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Business Johnson
Canadian Premiere
Special Invite
Dir. Casper Frank
Dir. Talia Raine
Short or Long Form Film Category
Hollywood, CA, USA

Business Johnson features urban comedy funny men Alonzo Bodden (Last Comic Standing), Larry B. Scott (Revenge of the Nerds), Rodney Perry (Def Comedy Jam, Johnson Family Vacation), and Jerod Mixon (Me, Myself & Irene). It's a little blue and kinda raunchy - so leave your PC sensitivity and home but bring your funny bone with you!

As Smart As They Are explores the relationship between music and literature while painting a portrait of the literary community that fostered the band One Ring Zero. This film documents their collaboration with McSweeney's Publishing and an ensemble cast of award winning authors. Features live performances, studio sessions, and interviews with the writers and musicians,

Featuring:  Dave Eggers, Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Jonathan Ames, Myla Goldberg, Darin Strauss, Amy Fusselman, Clay McLeod Chapman, Lawrence Krauser

This film is supported by Cinema Obscura DVD

A lonely, high functioning mentally challenged man falls in love with a 900 sex-line operator, and through that call, both find redemption.

After a fight with his wife over the fact that they don't talk anymore, a high school detention teacher forces two people who would never talk otherwise -- a beautiful girl and a geeky boy -- to have a non-stop conversation for an entire detention period.
 

Be My Oswald
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Don Cato
Feature Film Category
Jackson Heights, NY, U S A

A militant female vegetarian conspires to assassinate Santa Claus at the New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade.

*Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee*

Three middle-aged men decide to learn to surf and make a movie about their adventure.  Their ultimate goal: catching a wave in Hawaii.  But following their dream turns out to be much harder than the pros make it look on TV.

13-year-old Chrissie comes to stay with Jim, her older brother, at college.  On an impulse Jim decides that he wants to initiate his little sister into adulthood but she already knows more than he thinks.
 

A half-sister and brother, illegitimate offspring of Zeus, must find a play fated by their father and perform it for the gods' amusement.  If they do not act well, they will die.

Sept 11, 2001 to the present: Five years in Five minutes

James, the brother of thirteen year old Jesus faces challenges growing up as the brother of the son of God.

A Chinese opera icon and Cultural Revolution elite gives up fame and fortune in her homeland to move to the United States in pursuit of artistic freedom and the American dream.

Shadow Vignettes:
Odd Eye O Mumbo Jumbo
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Jonathan Woods
Dance or Music Related Category
Chicago, IL, U S A

Shadow Vignettes: Odd Eye O Mumbo Jumbo is an uproarious romp through the life and times of America's premiere African American Avant-Garde jazz big band.

This exquisitely shot film takes us on a dreamy and hypnotic voyage of a beautiful young woman, cast ashore on a sun-drenched beach to be awakened by the lover of her past. The story unfolds like a distant memory and takes us through a playful collage of mythical and sensual imagery.

4 from 48 is the collaborative work between Spoken Word Artist /Musician, IN-Q and Artist/Filmmaker Cameron Striewski. Envisioned as 'Visual Poetry,' four songs are bridged together by original animation, prophetic teachings and searing social commentary.

This short video blends documentary interviews and evocative images to share the inner thoughts of a group of Somali teenage girls about the hijab (the Muslim woman’s headscarf). The hijab is the most visual identification of their difference from mainstream American culture and the base of the most commonly asked question - "What's With The Hijab"...

When society labels groups according to economic class, race, gender or interest, people are stripped of their individuality. In this piece, a few of the TVbyGIRLS CORE GIRLS venture beyond the labels to show us what we’re missing.

Imagine if 'The Wizard of Oz" were set in a junkyard...Four droids battle out their existence in a landscape of industrial junk and primal human angst-

Join us in this philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in this quirky, idiosyncratic, documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness. Think Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure starring your 2 wacky new-age gay uncles...

Although banned in 1994, apartheid is still a reality in South Africa today.  This film highlights the efforts of cultural activists who are rebuilding a nation that has been physically and psychologically scarred.  The youth who have inherited South Africa are using their cultural voices as instruments of change.

The interior space of a puppet becomes increasingly reflective, revealing the artifice of his own creation.