2011 Festival Screening Schedule
| Media Bureau |
Address: 725 North 4th St. Philadelphia, PA 19123 ... (215) 592-1242
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| Wednesday June 22 (Opening Night Screening and Event) |
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
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- Guns and Weed: The Road to Freedom (99min) (Documentary). (Dir. Michael Dean) The Road to Freedom shows, in no uncertain terms, why Freedom of Ingestion and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms are equally indisputable civil rights, and why the War on Drugs and the War on Guns are both entirely immoral.
Part hip hop, part punk rock. Part entertainment, part civics lesson. Filmed in the Wild West of Wyoming and Colorado. Features mountains of marijuana, great interviews, comedy, fake news, animation, rock video and stunning outdoor footage of cute girls and guys shooting guns that are not legal in California.
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
- Hamesima X (91min) (Israel). A man is sent to Earth on a mysterious mission and caught trying to infiltrate the Mossad's most highly classified facility. During an intensive interrogation, instead of getting the information he was hoping for, the Mossad's investigator is surprised to be given mystical information and Kabalistic secrets. |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
- Close Up (85min). 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 Years Eve. |
| 7:40pm - 8:50pm |
- Pleasant People (69min) (Dramedy). Jiyoung is an anxious musician living in the deep south. Her best friends are moving forward in life while she's stuck dealing with car accidents, health scares and a dwindling office romance. In the midst of all this turmoil she is trying to record her new album. Her excitement really starts to show while she is in the recording studio.
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| 9:15pm - 11:05pm |
- Adventures of an Earthling (82min) (Documentary). Documentary filmmaker Mishara Canino-Hussung follows her husband as he investigates an old family story about the role his mother played in a series of mysterious sightings in upstate New York in the early 1990s. Her husband, fellow filmmaker Bill Hussung, is skeptical of the stories, but hopes to please his mother as she battles cancer in New York City. |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
- The Skeptics In A World Of Their Own. Dir. Keith Chester (Music Documentary). From 1984 through 1990, The Skeptics hit the music scene with a blend of original surf, punk, pop, and psychedelic tunes. Thanks to the efforts of their manager, The Skeptics In A World Of Their Own captures a glimpse into one of Frederick, Maryland's best unknown bands. |
| 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
- Heaven & Earth and Joe Davis (90min). Almost thirty years ago, a peg-legged artist and motorcycle mechanic from Mississippi walked into MITs Center for Advanced Visual Studies and demanded a meeting with the Director. Forty-five minutes later, after trashing the receptionist’s desk and holding off the Cambridge police, Joe Davis walked out with an academic appointment at MIT.
His status there has provided him with resources for much of his work - including sending vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens, poetry encoded into DNA, and a language to write the world beneath the world.
It's a great life for a man driven by his imagination, except when it’s not. His gig at MIT is unpaid. He gets evicted from several apartments and loses his lab space to science. |
| 7:15pm - 8:15pm |
Short Film Collection #7
- Cafe (11min) (Avant-garde, Fantasy). An infamous mythical figure exploits his legend by performing an extraordinary show in the heart of a major city at an anonymous cafe for the un-dead.
- Blink of an Eye (Augenblicke) (Germany) (19min) (Thriller). In the middle of the night a fight between Schenker’s neighbors won’t let him rest. Half asleep his mind is playing tricks on him: constantly he awakes in different places. Now he has to face questioning by an inspector about a dead woman, and his nightmare begins.
- Bathing and the Single Girl (11min) (Underground Romance). Dir. Christine Elise McCarthy. A raw & irreverent comedic look at the unspoken horrors of dating - and bathing with - younger men. |
| 8:25pm - 9:25pm |
Short Film Collection #3
- What's up? (8 min) (Politics) . A small film crew looks up at the sky and contemplates what's really going on with our environment.
- DHS - Give us back our Children (19min) (Politics/Doc). A look at the City of Philadelphia's policy of taking children from their parents and why.
- Dilli - (S) (India) (Politics). DILLI is a moving collection of heartfelt interviews with Delhi slum dwellers. Its lens focuses on a group of dwellers, bringing to life the untold story of mass exodus of thousands who were bulldozed from their homes and transferred to a makeshift facade - Bawana without water, shelter or drainage, while the city was being beautified for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. |
| 9:35pm - 11:10pm |
- True Nature (92min) (Thriller / Horror). A gripping combination of family drama and supernatural thriller, TRUE NATURE harkens back to the edgy fare of Polanski, Kubrick, and American films of the 1970s. This chilling tale of the American Dream gone awry examines the destructive power of guilt and the desire for redemption in a modern-day family that has been blessed with every advantage, but pays a heavy price for its comfort. |
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11:25pm - 12:30am
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- Ocean State (61min) (Drama). A young man tries to redeem himself by overcoming a lifelong phobia - the ocean.
The story concerns Tim Hendricks – a 26 year old New Yorker, whose aunt has offered to let him stay at her house in Rhode Island while he applies to graduate school.
Looking to study phobias and how they affect the human psyche, Tim decides that the most compelling application essay he can write is a documentation of his attempt to overcome his own fear of the ocean. Therefore, Tim sets out to go swimming at the beach before he leaves Rhode Island.
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| 12:30pm - 1:o0pm |
- Voices of Sculpture (30min) (Documentary). Featuring some of the most important and innovative sculptures and sculptors of the modern art world, Voices of Sculpture is a tour DE force documentary exploring the role and interrelationship of art, artist and observer. Set in the unique Grounds For Sculpture located near Princeton N.J., the film tells the story of Seward Johnson's founding and development of this extraordinary venue for the arts and explores the sustaining spirit that made it grow into being. |
| 1:25pm - 3:00pm |
- Dog in the Manger (Peru) (Documentary) |
| 3:10pm - 4:40pm |
- ToddStock (91min) (Music Documentary). Director Todd Rundgren, Ed Vigdor |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
- Measure of a Man (Christian) (110min). At the bedside of her dying father, Elizabeth remembers the life of this extraordinary man. After being raised in an orphanage during the great depression, Donald Bailey sets out on his own at the age of 15 to make a place for himself in the world. |
| 7:15pm - 8:25pm |
- Zielinski (66min) (Politics / Documentary). By 1983 John Zielinski was a well-known author and photographer. His work had appeared in Life Magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and countless other publications. But in a devastating 1984 contract dispute, he lost $50,000 and his professional credibility. |
| 8:45pm - 9:50pm |
- Beat Boxing - The 5th Element of Hip Hop (55min) (Documen It was in the late 70s that a youth culture evolved in the poorer parts of New York which combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. Apart from the four classic elements of Graffiti writing, DJing, Breakdancing, and Rapping, the musical side of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element called 'Beatboxing'. |
| 10:00pm - 12:00am |
- Whatever Makes You Happy (115min) (Drama). Exploring the all too common trappings of dissatisfaction and infidelity in the relationships of urban twenty somethings, Whatever Makes You Happy tells the story of Anna and Alex, two fundamentally different people. |
| 12:15am - 1:30am |
- Summer of Massacre (Horror). The Summer of Massacre is a 100 MPH "Splatterfest" that offers you not 1 but 8 maniacal, terrifying and unstoppable killers. Don't miss this new Thriller/Splatter Horror epic. |
| 12:00pm - 1:45pm |
- In the Footsteps of Eli Weisel (Documentary). IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ELIE WIESEL chronicles the journey of twelve American high school students as they trace life experiences and formative places of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. It is also a testament to the power of personal witness and the possibility of human endurance and change. |
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
- A Hitler (15 Year Anniversary Screening). The film, by writer/director Barry J. Hershey, is a phantasmagoric journey into the darkest recesses of the mind of Adolf Hitler. In a dreamlike subterranean environment removed from historical time, Adolf Hitler confronts the demons of his psyche. As he dictates his memoirs, Hitler encounters apparitions of his fiendish confidant, Joseph Goebbels; his enigmatic mistress, Eva Braun; the mastermind of his military campaigns, Hermann Goering; Jewish psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud; and a mysterious Woman in Black. |
| 4:10pm - 5:40pm |
(World Premier) Deposition (83min) (Drama, Thriller, Avant-garde). Former lovers ADAM and JILL reunite at a wedding reception in their rural Appalachian town. Although the two share a chemistry that persists despite their breakup, Jill is with another man, WAYNE. Adam and Jill slip away together for a tryst. As he drives, Adam professes his love for her but a sudden incident causes a violent car crash that kills Jill. |
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6:00pm - 7:00pm
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SHORTS #4:
- Challenging Impossibility (India) (28min) (Documentary). CHALLENGING IMPOSSIBILITY chronicles the weightlifting odyssey of the late spiritual teacher and peace advocate Sri Chinmoy.
- The Escape (23min). American Film Institute. Taking place in 1792 England, an executioneer finds himself with the task of killing his son. Will he do it?
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6:00pm - 7:00pm
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SHORTS #1:
- 8 minutes (7min). A short comedy about the romantic complications of two spies and their recently captured counterparts.
- Neal (5min). A short comedy about a pool - eating machine named Neal.
- The Wire (Mini - CellPhone) (2min). A federal informant is prepped for his first big bust.- Shoot out on the Farm - Tribute to the Spaghetti Western (Spoof) An 80+ year old makes his first ever film on a farm in Central PA. Would Clint Eastwood be proud?
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Raven Comedy Lounge
1718 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215) 840-3577
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
- Big Guns Big Guns: (85 mins) (comedy) The world's worst cop gets fired and for reasons unknown becomes the target of every criminal in town. As a PI he must overcome incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save his life.
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- Threat (5min). (Comic Horror) (BodyHolographic Films). Suspicious people doing suspicious things.
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Friday June 24
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| 6:00pm - 7:35pm |
- Tell Your Friends the Concert Film (Comedy). Liam McEneaney is an NYC-based comedian who wears funny pants. He is also the founder of a popular weekly alternative comic showcase in Brooklyn called Tell Your Friends!. The 2011 SXSW selected Tell Your Friends! The Concert Movie! documents a one-night showcase of the club’s best regulars.
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| 7:45pm - 9:30pm |
- Frontman (UK) (Comedy). When the former frontman of 'Stanley and the Knives' suddenly dies his old friends and band mates are forced back together after twenty-five years apart. Cracks soon start to appear in their relationships and it becomes clear why they split up in the first place. Frontman is a musical journey of five strangers, becoming friends for the second time. |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
- Ladies and Gentlemen - Jordan Rock (30min). A glimpse into the world of 20 year old stand-up comedian Jordan Rock, a Georgetown, SC native, following in the footsteps of his older brothers Chris and Tony (and cousin Sherrod) is the ultimate challenge. Can he find his voice and make a name for himself on the new york comedy scene?
- - BullFighter (3min) - The romance of BullFighting. ;)
- Alienative (12min) (Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy). After his race has crash landed on Earth, Harry finds himself in a new and confusing world. As he struggles between assimilating with daily human life and maintaining the distinctions of his people, Harry finds himself feeling like a fish out of water.
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| 7:15pm - 9:00pm |
- PlayStation Killed the Puppet (98min) (Alternative, Comedy). PlayStation Killed the Puppet is a Documentary that follows the life of a puppet named Lil' Ronnie. Lil' Ronnie is a washed up child actor who is currently working in a run down children's theater. His life suddenly changes and he finds himself like Alice tumbling down the proverbial rabbit hole. During his travels Lil' Ronnie encounters pimps, prostitutes, addicts, drug dealers, gangsters; the derelicts of our society. Lil' Ronnie finds himself in some very precarious situations. |
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Random Tea Room and Curiosity Shop
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| 713 N 4th Street Philadelphia, PA 19123 |
| 4:30pm - 5:45pm |
- Murdered - Intersecting Memoires (60min) (Crime) Dir. Terance Ross. MURDERED, intersecting memoirs is an experimental single author movie. It is a cinema/literature fusion and is part of an interactive site best experienced by going to murderedtheweb.com. |
| 6:00pm - 6:50pm |
- The Burundi Short Film Maker Festival (Burundi) (5 films). Five inspiring new short films from East Africa! The Burundi Film Center teaches youth the basics of film history, theory and production.
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| 7:00pm - 8:35pm |
- In Memoriam (82min) (Drama) Dir. Stephen Cone. A young nude couple accidentally falls to their death from a roof. The world laughs. Jonathan doesn't. A sad-funny story of obsession turned inspiration, of life abundant, and the importance of connecting. |
| 8:45pm - 9:45pm |
- (S) Ninja Dorm (29min) (Spoof / Drama) Dir. Amy Leonard. When Shawn is sent to college to find and kill a ninja from a warring clan, he never suspects his new best friend and roommate, Frank. And it could cost him his life. |
| Franklin Institute |
| The Franklin Institute Science Museum is located in Center City Philadelphia, at the intersection of 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway |
Franklin Theatre - 7:00pm - 9:00pm (Live Session to follow!)
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- Meet Me on South Street - History of J. C. Dobbs(50min) (Music Documentary). (Dir. George Manney) Meet Me On South Street, The Story of JC Dobbs documents, the evolution of Philadelphia's fertile music and arts subculture in the 1970's until the sad closing of JC Dobbs in 1996. Between the gritty walls and dressing room grandeur, to the mystique and dysfunctional family-like workplace, what was once the club in Philly known for live music seven nights a week, showcasing artists in the infancy of their rising careers, JC Dobbs was Philadelphia's premiere rock & roll bar! |
| IMAX Theatre - 6:00pm - 8:30pm |
- Tell Your Friends - The Concert Movie (Comedy). Liam McEneaney is an NYC-based comedian who wears funny pants. He is also the founder of a popular weekly alternative comic showcase in Brooklyn called Tell Your Friends!. The 2011 SXSW selected Tell Your Friends! The Concert Movie! documents a one-night showcase of the club’s best regulars. |
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IMAX Theatre - 9:00pm - 10:20pm
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- Virtual JFK - What if JFK had never been assassinated? (Documentary). Watson Professor Jim Blight and Adjunct Associate Professor janet M. Lang have been focusing their research on this question and on the lessons that revisiting the Vietnam War could provide for contemporary US policy.
The project involves a documentary film, a book, and a teacher’s guide, as did their previous project, The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. The Errol Morris documentary of The Fog of War won an Academy Award in 2004.
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(Music Video) Arrival to New York. Band: Epstein. (4min) Dir. Ryan Dickie. The force comes through. Always.
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| IMAX Theatre - 5:30pm - 6:50pm |
- Chasing Che (Iran) (Travel / Documentary). Chasing Che is the account of a four-year odyssey in which an Iranian businessman, Alireza Rofougaran, switches the course of his life. Inspired by a biography of Che Guevara, which he reads and then translates into Farsi, Alireza embarks on a long odyssey through Latin America and Europe, home movie camera in hand. His mission: to retrace Che's footsteps. |
| IMAX Theatre - 7:00pm - 8:45pm |
- Cure for the Crash - The Art of Train Hoppin (Doc / Narrative). (Dir. Brian Paul Higgens) Just beyond the tracks and the world you find familiar, endures a freedom found on the edges of American excess. I traveled these outer limits via the art of hopping freight trains with a photographer named Sepher and a brave women named Ruin. We rode through mountains, over clear meadows, near hidden canyons, along sprawling farms and countless other American landscapes. I've found my way out here, but have I gone to far to come home? |
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IMAX Theatre - 9:00pm - 10:35pm
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- From The Head (Comedy, Drama). (Dir. George Griffith) On his third anniversary as a bathroom attendant in a New York City strip club, SHOES sees the same idiosyncratic characters that have flooded his porcelain kingdom for years. But before this shift is over, Shoes will discover that things have changed, and it’s no longer “same tits, different day.”
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| IMAX Theatre - 5:30pm - 7:35pm |
- Big Guns Big Guns: (85 mins) (comedy) The world's worst cop gets fired and for reasons unknown becomes the target of every criminal in town. As a PI he must overcome incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save his life. |
| IMAX Theatre - 7:45pm - 9:40pm |
- Stage Left: The History of Theater in San Francisco (82min) (Documentary). A history of theater in San Francisco, beginning with the founding of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop in 1952 and extending through 2010. The film traces a tradition of experimentation and political consciousness that are the hallmarks of San Francisco's theater legacy. It argues that the Bay Area theater community is unique and has had a lasting influence on theater throughout the world.
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- Gratitude (21 min) (Drama/Surreal). A harried chef learns about cooking and hard choices from a talking fish.
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| IMAX Theatre - 6:15pm - 7:45pm |
- Immigrant Son - The story of John D. Mezzogiorno (71 min) (Doc film . Narrative). Something is pulling at John Mezzogiorno. Voices from the past are calling him back to tell their story, and in doing so to tell his own. Immigrant Son follows John's attempt as a fourth generation American of Italian descent to make sense of his past, the travails of his ancestors who came to the New World, and ultimately America itself.
- 5th Commandment (9min) (Drama) Dir. Sal Darigo A mob hitman accidently kills a priest and must confront his demons.
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IMAX Theatre - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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- Music Video Festival !!! (1hr) (selection of 11 video's)
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| Café Treece |
| Address: 338 Brown Street Philadelphia, PA 19123 |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
- Death By Medicine (93 min) (Documentary). A hard hitting look at how Modern Medicine is ruining our lives.
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| 6:00pm - 7:35pm |
- Afterwords (75min) (Drama). A woman on the run in East Berlin has one night to find her estranged homeless father.
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| 7:45pm - 9:45pm |
- Unlimited 23 (123min) - Music documentary about the 23rd edition of Music Unlimited Festivals in Wels, Austria, curated by the Japanese-American musician Ikue Mori.
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10:00pm - 11:00pm
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- 6ft Hick - Notes from the Underground (62min) (Music Documentary). The difficultly-named SixFtHick are a 16-year-old “swamp rock” band from Australia whose sound is best described as post-punk by way of The Jesus Lizard.
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11:30pm - 12:30pm
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- Summer of Massacre (Horror). The Summer of Massacre is a 100 MPH "Splatterfest" that offers you not 1 but 8 maniacal, terrifying and unstoppable killers. Don't miss this new Thriller/Splatter Horror epic.
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Short Film Collection #2
- Hostage (Thriller). On a collision course with fate, a violent hostage taking becomes the intense background for an unexpected emotional connection between a young Korean woman and her Hispanic captor.
- The Pond (Creepy). Shelly (Alicia Witt), a young woman distraught over the death of her husband, sets about scattering his ashes on the pond in an apple orchard they had both loved. But the waters of the pond hold a secret, and when a stranger (David Morse) appears unexpectedly, she learns the truth about this stunning locale.
- Spirit of Isabel (19min) (Drama). In a story of survival in an economically collapsed Detroit, a young woman named Isabel struggles to get by. All alone, desperately seeking work, and on the verge of eviction from her apartment, she hits the streets as a part of the world's oldest profession. |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Short Film Collection #5
- Distilled Love (14 min) (Drama) Hoping to fix the crack in their relationship, Rene locks himself and his hipster girlfriend, Emma, in their apartment. His personal remedy for their woes is a weekend-long detox for Emma. But as she experiences withdrawal, the couple discovers addiction is not the only problem they need to face.
- Hunger (Art House / Mystery) A typical dinner with friends where their secret desires are anything but. (French: Un dîner typique avec les amis où leurs désirs secrets sont tout sauf.)
- Serafina Slow Burn (18min) (Drama). Trapped in a a dead-end marriage,Azyha must make decisons on love, cheating, and loosing love.
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| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
- YES-JA! The KWAITO documentary (Namibia) (60min) (Music Documentary). YES-JA! The KWAITO Documentary!
The enchanting story of the only white African kwaito music star called 'EES'. A musical trip through southern Africa to the tunes of the post-apartheid generation, and how a nation is becoming ONE through music. |
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- Schooling the World (65min) (documentary). A global look at how exporting Democracy & Education clash within world cultures.
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| 2:00pm - 3:20pm |
- Wrestling for Jesus (74min) (Documentary / Drama). A look at the cross-roads of Self, Religion, Sports, and Jesus Christ.
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| 3:30pm - 4:40pm |
- Who is Jose Luck? (66min) (Crime, Thriller). Four Wiseguys have a business meeting with their Boss and realize they have a problem in common that needs a solution. Jose Luck! That solution solves all of their problems and more. |
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- Rachel & Diana (73min) (Drama). "Rachel & Diana" is the story of one young woman's search for perspective and clarity in a modern, digital world. When an unexpected package arrives in the mail shedding new light on her past she takes to the highway.
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- Cure for the Crash - The Art of Train Hoppin'
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