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Film List 2008
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| Bingo Nation (MA/6 min/2007/ Stephanie Stender) Every Saturday night, Joanna and the gals court Lady Luck at the local Bingo hall, but, lately, Lady Luck has been hiding. Sun, 2pm | |
| Boletos Por Favor (Tickets Please) (Spain/14 min/2006 /Lucas Figueroa) A train, a pursuit, only one way to escape… (Spanish w/ English subtitles) www.boletosporfavor.com Sat, 10:30am |
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| The
Busker (NH/ 87 min/ 2007/Stephen Croake) Racial
tension and an unlikely stranger’s proposition threaten
the developing relationship between a busker (street musician)
and an African-American girl. Sat, 12pm |
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| The
Castle (ME/51 min/2007/ Neil Novello) By using
a U.S. Navy-produced film, interviews with former Marine and
Navy personnel, as well as the wife of the last Marine commander,
this film tells the story of the Navy’s only maximum-security
prison, ever, the Portsmouth Naval Prison. Sun, 12 pm |
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| Creating
Karma (NY/104 min/2006/ Jill Wisoff) Karma,
uptight corporate climber, becomes a poet after moving in
with her wacky new-age therapist sister. Thrown into the mix
is her meddling mother, Chanel Fontaine nee Lollipop Fields,
the British “it” girl from the sixties; their
dead father’s lover, Rajah, the pop star sitar player;
and Vincent, the love interest, an inappropriate guy who talks
to puppets. NE Premiere. Winner of Best Feature at the 2008
Broad Humor Film Festival. www.creatingkarma.com Sat, 3:30pm |
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| Dean
and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary (VT/88
min/2008/ Heith Eiden) Connect to a revolutionary, grassroots
effort that changed politics and jump-started a national debate
at a time when American democracy was, and remains, fragile.
This film’s ultimate discovery is that the real story
about Howard Dean and the movement he inspired took place
well outside the closed theater of American media politics.
Sat, 8 pm Q&A w/filmmaker. |
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| Drowning
Era (NH/65min /2008/Alex Garrett) After a devastating
pandemic, three men, who have been looking for other survivors,
must endure the long winter at an old, desolate sawmill. Sun,
6 pm |
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| Easter Eve (MA/ 14min /2008/ Joe Tronatore) The truth about the Easter bunny has been discovered…. Sun, 6 pm | |
| The Faking of the President (NY/80 min/1976/Alan Abel) This rarely screened faux documentary features scenes starring famed Nixon-imitator Jim M. Dixon inter-cut with archival news footage. The audio track was created via splicing together snippets of the ex-President’s actual voice. Sifted from hundreds of hours of interviews, the Abel’s manipulated and re-edited Nixon’s words, syllable-by-syllable, to make him utter outrageous things. In this pastiche, the audience is treated to a full confession from a tearful Nixon and many more interesting vignettes. Q&A with filmmaker. Sat, 6pm |  |
| Fathers
(ME/17 min/ 2007/Bridget Lake) Mike, a middle-aged factory
foreman with a wife and teenage daughter, loses his job when
the town mill closes. His unemployment threatens to unhinge
him and his family. Can he realize this before it’s
too late? |
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| For A Few Marbles More (Netherlands/11min/ 2006/Jelmar Hufen) Two aggressive drunks kick four ten-year-olds out of their favorite playground. Getting help will mean paying a price. Sun, 12pm |  |
| For The Birds (Canada/2min/ 2008/ Malcolm Johnstone) A descendent of Antarctic explorers attempts to revive and expand their strange research, against all manner of obstacles. Sat, 12pm, 6pm |  |
| Four
Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge (NC/4 min/2007/
Todd Tinkham) Ordinary places – at certain times, under
a certain light – can become extraordinary. Spend four
minutes at one such place. healing image: the mandalas of David Bookbinder – A man, devastated by medical malpractice, returns to photography and discovers the mandala form. He also becomes a psychotherapist, helping others as he learns spiritual wholeness by making mandalas. Sat, 10:30am |
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| Gólgota
(Spain/27 min/ 2008/Roman Rubert) Ródeno, a family
father who lives in a rural zone, discovers a letter of his
wife, Gólgota. (Spanish w/ English subtitles) Sat,
10:30am |
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| Healing Image: The Mandalas of David Bookbinder (MA/ 13 min/2008/Lawrence Pruyne) A man, devastated by medical malpractice, returns to photography and discovers the mandala form. He becomes a psychotherapist and helps others as he seeks spiritual wholeness by making mandalas. Sat, 10:30am |  |
| HELLDRIVERS:
America’s Original Crash Test Dummies (NH/
60min/2007/ Darren Garnick) Meet the last American “HellDRIVERS”
a traveling band of daredevils who smash school busses, mobile
homes and flaming garbage trucks – with no more protection
than a motorcycle helmet and an ordinary seat belt. Harboring
no dreams for Hollywood, New England’s own Doug Danger
and Crash Moreau barely earn enough to fill their gas tanks.
For them, though, almost dying is the only way to live. Film
footage includes Danger’s longest motorcycle jump in
Loudon, NH, enshrined in the Guinness Book of World Records,
and his near-death crash that happened in Hudson, NH. Fri,
9 pm |
Q&A to follow screening |
| Heroes,
No Hacen Falta Alas Para Volar (Heroes, Wings
Are Not Necessary To Fly) (Spain/25 min/ 2007/Angel Loza)
Pascal Kleiman was born without arms, but this circumstance
did not impede him to continue with his career as a disc jockey
in techno music. A clear example that proves the willpower
is stronger than any obstacle, whatever it is. (Spanish w/
English subtitles) Sat, 10:30am |
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| Immokalee
U.S.A. (FL/77 min/ 2008/George Koszulinski)
Recently honored at the 4th Annual Docufest Atlanta with the
"Best Director" award granted to Immokalee U.S.A.
and Georg Koszulinski, this feature-length documentary is
an account of migrant farm workers in the U.S.A and boasts
a fascinating cast of characters, from Panchito, the lonely
romantic who plucks his guitar with a weary hand, to the heartbreaking
Mateo Diego, whose grasp on reality seems to fade with each
succeeding interview. What is our collective role in this
chain of servitude, the film seems to ask us, providing an
opening for self-reflection rather than didactic sermonizing.
Sat, 8pm |
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| In
The Shadows Of Monadnock (MA/6 min/2007/ Karen
Aqua and students) This charming animated film traces the
colorful natural and cultural history of NH’s beloved
Mount Monadnock. Made by 7th grade students at Mountain Shadows
School in Dublin, NH, with the support of the McDowell Colony
in Peterborough, NH, this film was one of McDowell’s
“Peterborough Projects,” in honor of the Colony’s
centennial. Sun, 12pm |
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| Jake Ramsey and the Vampire Arcanum (Australia/ 16 min/ 2005/Daniel Inglese) In this fiendishly well-shot noir horror, Jake Ramsey must solve a supernatural murder, or is he just seeing things? Sun, 12pm | |
| Love And Class In Connecticut (CT/40 min/2007 Doug Tenaglia) Based on a play by Susan Cinoman. No one has invited Tina, the black sheep, Bohemian sister, to be at the naming ceremony of her sister's new baby. Tina shows up anyway, not to see the baby, but to see the baby's father and to make sure that he sees her. After sleeping with construction workers for too long, Tina has found a handsome doctor to rescue her from her life. The fact that he is her estranged sister's husband will not stand in her way, but her mother and the handyman might. Best Narrative Short – NE Film and Video Festival. Sun, 2pm |  |
| Made
In Japan (Spain/5 min/2007/Ciro Aletabas) “…My
mother admitted that the man who I thought was my father was
not my father.” (Spanish w/ English subtitles) Sat,
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| Mr. Big (Canada/ 89min/ 2007/Tiffany Burns) After her brother, Sebastian Burns, confesses and is convicted of murder, director Tiffany Burns takes a closer look at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police undercover sting known as “Mr. Big,” where police pose as organized criminals who offer target money and threaten violence, at the same time they seek confessions for unsolved murders. Sat, 12pm |  |
| Monster
Road (NC/80min /2005/Brett Ingram) Enter the
dazzling and fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay
animator Bruce Bickford in this “eerie and affectionate”
(Chicago Reader) documentary portrait of a man and
his obsessions. Winner of the Best Documentary in the 2004
Slamdance Film Festival. Fri, 7pm; Sat, 10:30am |
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| Nerdcore Rising (NY/80 min/2008/Negin Farsad) Nerdcore Rising follows MC Frontalot the "Godfather of Nerdcore" on his first national tour to reveal the roots of the genre, the dorky complexities of its artists, and one MC's fight for nerd stardom. Fri, 9pm; Sat, 10:30am; Sat, 6pm | |
| No
Escape (NY/2 min/2007 Patrick Johnson) A young
man, marooned on a small planet, attempt to reach his beloved,
who lives across the solar system. |
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| Notes on the Fair (NY/6 min/ 2008/John D. Scott) Kinetic visual expression of a bustling New England Fair. Sat, 10:30am | |
| One
Below Even (NH/ 20 min/2007/Jeremy Mohler) Charles
hits a near hole-in-one that is mistaken for a hole-in-one
by another golfer. He goes along with it and is exposed to
the high society country club world. Sun, 6pm |
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| Pascha
(CA/13 min/2008/Fay Lellios) The journey to Pascha, also called
Easter, or the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, in the
Eastern Orthodox community of Concord, New Hampshire. Filmed
by SNOB’s own Peter Burgess, Mike Eschenbach, and Bill
Whitman. Sat, 10:30am |
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| Pinko’s
Place (CA/79min/2007/ Daniel Printz) A young
L.A. transplant must see through his neighbor’s lies
in this dark comedy. Sat, 2pm |
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| Play-By-Play
Men and the Art of the Perfect Call (MA/ 76min/
2007/Ziad Hamzeh) Sit beside Baseball Hall of Fame’s
Ernie Harwell, voice of the Detroit Tigers and six-time winner
of Sportscaster of the Year; Chicago Cubs’ Pat Hughes,
two-time winner of Washington’s Sportscaster of the
Year; Seattle Mariners’ Hall of Famer Dave Neihaus;
former MLB player, Detroit Tigers’ announcer Jim Price,
the Baltimore Orioles’ Joe Angel, and the Red Sox play-by-play-man
of twenty-five years, Joe Castiglione, for an insider’s
look at the inside craft of play-by-play. Sun, 6pm |
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Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca Se Olvidan (Because
There Are Things You Never Forget) (Spain/ 13 min/2008/Lucas
Figueroa) Naples, Italy, 1950: Four friends are playing soccer
out on the street when their ball is accidentally kicked into
the evil old lady’s yard. They’ll never play with
their ball again … and for that the revenge will be
deadly. (Spanish in English subtitles) Sat, 10:30am |
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| Prometheus’
Garden (NC/28min/ 1988/Brett Ingram) This haunting
film immerses viewers in a cinematic universe unlike any other.
Its dark and magical images unfold in a dreamlike stream of
consciousness and reveal an unlikely cast of characters engaged
in a struggle for survival. Fri, 7pm; Sat, 10:30am |
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| Put
Him In The Ground (NH/ 15 min/2008/Jonathan
Buiel) Marcus, 24, is the sole caretaker of his younger brother,
Frankie, aged 16. After their mother abandons them, Marcus
drops out of music school and takes a job as a janitor to
support Frankie. Unable to stray too far from music, Marcus
attempts to become a famous, rich rap star, no matter what
the consequences. Sun, 2pm & Sat, 12pm |
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| Racing
Daylight (NY/83 min/ 2007/Nicole Quinn) A ghost story, a murder mystery and a love story which crosses time. What happens when time collides? Sadie thinks she's going insane. Edmund's sure he's being haunted. And Henry, well Henry's racing daylight. Starring David Strathairn and Melissa Leo. Fri, 7pm |
 Q&A with Nicole Quinn, writer, director, producer follows the show. This show is sponsored by Lincoln Financial
Foundation. |
| Radio
Cape Cod (MA/72 min/2008/Andrew Silver) Radio
Cape Cod is an energizing, award-winning love story set on
Cape Cod. Tamzin Outhwaite stars as a radio interviewer and
single mom coming to terms with a dashing scientist entering
her life and her teenage daughter experiencing her first love.
Fresh, fun, natural, and uplifting. Best Cinematography at
the 2008 All American Film Festival, Durham NC. Sun, 2pm |
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| A Rendezvous… (CA/10 min/ 2007/Laura Black) An alluring couple meet in a café only find their underlying attraction for each other undermines the true reason for their meeting. They came. They conspired. They drank lattes. Sun, 2pm | |
| Roses
Have Thorns (NY/97min/ 2008/Jong W. Lee) The
collision of deceptive perspectives caused by a failed cross-cultural
relationship. Sat, 3:30pm |
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| Scouts
Are Cancelled (NY/72 min/2007/John D. Scott)
Middle-aged, way broke, with nothing to lose, maverick telemarketer
John Stiles invents rural routes inspired call center performance
art, at first to woo his cold calls, but after its success
to launch an improbable “career” as a performance
poet. Sat, 2pm |
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| Shadow Worlds (MA/18 min/ 2007/James Higgins) Three young Khmer women struggle to reconcile an American dreamscape of gangs, addiction, and alienation with the traditions of their Cambodian culture. Where is the love? Sat, 10:30am | |
| Sibyllan (Sweden/19 min/ 2008/Jona Elfdahl, Elin Maria Johannseon, Fredric Berg) Five people visit an underground nation of cripples and poets, where there is one body and one blood, with many diseases. Sat, 10:30am |  |
| Silent
Monsoon (28min) Nabarsiyeko Jhari) – In
a rural village in Nepal, Durga struggles to save her twelve-year-old
daughter, Laxmi, from the family profession of prostitution.
Sat, 3:30pm |
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| Stiff
Napoleon (CA/21 min/ 2008/ Lila McLaughlin)
An aspiring newspaper reporter gets more than he bargained
for with his first major article and its unpredictable and
unruly subject. Sun, 2pm |
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| Talking
Guitars (Netherlands/ 72 min/2007/ Claire Pijman)
Meet master guitar craftsman, Flip Scipio, an unassuming Dutchmen
with an obsession. His clients include Jackson Browne, David
Lindley, Ben Taylor, Paul Simon, David Tronzo, Leni Stern
and Carly Simon. It is claimed that Flip "can make the
worst piece of sh*t sing". Sat, 2pm |
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| This
Bus, Every Day (4 min)- “I ride this bus
every day and every day I think about my life: my family,
my parents, childhood.” So begins this quietly powerful
short film about life, reflection, and the importance of memories
in all our lives. Sat, 10:30am; Sun, 2pm |
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| Truce
(MA/14 min/ 2008/ Sharon Perpignani) Truce is an original
short film about a mother who is constantly engaged in battle
with her teenage daughter. After seeing a series of therapists,
each of which is loonier than the last, the warring mother
and daughter come to an understanding – or do they?
Sun, 2pm |
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| The
Visual Orchestra (IL/2 min/2006/David Burns)
Using color and form, an original music score comes to life.
This short film explores relationships between audio and visual
rhythms through the representation of a experimental sonic
track. Sat, 10:30am |
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| "Why We Love the Movies" Panel discussion with Barry Steelman, Amy Diaz and Bob Pingree. Sat, 3:30pm | |
| Wiener
Takes All: A Dogumentary (Canada/89 min/2007/Shane
MacDougall) Take a journey into the unexplored world of competitive
wiener dogs, home to capacity crowds, healthy dachshunds,
and rabid owners. “Wiener” unleashes the truth
as it tracks America’s fastest weenies on a tour of
the national dachshund racing circuit. Crisscrossing the continent,
we get the inside scoop on what makes these champion dogs
and their colorful owners tick. Sun, 12pm |
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| The
Wizard Rockumentary: A Movie About Rocking and Rowling (USA/92
min/2008/Mallory and Megan Schuyler) Enter a world where music
is magic, love is power, and reading is cool, the world of
wizard rock. This movie documents the wrock community through
the year looking up to the final Harry Potter book release,
their rise from less than 30 bands to 450, and their journey
from obscurity to international media coverage. Sun, 2pm |
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| Woodpecker
(MA/87 min/2008/Alex Karpovski) An inventive hybrid of narrative
comedy and documentary detail, Woodpecker is set against the
true-life backdrop of devout birdwatchers that have descended
upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding
the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared extinct in
the 1940's, the bird has recently been positively identified
by experienced ornithologists. Yet despite massive efforts
to obtain undisputable visual proof of the woodpecker's existence,
not a single clear photo exists. Enter amateur birder and
poet Johnny Neander, convinced that he will be the one to
find the elusive ivory-billed. The ensuing chaos divides the
small town between believers and non-believers, committed
environmentalists and opportunistic entrepreneurs. Much like
the bird itself, Woodpecker explores the intersection of fact
and fiction, manipulating our notions of documentary and narrative
techniques within a tragic comedy about hope, perception,
and some very, very strange birds. Sat, 12pm |
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