Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Opening Party and Short Film Screenings at the Artmore Hotel
doors at 7:00 pm
documentary shorts screening from 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
admission: free
Bob Seger Rocks
Directed by: Timothy Tamisiea - 15 min. - USA
After 23 brain surgeries and suffering a debilitating condition called hydrocephalus, 12 year-old Luke Casey has become a survivor who's gentle spirit and mature soul is an inspiration to everyone he meets.
Nico's Challenge
Directed by: Steve Audette - 15 min. - USA
A story of a 13 year-old boy who faces special challenges as he climbs mount Kilimanjaro, the worlds highest freestanding mountain. His goal, to raise money and deliver free wheelchairs to the people of Tanzania. This coming of age adventure has some unexpected twists that push this child to his limits just before reaching the summit at nineteen thousand feet above sea level..
My Uncle Bluey
Directed by: Britt Arthur - 17 min. - Australia
A filmmaker's journey to find out about her estranged Uncle Bluey - a white man who found his home in a remote Aboriginal community. A personal story about the things that tear families apart, what brings them back together, and how your family is your family. Always.
Point of Entry
Directed by: Zeus Quijano, Jr. - 27 min. - USA / Mexico
Carlos is an illegal immigrant living in the United States with his wife and two children. His decision to leave Mexico, his parents and siblings weighed heavily on him, but he knew that for them to get ahead he would have to leave to America. He was 15 years old at the time. Today, Carlos is 30 and continues sending money home to his family.
Plastic Island
Directed by: Eli Green - 8 min. - USA
The story of the large plastic mass in the Pacific Ocean.
A Drop in the Bucket
Directed by: Lauren Shaw - 23 min. Cambodia
This film is a timely, hopeful and lyrical tale about people reaching across international boundaries to help provide clean water in rural Cambodia.
Big Bang Briefly
Directed by: Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner - 2 min. - USA
The Big Bang is important and amazing, but often misunderstood. In this video, noted theoretical physicist Janna Levin explains the theory in a way that is both captivating and easily understandable (with the aid of some stunning visuals). The video was put together with no outside funding - just donated creative time from a group of people with a desire to further public awareness of science.
Forget Me Nots
Directed by : Dempsey Rice - 17 min. - USA
A film about remembering. The act of remembering is so intrinsic to our experience that we usually don't even notice it, but remembering is the key to our identity: it opens doors through which we access the stories and experiences that make up our lives. FORGET ME NOTS acts as a turnkey that opens viewers to the glimpses of the people, places and ideas that make up our remembrances but it also challenges the very nature of those remembrances. Memory is not fixed; it is an ephemeral mutable thing that is in flux.
Waiting for Women
Directed by: Estephan Wagner - 35 min. - Spain
In the remote Spanish village of Riofrio, most of the women left years ago. Only the men remain, without the slightest possibility to find a relationship. Not able to bear this situation any longer, they organize a busload of single women to come from Madrid into their loneliness. Their ideal aim is to fall in love. But having never learned how to deal with women, beside their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, their event goes in some unexpected directions. "Waiting for Women" is a heart-warming documentary about love and solitude, about gender, migration and hope.
