2003 MELBOURNE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (SEP 11-14, 2003) MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, USA This summary of the 2003 MIFF schedule was consolidated from 4 pdf files and several htm files contained on the official web page. Sorry for any error, omissions or typos. The official webpage for MIFF is http://3boysproductions.com/ ============================================ Complete alphabetical listing ============================================ Features: "The Annihilation of Fish" Director: Charles Burnett Producers: Paul M. Heller & John Remark, Cast: James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder "CHARLIE: The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin" Director:Richard Schickel "Flyfishing" Director: David Williams "Mantrap" Director Alexander Pelet Narbonne "Time of the Wolf" Director: Rod Pridy, Cast: Burt Reynolds, Marthe Keller, Sir John Neville, Devin Douglas Drewitz, Jason Priestley =================================================== Shorts: "1000 Words" Director: Joann Tyson "10:30 Check-Out" Director: Michael Baumgarten "A Very Proud House" Director: Leddi Shattuck "Akryls" Directors: Yann Couderc, Bruno Hajnal & Xavier Henri "An Arrow" Director:Shirin Bargh Navard, Mohammed Reza Jahan Panah "Another Kafafle" Director:Aralis Bloise "At Dawning" Director: Martin Jones, Starring Jenny Agutter "At The End of The Thread" Directors:Jerome Decak, Cecile Detez de la Dreve, Olivier Laneves, Melina Milcah "Autobank" Director: Matthew Ehlers "Batman: Dead End" Director: Sandy Collora "Bigfoot"-The E! True Hollywood Story" Director: Doug Gordon "Breaking In" Director: James Russell "Bruce Goodwin Citizen Activist" Director: James Lasley "Bum Runner" Director: Steve Herold "Charsho" Director:Mahrash Sheikholeslami "C.L.A.M.P." Director: Ryan Lewis "Crease" Directors: Francois LePeintre, Antoine Arditti & Audrey Delpuech "Diagnosis" Director: Alison Marek "Discovery" Director:Andy Revins "Doggie Megaphone Training" Director: Ed Richards "Downsizing" Director:J. Brad Wilke "Dr. Cuddle" Director: Anja Jacobs "Elin and Lisa" Director:Charlotta Lennartsdotter "Fallen From the Sky" Directors:Simon Bourgeois, Alexandre Bretheau & Gabriel Maymon "Fast Film" Director:Virgil Widrich "Fast Food Feast" Director: Patrick Lake "Filthy" Director: Andrew C. Lalino "First Rule of Seduction" Director:Keith Hartman "Flesh Orgy of the Zombie Totem" Director: James W. Harris "Florida Sucks?" Director: Adrian "Fortitude" Director:Nicolás Pucciarelli "Golden" Hybrasil Directors: Ducharme Brothers Animation "Henry David Thoreau: Role Model" Director: Paul Sullivan "How to Cope With Death" Director: Ignacio Ferreras "Indigen" Directors:Nicolas Chevallier, Laurent Sauvage, Alexandre Teil, Julien Van Hoenacker "Inside Out" Director: Fred Zara "Is This Your Mother?" Director: Jeremy Garelick "J & J Exterminators" Michael Freeman "The Last Slice" Directors:Ricky Cheung, Michelle Harris, Sean Harvey, & Michael James "Leave It" Director: Laura Jean Cronin "LIFT" Director: Mark P. Smith "Natasha" Director:Signe Baumane "Nice Weather for Ducks" Lemon Jelly AIRSIDE "Ocularist" Director: Vance Malone "Paperman" Directors: Philip & Robert Snyder "Pearblossom Hwy" Directed by Carrie Specht "Persistence" Director: James J. Cullinane "Perspective" Director:Katharine G Leis "Quest for the Holy Porcelain" Director Ari Eisner "Relative Dysfunction" Director:Demi Pietchell "Room 32" Director:Victoria Larimore "SCHENGLET®" Director: Laurent Nčgre "Sea of Love" Director:J. Brad Wilke "Shalizeh" Director Azam Najafian "Smoking Ninja" Directors:Daniel Dennis & Carlos Navarro "Snow From China" Directors: Fabrice Lagayette, Ngoc-Duy-Vu Le, Francois Le Bourg & Nicolas Monier "Sunday Biscuit's" Director: Mike Morris "Sunshinola" Director:Andrew Allan "Symon: A Self-Portrait" Director:Ted Sullivan "Tim Tom" Directors: Cristel Pougeoise & Romain Segaud "Time & Again" Director: Todd Thompson Starring Seymour Cassel "Times Square" Director: Muriel Magenta "To the Right, Entering the 4th Dimension" Directors: Julien Castillan, Fabrice LaCroix, Fabien Le Gal & Mathew Pallet "War of the Worlds(Repeat)" Director: Rocky Yost "What Really Happened During the Cuban Missile Crisis" Director: Charles McNamara Selected for Preview: ==================== "13 Seconds" Director: Jeff Thomas "Ghost House" Director:Darren D Humphrey "The Gripping Legend and the Unbridled Horror of the Screaming Phantasm" Director: Patrick Algermissen "History of the River Dragon" Director: Jeremiah Baumbach "Make -A -Wish with Sue Dontell" Director: Sue Dontell "Ray Thunderhawk Big Cat Rescue: Freedom" Director: Jim & Carol Minton ============================================ THURSDAY NIGHT. DA KINE DIEGO, SATELLITE BEACH ============================================= "Times Square" 4 min, 2002, USA Animation A homage to nyc, this 3d animation is driven by universal attraction to Times Square. muriel.magneta@asu.edu --------------------------------- "J&J Exterminators" 3 minutes, 2002 usa, animation, director Michael C Freeman A bug exterminator job gets out of control after gentile Jennea and destructive Justin dash again each other. -------------------------------------------------- "Fast Food Feast" 3:25, 2002 usa, ny, director Patrick Lane While at lunch, a bear is forced to defend his food and himself against an anthropomorphic factory. lake_patrick@hotmail.com -------------------------------------------- "To The Right, Enter the 4th Dimension" 7:34 Director: Julien Castilian, Fabrice LaCroix, Fabiel LeGal & Mathew Pallet. Henry would never have thought that hangine a painting have turned into such a delirious nightmare. maud@oneplusone.fr -------------------------------------------- Dr cuddle 20:00, 2003 Germany, Director: Anja Jacobs An unusual friendship between a 9 year old girl and her mother's new boyfriend. Selection 2003 Slamdance Film Festival eva.steegmayer@filmakademie.de -------------------------------------------- Golden Hybrasil Director Ducharme Brothers Animation 2002, USA, Animation An animated music video produced for the Boston-based band Hybrasil www.dbanimation.com --------------------------------- Shaliezaeh 14 minutes,2002 Iran, Director: Azam najafian A young girl believes that a river can make her wish come true. --------------------------------------- "Doggie Megaphone Training" 2003, USA, Florida Directors: The Richards Brothers -------------------------------------------- Downsizing 16:00 2002, USA Director: J. Brad Wilke Little Johnnie gets downsized out of his own family. -------------------------------------------- Florida Sucks 9:32, 2003, USA, Florida. Directory Adrian Vail. A surfer's friend from Hawaii dares to criticize Florida waves. Filmed entirely on the east coast of Florida. ============================================ End of Thursday night ============================================ ============================================ Friday afternoon - Oaks Theatres ============================================ TIME OF THE WOLF (2003) Films 4 Families, Canada, 87 minutes After the untimely death of his parents, young Aaron McGregor is taken to live with his only known relatives, his Uncle Archie (Reynolds) and Aunt Rebecca (Keller), who live on a farm in the countryside. Though he struggles at first with the austerity of his new home and his new school, he finds kinship with a pack of wolves, and in particular a young wolf wounded by hunters, who he secretly nurses back to health. -------------------------------------------- SMOKING NINJA (2003) USA, 23 minutes, English A journalist looking for that pivotal breakthrough story searches for a one-on-one interview with the last remaining ninja in existence in America. That ninja: the Smoking Ninja, a.k.a. Daniel Dennis (from the Monsters of the Mid-day). Director: Daniel Dennis & Carlos Navarro -------------------------------------------- FLYFISHING (2002) www.flyfishing.shootingpictures.co.uk England, 82 minutes, English Two men become escorts. Their debts diminish. Their problems mount. And their lives fall to pieces. Flyfishing combines the oldest profession in the world with the time-honoured truths of love - that it hurts, that there is someone for everyone and that no matter what the odds, true love conquers all. ============================================ =============================================== FILM NOIR 830 Friday Oaks ============================================== "Breaking In" 13:11 minutes 2002, USA, Texas Director:James Russell Jonathan Dooley is a young man at the end of his proverbial rope. Like most people in his situation, Jonathan sees three possible ways out: End it all, commit a crime, or find a way to get rich quick. -------------------------------------------- "Room 32" 9:36 minutes Director:Victoria Larimore "Heart Of Darkness meets Body Heat in less than 10 minutes!" -------------------------------------------- "10:30 Check-Out" 19:00 minutes Director: Michael Baumgarten starring Yvette McClendon, Holly Fields (WISHMASTER 2, THE BIG PICTURE), A.J. Buckley (DISTURBING BEHAVIOR), Robert Peters (GO, OCEAN?S ELEVEN, AMERICAN PIE 2), and Steve Wilcox (AMERICAN ME, GANG RELATED) -------------------------------------------- "Relative Dysfunction" 13:00 minutes Director: Demi Pietchell Jordyn, a sarcastic and defiant teenage girl, feels trapped between her mother's prying, and the lack of attention from her father. She decides to live her life her own way! -------------------------------------------- "Another Kafafle" 6:34 minutes, 2003, USA Director: Aralis Bloise http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/aralis -------------------------------------------- "Is This Your Mother?" 12:00 minutes, United States, 2001 Director: Jeremy Garelick A day in the life of a down and out daydreaming diner boy Jeremy graduated from Yale University in 1998 with degrees in both Film and Theatre Studies. After working for a year at Creative Artists Agency, he joined director Joel Schumacher as his assistant on the sets of the critically acclaimed Tigerland, Bad Company and Phone Booth. Garelick is currently serving as the Second Unit Director and Associate Producer on Schumacher's Veronica Guerin. ========================================================= End Of Fri Night Noir Oaks ========================================================= ======================================================== Start Fri Horror Oaks ========================================================= "Quest for the Holy Porcelain" 7:13 minutes, 2002, USA Director: Ari Eisner Monster movies and lemonade prove to be a dangerous mix in the middle of the night! -------------------------------------------- "Bigfoot"-The E! True Hollywood Story 2003, USA, Florida, Director:Don Tynes Writer/Producer:Doug Gordon The hard luck story of another big-time celebrity. Doug is the host of Orlando's Comedy Night School! Saturday nights at 12:35 on Local 6 WKMG. -------------------------------------------- "Paperman" 7:30 minutes 2003, USA Directors: Philip & Robert Snyder A beleaguered newspaper editor/reporter/photographer/paperboy, who is bullied by his abusive boss. Winner of the Best Film Award at the 2002 Filmmakers Connection Minifest -------------------------------------------- "At The End of The Thread" 4:55 minutes, 2002, France Directors:Jerome Decak, Cecile Detez de la Dreve, Olivier Laneves, Melina Milcah -------------------------------------------- "Sea of Love" 4:30 minutes, 2003, USA Director:J. Brad Wilke "Come with me, my love, to the sea, the sea of love" -------------------------------------------- "Indigen" 6:11 minutes, 2003, France Directors:Nicolas Chevallier, Laurent Sauvage, Alexandre Teil, Julien Van Hoenacker. It's like Tom & Jerry, but just a little more bloody! Sensitive souls refrain. -------------------------------------------- "Filthy" 35:00 minutes, 2003, USA, Florida, Director: Andy Lalino When beautiful news reporter Dana Diamond goes in search of the ultimate story, she gets more than she bargained for. Her worst nightmares are realized as SHE now becomes the ultimate story. www.filthythemovie.com ============================================ End of fri-horror =============================================== ============================================ Start Underground Friday Night 1130pm Oaks =============================================== Lemon Jelly "Nice Weather for Ducks" 3:58 minutes, 2002, UK, Director: AIRSIDE With the infectious electro-duo, Lemon Jelly, around, the legendary British weather never sounded so attractive. -------------------------------------------- "Bruce Goodwin Citizen Activist" 13:00 minutes, 2003, USA, Florida, Director: James Lasley A local man finds philosophy in the garbage of others. -------------------------------------------- "Akryls" 5:01 minutes, 2003, USA Directors: Yann Couderc, Bruno Hajnal & Xavier Henri Let us enter the tiny universe: of the infinitesimal in the infinitely big and beyond. -------------------------------------------- "First Rule of Seduction" 8:00 minutes, 2003, USA, Director: Keith Hartman A would be temptress demonstrates the First Rule of Seduction: "If you're going to get what you want, you'd better know what you want." www.keith-hartman.com -------------------------------------------- "Bum Runner" 9:08 minutes, 2003, USA Directors: Steve Herold and Kurt Christiansen Definitely not PC comedy from the makers of H.R. Pukenshette and featuring Joseph Reitman(of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and American Pie 2) and Fred "Rerun" Berry from "What's Happening!" -------------------------------------------- "Crease" 5:35 minutes Directors: Francois LePeintre, Antoine Arditti & Audrey Delpuech There is no ground and everything is suspended by threads. -------------------------------------------- "Natasha" 9:00 minutes, 2001, USA, Director:Signe Baumane Natasha is a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance. www.lovemenatasha.com -------------------------------------------- "Flesh Orgy of the Zombie Totem" 14:00 minutes, Georgia, USA 2003, Director: James W. Harris A professor steals a fabled zombie totem from Amazon natives. He is plunged into a depraved maelstrom of blood, horror, sexual perversion, soul-death and mind control. More real than reality itself!!! Edited completely in-camera. Tika! -------------------------------------------- "Fallen From the Sky" 7:42 minutes, Directors:Simon Bourgeois, Alexandre Bretheau & Gabriel Maymon In an immense desert, a big lankey creature can't be stopped. ============================================ end of underground ============================================ =========================================== Start Saturday Mornng Real World ============================================ Discovery 11:40 minutes, 2003, USA, Director:Andy Rovins Sometimes the evidence doesn't tell the truth. www.cinematicks.com -------------------------------------------- Diagnosis 11:00 minutes, Director: Alison Marek A filmmaker struggles with a medical condition. -------------------------------------------- War of the Worlds(Repeat) 2003, USA, Florida, Director: Rocky Yost Two kids listen to the radio. Florida Metropolitan University -------------------------------------------- A Very Proud House 26:23 minutes, 2003, USA The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House. Director: Leddi Shattuck Narrated by: Anthony Edwards -------------------------------------------- Inside Out 7:00 minutes,2002, USA Director: Fred Zara Writer: Christopher Zara Two embittered outcasts spend a dreary morning lamenting their lot in life. www.sketchbookproductions.com -------------------------------------------- Sunshinola 23:00 minutes, 2003, USA, Florida, Director:Andrew Allan Florida citus baron, Delancey Roostercraw is clearly appalled at the "preverted" thinking of the Black Eyes of America Faction (BEAF). -------------------------------------------- The Last Slice 5:00 minutes, 2000, USA, Florida written, directed, produced and stars: Ricky Cheung, Michelle Harris, Sean Harvey, & Michael James -------------------------------------------- Sunday Biscuit's 19:43 minutes, Director: Mark Morris The story centers on the relationship between a father who is becoming delusional and his daughter's frustrated attempts to control him. -------------------------------------------- Leave It 28:30 minutes, 2002, USA, Director: Laura Jean Cronin Trish gets caught with her dog off-leash in a city park and is sentenced to dog obedience school where she meets the girl of her dreams. ================================================================== End Saturday Realworld ================================================================== ================================================================== Start Saturday Art House 10am Oaks (concurrent with above session =================================================================== "Persistence" 11:00 minutes, 2002, USA, Florida, Director: James J. Cullinane Is Henry Cook just a pesky old man causing trouble at the nursing home? Or is something more going on? The wonderfully expressive face of Richard Hoover is a major asset in this touching story of determination. ------------------------------------------------------- "Fast Film" 14:05 minutes, 2003, Austria, Director:Virgil Widrich A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy?s secret headquarters. This classic plot conceals an homage to action movies providing a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. 2003 Selection Cannes Film Festival www.widrichfilm.com -------------------------------------------- "Perspective" 8:00 minutes, 2003, USA, Florida, Director:Katharine G Leis The truth only exists in one's own unique perspective. -------------------------------------------- "1000 Words" 14:19 minutes, 2003, USA Director: Rachel Janowicz, Producer: Joann Tyson Central Florida filmmakers, Joann Tyson and Rachel Janowicz pay homage to the glorious black and white world of film noir in their story of a writer's bad day, a fatal attraction and a murder with a twist! -------------------------------------------- "LIFT" 12:00 minutes, Director: M.P. Smith The story about a man and a woman stuck in a constant cycle of performing the same task over and over in a monochrome environment until the appearance of a red one. -------------------------------------------- "Elin and Lisa" 7:00 minutes, 2002, Sweden Director: Charlotta Lennartsdotter Two girlfriends meet up before going to a party on a summer afternoon in Sweden. They borrow a boat and in the shallows of the tranquil lake the two young women reflect upon the nature of man and love. -------------------------------------------- "Fortitude" (La Fortaleza) 5:00 minutes, 2003, Argentina, Director:Nicolás Pucciarelli A story of a twelve-year-old girl, Martina on the last day of summer at her grandparents? country house. Holidays are over, Martina is playing hide-and-seek with her friends at noon, 'the siesta hour', before she has to leave. She is facing the dilemma of which one of the boys she likes the most -------------------------------------------- "C.L.A.M.P." 2003, USA, Florida, Director: Ryan Lewis (Contemplate, Love, Art, Music, Power) This story of an artist expressing his dying love for his girlfriend. -------------------------------------------- "Charsho" 15:00 minutes, 2000, Iran, Director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami A Turkman girl marries to a boy from another tribe. Selection 2001 Toronto Int.Film Festival -------------------------------------------- "Snow From China" 7:07 minutes Directors: Fabrice Lagayette, Ngoc-Duy-Vu Le, Francois Le Bourg & Nicolas Monier Snow creatures come to life summoned by the circle of old trees. -------------------------------------------- Make a wish - no information ======================================================= End Of Sat Art House ======================================================= ======================================================= VIP SATURDAY NIGHT - Henniger Center ===================================================== "What Really Happened During the Curban Missile Crisis" 17:00 USA, 2002 Director: Charles McNamara. At the height of the Cuban missile crisis, in an apartment in Little Havana, a single mother tries to toilet train her distracted 2 year old son Spencer. Selection 2003 New York International Latino Film Festival --------------------------------- Time & Again 22:00, Florida, USA ,2003 Director: Todd Thompson A story about life, love, death, a man and his clock. Starry Academy Award nominated Seymour Cassel and Margaret Blye. Selection 2003 Film Festival www.starsnorth.com -------------------------------------------- How To Cope With Death 3:00, 2002, UK Director: Ignacio Ferreras Death comes to all of us, but does the Grim Reaper always do his research for the requisite thoroughness? www.tandemfilms.com ------------------------------------------------ At Dawning 15:00, UK, 2002, 35mm Director: Martin Jones Dawn is breaking over London, Two people are trying to escape: one from a stranger's bed. the other from life. Starring Jenny Agutter. Winner of the Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short film at the Berline International Film Festival 2002 www.shortfilmbureau.com -------------------------------------------- Dead End 8:00, USA, 2002, Director Sandy Collora Starring Clark Bartram and Andrew Koenig. The archetypcal hero faces his old nemesis and the greatest challenge of his life. www.collorstudios.com -------------------------------------------- 10 minute imtermission -------------------------------------------- Ocularist 8:20, USA, 2002, Director: Vance malone A fascinating look at Fred Harwin's transformation of faces outlooks and lives. www.foodchain.com 2003 selection Sundance Film Festival -------------------------------------------- Schenglet 6:45, Switzerland, 2002. Director: Laurent Negre A witty and original short film about the potential abuses of immigration police throughout the European zone. Selection 2003 Brooklyn International Film Festival -------------------------------------------- Autobank 2:25 USA, 2002. Director: Matthew Ehlers A drive-thru bank teller bent on customer service knows that it's all about the first impression. www.eggwork.com Selection 2003 Sundance Film Festival. -------------------------------------------- "Tim Tom" 5:00, France 2002, Directors: Christel Pougeoise and Romain Segaud. Romain and Christel met at SupInfoCom, one of the top animation schools in France with an emphasis on teaching CGI animation. Tim Tom took 16 months to create and had its US premier at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. maud@oneplusone.fr -------------------------------------------- Bob Lizek - Introduction of 2003 Guest Celebrity Patrick Gallo -------------------------------------------------- "Symon: Portrait of an Artist" 15:00, USA, 2003 Color DV Written by Patrick Gallo and Ted Sullivan Directed by Ted Sullivan Starring Patrick Gallo and Katie Massa. special appearances by Ted Sullivan and Montano Sokolow. A documentary film about the eccentric artist working in Los Angeles. Bohemian Management 323-651-5001 -------------------------------------------- "Henry David Thoreau: Role Model" 12:17, USA, 2001, Directed by Paul Sullivan Starring Ritch Duncan Comedian Ritch Duncan goes to Walden Pond to see if anything that Thoreau wrote about is left. He discovers that he has to dig a little deeper than anticipated to find Thoreau's spirit there. Selection 2001 DaVinci Days film Festival. contact: Gerri Abrahamsen 212 -245-2063 ------------------------------------------------ Premier of "Preview - trailer of "First Time Caller" USA, 2003 Director: Paul Sullivan, Producer: Ted Sullivan Late night AM radio talk show host, Dale Sweeney, is desperately trying to find an audience for his universally ignored show. During one broadcast, he receives a strange phone call in an indecipherable language. When two secretive government agents arrive investigating a UFO sighting, Dale deduces that the mystery caller must actually be an extraterrestrial trapped in Melbourne, Florida and sets out to discover it. ======================================================= END OF VIP SESSION =======================================================