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Genre: Mature Subjects

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

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

We Must Remember

Film Type: Documentary Short
Runtime: 32 min
Director: Douglas Green
Screens with: Screening Twenty-Seven | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Screening Three | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Best of Show
Documentary, Local Film, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Nominated for Best Documentary Short: Sixteen American high school filmmakers share their life-altering experiences discovering the Holocaust.
Some 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

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

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

Excluded

Film Type: Documentary Feature
Runtime: 46 min
Director: Lisa Nunn
Screens with: Screening Six | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011
Diversity, Documentary, Local Film, Mature Subjects
Tony and Thomas are an average couple—deeply committed to each other. Unlike most couples, their life together is threatened because they’re from two different countries. Torn from the US and battling to come home, they now live as nomads. They have little left but the road. Follow their 16-year journey of immigration struggle and exclusion.
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The Test

Film Type: Documentary Feature
Runtime: 51 min
Director: Gary Strieker
Screens with: Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Screening Twenty-Six | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - Best of Show
Documentary, Ethnic, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: Knowing changes everything if it’s an HIV test in Kenya. Nearly 50,000 came forward to be tested for HIV in Kakamega, Kenya in a ground-breaking campaign aimed to combat the area’s three biggest public health threats at once: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrheal disease. Watch how a whole community’s stigma towards HIV positive people changes for good.
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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

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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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

Journey Home

Film Type: Documentary Short
Runtime: 11 min
Director: Monty Marsh
Screens with: Screening Eleven | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Screening Twenty-Eight | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm , Sunday, April 10, 2011, Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Best of Show
Documentary, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Documentary Short: Monty Marsh's journey home to Africa forces him to confront the horrors that his ancestors endured during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, as well as bring about many questions of what it means to be Black in America today. Unknowingly, he is confronted with an even more grim reality - modern day slavery.
Language, Violence

May I Be Frank

Film Type: Documentary Feature
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Cary Mosier
Screens with: Screening Eleven | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Screening Twenty-Five | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - Best of Show
Diversity, Documentary, Ethnic, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: A total transformation of a down-and-nearly-out in a very candid manner who seeks to fulfill his desire to be loved.
Strong Language, Nudity, Some Violence

The Response

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

Easier Ways to Make A Living

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

Elmer Gantry

Film Type: Narrative Feature
Runtime: 146 min
Director: Richard Brooks
Screens with: Screening Thirteen | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011
Drama, Mature Subjects
Based on the powerful Sinclair Lewis novel, this film is as watchable today as it was when it won 3 Academy Awards in 1960. It’s the story of a con-man preacher, (Burt Lancaster, best actor) a beautiful Evangelist, (Jean Simmons) and a prostitute (Shirley Jones, best supporting actress) whose lives intertwine in a way that will keep you enthralled right up to the end. Shirley Jones will join us in the theater for a Q&A after the screening.
Some Violence

Jeremy

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 31 min
Director: Brian Faye
Screens with: Screening Twenty-Seven | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011, Screening Fourteen | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Nominated for Best Student Film: When his incarcerated father is transferred to a distant prison, fourteen year-old Jeremy must face life alone with his game-show addicted mother and two violent, older half-brothers. Alone in the bleakest trailer park west of Texas, Jeremy scours heaven and Earth for the love and light he so desperately craves.
Some Violence

The Desperate

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 33 min
Director: Ben Hur Sepehr
Screens with: Sunday, April 10, 2011, Screening Fourteen | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Drama, Ethnic, Mature Subjects
In a concentration camp, a Nazi general is forced to plead with a condemned Jewish doctor to save his son’s life.
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Living for 32

Film Type: Documentary Short
Runtime: 40 min
Director: Kevin Breslin
Screens with: Sunday, April 10, 2011, Screening Sixteen | 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Documentary, Mature Subjects
Nominated for Best Documentary Short: Living for 32 is the inspirational story of Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre—the tragic gun-shooting incident on the Virginia Tech campus in April 2007, which left 32 dead and 17 injured. Colin shares an intimate account of terror he and his classmates endured and the courageous journey of renewal and hope he chose to pursue.
Some Violence

The Visions of Dylan Bradley

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 17 min
Director: Christine Vartoughian
Screens with: Sunday, April 10, 2011, Screening Seventeen | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Comedy, Mature Subjects, Romance, Student Film
As a result of an explosive childhood accident, sixteen-year-old Dylan
Bradley doesn't always see “eye to eye” with the world until one
remarkable day when she falls in love with a sweet Christian boy and
schemes to get the one thing he won't give her: sex.
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Genre: Mature Subjects

In/Significant Others

Kavi

We Must Remember

The Haymaker

The Birds Upstairs

Law American Style

World of Wargames

Excluded

The Test

The Unnatural

Cellular

Sharfik

Bathing & the Single Girl

Between Floors

Journey Home

May I Be Frank

The Response

Easier Ways to Make A Living

Elmer Gantry

Jeremy

The Desperate

Living for 32

The Visions of Dylan Bradley

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