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Welcome to STUFF 2012! Hello Everyone! I would like to welcome you to the South Texas Underground Film Festival! I am very proud of the films that have been selected to screen. We have films from all over the world that truly represent what Independent and DIY filmmaking is all about. We wanted to make sure that we gave a platform for these talented and creative filmmakers. For the past two years we had been wanting to put on a film festival that represented our mission statement well as it represents who South Texas Underground Film is:
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South Texas Underground Film’s sole mission is to engage and inspire the community by screening films without discrimination, creating new films, teaching the art of filmmaking and networking with fellow filmmakers. South Texas Underground Film wishes to expose Local and International Underground and Independent films that are diverse in film technique, background and culture by providing a public forum to the South Texas community. We hope that you enjoy these films as much as we have and look forward to meeting everyone at STUFF 2012!
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STUFF 2012 Screenings September 21 - 27, 2012 | www.SouthTexasUndergroundFilm.org/stuff/ Devary’s Courtyard Friday
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7:30 Tumbleweed 7:45 This Way of Life 9:30 The Strange Ones 9:45 Dynamiter
House of Rock 2:00 Wild is the Wind 3:45 SHORTS 2 5:45 Symphony of Silence 7:00 Scenes From a Gay Marriage
7:30 Nathan Felix on Tour 7:40 All I Know 8:45 Sironia Never a cover in the front bar, open seven days a week, and great drinks specials every day!
7:30 When Walt Whitman was a Little Girl 7:45 Misson of Mermaids 8:00 ____was Here. 8:10 Pillow 8:30 5 Shells
1:00 SHORTS 1 2:45 Generation Me
Comics Live Comedy Club The Railroad Seafood Station offers full menu.
2:30 Non Compos Mentis 5:00 SHORTS 4 7:00 Heroic Journey of a Gay Man 7:30 The Loons
1:15 Quest For Honor 3:00 Raid of the Rainbow Lounge
Bay View Room Monday
SEPT 24 Tuesday
SEPT 25 Wednesday
SEPT 26 Thursday
SEPT 27
7:30 TBA 8:30 Mosquita y Mari
1:30 He 4:00 SHORTS 9 6:30 SHORTS 5 8:00 SHORTS 10 8:30 Fix: The Ministry Movie 10:30 Dirty Old Town 12:15 Captured
11:00 STUF Showcase 5:00 SHORTS 11 7:30 Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
1:30 SHORTS 6 3:00 Ontologica! 5:30 Video Diary of a Lost Girl
1:30 On Your Mark, Get Set, Mow 3:30 SHORTS 8 5:00 (Untitled) Green 5:15 Johnny Ghost 7:45 Close Up
3:00 By The Wayside 5:30 SHORTS 7 7:30 Zero Killed
4:00 Mono No Aware Showcase 5:00 A La Cantábrica 7:30 92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card 7:45 Culture Shock 9:45 Privacy
5:30 - 6:30 MIXERS!
2:00 Bubba Moon Face 4:00 Breakdown Reward 6:00 Beyond The Grave
Have Lunch at Hester’s in the Art Museum of South Texas and catch a Double Feature during STUFF 2012!
1:30 SHORTS 3 3:30 Who Does She Think She Is?
1:00 Christian Dreadful 3:00 The Shadow of Death
1:00 Glass 3:00 Texas Filmmaker Showcase
10:30 - 12:00 AFTER PARTIES! (Check Program for Day and Venue)
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This Way of Life
The Dynamiter (73mins) Directed by Matthew Gordon (USA)
(88mins) Directed by Barbara Sumner-Burstyn & Thomas Burstyn (New Zealand) A lionhearted father struggles valiantly to create a life of idyllic simplicity for his family. Shot over four years, This Way of Life is an intimate portrait of a Maori family and their relationship with nature, adversity, their horses and society at large.
Scenes from a Gay Marriage (83mins)
September 21, 2012 Friday HOUSE OF ROCK
Directed by Matt Riddlehoover (USA)
A recently single man finds solace in his upstairs neighbors’ seemingly perfect relationship - until he suspects one of them is cheating.
All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he’s left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must face the fact that his dream of a family may only be a dream and he might just lose the only family he’s ever had: Fess.
Devary’s Courtyard 100 North Shoreline Boulevard
Venue 511 Starr Street
2:00 Wild is the Wind 3:45 SHORTS 2 5:45 Symphony of Silence 7:00 Scenes From a Gay Marriage
The Symphony of Silence (20mins) Directed by Cedric T. Smith (San Antonio)
17 year-old writer Zach struggles to survive in the “dog eat dog” world of high school where he is tormented by bullies. There is no chance of finding comfort in a bully-free home environment as one of the bullies happens to be his 18 year-old brother, Sean.
7:30 Tumbleweed 7:45 This Way of Life 9:30 The Strange Ones 9:45 Dynamiter
The Strange Ones (15mins)
Directed by Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein (USA) The Strange Ones is a short film about a man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, who sneak into a motel swimming pool for a brief respite. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be...that did not tumble.
Tumbleweed! (15mins) Directed by Jared Varava (USA)
The true and historically accurate tale of one tumbleweed that did not tumble.
Wild is the Wind (74min)
Directed by Julie Chaffort (France) Johannes, a cursed undertaker, lost in a vast and strange land, is looking for a place to bury his lover. During his journey, Johannes will face his destiny, fighting against his curse and find the way of redemption face up to mute, fearful, mad and fallen characters. Wild is the Wind is a musical (science)-fiction movie.
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SHORTS 2 (70mins) Daddy’s Big Girl ( 17mins) Reid Waterer (California)
Andy (15mins ) Adolfo R. Mora (Laredo) Freak (18mins) Eric Casaccio (California) Polly, Jennifer, and Melissa (5mins) Diego Ramirez (Australia) I Need a Hero (15mins) W.H. Bourne (USA)
September 22, 2012 Saturday COMICS LIVE
Devary’s Courtyard 100 North Shoreline Boulevard
Comedy Club 1214 North Chaparral Street
2:30 Non Compos Mentis 5:00 SHORTS 4 7:00 Heroic Journey of a Gay Man 7:30 The Loons
Sironia (104mins)
Directed by Brandon Dickerson (Texas) Inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Wes Cunningham, SIRONIA is the story of a talented musician who has been chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood music machine. Frustrated by his broken career, Thomas Fisher and his wife Molly impulsively pack up and move to small town Sironia, Texas to live a more authentic life and raise their first child near Molly’s brother and his family. Despite the change of scenery, Thomas’s deep resentment over his lost dreams gets the best of him as he struggles to find peace with his stalled career, until he remembers what he loved about music - and Molly - in the first place.
7:30 All I Know 8:15 Nathan Felix on Tour 8:45 Sironia Q&A with Wes Cunnigham
Non Compos Mentis:
or Jerry Powell & The Delusions of Grandeur (108mins) Directed by Mike Cuenca (California) Jerry Powell is a low-level thief with memory distrust syndrome. The plot deals with his relationship with the neurotic Donna and a mysterious package he must deliver.
Heroic Journey of the Gay Man (30mins)
Directed by Brett William Mauser (Texas) The epic journey of a man coming to understand his homosexuality is set against the formulaic Hero’s Journey in this satire of an English Studies Educational film, complete with narrator and host. Special Screening: The Loons (15mins)
All I Know: The Castle Sessions (48mins) Directed by Holly Bronko (Texas)
All I Know follows 12 singersongwriters from around the world as they come together for three days of intense songwriting in a castle in Denmark. This film is about the exhilarating collaboration that can occur between total strangers and how these songs can be delivered into the world in a most profound and glorious way.
SHORTS 4 (61mins)
Films From Pardis Parker
Teechers (14mins) Jon Stahl (California)
Implants (2mins)
Viscosity (8mins) Paul von Stoetzel (8mins)
Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns (7mins) Don’t Turn Around (6mins) The Dance (2mins) Afghan (12mins) The Train (10mins)
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September 23, 2012 Sunday H-E-B Auditorium 1902 North Shoreline Boulevard
1:15 Quest For Honor 3:00 Raid of the Rainbow Lounge
HOUSE OF ROCK Venue 511 Starr Street
1:00 SHORTS 1 2:45 Generation Me
Quest for Honor (63mins) Directed by Mary Ann Smothers Bruni (USA)
A former teacher and tireless activist works with local lawmen, Kurdish government agencies and her colleagues to investigate and eradicate honor killings in the tribal regions of Kurdistan. First time filmmaker Mary Ann Smothers Bruni - who is an author and photographer - documents these horrible acts and the people who are fighting to end these senseless killings that take place in Kurdistan in the feature film QUEST FOR HONOR.
Generation ME (120mins)
Directed by Ericka Marsalis-LaManna (Austin) Dating in the age of social networking. Malia’s stable relationship with her boyfriend Chris quickly falls apart when she discovers misleading messages from another woman on Chris’ social networking page. Malia gets sucked into a whirlwind of new age revenge but soon learns the danger of relying on non-verbal forms of communication that her self indulgent generation has become so accustomed to.
SHORTS 1 (81mins) Lifeless (19mins)
A.S. Ghosh (Michigan)
So Womanly (28mins) Luis Escobar (Spain)
You Can’t Curry Love (23mins) Reid Waterer (California)
Bathing and the Single Girl (11mins) Christine Elise McCarthy (California)
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Raid of the Rainbow Lounge (103mins) Directed by Robert L. Camina (Dallas)
A full length documentary film recounting the events surrounding the widely publicized and controversial raid of a Fort Worth, Texas gay bar in 2009. Following a sordid aftermath, Fort Worth would become a leader in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) equality. However, that journey was not smooth and without controversies. Witness history unfold as this film documents that journey from the perspective of eyewitnesses, activists and politicians who helped change the city. Narrated by television icon and Emmy nominated actress, Meredith Baxter.
September 23, 2012 Sunday Devary’s Courtyard 100 North Shoreline Boulevard
7:30 When Walt Whitman was a Little Girl 7:45 Misson of Mermaids 8:00 ____was Here. 8:10 Pillow 8:30 5 Shells
When Walt Whitman was a Little Girl (12mins)
Directed byJim Haverkamp (North Carolina)
5 Shells (93mins) Directed by Paul S. Myers (USA)
After a global financial apocalypse a young girl must protect her older sister as they walk across a desert wasteland. Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, director Paul Myers’ postapocalyptic fantasy drama follows two sisters as they wander the wastelands with just one shotgun and five shells in the wake of a global financial meltdown. As the two desperate siblings make their way down the Yellow Brick Road, however, they encounter a series of challenges that will test their will to survive and soldier on.
As the title suggests, this is a speculative biography of the artistic side of Walt Whitman. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, young Walt is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze. Combining drama, dance, puppetry, and potato cannons, the film is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad rumination on growing up as a ‘sensitive kid.’
Pillow (19mins) Directed by Joshua H. Miller & Miles B. Miller (New York) A Southern Gothic tale of two brothers who go to desperate measures to please their overbearing mother.
___ was here. (6mins) Directed by Mikaela and Vukica Lungulov (New York) A boy finds a message written on a wall and decides to follow its lead.
Mission of Mermaids (15mins) Directed bySusan Cohn Rockefeller (USA) Both a poetic ode to the seas and aplea for their protection, Susan Cohn Rockefeller’s latest and most personal documentary focuses on the beauty and current plight of the world’s oceans. Using the archetype of the mermaid, a mythical creature evocative of the ocean’s enduring mystery, the film also honors the mermaid’s real life avatars, the mer women and men who live from and for the seas – artists, activists, performers, divers, fishermen and sailors – and all of us who have played and dreamed on beaches, reveled in ocean waters and nourished ourselves in her depths.
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SHORTS 5 (70mins) I’m Dead (17mins) Francesco Picone (Italy) Historia Muerta (15mins) Fran Mateu (Spain)
He (122mins)
Directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi (Ireland)
Directed by Doug Freel (USA)
Provides an insider’s view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry - during their world tour - as front man Al Jourgensen slips into drug addiction. Ministry made industrial rock mainstream, and along the way their music and take no prisoners lifestyle influenced the leaders of today’s most important bands, many of whom are in the film. SHORTS 9 (70mins) Starlet (7mins) DJ Devereux (UK) Greth Productions Thy Kill Be Done (16mins) Gregory Hanson (New York) Good Taste (11mins) Gregory Hanson (New York) Sink Hole (2mins) Gregory Hanson (New York) !Robot Hand! Carney (11mins) Kevin Lonano (New York) Blue Sheep Suit (14mins) Kevin Lonano (New York) The Transmission (7mins) Brian Lonano (New York)
SHORTS 11 (32mins) How to Turn on Your Computer (7mins) Emily Oscarson (USA)
Ecstasy of St. Agnes (20mins) Slawomir Milewski (Poland)
In My Room (3 mins) Chance Taylor (Canada)
Milk (2mins) Emma Varker (Australia)
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Deviant Behavior (30mins) Sal Hernandez (Corpus Christi)
September 24, 2012 Monday HOUSE OF ROCK Venue 511 Starr Street
1:30 He 4:00 SHORTS 9 6:30 SHORTS 5 8:00 SHORTS 11 8:30 Fix: The Ministry Movie 10:30 Dirty Old Town 12:15 Captured
NYC Double Feature
FIX: The Ministry Movie (110mins)
HE is about a troubling and mysterious portrait of a suicidal man. Director of the film juxtaposes the lead character’s apparently revealing monologues with scenes and images that layer the film with ambiguity.
El Cucuy (8 mins) Christopher Ambriz (Corpus Christi)
Dirty Old Town (73mins) Directed by Jenner Furst & Daniel Levin (USA) The Bowery becomes a nexus of shattered dreams when a merchant has 72 hours to pay his rent. Facing extinction, his ramshackle tent of antiquities lures a troop of misfits, freaks and renegades who form a tableaux full of carnival pageantry, white lies and victimless crime in a fleeting glimpse of Downtown New York.
Captured (93mins) Directed by Daniel Levin & Ben Solomon (USA)
Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification.
September 25, 2012 Tuesday HOUSE OF ROCK
H-E-B Auditorium 1902 North Shoreline Boulevard
Venue 511 Starr Street
1:30 SHORTS 6 3:00 Ontologica! 5:30 Video Diary of a Lost Girl
1:30 SHORTS 3 3:30 Who Does She Think She Is?
SHORTS 3 (57mins) Ni Una Mas (Not One More) (17mins) Angela Aguayo (Mexico) 778 Bullets (17mins) Angela Aguayo (Mexico) Bordando La Frontera Embroidering the Border (26mins) Rene Rhi (Mexico)
Ontologica! or A Brief Explanation of Absolutely Everything that is Known about Absolutely Everything (97mins)
Directed by Skylar Gordon (Texas)
On•tol•og•ica! noun, verb A brief explanation of absolutely everything that is known about absolutely everything. WARNING: this film contains gratuitous sex, uncivilized violence, perverse language, religious blasphemy, cosmic consciousness, truth, beauty, knowledge, reality, and cucumbers. Viewing this film may cause suicidal cravings and/or feelings of eternal spiritual bliss in otherwise perfectly healthy people. Under no circumstances is it safe or advisable for this film to be viewed by anyone, ever.
Video Diary of a Lost Girl (96mins) Directed by Lindsay Denniberg (USA)
A rock and roll horror fantasy where we meet the immortal Louise and her beloved Charlie. Unfortunately, due to Louise’s supernatural origins, every man she sleeps with must die! Charlie was Louise’s first love from the 1920’s, who she accidentally killed before realizing what she is: a descendant of Lilith, the mother of all demons! This race of women must feed on the souls of men once every full moon, or else they will menstruate to death. Now a hundred years later, Charlie returns reincarnated, and Louise must struggle with staying away from the love of her life, or risk losing him a second time! PMS has never been this deadly!
Who Does She Think She Is? (73mins)
Directed by Pamela Tanner Boll & Nancy Kennedy (USA) This documentary five fierce women who refuse to choose. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. Along the way, the film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times where most people can’t even name a handful of female artists. In the end, the diverse women in the film demonstrate that our creativity and our caregiving are not mutually exclusive, but deeply connected. In fact, their co-existence might just be the key to finishing the job.
SHORTS 6 (59mins) The Art of Catching (35mins) Jessica Bardsley (Illinois)
Poison Oaks (24mins)
Sid Deluca & Kd Kibbe (San Antonio)
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Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters (92mins)
Directed by Adam Cornelius (USA) A documentary that captures the greatest world record Tetris players as they prepare for the Classic Tetris World Championship. From the days of Thor Aackerlund and his historic victory at the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, right up to the present and Harry Hong’s perfect “Max-Out” score, this documentary expertly chronicles over two decades of Tetris Mastery.
September 25, 2012 Tuesday Bay View Room 100 North Shoreline Boulevard
11:00 STUF Showcase 5:00 SHORTS 11 7:30 Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
SHORTS 11 (60mins) Roads We Choose (12mins) Michael Cory (Corpus Christi)
The Twist (17mins) Michael Cory (Corpus Christi)
The Rogue (8mins) Jimmy Willden (Corpus Christi)
Get an up-close look at the masters as they reveal their secrets, recount their decades-long obsession with the game, compete against each other to set new world records, and enter the transcendental state required to reach the highest levels known as the “Ecstasy of Order.”
Consequence (8mins)
Jimmy Willden (Corpus Christi)
Flushed (8mins)
Chris Thompson & Jimmy Willden
South Texas Underground Film Showcase
Allison Calloway
STUF 48 & 72 hour challenge films made this summer using the Loteria Mexican Card theme. 43 of 53 cards were used to make this collection of films. The last six films are 2011’s STUF 48 & 24 hour challenge winners. Auspice More Problems Amadeus Cortez El Ping: From Right to Left John P. Rosales
The Loons
5 Yt Rap Esu Oh
Ellie Empathy
Brett Mauser
Zompire: The New Breed Melanie Granado
The Strangers Brett Mauser
La Locura
Norman Navarro
Dark Matter
Sergio Campa
Egress
Journey Camp
LOL (Laughing Out Loud) Cary Cadena
Wood
Travis Trevino
Sandwich in El Parque John L Magill
Jeremy Gomez
Avenue D
Will Diaz
The Shootout Michael Cory
Harvester
Guppy
Miss Fortune
Avlo
Leche de Torro
Prostitute (recognizing the harsh realities of life)
Tormented
Howie
Captain Yeah and The Camarones
Punctured
Mad Scientist
Repercussion Roel Guevara
The Case of the Cold Beans
Pablo Schmitt
Ruben Barrera
Larry Cashion
Amadeus Cortez & Jimmy Willden Travis Trevino
Jesse Martinez Jr
Lucid with Intent
Rosas de Sangre
Ernie’s Son Needs a Pair of Boots
Viewfinder
Stained Affection
Moonlight Lies Micah DeBenedetto
La Araña
The Geocache
A Detective Parroty
Latina: Glimpse into the Revolution
Tomorrow Morning
Robert B Gonzales
Ray Garcia
Elle and Krista’s Night Out Christopher Ambriz
Jace Cosby
Kristopher Cisneros Norman Navarro
Mad Scientist
Christopher Ambriz
Sergio Campa
Dimentions of Perception in Time & Space
Rob Chapa
The Last Weekend
Roel Guevara Jacob Grim
Journey Camp
Zerep Productions
SAMPLE
Monica Garrido
Jesse Martinez Jr Pablo Schmitt
The Call
Jacob Grim
The Threat Within John L Magill
The Sacrifice Roel Guevara
Kill Shot!
Micah DeBenedetto
#42
Travis Trevino
An Eggtastrophe Jesse Martinez Jr
The Delivery
Micah DeBenedetto
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September 26, 2012 Wednesday HOUSE OF ROCK
H-E-B Auditorium 1902 North Shoreline Boulevard
Venue 511 Starr Street
3:00 By The Wayside 5:30 SHORTS 7 7:30 Zero Killed
1:00 Christian Dreadful 3:00 The Shadow of Death
Zero Killed (81mins)
Directed by Michal Kosakowski (Germany) Since 1996 film director Michal Kosakowski has been asking people with different backgrounds about their murder fantasies. He offered them the chance to stage their fantasies as short films. The only condition was that they had to act in these films themselves, either as victims or perpetrators. More than a decade later, Kosakowski met these people again to ask them about their emotions during their acts of murder or victimization, and interviewed them about current social topics such as revenge, torture, war, terrorism, media, domestic violence, the death penalty, suicide etc. If someone murdered a person you love, how would you feel about it? Should torture be legalized? Are soldiers murderers? How to define good and evil? Their replies are juxtaposed with the short films based on these ‘non-criminal’ fantasies made accessible to viewers. Simultaneously, the participants’ respective replies help viewers to get better acquainted with them and their highly diverse social and professional backgrounds. It is the banality of their acts that frightens us so badly, their stabbing of innocent people, their orgiastic throttling of marriage partners or their random shooting of unsuspecting visitors to exhibitions. ‘Zero Killed’ takes the issue one step further: the film deciphers common clichés and patterns of visual violence with the aid of the protagonists’ immediate and direct comments. The result is an unconventional hybrid of feature film and documentary that makes viewers question their personal and social positions concerning ethical and moral values and taboos.
By The Wayside (96mins) Directed by Mike Cuenca (California)
Jim is a background actor hoping to make it into the big time. His roommate is Sam, a documentary filmmaker. When the two are evicted from their home they meet with Dio, a homeless musician, and a Catholic virgin named Mars. The four descend into a lifeawakening 24 hours that involve excess drinking, prostitutes, a sage-like lounge singer and psychedelic drugs. The ensemble film is a fully improvised comedy shot in a cinema verite style. The film was completed within 7 days without a script, one camera, and no rehearsals with Cuenca building the entire storyline in the editing room after each day’s shoot. Scene outlines and notes were given to the actors involved accordingly.
Christian Dreadful (80mins)
The Shadow of Death (117mins)
A world famous rockstar battles his devilish producer to save his beloved fans from total damnation.
The life of a young woman is torn apart when her family is gunned down. As she comes to terms with her loss she faces the threat of her family’s killers and an even more dangerous and evil criminal threatening her safety and the very purpose of her life; her faith in Jesus Christ.
Directed by Niko Kostet (Finland)
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SHORTS 7 (74mins)
Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid 7mins Living on Stilts 14mins Marie\ Mas Alla 6min Everyday Today 12mins 33 6mins Barking Lane 11mins Composition in E 6mins Six Hundred and Forty One Slates 2mins The Western 10mins
Directed by Graeme Noble & John-William Noble (Scotland)
Close-Up (85mins)
(Untitled) Green (11mins)
Directed by Jose Cruz, Jr. (Pennsylvania)
Directed by Michael Vale (Australia)
After falling off the wagon due to a drug addiction, a once aspiring Actor tries to rekindle his career, win back his estranged wife and daughter, and stay clean during the Holidays. He soon finds himself immersed in a deep kinship with a kindred spirit, a young woman he nicknames Freebird. She shows him how to stand up, discover himself and move on with his life over the course of one day on New Year’s Eve.
Michael Vale’s short film Untitled (green) is a bizarre, fragmented narrative that offers a mixture of historical speculation and environmental fiction. From musings about outer and inner space to micro-hallucinogens and vaudevillian mutations, your brain will be assaulted by a host of characters including a pigment researcher, Colombian emerald miners and Emily Dickinson. What could link such a surreal Superfiction but the death of Napoleon? Featuring performances from Ian Scott and Tamara Searle, Untitled (green) is a continuation of Michael Vale’s interest in the art of Superfiction, in particular the interweaving of historical facts with unbridled narrative invention, and the visual interaction of words and images.
Johnny Ghost (76mins)
Directed by Donna McRae (Australia)
On Your Mark, Get Set, Mow! (82mins) Directed by Mike Ratel (Washington DC)
A journey through the world of lawn mower racing featuring a family devastated by Huntington’s disease whose ultimate prize is a race for a cure. The sport of lawn mower racing is on the “cutting edge” in the battle against Huntington’s disease.
Millicent, a professional musician, lectures in music at a Melbourne university. Popular with the students, she loves her job and the opportunities it brings her. Millicent lives alone in her flat. She is also a recovering alcoholic who has a commemorative tattoo - ‘Johnny Ghost’ - that stretches across her shoulder. It signifies a past that she has long since buried - the time of post punk Melbourne in the early ‘80’s, when she was a different person. In fact she has suppressed the past so effectively it is concealed like a crypt inside her. So she lives her life in almost solitary confinement – paying for an old sin. When she decides to take a risk and remove the tattoo she encounters ghosts who won’t let her move on so easily. They want her to pay for what she has done.
September 26, 2012 Wednesday Love After (8mins) Mark Cantu (San Antonio)
Wife in Shining Armor
(15mins) Rogelio Salinas (San Antonio)
SHORTS 8 (60mins)
Progeny (10mins) Kyle Brodeur (Orange)
Tyler’s Gift (10mins)
Rogelio Salinas (San Antonio)
Deception of Death Learning To Play | (11mins) Soitto-Oppilas (9mins) Eddie Felan (San Antonio)
J.P. Saari (Finland)
Bay View Room 100 North Shoreline Boulevard
1:30 On Your Mark, Get Set, Mow 3:30 SHORTS 8 5:00 (Untitled) Green 5:15 Johnny Ghost 7:45 Close-Up
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September 27, 2012 Thursday HOUSE OF ROCK
H-E-B Auditorium 1902 North Shoreline Boulevard
Venue 511 Starr Street
2:00 Bubba Moon Face 4:00 Breakdown Reward 6:00 Beyond The Grave
1:00 Glass 3:00 Texas Filmmakers Showcase
Glass (108mins)
Directed by Daina Krumins (New Jersey) In Glass an orphaned sibling William and Erika take refuge from foster care with Aiva Zaglis, a glass artist. While trespassing near a lake Aiva and the kids hear the conversation of a couple who are seemingly burying a body nearby. The couple detects their presence an events spiral out of control. Aiva and the children’s creative vision lays a role in their unforseen fate.
Texas Filmmakers Showcase 2012
(96mins)
Cinnamon (15:02)
Timothy Edwards (Austin)
Into The South (25:11)
Micah Robert Barber (Austin)
Mentiroso (9:33)
Will Shipley (San Antonio)
Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise (7:31) Kelly Sears (Galveston)
The Order Of Things (13:02) Chris Spisak (Houston)
The Whale (13:30)
Jaime Chapin (Denton)
Z And Beau (12:49)
Carlyn Hudson (Austin)
Beyond The Grave (89mins)
Directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (Brazil) In a devastated post-apocalyptic world where the rules of reality are transformed by magic and madness, a vengeful police officer searches for a possessed serial killer. He finds in his way groups of survivors, some violent, some struggling to get by in this new place full of mystical dangers where humanity seems on the brink of extinction. Shooter and Nina, a couple of teenagers, are the first to cross paths with the Officer in his quest for the Dark Rider, a mystical man who has cost the lives of several people. The Officer and the Teenage Couple bond and go forward in this empty world. Always following the Returners, the living dead, who travels toward the places where The Rider has been, they find themselves at the risk of slaughter. The first signs of humanity they encounter are Franco, Adriene and Ashley, a trio that managed to survive in a school far from any civilization. The Officer, Shooter and Nina take place among the new survivors for a few days, until conflict arises between Ashley and the Officer and they decide to continue their quest for the Dark Rider. They find the Dark Rider in a Psycho Ward. The battle that ensues is the re-encounter of two old enemies, The Officer and the Rider, settling old debts older than time. In a final duel, they fight a battle of the not-so-good versus absolute evil.
Breakdown Reward (110mins)
Directed by Elias Georgopoulos (Greece) Two German contract killers are hired to dig up a lost treasure for their employer. Things go wrong when the treasure accidentally ends up in the hands of three small time crooks who were committing a burglary to pay off a debt to Munir, a local crime lord. The three friends use their connection with an underground informer to trade the treasure for cash. What they don’t know is that they’re being pursued by the contract killers and Munir’s thugs.
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Bubba Moon Face (86mins)
Directed by Blake Eckard (Missouri) The drastic measure taken to break the cycle of a severely damaged family.
Privacy (90mins)
September 27, 2012 Thursday Bay View Room 100 North Shoreline Boulevard 4:00 Mono No Aware Showcase 5:00 A La Cantábrica 7:30 92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card 7:45 Culture Shock 9:45 Privacy
Directed by Jörg Ihle (New York) Capitalizing on the explosion in social media and how we interact with each other, “PRIVACY,” the feature film, is the story of Mark, a tech savvy college student who creates a cutting edge spyware app that allows him to remotely view any cell phone in New York City. He begins to invade the “privacy”of hundreds of New Yorkers remotely via the “Privacy App” he has just developed, but then spots a beautiful and mysterious girl, named Alexis, whom he begins to spy on. She appears to be looking for someone, while at the same time being sought after by a shadowy figure. Mark is drawn into her world and has his best friend Toby contact her when she is in need of an apartment. Alexis moves into Mark’s building where Mark and she meet and fall in love. But their romance quickly disintegrated when Alexis’ dark past catches up with her, entangling Mark in a web of murder, political intrigue and privacy invasion.
Culture Shock (84mins)
Directed by Steve Balderson (New York) Four American college grads take their first trip overseas and get caught in an international crime ring. It’s an action-packed thrill ride with humour, intrigue, and tweets.
MONO NO AWARE showcase The Mythical Island Bimini (1mins) Directed by Judith Van Der Made (New York/Netherlands)
Somersaults and Sleeping Ladies (2mins) Directed by Kristina Donello (New York)
92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card (12mins) Directed by Todd Sklar (USA)
Jim and Dave are brothers. They haven’t spoken in years and don’t like each other very much, but are forced to come together for a week when their dad dies in Kansas City. Alonzo Mourning was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets with the 2nd pick in the 1992 draft. His basketball cards were very popular throughout the 90’s, and in specific, his limited edition 1992 Skybox Series rookie card. Dave is pretty sure he has one those, but Jim has other ideas. Alonzo Mourning had no brothers.
A La Cantábrica (78mins)
Directed by Ezequiel Erriquez (Argentina) La Cantábrica is a factory that recently closed in a suburb of Buenos Aires, where four young friends meet regularly during the financial crisis of the 1990s. The sensitive debut is both universally recognisable and impenetrably mysterious, just like the lives of 12-year-olds all over the world can be. They are 12 years old, the four friends from this sensitive debut film set in Buenos Aires in 1997. The enormous economic crisis facing Argentina at that time only plays a role in the background, because director Ezequiel Erriquez specifically chooses the perspective of his young protagonists. We do, for instance, hear that the father of one of them is going abroad, looking for work. But Lola, Choco, Lija and Zota - like all 12-year-olds - are primarily interested in themselves and each other. Lola has her ballet lessons, Zota helps with the rehearsals for a play, performed by a group of blind actors. One day, the friends decide to go and play at La Cantábrica, a deserted factory that was recently shut. The precise events of that fateful day are left unseen by the 26-year-old director, just as he also only shows fragments of everyday experiences. The film focuses on what the children experience, and after this day their lives will never be the same again.
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