Stones

In/Significant Others

  • Film Type: Narrative Feature
  • Runtime: 99 min
  • Director: John Schwert
  • Screens with: Screening One | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
  • Drama, Mature Subjects
  • An Iraq War vet returns home to an emotionally disturbed wife, a new father living in the shadow of a successful younger brother, a sister caught up in a web of addiction, and a cameraman who attempts to exploit the reality behind all of their stories, or at least his version of them. The search for truth becomes a life and death struggle as the subtle manipulation of all relationships is exposed.
  • Language, Violence, Drug Reference

Cankered & Cursed

Full Circle: Stitches in Time

  • Film Type: Documentary Short
  • Runtime: 23 min
  • Director: Nicole Wydra
  • Screens with: Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
  • Documentary
  • Why is it hip to stitch? This short documentary explores the reinvention of needlecraft over the last decade, and a renewed passion with young people interested in its fine art applications.
  • Nudity

Inspector 42

Southbound

Imago Wings

My Name Is Belle

  • Film Type: Documentary Short
  • Runtime: 25 min
  • Director: Terri DeBono
  • Screens with: Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
  • Diversity, Documentary, Family Friendly
  • My Name Is Belle is a snapshot of one immigrant's experience through the eyes of a 7-year-old child. Belle Yang, artist and writer, uses herself as the model for the fictional pig-tailed girl in her book HANNAH IS MY NAME.  Belle, as Hannah, arrives from Taiwan and faces change and loneliness - the difficulty of learning a new language, a new culture, even a new name, and of living with tension while waiting for green cards, longing to be citizens.  The film dips into past and present using Belle's storytelling and bright paintings to tell her story.
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Kavi

Kidnap

We Must Remember

The Haymaker

  • Film Type: Narrative Short
  • Runtime: 24 min
  • Director: Daniel D'Alimonte
  • Screens with: Screening Three | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
  • Action, Drama, Mature Subjects, Student Film
  • Trevor Morgan (The Sixth Sense, Mean Creek) plays a valueless teenager looking for an easy way out. Chris Butler (The Good Wife, Rescue Dawn) is a young boxing trainer with a chip on his shoulder when Davis walks into his gym for lessons on how to punch someone out. Now, George has to bring Davis from reckless youth to disciplined adult before the adolescent realizes that boxing is no easy way out. A graduate thesis production from Chapman University.
  • Strong Language, Violence, Drug Reference

Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

Listen to Your Heart

Heal

The Birds Upstairs

Looking For An Audience

  • Film Type: Documentary Short
  • Runtime: 37 min
  • Director: Steve Rosen
  • Screens with: Screening Five | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
  • Documentary
  • In this road-trip adventure, veteran filmmakers Terri DeBono and Steve Rosen travel to three international film festivals to screen their feature documentary, BOYHOOD SHADOWS - I Swore I’d Never Tell. “Hilarious and gut-wrenching”,  LOOKING FOR AN AUDIENCE chronicles the trials and tribulations of attracting an audience to a social-issue film that nobody wants to see.
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Repeat After Me

  • Film Type: Narrative Short
  • Runtime: 18 min
  • Director: Bryan Bangerter
  • Screens with: Screening Five | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
  • Comedy, Family Friendly, Local Film, Romance, Student Film
  • Two unsuspecting twenty-somethings, literally invade each others' brains through the intervention of a meteorological act of fate. Andrew and Greg have accidentally hijacked each others' tongues, which is, as it turns out, not nearly as fun as one would guess. The worst case scenarios invariably happen, and as they struggle to lead their daily lives as 'brain twins', every word is a potential disaster.
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Law American Style

Boy on the Moon

  • Film Type: Narrative Short
  • Runtime: 18 min
  • Director: Alex Carr
  • Screens with: Screening Six | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
  • Drama, Local Film, Student Film
  • An original film that confronts head-on the myriad challenges of adolescence when it comes to dealing with family, friends, and the demands of the society of which they are soon to become a part. With touching honesty, “Boy on the Moon” takes on serious topics like disenfranchisement, alienation, self-esteem issues, and finding one's place on planet Earth.
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Run

What's Up?

  • Film Type: Documentary Short
  • Runtime: 8 min
  • Director: Kim Sheridan
  • Screens with: Screening Six | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
  • Local Film
  • What’s Up? tackles one of the more controversial environmental issues in today’s world, and it does so not by preaching or making demands but by asking questions and suggesting actions. It’s just a small film, but the information it presents has the potential to make a big difference.
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World of Wargames

  • Film Type: Narrative Short
  • Runtime: 15 min
  • Director: Tarek Albaba
  • Screens with: Screening Six | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
  • Action, Drama, Local Film, Mature Subjects
  • A fast action film that portrays two elite units of warriors from two opposing countries ... and their unique high tech means of settling an international conflict. The fate of the free world will be determined by a single battle of wits and skill, with an explosive conclusion!
  • Language

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