Film Schedule

Sunday December 11th 2011
4:00pm - 11:00pm

Gratitude(U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  4:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Cyrus Mirakhor

A chef learns about cooking and hard choices from a talking fish in this well made comedy short film (with a special nod for special effects and comedic tone).

At Stage 22

The Peak and the Pit (Italy, UK)

Shorts Program  4:00 PM
Official Selection

Director David Lee

Beautiful cinematography is the centerpiece of this haunting short film about a man who threw himself from window, leaving a cryptic message that inspired three people decades later in very different ways, but have any of them grasped the true meaning of that final message?

At Stage 22

World Premiere

The Last King Blood (U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  4:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Jonathan Vender

Festival favorite The Last King Blood has some of the best make up and production design in a student film this year, was one of the few pure outer-space-oriented sci-fi films we received this season, and was defiantly one of the best of a small group.

At Stage 22

Rickshaw (U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  4:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Mayank Kushwah

Comedy about a rickshaw driver in modern India, goes through a day of trials and tribulations to get a dress for his only daughter.

At Stage 22

World Premiere

Trio(U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  4:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Danny Aiello III

A short film about ghosts of the past and moving past them from director Danny Aiello III. Starring Jennifer Bogush and Amy Carlson .

At Stage 22

Eddie Puzynski (U.S.A.)

 6:15 PM
Official Selection

Director  Jeremy Michael Cohen

A rebellious teenager accidentally kills a man and must seduce his high school assistant principal to keep that secret safe, but then the relationship reveals much more than he ever hoped.

At Stage 22

World Premiere

Blissestrasse (Canada)

6:30 PM
Official Selection

Director Paul Donovan

We close our 2011 festival with Blissestrasse Paul Donovan's (best known for creating the Canadian sci-fi series The Lexx), new feature length sexual thriller set in a Christian Fundamentalist Mission in Berlin.

At Stage 22

North Amercian Premiere

A Home in the Theatre (U.S.A.)

8:30 PM
Official Selection

Director Melodie Bryant

Director Melodie Bryant's first film is a love letter to 93-year-old Edith O'Hara, and the theatre she founded 34 years ago in Greenwich Village and fights to this day to keep it from being torn down by real estate developers.

At Stage 22

CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION 9:15

Show times are approximate.

Q&A's subject to time availability.

SHORTS PROGRAM MAY BE SHOWN OUT OF LISTED ORDER & WITHOUT INTERMISSIONS BETWEEN FEATURES.