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ADVICE AND DISSENT
United States - West Coast Premiere
22 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 9, 2:00 pm, Oct 6, Sunday. A frustrated businessman tries to end his hopeless marriage to his wife by asking his local rabbi to place a curse on her. The rabbi refuses but gives him peculiar advice on how to do away with her, setting into motion a series of unexpected events.
Director/Writer: Leib Cohen
Producers: Stephen Fromkin, Patricia Moreno
Cinematography: Alec Jarnagin
Editor: Beecher Cotton
Cast: Rebecca Pidgeon, John Pankow, Eli Wallach, Rueven Russell, Sean Conant, Susan Gross, Eric Waldo
Advice and Dissent website
DESPERATE DEEDS
Australia - U.S. Premiere
15 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 5:00 pm, Oct 4, Friday. George Garavelli has hit hard times. Not only is his son, Tim, an embarrassment, but his business is going broke. Garavelli family history outlines a sure-fire method to see you through the dark financial times. George resorts to desperate measures to help resurrect the business, but at what cost to Tim, or himself?
Director/Writer: Antonio Oreña Barlin
Producers: Carolyn Thomas, Antonio Oreña Barlin Director of Photography: Ben Allan ACS
Cast: Matthew Whittet, Linal Haft and Angie Milliken
FRANK'S LAST DANCE
United States - World Premiere
18 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 3:00 pm, Oct. 5, Saturday. Jon Polito and Mimi Lieber star in a tale about a restaurant owner who inherited his family's business and took the path of least resistance. Dealt a blow by fate, he tries to resuscitate his empty life by turning his failing Italian restaurant completely upside down, causing his most faithful employee to believe that he has come undone.
Director: David J. Burke
Writers: David J. Burke, Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. Producers: Francis Kenny, David J. Burke, Alfonse Ruggiero Jr.
Directors of Photography: Jacek Laskus, ASC, Francis Kenny, ASC
Editor: Erik C. Andersen
Cast: Jon Polito, Mimi Lieber, Marco Sanchez, Sarah Hohmeyer, Lynn Nacif, Makato Saito
THE FREAK
Winner - Best Animated Film
United States - Premiere
6 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 5:00 pm, Oct. 4, Friday. In a mythical city densely populated by same-looking "drones," a bizarre and gleeful dancing "Freak" disturbs the otherwise ordered business day in this animated short.

Director/Writer/Director of Photography/Editor: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Producers: Dane Smith, Carole Bouchard
The Freak website
THE GHOST OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
United States
12 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 5:00 pm, Oct. 4, Friday. James Powell, a college senior, has fallen for Bess Gunther, a sophomore. But he faces one rather large obstacle: the attractive Bess is deeply in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald, or "Scotti," as she likes to call him. The obsession leads Bess down a road James prefers not to follow. Years later, however, he wonders whether she's the one that got away.
Director: Charles Lyons
Writers: Charles Lyons, Tom Tolnay -- based on a story by Tom Tolnay
Producers: Paul Bernard, Heather Rose Dominic
Cinematography: Horacio Marquinez
Editors: David Kausch, Martin Apelbaum
Cast: Alexa Davalos, Charlie Hofheimer
IMAGINARY GRACE
United States - World Premiere
19 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 9:00 pm, Oct. 5, Saturday. It started out like any other day in Claire Cassay's empty workaday life. Then she discovers that she's being trailed by a photographer who disappears after snapping her picture. Claire doesn't know it yet, but something is about to happen ‹ to her, to the photographer, and to a mysterious man who now wants her dead.
Director: Wesley Sewell
Writers: Wesley Sewell, Paula Smith Sewell
Producers: Wesley Sewell, Pattie Stout, Marjorie Graue
Cinematography: Melissa Roth
Editor: Wesley Sewell
Cast: Marjorie Graue, Ted Kurtz
THE LADY LOVELACE DECEPTION SYSTEM
United States - World Premiere
13 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 5:00 pm, Oct. 5, Saturday. An evening of virtual encounters with a holographic woman spawns both lust and loathing as users manipulate the woman for entertainment. One performance takes a dramatic turn when an unexpected guest arrives with a viscious agenda.
Director/Writer: Alexandre Moors
Producer: Jonathan Lia
Director of Photography: Aaron Phillips
Editor: Jonathan Nigro
Cast: Rachel Sledd, John Dacunto, Fletcher Allen
LUCKY DAY
Belgium - U.S. Premiere
15 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 9:00 pm, Oct. 4, Friday. One day like another in the life of an old tramp who suffers the contempt of "ordinary" men and women. Suddenly, a modern miracle happens. Everything changes for him within a few minutes. But do you believe in miracles?

Director/Writer/Producer: Frédéric Ledoux
Cinematography: Patrice Michaux
Editors: Stéphane Wéry, Pierre Van Thienen
Cast: Alain Mouton, Patrick Mores, Renaud Rutten, Pierre Bail, Vivianne Collet, Alexandra Marotta
THE SUNDIAL FIELD
Winner - Best Short Film
United States - World Premiere
22 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 5:00 pm, Oct. 4, Friday. A woman passing through a town meets up with a mysterious sundial maker whose scandalous past reveals a chilling connection between the woman and his past lover, Lucy. The woman and the sundial maker develop a unique relationship where they learn the significance of fate.
Director: Cary Cremidas
Writer: Joni Thissen
Producers: Joni Thissen, Cary Cremidas, Stephen Norfleet Cinematography:
Craig Peterschmidt, Cary Cremidas
Cast: Mark Larkin, Kerry Seldin, Jennifer Baeseman, Dana Bergeman, Peter Bayham
The Sundial Field website
VODKA, WINTER, AND THE CRY OF VIOLIN
Canada - World Premiere
21 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 7:00 pm, Oct. 6, Sunday. Vodka, Winter, and the Cry of Violin is a true story based on a Polish couple's perilous twilight plight to rescue their son from a German youth holding facility during the last winter of the Second World War.
Director/Writer: Steven Grayhm
Producers: Steven Grayhm, Michelle Samuels
Cinematography: Brian Johnson
Editor: Nicole Ratcliff
Cast: Robert Daly, Steven Grayhm, Richard Stroh
WHERE'S ANGELO?
United States - World Premiere
20 mins. Arclight Cinemas Theater 3, 3:00 pm, Oct. 6, Sunday. Two hit men screw up a job and are forced to do another to redeem themselves. With two strikes against them, their boss sends his nephew out to Hollywood to make sure that they don't strike out. What should be a routine hit, turns out to be a comedy of errors.
Director: Harris Goldberg
Writers: Scott Dorel, Alex Schrader
Producers: Scott Dorel, Gary Robinson, Jean Pierre Pereat, Jack Gilardi Jr.
Cinematography: Craig Kief
Editor: Gregory Mandel
Cast: Robert Forster, Michael Madsen, Beverly D'Angelo, Scott Dorel, Frank Pesce, Mindy Burbano, Wolfgang Bodison, Andy Romano, Johnny Williams, Nichole Hiltz, Gene Wolande, Marco Santillan, Jean Pierre Pereat
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