SPECIAL SCREENING - 11:00AM
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 BAMAKO |
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Sponsored by Center for the Documentary and ABC - Africa Book Collection Club at the College of Charleston. All proceeds will be used to send donated texts to students in Africa.
Genre: Drama (105 mins.)
Director/Writer: Abderrahmane Sissako
Producers: Denis Freyd and Abderrahmane Sissako
Cast: Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré and Danny Glover
Synopsis: Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights... |
BLOCK 1 - 12:00PM
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REMEMBER |
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Genre: Documentary (21 mins.) USA
Director: Kevin Harrison
Writer: Lara Leroy
Producers: Victoria Mele and Lara Leroy
Cast: Joe Engle, Pincus Colender and Dientje Kalisky-Adkins
Synopsis: A short documentary chronicling the experiences of concentration camp survivors. Focusing on the effects it has had on their family as well as younger generations of Jewish people. Original score by Fletcher Crossman. |
JONATHAN GREEN'S SEEKING |
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Genre: Documentary (19 mins.) USA
Director/Producer: Charles Allan Smith
Synopsis: While painting a work of art to honor the African American slaves that were buried at Clermont Cemetery, Jonathan Green relives his own Seeking. |
THE SOUNDS OF SILENT CINEMA |
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Genre: Documentary (19 mins.) USA
Directors: Jeff Callaway and Craig Forrest
Producers: Jeff Callaway and Craig Forrest
Cast Dr. Paul Monaco, Mildred Lewis, Joe Rinaudo, Bob Mitchell and Ed Kelsey
Synopsis: Silent film was never watched in silence. This short student documentary describes the evolution of fotoplayers, live sound effects, pianos, Wurlitzer organs, small bands and full orchestras that accompanied the screening of silent films from 1895-1927. Through expert interviews, vintage footage, rare photos and re- enactments the viewer is shown how sound was fully part of the live theater experience no matter the venue size. |
SERVING THE SOUL |
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Genre Experimental Documentary (18 mins.) USA
Director/Producer: Barbara Klutinis
Writer: Rosemary’s account quoted from a Laurence Leamer book, lobotomy history quoted from a Jack El-Hai article.
Producer: Barbara Klutinis
Synopsis: Found footage interweaves an account of Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy procedure in 1941 with an overview of the psychosurgery movement in the 1930’s-1960’s in the US. |
BLOCK 2 - 2:00PM
Shorts Program
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BLACK NIGHT IS FALLING |
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Genre: Drama (9 mins.) France
Director: Kook Ewo
Producer: Onirim Films
Cast: Alexandra Marcy
Synopsis: Marie, sitting on the windowsill, is reading a magazine. The scene is soothed by the atmosphere of the city: noise from cars, shouts from children who are playing upstairs, the life of the neighborhood... Suddenly, a telephone rings.
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LOSING HER |
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Genre: Drama (30 mins.) UK
Director/Writer: James Killough
Producers: James Killough and Elias Ribeiro
Cast: Catherine Walker, William Houston, Rita Davies, Shannon Wake and Allan Barnes
Synopsis: Helen loses her grandmother somewhere in the labyrinthine galleries of the Tate Britain Museum, but finds something magical in the company of a precocious child artist and the little girl's father. |
MADE IN JAPAN |
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Genre: Comedy (9 mins.) Spain
Director: Ciro Atlabás
Writers: Iñigo Díaz – Guardamino and Ciro Atlabás
Producer: RETRO Producciones
Cast: Ciro Atlabás, Irene González, Pepe Márquez and Maribel Valencia
Synopsis: A short film about a guy, who travels all over the world looking for his real father. |
ALONE |
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Genre: Drama (30 min.) USA
Director/Writer/Producer: Gregory Orr
Cast: Curzon Dobell, Ana Asensio, Erika Rolfsrud and Anthony Chisholm
Synopsis: In an empty city, one man pursues the woman of his dreams in a complex and darkly funny tale of obsessive love and urban isolation.
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SAINT OF THE ZUIDERZEE |
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Genre: Drama (27 mins.) USA
Director: Brian Higdon
Writers: Virginia Tormey Friedman and Brian Higdon
Producer: Virginia Tormey Friedman
Cast: Naelee Rae, Barbara Andres, Virginia Rubey, Gordana Rashovich, Julia Burns, Judith Boxley, Cristiano Magni, Leo Kao, Lauren Kelly and Aurora Tormey
Synopsis A young girl, abandoned by her mother, spends her days reading about St. Francis of Assisi and roaming through the Fresh Kills Landfill – the world’s largest dump. Inspired by St. Francis, she devises an elaborate plan to persuade her mother that she is worth reclaiming. |
BLOCK 3 - 4:00PM
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RAISING LUCY |
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Genre: Documentary (28 mins.) U.S.A
Director: Chad Christensen
Writer: True story by Carol Muzik
Producer: Carol Muzik
Cast: Lucy, Lily, Humfry, Carol Muzik and Nick MuziK
Synopsis: Raising Lucy is an uplifting story of how a couple and their dogs raised an orphaned Great Canada goose to her safe return to the wild. The family experiences change and transformation in unexpected ways – all because of a goose. |
AFRICA'S DAUGHTERS |
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Genre: Documentary (25 mins.) Filmed in Uganda
Director/Producer: Natalie Halpern
Synopsis Two Ugandan girls. One big dream: to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. To do that they must challenge cultural traditions and graduate high school, something nearly impossible for most African girls. This is their inspiring journey. |
B FOR BOOKEEPER |
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Genre: Documentary (12 mins.) USA
Director: Thomas O’Keefe
Producers: Thomas O’Keefe and Katie Haggerty
Cast: Bill Waddell
Synopsis: B FOR BEEKEEPER is the story of North Carolina beekeeper Bill Waddell and the journey through life and death that lead him to the honeybee. |
FOOTPRINTS JOURNAL: FINDING PURA VIDA |
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Genre: Documentary (19 mins.) USA
Directors: Farrah Hoffmire and Tim McManus
Writer: Farrah Hoffmire and Chuck Heilig
Producers: Organic Process Productions and Fuzzco
Cast: Volunteers and Children from Casa De Suenos Orphanage in San Jose, Costa Rica
Synopsis: This cause documentary short follows local and traveling surfers who pooled their resources, rallied the local community and started a one day surf clinic for a group of orphaned children from San Jose, Costa Rica. Kids who had never seen the beach. Volunteer and professional surfers travel from around the United States and Costa Rica for this one day event that highlights the ability of cause-related travel to inspire and change lives. |
BLOCK 4 - 6:00PM
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GEORGE & KARL |
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Genre: Comedy/Drama (4 mins.) USA
Director/Writer Grainger David
Producer Molly Cooper
Cast: Neil Levine and Leonard Sragow
Synopsis: Two friends living on the industrial outskirts of a big city go to great lengths to help each other survive. |
OSSO BUCCO (EAST COAST PREMIERE) |
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Genre: Drama (88 mins.) USA
Directors: Fred Blurton and Gary Taylor
Writer: Gary Taylor
Producers: Douglas Weidner, Fred Blurton and Gary Taylor
Cast: Illeana Douglas, Mike Starr and Mike Nussbaum
Synopsis: A lovable, misfit mobster becomes trapped in his favorite Italian restaurant during the worst snowstorm in Chicago’s history. Reluctantly, he is forced to choose between the family he knows and the woman he loves in this dark, romantic mobster comedy. |
BLOCK 5 - 8:00PM
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TANGLED WEB (WORLD PREMIERE) |
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Genre: Horror/Thriller (9 mins.) USA
Director: Todd Svoboda
Writer: Vanessa White and Todd Svoboda
Producer: Jon Meer
Cast: Vanessa White, Michael Urie, Brandon Stacy and Tim Murdock
Synopsis: A lonely woman seeks romance over the internet. She soon realizes just how dangerous playing with strangers can be…
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STILETTO |
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Genre: Drama (96 mins.) USA
Director: Nick Vallelonga
Writer: Paul Sloan
Producers: Nick Vallelonga and Warren Ostergard
Cast: Stana Katic, Tom Berenger, Tom Sizemore, William Forsythe, James Russo, Michael Biehn, Michelle Lombardo, Diane Venora, Dominique Swain, Paul Sloan and Kelly Hu
Synopsis: Stiletto follows a female assassin whose seemingly random killings puzzle her lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her and the return of his ruthless criminal cohort, and the detective following her rising body count.
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9:00 PM AFTER PARTY |
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AFTER PARTY AT COTTAGE ON THE CREEK
130 Mill Street
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
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