October 16, 2019
HUMBLE PIE
DescriptionDescription In this charmingly deadpan comedy, director Chris Bowman and screenwriter/star Hubbel Palmer make a stylistic show of their skills and decidedly quirky tone with an infectious film about a guy with a dream of a driver 's license. At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy (Hubbel Palmer) is a wide target. When he sets out to...
October 16, 2019
THE HUNTER
DescriptionDescription Each winter Tub hunts with childhood friends Frank and Kenny. Middle-aged and still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to be different. And it is. Deep inside a snow-covered forest, his long-buried aggression comes raging to the surface. Based on the Tobias Wolff short story Hunters in the Snow.
October 16, 2019
HOLLYWOOD CHINESE: THE CHINESE IN AMERICAN FILM
DescriptionDescription Produced, directed, written and edited by Academy Award® nominee and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong (LICENSED TO KILL, COMING OUT UNDER FIRE, FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A.), HOLLYWOOD CHINESE presents 11 of the community's most accomplished Chinese American film arti sts sharing personal accounts of working in film. Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, Joan Chen, David...
October 16, 2019
HONEYDRIPPER
DescriptionDescription Using a steamy blues soundtrack to tell the story of the birth of rock and roll, iconic independent filmmaker John Sayles's (RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7, PASSIONFISH) new film HONEYDRIPPERS is set in an Alabama juke joint in 1950, and is steeped in the miasma of the South. The film features an all -star...
October 16, 2019
HAPPY DESERT (DESERTO FELIZ)
DescriptionDescription Is it possible to quantify something so ephemeral as happiness? As we watch Jessica, a Brazilian runaway forced into prostitution, it becomes hard not to wonder when, exactly, she was most happy. Certainly it was not in her sun-blasted hometown, where she was the victim of abuse and neglect. But is she happier now,...
October 16, 2019
HECKLER
DescriptionDescription Although the exact details have been lost to history, one imagines that the first critic 's judgment was closer in form to a Bronx cheer than to Aristotle 's Poetics. Both significant and uproariously funny, Michael Addis's documentary focuses on the age-old antipathy between performers and their audiences, exploring where it comes from and...
October 16, 2019
GLASS, CONCRETE AND STONE
DescriptionDescription A short film about buildings that focuses on the aesthetics of construction and leveling.
October 16, 2019
GOD PROVIDES
DescriptionDescription Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss in the American South. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation and a...
October 16, 2019
H.R. GIGER’S SANCTUARY
DescriptionDescription This short documentary features an interview and a museum tour with the master of the airbrush, the inventor of "biomechanics" and the creator of the Academy Award winning ALIEN. The artist talks openly about his fascination with the morbid; his fame and cult following; his fears and nightmares; and his visions of the future.
October 16, 2019
FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE YOU LOSERS! (FUNUKEDOMO, KANASHIMI NO AI WO MISERO)
DescriptionDescription Kyomi dreams of writing mango but she feels trapped by a dysfunctional family stewing in dashed dreams, suppressed rage and sexual deviance. Director Daihachi Yoshida's eccentricity seems influenced by the work of Todd Solondz and Wes Anderson, but he has his own unique visual style. In an attempt to save the family's black cat...
