Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

Monday 20 September, 6.00pm
BAD COMPANY (CFF 18)
Director: Jason J. King. Starring: Sonya Sier, Ceri Murphy,
Catherine Olding. UK 2009. 90 mins.
Jason King returns to Cambridge with his first
feature BAD COMPANY, a psychological thriller
about a young woman who is looking after a
friend’s house in order to escape an abusive
relationship. Jane flees a controlling, abusive
and tyrannical relationship with David. Help
comes in the form of a best friend from the
past, who supports Jane to find the courage
and strength to stand up for herself and be
the person she really is. At night an eye blinks
down from the attic and we realise she is not
alone, but is it the ex, the new love interest, or
something entirely different? This gives many a
high end British thriller a run for their money.
Print source: Sparkler Productions
SHOWING WITH:
Director: Cordelia Swann. UK 2009. 7 mins.
AMNESIA
Short inspired by the plots of afternoon TV and
Hollywood melodramas with a special homage
to Hitchcock’s REBECCA.
Friday 24 September, 6.00pm
CROSS-CHANNEL
(Cert TBC)
Director: Ron Peck. Starring: Mark Tibbs, Alan Milton,
Clementine Dubois, Audrey Mabboux-Stromberg.
UK 2009. 105 mins.
Two English
brothers
travelling by
ferry across
the channel
to France
catch the
suspicious eye of a passenger. He overhears
their conversation and he begins to obsess
about their intentions. The onlooker’s own
purposes and needs become entwined with the
story of the brothers. After he leaves them at
Ouistreham the narrator still seems to ‘see’ the
continuing story of the brothers, even to have
some effect on it, as if ‘playing God’. CROSS-
CHANNEL is a puzzle about motives, innocence
and desire, but it is also about the sea and the
elements, and about a suspended space and
time imposed by the pace of the ferry. The
strangely deserted ship provides a haunting
setting, sailing between two worlds and two
cultures, between reality and the imagination.
We hope to welcome director Ron Peck to
the screening.
Print source: Courtesy of the filmmaker
SHOWING WITH:
DISCREPANCY
(A NEW ALL AROUND LEAP
FORWARD SITUATION IS EMERGING)
Director: William E. Jones. USA 2009. 9 mins.
Images from a propaganda film about nuclear
tests made in China.
Saturday 25 September, 5.30pm
DIRT (CFF 15)
Director: Daniel Fawcett. Starring: Freddie Machin, Vito
Maraula, Elizabeth Holmes. UK 2010. 109 mins.
Disenchanted by the daily grind, Miles
decides to quit his job and spend the last few
weeks of his summer on a dilapidated barge,
accompanied by his enigmatic and eccentric
new friend, Francis. While house breaking they
meet Lucy, whereupon they embark on an
Arthur Ransome inspired journey of youthful
liberation and escapism. But eventually they
each must stop running and face their demons.
DIRT is writer/director Daniel Fawcett’s second
feature film. Shot around the small Essex
coastal village of Maldon, this contemplative
and wistful road movie brings to mind the
works of Korrine, Herzog and Jarmusch.
Print source: Courtesy of the filmmakers
SHOWING WITH: FOR
CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY
Director: Sarah Wood. UK. 9 mins.
Experimental film essay investigating what it
feels like to never see an image of the place
that you came from.
Thursday 23 September, 8.30pm
NOKOTAHEART
(Cert TBC)
Director: Sean Garland. USA 2010. 60 mins.
The true story
of Leo Kuntz,
Vietnam vet
turned North
Dakota horse
rancher, and
his fight to
save the equine
legacy of Sitting
Bull from the
insurmountable
adversity of the 21st Century. Told in Leo’s
unique campfire tone this Neo-Western biopic
is an unfussy, straight-from-the-gut tale of
personal woe and hard-won passion. Leo’s
humbling nature and maverick soul is a world
removed from the rigid new laws put in place
by the US government. As much about the
man himself and his newfound spirituality
with the land as it is about the legendary
horses of the great Indian chief. Intimate and
raw, NOKOTAHEART dares to tell it like it is,
burnished heart in hardscrabble soil.
Winner of the Best Feature Documentary Award at the
White Sands International Film Festival.
DOCUMENTARY
Print source: Courtesy of the filmmakers
SHOWING WITH:
DI LUCE
GIARDINI
Directors: Davide Pepe, Lucia Pepe. Italy 2009. 12 mins.
An account of the feast of St Trifone in Adelfia,
where the patron saint is shown in triumph
surrounded by sparkling illuminations.
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