director: Michael Fiore

Running time: 20:48

o7 Tony De Marco is no ordinary medical student. His plan to become a

doctor is hindered by a deep-rooted fear of death. In the presence of an

anatomy class cadaver, his necrophobia surfacesf7 .

Killing Time

Director: Carlo De Rosa

Running time: 11:00

o7 An old man kills two teenagers who rob and intimidate old people

living in the neighborhood.

Righteous Indignation

Director: Katrina Bronson

Running time: 17:00

o7 Circumstances of chance, fate, love and death allow a hardened man

to be transformed by the vulnerability of a little girl.

Bad Assassin

Director: Don O. Knowlton

Running time: 14:00

o7 An assassin fails to kill an accountant and understands that he

will have to pay the ultimate price. Being a bad assassin, however, he

fails at killing himself and is left incapacitated.f7

4 p.m.

Big Eden

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Jennifer Chaiken, John D. Vaughan

Director: Thomas Bezucha

Screenwriter: Thomas Bezucha

Cast: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Louise Fletcher, George Coe, Nan

Martin

Running time: 117:00

o7 Successful but lonely New York artist Henry Hart returns to the

Montana town of his childhood, Big Eden. There, he finds he must come to

terms with his childhood best friend, a man who is now the object of his

unrequited love.

4:30 p.m.

Zoe

o7 United States/Great Britain, 2001f7

Producers: Carol Cyrb, Bill Kenwright

Director: Deborah Attoinese

Screenwriters: Deborah Attoinese, Amy Dawes

Cast: Jenny Seagrove, Vanessa Zima, Stephi Lineberg, Victoria Davis,

Gordon Tootoosis, Kim Greist

Running time: 90:00

* Screening will be attended by the director and cast members.

o7 Adolescent Zoe and her two friends have grim home lives. When

things become unbearable, the trio decides to run away to Los Angeles. On

their journey, they meet Cecilia, an Englishwoman, who has her own

troubles.

6:30 p.m.

Middlemen

o7 Canada, 2000

f7 Producers: Robert Petrovicz, Kevin Speckmaier

Director: Kevin Speckmaier

Screenwriters: Kevin Speckmaier, Robert Petrovicz

Cast: James Hutson, Kirsten Robek, Byron Lucas

Running time: 100:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director and cast members, will be

the film’s U.S. premiere.

o7 A small-time crook finds himself presented with the ultimate score

-- a chance to intercept a high-stakes drug deal by exploiting its

weakest link, the middleman.

7 p.m.

Zoot Suit

o7 United States, 1981

f7 Producers: Kenneth Brecher, Peter J. Burrell, Gordon Davidson,

William P. Wingate

Director: Luis Valdez

Screenwriter: Luiz Valdez

Cast: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly,

John Anderson, Abel Franco, Mike Gomez, Alma Martinez, Frank McCarthy,

Tony Plana, Robert Beltran

Running time: 103:00

o7 Four men, mostly Chicano, are put on trial for murder at the

height of the racial tensions and rioting that plagued Los Angeles during

World War II. f7

* El Torito at Fashion Island will host a 9 p.m. gala honoring the

film’s 20th anniversary. $40.

9 p.m.

Wild Side (Director’s Cut)

o7 United States, 1995/2000

f7 Producers: Hamish McAlpine, Frank Mazzola, Nick Jones

Director: Donald Campbell

Screenwriters: Donald Cammell, China Kong

Cast: Christopher Walken, Anne Heche, Joan Chen, Steven Bauer

Running time: 112:00

* Screening will be attended by the producer.

o7 Snapping under financial debt, Alex, a bank loan officer, is

forced into moonlighting as a high-class call girl. Her No. 1 client is a

psychotic financial racketeer who worships her yet suspects that she

might work for the FBI. He assigns his bodyguard -- who really is a

federal agent -- to tail her. Meanwhile, the racketeer’s wife meets Alex

at the bank, and the two instantly fall in love, kicking off a dangerous

affair.

9:30 p.m.

Short Films: SMASH CUTS! Totally Twisted Shorts

The Hangnail

Director: Shane Acker

Running Time: 2:00

The Dehumanized

Director: Mitch Watson

Running time: 15:00

Judgment Day

Directors: Johan Liedgren, Noah Tannen

Running time: 3:00

Shock Asylum

Director: Dan Dinello

Running time: 15:00

Finger Pickin’ Good

Director: Sybil Wickersheimer

Running Time: 1:30

Crime Scene Cleaners

Director: David J. Sperling

Running time: 15:00

Creature-Nites of Ohio

Director: Phil Paternite

Running time: 11:00

Sunday’s Game

Director: Gene Laufenberg

Running time: 10:00

SATURDAY

11 a.m.

Amargosa

o7 United States, 1999

f7 Producers: Sidney Sherman, Ken Carlson

Director: Todd Robinson

Screenwriter: Todd Robinson

Narrated by: Mary McDonnell

Running time: 93:00

o7 For Marta Becket, the creative life is an obstacle course of

self-doubt, criticism and abandonment -- a high price to pay for

self-expression. But for the 76-year-old artist isolated in the badlands

of Death Valley, creating and performing is her refuge.f7

11:30 a.m.

Short Films: Comedy Shorts

Cookies for Harry

Director: Nicholas Peterson

Running time: 4:20

o7 In 1995, filmmaker Nicholas Peterson’s grandfather, Harry Edwards,

died of severe mental anxiety. This film is based on his true story.

Defending The Super$ave

Director: Dave Fribush

Running time: 15:00

o7 Meet loss prevention agent Thomas Santiago, working the beat at

Super$ave SuperStore No. 802. When a professional shoplifterhits the

store, Santiago must confront not only ultimate evil, but also betrayal

by a former partner.

The Four of Us

Directors: Michael Mosser, Holly Justo-Mosser

Running time: 20:00

o7 A Hollywood power couple used to getting things their way have to

make adjustments when their “couple” friends start spending time with a

new couple.

Close the Door (Ferme La Porte)

Director: Steve Stein

Running time: 9:00

o7 Guy is angst-ridden and bitter. He feels he leads a life of quiet

desperation and daydreams about being an artist. The film follows him

through the course of one day.

Go Jimmy Go

Director: Doug Torres

Running time: 21:59

o7 It’s all about the chase.

Smackers

Director: Tara Miele

Running time: 1:26

o7 This parable lays bare the well-deserved fall from grace of junior

high royalty.

Let Me Tell You A Story

Director: Marlene Rhein

Running time: 9:30

o7 Lois describes a night of unfulfilled desires, while unsolicited

passion ignites in the background.

Hollywood Monkeys

Director: Chad Ahrendt

Running time: 13:00

o7 We’ve all heard the Hollywood saying, “Every film starts with a

script.” Truth be told, a script will never be seen twice without great

coverage. Coverage can make you, and coverage can break you.

The Dane

Director: Richard D’Alessio

Running time: 8:20

o7 David Huband’s hilarious seven-minute version of William

Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” set in a contemporary wiseguy bar.

1:30 p.m.

Minerva’s Quest (Entre la Tarde y la Noche)

o7 Mexico, 2000

f7 Producer: Angel Flores Marini

Director: Oscar Blancarte

Screenwriter: Oscar Blancarte

Cast: Angelica Aragon, Francisco Fattorno, Manuel Ojeda, Lumi Cavazos,

Martha L. Osuna

Running time: 105:00

* Screening will be the film’s West Coast premiere

o7 Minerva is a middle-aged writer who decides to break with her

uncertain present, returning to the port where she was born and to a past

filled with ghosts and fancies.

2 p.m.

The Mexican Americans

Producers: Robin Llompart, Blanca Santos

Executive producer: Roy Hammond

Director: Roman Brygider

Running time: 56:00

* Screening will be the West Coast premiere for this documentary,

which was broadcast on KOCE-TV.

o7 This documentary celebrates the contributions and culture of local

Orange County Mexican Americans, including Orange County-based attorney

Jesse Araujo; Newport Beach-based El Ranchito Restaurants co-owner Maria

Elena Avila; and Bishop Jaime Soto of the Diocese of Orange.

Pancho Villa And Other Stories

o7 Mexico/United States, 1999f7

Producer: Phillip Rodriguez

Director: Phillip Rodriguez

Running time: 40:00

* Screening will be attended by the director.

o7 Inspired by a conversation with the filmmaker’s Mexican-born

grandmother. “I asked her why she had left Mexico as a young girl, and

she explained that her sister had caught Pancho Villa’s eye and he had

made it known that he was coming back in town to have his way with her,”

Phillip Rodriguez said.

4 p.m.

Go Tigers!

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Sidney Sherman, Ken Carlson

Executive producer: Todd Robinson

Director: Kenneth A. Carlson

Screenwriter: Kenneth A. Carlson

Running time: 103:00

o7 Chronicles a remarkable season for the Massillon Tigers high

school football team, played out in a small Ohio rustbelt town that draws

its identity from football.f7

4:30 p.m.

Short Films: Academy Award Nominees

Big Mama

Director: Tracy Seretean

Running time: 40:00

* Won the Academy Award for best documentary shorto7 .

Film documents an 89-year-old African American grandmother’s struggle

to raise her troubled 9-year-old grandson under the watchful eye of a

cynical child welfare system.

Rejected

Director: Don Hertzfeldt

Running time: 9:30

* Nominated for best animation short.

o7 A fictional collision between art, commercial culture and madness.

A Soccer Story (Una Historia De Futbol)

Director: Paulo Machline

Running time: 21:00

* Nominated for best live action short.

o7 A 60-year-old man remembers playing soccer in his youth on the

streets of a Brazilian town and the kid who became the legendary Pele.

Seraglio

Directors: Gail Lerner, Colin Campbell

Running time: 13:00

* Nominated for best live action short

o7 After finding an anonymous love letter in a cabbage, an unhappy

housewife becomes an unlikely seductress.

Curtain Call

Director: Chuck Braverman

Running time: 38:00

* Nominated for best documentary short.

o7 The stories of those who helped lay the groundwork for today’s

entertainment industry.

By Courier

Director: Peter Riegert

Running time: 13:00

* Nominated for best live action short

o7 Two lovers on the outs can’t bridge the gap between them without

the help of a 13-year-old from the wrong side of the tracks.

6:30 p.m.

Innocents

o7 United States, 1999/2000

f7 Producers: Terry Carr, Gail Tilson

Director: Gregory Marquette

Screenwriter: Gregory Marquette

Cast: Connie Nielson, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Mia Kirshner, Anne Archer,

Frank Langella

Running time: 97:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director, producer and cast

members, will be the film’s West Coast premiere.

o7 A French professor meets two sisters with a haunted past while on

a road trip through the American Midwest.

7 p.m.

The French Connection

o7 United States, 1971

f7 Producers: Philip D’Antoni, G. David Schine, Kenneth Utt

Director: William Friedkin

Screenwriters: Robin Moore, Ernest Tidyman

Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel

Bozzuffi, Frederic de Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary,

Arlene Farber, Eddie Egan

Running time: 104:00

o7 This film about the largest narcotics seizure of all time in 1962

was a multiple-Oscar winner in 1971. The film centers on the real-life

adventures of two idiosyncratic Harlem special narcotics squad officers.

f7 * The Newport Beach Cinema Guild will host a 9 p.m. gala at

Fashion Island’s Atrium Court to honor the film’s 30th anniversary. $50.

9 p.m.

Sex, Shame and Tears (Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas)

o7 Mexico, 1999

f7 Producer: Matthias Ehrenberg

Director: Antonio Serrano

Screenwriter: Antonio Serrano

Cast: Demian Bichir, Monica Dionne, Victor Huggo Martin, Cecilia

Suarez, Susana Zabaleta, Jorge Salinas, Angelica Aragon

Running time: 105:00

o7 The story of three couples in contemporary Mexico as they struggle

with failed relationships, lies, drug addiction and sexual dysfunction. A

romantic comedy, this film became the most successful domestic film ever

in the history of Mexican cinema.

9:30 p.m.

Short Films: SMASH CUTS! Super Sci-Fi Shorts

Intransit

Director: Mike Daly

Running time: 7:00

o7 Jump on this hyper-speed rush into a boy’s dark underworld where

he’s confronted by the vengeful father of his imagination.

Airtime

Director: Rolf Kesterman

Running time: 11:00

o7 When an ambitious young woman interferes with a television

execution, she must endure the wrath of an Orwellian government.

Megahurtz

Director: Darrin Plant

Running time: 10:00

o7 Ernie must decide whether he will stand on his own or let

computers control his destiny in this futuristic comedy.f7

Amplifier

Director: Glenn Forbes

Running time: 16:00

o7 In the future, a shared addiction to tele-visual technology haunts

the lives of a new mother and, 25 years later, her grown daughter.

The Duel On Planet Z

Director: Sterling Bishop

Running time: 4:00

o7 This 1950s-style sci-fi thriller pits two men against

mind-altering alien orbs in a fight for survival.

Big Day Off

Director: David Janssen

Running time: 13:00

o7 In the future, there are no holidays.

Sand Trooper

Director: Tory Bellici

Running time: 7:00

o7 In a post-apocalyptic world, a rebel soldier is sent on a suicide

mission to destroy an enemy fortress.

Bubble Pac

Director: Rick Dublin

Running time: 11:00

o7 A horrific, postmodern comedy that distinguished the dispensable

from the indispensable.

SUNDAY

11 a.m.

Escaflowne the Movie: A Girl in Gaia

o7 Japan, 2000

f7 Producer: Created by Shoji Kawamori

Director: Kazuki Akane

Screenwriters: Ryota Yamaguchi, Kazuki Akane

Cast: Maya Sakamoto

Running time: 96:00

o7 An ordinary high school student is thrown into a strange new world

called Gaia, a mythical realm inhabited by humans and half-man,

half-beast “Jujinf7 ,o7 “ in this anime feature.

11:30 a.m.

Black Days

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Ari Margolis, James Morley III

Directors: Ari Margolis, James Morley III

Screenwriters: Ari Margolis, James Morley III

Cast: S. Greg Gordon Sr., Shiva Rose, D. Reynolds, Nick Rute, Sarah

Silverman

Running time: 80:00

o7 Ty’s a nice guy, a thrift-shop cool parking lot attendant who just

wants to be happy and in love. Then he meets Gwen. She looks too good to

be true. And sounds even better -- with a killer wit and deadly sense of

humor. He falls for her, and it’s a storybook romance. Until a few

skeletons fall out of Gwen’s closet.

1:30 p.m.

The Stranger (Die Fremde)

o7 Austria, 1999

f7 Producer: Wulf Flemming

Director: Gotz Spielmann

Screenwriters: Maria Walpurga Scheibelhofer, Gotz Spielmann

Cast: Wolfgang Bock, Martin Feifel, Fritz Karl, Hary Printz, Nina

Proll, Simon Schwarz, Goya Toledo

Running time: 97:00

o7 With her German boyfriend, Mercedes, a Mexican, has smuggled a

kilo of cocaine to Vienna to make some quick cash. At the airport, the

couple outwits customs, but the risky deal goes wrong. Harry, a taxi

driver, bumps into the beautiful stranger and gets involved in an

adventure, which changes his life.

2 p.m.

Short Films: DancesWithFilms

The Dancing Cow

Director: Taz Goldstein

Running time: 21:00

o7 Evan Lepsow’s directorial debut has Hollywood’s top brass in a

feeding frenzy . . . only problem is, they’ve been watching the wrong

film. With instant access to Tinsel Town’s most powerful moguls, Evan

struggles with ethics versus opportunity as he secretly tries to discover

who really directed “The Dancing Cow.”

Room

Director: Sebastian Hedgecoe

Running time: 8:00

o7 A man and woman, drawn to each other, attempt to cross into each

other’s lives.

Guido Takes a Hike

Director: Joseph Tobin

Running Time: 17:00

o7 An endearing elderly man goes to the store, gets lost and has an

amazing adventure.

Rosa Mi Amor

Director: Modi

Running time: 3:00

o7 A short comedy film about a man who is mourning for a dead wife he

never had.

Delusions in Modern Primitivism

Director: Daniel Loflin

Running time: 17:00

o7 Bored with his extensive collection of tattoos and piercings, we

follow Jerome on his trek across Dallas for the next, newest form of body

modification as he seeks meaning, identity and acceptance in the form of

a new scar.

Naropa

Director: Cameron Baity

Running time: 7:00

o7 Naropa represents man synthesizing his environment to maintain

illusory control. He is unable to grasp the elusiveness of nature until

his machinations malfunction and his routine life is shattered.

Hate

Directors: Drew Daywalt, David Schneider

Running time: 22:00

o7 What do you do when you’re being stalked by a homicidal maniac?

What do you do when no one believes you? What do you do when that

homicidal maniac . . . is a chicken?

4 p.m.

The Annihilation of Fish

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Paul Heller, William Lawrence Fabrizio, John Remark

Director: Charles Burnett

Screenwriter: Anthony C. Winkler

Cast: James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder

Running time: 101:00

* Screening will be attended by the producer.

o7 An eccentric pair of aging delusionaries fight together to

overcome loneliness and rediscover a sense of purpose in their twilight

years. f7

4:30 p.m.

Short Films: USC Showcase

Values

Director: Van Phan

Running time: 5:00

o7 This animated thesis film was inspired by Van Phan’s relationship

with his late father, Nguyen Phan.

Mad Boy, I’ll Blow Your Blues Away. Be Mine

Director: Adam Collis

Running time: 19:00

o7 This romantic comedy deals with the doubts and fears that

accompany giving a first valentine.

The Dishpan Man

Director: Hal Long

Running time: 15:30

o7 Danny doesn’t have what it takes to be a street thug, but he has

just discovered his divine calling -- as a supernatural dishwasher.

Horses On Mars

Director: Eric Anderson

Running time: 7:28

o7 Three billion years ago, a microbe blasts off its home planet,

propelled by a meteor, and embarks on a journey through the inner solar

system.

Aimee Copp

Director: Jon Durham

Running time: 11:30

o7 Recruited by USC, Aimee Copp was excited about her collegiate

basketball career, until she suffered a blow before her first game that

cut it short. Three years later, she is back in peak condition and raring

to try for the WNBA.

Game Day

Director: Marshall V. Davidson Jr.

Running time: 19:57

o7 When a Marine dies in 12 feet of water during an obstacle course

competition, a young platoon commander is left with more questions than

answers.

6:30 p.m.

Sexy Beast

o7 Great Britain, 2000f7

Producers: Jeremy Thomas, Denise O’Dell

Director: Jonathan Glazer

Screenwriters: Louis Mellis, David Scinto

Cast: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan

Kendall, Julianne White

Running time: 88:00

o7 In the twilight of his career, gangster Gary has just retired to a

posh Spanish hacienda with his loving wife. However, all is not well in

paradise. Rumbling over the horizon comes Don “Malky” Logan, the one-time

friend, now foe, of Gary, who is intent on persuading him to return for

one last big job.f7

* The Daily Grill at Fashion Island will host an 8:30 p.m. gala to

honor the film. $30. *

7 p.m.

Guiding Star (Hokule’a)

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Leah Kihara, Lurline McGregor, Na’alehu Anthony

Director: Leah Kihara

Screenwriter: Lurline McGregor

Cast: Nainoa Thompson, Shantell Ching, Snake Ah Hee, Na’alehu Anthony

Running time: 57:00

* Screening will be film’s continental West Coast premiere.

o7 In June 1999, Hokule’a, built in the style of an ancient

Polynesian, non-instrument navigating canoe, set sail on her most daring

voyage from Hawaii to the farthest eastern corner of the Pacific, Rapa

Nui.f7

Ka’ililauokekoa

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Aha Punana Leo Inc.

Director: Kala’iokona Ontai

Screenwriter: Kala’iokona Ontai

Cast: Noelani Iokepa, Pono Guerrero, Kamakaneoaloha Hopkins

Running time: 76:00

o7 Filmed entirely in the Hawaiian language, the film tells the story

of a girl, Ka’ililauokekoa, who is given to the future ruling chief by

her father. As the couple grows up together, she discovers how cruel and

unloving he can be. f7

9 p.m.

Dog Food (Azucena)

o7 Philippines, 2000

f7 Producer: Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Director: Ray Cuerdo

Screenwriter: Enrique Ramos

Cast: Ricky Davao, Dante Rivero, Alessandra De Rossi

Running time: 90 minutes

* Screening, to be attended by the producer, will be the film’s

Southern California premiere.

o7 Cooked dog meat is a delicacy in some areas of the Philippines.

This is the story of the unlikely friendship between a man who butchers

dogs for a living and an adolescent dog lover.f7

9:30 p.m.

Short Films: The Polyester Prince Road Show

Hotel Central

Director: Matt Hulse

o7 The lights are on, but your stay may lead you into a situation you

never dreamed possible.

The Making of Mulletman

Director: Mike Ott

o7 The wacky tale of a cinematic Japanese martial arts action

hero/superstar.

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

Director: Matt McCormick

o7 Is it graffiti? Or is it art? You decide.

Love Needs to be Reinvented

Director: Dorian Ahmeti

o7 Is love a many splendored thing?

The Magic of Radio

Director: Greta Snider

o7 “DIY” radio in the age of consumerism.

Picinin

Director: Paolo Davanzo

o7 A journey into the belly of memory and loss.

A Colorful Train in Autumn

Director: Shinji Kitagawa

o7 A tale of our youth seen through first encounters.

It’s Hard to Be an American

Director: Jojo Hilsenrad

o7 As the name implies, it isn’t easy living in the land of the free

and home of the brave.

Why

Director: Jason Harris

o7 Sickness takes over the life we lead.

Troppo Bella (Too Beautiful)

Director: Arturo Bandini

o7 Look around. Everything you see is indeed “Too Beautiful.”

Mjamjam

Director: David Pfulger

o7 Mjamjam is the German version of “yummyummy.” Indeed it is.

MONDAY

11 a.m.

Second Century (Segundo Siglo)

o7 Mexico, 2000

f7 Producer: Juan E. Garcia

Director: Jorge Bolado

Screenwriter: Jorge Bolado

Cast: Martin LaSalle

Running time: 111:00

o7 A crew of Mexican filmmakers makes a pilgrimage through the

Southern Highlands of Scotland while carrying all of their film equipment

on their backs.f7

11:30 a.m.

Short Films: Life Is Shorts

The Gentle Cycle

Director: Peter Nolan

Running time: 6:25

o7 The story of a streetwise laundermat attendant who befriends a

customer in need.

Three Stories

Director: Semi Chellas

Running time: 19:30

o7 These three stories are actually the tale of one woman trying to

work her way through the breakup of her marriage.

The Last Time We Went Fishing

Director: Robert Rasmussen

Running time: 20:00

o7 On a Labor Day fishing trip in 1962, 13-year-old Kevin stumbles

upon his mother and the boat’s captain alone in his parent’s stateroom.

Solid Waste

Director: Michael Lander

Running time: 13:48

o7 A true story about the relationship Michael Lander had with two

garbage mef7 no7 as a child.

Sporting Dog

Director: Stephen Stapinski

Running time: 25:59

o7 Everything changes when Mike is offered an extraordinary wager by

his enigmatic bookie.

Hank & Edgar

Director: Jesse Wolfe

Running time: 18:00

o7 Hank and Edgar share a room at the Admiral Linsky Retired

Veteran’s Annex. In the winter of their lives, they have been thrown into

battle -- a struggle against loneliness.

The Question

Director: Nancy M. Kwon

Running time: 9:16

o7 No one takes Splirt more seriously than Christian. He’s 6 years

old and loves to eat Splirt and eggs every day, until the day he thinks

he’s pregnant. f7

1:30 p.m.

My Daddy

o7 China, 1996

f7 Producer: Zhu Yongde

Director: Huang Shuqin

Screenwriter: Guo Lingling

Cast: David Wu, Wang Quan, Ma Xiaoqing

o7 A tramp kid, Da Zhi is a big fan of Lin Tianhai, a well-known

soccer star. He chases Lin after a game, falls to the ground and is taken

to the hospital. There Da Zhi tells his hospital roommates he is Lin

Tianhai’s son, inspiring a nurse to go see the soccer player. Da Zhi

arrives first and begs Lin to pose as his father.f7

2 p.m.

El Rey de Rock ‘n Roll

o7 United States

f7 Director: Marjorie Chodera

Running time: 65:00* Screening will be attended by the director

o7 On stage, he wears an open shirt, gold chains and tight

bell-bottomf7 so7 . Best known for such hits as “You Ain’t Nothin’ but

a Chihuahua,” “En el Barrio” and “Lordy Miss Lupe,” he is El Vez, the

Mexican Elvis.

Bomba

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Director: Ashley James

Running time: 60:00

o7 The Cepeda family is known as the “patriarch family” of bomba,

Puerto Rico’s richest expression of its African heritage. For nearly a

century, the Cepeda family has been in the forefront of the struggle to

keep the traditional dance alive.

4 p.m.

Greeting 2000 (Xiang Yue Liang Qiao Nian)

o7 China, 1999f7

Producer: Jiang Ping

Director: Jin Ge

Screenwriter: He Qing

Cast: Li Lin, Liang Zhi Qiang

o7 Chen Huihui, born into a rich family, is not satisfied with the

marriage her father arranges. On her way to find love in Shang Hai, she

meets Chen Da Bao, a young man who is on his way to the city to start a

new life. f7

4:30 p.m.

Short Films: Check Your Shorts

The $5 Movie

Director: Devin Scott

Running time: 15:30

o7 Perseverance and passion shadow a young director’s odyssey as he

asks the eternal question -- Is it art?

. . . (Dot Dot Dot)

Director: Anthony Ng

Running time: 30:00

o7 A lonely travel agent finds a kindred spirit in a mysterious

hair-washer he meets in a laundermat.

3AM Eternal

Director: Dennis Lanson

Running time: 17:00

o7 A tormented Vietnam War veteran is visited by a traveling salesman

who claims to sell time.

Pussydog

Director: Lightfield Lewis

Running time: 18:00

o7 After his girlfriend cheats on him, John finds his life spiraling

into a series of bad dates and self-destructive behavior. f7

Pate

Director: Agnieszka Woltowics-Vosloo

Running time: 30:00

o7 A post-apocalyptic story about survival of the fittest.

6:30 p.m.

Tragedy On and Off the Stage

o7 China, 1999

f7 Producer: Jiang Ping

Director: Zhu Nan

Screenwriter: Jiang Ping

Cast: Zhang Hao Wai, Lu Ling, Wu Jin Li, Lin Jin Ling

o7 Political persecution by the late Qing Dynasty causes turmoil for

famous Peking Opera actor Yang Yue Lu, whose life intertwines with love

and three women. The plot is intriguing and powerful, with dynamic action

choreography.

f7 * Aysia 101 will host a 9 p.m. gala, with a special appearance by

Wu Shuu Martial Arts, to honor the film. $30.

7 p.m.

Daydream Believer

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Director: Debra Eisenstadt

Cast: Sibyl Kempson

Running time: 79:00

o7 After being discovered, Valerie Woodbury abandons her job and her

fiance to pursue her acting career in New York City. There, her life

becomes linked and confused with the city’s endless stream of ordinary

people with big aspirations. Penniless, she returns home ready for

responsibility and commitment, only to find herself caught in the lies

she hoped to leave in New York.

9 p.m.

From The Edge Of The City

o7 Greece

f7 Producers: Dionysis Samiotis, Anastasios Vasiliou

Director: Constantinos Giannaris

Screenwriter: Constantinos Giannaris

Cast: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Cotsianidis, Panagiotis

Chartomatsidis

Running time: 90:00

* Screening will be attended by the producer.

o7 Takes an unsparing look at youth on the streets of Athens. Hanging

out in nightclubs, hustling or engaging in petty theft, a group of young

Greek Russian prostitutes and f7 to7 hieves are led by 17-year-old

Sasha, who is coming of age.

9:30 p.m.

Dreams From the Middle of the World (Suenos en la Mitad del Mundo)

o7 Ecuador/Spain

f7 Producers: Grupo Alyaz, Grupo Equinoccio, Alfredo Marcovici

Director: Carlos Naranjo Estrella

Cast: Hector Alterio, Concha Cuetos, Rossana Iturralde, Oscar Ladoire,

Santiago Naranjo

Running time: 93:00

o7 The stories of three women who blend passion and dreams into their

lives.f7

TUESDAY

11:30 a.m.

Two Coyotes

o7 United States/Mexico, 2000

f7 Producer: Ignacio Gonzales

Director: Jose Reyes Bencomo

Screenwriter: Jose Reyes Bencomo

Cast: Jorge Cordova, Nico Guilak, Joe Esteres, Sara Duran

Running time: 90:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director, will be the film’s world

premiere.

o7 A twisted true story about survival in the midst of the Mexican

mob underworld of drugs. f7

1:30 p.m.

Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas (Virilite et Autres Sentiments

Modernes)

o7 France, 2000

f7 Producer: Blue Dahlia Production

Director: Ronan Girre

Screenwriter: Ronan Girre

Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Estelle Skornik

Running time: 88:00

o7 Thirty-year-old Alexis is your average modern young man: a

perennial teenager who refuses to grow up. Until the day he falls in love

with the bewitching Laura. It’s exhilarating at first, but Alexis soon

has a hard time coping. He wants to rid Laura of her demons and get back

to his easygoing life. Buttoday’s “exorcisms” have to be performed by

consent.

2 p.m.

Short Films: Our Real World

American Holocaust

Director: Teddy Parker

Running time: 29:14

o7 Documentary explores the link between Adolf Hitler’s treatment of

German Jews and the U.S. government’s treatment of American Indians.f7

This Is For You Spike

Directors: Ed Haas, Phil Currie

Running time: 7:00

o7 Actual audition tapes from two kids trying to get a part in a

Spike Lee movie.

Who is Albert Woo?

Director: Hunt Hoe

Running time: 52:00

o7 Exploring the identities of Asian men in the West, including

Jackie Chan and Dr. Mohan Agashe.

Shadows

Director: Mitch Levine

Running time: 24:00

o7 Set in a Nazi extermination camp during World War II, this film

explores surviving in a world where survival seems impossible.

4 p.m.

Keep the River on Your Right

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Peter Broderick

Directors: Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro

Screenwriters: Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro

Running time: 90:00

o7 Chronicles the amazing story of 78-year-old Tobias Schneebaum.

What could drive a gay Jewish painter from New York to leave friends,

family and success behind to seek out and live with some of the most

remote people on earth? Why would such a man walk alone into the jungles

of Indonesia and Peru to join headhunters and cannibals?

4:30 p.m.

Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara

o7 Mexico/United States, 2001f7

Producers: Felix Gehm, Robert Brewster

Directors: Felix Gehm, Robert Brewster

Screenwriters: Felix Gehm, Robert Brewster

Running time: 50:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director and producer, will be the

film’s West Coast premiere.

o7 As Mexico booms with the advent of NAFTA, a World Bank forestry

project begins building logging roads into some of the last old growth

forests in the Sierra Madres. Edwin Bustillos, a human rights organizer,

uncovers a series of drug related murders in the small pueblo of

Coloradas de la Virgen. f7

6:30 p.m.

Making Love (Canone Inverso)

o7 Italy, 2000

f7 Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori

Director: Ricky Tognazzi

Screenwriter: Graziano Diana

Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Hans Matheson, Melanie Thierry, Ricky Tognazzi,

Lee Williams

Running time: 107:00

o7 Music resounds with destiny and mystery binding child violin

prodigy Jeno to Sophie, a beautiful and famous pianist, as it interweaves

through history, challenging personal identity and unlocking painful

memories.

7 p.m.

Short Films: The Best of “Independent Exposure”

Pump with a Chump

Director: Modi

Running time: 3:00

o7 Tattooed tough guy Henry Rollins gives a wimpy guy a workout

lesson.

Boy Runs to Window

Director: Mark O’Connell

Running time: 3:00

o7 Digital video done with Quick Time.

Deadly Squirrel

Director: Jason Walker

Running Time: 4:30

o7 A tale of a hillbilly whose psychotic hatred of rodents is tested

by cohabitation.

Pictures in Ireland

Director: Dave Johnston

Running Time: 6:00

o7 The words of Ludwig Wittgenstein underscore images of everyday

Ireland.

Fran’s Fantastic Feasts

Director: Sue McNally

Running time: 4:00

o7 An new cooking show from this Seattle director.

Fishing for Brad

Director: Nicole Koschmann

Running time: 6:00

o7 A provocative look into human sexuality. f7

Magic Trick

Director: Scott Kravitz

Running time: 2:30

o7 Pick a card, any card.

Flip Film

Directors: Ellen Ugelstad, Alfonso Alvarez

Running time: 1:05

o7 An exciting, short trip on a bus in San Francisco as told through

an animated photo/flip book. f7

Bubble Numb

Director: Jessica Grynberg

Running Time: 7:00

o7 Beatrice is so full of sleep that she lives in a state of inertia.

Object Lesson

Director: Dylan Marshall Sisson

Running time: 3:00

o7 3-D animation with music by Seattle’s Kyle Hanson.

Keep Clear

Director: Corey Rosen

Running time: 2:30

o7 Without his glasses, he can see little more than nothing at all.

Rubber Gloves

Director: Tom E. Brown

Running time: 6:20

o7 Nothing you to need to know about AIDS.

Creature-Nites of Ohio

Director: Phil Paternite

Running time: 11:00

o7 A darkly humorous look at a future that is not so far away.

Flow

Director: Serge V. Gregory

Running Time: 6:00

o7 This film depicts the flow of water, people and machines into the

city.

Everybody! Bowl

Director: Dustin Woehrmann

Running Time: 3:00

o7 A look at the secrets and fashions of our most fabulous obsession:

bowling.

Kite

Director: Alina Chau Hiu Fan

Running Time: 3:00

o7 A musically driven, non-narrative animation.

Portrait of Lloyd

Director: Lisa Shannon

Running Time: 5:00

o7 A day-in-the-life documentary following an isolated old man.

Hangnail

Director: Shane Acker

Running Time: 2:00

o7 A man, man’s best friend and a small piece of skin that eventually

tears them apart.

Buena Vista Fight Club (2000)

Director: Evan Mather

Running Time: 2:00

o7 The most exciting two minutes of your life will be spent watching

this film!

Thought City

Director: Stefan Gruber

Running Time: 4:30

o7 An army of commuters goes about their routine and nonsensical

business.

9 p.m.

The Photographer

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Peter Almond, Chris Moore, Jeremy Stein

Director: Jeremy Stein

Screenwriter: Jeremy Stein

Cast: Reg Rogers, Chris Bauer, Rob Campbell, John Heard, Maggie

Gyllenhaal, Anthony Michael Hall, Kristen Wilson

Running time: 91:00

o7 A year after becoming the toast of New York City’s art scene,

photographer Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the

night before his make-or-break gallery opening, Max embarks on a bizarre

trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could

save his career.

9:30 p.m.

The Wedding Video

o7 United States, 2001f7

Producers: Norman Korpi and Clint Cowen

Directors: Norman Korpi and Clint Cowen

Screenwriters: Norman Korpi and Clint Cowen

Cast: Featuring 10 ex-”Real World” cast members including Julie Oliver

and Rachel Campos Duffy

Running time: 84:00

o7 The film features 10 ex-Real World cast members who portray

exaggerated likenesses of their “perceived” public images in this spoof.

When the former cast members converge on Beverly Hills for Norman Korpi’s

wedding, the camera sees a side of Norman’s friends unknown to him: a

raunchy, bickering, back-stabbing group of self promoters who only play

nice when Norman is around.

WEDNESDAY

11:30 a.m.

Short Films: IndieSpace.com

Stubble Trouble

Running Time: 4:00

o7 Mr. Footface risks his life for nookie.

Merry ChristmasDirector: Paul Marashlian

Running time: 15:00

o7 Based on John Cheever’s short story “Christmas Is a Sad Season for

the Poor.” Charlie the elevator operator carries an apartment house’s

wealthy residents up and down on Christmas Day

Crazy Like the Taz

Director: Scott Barlow

Running time: 10:00

o7 Dale Phillips has more than a passing interest in the cartoon

character, the Tazmanian Devil. The fact is, he is obsessed with “The

Taz.”

Winos & Pigeons

Directors: A.W. “Wally” Lane, James Canfield

Running Time: 19:30

o7 A classic story of childhood lost and broken dreams; a look at

life from over the shoulder of a poet.

Jar Jar Binks: The F! True Hollywood Story

Director: Leif Einarsson

Running time: 10:00

o7 This mockumentary explores that “Star Wars: Episode I” character

we love to hate -- Jar Jar Binks.

Interior Latex

Director: Matt Wilkins

Running time: 13:00

o7 Daniel is taken to meet his girlfriend’s father, setting him a

midsf7 to7 the complicated infrastructure of a father/daughter

relationship. f7

Cotillion ’65

Director: Judy Chaiken

Running time: 20:00

o7 A 13-year-old boy falls in love with his dance teacher and learns

some harsh truths about love and illusion.

1:30 p.m.

Glamour

o7 Hungary, 2000

f7 Producer: Kornel Sipos

Director: Frigyes Gedros

Screenwriter: Frigyes Gedros

Running time: 115:00

o7 “Glamour” follows the fate of one Hungarian family over several

generations as they are caught in the turbulent events of the 20th

Century. At the heart of the story is the father, whose dream of

assimilation induces him to follow a foolish scheme. f7

2 p.m.

Rum And Coke

o7 Cuba/United States, 1999

f7 Producer: Charles Gherardi

Director: Maria Escobedo

Screenwriter: Maria Escobedo

Cast: Diana Marquis, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Christopher Marazzo

Running time: 97:00

o7 Linda has her life all planned out, that is, until the day a freak

accident at work introduces a dashing young Cuban firefighter, Jose, into

her life. Linda, hardheaded and preferring safety to the emotional

dangers of love, is swift to reject Jose’s attention. It is up to Jose to

woo her back to her roots and prove that not all Latin men are like her

father, an irresponsible, macho scoundrel.

4 p.m.

Running on the Sun

o7 United States, 2000f7

Producer: Richard Houghton

Director: Mel Stuart

Running time: 100:00

o7 This film explores the ambitions, motivations, and persistence of

a rare breed of runners determined to go the distance during the Badwater

135, a 135-mile pilgrimage devoid of financial compensation that begins

in the infernal heat of Death Valley and ends at Mt. Whitney, 8,400 feet

above sea level.

4:30 p.m.

Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

o7 Poland,2000

f7 Producer: “Tor” Film Production

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi

Screenwriter: Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Bradecki

Running time: 99:00

* Screening, to be attended by the producer, will be the film’s

Southern California premiere.

o7 Intelligent but moody, Tomasz suspects he might be terminally ill.

A desire awakens in Tomasz to deny all moral values he used to cherish

and to prove them wrong. Pretending to be a friend, he tries to destroy a

young couple’s love, engages in a game with a young priest, hoping to

hear the confessions of his lost faith, and finally gets ready to commit

suicide.

6:30 p.m.

Eye Ball (Ballen I’yet)

o7 Norway, 2000

f7 Producer: Tom Remlov for Norsk Film

Director: Catrine Telle

Screenwriter: Beate Grimsrud

Cast: Laila Goody, Bjornar Teigen, Kristin Kajander, Marit Andreassen

Running time: 81:00

o7 When a ball hits soccer-playing Denise in the face, everything

goes black. In hospital, she wakes up with a different view. With one eye

bandaged, all she sees is twins, pairs, couples and doubles. Is she the

only single? She realizes that the time has come to give up soccer and

become an adult. But how?

7 p.m.

Short Films: Long Beach International Film Festival

405

Directors: Bruce Branit, Jeremy Hunt

Running time: 3:00

o7 The story of the wrong guy, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Dreamer

Director: Raymond E. Spiess Jr.

Running time: 10:41

o7 A shaman has visions of the future while dreaming. A native spirit

confirms his dreams, performs a spirit dance, then returns to heaven.

Mutual Love Life

Director: Robert Peters

Running time: 11:00

o7 A humorous tale about a persistent salesman hawking a very odd and

contemporary form of insurance coverage. f7

Restoration

Director: Cordelia Beresford

Running time: 12:00

o7 On a remote New South Wales property in 1912, an image was captured of a young woman working as a maid. In “Restoration,” fragments

of her memory combine in photography and dance to retell her story.

George Lucas in Love

Director: Joe Nussbaum

Running time: 9:00

o7 Young George Lucas has writer’s block. If he doesn’t finish his

screenplay in three days, he won’t graduate from USC film school.

Echo

Director: Frederic Roullier-Gall

Running time: 13:30

o7 An elderly couple travels by train. Along the way, they reminisce

about the horrifying circumstances in which they first met.

Seraglio

Directors: Gail Lerner, Colin Campbell

Running time: 13:00

o7 After finding an anonymous love letter in a cabbage, an unhappy

housewife becomes an unlikely seductress.

Ordinary Love

Director: Oliver Dieckmann

Running time: 13:00

o7 On his seventh wedding anniversary, a police officer solves a

murder case and his marital problems. f7

Tex, the Passive Aggressive Gunslinger

Director: Brian Sawyer

Running time: 9:30

o7 An offbeat take on the old West.

Aye, Aye, Eye!

Director: Adam Golibart

Running time: 10:00

o7 One man’s quest to retrieve his prosthetic eyeball before a date

with the girl of his dreams.

This Guy is Falling

Directors: Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith

Running time: 12:00

o7 Warren is a dreamer. He believes in daytime baseball and good

old-fashioned love. So when the world’s gravity turns off -- he’s off to

save his girlfriend.

Director: Mark Osborne

Running time: 6:00

o7 A gritty, futuristic dystopia where true happiness is very hard to

come by.

9 p.m.

Road Dogz

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Jonathan Heuer

Director: Alfredo Ramos

Screenwriter: Alfredo Ramos

Cast: Jacob Vargas, Clifton Collins Jr., Greg Serano

Running time: 95:00

* Screening will be attended by the director, producer and cast

members.

o7 Three twentysomething Chicanos living in East L.A. emerge into

manhood and all the pressures of life in the neighborhood begin to mount:

family, girlfriends, and making money. Their carefree days of living at

home, playing basketball and hanging out are coming to an end. f7

9:30 p.m.

The American Tapestry

o7 United States, 1999

f7 Producer: Barbara Martinez-Jitner

Director: Gregory Nava

Running time: 96:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director, will be the film’s West

Coast premiere.

o7 Against the backdrop of the United States in the early 1900s, this

film guides us on a journey through the history of five families, each

one culturally diverse and in search of its own American Dream. f7

APRIL 5

11 a.m.

Johnny Greyeyes

o7 Canada, 2000

f7 Producer: Jorge Manzano

Director: Jorge Manzano

Screenwriter: Jorge Manzano

Cast: Gail Maurice, Columpa C. Bobb, Jonathan Fisher, Gloria May

Eshkibok

Running time: 78:00

* Screening will be the film’s Southern California premiere.

o7 Since the shooting death of her father, Johnny has spent most of

her life in one form of prison or another. Taken away to reform school at

age 15, Johnny eventually ends up in Kingston’s maximum security prison,

the notorious prison for women. A journey through her own history and

pain lead Johnny to love, a sense of spiritual purpose, and resolve with

her past.

11:30 a.m.

Call To Witness

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Pam Walton

Director: Pam Walton

Running time: 59:00

o7 Set against the controversy between sexuality and organized

religion, “Call to Witness” introduces three openly gay and lesbian

Midwestern Lutheran pastors who have taken a stand against their own

churches. f7

1:30 p.m.

Sky Hook (Nebeska udica)

o7 Serbia-Yugoslavia, 2000

f7 Director: Ljubisa Samardzic

Cast: Ana Sofrenovic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Ivan Jevtovic, Nikola Kojo

Running time: 95:00

o7 Once a promising basketball player, Kaja has watched both his

professional and personal life fall apart before his very eyes. His wife

wants to leave Belgrade with their 5-year-old son. Kaja and his

neighborhood friends live in danger of being drafted. Just as it seems

they have run out of survival strategies, a spontaneous bet with a war

profiteer sets the men struggling against time and air raids to clear a

rubble-strewn basketball court.

2 p.m.

Three Summers (Tres Veranos)

o7 Argentina, 1999

f7 Director: Raul Tosso

Screenwriter: Julio Acosta

Cast: Esteban Prol, Gonzalo Rey, Nicolas Scarpino, Fabian Gianola,

Facundo Saltarelli, Alberto Busaid, Crisitina Murta, Roberto Carnaghi

Running time: 100:00

* Screening will be attended by the producer.

o7 After 20 years, two friends come back to a village by the seaside

where they shared three key summers in their lives and for the country’s

life. f7

4 p.m.

The Girls’ Roomo7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Carol Anne Shine, Barclay DeVeau, Irene Turner

Director: Irene Turner

Screenwriter: Amanda Beall

Cast: Soliel Moon Frye, Wil Wheaton, Cat Taber, Gary Wolf

Running time: 101:00

o7 “The Girls’ Room” is an ensemble drama about Grace, a classic

Southern belle obsessed with her impending graduation and wedding, and

Casey, Grace’s nonconformist roommate, who hates everything Grace stands

for, but can’t help stealing Grace’s copies of Bride Magazine. When

Casey’s antics threaten Grace’s engagement, Grace decides to get even by

invading Casey’s life.f7

4:30 p.m.

The Hot Corner (La Esquina Caliente)

o7 Cuba/United States, 1999/2000

f7 Producer: Osualdo Hernandez

Director: Michael Skolnik

Running time: 59:00

* Screening will be attended by the direco7 tor.

When it was announced that the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban

National team would meet for a series of exhibition games in the spring

of 1999, young filmmakers William O’Neill and Michael Skolnik vowed to

document it.

Our House in Havana

o7 Cuba/United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Stephen Olsson, Carolina Zaff

Director: Stephen Olsson

Running time: 58:00

* Screening will be attended by the director.

o7 Cuban history, memories, and lingering class divisions come into

sharp focus when Silvia Morini, after nearly 40 years in the United

States, sets out to revisit the palatial home of her youth in Havana,

Cuba. f7

6:30 p.m.

Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas (Virilite et Autres Sentiments

Modernes)

o7 France, 2000

f7 Producer: Blue Dahlia Production

Director: Ronan Girre

Screenwriter: Ronan Girre

Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Estelle Skornik

Running time: 88:00

o7 Thirty-year-old Alexis is your average modern young man: a

perennial teenager who refuses to grow up. Until the day, he falls in

love with the bewitching Laura. It’s exhilarating at first, but Alexis

soon has a hard time coping. He wants to rid Laura of her demons and get

back to his easygoing life. Buttoday’s “exorcisms” have to be performed

by consent. f7

7 p.m.

* Closing night gala will be held at Edwards Island 7, immediately

following the awards ceremony. Honors will be given out for 14

categories, including best feature and best documentary. $30.

9 p.m.

Mambo Cafe

o7 United States, 1998

f7 Producer: Brad Wyman, Ross Mark

Director: Reuben Gonzalez

Screenwriter: Reuben Gonzalez

Cast: Thalia, Paul Rodriguez, Rosana DeSoto, Rick Gonzalez, Kamar de

los Reyes, Robert Costanzo, Danny Aiello

Running time: 98:00

* Screening will be attended by the producers.

o7 At the urging of Frank and her street-smart brother, Ricky, Nydia

agrees to participate in an offbeat scheme to make the family restaurant

“hot” once more. Their novel plan to attract business to their restaurant

causes a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.f7

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