This is the line up for the Shorts, Commercials, Music Videos for the 2012 Season.
SHORTS
ASSIGNMENT 13
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-SCOTT STOLZ
PRODUCER-SCOTT , KERRI STOTLZ
RT: 6 MIN
CAST: David Hamberg
SYNOPSIS: A superstitious assassin finds himself caught up in the numbers and realizes his choices were defined before him.
ASTERNAUTS
OCT 11, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-MARTA MASFERRER
PRODUCER-ALEX WEIMER
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Melissa D. Brown, Tina Balthazar, Wray Crawford, Zenon Zeleniuch
SYNOPSIS: Life is pretty dull for small-town farmer Earl and Joel McKnutt, until one night a mysterious object from outer space crash-lands in their pasture killing their best bull and milking cow.
BEDROOM, THE
OCT 11, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-SONYA DUNN
RT: 15 MIN
SYNOPSIS: This tragic love story of a couple’s everlasting love through adversity and twisted fate originates and culminates in The Bedroom.
BESIDE HER
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-CARRIE CARNEVALE
PRODUCER-ALISON MASON
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Andrew David James, Ashley Watkins, Erika Flores, Owen Conway
SYNOPSIS: Beside Her tells the story of Dr. Rachel Moretti and Sofia Rios and how in one brief moment in time, their love for each other is measured beyond the norms of their everyday lives.
CAPTURED, THE
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SCOTT STOLZ
PRODUCER-SCOTT STOLZ, KERRI STOLZ
RT: 6 MIN
CAST: Scott Stolz, David Kelley
SYNOPSIS: Three people awaken to the sounds of hand tools that clatter and bang in a strangers van.
CATBIRD BLUES
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-REBECCA DRUMMOND
PRODUCER-GLORIANA FONSECA-MALAVASI
RT: 24 MIN
CAST: Bill Kelly, Jamie Doyle, Kathleen Connolly, Susan Gallagher
SYNOPSIS: Cat is a rolling stone, where no place feels like home exploring her identity through the lens of a family dynamic.
CENTREFOLD
OCT 14, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-ELLIE LAND
PRODUCER-SIOBHAN FENTON
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: Centrefold is a unique animated documentary that takes an innovative and balanced approach to this controversial topic, female genital cosmetic surgery.
CHICKEN
OCT 12, 8-10 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-JESSICA SUR BURSTEIN
RT: 27 MIN
CAST: Franz Maria Quitt, Jessica Sue Burstein
SYNOPSIS: In this luminous portrait of temporary intimacy, two lonesome tourists venture off the beaten path and connect for one memorable night.
CHOICES
OCT 12, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-KATHY PAYTON
CO-PRODUCER-BELINDA ALLEN
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Chassidy Cox, DJ Subculture, David Tucker, Odell Mack, Sammy Garza
SYNOPSIS: A young woman’s estranged father of over eight years shows up unannounced at her doorstep; she must decide whether to forgive or not to forgive.
DANCING STILL
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-ROBERT MUNIC
PRODUCER-INGRID ROGERS, MICHAEL COBAIN
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Ingrid Rogers, Louis Ferriera
SYNOPSIS: Natalie and Shane are former lovers who reconnect on a day fifteen years after last seeing each other.
DARK BEFORE DAWN
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-CHRISTINA GROZIK
PRODUCER-CHRISTINA GROZIK, PAUL SHAIA
RT: 18 MIN
CAST: Rick Montgomery, Jr., Daniel Lentz, Jack Baun, Jennifer Enskat, Lauren Ondecker
SYNOPSIS: Haunted by broken dreams, a writer struggles with his final chapter.
DER LETZTE GAST (THE LAST GUEST)
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-MICHAELA SCHWARZ
PRODUCER-SANDRA SCHUPPACH
RT: 16 MIN
CAST: Simon Schwarz, Werner Brix
SYNOPSIS: The bar man Peter is having a final drink with his friend and last customer, but what starts as a mundane conversation among friends quickly turns into a situation.
DEVOUT , THE
OCT 12, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-MARIN HART
PRODUCER-ANDREW VALLENTINE
RT: 29 MIN
CAST: Astrid Vineyard, Braham Gallagher, Hannah Levien, Mary Scopu, Ronnie Clark
SYNOPSIS: In the shadow of disease and death, one woman must risk everything to ensure the safety of the ones she loves.
DISAVOWED
OCT 11, 5-7 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-AMANDA JAROS
RT: 9 MIN
CAST: Elecia John, Jarret Lemaster, Kristen Jardine, Toby Abbate
SYNOPSIS: Seven years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an interracial couple’s wedding day is interrupted when the African American groom is hijacked.
DULCE
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-JANINE SALINAS
PRODUCER-CHRISTINE MARIE MANTILLA
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Christine Marie Mantilla, Eddie Ruiz, Elia Saldana, Sabina Zuniga Varela
SYNOPSIS: Daniela, aka ‘Dulce’, returns home clean and sober for the first time, dreaming of a second chance at life and of finally being a mother to her young daughter Lola.
EMPTY SKY
OCT 12, 8-10 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-J. MICHAEL VARGAS
PRODUCER-GRACE HENDLEY
RT: 9 MIN
CAST: Cindy Morgan, Maiara Walsh, Sarah Kathleen Rosen
SYNOPSIS: Brought together by music, two high school girls, Samantha and Taylor, begin a secret romantic affair with complications and doubt.
EYES OF HEAVEN, THE
OCT 12, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-GRACE HENDLEY
PRODUCER-ALEXANDRA PETERS
RT: 9 MIN
CAST: Lilton Moore, Trisha Carter, Trudie Peterson
SYNOPSIS: When Jennifer adopts Timothy from war-torn Africa, the two struggle to find a common connection.
FAIRY WINGS
OCT 14, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-ALEXANDRA PETERS
PRODUCER-ASHLEY ADAMSON
RT: 8 MIN
CAST: Avery Pohl, Claire Brown
SYNOPSIS: A mother fears her young daughter is not coping with the illness of her father because of her withdrawal into the world of Peter Pan.
FAT GIRLS CAN’T DANCE
OCT 11, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-BETH CANNON
RT: 24 MIN
CAST: Sami Skow, Alexander Finch, Jeff Worden
SYNOPSIS: A romantic comedy about a fat girl who learns how to break the rules.
FEARS OF YOUNG CAROLINE, THE
OCT 12, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-TALISHA ELGER
RT: 12 MIN
CAST: Anastasia Surrey, Brittany Christine, Janah Chadwick
SYNOPSIS: Caroline, a young school girl, is taken to a dentist appointment that becomes much more and dives into her childhood fears and the loss of sexual innocence.
FEAST OF THE FOOLISH
OCT 12, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-MEG PINSONNEAULT
PRODUCER-MEG PINSONNEAULT, CARLOS ESPINOZA
RT: 13 MIN
CAST: Alix Liiv, Danny King, Elizabeth Stenson, Joshua Ludlow, Lukas Schooler, Matt Proctor, Will Rhodes
SYNOPSIS: A Depression Era outlaw lost in the desert seeks answers about his future from a dark enchantress, but it’s his past he should be worried about.
FINESSING THE WAVE
OCT 11, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-MARY PILLER
RT: 2 MIN
CAST: Julie Cox
SYNOPSIS: A micro-short surf film featuring the elegant California surfer Julie Cox.
GAMBIT
OCT 11, 5-7 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-CHLOE SPELLER
PRODUCER-INDIANNA WREN, JACINTA GOYNE
RT: 27 MIN
CAST: Ashlee Lollback, Caroline Levien, Brianna Rigby
SYNOPSIS: Jenny was a boxer , scorned by a man, takes on a journey of deceit, revenge and redemption fuled by her femme fatale friends.
GONE
OCT 14, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-WILL WALLACE
PRODUCER-VIRGINIA NOVELLO
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Madison Palasini, Virginia Novello , Mark Alan, Casimiro Cuevas
SYNOPSIS: A young woman, estranged from her family, returns home for her father’s funeral— only to bring about long-buried family secrets, revealing just how much a person can take before they are broken.
GRAVEYARD SHIFT, THE
OCT 12, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-JESSICA BURGESS
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Merissa Morin, Julia Bray, Constance George, Chuck McMahon
SYNOPSIS: A Dark comedic follows Mary’s coming of age while exploring a bizarre black night in the middle of nowhere, leading to a soul’s foundation.
HALLOWEEN
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-MONICA DEMES
RT: 4 MIN
CAST: Marta De Jul
SYNOPSIS: Vicky sculpts a beautiful pumpkin for halloween’s eve, but her family does not care for it.
HIGH CARD TRUMPS
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-GEOFFREY QUAN
PRODUCER-FRANCES E. CHANG
RT: 6 MIN
CAST: April Grace, Anoush Nevart, Debra Olson-Toblar , Jaenedy Roman
SYNOPSIS: Lois’s pride and patriotism are challenged when an Arab mother joins the monthly Support-Our-Troops bake sale.
I’M OKAY
OCT 12, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SILVIA TOVAR
PRODUCER-EDWIN PAGAN
RT: 10 MIN
CAST: Martin Chavez, Silvia Tovar, AJ Mercedes, Fernando Bueno, J.W. Cortes, Joesph Montiel
SYNOPSIS: Monroe, a veteran, attempts to reconcile with his wife before he is consumed by his post- traumatic stress disorder.
IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF BERTA BENZ, THE
OCT 12, 4-6 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-KEITH ENGLISH
PRODUCER-DEBORAH HUTCHISON
RT: 15 MIN
CAST: Anna Nicholas, Bill Egan, Elizabeth Gorcey, Michael Berns, Perry Ann Norton, Roselynn Pilkington
SYNOPSIS: In 1888, Berta Benz , defied the rules taking her family on a wild ride that not only rescues them from disaster, but ushers in the bold new era of motorized cars.
IN FILM LA NASU’ (IN GODFATHER’S MOVIE)
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-CRISTINE JACOB
RT: 35 MIN
CAST: Cristi Jacob, Diana Dumitrescu, Ion Grosu
SYNOPSIS: A beautiful tragicomedy inspired from real events that describes in a very funny way the Moldovan and Romanian bureaucracy.
KEYS. WALLET. PHONE.
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-JULIET LASHINSKY – REVENE
PRODUCER-JEANNIE DONOHOE
RT: 11 MIN
CAST: Rae C. Wright, Stephen Schnetzer, Steve Cuiffo
SYNOPSIS: A woman struggles to seek peace over breakfast in a cafe.
LAMENTABLES
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-VLAD FREIER
RT: 17 MIN
CAST: Bengisu Ozenel, Desi Ivanova
SYNOPSIS: Dalita and Elika are two young women caught up in the webs of drug-dealing and prostitution, in a land of sands and luxury.
LATE
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-JASON GOODE
PRODUCER-DYLAN JENKINSON
RT: 8 MIN
CAST: Sarah Deakins
SYNOPSIS: Two strangers struggle for a completely honest connection in a chance and brief encounter at a café.
LES LETTRES DE SAIGON (THE LETTERS FROM SAIGON)
OCT 12, 6-8 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-BENEDICTE MATHIEU
RT: 32 MIN
CAST: Elef Zack, Anna Prucnal, Clara Guipont, Juliette Bettencourt, Sagamore Stevenin
SYNOPSIS: During the war of Indochina, Claire tries to maintain the link between her parents; this thin, fragile link made of letters and postcards.
MELACH HA’ARETZ (SALT OF THE EARTH)
OCT 11, 5-7 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-RONI BEERI
RT: 29 MIN
CAST: Adi Bielski, Yael Tal
SYNOPSIS: Twenty one year olds Iris and Dana, best friends, want to make lots of fast money so they go work illegally in mall sales in the USA for a handsome boss named Ben.
MOTHER’S COLORS
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-JOYCE BORENSTEIN
RT: 9 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS : A Mother is saved from loneliness through her passion for painting through a poetic road trip into the imagination, inspired by Van Gogh’s statement ‘Art is the raft.
NERVOSA
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-JATO C. SMITH
PRODUCER- VANESSA HENDERSON, KELLI BRESLIN, MACAELA JENSEN, MICAH HART
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Vanessa Henderson, Andy Ahrens
SYNOPSIS: Morgan thinks she is fat. Her three friends, Willpower, Indulgence and Bitch all have their say about it.
OOWIE WANNA
OCT 13, 3:30-5:30 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-BRIDGET PALARDY
PRODUCER-LARA EVERLY and JERMAINE JAE
RT: 13 MIN
CAST: Lily Silverstein, Karen Black, Z Berg, John Daly, Taylor Pigeon, Hannah Stock
SYNOPSIS: When a misfit 7-year-old girl crawls into a mysterious dryer, she’s transported to a vibrant other-world where she meets her deepest insecurities to escape intact.
ORCHARD, THE
OCT 11, 5-7 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-LAURA GRAHAM
PRODUCER-RACHEL MC LAUGHLIN
RT: 11 MINS
CAST: Devin Doyle, Jake Elitzer, Laura Graham, Tyler Herwick
SYNOPSIS: As tension and competition mounts between three friends, a girl is a catalyst for a change.
ORPHAN, THE
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-TERESA SUTHERLAND
PRODUCER-KELLY POOR
RT: 7 MIN
CAST: Amaya Alexandra Ramos, Cheryl Ann Scott, Cliff Alexander, Dustin McLean, Kelly Poor (voice), Sara Thorton
SYNOPSIS: After a murder-suicide, a little girl rediscovers her childhood, and then does what she feels she must to protect it.
OUR RHINELAND
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-FAREN HUMES
PRODUCER-MATT RYAN
RT: 12 MIN
CAST: Sabrina Alashi
SYNOPSIS: In 1937, under the Third Reich, Germans of mixed race were located, identified and admitted into clinics—two sisters fought back.
PALOMA
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-YOLANDA ROMERSA
PRODUCER
Yolanda Romersa, Steven Bauer
RT: 28 MIN
CAST: Steven Bauer, Yolanda Romersa
SYNOPSIS: A free-spirited Mexican American woman abandons her family for sex, drugs and the party life, and returns 9 years later, now ‘clean’ and seeking forgiveness.
PEACE AT HOME
OCT 11, 5-7 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-AVITAL EPSTEIN
RT: 9 MIN
CAST: Avi Hoffman, Dustin Waldman, Mary Lynn Owen, Victoria Nugent
SYNOPSIS: Truth isn’t always in the telling.
REIGN
OCT 13, 3:30-5:30 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-KIMBERLY JENTZEN
PRODUCER-ANDREW FOGNANI
RT: 17 MIN
CAST: Andrew Fognani, Clayton Hoff, Scott Carrithers, Sheetal Sheth
SYNOPSIS: A miscommunication between cultures in Iraq results in casualties of war, and a soldier is forever changed by an encounter with a woman who survives the deadly skirmish.
RESEN (DOG LEASH)
OCT 12, 4-6 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-ETI TSICKO
PRODUCER-ATARA FRISH
RT: 27 MIN
CAST: Maya Gasner
SYNOPSIS: Marina is a woman who lives an empty life, so when her husband has an extra-marital affair, she goes over the edge and commits a brutal act.
SCHWESTERN (SISTERS)
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-CHANTAL BERTALANFFY
PRODUCER-CHRISTINA BEISCHL
RT: 13 MIN
CAST: Amina Schichterich, Gloria Endres de Oliveira, Lilli Fichtner, Martina Ysker, Rubina Labusch, Sebastian Anklam
SYNOPSIS: Nancy, a 15-year-old mixed race girl and her younger half-sister Sophia, go on a quest of returning an unwanted present Nancy receives at the school’s Christmas party.
SEEING STELLA
OCT 12, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-HILLARY BACHELDER
PRODUCERS-ROBBIE STERN, TIM REILLY
RT: 24 MIN
CAST: Gail Shapiro, Kendra Vaculin, Michael Silberblatt
SYNOPSIS : Mary Holmes is an introverted middle-aged woman who, after witnessing the tragic death of Stella, develops a morbid fixation on the dead.
SUPERHERO
OCT 12, 6-8 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-KRISTEN WRIGHT
PRODUCER-KRISTEN WRIGHT, JEFF SHIPMAN
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Brittany Felton, David Pierce, Jeremy Aggers, Joe Gabler, John Benzinger, Stacy Melich
SYNOPSIS: Margot, dealing with the death of her parents copes wearing a homemade superhero costume and discovers who she really is.
WARNINGS FROM THE BATHTUB
OCT 12, 4-6 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-MICKEY FREEMAN, ELIZABETH APPELL
PRODUCER-ELIZABETH APPELL
RT: 17 MIN
CAST:
SYNOPSIS: A woman disregards warnings of the hallucination of her mother in the bathtub by sublimating her passion for men who betray her to a couch, which she’s quite sure will forever be faithful.
WILD FLOWER
OCT 12, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-VLAD FEIER
PRODUCER-KIKA CICMANEC
RT: 17 MIN
CAST: Kika Cicmanec
SYNOPSIS: This film is based on the tragic true story of Blessed Zdenka Schellingova , a Czechoslovakian nun who lived under the Communist regime.
WOMEN
OCT 12, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-ASHLEY SCOTT, GEORGE MAYS
PRODUCER-ADRINE FULLE
RT: 23 MIN
CAST: Sev Bochanski, Claire Dodin, Kevin Scott Allen, Evyh Cerhus
SYNOPSIS: Sometimes you have to blow someone’s head off to become the woman you always wanted to be.
YOU GOT THIS!
OCT 11, 5-7 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SIMO MANFREDI
PRODUCER-SARA HILLS
RT: 20 MIN
CAST: Dan Olsen, Jani Wang, Judy Nazemetz, Lynda M. Berg, Rita Mizuno, Sarah Agor, Xango Henrey
SYNOPSIS: Lauren is a troubled teenage musician but with help of the high school security guard, she discovers the power of friendship.
**These are the Commercial and Music Video finalists for the 2012 season.
COMMERCIAL
LASSOO
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-PATTY CORNELL
RT: 30 SEC
SYNOPSIS: Lassoo, the anti-Lassie, does what he needs to, to get some Doritos.
MUSIC VIDEO:
REBEKAH STARR BAND- IRRATIONAL BOY
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-MARCOS DURIAN
RT: 3 MIN
PRODUCER
Cynthia Shreves
CAST: Rebekah Snyder-Starr
SYNOPSIS: The sexy rockers of all-girl band, The Rebekah Starr Band, channel their inner studio wrestling alter-egos to defeat a mystery adversary.