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MIFF Drama (Program One) 7:00 pm - Friday, November 2, 2007 at Luz de Mono Crossing the Heart Steven Hood - USA - 31m dunnhood@yahoo.com An aging 'vigilante' is patrolling the Arizona/Mexico border when he comes across a young 'illegal' border crosser. A series of mishaps and problems strand the pair in the desert, in the heat of summer, with no water and no means of communication with each other or the outside world. As the heat takes it's toll, they come to realize that they are not so different, but age old misconceptions and mistrust stand in the way of their own instincts for survival. Help is Coming
Dir. Ben Mor - CA - 8 min. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, three youths survey the desolate wasteland only to find a suspicious looking package. Vartan LLP Dir. Myles Price - USA - 17m. mylesprice@mac.com One of the most powerful and successful businessmen working on Wall Street is shaken to his core by one phone call. Absolute Zero Alan Woodruff - Australia - 27m awoodruff@hotmail.com An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon, told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hour. The Offering Paul Lee - Canada - 10 m ganymedi@interlog.com 'The Offering' is an elegiac meditation about the passing of life, told through the story of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and the novice who came into his life, from their initial encounter to their final parting. |
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