The Short Films F-M for 2003        A-E & N-Z

 
Saturday, August 2, 5 PM: SHORTS Vi
EMERSON COLLEGE LATENT IMAGE AWARDS SELECTION
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Genre: Drama

FOIL

Description: In reuniting with a childhood friend, a girl learns a valuable lesson about growing up and growing apart.

Year: 2003, Length: 6 minutes, Format (orig): 16mm/color, Format (screening): BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, USA 
Production Company: Hippopotamus Math Productions, Director/Writer: Julie Cohen, Producer: Alexandra Weinberg, DP: Stefanie Valenzky, Composer: Wilson Ligon, Editor: Andrew Curtis and Julie Cohen

Cast: Molly Crana, Sophie Rich, Madeline Nally, Ann Moffett, Andrew Curtis and Cara Crandall

Print Source: 
Phone: 617-480-9751
Email: jewels213aol.com 

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Saturday July 26, 9 PM: SHORTS II 
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station 
Genre: short drama (* in competition)

FOURTEEN

Description: 14 year old Meredith tries to maintain a religious vow of silence during a Thanksgiving holiday with her chatty, agnostic family.

Premiere: New England Premiere,Year: 2002, Length: 18 min., Shot on: 35mm/color, Screening on: 35mm, State and Country of Origin: Kentucky, U.S.A.
Production Company: Wandering Productions, Director/Writer: Thomas Southerland, Jr. , Producer: Sang Min Lee, DP: Bradford Whitaker, Composer: Robb Navrides, Editor: Maria Sanders

Cast: Kelli O'Brien, Robbie Troy, Laura Leigh Hughes

Print Source:  Wandering Productions
Address: 560 East High St. #2, Lexington, Kentucky 40502
Phone:  859-268-0215
Email: thomsouthyahoo.com

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Friday, August 1, 9 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Genre: short drama

FREEBOX
(Work in Progress)

Description: At a residential school for troubled kids on a windswept New England island, an HIV+ teen from the Bronx prepares revenge against a bullying student.   His unlikely mentor, a local boat mechanic, struggles to protect the boy and keep him from hurting others. 

Year: WIP/2003, Length: 21 min., Shot on: 24P HD/color Screening on: High Def, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Production Company: Central Productions,Director/Writer: Shandor Garrison, Producer: Mike Bowes, DP: Melissa Donovan, Composer: Alloy Orchestra, Editor: Cherry Enoki

Cast: Stephen Girouard, Adam Soto, Maiana Borsody

Print Source: Central Productions
Address:  PO Box 381355, Cambridge, MA  02238
URL: www.centralproductions.org
Phone:  617-842-6372

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Sunday, July 27, 7 PM 
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Boston Irish Film Festival award winner - Best Short Animation

FROM DARKNESS

Description: Based on the ancient Inuit legend of the Skeleton Woman, Nora Twomey’s From Darkness is an imaginative and lyrical tale about a lonely fisherman who drifts into haunted waters. The beautiful animation blends traditional hand-drawn figures with computer generated backgrounds.

Year: 2003, Length: 9 min., Shot on: XX/color, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country Origin: Ireland, Director: Nora Twomey

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Saturday July 26, 7 PM: SHORTS I
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre: short fantasy / musical (* in competition)

THE GIRL I USED TO SEE 
WHO STOLE MY LOVE FROM ME

Description: Harry and Charlie broke up four months ago. When Charlie tries to get him back, she ends up leaving with something else. A quirky spin on a musical comedy.

Year:2002, Length: 15:30 min., Shot on: 16mm/color, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Production Company: Brown Paper Productions, Director/Writer: Alan Wong, Producer: Stephanie Albrycht, DP: Virginia Geckler, Composer: Alan Wong, Editor: Brendan Provost

Cast: Rachel Clift, Doug Gordon, Mary Jane Doherty, Erika Dyer, Jim Talbot

Print Source: Brown Paper Productions
Address:  3 Flanagan Drive, Framingham, MA 01701
Phone:  508-877-8016
Email:  alandwongrcn.com

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Wednesday July 30, 5 PM 
CAPE COD SELECTION
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Friday, August 1st, 9 PM: SHORTS IV 
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre: short fantasy (* in competition)

HOLD ON

Description: It is 16 hours and 35 seconds before the new millennium.  A contest to win a mint condition 1966 Mustang convertible begins.  The Master of Ceremonies urges his daydreaming contestants to continue holding on to the car that can deliver them their dreams as a shamanesque documentary filmmaker chronicles the event.  Reality TV meets the Twilight Zone.

Premiere: New England Premiere, Year: 2002, Length: 37 min., Shot on: High Def. Screening on: BetaSP,State and Country of Origin: California, U.S.A.
Production Company: Glowen Pictures, Director/Writer: Glenn Ripps, Producer: Glenn Ripps; Guy Peires, Doug John, DP: Guy Peires, Composer: Steve Reich, Editor: Glenn Ripps, Mike Trahan, Chuckie Luongo

Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Daniel Masterson, Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Bryan Kirkwood, Denny Lee Kirkwood, Trevor Lissauer, Vincent Riverside

Print Source:  Glowen Pictures
Address:  1825 Ivar Ave., Apt 101, Los Angeles, California 90028
Phone:  323-687-4370
Email:  glennrippshotmail.com

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Thursday July 31, 9 PM: SHORTS III
Location:  Redfield Auditorium
Genre: short experimental (* in competition)

HOMELAND

Description: Documentary footage and clips from prime time TV are mixed ingeniously in this moody short film that raises unsettling questions about the empty architecture of modern life.

Premiere: World Premiere,Year: 2003, Length: 5:27 min., Shot on: DVcam, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Connecticut, U.S.A. Director/Writer: Jacob Bricca, Composer: Josh McKay

Print Source:
Phone: 203-782-9534
Email:  jbriccawesleyan.edu

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Saturday, August 2, 7 PM: SHORTS V 
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station

THE ICE CREAM MAN

Description: The Ice Cream Man illuminates a melting pot of cultures in a two-mile radius of Venice Beach. A former Soviet bureaucrat and a Korean immigrant face off in an ice cream vendors' turf war on these rough streets. When a territorial dispute ensues they are forced to learn a new language: one without words. They soon realize they not only have more in common with each other but also with the African-American community into which they have been transplanted.

Premiere: New England Premiere, Year: 2001, Length: 15 min., Shot on: 35mm/color. Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: California, U.S.A.
Production Company: The Bus Note Press, Director/Writer: Dylan Rush, Producer: Cynthia Carlomagno, DP: Alexander Naufel, Composer: Bud Thompson

Cast: David Alan Graf, Stefan Umstead, Lucy Kawai

Print Source: The Bus Note Press
Address: 171 Pier Ave 389, Santa Monica, CA 90405
URL: www.icecreammanthemovie.com
Phone:310-463-0734
Email: drbusnote.com

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Saturday, August 2, 7 PM: SHORTS V 
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre: short comedy (* in competition)

JUST DON'T DO IT

Description: A crazed man fights his demons and addiction as he tests the truth of the theory: Just Don't Do It.

Premiere: World Premiere, Year: 2003, Length: 6:30 min., Shot on: DV, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin:  California, U.S.A.
Production Company: Buddy Pictures, Director:  Brian To, Writer: Spencer Beglarian, Producer: Spencer Beglarian, Brian To, DP: Brian To, Composer: Stephen Viens, Editor: Ann Trulove

Cast: Spencer Beglarian

Print Source:  Buddy Pictures
Address:  361 South Detroit Street #405, Los Angeles, CA 90036
URL: www.spencerbeglarian.com
Phone:  323-931-9757
Email: spenbeglaryahoo.com

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Thursday July 31, 5 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station

THE OLDEST GIG IN TOWN

Description:  More Information Soon

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Friday, August 1, 9 PM: SHORTS IV 
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre: short drama (* in competition)

THE LEAST OF THESE

Description: It’s the same old, same old at the local diner.  Jim, the owner, hides in the kitchen.  The regulars retread old banter.  And some new guy sits alone at the counter.  Then, a simple idea shatters that dull routine.  The same old, same old?  Not tonight.  Not ever again.

Premiere: Massachusetts Premiere,Year: 2002, Length: 20 min., Shot on: 35mm, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Maryland, U.S.A.
Production Company:Old Fashioned Pictures, Director/Writer: Rik Swartzwelder, Producer: Edmund Baxter, Rik Swartzwelder, DP: Rob Lyall, Composer: Michael Hodges, Editor: Benjamin Hershieder

Cast: Tom Wall, Will Woodrow, Kathryn Grant, Binnie Ritchie Holum

Print Source: Old Fashioned Pictures
Address:  10169 Newe Hampshire Ave., PMB #165, Silver Spring, MD 20903
URL:  www.oldfashionedpictures.com
Phone:  301-452-3213
Email: ofpoldfashionedpictures.com

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Thursday July 31, 9 PM: SHORTS III
Location:  Redfield Auditorium
Genre: short animation  (* in competition)

MARBOXIAN

Description: A Marboxian Raider crash lands on a strange alien world and must find his way home.  His journeys will take him through ethereal trains, unhelpful trams, Consolidated Exhaust, hitchhiking and hoofing it, all the way to the constantly changing city of Futureburg.

Premiere: World Premiere,Year: 2003, Length: 12 min., Shot on: miniDV, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin:  Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Director/Writer: Matthew I. Rasmussen, Composer: Oren R. Robinson

Featuring: The Marboxian as himself

Print Source:
URL:  www.spacetoast.net
Phone:  617-730-8312

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Thursday July 31, 9 PM: SHORTS III
Location:  Redfield Auditorium
Genre: short animation (* in competition)

MARROW

Description:  An exploration into the cycles of life, its seasons.  "Marrow" is a spiritual journey that looks at the process of healing and the joys and pains that define our existence.  We are aided in this journey by a shamanistic figure who remains timeless and without judgement.

Premiere: World Premiere,Year: 2002, Length: 4:22 min., Shot on: 35mm/color, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: California, U.S.A.
Director/Prod: Christine Panushka, Marilyn Osoff, DP: Chuck Martin, Nick Vasu, Composer: Marilyn Osoff, Editor: Christine Panushka

Print Source:
Phone:  626-355-5322
Email: panushkausc.edu

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Friday, August 1, 9 PM: SHORTS IV 
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Genre: short drama (* in competition)

MERWINSVILLE

Description: In the midst of the Great Depression, a father searches for his lost little girl.  He sets out on a desperate journey aboard the freight trains of America in search of her.

Premiere: New England Premiere ,Year: 2002, Length: 13:13 min., Shot on: 16mm, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A. / Canada
Production Company: North/South Pictures , Director/DP: William Hahn, Script/Prod: William Hahn,  Robert Huculark, Composer/Editor: John Gurdebeke

Cast: Robert Huculak, Frank Adamson

Print Source:  North/South Pictures
Address:  22 Barry Place, Falmouth, MA 02540
Phone:  508-457-5497
Email:  reachbillyyahoo.com

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