NEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES
FEBRUARY / MARCH / APRIL 2003
TAKE ME TO NEW YORK
NEWFILMMAKERS LOS
ANGELES PREMIERE:
FEBRUARY 5th 7:00
PM
Shorts:
MANUAL
LABOR
tHE
tOWeR oF BaBBLe
Director:
Jeff Wadlow
Producers:
Matt Stuecken and Beau Bauman
Writers:
Beau Bauman & Matt Stuecken (screenplay), Jeff Wadlow (story)
Cast:
Elizabeth Anne Allen, Tony Denison, Ricco Ross, Jeffrey Schecter,
Jeff
Wadlow, Sarah Wentworth
Running
Time: 21 minutes
Year
of Production: Feb. '02
"What
can a drama, a comedy and a police-thriller have in common? From
its
wry introduction (narrated by Kevin Spacey) through its intricately woven
plots,
this impressive tour-de-force reveals a very uncommon answer."
Aspen
Shortsfest.
Feature:
ZERO DAY
Director:
Ben Coccio
Cast:
(Andre) Andre Keuck (Cal)
Cal Robertson (Rachel)
Rachel Benichak
Running
Time: 92 minutes
Year
of Production: 2002
High
school friends Andre and Cal declare war on their classmates and plan a
terrifying
assault on their school. As they begin their deadly countdown, the two
create
a video diary to explain their feelings and chronicle their mission.
ZERO
DAY is a disturbing and original examination of violence, and in particular,
school
shootings. Using footage from Andre and Cal’s own video cameras, footage
from
their friends and family, and surveillance footage, independent filmmaker Ben
Coccio
has created a unique and troubling portrait of two teenagers who willingly
take
a violent and tragic path.
FEBRUARY 12th
Shorts:
MONACO
Director: Hillary Olsen
Written and Produced by Anne Berlin
Narrated by Rita Gam
Running Time: 12.5 minutes
Year of Production: 1997
Genre: Experimental/Drama
Type: Black and White
Based
on a trilogy of love poems, MONACO is a nostalgic and sentimental
remembrance
of one couple's coming of age. The couple keeps going back
to
Monaco, hoping to find the love they first discovered in each other when
they
were young. The story shows the couple at various stages of their
marriage,
including: youth, middle age and maturity. Told from the wife's
point
of view, she realizes that she could never have understood love
unless
she had spent a lifetime with her husband: That in fact love is not
love
until you have known someone a lifetime. MONACO originally
premiered in the presence of His Highness Prince Albert of Monaco,
October 1997.
BOIL
Director: J. Ayscue
5
minutes
2001
Feature:
WEDDING TRAIN
2001,
53 min., Video
Director:
Dan Leighton
Producer:
Tina McGilton
Featuring
Dis & Rabies
The
true life, hardcore, underground documentary of a love-struck couple living
on
the dirty, gritty, rusty edge. Squalor, drug use and violence are as much a
part
of their lives as the scenery they traverse.
Dis and Rabies risk life
and
limb as they ride the rails to Portland, Oregon, and the 24- hour church
of
Elvis.
FEBRUARY 19th
Shorts:
BACK
HOME YEARS AGO: THE REAL CASINO
Director:
Joseph F. Alexandre
Cast:
Several real members of the Chicago 'outfit' (mob.)
Running
time: 24 min.
Year
of production: 2000
An
in-depth exploration of the real people who formed the basis
for
the Scorsese's mob epic CASINO.
ASHBURIED
Director: Steve Herold
Cast: Stan Parratt
Running time: 8 minutes
Year of production: 2002
A look back at the once-glorious seaside resort town of Asbury
Park,
New Jersey.
Feature: ANACARDIUM
Director: Scott Thomas
Cast: Frank John Hughes, Richard Rucculo
Running Time:
Year of Production:
FEBRUARY 26th
Short:
UP
Director: Chad S. Park
Running Time: 15:05
Year of Production: 2001
In all of us live a dreamer and a realist,
locker in perpetual battle…
Feature: BLINK OF AN EYE
Director: Van Fischer
MARCH 5th
Shorts:
Title:
10,082
Director:
Daniel Maldonado
Running
time: 5:30
Year:
2001
10,082
is an impressionistic documentation of performer David Blaine
and
his sensationalistic act of burying himself alive for 1 week without
food
or water. Through various techniques, 10,082 becomes a meditation
on
movement and claustrophobia.
MEN IN PATIENCE
Director:
Koorosh Yaraghi
Producers:
Sean Baker, Koorosh Yaraghi
Year
of Production: 2001
Three
men isolated in the middle of nowhere uncovering answers without
questions.
Feature: MICROCINEMA GREATEST HITS
A feature length presentation of terrific
shorts films, curated by Joel
Bachar and the folks at Microcinema.
The
Independent Exposure Microcinema-screening program began in 1996 in
Seattle
and now is based in San Francisco and Houston. The program, held
every
month, has presented the short film, video and digital works of
over
750 artists from all over the world. Beyond the San Francisco and
Houston
screenings, Independent Exposure also has been presented hundreds
of
times in 36 countries and Antarctica!
" the best collection of shorts I’ve
seen"
Film Threat Magazine, October 2002
MARCH 12th
Shorts: DOTTIE: THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG
VOICE
Director: Dawn Westlake
Cast: Dawn Westlake, Bruce Rheins, Tamara
Bick, David Razowsky,
Conrad Cimarra.
Running time: 11:01
Year of Production: 2002
Dottie is an ordinary 5-yr-old with an
extraordinary power. She
can change the world...just by speaking up!
Feature:
STAND UP;
A Summer at Comedy Camp
Director:
Kyra Thompson
Cast:
this is a documentary but features appearances by such c
omedians
as Chris Tucker, Rob Schneider, Jamie Foxx, Shawn
Wayans,
Paul Rodriguez, and others.
Running
time: 86:46
Screening
format: Digibeta or Beta
STAND
UP chronicles one summer at "Comedy Camp" where at-risk
youth
are coached in the art of stand-up comedy by A-list
comedians,
and in the process learn the healing power of laughter.
MARCH 19th
Shorts: MINI
DRIVER PROJECT
Director: Fernando Rocha
Cast: Dawn Westlake, Tony Lima, Cristina Braga da Cruz, José Aires.
Running time: 11:01
Year of Production: 2000
The story of a girl, a guy, their cars, and unrequited love.
SPA-TEL
Director: Diane Sherry-Case
Running Time: 18:00 min
Cast: O-Lan Jones (Bea) Shawnee Free Jones (Peach) Steven Flynn (Billie)
Year of Production: November, 2000
A fable about a girl who
doesn’t wear panties, her macho boyfriend,
and a mystical desert motel where the unexpected is the norm.
Feature: LIFE IN BED
Director: Nick Lindsay
MARCH 26th
Shorts:
REAPER
MADNESS
Writer/Director:
Robert Snyder
Producer/Editor:
Philip Snyder
Cast:
Ralph Edsell (Rick); Robin Lilley (his Girlfriend); Robert
Snyder (the Grim Reaper)
Year
of Production: 1998
Running
time: 7.5 minutes
Rick,
an over-the-hill punk rocker, and his girlfriend enter a
graveyard in the dead of night with plans to party and instead
encounter the Grim Reaper. One scene from a feature-length script, "
Reel Blood", about low-budget horror-filmmaking.
H.R.
PUKENSHETTE
Director: Steve Herold
Cast: Joe McClean, Kevin Kolack, Sabrina Gennarino
Running Time: 10 minutes
Year of Production: 2001
A man's plan to drink himself to death is interrupted by an unlikely
Guardian Angel.
Feature: LETHAL FORCE
Director: Alvin Ecarma.
Cast: Frank Prather, Cash Flagg, Jr.
Running time: 70:00 minutes.
After his wife is murdered and his son
kidnapped, a gangster is
forced to betray his best friend--a deadly killer.
APRIL 2nd
Short: BAD DOG
Director/Screenplay:
Pete Freedman
Producer:
Abby Gail Palanker
Cast:
Mark Burnham, Jerry Adler, Jenni Blong, Vincent Duvall,
Birgitte Jensen, Dan Lauria
Running Time: 29:38 min
Year of Production: Summer 2000
What do you do when the dog you're dog sitting dies of a heart
attack? Get it freeze dried, of course. Then, drag it around
New York City with you as you search for a replacement.
Feature:
THE
LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLIE PUTZ
Writer/Director:
Robert Rothbard
Producer:
Fred Caruso
Cast:
Michael Townsend Wright, Greg Lipari, Mollie Tarranto
Year
of Production: 1999
A
gentle and humorous tale of a man with the unfortunate Last name
of Putz. Charlie's life hangs by a thread. He gets by on his meager
salary, living his low-rent lifestyle until the thread finally
breaks. Charlie loses his job and becomes homeless. He pulls
himself up by his bootstraps, and with the help of caring friends,
makes a comeback.
APRIL 9th
Short:
LINCOLN AND 31ST
Director:
Damien Caldwell
Cast:
David Michael White, James Martinec, Jeff Ryan
Running
time: 12 Min.
Year
of production: 2001
Two
kids that hang out at a local gas station because they’ve
got
nothing better to do.
Feature:
NEBRASKA SUPERSONIC
Year
of Production: 2001
Running
Time: 75 Min.
Director:
Jeremy Lerman
Principal
Cast:
Matt Kelehan, Jesse Joyner, Sonny
Robinson
In
Omaha, Nebraska, three slackers--all sub-par French majors--
start
a business that should not succeed on the vast Great
Plains:
a bicycle courier service. Through
comic adventures,
personal
challenges, and while charging only two dollars per
120-mile
delivery, their business becomes a resounding success.