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ANOOSH OF THE AIRWAYS --West Coast Premiere United States 94 mins. Paramount Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 8. This highly original and surreal tale follows Anoosh (Melik Malkasian) a poor sheep herding Armenian who comes to America after outgrowing his career as a poster-child for an American airline. A duty bestowed upon him after being born mid-flight. Without the support or culture of a big city, Anoosh is on his own as he attempts to navigate the absurdities of the American Dream and the American Reality in the white-bread suburbs of the Pacific Northwest.
Director: James Westby Print Contact: 323-461-0970, 503-288-5252
FORTUNE COOKIE --World Premiere United States 106 mins. Studio Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 6. While having dinner at an upscale Chinese restaurant, three couples have their views of life and love tested against the whims of a cynical but insightful fortune cookie writer.
Director: Clay Essig Print Contact: 435-753-8254
HOSTAGE --U.S. Premiere United States 80 mins. Studio Theater, 9:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Adam Dahl, a 28-year-old Swede has come to New York in search of reunification with his half-siblings and to find work. At a party he meets Eveline, who lures him from the party. They spend the night together and develop a relationship. But Eveline has a hidden side. Overwhelmed by her personality, Adam decides to leave her, once and for all, and get on with his life. But Eveline won't take rejection. She has other plans.
Director/Writer: Fredrik Sundwall Print Contact: 212-966-7686
JIMMY ZIP --World Premiere United States 112 mins. Studio Theater, 8:30 p.m., Aug. 7. A coming of age action-art film where a rebellious 16-year-old pyromaniac runaway teams up with a mysterious welding sculptor in a story that pits the art world against the crime world.
Director/Writer/Producer: Robert McGinley Print Contact: 310-399-1768
KISS AND TELL --West Coast Premiere United States 85 mins. Paramount Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 5. Kiss and Tell is a romantic comedy satirizing the dating scene and reality television. The film goes behind the scenes of a televised dating show as four guys and four girls are whisked away on the biggest blind date of their lives.
Director/Writer: John Brenkus Print Contact: 703.753.0363
LAST CALL --U.S. Premiere Chile 80 mins. Studio Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Three apartments in an old converted loft building in downtown Santiago de Chile set up the stage for three bizarre love triangles.
Director: Christine Lucas Print Contact: 011-562-341-1188
LITHIUM Sweden 127 mins. Paramount Theater, 9:00 p.m., Aug. 6 and 3:00 p.m. Aug. 7. Hanna is a young hard-working intern at a tabloid in Stockholm. A letter to the editor arrives from a man seeking help in locating his missing girlfriend. Hanna decides to get involved, soon finding herself in a situation she cannot control.
Director/Writer: David Flamholc Print Contact: 011-468-210363
A PERFECT LITTLE MAN --World Premiere United States 46 mins. Studio Theater, 6:00 p.m., Aug. 8. A Perfect Little Man is the story of Billy, a man obsessed with being a hero. Billy has always proven his worth as a man in violent confrontations, with his mother Ruth being his principal audience. Ruth was fed up with men who never lived up to her expectations of what a man should be, and created a "perfect little man" out of her son. The story really begins on the day that Ruth dies, and Billy is left without an audience, desperately trying to find a new one.
Director/Writer: Jeff Hare Print Contact: 818-986-0045
REDBALL --U.S. Premiere Australia 90 mins. Paramount Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 7. A powerful contemporary police thriller about a few weeks in the lives of some used-up city detectives, Redball is a darkly humorous drama about the psychoses of frontline police work. It follows the story of Detective JJ Wilson, a homicide cop struggling to keep her mind and morals intact in the face of inhuman acts and rampant corruption.
Director/Writer: Jon Hewitt Print Contact: 612-9361-6376
ROSENZWEIG'S FREEDOM --U.S. Premiere Germany 90 mins. Paramount Theater 7:00 p.m., Aug. 6 and 9:00 p.m. Aug. 8 Germany 1991. A Jewish laborer is suspected of having killed a neo-Nazi. His brother comes to his defense. Rosenzweig's Freedom confronts two Jewish brothers whose parents survived the Holocaust with the renewed flaring up of right-wing extremist violence in Germany in the '90s.
Director/Writer: Liliane Targownik Print Contact: 011-972-3-524-8850
STANDING ON FISHES --West Coast Premiere United States 92 mins. Paramount Theater, 5:00 p.m. Aug. 7. Standing on Fishes is a romantic comedy set in contemporary Los Angeles that follows the twisted journey of Caleb (Bradford Tatum), a sculptor in the never-ending battle to maintain his artistic integrity and still make a buck.
Directors: Bradford Tatum, Meredith Scott Lynn Print Contact: 310-360-9100
SUICIDE, THE COMEDY --West Coast Premiere United States 90 mins. Studio Theater, 9:00 p.m., Aug. 6. Matt Hirsch is a writer who's lost faith in the power of writing. He has suicidal inklings. They're not quite tendencies yet, but he thinks he can get them up there. He'd end it all if only he cared a little more -- it's passion that'll kill you every time.
Director/Writer: Glen Freyer Print Contact: 323-845-0735
AMPLIFIER --World Premiere Canada 21 mins. Studio Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 7. In the future, a shared addiction to bio-technology haunts the lives of a new mother and, 25 years later, her grown daughter. A government agent tries to end it ... one way or the other.
Director/Writer: Glenn Forbes Print Contact: 416-480-8007
THE BOTTOMLESS CUP --West Coast Premiere United States 14 mins. Paramount Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Falling asleep at the wheel, Carl pulls over at an all-night diner which quickly changes from a rest-stop to the scene of a Kafkaesque nightmare when the waitress and diner regulars insist he finish his "bottomless" cup of coffee.
Director/Writer: Paul Bonner
Producer: Stephen MacGillivray
Director of Photography: David Samuel Print Contact: 212-678-0170
BOXES --World Premiere United States 23 mins. Studio Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 7. Boxes is the story about a repressed man's battle with his innermost thoughts and desires. The main character, Frank, tries to hold onto everything dear to him, and eventually it comes back to haunt him.
Director/Writer: Todd Smolar Print Contact: 561-393-6967
DAMNED IF YOU DO --World Premiere United States 17 mins. Paramount Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Damned If You Do is about Alfie, a hapless fellow who makes a deal with the devil and finds himself up against the clock to break all 10 commandments in a matter of minutes.
Director/Writer: James Zeilinger Print Contact: 216-751-5177
DAVE'S BLIND DATE United States 22 mins. Paramount Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Dave's Blind Date is a romantic comedy about a guy on a blind date. He just doesn't believe in love. By the end, does he change his mind?
Director/Writer/Producer: Matthew Alper Print Contact: 310-476-0454
DICKORY DOCK --World Premiere United States 24 mins. Paramount Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. A letter arrives. Colonel Boodle will be murdered by one of his servants by 1:00 a.m. on his birthday. Confined to his bed, Colonel Boodle constructs a crafty plan to stop the murderer, whoever that may be, all from the shadows of his bed.
Director/Producer: Cary Cremidas Print Contact: 408-395-5850
DILLINGER IN PARADISE --West Coast Premiere United States 15 mins. Paramount Theater, 5:00 p.m., Aug 7. A hapless team of indie filmmakers struggle (and flounder) as they attempt to make a movie about legendary bank robber John Dillinger -- only to discover that life truly does imitate art.
Director/Writer: John Henry Richardson Print Contact: 818-501-6313
EVERYDAY --West Coast Premiere United States 29 mins. Paramount Theater, 2:00 p.m. Aug. 7. Set in a small town in Minnesota in February of 1959, Everyday is the story of three high school boys who want to be Buddy Holly & the Crickets. On the day of their band's first performance, they hear that Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in Iowa.
Director: Tracy Allen Davey Print Contact: 818-760-3974
FIDEL --U.S. Premiere United States 12 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Fidel tells the story of a 14-year-old mutt and his master Alberto, a Cuban widower. At the vet, Alberto learns that Fidel has cancer and is advised to put him to sleep. Unable to accept the vet's advice, Alberto embarks on a long psychological journey of sadness and denial, as he refuses to believe that his only friend in a tough, desolate city is terminally ill. Observing the physical agony of his best friend, however, Alberto realizes he has to start thinking beyond his own fear of being alone.
Director/Writer: Marta Ibarrondo Print Contact: 917-553-5144
THE FOOL --World Premiere United States 8 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 7. Your basic seven-minute tragic comedy musical.
Director: Jon Farhat Print Contact: 818-567-1953
THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER United States 23 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. A young American and his dog Hank are trapped in a village in a foreign land -- a tiny village in crisis facing a rabies epidemic. He can help, but is the price too high? A man, a dog, a village, a choice ....
Director: Christopher Nixon Print Contact: 310-393-3105
MOVING EMILY --World Premiere United States 16 mins. Studio Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 7. Moving Emily profiles the disintegration of a family on moving day. To handle these harsh realities, eight-year-old Emily escapes into her own fantasy world and characters.
Director: Deborah Shames Print Contact: 310-589-5849
MUTT --U.S. Premiere United States 6 mins. Paramount Theater, 2:00 p.m., Aug. 7. ""The Dogpound," a canine comedy club, welcomes fledgling comedian Jerry Mutt to the stage."
Director/Writer/Animator: Kirby Atkins Print Contact: 503-225-1130
PARADOSIS --West Coast Premiere United States 11 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Paradosis is the tale of an old man who loses his prized and precious nutcracker to his grandson. One day, Tommy Hogan is visited by his grandson Stoyko. During the visit, Stoyko takes his grandfather's nutcracker. Once realizing that Stoyko and the nutcracker are gone, Tommy takes off to chase after him. It is this chase that provides the trial in which the fate of Tommy's nutcracker is decided. Will he get it back or will it be lost forever?
Director/Writer/Producer: Trev Jenkins Print contact: 912-231-0739
QUID PRO QUO --U.S. Premiere New Zealand 22 mins. Studio Theater, 4:30 p.m., Aug. 8. A man is caught in bed between two women. Beneath him, under the bed, crouches the mistress who inveigled her way into his home. Beside him, the wife who appeared unexpectedly starts behaving in a most undomesticated way. When love becomes a competition, who wins?
Director: Simon Mark-Brown Print Contact: 011-64-9303-3151
RAZOR'S EDGE --West Coast Premiere United States 14 mins. Paramount Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 7. Texas-USA. Mid-nineteen fifties. A day of rippling heat haze softens into a visually deceptive evening. A larger than life barber dominates a fearful customer with hypnotic dexterity, as he trims, lathers, shaves and talks too much.
Director: Lorenzo Benedick Print Contact: 212-982-3500
SOME COMMON THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO CORPSES --World Premiere United States 17 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 7. A bereft and disoriented woman meets a quirky mortician who lovingly prepares bodies for burials and helps aimless souls over to the other side, only to find she is the one who must "cross-over."
Director/Writer: Molly O'Brien Print Contact: 323-933-3353
SPLINTER --West Coast Premiere United States 40 mins. Studio Theater, 4:30 p.m., Aug. 8. Hilarious dark comedy celebrating those who bravely defy convention and seek to redefine the boundaries of love.
Director/Writer:Lisa Plettinck Print Contact: 714-550-0728
VEND --West Coast Premiere United States 22 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. Vend is a narrative film about Carl Burndecker, a hyper-punctual medical research technician who reaches the outer limits of his impossibly rigid schedule. Carl's schedule is more than just a framework to better organize his life. Carl's schedule is his life. At least it was. Until Carl bought a soda ... that almost always requires change.
Director: Scott Edelstein Print Contact: 818-501-7813
WAR OF THE ANGELS --World Premiere United States 27 mins. Studio Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 7. Bad Voslau, Austria, March 1945. With the imminent fall of Nazi Germany as a backdrop, a young, recently recruited Nazi radio specialist, Lieutenant Sterbens, experiences a right of moral passage few war stories tell. The complexities of patriotism, obedience, initiation and the struggle for reason are examined in this delicate moving piece.
Director/Writer: Jim Sonzero Print Contact: 310-581-4236
THE WINDOW United States 18 mins. Paramount Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. The Window is the story of a young woman who has retreated from the world to observe life from the window of her apartment. Through this window, she sees a young man who slowly breaks down her defenses. Only after she has fallen in love, does she discover he is using her for a more sinister purpose.
Director: Armen Titizian Print Contact: 818-882-6555
THE WITHERED ARM --West Coast Premiere United States 17 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 8. An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tale about loss, retribution and the supernatural.
Director/Writer: Jennifer Cox, based on the short story by Thomas Hardy Print Contact: 718-599-3693
WATTSTAX Opening Night United States 120 mins. John Anson Ford Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 4. Presented by the Hollywood Film Festival® and the International Documentary Association A festive screening of this landmark documentary portrait of Black America captured in 1973. Artists who recorded for Stax Records, including Isaac Hayes and the Staples Singers, perform for an enthusiastic audience at the L.A. Coliseum in a concert commemorating the five-year-mark of the first Watts Riots. Interspersed with social commentary from the Black Community and biting comedy from a young Richard Pryor, this film, although unseen by the public for 20 years, has attained a legendary cult status among filmmakers and musicians.
Director: Mel Stuart
THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES --California Premiere United States 90 mins. Paramount Theater, 5:30 p.m., Aug. 8. A tale of courage, resilience and love set during World War II, The Children of Chabannes tells the story of how the people of Chabannes, a tiny village in unoccupied France, chose action over indifference and saved the lives of 400 Jewish refugee children.
Directors: Lisa Gossels, Dean Wetherell Print Contact: 212-353-2354
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOURTH WORLD --West Coast Premiere United States 57 mins. Studio Theater, 7:00 p.m., Aug. 7. Even as a young girl growing up in Rockville, Maryland, Kari Engen knew that her life would be different. After college she moved to the Guatemala City dump to begin a ministry, called Mi Refugio (My Refuge), to serve the needs of the impoverished children whose families lived off the endless stream of garbage trucks. Children of the Fourth World is a documentary of the sometimes tragic and always inspiring story of Kari Engen and her kids.
Director/Writer/Producer: John Biffar Print Contact: 941-275-9575
FROM RUSSIA TO HOLLYWOOD --World Premiere United States 65 mins. Paramount Theater, 7:30 p.m., Aug. 8. From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff, narrated by Gregory Peck, focuses on the epic journey of Michael Chekhov and George Shdanoff whose careers encompassed the major events of the 20th Century. They overcame wars and revolutions to coach some of the most legendary actors and directors in Hollywood in the '40s, '50s, and beyond.
Director/Writer: Frederick Keeve Print Contact: 310-841-6966.
HOWLING FOR GOD --U.S. Premiere Belgium 64 mins. Studio Theater, 1:00 p.m., Aug. 7. In Macedonia, former Yugoslavia, two Sheiks squabble for power in a Dervish brotherhood. Through the rivalry between these two characters, who correspond to opposing archetypes of religious leaders, the documentary offers a living glimpse of spiritual experience at a popular level which, despite the humorous situations and extraordinary images, may shock our sensitivity.
Director/Writer: Dan Alexe Print Contact: 011-322-219-3436
MY YIDDISHE MAMA'S DREAM --U.S. Premiere Israel 62 mins. Studio Theater, 3:00 p.m., Aug. 8. My Yiddishe Mama's Dream is about world famous Israeli conductor Daniel Oren, son of a Muslim family on his father's side and an ultra-religious Jewish-Hassidic family on his mother's side. It is a portrait of an exceptional man, who is a kind of individual manifestation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. And beyond that, it is a portrait of a genius and exceptional opera conductor.
Director: Asher Tlalim Print Contact: 011-44-171-387-4509
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