October 16, 2019
WILD WHEELS
DescriptionDescription Director Harrod, Blank drove his wildly decorated VW Bug across the country to make this delightful documentary about car art. including everyone from writer/Merry Prankster Ken Kesey and his converted school bus to a Louisiana fried chicken dealer's giant "Chicken Car." Suffused with goofy charm, colorful visuals and crammed with eccentric cars, Wild Wheels...
October 16, 2019
LISTEN CAREFULLY
DescriptionDescription Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this tale of love and loneliness. Robert Manganelli brings a hearing audience into a deaf...
October 16, 2019
WADECK’S MOTHER’S FRIEND’S SON
DescriptionDescription Arnold Barkus' imaginatively crafted, offbeat tale of three young immigrants Anton, a naive Polish sailor, arrives in New York and wreaks havoc in the lives of Wadeck and his French roommate Barbara. Much of the story focuses on Barbara as she searches for an American husband and tries to get rid of the unbearable...
October 16, 2019
A WAR OF CHILDREN
DescriptionDescription In this engrossing story of life in a strife-torn society, two middle-class Belfast families-one Protestant, one Catholic-find themselves engulfed in tl11; surrounding violence. Their years of friendship are turned to bitter hatred, with complications of painful consequence in the lives of the children. This drama, executive produced by Roger Gimbel, winner of this year's...
October 16, 2019
THE LETTERS FROM MOAB
DescriptionDescription The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in Mark Krenzien's The Letters From Moab. In Martin Nicholson's Missing Parents, a punked-out teenager...
October 16, 2019
THE VISITOR
DescriptionDescription Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby mysteriously appears at the door of a childless Hasidic couple in Moise, they can't...
October 16, 2019
LEA
DescriptionDescription Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby mysteriously appears at the door of a childless Hasidic couple in Moise, they can't...