The “Asheville Film Festival” and “Asheville Rejects Film Festival”
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The Asheville Film Festival in North Carolina opens tonight with the belle du jour of the festival, Darren Aronofsky’s new film “The Wrestler,” which stars Mickey Rourke in role which is no doubt will add new to life to his acting career. The closing night film, “Slumdog Millionaire,” which is also just as popular a film festival favorite, won the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival and was the closing night film at the London Film Festival. A total of 78 films (among 257 submitted) will compete in the categories of features, shorts, animation, documentaries and student films.
Going on simultaneously is the third annual Asheville Rejects Film Festival, which is tooled toward films turned down by the Asheville Film Festival and more maverick makers of local, national and international independent films. [via]
Documentaries at the Asheville Film Festival include
A CRICKET IN THE COURT OF AKBAR
India
Saturday, 3 - 5 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
Andrew Mendelson, a Texas-born student of the sitar, ventures to India to compete in the largest music competition in the state of Rajasthan. As he prepares to vie for the championship, he discovers that he’s not only the first American competitor to participate, but that his western identity is in direct conflict with his desire to gain acceptance in the world of Indian classical music, even in his efforts to earn the approval of his Guru. Sitar in hand, he attempts to navigate the complex rules of this ancient tradition only to find this culture clash might be insurmountable.
Director/Executive Producer: Andrew Mendelson Co-Director/Producer: Nadia Abji Producer/Writer: Negin Farsad Cinematographer: Michael Crain
A POWERFUL NOISE
Friday, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
Hahn is an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam. Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war. And Jacqueline works the slums of Bamako, Mali. Three very different lives. Three vastly different worlds. But they share something in common: Power. These ordinary women are overcoming deep-seeded gender barriers to rise up and claim a voice in their societies. Through their empowerment and the ability to empower others, Hahn, Nada and Jacqueline are sparking unprecedented changes. Fighting AIDS. Educating girls. Rebuilding communities. Witness the lives of these women and their daily challenges and significant victories over poverty and oppression.
Director: Tom Cappello Producer: Scott Thigpen Executive Producer: Sheila Johnson Cinematographers: Nick Higgins, Richard Ladkani
AMERICAN OUTRAGE (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
35 Below
Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch in beautiful, barren north central Nevada. Like most Western ranchers, they graze their livestock on the open range outside their ranch. That open range was recognized as Western Shoshone land in 1863, but subsequently claimed as public land by the US. In 1974, the US sued the Dann sisters for trespassing. The government says they’re degrading the land. The Dann sisters it’s the gold hidden below. This film examines why the US government would spend millions of dollars prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert. Directors/Producers: George Gage, Beth Gage Writer: Beth Gage Cinematographer: George Gage
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (North Carolina Premiere)
Saturday, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
At fourteen years old, best friends Lips and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil, hailed as the “demi-gods of Canadian metal,” influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. Though Anvil never made it, they never stopped playing or believing. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now well into their fifties, set off to record their thirteenth album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dream.
Director: Secha Geruasi Producer: Rebecca Yrldham Cinematographer: Christopher Soos
APPALACHIAN STATE FOOTBALL: A DATE WITH DESTINY
Friday, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
35 Below
In 2007, the Appalachian State football team pulled off what’s been called the biggest upset in college football history. This film is a first-hand inside look at how they did it. From the very first practice to the improbable win in the stadium known as The Big House against football powerhouse University of Michigan.
Directors/Producers: Kyle Payne, Ray Goodrich Cinematographer: Kyle Payne
CUBERS
Friday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
Once they were heroes. An elite group of adolescent misfits with mathematically perfect brains and an obsession with a toy that captured the world’s imagination: The Rubik’s Cube. After 25 years of cultural obscurity, Cubers, a rare breed of braniacs who can solve the Rubik’s Cube in less than 20 seconds, finally have an opportunity to be crowned The World Rubik’s Cube Champion. Battling to win. Battling to fit in. For Cubers, this isn’t just a game. Director/Producer/Writer: Richard LeBlanc Producer: Walter Forsyth Cinematographer: Kyle Cameron
DON’T KNOW, WE’LL SEE: THE WORK OF KAREN KARNES (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
35 Below
DON’T KNOW, WE’LL SEE explores the poetry and mystery of the creative process in the life and work of a master clay artist, Karen Karnes. Karnes worked with unbroken focus for over 60 years until a fire destroyed her home and studio leaving only her kiln, full of luminous pieces. About discovery, the evolution of form, a single sculptural piece and a body of work over a lifetime. Enter the creative process, to give the eyes and ears a feast and to be astonished by beauty. As one viewer said, ‘this film changes you as you’re watching it.’ Director/Producer: Lucy Massie Phenix Associate Producer: Joy Brown, Kit Long, Lisa Merton Cinematographers: Alan Dater, Lucy Massie Phenix
FAMILIAR VOICES (North Carolina Premiere)
Saturday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
35 Below
A self-financed documentary covering the reactions to the crisis in Darfur where ongoing genocide has killed nearly half a million people. Its purpose is to empower, not overwhelm its audiences; to engage those audiences in a respectful dialogue, rather than wagging its finger at them; and to help those audiences clearly understand their relationship to this crisis. Old messages regarding responsibility and hope are delivered in new ways - ones that are direct, concrete, and accessible.
Director/Producer: Danny MendozaExecutive Producers: Mimi Belt, William J. Gonzalez Cinematographer: Alan Jeffries
FIGHTING GOLIATH - THE TEXAS COAL WARS (North Carolina Premiere)
Saturday, Noon - 2 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
Co-produced with the Redford Center at Sundance Preserve, Fighting Goliath follows the efforts of the Texas Cities for Clean Air Coalition, which was formed in 2006 to oppose 18 new coal-burning power plants. TXU Corporation withdrew eight of the eleven permit applications shortly before the case went to court.
Directors: Mat Hames, George Sledge Producer: Cara Carney Executive Producer: Jill Tidman Writer: Mat Hames, George Sledge Cinematographer: Shane Kelly, Erik Lauritzen
IMAGINE A SCHOOL… SUMMERHILL
Friday, 3 - 5 pm
35 Below
In 1997, Tony Blair’s Labor Government took steps to live up to its promise to improve standards in education. Ironically this would threaten the existence of an unusual little school called Summerhill. An extraordinary documentary about an exemplary school in England, in which the students and staff take on OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) and Tony Blair’s Labor Government to fight for its existence and alternative education throughout the world. In this up-close lesson in modern government, these remarkable young people were able to see how much they had grown within Summerhill’s unique democratic system.
Director/Executive Producer: William Tyler Smith Producers: Ann Jackman, Emma Broomhead, Morris S. Levy, Jill Gambaro Executive Producer/Cinematographer: J.D. Hoxter
IN A DREAM
Saturday, Noon - 2 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
In A Dream is the story of Isaiah Zagar, the renowned Philadelphia mosaic artist, and his wife Julia. Touching on themes of infidelity, drug-addiction, obsession and ultimately forgiveness, the film explores the joys as well as the pitfalls of a life lived in pursuit of artistic discovery and presents a hopeful portrait of a couple rediscovering the value of their marriage, their family and the dreams they’ve created together.
Director/Producer: Jeremiah Zager Producer: Jeremy Yaches Executive Producers: Geralyn White Dreyfous, Pamela Tanner Boll, Ross Kauffman Cinematographer: Erik Messerschmidt
LIONESS (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 3 - 5 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
They went over as cooks, mechanics, and supply clerks and came back as part of America’s first generation of female combat vets. Lioness presents the untold story of the first group of women soldiers in US history to be sent into direct ground combat, in violation of official policy. Told through intimate accounts, journal excerpts, archive footage, as well as interviews with military commanders, the film follows five women who served together for a year in Iraq fighting in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the war. Together the women’s candid narratives and scenes from their lives back home form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war from a female point of view.
Directors/Producers: Daria Somers, Meg McLagan Cinematographers: Julia Dengel, Kirsten Johnson
LITTLE MISS DEWIE: A DUCKMENTARY (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
In July 2007, Mira Tweti, an animal welfare journalist found an orphaned duckling near her home in southern California and took her home. She named the duck Dewie and planned to give it to a rescue, but Dewie ended up living in Tweti’s apartment for more than two months while she searched for the perfect home. Along the way, the Playboy Mansion and Bel Air Country Club both offered to take Dewie, but in the end, she moved in with Lani and Edward Culver and their duck, Flipper. Dewie and Flipper fell in love shortly afterwards and now the Culvers and Tweti consider themselves to be related by marriage.
Director/Producer: Mira Tweti Cinematographer: JP Sarro
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL: 50 YEARS LATER (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
The wave of desegregation that transformed the South during the 1960s began in Little Rock in September, 1957. After Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling and ordered the National Guard to prevent nine black teenagers from entering Central High School, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops from the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to protect the students as they entered the building. To mark the 50th anniversary of the forced integration of Central High School, this documentary provides a candid look at the lives of contemporary Central High students.
Director/Producer: Craig Renuad Producer/Cinematographer: Brent Renaud Producer: Lisa Heller
Executive Producers: Jon Alpert, Sheila Nevins
LOOKING FOR MS. LOCKLEAR
Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
Using only word of mouth, two lifelong best friends and semi-famous web comedians, Rhett & Link, embark on a search for the long-lost teacher of the first grade class where they met. Their journey leads them deep into the heart of an obscure tribe of Native Americans, the Lumbee of North Carolina. Serendipitously, Rhett & Link arrive on the scene at the very climax of the tribe’s century-long political struggle for identity. In a day of mobile devices that allow for a multitude of superficial connections with other ‘users,’ these unforgettable characters serve as a reminder that people have more to say than an email or text message can communicate.
Directors/Producers: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
MORE SHOES (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
35 Below
A story of Lee Kazimir, a struggling filmmaker who set out to learn what the art of cinema really means by walking across Europe entirely on foot. Traveling from Madrid, Spain to Kiev, Ukraine Lee passes through seven countries along the way. In the 6 month journey, Kazimir overcomes struggles, language barriers, and his own mental isolation while learning some of the greatest lessons in life from people along the way. Through encounters both heartrending and hilarious, Kazimir begins to understand life itself. A true story of how travel at a snail’s pace can change the way you see the world forever.
Director/Producer/Writer: Lee Kazimir
PICKIN & TRIMMIN (North Carolina Premiere)
Saturday, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
35 Below
Down at the Barbershop in Drexel, North Carolina, the atmosphere is laid back, the conversation is free, and the music a cut above the rest. An engagingly genuine slice of old-time Americana that brings people together for instrument pickin’ and hair trimmin’.
Director/Producer: Matt Morris Producer/Cinematographer: Paul Bonesteel
POINT B
Saturday, 3 - 5 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
Parkour is an emerging sport where its athletes go from Point A to Point B overcoming any obstacles impeding their paths using only the human body. The film journeys across the country, over the Atlantic to the birthplace of the sport in France, to England and China. Parkour itself faces many obstacles and its participants discuss the issues that new sports face such as defining themselves, standardization, acceptance, injury, competition, and commercialization.
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Michael Alosi
SQUEEZE BOX
Friday, 8 - 10 pm
35 Below
During the turbulent reign of Giuliani in the 90’s when Times Square was being sold to Disney and sex clubs were shuttered in favor of fast food chains, there was a brief shining moment when drag queens rocked New York nightlife. The epicenter of that moment was SqueezeBox, a weekly pansexual rock and roll party at Don Hill’s night club. Started as a refuge for gay rock and rollers who felt like outsiders in both the gay and rock worlds, the party grew to become a landmark event in nightlife history. What transpired for seven years on the corner of Spring and Greenwich was an often hilarious, always rocking, and frequently debauched assemblage of everything from the ridiculous to the profane.
Directors/Producers: Steven Saporito, Zach Shaffer Co-Director: Sean Pierce Producer: Lyle Derek
THE PERFECT CAPPUCCINO
Friday, 10:30 pm -12:30 am
35 Below
In the country that managed to put a man on the moon, why is it so hard to find a decent cappuccino? In this feature-length personal essay, one American woman’s lifelong obsession with finding the perfect cappuccino pushes her to confront her country’s depressing, distressing ongoing love affair with national brands and corporate culture.
Director/Producer/Writer/Cinematographer: Amy Ferraris
TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI
Saturday, 3 - 5 pm
35 Below
The story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In response to rural women’s problems stemming from a degraded environment, Maathai suggested they plant trees. Starting with this simple act, these women found themselves working successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and violent political oppression, until they became a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya’s 24-year dictatorship. An awe-inspiring profile of Maathai’s thirty-year journey of courage to protect the environment, ensure equality between men and women, defend human rights, and promote democracy, all sprouting from the achievable act of planting trees.
Director/Producer: Lisa Merton Associate Producer: Robin MacArthur Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Alan Dater
THE CLAW (World Premiere)
Friday, 3 - 5 pm
35 Below
The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, now in its 34th year, is a rich New York tradition. Hundreds of thousands of people participate, turning the streets of Manhattan inside out with incredible costumes, collaborations and performances. This original documentary short follows one such costume, its talented creator and the annual commitment she makes to America’s most popular Halloween parade.
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Mary C. Matthews
UNDER OUR SKIN (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 3 - 5 pm
35 Below
It’s bigger than AIDS, West Nile Virus, and Avian Flu combined, yet most physicians don’t recognize it or are afraid to report it. One of the more misunderstood and controversial illness in the history of medicine, Lyme disease is among the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States. Yet each year tens of thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed with such conditions as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and even autism, MS and Alzheimer’s. This documentary investigates the human, medical, and political dimensions of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic destroying countless number of lives.
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Andy Abrahams Wilson
VICTORIA (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 5 - 7 pm
Asheville Community Theatre
A detailed look at an old piano (Victoria) and the people who play her. Located in the St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco, Victoria is visited and played daily by many of San Francisco’s homeless and low-income population. Although being out of tune, missing keys and having broken pedals, Victoria, as one guest says, ‘is just like us, she may be all broken but she still plays, she still has a melody.’ An upright grand that has physically seen a better day and has a mostly unknown history, Victoria, it could be argued, has never sounded so good.
Director/Producer: Charles Sommer
WHY WE SMOKE
Friday, 10:30 pm - 12:30 am
35 Below
Smokers and the experts who study them weigh in on an ironical study of ‘Why We Smoke’. During a year of interviews with smokers, psychologists, media experts, former smokers and a long look at the media promoting smoking, Professor Susan Hogue directed her students to find some answers. What they found was steadfast clinging to smoking, strong evidence about the neurological reasons for smoking, and the cultural support to continue smoking despite the known fact that we are killing ourselves softly with the vapors.
Director/Executive Producer: Susan Hogue Assistant Director: Josh Rose Co-Producers: Annie Cederholm, Ryan Phillips
Feature films at the Asheville Film Festival include
A THOUSAND HILLS (North Carolina Premiere)
Canada
Friday, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
One voice can make all the difference - well, maybe two. Awkward 13-year-old David tries to save his family’s farm from an evil land-developer using the only thing he has - his voice - to make a CD and to win the heart of Kelly, the prettiest girl in school. Rejected, deceived, and robbed, learns who he can trust and who he can’t, as he grows from a boy into a young man. Touching, heartwarming, inspiring - there are a thousand reasons to watch this film. Inspired by true events.
Director: Mary Allison Wilmarth Producer/Writer: Sandra Bowes Executive Producer: Stephen Bowes Associate Producer: Joshua Rance Cast: Art furniss, Douglas Tardif, Jessica Schellenberg
BART GOT A ROOM
Friday, 9 - 11 pm
Diana Wortham Theatre
Danny Stein is an average high-school teenager with one big problem: he can’t find a date for the prom. Danny sets out on a desperate quest to find a prom date, while simultaneously dealing with his recently divorced parents’ neuroses and the burgeoning feelings his best friend Camille has begun to express. Danny’s search becomes progressively more pathetic once he learns that while he is no closer to reaching his goal, Bart (the school’s biggest dweeb) has not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room as well.
Director/Writer: Brian Hecker Producers: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer Executive Producer: Dina Burke Coproducer: Tony Shawkat Cast: Alia Shawkat, Cheryl Hines, Steven Kaplan, William H. Macy
BEING MICHAEL MADSEN
Friday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
Actor Michael Madsen decides to turn the tables on the notorious paparazzo Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of up-and-coming documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant’s life, loves, and troubles.
Director/Producer: Michael Mongillo Producer: Daniel A. Sherkow, Michael Madsen, Taylor Warren Writers: James Charbonneau, Michael Mongillo Cinematographer/DP: Jeff Hoyt Cast: Aamer Haleem, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Davis Mikaels, Debbie Rochon, Doug Tompos, Fuschia Kate Sumner, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Bettw, Jason Alan Smith, Kathy Searle, Lacey Chabert, Madison Michele, Michael Madsen, Paige Davis, Tara Mercurio, Thomas Edward Seymour, Virginia Madsen, Zeke Rippy
4th AND LONG
Friday, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Diana Wortham Theatre
A unique comedy about three high school football fanatics whose obsession with football rules over every part of their lives. Larry, The Chuck, and Coach D are the older fans you see at your high school games who graduated years ago, but never miss a game. These fans can’t quite let go of their glory days. . . even if they never really happened. When their beloved football program is threatened with cancellation, they must find a way to protect all that they love.
Director: Timothy Vandenberg Producer: William Lewis Writers: Billy Lewis, Keith Minor, Mark Darby Robinson, Timothy Vandenberg Cinematographer/DP: William Lewis Cast: Christopher Blanchard, Keith Minor, Mark Darby Robinson
HOMELAND
Friday, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower
A drama with interlocking storylines about our disparate attempts to connect with others and the world around us. Five peoples’ fates become entwined when a soldier returns on furlough from Iraq and with no one to greet him at the airport, he sets out for the wild Northwest coast. His journey intersects with his distant father, his un-met stepmother, a bitter veteran, and a stewardess. As each strays further from his everyday life and a body washes up on the beach, their fates become bound inextricably together. A newfound sense of belonging is forged and, finally, the soldier has something to come back to just in time to return to the real and present war. Director/Producer/Writer: Christopher Young Producer: Crystal MacAlerney Writer: Christopher Young Cinematographers: Diego Diaz, Nils Benson Cast: Elize Du Toit, Fran Kranz, John Gleeson Connolly, Sue Cremin, Whip Hubley
OFF OFF BROADWAY
Friday, 8 - 10 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
Documentary filmmaker Art Ferguson follows playwright Francis Enwright as he produces an avant-garde off-Broadway play.
Director/Producer: Jeff Huston Writers: Benjamin Ellis Fine, David Crabb, Jack Perry, Jeff Huston, Margo Passalaqua, Matt Kerr, Sarah Kozinn Cinematographers: Chris Scarafile, Jeff Huston, Lucas Longacre, Sean Stewart, Seth Pilipski Cast: Benjamin Ellis Fine, David Crabb, Jack Perry, Jeff Huston, Margo Passalaqua, Matt Kerr, Sarah Kozinn
ROUTE 30 (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Diana Wortham Theatre
3 interconnecting stories from South Central Pennsylvania: Deer Hunters Wives tells of the frustrations of Civil War tour guide Mandy, who obsesses on Jennie Wade, the only civilian killed at the battle of Gettysburg. While her friend June struggles with an internet porn scheme to make extra money. What I Believe focuses on a man who seeks the help of a Christian Scientist to heal his back pain and explain the Big Foot that chased him. Original Bill is the story of a writer who buys a rural farmhouse hoping to find unique inspiration to write his novel. He is sidetracked by his Amish neighbor, who smokes, drinks & swears.
Director/Producer/Writer: John Putch Cinematographer: Keith J. Duggan Cast: Christine Elise McCarthy, Curtis Armstrong, Dana Delany, David Deluise, Kevin Rahm, Lee Wilkof, Nathalie Boltt, Robert Romanus
SITA SINGS THE BLUES (North Carolina Premiere)
Saturday, 5 - 7 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower
In this feature length animated film, Sita is a Hindu goddess, the leading lady of India’s epic The Ramayana and a dutiful wife who follows her beloved husband Rama on a 14-year exile to a forest, only to be kidnapped by an evil king from Sri Lanka. Despite remaining faithful to her husband, Sita is put through many tests. Nina (the filmmaker Nina Paley) is an artist who finds parallels in Sita’s life when her husband - in India on a work project - decides to break up their marriage and dump her via email. Three hilarious Indonesian shadow puppets with Indian accents narrate both the ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the epic.
Director/Producer/Writer/Animator: Nina Paley
SPEED DATING
Ireland
Friday, 5 - 7 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower
A heartbroken heir to millions becomes obsessed with speed dating in the search for love and meaning. A brief encounter with a mysterious stranger leaves his amnesiac and suspected in a murder. With help from his quirky friends and family, he must clear his name. . . if he can remember it. Director/Writer: Tony Herbert Producer/Cinematographer: John Conroy Executive Producer: Ned Dowd Cast: David Hayman, Don Wycherly, Emma Choy, Flora Montgomery, Hugh O’Connor, Nora Jane Noone
STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM!
Saturday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Upper
This beach party rock and roll monster movie, set in 1966, intertwines the adventures of an all-girl garage rock band with the legend of Skunk Ape (the Florida Everglades’ version of Bigfoot). When their van breaks down in a small southern beach town, they come across the local police who are investigating a disappearance and unexplainable pile of pungent debris that has washed up on the beach. Through a number of strange events the Violas end up playing at a party in town while a strange and menacing creature appears to be on the loose. Director/Producer/Writer/Editor: Jay Wade Edwards Producers: Arma Benoit, Evan Lieberman Cinematographer: Evan Lieberman Cast: Claire Bronson, Mary Kraft, Cynthia Evans, Jonathan Green
THE CALLER
Saturday, Noon - 2 pm
Diana Wortham Theatre
Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, decides to blow the whistle on his company’s deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be killed for this treason, he anonymously hires the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance. Little does Turlotte know that the man who has hired him and the man he is following are one and the same. A thrilling game of cat and mouse ensues as pieces of the puzzle begin to come together. Director: Richard Ledes Producer: Linda Moran, Rene Bastian Writers: Alain Didier Weill, Richard Ledes Cinematographer/DP: Steven Kazmierski Cast: Eliott Gould, Frank Langella, Laura Harring
THE FLYBOYS
Friday, Noon - 2 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower
Jason and Kyle, two boys from a small town, become embroiled in the adventure of their lives when they discover a mysterious airplane at the local small-town airport. The boys sneak aboard the plane for a look, but are forced to hide in the luggage compartment when two strange men show up. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves airborne. After hours in the air, the boys unwittingly uncover a bomb in the luggage compartment. When they burst into the cabin to report their discovery, they find that everyone on board has bailed out. The boys must take the controls and land the plane themselves. But their troubles are only beginning as Jason and Kyle realize that they’ve foiled a heist to steal millions of dollars from the mob in this high-action, coming-of-age film. Director/Producer/Writer: Rocco DeVilliers Co-Writer; Story By: Richard Dutcher Producer: Dan Urness Cinematographer/DP: Jim Orr Cast: Dallen Gettling, Harrison Young, J. Todd Adams, Jennifer Slimko, Jesse James, Reiley McClendon, Robert Costanzo, Stephen Baldwin, Tom Sizemore
THE UNIDENTIFIED (North Carolina Premiere)
Friday, 4 - 6 pm
Diana Wortham Theatre
Estlin, a young idealist, is thrust into the real world without the protective bubble of college he’s grown accustomed to. His job at a local newspaper doesn’t promote social change and Brooke, his political partner in crime, is leaving Brooklyn for Ohio. Frustrated and lost, he falls for Sophie, a whimsical artist with an optimistic view of life. As their relationship grows, Estlin discovers a dark, secretive undertone to Sophie’s simplistic take on the world. As Estlin pursues the truth, their relationship crumbles, plunging him further into confusion and isolation. With seemingly nowhere else to go, he heads to a protest in Washington, DC. But as he searches for the remains of 1960s idealism, he uncovers the nuanced voice of his own generation. Director/Writer: Kevan Tucker Executive Producers: Charlie Pasquale, Donna Coghlan Producer: Elyse Pasquale Assistant Director: Jay Sgroi Associate Producers: Mitchell Kase, Shawn Dempewolff-Barrett Executive Producer: Nick Briscoe
Producer: Stephen Gifford, Tim O’Neill Cinematographer/DP: Robert Carnevale Cast: Debora Pressman, Erin Euklund, Jack Reiling, Jay Sullivan, Kathryn Rossetter, Lauren Shannon, Robert O’Gorman
TWELVE (North Carolina Premiere)
Saturday, Noon - 2 pm
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower
In 2007, twelve filmmakers entered into a collaborative in which each was assigned a month of the year. Each director was given the task of creating a 6 to 10 minute long film that took place during and was produced during that specific month. At the end of the calendar year, all of the individual stories were edited together to create a unique feature film experience. Directors: Vladimir Minuty, Seanbaker Carter, Scott Masterson, Noah Lydiard, Megan Summers, Marc Colucci, Luke Poling, Joan Meister, Jared Goodman, Garth Donovan, Brynmore Williams, Andy McCarthy Executive Producers: Stece Oare, Scott Masterson Writers: Vladimir Minuty, Seanbaker Carter, Scott Masterson, Noah Lydiard, Megan Summers, Marc Colucci, Luke Poling, Joan Meister, Jared Goodman, Garth Donovan, Brynmore Williams, Andy McCarthy