Port Townsend Film Fest Guide 2009

port townsend film festival 10th ANNUAL

A film lover’s block party celebrating great films and filmmakers SEPTEMBER 24-27, 2009

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Mayor’s Message

Welcome to the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival. Whether you are a proud member of the every year club and made it to every one of these wonderful events since 2000, or this is your first at the most unique film festival in America, aren’t you smart for taking part! The festival’s energy and obvious camaraderie are as appealing as the talented filmmakers and the engaging films you will get to experience over my favorite weekend of the year.

On this significant anniversary, we will undoubtedly be thinking about the recent passing of the film festival’s longtime director, Peter Simpson.

Peter Simpson is a name that many of us have come to associate with PTFF. If you have never heard of Peter, let me introduce you to the spirit of this event. I wish you could have seen him. Wish you could have heard him go on and on with Robert Osborne or Stewart Stern or had the experience yourself to talk to one of the loveliest men in our town. We miss his presence this weekend at the venues, at the parties, but we are ever so grateful to him for gifting this community with his final frame.

Make a toast for Peter Simpson and make one for all the dreamers and doers who conceived and then grew PTFF into what you will experience this weekend. Enjoy the films, appreciate community, and buy local whenever you get the chance.

Michelle Sandoval Mayor, Port Townsend

A Triumph of Spirit

As many of you are aware, our friend and longtime director, Peter Simpson, passed away earlier this year. For the past several years, the festival blossomed under his watch and care.

Passionate about many things, Peter brought his formidable skills to bear as an author, administrator and activist, having a positive effect on the lives of many. Truly an artist of life, he relished the company of the creative – artists, authors, musicians and filmmakers – and sought means and methods to enrich the souls of all who surrounded him.

Peter had made plans to retire at the end of this festival year. After seven years as the director, combined with the tasks of artistic director during the past five, he envisioned the 10th anniversary as a tribute to the art of film and this community, both of which he loved so well. At the time of his passing he had already laid the groundwork for parties, tributes and his vision of “eclectic inclinations and love of classic films” programming, which our audiences know well. I can only hope we have continued with his wish and he is smiling.

On behalf of the board of directors and our many dedicated volunteers, I am proud to welcome you to the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival and invite you to join us in dedicating this festival to Peter’s memory.

Terry Tennesen Festival Director

opening film: KISSES

THURSDAY 6:00 PM ROSE THEATRE Thursday 6:15 pm ROSEBUD CINEMA

On the fringes of Dublin, two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, color and the prospect of escape.

Kylie lives with five other siblings and her overworked mother. Next door, Dylan lives in the shadow of an alcoholic father and the memory of an elder brother who ran away from home two years earlier. After an altercation with his father, Dylan runs away from home and Kylie decides to run away with him. They make their way to the nighttime lights of inner-city Dublin to search for Dylan’s brother in the hope of finding, through him, the possibility of a new life. Dublin, as seen through the innocent eyes of our protagonists, is a kaleidoscope of magic, wonder and mystery. But as the night wears on and Dublin takes on a darker character, the two kids have to rely on the kindness of strangers, the advice of Bob Dylan and their trust in each other to survive the night.

Ireland/Sweden/2008/76 min. Producers: Macdara Kelleher, Lance Daly, Tomas Eskilsson, Malte Forsell Director/Writer: Lance Daly Editor: J. Patrick Duffner Sound: Rob Flanagan Cast: Kelly O Neill, Shane Curry, Stephen Rea, Paul Roe, Neili Conroy, David Bendito Print Source: Oscilloscope Laboratories, jonathan@ oscilloscope.net

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Director: Virginai Bogert Print Source: Tootie Pie Productions, tootiepiethemovie.com

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A nIghT AT The movIeS: Tribute to lena horne The SUSPenSefUl woRlD of ThRIlleRS SATURDAY 9:15 AM ROSE THEATRE

Fresh from TCM productions, “A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers” is a look at the genre of thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and stylistic tools that filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenaline.

Robert Osborne presents this special documentary that explores the origin of thrillers and development of stylistic conventions; the use of a wrongly accused everyman as a protagonist; the range of female roles, from damsel in distress to femme fatale; the creation of classic villains and the actors who relished playing them; the impact of World War II on the genre; the emergence of the more violent thrillers in the 1960s; the rise of the paranoid thriller of the 1970s; and how the genre continues in popularity by latching onto the current zeitgeist.

Starring such figures as Robert Osborne, Ken Follett, Kenneth Branagh and Mel Brooks, this “Special” is the lead program for a new fiveweek series premiering on TCM beginning Oct. 2.

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SATURDAY 12:15 PM ROSE THEATRE

Lena Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In her biography she stated that on the day she was born, her father was in the midst of a card game trying to get money to pay the hospital costs. Her parents divorced while she was still a toddler. Lena quit school when she was 14 and got her first stage job at 16, dancing and later singing at the famed Cotton Club. Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington took her under their wing and helped develop her talent, resulting in her playing before packed houses.

If she had never made a movie, her music career would have been enough to ensure her legendary status in the entertainment industry. Lena had signed with MGM in 1941, making three films in six months. In 1943 MGM loaned her to 20th Century-Fox to play the role of Selina Rogers in the all-black musical “Stormy Weather.” Her rendition of the title song became a major hit on the musical charts. In 1943 she appeared in “Cabin in the Sky,” regarded by many as one of the finest performances of her career.

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Little Joe is a compulsive gambler who has promised several times to his wife, Petunia, that he’ll quit this bad habit. Petunia is a very religious woman, and every Sunday goes with Little Joe to the church. Little Joe has debts with another gambler, who is threatening him to pay quick or assume the consequences. One day, Little Joe seems to make a serious promise to Petunia that now he’s definitely out of gambling, but at the first opportunity, when the woman is distracted, Little Joe runs away to the casino. A shooting takes place at the casino, where Little Joe is severely injured. Despite Petunia’s prayers, the unfortunate man dies, and his soul makes a deal with the General, at God Services, and Lucifer Jr., to become a good husband and quit gambling in a lapse of six months; otherwise, his soul will be condemned. Little Joe resuscitates and apparently is behaving well, but later he finds out that has won a big money prize. He and a seductive singer, Georgia Brown, begin to hang out and exhibit themselves with elegant clothes, expensive jewelry and a luxurious car in front of Petunia. The General and Lucifer keep watching Little Joe, and maybe this could be his last chance.

The film is followed by an interview of Gail Buckley by Robert Osborne, primetime host of Turner Classic Movies.

Gail Buckley is a journalist, author and the daughter of Lena Horne. Her most recent book, American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (Random House, 2001), has won several awards, including the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Her family history, The Hornes (Knopf, 1986), was a national bestseller. She collaborated on an American Masters documentary about her mother, Lena Horne, and narrated a documentary on black American families for PBS. USA/1943/98 min. Director: Vincente Minnelli Writer: Joseph Schrank Producer: Arthur Freed Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Butterfly McQueen, Ruby Dandridge, Duke Ellington

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In the summer of ’68, Léon Doré comes close to hanging himself accidentally. His mother saves him at the last minute, just like last summer in the pool and like two years ago in the freezer. At 10, Léon has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. There are Mom and Dad, who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there’s Lea, the exasperating girl who’s always right about everything. When Mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain – destroy the neighbor’s house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Lea. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when feeling abandoned.

Canada/2008/110 min. Director/Writer: Phillippe Falardeau Cinematography/DP: André Turpin Producers: Luc Dery, Kim McCraw Cast: Antoine L’Écuyer, Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Catherine Faucher, Gabriel Maillé Print Source: Micro_scope Productions, elaine@ micro-scope.ca

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Upon the 50th anniversary of Rivera’s art career in 1949, his friends and fellow artists Manuel Alvarez Bravo, photographer, and Gabriel Figueroa, c i n e m a to gr a pher, set out to capture Rivera’s process on film.

Before completion, however, they shelved the project.

Nearly 60 years later, Gabriel Figueroa Flores (Figueroa’s son) and Diego Lopez Rivera (Rivera’s grandson) discovered the lost footage and retraced the trio’s steps. Archival footage and interviews with Diego Rivera’s friends and relatives establish the historical context, while clips from Mexico’s Golden Era of Cinema dramatize the cultural milieu.

The film is followed by an interview with Gabriel Figueroa by KUOW film critic Robert Horton.

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Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s bittersweet novel of life in a small, sleepy Texas town in the early 1950s, this coming-of-age tale focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships. Duane is dating the beautiful but fickle Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), a good girl who is looking for a little excitement. Shy Sonny, meanwhile, is carrying on an illicit affair with a coach’s wife, Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman), a sad, plain woman whose only joy appears to be the stolen moments they share. By delving into the intertwining lives of the town’s diverse residents, the film masterfully explores issues of love, loneliness, innocence lost and disillusionment. The closing of the town’s only cinema serves as both a physical and metaphoric backdrop to the characters’ lives.

In 1998, “The Last Picture Show” was deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The film is followed by an interview with Cloris Leachman by Robert Osborne, primetime host of Turner Classic Movies.

USA/1971/118 min. Director: Peter Bogdanovich Producer: Stephen J. Friedman Writers: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Randy Quaid Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominations: Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Writing from another medium Print Source: swank.com

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Cloris Leachman is an Emmy- and Oscar-winning actress best known for her roles as the self-involved neighbor Phyllis on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and as Frau Blücher in Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein.” She was recently paired with professional dancer Corky Ballas as a contestant on season seven of “Dancing With the Stars.” Her list of awards is record setting, with eight Primetime Emmy Awards – more than any other female performer – and one Daytime Emmy Award; she has been nominated more than 20 times.

She also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the 1971 film “The Last Picture Show.”

Cloris began her career in television and films shortly after competing in the Miss America Pageant as Miss Chicago in 1946. Prior to that, she was active in theater, starring in many productions at the Des Moines Playhouse. She made her feature film debut in Robert Aldrich’s film “Kiss Me Deadly,” and one year later appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in “The Rack.”

She continued her career, mainly working in television on shows such as “The Twilight Zone,” “Rawhide,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” and “Lassie,” in which she played Ruth Martin, Timmy’s adoptive mom, in the last half of season four. Throughout the seventies, Cloris played her most notable character, the nosy neighbor/landlady Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” The character was a fixture on the program for five years and was later featured in the spin-off series “Phyllis,” for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

Some of her more recent work includes the role of Grandma Ida on “Malcolm in the Middle,” and the wine-soaked jazz singer and grandmother Evelyn in the feature film “Spanglish,” opposite Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni. She earned an Emmy nomination and SAG Award nomination for her performance in the HBO special “Mrs. Harris.” She has also staked her claim in the world of comedy through many television roles and appearances. She recently stole the show at the Comedy Central “Roast of Bob Saget” with her sassy comebacks and unbeatable wit, outshining the other comedians.

Cloris appeared on the hit show “Dancing with the Stars” and lasted seven weeks before being voted off. She was Grand Marshal at the world-famous Rose Parade and did the coin toss at the Rose Bowl game between Penn State and USC. If all this weren’t enough, she managed to travel to Berlin to shoot the new Quentin Tarantino film “Inglourious Basterds,” also starring Brad Pitt.

In April 2009, Cloris: My Autobiography was released by Kensington Books, reaching best-seller lists around the country. She is touring extensively with her book, answering the many questions her fans have about her life, loves and what it is that keeps her moving forward.

Her latest venture has been the announcement of Clorisline, a unique and elegant clothing and accessories line for women, at clorisline.com.

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SHORTS INTERNATIONAL

SUNDAY 9 AM POPE MARINE PARK THEATRE

almost midnight: ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION

almost midnight: MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE

saturday 11:30 pm rose theatre

friday 11:30 pm Rose Theatre

Based in London, Shorts International is the world’s leading short film brand, with a catalog of over 3,000 titles. It is the largest distributor of high-quality titles to leading broadcasters, including Sundance Channel, Canal Plus France, HBO Latin America, Turner/TNT, Fox Networks Italy, MTV, SVT Sweden and SBS Australia. The model that the Shorts International team has created has revived the life of many short films and forwarded the careers of countless emerging artists.

Recently, Shorts International has teamed up with iTunes music store as the unique vendor of independent short films.

With focus on fast-changing technologies and their impact on the delivery of short films, Shorts International has also created new and exciting outlets specifically for short films, including ShortsTV, a short-film channel currently available across 3G mobile phone networks, and the specifically programmed Spanish language version, ShortsTV Corto.

International/2009/90 min.

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“Make-Out with Violence,” the first featurelength film from the Deagol Brothers, is a genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and melty milkshakes, the film blends elements of upbeat teenager melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming-of-age stories. It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their posh suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy’s mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the zombie Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.

USA/2009/105 min. Directors: Deagol Brothers Writers: Deagol Brothers, Cody DeVos, Eric Lehning Cinematographers: David Bousquet, Kevin Doyle, James King Cast: Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos, Leah High, Brett Miller, Tia Shearer, Jordan Lehning, Josh Duensing Print Source: Limerent Pictures, limerentpictures.com

An idyllic island town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with brain eaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off.

But wait, a ragtag band of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hoards of undead back. It sounds familiar, sure, but this time stereotypes are on parade (and parody) in a retake on the zombie thriller. We have the full complement of cinematic shorthand, including the closeted small-town boy who has gone to the city and returns with his pushy boyfriend in tow; the angry, hard-working, heavy-accented immigrant from a Muslim country who is overprotective of his beautiful daughter; the hippie peacenik environmentalist; the fire and brimstone reverend who hates everything you’d expect him to, and many more. Enter the zombies. Gore abounds – really abounds – and the current-eventsbased hits keep coming in this send-up of zombie movie clichés in which no subculture escapes unscathed.

USA/2009/88 min. Director: Kevin Hamedani Producer: John Sinno Writers: Ramon Isao, Kevin Hamedani Cinematographer/DP: John Guleserian Cast: Doug Fahl, Bill Johns, James Mesher, Cornelia Moore, Ali Hamedani Print Source: Typecast Pictures, ZMDthemovie.com

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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T.

Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to build a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam (Oscar Levant) is a struggling concert pianist who’s a longtime associate of the famous French singer Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). Lonely society woman Milo Roberts (Nina Foch) takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but she is interested in more than his art. Jerry remains oblivious to her feelings and falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron), a French girl he meets at a restaurant. Lise loves him as well, but she is already in a relationship with Henri, whom she feels indebted to for having saved her family during World War II. At a raucous masked ball, with everyone in black-and-white costumes, Milo learns that Jerry is not interested in her, Jerry learns that Lise is in love with him but is marrying Henri the next day, and Henri overhears their conversation. When Henri drives Lise away, Jerry daydreams about being with her all over Paris. His reverie is broken by a car horn – the sound of Henri bringing Lise back to him.

“The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.” is a musical fantasy film, best known for being the only feature film ever written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss).

Young Bart Collins lives with his mother, Heloise. The major blight on Bart’s existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Lulled to sleep by the monotony of his piano lessons, Bart is trapped at the surreal Terwilliker Institute, where the piano teacher is now a madman dictator who has locked up all non-piano-playing musicians in a dungeon and constructed a piano so large that it requires Bart and 499 other enslaved boys to play it. Bart’s mother has been turned into Terwilliker’s hypnotized assistant and bride-to-be, and Bart must dodge the institute’s guards as he scrambles to save both his mother and himself. He recruits the plumber to assist in constructing a noise-sucking contraption that ruins the mega-piano’s opening concert. The enslaved boys cheerfully run riot, and the “very atomic” noise-sucker explodes in spectacular fashion, bringing Bart out of his dream.

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USA/1951/113 min. Director: Vincente Minnelli Writer: Alan Jay Lerner Music: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Saul Chaplin Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Costume Design, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Print Source: warnervideo.com

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USA/1953/92 min. Director: Roy Rowland Producer: Stanley Kramer Writers: Dr. Seuss, Allan Scott Cast: Tommy Rettig, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Peter Lind Hayes Print Source: swank.com

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SUNDAY 7:30 PM TAYLOR STREET OUTDOOR THEATRE In his tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, director, star and writer Mel Brooks plays psychiatrist Richard Thorndyke, an average American guy who’s terrified of heights. He becomes the new chief of the Institute for the Very Very Nervous, where things are not what they seem, and it’s not long before Richard finds himself embroiled in murder, deception and other situations. While Brooks plays the quintessential innocent man accused, Madeline Kahn is perfect as his Hitchcockian icy blonde love interest, Victoria Brisbane. It is perhaps Cloris Leachman, though, who is at her most deviantly funny as Nurse Diesel – a kind of cross between her Frau Blücher character from “Young Frankenstein” and Nurse Ratched from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” “High Anxiety” is a treat to watch just to spot the Hitchcock parodies/homages, as Brooks amiably spoofs some of the suspense master’s most famous scenes, including hysterical takeoffs of “The Birds” and “Psycho.”

USA/1977/94 min. Director: Mel Brooks Writers: Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson Music: John Morris Cinematography: Paul Lohmann Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten Print Source: criterion.com

ptff staff and committees Board of Directors Toby Jordan, President John Considine, Vice President Joan Broughton, Treasurer Linda Maguire, Secretary Marlies Egberding Jaune Evans Karen Gates Hildt Pam Kolacy Brad Mace Linda Marie Yakush Emeritus Board John Begley Jim Ewing Rocky Friedman Glenda Hultman Geerlofs Jim Grabicki Ian Hinkle Jim Marshall Frank Ross Cynthia Sears Brent Shirley Peter Simpson Jim Westall Staff Terry Tennesen, film festival director Joyce Morton, operations manager Monica Mick’Hager, festival manager Jane Julian, programmer Office Darlene Quayle, database Patricia Girardi, database Office volunteers: Ann Morton Moniece Charlton Cherel Lopez Gene Brandon, film festival librarian Advance Tickets Carrie Rice, chair Joanne Pickering Barbara Lerulli Mary Hilts Denys Carillo Matt Rowe Festival Banking Aldryth O’Hara Gooding, O’Hara & Mackey

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Venue Managers Steve Gillard, Uptown Theatre Marketing Sue Gillard, Toby Jordan, chair Special Events Uptown assistant Kathy Stafford Janette Force, manager Baila Dworsky, Robert Force, chair, Magic Uptown assistant Master of Ceremonies Lantern Corey Fox, Rose Theatre Joey Pipia Scott Swantner Amy Bryant, Kitty Knapp, chair, Open- Rose assistant Membership & Passes ing Gala Nora Petrich, Sue Raley Charlie & Gayle Moore, Rosebud Cinema Patricia Girardi chair, VIP Karli Church, Connie Segal, chair, DinRosebud assistant Film Assembly Newsletter ner on Taylor Kurt Steinbach, Miguel Mitchell Luke Bogues Mardee Stadshaug Pope Theatre Dr. Molly Force Lisa Van Horn, Film Camp Penguins Melanee Knudsen Pope assistant Firefly Academy Dean Lebens Ritch Sorgen Mark Welch, Homer Smith III Marlies Egberding Drop-In Theatre Film Reviewers Kristin & Jim Manwaring Linda Maguire Jill Briggs, Pam Kolacy, coordinator Gabe & Robin Ornelas Joey Pipia Outdoor Theatre Henry Werch Pete Gillis Allison Hero Sherry Kimbrough, Jan Schroeder Claire Jordan Steve Scharf Upstage Theatre Jane Souzon Leah Hammer Dean Lebens Kitty Gibson, crowd liaison Linnea Patrick Susan Hainsworth Pat Jordan Kathleen Stafford Special Thank You Venue Setup Ramon Daily Mari Mullen Mark Cole Monica Mick’Hager Carolyn Watts Katy Maynard Robert & Janette Force Ken Barnett John Watts Ezra Moore Bruce Hattendorf Darryl Hrenko Elizabeth Mention Keith Yoshida Tina Herschelman Mark Clark Michael Mention Robert Horton Wes Eng Helga Winter Photographers Bill & Lynn LeMaster Maureen Freehill Colin Anderson Kevin Mason, manager Monica Mick’Hager Leslie Wake Theresa Percy Mark Saran, manager Neville Pearsall Robert Huber Tom Rutenbeck Josh Saran Ted Krysinski Keith O’Leary Leslie Aiken David Conklin Robert Osborne Dave Sheehan Linda Townsend Joey Pipia Graphic Design Elizabeth Becker Mark Saran Volunteer Brian McLoughlin, signs Jen Cronin Linda Townsend Coordination Dave Simpson, poster Kathy Stafford Caroline Littlefield, design Poster Artist Linda Maguire volunteer coordinator Jim Ewing, pass design Max Grover Anna Nasset Kathy Stafford, Marian Roh, program Uptown Dental Clinic data management layout Pre-Festival Outreach Mark Saran, Carrie Rice, chair Transportation volunteer training Guest Services Dan Goldstein Carol Long, coordinator Lori Hanemann, Cherel Lopez, accomLiz Goldstein Clyde McDade, head volunteer party modations Mona Stefflre wrangler Mara Lathrop, gift baskets Denyse Carillo Carrie & Rex Rice Una Salvatore, gift baskets Jessalyn Wilde Luke Bogues assistant Susan Robinson Jim Kelly Julia Cochrane David Goldsmith Hospitality Margo Bowers Tara Allen, designer Projectionists Jurors Rocky Friedman Michael Bosold Miles McRae Joan Broughton Rick Wiley Steve Treacy DD Wigley Linda Yakush

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Paul Callow is a London tube driver who can’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. An aspiring writer who longs for the quiet of the country, he feels trapped in his dull life. To make matters worse, he’s recently had two people fall under his train in as many weeks. When his partners tell him he’ll get retirement with pay if he has the misfortune to run over three people in a month, Paul sets about making that misfortune happen. He seeks out a volunteer candidate to have himself run over. A likely contender appears in the shape of a homeless Irishman named Tommy who’s about to jump off a bridge. Paul convinces him to throw himself in front of his train instead, promising him a thousand pounds for a weekend splurge first. What to do with only one more weekend to live?

United Kingdom/2008/95 min. Director: Jonathan Gershfield Producer: Wayne Marc Godfrey, Ian Harries Editor: Jon Gregory Screenwriters: Steve Lewis, Tony Owen Cinematographer: Richard Greatrex Music: Trevor Jones Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton, Gemma Arterton Print Source: Worldwide Bonus Entertainment, info@wbepic.com

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A fIlm fRom mY PARISh Stories from six farms in County Tipperary, Ireland, explore a farmer’s bond with the land. Through lyrical, still-photo animation, the film illuminates parish farmers as the original champions of sustainable living.

Ireland/2008/7 min. Director/ Cinematographer: Tony Donoghue Producer: Janet Grainger Animators: Tony, Donoghue, Janet Grainger, Niall Mooney, Cathy Price Print Source: Mayfly Films, tonydonoghue@ gmail.com

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Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret they are coaxed, tricked or forced into revealing, learn that sometimes it’s better to omit the truth. The twists and turns in this psychological thriller mean things are seldom as they seem.

Australia/2008/115 min. Director/ Producer: Fiona Cochrane Associate Producer: Leverne McDonnell Writer: Helen Collins Cast: Gail Watson, Leverne McDonnell, Louise Siversen, Nina Landis Cinematographer/DP: Zbigniew Peter Friedrich Print Source: f-reel pty ltd f_reel@optusnet.com.au

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SImUlAcRUm Mickey purchases a Simulacrum, an android replica of himself, and asks it to take over his daily responsibilities so that he will be free to pursue his dream of writing a novel. As Mickey struggles to achieve his long-awaited dream, the Simulacrum discovers joy in the mundane activities of normal life.

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In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying coworker’s last wish to be buried in China’s Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague’s body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures and characters – and even discovering love in some unlikely quarters. Director Zhang Yang’s humorous and moving tale of friendship offers a powerful, and sometimes slapstick, commentary on the value of community and human connectivity in modern China. Mandarin, with subtitles in English China/2007/101 min. Director: Zhang Yang Writers: Zhang Yang, Wang Yao Cinematographers: Yu Lik Wai, Lai Yiu Fai Cast: Liu Quanyou, Zhao Benshan, Hong Qiwen, Song Dandan, Guo Degang Print Source: Global Film Initiative, gifi-info@ globalfilm.org

USA/2009/12 min. Producer: Clark Freeman Director: Logan Brown Writer: Logan Brown Cast: Clark Freeman Print Source: Clark Freeman, clark@clarkfreeman.com

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The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to rid himself of the good wings but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune.

USA/2008/78 min. Director/Writer/ Animator: Bill Plympton Producers: Bill Plympton, Biljana Labovic Print Source: Bill Plympton , plymptoons@aol.com

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Animated Short In this episode, our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves.

USA/2008/6 min. Director/Writer/Animator: Bill Plympton Producer: Biljana Labovic Music: Corey Jackson Print Source: Bill Plympton, plymptoons@aol.com

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SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO Animated Short A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

USA/2008/4 min. Director: Joaquín Baldwin Print Source: Joaquín Baldwin, joaquin@ pixelnitrate.com, www.pixelnitrate.com

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“In/Significant Others” is a multi-narrative drama that navigates through the different lives of one city’s residents, each of whom is connected to the same local homicide investigation.

The search for truth becomes a life-and-death struggle as the subtle manipulation of all relationships is exposed.

USA/2009/98 min. Director/Producer: John Schwert Writer, Story: John Schwert Co-Writer: David Mulholland Cinematographer/DP: Kenneth Wilson Cast: Aerli Austen, Andrea Powell, Ashlee Payne, Brett Gentile, Brian Lafontaine, Burgess Jenkins, Calvin Walton, Carver Johns, David Sherrill, Gretchen McGinty, Jeremy Decarlos, Mark Scarboro, R Keith Harris, Scott Miles, Tiffany Montgomery Print Source: Fourth Ward Productions Inc. jschwert@4wproductions.com

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BAThTUB To hAPPIneSS

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Victor and Marie have never met before tonight. But several chaotic coincidences later they both find themselves in the same bathtub – without any clothes on. On top of all that, the bathtub they are sitting in starts to glow and hum in very un-bathtub-like ways.

You guessed it: Victor and Marie are sitting in an enchanted bathtub, one that will make their destiny – the bathtub to happiness! Warning: nudity & sexual content.

Germany/2009/26 min. Director: Producer: Nadine Keil Director: Norbert Keil Writers: Nadine Keil Norbert Keil Cast: Lea Kohns Steffen Nowak Cinematographer/DP: James Stolz Print Source: Gogofilm, bathtubtohappiness@ ymail.com

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“Laila’s Birthday” follows a harrowing day in the life of an overqualified cab driver in Ramallah, the Palestinian city on the West Bank and capital of the Palestinian Authority. This upright, middle-aged husband and father, Abu Laila, is a proud, well-dressed judge who has recently returned to his hometown from an unidentified country. Because the government has run out of money to pay his judicial wages, he is forced to earn a living driving his brother-in-law’s taxi. His unresolved situation is one of many personal complications in a movie that compiles a sky-high dossier of everyday urban frustrations and small absurdities – all magnified by the Israeli occupation.

Netherlands/Tunisia/Palestine/2008/72 min.

Director/Writer: Rashid Masharawi Screenplay: Rashid Masharawi Executive Producer: Michael J. Werner Cast: Nour Zoubi, Areen Omari, Abu Laila Print Source: Kino Corp., kbrokaw@kino.com

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PARASol “Parasol” is a short animated film about bikes, dancing and speed, drawn across the surface of a few thousand paper parasols. Painstakingly rotoscoped for more than two years, the film revolves around two people who meet in a bike collision and proceed to get stuck in a rainstorm.

USA/2008/9 min. Director/Producer: Webster Crowell Original Music/Composer: Jason Staczek Cast: Jonah Von Sprecken, Sarah Harlett Print Source: Panic Button Pictures webster@panicbuttonpictures.com

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Adulthood is easier when you don’t act your age, at least that’s what two former childhood friends, Todd and Allison, try to prove to themselves after they are reunited at their 10-year high school reunion. After a night of reminiscing and drunken debauchery, Allison discovers her childhood home is for rent, and soon she and Todd begin a rather childish romance fueled by the elusive desire to feel like kids again. Soon after, Allison begins to reopen some events from their past in order to possibly evolve their relationship further, but all it does is prove that the only place they feel at ease with each other is in the past. Finally, adulthood rears its unsympathetic head and they begin to realize the painful reality of a disappearing youth.

Canada/2009/101 min. Producers/ Directors: Mark Hug, May Charters Writers: Mark Hug, May Charters Cast: Darren Gregory, Gillian Adamson, Jon Haberstock, Mark Hug, Mark Weibe, May Charters Camera: Robin Charters Editors: Mark Hug, May Charters Print Source: maya_leon@ yahoo.com

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mAKIng The mAn A crucial interview turns on the brink of disaster as one man stumbles through a minefield of questions with comic and potentially life-changing consequences.

USA/2009/10 min. Writer/Director: John Susman Producers: Matt Corrado, John Susman Cinematographer/DP: Lance Catania Cast: Kymberly Harris, Matthew Bible, Dana Lynne Gilhooley, Noelle Hardy

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Solar Panels • Wind Generators Wire Cable • Batteries Parts/Service The main character in “Night of the Iguana” is an ex-Episcopalian minister turned tour guide, the Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton), who was defrocked after having an inappropriate relationship in Virginia with “a very young Sunday school teacher,” in his own words.

Shannon, now a tour guide for Blake Tours in Texas, takes a group of Baptist schoolteachers to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. During the trip, he is accused by the leader of the group, Judith Fellowes (Grayson Hall), of trying to seduce her 17-year-old niece Charlotte Goodall (Sue Lyon) – who in reality is coming on to him – and he is fired. In a moment of despair, Shannon shanghais the bus and occupants and takes it to the Costa Verde Hotel in Mismaloya, which is owned by outspoken Maxine Faulk (Ava Gardner). Between his weaknesses for the flesh and alcohol, Shannon is “at the end of his rope,” just like the iguana kept tied by Maxine’s cabaña boys. In this setting, Shannon experiences a night of despair and madness from which only the care and advice of itinerant painter Hannah Jelkes (Deborah Kerr), the poetry of Jelkes’ grandfather Nonno (Cyril Delevanti), and the eventual companionship of Maxine will help him overcome.

USA/1964/125 min. Director/Producer: John Huston Producers: John Huston, Ray Stark Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr Music: Benjamin Frankel Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design Nominations: Art Direction, Cinematography Print Source: warnervideo.com

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Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch in north central Nevada. They have always grazed their livestock on the range outside their ranch. That range is part of 60 million acres recognized by the United States as Western Shoshone land in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. In 1974, the United States sued the Dann sisters for trespassing on U.S. public land without a permit. Their dispute swept to the United States Supreme Court and eventually to the United Nations. “American Outrage” explores why.

USA/2007/56 min.. Directors/Producers: Beth Gage, George Gage Writer: Beth Gage Cast: Mary Steenburgen (voice) Camera: George Gage Print Source: Gage & Gage Productions, bggage@rmi.net

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mARch PoInT “March Point” is a story of three boys awakening to the destruction that refineries have wrought in their communities. Ambivalent environmental ambassadors at the onset, the boys grapple with their assignment through humor, sarcasm and a candid self-knowledge.

But as the filmmaking evolves, they begin to experience the need to understand and tell their stories.

USA/2008/54 min. Directors/Producers: Annie Silverstein, Tracy Rector Writers: Cody Cayou, Eric Frith, Nick Clark, Tracy Rector, Travis Tom nativelens@mac.com

The film opens with three of the world’s foremost paper artists: a former sculptor in France folding caricatures in paper rivaling the figures of Daumier and Picasso; a hyper-realist who walked away from a physics career to instead challenge the physics of a folded square; and an artisan papermaker who folds impressionistic creations from the very same medium he makes from scratch.

USA/2008/56 min. Director/Producer/Writer: Vanessa Gould Composer: Gil Talmi Animator: Todd Sines Cinematography: Melissa Donovan Print Source: Green Fuse Films, Inc., vanessa@ greenfusefilms.com

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PAPIRofleXIA Animated Short “Papiroflexia” is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.

USA/2007/2.5 min. Director: Joaquín Baldwin Original Score: Nick Fevola Sound Recording and Mixing: Jake Monaco Foley Artist: Melissa Graziano Print Source: Joaquín Baldwin joaquin@pixelnitrate.com, www.pixelnitrate.com

mUSTAng– JoURneY of TRAnSfoRmATIon

While 100,000 people, including thousands of Buddhist monks, took to the streets to protest Burma’s repressive regime that has held them hostage for more than 40 years, foreign news crews were banned and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs), recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police – even after they themselves become targets of the authorities.

Denmark/Sweden/2008/84 min.

Director: Anders Østergaard Writers: Anders Østergaard, Jan Krogsgaard Cinematography: Simon Plum & the Burmese VJs Music: Conny Malmqvist Print Source: Oscilloscope Laboratories, jonathan@oscilloscope.net

Lost in time, the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. But, long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to survive, and the center of their culture – the 15th-century monasteries and the art within – is dangerously close to collapse.

USA/2008/30 min. Director/Producer: Will Parrinello Print Source: Mill Valley Film Group, willmvfg@gmail.com

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After being evicted from their home, the Cheng family finds that times are tighter than ever. Hardworking single mom and recent Boston transplant Elaine tries desperately to find the means to support her young children, Raymond and Tina. They squat in a model apartment in an unfinished building but try to maintain a normal life. Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. Raymond and Tina become latchkey kids and find amusement in building childish inventions. When Elaine doesn’t return home one night, things take a turn for the worse. Nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. As the days pass, Raymond realizes he needs to come up with a plan to take care of his little sister.

USA/2009/86 min. Writer/Director: Tze Chun Producer: Mynette Louie Cast: Cindy Cheung, Michael Chen, Crystal Chiu Print Source: Syncopated Films, mynettelouie@ gmail.com

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wheelS When rickshaw driver Huang learns that the woman he secretly admires is leaving Hainan Island on the last boat out, he must race to the harbour before love sets sail without him. But impeding his quest is an oversexed American whom Huang must chauffeur around for the day.

Director: Tony Wei Writer: Chung Lee Producers: Chung Lee, Mao-Shin Chiang Cinematographer: Aaron Kovalchik Print Source: Tony Wei, tony.wei@gmail.com

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“Eating Alaska” is a film about connecting to where you live and eating locally when that means not just going to the farmers’ market but living off the land and the sea. It’s a serious and humorous quest of an ex-urban vegetarian who moves to Alaska, marries a fisherman and hunter, and begins to wonder what is the “right” thing to eat in a place surrounded by wilderness and, at times, in peril.

USA/2008/56 min. Director/Co-Producer: Ellen Frankenstein Executive Producer: Jim Mahan Co-Producer: Shirley Thompson Cinematographer/DP: Hannah Guggenheim Print Source: Ellen Frankenstein, Frankenstein Productions efclicks@aol.com

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption – no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife, Michelle, and their 2-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s film provides a front-row seat into the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with this radical lifestyle change.

USA/2009/90 min. Directors: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein Producers: Laura Gabbert, Eden Wurmfeld Cast: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin Cinematographer: Justin Schein Print Source: Oscilloscope Laboratories, jonathan@oscilloscope.net

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PhoTogRAPh of JeSUS

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ReD golD At the headwaters of the Kvichak and Nushagak rivers – home to the two largest remaining sockeye runs on the planet – mining companies propose to extract the world’s richest deposit of gold and copper.

The filmmakers spent more than two months documenting the tensions between native fishermen, who oppose the mining, and mine officials, who say they will build a “clean” mine that will leave the salmon’s habitat untouched.

USA/2008/55 min.

Directors: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel Print Source: travilrummel@gmail.com

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.

England/2009/7 min. Director, animator: Laurie Hill Executive Producer: Basil Stephens Additional animation by: Michael Zauner, Will Bishop-Stephens Music and sound design: Mike Blackwell and Adrian Meehan at Toolshed Music Productions Neil Armstrong voice: David L. Hayles Print Source: Laurie Hill, lauriehi@hotmail.com

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PADDle To SeATTle: PIgweeD A JoURneY ThRoUgh PhIloSoPheR The InSIDe PASSAge

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In homemade wooden boats, J.J. Kelley and Josh Thomas travelled the 1,300-mile Inside Passage. 2008 was the rainiest summer in 15 years in our continent’s only rainforest. For three months, Kelley and Thomas paddled to Seattle, facing the hardships that accompany a lifestyle predominantly removed from civilization. The adventure film documenting the project, titled “Paddle to Seattle,” is a stunning display of the awe-inspiring landscape that is the Pacific Northwest. Taken from the perspective of an ancient craft, the film speaks to the beauty of people power over a great distance. The film is interjected with moments of humor that act as a shining credit to the lighthearted spirit of the young adventurers.

USA/Canada/2009/80 min. Print Source: Dudes on Media, kell0819@d.umn.edu

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Kimball Johnson is a nonconformist with a heart – and someone willing to lose everything to tilt at windmills. In the style of esteemed documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker Gabriel Lakey spent five years following this true American original. Some would call Kimball Johnson crazy, some would call him foolish, and others might call him enlightened.

Pursuing your passions headlong without a harness can bear a heavy price. Would you be willing to lose everything you owned for the feeling of having tried and lost? Is this pigweed philosopher an unconventional genius who figured out that life is best lived at the outer fringes or is he just the quintessential Don Quixote of broken dreams who never found his way home?

Faster than drying paint, More powerful than a paint gun, Able to paint tall buildings in a single week.

USA/2008/90 min. Director/Producer: Gabriel Lakey Cinematographer/DP: Gabriel Lakey Print Source: Moki Rim Productions, gabriellakey@yahoo.com

Overcome with fear, a young boy runs into the forest.

He finds a magic red helmet and goes on the adventure of a lifetime. Slowly building his courage, he is transformed and returns to confront his boyhood fears.

USA/2008/6 min. Director: Tyler Young Producer: Dave Barlia Print Source: Tyler Young, expfilm@hotmail.com

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9:05 AM

Idiots & Angels Four of a Kind

Kisses

76 min. preceded by Tootie Pie

POPE 78 min. preceded by Sebastian’s Voodoo & Hot Dog

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Pirate for the Sea

Forest in the City

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Shorts International

Paddle to Seattle

90 min.

80 min. preceded by The Red Helmet

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Discovering: Shukara

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ROSEBUD

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ROSE 86 min. preceded by 3 Wheels See page 18

NOON

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Karearea

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Unlisted

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Cabin in the Sky

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Getting Home

Animated American

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NOON

Reviewers’ Choice 81 min.

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American Outrage 56 min. preceded by March Point

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No Impact Man 90 min. preceded by Photograph of Jesus See page 18

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Getting Home 101 min.

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Docs for the Soul 84 min.

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Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Children of Invention 86 min. preceded by 3 Wheels

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No Impact Man

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115 min. preceded by Simulacrum

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Night of the Iguana 125 min.

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116 min.

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75 min. preceded by Last Butcher in Little Italy

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Eating Alaska

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An American in Paris

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Taylor Street Outdoor Theatre See page 8

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In/Significant Others 98 min. preceded by Bathtub to Happiness See page 12

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Docs for the Soul

Burma VJ

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84 min.

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Paddle to Seattle

Mustang: Journey of Transformation

Shorts International Marketing Workshop See page 27

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Burma VJ See page 14

Shorts International - Animation

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102 min.

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80 min. preceded by The Red Helmet

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Between the Folds

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American Outrage

26 min.

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5000 Fingers of Dr. T. 92 min.

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Idiots & Angels

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78 min. preceded by Sebastian’s Voodoo & Hot Dog

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Pigweed Philosopher

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Laila’s Birthday 72 min. preceded by Parasol See page 12

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A Deal is a Deal

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Shorts International - Live Action

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92 min.

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A Very Special Evening with Cloris Leachman

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Lovers in a Dangerous Time 101 min. preceded by Making the Man See page 12

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In/Significant Others 98 min. preceded by Bathtub to Happiness See page 12

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It’s Not Me, I Swear

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High Anxiety

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Make-Out with Violence

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Short Docs Program

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101 min. preceded by Making the Man

A Portrait of Diego Riviera

Forest in the City

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Pigweed Philosopher

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75 min. preceded by Last Butcher in Little Italy

Discovering: Shukara

12:30

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9:30 AM

Souvenirs

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81 min.

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Children of Invention

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“Pirate For The Sea” is a biographical film of Capt. Paul Watson. The youngest founding member of Greenpeace Canada, he organized early campaigns protesting the killing of seals, whales and dolphins. Greenpeace ejected him for being too much of an activist. Starting his own organization, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he went on to sink illegal whaling ships, stopped the Canadian seal hunt for 10 years, and permanently halted sealing in the British Isles, and killing of dolphins off Iki Island, Japan. This documentary witnesses his latest campaigns and explores the personal and environmental history of this controversial marine environmentalist.

In person: Ron Colby USA/2008/101 min. Director/Producer: Ron Colby Co-Producer: Patricia van Ryker Writer: Ron Colby Cast: Farley Mowat, Martin Sheen, Paul Watson, Robert Hunter Cinematographer/DP: Ron Colby Print Source: Artists Confederacy, pv@ artistsconfederacy.com

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Shahar is an unemployed filmmaker. His father, Sleiman, a strict 82-year-old Yemenite, suggests that Shahar should make a film about the Jewish Brigade, in which Sleiman served during World War II. Shahar becomes enthusiastic when he realizes that his father may have left some “souvenirs” by having impregnated two Dutch women. He decides to make the film, hoping to find his father’s lost offspring and maybe lessen some of the burden of his father’s criticism. They set out together on the trail of the Jewish Brigade, beginning in Israel, continuing through Italy and Germany, and ending in Holland with a surprising discovery.

Hebrew with English subtitles Israel/2006/75 min. Film by: Shahar Cohen & Halil Efrat Print Source: Rezo Films, festival@rezofilm.com

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LAST BUTCHER IN LITTLE ITALY Unlike most Italian Americans, Moe Albanese never left Little Italy. Born on Elizabeth Street in 1925, Moe grew up here and helped his parents run the small butcher shop Albanese Meats. Today, this shop is the last that remains of Elizabeth Street’s Italian American history.

At 83 years old, Moe trims meat to his customer’s specifications while recounting the history of the neighborhood and the people who lived there.

USA/2008/6 min. Director: Laura Terruso Producers: Eugene Lehnert, Laura Terruso Cinematographer/DP: Eugene Lehnert Print Source: Laura Terruso, laura.terruso@ gmail.com

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FRIDAY 9:00 PM POPE MARINE PARK THEATRE SATURDAY 12:05 PM ROSEBUD CINEMA

Richard Ruston was afflicted with paranoid schizophrenia before the birth of his daughter, Delaney Ruston. After many years of shame, frustration and fear, she decided to hide from her father and keep her phone number and address unlisted. But now, 10 years later, Richard is more stable on a newer medicine, and Delaney, given her experiences as a doctor and a mother, decides to reconnect with her father.

Knowing that her earlier failed attempts to get needed treatment for her dad is a common occurrence in today’s starved mental health system, Delaney decides to bring her camera with her during this journey of reconciliation.

USA/2009/68 min. Director/Producer/CoEditor: Delaney Ruston, MD Main Project Advisor: Steven Okazaki Co-Editor: William Haugse Director of Cinematography: Geoff Schaaf Print Source: MyDOC Productions, delaney@mydocproductions.com

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JOHN’S STORY John grows up with his family and helps build the family cottage in northern Canada. During a Christmas visit to the cottage in 1961, a car accident claims the life of John’s Mum. John is institutionalized for 20 years, and then lives through a series of group homes as well as living on his own. He is then misdiagnosed as having Alzheimer’s and placed in a lock-down ward for three years. He escapes to his brother in western Canada and recovers.

In person: Delaney Ruston, Bruce Rout, John Rout Canada/2009/18 min. Producer: Bruce Rout Print Source: Bruce Rout bbrout@rasl.ca

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22 drop in theatre - continuous showings seeps into your heart. Instead of being reckless, aggressive and angry, these kids show affection, gratitude and support for each other.

They have created a family of their own.

USA/INDIA/2009/33 min. Directors/Producers: Christy Smith, David Justice

saturday 12:30 pm

FOREST IN THE CITY saturday 9:30 am & 4:20 pm sunday 9:30 am & 4:00 pm

This is the story of how the people of Bainbridge Island saved 240 acres in the center of the island from development. In 1989 the Department of Natural Resources designated this state-owned parcel to be sold for the benefit of the school system. A small group of people mounted a campaign to convince their fellow citizens to tax themselves to buy the property and preserve it as public green space. Overcoming a natural resistance to taxes, 82 percent of voters said yes to a $5 million, 20-year bond on Sept. 17, 1991. This was an early manifestation of what became a land conservation ethic on the island.

USA/2008/26 min. Producer/Director/ Cinematographer: Cameron Snow CoProducer/Cinematographer: Cathy Bellefeuille Cast: Annie Berfield, Barbara Berger, Ben Belieu, Bill Barrow, Chuck Field, Connie Waddington, John Hough, Junkoh Harui, Mike Ryherd, Tom Schworer, Wini Jones Print Source: Snow Productions, snowcc@bainbridge.net

DISCOVERING: SHUKTARA

saturday 10:10 am & 5:00 pm sunday 10:10 am & 4:40 pm This is the remarkable story of 18 boys and girls in Kolkata, India, who were given a new chance at life after being abandoned by their families or escaping abusive homes. While many non-governmental organizations in India often overlook homeless children who are deaf or have a disability, Shuktara embraces them. Shuktara is a home filled with love that

PAPIROFLEXIA USA/2007/2.5 min.

See description, page 14.

KAREAREA: THE PINE FALCON saturday 10:55 am & 5:45 pm sunday 10:55 am & 5:20 pm

Wildlife photographer George Chance spent the 1970s following and studying the New Zealand falcon. Now, some 30 years later, he is suffering from ill health and going blind.

Filmmaker Sandy Crichton gets ever closer to a remarkable wild population of falcons as he attempts to realize George’s dream by adding movement to George’s photographs.

BETWEEN THE FOLDS Saturday 12:33 pm

USA/2008/56 min.

See description, page 14.

New Zealand/2008/49 min. Executive Producer: Richard Thomas Director/Producer: Sandy Crichton Writer: Sandy Crichton Cinematographer/DP: Sandy Crichton Print Source: Catskill Films, catskillfilms@gmail.com

MUSTANG – JOURNEY ANIMATED AMERICAN OF TRANSFORMATION saturday & Sunday at noon

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Eric, a digital-loving executive on a mansionhunting expedition, finds himself crossing swords with his real estate agent Max, an outof-work cartoon rabbit. Like it or not, Max will make Eric see things through the eyes of an “Animated American.”

USA/2008/15 min. Directors: James Baker, Joe Haidar Producer: Susan Cohen Writer: Tim Talbott Cinematographer/DP: Ruben Russ Cast: Bill Farmer, Bree Turner, Jason Marsden, Jon Polito Print Source: 6 [ft]1 Productions, susan@6foot1productions.com

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USA/2008/30 min.

See description, page 14.

PIGWEED PHILOSOPHER sunday 12:30 pm

USA/2008/90 min.

See description, page 19.

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THE VIOLIN MAKER “The Violin Maker” was made as part of the 2009 International Documentary Challenge.

Frenetic Productions created a short biography of Doug Yule, a Seattle violin maker.

USA/2009/7 min. Director: Greg Brotherton Collaborating Directors: Dan Thornton, Gabriel Miller Print Source: Greg Brotherton gregory.brotherton@gmail.com

MIRACLE IN A BOX

WAITING FOR A TRAIN The Toshio Hirano Story “Waiting for a Train” is the remarkable true story of native Japanese and now San Francisco resident Toshio Hirano, whose life is transformed by the music of country musician Jimmie Rodgers.

USA/2008/20 min. Producer/Director: Oscar Bucher Cinematographer/DP: Aaron Meister Cast: Toshio Hirano, Mayumi Urgino, Kenan O’Brien Print Source: Oscar Butcher, info@ ob3studios.com

“Miracle in a Box” is an inspiring film about the coming together of three events – the bequest of a grand piano, the student competition to win it, and the months and months of work required to make it sing again. The First Berkeley Piano Competition provides most of the music in the film, with six talented finalists playing several classical selections. But jazz and blues also blossom as Callahan Piano artisans take apart and rebuild the instrument before our eyes, hewing to standards as precise as a tenth of a gram. The close relationships and easy humor of the workshop accompany the highly professional techniques and tools. The winner of the competition, Jared Redmond, finally makes his debut on what is now his Steinway grand at the party given in the workshop as a finale. The celebration is not only about talent but also about the dedication of craftspeople who give good performers a means to play better than they had imagined possible.

USA/2009/57 min. Director: John Korty Editor: Jim Oliver Narrator: John Lithgow Print Source: Korty Films, kortyviz@svn.net

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Over 300 interviews went into the making of this short documentary, which asks people of all ages and backgrounds “Who are you?’” and “What do you want out of life?” Interviewees are presented from youngest to oldest, creating a patchwork of individuals and outlooks on life. What do our answers to these simple yet fundamental questions reveal about our selves? What do they reveal about the larger socioeconomic and political forces that shape our lives? “Talking Heads” explores the vastly different experiences (as well as the juxtapositions between them) of those who call the United States their home. Based on a 1980 documentary of the same name by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski.

USA/2009/20 min. Directors/Producers: Gabe Van Lelyveld, Kristina Whipple Camera Operator: Jess Plumb Print Source: Gabe Van Lelyveld, gabevanlelyveld@gmail.com

OIL+WATER A film about two kayakers who drive a Japanese fire truck from northern Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina using 100% alternative fuels. On their way from river to river, they collaborate with local governments to educate the public, especially youth, about the benefits of alternative energy.

USA/2007/33 min. Director: Seth Warren Print Source: seth@nrpw.com

MAKING THE CROOKED STRAIGHT Born in Long Island, N.Y. and educated at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Rick Hodes has dedicated his life to helping heal the sick and poor of Ethiopia over the past 20 years. Many of his patients are stricken with tuberculosis of the spine, a disease that creates massive humps on the backs of its victims. Eventually they’re forced into permanent forward-bending posture, which in turn prevents their lungs from

25 working properly, and if left untreated leads to death. Driven by his devotion to Orthodox Judaism and its belief that “He who saves one life, saves an entire world,” Hodes provides these patients with hospital care – arranges for complex overseas surgeries – often paying for these out of his own pocket – and has, thus far, fostered seventeen children in order to provide them with not only proper medical care but a home and an education.

USA/2009/30 min. Director/Producer: Susan Cohn Rockefeller Cinematographers/Field Producers: Nara Garber, Ben Wolf Editor/CoProducer: Gavin Coleman Print Source: Susan Cohn Rockefeller, makingthecrookedstraight. com

MY WORLD OF BLACK, WHITE AND COLOR

A number of school children are interviewed following their participation in the creation of a work of art based on the theme of “My World of White, Black

USA/2007/14 min. Director/Co-Producer: Stephen Stolee Cinematographer/DP: Stephen Stolee Print Source: The Picture Project, sstolee@qwest.net

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SALT HARVESTERS OF GHANA Stunning images of women working on a moon-like landscape frame the unrelenting cycle of work of the women of Ada, who harvest salt with their bare hands in the dry season and farm in the rainy season. Located in rural coastal Ghana, the natural-forming salt lagoon has provided income for the local women for over three hundred years. A soundtrack by Patty Stotter interwoven with traditional work songs and an original song by Ghanaian musicians, joined with the vivid imagery and editing of Marcia Rock, brings you into the heart of the women’s daily lives, revealing their dignity and determination. The government hopes to industrialize the area, but it is unclear if the women will be the ones to benefit.

and Color.” The interviews are intercut with music and close-ups of their artworks. The kids’ comments tell us what they know about their world and what they are likely to carry with them as they become the shapers and keepers of our culture.

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KING KONG This may sting a little!

USA/GHANA/2007/19 min. Director/ Producer/Cinematographer: Marcia Rock Collaborating Director: Pattricia Lee Stotter Print Source: Marcia Rock, marcia. rock@nyu.edu

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SATURDAY NOON POPE MARINE PARK THEATRE SUNDAY NOON POPE MARINE PARK THEATRE Twelve volunteer PTFF reviewers screened 255 films; 145 of them were 30 minutes or less. These seven were selected as the very best of those shorter films, with the exception of a few that are being shown elsewhere during the festival.

TRUE BEAUTY THIS NIGHT Ah, romance! How hard it is to ask for that first date! Sometimes, if you are a guy who’s stricken, you have more obstacles to overcome than merely stage fright.

USA/2009/10 min. Director: Peter Besson Writer: Peter Besson Cast: Dustin Seavey, Meegan Michelle Cinematographer/DP: Jas Shelton Print Source: Peter Besson, peter. besson@gmail.com

GLORIA & ERIC The emotional challenges of parenthood, aging, and perhaps even some sexual tension all lie beneath the surface in this moving encounter between a teenage boy and the mother of his alienated girlfriend.

USA/2008/17 min. Director: Nicolas Calzada Writer, Story: Nicolas Calzada Cast: Deirdre Lovejoy, Jeremy Allen White Cinematographer/DP: Jimmy Lee Phelan Print Source: Nicolas Calzada, nicolas9802@aol.com

THE DAY MY PARENTS BECAME COOL What is the essence of “cool” if you are in high school? What would happen if your parents suddenly all tried to be “seriously cool”? What if it was everyone’s parents?

USA/2008/16 min. Director/Producer: Steve Edmiston Writer: Steve Edmiston Cast: Cheikh Davis, Darryl Reese, Don Taylor, Evan Will, John Welch, Julie Johnson, Kristin Alexander, Lydia Bishop, Lynne Randall, Megan Lee Joy, Mike Fosberg, Peter Weinstein, Tara Simmons, Terisa Greenan Cinematographer/DP: TJ Williams, Jr. Print Source: EKE Pictures, sedmiston@invictalaw.com

DRY RAIN The reviewers disagreed about whether this film was about the boy, the father, or about getting even after divorce. What do you think?

USA/2008/23 min. Director/Producer: Matthew J Clark Writer, Adaptation: Pete Fromm Cast: James LeGros, Nathan Gamble Cinematographer/DP: Doug Hostetter Print Source: StraightEIGHT FIlms, brian@ loadedpictures.com

MAKE A MATE Matchmaking services allow you to guess at a potential mate. Wouldn’t it be great if you could go into a shop and build one to order!

USA/2009/3 min. Director: Jennifer Jordan Day Print Source: Jennifer Day, jenniferjordanday@ gmail.com, jenniferjordanday.com

END ZONE Yes, this is just another one of those films about a chess match between a robot and Death.

Will you ever order black coffee again?

USA/2008/7 min. Producer: Amy Lillard Dee Director: Rob Cunningham Writer: Tony Mullen Cast: Abby Dylan, Kenneth Jarvey Cinematographer/DP: Jesse Moore Print Source: Dual Action Pictures, rob. cunningham@gmail.com

A PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS The creative writing process is filled with painful obstacles. Here is how one writer triumphs!

USA/2008/1:30 min. Director: Chel White Print Source: Bent Image Lab, chel@bentimagelab. com

You’re outa Here Short narrative A spunky descendant of Betty Boop tells her no-good boyfriend to hit the road, to the stride rhythms of Fats Waller’s “The Minor Drag,” reinvented as “You’re Outa Here.” A modern Soundie.

USA/2009/3 min.

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PTFF MEMBERS As of Aug. 4, 2009

Patron Frank Buxton Pat Jordan Toby Jordan Cynthia Sears

Producer Merrily Applewhite Harry Applewhite Thatcher Bailey Sharon Black Bill Carruthers Kate Carruthers Bill Carson John Considine Astrid Considine Linda Cornfield David Cornfield Molly Gordon Phil Hallin Mary Jordan Larry Jordan Barbara Judson Pamela Kolacy Naomi Marcus Barbara Mason Roth Mason Linnea Patrick Ellen Poitevin Mary Rizzardi Berry Shoen Sam Shoen Kathleen Stafford Mary Toews Morgan Topper Lorraine Vagner Penny Varteresian Lynne Webster Joe Wheeler Renate Wheeler DD Wigley Ann Wilkinson

Director Richard Miller

Cinematographer Kathryn Anderson Joan Broughton

Jo Ann Bussa John Clise Pam Clise Frank Garred Gwen Howard Carolyn Hunt Karen Hunter Marcia Jones Kim Jons Kathryn Knapp Caroline Littlefield Gwen Lovett Linda Maguire Jan North Lenore Waldron Jeanette Woodruff

Harvey and Karen Putterman Quayle family Richard and Barbara Rogers Paul and Roberta Rovner Smallwood family Jane Souzon Stranahan family Colleen McCaffrey and Eric Swenson Lorraine Ferra and Deborah Trent Len and Joanne Tyler Joe and Claudia Wagner Hank and Laura Walker Dave and Ruth Whitney

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Advance Tickets

PTFF members: $10 per ticket, $20 for A Very Special Evening & Opening Night Gala General public: $12 per ticket, $25 for A Very Special Evening & Opening Night Gala Advance tickets are available for a limited number of seats in each venue. During the festival, any available advance tickets are for sale only at the Hospitality Box Office; Wednesday & Thursday noon-6, Friday 9-noon, Saturday & Sunday 8-noon.

Questions?

Taylor Street Information Kiosk Next to the Haller Fountain Friday: 11 am-7 pm, Saturday: 9 am-6 pm, Sunday: 9 am-4 pm Bus stop Polk Street Information Kiosk Court yard at Sweet Laurette Café & Bistro Friday: 4 pm-7 pm, Saturday: 9 am-6 pm, Sunday: 9 am-4 pm Bus stop EisenbeisCondos Hospitality Center Wednesday & Thursday: Noon-6 pm, Friday: 9 am-6 pm; Saturday, 8 am-6 pm; Sunday: 8 am-5 pm

Daily Newsletter

Each day of the festival a newsletter will be available with breaking news, highlights and last-minute schedule changes.

Foul Weather

In the advent of severe weather conditions, be aware that seating at all venues will begin as soon as possible.

Cancellations

If a program is cancelled, rush ticket holders should see the Theater Manager for either a refund or a voucher, and advance ticket holders need to go to the theater box office.

Restrooms

Restrooms are available in all venues and on Water Street next to the police station. Portable restrooms are available on the corner of Taylor and Washington and at the Uptown Theatre on Polk Street.

Contact Us

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Thanks to Our Volunteers!

Without the hard work and dedication of our wonderful volunteers, this festival would not be possible. We give heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you!

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