2006 Films

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It's just another day of manual labor for Landon Millar.  A normal day of landscaping turns deadly when Landon is accused of stealing $50,000 in cash and beaten within inches of his life.  Quick thinking detective Frank Harmon takes the case and soon realizes thinks are far worse than a savage beating.  A dead body turns up with links to Landon's best friends, the Russian mob and a deadly motorcycle game.  It's a guess til the end thriller that will keep you talking with its fast pace, snapping dialogue and a sexy masseuse playing both sides.

Year: 2006, Length: 85 min., Format: DVcam, Origin: USA
Producer: Allan Triel, Director: Joshua Hamlin, Writer: Allan Triel Composer: Jay Alberts, Joe Creamer
Cast: Jamie Harris, Nicole Vicius, Colin Sabin, Caren Beck, Reg E. Cathey, Chris Chalk, Dara Coleman, Larry Hanneman, Mitch Karmel, Olek Krupa, Heather Lindell

December Ends

Chris, a reluctant drug-runner, is working for pot-dealer Hayden until his depressed father can pull himself together. The last thing Chris expects is to fall in love with Hayden¹s girlfriend, Audrey. When he does, it triggers a cascade of events that nearly costs him everything.

New England Premiere, Year: 2006, Length: 92 min., Format: HDcam, Origin: California, U.S.A.
Producer: Tim Harms, Lee Krieger, Director/Writer: Lee Krieger, Cinematographer: Dan Haas, Editor: Gino Roy,
Cast: Josh Janowicz, Alex Thayer, Justin Mathews, Bill Buell

Disappearances

Some borders are meant to be crossed. Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher. Legendary actor/songwriter Kris Kristopherson, stars as schemer and dreamer Quebec Bill Bonhomme -- in a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage. Quebec Bill, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered cattle herd through a long winter, resorts to whiskey smuggling, a traditional family occupation. He takes his son, Wild Bill, on an unforgettable trip that will long remain etched in the viewer's mind: a journey through vast reaches of the Canadian wilderness and into a haunted and elusive past. What they find is the stuff of genuine legend. The time is 1932, just months before the repeal of Prohibition and two weeks shy of Wild Bill's fifteenth birthday. The place is Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, the edge of the North Country frontier straddling the Vermont/Canadian border.

Year: 2006, Length: 100 min., Format: 35mm, dvd Origin:  Vermont, USA
Producer: Jay Craven, J. Todd Harris, Mark Donadio, Miriam Marcus, Lauren Moye, Director/Writer: Jay Craven, Cinematographer: Wolfgang Held, Editor: Beatrice Sisul
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Charlie McDermott, Genevieve Bujold, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Lothaire Bluteau, Luis Guzman, Bill Raymond, Heather Rea, John Griesemer.

Fetching Cody

Art Frankel is a hustler and drug peddler who is head-over-heels in love the luminous Cody Wesson. When Cody falls into a coma from an apparent drug overdose, it is up to Art to seek out the one person who offers him any kind of hope: his homeless friend Harvey who claims the ratty recliner he has recently acquired from a dumpster is actually a time machine.

Year: 2006, Length: 87 min., Format: Beta SP, Origin: Vancouver, Canada
Producer: Carolyn Allain, Christina Bulbrook, Director: David Ray, Writer: David Ray, based on a story by David Ray and Carolyn Allain, Cinematographer: Paul Mitchnick, CSC
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind, Jim Byrnes, Robert Kaiser, Chilton Crane,
Barklay Hope, Angela Moore

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Four Corners of Suburbia

Sometimes you have to lose your life in  order to find it. A group of young adults spending a weekend together on a secluded island in Maine find themselves haunted by the choices they didn't make as they confront the meaning of love, friendship, and their lives in a world of virtual wonders and genetic cloning.

New England Premier, Year: 2006, Length: 104 min., Format: Beta SP Origin: USA
Producer/Director/Writer: Elizabeth Puccini, Cinematographer: Antoine V. Denisov, Composer: Nikos Kypourgos, Editor: Frank Reynolds
Cast: Alec Newman, Madchen Amick, Paul Blackthorne, Alice Evans, Brad Rowe, Katie Carr

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The Garage

A man reflects on his childhood and working at his dads garage during the late seventies. Two best friends plan to leave the small town they grew up in. Matt; 18, works at his dad's garage, smart, sensitive, just graduated from high school. Schultz; 21, works for his dad in construction, strong headed,high school dropout. For Matt it's getting out of the garage and pursuing his passion. For Schultz, it's simply survival, to get away from his abusive father. Even though Matt has a strong loyalty to his dad, despite his father's drinking problem, he also knows the impact leaving the garage will have. Then a devastating incident occurs and Matt will have to find his true direction in life.

New England Premiere, Year: 2006, Length: 94 min, Format: 35mm super, Origin: California, U.S.A.
Producer/Director/Writer: Carl Thibault, Cinematographer: Jas Shelton, Composer: William Goodrum
Cast: Tania Raymonde, Corby Griesenbeck, Gabriel Marantz, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Martin Donovan, Robert Knott, Rusty Kelley, Travis Howard, Xander Berkeley

Inside

Alex Wells is a troubled young man. Recently orphaned, this nice-looking library employee prowls his suburban neighborhood and breaks into homes of people that interest him - while they're home. Lately, he's become intrigued by the Smiths, a sad, middle-aged couple who come in where he works and check out the same book over and over again. Alex finally follows them home, watches them through the windows and can't resist getting a closer look at the argument they're having. Then something happens.they catch him spying. But instead of calling the police, Alice and Mark invite Alex to dinner, eager to know more about this boy who reminds them so much of a recently lost loved one.

Year: 2006, Length: 102 min., Format: Super 16mm, Origin: California, USA
Producer/Director/Writer: Jeff Mahler, Cinematographer: Michael Marius Pessah, Composer: Jason Brandt, Editor: Sean Robert Olson
Cast: Nick D'Agosto, Cheryl White, Leighton Meester, Kevin Kilner

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The Legend of Lucy Keyes

The Legend of Lucy Keyes is a supernatural thriller in which a normal family is forced to struggle with the paranormal. Guy and Jeanne Cooley have moved with their children, Molly and Lucy, from the city to a small town, having just suffered the devastating loss of their youngest child. Guy is embarking on a wind farm project that requires the townspeople to approve construction on the land where Lucy Keyes disappeared and on which the spirit of her mother is believed to still wander. The story carefully builds as the complex web of relationships between the townspeople and their connection to Lucy Keyes is revealed. We are never sure whether the locals are friendly, conniving, eccentric or truly dangerous. And how are the fates of Lucy Cooley and Lucy Keyes intertwined?

Year: 2006, Length: 95 min., Format: HD, Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Producers: Mark Donadio, J. Todd Harris, Miriam Marcus. Director/Writer: John Stimpson, Cinematographer: Gary Henoch, Composer: Ed Grenga, Editor: Joel Plotch, John Stimpson
Cast: Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams, Mark Boone Junior, Cassidy Hinkle, Kathleen Regan, Ken Cheeseman

Manual

Manual follows Sean and Samantha, a brother and sister who came from a family of gifted hockey players. Both were talented players as well, however once they began playing for serious high school programs they grew tired and quit. Was it the sport that lost its innocence or was it them? After quitting things change for Sean and Sam. They began to feel like failures, thinking they disappointed their parents. And despite their attempts to remain strong and independent after breaking the family tradition, they both wind up spinning out of control in vicious cycles of rebellion and self-destruction. Sean turns to the drink and disastrous one-night stands, Sam an unrealistic relationship that leaves her a pregnant single mother. Manual is intimate film about people striving for comfort and identity.

World Premiere, Year: 2006, Length: 80 min., Format: DVcam, Origin: Massachusetts. U.S.A.
Producer: Garth Donovan, David Lewis, Jean-Paul Ouellette, Director/Writer/Editor: Garth Donovan, Cinematographer: Ed Slattery
Cast: Savann Donovan, Garth Donovan, Mike Judge, Nancy Cappacio

Tempesta

An American art appraiser determines to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of a priceless painting but soon finds himself at the
mercy of a corrupt art collector, a petty thief, and ultimately, a deadly seductress in this highly stylized thriller which unfolds against the ghostly backdrop of the Venetian waterways.

North American Premiere, Year: 2005, Length: 98 min., Format: HD & 35mm, Origin: U.K.
Producer: Bill Haney, Kees Kasander, Director: Tim Disney, Writer: Bill Haney, Philippe Browning, adapted from a work by Juan Manuel de Prada, Cinematographer: Reinier Van Brummelen, Composer: Richard G. Mitchell, Editor: Chris Wyatt
Cast: Scot Williams, Natalia Verbeke, Paul Guilfoyle, Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer

Thursday's Fictions

Thursday's 24 hours are almost up. In a world in which people live for only the length of a day, she is running out of time. But Thursday has a plan. She finds out that she will be reincarnated and packs all that she has created into a trunk in an effort to continue her work when she comes back in her next life. The film creates a rich world filled with intriguing ideas and stunning imagery. The movie follows the plight of seven characters as they each come in contact with the mysterious trunk Thursday has left in their care. They grapple with the passion, beauty, dreams, and nightmares which it contains, embarking on a magical journey encompassing sumptuous dance, original orchestral music and lavish design. A true art-house film.

East Coast Premiere, Year: 2006, Length: 54 min., Format: Beta SP, Origin: Sydney, Australia
Producer: Karen Pearlman, Director: Richard James Allen,Writer: Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman, Cinematographer:  Simon Chapman, Composer: Michael Yezerski, Editor: Karen Pearlman
Cast: Kerry Casey, Meme Thorne, Nella Scott, Hala Sbat

You Are Alone

A dark and sexually-charged exploration of just how far a jaded middle-aged man and a depressed 18-year-old girl will go to escape loneliness, even if only for an hour.

Year: 2005, Length: 84 min., Format: Digital Video, Origin: Connecticut, USA
Producer: Gorman Bechard, Frank Loftus, Director: Gorman Bechard, Writer: Gorman Bechard, with additional dialog by Jessica Bohl, Cinematographer: Kenneth Wilson, Editor: Gorman Bechard, Frank Loftus
Cast: Jessica Bohl , Richard Brundage

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