Feature Films
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SWEET
DEADLY DREAMS | Best Picture l Director: Walter
Stewart |
• Taylor, an unemployed,
burned-out ex-special-forces commando, hopes to scrounge a couple of bucks
on a simple package delivery. But he finds that the gig’s not so
cut-and-dried. It’s a murder, and it leads him into a confusing maze
of intrigue, deception, and death where he must answer a single question
to survive: What happened to the last novel of Evelyn St. James?
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StandAlone
| 2nd Place Feature Film l Director: Sean Hagan |
• Standalone is
the story of the Wrongmen, con artists, out of work actors and petty criminals
hired to become 'decoys' for drug traffickers and major organized crime
leaders.
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The Park
l Best Picture
l Director: Chris Schwager l 9:00 •
A wounded hit man collapses in a park convinced his number is up when an
experience transforms his life forever.
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Twice
Removed l 2ND
Place l Director:
Heather Hughes l 17:18 •
Such ordinary things make Lucy afraid. Sunshine, white roses, children with
bloned hair and the name, Perry, such and ordinary name.
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Fault
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3rd Place
l Director:
Justin Swibel l 15:00 • A poignant, disturbing,
and darkly funny short film about a rich American boy who attacks his tennis
instructor.
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The
Drunkard
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Finalist
l Director:
Julie
Eshbaugh l 18:00 • Levittown,
1960. Eight-year-old Larry Delaney is sent along to the wake of his father's
best friend, in hopes he might prevent his father from drinking. In the
face of this impossible task, Larry's ingenuity surprises.
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Sunshine
l Best Picture
l Director: Andrei Diakov l 18:00 •
A young girl, suffering from her mother's recent death and her father's
involvement with a new girlfriend, returns after a long absence to the family's
weekend home, where she encounters and befriends a mysterious creature that
she discovers hiding under her bed.
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The Thief of Souls
l 2nd Place l Director:Tee McKnight l 31:00 •
In order to gain closure for the loss of his
sister, a southern man moves to Los Angeles with his best friend and befriends
a girl who practices witchcraft and has ties to the supernatural.
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Final Sale
l Best Picture l Director: Julie Hermelin l
12:11 • When two
best friends get into a fight at a trendy clothing store sale a massive
kung fu showdown ensues.
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The Devil &
Manny Schmeckstein
l 2nd Place
l Director: Jim
Goodman l 6:35 •When washed-up
comedian Manny Schmeckstein dies, he goes to hell for a lifetime's worth
of bad jokes. But the Devil gives Manny a shot at redemption. If he can
get one laugh.
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Masculine
Certainty l 3rd Place l Director: Istvan Toth l 15:00
• A guy wakes up to an
empty bed and a hand written note from his finance. In his head he searches
for meaning between the lines of the note. Is she really gone to meet
her friends for the weekend or something worse?
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Success
is Mine l Finalist l Directors: Ly Bolia, Annie Rimbey,Christian
Lockerman l 8:00 • An
inspirational speaker, JESSE THOMAS, while selling his tapes door to door,
unwittingly inspires a potential serial killer to act on her desire TO
KILL. Properly motivated she chooses him as her first victim. Trapped
in the house he scrambles to escapes with his life.
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Documentary:
FEATURES AND SHORTS
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Searching
for Angela Shelton l Best Documentary l Director:
Angela Shelton
l •Filmmaker
Angela Shelton discovers that 16 out of the 32 Angela Sheltons she spoke
to had been raped, beaten or molested, herself included. Then there is an
Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and lives in the same town as
the filmmaker’s father who is a child molester and it was Father's
Day. Whether you know it or not, you probably know someone who was sexually
abused and this movie is helping to break the silence by confronting the
past. [watch clip]
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The Watershed
l Finalist l
Director: Mary
Trunk l 'In order to survive...you kind of have
to kid yourself, otherwise you'd never get through it.' Faced with the
extraordinary trauma of losing both parents to alcoholism and divorce,
seven siblings form a unique family structure as they struggle to feed
themselves, pay bills and prevent outsiders from discovering the severity
of their circumstances.
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Feels Like
Home : An Appalachian Journey
l Best Picture
Doc Shortl Director:
Heavenly Littleton
l 13:30 • Feels Like Home is an Appalachian journey
through song. Through a stunning visual tour of rural Appalachia and a retrospective
of vocal performers, the documentary takes the audience through the roots
of the unaccompanied Appalachian folk song into the active preservation
of the song style today.
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THE NOODLE
MAN l 3rd Place l Director:
BERT SHAPIRO l •
Set in New York City, a faced paced look at the life of a man who makes
Chinese noodles for a living.
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Sadaa E
Zan: Voices of Women l Best Documentary:
Women's Issues l Director:
Renee Bergan l •
Sadaa E Zan collects the voices of several Afghan women living in Kabul,
Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. In a land where 50% of women are widows
and nearly everyone has lost a family member, these brave women, of all
ages, recount their struggles and victories from living under 23 years of
war. From the Soviet invasion to the Civil War to the extremist Taliban,
be it fighting, poverty, rape or seclusion, women were always the first
victims. How did they survive? Several reveal their stories of rebellion,
be it housing an illegal home school for girls, hidden work training programs,
an underground beauty parlor or a refugee medical clinic. Most of the women,
despite their hardships, did not lose their morale and spirit. However,
family loss and suffering has taken a deep toll on society as a whole and
women are learning that psychological damage is now their new enemy.
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Pest l Best
Student Film
l Director: Alissa Cattabrigg
l 2:00 •
Investigations of strange noises in a kitchen lead to a startling discovery.
Sometimes there are more devious forces behind the usual pests of the
night.
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Love
Sick & Love Sick 2 l Best
Student Animation
l Director: Tsaiyun Mou
l •It's
a story about a girl who has a crush on a boy but has difficulities in
expressing her feelings. When she gets the boy's attention, things go
awry. *[Can also be viewed via 1KTV - Sprint multi-media phones.]
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Goodnight
Charlie l 2nd
Place
l Director: Danny Daneau
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boy on the verge of leaving the fantasies of childhood behind forever
has a last conversation with his teddy bear.
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The
Break l 3rd
Place
l Director: Geri Ulrey
l 27:00•
Living in an eccentric co-op where nothing
is left untested, Jenny finds herself at that fragile time in life when
everything is new, responsibility overwhelms, and boundaries are hard
to define.
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Or
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Finalist l Director:
Jon Kim l 4:00 •
'Or' is a fiction about fiction. It emulates narrative structured film
and questions the authenticity of fiction by creating and breaking the
world of imagination-vapor, apples, a pen and the fragile reality, fiction.
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Children's
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T'was Night Before
Christmas
l Best
Picture
l Director: Mary
Engelbreit l 23:00 •
Clement C. Moore's classic
'Twas the Night Before Christmas has never been more enchanting and colorful
than in beloved artist Mary Engelbriet's telling of this story, brought
magically alive in full 3-D CGI animation with Dobly 5.1 surround sound.
Academy Award winner Kevin Kline, as Papa, narrates this classic children's
favorite. **Support Your Indie Filmmaker: Buy
The DVD**
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Screenplay |
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HAT
TRICK l Writer: Robert
Gately l
Comedy •Two middle-aged men run naked
down the field during the Super Bowl, providing interference for their
football buddy and helping him atone for a fumble he made 30 years ago
during a NFL championship game. While planning this journey they show
us with their passion for living that retirement can be the most exciting
time of our lives.
Robert Gately:
Screenwriter
Robert left a lucrative career from AT&T in '98 to follow a life's
dream to write full time. Since then, Robert has become an award winning
screenwriter recognized in more than 85 theatre, screenplay and novel
competitions around the country for his 8 screenplays, 2 stage plays and
novel to be released in Spring of 2005 by Sun Rising publishing. In addition,
Robert's acting career since 1998 has boasted 14 appearances in feature
lenght films and a notable lead in a film titled FRAME, which won 'Best
Dramatic Short' at the Houston Worldfest in 2002. [ MovieBytes
Interview]
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FINAL SALE
l Director: Julie
Hermelin l
12:11 • When two
best friends get into a fight at a trendy clothing store sale a massive
kung fu showdown ensues. |
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THE
PAWN l Director:
The Moser Brothers l 18:00 •
I saw your film THE PAWN and I really liked it...I liked the atmosphere,
and the fact that you can really "feel" what this woman feels,
all her pain...I also liked the fact that everything is suggested, that
there isn't a lot of dialogue, it makes the atmosphere heavier..."--Maud
Bonassi, Premium Films, Paris, France *[watch The Pawn on Sprint multi-media
phones on 1KTV - Zoie Celluar Cinema Festival!] |
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Sadaa
E Zan: Voices of Women l 2nd Place Feature Documentary l
Director:
Renee Bergan
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Sadaa E Zan collects the voices of several Afghan women living in Kabul,
Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. In a land where 50% of women are widows
and nearly everyone has lost a family member, these brave women, of all
ages, recount their struggles and victories from living under 23 years of
war. From the Soviet invasion to the Civil War to the extremist Taliban,
be it fighting, poverty, rape or seclusion, women were always the first
victims. How did they survive? Several reveal their stories of rebellion,
be it housing an illegal home school for girls, hidden work training programs,
an underground beauty parlor or a refugee medical clinic. Most of the women,
despite their hardships, did not lose their morale and spirit. However,
family loss and suffering has taken a deep toll on society as a whole and
women are learning that psychological damage is now their new enemy.
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Why
I Walk for Aids l Best PSA
l Director: Eric Booth & Yves-Michel Fontaine
l :30 •
Several men on the street answering the question 'why do you walk for
AIDS?
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VIDEOS |
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Troy
Dillinger's 'Dirty & Hairy' Film Festival l
Best Music Video - Experimental l •
10 Austin Filmmakers. One Austin Musician. 11 Great Short Films. Austin
Musician Troy Dillinger teams up with 10 Austin Filmmakers and 35 local
businesses to create a collection of shorts based on his new CD “Dirty
& Hairy”.
 Troy
Dillinger: Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Executive Producer, Original
Music/Composer
Born in Canton, OH, Troy Dillinger moved to Austin, TX with his parents
at the age of 8. He recieved an acoustic guitar for Christmas when he
was 13 and began learning bass parts on the pawn shop instrument. 3 years
and 2 lessons later, he was performing professionally by night and attending
high school by day, joining the high school jazz band as a "ringer"
and to get out of regular classes. His role as bass player for the Austin
band "The Urge," provided an opportunity for him to play in
Austin clubs and build his reputation as a musician. He then joined "Chinese
Cowboys" with Fastball's Miles Zuniga, followed by a stint with "Steel
Power," a Soca & Calypso band with members from Trinidad &
Tobago. His first International tour came at the age of 18, with LA wild
man Dino Lee's "Godz Among Men." Dillinger then began the process
of building a name for himself as a solo artist. Since 1999, he has toured
the US primarily as a solo acoustic act, and has self-released 3 additional
CDs. A fourth, the unreleased "Vivre," which features Stephen
Bruton (Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan), Jon Dee Graham (True
Believers, John Doe), Bruce Hughes (Poi Dog Pondering, Cracker, Bob Schneider),
was co-produced by Dillinger, Bruton, and Oscar/Grammy winner Chet Himes.
Today Troy Dillinger has honed his songwriting and performance to a wistful,
silly, energetic and engaging informal relationship with his audience.
After nearly 20 years as a professional musician/frontman/songwriter,
Dillinger is as jaded as you might expect and has been called "one
of those famous musicians you never heard of." [more]
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The
Prom Kings: 'Alone' l 2nd
place l Director: Ahmi Manson l 3:45 • A woman visits
her son's father in prison. She has come to tell him that they are moving
on and she is starting her own life. Instead she finds herself trapped in
his nightmare.
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Shining
Hour l 3RD
place l Directors: Brandon Li & Greg de Deugd l 4:14•The
members of Renata Jackson hijack the airwaves, which are controlled by
a major media conglomerate, in order to get their song played across the
nation. But the giant corporation fights back.
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The Trial of Jack l Best Picture
l Director: Shari Berman
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The 'Trial of Jack' is from an imagined era of film history. It combines
the style of the Expressionists of the late 1920s with the technology of
the late 1950s to create '3-D Expressionism.'
This motion picture is a 'just-so' story about a Jack-in-the-box in which
a doll named Jack believes his stardom puts him above the law. However,
the other toys in the playroom have different ideas.
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One Balloon
l 2nd Place l Director:
Aruna Naimji
l 6:00 •
One Balloon is the surreal tale of how a woman's biological clock impacts
her quest for knowledge, relationships and identity. This short 35 mm film
combines live-action with traditional stop-motion animation, and features
origional music by Aram Hekinian. Also features the music of Aphex Twin,
Depeche Mode and the Scissor Sisters..
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Bathing
l 3rd Place l Director:
Julija Naskova
l 4:00 •
The act of a beautiful woman combining her long transcends into a ritual
of self-love and purification.
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Fecund
l Finalist l Director: David
J. Trembly l 6:00 •
This video short is an expression of the body as a landscape of desire and
memory. The surprising arrival of middle age has lead me to examine my relationship
with my body and sexual drive.
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Las
Viandas (Spain) l Best Comedy l Director:
José-Antonio Bonet
l 20:00 •
In a restaurant lost in the middle of the mountains, a new diner comes
in. He doesn't want to eat much, but Papandreu, the chef, will insist
so he tastes all his best and surreal dishes. Comedy? Horror?
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DIE Uberraschung
(Germany) l 2nd Place Comedy l Director:
Lancelot von Naso
l 10:30 •
A film about the unexpected - between comedy and drama there is sometimes
more than suprise. Olaf is trying to get his girlfriend back. Who will be
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Cuadrilátero
(Quadrilateral) (Spain) l Best Dramatic Short l
Director: José-Antonio
Bonet l 16:00 •
Four characters with no name, incapable of expressing their feelings,
love each other without being loved.
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seXyShorts Winners |
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Saliva
l Best SeXyShort
l Director:
Pandora Castelli l 5:20 • Intimate
scenes of a marriage. A frustrated husband's struggle with his wife's sexual
requirements. At times limits bring happiness... |
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Girls of Dragon
Con
l 2nd Place
SeXyShort l
Director: Todd Simpson l 3:50 • Every
years thousands of geeks, nerds and half naked women descend on Atlanta,
Georgia for one reason, to attend Dragon Don. Luminares from the fields
of Sci-Fi and Fantasy always attend Con. They sign autographs, answer
questions - but the real reason to go to Con can be summed up in one word.
Girls.
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