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NOON TO 2PM
Luck And Leverage - Written and Directed by Dustin Adair
A hit man is hired by a wife to kill her husband in this intriguing, film noir thriller. What the hit man finds when he arrives, is a bit more than he bargained for...
Anna In The Sky - Written and Directed by Mark Edgington
This witty film is a visually-lush story about a young art student’s obsession with his former lover, set against a background of gritty cityscapes and voodoo incantations.
God Laughed - Written and Directed by Bob Derosa
If falling in love is heaven, then why is dating hell? Spend a day with Alan as he searches for signs of divine intervention in his failed relationships. In Alan’s world, love fades, God laughs, and the greatest treasure of all...is hope.
Once Again - Written and Directed by Ben Wolf
This riveting film is about a Harlem resident who gets a rare second chance to cheat his fate: death as an innocent bystander in a botched robbery.
Swept Off My Feet - Written and Directed by Ron Tibbett (PREMIERE)
Stu, a cab-driving poet who has writer’s block, and Mr. Rhythm, a dancer whose recent problems with drugs has halted his dancing, need an angel to save them. Into their lives comes Lana, a Wellness Center fitness instructor, who has her own problems: she’s looking for someone less “boring” and “predictable” to sweep her off her feet...
Planet-X - Written and Directed by Alex Barton (PREMIERE)
An American space crew is sent by NASA to Planet-X to find out what happened to the crew sent there before them. What they find when they land isn’t friendly...
Puss In Books - A Documentary Film by Gary Rosa
This engaging, charming film takes a humorous and thought-provoking look at cats throughout the United States that call a library their home. These cats and the librarians who care for them belong to the Library Cat Society, an organization whose mission is “to promote the establishment of cats in a library setting.” “Puss in Books” goes behind the scenes - and between the stacks - to tell the story of this burgeoning movement.
The Fun Junkies 2: Electric Bugaboo - Written and Directed by Ron Rodenmeyer
The Fun Junkies, Abby, Missy and Lauren, are summoned by the mysterious “Electric Bugaboo” to help a couple of lost souls. Will Max Elgin, who’s addicted to cassette tapes, and John Luke, who’s addicted to unattractive hair coloring, respond to their special brand of therapy and find it within themselves to let go and have fun? As The Fun Junkies say: “We don’t need crack, when we’ve got jumping jacks!”
The Apple - Written and Directed by Johnny Benton Weaver
There is nothing to say about this film other than it is, by far, the best film ever created in the State of Mississippi.
Waking In Mississippi - A Documentary Film by Christie Herring and Andre Robinson
This film chronicles a two-year period in Canton, a central Mississippi town of 11,000, from 1994-1995. The film is based upon the irony of Hollywood filmmakers fabricating a race riot in Canton, just one year after actual rioting threatened the town, following the highly-controversial election of Canton’s first black and first female mayor, Mayor Alice Scott.
A Quiet Chapter - Written and Directed by Nara T. Garber
This thought-provoking film examines a pivotal moment in the lives of a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction. Samantha Allen’s already tense relationship with her mother has been pushed to the breaking point by her grandmother’s deathbed tales of adoption. Eager to embrace these revelations as a link to something more meaningful than her day-to-day existence, Samantha escapes into fantasies of the beautiful and mysterious mother she never knew. The truth, however, has another surprise in store - one that forces mother and daughter to re-examine both themselves and each other.
A Bedtime Story - Written and Directed by Ron Brown
After a long day with two children and the demanding job of motherhood, she is so tired. Her plan for the rest of the night: sleep. His plan for the night, after a day on the job, is making love. “A Bedtime Story” is a humorous glimpse at this couple as they try - and try again - to achieve their conflicting goals.
Mid-Life Crisis - Written and Directed by Bob Jones
This comedy is about a film professor up for tenure, which he’s not sure he wants, who faces a crisis when his wife threatens to leave him for another shot at singing with her old rock-n-roll band.
A Refutation Of Time - Written and Directed by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino
Using the device of an extraordinarily lengthy piece of anonymous e-mail received by the narrator, this unique film describes the kind of collapse of time and space and serendipitous chains of meaning that can occur using search vehicles on the internet. Juxtaposing various personalities including Will Rogers and Jorge Luis Borges, and different geographical locations such as stops and roadside diners along Route 66, coincidence becomes metaphor and metaphor takes on the ring of truth.
Bufard - Written and Directed by Diego Velasco, Jr. (PREMIERE)
This fine, haunting, student film tells the story of Bufard, a police officer who suffers humiliation daily from his fellow officers. What they don’t know, is that Bufard is also suffering from a terminal disease. Facing these two realities, Bufard’s life takes a dramatic turn when he is involved in a sudden act of violence during a convenience store robbery.
Ulee’s Gold - Written and Directed by Victor Nunez
In this critically-acclaimed, just-released film, Peter Fonda, (who recently won the Golden Globe for Best Actor, and who is also up for an Academy Award for Best Actor) plays a reclusive beekeeper, Ulysees Jackson, nicknamed Ulee, who lives and works in the Florida Panhandle. A Vietnam vet, Ulee has become a solitary and emotionally-constrained man since the death of his wife and dissolution of his family. His son is in jail for robbery, and his daughter-in-law has run off. Ulee nonetheless attempts to raise his two granddaughters, but fails to connect emotionally with anyone. Then suddenly one day his routines are disrupted when he’s contacted by two former “business partners” of his son, who have found out about the son’s betrayal - a secret stash of money from the heist they were involved in. The thugs reveal that they’re holding Ulee’s daughter-in-law, now a junkie. They’ll return her if Ulee convinces his son to give up the information on where the money is hidden. Thus begins Ulee’s personal transformation as he’s forced to go outside himself to help others - and ask for help himself.
9:30 - 10PM
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