NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

April 4, 2001 12 AM PT

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

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

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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

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