NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

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 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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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