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Genre: Action

The Haymaker

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 24 min
Director: Daniel D'Alimonte
Screens with: Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Three | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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

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

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 15 min
Director: Ori Guendelman
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Action, Drama, Fantasy, Student Film, Supernatural
On their rite of passage journey, two life-long friends enter the jungle unaware of an ancient being that awaits them.
Violence

Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 95 min
Director: David Ellis
Screens with: Screening Eight | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Action, Drama, Mature Subjects
This 2004 thriller starring Kim Basinger and William H. Macy cleverly fleshes out the premise of a cell phone being the connection between two strangers, and takes it from there. It's fast-paced and inventive and even its dodgier moments are hilarious. Director David Ellis will introduce the film and conduct a Q&A. Don’t forget to turn off YOUR cell phones.
Strong Language, Violence

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 14 min
Director: Andrew Spieler
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Action, Diversity, Drama, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Winner Best Student Film: In the early hours of the 1992 LA Riots, Shauna, a seasoned African-American paramedic is forced to confront an incensed and dangerous mob after her idealistic white partner, Rick, violates protocol in hopes of saving a severely wounded child.
Strong Language, Violence

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 21 min
Director: Kevin Barile
Screens with: Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011
Action, Drama
A prisoner who is highly trained in the art of combat must break out of his cell, fight the guards and rescue his best friend, Benny, from the mysterious people holding them hostage before they both suffer an inevitable death.
Language, Violence

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 27 min
Director: Adam Randall
Screens with: Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011
Action, Drama, Mature Subjects
Embroiled in an abduction case, tough, sociopathic private eye Hennessey is brutally assaulted and finds himself lying crippled in his own office. In a visceral, unbearably tense fight for his own life and that of an abducted heiress, Hennessey must use every ounce of his cunning to engage and outwit the scarred psyche of his assailant.
Strong Language, Violence