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FILM FEST
102
FESTIVAL THEATRE
ROOM 2 - WEST 102B
Friday, June 3rd
10:30 PM to 11:30 PM
Drama
Slick
Amongst nothing but drunks and
guns, Slick strives to be creative
within his rundown neighborhood,
‘Slime City.’ Compelled to engage
with someone other than his own
tool box, Slick heads into town to
catch up with the beautiful Memorie.
It’s here that Slick is confronted
by West, an over confident drug
aficionado looking for trouble.
When Slick is embarrassed in front
of everyone, he heads back to his
slummy apartment to make sure it
never happens again.
Treena
Love is in the air! The story of a
man and a tree, as their symbiotic
relationship is put to the test.
The Plague Doctor
Upon being called to care for an
elderly writer, a young doctor finds
himself trapped in a deranged mix
of reality, the obscure legend of an
ancient Italian mask and the echoes
of a timeless love.
To Whom It May Concern
A troubled young man relives
moments in his life as he writes
down his final thoughts.
“As Seen On TV!”
A lonely middle-aged man is
searching for a favorite toy from
his childhood. Through a series of
flashbacks we discover why the toy
is so important to him ... and he
discovers what he is really searching
for.
Bedbugs
Meet Daniel White (Matthew Wetzel).
He’s a quiet man, with specific
attention to the cleanliness of his
things. When he gets a bad case of
the dreaded “Bedbugs” in his home,
will he be able to hold on to his
sanity? Let’s hope so. Daniel screens
(and ignores) all of his calls, save for
his sister, Patty White (Brooke De La
Cruz). When she sets him up on a
date with the hottest girl in the office,
Debra Ray (Shay Stanislas), will he be
able to handle the pressure of it all!?
Find out this month in “BEDBUGS!”
Sink
After stealing a wallet, a careless
teen discovers the true impact of his
choice.
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Feature and Short
Dr. Cheapskate
An isolated doctor, burned by his
gold-digger ex-wife, takes penny
pinching to the extreme until his
friends force him out of his shell and
to get back in the dating game.
A Splendid Affair
Roger Martin is a private investigator
completely broke. A woman asks
him to investigate her husband she
suspects to have an affair.
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
International
Beast
A struggling young blood cop has
a misconception about his identity
when he try to seek the justice for his
mother’s life.
ReStart
A woman is trapped in a temporal
loop that she may not be able to
break.
Without
“Without” is a story about solitude
and the way it is enhanced by the
geographic and psychological
isolation of small, marginalized
realities. At the same time, these
realities are a witness to the strong
human bonds created by the
inevitable proximity that connects
people.
Hammer
Dimitri narrates the good, the bad
and the ugly of being a part of the
Russian Mafia.
A Coffee Cup
Romain Bondurant, a junior insurance
company worker, wakes up late for
work and rushes to get ready. In his
haste, he fails to notice he is being
burgled by a gang of organized
thieves. But on his way to the office,
Romain spills coffee on himself and
decides to head home to change.
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Feature
96 Souls
A university research scientist, about
to lose funding and status, has a lab
accident and discovers he can see
people’s true intentions -- which
makes his situation even worse.
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Science Fiction
The Eve
Simon is an eight-year-old boy who
seems to have everything from life.
He’s a handsome child, he’s rich
yet unhappy. He senses that there’s
something wrong with his life and
this leads him to wander off thanks
to his fervid imagination. His greatest
wish is to leave the materialistic
world behind since he isn’t fond of it.
That’s why the only present he wants
for Christmas is for Santa Claus to
take him away to live in his fairyland
toy factory. At the same time, a
secret that his family has been
keeping for a long time suddenly
comes to the surface and it is feared
that the worst might happen soon.
From Rise To Set
When scientists bring a subject back
from the dead, she infects everyone
in the building. Stuck in the middle
are two lab assistants who try to
keep each other alive. Their bond
of friendship is tested when one of
them gets infected.
Chronicles Of The Source
In a distant future, the survivors of
a cataclysm recreated a civilization
around the only resource of known
drinking water: the City of The Source.
While he is about to be condemned
to death for treason, senator
Lautréamont thinks again about the
events which led him to there.
Flight Fright
Aboard a flight across the ocean, an
airline passenger with a fear of flying
starts to see strange things after
taking nerve medicine.
Millennium: Eternal Sunrise
In the fantasy world of Charani, an
11-year-old girl, who has recently
lost her beloved mother, an ancient
legend may help to resurrect her. She
disobeys her father and journeys to
the enigmatic mountain summit to
meet with a magical Romani (Gypsy)
Man with a Millennium box.
The Perfect Dish
Every man has cravings
Darkness Falls
Melissa suffers from amnesia. When
she slowly regains her memory, the
world isn’t what it supposed to be.
The Indestructible
James, a disturbed high schooler
retreats from a culture of prescription
drugs, religion, and a near-constant
stream of harassment into a
comic-book fantasy world he’s
created featuring a hero called The
Indestructible. Increasing pressure
from his mother, fellow students
and his teachers eventually push
him to the breaking point, and the
lines between fantasy and reality,
which were already beginning to
blur, shatter entirely after a violent
encounter with a school bully.
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Music Video
The Farce 500 - Million
All the modern paranoia of
conspiracy culture gets combined
with a wild animation style, to make
a psychedelic journey straight to
the Illuminati. The audience is taken
down a rabbit-hole of dystopian
visions & predictions, all with a
cartoonish twist.
The Factory
A dizzying blend of sideshow
antics, political parody, and the
zany performance of a wild-eyed
ringmaster. This playful propaganda
piece dazzles, distracts, and exposes
the brainwashing of modern media.
Gorky - Super Drunk
‘Super Drunk’ is the music video
for the second single by Arizonabased
garage rock band Gorky, from
their 5-song eponymous extended
play, released in October 2015. The
video was conceived as a parody
of the Flintstones to highlight the
base, crude origins of patriarchal
dominance, while also poking light
fun at the debauchery that American
culture finds itself steeped in. It is
presented in an almost ‘reality TV’
form that finds the band and various
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actors playing Flintstones characters
in a mock-up of the Flintstones’
Bedrock City.
Seek
The love story of an alien and a
human placed on Earth with the idea
that the human would help the alien
escape so she can go back home to
her planet of Bardonia.
They Pretend
A beautiful young scavenger in a
post-apocalyptic world who trusts
the wrong man, is betrayed and left
to die in the desert. She is taken in by
a band of nomads who befriend her
and set out get her justice.
“They Pretend” is a unique music
video that combines scripted dialog
with traditional music video elements
for the popular Reggae/ Afro-pop
band K-Bass and Farafina Musiki.
I Die Alone
Music Video about drug abuse
Notes From Wonderland
“Notes from Wonderland” takes
a unique twist on the “Alice in
Wonderland” theme by introducing
an intense and sordid love between
Alice (Seth Powers) and Red Queen
(Chelsey Louise). Alice wakes up in
a bizarre, underground world where
he meets the sleazy Caterpillar
(Matthew Foos), the psychopathic
Cheshire Cat (Robert Ciuca), and
the gluttonous Mad Hatter (Ben
Foos). On his way to meet the Red
Queen to put an end to their sadistic
relationship, he is consumed by the
deviant behavior of her Kingdom’s
subjects.
8:30 AM to 10:00 PM
Feature (18+ only)
Blood Of The Tribades
2000 years after the Vampire Bathor
has established the village of
Bathory, superstition and religious
violence take over as the men and
women battle for control. Longforgotten
lovers Élisabeth and
Fantine find that, with the help of
those who were banished, it is their
fate to piece together the past and
help preserve the little that remains
before Bathor’s impending return.
18+ only.
10:30 PM to 11:30 PM
Special Screening and Q&A
Show No Mercy
Show No Mercy is a retro-arcade scifi
action short film featuring Martin
Kove and Jesse Kove! Are you ready
players? SHOW NO MERCY!
FESTIVAL THEATRE
ROOM 1 - WEST 102A
Saturday, June 4th
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Feature
Mano A Mano
After crossing the US border, two
undocumented immigrants must run
for their lives while being hunted by
vigilante minutemen.