The
Feature Films - 2004 |
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 Saturday,
August 31, 7 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
The
Adventures of Space Baby and Mental Man
Description:
In his quest for the meaning of life eight year old genius-scientist
Sam turns to his best friend Blue from the old folks home next
door. In his day, Blue was the world's greatest pitcher, now
retired from the Negro leagues. Both a problem and a his best
support, Sam's sister Sophia calls herself "Nature Girl"
and claims she can talk to animals. With help from Blue, Sophia,
and Sophia's squadron of ladybug fighter pilots, Sam attempts
to rebuild the Holy Grail in order to get a new soul for the
earth, all the while fighting sinister Nurse Nancy and her talking
crow.
 Premiere:
World Premiere, Year: 2004, Length:
90 min., Shot on: 35mm, State and Country
of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Writer:
Rex Dean; Camera: John Leuba; Editor: Peter
White; Music: Alan Williams
Cast: Charles
Brown, Sam Dean, Sophia Dean, Nancy Todd, Peter Wolf
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 Thursday,
August 5, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
Comedy (*
in competition)
Break
a Leg
Description:
When Max's performance is no competition for producers'
nephews and bigger "names," his only option is to
cripple the competition - literally. But as the roles get bigger,
the competition gets stronger, the stakes get higher, and now
with an undercover thespian cop on his trail, Max must struggle
with his ongoing road to success and the choices he's made.
Year:
2003, Length: , Shot on: , State
and Country of Origin: California,
U.S.A
Producer:
Jeanette Volturno, Trey Wilkins; Director: Monika
Mitchell; Writer: Frank Cassini, John Cassini;
Camera: Eric J. Goldstein; Editor: Lawrence
A. Maddox, Donald Paonessa;
Music: Roger Bellon
Cast: John
Cassini, Molly Parker, Rene Rivera, Jennifer Beals, Kevin Corrigan
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 Saturday,
August 7, 8:30 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
Crazy
Like a Fox
 Description:
When big-city speculators cheat him out of his farm, eighth
generation Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his familty and
makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community-wide
rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home.
Year:
2004, Length: 98 min., Shot on: 35mm,
State and Country of Origin:
Washington,
D.C., U.S.A.
Producer:
Patricia Foulkrod, Bill Warrell; Director/Writer:
Richard Squires; Camera: Gary Grieg,
Editor: Sheri Bylander
Cast: Roger Rees, Mary McDonnell, Paul Fitzgerald, Christina
Rouner
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 Tuesday,
August 3, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
Comedy (*
in competition)
Four
Dead Batteries
 Description:
Four New York City improvisers struggle with love, commitment
and understanding the women in their lives. A "chick flick"
from the guys point of view.
Premiere:
New England Premiere, Year: 2003, Length:
96 min., Shot on: DVcam, State and Country
of Origin: New
Jersey, U.S.A.
Producer:
Sean Martinez; Director/Writer: Hiram
Martinez; Camera: Raquel Fernandez; Editor:
Todd Zelin; Music: The Hot Club of Cowtown
Cast: Patrick Dall 'Occhio, Rob Webber, Benjamin Travers,
Dave Zubradt
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 Monday,
August 1, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
Hair
High
Description:
"Hair High" is a gothic high-school comedy with a
"Carrie"-like story. Cherri and Rod are the high-school
king and queen and they justifiably rule their domain. Spud,
the new kid in town, accidentally offends both Cherri and Rod
and so is forced to become Cherri's slave. Naturally, they immediately
hate each other but of course later they fall in love. Cherri
and Spud secretly decide to go to the prom together, and on
prom night a rejected Rod forces their car off the road and
into the lake. In true 50's ballad style, their car sinks to
the bottom of the lake as they share one last kiss. Did Rod
get away with murder? On the night of the following year's prom,
the car magically comes to life and slowly drives out of the
lake with Cherri and Spud, as if nothing had happened, only
this time their bodies are in an advanced state of decomposition!
Year:
2003, Length: 75 min., Shot on: 35
mm, State and Country of Origin:
New York, U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Writer:
Bill Plympton; Camera: John Donnelly;
Music: Maureen McElheron, Hank Bones
Voices: Sarah
Silverman, Eric Gilliland, Beverly D’Angelo, Keith Carradine,
David Carradine, Martha Plimpton, Zak Orth, Tom Noonan, Craig
Bierko, Hayley Dumond , Ed Begley Jr., Peter Jason
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 Sunday,
August 1, 7 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
Happily
Even After
Description:
Set against a subtle San Francisco backdrop, Happily is
an urban fairy tale about an outwardly successful woman and
her self-absorbed brother. Since their parents' death eight
years ago, Elizabeth and Jake have become trapped in their respective
roles - she's the responsible older sister, he's the directionless
younger brother. Enter Katie, a waitress with a mysterious past
who becomes their surprising savior.
Premiere:
New England Premiere, Year: 2004, Length:
88 min., Shot on: 35 mm, State and Country
of Origin: California,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Unsu Lee, Lily Ng, Paul Barnett; Director: Unsu
Lee; Writer: Rebecca Sonnenshine; Camera:
Jeffrey Chu; Editor: Robbie Proctor;
Music: Kid Galahad, John DeBorde
Cast: Jason Behr, Marina Black, Fay Masterson, Michael
Goordjin
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 Saturday,
August 7, 4 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
Her
Majesty
Description:
Set in 1953, HER MAJESTY's
heroine
is Elizabeth Wakefield, a 13-year old New Zealand girl who lives
in the quaint, and somewhat quirky town of Middleton. With her
idol, Queen Elizabeth, scheduled to make a visit, and everyone
in town, including her father, jockeying to curry favor with
the royal entourage, Elizabeth finds herself thrust into an
unlikely friendship with an old Maori woman, Hira Mata, whose
house - a sore spot with the matrons of the town - is directly
on the parade route past which the Queen will travel. Elizabeth's
true character is tested when she must choose between marching
in the ceremonial parade with a chance to personally meet the
Queen and her loyalty to Hira, who defiantly insists on maintaining
and defending her home against all odds.
Year:
2004, Length: 100 min., Shot on: 35
mm, State and Country of Origin:
California,
U.S.A./New Zealand
Producer:
Walter Coblenz; Director/Writer: Mark
J. Gordon; Camera: Stephen M. Katz; Editor:
Virginia Katz; Music: William Ross
Cast: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton, Liddy Holloway,
Mark Clare
URL: www.hermajestythemovie.com
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 Saturday,
July 31, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
Noise
Description:
Recently divorced Joyce finally finds a New York aparment
and settles in, hoping to forget her past and remake her life.
But her upstairs neighbor and her own insecurities conspire
to turn her search for serenity into a claustrophobic and paranoid
environment where lines between reality and nightmares get blurred.
Trish Goff and Ally Sheedy star in this provocative psychological
thriller.
Premiere:
New England Premiere, Year: 2003, Length:
85 min., Shot on: Super 16, State and Country
of Origin: New
York, U.S.A.
Producer:
Tony
Spiridakis, Shannon
Goldman, Lance
Doty; Director: Tony
Spiridakis;
Writer: Lance
Doty,
based on a novel by Diana Ramsay; Camera: Evan
Eastern;
Editor: Charly
Bender; Music: Charly Bender
Cast: Trish Goff, Ally Sheedy, David Thornton, Adam
Ferrara
URL: www.noise-film.com
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 Friday,
August 6, 7 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
Nothing
Like Dreaming
Description:
A man fires up a propane torch and sends its flame up tubes
of metal. Sonny Gale is an outlaw and fire artist. He lives
stealthily in an abandoned factory at the edge of town waiting
for someone who never arrives. Into his life comes Emma. At
a crossroads, she is the strong one in her family, trying like
so many kids to keep them together. The loner artist and the
lonesome teenager recognize something of themselves in each
other. After a tragedy in which Emma's best friend is killed
in a car accident, Sonny leads her on a journey to confront
her feelings of loss and grief. Once she is healed, she guides
him back from the edge of madness.
Year:
2004, Length: 96 min., Shot on: DVcam,
State and Country of Origin:
Vermont,
U.S.A.
Producer:
; Director: Nora Jacobson; Writer: ; Camera: Lasse
Toft; Editor: ; Music: Larry Polansky
Cast: George Woodard, Morgan Bicknell, John Griesemer,
Rachel Bissex, Siri Baruc, Rusty Dewees
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 Wednesday,
August 4, 9 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Comedy (*
in competition)
Overserved
Description:
A feature comedy with x-ray vision on the Boston bar scene,
gives us the real deal. The candid guide Joe introduces the
sassy staff and the quirky customers they serve. All is business
as usual until corporate suits challenge the bar's motley crew
to a softball game for the deed to the bar.
Year:
2004, Length: 86 min., Shot on: HiDef,
State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Joe Gatto, John Rule, Dave Lewis; Director/Writer:
Joe Gatto; Camera: Tony Flanagan;
Editor: Christo Tsiaras; Music: Average
White Boyz
Cast: Joe Gatto, Peter Darrigo, Amy Shea, Rob Savage
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 Friday,
August 6, 5 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Experimental
Drama (*
in competition)
Pretend
Description:
In
a troubled family living in a trailer in upstate New York, Dad
is an unemployed poet and Mom supports the entire family by
working at the local convenience store. Their two young daughters
escape by entering a world of makebelieve. The highly imaginative
Sophie, the oldest, spins stories for her little sister, Ellie
to believe – or not. The girls overhear a terrible fight
between the parents that seems to spell the end of the family.
Sophie comes up with a daring plan to keep Dad from leaving
the next day, involving hiding her sister all night in the woods.
How and why this plan works, and doesn’t, takes us beyond
their childhoods into consequences that affect their entire
adult lives, as the grown Sophie eventually reveals to a random
lover.
Year:
2003, Length: 75
min., Shot on: DV, State and
Country of Origin: ,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Ajae Clearway, Craig Robillard; Director/Writer:
Julie Talen; Camera: Samantha Schultz;
Editor: Julie Talen; Music:
Charles Peirce
Cast: Nora Stewart, Joan Jubett, Karl Herlinger,
Danielle Freid
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 Monday,
August 1, 7 PM *
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Tuesday, August 2, 8 PM
Location: CO2 Coffee Obsession WH
(*
in competition)
Retreat
 Description:
A fictional film that explores the lasting effects of childhood
abuse in four estranged brothers; Ricky, Kevin, Jack and Carly,
who now as scarred adults have all returned to the family estate
where, as children they spent their summers enduring the abuse
of a governess after a boating accident took the lives of their
affluent parents.
Premiere:
World Premiere, Year: 2004, Length:
98 min.,
Shot on: , State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Producer:
Robin Downs, Nick Potter; Director/Editor: Brad
Jaques; Writer: Nick Potter; Camera:
Mark Wuerthner;Music: David R. Barkley
Cast: Michael
Knight, Josh Coxx, Brian Smiar, Sandra Shipley
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