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April 8, 2016 

Greetings: 

Welcome to Houston, Texas! Congratulations to WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival 

on celebrating 49 years as a leader in the independent film community of North America. 

Although I am unable to join you in person, it is a pleasure to salute WorldFest-Houston and the 

work of your organization in promoting the independent film industry. 

WorldFest-Houston has been a consistent leader in spotlighting new talent and recognizing 

revolutionary methods in film production. Every year participants in this Festival bring their 

unique perspective through the films submitted. It is an opportunity for myriad creative visions 

to be brought to light. Your leadership, innovation, and guidance over the years have made 

WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival a vibrant and integral part of the film community 

in Texas and abroad. 

Film is a medium unlike any other in its capacity to illustrate the human experience, and Texas, 

as a leader in the arts and film industry, is pleased to host you all each year for the Festival. I 

look forward to celebrating many more years of your success as WorldFest-Houston continues to 

achieve milestones on behalf of independent filmmakers worldwide. 

Again, congratulations to WorldFest-Houston on your tremendous accomplishments, and enjoy 

your time at the Festival! 

All the best, 

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CAST AND CREDITS: 

49th ANNUAL WORLDFEST - HOUSTON / THE HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

APRIL 8-17th, 2016 

AMC THEATERS STUDIO 30 DUNVALE, 

2949 Dunvale.- Houston, TX 77063 

THE FESTIVAL IS PRODUCED WITH ASSISTANCE 

FROM: Faith & Lee Majors; Fred Welling, The City of 

Houston through Houston Arts Alliance (HAA); Mayor 

Sylvester Turner; Boxer Property Group; The Houston 

Film Society; Dr. Ralph Dittman & Terry Huffington, 

The HUFFCO Group; The Houston Yacht Club; Eastman 

Kodak; The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel; Budget/Avis 

Rent A Car; Federal Express; AMTRAK; HD Panasonic 

3D; Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles, Director 

Valeria Rumori; People’s Republic of China Consulate, 

Ambassador Li Qiangmin, and Cultural Affairs Consuls 

Song Yang and Wang Yigong; Italian Consul, T.H. Elena 

Sgarbi, Cultural Affairs Attaché, Marina Mocci; Xtreme 

Tech, David Greer; Houston Protocol Alliance; Consul 

General of The United Kingdom, T.H. Karen Bell; Consul 

General of Germany, T.H. Ricarda Redeker; Consul 

of Indonesia, T.H. Henk Edward Saroinsong; Consul 

General of Israel, T.H. Eytan Levon; Honorary Consul of 

Switzerland, T.H. Margherita Young-Zellweger; Consul 

of Tunisia, T.H. Raja Jertila; Consul of Sri Lanka, T.H. 

Bandula Wijay, Ph.D.; Honorary Consul of Thailand, T.H. 

Charles Foster; Honorary Consul of Croatia, T.H. Philip 

Berquist; Consul General of India, T.H Parvathaneni 

Harish; Consul General of Japan, T. H. Nozomu Takaoka; 

Consul General of Brazil, His Excellency Mario Ernani 

Saade; Consul General of Spain, His Excellency Enric 

Panés; Consul General of Korea, His Excellency Joohyeon 

Baik, Ph.D.; Honorary Consul General of Ireland, T.H. 

John B. Kane; State Dept. Director Nicholas Papp; State 

Dept. Deputy Regional Director, Robert Hopkins; iFilms, 

Nikola Knez; NASA, Rocket Park and Sheila Armstrong. 

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CITY OF HOUSTON 

Sylvester Turner 

Mayor 

P.O. Box 1562 

Houston, Texas 77251-1562 

Telephone – Dial 311 

www.houstontx.gov 

April 8, 2016 

Greetings! 

As Mayor of Houston, I extend a special welcome to all attending the 49 th Annual WorldFest- 

Houston International Film Festival. Houston is proud to host this exciting celebration of the 

art of making independent films and to welcome international filmmakers from all over the world 

to our great city. 

Houston has emerged as one of the most dynamic film and video production centers in North 

America. Our remarkably unique locations, from city towers to sleepy bayous, attract hundreds 

of productions including feature films, music videos, corporate films as well as international 

television commercials. Houston offers an array of location settings, highly trained production 

crews, a wealth of multi-talented performing artists and helpful Houston Film Commission staff. 

This year, WorldFest is presenting Panorama China, a major premier presentation of new films 

and directors from China. 

WorldFest-Houston, founded in 1961, is the longest running film festival in the world and the 

third oldest international film festival in North America. This year, WorldFest-Houston 

continues to honor the independent filmmaker with 150 new indie films and introduce students 

to the world of film and television with WorldFest Master Classes, workshops and seminars. I 

am confident that this momentous occasion will enrich our city culturally and continue to be a 

remarkable showcase of talent and dedication. 

Thank you for being a part of WorldFest-Houston, the International Film Festival in an 

international city. We hope your stay is memorable and rewarding and we look forward to 

seeing you again soon. 

Sincerely, 

Sylvester Turner 

Mayor 

Council Members: Brenda Stardig Jerry Davis Ellen R. Cohen Dwight A. Boykins Dave Martin Steve Le Greg Travis Karla Cisneros 

Robert Gallegos Mike Laster Larry V. Green Mike Knox David W. Robinson Michael Kubosh Amanda Edwards Jack Christie 

Controller: 

Chris Brown

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WORLDFEST-HOUSTON 2016 VIP SPONSORS: 

• BOXER PROPERTIES - 

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• EASTMAN KODAK - 

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• THE DOUBLETREE BY HILTON - 

OFFICIAL HOTEL OF THE FESTIVAL. 

• LOPEZ NEGRETE COMMUNICATIONS- 

OFFICIAL AD AGENCY OF THE FESTIVAL 

• FEDERAL EXPRESS- 

OFFICIAL SMALL PACKAGE CARRIER. 

• AUDIO EXPERTS, LLC- 

OFFICIAL REMI GALA AUDIO/VISUALS 

• THE HOUSTON YACHT CLUB - 

OFFICIAL SPONSOR HYC/CONSULAR REGATTA 

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OFFICIAL COMPUTER SUPPLIER FOR WORLDFEST 

SPECIAL SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND SPONSOR- 

SHIP COME FROM: Norm Kohn Associates; Daniel 

McGuire & Associates; Yaning Man; Rocky & Tracy Lai; 

Yutong Zhang. 

The WorldFest-Houston 2016 Commemorative Program 

Book: Publishers, Krishna Giri, J. Hunter Todd; Program 

Editor, Kathleen Haney; Associate Program Editors, 

Adrienn Palme & Azriel Barrow; Typesetting/Layout: 

Saqib Rana. 

Program Cover Design~ Lopez Negrete 

Communications. 

HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

CORE STAFF: 

J. Hunter Todd, Chairman & Founder; Kathleen Haney, 

Artistic & Program Director; Elease Jenkins, Scholarships 

Director; Kelly Mann, Entry Director; Tate Eskelund, 

Short Programming Assistant Director, Adrienn Palme, 

Features Assistant Director, Azriel Barrow, Features 

Assistant Director; Dan Qi, & Ray Jiang, Panorama China 

Co-Directors; Rebecca Zhang, Panorama China Programming 

Coordinator; Susan Jaworski, Awards Manager; 

Tammy Diaz, Seminar Coordinator; Ugo Eziefule, Operations 

Manager; Lauren Calderon, Awards Productions 

Director; Katy Lea Todd, Special Developments Director; 

Jiordette Dupont, Database Officer. 

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WORLDFEST MASTERCLASS SEMINARS Sponsored 

by: The Brown Foundation, The Houston Arts Alliance 

(HAA) - Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County 

& The Houston Film Society. 

HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

PROGRAM: Krishna Giri, Publisher; Hunter Todd, Chief 

Editor; Kathleen Haney, Editor; Tate Eskelund, Shorts 

Program Editor; Adrienn Palme, Features Co-Editor; Azriel 

Barrow, Features Co-Editor; Susan Jaworski & Nihita 

Bhavsar, Proofreaders. 

FILM FESTIVAL INTERNS: Sam Segal – Kinkaid 

School 

FILM FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS: Cedric Banks, Dennis 

Williams, Joseph Thompson, Elizabeth Lewis, Yolissma 

Vance, Nihita Bhavsar, Lauren Calderon, Maria Pastia 

Malloy, Mady Malloy. Jennifer Bracy 

FILM FESTIVAL REGISTRATION TEAM: Elease Jenkins, 

Director; Tammy Diaz, Master/Class Coordinator, 

Jennifer Bracy, Registration Officer. 

THE HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

ADVISORY BOARD: Lee Majors, Bob Boudreaux, Bruno 

Chatelin, Dr. Ralph Dittman, JD Feigelson, Krishna 

Giri, Nikola Knez, Derrick Doba, Robert Nowotny, Stephen 

Rogers, Alex Lopez Negrete. 

AMC STUDIO 30 DUNVALE THEATRES, 2949 

Dunvale: Keith Davis, General Manager (GM); Nathan 

Shapiro, Senior Manager (SM); Bruce Johnson, Facility 

Maintenance Manager; Andy Largent, Quorum Rivers, 

Jason Segalla, Faris Jabbar, Managers; Karen Ramirez, 

Elizabeth Lopez, Supervisors. 

BOXER PROPERTIES, President Andrew Segal, Executive 

Assistant Linda Shamis. 

International Television Commercial Jury President, 

Stephen Rogers. 

International Screenplay Jury: Category heads; Dr. Ralph 

Dittman with Dittman Productions, Dr. John Leinhard, 

Leigh Murray, Derrick Doba with Derrick Entertainment 

of Los Angeles, Jon Scheide of Scheide Productions 

in Los Angeles, David Winning with David Winning 

Productions in Calgary, Dick Reed with Reed Media, 

Chris Weatherhead, Clarence Felder, Actor’s Theater of S. 

Carolina, Kathleen Lea Todd. 

LOPEZ NEGRETE COMMUNICATIONS Alex and 

Cathy Lopez Negrete and the superb team of Fernando 

Osua, Ingrid Rincon, Chad Shanehchian, Chris Dickson 

& Ty Summers. 

SPECIAL THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO: Arcodoro 

Ristorante, Efisio and Lori Farris; Audio Experts, 

LLC, Spenser Hsu; Southern Chinese Daily News, Wea 

Lee; FilmFestivals.com, Bruno Chatelin; CCNAA-Hous- 

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ton; Allied-THA, Whitney Spencer, Rachel Hengst, Jonathan 

Babin; Ernst & Young; Culture Map, Clifford Pugh, 

Joel Luks; Houstonia Magazine; News 92, CNN Radio, 

Fort Bend Star News, Nick Nicholson; In-Town & Ivy 

London Productions, Carole Keenan Harrington; Variety, 

Joe Leydon; Michael Bergeron, Amy Biancolli, J.J. Callahan, 

Sally Hill, Louis B. Parks; The Houston Press, Margaret 

Downing, Stuart Folb; The Houston Chronicle, John 

Wilburn, Melissa Aguilar, Andrew Dansby, Andrew Olen; 

KUHF, Amy Bishop, Ed Mayberry, Paul Pendergraft; 

Village-Southwest News, Kathy Ballanfant, Ben Ballafant; 

D-Mars Business Journal, Keith L. Davis, Sr., Kevin Davis; 

HUM Magazine, Krishna Giri, PPM, Inc. Atlanta, Steve 

Newfield; The Capital Grill; The Palm Restaurant; Vinson 

& Elkins; The University of St. Thomas; The University of 

Houston, Ward Booth; Texas Accountants & Lawyers for 

the Arts (TALA); Dr. Ralph & Terry Dittman; Museum of 

Natural Science; Business Volunteers for the Arts; Esther 

Lum, Pastorini Bosby; AV to Go, David Wasserman; USA 

Film Festival, Director Ann Alexander; Levenson & Hill; 

The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Danny Minton, Dave 

Morales, Moroch & Associates; Gayler Smith; Export 

Union; Tom Garvin; The Canadian Film Center; TeleFilm 

Canada, Festivals Bureau; Ontario Film Development 

Corp; INS International, Sankar Basu; Barbara Klein 

of St. Louis Italian Film Festival; Eastman Kodak, Dick 

Hoff; Skywatcher Spotlights, Dick Cruse; Budget Car & 

Truck Rental, Jim Bell; First Run Delivery, Duane Krus; 

Houston Yacht Club, Commodore Gordie Keenan, Past 

Commodores Robert Williams, Nancy Edmondsen, By 

Baldridge, John Nicholson, Brad Larson, James Liston, 

Dave Haglund, Cheryl Thomas, Tony Nunes, Ginny 

Garrett; Fleet Captain Bill van Ravenswaay, Joan van 

Ravenswaay, the new HYC General Manager, Jim Sides, 

Marketing Director, Jennifer Glass, Madonna Breen, Andrea 

Zaite, Lythia Powell and all the great HYC skippers 

& entire HYC Team. 

SHORTS, DOCUMENTARY AND EXPERIMENTAL 

FILMS: There will be special screenings of digital short 

films at the AMC Studio 30 Dunvale, 2949 Dunvale on 

Saturdays, April 9 & 16 and Sundays, April 10 and 17. 

Check the WorldFest program book and www.worldfest. 

org for times and titles. All shorts, student and documentary 

films being screened are listed in a special section in 

the WorldFest-Houston program book. All Remi Winners 

will be listed on our website. 

PRICING: All Matinee (shows through 5pm) are $7.50 

admission per person. All evening premieres are $12.50 

per person. Red Carpet Opening Night Film Premiere is 

$15.00 per person. Film Premiere and the Champagne 

Reception at The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel After-Party 

is $30 per person. The Program Book and Schedule is free 

with any Opening Night or Series ticket purchase, $5.00 

by mail or UPS. The 2016 WorldFest Limited Edition 

NASA Bootprint Design Poster by Lopez Negrete saluting 

the 49th Year of WorldFest is $15, (postage included). 

THE VIP FILM BUFF PASS: A punch ticket providing 

access to any 11 films (minus Opening Night) of your 

choice, can be used by 2 or more people. $100. 

THE VIP SILVER SCREEN PASS: This special series 

pass provides access to all films, premieres, and Opening 

Night for one person. The VIP Silver Screen Pass is 

an exceptional value, offering preferred seating to ticket 

holders. (includes a program book.) $150. 

THE VIP GOLD PASS: Designed for filmmakers and 

the serious filmbuff; it includes all Nine Master/Class 

Seminars in addition to all films, premieres and Opening 

Night for one person. (includes program book) $395. 

THE VIP PLATINUM PASS: The ultimate festival pass 

includes films, premieres and Opening Night plus the 

Awards Gala Dinner, the Houston Yacht Club Regatta & 

BBQ, and a one-year VIP Sponsors membership in the 

Houston Film Society, offered at $600 per person. (Limited 

availability of 100 Platinum Passes only). 

SEMINARS: WorldFest-Houston presents a series of 

Nine Film Industry Master/Class Seminars on Thursday, 

April 14th, Friday, April 15th & Saturday, April 16th at 

10AM, 1PM & 3PM at The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, 

6 Greenway Plaza. Check with Festival registration for 

more info. 

AWARDS BANQUET: The Houston International Film 

Festival Grand Awards Gala (Attire is Black-Tie optional) 

will take place Saturday, April 16th in The Grand Ballroom 

of The Doubletree by Hilton at 6 E. Greenway Plaza. 

Cocktails will be at 7 p.m. and Seated Awards Dinner 

begins at 8 p.m., with the awards presentation during the 

dinner between courses. There is entertainment during 

the Remi Awards Dinner by the Ambassador Folkloric 

Dancers and St. Thomas Scottish Dancers & Bagpipers. 

The Cocktail Reception is an Open Bar. Tickets to the 

Grand Awards Gala honoring the top Intl. filmmakers are 

$175 per person and do include Closing Day all day-tour 

to NASA and HYC Regatta & Picnic. Music provided by 

Gary Michael Dahl. Special choreography of Grand Finale 

Gala dance courtesy of Shawn Welling and Planet Funk 

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Academy dancers. For information, call 713-965-9955 or 

visit http://www.worldfest.org. 

CHINA NIGHT GALA: The China Night Gala will take 

place on Sunday, April 17th at the Majestic Metro located 

at 911 Preston Street, Houston, TX 77002. 

Heartfelt KUDOS to our HOUSTON FILM SOCIETY 

BENEFACTORS: 

Margaret & Garry Schoonover; Nikola & Dorothy Knez; 

Dr. Ralph & Terry Dittman; Linda Brooks; Sara & Carlos 

Fernandez; Kathy & Jack Lippincott; Sandra Rice; Dr. 

Janet Schwind; Monica & Charles Powell; Judy & Michael 

Weingart; J. Frederick Welling; Amna & Yousuf Zakaria. 

Houston Film Society Members 

Dr. Mabelle E. Adams-Mayne, David Addicks, Ann 

Alexander, Liz Alexander, Michael Angwin, William 

Applegate, Adalis Arroyo, Amos Avidan, Omar Ardila, 

Dr. S. Christian Bahm, Mary & Jay Bautch, Sandija Bayot, 

Frederick C. Baldwin, Scott Banks, Dr. Samuel Bean, 

M.D., Tracie Bein, Nihita Bhavsar, Walter E. Black, Todor 

Blagoev, Nana Booker, Jennie Bosby, Bob Boudreaux, 

Ginger Bowen, Rev. David & Kari Browder, Carol & Don 

Brown, Locke & Camille Bryan, Austin & Amanda Bryant, 

Steve Bryant, Steven C. Bryant, John & Becky Burbage, 

Lydia & Orlando Campos, Helen Cavazos, Gregory 

Chandler, Lily Chang, Billy Chasson, John Chiu, Ernest 

& Melinda Chou, Geri & Wayne Christensen, William 

Coffey III, Chris Colin, Matthew Cook, Dr. Donna R. Copeland, 

Paris Corbitt, Diane Cox, Tom Crow, Dick Cruse, 

Linda Cryer, Joe Culotta, David Curtin, Larry Czach, 

Matthew Darroh, Bill Davis, Geri & Paul Davis, Stacie 

Davis, Esther de Ipolyi, Caryn DeSanta, Steven Deyo, 

Tammy Diaz (Taz), Robert & Chrissy Dillon, Lyvia & 

Michael Dowty, Mary Dodd Dubbert, Ramsay M. Elder, 

Tom Estus,, Charles & Lily Foster, Marc & Patti Foster, 

Gale & Jeff Friedman, Dr. Jim Frye, Alexa Gabillard, Iraj 

Ghavidel, Jonathon Glus, Geoff & Maureen Goddard, 

Carlos Gonzalez, Dinorah Gonzalez, Emerson & Rudy 

Gonzalez, David Graves, John Graves, David Greer, Mary 

& Peter Gryska, Dave & Mary Haglund, James M. Hall, 

Margaret Hansen, Joel Harmon, Peggy Harrison, Pamela 

J. Harrison, Jack L. Hinton, Jeffrey M. Hirsch, Michael 

Hirsch, Maria & Robert Hopkins, Matthew & Ryan Jasso, 

Dr. Mervyn J. Klein, Jesika Kopriva, Duane Krus, Jan La 

Rocque, Brad & Chris Larson, Parry Lauzon, Shirley 

La Fleur, John Leguay, Dr. & Mrs. John Leinhard, Patsy 

Lesley, Joseph Levitan, Catherine Loveys, Joanne & 

Rob Lucey, Nadia Mackey, Faith Malik, Cynthia Marple, 

Sergio Marquez, Toby Mattox, Pamela McCown, Daniel 

McGuire, Khrhysna McKinney, Gracie McLeod, Wilhelm 

Mevis, Erik Mevis, Kay Middleton, Paul Thomas Miller, 

Mark & Kim Mori Family, Megan & Trevor Mulvey, 

Omar Ardila Murcia, Mark Nance, John Nicholson, 

Diane Nino, Arthur Nino, Peter W. Nubile, Neave & Tony 

Nunes, Senator Jack Ogg, Charles A. O’ Niell III, Susan 

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Osterberg, Tabitha Pagel, Nicholas Papp, Page Parkes, 

Jan Pasternack, Paul Pendergraft, Malcolm Petty, Jan & 

Stan Poscovsky, Merri Lyn & David Popa, Reza Poudeh, 

Ed.D., Joanne L. Purkis, Markham Shaw Pyle, Jack 

Rains, Becky Cooke, Alice Richardson, Mark Rocka, 

Karen Ross, Varina Rush, John Rydman, Yuridia Salazar, 

Hector C. Salazar, De’ Andre Sam, Sue Schecter, Gertrude 

Schroeder, Margaret & Garry Schoonover, John 

Shields, Andrew & Raquel Segal, John Sheeren, Dina 

Shekhter, Bapsi Sidhwa, Laine Silcott, Alec A. Smoke, 

Allan & Diane Soffar, Keith Stephens, David Stone, 

Gayle Stout, Mark & Debbie Stouse, Mark Sullivan, 

Cheryl & Larry Thomas, Joseph Thompson, Wendy & 

Tommie Tullo, Suzanne & Nick Vafiadis, Roberto Betancur 

Valencia, Tony & Donna Vallone, Yolissma Vance, 

Dr. Santos Villar, Wayne Wagner, Richard Wahl, David 

Waldmann, Ryan Watkins, Steven Houston Watkins, 

Oleana & Nick Weaver, Robert Weinberger, Estella West, 

J.D. & Shirlene Williams, Robert & Judie Williams,Williams 

Evans Wilson, Jr., Joe Wilson, Shawlee Win, Holly 

Winstock, Jack & Marlene Wolf, Derek Young, Cheryl 

Zane, Alan Zane. 

THE 49th ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON 

April 8-17th, 2016 

Save the date for the big celebration next year ~ 

The 50th Annual WorldFest-Houston: April 21-30th 2017…! 

(Entry Deadlines: Dec 15/2016 & Final: Jan 15/2017) 

The Houston International Film Festival, Inc. 

A non-profit, tax-exempt 501-(c)-(3) educational, cultural & arts organization. 

Federal Tax ID # 74-2168997 

(Founded in April 1961 as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society, 

and in 1968 as a competitive International Film Festival.) 

Mailing Address: 

Post Office Box 56566, Houston, TX. 77256 

Executive Offices: 

9898 Bissonnet, Suite 650, Houston, Texas 77036 

Fax: 713-965-9960 Telephone: 713-965-9955 

Email: mail@worldfest.org 

On the Internet: http://www.worldfest.org 

J. Hunter Todd, 

Chairman & Founding Director 

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FEATURE FILM ALPHA LIST 

TITLE Director Country Genre Length Showtime 

LAST MAN CLUB (Opening) Bo Brinkman USA Drama 96 minutes 4/8 at 8PM, 4/9 at 1PM 

THE COMPACT DENSITY OF STONE Ping Wang China Foreign/Historical Drama 105 minutes 4/8 at 8:30PM 

(Panorama China Opening) 

HOPE (Closing) Lakisha Lemons USA Christian/Drama 90 minutes 4/17 at 7PM 

#66 Asun Mawardi Indonesis Foreign/Action/Adventure 116 minutes 4/13 at 9PM 

ADOPTING TROUBLE Lee Gardner USA Comedy 98 minutes 4/12 at 7PM 

THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL Jay Stern USA Comedy 92 minutes 4/15 at 7PM 

AND MARIAN 

AGNOSIA Shawn Welling USA Drama 90 minutes 4/17 at 7PM 

BACK TO THE NORTH Liu Hano China Foreign/Drama 120 minutes 4/14 at 9PM 

A BEAUTIFUL NOW Daniela Amavia, USA Drama 99 minutes 4/14 at 9PM 

BEIJING CARMEN Fan Wang China Foreign/Drama 90 minutes 4/15 at 9PM 

THE BLIMP TRAP Shawn Welling USA Drama 90 minutes 4/10 at 7PM 

THE BODYGUARD Yue Song China Action/Adventure 91 minutes 4/10 at 9PM 

BRIDGE Amit Ranjan Biswas India Foreign/Drama 106 minutes 4/09 at 9PM 

BRING BACK THE DEAD Lee Thean-jeen Singapore Foreign/Fantasy/Horror 86 minutes 4/14 at 7PM 

CHANGEOVER Estes Tarver USA Drama 92 minutes 4/12 at 9PM 

CHRONICLES OF Chuan Lu China Foreign/Fantasy/Horror 115 minutes 4/17 at 3PM 

THE GHOSTLY TRIBE 

CLANDESTINE David LaRosa USA Drama 118 minutes 4/14 at 9PM 

THE CLASS OF ONE Junlin Li China Foreign/Drama 106 minutes 4/15 at 7PM 

THE COCKSURE LADS MOVIE Murray Foster Canada Musical/First Feature 96 minutes 4/09 at 7PM 

COMING AND GOING Tianlin Xu China Foreign/Documentary 90 minutes 4/11 at 7PM 

COMING THROUGH THE RYE James Sadwith USA Coming of Age 98 minutes 4/09 at 5PM 

CREDITORS Ben Cura UK Foreign/Drama 81 minutes 4/16 at 7PM 

DADDY’S WEDDING Honeymoon Aljabri Tanzania Foreign/Drama 102 minutes 4/10 at 9PM 

THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET Renat Davletyarov Russia War Drama 91 minutes 4/16 at 9PM 

DEFINITION OF FEAR James Simpson USA Suspense / Thriller 90 minutes 4/13 at 9PM 

DELIVER US Mel Chianglo Philippines Foreign/Drama 104 minutes 4/11 at 9PM 

DREAM FACTORY Arun Chidambaram India Foreign/ Musical Drama 97 minutes 4/09 at 7PM 

(Kanavu Vaarriyam) 

THE EARTHQUAKE Chenchen Liu China Foreign/Documentary 95 minutes 4/11 at 7PM 

ELEMENTARY LOVES Sergio Basso Italy Foreign/Family / Children 94 minutes 4/16 at 5PM 

(Amori Elementari) 

FIVE GRAND Tyler Pavey USA Western 88 minutes 4/13 at 7PM 

FLYING THE FEATHERED EDGE: Kim Furst USA Documentary 86 minutes 4/10 at 5PM 

The Bob Hoover Project 

GET HAPPY! Manoj Annadurai USA Romantic Comedy 100 minutes 4/16 at 5PM 

GOLAN: A Farewell to Mr Cinema Christopher Sykes UK Documentary 75 minutes 4/17 at 5PM 

THE GOOD GOERING Kai Christiansen Germany Docu-Drama 90 minutes 4/14 at 7PM 

THE GRAND SONG ChouChou Ou China Foreign/Musical 146 minutes 4/14 at 9PM 

HAJAB’S GIFT Liming Chen China Foreign/Docu-Drama 100 minutes 4/13 at 7PM 

I AM A MONK Yukinori Makabe Japan Foreign/Docu-Drama 100 minutes 4/12 at 7PM 

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FEATURE FILM ALPHA LIST 

TITLE Director Country Genre Length Showtime 

IN THE PARLOR: Heidi Boucher USA Documentary 80 minutes 4/10 at 5PM 

THE FINAL GOODBYE 

Ruby Sketchley 

THE INVISIBLE PLAYER Stefano Alpini Italy Foreign/First Feature 94 minutes 4/16 at 7PM 

LET THE LOVE BACK HOME Gaoshan Yan China Foreign/Drama 90 minutes 4/13 at 9PM 

THE LIST Georgia Tanner USA Christian Drama/ First Feature 109 minutes 4/14 at 7PM 

LIVING LOST Jon Bessire USA Drama/First Feature 78 minutes 4/17 at 7PM 

LOOK AGAIN Daniel O’Connor Canada Comedy 93 minutes 4/14 at 7PM 

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP Whit Stillman UK Jane Austen Drama 103 minutes 4/09 at 7PM 

LOVE FOREVER Ho Wai-hung China Foreign/Drama 94 minutes 4/11 at 9PM 

LOVE/ME/DO Martin Stitts UK Foreign/Suspense / Thriller 90 minutes 4/15 ar 9PM 

MAGIC UTOPIA Shoji Toyama Japan Foreign/Experimental 89 minutes 4/09 at 9PM 

THE MAGIC WORLD Raffaele Schettino Italy Foreign/ Low Budget 78 minutes 4/13 at 7PM 

(Il Mundo Magico) 

A MATTER OF COURAGE Roberto Gervitz Brazil Foreign/Drama 90 minutes 4/10 at 7PM 

(Prova de Coragem) 

THE MESSENGER Doron Eran Israel Foreign/Docu-Drama 77 minutes 4/11 at 7PM 

THE MISSING PIECE Feng-Hung Chiang Taiwan Foreign/Experimental 105 minutes 4/15 at 7PM 

MORPHEUS Frauke Lodders Germany Foreign/Suspense/Thriller 83 minutes 4/09 at 9PM 

MY LIFE WITH A KING Carlos Enciso Catu Philippines Foreign/First Feature 90 minutes 4/17 at 5PM 

NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD Donal Nugent Ireland Foreign/Low-Budget 90 minutes 4/16 at 3PM 

NORTHERN LIMIT LINE Hak-Soon KIM S.Korea Action / Adventure 130 minutes 4/12 at 9PM 

ONLY CHILD Yuan Weidong China Comedy 83 minutes 4/12 at 9PM 

PARANOID GIRLS Pedro DelSanto Spain Comedy 88 minutes 4/16 at 7PM 

PO John Asher USA Drama 93 minutes 4/16 at 5PM 

POPOLO Edo Natasha USA Drama/ First Feature 100 minutes 4/12 at 9PM 

PRISONER X Garauv Seth Canada Science-Fiction 88 minutes 4/09 at 7PM 

A REAL MESS Meng Wang China Foreign/Comedy 90 minutes 4/9 at 9PM 

RIDING 79 Karola Hawk Puerto Rico Coming of Age 93 minutes 4/10 at 7PM 

THE RISING STAR KINDERGARTEN Han Yi China Forreign/Drama 93 minutes 4/10 at 5PM 

RIVER ROAD Ruijun Li China Coming of Age 103 minutes 4/16 at 9PM 

THE ROMANTICISTS Areg Azatyan Armenia Foreign Drama 95 minutes 4/15 at 9PM 

RUM RUNNERS William Nelson USA Action / Adventure 105 minutes 4/13 at 9PM 

SECOND SPRING Francesco Calogero Italy Foreign/Drama 108 minutes 4/15 at 7PM 

THE SEVENTH TASTE Yaping Feng China Foreign/Drama 86 minutes 4/9 at 5PM 

SNAPSHOT Doron Eran Israel Foreign/Drama 80 minutes 4/11 at 9PM 

SOLOMON Efrem Andebrhan Eritrea Foreign/Drama 120 minutes 4/10 at 9PM 

SONATA FOR CELLO M. Bofarúm Spain Foreign/Drama 100 minutes 4/12 at 7PM 

TAI CHI PIONEER Xuezhou Sha China Foreign/ Action / Adventure 93 minutes 4/10 at 7PM 

TANDEM King Palisoc Philippines Foreign/ Suspense 82 minutes 4/16 at 9PM 

TO KNOW THYSELF Bruno Kovacevic Croatia Foreign/Documentary 93 minutes 4/13 at 7PM 

(Gnothi Seauton) 

THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES Phil Allocco USA Romantic Comedy 94 minutes 4/10 at 9PM 

UNTIL 20 Geraldine Moriba USA Documentary 84 minutes 4/17 at 5PM 

THE WAIT (L’Attesa) Tiziana Bosco Italy Foreign/First Feature 87 minutes 4/16 at 9PM 

WAX: WE ARE THE X Lorenzo Corvino Italy Foreign/Suspense 103 minutes 4/15 at 9PM 

WOLF Tao Han China Foreign/ Experimental 93 minutes 4/16 at 7PM 

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FEATURE FILM SCHEDULE 

All screenings at AMC Studio 30 Theater (2949 Dunvale) south of Westheimer 

Friday, April 8th Opening Night Film 

B. LAST MAN CLUB Bo Brinkman USA 7:00PM 

C. COMPACT DENSITY OF STONE 出山 Ping Wang CHINA 8:30PM 

Saturday, April 9 

C. LAST MAN CLUB Bo Brinkman USA (encore) 1:00PM 

A. Dramatic Shorts Program #2 3:00PM 

B. Dark Comedy Shorts 3:00PM 

C. NASA Shorts 3:00PM 

A. COMING THROUGH THE RYE James Sadwith USA 5:00PM 

B. THE SEVENTH TASTE 第七种味道 Yaping Feng China 5:00PM 

C. Shorts Program Sci-Fi #3 5:00PM 

A. PRISONER X Garauv Seth Canada 7:00PM 

B. DREAM FACTORY Asun Chidambaram India 7:00PM 

C. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP Whit Stillman UK 7:00PM 

D. COCKSURE LADS Murray Foster Canada 7:00PM 

A. MAGIC UTOPIA Shoji Toyama Japan 9:00PM 

B. THE BRIDGE Amit Ranjan Biswas India 9:00PM 

C. MORPHEUS Frauke Lodders Germany 9:00PM 

D. A REAL MESS — 团乱麻 Meng Wang China 9:00PM 

Sunday, April 10 

A. Drama Shorts Program #4 3:00PM 

B. Animation/CGI Shorts 3:00PM 

C. Drama Shorts Program #3 3:00PM 

A. RISING STAR KINDERGARTEN 遥望南方的童年 Han Yi China 5:00PM 

B. FLYING THE FEATHERED EDGE: The Bob Hoover Project Kin Furst USA 5:00PM 

C. IN THE PARLOR:THE FINAL GOODBYE Heidi Boucher USA 5:00PM 

A. RIDING 79 Karola Hawk Puerto Rico 7:00PM 

B. THE BLIMP TRAP Shawn Welling USA 7:00PM 

C. TAI CHI PIONEER 太极先锋 Xuezhou Sha China 7:00PM 

D. A MATTER OF COURAGE Roberto Gervitz Brazil 7:00PM 

A. DADDY’S WEDDING Honeymoon Aljabri Tanzania 9:00PM 

B. THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES Phil Allocco USA 9:00PM 

C. SOLOMON Efrem Andebrhan Eritrea 9:00PM 

D. THE BODYGUARD 超级保镖 Yue Song China 9:00PM 

Monday, April 11 

A. THE EARTHQUAKE 遵道 Chenchen Liu China 7:00PM 

B. THE MESSENGER Doron Eran Israel 7:00PM 

C. TEXAS Shorts (encore) 7:00PM 

D. COMING & GOING 一面逃离 , 一面思念 Tianlin Xu China 7:00PM 

A. PANORAMA CHINA SHORTS 9:00PM 

B. DELIVER US Mel Chianglo Philippines 9:00PM 

C. SNAPSHOT Doron Eran Israel 9:00PM 

D. LOVE FOREVER 我们遇见松花湖 Ho Wai-hung China 9:00PM 

Tuesday, April 12 

A. SONATA FOR CELLO M. Bofarúm Spain 7:00PM 

B. DRAMA SHORTS PROGRAM #1 7:00PM 

C. I AM A MONK Yukinori Makabe Japan 7:00PM 

D. ADOPTING TROUBLE Lee Gardner USA 7:00PM 

A. ONLY CHILD 老大别怕 Yuan Weidong China 9:00PM 

B. POPOLO Edo Natasha USA 9:00PM 

C. NORTHERN LIMIT LINE Hak-Soon KIM South Korea 9:00PM 

D. CHANGEOVER Estes Tarver USA 9:00PM 

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FEATURE FILM SCHEDULE 

All screenings at AMC Studio 30 Theater (2949 Dunvale) south of Westheimer 

Wednesday, April 13 

A. MAGIC WORLD (Il Mundo Magico) Raffaele Schettino Italy 7:00PM 

B. TO KNOW THY SELF (Gnothi Seauton) Bruno Kovacevic Croatia 7:00PM 

C. FIVE GRAND Tyler Pavey USA 7:00PM 

D. HAJAB’S GIFT 天之恩赐 Liming Chen China 7:00PM 

A. RUM RUNNERS William Nelson USA 9:00PM 

B. DEFINITION OF FEAR James F. Simpson USA 9:00PM 

C. “66” Asun Mawardi Indonesia 9:00PM 

D. LET THE LOVE BACK HOME 让爱回家 Gaoshan Yan China 9:00PM 

Thursday, April 14 

A. LOOK AGAIN Daniel O’Connor Canada 7:00PM 

B. THE LIST Georgia Tanner USA 7:00PM 

C. THE GOOD GOERING Matthias Martens Germany 7:00PM 

D. BRING BACK THE DEAD Lee Thean-jeen Singapore 7:00PM 

A. CLANDESTINE David LaRosa USA 9:00PM 

B. THE GRAND SONG 侗族大歌 Chouchou Ou China 9:00PM 

C. A BEAUTIFUL NOW Daniela Amavia USA 9:00PM 

D. BACK TO THE NORTH 向北方 Hao Liu China 9:00PM 

Friday, April 15 

A. THE MISSING PIECE Feng-Hung Chiang Taiwan 7:00PM 

B. THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL & MARIAN Jay Stern USA 7:00PM 

C. SECOND SPRING Francesco Calogero Italy 7:00PM 

D. CLASS OF ONE — 个人的课堂 Junlin Li China 7:00PM 

A. WAX: WE ARE THE X Lorenzo Corvino Italy 9:00PM 

B. LOVE/ME/DO Martin Stitts UK 9:00PM 

C. THE ROMANTICISTS Areg Azatyan Armenia 9:00PM 

D. BEIJING CARMEN 北京卡门 Fan Wang China 9:00PM 

Saturday, April 16 

A. Family Short Films 1:00PM 

B. Comedy Shorts Program #1 1:00PM 

C. Drama Shorts Program #5 1:00PM 

A. Sci-Fi Shorts Program #1 3:00PM 

C. NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD Donal Nugent Ireland 3:00PM 

A. ELEMENTARY LOVES (Amori Elementari) Sergio Bassio Italy 5:00PM 

B. PO John Asher USA 5:00PM 

C. GET HAPPY! Manoj Annadurai USA 5:00PM 

A. CREDITORS Ben Cura UK 7:00PM 

B. INVISIBLE PLAYER Stefano Alpini Italy 7:00PM 

C. PARANOID GIRLS Pedro delSanto Spain 7:00PM 

D. WOLF 狼 Tao Han China 7:00PM 

A. THE WAIT(L’Attessa) Tiziana Bosco Italy 9:00PM 

B. TANDEM King Palisoc Philippines 9:00PM 

C. THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET Renat Davletyarov Russia 9:00PM 

D. RIVER ROAD 家在水草丰茂的地方 Ruijun Li China 9:00PM 

Sunday, April 17 

A. Fantasy/Horror Shorts Program 1:00PM 

B. Thriller/Suspense Shorts Program 1:00PM 

C. Sci-Fi/Thriller Shorts Program 1:00PM 

A. Sci-Fi Shorts Program #2 3:00PM 

B. Texas Shorts Program (encore) 3:00PM 

C. CHRONICLES OF THE GHOSTLY TRIBE 鬼吹灯之九层妖塔 Chuan Lu China 3:00PM 

A. MY LIFE WITH A KING Carlos Enciso Catu Philippines 5:00PM 

B. GOLAN: A FAREWELL TO MR. CINEMA Christopher Sykes UK 5:00PM 

C. UNTIL 20 Geraldine Moriba USA 5:00PM 

A. LIVING LOST Jon Bessire USA 7:00PM 

B. AGNOSIA Shawn Welling USA 7:00PM 

Official Closing Film 

C. HOPE Lakisha Lemons USA 7:00PM 

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49th WORLDFEST PROGRAM GRID 

Friday 4/08 Saturday 4/09 Sunday 4/10 Monday 4/11 Tuesday 4/12 

1pm 

A 

1pm 

B 

1pm 

LAST MAN CLUB (E) 

THE 49th ANNUAL 

C 

(04) 

WORLDFEST 

3pm 

DRAMA 

DRAMA 

A 

SHORTS #2-(05) SHORTS #4 (22) 

3pm 

DARK COMEDY ANIMATION/CGI 

B 

SHORTS-(06) SHORTS (23) 

3pm 

NASA 

DRAMA 

C 

SHORTS-(07) SHORTS #3 (24) 

5pm 

COMING THROUGH 

RISING STAR 

KINDERGARTEN 

A 

THE RYE (08) 

China Panorama (25) 

5pm 

THE SEVENTH FLYING THE 

TASTE 

FEATHERED 

B 

(09) China Panorama EDGE (26) 

5pm 

SCI-FI 

IN THE 

C 

SHORTS #3 PARLOR (27) 

7pm 

Opening Night (O1) PRISONER X (11) RIDING 79 EARTHQUAKE 

SONATA 

A 

(28) 

(36) China Panorama FOR CELLO (44) 

7pm LAST MAN CLUB DREAM FACTORY THE BLIMP THE MESSENGER DRAMA #1 

B 

8:00pm 

(12) 

TRAP (29) 

(37) 

SHORTS (45) 

7pm COMPACT DENSITY LOVE & FRIENDSHIP TAI CHI PIONEER TEXAS SHORTS (E) I AM A MONK 

OF STONE China 

C 

(13) 

(30) China Panorama (38) 

(46) 

Panorama 8:30PM 

7pm China Panorama COCKSURELADS A MATTER OF COMING & GOING ADOPTING 

D 

(01A) 

(14) 

COURAGE (31) (39) China Panorama TROUBLE (47) 

9pm 

MAGIC UTOPIA DADDY’S WEDDING China Panorama ONLY CHILD 

A 

(15) 

(32) 

(Shorts40) (48) China Panorama 

9pm 

BRIDGE 

THE TRUTH 

DELIVER US 

POPOLO 

B 

(16) 

ABOUT LIES (33) 

(41) 

(49) 

9pm 

MORPHEUS 

SOLOMON 

SNAPSHOT NORTHERN LIMIT 

C 

(17) 

(34) 

(42) 

LINE (50) 

9pm 

A REAL MESS THE BODYGUARD LOVE FOREVER CHANGEOVER 

D (18) China Panorama (35) China Panorama (43) China Panorama 

(51) 

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49th WORLDFEST PROGRAM GRID 

Wed. 4/13 Thurs.4/14 Friday 4/15 Saturday 4/16 Sunday 4/17 

APRIL 8-17, 2016 

WORLDFEST.ORG 

MAGIC WORLD 

(52) 

TO KNOW 

THYSELF (53) 

FIVE GRAND 

(54) 

HAJAB’S GIFT (55) 

China Panorama 

RUM RUNNERS 

(56) 

DEFINITON OF FEAR 

(57) 

“66” 

(58) 

LET THE LOVE 

BACK HOME 

(59) China Panorama 

AMC STUDIO 30 

DUNVALE 

LOOK AGAIN 

(60) 

THE LIST 

(61) 

THE GOOD 

GOERING (62) 

BRING BACK THE 

DEAD(63) 

CLANDESTINE 

(64) 

THE GRAND SONG 


a beautiful now 

(66) 

BACK TO THE 

NORTH 


THE MISSING 

PIECE (68) 

ADVENTURES OF 

PAUL & MARIAN (69) 

SECOND SPRING 

(70) 

CLASS OF ONE (71) 

China Panorama 

WAX: 

WE ARE THE X (72) 

LOVE/ME/DO 

(73) 

THE ROMANTICISTS 

(74) 

BEIJING CARMEN 


FAMILY 

SHORTS (76) 

COMEDY #1 

SHORTS (77) 

DRAMA SHORTS 

#5 (78) 

SCI-Fi SHORTS 

(79) 

NORTH CIRCULAR 

ROAD(81) 

ELEMENTARY 

LOVES (82) 

PO 

(83) 

GET HAPPY! 

(84) 

CREDITORS 

(85) 

INVISIBLE PLAYER 

(86) 

PARANOID GIRLS 

(87) 

WOLF 


THE WAIT 

(89) 

TANDEM 

(90) 

THE DAWNS HERE 

ARE QUIET (91) 

RIVER ROAD 


FANTASY/ HORROR 

SHORTS (93) 

THRILLER/ 

SUSPENSE 

SHORTS (94) 

SCI-FI /Thriller 

SHORTS (95) 

SCI-FI SHORTS #2 

(96) 

TEXAS SHORTS (E) 

(97) 

Chronicles of 

Ghostly Tribe 

China Panorama (98) 

MY LIFE WITH 

A KING (99) 

GOLAN: 

A FAREWELL TO 

MR. CINEMA (100) 

UNTIL 20 

(101) 

LIVING LOST 

(102) 

AGNOSIA 

(1O3) 

OFFICIAL CLOSING 

FILM HOPE (104) 

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1pm 

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3pm 

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3pm 

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3pm 

C 

5pm 

A 

5pm 

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5pm 

C 

7pm 

A 

7pm 

B 

7pm 

C 

7pm 

D 

9pm 

A 

9pm 

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9pm 

C 

9pm 

D 

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SHORT FILM 

TITLE/COUNTRY TIME DIRECTOR SHOW TITLE/COUNTRY TIME DIRECTOR SHOW 

A Shadow of Dara (UK) 

A Way Out (USA) 

Adventures of Mythical Creatures at the 

National Palace Museum, The (Taiwan) 

After Image (China) 

Along the Stormfront (USA) 

Antharys (Germany) 

Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon (USA) 

Architect, The (USA) 

Art of Human Salvage, The (USA) 

As You Were (USA) 

Ballad of Ella Plummhoff, The (Germany) 

14m15s 

13m48s 

26m55s 

18m7s 

6m38s 

20m 

14m18s 

28m22s 

9m30s 

22m 

28m59s 

Kirill Proskura 

Jason Tostevin 

Yu-shu Liu 

Yang Yi, Xiao Wei Tian 

Griffin Giersch 

Steffen F. Kaminski 

Kevin Stirling 

Chad Gravallese 

Dempsey Tillman 

Trevin Matcek 

Barbara Kronenberg 

4/17 3pm (96) 

4/17 1pm (94) 

4/16 1pm (76) 

4/11 9 pm (40) 

4/10 3pm (23) 

4/17 1pm (93) 

4/09 3pm (07) 

4/12 7pm (45) 

4/16 3pm (79) 

4/17 3pm (96) 

4/16 1pm (77) 

Hux (USA) 

I Am Henry (USA) 

Ice (USA) 

Ideal, The (Latvia) 

If I Could Talk (USA) 

Inselberg Effect, The (USA) 

Intentions (Spain) 

Jacob’s Paradox (USA) 

Last Days of the Cinema, The (Spain) 

Let There Be Light (Texas)(USA) 

Love For all Seasons (USA) 

Love is Blind (France) 

11m49s 

23m44s 

12m53s 

15m33s 

8m 

28m 

15m30s 

36m36s 

24m 

25m1s 

30m 

14m10s 

Mageina Tovah 

Jan Hendrik Verstraten 

Madison Pelzer 

Uldis Cipsts 

Shawn Welling 

Tony Bonacci 

Ivan Casajús 

Michael Peake, David James 

Christopher Downs 

Andy Conner 

Shawn Welling 

Sabine Crossen 

4/10 3pm (22) 

4/10 3pm (22) 

4/17 1pm (95) 

4/17 1pm (93) 

4/10 7pm (29) 

4/09 3pm (06) 

4/09 3pm (06) 

4/09 5pm (10) 

4/10 3pm (24) 

4/11 7pm 4/173pm (38, 97) 

4/10 7pm (29) 

4/10 3pm (24) 

Bang Bang Club 

19m31s Jason Chan, Christian Lee 4/17 1pm (95) Madness (USA) 

9m57s Shannon Kohli, Michelle brezinski 4/17 1pm (95) 

Beautiful Dreamer (USA) 

26m David Gaddie 

4/16 3pm (79) Man Who Caught a Mermaid, The (Australia) 16m Kaitlin Tinker 4/17 1pm (93) 

Billy the Kid (USA) 

Blimp Trap, The (Houston)(USA) 

Blue Borsalino (UK) 

15m45s 

30m 

16m27s 

Sam Johnson 

Shawn Welling 

Mark Lobatto 

4/16 1pm (76) 

4/10 7pm (29) 

4/12 7pm (45) 

Mandala (China) 

Margaret (USA) 

Milkshakes & Memories (UK) 

23m10s 

13m 

7m 

Guan Xi 

Manan Singh Katohora 

David Cave 

4/11 9pm (40) 

4/16 1pm (77) 

4/10 3pm (22) 

Bluey (Australia) 

13m53s Darlene Johnson 4/16 1pm (78) Moom (Japan) 

13m49s R. Kondo, Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi 4/16 1pm (76) 

Bosniak (Canada) 

15m Kejd Kuqo 

4/09 3pm (05) Ms. Vanilla (Taiwan) 

22m16s 徐子悅 

4/16 1pm (77) 

Bout Normal, Nothin Special (USA) 21m11s David Barrow 

4/11 7pm 4/173pm (38, 97) My Younger Older Sister (Canada) 16m30s Leah Johnston 4/16 1pm (78) 

Bravest, The Boldest, The (USA) 

Burned (USA) 

Cains Shadow (Italy) 

16m53s 

17m 

29m20s 

Moon Molson 

Jaime Valdueza 

Antonio De Palo 

4/10 3pm (22) 

4/17 1pm (95) 

4/17 1pm (94) 

Mystic Jungfraujoch (Sweden) 

Nabilah (Germany) 

Night of the Blind Moon, The (Tunisia) 

3m22s 

22m 

20m 

Markus Eichenberger 

Paul Meschùh 

Khedija Lemkecher 

4/09 3pm (07) 

4/10 3pm (24) 

4/10 3pm (24) 

Calamity (Texas) 

14m5s Reynaldo A. Garza 4/11 7pm 4/173pm (38, 97) Of Her I Dream (Norway) 25m8s Katarina Gellin 4/09 3pm (05) 

Caste a Wave (India) 

Catching Hail (USA) 

Chocolate Pudding (USA) 

Cinderella, A Shadow Balet (USA) 

Circle (Germany) 

Cleanup Man, The(USA) 

Clockmakers Dream, The (Ireland) 

Countless (Spain) 

Cruxberry (Canada) 

Daisy (USA) 

22m26s 

7m46s 

6m38s 

16m06s 

11m17s 

5m 

12m03s 

11m51s 

3m53s 

27m 

Fancy Fechser 

Adam Taylor 

Jonatas Da Silva 

Lotte Reiniger 

Alexander Heringer 

Shawn Welling 

Cashell Horgan 

Zack Stoff 

Jamie Oon 

Nancy Paton 

4/09 3pm (07) 

4/16 1pm (77) 

4/12 7pm (45) 

4/10 3pm (23) 

4/10 3pm (23) 

4/10 7pm (29) 

4/17 1pm (95) 

4/12 7pm (45) 

4/17 1pm (95) 

4/16 1pm (76) 

Of Mice and Men (France) 

Oracle, The (France) 

Pallaki (India) 

Pigtails (Japan) 

Planet X (UK) 

Promise of Agriculture,The (USA) 

Pyromance (USA) 

Rat, The (USA) 

Remedy (USA) 

Reminiscence (USA) 

20m10s 

14m28s 

40m 

28m10s 

7m3s 

4m7s 

24m06s 

7m59s 

12m35s 

14m6s 

Gonzague Legout 

Nan Feix 

Phani Dokka 

Yoshimi Itazu 

Rohit Gill 

Robert D Frye 

John de Menil 

Vasily Chuprina 

Chia Ying Tsai 

Simon Weiner 

4/09 5pm (10) 

4/17 1pm (93) 

4/16 1pm (78) 

4/10 3pm (23) 

4/16 3pm (79) 

4/09 3pm (07) 

4/16 1pm (78) 

4/17 1pm (94) 

4/11 9pm (40) 

4/11 7pm 4/173pm (38, 97) 

Dark Presence (Houston)(USA) 

5m Damir Catic 

4/11 7pm 4/173pm (38, 97) Roma Project, The (USA) 19m37s Harry Keenan 4/17 3pm (96) 

Delete (Korea) 

Deszcz (Poland) 

Do Not Disturb (UK) 

D’Ombres & D’Ailes (France) 

Driftwood Dustmites (Australia) 

Driven (USA) 

Drover’s Boy, The (Australia) 

7m20s 

5m14s 

13m19s 

13m 

9m31s 

9m15s 

10m43s 

용훈 김 

Malina Maria Mackiewicz 

Jon James Smith 

Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng 

Malina Maria Mackiewicz 

Johannes Bachmann 

Margaret McHugh 

4/16 1pm (78) 

4/12 7pm (45) 

4/17 1pm (94) 

4/103pm (23) 

4/09 3pm (06) 

4/17 1pm (95) 

4/09 3pm (07) 

Run, The (Canada) 

Run, The (Germany) 

Secession, The (Texas) 

Secret of Joy, The 

Seduction Theory 

Silent Night (Australia) 

Star Taxi (Slovakia) 

9m03s 

24m47s 

13m41s 

15m52s 

14m51s 

11m4s 

14m30s 

Penny Eizenga 

Stefan Najib 

Jay Hubert 

Max Bartoli 

Steven Ascher 

Nastassja Djalog 

Juraj Krumpolec 

4/16 1pm (77) 

4/17 1pm (94) 

4/11 7pm 4/173pm (38, 97) 

4/16 1pm (76) 

4/09 3pm (06) 

4/17 3pm (96) 

4/10 3pm (23) 

El Lardon de Luz - Light Thief, The (Spain) 19m2s Eva Daoud 

4/16 3pm 4/095pm (10, 79) Stutterer (UK) 

12m54s Benjamin Cleary 4/10 3pm (24) 

Eleven (USA) 

5m20s Ken Fox 

4/10 3pm (22) Summer (Russia) 

15m7s Anton Outkine 4/16 3pm (79) 

Figs for Italo (USA) 

18m48s Bob Celli 

4/10 3pm (22) Summer of ABC Burns, The (Australia) 12m40s Dannika Horvat 4/09 3pm (05) 

Flavor of the Moon, The (China) 

Flight Fright (USA) 

Florence Has Left The Building (Australia) 

Foal (Australia) 

Forever, Your Fireplace 

Fragile (Switzerland) 

21m10s 

7m22s 

13m30s 

24m2s 

12m47s 

25m35s 

Yan Zhang 

Jim Politano 

Mirrah Foulkes 

Vanessa Gazy 

Grant Collier 

Rebecca Panian 

4/11 9pm (40) 

4/09 3pm (06) 

4/16 1pm (77) 

4/12 7pm (45) 

4/16 1pm (77) 

4/09 3pm (06) 

Supernova (Poland) 

Surface, The (USA) 

Talgar the Hunter (UK) 

Targeted Advertising (USA) 

Tomorrow’s Dream (New Zealand) 

Trial & Error (Germany) 

28m41s 

19m59s 

12m39s 

3m54s 

6m40s 

5m27s 

Andrzej Cichocki 

Willem Kampenhout 

Charlie Crane 

Mitchell Rose 

David Gould 

Antje Heyn 

4/09 3pm (07) 

4/16 3pm (79) 

4/11 9pm (40) 

4/17 3pm (96) 

4/17 3pm (96) 

4/10 3pm (23) 

Her Unlikely Kin 

15m2s Kenneth J. Raimondi 4/10 3pm (22) Tick Tock Clock (USA) 14m 57s Gail Reaben 4/17 1pm (93) 

Honalee (Australia) 

14m6s Alexis Cook 

4/09 3pm (05) Zero (USA) 

29m David Victori 4/17 3pm (96) 

How Was Your Day? (Ireland) 13m30s Damien O’Donnell 4/093pm (05) 

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2016 Seminar Schedule 

April 14, 15, 16 at 10AM, 1PM, & 3PM 

The Doubletree by Hilton 

6 East Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX 77046 

Thursday, April 14th at 10:00 AM ~ So You Want to Make a Movie? Nick Nicholson national film 

critic will reveal the pitfalls that doom filmmakers to the Razzie list. In addition, the discussion 

will also cover what will make critics praise your projects instead. Member, Broadcast Film Critics 

Association, Broadcast Television Journalists Association, News 92, CNN Radio, 

Thursday, April 14th at 1:00 PM DIRECTING ACTORS FOR THE CINEMA ~ Gary Chason Writer/ 

Producer/Director/Actor A lecture-demonstration on the do’s & don’ts of drawing the best performance 

out of an actor; Text vs. Subtext; ask don’t tell; working with non-actors; line readings. 

Volunteers from audience along with some actors, too. 

Thursday, April 14th at 3:00 PM. ~ SAG/AFTRA & CASTING 

Houstonian Mykle McCoslin & Trish Avery, Executive Director, Dallas-Fort Worth Local SAG/ 

AFTRA will conduct an exciting SAG-AFTRA Informational session designed specifically for Indie 

filmmakers. 

Friday, April 15th at 10:00 AM ~ Script to Screen Casey Kelly is a 25-year veteran WCA screenwriter 

with sales to NBC, ABC CBS, Disney, Lifetime, PBS, Paramount, Columbia & Universal. An AFI 

Directing for Women grant recipient (Remi Award for The Other Woman), Kelly teaches scriptwriting 

at numerous venues & at University. 

Friday, April 15th at 1:00 PM ~ Drones for Indie filmmakers. Shawn Welling will discuss how to incorporate 

Drones and their magic into films. With 4 award winning feature length films under his 

belt, Shawn has seamlessly integrated the science and art of bringing aerial cinematic photography 

as an exciting new and much more affordable element than it has ever been before. 

Friday, April 15th at 3:00 PM ~ “Based on a True Story: Fact vs Fiction in Screenwriting” conducted 

by Leigh Murray. Actress/Producer/WorldFest Script Judge, known for Deadly Pursuits, The Outside 

Woman & Stolen Women, Captured Hearts. Leigh will discuss where the solid points to divert 

from reality exist and how to best present the story to viewers in a dramatic and visual fashion. 

Saturday, April 16th at 10:00 AM CONVERSATION with a John T. Streeter, NASA Television 

Producer/Writer/Editor on Archival and historical footage ranging from the years of early Saturn 

missile program into the current International Space Station program and how to obtain NASA 

footage for use in your productions. 

Saturday, April 16th at 1:00PM A Conversation with Regent University Dean Dr. Mitchell Land 

The Ethics of Place, Character, Dialogue and Culture in Film. The importance of being true to the 

time period that is being portrayed in film. One of the best examples of a producer/director who 

gets this right is Ron Maxwell and his Civil War films: Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, and Copperhead. 

Saturday, April 16th at 3:00 PM WorldFest Indie Filmmakers Forum Moderated by Multi Award 

WorldFest Remi Award winner, David Winning. Ten feature film directors from the 2016 WorldFest 

Official Selection program will share their experiences on how they completed their award-winning 

film. 

Check website for updates and further details. www.worldfest.org 

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49th WORLDFEST - HOUSTON 

SHORT FILM SHOWTIMES BY DATE & GENRE 

Drama 2 97:15 4/09 at 3pm (05) 

How Was Your Day? 13:30 

Driftwood Dustmites 9:31 

Honalee 14:06 

The Summer of ABC Burns 12:40 

Bosniak 15:00 

Of Her I Dream 25:08 

Comedy - Dark 91:18 

4/09 at 3pm (06) 

The Inselberg Effect 28:00 

Seduction theory 14:51 

Intentions 15:30 

Flight Fright 7:22 

Fragile 25:35 

NASA Shorts Program 

83:37 4/09 at 3pm (07) 

Supernova 28:41 

The Drover’s Boy 10:43 

Caste a Wave 22:26 

Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon 14:18 

The Promise of Agriculture 4:07 

Mystic Jungfraujoch 3:22 

Sci-fi 3 90:48 4/09 at 5pm (10) 

El Lardon de Luz - The Light Thief 19:02 

Of Mice and Men 20:10 

Tick Tock Clock 15:00 

Jacobs Paradox 36:36 

Texas Films 93:04 4/11 at 7pm 

4/17 at 3pm (38, 97) 

Bout Normal, Nothin Special 21:11 

Reminiscence 14:06 

The Secession 13:41 

Let There Be Light 25:01 

Calamity 14:05 

Dark Presence 5:00 

Drama 4 98:36 4/10 at 3pm (22) 

I Am Henry 23:44 

Milkshakes & Memories 7:00 

Figs for Italo 18:48 

The Bravest, The Boldest 16:53 

Eleven 5:20 

Her Unlikely Kin 15:02 

Hux 11:49 

Animation/CGI 88:29 

4/10 at 3pm (23) 

D’Ombres & D’Ailes 13:00 

Star Taxi 14:30 

Cinderella, A Shadow Balet 14:06 

Circle 6:38 

Trial and Error 5:27 

Along the Stormfront 6:38 

Pigtails 28:10 

Drama 3 93:04 4/10 at 3pm (24) 

The Last Days of the Cinema 24:00 

Love is Blind 14:10 

the Night of the Blind Moon 20:00 

Stutterer 12:54 

Nabilah 22:00 

The Blimp Trap 94:30 

4/10 at 7pm (29) 

The Blimp Trap 93:00 

Ocean 3:00 

Blimp Trap Trailer 3:00 

Agnosia Trailer 4:00 

If I Could Talk 8:00 

Clean Up Man 5:00 

Love For All Seasons 30:00 

Blimp Trap 40:00 

Panorama China 88:41 

4/11 at 9pm (40) 

After Image 18:07 

Remedy 13:35 

Mandala 23:10 

The Flavor of the Moon 21:10 

Talgar the Hunter 12:39 

Drama 1 92:34 

4/12 at 7pm (45) 

The Architect 28:22 

Countless 11:51 

Deszcz 5:14 

Chocolate Pudding 6:38 

Foal 24:02 

Blue Borsalino 16:27 

Family 99:51 4/16 at 1pm (76) 

The Secret of Joy 15:52 

Billy The Kid 15:45 

The Adventures of Mythical Creatures 26:55 

Moom 13:49 

Daisy 27:00 

Comedy 1 107:21 

4/16 at 1pm (77) 

Margaret 13:00 

Forever, Your Fireplace 12:47 

Catching Hail 7:46 

The Run 9:03 

Florence Has Left The Building 13:30 

Ms. Vanilla 22:16 

The Ballad of Ella Plummhoff 28:59 

Drama 5 101:59 4/16 at 1pm (78) 

Bluey 13:53 

Pallaki 40:00 

My Younger Older Sister 16:30 

Delete 7:20 

Pyromance 24:06 

Sci-fi 1 96:41 4/16 at 3pm (79) 

The Art of Human Salvage 9:30 

Summer 15:07 

Planet X 7:03 

El Lardon de Luz - The Light Thief 19:02 

The Surface 19:59 

Beautiful Dreamer 26:00 

Fantasy/Horror 91:26 

4/17 at 1pm (93) 

The Ideal 15:33 

Antharys 20:00 

The Oracle 14:28 

Ice 12:53 

Remedy 12:35 

The Man Who Caught a Mermaid 16:00 

Thriller/Suspense 89:13 

4/17 at 1pm (94) 

A Way Out 13:48 

Cain’s Shadow 29:20 

Do Not Disturb 13:19 

The Rat 7:59 

The Run 24:47 

Sci-fi/Thriller 98:47 

4/17 at 1pm (95) 

A Shadow of Dara 14:15 

Cruxberry 3:53 

Burned 17:00 

Driven 9:15 

Bang Bang Club 19:31 

Madness 9:57 

Ice 12:53 

Clockmakers Dream, The 12:03 

Sci-fi 2 92:15 4/17 at 3pm (96) 

The Roma Project 19:37 

Tomorrows Dream 6:40 

Targeted Advertising 3:54 

As You Were 22:00 

Silent Night 11:04 

Zero 29:00 

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April 8, 2016 

Dear Friends of the Festival, 

As we roll-out our 49th edition of WorldFest, we take a look back on the many 

wonderful years of discovery and excitement! The festival has mellowed, matured and evolved 

over time from the days of 16mm, 35mm to tapes, to DVDs, BluRay, DCPs and now even jump/ 

USB drives…All along the way, we have followed our mission of “Validating Excellence” and 

recognizing “A good story well told.” 

We are delighted to offer two very special Panoramas. The 11th Annual Panorama Italia supported 

by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Los Angeles. The Second Annual Panorama 

China is officially younger (though WorldFest has been showing films from mainland China 

since its Virgin Islands years) but now much enhanced with a cornucopia of offerings! 

As we prepare for our banner 50th year, we look forward to celebrating with some of our dear 

alumni such as Randal Kleiser, John Lee Hancock, David Winning, Ang Lee and many others who 

plan to re-join us for another amazing WorldFest experience! 

The “Discoveries” along the way are such a litany of creative minds and we thank them 

for sharing their voices, visions and dreams with us. John Badham, John Boorman, Martin Brest, 

The Coen Brothers, Brian de Palma, Jonathan Demme, John Frankenheimer, William Greaves, 

Hal Hartley, Agnieszka Holland , George Lucas, David Lynch, Paul Mazursky, Roberto Rodriguez, 

Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, John Sayles, Wilson Hugh, Leslie Linka Glatter, Robert 

Townsend, Will Vinton, Peter Weir, Jane Campion, Deepa Mehta and many more. 

We so appreciate our dedicated Board of Advisors, Core Staff, Interns and Volunteers 

of the 2016 Team Worldfest who have labored long hours and under challenging conditions to 

produce a great program. We also thank our Houston Film Society, the key professional teams 

at AMC, Lopez Negrete Communicatons, DoubleTree Hotel, Boxer Property as well as The Houston 

Arts Alliance. We love Houston’s superb Consular Corps. and vibrant cultural organizations 

as well as The Brown Foundation in support of our Master/Class Seminars Scholarships Program. 

Film festivals mean an abundance of different things to many people. A film festival is discovery, 

excitement, and opportunity! We get to meet amazingly creative artists from all over the world 

and share the vision they have brought to life. Thirty-seven nations are represented this year and 

we received a record number of entries from 74 nations. We continue with our Signature event of 

Closing Day Film Festival Regatta & NASA Rocket Park Excursion for the filmmakers, too. 

Come and join us to experience films that reach us on profound levels, moving us to tears, to 

laughter and beyond. Some entertain us, some challenge us, some broaden our vistas to the 

world helping us to learn of remote cultures and emerging perspectives. Some go on to great 

success and acclaim while others due to the vagaries of the world of distribution may never be 

seen again. Please enjoy these amazing ‘moving pictures’ and these unique and special moments 

in time. Each one of these films of the festival are hand-picked with care and diligence and 

we hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we do…! 

Warmest Regards, 

J. Hunter Todd Kathleen Haney 

Chairman and Founding Director 

Program and Artistic Director 

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United States 

Last Man Club 

Showing: 4/8 at 8PM & 4/9 at 1PM 

World Premiere I Official Opening 

Director: Bo Brinkman 

Producer: Linda Pandolph, Ken Schwenker 

Screenwriter: Bo Brinkman 

Cinematography: Barry Strickland 

Editor: Melissa Lawson Cheung 

Music: Rob Powers 

Sound: Arthouse Sound, Juniper Post 

Cast: Jim MacKrell, Kate French, W. Morgan 

Sheppard, Barry Corbin, Richard Riehle 

Print source: Pandolph Productions LLC & 

Cactus Films 

Synopsis: 

A WWII veteran, destined for a retirement home, escapes 

his living situation to embark on a cross country 

adventure in search for the last remaining members of his 

B-17 bomber crew with the help of an unlikely, beautiful 

accomplice. 

Dramatic-Historical 

96 Minutes 

Color, English 

Address: 1110 NASA Parkway Suite 650 


Tel: 832-239-5877 

Email: linda@lzt.biz 

Website: www.thelastmanclub.com 

Bo Brinkman 

Bo Brinkman is a Houston native, he moved to New York City at an early age to pursue a career in 

theater. There he became a member of the famous Actors Studio and a founding member of Cactus 

Theater where he wrote, directed and or acted in over thirty plays. He launched into film work with 

such films as “Ice House”, “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg”. After a ten year hiatus, 

he premiered, “The Last Mark” at WorldFest in 2013. 

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China 

The Compact Density of Stone 出山 

Showing: 4/8 at 8:30PM 

World Premiere I Official Opening - Panorama China 

Director: Wang Ping 王坪 

Producer: Liu Lingli 

Cinematographer: Cai Shunan 

Editor: Zhang Jianhua 

Cast: Lu Qi, An Rongsheng, Zheng Weili, 

Song Xiaoying 

Synopsis: 

This movie is about Deng Xiaoping’s experiences during 

the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 60s. As a 

result of Deng’s loss of power, his eldest son is tortured 

and imprisoned, and becomes a paraplegic. Deng and his 

family are sent to the Xinxiang County Tractor Factory 

in rural Jiangxi province to receive re-education through 

labor. He works there as a regular worker without status. 

After the Lin Biao event, Deng rises to power and wants 

to restore and re-energize China from chaos. Deng’s 

recollection of his experiences in the old days when he 

was with his comrades in Chinese Red Army convinces 

him that only reform can save China. 

电影《出山》全方位艺术再现了邓小平同志文革时期在江西 

的传奇经历。1968 年 , 邓小平下放江西 , 举家被送往江西新 

建县的拖拉机厂进行劳动改造。其长子更被迫害入狱 , 折磨 

至瘫痪。林彪事件后 , 邓小平希望重整中国于混乱。使他回 

忆起了他在红军时期的经历 , 以前在这份调查研究更是他坚 

信只有改革才能救中国。 

Wang Ping 王坪 

Director Wang Ping is a well-known director in China. Born in August 1956, he graduated from the Department 

of Directors at the Beijing Film Academy and is now the Director of Shandong Film Studio. Wang directed the following 

films: “Babies, “Kongfansen”, “Bright Starlit Sky”, “Gold Marriage”, “An End to Killing”. In recent years, he 

has been awarded: Best Film Special award of Chinese Golden Pheasant, A Hundred Flowers. He also won the Best 

Film and Best Director award of Chinese Government; best director nomination of “Golden Pheasant”. In 2015, 

“An End to Killing” won the silver at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Director Wang’s films have 

been highly rated at film festivals in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tokyo and USA. 

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Hope 

United States 

Showing: 4/17 at 7PM 

World Premiere I Official Closing 

Director: Lakisha R. Lemons 

Producer: Charles Irving 

Screenwriter: Jai Aitch 

Cinematography: Kevin Keller 

Editor: Lakisha R. Lemons 

Music: Phil Redmond 

Sound: Amin Marashi 

Executive Producer: Charles Irving 

Cast: LeMarc Johnson, Timeca Seretti, 

Sarah Deshun, Aliyauna Nykol, 

Jason Carmichael 

Print source: Irving Films & Productions 

Synopsis: 

Hope, a Charles Irving Film is the story of a young man 

who hits rock bottom and has nowhere to turn. With the 

loss of all hope, desire and motivation, he slowly builds 

his back up through faith and trust in God.. 

Christian Drama 

90 Minutes 


Tel: 818-667-5363 

Email: irvingfilms@aol.com 

Website: www.thehopefilm.com 

www.irvingfilms.com 

Lakisha R. Lemons 

Lakisha R. Lemons is a Houston native with a passion for storytelling. 

She is a writer/director/producer that loves to be on set in any capacity. In recent news, Lakisha is 

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film scene with captivating faith based films in the works. Look out 2016 and beyond! 

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World Premiere 

Director: Asun Mawardi 

Producer: Asun Mawardi, Gina Maria 

Screenwriter: Matthew Ryan Fischer 

Cinematography: Iwan Kustiawan 

Editor: Ryan Adrian Tedja, Chan Tat Leong 

Music: Daniel Thamrin 

Sound: Harry Andrian Susanto 

Screenplay: Matthew Ryan Fischer, 

Asun Mawardi 

Cast: Asun Mawardi, Donita, Yayu AW Unru, 

Ricardo Silenzie 

Print source: Creative Motion Pictures 

Synopsis: 

66 tells the story of an assassin-for-hire, who is paid to 

kill a police informant, but instead steals the money and 

runs, igniting the spark that leads a criminal organization 

to go to war with itself. 

Action-Adventure 

116 Minutes 

Color, Indonesian with English Subtitles 

Address: JI. Pemuda, Komplek Taman Berdikari 

Sentosa Blok B No. 3 Jakarta Timur, Jakarta 

Indonesia 13220 

Tel: 62214721326 

Email: info@cmpictures@gmail.com 

Website: http://-c-m-p.us/ 

Asun Mawardi 

After obtaining a Ph.D. in Business Administration, Asun Mawardi enrolled at the New York Film 

Academy in Los Angeles. He created Creative Motion Pictures, combining Hollywood and Asian approaches 

and resources towards English and Asian films. His film “The Black Magic” was the official 

selection for Shriekfest Film Festival in 2003. He has produced other award-winning projects such as 

“I do I do”, “Unktumu”, “Rindu Kami Pada Mu”, the Tsunami documentary. 

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United States 

Adopting Trouble 



Director: Lee Gardner 

Producer: Aaron Justesen, Lee Gardner, 

Blake Casselman 

Screenwriter: Blake Casselman and 

Lee Gardner 

Cinematography: Kenneth Richard Hoffmann 

Editor: Lee Gardner and 

Kenneth Richard Hoffmann 

Music: Randin Graves 

Sound: Matthew Wollenman 

Cast: Ryan Templeman as “Nick” 

Print source: Rare Legend Films 

Synopsis: 

In this quirky comedy, a childless couple, Nick and 

Maryann go to extremes to become parents, kidnapping 

a woman going in for an abortion and hiding her in their 

basement with hilarious twists and turns as she comes to 

term. 

Comedy 

98 Minutes 


Address: 3233 Caraway bay West Jordan, Utah 

United States 84088 

Tel: 8015561732 

Email: lee@rarelegend.com 

Website: http://adoptingtrouble.com 

Lee Gardner 

Lee Gardner has a film-making pedigree and has been making shorts since he was a teenager. 

He taught himself the language of film by watching the masters and making his own short films, 

documentaries, and music videos, and later progressed to feature films. He currently resides in Salt 

Lake City and loves the area due to the flexibility of the diverse beautiful landscapes and locations 

the area provides. 

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United States 

The Adventures of Paul and Marian 


Director: Jay Stern 

Producer: Jay Stern and Alan McIntyre Smith 

Screenwriter: Jay Stern 

Cinematography: Alan McIntyre Smith 

Editor: Jay Stern 

Music: Zach Abramson 

Sound: Arjun G. Sheth 

Production design: Sarah Edkins 

Cast: Paul Herbig, Marian Brock, 

James Prendergast, Craig Wichman 

Synopsis: 

“The Adventures of Paul and Marian” is a romantic comedy 

musical about capitalists, revolutionaries, and the 

people who love them. 

Comedy 

92 Minutes 


Address: 226 West 17th Street, #3D New York, 

NY 10011 

Tel: 646-285-4946 

Email: jaymstern@gmail.com 

Jay Stern 

Jay Stern is a NYC-based film and theater director. He is a founding member of the World Wide Lab, 

a collective of international theater directors dedicated to creating director-collaborative work, and 

a founder and producer of the Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival, which has been 

screening comedy shorts monthly since April, 2002. Upcoming projects include a production of The 

Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady at the Mercury Theater in Chicago, and 

a new feature film to be shot on the island of Syros in Greece. 

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United States 

Agnosia 

Showing: 4/17 at 7pm 

Work In Progress 

Director: Shawn Welling 

Producer: Shawn Welling, Gregory P. Wolk 

Screenwriter: Gregory P. Wolk 

Cinematography: Shawn Welling, 

Duncan Johnson 

Editor: Shawn Welling, Gregory P. Wolk 

Music: Shawn Welling 

Sound: Travis Simmons 

Executive Producer: Gregory P. Wolk 

Cast: Isabella Blake-Thomas, Elizabeth 

Blake-Thomas, Michael Pickering 

Print source: Welling Films LLC 

Address: 5731 Logan Ln. Houston, TX 77007 

Tel: 832-331-3478 

Email: shawnwelling1@me.com 

Synopsis: 

Albert is a seasoned renegade with a heart of gold. With 

his memory beginning to fail and his wife wheelchair 

bound, his young granddaughter, Jean, has her hands 

more than full taking care of the couple. When Albert 

journeys into the desert, Jean must learn and grow over 

the course of her epic quest into the wilderness with her 

faithful canine. “Agnosia” is a miraculous adventure into 

the strength of the human spirit, and the power of love, 

courage, and faith. 

“Ocean”, “Blimp Trap” trailer, “Agnosia” trailer, “If I Could 

Talk”, “Love For All Seasons”, “Blimp Trap”, “Monsterz”, 

“Clean Up Men”, “Blimp Trap”, “Agnosia” WIP 

Family-Adventure 

90 Minutes 


Shawn Welling 

Multi-award winner, Shawn Welling began his career in the dance world. However, after his first 

award winning documentary, House of Dreams, Shawn fell in love with all things cinematic. Since 

then, he has completed 4 features including The Messenger Legend of Dark Horse County, plus a TV/ 

web series with over 20 episodes, AXI: Avengers of Extreme Illusions, which won the Grand Remi at 

WorldFest 2012/13/&14 and it enjoys 17 million views. Shawn has also been named Best Director by 

The Houston Press and recipient of Best Director in Hollywood by WOD Awards 2015. 

Welling works regularly with Lee Majors in his films. 

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United States 

A Beautiful Now 


Director: Daniela Amavia 

Producer: Keith Kjarval / Lynn Kressel/ 

Daniela Amavia 

Screenwriter: Daniela Amavia 

Cinematography: Patrick Scola 

Editor: Adam H. Mack / Valdis Oskarsdottir 

Music: Johnny Jewel 

Sound: Aaron Bartscht, Nathan Ruyle 

Costume Designer: Slavna Martinovic 

Executive Producer: Alireza Ravanshad/ Valdis 

Oskarsdottir/ Nathan Kelly/ Utah Blue/ Kurt 

Rauer 

Co-Executive Producer: Tyler Jackson 

Co-Producer: Gary Michael Schultz 

Production Desingers: Cindy Chao/ Michele Yu 

Casting: Lynn Kressel 

Cast: Abigail Spencer as “Romy Sadi”, Cheyenne 

Jackson as “David Ham”, Sonja Kinski 

as “Jessica Hudson”, Collette Wolfe as “Ella”, 

Elena Satine as “Jaki” 

Synopsis: 

Five friends reunite for one night to save Romy (Abigail 

Spencer), the woman at the center of their former circle. 

As the night progresses, they struggle with their past 

relationships, and truths are revealed as Romy, who has 

barricaded herself in the bathroom, tries to put the pieces 

of her life back together. 

Dramatic 

98 Minutes 


Address: 8335 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 

United States 90069 

Tel: (818) 576-1006 

Daniela Amavia 

Daniela studied Drama and American Literature in Europe before working as an actress in projects 

as varied as the art house success “Abgeschminkt” and the TV mini-series “Children of Dune” with 

Susan Sarandon and James McAvoy. She produced and starred in the feature films “Affairs” for 

Columbia TriStar Germany and “Venus & Mars” with Lynn Redgrave and Julie Bowen for Buena 

Vista Germany and wrote and directed the short “Rockin’ Good Times” starring Danny Huston. 

Daniela is currently in prep on her second feature entitled GET LOST, which is based on 

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and is shooting summer 2016 in Berlin, Germany. 

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United States 

The Blimp Trap 




Producer: Jana Fant, Renee Somoza 

Screenwriter: Miriam & Nathan Goldman, 

Harwood Taylor, Shawn Welling 

Cinematography: Shawn Welling, 


Editor: Shawn Welling, Renee Somoza 

Music: David Highley 

Sound: Art Giraldo, Duncan Johnson 

Cast: Renee Redden-Somoza, 

Isabella Blake-Thomas, Blaze Tucker 

Address: 5731 Logan Ln. Houston, Tx 77077 

Tel: 832-331-3478 

Email: shawnwelling1@me.com 

Synopsis: 

Nine-year-old Harwood isn’t like other boys in 1977 Texas. 

After losing his brother in a tragic car crash, his mother 

takes up drinking, and Harwood finds comfort in his best 

friend -- fellow-nine-year-old Billy, the mentally-handicapped 

girl from down the street. Together, they watch 

the famous blimp fly overhead, and craft a “blimp trap” to 

catch it for their very own. They’re teased for their special 

game and for their friendship, until one day, something 

miraculous happens. 

“Ocean” (3 min), “Blimp Trap” trailer (3 min), 

“:Agnosia” trailer (3.5 min), “If I Could Talk” (8 min) 

“Clean Up Man” (5 min), “Love For All Seasons” (30 min) 

“Blimp Trap” (40 min), Total duration 93 minutes 

Dramatic-Adaptation 

30 Minutes 


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Shawn Welling 

Multi-award winner, Shawn Welling began his career in the dance world. However, after his first 

award winning documentary, House of Dreams, Shawn fell in love with all things cinematic. Since 

then, he has completed 4 features including “The Messenger”, “Legend of Dark Horse County”, plus 

a TV/web series with over 20 episodes, “AXI: Avengers of Extreme Illusion”, which won the 

Grand Remi at WorldFest 2012/13/&14 and it enjoys 17 million views. Shawn has also been named 

Best Director by The Houston Press and recipient of Best Director in Hollywood by WOD Awards 

2015. Welling works regularly with Lee Majors in his films.

India 

Bridge 


Usa Premiere 

Director: Amit Ranjan Biswas 

Producer: Paramita Banerjee 

Screenwriter: Amit Ranjan Biswas 

Cinematography: Zoran Veljkovic 

Editor: Arghyakamal Mitra 

Music: Dishari 

Sound: Abhijit Tenny Roy 

Executive Producer: Gregory P. Wolk 

Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee 

Synopsis: 

Two strangers, both suffering from immense emotional 

distress arising out of life’s tragedies, wanting to commit 

suicide, meet on a bridge over the Ganges river. For both, 

the meeting initially brings great challenges but eventually 

‘healing’ at physical, mental, emotional and spiritual 

levels. Through powerful interactions and intense 

psychological journeys, both search for a sense of 

belonging, trust hope and optimism. 

Address: 89 Passage Choiseul, 

Paris, France 75002 

Tel: 33 0951214547 

Email: brunochatelin@gmail.com 

Website: bridgethefilm.com 

Foreign 

106 Minutes 

Color, Bengali with English subtitles 

Amit Ranjan Biswas 

Amit is a poet, playwright, public speaker and a filmmaker. He is also a child and adolescent neuropsychiatrist 

and works in Cambridge. ‘Bridge’ is Amit’s debut feature film. He was born in Calcutta 

and has lived in London for nearly two decades. 

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Singapore 

Bring Back the Dead 


Director: LeeThean-jeen 

Producer: Melvin Ang, Lim Teck, Lim Bee Lin, 

Bert Tan, Mike Wiluan, Jack Neo, Zheng Le 

Screenwriter: Lee Thean-jeen 

Cinematography: Joel San Juan 

Editor: Natalie Soh 

Music: Tay Chee Wei 

Sound: Tay Chee Wei, Jed Palmer, Doug Brady, 

Lee Wei, Lai Chee Hung, Arnold San Juan 

Cast: Jesseca Liu, Jacko Chiang, Liu Ling Ling 

Print source: Weiyu Films 

Address: 307 Serangoon Ave 2 11-24, 

Singapore 550307 

Tel: 659-750-9939 

Email: beelin@weiyufilms.sq 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bringbackthedeadmovie 

Synopsis: 

When her seven-year-old son dies in a tragic road 

accident, a grieving mother, Jia En, seeks the help of her 

former caregiver, Madame Seetoh, to bring back his soul 

so he can be ‘by her side’ at home. However, after several 

strange and deadly occurrences in the house, she begins 

to suspect that there is something amiss with the soul 

she has brought back. 

Horror-Fantasy 

85 Minutes 

Color, Mandarin with English Subtitles 

LeeThean-jeen 

Lee Thean-jeen is one of the most profilic and acclaimed writer-directors and television showrunners 

in the Singapore film and television industry. A graduate of Boston University’s College of 

Communication, his television works have won in many major categories at the prestigious 

Asian Television Awards over the years. “Bring Back The Dead” is his fourth feature film. 

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United States 

Changeover 



Director: Estes Tarver 

Producer: Estes Tarver, Tripp Green, 

Craig Brandwynne 

Screenwriter: Amit Biswas 

Cinematography: Tripp Green 

Editor: Bryan Reklis, Estes Tarver, Tripp Green 

Music: Carrie Marshall 

Sound: Post Production - Craig Brandwynne 

and Centersound Studios 

Cast: Madeline Taylor as Haley Thompson, 

Estes Tarver as Chad Thompson, 

Carter Godwin as Carter Thompson, 

Carrie Marshall as Dr. Kacey Davis 

Print source: Moonlight Stage Co. 

Synopsis: 

A story of a teenage girl, Haley Thompson and her uncle 

Chad, a tennis teaching pro, who come together through a 

tragedy. They must learn to form a new family and battle 

the obstacles of PTSD, moving on from the tragedy, and 

forgiving each other for their flaws as humans. 

Drama 

92 Minutes 


Address: 1304 Paddock Dr. Ste. #F103, 

Raleigh, NC 27609 

Tel: 347-524-7517 

Email: estes@moonlightstageco.com, 

etarver@mac.com 

Website: http://bridgethefilm 

Estes Tarver 

Estes Tarver is an American actor/writer/director. “Changeover” is his first feature. He is honored to 

be at WorldFest presenting this film. 

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United States 

Clandestine 



Director: David LaRosa 

Producer: David LaRosa, Kate A. McGrath, 

Nick DeMatteo, Janine Laino, Mark LaRosa, 

Mike Bufano, Chris Ryan, Stephanie Klein 

Screenwriter: Kate A. McGrath 

Cinematography: Brad Rego 

Editor: Gideon Jackson 

Music: Jeff Stults 

Sound: Studio Unknown 

Kevin Hill, Matt Davies Adrienn 

Cast: Nick DeMatteo as Officer Charles Cooper 

Chris Ryan as Sergeant Ed Billman 

Kate A. McGrath as Julia Goodhill 

Janine Laino as Special Agent Margaret Scott 

Print source: Feenixfilms, LLC 

Synopsis: 

When hard drugs invade a small town, local and federal 

law enforcement find themselves working together, 

navigating the minefield of local political officials and 

junkie confidential informants. 

Dramatic 

118 Minutes 


Address: 121 Church St. Ramsey, NJ 07446 

Tel: 973-879-4173 

Email: davidlarosa@feenixfilms.com 

Website: http://feenixfilms.com/ 

David LaRosa 

David started out his interest in filmmaking as an actor. In recent years, he has used those skills as a 

director to strongly and clearly convey his approach of “entertaining realism” to film. David strives 

to create projects that are not only relatable to audiences but also ones in which audiences can 

derive their own meanings. 

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Canada 

The Cocksure Lads Movie 


Usa Premiere 

Director: Murray Foster 

Producer: Darren Portelli,Murray Foster 

Screenwriter: Murray Foster 

Cinematography: Samy Inayeh 

Editor: Luke Sargent 

Music: Murray Foster/Mike Ford 

Sound: Stephen Burne 

Executive Producer: Tamara Doerksen, 

Avi Federgreen, David Miller 

Cast: Lyndon Ogbourne, Luke Marty, 

Edward Hillier, Adam McNab 

Print source: Spiral Entertainment Ltd. 

Synopsis: 

An English band, the Cocksure Lads, begin a 

North-American tour in Toronto. However, shortly after 

arriving, they part ways. They drink, fight, and fall in love, 

learning what it means to be a band. But will they re-unite 

in time for tonight’s big show? 

Comedy-Musical 

96 Minutes 


Address: 2240 Gerrard Street East Toronto, 

Ontario M4E2E1 

Tel: 647-349-4170 

Email: murray_foster@rogers.com, darren@ 

spiralentertainment-ltd.com 

Website: www.thecocksureladsmovie.com 

Murray Foster 

Murray Foster graduated with honors in English from the University of Toronto and began playing 

in the band Moxy Furious, selling half a million records. In 2000, he left Moxy Furious to play bass 

for Great Big Sea in 2001, recording five gold and platinum CDs through 2016. He entered a short 

play called “Sing for your Supper” for a competition in 2010, which later was turned into a film 

through Filmcoop. He directed his first short “The Art of Mine” in 2010. 

“The Cocksure Lads” is his first feature film. 

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United States 

Coming through the Rye 


Director: Jim Sadwith 

Producer: Jim Sadwith, Stan Erdreich, 

Teddy Grennan 

Screenwriter: Jim Sadwith 

Cinematography: Eric Hurt 

Editor: Todd Holmes 

Music: Jay Nash, Heath McNease 

Sound: David Briggs 

Executive Producer: Alexandra Woodward, 

Jeff Steen 

Co-Producer: Sara Elizabeth Timmins 

Associate Producer: Erica Arvold, 

Heath Franklin, Chris Wood 

Cast: Alex Wolff, Stefania LaVie Owen, 

Chris Cooper, Jacob Leinbach 

Print source: Red Hat Films. LLC 

Synopsis: 

A sensitive young boy, believing he is destined to play the 

role of Holden Caulfield from the beloved book 

”Catcher in the Rye””goes in search of JD Salinger and on 

the way confronts love, sex, loss and a poignant transition 

away from his childhood. 

Dramatic 

95 Minutes 


Address: Red Hat Films, LLC 

846 Fletcher Hill Rd, South Woodstock, VT 05071 

Tel: 802-272-0119 

Email: redhatfilmsllc@gmail.com 

Jim Sadwith 

Although this is his first feature, Jim started out writing and subsequently directing and producing 

movies, miniseries and drama series for television. 

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United Kingdom 

Creditors 


Usa Premiere 

Director: Ben Cura 

Producer: Andrea Deck, Ben Cura 

Screenwriter: Ben Cura, August Strindberg 

Cinematography: Ben Hecking 

Editor: Teresa Font 

Music: Nina Aranda 

Sound: Peter Memmer 

Cast: Christian McKay, Andrea Deck, Ben Cura, 

Tom Bateman 

Print source: New Morning Films 

Synopsis: 

Based on August Strindberg’s 1888 play “Creditors” is a 

modern retelling of Strindberg’s story of love, betrayal, 

revenge, and psychological manipulation, which was the 

work that he considered to be his one true masterpiece. 

Dramatic 

81 Minutes 

Black and White, English 

Address: 14 Bazalgette Court London, UK 

W69AG 

Tel: 33622172917 

Email: contact@toughdance.com 

Website: creditorsfilm.com/screener 

Ben Cura 

Ben Cura is a British film, television, and theatre actor, director, and writer. He studied classical 

acting and professional theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his 

West End debut playing Angel in Jennifer Saunders’ musical “Viva Forever!” at the 

Piccadilly Theatre. He starred in the British Indie hit “Comes a Bright Day” and has also appeared 

in Danny Boyle’s “Trance.” “Creditors” is his directorial debut. 

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Tanzania 

Daddy’s Wedding 


North American Premiere 

Director: Honeymoon Aljabri 

Producer: Honeymoon Aljabri 

Screenwriter: Honeymoon Aljabri 

Cinematography: Stephen Annu 

Editor: Shahid Ibrahim 

Music: Banana Zoro, Lambart Tibaigana, 

Kasongo Mpinda, Miriam Chemose 

Sound: Shahid Ibrahim 

Cast: Cherrie Yakub, Khamis Salehe 

Print source: Motion Art Production 

Synopsis: 

A young lady is instrumental in arranging her father’s 

new wedding 

Foreign-Dramatic 

102 Minutes 

Color, English and Swahili, with English subtitles 

Address: 2750 Wallingford #1407 


Tel: 713-480-6550 

Email: honey.aljabri@gmail.com 

Website: Motionartproduction.com 

Honeymoon Aljabri 

Honeymoon Aljabri is a Tanzanian author, journalist, artist, film director and television 

producer. In 2015, she received the Zanzibar International Film Festival award for best Director, for 

the comedy–drama “Daddy’s Wedding”. Honeymoon Al-Jabir was born in Singida,Tanzania, the 

middle child of Mohammed Abdallah. Honeymoon’s first Film, “Forgotten Hero”, got her an award 

for best director in Houston C.C. Film Academy Awards. In 2015 she was appointed asTanzania 

Tourism & Film Location Ambassador. She is also a Tanzania Sickle Cell Awareness Ambassador. 

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Russia 

The Dawns Here are Quiet (A Zori Zdes Tikhie) 



Director: Renat Davletyarov 

Producer: Renat Davletyarov, Vladislav Ryashin 

Screenwriter: Yuriy Korotkov, Artem Vitkin, 

Renat Davletyarov 

Cinematography: Semyon Yakovlev 

Editor: Matvey Epanchintsev 

Music: Roman Dormidoshin 

Sound: Anatoliy Belozerov 

Cast: Pyotr Fyodorov, 

Anastasiya Mikulchina, Evgeniya Malakhova 

Kristina Asmus 

Print source: Star Media 

Synopsis: 

It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in 

full swing. Can Vaskov, the Russian Corporal and his 

‘band of courageous all female newbies’ prevent Nazi 

sabatoge and at what cost? 

Dramatic/War 

120 Minutes 

Color, Russian 

Email: s.korobkina@starmediafilm.com 

Renat Davletyarov 

Renat Davletyarov was born on August 17, 1961 in Astrakhan, Astrakhanskaya oblast, RSFSR, 

USSR as Renat Favarisovich Davletyarov. He is a producer and writer, known for 

“Stalnaya babochka” (2012), “A zori zdes tikhie...” (2015) and “:Lyubov-Morkov” (2007). 

He has been married to Evgeniya Malakhova since April 28, 2014. 

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Definition of Fear 


Director: James Simpson 

Producer: Christopher Branch, Robert Menzies, 

James Simpson 

Screenwriter: James Simpson 

Cinematography: Shane Daly 

Editor: John Pegg 

Music: James Simpson 

Sound: Adrian Ellis, James Simpson 

Cast: Jacqueline Fernandez, Blythe Hubbard, 

Katherine Barrell & Mercedes Papalia 

Synopsis: 

Four beautiful girls spend the weekend at a charming 

holiday cabin. But all is not how it seems. They quickly 

discover that maybe they are not alone. 

Suspense-Thriller 

90 Minutes 


Address: 39 Woodland Grove, Epping, 

Essex, CM16 4NE, UK 

Tel: (44753) 095-3676 

Email: rebekah@thefilmfestivaldoctor.co.uk 

James Simpson 

In addition to being an established producer and director, James is a celebrated music writer. 

After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama he wrote and directed “Ulysses”, a 

children’s rock opera, which had a sell-out run at the Rainbow theatre, was filmed for BBC 

Television and won the Italian best International children’s Film Award. He has written music for 

television, films and records. 

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Philippines 

Deliver Us (Iadya Mo Kami) 


Usa Premiere 

Director: Mel Chionglo 

Producer: Dennis Evangelista, Romeo Lindain 

Cinematography: Mycko David 

Editor: Jesus Navarro 

Music: Emerzon Texon 

Sound: Albert Michael Idioma 

Production Designer: Edgar Martin Littaua 

Cast: Allen Dizon as Father Greg 

Eddie Garcia as Bishop Ricarte 

Aiko Melendez as Milette 

Ricky Davao as Julian 

Print source: Ignatius Films Canada 

Synopsis: 

Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up 

in the mountains because his relationship with a young 

woman named Carla, has produced a child. Father Greg 

works with parish priest, Father Alejo, an old friend who 

is addicted to drinking. During a healing Mass, Father 

Greg is introduced to the town’s powerful couple, Julian 

and Millett who strike a friendship with him. But when 

Father Greg discovers the lifeless body of Julian on the 

church premises, he embarks on a mission to help solve 

the crime, which leads him eventually to discover his own 

personal salvation. 

Address: 191 San Joaquin Street 

San Angelo Subd. Angeles City 2009 

Tel: 63 917 551 1434 

Email: ignatiusfilms@yahoo.ca 

Dramatic 

104 Minutes 

Tagalog and Ilocano with English Subtitles 

Mel Chionglo 

Mel Chionglo has been directing for film and television since 1980. His films include the 1992 

BBC-produced film “Lucia” which won Best Film at the London International Enviromental Film 

Festival, “Burlesk King” which competed at the Chicago Intl, Film Festival and opened at the 

Panorama Section at the 2000 Berlin Inl.Film Festival. He is a former president of Director’s Guild 

of the Philippines and currently the Festival Director of Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. 

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India 

Dream Factory (Kanavu Variyan) 



Director: Arun Chidambaram 

Screenwriter: Arun Chidambaram 

Cinematography: S. Selvakumar 

Editor: Gaugin 

Music: Shyam Benjamin 

Sound: M.J. Raju 

Story, Dialogue, Lyrics: Arun Chidambaram 

Art Director: Guna 

Final Mixing Engineer: D. Yuvaraj 

Cast: Arun Chidambaram as Ezhil, Jiya as Veena, 

Yog Japee as Gopi, Ilavarasu as Appa, Black Pandi 

as Sakkarai, Ku.Gnanasambandan as Prof. Gnanasambandan, 

Sendhi Kumari as Amma 

Print source: DCKAP Cinemas 

Synopsis: 

Power outages, a common feature in India is the backdrop 

to this musical tale about Ezhil, a village school dropout 

who tries to find practical scientific solutions in spite 

of being thought a nutcase. 

Dramatic 

97 Minutes 

Color, Tamil with English subtitles 

Address: L 76A, L Block, 21st St., Anna Nagar East 

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 600102 

Tel: 91988-400-1015 

Email: dckapcinemas@gmail.com 

Arun Chidambaram 

Arun Chidambaram won personal accolades from the former President of India, Dr. APJ. Abdul Kalam, 

as well as other top government officials in India. He completed his masters in the United States 

and worked for JP Morgan Chase in Chicago, returning to India to pursue film direction. 

He has distributed several Tamil & Telugu films in the United States. 

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Italy 

Elementary Love (Amori Elementari) 


Usa Premiere I Panorama Italia 

Director: Sergio Basso 

Producer: Elisabetta Bruscolini 

Screenwriter: Sergio Basso, Marianna Cappi, 

Marina Polla De Luca 

Cinematography: Francesco Di Giacomo 

Editor: David Vizzini 

Music: Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi 

Sound: David Pesola 

Production design: Mauro Vanzati 

Line producer: Francesco Papa 

Cast: Cristiana Capotondi, Anna Potebnya, 

Maxim Bychkov, Andrea Pittorino 

Print source: CSC Production 

Synopsis: 

Six friends, three love stories, sixth grade, the first kiss, a 

hockey tournament, an escape to Russia, an imaginary 

friend that has to fly to the moon, an amulet to be rescued. 

These are Elementary Loves. 

Family-Children 

94 Minutes 

Color, Italian 

Address: via Tuscolana 1524 Rome, Italy 173 

Tel: 39.32882566 

Email: sergio.bassio.cina@gmail.com 

Website: www.amorielementari.it 

Consolato Generale d’Italia 

Houston 

Sergio Basso 

Serfio has lived in China where he was assistant director and dialogue writer for Gianni Amelio on 

the set of his film, “La stella che non c’è” (The Missing Star). He graduated in Directing from the 

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He obtained a degree in Directing and Acting 

with Yuri Alschitz, under the auspices of GITIS, Academy of Dramatic Art in Moscow. He has 

worked in theater with Pëtr Fomenko, Eimuntas Nekrosius, Peter Clough, Philippe Delaigue, 

among others. 

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United States 

Five Grand 


Director: Tyler Graham Pavey 

Producer: Martha Mae, Orson Ossman, 

Tyler Graham Pavey 

Screenwriter: Orson Ossman, 


Cinematography: Tyler Graham Pavey, 

Niko Savich 

Editor: Persephanie Engel, Tyler Graham Pavey 

Music: Thomas Ouziel 

Sound: Charlie Bray, Thomas Ouziel 

Executive Producer: Katie Hendrix 

Cast: Orson Ossman, Chris Voss, Martha Mae, 

Eric Roberts 

Synopsis: 

A scrappy outlaw kills a lawman and takes his identity, 

moving west towards a new life; a straight-laced 

Pinkerton tracks him through unforgiving lands, dead set 

on his demise. 

Western 

86 Minutes 


Address: 1846 N Edgemont St. 

Los Feliz, CA 90027 

Tel: 707-489-7366 

Email: martha@ironwoodgang.com 


Tyler Graham Pavey is a Bay Area native and director of the 2015 sci-fi drama 

“The Phoenix Project”. He is a co-founder of The Ironwood Gang, for which “Five Grand” is his 

third feature film as a director/writer/producer. 

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United States 

Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project 


Director: Kim Furst 

Producer: Kim Furst 

Screenwriter: Kim Furst 

Cinematography: Patrick Kelly, Ron Siegel 

Editor: Kim Furst 

Music: David Cottrell 

Sound: David Bartlett 

Production design: Mauro Vanzati 

Line producer: Francesco Papa 

Cast: Harrison Ford as Bob Hoover, Carroll 

Shelby as Eugene Cernan 

Print source: Kilo Foxtrot Films 

Address: P.O. Box 3122 Los Angeles, CA 90078 

Tel: 818-461-0269 

Email: kim@thebobhooverproject.com, 

kim@kilofoxtrotfilms.com 

Synopsis: 

Considered by many to be our greatest living aviator, Robert 

A. Bob Hoover, age 94, has influenced generations of 

pilots with his precision flying and gentlemanly demeanor. 

The film captures every nuance of Bob‘s death-defying 

life story by skillfully interweaving vintage still images, 

rare historic footage, and exclusive testimonials from other 

flight legends past and present - bringing this legend’s 

incredible life and story into the limelight. 

Documentary 

86 Minutes 


Kim Furst 

Kim Furst is an award winning producer/director and film editor. Editing credits include Discovery 

Channel’s “Rocket Challenge”, the general aviation documentary “One Six Right, Wings Over the Rockies”, 

starring Harrison Ford and PBS’s “The Horsemen Cometh”, about a P51Mustang formation aerobatic team. 

Furst spent 3 years overseeing the creation of docs for big budget studio features, including J.J. Abrams’ 

“Mission Impossible: III” - for which she earned a Golden Satellite, that industry’s highest award. Other 

recent awards include the 2014 Grand Prize Soldiers & Sacrifice Award and the Combs Gates Award from 

the National Aviation Hall of Fame for preserving Aerospace Hsitory. 

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United States 

Get Happy! 


Director: Manoj Annadurai 

Producer: Sania Jhankar 

Screenwriter: Tom Shipley 

Cinematography: Eric Giovon 

Editor: Mattheau O’Brien 

Music: Angelo Panetta 

Sound: Charlie Bray, Thomas Ouziel 

Cast: Chris Riggi, Adam LaVorgna, Rebecca 

Blumhagen, Jordan Lane Price, Lauren Sweetser 

Print source: Monomyth Enchantment Inc 

Synopsis: 

A perpetually miserable man finds happiness when he 

starts dating a manic pixie dream girl, to the 

befuddlement of his cynical best friend. 

Comedy - Romantic 

100 Minutes 


Address: 70 E. 110th St, 3A 

New York City, NY 10029 

Tel: 646- 246-2549 

Email: sania@ilaughicryfilms.com 

Website: www.monomyth-enchantment.com 

Manoj Annadurai 

Despite being a successful software company entrepreneur, Manoj always had a strong passion for 

film-making. Newspapers such as The Hindu, Business Times, Economic Times, India Today have 

written about Manoj, his company and products. Being a recent graduate of the New York Film 

Academy, he is all set for this venture, Get Happy! 

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Israel 

Golan: A Farewell to Mr. Cinema 


Director: Christopher Sykes 

Producer: Christopher Sykes 

Screenwriter: Christopher Sykes 

Cinematography: Christopher Sykes 

Editor: Christopher Swayne, Christopher Sykes 

Sound: Christopher Sykes 

Cast: Menahem Golan, Naomi Golan, 

Rachel Golan, Christopher Sykes 

Print source: Christopher Sykes 

Synopsis: 

British documentary-maker Christopher Sykes goes to 

Israel in search of the Hollywood legend and movie mogul 

Menahem Golan - producer, director and one-time head 

of Cannon films. He finds Golan hard at work on a new 

blockbuster starring Al Pacino and dreaming of the Oscar 

he has always wanted. An intimate account of the final 

chapter in the extraordinary life and career of a largerthan-life 

movie maverick. 

Address: 18 Byfeld Gardens Barnes, 

London, SW13 9HP 

Tel: +44(0)20 87488748 

Email: christopher.skykes@gmail.com 

Docu-Drama 

75 Minutes 


Christopher Sykes 

Christopher Sykes joined the BBC as a researcher in 1970 and was on the staff of the BBC Science 

Department until 1983 when he left to work as a freelancer documentary producer-director. He has 

made over 70 documentaries and especially likes making films about remarkable people, from the great 

American physicist Richard Feynman to Bob Dylan - and, of course, Menahem Golan!” 

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Germany 

The Good Goering 


Director: Kai Christiansen, Matthias Marten 

Producer: Sandra Maischberger 

Screenwriter: Gerhard Spoerl, Jarg Brueckner 

Cinematography: Jan Kerhart 

Editor: Marc Brasse (NDR), Sabine Scharnagl (BR) 

Music: Eike Hosenfield, Tim Stanzel 

Sound: Robert F. Kellner 

Camera: Jan Kerhart 

Cast: Francic-Fulton Smith, Barnaby Metschurat, 

Natalia Woerner, Anna Schudt 

Print source: Vincent TV 

Synopsis: 

“The good and the evil Goering” is the double portrait of 

two dissimilar brothers: the one, second in command in 

the State after Hitler, the other a quiet and forgotten hero 

today to whom countless of persecuted owe their lives. 

Contact between the two was never broken, yet their lives 

becomes the recurring story of Cain and Abel. 

Docu-Drama 

90 Minutes 


Address: Kastanienallee 40, Berlin 10119 

Tel: 493.027.877.641 

Email: martens@vincent-tv.com 

Website: www.vincent-tv.com 

Kai Christiansen/Matthias Marten 

Matthias Marten has conributed to all aspects of “The Good Goering”, 

the docu-drama dealing with the Goering Brothers and their story in World War II during the height 

of Adolf Hitler’s regime. 

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Japan 

I am a Monk 


Director: Yukinori Makabe 

Producer: Tomiji Kajiwara 

Screenwriter: Kenya Hirata 

Editor: Hiroaki Morishita 

Music: Mamiko Hirai 

Sound: Hiroyuki Ishizaka 

Chief Executive Producer: Takaaki Kabuto, 

Tsukasa Shiga 

Director of Photography: Kozo Shibazaki 

Cast: Atsushi Ito, Mizuki Yamamoto, 

Issey Ogata, Gaku Hamada, 

Miyuki Matsuda 

Print source: Pony Canyon Inc 

Address: Tokyo 

Tel: 81-3-5521-8016 

Email: sakoda@ponycanyon.co.jp 

Website: www.ponycanyon.co.jp/intl 

Synopsis: 

Koen Shirakata, age 24. With the sudden death of his 

grandfather, he became an Abbot of Eifukuji, the 57th of 

88 temples on the Shikoku pilgrimage route. Although 

he was born and raised in this temple, stepping into the 

Buddhist world as a monk was a much deeper experience 

than he had ever imagined. At times getting excited seeing 

special monk tools for the first time, or meeting unique 

monks, while also worrying about relations with worshippers 

of the temple. 

Docu-Drama 

104 Minutes 

Color, Japanese 

Yukinori Makabe 

Born in 1984 in Tokyo. After graduating from university, he joined ROBOT. After years of serving in the 

CM Production Division, he was transferred to Film Direction Division. Makabe’s short film “The Sun and 

the Moon” won Jury’s Award in the Journey Awards, a prestigious international film competition establishedby 

Kar Wai Wong and Louis Vuitton. Makabe has directed short films such as “Tokyo Sky Story”, 

commemorative of Tokyo Skytree’s first anniversary, and “Starry Night”, exclusively produced for Nestle 

Theater. He has also directed TV drama such as “The Liar and his Lover – Side Story”, and theatrical play 

“Martini!”. “I am a Monk” marks Makabe’s feature directorial debut. 

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United States 

In The Parlor: The Final Goodbye 


Director: Heidi Boucher 

Co-producer/Co-director: Ruby Sketchley 

Producer: Heidi Boucher; Ruby Sketchley 

Cinematography: Brian Hamm 

Editor: David Sketchley 

Music: Rachel Loshak 

Sound: Robert Neely, Matthew Bouler 

Cast: Julie Kirkwood, Josh Slocum, Lisa Carlson 

Synopsis: 

A documentary film examining the growing trend of 

home funerals and 3 families reverently caring for their 

own dead. Both a critical look at the American relationship 

with death and an inquiry into the home death care 

movement, the movie takes viewers on a journey where 

very few have gone, and challenges us to reflect on this 

uncomfortable subject, which so often is hidden away 

and ignored. 

Address: 4410 Kewanee Street 

Fair Oaks, CA 95628 

Tel: 916-601-9134 

Email: heidibouch@comcast.net 

Website: www.intheparlordoc.com 

Documentary 

80 Minutes 


Heidi Boucher & Ruby Sketchley 

Heidi has been involved with independent feature film, television and theater for over 25 years in 

California and Oregon working as a writer, producer, director, production designer and art director. 

Having worked on numerous commercial and independently produced projects for others, “In The 

Parlor” is her first documentary. 

For the past five years, Ruby may be better known as an actor but she began her production career 

over 25 years ago in England working as a production assistant, producer, director and writer. She 

has worked on feature films, shorts, music videos, documentaries, industrials and television. 

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Italy 

The Invisible Player 


World Premiere I Panorama Italia 

Director: Stefano Alpini 

Producer: Francesco Monceri for Polis srl 

Screenwriter: Paolo Serbandini 

and Giovanna Massimetti 

Cinematography: De Rosa Antonio 

Editor: Marco Guelfi 

Assistant editor: Daniele Lucchini, 

Giovanni Merla 

Cast: Luca Lionello, Ludovica Bizzaglia, 

Guenda Goria, Sergio Albelli 

Print source: Polis srl 

Synopsis: 

Professor Nari, an eminent university lecturer, is slandered 

by a mysterious anonymous letter “accusing” him 

of making a banal error in an article on the subject 

of betrayal. Suspicion turns into obsession and not even 

his relationship with the young Olivia can assuage his 

anxiety about the loyalty of the people who surround 

him. 

Dramatic 

94 Minutes 

Tel: 39.347.713.6203 

Email: info@polisfilm.it 


Houston 

Stefano Alpini 

Stefano Alpini graduated in Political Sciences and obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Pisa. 

He directed “Muzika Rom”, a documentary recognised as culturally relevant by the Cinema 

Department of MiBac; he produced “211: Anna”, selected at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival (USA) 

and winner of the Ilaria Alpi prize and the Annency Festival (France), and “Zarema e le altre”, 

selected at the 2010 Giffoni Film Festival and winner at the 

Festival for Children & Young People in Yereva (Armenia). 

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United States 

The List 



Director: Georgia Tannera 

Producer: Jennifer Lewis Brooks, Heather Breslin 

Screenwriter: Scott Pryor 

Cinematography: Josh McKague 

Editor: Josh Jamison 

Music: Christopher Bevins 

Cast: Scott Pryor, Kristen Sharp, Montell Jordan, 

Brooke Jaye Taylor 

Print source: Foretress Films 

Address: 4500 Hugh Howell Rd Suite 520 

Tucker, GA 30084 

Tel: 4042467058 

Email: info@watchthelist.com 

Synopsis: 

By the age of 12, Jack Stone had experienced more life grit 

than most adults. In desperation, he decides to grab the 

controls, making “ The List” his roadmap to success his 

own way, After 15 years of life on the street and clawing 

up from the bottom, we find Jack as a successful lawyer. 

He’s done well on his own, crossing lots off of his list. But, 

he hasn’t factored God into the plan. God hasn’t seemed 

to be around in the past. Can Jack trust Him with the future? 

As life continues to take its toll and tragedies strike, 

will Jack relinquish the power of The List in order to gain 

all he’s ever really wanted? 

First Feature-Christian 

109 Minutes 


Georgia Tannera 

Georgia Tanner’s work is defined by beautiful imagery and emotionally captivating stories. Georgia 

grew up in the South, where stories wove together time and place and strengthened relationships of 

family and friends. She won an Emmy for her work with Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin in a 

campaign against child prostitution. 

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United States 

Living Lost 


Director: Jon Bessire 

Producer: John Church, Daphne Bach, 

Jon Bessire, Keith Bienert 

Screenwriter: S. Jean Baptiste 

Cinematography: Audriana Smith, Keith Bienert 

Editor: Yvan Gauthier, Time Factor Pictures 

Music: Mark Tschanz 

Sound: Yvan Gauthier, Time Factor Pictures 

Cast: Jon Bessire, Luis Bac, Jessica Buda, 

Natalie Pero 

Print source: 3Sides Entertainment 

Synopsis: 

On the verge of a career defining deal, Gene Timbault, a 

driven, tough-minded, corporate executive, discovers that 

something is seriously amiss with his health. It takes an 

escape to the jungles of Central America, and into the 

hitherto uncharted wilds deep within himself, to find that 

all may not be lost for our self-conquering hero. 

First Feature 

78 Minutes 

Color, English/Spanish 

Address: 13428 Maxella Avenue #575 

Marina del Rey, CA 90292 

Tel: 310-663-7400 

Email: 3sides.ent@gmail.com, 

johnchurch@3sidesentertainment.com 

Jon Bessire 

Jon Bessire has 17 years of experience acting on stage and in popular national commercials and films. 

He noticed a lack of platforms for emerging and established artists to perform freely, so he took the 

initiative and co-founded the production company 3 Sides Entertainment, which has produced several 

feature films, shorts, and commercials, since its inception in 2009. Jon has a zest for adventuring, backpacking, 

and traveling, which have drawn him to over 25 countries, inspirng him in his creative life. 

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Canada 

Look Again 



Director: Daniel O’Connor 

Producer: Daniel O’Connor, Connie Contardi 

Screenwriter: Daniel O’Connor 

Cinematography: Henry Sansom 

Editor: Bern Euler 

Music: Jason Staczek 

Sound: Glen Deakin 

Cast: Brittany Allen, Eugene Clark, Christian 

Potenza, Joel Keller 

Synopsis: 

Betrayed by people he trusted and on the verge of ending 

it all, a man is visited by his guardian angels who give him 

a special pair of glasses that enable him to see who is 

good and who is bad. 

Comedy 

93 Minutes 


Address: 328 Howland Ave, Toronto, ON M5R3B9 

Tel: 416.629.2212 

Email: daniel@danieloconnor.ca 

Daniel O’Connor 

Daniel is a Toronto-based writer/director who has had several of his short films broadcast 

nationally in Canada. His first feature “Run Robot Run!” is available on iTunes and is 100% fresh 

on Rotten Tomatoes. Look Again is his second feature. 

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Love and Friendship 


Director: Whit Stillman 

Producer: Whit Stillman, Katie Holly, 

Lauranne Bourrachot 

Screenwriter: Whit Stillman 

Cinematography: Richard Van Oosterhout, NSC 

Editor: Sophie Corra 

Music: Mark Suozzo 

Director of Photography: Richard Van 

Oosterhout 

Composer: Benjamin Esdraffo 

Production Designer: Anna Rackard 

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, 

Xavier Samuel, Morfydd Clark, 

Emma Greenwell, Tom Bennett 

Print source: Stephanie Northen 

stephanien@roadsideattractions.com 

323-785-3090 

Synopsis: 

Beautiful young widow, Lady Susan Vernon, visits the 

estate of her in-laws to wait out the colourful rumours 

about her dalliances circulating through polite society. 

Whilst ensconced there, she decides to secure a 

husband for herself and a future for her eligible but 

reluctant daughter, Frederica. 

Dramatic-Romance 

103 Minutes 


Tel: 917-225-7093, 917-225-0403 

Email: ShannonTreusch@falcoink.com, 

MichelleDiMartino@falcoink.com, 

Whit Stillman 

Whit Stillman’s first film as writer-director, ‘Metropolitan’, debuted at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival 

and went on to receive an Academy Award nomination. His subsequent films include ‘The Last Days 

of Disco’ starring Chloe Sevigny & Kate Beckinsale; his novel based on that film won the 2014 Prix 

Fitzgerald. His latest film, again starring Beckinsale & Sevigny, is the Jane Austen adaptation “Love & 

Friendship” which will be released by Roadside Attractions/Amazon Studios on May 13. 

In May, Little Brown will publish his novel elaborating on the story. 

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Love/Me/Do 


Director: Martin Stitt 

Producer: Ian Prior 

Screenwriter: Martin Stitt 

Cinematography: Robin Whenary 

Editor: Robbie Morrison 

Music: Gareth Averill, Rael Jones 

Sound: Aidan McCarthy 

Cast: Rebecca Calder, Jack Gordon, 

Maz Wrottesley, Samantha Coughlan 

Print source: Parkland Pictures 

Address: Suite 7, 79 Wardour Street 

London W1D 6QB 

Tel: 7815788748, 

44 203 432 9501 

Email: martin@sprigproductions.co.uk, 

info@parklandpictures.com 

Website: www.martinstitt.com 

Synopsis: 

Antonia, a beautiful and successful trader at an 

investment bank latches on to Max, an unemployed actor 

who despite his insecurities is fine with becoming the 

‘kept’ man in her lovely home. As their claustrophobic 

relationship takes its final twists and turns, how will her 

deeply held secrets transform their future.. .if they have a 

future at all? 


90 Minutes 


Martin Stitt 

British writer/director. Awarded a Sloan Scholarship to study at the American Film Institute in 

Los Angeles. Mentored by the Oscar winning director Sam Mendes via their Guiding Light program. 

Has extensive experience shooting films in remore locations including the Himalayas, Kosovo, 

China, Hong Kong, Scandinavia, Oman and The Arctic Circle. 

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Japan 

Magic Utopia 


Director: Shoji Toyama, Shuichi Tan 

Producer: Shoji Toyama 

Screenwriter: Shoji Toyama 

Cinematography: Takuro Iwagami 

Editor: Shuichi Tan 

Music: Keiko Shiga 

Sound: Wataru Ogata 

Cast: Ryotaro Yonemura, Erisa Yanagi 

Shu Wada, Maki Meguro 

Print source: Magic Utopia Production 

Committee 

Address: 1349-2, Kagami-mura, Kagami-machi 

Yatsushiro, Kumamoto 869-4201 

Tel: 81-3-5721-1126 

Email: info@magic-utopia.com 

Website: http://magic-utopia.com 

Synopsis: 

A girl who lost her mother in childhood; A man trapped in 

a past of painful memories; An old man who lives alone 

and has lost his daughter. When the girl meets the man, 

her body begins to float suddenly in the air. At the same 

time, the old man receives a message on his answering 

machine from his daughter who was thought to be dead. 

This is the story of three souls moving 

towards UTOPIA. 

Dramatic 

89 Minutes 

Color, Japanese 

Shoji Toyama, Shuichi Tan 

Shoji Toyama is a graduate of Hosei & Waseda Universities Graduate School of Global Information & Telecommunication 

Studies and also studied at Boston University. His first feature “Our Night is Not Long” was shown at 

the Tokyo Intl Film Festival in 2012. Recently putting his effort into graphics, he will direct and photograph for the 

Miyazaki-prefecture Gokase-towns 55th Aniversary special opened website “GOGO GOKASE”. 

Shuichi Tan, born in 1965 in Hyogo Prefecture, spreads his work into the CF world, using the sense and career as 

a music video director handling many pieces of work. Now focusing on graphics, he will direct and photograph for 

the Miyazaki-prefecture Gokase-towns 55th aniversary special opened website 

“GOGO GOKASE”. “Magic Utopia” is his debut feature. 

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Italy 

The Magic World (Il Mundo Magico) 


WORLD PREMIERE I Panorama Italia 

Director: Raffaelle Schettino 

Producer: Raffaele Schettino 

Screenwriter: Daniele Trovato, Raffaele Schettino 

Cinematography: Nour Gharbi 

Editor: Raffaele Schettino 

Music: La Banda della Posta, Francesco Snoriguzzi 

Sound: Giampiero Sanzari 

Cast: Alessandra Trovato, Chiara Travisonni, 

Mara Calcagni, Raffaele Schettino 

Print source: Groucho Cinema srl 

Address: via Vallarsa 16 Roma 141 

Tel: 393.476.442.529 

Email: grouchocinema@gmail.com 

Synopsis: 

The history of Gianni, who deserts his battalion during the 

Russian campaign in WWII and is hidden by a family in 

Piadena (North of Italy). There he falls in love with Teresa, 

but the armistice saw him returning to his small town in 

the South of Italy. Teresa reaches him there, but since he 

refuses her, she concocts a terrible malediction upon him 

which will cause grave effects. 

Historical Drama 

78 Minutes 


Houston 

Raffaelle Schettino 

Raffaele Schettino is an Italian director and actor. He has performed in theatre with masters such as 

Dario Fo, Jean Paul Denizon and actors from Odin Theatret and writes, acts, directs several plays. 

He arrived on the audio-video scene through shooting documentaries. “The Magic World” is his first 

feature movie as director. 

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Brazil 

A Matter of Courage (Prova de Coragem) 


USA PREMIERE 

Director: Roberto Gervitz 

Producer: Monica Schmiedt 

Screenwriter: Roberto Gervitz 

Cinematography: Lauro Escorel 

Editor: Manga Campion 

Music: Luiz Henrique Xavier 

Sound: Kiko Ferraz and Christian Vaisz 

Cast: Amando Babaioff, Mariana Ximenes, 

Daniel Volpi, Aurea Maranhao 

Print source: M.Schmiedt Producoes 

Synopsis: 

Hermano, a successful doctor and enthusiastic rock 

climber, is planning to climb an almost invincible mountain 

in the Tierra del Fuego, when he discovers that his 

wife Adri is pregnant. For Hermano, facing the mountain 

represents an essential proof of courage that he believes 

he owes to himself. Despite discovering that Adri’s pregnancy 

is at risk, he seems determined to go ahead with 

the climb. 

Address: Rua Felizardo de Farias,156 Porto 

Aleg re, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 90660130 

Email: produtora@mschmiedt.com.br 

Website: www.provadecoragemofilme.com.br 

Dramatic 

90 Minutes 

Color, Portuguese with English subtitles 

Roberto Gervitz 

Roberto Gervitz studied Social Sciences in the 1970s and had already begun experimenting with Super-8 film at 

school. At the age of 20, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, Gervitz was making social documentary films. 

Gervitz became a professional, working first as editor and sound editor, and then as a screenwriter and director. 

He has directed TV series including GENTE QUE FAZ and CARANDIRU-OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS (produced by 

Hector Babenco) and documentaries, such as BRAÇOS CRUZADOS, MÁQUINAS PARADAS (Arms Crossed, 

Machines Stopped, 1979), winning the Young Director Award at the Leipzig festival and showing at the 

Young Cinema Forum at the Berlin Film Festival. 

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Israel 

The Messenger 


USA Premiere 

Director: Doron Eran 

Producer: Doron Eran, Billy Ben Moshe 

Screenwriter: Billy Ben Moshe 

Cinematography: Danor Glaser 

Editor: Stephny Abramowitz 

Music: Dani Reichntal 

Sound: Itamar Cohen 

Synopsis: 

“The Messenger” is the story of Yaakov Damkani, who 

grew up in an impoverished family in Northern Israel 

on the border of Lebanon. In the 1950’s, he was a key 

member of a crime circuit, but eventually transformed into 

one of the most well-known Messianic Jewish figures in 

the world, profoundly impacting the Messianic Movement 

forever. 

Address: Harav Herzog 18, Tel Aviv 62915 

Email: watchmandoron@gmail.com 

Docu-Drama 

77 Minutes 

Doron Eran 

Doron Eran is a well established Israeli producer/director specializing in feature films, TV dramas 

and documentary films. As a film and television creator, he has produced over 40 movies and TV 

films/series for the local and international markets. He is a prior winner at WorldFest. 

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Taiwan 

The Missing Piece 


Director: Chiang, Feng-Hung 

Producer: Cindy Huang 

Screenwriter: Huang, Shu-Yun/ Chen, Yi 

Cinematography: Chiang, Shen-Feng 

Editor: Stone Ho 

Music: Chung, Chi-Chan 

Print source: Three-Giant Production Co Ltd 

Address: 6F, NO.260, Sec.2, 

Bade Rd Taipei 10401 

Email: celine_shen@movie.com.tw 

Synopsis: 

Lin Da-Fung became aware that there was always a 

missing piece hidden deep in everyone’s heart, and it 

could only be found and mended by the power of love. 

Dramatic 

105 Minutes 

Mandarin with English subtitles 

Chiang, Feng-Hung 

Taiwan’s famous idol-drama director, CHIANG, Feng-Hung, 

adept at a variety of genres ranging from romance, comedy, 

family and mystery. His works mark his foray into 

Taiwan’s evolving film industry. 

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Germany 

Morpheus 


USA Premiere 

Director: Frauke Lodders 

Producer: Frauke Lodders 

Screenwriter: Frauke Lodders 

Cinematography: Christian Huck 

Editor: Frauke Lodders, Kathrin Hembus 

Music: Andre Feldhaus, Anders Wasserfall 

Sound: Rolf Seidelmann 

Director of photography: Christian Huck 

Cast: Jasmin Schwier, Cristina do Rego, 

Alexander Sternberg, Friedhelm Ptok 

Print source: Frauke Lodders Film 

Synopsis: 

After an accident, Lia lapses into a coma and awakes in 

a world of dreams, which is controlled by Morpheus, the 

god of dreams. She is caught in this shady world, not able 

to take control with what is happening and is forced to 

experience the things which take her into this world 

again. Lia tries to escape from her memories, but 

Morpheus reveals to her that there are only two ways 

which lead out of the dream world: Deal with her past and 

find a way back into life or give up and die. 

Address: Weigelstrasse 4 Kassel 34117 

Email: lodders@fraukelodders.de 


83 Minutes 

Color, German 

Frauke Lodders 

Frauke Lodders has had film projects at festivals throughout the world, most notably at Venice, Sundance, 

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and the BBC to mention a few. 

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Philipines 

My Life with a King (Ari) 


Director: Carlo Encisco Catu 

Producer: Ferdinand Lapuz, Carlo Mendoza 

Screenwriter: Robby Tantingco 

Cinematography: Carlo Mendoza 

Editor: Carlo Francisco Manatad 

Music: Jake Abella 

Sound: Gilbert Obispo 

Production Designer: Alex Castro 

Cast: Ronwaldo Martin as Jaypee 

Francisco Guinto as Conrado 

Cecile Yumul as Meding 

Chloe Carpio as Tintin 

Jonalyn Ablong as Marilyn 

Print source: Ignatius Films Canada 

Synopsis: 

A boy discovers a quaint tradition where folks speak in 

verse and imagine themselves ruled by a king. 

First Feature 

89 Minutes 

Color, Kapampangan and Tagalog with English Subtitles 

Address: 191 San Joaquin Street San Angelo 

Subd., Angeles City 2009 

Tel: 63 917 551 1434 

Email: ignatiusfilms@yahoo.ca 

Carlo Encisco Catu 

Nominated for a British Independent Film Award. “My Life with a King” is his feature narrative debut. 

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Ireland 

North Circular Road 


Director: Donal Nugent 

Producer: Kathy Horgan and Michael Parle 

Screenwriter: Donal Nugent 

Cinematography: Stephen C. Walsh 

Editor: Stephen Lourdes 

Music: Celsey McFadden & Teatronic 

Sound: Stuart Porteous 

Cast: Janice Cadogan, Lorna Larkin, 

Matthew Cadogan, Patrick O’Donnell 

Peter, Patrick J. Molloy Eileen, Vanessa Richter 

Print source: Donal Nugent 

Synopsis: 

Weather forecaster Janice is forced to work from home 

after having an affair with her boss. Feeling guilty, she 

visits a spiritual healer. Afterwards, strange spectres start 

appearing in the house, and Janice begins to uncover a 

trail of troubled matrimony and murder. By confronting 

the situation she will also learn dark truths about herself. 

Drama/Mystery 

90 Minutes 


Address: Apartment 51, Stapleton House 33 

Mountjoy Square, Dublin 

Tel: 353862103373 

Email: donal@theredpiranha.com 

Donal Nugent 

Donal Nugent is a writer and filmmaker based in Dublin. An award winning poet, 

“North Circular Road” is his first feature film and he is currently working on a documentary on 

Ireland’s “Lost Sports”. 

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South Korea 

Northern Limit Line 


Director: Kim Hak-Soon 

Producer: Kim Hak-Soon, Moon-goo Jung 

Screenwriter: Kim Hak-Soon, 

Soon-jo Choi (novel) 

Cinematography: Bill Kim Hyung-ku Kim 

Editor: Steve M. Choe 

Music: Mok Young-Jin 

Sound: Lee Sung-Jin 

Cast: Kim Mu-Yeol, Jin Goo, Lee Hyun-Woo 

Print source: Rosetta Cinema, 

Next Entertainment World 

Address: Grad. School of Media, Sogang Univ. 

35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742 

Tel: 82-2-705-8897 

Email: Kbeesbee@yahoo.com 

Synopsis: 

Based on the true story that is known as the second 

battle of Yeonpyeong, this movie tells the story of some 

of the young soldiers who fought and died in the battle. 

The battle took place in the yellow sea on 29th of June in 

2002, when two North-Korean vessels boarded the NLL 

- the Northern Limit Line - and fired at the South-Korean 

patrol boat named Chamsuri 357, killing six men and 

leaving 18 injured. 

Action- Adventure 

130 Minutes 

Color, Korean 

Kim Hak-Soon 

Raised in Seoul, Korea, Kim Hak-soon studied fine arts; painting, sculpture and graphic design after 

serving the Korean navy for 3 years. He was one of the winners of the first Eastman Kodak 

Scholarship awards. His debut feature, “Rewind” won Special Jury Award (WorldFest-Houston), NET- 

PAC Award(Hawaii IFF) and New Director Award (Chunsa Film Arts Award). “Northern Limit Line” 

won Best Cinematographer Award at the Macau International Film Festival(2016). 

He now is a professor of Graduate School of Media at Sogang University in Korea. 

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Spain 

Paranoid Girls 



Director: Pedro del Santo 

Producer: Pedro del Santo, Shaune Bordere 

Screenwriter: Helena Montesinos 

Cinematography: Alberto de Castro 

Editor: Jorge Garcia Soto 

Music: Javier del Santo 

Sound: Jaime Lardiés 

Cast: Patricia Valley, Mairen Muñoz, 

Marta Mir Martín, Antonio Ibañez, Bárbara de 

Lema, Ángel de Miguel 

Synopsis: 

Ana, Paula and Veronica become fascinated by modeling 

and the life that it offers. Yet, they gradually begin to discover 

the dark side of fashion hidden behind the fame and 

glamour of the spotlights. The women experience downfall 

as they engage with an antagonistic photographer 

who drags models into a high stakes abyss of danger. 

The women learn to value friendship over the lures of 

fashion pitfalls and enjoy life’s simplicities in the end. 

Address: 14 bd Bineau levallois 

perret Ile-de-France 92300 

Tel: 33680995734 

Email: brunochatelin@gmail.com 

Website: http://pedrodelsanto.es/ 

chicas-paranoicas/ 

Comedy 

88 Minutes 

Color, Spanish 

Pedro del Santo 

Pedro is a lawyer with his own firm specializing in IP Rights; a fashion photographer published in 

several Spanish magazines. In 2013, he directed a short “ Eequizophrenia” which won frst prize for 

Best Narrative Short at the California Int Film Festival, honorable mention from New Delhi Int 

Short Film Fest and Public Choice Award in editing from California Film Fest of Cinematic Arts. 

In 2015, he directed and produced his first feature film, “Paranoid Girls”, officially selected at the 

Philippines Int Film Fest, NYC Indie Int Film Fest and now at WorldFest-Houston. 

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United States 


Director: John Asher 

Producer: John Asher, Rod Hamilton 

Screenwriter: Colin Goldman, Steve C. Roberts 

Cinematography: Steven Douglas Smith 

Editor: John Asher 

Music: Burt Bacharach 

Sound: Willy Allen 

Cast: Christopher Gorham, Julian Feder, 

Kaitlin Doubleday, Andrew Bowen 

Synopsis: 

When David Wilson’s young wife falls victim to cancer, he 

is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of 

caring for his autistic sixth grade son, Patrick (PO of the 

film). Patrick, a gifted but challenged child, was very close 

to his mother and is unable to communicate his own 

sense of loss. Based on a true story, the bonds of love 

between a grieving father and his son are tested in a most 

poignant way. 

Address: 124 S. Elm Drive #8 

Beverly Hills, CA 90212 

Email: jafilms@mac.com 

Dramatic 

93 Minutes 


John Asher 

John Asher directed his first film “Kounterfeit” at 21. He branched into directing for 

television with the Showtime series “Going to California”. 

Asher directed the television series “One Tree Hill”. 

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United States 

Popolo 


Director: Edo Natasha 

Producer: Valerie Joseph, Tyler J. Bishoff, 

Bianca Grace Tubolino, and Kristen Labiano 

Screenwriter: Richard Braunskill, 

James Harber, Quantae Love, Edo Natasha 

Cinematography: Jacky Chang 

Editor: Edo Natasha 

Music: Christian Baczyk 

Sound: Joel and Sam Evenden, Speck Mike 

Executive Producers: Edo Natasha and 

Quantae Love 

Cast: Quantae Love as Apollo 

Kaleb Duncan as Don, Nani Morita as Mei 

and Manuel Baez as Josh 

Print source: Matahari LLC 

Synopsis: 

A seasoned Special Forces officer arrives in Hawaii to 

fulfill a dream for his best friend that was killed in action. 

However, turning a piece of property located in a seedy 

part of O’ahu into Mixed Martial Arts Academy brings 

problems involving racism, a forbidden relationship, and 

the notoriously ruthless Yakuza. 

First Feautre-Dramatic 

100 Minutes 

Color, English, Japanese 

Address: 1774 Palolo Ave Apt.E Honululu, HI 

Tel: 515-451-3650 

Email: edo.natasha@gmail.com 

Website: www.popolofilm.com 

Edo Natasha 

Edo Natasha is born and raised in Semarang, Indonesia. In order to pursue his dream, he joined the 

US Military and was deployed to Afghanistan for a year. 

Coming back to United States, Edo decided to start working toward his dream by producing and 

directing his own feature film titled “Popolo”. 

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Canada 

Prisoner X 


Director: Gaurav Seth 

Producer: Avi Federgreen, Robyn Bigue 

Gaurav Seth, Adrienn • Now 

Screenwriter: Gaurav Seth 

Robert Reed (Novel) 

Cinematography: Sam Pryse-Phillips 

Editor: Angela Jekums 

Music: Patric Caird 

Sound: George Flores 

Cast: Michelle Nolden, Romano Orzari, 

Damon Runyan, Julian Richings 

Print source: Federgreen Entertainment Inc. 

Synopsis: 

A battle of wills takes place in a secret underground 

prison as the world rages with war while Carmen, a CIA 

agent interrogates a time-travelling terrorist responsible 

for the catastrophe. Carmen must find out whether or not 

her predecessor was murdered or committed suicide, who 

the prisoner really is, and the real agenda of the prisoner. 

Sci-Fi 

88 Minutes 


Address: 194 Glenholme Ave 

Tornto, Ontario, Canada M6E 3C4 

Tel: 416-898-3456 

Email: info@federgreenentertainment.com 

Website: www.prisonerxmovie.com 

Gaurav Seth 

Gaurav studied at the prestigious Russian Federation Institute of Cinema (VGIK) under the tutelage of 

Vadim Yusov, the legendary cinematographer of “Andrei Tarkovsky”, and has a Master’s Degree in 

Cinematography & Film Direction. His first feature film “A Passage to Ottowa’”won several 

international awards, including a Crystal Bear (Special Mention) at the Berlin Film Festival. 

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Puerto Rico 

Riding 79 


Director: Karola Hawk 

Producer: Alexia Melocchi, Andrea Fellers, 

Emily Barclay and Carola Gonzalez 

Screenwriter: Jessica Dart, Michael Meade, 

Carola Gonzalez 

Cinematography: John Frost 

Editor: Gabriel Coss 

Music: Denes Pagan 

Sound: Harbor Pictures 

Cast: Lorenzo Henrie, Madalyn Horcher, 

Nikki Hahn and Kim Rhodes 

Print source: Little Studio Films 

Synopsis: 

Forced to care for his little sister after losing both parents, 

a 16-year-old ends up in a foreign surf town with his near 

senile grandparents, but soon he finds solace in fantasies 

of a pin-up girl and sets out to find her. Hitting the road 

in a stolen car with an uninvited guest, his quest leads to 

miles of challenges, self-discovery and surprisingly, a new 

love. 

Dramatic 

93 Minutes 

Color, English, Spanish 

Address: 264 Seminole Ave Suite 5 

Palm Beach, Florida 33480 

Tel: 305-484-7077 

Email: caroladenisse@gmail.com 

Karola Hawk 

Karola Hawk spent 7 years creating wardrobe for Hollywood studio films before her debut as a 

director. She is currently on location in Palm Beach, Florida ,developing her next screenplay 

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Armenia 

The Romanticists 


Director: Shoghik Tadevosyan 

and Areg Azatyan 

Producer: Shoghik Tadevosyan 


Screenwriter: Shoghik Tadevosyan 


Editor: Shoghik Tadevosyan and Areg Azatyan 

Music: Arthur Mitinyan 

Sound: Anahit Kesayants, Mariam Mirzoyan, 

Armen Sahakyan 

Director of Photography: Tammam Hamza 

Cast: Narek Nersisyan, Narek Ktoyan, 

Karen Khosrovyan, David Franzreb 

Print source: Aysor-Plus Film Production 

Synopsis: 

The story is about Oscar, an Armenian actor who had 

dreamed of going to Hollywood to become a celebrity for 

many years. Now, he wins the Green Card lottery, and it 

seems his long-standing dream is coming true! But the 

good-bye party given for him by his teenage friends takes 

a completely different path: as a result, everything 

changes and a chain of unpredicted and absurd events 

brings tragedy. 

Dramatic 

95 Minutes 

Address: 477 E. Providencia Ave#B 

Burbank, CA 91501 

Tel: 818-268-4607 

Email: aysor.plus@gmail.com, 

aregazatyan@gmail.com 

Website: www.theromanticists.com 

Shoghik Tadevosyan and Areg Azatyan 

Areg Azatyan has authored 5 books, winning several national and international literary awards. He 

graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema. Since 2004, he has been working at the 

first independent film studio Aysor-Plus Film Productions. Based on his stories he made 3 short films which 

participated in more than 30 international film festivals. “The Romanticists” is his first feature film. 

ShoghikTadevosyan graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema. Since 2007, she has 

been working at the first independent film studio Aysor-Plus Film Productions. In 2012, she graduated from 

the prestigious EAVE European Producers Workshop. “The Romanticists” is her first feature film. 

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United States 

Rum Runners 


Director: William Nelson 

Producer: William Nelson, Brian Stuart Boyd, 

Yves Bright, Bryan Martin and Kerry Wallum 

Screenwriter: William Nelson 

Cinematography: Mitch Manina, Yves Bright, 

and Bryan Martin 

Editor: Brian Corder 

Music: Brian Corder, Brian Warhall and Jeff Hayat 

Sound: Brian Corder, Brian Warhall and Jeff Hayat 

Cast: Yves Bright, Brian Stuart Boyd, Vernon Wells, 

Billy St. John and Crystal Bell 

Print source: ITD Productions 

Synopsis: 

“Rum Runner” is an adventurous story based on true 

events which happened during the Prohition era between 

two best friends, Vic Hanson and Don Calyer, who get 

caught running illegal booze across the Canadian border. 

Soon, they turn their efforts to bringing their illegal cargo 

via small bi-planes and suffer the consequences of many 

dangerous twists and turns. 

Action-Adventure 

106 Minutes 


Address: 3692 Deer Creek Road, Valley, Wa 99181 

Tel: 509-937-4466 

Email: intodeemproductions@yahoo.com 

William Nelson 

Listening to his father share local lore about the notorious gangsters who ran booze across the 

Canadian border during the 1920’s, William Nelson knew he wanted to be a filmmaker and put 

these stories on the big screen. 

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Italy 

Second Spring (Seconda Primavera) 


Panorama Italia 

Director: Francesco Calogero 

Producer: Francesco Calogero, Mia Arfuso 

Screenwriter: Francesco Calogero 

Cinematography: Giulio Pietromarchi 

Editor: Mirco Garrone 

Music: Sandro Di Stefano 

Cast: Claudio Botosso, Anita Kravos, 

Desiree Noferini, Angelo Campolo 

Print source: Polittico, with the support of 

Sicilia Film Commission 

Address: via Alessandro Volta 39/f Rome 153 

Email: politticosrl@gmail.com 

Synopsis: 

While looking for new tenants for his seaside villa, Andrea 

Ricoli, a 50-year old architect, meets Rossana, a newly 

40-year old and married to Riccardo, ten years younger 

than her. During an eventful New Year’s Eve, Andrea 

introduces Riccardo to a Maghreb restaurant owner and 

his lovely sister Hikma. Months go by. Andrea discovers 

that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardo’s child. 

Dramatic 

108 Minutes 


Houston 

Francesco Calogero 

Francesco Calogero (Messina, 1957) has directed festivals and taught filmmaking after graduating in Law. In 1987, he directed the 

multi-award winning “La gentilezza del tocco” (The Gentle Touch), shown in several festivals all over the world (among them San 

Sebastian, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Turin). After “Visioni private” (Private Visions, 1989, codir. N. Bruschetta, D. Ranvaud) - 

screened in Berlin (Forum) and other festivals - and Nessuno” (Nobody, 1992), he staged some operas, then shot “Cinque giorni di 

tempesta” (Five Stormy Days), premiered at Venice 1997 and awarded in Annecy and Osaka. After directing “Metronotte” (Nightwatch, 

2000), he shot two documentaries - “Lâimplacabile tenente Rossi” (The Implacable Lieutenant Rossi, ‘The Sacher Diaries’, 

2002), premiered in Locarno, and “Nella terra del Padrino” (In the Land of the Godfather, 2012), on F.F. Coppola’s Sicilian sets - 

before starting the production company Polittico, which debuted in 2015 with “Seconda Primavera” (Second Spring), 

premiered at the Trieste Film Festival. 

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Israel 

Snapshot 


International Premiere 

Director: Doron Eran 

Producer: Billi Ben Moshe, Dani Tamir 

Screenwriter: Odeda Yaari 

Cinematography: Einav Giat Goodman 

Editor: Reut Han 

Music: Dani Reichental 

Cast: Avi Pnini, Smadar Kilchinsky, 

Amnon Wolf, Shlomi Bertonov 

Address: Harav Herzog 18, Tel Aviv 62915 

Email: watchmandoron@gmail.com 

Synopsis: 

Snapshot tells the story of Yael, a 30-year-old street 

photographer who grew up in a Kibbutz. Through her 

camera lens, Yael explores and discovers who she really is 

and how just days before her big wedding, she decides to 

call the whole thing off. 

Dramatic 

80 Minutes 

Doron Eran 

Doron Eran is a well established Israeli producer/director specializing in feature films, TV dramas 

and documentary films. As a film and television creator, he has produced over 40 movies and TV 

films/series for the local and international markets. 

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Eritrea 

Solomon 



Director: Efram Andeberhan 

Producer: Yodit Ghebru 

Screenwriter: Efram Andeberhan 

Cinematography: Yonas Solomon 

Editor: Medhanie Estifanos 

Music: Reagen Yemane 

Cast: Aman Hamed, Mereb Estifanos, 

Weini Tewelde, Heyabiel Efrem 

Print source: MTA 

Address: Box number 5721 #806 

Asmara 22204 

Tel: 291-718-1033 

Email: medhanie92@gmail.com 

Synopsis: 

Solomon and Eden were a happily married couple with 

one daughter. Then Eden suffers a massive head injury 

due to a car accident, soon after, she is diagnosed with 

Post Trauma Psychosis. 

Solomon, who is a very talented painter sacrifices his 

career to take care of Eden, going against his family’s 

idea that he should divorce. He decides to stay the course 

to help her and honor his marriage vows. But, when Eden 

becomes pregnant once again, her situation becomes 

exceedingly risky. 

Foreign 

120 Minutes 

Efram Andeberhan 

Efrem Andeberhan, born in 1971 in Asmara the capital city of Eritrea, has also been active in the film 

industry of Eritrea as an actor and writer. Among the famous films he wrote were “Abel in Babylon” 

and “Waziema”. Other than the Remi awarded “Solomon”, he directed three films namely - “Adhinin” 

(Save me), “Ide Amenay” (A Cultural Legend) and “Libey Zrio” (What My Heart Sees) - all famous 

films in Eritrea. Efrem, married and a father of four children got his Diploma in 

Theatrical Art at SMAP School of Arts in Asmara. 

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Spain 

Sonata for Cello 


Director: Anna M. Bofarull 

Producer: Heiko Kraft, Marian Matachana, 

Anna M. Bofarull 

Screenwriter: Anna M. Bofarull 

Cinematography: Alex Font 

Editor: Diana Toucedo 

Music: Luis Claret, Furius Music Orchestra 

Sound: Lars Helmert, Dani Zacarias 

Cast: Montse German, Juanjo Puigcorbe, 

Jan Cornet, Marina Salas 

Synopsis: 

The story of an extremely gifted violin teacher and her 

fight for survival from a life threatening illness 

Foreign 

100 Minutes 

Email: rebekah@thefilmfestivaldoctor.co.uk 

Anna M. Bofarull 

Screenwriter and filmmaker based in Tarragona (Spain).“Sonata for Cello” is her first fiction feature 

film. She wrote and directed “Notes al peu” (Footnotes, documentary, 2009), awarded with the 

Golden Egg Award at the Reykjavik International Film Festival, and 

“Hammada” (documentary, 2010), screened at Montréal, Sao Paulo, Thessaloniki, Dubai, etc. 

She has recently written and directed the documentary “Expeditions” and the fiction feature 

“Barcelona 1714”, currently in post-production. 

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Philippines 

Tandem 


Usa Premiere 

Director: King Palisoc 

Producer: Alemberg Ang & Ferdinand Lapus 

Screenwriter: Zig Marasigan 

Editor: Benjamin Tolentino 

Music: Bryan Dumaguina 

Sound: Andrew Milallos 

Production Designer: Marco Ortiga & 

Monica Sebial 

Director of Photography: Pong Ignacio, FCS 

Cast: JM de Guzman, Nico Antonio, 

Elora Españo & Rochelle Pangilinan 

Print source: Alemberg Ang 

Synopsis: 

In the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, 

two brothers use the chaos of the city roads as a 

smokescreen for their shady occupation: 

tandem robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes 

sour, the brothers are forced to graduate from low-level 

thieves to high profile hit men in an act that 

tests both their resolve and their relationship. 

Feature 

82 Minutes 

Filipino with English Subtitles 

Tel: 63917-811-0217 

Email: ang.alem@gmail.com 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TANDEMmovie 

King Palisoc 

King Palisoc is a Filipino director whose body of work ranges from music videos and TV commercials 

to TV shows and film. King first made his mark in the video industry by earning the nomination for 

Music Video of The Year (for Pupil’s “Dulo ng Dila”) at the Awit Awards in 2006. 

In 2008 and 2010, he received awards for the same category at the NU Rock Awards. 

“Tandem” is his first full length feature film. 

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Croatia 

To Know Thyself (Gnothi Seauton) 


Director: Bruno Kovačević 

Producer: Krešimir-Renzo Prosoli 

Screenwriter: Bruno Kovačević 

Cinematography: Sandi Novak, Ivan Cvirn 

Editor: Robert Petrinec 

Music: Boris Novković, Nikša Bratoš 

Sound: Robert Petrinec 

Cast: Ivica Kostelić, Janica Kostelić, Ante Kostelić 

Print source: Real Grupa 

Address: Ulica Ljudevita Posavskog 31 

Zagreb 10000 

Tel: 385 1 634 230 

Email: bruno.kovacevic@hrt.hr 

Synopsis: 

The movie “Gnothi Seauton” is a story of the most 

successful sport family in Croatia, the Kostelić family. 

This 93-minute documentary showcases Ivica and Janica 

Kostelić on their road to success, from their early age to 

the finish line of the 10th Olympic medal in Sochi.The film 

speaks of their enormous sacrifice, poverty but also will 

and persistence that their father and coach, Ante, set to be 

the standard since the very beginning. On the journey to 

win 20 world medals they underwent a total of 17 

surgeries. 

Docu-Drama 

93 Minutes 

Bruno Kovačević 

Bruno Kovačević, began his journalism & editorial career in 1992. In his rich career, he was an 

Editor-in-Chief and later the head of sport production at the Croatian National Television. He 

worked with CNN, making a dozen segments on Croatian Athletes. After authoring 3 sport-feature 

documentary films, which won international prizes, “Gnothi Seauton” crowns his filmmaking career 

as the film about the most important family in Croatian sport history. 

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United States 

The Truth About Lies 


Director: Phil Allocco 

Producer: Steve Carr, Isen Robbins, 

Aimee Schoof, Phil Allocco, Coleen Camp, 

Kim Jackson, Tim Degraye, Jason Taragan 

Screenwriter: Phil Allocco 

Cinematography: Peter Mairuzza 

Editor: Nick Carew, Eva Gardos 

Music: Adam Horowitz 

Sound: Mark Pollack, Todd Sullivan 

Executive Producers: Janice Fidler, 

Blondel Aidoo, Deborah Maguire 

Co-Producers: Nadine C. Licostie, 

Connie Grazia 

Production Designer: Deana Sidney 

Costume Designer: Kama Royz 

Casting Director: Sig De Miguel, 

Stephen Vincent 

Cast: Fran Kranz, Odette Annable, 

Chris Diamantopolous, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, 

Miles Fisher, Colleen Camp, Arthur J. Nascarella 

Synopsis: 

Gilby Smalls is having a meltdown, having been fired from 

his job, losing his apartment in a fire and girlfriend to boot. 

His efforts to rebound from his tragedies take great twists 

and turns as he lies and lies to impress a new girlfriend. 

Romantic Comedy 

94 Minutes 

Address: 1 Northside Piers Brooklyn, NY 11249 

Tel: 917-414-3676 

Phil Allocco 

Phil Allocco (director/writer/producer) has garnered over 30 awards for his films and screenplays in 

categories such as Best Director, Best Short Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Audience 

Choice. He was one of the short-listed directors picked by Steven Spielberg from a world-wide search of 

over 12,000 directors for his US TV series “On the Lot” for FOX TV. His current film “The Truth About 

Lies” premiered at the 2015 SBIFF and was selected for their ‘Best of the Fest’ screenings. 

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United States 

Until 20 


Special Benefit Screening 

Director: Jamila Paksima, Geraldine Moriba 

Producer: Jamila Paksima, Geraldine Moriba 

Screenwriter: James Ragan, Geraldine Moriba 

Cinematography: Chris Beauchamp, 

Steve Buckwalter 

Editor: Steve Buckwater, Dita Gruze 

Music: John Piscitello 

Underwater Cinematographer: Frazier Nivens 

Assistant Editor & Associate Producer: 

Will Strathmann 

Production Associate: Haimy Assefa 

Cast: James Ragan 

Print source: Paksima Productions 

Synopsis: 

“Until 20” is a documentary film about James Ragan and 

his courageous quest to live a full and meaningful life. 

When James was 13, he received the most devastating 

news. He had a rare childhood cancer. What he did after 

he heard that news is the basis for the film “Until 20”. 

Documentary 

84 Minutes 

Address: 404 Newcomen Rd #200 

Exton, PA 19341 

Tel: 6106807741 

Email: dita@paksimaproductions.com 

Website: http://until20.com/ 

Jamila Paksima & Geraldine Moriba 

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Geraldine Moriba’s documentaries include the “In America” series 

exploring American identities. Geraldine has worked as an executive at CNN, NBC News, and MSNBC on 

multi-platform news projects, documentaries, and election coverage. Jamila is a two-time Emmy Award 

nominee and an independent documentary filmmaker, director, and journalist. Her awards include three 

prestigious Webby Awards, a RFK Journalism 1st Prize in Domestic Television Broadcast, and the CINE 

Golden Eagle. Jamila is the founder and executive producer of Paksima Productions where her team creates 

branding films for Fortune 500 companies. Her passion is capturing life through creative visual storytelling. 

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Italy 

The Wait (L’Attesa) 



Director: Tiziana Bosco 

Producer: Fabio Teriaca, Rosario Lizzio 

(Babelefilm srl) 

Screenwriter: Rosario Lizzio 

Cinematography: Andrea Locatelli 

Editor: Edoardo Morabito, Andrea Gagliardi 

Sound: Piero Parisi, Stefano Varini 

Executive producer: Rean Mazzone 

(Ilapalma Produzioni) 

New York shooting: 

First Assistant Director: Marco Coppola 

Cinematography: Matthew Mendelson 

Cast: Luca Lionello, Rosaria Russo, 

Stephen Badalamenti, Luca Barreca, 

Luigi Burruano, with the friendly 

participation of Gianmarco Tognazzi 

Print source: Babelefilm srl with support of 

Regione Sicilia, Sicilia Film Commission 

Address: Via Dei Giurati n.7 Mascali 95016 

Tel: 39 3405917662 

Email: info@moviethewait.com 

Website: www.babelefilm.com, 

www.moviethewait.com 

Synopsis: 

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim 

in order to redeem his past. A game of chess will 

ultimately stress the turning points of this change. 

The killer meets his victim on a ship that carries them 

back together to Sicily 35 years after their departure. 

Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he’ll chose to change 

his life and complete the destiny of the other. 

First Feature 

87 Minutes 


Houston 

Tiziana Bosco 

After an experimental movie in 2004 (“Speaking Things”), she made several short films (“Frost”, 

“Home Sweet Home”, “Toccattè”, “Viva la mamma”, “Io sono io e tu sei tu”), documentaries (“At table 

with Gods: Tradition and Innovation in the Park of Myths”, “Italy is Not a Country for Old Men”), 

promo (“Love Story”) and videoclip, alternating direction and teaching film courses. 

“The Wait – L’attesa” is her first feature film. All the films were made in collaboration 

with screenwriter Rosario Lizzio. 

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Italy 

Wax: We are the X 



Director: Lorenzo Corvino 

Producer: Lorenzo Corvino, Antonio Corvino, 

Giuseppe Manzi 

Screenwriter: Lorenzo Corvino 

Cinematography: Caterina Colombo, Corrado Serri 

Editor: Mario Marrone 

Music: Valeria Vaglio (Warner) 

Sound: Fabio Felici, Gaetano Musso 

Cast: Andrea Sartoretti, Jean-Marc Barr, 

Andrea Renzi 

Print source: Vengeance 

Synopsis: 

Under intense pressure to complete filming a commercial 

within a week’s time, two young Italian men and a young 

French woman are sent to Monte Carlo and their mission 

to finish soon becomes entangled with danger and now 

an ongoing mystery. 

Dramatic 

103 Minutes 

Color, Italian with English subtitles 

Address: Via Dei Faggella 52, Rome 165 

Tel: 11983341006 

Email: corvino1979@gmail.com 

Website: www.vengeance.it 


Houston 

Lorenzo Corvino 

Lorenzo Corvino was born in 1979 in Lecce, Italy. He studied Liberal Arts at La Sapienza University in 

Rome. His short films and video clips have won international awards. “WAX” is his directorial debut for a 

feature film. 

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49th WorldFest Houston, Panorama China Team 

L-R: Yibao, Qi Duan, Jianing Zhou, Lizhuang Sun, Yichen Hu, Dan Qi, Yi Yuan, Junyi Zhang, Yongtian He, Xuan-da Wu 

CAST AND CREDITS 

49th WORLDFEST HOUSTON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 

PANORAMA CHINA 

APRIL 8-17, 2016 

RAY JIANG 蒋锐 

Chairman, Panorama China 

Founder, American Chinese 

Artists Association 

CO CHAIR: Stewart Morris, Rocky Lai, Jianwei Feng, 

Xia Liu, Weihua Li, Grace Jacob, Jessie Liu, Chen Huang 

HONORARY CHAIRMAN: Ye Chen, Zhuoguang Chen, 

Anping Wu, Eric Fang, Shunyi Wang, Shirley Qin, 

Xuchun Gao 

SPECIAL CONSULTANT: Ling Xia, Yuqing Ren, Yi Man, 

Tiffany Zhang, JingzhuYang, Lei Jin 

SPECIAL SUPPORT COMPANIES AND ORGANIZA- 

TIONS: Riverstone/Sienna De-velopment, Southbund, 

Southern Chinese Dai-ly News, Sound of Soul Troup, 

Rice Chinese Students and Scholars Association, 

UH Chinese Students and Scholars Association, 

Association of Northeast Chinese, 

Hunan Club of Houston, Shandong Association 

SPECIAL THANKS: Tongyan Zhang,Tiemei Chen, 

Yali Zou, Jennifer Keown, Jianzhi Mu, Yuqing Ren, 

Chen Huang, Zhong Jia, Li Yang, Qing Guan 

DAN QI 亓丹 

Director, Panorama China 

Director, Dream River 

Studio 

HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 

PANORAMA CHINA EXECUTIVE STAFF: 

J. Hunter Todd, Chairman and Founder; 

Kathleen Haney, Artistic & Program Director; 

Ray Jiang, Chairman; Dan Qi, Chief Director; 

Yi Yuan, Award Gala Director; BaoYi, VIP Coordinator; 

Junyi Zhang, Programming Coordinator; Yuxing Zhou, 

Design Coordinator; Yichen Hu, Registration Coordinator; 

Sharon Tan, Photographer Coordinator. 

PANORAMA CHINA STAFF: Qi Duan, Xuanda Wu, 

Jianing Zhou, Lizhuang Sun, Janica Zhou, Shulin Chen, 

Anna Chi, Vivian Zhang, Yongtian He, Dan Zhang 

PANORAMA CHINA VOLUNTEERS: Hang Gao, Kenny 

Zhao, Vivian Zhang, Claire Li, Melody Rong, Zheng Gu, 

Henry Wang, Naixin Zheng, Siyi He, Yifen Hong 

AMC THEATERS STUDIO 30 DUNVALE, 

2949 DUNVALE, Houston, TX 77063 

April 17, 7pm-10pm 

CHINA NIGHT AWARDS GALA 

MAJESTIC METRO 

911 PRESTON St, Houston, TX 77002 

For Gala tickets please call: (832) 591-9595, (832)-727-6391

China 

Back to the North 向北方 


USA Premiere 

Director: Liu Hao 刘浩 

Producer: Christiana Bian 

Screenwriter: Liu Hao 

Director of Photography: Li Bingqiang 

Cast: Nan Sheng 

Synopsis: 

BACK TO THE NORTH depicts, in black-and-white art 

house style, a narrative about the unique One-Child 

policy history in China when some families experienced 

severe pain and loneliness after the death of their only 

son or daughter to become what is called “Lost Families”. 

独生子女小艾身患顽疾 , 担心自己不久离世 , 父母很快老 

去 , 成为下一个 “ 失独者 ”, 老无所依。小艾毅然鼓励已人 

至中年的父母和时间赛跑 , 再生一个孩子 , 怎奈 , 此时父母 

各自内心正遭遇一场情感危机 , 与此同时 , 旧工厂的工人们 

正努力在快速变化的社会中谋求生存。生活看似平静 , 实则 

暗流涌动 ...... 

Liu Hao 刘浩 

Liu Hao, a graduate from Beijing Film Academy, won the Premiere First Movie Award Special Mention 

in the Berlin International Film Festival 2002, the Best Feature of Canada Victoria Independent Film & 

Video Festival 2005, Best Asian Film Award of France Deauville Asian Film Festival 2005, Jury’s Award 

of Washington International Independent Film Festival 2005, China Night of Cannes Film Festival 

2005, and Lincoln Centre New Films New Directors Film Festival. 

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China 

Beijing Carmen 北京卡门 


USA Premiere 

Director: Wang Fan 王凡 

Producer: Wang Fan 

Screenwriter: Wang Fan 

Executive Producer: Kang Wei, 

Zhu Minghua, Wang Fan 

Chief Consultant: Zhang Guoan 

Production Supervisor: Hong Jun, Sun Chao 

Cast: Li Rui, Cary Woodworth 

Synopsis: 

A passionate and beautiful aboriginal girl, Ye Men, comes 

to Beijing in order to pursue her freedom and independent 

life, only to be plunged into her romantic and pathetic 

destiny with an American choreographer, Coen. He finds 

in Ye Men the perfect role for his modern dance drama, 

Carmen. 

能歌善舞的云南村寨少女叶门 , 为追求自由、充满激情、率 

真本性的生活只身来到北京 , 遇到正在排演《卡门》舞剧的 

美国现代舞编导柯恩。叶门随性起舞的自由天性深深地吸引 

了科恩 , 她勇敢自由的内心本质也逐渐被柯恩发掘 , 于是便 

演绎出一个戏内戏外荡气回肠的 “ 卡门 ” 故事。 

Wang Fan 王凡 

Wang Fan has been working in the US and Europe to participate in a number of co-production films 

since 2004. She graduated from Xi’an International Studies University with a bachelor degree in 2000 

and Beijing Film Academy with a master degree in 2006. She has been working in China Film Art 

Research Center as a film scholar specializing in Film Co-production since 2006 until now. Ms.Wang’s 

credits include: “Beijing Carmen”, “Taste of Body”, “Trilogy on Modern Dance in China”, Beijing 

Olympic Commercial for Beijing Television Station, “Mao’s Last Dancer”. 

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China 

The Bodyguard 超级保镖 


SPECIAL PRIVATE SCREENING 

Director: Yue Song 岳松 

Screenwriter: Yue Song 

Cast: Yue Song, Shi Yan Neng, Li Yu Fei, 

Collin Chou, Wai-Man Chan 

Synopsis: 

Wu, successor of the ancient clan of the Iron Kick, comes 

to a city notorious for its crime to look for his fellow 

apprentice, Jiang. Before he finds Jiang, Wu takes a job as 

a bodyguard of Faye, the daughter of the wealthiest man 

in the city. When reunited with Jiang, he realizes that 

Jiang is leading a rival gang, preparing to kidnap Faye, 

and Wu is torn between his duty to protect and his loyalty 

to his clan. Wu decides to face the group of mobsters on 

his own, and he knows someone much stronger than 

Jiang Li is behind the evil plot. 

古老门派铁腿门传人武林来到现代化大都市 “ 冷城 ”, 又 

称 “ 犯罪之城 ” 投奔自己的师兄 ; 在这座危机重重的地方 , 

武林意外地成为了冷城首富之女菲菲的超级保镖。然而当遇 

到自己的师兄时 , 武林却发现他竟然是黑帮的头领 , 并密谋 

绑架菲菲 , 武林不得不面对自己的职责和对门派的忠诚的两 

难选择。在决定保护菲菲 , 与师兄对抗时 , 武林却发现他的 

对手不仅是自己的师兄 …… 

Yue Song 岳松 

Yue Song studied martial arts starting at a very young age, specializing in traditional boxing, kickboxing, 

Sanshou, Muay Thai, Jeet Kune Do, MMA mixed martial arts, jiu-jitsu and many other combat fighting techniques. 

Yue takes his work to the extreme, which gives him a strong martial arts fan base. Yue Song’s tough, realistic, 

practical, and efficient action style shares a strong resemblance to that of Bruce Lee. Shooting his kung fu films 

without using any wires has led a number of Internet fans to call him the only kung fu actor who might possibly 

surpass Bruce Lee. Yue’s self-directed and self-acted “King of Streets” combines the quintessential elements of fighting 

and martial arts, and even though it is just the first step for him, it takes aim at raising the bar for action films. 

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China 

Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe 九层妖塔 


USA Premiere I Official Closing Film Of Panorama China 

Director: Chuan Lu 陆川 

Producer: Peikang La, Chenxi, 

Yue Ting Jia, Chuan Lu 

Scriptwriter: Chuan Lu 

Cast: Mark Chao, Chen Yao 

Synopsis: 

In 1979, an expedition to Kun Lun Mountain to search 

for mysteries of lost civilizations soon becomes very dangerous 

to both Ba Yi Hu and Kai Xuan Wang, as they risk 

their lives to discover the secrets of the 

‘Nine Layers Demon Tower’. 

1979 年 , 昆仑山发现神秘生物骸骨 , 由胡八一率领的探险队 

深入昆仑山腹地 , 寻找有关古生物遗迹的更多秘密 , 却不料 

在这个过程中遭到不同神秘生物的轮番攻击 , 并意外坠入九 

层妖塔 , 除胡八一外 , 一行人生死成谜。胡八一退伍后回到 

北京 , 重逢了发小王凯旋 , 重新踏上了探寻未知文明的征 

程。此行凶险 , 一行人便在王子墓、石油小镇等地遭到不明 

生物的轰炸 , 这里所发生的一切再度指向九层妖塔 , 而这次 

等待他们的 , 将是一个尘封已千年的未解之谜 …… 

Chuan Lu 陆川 

Chuan Lu (1971-), born in Kui Tun of Xinjiang, China, is a well-known director and 

scriptwriter. After graduating from Nanjing People’s Liberation Army Institute of International 

Relations in 1993, he served in the army for 2 years. Lu was admitted as a graduate student to Beijing 

Films Academy. His credits include “Hoh Xil”, “City of Life and Death”, “The Last Supper” and 

“Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe”. 

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China 

A Class of One 一个人的课堂 


USA Premiere 

Director: Junlin Li 李军林 

Producer: Ping Zeng 

Scriptwriter: Junlin Li, Tianhua Wang 

Executive Producer: Pingxin Xie, Caiyun Zhou 

Production Supervisor: Liangsheng Liao, 

Fukang Wu, Xiaoling Liu, Sihua Wang 

Cast: Haiying Sun, Sanming Han, Naixun Wang 

Synopsis: 

Xijia Elementary School used to be a famous school but 

was forced to shrink in size as children transferred to 

schools in the cities where their parents worked. Wenhua 

Song was the only teacher left kn the downsized 

school. As a new semester approaches, only 4 students 

come back to school and soon only one student, Ming- 

Ming Tang, remains. What will happen when MingMing’s 

grandmother falls ill and he cannot go to school 

anymore? 

西甲小学曾经是一个远近闻名的学校 , 但近几年村里孩子陆 

续跟着外出务工的父母转学到城市上学 , 学校趋于落寞 , 教 

师仅宋文化一人仍坚守岗位。 

新学期将至 , 宋文化挨家挨户的召集学生上课 , 结果只来了 

四个学生 , 随后几经破折 , 学校学生仅剩与奶奶相依为命的 

唐明明 , 当唐明明奶奶摔伤后 , 明明因照顾奶奶不能来上 

学 , 宋老师毅然背着黑板去唐明明家给唐明明上课 , 

Junlin Li 李军林 

Junlin Li is the president of Time Engine International Film and vice-president of Jiangxi Micro Film Council. 

He was born in 1979 in Hunan,China. His previous feature films are “Ignition Point”, “Son” and 

“Wu Aiguo’s New Year”. 

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China 

Coming and Going 一面逃离 , 一面思念 Showing: 4/11 at 7PM 

USA Premiere 

Director: Tianlin Xu 徐天琳 

Screenwriter: Tianlin Xu, Kim Münster 

Producer: Kim Münster 

Synopsis: 

Cheng’s neighbors, the little Lu brothers, anxiously await 

their father’s annual return from the coal mines. As New 

Years passes without a trace from the father, the brothers 

learn to handle disappointment while maintaining 

hope. Cheng’s older brother, Long, has grown frustrated 

of struggling and traveling from town to town looking for 

work. Cheng hopes to avoid a similar fate as his brother 

and secretly gets on a bus to embark on his long 

awaited adventure: to travel and work in the modern cities 

of China…. 

在中国西南部的一个山村 ,16 岁的小程梦想这大山背后的美 

好生活。但在他父亲的突然过世之后 , 他就从学校辍学了。 

春天到了 , 长期以来已经厌倦了体力劳动的小程偷偷上了一 

辆公交车 , 踏上了他期待已久的冒险 : 在中国现代城市旅行 

和工作 …… 

Tianlin Xu 徐天琳 

Tianlin Xu is a Chinese filmmaker based in Germany, with an academic background in German 

studies and journalism. Before she found her passion for filmmaking, she worked as a coordinator for 

art and cultural projects in Beijing, a position which enabled her to be involved in the organization of a 

documentary film festival as well as the production of a feature film. These worthy experiences sparked 

her interest in exploring narrative documentary with a high level of her own aesthetic style. 

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China 

The Earthquake 遵道 


USA Premiere 

Director: Chenchen Liu 刘琛琛 

Filmmaker: Hai Hong 

Producer: Shanshan Zhou 

Post-production Director: Cheng Fang 

Synopsis: 

On May 12, 2008 a catastrophic earthquake occurred at 

Wenchuan, Sichuan, China. It has been the most severe 

earthquake since the Republic of China was established. 

Zundao, a small town near Whenchuan, was significantly 

destroyed in the havoc with 95% of construction 

collapsing, hundred of thousands of people killed or 

wounded and difficulty receiving aid due to damages 

to the transportation network. TimeDoc spent 6 years 

consecutively documenting the post-quake changes from 

several selected survivors. 

2008 年 5 月 12 日 , 四川汶川经历了中华人民共和国成立以来 

最具毁灭性的地震。遵道镇 95% 的房屋倒塌 , 死伤者难以计 

数。六年跟踪 , 震后的故事一个个徐徐展开。 

Chenchen Liu 刘琛琛 

Liu Chenchen graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. She has been devoted to documentary filmmaking for a 

number of years and excels at exploring the characters and also film editing. 

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The Grand Song 侗族大歌 


USA Premiere 

Director: Chouchou Ou 欧丑丑 

Artistic director: Lisa Lu, Huang ShiXian 

Screenwriter: Jiang Xiujia, ChouChou Ou 

Cast: Lisa Lu, Wang QingXiang, Wang Jia, Xiao 

HaoRan 

Synopsis: 

After leaving the city to visit his family in the countryside, 

Nafu gets caught in a storm and camps under an eave, 

where he meets the outspoken, yet beautiful girl, Alian. 

Space is limited and a disagreement arises between 

the two, but Nafu ends up falling in love with Alian and 

becomes determined to marry her. Nafu tries to impress 

Alian with his family’s wealth, yet she is not persuaded. 

So Nafu becomes more infatuated with the unattainable 

Alian. However Alian wants to spend her life with the 

singer, Qianshu, who is the best singer in the Dong 

village. Quitting is not an option for Nafu as he is so 

deeply in love with Alian that his heart will not allow him 

to quit. But, suddenly their life… 

那福从城里回乡探亲 , 为躲避大雨邂逅阿莲一行同挤在一个 

屋檐下 , 人多地小起了争执 , 阿莲不服那福的手下盛气凌 

人 , 站出来替乡亲们出头 , 她身上野性难羁的气质 , 引起了 

那福的好感。那福决心追逐阿莲 , 但阿莲心里只有歌王千 

树 , 那福追求她连连受挫 , 但在过程中却深深爱上了阿莲 , 

内心已无法放弃。然而 , 一场突如其来的大火 , 却改变了他 

们的命运 …… 

Chouchou Ou 欧丑丑 

Chouchou was born in the southeast area of Guizhou Province in 1983. After she graduated from the 

Beijing Film Academy, ChouChou completed her first film “A Na Yi“ as director and scriptwriter. At 

that time, she was only 22, which made her the youngest independent filmmaker and representative of 

the 80’s generation in China. Now Chouchou has finished the film “Close to the Sun” and “The Grand 

Song”, both of which have received awards and highest reputation.With Chouchou’s singular sight and 

style, her films have gained a devoted audience fan base and popularity both in China and overseas. 

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China 

Hajab’s Gift 天之恩赐 


USA Premiere 

Director: Liming Chen 陈黎明 

Director of Photography: Bai long 

Cinematography: Lu song ye 

Art Director: Xu Chang Yu 

Sound Recording: Jiang Hai Tao 

Music Composer: Jantsannorov 

Montage: Bai long 

Synopsis: 

A moving biopic about the legendary Mongolian singer, 

Hajab who entranced noblemen, bandits and Chairman 

Mao alike with his magical singing over a long period of 

time. This film pays tribute to the power of music and the 

human spirit to triumph over tragedy. 

电影讲述了关于歌者哈扎布的动人故事。长期以来 , 无论是 

贵族还是土匪 , 众人都沉醉在他的歌声中。毛主席也曾欣赏 

称赞他的美妙歌声。这部电影想传达的讯息是 , 音乐的力量 

和人的意志 , 可以战胜世间的悲剧。 

Liming Chen 陈黎明 

Director Chen majored in Chinese language and literature and was a former broadcast journalist editor, television 

presenter, producer and screenwriter. Representative works: documentary “Standing on the Height of Spirit”, “My 

Home on the Plateau”, “Wrangler Bu” and “Eerdun — a Real Existence”, “The Song of the Mongolian Plateau”. 

Director Chen now lives in Beijing. 

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China 

Let the Love Back Home 让爱回家 


USA Premiere 

Director: Gaoshan Yan 严高山 

Producer: Zhang Yigang, Wei Qun 

Screenwriter: Zhu Zi 

Cinematographer: Baihaiti Yahepu 

Art Director: Zhang Xiaochun 

Sound Recording: Zhu Xuezheng 

Cast: Liu Xin, Ding Ning, Liu Jiahui 

Synopsis: 

Wu Xin, an inmate, was allowed to leave prison to visit 

relatives at home due to the overall relocation of the 

village. Wu Xin had promised to make a bone marrow donation 

to save the life of another prisoner but changes his 

mind after discovering that his daughter has died while 

he was incarcerated. An elderly lady stops his car, on the 

way back to prison and reveals a life changing confession 

to him. 

劳教人员吴鑫获准离监探亲 , 在押解回家途中 , 得知另一 

服刑人员突患重病 , 必须尽快进行骨髓移植。吴鑫答应为其 

捐赠骨髓细胞 , 可是当他发现自己的女儿已于一年前身亡 

后 , 改变了主意。他回监狱的路上 , 一个女人拦住了他的 

车 …… 

Gaoshan Yan 严高山 

Yan is a director from TianShan Film Studio. Since 1998, he has directed films such as 

“Sticking Plaster”, “The Promise of Life”, “Brave Young Man” and “The Story of Winter”. 

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China 

Love Forever 我们遇见松花湖 


USA Premiere 

Director: Vincent Ho Wai-fung 何纬丰 

Producer: Raymond Wong Pak-ming 

Screenwriter: Suo Wei 

Film Editor: Zeng Zhanghua, Gao Tian 

Cinematography: Li Sixian 

Cast: Gordon Lam, Janelle Sing, Chao Jiang, Dada 

Chan 

Synopsis: 

Two students tell their personal stories during the Jilin 

Past Stories Speech Competition at Beihua University, 

unexpectedly finding out that the seemingly different 

stories actually come from one love story. A soldier from 

the Army of Volunteers came across the new female 

leader of the local bandits in Jingui Mountain during the 

Anti-Japanese War. Both patriots, they fought to protect 

their family land. In the big era of chaos, how did they 

survive and how did they keep their love alive…? 

在北华大学举办的吉林往事演讲比赛 , 两名学生偶然发现 

他们看似不同的故事实际上源于同一份矢志不渝的爱情。影 

片倒敍至上世纪三四十年代 , 在抗日战争期间 , 中国志愿军 

的一名战士爱上了金龟岭当地的女土匪。他们分别用自已的 

方式抗击外敌侵略。在内忧外患的中国 , 他们如何坚守他们 

心中的真爱 … 

Vincent Ho Wai-fung 何纬丰 

Vincent Ho Wai-fung nicknamed “The Father of Microblog Film” in Mainland China since 2005 when he began to 

direct and produce the first microblog film in Asia. In 2003,Vincent collaborated with others to start 3GTV which 

is a content provider for mobile companies. In 2013, Vincent won the Best Film Award in the 48 hours National 

Microblog Film Competition hosted by China Central Television with his microblog film called “Love Xi Shi Tofu”. 

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Only Child 老大别怕 


USA Premiere 

Director: Weidong Yuan 袁卫东 

Screenwriter: Xinyue Zhang 

Director: Weidong Yuan 

Cast: Lifu Zhang 

Qianyuan Wang, Kun Jiang 

Synopsis: 

A quirky comedy about China’s “Single Child Policy” 

from the children’s point of view. Newnew, a 8 year girl, 

feels like it’s the end of the world when she learns her 

Mom is pregnant. Worried that the newborn baby would 

take her parent’s love away from her, Newnew begins 

a concerted effort to correct the situation and enlists the 

help of her dear friend Towtin who is now at the famous 

Genius School. Towtin and his super intelligent pals from 

the school unite to help Newnew in her plan to kidnap 

her infant sister (as soon as she is born), but things get 

hilariously out of control. 

小女孩妞妞得知妈妈要再生一个小宝宝 , 如临大敌 , 担心新 

生的宝宝会抢走父母的爱。于是到全国闻名的天才学校 , 寻 

求好友豆丁帮助。豆丁和这群高智商的孩子们团结起 

来 , 和妞妞一起 , 策划了一起婴儿绑架案 , 要以自己的行动 

向成人世界宣战 , 夺回被抢走的爱 , 捍卫尊严。 

Weidong Yuan 袁卫东 

Yuan directed a children’s feature “Into Blue” in 2005 and a Chinese new western style film 

“Out of Control” in 2008 both Remi winners at WorldFest. The two films are distinctive and 

imaginative, dedicated to explore different methods of expression. 

In 2012, YUAN directed “Only Child”, a film about the reality of single children in China. 

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China 

A Real Mess 一团乱麻 Showing: 4/9 at 9pm 

USA Premiere 

Director: Meng Wang 王猛 

Producer: Zhu Jianmin, Xie qin 

Executive Producer: Wan Li 

Director: Wang Meng 

Screenwriter: Lv Zhongnan, Chen Li 

Cast: Dong Jingchuan, Li Aijin, Yi Zhaobo 

Synopsis: 

“A Real Mess” describes a series of ironic stories all resulting 

from the theft of a precious antique. 

Grandiose newspaper journalist, Huier Liu, reports that 

WuYue Xue has acquired the precious antique 

‘Sky Wineglass’ through nefarious means. Meanwhile, 

DaZhuang Qian, newly arrived in the city, confusedly gets 

pulled into the drama of selling goods from tomb raids. 

Gang leader, Le coerces both DaZhuang and his uncle 

LaiBaoYe to participate in another tomb raid in search for 

the antique ‘Earth Wineglass’. In the process, Dazhuang 

and Huier accidently hide in the same cabinet. Will the 

lost treasure return to its rightful owner? Will all 

characters find their love and happy ending? 

Meng Wang 王猛 

电影讲述了一件贵重钧瓷被盗从而引发了一系列令人啼笑皆 

非的故事。报社记者柳慧儿好大喜功 , 未经当事人许可 , 将 

薛五岳得到珍贵文物 “ 天圆尊 ” 的事情在报纸上爆料。与此 

同时 , 来城里学做生意的钱大壮却稀里糊涂卷入了盗墓交 

易 , 在黑老大乐爷的威逼利诱下 , 被迫与三舅叶来宝帮乐爷 

盗墓寻找地圆尊 , 钱大壮和柳慧儿为寻找地圆尊同时潜入张 

长寿家 , 更阴差阳错一同躲进柜子 , 丢失的宝物能否物归原 

主 , 几位主人公的爱情又何去何从 , 是阴差阳错 , 还是命中 

注定 ? 

Wang Meng, born in 1982, is a Chinese director and scriptwriter. He was recruited by director Guo Baocheng in 

2007 and studied with him for five years, where he gained an insight into TV series. In 2011, he was invited to the 

20th Anhui Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival for his product “Mr. Charming”. In 2015, he was 

invited to the fifth Beijing International Film Festival for his new comedy “A Real Mess”. 

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China 

The Rising Star Kindergarten 遥望南方的童年 


USA Premiere 

Director: Han Yi 易寒 

Producer: Yutong Zhang 

Director: Han Yi 

Screenwriter: Haijun Sun, Han Yi 

Executive Producer: Han Yi 

Cast: Zhibing Yi, Weixin He, Yuan Xie, 

Zihao Fu, Wenxing Yi 

Synopsis: 

The Rising Star Kindergarten displays the living 

conditions of the ‘left-behind children’ in rural China. 

Mingtang Yi, an elementary school teacher in the region, 

establishes a family kindergarten to educate those children 

left behind while their parents migrate in search of 

employment. 

《遥望南方的童年》是一部描写当下中国农村留守儿童生存 

状态的电影。影片讲述的是乡村小学教师易明堂在家里开办 

了一个家庭幼儿园 , 招收周边的留守儿童的故事。 

Han Yi 易寒 

Han Yi grew up in the southern rural region of China. He received his bachelor’s degree from 

Central Academy of Drama and now lives and make films in Beijing. 

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China 

River Road 家在水草丰茂的地方 


USA Premiere 

Director: Li Ruijun 李睿珺 

Producer: Fang Li, Yang Cheng 

Music: Peyman Yazidanian 

Scriptwriter: Li RuiJun 

Director of Photography: Liu YongHong 

Cast: Tang Long, Guo Songtao, 

Bai Wenxin, Guo Jianmin 

Synopsis: 

Adikeer and Bartel trek from their grandfather’s home 

near town to the distant grasslands, where their parents 

reside. The brothers are confronted with barren landscapes, 

abandoned villages, and decaying relics. Their 

journey becomes a search for their identity as Yugurs. 

This is a story about finding the way back home, along 

the river road… 

弟弟阿迪克尔和哥哥巴特尔在同一个班级上学 , 住在爷爷 

家 , 远离自己的父母。因为不同的童年遭遇 , 哥哥对弟弟心 

存隔阂。暑假来了 , 爷爷意外去世 , 而父亲并没有来接他 

们 , 他们成了世界上最孤独的人。阿迪克尔说服巴特尔一 

起上路 , 寻找在草原上的家。他说父亲曾教过 , 放牧时如果 

迷路 , 一定要顺着河流走 , 有水的地方水草才会茂盛 , 而牧 

民的家在水草丰茂的地方。两人骑着骆驼 , 踏上漫漫西部千 

里长路。勇敢的少年将遭遇怎样的风景和奇遇 ? 心结是否可 

以解决 ? 故事的最后 , 他们的家还在水草丰茂的地方吗 ? 

Li Ruijun 李睿珺 

LI Ruijun was born in Gansu Province in 1983. At the age of 14, he studied painting and music. In 2003, he 

graduated from the Institute of Management of China National Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. 

He completed his debut feature film “Summer Solstice!” in 2006-2007. From 2014, Li Ruijun started to work on his 

third feature film “River Road”. 

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China 

The Seventh Taste 第七种味道 


USA Premiere 

Director: Yaping Feng 冯亚平 

Credits: 其日那图 

阿穆隆 

乌兰其其格 

莎仁高娃 

Synopsis: 

Elder Mongolian doctor, Wen Douer, has the trust and 

affection from local folks for his excellent medical practice. 

Graduate student Hao Riwa arrives at the clinic, desiring 

to study medicine with Wen. But Wen Douer 

deliberately makes difficulties for Hao. Hao gradually 

builds the relationship with Wen through his kindness 

and diligence and is therefore allowed to study in Wen’s 

clinic. However, Doctor Meng’s decision is changed after 

he meets a patient with a genetic disease. He orders Hao 

to return to the modern hospital in the city to study the 

disease, while he waits anxiously for Hao’s return. 

老蒙医温都尔深得草原牧民的尊重和爱戴。医学院毕业的大 

学生浩日瓦慕名来到草原诊所希望拜温都尔为师。但是温都 

尔却处处为难浩日瓦。浩日瓦用自己的勤奋和善良深深打动 

了温都尔 , 温都尔决定留下浩日瓦。但另一个遗传患者的出 

现改变了老蒙医的决定 , 他让浩日瓦回到城里的大医院 , 攻 

克草原上从未见过的疑难病症 , 而他自己则在草原上等候浩 

日瓦的归来。 

Feng Yaping 冯亚平 

Feng Yaping, born in Inner Mongolia, directed four good movies: “The Seventh Taste”, 

“Above the Moon”, “The Sky over Chai River” and “The River of the City”. 

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China 

Tai Chi Pioneer 太极先锋 


USA Premiere 

Director: Xuezhou Sha 沙学周 

Producer: Wanmin Zhang 

Screenwriter: Haina Zhang 

Chief Consultant : Zhenglei Chen, Lingyun Gao 

Production Supervisor: Yi Man, Fangxin Cai, 

Yanni Wang, Luxiang Geng 

Cast: Xuezhou Sha, Shuang Zheng, Haina Zhang 

Synopsis: 

Master Liu Mufan runs a Tai Chi Academy and loves to 

fight injustice. Trouble breaks out after winning a tournament 

against a rival team, that starts a great misunderstanding 

between the both. His, Ma Biaolong, undertakes 

a serious campaign of conflict against Liu Mufan. 

身怀太极绝学且好报不平的柳牧凡开馆授课也常比武参赛。 

全省武术比赛刚刚结束 , 柳牧凡执教团队铩羽而归 , 正欲离 

场之时 , 却遭到猛龙队马彪龙带领的武馆队员寻衅滋事 , 

柳牧凡赶到 , 及时制止摩擦 , 但是 , 两队的龃龉也于此时埋 

下种子 …… 

Xuezhou Sha 沙学周 

The Director of “Tai Chi Pioneer”, Xuezhou Sha, is a versatile film talent with producing, directing and acting 

experience. He is good at Chinese Kung Fu, and has won the World Wushu Championship. His movies “Tai Chi 

Pioneer”, “New Generation of Wrestling King”, “Fox Woman”, and “Luliang Tiegu” have won worldwide acclaim. 

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China 

Wolf 狼 


USA Premiere 

Director: Tao Han 韩涛 

Producer: Tao Han, Xin Liu 

Screenwriter: Tao Han, A Bai, Donghai Sun 

Supervising Producer: Xianmin Zhang 

Cast: Chunhua Zhang, Nan Cui, Sanming Han 

Synopsis: 

“Wolf” is a poetic, aesthetic and brutal film following 

the steps of the Poet Wolf in a beautiful flower blossom 

spring. The film is adapted from Poet Wolf’s true story, 

and his severe conflicts between the material world and 

his spiritual life. 

《狼》改编自诗人狼的真实经历 , 是一部诗意 , 唯美却残酷 

的电影。影片追随诗人狼的脚步漫步于繁花盛开的春季 , 描 

述了诗人精神生活和现实世界的激烈冲突。 

Tao Han 韩涛 

Tao Han was born in 1979 in Shandong, China. He graduated from LuXun Academy of Fine Arts. 

In 2006, he wrote and directed film “Big Fog”, which was nominated for 

The 32th Hong Kong International Film Festival. 

His film “The Missing “won K26 Film Award for Best Experimental at Filmfest Hamburg 2015. 

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Our 49th WorldFest-Houston Short Film Competition is a remarkable 

and amazing year. More than 1,500 category entries in the 2016 awards 

review, from a total of 74 nations including the Feature Film division. 

WorldFest is unique in the entire festival world, as we offer ten major 

categories for competition and Remi Awards, not just two (Shorts & Features) 

like all the other major film festivals in the world. In addition, we 

have more than 200 sub-categories, so an animated short does not have to 

compete with a big budget CGI production. Another very special aspect 

of our competition, different from every other film festival in the world, 

is that our juries assign a score to each entry, and just like in college, there 

are A’s, B’s, C’s and sadly, D’s. So at Houston, if there are several entries 

that have been assigned a high A level grade, they all will receive an award. 

We have found it totally unacceptable to select just one film to win a Gold 

Remi Award. However, only about 10% to15% of the total entries actually 

are honored with a Remi Award! 

WorldFest-Houston literally gave first honors to Steven Spielberg, 

George Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, John Lee Hancock, David 

Lynch, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone and hundreds more with their first 

awards! See our website under Winners/Photo Gallery to check out our 

remarkable history. https://worldfest.org/gallery/ 

The Remi Winners of this year, our 49th WorldFest-Houston will be 

the Spielberg’s and Ang Lee’s of tomorrow! 

J Hunter Todd, Chairman and Founding Director, 

the 49th WorldFest-Houston 

Welcome to the Short Film section of the 49th Annual World- 

Fest-Houston! It has been a pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful film 

festival. The sheer number of entries from all around the world is truly 

amazing and getting to see the best of the best up and coming film makers 

is very exciting. 

The juries have picked the one hundred and six best shorts to be 

shown this week during the festival which was not an easy task. They 

spent many late nights scoring short films trying to make sure that we 

would have a great program. From there it is off to the races as we try 

to make everything fit into the time we have and accommodate our film 

makers’ requests. Hunter always says “One film festival, one million details” 

and these words could not be more true. 

It is exciting to see to see film makers and movie goers alike coalesce, 

and now we get to watch as new relationships are formed between all the 

interesting WorldFest attendees. It is humbling to think that our Remi 

winners today could be the Spielberg’s and Hancock’s of tomorrow. I have 

loved being a part of this film festival for the last few months. I was surprised 

by the vast history of the festival and the experience that it offered 

me, and I am grateful to all who compete and attend to help make World- 

Fest what it is. 

Tate Eskelund, 49th WorldFest-Houston Short Film 

Program Coordinator 

SHORTS 

A Shadow of Dara Showing: 4/17 at 3pm UK 

Director: Kirill Proskura 

Writer: Kirill Proskura, 

Andy Mihov 

Producer: Ewa Habdas, Kirill 

Proskura, Aleksandra Petrova 

Cast: Johnny Spurling, Jo Price, 

Peter Imms 

A leader of a rebellion risks everything to 

find the powerful commander of an alien 

world who’s been captured by enemies 

and put into a fabricated reality for the 

extraction of valuable information. 

Sci-fi 

14m15s 

A Way Out Showing: 4/17 at 1pm USA 

Director: Jason Tostevin 

Writer: Randall Greenland 

Producer: Jason Tostevin 

Editor: Brant Jones 

Cinematography: Mike 

McNeese 

Cast: Robert Castanzo, 

Adam Hampton 

When aging gangster Vick risks it all 

to quit the life, he discovers his young 

protege has been keeping a secret of his 

own — one that plunges them both into 

a deadly cat and mouse game over the 

course of one car ride. 

Suspense/Thriller 

13m48s 

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Adventures of Mythical Creatures 

at the National Palace Museum, The 


Taiwan 

Director: Yu-shu Liu 

Writer: Echo Fang 

Bang! Something is happening in the world of 

the “Great Universal Map”. Animals in it are 

running wild! What happened to these exotic 

animals? The call of the ancient map guides 

the animals painted by Castiglione to an 

exciting adventure. The brave dogs from Ten 

Fine Hounds and Long-haired Dog Beneath 

Blossoms, the lemur from Cochin Lemur and 

the deer from Auspicious Roe Deer gather to 

work together to overcome obstacles. 

Animation 

26m55s 

After Image Showing: 4/11 at 9pm China 

Director: Yang Yi, 

Xiao Wei Tian 

Writer: Zihao Liu 

Qiu Zi, as a high flyer in the city, works 

hard to become capable of taking care 

of her parents. She says she will cherish 

the limited time she has left with them. 

However, it is always easier to say than 

do. The pressure she feels often pushes 

her to lose her temper and hurt her family. 

Panorama China 

18m7s 

Along the Stormfront Showing: 4/10 at 3pm USA 

Director: Griffin Giersch 

Writer: Griffin Giersch, 

Tanner Agle 

Producer: Tanner Agle 

Animations: Friggin Giersch, 

Catherino Salisbury, 

Carinne Boord 

On a bus ride into a town plagued by 

mysterious disappearances, a fox and an 

armadillo find themselves thrown into an 

encounter neither is prepared to face. 

Animation 

6m38s 

Antharys Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Germany 

Director: Steffen F. Kaminski 

Writer: Steffen F. Kaminski, 

Dirk Wolny 

Producer: Steffen F. Kaminski, 

Nicole Davidow 

Editor: Steffen F. Kaminski 

Cinematography: 

Marcus Schewmin 

Cast: Nicole Davidow, Mathian 

Eysen, Augustin Kramann, 

Lilly Gutzeit 

Antharys tells the story of Clarissa, a 

young university student, who after a 

near death experience finds herself in a 

bizarre fantasy world. In this world, 

Clarissa is part of an ancient prophecy 

and her arrival has long been awaited. 

Now she has to trust strangers, overcome 

her fears and try to find her way back 

home. 

Fantasy 

20m 

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119

Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon Showing: 4/09 at 3pm USA 

Director: Kevin Stirling 

Writer: Kevin Stirling 

A look back at the pivotal, historic and 

decisively successful mission of 

Apollo 8, when three American 

astronauts became the first humans to 

leave the Earth’s gravitational pull when 

they traveled to and orbited the moon, 

reading from the Bible on Christmas Eve 

in 1968. 

Worldfest/Nasa Awards 

14m18s 

The Architect Showing: 4/12 at 7pm USA 

Director: Chad Gravallese 

Writer: Chad Gravallese 

Producer: Tira Gravallese 

Cast: Landon Henneman, 

Elizabeth Parson 

An architect who designs his life just as 

meticulously as he designs buildings 

confronts misfortune when things don’t 

go according to plan. 

Drama 

28m22s 

The Art of Human Salvage Showing: 4/16 at 3pm USA 

Director: Dempsey Tillman 

Writer: Ted Drewberry 

Producer: Lance Hyden 

Cast: Edward James Olmos, 

James Walters 

A young boy must be saved from 

execution by his last hope 

Sci-fi 

9m30s 

As You Were Showing: 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Trevin Matcek 

Writer: Trevin Matcek 

Producer: An Tran, 

Jason Baum 

Cast: Christine Woods, 

Trey Holland, Carissa Bazler 

Set in the near future, “As You Were” is the 

story of Johnner Radley, an injured soldier 

who returns home with advanced prosthetics 

to replace limbs lost in combat. With these 

new parts, he finds it difficult transitioning 

back with his family and securing a job in a 

society leery of robotics. His limbs are 

stronger and more agile than those he was 

born with - and that’s the problem. Ultimately, 

his wife and children help Johnner reconnect 

with himself and what it means to be human. 

Sci-fi 

22m 

120 

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The Ballad of Ella Plummhoff Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Germany 

Director: Barbara Kronenberg 

Writer: Barbara Kronenberg 

Producer: Barbara Kronenberg 

Cast: Inga Dreger, Lotta Teufel, 

Sascha Tschorn 

While the 8th grader Ella faces a decisive 

math exam, which determines if she 

will be promoted to the next grade, she 

dreams of last summer: love lessons of 

her grotesque ballet teacher, private 

tutoring by a know-it-all 7th grader, her 

first kiss and permanently annoying 

parents. An entertaining insight into the 

spring awakening of Ella Plummhoff. 

Comedy 

28m59s 

Bang Bang Club Showing: 4/17 at 1pm USA 

Director: Jason Chan, 

Christian Lee 

Writer: Jason Chan, 

Christian Lee 

Producer: Christian Lee, 

Sang Min Lee, Jason Chan 

Cast: Christian Lee, 

Jason Chan, Katharine Crane 

Banks control the world beyond our 

imaginations. When one bank strips 

away the livelihood of two young men, 

they take revenge by joining an elite 

assassins training group: The Bang Bang 

Club. Only problem is that the club has 

links all the way to the highest financial 

powers of the world and has other plans 

for them: covert murders and their own 

demise. 


19m31s 

Beautiful Dreamer Showing: 4/16 at 3pm USA 

Director: David Gaddie 

Writer: David Gaddie, 

Steven Kelleher, Ken Liu 

Producer: Quenten Little, 

David Gaddie 

Editor: Afterparty VFX 

Cinematography: Shawn 

Greene 

Cast: Lynn Cohen, 

Jo Armenoix, Natalie Smith 

Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses 

space travel and relativity to stretch her 

last two years over the lifetime of her 

baby daughter, visiting for only one night 

every seven years. Mother and daughter 

must negotiate to forgive, to find what is 

important and to turn the pain of 

separation into love and a shared life. 

Sci-fi/Drama 

26m 

Billy the Kid Showing: 4/16 at 1pm USA 

Director: Sam Johnson 

Writer: Sam Johnson 

Producer: Sam Johnson, 

David Wade, Simon West 

Cast: John Bell, 

Johnny Palmiero 

Fitting into a new school can be hard, 

particularly when you were bullied out of 

the last one for living your life as a 

cowboy. But then 15-year-old Billy is 

joining a place that, though it doesn’t 

know it yet, is in need of a hero - a lasso 

wielding, John Wayne quoting, 

bubblegum chewing hero. 

Family 

15m45s 

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The Blimp Trap (Houston) Showing: 4/10 at 7pm USA 


Writer: Miriam & Nathan 

Goldman, Harwood Taylor 

Producer: Shawn Welling, 

Jana Fant 

Cast: Renee Reddon-Somoza, 

Isabella Blake-Thomas, 

Blaze Tucker 

Two young friends plan to catch a blimp 

and come up with a device and a plan 

and one day something very special 

happens. 

Welling 1 

30m 

Blue Borsalino Showing: 4/12 at 7pm UK 

Director: Mark Lobatto 

Writer: Mark Lobatto 

Producer: Annabel Wigoder, 

Christopher Smith (Exec) 

Editor: Dave Silver 


Eben Bolter 

Cast: David Warner, Margot 

Leicester, Bart Edwards 

When his first and only client wakes from 

a coma, a retired private investigator 

reveals a secret that has cast a shadow 

over his life for close to fifty years. 

Drama 

16m27s 

Bluey Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Australia 

Director: Darlene Johnson 

Writer: Darlene Johnson 

Producer: Hearther Oxenham 

Cast: Tasia Zalar, Matt Nable 

Bluey, an angry young woman trapped in 

a life of violence, meets a mystery mentor 

who could change everything. “Bluey” is 

a story of courage, heart and the fight for 

survival. 

Drama 

13m53s 

Bosniak Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Canada 

Director: Kejd Kuqo 

Writer: Kejd Kuqo 

Producer: Brittany Sheahan 

Editor: Ryan Maggs 


Erika Osmani 

Cast: Lauren Saarimaki, 

Aleksandra Maslennikova, 

Cosette Derome 

16 year old Nadzija is forced to the limits 

of her humanity in order to survive the 

Bosnian War. She is accompanied by 

Vesna, a widowed mother of an infant 

boy, as they attempt to reach a refugee 

camp together. The consequences of their 

actions continue to haunt them decades 

later. 

Drama 

15m 

122 

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Bout Normal, Nothin Special Showing: 4/11 at 7pm 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: David Barrow 

Writer: Mark Gifford, 

David Barrow 

Producer: Mark Gifford 

Editor: Anchor Creative 


David Barrow 

Cast: Jemma Evans, 

Jon Windham, 

Wallace Weatherspoon 

Inspired by the writing of Flannery O’Connor, 

“Bout Normal, Nothin Special’ takes a 

look at young farmers in today’s world. John 

and Jane leave behind their artistic lives in 

the city and attempt to save the family farm. 

Battling physical work, the ‘good-ol-boy’ 

network, and money issues, John and Jane 

demonstrate that teamwork, a good attitude 

and lots of energy are needed to make their 

dream come true. 

Drama 

21m11s 

The Bravest, The Boldest Showing: 4/10 at 3pm USA 

Director: Moon Molson 

Writer: Eric Fallen, 

Moon Molson 

Producer: Pelin Uzay 

Cast: Carlo Alban, Sameerah 

Luqmaan-Harris, 

Hisham Tawfiq 

A young mother in a Harlem housing 

project realizes the arrival of two 

uniformed soldiers bringing news she 

can’t bring herself to accept. 

Drama 

16m53s 

Burned Showing: 4/17 at 1pm USA 

Director: Jaime Valdueza 

Writer: Jaime Valdueza 

Producer: Jaime Valdueza, 

Adam Mutchler 

Cast: Beau Knapp, Maika 

Monroe, Micah Hauptman 

Jason (Beau Knapp; “The Signal”, 

“Southpaw”) hides in a motel room afraid 

of coming out. The only person he trusts 

is his girlfriend Lila (Maika Monroe; “The 

Guest”, “It Follows”), who takes him to 

meet a friend in a remote house in the 

desert. At their arrival, an unexpected 

guest asks too many questions. Jason’s 

trust for Lila begins to fade. 


17m 

Cains Shadow Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Italy 

Director: Antonio De Palo 

Writer: Antonio De Palo 

Producer: Giuseppe Schettino, 

Giampietro Preziosa, 

Antonio De Palo 

Editor: Dario Jurilli 


Calerio Coccoli 

Cast: Valeria Solarino, Michele 

Venitucci, Giorgio Colangeli 

On the night of November 5, 2025, a child 

called Angela disappeares. Around this 

umpteenth case of disappearance will 

intertwine the lives and stories of a young 

inspector, Ada, a young woman in search 

of her little sister that disappeared many 

years before; and finally Eddi, a 

transsexual speaker of a radio night show 

Drama/Thriller 

29m20s 

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Calamity (Texas) Showing: 4/11 at 7pm 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Reynaldo A. Garza 

Writer: Reynaldo A. Garza 

Producer: Reynaldo A. Garza, 

Ranjana Thomas 

Cast: Katie Rooke, 

Pamela Paek, Elliot Wendel 

Just hours before having to host her first 

book club meeting, Elizabeth finds a temporal 

wormhole hovering in her living room. Terrified 

at what such an anomaly would do to her 

social status, Elizabeth seeks out the help of 

her neighbor friend, Margaret, who suggests 

a plumber, to no avail. So Elizabeth is forced 

to make the best of things and continues with 

her plans. The meeting goes well as everyone 

pretends all is normal while the wormhole 

hovers in front of the fireplace, however one 

busybody book club member soon spoils it all. 

Sci-fi/Comedy 

14m5s 

Caste a Wave Showing: 4/09 at 3pm India 

Director: Fancy Fechser 

Producer: Fancy Fechser, 

Danny Klein, Cecil 

Campanaro, Krish Makhija 

Cast: Brad Gerlach, 

Colton Sarlo, Chris Chapple 

The word ‘surf’ originated in India in 1599, 

yet surfing has only existed there for the past 

ten years. In this groundbreaking short film 

we take audiences to the small fishing village 

of Mahabalipuram on the Indian east coast, 

where we meet local and visiting surfers, 

relatives of surfers and locals. We see firsthand 

how surf culture is impacting the community 

and how a new wave of connectivity 

between Indians and their once-feared ocean 

has given birth to a model for global environmental 

transformation. 

Documentary 

22m26s 

Catching Hail Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Australia 

Director: Adam Taylor 

Writer: Mac McStravick 

Producer: Good On Ya Mate 

Productions 

Cast: Mac McStravick, Lauren 

Bonetti, Christopher Wolff 

During the summer months, a high school 

coach is out mowing yards and sees a 

young man in need of some help. 

Comedy 

7m46s 

Chocolate Pudding Showing: 4/12 at 7pm Canada 

Director: Jonatas Da Silva 

Writer: Alicia Leblanc 

Producer: Fatima-Ricks 

Johnson 

Cast: Marty Terry, Victoria 

Phelps, Gary Manascoas 

“Chocolate Pudding” is the story of Mazy, an 

elderly woman suffering from the onset of 

Alzheimer’s disease. Though the life she once 

lived and loved begins to fade away, with a little 

help from her daughter - and an old family 

recipe of chocolate pudding - Mazy can recall 

her cherished moment; if only for today. 

Drama 

6m38s 

124 

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Cinderella, A Shadow Balet Showing: 4/10 at 3pm USA 

Director: Lotte Reiniger 

Musical artist, White Widow, narrates and 

Producer: White Widow 

orchestrates us through the classic fairy 

(Art and Producer) 

tale film “Cinderella” (Aschenputtel, 1922) 

Cast: Elizabeth Beecherl 

by animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger. 

Delving into psychological struggles, 

(Visual Artist) 

White Widow uses shadow, light, and 

sound to represent Cinderella’s psyche. 

As Cinderella confronts her repressed self 

to find her inner light, the film transforms 

Reiniger’s original silhouettes into a 

modern and mysterious shadow ballet. 

Animation/CGI 

16m06s 

Circle Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Germany 

Director: Alexander Heringer 

Writer: Ahmad Saleh 

Producer: Daniel Piechocki, 

Alexander Heringer 

Cast: Mira Maria, 

Missmann Moritz Pliquet 

A young woman in despair, who escapes 

into the seemingly perfect past, after 

experiencing a tragic loss. She loses 

herself in vivid memories and starts to 

neglect her real life. A constant inner 

struggle emerges between past and 

present, distorting her perception of 

reality. 

Animation/CGI 

11m17s 

The Cleanup Man Showing: 4/10 at 7pm USA 


Writer: Shawn Welling 

Producer: Shawn Welling 

Editor: Shawn Welling 



Cast: Emilio Dosal, 

Phillip Chbeeb 

When dancers get left in a crossfit gym 

Welling 1 

5m 

The Clockmakers Dream Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Ireland 

Director: Cashell Horgan 

Writer: Cashell Horgan 

Producer: Linhong Yang 

Cast: Joe Mullins, Jared Harris 

A tale of time and true love from a 

mechanical world. 

Sci-fi 

12m03s 

th 


125

Countless Showing: 4/12 at 7pm Spain 

Director: Zack Stoff 

Writer: Josh Epperly, 

Zack Stoff 

Producer: Regina Enguidanos 

Coronel, Elena Navarro, 

Zack Stoff 

Cast: Ramon Blanco Solaz, 

Jose Juan Rodriguez, 

Sergio Villanueva 

A poor beachcomber unearths a special object 

which draws him into an unexpected journey. 

He must look within himself to decide 

whether to sell or return it. In the process, 

he opens a new door in his solitary life, not 

knowing what lies on the other side. 

Drama 

11m51s 

Cruxberry Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Canada 

Director: Jamie Oon 

Writer: Jamie Oon 

Producer: Paul Erskine 

Cast: Jamie Oon 

Sequestered in a futuristic cell, a woman 

desperately attempts to complete tests that 

will determine her destiny. 

Sci-fi 

3m53s 

Daisy Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Australia 

Director: Nancy Paton 

Writer: Nancy Paton 

Producer: Farhan Khan 

Cast: Max Brown 

“Daisy” depicts the last days of a thirteen-yearold 

girl called Daisy (Hattie Gotobed), who suffers 

from severe Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis 

Bullosa (RDEB), and by chance meets Peter (Max 

Brown), an Iraq War veteran who suffers from 

drug addiction. Like Peter Pan, he is stuck in 

Neverland and Daisy, like Wendy, inspires him to 

change his ways. Daisy helps Peter learn to appreciate 

life, find home, but most importantly find 

love, something that she will never experience. 

As the credits run, we are left wondering what 

such a powerful little girl could have done with a 

lifetime of days. 

Family 

27m 

Dark Presence (Houston) Showing: 4/11 at 7pm 4/17 at 3pm Canada 

Director: Damir Catic 

Producer: Ron Gelner, 

Damir Catic 

Editor: Michael Allmon 


Michael Allmon 

Cast: Elizabeth Burke, 

Carolina Uzcategul, 

Parker Riggs 

Some imaginary friends can be very dark and 

dangerous 

Fantasy/Horror 

5m 

126 

th 


Delete Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Korea 

Director: 용훈 김 

Producer: 은정 임 

Cinematography: 재인 박 

Soo-yeon, who is working at an outbound 

call center, finds a camera on her desk. 

She takes a photo of a neighbor-worker 

for fun, but the neighber gets annoyed so 

that Soo-yeon deletes the photo 

Drama 

7m20s 

Deszcz Showing: 4/12 at 7pm Poland 

Director: Malina Maria 

Mackiewicz 

Writer: Malina Maria 

Mackiewicz 

Producer: Millie Gligorevic 

In the summer of 1983 in Kraków, Poland, 

prisoners sentenced to death are not 

informed of the date of their execution. As 

Jędzrej waits for his lover, Magda in the 

visitation hall of the Montelupich Political 

Detainment Centre, a sun shower pours 

down on Kraków. 

Each visit could be their last. 

Drama 

5m14s 

Do Not Disturb Showing: 4/17 at 1pm UK 

Director: Jon James Smith 

Writer: Jon James Smith 

Producer: Alexander Glenn 

Prather 

Editor: Ed Moorhouse 


Leonardo Agrizzi Netto 

Cast: Kathryn Leeman, 

Richard Shelton, 

Ron McMahon 

Two detectives, a husband and wife, a 

hooker, and a kidnapping are thrown 

into this LA crime blender. This modern 

Hitchcockian thriller with Fincher tones, is 

a tale of lies and confusion. 


13m19s 

D’Ombres & D’Ailes Showing: 4/10 at 3pm France 

Director: Eleonora Marinoni, 

Elice Meng 

Producer: Mathieu Courtois, 

Jean-François Le Corre 

In the heart of a group of birds, the 

indignant Moann feels her body 

changing. In a society where the greatest 

concern is the size and ambiton of one’s 

wings, Nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect her. 

But how can one survive in a barren land 

Family/Animation 

13m 

th 


127

Driftwood Dustmites Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Australia 

Director: Malina Maria 

Mackiewicz 

Writer: Malina Maria 

Mackiewicz 

Producer: Jessica Giacco 

A bit over a year since the death of her 

mother and now ten minutes before 

dawn on a warm night of spring holidays, 

Aishe watches her dad kissing his 

new love. Unable to fall back asleep she 

wakes up her little sister for company. 

Drama 

9m31s 

Driven Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Canada 

Director: Johannes Bachmann 

Writer: Johannes Bachmann 

Producer: Zürcher Hochschule 

der Künste 

Cast: Katharina Keissenhuber 

A woman, in a car, in the woods, at night. 

She’s driven by something. She’s scared. 

She hits something with her car. She 

flees, not knowing from what. She’s driven 

by fear. 


9m15s 

The Drover’s Boy Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Australia 

Director: Margaret McHugh 

Writer: Margaret McHugh 

Producer: Ly Norfor 

This hybrid-documentary, set in the 1920’s 

outback Australia, recalls a time when 

it was illegal for white Australians and 

Aboriginals to marry. Thus the Drover is 

forced to pass off his Aboriginal wife as his 

‘drover’s boy’. This tender story, based on a 

ballad by Australian bush legend, Ted Egan, 

pays tribute to this forbidden union and its 

tragic end. 

Documentary 

10m43s 

El Ladron de Luz- The Light Thief Showing: 4/16 at 3pm, 4/09 at 5pm Spain 

Director: Eva Daoud 

Producer: Eva Daoud, 

Juan Aritio 

Cast: Angel de Miguel, 

Maria Pedroviejo, 

Aloma Escuder 

When the essence of love is snatched 

from someone and locked away in a 

vessel with no name, what happens to 

those persons and how do they change? 

How can the broken-hearted souls break 

that curse and recover from their pain? 

Sci-fi 

19m2s 

128 

th 


Eleven Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Korea 

Director: Ken Fox 

Writer: Ken Fox 

Producer: Jaia Talisman 

An astronaut struggles to explain to his 

5 year old daughter why he must go, and 

why she cannot come with him. 

Sci-fi/Drama 

5m20s 

Figs for Italo Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Poland 

Director: Bob Celli 

Writer: Bob Celli 

Producer: Laura Delano, 

Bob Celli 

Cast: Claudio Brovedani Nuti, 

Vaeria Smaldone 

Dora is about to enjoy yet another family 

gathering at her home. A simple question 

from a journalist who is about to 

interview the next door neighbor, takes 

Dora back to a significant day in her life. 

Based on a true story. 

Drama 

18m48s 

The Flavor of the Moon Showing: 4/11 at 9pm China 

Director: Yan Zhang 

Writer: Yan Zhang, Na Zhao 

Producer: Yan Zhang 

Cast: Yan Zhang 

In a little town where the time background 

is not clear, people follow and 

yearn for the moon because of a legend. 

The events about the moon even become 

more and more intensified. Disputing for 

the moon becomes the lingering shadow 

of the town. A man whose proposal is 

rejected, decides to unveil the unsolved 

legend and win back his lover’s heart by 

fighting for the moon. 


21m10s 

Flight Fright Showing: 4/09 at 3pm France 

Director: Jim Politano 

Writer: Jim Politano 

Producer: Jim Politano, 

Melissa K. Webb 

Cast: Eddie Deezen 

An airline passenger with a fear of flying 

starts to see strange things after taking 

nerve medication. “Flight Fright” is a comedy 

remake of the famous Twilight Zone 

episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”. 

Features film comedian Eddie Deezen. 

(Grease, 1941, WarGames, The Polar 

Express) 

Comedy- Black/Dark 

7m22s 

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Florence Has Left The Building Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Australia 

Director: Mirrah Foulkes 

Writer: Mirrah Foulkes 

Producer: Alex White 

Editor: Katie Flaxman 


Jeremy Rouse 

Cast: Jacki Weaver, 

Justin Rosniak, Eden Falk 

It’s the annual Christmas Eve concert 

at the Marigold House Assisted Living 

Facility. All her friends are dying and 

Florence wants out. When the facility 

double books two rival Elvis impersonators, 

Florence takes the opportunity for 

one last hurrah. 

Comedy 

13m30s 

Foal Showing: 4/12 at 7pm Australia 

Director: Vanessa Gazy 

Writer: Vanessa Gazy 

Producer: Lyn Norfor 

In the extended absence of her older 

stockman husband, Aurora falls pregnant 

to her young lover, Joe. As Aurora, braces 

for the imminent return of her husband, 

her young daughter Annie struggles to 

make sense of her mother’s complex 

adult world, and of her own burgeoning 

sexuality. 

Drama 

24m2s 

Forever, Your Fireplace 

Director: Grant Collier 

Writer: Grant Collier, 

Kristina Zill 

Producer: Grant Collier 

Cast: Dee Nelson, 

Naian Gonzales, Joseph Dunn 

After a sharp financial downturn, Barbara 

and Bob try to craft a story to keep up the 

appearance that life is normal. Can they 

maintain this charade while their daughter, 

a recent college graduate, unexpectedly 

visits them from out of town? 

Comedy 

12m47s 


Fragile Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Switzerland 

Director: Rebecca Panian 

Writer: Rebecca Panian 

Producer: Luzius Fischer 

Cast: Lale Yavas 

Instead of letting herself time to coming 

to terms with her lost relationship, Natalie 

(35) has a first date with Sascha (40), a 

guy from a dating website, that triggers 

exactly what she wanted to suppress: her 

lovesickness - all the pain and anger. It 

needs one night and some more or less 

self-destructive encounters until she finds 

peace again. 

Comedy Dark 

25m35s 

130 

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Her Unlikely Kin Showing: 4/10 at 3pm USA 

Director: Kenneth J. Raimondi 

Writer: Kenneth J. Raimondi 

Producer: Jackie Raimondi, 

Kenneth J. Raimondi 

Cast: Nick Stevenson, Alexis 

Santiago, John Castellanos 

Sarah Rassi is running out of options. She 

needs a bone marrow transplant and her 

only match on the registry is troubled war 

veteran, Peyton Sinclair. Can Peyton overcome 

his own battles with PTSD to step 

up and save Sarah’s life? Her Unlikely 

Kin tells the story of two strangers, who 

by rare genetic chance, can offer each 

other new life. 

Director: Alexis Cook 

Writer: Alexis Cook 

Producer: Brett Carwardine, 

Melia Rayner 

Editor: Mitch Holdberg, Ethan 

Balmaceda 

Cinematography: Thom Neal 

Cast: Matthew Hayduk, John 

Flaus, John Brumpton 

Drama 

15m2s 

Honalee Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Australia 

Dan is somewhat troubled by the dynamics 

of life at home and finds solace in a friendship 

that he shares with his dying neighbor, Walt. 

The two share a bond that fills the empty void 

in both of their lonely lives. On this particularly 

ominous day, Dan looks after Walt’s precious 

dog while he travels to the city to see a doctor. 

Dan finds himself in a situation where he does 

not have the strength to follow his instincts. 

A seemingly innocent dare quickly turns into 

a choice that will affect Dan for the rest of his 

life. 

Drama 

14m6s 

How Was Your Day? Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Ireland 

Director: Damien O’Donnell 

Writer: Damien O’Donnell 

Producer: Emmaline Dowling 

Editor: Ciara Brophy 

Cinematography: Richard 

Donnelly 

Cast: Eileen Walsh, Sean 

Duggan, Molly McNamara 

A Woman is excited about the approaching 

birth of her first child 

Drama 

13m30s 

Hux Showing: 4/10 at 3pm USA 

Director: Mageina Tovah 

Writer: Mageina Tovah 

Producer: Mageina Tovah 

Cast: Mageina Tovah, Harry 

Dean Stanton, Dylan Kenin, 

Men Messmer 

Hux, longing to connect, rebels against 

the lonely isolation of her autism. Braving 

the confusing, chaotic world of others, 

her attempts at interaction are repeatedly 

thwarted - by her powerful aversion to 

stimuli, and by an epidemic that decimates 

the population. But when all seems 

lost, Hux finds one final chance to connect. 

Drama 

11m49s 

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49 WorldFest Houston 131

I Am Henry Showing: 4/10 at 3pm USA 

Director: Jan Hendrik 

Verstraten 

Writer: Jan Hendrik Verstraten 

Producer: Jan Hendrik Verstraten, 

Massimo Barbato, 

Tarik Kemp 

Editor: Jan Hendrik Verstraten 

Cinematography: Simon 

Rowling 

Cast: Sebastian Street, Fleur 

Keith, Maria De Lima 

King Henry VIII in purgatory for his misdeeds 

is trying to come to terms with his 

betrayals of Anne Boleyn and Catherine, 

his first wife. 

Drama 

23m44s 

Ice Showing: 4/17 at 1pm USA 

Director: Madison Pelzer 

Writer: Madison Pelzer 

Producer: Brett Tinning 

Cast: Peter Richards, Rachel 

Pepper Norman, Elizabeth 

Shingleton 

A middle-aged ice truck driver, stuck in 

a dull marriage, finds a dead body in the 

back of his truck. Unsure of what to do 

with the body he goes about his day, with 

the body wrapped up and hidden under 

the ice. With the presence of the body and 

a moment shared with a local waitress, 

Tony suddenly discovers a new found 

power in his life. 

Drama/thriller 

12m53s 

Ideal, The Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Latvia 

Director: Uldis Cipsts 

Writer: Misha Bolsyak 

Producer: Uldis Cipsts 

Cast: Olga Lesnova, Louie 

Fountaine, Uldis Bruns 

A rich rock star is spending loads of money 

to make his young good-looking concubine... 

ideal. But there‟s always something 

that can be improved. When he realises he 

would have her a little smarter, the possibility 

of a brain transfer comes to question. 


15m33s 

If I Could Talk Showing: 4/10 at 7pm USA 


Writer: Shawn Welling, Mark 

Glavin, Nathan Goldman 



Cinematography: Duncan 

Johnson 

When a man saves an abandoned puppy, 

he finds a best friend. A friend to share 

the ups and downs of life with him -- and, 

soon, his family. “If I Could Talk” gives 

this dog the one chance he wants to 

share his thoughts. 

Welling 1 

8m 

132 

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The Inselberg Effect Showing: 4/09 at 3pm USA 

Director: Tony Bonacci 

Writer: Scott Pittock 

Producer: Krissy Hamm, Tony 

Bonacci 

Editor: Tony Bonacci, Jaime 

O’Bradovich 

Cinematography: Ben Drickey 

Cast: Martin Kenna, Scott 

Dombeck 

Darren, hardworking, dedicated husband, 

finds his life in turmoil after his wife 

leaves him. After attacking his boss, Darren 

is forced to take anger management 

classes where he runs into the famous 

author, Garrett LaRue. LaRue’s book The 

Inselberg Complex has helped Darren 

through his heartbreak. But as LaRue 

draws Darren into his world, Darren soon 

realizes things are not what they seem. 

Comedy - Black/Dark 

28m 

Intentions Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Spain 

Director: Ivan Casajús 

Writer: Ivan Casajús, José Luís 

Montesinos 

Producer: Arturo Méndiz, 

Daniel Villanueva 

Cast: Carlos Vicente, Iñaki 

Mur, Greta Fernandez 

Cris finally got a date with Natalia. But 

Roberto, her father, is clear about forbidding 

his daughter to date anyone. 


15m30s 

Jacob’s Paradox Showing: 4/09 at 5pm USA 

Director: Michael Peake, 

David James 

Writer: Michael Peake 

Producer: Michael Peake, 

Chenney Chen, Michael Potter 

Cast: Michael Peake, Mindy 

Heithaus, Amanda Miller 

After suffering the loss of his murdered 

wife, Sarah, Jacob’s life begins to tailspin 

out of control. Unable to perform his duties, 

he’s asked to take a leave of absence 

from his position with the University. 

Soon after, Jacob locks himself in his 

home, shut off from the outside world. 

There, in his solitude, he begins a dangerous 

and maddening journey to go back 

and save his beloved Sarah. 

Sci-fi 

36m36s 

The Last Days of the Cinema Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Spain 

Director: Christopher Downs 

Writer: Christopher Downs 

Producer: Ana Carrera López, 

Christopher Downs, Alexia 

Dodd, Rafa Rojas-Díez 

As the cinemas of the city are closing 

their doors, the relationship between Leandro 

and his son Martin is extinguishing. 

Leandro will try to redeem his past errors 

on time and bring out all the inner rage 

that has driven Martin to a grey life, in order 

to make him recover his imagination, 

dream again and find a light. 

Drama/Comedy 

24m 

th 


Let There Be Light (Texas) Showing: 4/11 at 7pm, 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Andy Conner 

Writer: Andy Conner 

Editor: Andy Conner 

Cinematography: Paul Pryor 

Cast: Charles Barrett, 

Martina Ohlhauser, 

Brandon Pentecost 

John Grimes’ struggle to keep his dairy 

farm alive in the 1940s. When an agent 

from the government comes to town 

promising electricity for the country side, 

he tries to rally his friends and neighbors 

to the cause. 

Drama 

25m1s 

Love For all Seasons Showing: 4/10 at 7pm USA 


Writer: Shawn Welling 





Cast: Chachi Gonzales, 

Josh Leyva 

Locked in a lovers’ quarrel, model Mira 

Cruz and her long term boyfriend must 

come to terms about the next step in their 

relationship. 

Welling 1 

30m 

Love is Blind Showing: 4/10 at 3pm France 

Director: Sabine Crossen 

Writer: Sabine Crossen 

Producer: Benjamin Magnard, 

Christophe Leys, 

Christophe Péchoux 

Editor: Yorgos Lamprinos 

Cinematography: Vincent 

Vieillard-Baron 

Cast: Eliza Calmat, Cédric 

Maruani, Bernard Werber 

Tristan falls in love with a blind patient of 

his, Angel. They get married and have a 

beautiful boy but when he finds out that 

not only the operation he performed on her 

to save her sight failed but that she also 

contracted a lethal virus.. .he takes drastic 

measures... 

Drama/Romance 

14m10s 

Madness Showing: 4/17 at 1pm USA 

Director: Shannon Kohli, 

Michelle Brezinski 

Writer: Michelle Brezinski 

Producer: Michelle Brezinski, 

Michael Khazen 

Cast: Michelle Brezinski, 

Brian McGugan, Linda Watters 

In 1348, as the Black Death hangs over 

medieval England, a woman attempts to 

snatch her husband from his unjust grave 

only to be plagued by something far 

worse than death itself 

Drama/Thriller 

9m57s 

134 

th 


The Man Who Caught a Mermaid Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Australia 

Director: Kaitlin Tinker 

Writer: Kaitlin Tinker 

Producer: Clare Bajrovic, 

George Rubanov 

Editor: Jack Wilson 


Jordan Dowding 

Cast: Roy Barker, Bibly 

Conway, Verity Higgins 

Herb, an inept, butter-fingered retiree, has become 

obsessed with the idea of catching his mermaid. 

Each day, he sets up camp on the local beach pier 

and waits by his rod for the ‘inevitable’ bite. His wife, 

Joan, has long since given up hope of distracting him 

from task. But Herb, powered by his love of the sea 

and resolve for the existence of mermaids, routinely 

awaits his mythical merrow at the end of the 

wharf. Then one day, he catches her. Herb drags the 

creature back to his property, locking her covertly 

in his backyard shed. Joan becomes suspicious of 

his strange behaviour and curious as to the secret 

contents of the shed. When she believes Herb is 

distracted, she sneaks to the shed and discovers a 

horrible secret. 


16m 

Mandala Showing: 4/11 at 9pm China 

Director: Guan Xi 

Writer: Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, 

Qingqing Dongxia 

Producer: Li Zhen 

Cast: Sarah Li, Omar Avila, 

Sonam Droka 

After losing her lover to suicide, a young 

artist tries to overcome her grief by 

succumbing to a mysterious request by a 

Tibetan monk. 


23m10s 

Margaret Showing: 4/16 at 1pm USA 

Director: Manan Singh 

Katohora 

Writer: Bret Kofford, 

Manan Singh Katohora 

Producer: Audrey Elizabeth 

Emmett 

Editor: Aftab Asghar 

Cinematography: Omar Juarez 

Cast: Anne Stone, 

Manoj Tiwari, Carlos Macher 

After dealing with a series of extreme 

characters during a speed-dating event 

for senior citizens, an elderly woman 

meets a charming, exotic gentleman. 

Comedy/Romance 

13m 

Milkshakes & Memories Showing: 4/10 at 3pm UK 

Director: David Cave 

Writer: David Cave 

Producer: David Cave, 

John McMahon Dodd, 

Rafa Rojas-Díez 

Cast: Rachel Gay, 

John McMahon, Alan Renwick 

Can what’s in the past be left there or 

could a chance meeting between two old 

friends signal a new beginning? 

Drama 

7m 

th 


Moom Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Japan 

Director: Robert Kondo, 

Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi 

Writer: Robert Kondo, 

Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi 

Producer: Tomohiko Ishii, 

Genki Kawamura 

Editor: Bradley Furnish 

Have you ever wondered what happens 

to your forgotten objects? In this 

story, those objects with its ‘memory’ still 

attached end up rising from the waters of 

the magical lake. Scared and lost, memories 

need help to let go of their objects. 

Animation/Family 

13m49s 

Ms. Vanilla Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Taiwan 

Director: 徐子悅 

Writer: 邱鈺婷 

Producer: 張瑜芳 

Cast: 沈子琦 , 溫倬葳 

Ms.Vanilla is a typical “Yes Girl” who 

worked as a hotline counselor, but is 

befuddled when she finds she cannot say 

“No” to anything or anyone. 


22m16s 

My Younger Older Sister Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Canada 

Director: Leah Johnston 

Writer: Leah Johnston 

Producer: Jess Brown, 

Leah Johnston 

Cast: Leah Johnston, 

Katherine Johnston, 

Shell Thompson 

A young woman enters a crisis on the eve 

of her 19th birthday as she realizes she is 

about to out-age her older sister who died 

at 18. 

Drama 

16m30s 

Mystic Jungfraujoch Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Sweden 

Director: Markus Eichenberger 

Producer: 

Markus Eichenberger 

Markus Eichenberger received permission 

to stay at the Jungfraujoch station high in 

the Swiss Alps, usually offlimits to 

tourists, and recorded a time-lapse view 

from the top of Europe, shot over 48 

hours. Breathtaking! 

Documentary 

3m22s 

136 

th 


Nabilah Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Germany 

Director: Paul Meschùh 

Writer: Aydin Alinejadsomeeh 

Producer: Felix von Poser 

Cast: Nicholas Reinke, 

Amin Nasir, Darcal Sobi 

The young Afghan woman “Nabilah“ is 

injured in an accident. German soldiers 

take her to a military base. Since the 

residents of Nabilah´s home town must 

not find out about her physical contact 

with foreign men, a race for her life 

begins. 

Drama 

22m 

The Night of the Blind Moon Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Tunisia 

Director: Khedija Lemkecher 

Writer: Kadija Lemkecher, 

Youssef Seddik 

Producer: Moslah Kraiem 

Editor: Tarek Fehri 


Georges Meran 

Cast: Racha Maaoui, 

Fatma Ben Saidane, 

Arija Sboui 

Three teenage girls, Aisha, Tibr, and 

Bouka imagine during a full moon night 

in the land of Jerid and each dreams of 

her prince charming. Despite their young 

age they fear the fate of the “Boura” 

which condemn them to remain old 

maids. So they decide to participate in a 

mysterious Pharaonic ceremony in one of 

the cemeteries of the city. Aisha returns 

home elated but her cruel aunts catch and 

punish her and so her tragedy begins. 

Drama 

20m 

Of Her I Dream Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Norway 

Director: Katarina Gellin 

Writer: Katarina Gellin 

Producer: Nathanael Wiseman 

Cast: Katarina Gellin, 

Trond Peter Stamsø Munch, 

Marit Adeleide Andreassen 

Freya must return from London to her 

small Norwegian village when her beloved 

mother Anne is dying of 

cancer. There, she has to face her 

grieving, estranged stepfather and find 

a way to connect with him - or lose both 

parents forever. 

Drama 

25m8s 

Of Mice and Men Showing: 4/09 at 5pm France 

Director: Gonzague Legout 

Writer: Gonzague Legout 

Producer: Pascal Legitimus, 

Gonzague Legout, Aline Chau 

Cast: David Atrackchi, 

Nicky Naudé 

In the heart of Detroit city. As the 

economic crisis continues to bite, two 

former employees of a car plant decide to 

rob the Motorcity Bank, but find 

themselves trapped by the police. 

Negotiations will take an unexpected 

turn. 

Sci-fi 

20m10s 

th 


The Oracle Showing: 4/17 at 1pm France 

Director: Nan Feix 

Writer: Nan Feix, 

Nicolas Berno 

Producer: Soixante Quinze, 

AS&M 

Cast: Eric Satterberg, 

Isabel Jones, William Hodges 

In his escape after commiting a murder, 

Dave is stuck in a village from a parallel 

world, threatened by the Oracle taking 

the form of a jukebox. Wanting to escape 

anyway, he suffers a car accident, then 

understands that he has no other choice 

but to stay... 


14m28s 

Pallaki Showing: 4/16 at 1pm India 

Director: Phani Dokka 

Writer: Phani Dokka 

Producer: Pramod Sajja 

Editor: Santosh Kiran 

Cinematography: M.V. Raghu 

Cast: LB Sriram, 

Gollapudi Maruthi Rao, 

Tanikella Bharani 

The story portrays Andhra Pradesh, a region 

in south India with its rich traditions 

and values and the sacrifices of a devout 

male protagonist to uphold them. 

Drama 

40m 

Pigtails Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Japan 

Director: Yoshimi Itazu 

Writer: Miho Maruo 

Producer: Keiko Matsushita 

Cast: Junichi Suwabe, 

Kana Hanazawa, 

Yusuke Kubayashi 

The earth shook. The sea roared. A far 

greater disaster followed. And then... There 

is a small house solitarily standing by the 

seaside. A young pigtail-braided girl is living 

there alone since that day. Mail is no longer 

delivered, but even today, she’s hanging out 

the laundry as usual. 

Animation 

28m10s 

Planet X Showing: 4/16 at 3pm UK 

Director: Rohit Gill 

Writer: Rohit Gill 

Producer: Gohit Gill 

Cast: Neerja Naik, 

Lawrence MrCrandles Jr, 

Simon Purdey 

138 

th 


An extreme policy is enforced when a 

foreign planet with a umbilical cord appears 

from nowhere. The incident baffles 

communities and an international science 

expedition begins. Rumours spread that the 

umbilical cord is using up earth’s supplies. 

Many believe that politicians and news 

corporations have hijacked the story and 

are using it as propaganda to promote the 

planet. This new breed of neocolonialism, 

leads to mass hysteria, confusion and conflict, 

which gives birth to a bleak state. 

Sci-FI 

7m3s

The Promise of Agriculture Showing: 4/09 at 3pm USA 

Director: Robert D. Frye 

Writer: Robert D. Frye 

Producer: Robert D. Frye 

Cast: Robert D. Frye 

The question is: “Can we feed 9.7 billion 

people as globally projected for 2050?” 

The filmmaker’s opinion is at the end of 

this vivid, dynamic film. 

Documentary 

4m7s 

Pyromance Showing: 4/16 at 1pm USA 

Director: John de Menil 

Writer: John de Menil 

Producer: Jennifer Elmas 

Cast: Paul McCarthy 

Boyington, Anna Khaja 

A lonely pyrotechnician finds an unlikely 

spark on the eve of the 4th of July fireworks 

show and becomes torn between 

desires both personal and professional. 

Drama 

24m06s 

The Rat Showing: 4/17 at 1pm USA 

Director: Vasily Chuprina 

Writer: Bill Sarre 

Producer: Svetlana Bondareva, 

Vasily Chuprina 

Cast: Jonte LeGras, 

Joel Bryant, Allen Perada 

A tense thriller, set in modern-day LA 

as policemen seek to catch a major 

drug dealer. The Rat delivers an intense, 

claustrophobic punch that will make you 

guess, and guess again. 


7m59s 

Remedy Showing: 4/11 at 9pm China 

Director: Chia Ying Tsai 

Producer: Sean Tien 

Cinematography: Xuhui Zhao 

Cast: Arienne Margot, 

Lynn Steinhurst 

Anna suffers from an unknown illness, 

which she choses to face on her own, 

trying to find the best treatment for 

herself. 


12m35s 

th 


Reminiscence Showing: 4/11 at 7pm, 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Matthew Lai 

Writer: Matthew Lai 

Producer: Dominic Stunz, 

Matthew Lai 

Editor: Dominic Stunz, 

Matthew Lai 

Cinematography: Conor Mizell 

Cast: Simon Weiner, 

Kendall Drummond, 

Michael Patrick 

A young man tries to come to terms with 

traumatic incidents by visiting a 

psychiatrist who lets him relive his 

memories. 

Thriller 

14m6s 

The Roma Project Showing: 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Harry Keenan 

Writer: Evan Scott Russell 

Producer: Evan Scott Russell 

Editor: Alex Nomick 


Tyler Harmon-Townsend 

Following a deadly car accident, 

a frightened teen awakes in an ominous 

hospital, discovering powerful abilities he 

did not know he possessed. 

Sci-fi 

19m37s 

The Run Showing: 4/16 at 1pm Canada 

Director: Penny Eizenga 

Writer: Penny Eizenga 

Producer: Penny Eizenga 

Editor: Dominique Naupaul 

Cast: Erica Wood, Elora Cook, 

Elizabeth Harpur 

A woman, grieving the loss of her daughter, 

takes a not-so-routine run reawakening to 

life around her. 

Comedy 

9m03s 

The Run Showing: 4/17 at 1pm Germany 

Director: Stefan Najib 

Writer: Stefan Najib 

Producer: Elaine and 

Tommy Niessner 

Cast: Dominic Raacke, 

Dennis Mojen, 

Tim-Oliver Schultz 

140 

th 


Martin is a teacher at a local high school. 

He thinks of himself as a good educator, 

but his own son begins to rebel against him. 

One day, both drive to school together and 

get into a bad row over Bastian going on a 

camping vacation with his buddies. Soon 

after, Bastian’s classmate Tom starts to 

shoot people in their school. Martin can 

stop the killing by volunteering to drive an 

escape car for Tom. During the escape, a 

harsh psychological duel begins between 

the teacher and the crazed student. 


24m47s

The Secession (Texas) Showing: 4/11 at 7pm, 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Jay Hubert 

Writer: Jay Hubert 

Producer: Beth Aavang, 

Sophia Yu 

Editor: Jay Hubert 


Tom Rosenberg 

Cast: Jordan Elsass, 

Aidan Weatherford, 

Tasha Anslyn 

Two 12-year-old Texas boys set out on 

their bikes armed with BB guns to ride to 

the Capitol and secede from the Union. 

Along the way they run into their cute 

Chinese classmate, Jenny, which defintely 

puts a kink in their plans. 

Comedy 

13m41s 

The Secret of Joy Showing: 4/16 at 1pm USA 

Director: Max Bartoli 

Writer: Max Bartoli, 

Fabiola Lopez Bartoli 

Producer: 

Fabiola Lopez Bartoli 

Editor: Fernando Salazar 


Halyna Hutchins 

Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso, 

Doris Roberts, Ava Ames 

The short tells the story of a beautiful 

dream in King Arthur’s kingdom, a land 

populated by valiant knights, beautiful 

ladies, little elves and monsters to be 

defeated. A world of fantasy and beauty 

only a child can imagine; a tale that enchants 

the viewers until life brings them 

abruptly back to reality. Joy, our little 11- 

year old princess, is fighting the monster 

of cancer! 

Fantasy/Family 

15m52s 

Seduction Theory Showing: 4/09 at 3pm USA 

Director: Steven Ascher 

Writer: Steven Ascher 

Producer: Steven Ascher, 

Jeanne Jordan 

Cast: Michael Cumpsty, Georgia 

Lymanm, 

Christian Goodwin 

“Seduction Theory” is a dark comedy 

about a wry 12-year old contending with 

his psychoanalyst father, the teachings of 

Sigmund Freud and the girl he hopes will 

save him. 


14m51s 

Silent Night Showing: 4/17 at 3pm Australia 

Director: Nastassja Djalog 

Writer: Natassja Djalog 

Producer: Danielle Reston 

Nurse Carly works the evening shift at a 

clinic, preparing people for their syringe. 

All her patients are on government lists 

that have been classified as insignificant 

and superfluous to the needs of the city. 

The city seems evolved and developed 

but somehow this is really just is a new 

more sophisticated way to determine 

who should live and who should die. 

Sci-fi 

11m4s 

th 


Star Taxi Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Slovakia 

Director: Juraj Krumpolec 

Writer: Juraj Krumpolec, 

Igor Derevenec, Anton Sulik 

Producer: Juraj Krumpolec 

Cast: Richard Stanke 

Adventures of a little boy Hugo and a taxi 

driver Peppino on their journey through 

dangerous universe. One meter 

faster than light, they flee from the furious 

monsters of Aldebaran. Animated 

short for children by Juraj Krumpolec and 

Igor Derevenec based on the original story 

by famous author of children’s books 

Gianni Rodari. 

Animation/Family 

14m30s 

Stutterer Showing: 4/10 at 3pm UK 

Director: Benjamin Cleary 

Writer: Benjamin Cleary 

Producer: Serena Armitage, 

Shan Christopher Ogilvie 

Editor: Benjamin Cleary 


Michael Paleodimos 

Cast: Matthew Needham, 

Chloe Pirrie, Eric Richards 

A man with a cruel speech impediment 

must face his ultimate fear. 

Drama 

12m54s 

Summer Showing: 4/16 at 3pm Russia 

Director: Anton Outkine 

Writer: Anton Outkine 

Producer: 

Natalia Pokrovskaya 

Cast: Alena Babenko, 

Valentin Vall 

Near future. A military nurse is taking her 

wounded husband to safety. But a call from 

orbital command forces her to make some 

very tough choices... 

Sci-fi 

15m7s 

The Summer of ABC Burns, Showing: 4/09 at 3pm Australia 

Director: Dannika Horvat 

Writer: Dannika Horvat 

Producer: 

Stephanie Westwood 

Editor: Emily Robb 


Harry Hayes 

Cast: Jessica Yates, 

Arielle O’Neill 

In “The Summer of ABC Burns”, Gem realizes 

there is a lot she doesn’t know about her 

cruel ‘best friend’, Drew, and learns what 

must be sacrificed in order to survive in the 

visceral high school world. 

Drama 

12m40s 

142 

th 


Supernova Showing: 4/09 ar 3pm Poland 

Director: Andrzej Cichocki 

Writer: Andrzej Cichocki 

Editor: Iza Pajak 

Cast: Andrzej Wichrowski, 

Ewelina Szostkowa, 

Cezary Lukaszewicz 

A world-renowned astronomer cuts 

himself off from society. As Marcin tries 

to document the professor’s forgotten 

genius, chance discoveries evoke vital 

links to more than just the stars... 

Worldfest/NASA Awards 

28m41s 

The Surface Showing: 4/16 at 3pm USA 

Director: Willem Kampenhout 

Writer: Willem Kampenhout 

Producer: Kirsten Anderson 


Jarom Cowan 

Cast: Liz Christensen, 

Aiden Beagley, David Webb 

To save the life of her dying son, Liz must 

venture to the desolate surface and face 

the monsters that drove mankind below. 

Sci-fi 

19m59s 

Talgar the Hunter Showing: 4/11 at 9pm UK 

Director: Charlie Crane 

Writer: Charlie Crane, 

Max Barron 

Producer: Archie Hollway, 

Annabel Kennedy 

Editor: Eve Ashwell 


Tim Sidell 

Cast: Talger Shaibyrov, 

Sary-Ata 

Talgar the hunter takes a journey through 

Kyrgyzstan’s bleak landscape to heal his 

closest companion Tumara the golden 

eagle. There is only one man alive that 

can bring inner peace back to this quiet 

hero. 


12m39s 

Targeted Advertising Showing: 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: Mitchell Rose 

Writer: Mitchell Rose 

Producer: Mitchell Rose 

Editor: Mitchell Rose 


Perfect Perspectives Aerial 

Imaging 

Cast: Josh Hines 

A sci-fi aerial dance-film glimpsing a dark 

future when spambot drones chase a 

fleeing populace blasting ads for Viagra, 

hair loss products, and other exciting 

values. 

Sci-fi/Comedy 

3m54s 

th 


Tomorrow’s Dream Showing: 4/17 at 3pm New Zealand 

Director: David Gould 

Writer: David Gould 

Producer: Anne Jager 

Editor: David Gould 


Brandon Te Moananui 

Cast: Shane Boulton, 

Olivia Mahood, Blake Gould 

A young man develops a machine to 

travel back in time to save his girlfriend 

and unborn child. 

Sci-fi 

6m40s 

Trial & Error Showing: 4/10 at 3pm Germany 

Director: Antje Heyn 

Animators: Alexander Isert, 

Antje Heyn, 

Johanna Hochholzer 

A film about a lost shirt button, perfectionist 

aunts, busy cats, startled parrots 

– and a long-lost friend. 

Animation 

5m27s 

Tick Tock Clock Showing: 4/9 at 5pm USA 

Director: Gail Reaben 

Writer: Gail Reaben 

Producer: Gail Reaben 

Cast: Sydney Smith, 

Marty Greenberg, Tom Raguse 

With rare 8mm film footage, this ground 

breaking historical film captures Texas 

teenagers in the 1950s during the birth of 

rock and roll to now, in the digital age of 

computers and the internet. 

Documentary 

14m 57s 

Zero Showing: 4/17 at 3pm USA 

Director: David Victori 

Writer: David Victori 

Producer: Ridley Scott, 

Michael Fassbender, 

Eduardo Verástegui 

Cast: Ryan Eggold, Felix Avitia 

A boy and his father are emotionally and 

physically separated on the day earth 

intermittently loses gravity. The boy is 

wrestling with questions about his mother’s 

death, while his father desperately tries to 

find his son as the world is rising and 

collapsing around him 

Sci-fi 

29m 

144 

th 


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