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1999
Films:
All
of It -WFF LOCAL SIGHTINGS SERIES*
Writer/Director:
Jody Podolsky
Producer:
Darren Gold
Cinematographer:
Ted Cohen
Principle
Cast: Lesley Ann Warren, Alanna Ubach, James Rebhorn, Nancy
Banks, Michael Silver
(85
mins / color) DRAMA
*Filmed
in Michigan. Producer Darren Gold has a vacation home in Saugatuck,
and will be in attendance.
Amy
Holbeck, a hip young New York editor returns to her Midwestern
hometown to visit her steadfast socialite family. Due to some
surprises, a chain of events are set in motion that cause
Amy to look past her Mother’s facade and help the woman
who raised her to become who she really is.
A
universal story of laughter and tears starring Academy Award
nominated Lesley Ann Warren and Alanna Ubach.
Chillicothe - MICHIGAN PREMIERE*
Director/Writer: Todd Edwards
Executive Producer: Rob Yanovitch
Producers: Preston Stutzman
Cinematographer: Brett Reynolds
Principle Cast: Todd Edwards,
Brad Knull, Cory Edwards, Peter Bedgood
(93 min. / color) COMEDY
OFFICIAL SELECTION 1999 Sundance
Film Festival
*The Director and Producer will
be in attendance.
A
dry, witty comedy that follows a year in the life of four
college friends who find themselves trapped in a rut after
college. It has been four years since graduation, and Wade
Hinkle, the group’s most cynical bachelor, is still stewing
over the loss of his social life. After a series of weddings
breaks the group apart, the death of a college rival changes
Wade’s perspective on life and how to live it. The film’s
strength lies in ensemble performances that convey the feeling
that these actors truly are these characters. That feeling
of reality enables the film to provide scrupulous insight
into the current state of twenty-something angst and emotion
in Middle America.- Trevor Groth
Cry
Havoc
Writer/Director:
Adam Lamas
Producer:
Alex Lamas
Principle
Cast: Justin Lane, Adam Jones, John Howard
(61
mins. / black & white) (WORLD WAR II DRAMA)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Slamdance Film Festival.
In
the bleakness of a cold Italian winter during the second world
war, a battle fatigued sniper finds himself on the edge of
madness. His "prey", a German soldier, is posted
near the roadside where the sniper watches and waits. Instead
of acting on his first impulse to kill the German soldier,
he instead observes him through the scope of his rifle and
comes to realize that the soldier is mildly retarded. The
sniper continues to observe the German soldier from afar.
He begins to recognize a humanity within the enemy that had
since been absent. The black and white delusion of the war
that the sniper had been conditioned to believe, begins to
break up into the gray shades of reality. This realization
initiates a test of the sniper's courage and then delivers
him into the heart of a most deadly situation.
Hitchcock,
Selznick and the End of Hollywood - MICHIGAN PREMIERE*
Producer,
Writer and Director: Michael Epstein
Executive
Producer: Susan Lacy
Edited
by Bob Eisenhardt
Narrated
by Gene Hackman
Produced
for WNET/American Masters
International
Sales
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(85
min. / color/black & white) DOCUMENTARY
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Sundance Film Festival
Alfred
Hitchcock and David O. Selznick were two men who strongly
shaped early Hollywood. They were both driven by a zealous
desire to be masters of their domain. Hitchcock emerged from
a working class background. At the age of thirty, after a
career that made him the most distinct and recognizable director
in England, he was ready to take on Hollywood. Selznick came
from a wealthy background, but that didn't stop him from working
even harder, to obtain his own achievements. At age thirty-six,
he started his own studio, and became known for his aggressiveness
to control every aspect of the film making process. When the
two started their first collaboration REBECCA, sparks flew,
and a struggle began. Superbly written and edited and infused
with rare clips of these masters at work, the film is a delight
with its juxtaposed, in-depth look at two Hollywood mavericks.
Last
Days of May - MICHIGAN PREMIERE*
Writer
/ Director: George Spyros
Producers:
Jonathan Shoemaker and George Spyros
Cinematographer:
Matthew Mindlin
Principle
Cast: Dahlia Mindlin, Leslie Lyles, Neil Pepe
(93
min. / color) DRAMA
OFFICIAL
SELECTION AFI LA International Film Festival (Best Actress),
South by Southwest Film Festival
A
story of an emotionally unstable 24-year old woman’s
(May) fight to get out from under her controlling mother and
take a chance on her first-ever boyfriend. Her mother doesn't
want to let go of the one thing she still has in her life.
We witness the two women drifting apart. Fast cuts, a roving
camera, and tight shots navigate the viewer from May’s
disjointed perspective. A highly charged, emotional mother-daughter
story.
Possums
- MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Writer/Director:
J. Max Burnett
Executive
Producers: M. Burns, P. Locke, D. Kushner
Producer:
Leanna Creel
Principle
Cast: Mac Davis, Gregory Coolidge, Andrew Prine, Barry Switzer
(97
min. / color) DRAMA, FAMILY FILM
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Sundance Film Festival
*The
Director will be in attendance.
Will
Collier (Mac Davis) loves his job as radio announcer for the
local high school football team, the Nowata Possums. He loves
it so much that he continues announcing even after the town
decides to cancel the football program. But when his imaginary
team starts to contend for the state championship, he not
only has to deal with the real state champs, but he must reckon
with the hopes and dreams of the people of Nowata as well.
A sports film in the spirit of "Hoosiers" and "Rudy".
Six
Days in Roswell - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Director:
Timothy B. Johnson
Executive
Producer: Hiroshi Sand, Aki Komine
Producer:
Roger Nygard
Cinematographer:
David Doyle, Adam Olson
(82
min. / color) DOCUMENTARY
*Director
as well as other members of the production team will be in
attendance.
From
the filmmakers who brought you Trekkies (to be released May
21, 1999 by Paramount), comes their second hilarious look
at Americana. This film takes us to the New Mexico town famous
for UFO sightings, extra-terrestrial encounters, and government
cover-ups. Spend six days in a rented Coachman with two dogs,
a film crew, UFO experts, and an overdose of alien abductees.
Somewhere
in the Darkness - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Director:
Paul Fenech
Writers:
Paul Fenech, Brendan Fletcher
Producers:
David Webster, Paul Fenech, Brendan Fletcher
DP:
Mike Kliem
Editor:
Areito Miles
Music:
Nic Morrey & Lothiorian
Principle
Cast: Rowan Whitt, Barry Jenkins, Austen Tayshus, Ernie Dingo,
Guy Leech, Leah Purcell
International
Sales: IFM Film Associates Inc., 1541 North Gardner St., LA,
CA 90046, USA Ph: 323-874-4249 Fax: 323-874-2654 email: ifmfilm@aol.com
(96
min. / color) AUSTRALIAN FEATURE
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Slamdance Film Festival
A
bold and inspirational tale of three strangers entombed under
the rubble of a collapsed department store: A young boy, an
old man, and a loud-mouthed thirty something. Injured and
aware of their desperation, the old man summons the courage
to talk the young boy through the ordeal, with a series of
fantastic stories. All the while he is tormented and berated
by the third pessimistic victim. Each story is visually translated
for the audience through the young boy’s imagination.
The result is a moving and stunningly surreal depiction of
the transfer of wisdom from one generation to another.-Slamdance
Film Festival
Soundman
- MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Writer/Director:
Steven Widi Ho
Producer:
Alton Walpole
DP/Editor:
David E. Aubrey
Music:
Matt Sorum & Lanny Cordola/Michael Stearns
Principle
Cast: Wayne Pere, Eliane Chappuis, William Forsythe, Wes Studi,
Nich Stalh Audie England, Danny Trejo, John Koyama, Liane
Curtis
(105
min. / color) COMEDY
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Slamdance Film Festival
*Director
as well as other members of the cast and crew will be in attendance
Igby
Waters is a sound recordist with an increasingly tentative
grasp on reality. His physical proximity to those with "real"
power (directors, producers, studio execs, etc.) creates a
painful awareness of his own relative powerlessness. His complex
emotional commitment to a young French violinist with Tinseltown
dreams drives Igby into a spiral of insane confrontations
with industry big wigs. A dark comedy about a movie sound
recordest who is unable to maintain his grasp on reality.
-Slamdance Film Festival
Spilt
Milk - WORLD PREMIERE*
Writer/Director:
Chris McDonnell
Executive
Producer: Micha
Producer:
Mike McDonnell
Cinematographer:
Christos Kostianis
Principle
Cast: Chris McDonnell, Kevin Allison (MTV’s "The
State"), Jen Shoop, Michelle Diamond, Christine Gallo
(75
min. / color) COMEDY
*Director
as well as other members of the cast and crew will be in attendance.
A
hilarious and original comedy which glimpses into the lives
of two cousins in their twenties who live together. They are
struggling to hit their stride personally and professionally.
They approach work with disdain and take on relationships
in a way that makes one glad there are mental health professionals
out there. We watch them try to make things click. When they
fail, and fail ugly, they return home to lick their wounds
and vent at each other-inappropriately.
Spin
the Bottle - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Director:
Jamie Yerkes
Executive
Producers: Gill Holland, Kevin Chinoy
Producers:
Kristen Homsher, Jamie Yerkes
Principle
Cast: Mitchell Riggs, Kim Winter, Jusica Fuller, Heather Coldennerach,
Holter Graham
(82
min. / color) COMEDY
*Director
will be in attendance.
A
fantastic and moving comedy about five friends who gather
for a weekend reunion at a lakeside cabin. No one's seen each
other for a while and some have grown up more than others,
and sexual trickery is the name of the game for at last one
of the five childhood friends. Now the familiar crew is on
hand for a wedding several days hence, and what transpires
in the meantime bears the stigmata of old grudges. The cast
includes Holter Graham from "Hairspray" and "Fly
Away Home".
Suckers
- MICHIGAN PREMIERE*
Director:
Roger Nygard
Executive
Producers: Joel Soisson, Michael Leahy, Michael Peyser
Producer:
W.K. Border
Writter:
Roger Nygard, Joe Yannetty
Principle
Cast: Daniel Benzali, Louis Mandylor, Lori Loughlin
(88
min. / color)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION US Comedy Arts Festival
*Director
as well as other members of the cast and crew will be in attendance.
Do
you feel like you've ever been screwed by a car salesman?
Even if you don't, you have...
Suckers
is the story of what REALLY goes on behind the scenes at a
new car dealership. To pay off his mounting debts, Bobby DeLuca
reluctantly applies for a job selling cars. Reggie, the general
manager with the killer instinct, teaches Bobby the secrets
on how to "bury" his customers. Caught in the midst
of fast-paced car sales mayhem, Bobby discovers, to his dismay,
that he has a talent for screwing people. Starring Murder
One’s Daniel Benzali.
The
Last Big Attraction - WORLD PREMIERE*
Feature
Writer/Director:
Hopwood DePree
Producer:
Michael Hagerty
Cinematography:
Simms & Simms
Principle
Cast: Christine Elise, Hopwood DePree, Victoria Haas, Richard
Speight, Jr.
(90
min. / color) ROMANTIC COMEDY
****FILMED
IN HOLLAND, MICHIGAN
*Director
as well as other members of the cast and crew will be in attendance.
Remember
traveling in the family station wagon and coming upon "Santa’s
Village" in the desert or "Prehistoric Country"
with gigantic fake dinosaurs? Michigan’s version is "Windmill
Island," a landfill island with a large authentic windmill,
wooden shoe carvers and candle makers. To some this is kitsch
but to others it is something to aspire to. Leed yearns to
leave the family "windmill" business. He meets a
"summer cottage" girl who chooses him as her next
experiment. She wants to mold him into a "cool guy"
and remove the kitsch. The two worlds collide with hilarious
and touching results.m-ELFF
The
Waiting Game - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Writer/Director:
Ken Liotti
Producers:
Mirjam Goldberg and Ken Liotti
Cinematography:
Rich Eliano
Principle
Cast: Dwight Ewell, Terumi Matthews
(88
min. / color) COMEDY
WINNER
New York Comedy Film Festival - Audience Award (2nd place)
*The
Director and Producer will be in attendance.
What
does a tortured artist, feme fatale, ego-maniac, gay dancer,
wanna-be supermodel, and an impotent bus-boy have in common
? Well...they work together for starters. This ensemble comedy
love story chronicles the adventures and misadventures of
a group of aspiring performers who wait tables at a New York
City eatery called "Peter's Backyard". While the
restaurant is a place of business, it's also a forum for everyone
to work out the issues of life as they know it, or think they
know it. Pitted against the New York culture jungle, the characters,
serve up a prix fixe of artistic trauma, comedic insanity
and thespian lust. We follow these characters as they struggle
to keep their delicately balanced lives from coming unglued,
in the urban warfare of the survival of the artist.
30,
Still Single: Contemplating Suicide - WFF LOCAL SIGHTINGS
SERIES*
Writer/Director:
Greg Lanesey
Executive
Producer: Paul Wyckoff
Producers:
Matt Radecki, Greg Lanesey
Cinematographer:
David Russell
Principle
Cast: Christopher May, Rachel Reenstra (Saugatuck native);
Jill Zimmerman, Jill Kaeeland, Wendy Braun, Terry Gaters,
Stephani Victor
(88
min. / color) COMEDY - Mature Content
*Director's
family lives in Holland. Lead actress is a Saugatuck native.
Director as well as other members of the cast and crew will
be in attendance.
"30,
Still Single: Contemplating suicide" is a comedy about
a young man from the Midwest, Mitchell Munson, who is looking
for his "perfect woman" in Los Angeles. Mitchell
struggles to hold on to his wavering, and often hypocritical,
Catholic faith as he rides the emotional roller coaster of
being 30 and still single. Although not actually contemplating
suicide, Mitchell is exasperated and ready to throw in the
towel. Ready to leave L.A before his insanity beats him, he
flashes back to share his 7 years of dating hell. Candid female
commentary presents "the other side of the story"
in male/female relationships. The contrasts and comparisons
are frank and often juxtaposed in a comic way.
84
Charlie Mopic -SPECIAL SCREENING*
Director:
Patrick Sheane Duncan
Patrick
Sheane Duncan is originally from the area. He has had much
successes as a writer and director whose screenplays include
Oscar nominated "Mr. Holland’s Opus" and "Courage
Under Fire". Shot in 1988, "84 Charlie Mopic",
a blue collar film, was his first film. It takes an insightful
look at the tragedies and triumphs during war times. The film’s
use of sustained takes contributes to its realistic nature
and its dubbing as the most accurate Vietnam film ever made.
*Patrick
will be on hand to answer questions about this film as well
as his other successes.
SHORT
FILMS:
Billy's
Balloon
Director:
Don Hertzfeldt
Cinematographer:
Rebecca Moline
(5
min. / color) ANIMATED
OFFICAL
SELECTION Cannes Film Festival, WINNER Slamdance Film Festival
(Best of, Grand Jury Award - Best Short Film), Spike and Mike’s
Festival of Animation
A
twisted look at a little boy and his balloon.
F.N.G.
- WFF LOCAL SIGHTINGS SERIES*
Director:
Clayton Rye
Principle
Cast: Reggie Brown
(14
min., black & white) VIETNAM WAR DRAMA shot in 1975
WINNER
Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Student Film Awards.
*The
Director is a Michigan resident and will be in attendance.
In
a flashback, a new soldier is baptized by fire in a Vietnam
tragedy.
H@!
Director:
Jason Rietman
A
bank robbing expedition ending in disaster
Keys to Kingdom - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Director:
Nathaniel Geary
Producer:
Wendy Hyman
(20
min. / color)
OFFICIAL
ENTRY Vancouver International Film Festival (Best Short Film),
Slamdance Film Festival.
*The
Producer will be in attendance.
Witness
the day-to-day conflicts and soul searching of one man’s
desperate attempt to break a cycle of violence. Based on a
poem by Bud Osborn.
Lavabo - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Writers/Directors:
Tony Gruba and Marci Nettles
Producer:
Sue Corcoran
Cinematographer:
Jeff Gatesman
Principle
Cast: Rada Velligan, Andy Velligan, Gil Gaitan
(10
min. / color)
OFFICIAL
ENTRY New York International Independent Film & Video
Festival
*The
Director will be in attendance.
A
documentary style comedy concerning children’s perspectives
of organized religion.
Lets Meet Johnny
- MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Writer/Director:
Stuart Matz
Producer:
Amanda Booker
Cinematographer:
Yann Blumeres
Principle
Cast: Sean Gullette, Jaime Andrews, PJ Landers, Don Paccin
(5
min. / color)
OFFICIAL
ENTRY Palm Beach International Film Festival
A
tongue in cheek look at what could happen in the modern film
industry.
Mulligans! - MIDWEST PREMIERE
Writer/Director:
Miles Swarthout
Based
on a story by the late: Glendon Swarthout
Producers:
Lisa Greene & Peter Barnett
Cinematography:
David West
Principle
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Marcia Rodd
(22
min / color)
WINNER
Best Comedy Short, Houston Worldfest
*The
Director is originally from Michigan and he will be in attendance.
Tippi
Hedren (Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds"), takes
the lead in this comedy about two widows fulfilling the last
wish of one of their husbands.
My Dinner with
Andre...the Giant - WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Tim Ryan
(5
min. / color)
*The
Director will be in attendance
What
one man is willing to trade to "make it" in Hollywood.
Organ Cranker - MICHIGAN PREMIERE
Director:
Jon Foulk
(6
min. / black & white) ANIMATED
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Chicago International Film Festival, South by Southwest
An
organ grinder rules over his organ - forcing its inhabitants,
schlomos, to dance to extinction.
Stubble Trouble
- MICHIGAN PREMIERE
Director:
Philip Holahan
Producer:
Heidi Swedberg
Principle
Cast: Philip Holahan, Heidi Swedberg
(4
min. / color)
OFFICIAL
SELECTION Sundance Film Festival
*Director
will be in attendance
Mr.
Footface risks his life for nookie.
The Big Spin - WORLD PREMIERE*
Director:
Leanna Creel
Producers:
Leanna Creel, Michael Burns
Principle
Cast: Kristine Kirsten Reid, Elaine Williams, Adam Reid
(46
min. / color)
*Director
will be in attendance.
The
documentary chronicles Kristine’s struggle with cancer,
it also chronicles the story of her best friend, Elaine who
has won a lottery ticket to go on "The Big Spin."
While Kristine fights for her life, Elaine contemplates how
her life would change if she won the $2 million jackpot lottery.
It is an emotional, tragic, and yet joyful journey.
Tupperware Party
- WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Tracey Needham
Producers:
Tracey Needham, Gina D’Orazio
Cinematographer:
Hugo Cortina
Principle
Cast: Tracey Needham, Tommy Hinkley, Kamala Dawson, Nadia
Dajani, Amanda Wyss
(30
min. / color)
A
serio-comic look at five women facing their insecurities about
aging and relationships.
Two In The Morning
- WORLD PREMIERE
Writer/Director:
Michele Remsen
Cinematographer:
David Armstrong
Principle
Cast: Selma Blair, Peter Frechette
(16
min/color)
*The
Director will be in attendance.
Two
lonely people meet at two in the morning and fumble through
inadvertent revelations and unexpected affinities.
Win A Date - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Director:
Adam Cohen
Producer:
Ali MacLean
Cinematographer:
George Mitas
Principle
Cast: Chris Hardwick, Lindsy Sloane, Paul F. Thompkins
(9
min. / color)
OFFICIAL
ENTRY US Comedy Arts Fest / Aspen
Everett
Vance is a teen idol whose last film bombed at the box office.
Needing the publicity, he agrees to have dinner with Dalia,
the winner of a call in radio contest. His career on the rocks,
Everett begrudgingly dines with the young, bubbly fan only
to discover himself liking her more and more and more.
86 Customer - MIDWEST PREMIERE*
Writer/Director/Producer:
Marc Meyers
Cinematographer:
Tom Agnello
Principle
Cast: Mark Doskow, Andrew Obradovic, Nina Sheveleva, Michael
Waelter
(25
min. / black & white)
OFFICIAL
ENTRY Nantucket Film/Video Shorts
*The
Director will be in attendance.
Takes
a look at a day in the life of a marginal New York City restaurant.
While they wait for customers, a Russian hostess and her Croatian
and American waiters wrestle with the inability to change
their separate lives
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