Curve of Earth
USA (Los Angeles, CA), 2009

Saturday April 24 – 10:00PM – Theatre 2

An original and provocative dark comedy set deep in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley, starring William Forsythe as Stewart Fox, a former famous rock and roll photographer, who has been relegated to shooting pornographic portraits of women in his home studio after years of booze and drug abuse. To reinvigorate his career Stew hires a struggling art school student, Wade Ward (Shaun Sipos), to take pictures of him at work for his self published biography “The World’s Greatest Erotic Photographer, Ever!”

Director: Lee Madsen
Cast: William Forsythe, Shaun Sipos, Zoe Hall, Dee Wallace
Past Screening: Monaco International Film Festival (Best Picture)

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Jack the Reaper
(formerly Death’s Door)
USA (Palmdale, CA), 2009
14 min

Friday April 23 – 2:30PM – Theatre 2
 
Saturday April 24 – 6:15PM – Theatre 3

Jack Farber (David Moscow) witnesses a mugging down a dark alley. Instead of helping the victim, he panics, only to see the man be killed in front of him. The next day a pattern begins of people dying in Jack's presence. Day after day a new person meets their end.

Director: Gregor Habsburg
Cast: David Moscow, Brian Klugman, Dutch Haling, Karl Wright, Mike Siegel, Shaela Cook, Tom Martin
Past Screening: 5th Annual Action On Film International Film Festival

Distraxion
USA (Los Angeles, CA)

Friday April 23 – 1:00PM – Theatre 2
 
Saturday April 24 – 10:00AM & 11:30AM – Theatre 3
 
Sunday April 25 – 10:00AM & 11:15AM – Theatre 3

An office worker's job is made extremely difficult because of his boss's taste in music.

Director: Mike Stern

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Electropolis
Canada, 2009
5 min

Friday April 23 – 1:00PM – Theatre 2
 
Saturday April 24 – 10:00AM & 11:30AM –Theatre 3
 
Sunday April 25 – 10:00AM & 11:15AM – Theatre 3

A traffic walking sign in a busy downtown area is tired of his everyday job. He dreams to be a dancer, but is restricted by his job. He decides to break out of his monotonous job and dances for the public to see.

Academic Advisor: Natalie Garceau-Turner
Animators: Kevin McGullough, Jason Walmsley, Giorgio Mavrigianakis, Dimas Mohammad, Debbie Yu, Dawson Chen, Dan Seddon, Amanda Stocker, Allison Neil, Adam Trout, Adam Pockaj
West Coast Premiere

Excited
Canada, 2009
83 min

Saturday April 24 – 5:00PM – Theatre 1
 
Sunday April 25 – 11:45AM – Theatre 1

In this smart dramatic comedy that impishly bills itself as a relationship movie “about premature ejaculation,” successful business man and sexual sad-sack Kevin learns a thing or two about relationships when he is introduced to the sexy Hayamm.   Funny, pitchy, and profane in equal measure.

Director: Bruce Sweeney
Cast: Cam Cronin, Laara Sadiq, Gabrielle Ross, Paul Skrudland, Agam Darshi
Past Screenings: Vancouver International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival

Expecting Mary
USA (Palm Springs/Los Angeles, CA), 2009
97 min

Thursday April 22 – 7:00PM – Theatre 1

A pregnant teenage runaway escapes the cosseting clutches of her parents and hits the road, winding up in New Mexico, where she finds a new kind of family amind an eccentric group of trailer park denizens.

Director: Dan Gordon
Cast: Elliott Gould, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan, Cloris Leachman, Della Reese, Olesya Rulin, Cybill Shepherd, Gene Simmons, Fred Willard.
Past Screenings: Palm Springs International Film Festival

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Flavor of the Day
USA (El Cerrito, CA), 2009
2 min

Friday April 23 – 1:00PM – Theatre 2
 
Saturday April 24 – 10:00AM & 11:30AM – Theatre 3
 
Sunday April 25 – 10:00AM & 11:15AM – Theatre 3

One man...one cone...one goal...to reach the bench with his tower of ice cream. Its a test of grace, agility, and balance...to bad he has none of those skills.

Director: Shaun Abemathy
World Premiere

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For Us
USA (Columbia, MD), 2009
8min

Friday April 23 – 2:30PM – Theatre 2
 
Saturday April 24 – 6:15PM – Theatre 3

A couple chase a mysterious device they believe will help them escape their pursuers, but they find that there’s more to the device—and their pursuers—than they could possibly imagine.

Director: Christopher Smith
Cast: Brendan Perry, Rachel Warren
Past Screenings: Moving Image Film Festival, Big Easy Shorts Festival, Festivus Film Festival

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Four of a Kind
Australia, 2008
115 min

Friday April 23 – 12:00PM – Theatre 1
 
Saturday April 24 – 9:30PM – Theatre 1

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

Director: Florna Cochrane
Cast: Leverne McDonnell, Louise Siversen, Gail Watson
Past Screenings: Mill Valley Film Festival

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In March of 2007, a group of 46 volunteer graduates of the Masterís Degree Program in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica traveled to Valley State Prison of Women (VSPW) in Chowchilla, CA, one of the largest maximum security womenís prisonís in the world. Freedom to Choose is the compelling story of a radical experiment that would change both the inmates and the volunteers ó forever. This film chronicles the extraordinary triumph of the human Spirit.

Director: Michael Nadeau
Past Screening: Cannes Film Festival, Honolulu International Film Festival

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Blaine is a typical young gay man looking for love... without much success. Enter “Xander,” the man of his dreams. After meeting in an online chat room, they quickly fall for each other and start a virtual relationship. Before long, they decide to meet face-to-face for a coffee date. But in Blaine's world, nothing comes easy. He discovers he's been chatting with his new online boyfriend under his roommate Cameron's profile. The problem is, Cameron is a sexy go-go dancer - and that's the guy Xander is expecting to see.

Director: J.C. Calciano
Cast: Nicholas Downs, David Loren, Adam Huss, Michelle Laurent, Bob Rumnock, Bruce Gray
Past Screening: Palm Springs International Film Festival
Northern California Premiere

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Nick and Evie sit on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Something unmistakable begins to happen to Nick as the two exchange final words together.

Director: Ed Park
Cast: Heath Carr, Sophie Scarf
Past Screenings: Rhode Island International Film Festival, Mandurah Short Film Festival, Radar Hamburg International Film Festival