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Genre: Drama

Stones

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 20 min
Director: Ty Sanga
Screens with: Screening One | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Twenty-Eight | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm , Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Ethnic, Fantasy, Student Film, Supernatural
In mythical Hawaii, a family is torn between preserving their native land and embracing a new people and culture.
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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

Inspector 42

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 26 min
Director: Nathan Lee
Screens with: Screening Twenty-Three | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Romance
Nominated for Best Narrative Short: A 1950s shirt safety inspector approves several un-safe shirts to meet a quota and impress a girl. When the shirts cause a series of horrific disasters, Inspector 42 must decide if he is willing to come clean and face the consequences of his actions.
Some Violence

Imago Wings

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 11 min
Director: Jaime Fidalgo
Screens with: Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011
Drama, Foreign Film, Student Film
A man and a boy ask the same question from different perspectives with fated results: Do you want to learn to fly?
Some Violence

Kavi

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 19 min
Director: Gregg Helvey
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Ethnic, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Nominated for Best Student Film: The 2010 Oscar® nominated short film, Kavi, is about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.
Violence

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

Listen to Your Heart

Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Matt Thompson
Screens with: Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Twenty-Four | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Screening Four | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Best of Show
Diversity, Drama, Family Friendly, Romance
Winner Audience Choice Award: A touching musical drama that follows struggling songwriter Danny
Foster (Kent Moran) and a wealthy hearing-impaired girl (Alexia
Rasmussen) as they fall in love against all odds and the wishes of her
controlling mother (Cybill Shepherd). Ariana becomes torn between
hanging onto the shelter her mother provides and fighting for a love
that might just change her life.
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Heal

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 24 min
Director: Mian Adnan Ahmad
Screens with: Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Twenty-Six | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Screening Four | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Family Friendly, Foreign Film, Student Film, Supernatural
Winner 2011 Frank Capra Award: In a region devastated by war and deprived of normal schooling, a young boy Azeem finds he has an extraordinary gift. While his village's bare minimum setup for a school provides some relief for the children, when its lone teacher is hit hard by the conflict, it is up to Azeem to do everything he can to help him.
Some Violence

The Birds Upstairs

Film Type: Animation
Runtime: 9 min
Director: Christopher Jarvis
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Five | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Nominated for Best Student Film: Frustrated attempts to bear children overwhelm the lives of an aristocratic avian couple of the early 19th century.
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Law American Style

Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 42 min
Director: Jeremy Saville
Screens with: Screening Twenty-Seven | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Five | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Local Film, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Narrative Feature: A compelling tale about a lawyer who seeks to elude justice and the outlaw who wishes to deliver it. Written, directed and starring Jeremy Saville as Archie Leech, this hilarious comedy also features Melinda Bennett as his vengeance girlfriend, Kinga Phillips as the femme fatale for hire, and Eugene Alper as a conflicted Russian mobster.
Language, Some Violence

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

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 2 min
Director: Kevin Andersen
Screens with: Screening Six | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Drama, Local Film, Student Film
Kids are running in a small town. Find out why in this film “RUN”.
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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

The Unnatural

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 19 min
Director: Eric Day
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Drama, Mature Subjects, Science Fiction
Jeremiah Sloane works for a company that grows genetically engineered humans and sells them to the upper echelon of society. When the human product deviates from designed behavior, Jeremiah Sloane is called in to "retire" the product. His first appointment of the day -- a male cross-dressing J-9 unit that he promptly euthanizes. His second appointment is with a lawyer and her J-3 unit. He discovers as he suspected; they're engaged in sexual relations.
Language, Some Violence

King Eternal

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

Pumzi

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 24 min
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Diversity, Drama, Foreign Film, Science Fiction
Nominated for Best Narrative Short: Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which water scarcity has extinguished life above ground, this sci fi short follows one museum curator's quest to investigate the possibility of germinating seeds beyond the confines of her repressive subterranean culture.
Some Violence

Cellular

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

Sharfik

Film Type: Animation
Runtime: 13.5 min
Director: Karina Gazizova
Screens with: Screening Twenty-Four | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Screening Nine | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Best of Show
Animation, Drama, Foreign Film, Mature Subjects
Winner Best Animation: This film is about one family. There's nothing too special about this family except they happen to live during the period of World War II. The most unbearable siege sucks the last drop of life out of a once warm family. The true strength of oneself is reached in the difficult times, when it is needed most.
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Swing

Film Type: Animation
Runtime: 4 min
Director: Yen-Ting Kuo
Screens with: Screening Twenty-Three | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Screening Ten | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Best of Show
Animation, Drama, Foreign Film, Student Film
Nominated for Best Animation: While enjoying a swing on the roof, an elderly patient is reminded of the value of his life.
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Bathing & the Single Girl

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 11 min
Director: Christine Elise McCarthy
Screens with: Saturday, April 9, 2011, Screening Ten | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Comedy, Drama, Mature Subjects, Romance
Bathing & the Single Girl is a ten minute raw & irreverent comedy about the horrors of dating - and bathing with - younger men. Grandma's advice to "overlook a little" can lead a gal to places she never intended. Should we date people we can talk ourselves into - or wait for someone we cannot talk ourselves out of?
Strong Language

Between Floors

Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Jen White
Screens with: Saturday, April 9, 2011, Screening Ten | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Drama, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Narrative Feature: Shot entirely in hour-long, structured improvisations, Between Floors intercuts between five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. Each elevator becomes an existential purgatory, forcing its occupants to not only confront their isolation, but themselves and each other in varied and unexpected ways.
Language

The Eater

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 11.5 min
Director: Niko Hronopoulos
Screens with: Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011
Comedy, Diversity, Drama, Family Friendly
A competitive eating champ well past his glory days must recapture the taste of victory by mentoring a brash upstart.
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The Broken Heart Of Gnocchi Bolognese

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 18 min
Director: Katherine Vondy
Screens with: Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011
Comedy, Drama, Family Friendly, Romance, Student Film
When Gnocchi Bolognese decides to act on her infatuation with an actor from her local theater troupe, the pursuit of romance leads down a tragicomic road to the origins of her unusual name.
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Genre: Drama

Stones

In/Significant Others

Inspector 42

Imago Wings

Kavi

The Haymaker

Listen to Your Heart

Heal

The Birds Upstairs

Law American Style

Boy on the Moon

Run

World of Wargames

The Unnatural

King Eternal

Pumzi

Cellular

Sharfik

Swing

Bathing & the Single Girl

Between Floors

The Eater

The Broken Heart Of Gnocchi Bolognese

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