2006 Film list of New Hampshire filmmakers

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Alyosha the Pot (NH/22:30 min/2006/ Directed byPaul Schick and produced by Bethany Tarbell) A bold, new short film, Alyosha adapts Tolstoy's miniature masterpiece of the same name. Despite its brevity, this tale addresses the elemental themes of human life: family, class, work, war, love and death. (filmed at Shaker Village with a student cast) (Tuesday 7 pm, Annicchiarico Theater)

Assimilation (USA/ 2 min/ 2006/Directed by Shawn Laplante) An animated tale of a child's first day at school! (A UNH-Manchester student film) (Friday, 10 am, Holiday Inn)

Don't Walk (NH/ 3:30 min/2006/ Directed by Dylan Ladds) A chase-scene through Boston is not what it seems. (A Concord High School student film) (Friday 6:15 pm, Holiday Inn)

Experiments in Animation (NH/ 5 min/ 2006/ Directed by Colleen Yeaton) Rabbits romp playfully across change-up scenery and designs set to popular music. (A Concord High School student film) (Tuesday 7 pm, Annicchiarico Theater; Friday 10 am, Holiday Inn)

Incursion (NH/ 3:30 min/ 2006/ Directed by Ian Clement) Pickpockets and vigilante all end up in a church at the end of their chase and re-think what the next step should be. (A Concord High School student film) (Friday 6:15 pm, Holiday Inn)

Investigating Resolution (NH/4 min/Directed by Ian Clement) A deaf boy's school day leads him to reflect on relationships via sculpture. (A Concord High School film) (Friday 6:15 pm, Holiday Inn)

Laundry Day (NH/23 min/ 2005/ Directed by Travis Laughlin) Shot in black and white as if a fairy tale from a bygone era, this Chaplinesque silent film tells the tale of an unhappy girl who seems doomed to live under the cruelty of her father and brother, until the chance arrival of a lowly shoe-shiner changes her fortune. The shoe-shiner finds his love for the girl to be difficult to convey as he must first win her trust and then find a way around the malicious father and brother. (Saturday 1:15 p.m., NH State Library)

A League of Her Own (NH/5 min/ 2006/ Directed by Thomas Tosi) A young girl searching for a team starts to lose hope when the unexpected happens. (Tuesday 7 pm, Annicchiarico Theater)

The Norman Rockwell Code (NH/30 min/2006/Directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo) A famous museum...a shocking murder...a distinguished symbologist...an alluring cryptologist...secrets written in code...a short film spoof of The Da Vinci Code filmed and produced in Portsmouth, NH. (Saturday 9:15 pm, the Concord City Auditorium)

Nuts and Bolts (NH/ 7:40 min/ 2004/ Directed by Newell Todd) A young man fixing an old house notices nuts and bolts drop as he moves from room to room. Suddenly he loses an arm. How do the pieces fit to make it whole again? (Shot in Warner, NH) (Friday 3:30 pm, Holiday Inn; Friday 6:15 pm, Holiday Inn)

Outside Things (NH/ 13 min/2006/Outside Things (NH/ 13 min/2006/ Directed by Myra Holt) A daughter seeking to mend a relationship with her father sets out on New Hampshire's Cohos Trail only to find that more trouble will arise. (Saturday 1:15 pm, NH State Library)

Reach for the Stars (USA/75 Min/ Directed by Renee Sotile & Mary Jo Godges) "People think they know her story because they know how she died, but they don't know how she lived," Sotile said about film-subject Christa McAuliffe, a Concord native and our nation's first Teacher in Space. McAuliffe died aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. This film tells the riveting and inspirational story of why Christa McAuliffe was willing to accept the risks and charts the legacy of her life and death. (Story is NH based.)

(Friday 1:15 pm, Holiday Inn)

Running With Bulls (NH/ 19:30 min/ 2006/ Directed by Steven Bouffard) This Concord High School student film chronicles the heist by three young teenagers of a rare antique chocolate mold to help pay for a plane ticket home for a foreign exchange student whose mother is ill. (Saturday 3:15 pm, the NH State Library)

Shift (NH/4:36 min/ 2005/ Directed by Joshua Marvel) This short film told with beautiful watercolor landscapes takes the audience on a journey without characters, introducing a new perspective on cycles through time. (A Hampshire College student film) (Friday eve, 10 pm, Holiday Inn)

Straight Forward (NH/ 83 min/ 2004) Directed by Jason Noto) At the time when Motion Picture Studios controlled Hollywood's elite, trouble arises when a successful writer and his aging starlet wife attempt to conceive a child and are inadvertently introduced to a young, dangerous loner looking for fame himself. Extenuating circumstances put each against the other, making it difficult to find the truth. A work-in-progress cut, shot locally in Pembroke, NH. Post-film discussion. (Thursday 7 pm, Annicchiarico Theater)

The Toll (NH/ 7 min/ 2006/ Directed by J. Zachary Pike) The Toll is a computer animated mockumentary in the guise of a student project created by the fictional film student Harvey Stevens. Harvey delves into the realm of a not-so-fantastic myth to interview the troll who lives under a bridge. The troll is aggressive, uncouth, tempermental and has a nasty habit of eating people. Yet, strangely, the troll wants acceptance from the society he preys on, and sees the young filmmaker as an opportunity to clear up the "misunderstandingss that have always plagued him. (Thursday 7 pm, Annicchiarico Theater and Friday 10 pm, Holiday Inn)

Utopia (NH/3 min/ 2006/Directed by Sophia Axtman) A visually evocative silent film that questions the distance between dystopia and utopia. (A Concord High School student film) (Friday 6:15 pm, Holiday Inn)