FRIDAY June
24, 2005
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PAY BLOC A MINDFUL
MORNINGS
Premier Engagements
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BATHING 10:00 – 10:04
Bathing North
American Premiere
Dir Julija Naskova
Macedonia via Paris France
00hr : 04 min : 00 sec
SF The act of a beautiful woman
combing her long hair transcends into a ritual of
love and purification. Inspired from Impressionists
paintings. Bathing cinematically represents the act
from the female perspective.
SANDSTORM 10:04 - 11:20
Sandstorm Toronto
Premiere Directors
Choice
Dir Michael Mahonen
Canada via USA, Branchwood NJ
01 hr : 16 min : 00 sec
FF A man and his wife are trapped
in their home for 12 days during a sandstorm in China.
She is running out of medicine, their food and water
are almost gone and their daughter is missing. As
a policeman, he has been involved in the persecution
of Chinese citizens who follow the practice of Falun
Gong. In this confinement, he replays his involvement
with a particular Falun Gong practitioner whom he
had been trying to force to renounce her beliefs.
Under intense pressure from his superiors, he is
pushed to betray his conscience and persecute this
woman in order to protect his position, a position
that weighs heavy on his strength of mind and search
for truth.
WHY SHAKESPEARE 11:25 - 11:46
Why Shakespeare? World
Premiere Founder’s
Favorite
Dir Lawrence Bridges
U S A, Santa Monica, CA
00 hr : 21 min : 00 sec
SD This inspirational documentary
illustrates the importance of theatre and Shakespeare
and how it can change people's lives through interviews
with kids who live in communities affluent with gangs
and testimonials from many successful actors such
as Tom Hanks, Martin Sheen, Michael York, Bill Pullman,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christina Applegate and William
Shatner among others.
 Members
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PAY BLOC B ARTICULATE AFTERNOONS
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BETTY’S
TREATS 12:00 – 12:07
Betty’s Treats Canadian
Premiere Founder’s
Favorite
Dir Kaye Kittrell
USA, Pacific Palisades, CA
00hr : 07 min : 08 sec
SF Betty's Treats is a comic love
tale with a twist, set in 1957, Riverdale, USA. Betty
is busy in the kitchen making her true love's favorite
treats when the doorbell rings, which changes the
course of her day. 7 minutes.
SWEET DESTINY - 12:10 - 13:53
Sweet Destiny World
Premiere
Dir Francine Pellegrino
U S A, Boston MA
01 hr : 33 min : 00 sec
FF Set in the Italian enclave of
Boston's North End 'Sweet Destiny', tells of love
at any age. When 17 year old Joey meets Cathy, a
wealthy girl, Joey not only gets caught in a wild
love affair but a cultural tug-of war. Emmy award
winning actor, Abe Vigoda in his first romantic role,
plays Joey's Grandfather opposite mature Ford model
Carmen. Joey's single mother stuggles with her own
love relationships, played by Soprano actors Frank
Santorelli and John Fiore, in nonviolent roles. Music
by Tim Janis, orginal songs sung by Frankie Avalon
and Livingston Taylor.
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PAY BLOC C ARTICULATE AFTERNOONS
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SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY 14:00 – 14:06
Saturday, Sunday, Monday North
American Premiere
Dir Rebecca Albeck
Australia, Victoria City
00hr : 06 min : 00 sec
SF Childhood is in danger of extinction.
Jade, a gentle and funny Vietnamese-Australian girl
helps us peek into the hectic life of today's child.
This is Rebecca’s Thesis film.
LETTERS TO DEFIANCE 14:10
- 14:48
Letters To Defiance World
Premiere Programmers
Pick
Mark Bonn
U S A, Hermosa Beach, CA
00 hr : 38 min : 07 sec
SD During WWII Cpl. Francis Seibert
of Defiance, Ohio was stationed in Amarillo, Texas
as an Air Force instructor training men to become
aircraft mechanics for the B-17 and B-29 bombers.
He wrote home to his family almost every day, illustrating
his envelopes with cartoons - his mother saved all
610 of these envelopes and letters. This documentary
takes the 82-year-old Seibert through a historic
journey as he revisits those letters 60 years later,
including his first Christmas away from home; first
learning of the D-Day invasion; his impressions of
the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb; and hearing
that The War had finally ended.
TWITCH 14:50 – 15:00
Twitch Canadian
Premiere Programmers
Pick
Dir Leah Meyerhoff
USA, Brooklyn, NY
00hr : 10 min : 00 sec
SF Twitch is a coming of age story
about a teenage girl who is resentful about taking
care of her mother, who has Multiple Sclerosis. Their
complex, fractured relationship is based on Meyerhoff’s
own experience with her ailing mother, who she casts
in her film.
SEARCHING FOR GREAT AUNT MARY
- 15:00 - 15:24
Searching For Great Aunt Mary World
Premiere
Dir Mary Britton
USA, Minneapolis, MN
00hr : 24 min : 50 sec
SD Searching For Mary tries to find
the woman behind the family legends of director Mary
Britton’s great-great aunt Mary Gavin. Lt.
Col Mary Gavin served in both World Wars, was awarded
two medals by the French Government and is buried
in Arlington Cemetery. Using family interviews, archival
footage and an official history Mary Gavin wrote
about her time in France, the film paints a portrait
of a remarkable woman who showed courage and grace
under the most horrific of circumstances.
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PAY BLOC D ARTICULATE AFTERNOONS
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16:00 – 16:12
World Premiere
Dir Sean O'Connor,
Music by Jean Michel Jarre
U S A, Plainville, MA
00 hr : 11 min : 11 sec
SD The Vernal Equinox
was perpetually celebrated as the first day of
each New Year for most of the world up until the
introduction of the modern day Gregorian Calendar
in the 16th century. Equitility contemplates what
still remains in our passive minds during this
day of ‘re-birth,’ an unconscious serenity
that has been linked to recurring patterns in our
DNA.
BILLY CONROY TAKES A STAND
16:14 – 16:20
Billy Conroy Takes A Stand Canadian
Premiere
Dir Douglas McKay
U S A, Newbury Park, CA
00 hr : 06 min : 10 sec
SF Billy Conroy is a ten-year-old
boy who escapes abuse and poverty into the world
of his comic-book heroes until the day that one of
them comes to life and shows the boy that within
him lies the strength to face reality
L'UIKNEK 16:20 – 17:12
L’uiknek Canadian
Premiere Programmers
Pick
Dir Stephane Bry
France, St. Pierre et Miquelon
00hr : 52 min : 00 sec
LFD When the Mi’kmaq First
Nation meet the French in a historical re-enactment,
both communities of Conne
River (Newfoundland) and
Miquelon (St-Pierre & Miquelon - France) rediscover
their historical and spiritual links.
DANCING FROM THE HEART 17:15 – 18:03
Dancing from the Heart Canadian
Premiere Programmers
Pick
Dir Marilyn Hunt
U S A, Santa Fe, NM
00 hr : 47 min : 23 sec
DM/LFD Impassioned Andrew Garcia of
San
Juan Pueblo, New Mexico recovered alcoholic and
now cultural and addiction counselor, explores his
culture as living world view and antidote to social
problems, and its dances as beautiful, enduring prayer
and sacrifice, alternating with family scenes of
preparations, prayers, feast-day meals. The film
ranges over San Juan's dance plazas and fields, its
mountains and Rio Grande River; the Indian Pueblo
Cultural Center, Albuquerque; the huge Gathering
of Nations Powwow; Chimney Rock, Colorado with its
ancient stone kiva (sacred structure); and Garcia's
university class in Pueblo Garcia sums up, 'I admire
our ancestors who gave us so many beautiful things
where we can sing whatever we feel from the heart.'
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PAY BLOC E EXPRESSIVE EVENINGS
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GOPHER BROKE 19:00 - 19:05
Gopher Broke World
Premiere, Academy Award Nomination 2005
Dir Jeff Fowler
U S A, Venice CA
00 hr : 04 min : 18 sec
SYNOPSIS
AN Gopher Broke tells the tale of
a cunning rodent’s smashing encounter with
a produce truck on a lonely country road.
THE PRINCE OF JERSEY 19:05
- 19:51
The Prince Of Jersey Toronto
Premiere Founders
Favorite
Dir Alexander Maslow
U S A, Hollywood, CA
00 hr : 45 min : 40 sec
LFF The Prince Of Jersey takes place
in a bleak corner of South Jersey during autumn.
Two rough, hard-living friends, Paul and Robbie,
spend their days working to collect the fallen leaves
and drink their nights away at the local bar. Paul
is struggling to save enough money to pursue his
dream of a deep-sea fishing business in Florida.
Robbie lives only for the excitement of football
gambling, earning extra cash as a bookie. One day,
a man walks into the bar with a strange proposal,
setting into motion a chain of events that will change
their lives forever...
INVISIBLE SCREAM 19:55 - 20:22
Invisible Scream Canadian
Premiere Programmers
Pick
Dir Keith Josef Adkins
U S A, Cincinnati, OH via Los
Angeles, CA
00 hr : 26 min : 54 sec
SF Bobby Roberts, a young African
American man living in Cincinnati, Ohio who loses
everything on the day of his birthday. Two things
makes this day unforgettable for Bobby. One, the
17-year cicadas are plaguing the town. Two, Bobby's
abducted. The hours that follow the abduction are
disturbing and chilling. Bobby's only hope is his
girlfriend Andi, who sets out to find him. INVISIBLE
SCREAM is a haunting commentary on the expendable
lives of young African American men in Cincinnati,
Ohio... and the nation as a whole.
THE FIX 20:25 - 20:58
The Fix Toronto
Premiere Director’s
Choice
Dir Adam Kane
U S A, Glendale, CA
00 hr : 32 min : 09 sec
SF Shay Riley (Robert Patrick),
once a heavyweight contender, lost his career years
ago by throwing a fight for money. Now Shay coaches
his son Benny in the ring. Shay's corner man Cyrus
prepares Benny for the fights by injecting his hands
with 'Novacain' to give him an edge and unknown to
his father, Benny quickly becomes hooked. On a high
stakes fight night, Shay withholds the drugs. Benny
explodes and confronts his father for the first time
in his life and this is when the biggest challenge
of each of their lives is really about to begin…
PAY
BLOC F
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HOMECOMING
21:12 - 21:30
Homecoming World
Premiere Founder’s
Favorite
Dir Emma Farrell
United Kingdom, Brighton East
Sussex
00 hr : 15 min : 00 sec
SF Tadine is a long way from home
and wants to return to Kosova and her beloved Dog,
Kostandin. Alone and adrift in a new country, her
mother tries to hold the family together as her father
sinks deeper into his own despair, unwilling or unable
to help his only child. Tadine’s determination
to get the family home, and the friendship of the
boy next door finally forces her father to confront
his demons, heal his past and help his daughter find
peace in their new home.
DIE AMATEURE UND DER GENERAL
21:35 - 23:19
Die Amateure Und Der General North
American Premiere
Dir Helge Cramer
Bosnia and Herzegovina, via Pottenstein,
Germany
01 hr : 43 min : 10 sec
LFD Ten years after the Bosnian
war the famous Stari Most is rebuilt to be a bridge
between hostiled Catholics and Muslims in Bosnia.
The Amateurs And The General tells the story of falling
and rebirth of the Muslim monument, watched through
the eyes of men who spent their life at the bridge
as friends before war. The film entangles their stories
with the bridge’s reconstruction.
INTERSECTION 23:25 - 23:37
INTERSECTION Canadian
Premiere Directors
Choice
DIR Eric Haywood
U S A, Canoga Park
00 hr : 11 min : 07 sec
SF Intersection takes us through
a day in the life of Troy (Terrell Tilford) and Debra
(Taji Coleman), a happily-married couple. Troy and
Debra seem to have it all: a beautiful home overlooking
the ocean, “his & hers” SUVs, and
most of all, they’ve got each other. But when
Troy gets involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident
while spending time with his mistress Carmen (Jackie
Nova), he’s forced to take some drastic measures
to cover his tracks. In the end, his secret’s
safe with Jackie, but Debra has a few secrets of
her own…
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PAY BLOC G MIDNIGHT
MACHINATIONS
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MUSCLE 23:40 – 23:46
Muscle Toronto
Premiere
Dir Justin Owensby
USA, Santa Monica, CA
00hr : 05 min : 56 sec
SF High school friends, Clay and
Dave, struggle to start an old muscle car
THIRSTY 23:48 – 23:51
Thirsty Canadian
Premiere Guilty
Pleasure
Dir Matthias Nehlsen
U S A via Hamburg, Germany
00 hr : 02 min : 37 sec
SF What do you do when you gotta
go and there’s nowhere to go in the middle
of the day in public to go? Invention and resourcefulness
takes over in this black & white short that gives
us food for thought…or at least a sip…
THE PACKAGE 23:51 - 23:59
The Package World
Premiere
Dir Carlos Dorsey
:08 min : 00 sec
U S A, Los Angeles, CA
SF In what seems to be a simple
game of chess, a code is given, and a young courier
receives a package that holds great wealth and will
soon change his life.
THE END OF THE YEAR 00:00
- 01:22
The End Of The Year World
Premiere Director’s
Choice
Dir Ben Kukee
Canada, Toronto, ON
01 hr : 22 min : 00 sec
FF With their own peculiar self-centric
brand of philosophy, two friends, Ben and Simon celebrate
the ‘end of the year’ during a meal that
never ends and weirdly begins with madcap musings
about life from the beginning to the end. David Rego & Scott
Peterson play a myriad of oddball characters in this
quirky comedy about Life.
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RHIFF
Legend
FF Feature
Film [+80
minutes]
LFF Long
Form Film [-60
minutes]
SH Short
Film [-40
minutes]
FD Feature
Documentary [+80
minutes]
LFD Long
Form Documentary [-60
minutes]
SD Short
Documentary [-40 minutes]
D/M Dance
