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Executive Director Lights, Camera, Harbor....The REEL Magic!!! The Gig Harbor Film Festival is excited to bring the third of an annual film festival to our beautiful community, October, 15-17, 2010. The REEL Magic is the rapid growth that we enjoyed and thanks to you and your continued support, that Magic will continue. We are bringing three new and exciting events to your festival. First, a ‘Morning for Classic Films’ where you will have the opportunity to meet a film industry icon, get an autograph, and learn about those great films of yesterday. Secondly, we will introduce ‘Kids Fest’, with fun, kid friendly films for all to enjoy and where the youth will learn how to view and rate film quality. And our big, third event is the ‘72 Hour Film Competition’ which will give an opportunity for both youth and adults to create a film and then see it displayed on the big screen on our ‘fun day’, Sunday, October 17th. Of course the main festival event will offer everyone the opportunity to come and enjoy independent films from the northwest and around the world. You’ll be able to meet the film makers, and enjoy Q & A’s after selected films. Learn about how independent films are made and those special, ‘behind the scenes’ stories. As we enter our third festival, I want to express my deep appreciation to the members of both our board and advisory board who have worked so hard to bring thousands of details together to make this work. A special thanks goes to the Gig Harbor Film Festival Volunteer Coordinator, Jeni Woock and all of our volunteers who are so diligent in carrying out those many tasks that are so essential to making an event like this happen. We always invite our out-of-town visitors to visit our City of Gig Harbor’s website, www.gigharborguide. com to ensure each of our guests will have a chance, first hand to view our beautiful town, enjoy those friendly smiles and warm handshakes. It takes a Harbor....Let the magic begin...
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www.gighaborfilmfestival.org or visit the Gig Harbor Film Festival office, just right of the main entrance to Galaxy Theatre in UPTOWN. Open Monday through Saturday 10 - 5:00pm. EXTENDED HOURS THROUGH THE FESTIVAL...9:00 AM TO 6:00PM 3-DAY FESTIVAL PASS: $40.00 each ADULT INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $8.00 each YOUTH* INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $6.00 each * for youth ages 12 and under KIDS FEST PASS DONATION: $6 per ticket. An adult family member can accompany kids at no charge. REEL Friends Society Members: Don’t forget to show your membership card to receive 10% off all tickets and passes, except Rush Tickets! Seniors, Military, and Youth:* $6. You are eligible for a 10% discount off REEL Friends memberships. Use your membership to purchase passes and tickets at a discount. (i.e. Family membership is currently $90, you purchase it for $81, then can use your membership to get the 10% off tickets and passes). * Youth is 12 and under
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Seating is available at all performances on a first-come, first-served basis. No late seating. We strongly recommend that you arrive at the theatre 30 minutes prior to each screening to get in the ticket holders line. All programs are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges can be given, except in the case of program cancellation. Galaxy Theatres are Wheelchair Accessible.
PLEASE NOTE: The majority of festival films are not rated. We urge parents to exercise discretion. Infants and toddlers are not permitted at any screening or panel. We reserve the right to create age restrictions for films as necessary.
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Please silence mobile phones, paers and watches in the theatre. GHFF reserves the right to prohibit any sales during this festival and in future years to any ticket buyer who is identified or has been identified as a ticket reseller. This pertains to re-sales at above, below or at face value. GHFF reserves the right to prohibit any sales during this festival and in future years to any ticket buyer who is banned, barred, or otherwise removed or asked to leave Festival venues. Our invaluable and experienced staff and volunteers are recruited from far and wide to ensure the best possible Festival experience for all. GHFF will not tolerate mistreatment of its staff or volunteers of any kind and will take measures accordingly. Cameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited in theatres. It is illegal to make a copy of a film without permission of the copyright owner. GHFF reserves the right to undertake anti-piracy measures, expel anyone recording or photographing anything in the theatre and confiscate pirated materials. Ticket holders are guaranteed a seat only until ten minutes before the scheduled start of the screening. No entry permitted fifteen minutes after the scheduled start of any screening. All customers must leave the cinema and lobby following each screening. Bags are subject to inspection.
A MESSAGE FROM THE President I have truly enjoyed the opportunity to serve as President of the Gig Harbor Film Festival in this third year of our existence. The best part has been the pleasure of working with a dynamic and energetic board, our esteemed advisory board, and our inimitable Executive Director, Marty Thacker, in bringing about a film festival that promises to become one of Gig Harbor’s greatest traditions. In this third year, we are going to “kick it up a notch” with an expanded “Kids Fest”, a 72-Hour Film Competition, a classic movie event, and of course an even greater selection of films for the viewing pleasure of our all-important audience. We are, as always, extremely grateful for the unsurpassed support of the community, our very generous sponsors, and of course, those indispensable volunteers who really keep the wheels turning. But in the end, our very positive growth can
only continue with the all-important commitment of our audience members to come and enjoy the special experience that only a film festival can offer. We look to our audience members to give us honest feedback on the films they view and our festival operations. This year we offer the opportunity to vote for the Audience Choice Award and we invite everyone to take the opportunity to join our “Reel Friends” membership that supports year-round film events and gives each participant some great benefits and opportunities for future involvement in the festival. Now, please enjoy the 2010 Gig Harbor Film Festival and let us hear from you on what you would like from us in 2011! Dean Wilson Gig Harbor Film Festival Board President
FROM THE Mayor Welcome to the City of Gig Harbor and to one of our city’s most entertaining events, The Gig Harbor Film Festival. The Gig Harbor Film Festival is one of those occasions where people of amazingly varied backgrounds come together to make a unique and exciting event. As Mayor, it has been very exciting to watch and experience the positive support our city has offered the festival. An annual
event like the film festival brings culture, entertainment and education together for our residents and visitors. Let’s show our support by attending the Gig Harbor Film Festival, October 15 – 17, 2010. Congratulations to Gig Harbor Film Festival....as you continue this annual event! It Takes A Harbor!! Chuck Hunter, Gig Harbor mayor
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Our Featured Films … ... selected for their engaging narrative and cinematic appeal, will challenge your mind, stir your heart, and inspire your imagination. Now that’s entertainment! FILMS HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW WILL BE ATTENDED BY THE FILMMAKER
SOLD – Fighting the NewGlobal Slave Trade DIRECTOR - JODY HASSETT SANCHEZ 54 minutes • Documentary • Friday 11 p.m. Filmed in India, Togo and Pakistan, SOLD intertwines the stories of three courageous people who defy death threats, daring rescues and challenge powerful interests in the battle to end slavery in the 21st Century. A Hindu, a Christian, and a Muslim, this trio has never met but they fight the same enemy, while employing decidedly different strategies.
From the Badlands to Alcatraz DIRECTOR - NANCY IVERSON 56 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 4:30 p.m. Chronicles the remarkable journey of five young Lakota’s as they travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to San Francisco and prepare for the extreme challenge of swimming from Alcatraz Island to the San Francisco shore.
International Film Festival Ireland, Nominated for Documentary USA Award Landlocked Film Festival, Awarded First Place, Documentary Short The Indie Fest, Award of Merit Honolulu International Film Festival, Silver Lei Award for Excellence in Filmmaking 43rd WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival, REMI Award “Hearts and Minds Film Festival, Director’s Award
Teething DIRECTOR BEN RAPSON 6 minutes • Narrative • Friday 9:05 p.m. A cinematic poem about being caught between childhood and adulthood. Through physical movement, poetic narration, and an orchestrated score, ‘Teething’ ignites your imagination and reminds you that though we may get older, we never grow up.
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Rescue Men The Story of Pea Island Savers DIRECTOR - ALLAN SMITH 56 minutes • Documentary • Friday 2 p.m. Story of seven African Americans post slavery and the civil war when they were recruited to man a lifesaving station on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. These men manned the only all black station in the history of the life saving service and led the most rescues and the most heroic rescues that culminated in the formation of what we now know as the United States Coast Guard.
Speakers Corner - You Have the Right to Remain Vocal DIRECTOR - GAVIN WHITE 59 minutes • Documentary • Friday 12:30 p.m. Adult Content This is a 1 hour documentary film that serves as a modern commentary on the origins and fragility of freedoms of speech and assembly. Since 1872, people have gathered at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park to exercise their rights to free speech in all its forms. The filmmaker weaves interviews with park speakers, hecklers, local politicians, historians, linguists and sociologists involved in this modern phenomenon to create a powerful critique of the true nature of democracy in our society.
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Tequila DIRECTOR SERGIO SANCHEZ SUAREZ
Giants CO-DIRECTORS - MIMI GAN AND JIM DENVER 70 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 12:40 p.m. GIANTS, narrated by Tom Skerritt, takes a quirky and intimate look at the very human drama surrounding a single-minded obsession -- an obsession that cultivates surprisingly bitter rivalries and intrigue.
San Francisco DocFest Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival
Camp Unity DIRECTOR - RYAN WHITE 83 minutes Documentary Saturday 1:05 p.m. Camp Unity is a controversial, award-winning documentary about Iraqi students uniting through Hip Hop, jazz, orchestra, and Broadway at an American arts academy in Iraqi Kurdistan. Arabs and Kurds, Christians and Muslims, Americans and Iraqis from distinct cultures combine forces to put on Gala shows in local communities. Taking the viewer on an entertaining journey as cultures collide, egos clash and dreams come true, the film presents a “warts and all” vision of this life-changing event. Shot on location in Iraq, CAMP UNITY allows a unique opportunity to look beyond the violent and sensational images of Iraq, commonly used by international Medias, to see beauty emerge from chaos.
Montreal World Film Festival , Montreal Canada Montreal, Canada DOCUTAH Film Festival, St George & Kanab, U S A Philadelphia International Film Festival Silver Award in Documentary Category The Indie Fest, Award of Excellence: Feature Documentary
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Adult Content • 103 minutes • Narrative Friday 9:05 p.m. A land deep in Mexico where honor is everything, Antonio, a young landowner respected by all, has an affair with Lola, his uncle Vicente’s wife who is the hero of the town. With every lie, Antonio gets himself deeper into a tangle of suspicion, obsession and jealousy that jeopardize everything in his life and his soul. In an act of desperation, Antonio decides to run away with Lola, without caring to leave behind his whole life just to be sure that she will be safe. Since he fears to disappoint his uncle, he prefers to leave behind his back, without knowing that the truth is the only thing that can make him free; but in Tequila traitors don’t see another sun rise.
A Day At The Park DIRECTOR SPENCER STUARD 10 minutes • Narrative • Saturday 12:45 p.m. You’ll never want to play alone again! Short story based on children playing at a playground with alternate realities that reflected their imagination.
Morning DIRECTOR JOSEPH MITACK Adult Content • 86 minutes • Narrative Saturday 9 p.m. Seattle International Film Festival Set against the well worn back-drop of Seattle’s fishing terminals and working class neighborhoods, ‘Morning’ centers around a young married couple who are suffering from the accidental drowning death of their child. Wrestling with his sense of guilt, Michael Hade pushes his questionable drinking into a darker, more uncontrollable state. Sara Hade’s attempt at forgiveness is challenged by her husband’s self-destruction and the temptation of an old boyfriend. With the help of Roger, a fishing Captain and old family friend, Michael tries to repair the marriage that he has all but destroyed.
The River Why DIRECTOR MATTHEW LEUTWYLER Adult Content • 104 minutes • Documentary Friday 1:35 p.m. The story of a Gus Orviston, the Mozart of fishing, who leaves his big city home in rebellion from his family to live in a secluded cabin on the banks of a wild river. Instead of finding fishing bliss, his desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery. Most of all, The River Why is a love story: the love of a man for the wilderness, and for the beautiful woman who comes to share it with him.
Sweet Crude DIRECTOR SANDY CIOFFI 93 minutes Friday 5:30 p.m. Documentary • Subtitles The documentary film Sweet Crude is the story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta — the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since the filmmakers met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). Sweet Crude is a journey of multilayered revelation and ever-deepening questions. It’s about survival, corruption, greed and armed resistance. It’s about one place in one moment, with themes that echo many places throughout history.
16 To Life DIRECTOR BECKY SMITH Adult Content • 60 minutes • Comedy • Friday 8:20 p.m. Kate is a rural American teenager whose angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays. Shot on location on the Mississippi River, boasts terrifically funny, heartfelt performances from newcomer actors. Kate’s irreverent fantasies of sexual awakening and guilt, fueled by obsessive reading of books on bizarre subjects (currently the Chinese Cultural Revolution) drive this explosive day. Kate is turning 16 and has never been kissed! Kate will discover what a 16-yearold American girl has in common with a 16-year-old Chinese girl half a world, and a cultural revolution, away.
16 to Life” tied for most nominations at MethodFest 09: > Winner - Best Picture (Audience Award) > Winner - Best Supporting Actress (Theresa Russell) > Nominated for Best Comedic Performance (Hallee Hirsh) > Nominated for Break Out Performance (Jaime Gomez) > Nominated for Best Ensemble Cast Writer/director Becky Smith received a $5,000 award from Christie Post and software from Final Draft.
LIVING IN EMERGENCY DIRECTOR MARK N. HOPKINS Adult Content • 93 minutes • Documentary Saturday 6:20 p.m. Stories of Doctors without Borders... The hardened, heroic doctor working selflessly to save lives in a war zone has become a familiar figure in popular entertainment. The long-running television series “ER,” for example, sent John-Visnjic’s Luka Kovac-off to Congo on just such an assignment, fraught with mortal danger and moral dilemmas. A similar sense of drama enters in “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors without Borders,” a documentary film about the international humanitarian aid group. But “Living in Emergency” stands apart from standard medical fare by focusing on the organization and its mission rather than on individual predicaments...
BORN SWEET DIRECTOR CYNTHIA WADE Subtitles • 28 minutes • Documentary • Friday 10 a.m. Fifteen year old Vinh dreams of being a karaoke star but has accepted his fate. He is ill with incurable arsenic poisoning and spends his days in his remote Cambodian village tending the cows and escaping into song with his family’s car battery-powered karaoke machine. A chance to be in a karaoke video about the dangers of arsenic allows Vinh to wonder if he truly knows his destiny. OCTOBER, 2010
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The Woman Behind the Symbol DIRECTOR LUCY OSTRANDER 15 minutes • Documentary Saturday 4 p.m.
Calvin Marshall DIRECTOR GARY LUNDGREN Adult Content • 93 minutes • Narrative Saturday 10:10 a.m.
In February 1942, two months after the bombing of Pear! Harbor, the U.S. government issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the relocation of 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast in order to incarcerate them in isolated and desolate concentration camps. The government’s justification was to protect the country against espionage and sabotage by Japanese Americans. THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SYMBOL is both a historical portrait of Fumiko and her family as well as a contemporary story of how the iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby against the injustices of the past.
Filmed in Ashland and Medford, the story follows a sophomore at Bayford City College who wants to make the baseball team. The problem is he is long on determination but short on skills. Calvin Marshall had a childhood dream of being a major leaguer but he can’t even make the junior college team. The hard-nosed coach has had his own failures and doesn’t have the heart to tell Calvin to abandon his dream. Calvin manages to stay on the team and also charm the college volleyball star.... but it all may be fleeting.
Mount St. Elias DIRECTOR GERALD SALMINA Adult Content 100 minutes Documentary Saturday 3:45 p.m. A dramatic and awe-inspiring feature documentary following three of the world’s greatest ski mountaineers traveling to Mount St. Elias in their attempt to realize the longest ski descent of the world. Two Austrian ski mountaineers Axel Naglich and Peter Ressmann as well as the American free ski mountaineer Jon Jonhston are facing this breathtaking challenge! A team with individual abilities, but also a team of leaders, knowing they literally cannot survive without teamwork and cooperation. Especially Axel Naglich, he unconsciously takes the role of the protagonist due to his charismatic and authentic personality and, within the permanent struggle not against nature but against himself, polarizes as a strong character. This is a movie about men who view and accept mountains as challenges. A process whose vision becomes a real adventure and men who, formed by their origins, want to experience their passion as intensively as possible and above all want to survive. 12 G I G H A R B O R F I L M F EST I VA L
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Albatrocity DIRECTORS EDWARD SALTAU AND IAIN FRENGLEY 25 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 12:15 p.m. A dramatic tale about the Albatross, king of the sea. Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ forms the backbone of this story. Stunning footage of this beautiful bird, shot in New Zealand’s Sub-Antarctic Islands, is woven with the harsh realities of the impact of commercial fishing. This is a film that features some of the most innovative visual effects used in modern day documentary. Harsh treatment of birds may be disturbing to some viewers
REVERIE DIRECTOR SAMUEL GONZALEZ 13 minutes • Narrative • Friday 4:15 p.m. Story of a young couple’s desperate search for love and salvation amidst a devastating car wreck.
Kosher Pig PRODUCER MOON CHO 20 minutes • Narrative • Friday 8 p.m. Joy Cohen is a 23-year-old Jewish beauty in an Asian body. As a baby, Joy was adopted from China by the Cohens, a rich Jewish family in Los Angeles. She was raised with wealth and privilege. While she may look Asian on the outside, she is really Jewish on the inside. Even though Joy has everything going for her--looks, intelligence, and personality--she is still very insecure about herself, partly because she feels rejected by her biological parents. In her attempt to feel more complete, she seeks out her bio family, whom she thinks is still in China. Through a biological search company, she learns that they are already in Los Angeles, and own a local Chinese restaurant, The Joy Luck Pig. Thrilled to make this discovery, Joy naively believes that bringing her two families together will be her happy ending. When the families finally meet, they are territorial over Joy. Tension and conflict between the two families ensue immediately. Joy’s happy ending may not be so happy, after all.
Walk In The Clouds DIRECTOR DOUG MCMAINS 10 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 10:15 a.m. Glacier National Park has enormous water preserves as well as one million acres of undeveloped wilderness. Glacier National Park is not currently designated as ‘Wilderness’. All of the beauty and resources of Glacier are at risk as long as the park is not set-aside as ‘Wilderness’. The text of the film is intended to drive citizens to promote ‘Wilderness Designation’ for Glacier National Park.
Obedience DIRECTOR DAVID HOLECHEK 10 minutes • Narrative • Saturday 12:55 p.m. Palm Beach International Film Festival Heartland FIlm Festival D.C. Shorts Film Festival Cannes Short Film Showcase Cannes Short Film Showcase, Los Angeles Jason wakes up on the day of a very important work presentation to find that he is being followed by a series of mysterious, floating, nagging words. Why are they here? Where are they coming from? As the minutes tick away to the one of the biggest moments of his career, Jason is hopelessly distracted. It isn’t until he can take a step back from his busy life that he begins to realize the meaning of these ominous and annoying messages
Unpleasantville DIRECTOR COLTON TRAN 18 minutes • Narrative • Friday 5:30 p.m. The O’Lanten Family is the average suburban family, oh....except for one minor detail: they have pumpkins for heads! When the Burton’s, a literally black and white kind of family, move in across the street, things are turned upside down. “Who wants to live across the street from monsters?” Then again, who are the real monsters? The question seems to be if the two families will realize they have more in common than the think or if they will continue to view each other as “monsters” forever?
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Change for a Dollar DIRECTOR SHARON WRIGHT 10 minutes • Drama Saturday 6 p.m. Walk in the steps of a man as he affects multiple people’s lives with just one dollar, proving that it doesn’t take much to be the change in someone’s life.
Catch or Release DIRECTOR DAVID HEFNER Adult Content • 9 minutes • Narrative Friday 10:10 p.m. Two lifelong friends, Chip and Dale, spend a peaceful early morning fishing from a boat anchored in the quiet cove of a secluded lake. They reminisce about how they first met their early childhood, and girls. After much drinking, combined with the stress-free environment of coming out into nature, they loosen up. Soon, long dormant dark secrets are revealed.... You have to ask yourself, ‘How well do you know your best friend?’
Neither Day or Night DIRECTOR CHRIS SCHWAB Adult Content • 105 minutes • Narrative Friday 5:35 p.m. Riverside International Film Festival, Audience Choice Award - Best Feature Amy Young is a 24 year old woman struggling to overcome the death of her mother when she was very young. She seeks to fill her emotional void by attempting to form closer ties with her father Harris, who is reluctant. An accident causes Harris to be bedridden temporarily. Amy gladly moves in with him to undertake his care during this period. What appears to be an opportunity for both them to work out their differences soon turns into a nightmare as Amy begins to discover bits of information about Harris’ sinister past? Harris’ denials and his less than fatherly manners cause Amy to investigate even more, including the circumstances of her mother’s death. But her findings and overall curiosity also antagonizes Harris. As both sides tenaciously defend what they believe to be the right thing to do, their relationship becomes untenable and even dangerous. Their battle of will and drive reveals family secrets, obsessions and motives until it becomes a matter of life or death for either one of them. 14 G I G H A R B O R F I L M F EST I VA L
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SKYLIGHT DIRECTOR DAVID BAAS 5 minutes • Animated • Friday 10 p.m. International Film Festival Thailand Jersey Shore Film Festival_ Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation, Annecy, France Artsfest film festival The Connecticut Film Festival Delray Beach Film Festival Swansea Bay Film Festival, United Kingdom A cavernous ice cave and snowscape in the Antarctic. Voiceover narration describes its desolate quality in an overly solemn, dramatic, nature documentary-like tone. A lone penguin against another stark background. The narrator describes him using ridiculous nobility, majesty, etc., contrasting with his mundane activity and appearance. Dramatic music swells, the penguin begins to waddle, and he passes through a small group of other penguins, the camera, mimicking the handheld movement of a documentary camera. Shockingly, as our first penguin leaves frame, passing through a ray of sunlight, he explodes in a blinding flash. In the confusion, our camera reels, trying to assess the situation. The other penguins, seemingly oblivious, stare off into space. As snow settles from the blast, the remains of our wandering penguin spins in the air, inches from the ground, and drops with a thud. Revealed, the carcass amid three others, all looking like roasted turkeys, under a beam of sunlight.
Fred DIRECTOR MISHA KLEIN 7 minutes • Animated • Friday 11:45 a.m. Fred has a plan: face his boss, quit his job, establish that he’s not anybody’s puppet. A lush stop motion animated film about performance anxiety.
U-253 DIRECTOR BRYAN JOHNSON 5 minutes • Narrative • Friday 10:45 a.m. An armed submarine is missing in the Puget Sound... who is the rogue captain and what are his intentions?
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Walla Walla Wiffle DIRECTOR ROBERT SICKELS 7 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 3:15 p.m. Walla Walla Wiffle is an annual one day round-robin wiffle ball tournament wherein 48 men from all over the country gather in Eastern Washington to play wiffle ball. Most of the participants are in their 30s or 40s, married with children, highly educated and well-employed. The film documents the joy they take in being able to revert to the simplicity of their youth, if only for a day, while also showing the conflicts that arise from the inescapable responsibilities that come with jobs, relationships and families. 22384823R
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Three Birds with One Stone DIRECTOR SAMUEL KIRSCH 14 minutes • Narrative • Friday 4 p.m. Three high school students and their teacher are locked in their creative writing classroom, none of them having finished their homework. Their Teacher offers them a deal: collaborate on a story then and there, and they won’t have to turn anything in the next day. The students agree and delve into a 3-chaptered genre spoof romantic comedy movie-within-a-movie.
Remember Me WINGS OF SILVER: The Vi Cowden Story DIRECTOR MARK BONN 33 minutes • Documentary • Friday 12 p.m. Rainier Independent Film Festival,Winner best documentary short Black Hills Film Festival,Winner best documentary short Cheyenne International Film Festival Newport Beach Film Festival,Winner audience award short film Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, Winner audience award Palm Beach International Film Festival Tiburon International Film Festival Durango Independent Film Festival Boulder International Film Festival Festivus Film Festival When the country needed every man, she answered the call. They weren’t formally recognized, received no military benefits — many Americans don’t even know that they exist — yet today, women’s place in this country might be very different if Vi Cowden, and the 1,073 other women like her, hadn’t been willing to do the job they did. A story of triumph and inspiration over adversity, Vi and her fellow Women Air force Service Pilots (W.A.S.P.) were not only crucial to the war effort during World War II, they also changed the course of Women’s history. In this documentary she tells her story from humble beginnings in a sod house in the Black Hills of South Dakota where she learned to fly biplanes, to flying fighter planes for the Army Air Corps. In 2009, Vi and the other surviving WASP received the Congressional Gold-MedaT, the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow.
DIRECTOR IAN STONE Adult Content 6 minutes • Narrative Friday 3:30 p.m. Vicki had a plan. In the split second that she sees the man who raped her, she must decide to follow through or not. The plan is intricate and difficult to realize, yet with the help of a near stranger she is able to carry out her plan and keep this man from every hurting anyone else again-- and all through (relatively) non violent means.
Full Disclosure DIRECTOR JOHN BRADSHAW 18 minutes • Comedy Friday 8:15 p.m. Tired of wasting time on relationships that break up when one person discovers something they can’t stand about the other, Everett decides to reveal every terrible habit, attitude and hang up on the first date. Shockingly, women don’t respond as he’d hoped... until he meets Brinn, who’s willing to play his game and try for FULL DISCLOSURE.
Seating is available at all performances on a first-come, first-served basis. No late seating. We strongly recommend that you arrive at the theatre 30 minutes prior to each screening to get in the ticket holders line. All programs are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges can be given, except in the case of program cancellation. Galaxy Theatres are Wheelchair Accessible. 16 G I G H A R B O R F I L M F EST I VA L
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Dreaded Burrito Beef Day DIRECTOR TREVOR GANT 7 minutes • Narrative • Saturday 10 a.m. Every day, poor Billy Samsonite, a 2nd grade student at Robert P. Higgins Public Elementary has to eat at the school cafeteria. !n the state of North Dakota, Robert P. Higgins Elementary is widely known to have the worst school cafeteria food in five counties. The day Billy hates the most is when the school serves beef burritos. The innards never seemed to be able to be chewed and it is the near death of anyone who attempts the burrito’s ill-fated wrath. Sadly, every child is forced to clear their plate due to Ms. Henson of the school cafeteria. With help from a surprising source. Can Billy conquer Ms Henson and the dreaded burrito beef day?
MAZE DIRECTOR MARTIN GILBERT 5 minutes • Animated • Friday 10:05 p.m. World Film Festival - Student Competition A highly visual and abstract exploration into the endless cycles of conflict which make our world, and our lives. Maze is my graduating work, and the culmination of 3 years spent studying and living animation at the Emily Car University of Art & Design in Vancouver BC, Canad
Jillian’s Vantage DIRECTOR GENO ANDREWS 23 minutes • Mystery Saturday 8:30 p.m. A recluse, John Wheeler gets set up on a blind date with a blind woman. During the course of this magical dinner, Jillian teaches John to see this night through the eyes of his heart.
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Rainier Independent Film Festival Park City Film Music Festival 2010 Ivy Film Festival A 1950’s shirt safety inspector approves a number of unsafe shirts to impress his boss and the girl of his dreams, Seamstress 61. However, when these shirts cause a series of horrific disasters Inspector 42 must decide whether or not to come clean.
I May Not Always Love You DIRECTOR JEREMY BOWDITCH 6 min • Romance • Friday 5:30 p.m. I May Not Always Love You is the synthesis of the moment. The moment these lovers are overcome by the finite nature of personal relationships. Feeling their way through, to the after. Girl meets boy, boy loves girl, what pulls them apart? From its tender opening through its rousing conclusion I May not Always Love You is a study of what lives between us.
Thirty years ago the Supreme Court took away the jurisdiction from American Indian Tribal Courts that allowed them to prosecute non-Indians on their land. Decades later, a tribal Police Officer’s level of integrity and belief in justice is clearly tested as he struggles to stop a non-Indian abuser from destroying his sister’s family. Without the vital right to equal protection from the law, the entire family is quickly backed into the same visceral corner.
Deep Sleep DIRECTOR ALEJANDRO ÁLVAREZ Adult Content • 17 minutes • Drama • Saturday 3:25 p.m. In a small English village, the suicide of Eleanor (Anna Bolton) has left her husband Cam (Stephen Fawkes) and his sister Fiona (Amy Cudden) completely devastated. Aided by a psychiatrist (Anton Lesser), Cam struggles to prevent Fiona from succumbing to the same fate.
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A King in Milwaukee CO-DIRECTORS NICOLE BROWN AND BRAD LICHTENSTEIN 27 minutes • Documentary • Fri 10:40 a.m. Artist David Greenberger, the creator of Duplex Planet, talks to elderly people and turns those conversations into a periodical, a CD, and a live performance.
Unearthed DIRECTOR ALEXANDER ATKINS 26 minutes • Narrative • Friday 7:45 p.m. Unearthed is a short narrative film shot on 16mm film and high definition video in Westchester County, NY. The film is centered around a man who moves to the country to write, and happens upon a strange discovery in his back yard. The initial distraction caused by this mystery becomes an obsession marked by visions and nightmares that ultimately become his inspiration.
Speechless DIRECTOR GENO ANDREWS 16 minutes • Comedy • Friday 10:30 p.m. Three friends take a night class, a speech class, hoping to make some easy college credits. But when a young man with Cerebral Palsy is assigned to their study group, they learn that making credits is easy... making friends is hard work; and that judging any book by its cover can be daunting when each of us has a story hidden somewhere between the lines.
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The Day My Parents Became Cool DIRECTOR STEVE EDMISTON 16 minutes • Comedy • Friday 10:15 a.m. The Day My Parents Became Cool is a modern costume-comedy — and every teenager’s worst nightmare. When the one-thousand-year comet crosses the night sky, a brave new world is created where adults instantly adopt every teen trend in attire and body image. Tattoos, piercings, thongs, and sagging jeans on every adult, everywhere, planet-wide. The Day My Parents Became Cool tells the comic story of how one small group of teenagers fight back when every outward manifestation of their individuality is co-opted.
Lucky Strike DIRECTOR LUCAS BAIANO 20 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 8 p.m. In the year of the youth vote, from beginning to end an incredible and fate-filled true story of how one student’s curious twist of events which catapult him into the national political spotlight during the most historic American presidential campaign and how it unexpectedly changes his life. Follow the unpredictable moments which parallel the candidates race to the White House and in the process discover that what it takes to make a dream go from impossible to inevitable is believing in yourself, never giving up and sometimes a Lucky Strike!
Expiration Date DIRECTOR RICK STEVENSON 94 minutes • Comedy • Friday 8:45 p.m. Charlie Silvercloud III has a problem. His father and grandfather were both killed by milk trucks on their 25th birthdays and Charlie is about to turn 25. Ha has accepted his fate and is going about shopping for caskets and returning his library books when he meets a girl who won’t let him die in piece.
Waking Up DIRECTOR JØRGEN PEDERSEN 104 minutes • Narrative • Saturday 10:30 a.m. Martin Brown, who dreams he’s traveling backwards through time, attempts to fix his relationship with his recently deceased wife, Jennifer. His best friend, his co-worker, even his new psychologist don’t know if these “jump backs” are real or if Martin is imagining the whole ordeal. Waking Up takes you on a romantic ride through time and love in this piece about dreams. With wonderful performances, interesting writing, captivating direction and an amazing musical score - Waking Up is a true labor of love about just that, love.
Family Debt DIRECTOR JONATHAN BREBNER Adult Content • 17 min. Narrative Friday 11:55 a.m. A college student Shaun Caparas must return home and take over the family business after the sudden death of his estranged father. In the face of a grieving mother, angry employees, and the lingering rift with his father, Shaun must guide the business through a quick sell-off to erase a mountain of debt older than he is.
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When He Left DIRECTOR JEREMY DECKER 12 minutes • Documentary • Saturday 10:00 a.m. When he left is the story of two soldiers from a small Texas town. Danny and Eric are veterans of multiple Middle East deployments. They return home to their families as many military men and women do -- with undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and untreated depression. For some soldiers, the deepest wounds are not those inflicted on the battlefield. The wars do not end when they come home. A soldier’s greatest fight is often within himself.
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PLEASE JOIN US for An Evening with the Filmmakers celebrating the Audience Award
Galaxy Theatre, Sat. Oct. 16, 6 p.m. Appetizers and wine will be served at 6 p.m. Awards ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $20 per ticket.
Come meet, visit and support the filmmakers and Gig Harbor Film Festival. You voted for your favorite film....your vote counts!
FEATURE PRESENTATION Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m in the Galaxy VIP Theatre Meet the Star, Karen Black and Director Angela Garcia Combs
Nothing Special DIRECTOR ANGELA GARCIA COMBS In her debut feature film, writer/director Angela Garcia Combs spins a dark and funny tale of an ambitious young woman at a crucial turning point in her career and her relationship with her bipolar mother, played by actress Karen Black. Karen Black is an award winning actress and will attend the festival along with Angela Garcia Combs, Director. Many awards have been bestowed on Karen Black and this movie. The Gig Harbor Film Festival is offer a special screening Sunday, October 17th...10:00. This is a wonderful opportunity for our com-
munity to meet Ms. Black in person and see this award winning film. Ms. Black will stay after the screening to answer questions. Angela Garcia Combs will be present to answer some behind the scene experience to write and direct this special film. OCTOBER, 2010
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partners with more than 120 venues nationwide who host more than 10,000 screenings of Kids First! films to an audience of more than one million! Youth are given a true voice - as curators, as audience members, as film critics, as volunteer staff, and as filmmakers showing their work. In 2008, almost one-third of the films accepted were from student filmmakers. One of the strengths of their programming is that they have carefully identified the age appropriateness of every film to be shown and categorized them by three age categories: 5-8 years, 8-12 years, and 12-18 years.
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MEET THE Are you an avid filmgoer? Have you ever dreamed of making a movie? We invite you to take a FREE peak behind the scenes into the art and business of moviemaking. Meet our distinguished panel--three amazing filmmakers who are thriving in a competitive and ever-changing media market.
Discover surprising innovations coming soon to your theater, home box office, or hand-held device. Learn how social networking is changing the business of filmmaking. Short films are driving the digital environment. Learn how this change is affecting audiences and filmmakers. Do you have a great idea for a movie? “Pitch” your idea in the time it takes to ride an elevator-60 seconds. Money and Creativity make strange bedfellows. Panelists will explain how these ideas can work together.
PANELISTS BECKY SMITH
STEVE EDMISTON
GENO ANDREWS
Everyone seems to have an idea for a movie. But when pressed to “Pitch” their idea they’ll often realize that pitching their idea quickly and succinctly is often more challenging than even writing the entire script. Geno Andrews is an independent filmmaker in Los Angeles who enjoys inspiring other writers and filmmakers almost as much as he enjoys making films. In this workshop, Geno will teach you a simple formula to help you organize your idea into what’s known in Hollywood as “The Elevator Pitch”. Many times, just learning this formula can actually help you understand why your idea works (or why it doesn’t work) and will serve as a guideline to creating the perfect elevator pitch for your next Hollywood screenplay.
Becky Smith is an Emmynominated film and television director based in Los Angeles. Smith recently wrote and directed the romantic comedy 16 To Life, which has won six “Best Feature” Awards at international festivals as well as Best Actress (Hallee Hirsh) and Best Supporting Actress for (Theresa Russell). Smith received her Emmy Nomination for directing Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which won a Series Emmy the same year. Space needed below. She has directed numerous series and pilots for networks including MTV, MTV2, NBC, Fox, Disney Channel, PBS, Fuse and ABC Family. Smith directed the TV series How To Look Good Naked, for LIFETIME television. She received her Masters degree in film from Stanford University and also has a background in theatre directing.
Steve is an attorney with the Invicta Law Group in Seattle, with over 25 years of expertise in business, commercial litigation, and entertainment law. He is a frequent speaker on entertainment issues and has presented to the Institute for International Film Finance, Northwest Screenwriters Guild, Northwest Film Forum, Celluloid Bainbridge Film Festival, Seattle Film Institute, and Seattle Central Community College. Steve is also a screenwriter and producer. His short films include The Day My Parents Became Cool (writer, producer, director), which played festivals around the country, was named “Best Short Comedy” at the 2009 L.A. International Family Film Festival, and was selected by IndieFlix for the new Film Festival in a Box program. OCTOBER, 2010
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Born Sweet 28 mins. Page 11 Q&A A King in Milwaukee 27 mins. Page 18
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Fred 7 mins. Page 14 Family Debt 18 mins. Page 19 Q&A
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Speakers Corner 60 mins. Page 9 Q&A
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Rescue Men 56 mins. Page 9
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Remember Me 7 mins. Page 16 Q&A The New American Family 36 mins. Page 20 Q&A
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Unpleasantville 18 mins. Page 13 Q&A Sweet Crude 94 mins. Page 11 Q&A
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Unearthed 26 mins. Page 18
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Full Disclosure 18 mins. Page 16
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Expiration Date 94 mins. Page 19 FILMS HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW WILL BE ATTENDED BY THE FILMMAKER
Question and answer session with filmmaker
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Kevins Critters 12 mins. The Day My Parents Became Cool 18 mins. Page 18 Q&A U 253 5 mins. Page 15 Q&A
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Inspector42 26 mins. Page 17 Wings of Silver 34 mins. Page 16
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It Don’t Rain on Sunny Sundays 25 mins. Page 15 Q&A The River Why 104 mins. Page 11 Q&A
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Three Birds With One Stone 15 mins. Page 16 Reverie 14 mins. Page 12 Given To Walk 30 mins. Page 17 I May Not Always Love You 5 mins. Page 17 Neither Day Nor Night 105 mins. Page 14 Q&A
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Kosher Pig 21 mins. Page 13 16 to Life 60 mins. Page 11 Q&A
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Skylight 5 mins. Page 14 Maze 5 mins. Page 17 Catch and Release 10 mins. Page 14 Q&A Speechless 17 mins. Page 18 Q&A Sold 54 mins. Page 8 OCTOBER, 2010
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Dreaded Burrito Day 7 mins. Page 17 Calvin Marshall 93 mins. Page 12
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Albatrocity 25 mins. Page 12 Giants 70 mins. Page 10 Q&A
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Woman Behind the Symbol 16 mins. Page 12 Q&A Badlands to Alcatraz 56 mins. Page 8 Q&A
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Teething 5 mins. Page 8 Tequila 103 mins. Page 10
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When He Left 12 mins. Page 20 Walk In The Clouds 11 mins. Page 13 Waking Up 104 mins. Page 19
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Day At The Park 10 mins. Page 10 Obediance 10 mins. Page 13 Camp Unity 84 mins. Page 10
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Walla Walla Wiffle 7 mins. Page 15 Deep Sleep 17 mins. Page 17 Mt. St Elias 100 mins. Page 12
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Change for a Dollar 11 mins. Page 14 Q&A Living in Emergency 93 mins. Page 11
8:00 – 8:30 PM 8:30 – 9:00 PM 9:00 – 10:25 PM
Lucky Strike (Student) 20 mins. Page 18 Jillian’s Vantage 23 mins. Page 17 Q&A Morning 86 mins. Page 10
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ADVISORY BOARD David Depatie
Rina Morley Community Leader
Producer, Pink Panther animated series
John Hogan Managing Partner, UPTOWN Gig Harbor
George LeMasurier
Joyce Schultz Continuing Education Coordinator, TCC Gig Harbor Campus
Publisher, The Peninsula Gateway Newspaper
Robert Marshall Wells
Evie Lynn
Asst. Professor of Communication & MediaLab Faculty Advisor, Pacific Lutheran University
Managing Partner, EJH Investments
Steve Lynn Owner, Water to Wine
DISCOVER
A.J. Witherspoon General Manager, Galaxy Theatre Uptown
REEL MAGIC
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Frequently Asked Questions What is the Gig Harbor Film Festival?
BOARD OF DIRECTORS DEAN WILSON BETTY FELKER ANGIE PICCHI KAREN ASHTON HOLLAND COHEN RICHARD PATRICK MARLYN OWEL PATTY JACKSON SCOTT SCHOENEN MARTY THACKER
President VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER ACTING SECRETARY BOARD MEMBER BOARD MEMBER
GHFF is a non-profit organization that introduces independent, family friendly, films to our community each October. The filmmakers are invited to attend the festival to introduce their films and answer questions. Filmgoers will be treated to a behind the scenes peek at the art of filmmaking. This year’s festival theme is: Lights Camera, Harbor... The REEL Magic!! To whom does the festival belong? It belongs to you—the community. GHFF is a 501 C3 non-profit organization compiled of a Board of Directors and a talented advisory board drawn from our local community. This pool of passionate, creative individuals, shares their time and knowledge in the fields of film, theater, technical writing, and business. How do the films you will see at GHFF differ from blockbuster films? GHFF draws independent films from around the world, films that demonstrate exceptional creativity, but lack the big box office budgets for filming and marketing. These are entertaining films that you might not otherwise get to see.
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The Third Annual Gig Harbor Film Festival (GHFF) is scheduled for:
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October 15-17, 2010. Don’t miss it! Contact our office to request future newsletters via email. (253) 851-FILM (3456) The GHFF website will also be updated frequently with additional information. http:// gigharborfilmfestival.org
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Where will the films be shown? Thanks to a broad range of sponsors and grantors, including the City of Gig Harbor, GHFF will present and gain recognition for a wide range of appealing films, created by local, regional, and international filmmakers at Galaxy Theater Uptown. Where is the film office located? Follow the stars to the first office to the right of the main entrance of the Galaxy Theater. Stop by for a cup of coffee; meet other volunteers; and catch up on the latest festival news. What are some other festival highlights? Kidsfest is a division of the GHFF that gives kids and teens an opportunity to view a series of age appropriate films. Discussing and rating selected family friendly films, with their peers, will raise awareness and foster greater viewer discretion. OCTOBER, 2010
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