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NewFlix Tuesday December 30

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

NewFlix Tuesday

Contents

· Exposure

· Crossing the Void

· i Love Trash

· We’re Saving the World

· RPS

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December 30, 2008

This Week’s New Releases:

Drama:

Foulard: Aminah is a young Muslim girl living in France. Aminah’s life is turned upside down when France announces a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in school. Aminah first seeks the advice of a local imam named Youseff. The imam tells Aminah to keep her headscarf on. Youseff tells Aminah her friends will drop out on account of the ban. The imam suggests Aminah leave school and find a private tutor. Aminah tries a compromise by wearing a beret instead. The school rejects it. The imam and Aminah’s father confront the school. Despite a meeting with the school principal nothing can be done about the ban on headscarves. Until Aminah decides to take matters into her own hands leading to the film’s shocking conclusion.

Film Festival Screenings:

NewFilmmakers (New York)

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Documentary:

19750Crossing the Void: Have you ever taken a leap of faith? For nearly twenty years Jacques has sold military surplus on the open markets of Provence. Now he wants to change his life. He no longer wants to sell the images of war. This is the story of Jacques’ transformation and how it affects his world. Three years later we revisit Jacques and discover that his life has changed in an unexpected way.

Film Festival Screenings:

Brussels Cinema Festival

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i Love Trash: i Love Trash is a documentary about dumpster diving. Two friends decide to do an experiment in trash. They rent an unfurnished apartment and arrive with only the clothes they are wearing and a flashlight. They decide not to buy any things for 3 months and instead to find all their needs in the trash. They furnish their apartment lavishly. They eat decadently. They dress sharp, and create beautiful art, all from the trash.

Film Festival Screenings:

BendFilm Festival

Lake County Film Festival

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We’re Saving the World: A fifth grade class in Southern Oregon decides to send copies of a book to all the governors in the USA. Why? Because one day Sharon Mehdi sat down and wrote an inspirational story for her granddaughter, a fable about women standing silently for peace. It was a children’s story for adults that showed how each person can make a difference. And that’s just what happened. Encouraged by others to self-publish “The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering”, the little pamphlet soon took on a life of its own and was purchased by a major publisher. “We’re Saving the World” will uplift your spirits as it shows how generations can come together. Here’s a story that will leave you believing that there is still hope for the future.

Film Festival Screenings:

Ashland Independent Film Festival

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival

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Experimental:

RPS- An Actor Prepares: From Alaskan film makers Wes Kotaska and Joshua Wintersteen is the short film RPS. in their first ever film, RPS is life for three. This DVD is contains a trailer for the next film Carpentry, the short film RPS, the trailer for RPS, a slideshow, a few outtakes and a commentary where you can watch RPS with Wes and Josh as they talk about the film.

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NewFlix Tuesday December 23

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

 

 NewFlix Tuesday

Contents

· Foulard

· 7 Islands & a Metro

· Made in India

· Colours Black

· Sundari: An Actor Prepares

 

 

 

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December 23, 2008

 

Winter/Holiday Films:

Short:

Bit PlayersBit Players:  Verne Troyer (Austin Powers) stars in a fictional behind-the-scenes look at WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY through the eyes of two Oompa-Loompas.

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Feature:

What the Snow Brings:  When you’ve lost everything, is there a place you can go back to?  After his big city dreams are crushed, Manabu (Yusuke Iseya) returns to Hokkaido, the countryside of his childhood, with confusion, guilt, and secrets. After betting and losing the last of his money at a draft horse race, his older brother Takeo (Koichi Sato), reluctantly allows him to re-enter his life. Through the struggles of the racing horses, the two brothers begin to understand and respect each other again.  Masterfully directed, Director Kichitaro Negishi captures the idyllic and relaxed setting of Hokkaido while subtly building emotional momentum centering around hope, acceptance, forgiveness, and redemption.  WHAT THE SNOW BRINGS was the big winner at the 2005 Tokyo Festival, taking home the Grand Prix, as well as the Director, Actor and Audience Awards.

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This Week’s New Releases:

Drama:

Foulard:  Aminah is a young Muslim girl living in France. Aminah’s life is turned upside down when France announces a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in school. Aminah first seeks the advice of a local imam named Youseff. The imam tells Aminah to keep her headscarf on. Youseff tells Aminah her friends will drop out on account of the ban. The imam suggests Aminah leave school and find a private tutor. Aminah tries a compromise by wearing a beret instead. The school rejects it. The imam and Aminah’s father confront the school. Despite a meeting with the school principal nothing can be done about the ban on headscarves. Until Aminah decides to take matters into her own hands leading to the film’s shocking conclusion.

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Documentary:

7 Islands & a Metro:  A frayed rug round his shoulders, My father came down the Sahyadris And stood at your doorstep, With only his labour in his hands. From “Mumbai” by Narayan Surve The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. It is a chronicle of the journey of an insignificant settlement to the coveted stature of a metropolis. The narrative is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay.

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Made in India:  A rural artist paints her autobiography, Bollywood movie icons’ images get erased after the weekly run of the film, the national flag flutters on 150 kites, installation artist paints pop icons on the rolling shutters of shops, religious icons jostle for attention with plastic flowers on the vendor’s cart, metaphors of life cycle adorn the mud wall of a home, neighbourhood boys craft the tale of WTC on Christmas Cribs and the sale of toy planes goes up. Symbols of nationalism become a fashionable commodity. It is the international culture of regionality. Made in India is a film on contemporary visual cultures in India.

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Colours Black The film is an attempt to break the silence around child sexual abuse within the familyIn order to make the children’s voices heard, the film is structured around four narratives from their point of viewChildren’s world of colour, rhyme, toys, games, fantasy and bedtime stories are the basic ingredients of the narratives, which often get fragmented by the adults’ memory of childhood abusesThe film sets out to explore some other ways of communication and articulation and attempts to break the myth of `privileged language’.

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Sundari- An Actor Prepares: Sundari: An Actor Prepares is a film based on the autobiography of Jayshankar Sundari, the legendary female impersonator of Gujarati stage in early 20th century Bombay. Sundari literary means beautiful in feminine gender. He earned that title for his rendition of Desdimona in Othello, at the age of 12. Centered around the works of eminent painters Bhupen Khakkar and Nilima Sheikh and theatre director Anuradha Kapur, the film documents the process of his journey from a boy to a man and simultaneously from a male to a female, in the context of contemporary gender discourses and politics of acting.

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NewFlix Tuesday December 16th

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

NewFlix Tuesday

Contents

· 16 Days in Afghanistan

· Night of the Hell Hamsters

· Dead by DawnCallz

· Into The Woods

· Sirens Song

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December 16, 2008

This Week’s New Releases:

Documentary:

16 Days in Afghanistan: After quarter of a century an Afghan-American anthropologist embarks on a journey to relive his childhood and rediscover his people and country. He and his team capture the most exciting and surprising images of the country and bring it back to share with the world. 16 Days in Afghanistan is a documentary that focuses on Afghan culture and all aspects of life after the fall of Taliban.

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Dark Comedy:

Night of the Hell Hamsters: On a dark and stormy night, Julie, a mischievous and sporty student, is babysitting the neighbours’ children when her boyfriend Karl pays her a surprise visit. At first disappointed that he has failed to bring along the ouija board that she’s been wanting to play with for ages, Julie fashions one out of a child’s alphabet toy and a drop of Karl’s blood. Determined not to go the way of The Exorcist but hoping for a little fun, Julie and Karl make up a silly name and see if anyone or anything answers their call. Then – thunder crashes and lightening hits the house – leaving the poor family hamsters fried to a crisp! Or maybe not…. Suddenly Julie and Karl find themselves fighting for their lives against a murderous, tiny furry, bloodthirsty supernatural evil from the very pits of Hell!

Film Festival Screenings:
Zompire: The Undead Film Festival – Audience Award
A Night of Horror Film Festival – Best Director
Big Mountain Film Festival – Audience Award
Vine Shorts Fest – Special Jury Award
Screamfest
Sacramento Horror Film Festival
Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival

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Horror:

Dead by Dawn: Dead by Dawn is a ghost story about identical twin sisters. Eight months after one is brutally raped and murdered, the grieving twin and comforting friends leave for the cottage to celebrate their high school graduation. The minute the step foot in the cottage strange yet puzzling things begin to happen. Tanya begins to see horrifying visions and hears voices she can’t ignore. As the night wanes only Tanya remains as she unearths the truth into the long buried secret of her missing twin sister.

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Into The Woods: Danielle is stuck in a dead end relationship with a married man. It takes a turn for the worse when he leaves her and then

comesback and brutality rapes her. She is an avid runner and has always run

away from her fears and lack of a happy successful life. Her life, which has turned upside down, has just got worse. On one of her runs, she mysteriously turns up in a place unfamiliar with her. ON a lonely stretch of Beach near an equally desolate unrecognizable Forrest. Stripped of everything she wakes drugged and lost in the woods. With a few clues and constant torments. She runs from an unseen character that little by little reveals his intention and who he is. When she returns to reality, an explosive climax ties up all loose ends and conflicts.

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Sirens Song: People and musicians who use deadly music for revenge. With Jael from “Americas Next Top Model” and Isabelle from Bravos “Make Me A Suprmodel”.

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NewFlix Tuesday December 9th

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

NewFlix Tuesday

Contents

· The Prison and the Street

· Detour

· Wake-Up Callz

· Road Side Assistance

· Danceville

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December 9, 2008

This Week’s New Releases:

Documentary:

The Prison and the Street: Claudia is the oldest and most respected inmate at Madre Pelletier Penitentiary. The one who gives the orders and protects. Her protégé is young Daniela, whose life is at risk because she is accused of having killed her own child. But Claudia, like Betania, is to leave the prison soon. Daniela will have to defend herself alone. Claudia leaves in search of her son. Betania feels the temptation of leaving the rules of the semi-open regime to one side, to live in freedom with a new love.

Film Festival Screenings:
Gramado Film Festival – Best Documentary Feature
Montréal World Film Festival
Flanders International Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
Jerusalem Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival
Festival Internacional Documental de Barcelona (Spain)

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Film Noir:

Detour: In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he’s riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man’s identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame, Roberts’ every move plunges him deeper into trouble…

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Sci-Fi:

Wake-Up Callz: Somewhere in spacetime… an evil entity disguised as a comet circles the galaxies in search of memories, in search of souls, in search of Takeover. In a shadow timeline, Kristaya Turner, dreams of alternate realities and seeks the help of Doctor Dream. Aided by corrupt world leaders, the Comet Consciousness already controls most of Earth, whose willing participants don’t suspect that their memories are being stolen through video games, and re-packaged for sale to galactic dealers by the Neural Nebula Network. An Allspace agent arrives during the darkest days, and must awaken Kristaya out of her shadow dream. The What a Wonderful Worm snakes its way through the timelines and crashes the world’s computer systems. Reality becomes a game show, and video games take center stage in the Crossroads of Crossover. Kristaya must intervene before Memcorr uploads humanity’s memories into the Comet Consciousness, and plunge Earth into the shadows forever …

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Thriller:

Road Side Assistance: A happy couple will face a tragic circumstance on their tenth year anniversary. This tragic situation changes the scope of things as Matthew Brenner seeks revenge while trying to find answers to why this terrible event happened. As Matthew digs deeper to search for a valid reason so does his supposedly belated wife Pauly. Later on, we discover that Pauly was only living his image, acting like him, and following through on her belated husband. The more people sought for ROAD SIDE ASSISTANCE, the more deadly was the reason to kill. That trucker should have never pulled a hit ‘n’ run on one of the happy couple. No one from that day forward dared sought for roadside help. Karma isn’t the payback of one person’s act but many share it. We will all pay for the guilt of one man.

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Dance Film:

Danceville: A group of dancers will transform an evacuated town into DANCEVILLE. This town was evacuated from a major stormy era. The group will make this town theirs, and they are determined to grow the population into a town never before seen, of dancers from all ages, sizes, ethnicity/ race, and class etc. Later in the future, a group of drug gangsters will come to discover this same town as a new place for the drug business. Now, the dancers will stand their ground and do anything to protect their territory and keep these drug busters out. A war is created as the gangsters fight back and try to terrorize the dancers. The outcome to this scenario is a BLOODBATH of gangsters and dancers. Some dancers will become KILLERS.

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NewFlix Tuesday December 2nd

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

NewFlix Tuesday

Contents

· White Song

· The Last Hour

· Art From the Streets

· The Bar

· A Neighborhood Story

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December 2, 2008

This Week’s New Releases:

Supernatural:

White Song: The most famous of Indonesian ghosts, the Kuntil Anak, tells the story of Raesita, the batik artist, whose heavy grief after the death of her husband draws the ghost to her. They seduce each other into a deadly dream world. Raesita’s own desire for oblivion moulds perfectly to the Kuntil Anak’s desire to save her from the pain of life. But it is Raesita’s unborn child, and its desire to live, that the Kuntil Anak has not counted upon.

Film Festival Screenings:
Asian American International Film Festival
Queensland Short Film Festival – Best Director
Queensland Short Film Festival – Best Cinematography
Sydney Underground Film Festival
Brilliant Light International Film Festival (Los Angeles)

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Art Film:

The Last Hour: A visual reflection on love and loss. The Last Hour is an intimate study of being in the presence of death.

Film Festival Screenings:
World Of Women (WOW) Film Festival
Brilliant Light International Film Festival (Los Angeles)

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Documentary:

Art From the Street: Art From the Streets is an award winning, feature length documentary about a program for homeless artists in Austin, Texas, called Art From the Streets. The film tells this story by tracking five of the artists involved in the program over the course of a year. Viewers will visit homeless camps, learn the daily challenges of street life, and sit in on the Tuesday/Thursday art “classes”. You’ll also experience the 2-day show and sale where the artists’ work is sold and where they interact with people that they rarely have a chance to encounter in such a positive way.

Film Festival Screenings:
BendFilm Festival – Best Documentary Feature
Brilliant Light Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Bay Street Film Festival (Thunder Bay, Ontario, CANADA) – Honorable Mention
Dallas Video Festival
Bahamas International Film Festival
Global Peace Film Festival (Orlando)
Portobello Film Festival (London, UK)
Oxford Film Festival
Kansas International Film Festival
dead CENTER Film Festival

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Comedy:

The Bar: Whiskey music plays in a seedy bar, where pool sharks roam and the liquor flows like forgotten tears. Mac is a down-on-his-luck writer, and Adeline is a hooker with a heart of gold. Together they find escape from their pasts (if only for one night), in this film noir comedy about love, life, tulips and xylophones. “The Big Sleep” meets “Airplane!”

Festival Screenings:
Montréal World Film Festival
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
L.A. Shorts Fest<
Whistler Film Festival
Sea To Sky Fest – Best Short

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Crime Drama:

A Neighborhood Story: This is a true story about an Italian neighborhood on the lower east side of Manhattan, situated between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. In fact, they had a baseball team called “the two bridges”. It takes place between the years of 1960 and 1990 when I was growing up in a Mafia neighborhood. It is the story of how these people lived their lives. How they brought their old world customs and traditions into the 20th century and lived in the shadow of their heritage. The people lived and died by the codes and unwritten rules laid down by the underworld that controlled their everyday lives. The good, bad and evil weaved everyone together in this environment and ruled their lives with an iron fist. The story unfolds in a seedy neighborhood bar called the “Soft Touch”, eight steps down from street level…

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NewFlix Tuesday November 25th

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

NewFlix Tuesday

Contents

· This Side Of Nightmare

· Severe Visibility

· When the shoe’s on the other foot

· Suburban Heroes Episode 1

· Misadventures in Space

· Sharing GOD Kid Style

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November 25, 2008

This Week’s New Releases:

Horror:

This Side Of Nightmare: Spring break. Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico. Piper and Ashley, a lesbian college couple, travel through a blazing heat wave – nervously heading home to meet the parents. After a run-in with road kill, their vacation is violently interrupted by a pair of bible thumping redneck sisters with a taste for G.T.A. and hate crime. Skull-shattering horror ensues as the rednecks are revealed to be unstoppable. Piper and Ashley’s wits and survival skills are the only things keeping them alive as the nails approach their own coffins with blinding speed…

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Drama:

Severe Visibility: U.S. Army Major Stanley Kruter (Paul Cross) is forced to face the demons of his past. Soon he discovers compelling information contradicting the American government’s official version that a commercial 757 jet airliner crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Major Kruter’s discovery ignites an inner struggle between moral indignation and patriotism, catapulting him into a labyrinth of intrigue, madness and suspense, setting him on a collision course with his destiny of which he would find no return.

Film Festival Screenings:
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival

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When the shoe’s on the other foot: Domestic violence against men is an unspoken subject but it’s more prevelant in our society than we think. this movie shows the ugly other side of domestic violenc.

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Comedy:

Suburban Heroes Episode 1: Two slackers start a superhero team to get money from the government despite a lack of any actual powers. In order to get the federal grant they must convince at least one person with real powers to join their team so they start a reality show and hold tryouts in hopes of finding such a person.

Festival Screenings:
Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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Misadventures in Space: Star Trek movie parody where Little Rascals meets Lost in Space. Featuring adult film actress Naomi St. Claire and Lloyd Kaufman.

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Children:

Sharing GOD Kid Style: Sharing GOD Kid Style follows best friends on a unique journey sharing God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in cute funny spiritual vignettes.

Festival Screenings:
International Christian Film Festival- Best Film

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