October 16, 2019
SOME BOYS DON’T LEAVE
DescriptionDescription The story of a breakup without the break.
October 16, 2019
SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS
DescriptionDescription Delicately weaving together the lives of three lonely strangers, Matt McCormick makes a graceful, unassuming feature debut. The story explores the elusiveness of personal fulfillment as McCormick's characters bump up against the discarded - from a kind-eyed sheller dog to the ownerless urn of a little girl's ashes - and are forced to confront...
October 16, 2019
SHIT YEAR
DescriptionContactDescription Santa Cruz filmmaker Cam Archer makes his feature film debut at AFI FEST this year (his short film BOBBYCRUSH played to acclaim in 2006) Sacrificing his signature lush color landscapes, Archer has embraced black and white photography for this, his second full-length feature The aesthetic choice has produced a bold cinematic vision, combining sometimes...
October 16, 2019
A SCREAMING MAN (HOMME QUE CRIE)
DescriptionContactDescription There is a consistency and calm to Adam's life as a hotel pool attendant, working alongside his son Abdel, that is lost when change comes in the form of new proprietors who terminate Adam's employment For Adam, a former swimming champion whose moniker "The Champ" is intrinsic to his identity, this displacement leads to...
October 16, 2019
THE SANDPIT
DescriptionDescription Composed from more than 35,000 stills in Manhattan and Brooklyn, using a "tilt-shift" style, this film watches the pulses and rhythms of the city and its inhabitants from a different perspective.
October 16, 2019
SACRAMENTO – A FAMILY FABLE
DescriptionDescription When Dan returns home to retrieve his childhood pet dog, he discovers that the dog is dead... and that's the least of his worries.
October 16, 2019
THE SAVAGE CANVAS
DescriptionDescription A theater director with big ideas finds his radical new performance piece being undermined and ultimately taken from him by a self-possessed and precocious school girl.
October 16, 2019
RUBBER
DescriptionContactDescription Why? No reason. "No reason" will never make more sense than after you hove survived a screening of RUBBER. Straddling art film and horror, RUBBER has the most outrageous premise of any film this year. (Or ever?) An audience gathers in the desert to watch a story unfold. It's a story that has been...
October 16, 2019
THE RESPONSE
DescriptionContactDescription In the early hours of the 1992 LA riots, a seasoned black paramedic and her idealistic white partner respond to on emergency call. Contact Act Four Productions
October 16, 2019
REAR WINDOW
DescriptionDescription The best people, the best mood, the best setting for a murder mystery. - David Lynch Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW is a deconstruction of the art of filmmaking, a decoding of our deepest voyeuristic desires and a crackerjack thriller all wrapped up in one irresistible Technicolor package . Jimmy Stewart stars as on invalid...
