Come join us for our opening night Gala at Skellig's (which right next door), kicking off our conference weekend. Starting at 6:30pm until 9:30pm ( we're welcome to stay until they close at 2am). Great food, full bar, live music! Rub elbows with filmmakers, press, speakers, meet some of the CDIA & RCIFC staff and many more.
Saturday November 15th, 2008
Come join us for our Networking Gala at Skellig's (which right next door). Starting at 6:30pm until 9:30pm ( we're welcome to stay until they close at 2am). Great food, full bar, live music! Rub elbows with filmmakers, press, speakers, meet some of the CDIA & RCIFC staff and many more.
Sunday November 16th, 2008
Come join us for our closing night Awards Gala at Skellig's (which right next door). Starting at 6:30pm until 9:30pm ( we're welcome to stay until they close at 2am). Great food, full bar, live music! Rub elbows with filmmakers, press, speakers, meet some of the CDIA & RCIFC staff and many more.
Ruff Cutz is honored to introduce our Panels / Seminars / Workshops hosted & moderated by:
(Sunday, November 16th, 2008)
SIXTH & FINAL SESSION: 9:45AM - 10:45AM
Hosted & Moderated By: Kevin Anderton
PANEL TOPIC: Seminar / Q&A Session
PATRICK SMITH
Writer / Producer / Animator / Director Blend Films
MICHAEL PHILLIPS Principal Product Designer for Avid Technology, Inc. Emmy and Academy Award for Science & Technical Achievement
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There are now TWO screenings. One we recently added, as we had an overwhelming amount of submissions and wanted to showcase as many films as we possibly could. The first screening will be held Saturday, November 15th, 2008 5:30PM - 9PM. Right after the panels at CDIA (not Landmark Embassy Theatre). The second will go as planned at the Landmark Embassy Cinema (which is located right across the street from CDIA).
Films selected for screening will have a chance at $10,000 in cash awards and also thousands more in film industry products and services.
Saturday run times will be 5:30pm - 10pm
1.
Shorts from the Dummy Corporation Produced by:
Kevin Anderton & Vic Clay
Directed by:
Kevin Anderton, David Kornfeld & George O'Connor
Written by: Kevin Anderton, George O'Connor & David Kornfeld.
Genre: Comedy
4min 30sec
5:30 PM
2.
Peril of the Poppy Producer / Director / Writer:
Corey Sheehan
Genre: Documentary
21min
5:35 PM
In the Past ten years the abuse and addiction of opiate painkillers has led to an epidemic of heroin addiction in the U.S. This video highlights the struggle of three addicts and their difficult road to treatment ad rehabilitation.
3.
Impressions Producer:
Robert Lancto & Autumn Pavlosky
Director:
Robert Lancto
Genre: Drama
12min
5:57 PM
An excerpt from the upcoming film Impressions, Focusing on a group of young adults confronting love and politics in the summer before the election of 2008.
4.
Se Conforment Se Chevaux Producer / Director / Writer
Charles Vuolo
Genre: Comedy
3m 30sec
6:10 PM
A short take on beat Poetry.
5.
Hit or Miss Producer / Director / Writer:
David La Carubba & Michael Ouellette
Genre: Comedy
29min
6:14 PM
A comedy about Noel Mooch who's stuck in a dead-end job with dreams of a more exciting life. Inspiration comes in the form of a hitman movie that sends Noel and his best friend Pete on a hilarious adventure of becoming hitmen and actually hired for an assassination.
6.
Truce Producer / Director / Writer
Shron Perpignani
Genre: Drama / Dark Comedy
13min 53sec
6:44 PM
When teenage Morgan gets on her mother's last nerve. Mom trots them off to therapy From the Freudian to the “fraidy Cat these drinks are strange bunch, leading the girls to realize they're on their own. After an uneasy truce, they undergo a tender, if short-lived reconciliation.
7.
Dawn Producer:
Kim Romano
Director / Writer:
Cody Romano
Two unsuspecting young lovers are guided by Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Through a labyrinth of hope, loss and unspeakable passion.
8.
Under The Hood Producer:
Katherine Doyle, Jessica Tlichaud
Director:
Simon Harling
Writer:
Simon Harling
Genre: Drama, Noir, Black Comedy
14min 45sec
7:07 PM
At the office of a seedy auto repair shop, Sofi attempts to get her car fixed for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately for her, she has to deal with the obnoxious manager, Ed, and his laid-back mechanic, Dick. Ed wants Sofi in the worst possible way, but Sofi definitely doesn't want Ed. However she does like Dick, and Dick like her back, but when Ed witnesses their mutual attraction and throws a spanner in the works, the barometer of sexual tension begins to slip into the danger zone. The temperature rises until an unexpected development causes their frustration to boil over in explosive finale.
A lighthearted story about a note that becomes a common thread, connecting many people together in a coffee shop through a series of miscommunications.
10.
Blue Jay Territory Producer:
Dromedar Film
Director:
Dagmar Kamlah
Genre: Documentary
71min
7:38 PM
Immigration not as drama but everyday life. I documented my perspective on the (slightly different) culture with a digital camera. Focusing on little things more then the big picture. Confronting home with the city, the personal with the public.
11.
Unmoored Producer:
Cary Wolinsky
Director:
Marie Brown, Yari Wolinsky
Writer:
Jenny Connell
Genre: Drama, Supernautral
16min 19sec
8:50 PM
When James dies unexpectedly, Sarah steals his ashes from her mother-in-law and smuggles them out of the funeral in a cookie tin. Hours later, she sits vigil on the porch of their lake house, the last place she saw him alive. Then James shows up. Has she lost her mind? What does he want? Unmoored is the story of a couple with one afternoon left to get things right.
12.
Hannah's Ride Producer:
Nadie Rice
Director /
Writer:
Anne Loyer
Genre: Drama
13min 20sec
9:07 PM
A snapshot of the unresolved tensions in an adolescent girl's struggle to find a place for herself. Working on a horse farm, Hannah must navigate physical danger, sexual aggression and own ambition, at home she confronts the suburban environment dominated by her mother's expectations.
13.
Drop Out Producer:
Al Beuscher
Producer/Writer/ Director:
Johnny Harper Writer:
Sam Lanckton
Genre: Alternative
12min 25sec
9:21 PM
Ernest “Zero” Chance drops out of college and moves home to do absolutely nothing, but instead absurdly stumbles his way through a series of zany adventures in the world of community college, suburban sexcapades, and dead-end jobs.
14.
Jazz Bridges Producer / Writer:
Nadeem Kazmi
Director:
Nadeem Kazmi & Laura Taflinger
Genre: Cultural / Ethno musicologicalrama / Doc
30min
9:34 PM
London , England , 2007: A unique event – worlds come together for a concert that fuses modern jazz with afghan folk music. This is a behind the scenes look at the rare uniting of cultures though the power of music more amazing when you consider that the afghans were banned from playing under the taliban.
15.
Bleeding Green Producer /
Director / Writer:
Kevin Massicotte
Genre: Documentary
19min
10:05 PM
Story of Hartford's Major league hockey fans; the glory of their past the hope of their future and the excruciating limbo of their present. Find out why “the Hartford Whalers, even though they don't exist, still have a lot going for them!”
Final Films Selected For Screening
Will Be Announced
Nov 11th, 2008
Films selected for screening will have a chance at $10,000 in cash awards and also thousands more in film industry products and services.
Sunday run times will be 11am - 6pm
1.
Sex Together Producer:
Image Icon Entertainment
Director / Writer
Jamie Benti
Genre: Comedy
5min
11:00 AM
* Does not qualifier for awards
Lonely guy takes a girl out on their first date to a great little Italian restaurant. They are having a fantastic evening, UNTIL, what seems an old boyfriend happens to be dining out at the same diner.
2.
Contemplating Producer / Director / Writer
Joe Sanchez
Genre: Drama
4min 25sec
11:05 AM
On his way uptown a young man runs into a stranger with some very much useful advise.
3.
Hand Made in America Producer / Director / Writer
Paul Lyzun
Genre: Documentary
14min 38sec
11:10 AM
In today's mass production, disposable culture, it seems alien that people can make a living by producing items, one at a time. Handmade in America explores the human element in manufacture and commerce to discover the unique value of handmade objects in America .
4.
Ottawa: A Festival Experience Producer / Director / Writer Benjamin Chou
Genre: Documentary / Animation
7m 52sec
11:26 AM
A short animated and live video documentary about the experiences and importance of an animation film festival in Ottawa , Canada .
5.
Five Minute Love Director Max
Lewontin
Writer Cody Romano
Genre: Comedy
15min
11:35 AM
A comedy short that follows a bachelor who is getting married, but has cold feet and runs away from wedding to go speed dating. He goes though a series of awful dates, ending with one woman who may change how he views commitment.
6.
Donatello's Producer / Director / Writer
Jonah David
Genre: Comedy
2min 20sec
11:50 AM
A man eating dinner with his daughter refuses to pay for his meal at a restaurant. After a long conversation with a confused waiter, the man finally pays – with monopoly money, only discovered by the waiter once the man has proudly marched out of the restaurant and down the street.
7.
Paper Angels Producer / Director AJ Ingoglia & Bob O'Reilly
Writer: Charles Hall
Genre: Drama
24min
11:53 AM
Brooklyn-born Frank Rice is harboring a secret. Marie Quintero of Long Island is a desperate for answers. In the aftermath of September 11, they will meet and begin a journey of remembrance, self-discovery and quiet heroism,, a journey of revelations.
8.
Early Releaec Producer / Director / Writer
Thomas Balsamides
Genre: Psychological Thriller
7min 7sec
12:18 PM
A women released from a mental institution only to return and kill the doctor who released her. Although she showed significant signs of improvement and was the model patient, in the end, she just could not let goof the craving to kill again.
9.
Good and Clean Producer / Director / Writer Kevin Dobies
Genre: Comedy
25min 37sec
12:26 PM
A neat freak wishes to rid the world of litter… until he encounters the litter bug!
10.
Museum Scandals
Producer:
Christina Vinsick & Gyonsyi Henson
Director: Sande Shurin
Writer: Bruce Levy
Genre: Drama / Comedy
15min 30sec
12:52 PM
At a fundraiser for an important NYC museum taking place in a trendy Soho art gallery, how far will they go to raise funds? How far will people the reporters go to make headlines & how far will people go to be seen and rub shoulders with the “right” people?
11.
Extreme Yoga Smackdown
Producer / Director / Writer
Daniel De Fabio
Producer / Director / Writer
Daniel De Fabio
Genre: Comedy
13min
1:09 PM
In the world of competitive yoga, four yogis haven risen to the highest level of practice, but one by one they must fall. In Extreme Yoga Smackdown there can be only one poser left posing. Keep your third eye open for all the yoga action.
12.
Sick Thinking
Producer / Director / Writer
Joseph P. Lavallee
Genre: Drama
10min 55sec
1:22 PM
When secrets come between a husband and wife, will she succumb to her sick thinking? A housewife with no excitement in her life poisons her husband in the ultimate act of revenge. After basking in the attention one gets from having a sick husband, will she take things to far?
13.
The Dreams of Leonardo Da Vinci
Producer / Director / Writer
Mick Cusimano
Genre: Animation
5min 47sec
1:33 PM
Leonardo da Vinci notebooks come alive.
14.
God's Country
Producer: Mike Messier
& Tim Labonte
Director / Writer: Mike Messier
Genre: Drama / Comedy Narrative
15min 20sec
1:40 PM
Writer Eddie Pause and his “confrontational therapist” Elizabeth Metzger discuss paranoia, a God caste system and a future society ruled by Canada .
15.
Project: Life Producer:
Alex Sparer & Jason Paul
Director: Jason Paul
Writer: Jason Paul & Steven
Wesolowski
Genre: Mockumentary
12min 53sec
1:56 PM
A fake Documentary that shows the behind the scenes footage of the creation of the universe. The trails and tribulations the prophets of the major religions undergo to create a TV Pilot that will become the greatest show unknown to man: Life.
16.
Distractions Producer/Writer
Kevin Craig West
MoBetta Films
Director:
Michalina Almindo
Genre: Drama
6min 16sec
2:09 PM
As technology expands, so goes ones focus. When tragedy strikes, how does one react? Whether good or bad karma rules. Unyielding focus an be deadly.
Part of a video series using footage of everyday activities to contemplate living as it happens. “Sweetly Hurrying Past” focuses on repetitious, cyclical and circular movement, as people as play, eat, walk, wait. It also experiments with using changes in music tempo to refocus the viewer's attention when video clips repeat.
18.
The Donor Producer:
Andrea Lyman
Director:
FC Paras
Writer:
Andrea Lyman, FC Paras, Albert Chan, & Alecia Batson
Genre: Comedy
7min 56sec
2:21 PM
In this award winning 48 hour film project comedic short, when a Chinese diplomat and potential sperm donor fall prey to a case of mistaken identity, two zany lesbians add to the confusion.
19.
Boxed In Producer:
Jim Dippolito
Director / Writer:
Joy E. Reed
Genre: Comedy
10min
2:30 PM
When Kate's mom call for computer help, she learns more then she bargained for.
20.
The Ringo Bingo Kid Producer:
Raul Gomez & Cassandra Gava
Director / Writer:
Raul Gomez
Genre: Drama/Family
60min
2:41 PM
For David growing up in a Northern California Town , and living with his grandmother is not an easy task, his best friends don't want to hang with him, and his grades are down. In short his life is in the dumps. One day his Grandmother takes him to Bingo with her, and he hits the jackpot. He finally reveals a secret and then everything changes for David.
21.
Attack Of The Slime People Producer:
Martin King & Robert Tiff Director:
Martin King
Writer:
Martin King & Robert Tiff
Genre: Comedy
89min
3:41 PM
An out of work has been director gets a second chance to make his movie. He has his script, his producer; all he needs is a cast. The problem is that he feels no one is right for the lead. When other elements try to close in on his vision he will do anything to keep it from happening…. Even murder.
22.
Luck Producer / Director / Writer
Robin Folsom
Genre: Non-Fiction
7min 30sec
5:11 PM
A non-fiction short film set to a narration written in a Seuss-like rhythm. The film challenges us to put out troubles in perspective by examining the lives of less-fortunate individuals who, despite significant obstacles, each manage to find some joy in their lives.
23.
Another Day Producer / Director / Writer
Chrisopher O'Coin
Genre: Drama
11min 18sec
5:18 PM
After a suicide bombing on American soil a south African expert notices that Americans, like some in her home country, have grown desensitized in a time of political and social crisis.
24.
Flowing Upstream Producer / Director / Writer
Liz Kratzer
Genre: Documentary
10min 22sec
5:29 PM
Examines the Waterway Project proposed by the President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak. The Project proposes to connect Seoul to the Busan with a 336 mile canel. It focuses on the public's opinion, and ultimate role in reversing the President's plans to move forward with the project.
25.
Heal Thyself Producer / Director / Writer
Norm Hacker
Genre: Trailer
5min
5:41 PM
Currently a series of interviews with doctors, healers and cancer survivors with the intention of giving hope and mental strength to people with cancer and in their own body's self healing abilities.
26.
Communication Producer / Director / Writer
Corina Baluta
Genre: Drama
7min 30sec
5:47 PM
A look at how communication has changed nowadays and the tendency of the individual, from the developed countries, to isolate. The story revolves around and immigrant who goes through difficult times trying to adapt to the new busy society. He communicates to his friend and family about his struggle to communicate.
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