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List of New England Films at the 2000 Independent Feature Project Market
Sun, 10/01/2000 - 00:00 – michele
A List of the New England Projects featured at the 2000 Independent Feature Project MarketBy Jason Sciarrone
Adrift
Documentary, Video, Color An Irish-American family with "Kennedy envy" heads to Alaska in the 1960s to satisfy its fiercely competitive father's political ambitions. Life seemed ideal until the family faced its worst nightmare: a second generation of Curran children would lose their father to illness. In ADRIFT, filmmaker Tom Curran gives us a visually stunning and emotionally searing feature-length portrait of how he and his family members have remained trapped in their father's dreams of success. Director: Tom Curran Cast: Mary Jane Curran, Bob Libbey, Gavin Curran Contact: Atlas Gets a Drink Two innovative fish turn the world upside down. Watch it online at AtomFilms.com. Director: Michael Overbeck Contact: Crash Pad and The One Arm
Bandit A bungled burglary leads to the thief spending the night in an unsuspecting couple's bed. Chased out in the morning, he falls down three flights of stairs through a glass door. That day, hobbled by a cast on his arm, he has trouble with a stick-up; he can't get to his victim's wallet and keep him covered at the same time (it's the unsuspecting husband again). He accidentally shoots himself in the foot trying. Nevertheless, with one arm and one leg now, he gets the money and escapes on piggyback. From a new 92-minute collection of shorts, FILMS BY RICHARD ALLEN. Director: Richard Allen Cast: Paul B. Price, Larry Bryggman, Chevy Chase Contact: Dischord On the brink of her world tour, rock violinist Gypsy puts down her violin and walks away. A retired detective isn't buying the reports of a local girl "accidentally" drowning. In the smallest, quietest corner of New England unfolds a disquieting tale of what happens when music meets evil, and a lyrical portrait of the ever-present guardians who preserve life's natural harmony. Director: Mark Wilkinson Cast: Thomas Jay Ryan, Annunziata Gianzero, Dick Bakalyan Contact: Drama, 35mm, Color, 2000, 94 min. Sam, a New York businesswoman, goes AWOL from her cushy life and meets Cole, a mysterious rogue, in a working-class bar. Feeling wreckless, she suggests they take a ride "to the sea" and finds herself on a fugitive's tour of New England ending in Maine. That state casts its mystical spell until the criminals trailing Cole arrive. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: John Sullivan Cast: Michael Laurence, Lauren Stamile, Diana DeMar Contact: Drama, 35mm, Color, 1999, 35 min. An interloper threatens the harmony of a utopian community in transcendentalist New England. Based on the true story of Bronson Alcott's utopian experiment in rural Massachusetts, FRUITLANDS 1843 is a provocative look at idealism and human frailty. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Vasiliki Katsarou Cast: Will Lyman, Paula Plum, Ken Cheeseman Contact: Green River A xenophobic white homicide detective investigates a voodoo murder in Miami's Little Haiti. Convinced that a vengeful Tonton Macoute is guilty of the crime, the cop's prejudice blinds him to the truth, and the corruption, betrayal and love hidden where he least expects them. Writers: Bond Sandoe, Jeanne Rogow Contact: Psychological Drama, Super 16, Color HARWOOD is a genre-blurring tale of mothers and daughters, both real and surrogate. Dr. Sarah Lyne has toiled for years to perfect the Lyne Process, a procedure designed to cure neurological ailments. After her career and family fall apart, Sarah's sanity erodes. She misuses the Lyne Process on a family friend, imposing her madness on those closest to her. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Morgan Roberts Cast: Joan Kerr, Madeline McDonough-Maher, Julia Martin Contact: Drama, Video, Color, 2000, 115 min. A rash of high profile robberies is taking place on the streets. No one is at ease, and the city is nervous. The media calls the robbers "Ice Grill" bandits because of the diamond stud stocking caps they wear. Simon is the brains. Bronco is the force. Together, they've pulled off dozens of heists, until one day, while trying to sell some jewels from a recent job, they are forced to kill the underling of a major crime boss. Written in the spirit of film noir, complete with a surprise ending. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Johnathan Stuart Cast: Travis Johnson, James Parris, Johnny Kitt Contact: Experimental, Video, Color, 67 min. One summer weekend in 1999, Duffy prepares for the arrival of Lulu and Fred (two New Yorkers she's never met but impulsively invited to visit via e-mail). At the same time, Lulu and Fred consider their own agenda. They wonder: is life in the great city as magical as it once was, or is Maine the way life could be? As the three grow close, relationships shift and secrets eventually come out...or do they? View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Kate Kaye Cast: Tami Duffy, Buffy Miller, Scott Mullenberg Contact: Elizabeth is stuck in a small town. A stranger reconnects Elizabeth with her desire to be an artist. Her husband expects her to support his dream to be a race car driver. When Elizabeth begins to rock the status quo, no one is more upset than Barend, her sexual obsession. She discovers freedom at a price when an unlikely hero points her toward a new future. Director: John C. Thompson Contact: Drama, 16mm, Color, 60 min. KING MIDAS is a modern-day gangster film based on the ancient Greek myth, Midas and the Golden Touch. The protagonist, Tommy Gold, is a cocaine dealer on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, who uses his illegal fortune to go into the hip-hop music business before he is brought down by rival drug dealers. Director: Brandon David Cole Cast: Justin Gagnon, Angelica Lawrence Contact: Experimental Comedy, Super 16, Color, 105 min. Marlon Bishop comes from Brooklyn's Gowanus Projects. Sam Roberts hails from White Mountain, New Hampshire. Coincidentally, both have been trying to develop a virtual space based on their respective surroundings. When they are introduced on line by a cryptic presence neither perceives, they decide to combine their efforts into a single, bigger idea where "the 'hood meets the woods." As they set out to realize this virtual experience, Marlon, Sam and the friends they recruit discover they must cross over and experience each others' worlds for real. And so begins an offbeat, American adventure where urban hip-hop flavor, rural folk humor, and the real and the virtual collide head on with the ghostly force that set the story in motion. Developed as a multi-platform "integrated content project," LEGEND OF THE CORNBOMB SPACE may be experienced as a traditional feature film as well as in the virtual space the film is based upon (via DVD and the web). Director: Jim Swaffield Cast: Adrian Grenier, Shock G, Sasha Knops Contact: Documentary, 16mm, B/W, 1999, 30 min. The Bob Dylan of D.A. Pennebaker's DON'T LOOK BACK had wit, charisma and energy. He was nervous, subversive and stupid. Fascinated by the mysterious power of Pennebaker's film and obsessed with the image of Dylan, two student filmmakers pick up a camera and head to New York on an impossible quest. The goal: to meet Dylan himself. Directors: Randy Bell, Justin Rice Contact:
Documentary, Video, Color, 2000, 89 min. When three wildly ambitious but so far unsuccessful producers asked documentary filmmaker Harvey Hubbell, V, to work on their low-budget movie, he said yes -- if they'd let him make a documentary about it. LOOP DREAMS is the zany, but endearing result -- a funny, sexy unflinching look at the world of low-budget filmmaking. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Harvey Hubbell, V Contact: Drama, Video, Color, 10 min. Based on a true story, LIVE FREE OR DIE takes us into the Boston rock scene circa 1988 where bandmates Case, Robert and Dusty have just released their first record. Hungover after a night of celebration, and with nothing better to do, they decide to go up to New Hampshire and climb a mountain. What begins as just another romp turns into a story of loss and self-confrontation when one of the boys disappears on the mountain. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Randi Barros Cast: Bick, Gus Van Go, Gregory McLaughlin Contact: Marrakech Inshallah! Inspired by American author Paul Bowles, this lyrical tale about a Moroccan boy who runs away to Marrakech to find a lost brother draws the viewer into the poverty, magic and daily struggle of Marrakech's street kids. This is a story of North Africa's abandoned youth, torn between the traditions of the past and encroaching Western consumer values. Directors: Steffen Pierce, Christian
Pierce Cast: Assiz Rdadd, Hammadi Rdadd, Mohammed Rdadd Contact: Drama, 16mm, Color Three friends take a hard look at their own lives after a mutual friend takes his own. Peter has everything except the truth. Gary, his life-long friend, couldn't handle the truth. Jolie, Gary's girlfriend, couldn't hold on to the truth. And Robbie, Peter's girlfriend, refused to accept the truth. An up-all-night exploration into mortality, morality, sexuality, togetherness and closure as three friends grieve the loss of their friend. Director: Timothy Murphy Cast: Jamie McShane, Wilma Mondi, Cheyenne Benedict Contact: Documentary, Video, Color MY LUCKY PORN STAR is a feature-length documentary that addresses issues of sexuality, identity and erotic representation. Rock photogragher BC Kagan pursues American porn icon, Randy West, across the country to obtain a truly intimate view of him and to hopefully learn the truth about his life and loves. En route she encounters porn legends Nina Hartley, John Stagliano, Jerry Butler, and Jenna Jameson. Director: BC Kagan Cast: Randy West, BC Kagan Contact: Comedy, 6 min. A young man comes to university with the intention of becoming a spy, then disappears. Photographed with a Bolex in black and white, this silent film part Keaton, part Chaplin. Director: Alexander Olch Contact: Drama, 35mm, Color, 2000, 75 min. When nine travellers cross paths at a god-foresaken food and fueling "pitstop" along california's highways, a quirky tale of mistaken identity emerges between a murderer running from the law and a history teacher running from his wife. An ensemble piece about finding love, losing love, changing partners and moving on, PITSTOP has been described as Midsummer Night's Dream in a truckstop. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Dennis Lanson Cast: Time Winters, Paige Rowland, Betty Walton Contact:
Documentary, Video, Color, 2000, 69 min. THE PORK CHOP LOUNGE explores and observes a local performance troupe and the community that evolved as a result of their weekly performances. The group performs at AS220, an alternative arts space located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. This space exists to provide an open and permanent venue for artists. The galleries and stage are completely unjuried; any Rhode Island artist can exhibit or perform there. The documentary follows the Pork Chop Lounge Players through their weekly rehearsals to Sunday night performances at AS220. The show follows a variety show format with the Pork Chop Lounge players performing skits in between the evening's acts, comprised of audience members who are free to perform in any way they choose. Their only limitations are their imagination and a five-minute time limit. This documentary explores the elusive nature of these performances, the human needs that fuel them, and the affect it has on the busy, modern lives of those involved. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: John Lavall Cast: Lizzy Arujo, Umberto Crenca, Julie McGetrick Contact: Comedy, 35mm, Color, 2000, 26 min. In a contemporary retelling of James Joyce's Ulysses, an alienated everyman confronts questions of God and man in an ale-fueled odyssey through the streets and pubs of his town. He finally finds redemption in the powers of camaraderie, music, song, dance and love expressed in language borrowed from Molly Bloom's soliloquy. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Fred DeVecca Cast: Stephen Adams, Daniel Popowich, Doug Creighton Contact: Documentary, Video, Color, 2000, 90 min. SOUTHERN COMFORT is a true-life love story between a spirited cowboy and a city girl, with a mind-bending twist. Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual, is dying from ovarian cancer after 20 doctors have refused to treat him. All at once, Robert falls in love with Lola, a sultry male-to-female. SOUTHERN COMFORT is the first verite film to portray a trans-to-trans romance, set against a heartwrenching tale of prejudice. Director: Kate Davis Cast: Robert Eads Contact: Drama, 16mm, Color, 2000, 13 min. STICKY follows the inner and outward travels of Francis, a 13-year-old Catholic school girl growing up in Queens, New York. Viewers follow Francis as she deals with sex, spirituality and the seeds of obsession. Ultimately, STICKY is an intimate portrait of a young girl on the cusp of maturity and her search for strength in a constantly shifting world. View Streaming Trailerschoose media format Real Media G2 Windows Media Quicktime Director: Siobhan Dunne Cast: Ana Hevesi, Jennifer Ortiz, Melissa Rauch Contact: Screenplay STAY UNTIL TOMORROW is the funny and poetic story of Nina, a woman permanently in transit, seeking beauty in her rootless existence. Nina's latest plan is to drop in on her childhood friend Jim for a few weeks to study Italian in the library where he works. Meanwhile, the actor playing Jim (for STAY UNTIL TOMORROW is actually a film within a film) has several agendas of his own, such as trying to save this tale of longing from art film obscurity. Director: Laura Collela Contact: Drama/Comedy Screenplay UNCOMFORTABLE is a coming-of-age love triangle set in the college towns of Boston and Northampton, Massachusetts, during the early '90s heyday of gothic/industrial music. Justin French photographs Mica at an S & M club, and the obsession begins. Not one to do things the easy way, Justin attempts to use Mica's ex-lover, Felicia, as an intermediary for his courtship, and the emotional complications ensue. Cyber goths, acid-dropping bisexual clubees and Dr. Who all factor into this comedy/drama, set against a soundtrak of gloom and doom. Writer: Theodore Cormey Contact:
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