Silent Film Showcase 2012 | The Kid Brother

Beloit Janesville Symphony | Silent Film Showcase

The Kid Brother

The Kid Brother | Harold LloydIn the 1927 Harold Lloyd film The Kid Brother, sheriff Jim has two tough manly sons, Leo and Olin, and a timid third son, Harold (Lloyd). He doesn’t have the muscles to match up to his borhters, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.

The Kid Brother was successful and popular upon release and today is considered by critics and fans to be one of Lloyd’s best films, integrating elements of comedy, romance, drama, and character development.

This film is presented with the original score of Carl Davis performed live by the Beloit Janesville Symphony with Music Director Robert Tomaro. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity too experience the film with live orchestra!

  • Date: Saturday, February 18th, 2012
  • Time: 6 pm – Pre-event reception / silent auction, 7:30 pm – Film Start
  • Location: Eclipse Center (Center Court)
  • Price: $25 for all ages plus tax and service fees online Buy Tickets

Why is The Kid Brother so entertaining and accessible? First of all, there’s Lloyd himself as Harold Hickory, a classic Lloyd “Glasses Character” hero. Unlike Chaplin’s Little Tramp, who was as much defined by his bizarre eccentricities as his bowler and cane, Lloyd’s Glasses Character, with his trademark spectacles, was an instantly likable, sympathetic boy-next-door type, a figure as winsome and approachable as Jimmy Stewart or Tom Hanks. (continue reading review)~ Steven D. Greyhanus – Decent Films Guide
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Beloit Janesville Symphony | Silent Film Showcase

The Beloit Janesville Symphony

This signature BIFF event features the Beloit Janesville Symphony.

Since its inception, the most popular single element of The Beloit International Film Festival has been the Saturday evening M&I Bank and M&I Wealth Management Silent Film Showcase.

Sold-out audiences have frequently included film festival executives from around the country on- hand to see how BIFF creates the program so they might duplicate it at their festivals. This annual celebration of early 20th century film is highlighted by a performance of an original or newly conceived musical score performed by the Beloit Janesville Symphony Orchestra with music director Robert Tomaro.

Beloit Janesville Symphony benefit receptionReception & Silent Auction

Prior to the Silent Film screening there will be a reception and silent auction to benefit the Beloit Janesville Symphony.

Items available for auction include something for everyone:

  • Floridian Condo Stay
  • Fine Wines
  • Custom Jewelry
  • Art Prints
  • 170 CD Box Set of Mozart Music
  • Motel Stay
  • Restaurant Certificates
  • Sports Memorabilia
  • Assorted Gift Baskets
  • And Much More….

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BMO Harris Bank Beloit Janesville Symphony

Gerald

Gerald

GeraldSunday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Produced By: ASL Films

 

This film is a journey of a young man, Corey, yearning for kinship until one day discovers he has a Deaf autistic grandfather he has never knew, Corey was determined to make connection regardless. The family ties and secrets unbeknownst to the young man have surfaced, and all the events suddenly unfold.  A powerful, emotional and continuous twist of events that leads to shocking truth.

 

The Legend of the Mountain

The Legend of the Mountain Man

The Legend of the Mountain Sunday: 12:00 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Family
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Director: Mark Wood
Produced By: ASL Films

 

The Legend of the Mountain Man is a film for all ages, set in picturesque Montana. It is the story of a family coming to grips with a dysfunctional history through the children who go to spend the summer at their grandparent’s ranch. They try to navigate the family’s past and reconcile some of the estranged family members. Their journey includes an unexpected encounter with a mountain creature nobody has seen before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsofRjZN7MM

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Fade In

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Friday: 7:30 pm – Richardson Theater – Beloit CollegeBuy Tickets
(Note Location Change)
Saturday: 7:30 pm – Sullivan TheaterBuy Tickets

 

  • The Planting
  • Goldenbox
  • Remy
  • Int. Bedroom-day
  • CUTEeGRL
  • Fade in
  • In Her Eyes

PlantingThe Planting

 

 

Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Rating: R
Runtime:  5 minutes
Director: Jason R. Goode
Producer: Dylan Jenkinson

 

After a wasted life of digging holes and filling them back in, Chris is faced with the task of digging his last hole.

Golden BoxGoldenbox

 

 

Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: USA
Rating: R
Runtime:  16 minutes
Director: Matt MacDonald
Producer: Matt MacDonald, Damian Horan, Camila Ohara Tanabe

 

Best friends Jeff and Tucker have grown up like most boys: playing video games and causing mischief. Now, late into their 20s, Jeff’s new job promotion is moving him out of the country and away from Tucker’s irresponsibility forever. With one last night together, they have to break into the UP-Ex shipping facility to steal back a package – a mysterious golden box – and hope their friendship can survive the adventure

RemyRemy

 

 

Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Rating: R
Runtime:  11 minutes
Director: Roi Fernandez
Producer: Roi Fernandez

 

A wig-seller with a secret life. A tango singer with a dark obsession. Both are bond by the night and tango.

Int. Bedroom-DayInt. Bedroom-day

 

 

Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Rating: R
Runtime:  5 minutes
Director: Murray Stiller
Producer: Dean Emerick

 

A short film proving that in the bedroom performance is everything.

CUTEeGRL CUTEeGRL

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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rating: PG-17
Runtime:  20 minutes
Director: Jeton Murtishi, Doug McDade
Producer: Jeton Murtishi

 

 An online chat room conversation with a child predator leads to a meeting with a loving family’s 14 year old daughter and an unexpected visitor.

Fade InFade in

 

 

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Rating: R
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Derrick Lui
Producer: Derrick Lui

 

A beautiful woman examines her features for signs of fading fortune and looks. She wonders about change and aging and feels somehow that it is who she is.

In Her EyesIn Her Eyes

 

 

Genre: Drama,Thriller
Country: Australia
Rating: R
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Robert Smellin, Chris  Smellin
Producer: Lori Young
Hamesima X

Hamesima X

Hamesima X Thursday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm  Speakeasy I     Buy Tickets

 

Genre: Drama, Action
Country: Israel, USA
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  92 minutes
Director: Or Yashar, Yuval Ovadia
Producer: Yuval Ovadia

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A man is sent to Earth on a mysterious mission and caught trying to infiltrate the Mossad’s most highly classified facility. During an intensive interrogation, instead of getting the information he was hoping for, the Mossad’s investigator is surprised to be given mystical information and Kabalistic secrets. The district psychiatrist, a Holocaust survivor who still carries with him a trauma from the past, joins the investigation, while, a strange beggar who speaks in rhyme, and an imaginary figure in black, who wages Kung fu battles, are trying to get the interrogee to abandon his mission. Meanwhile, the investigator finds himself in a compound situation, as the interrogee reveals details from his father’s past during the Holocaust and unfolds the secret of his father’s will.

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Go West Happy Cow

Go West Happy Cow

Go West Happy CowThur: 10:00 pm – Bushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets
Friday: 7:30 pm Speakeasy II   Buy Tickets
Additional Screening Added:
Friday: 10:00 pm – Domenicos   Buy Tickets (NEW)

 

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  87 minutes
Director: Tyler Knowles
Producer: Derek Hildebrandt, Valerie Wulf, Jack Knowles

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The ultimate road trip from Wisconsin to California hauling the highly sought after HAPPY COW products. Mike and Kurt, the Happy Cow, rumble through 2,200+ miles of countryside sharing their Wisconsin love with displaced Sconnies. Hilarity ensues.

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Inuk

Inuk

InukFriday: 5:00 pm – Beloit LibraryBuy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm – Woman’s ClubBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Adventure
Country: France, Greenland
Rating: G
Runtime:  90 minutes
Director: Mike Magidson
Producer: Mike Magidson, Sylvie Barbe

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In Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, sixteen year-old INUK lives a troubled life with his alcoholic mother and violent step-father. After finding Inuk half frozen in an abandoned car, the social services decide to send him to a children’s home on a tiny island in the middle of the arctic sea-ice. While roaming the island, Inuk meets the intimidating and mysterious polar bear hunter, IKUMA. When the children’s home’s warm-hearted director, AVIAAJA, convinces Ikuma to take Inuk on his annual hunting trip nobody realizes that the most difficult part of the journey will be the one they must make within themselves…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeGdC6g1oD0

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Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy

Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy Friday: 7:30 pm – Bushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets
Saturday: 10:00 pm – Sullivan TheaterBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Rating: MA
Runtime:  101 minutes
Director: Rob Heydon
Producer: Rob Heydon

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ECSTASY is a dark romantic comedy, based on the controversial book, “Ecstasy”, by Irvine Welsh. “Ecstasy”, was translated into 20 languages and was a number one bestseller in over 20 countries. Mr. Welsh’s first book, “Trainspotting”, published in 1993, (and voted by Waterstone, Europe’s largest bookstore chain, as one of the Ten Best Books of the Century), sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone, and has its own Cinematic Cinderella success story.

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The Price of Sex

Price of Sex (The)

The Price of SexFriday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm – Speakeasy II     Buy Tickets

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UAE, Bulgaria, Moldova, Greece, Turkey
Rating: PG-17
Runtime:  73 minutes
Director: Mimi Chakarova
Producer: Mimi Chakarova

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The Price of Sex is a documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by survivors a film that gives voice to women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and intimidation. Mimi Chakarova, a photojournalist who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal, investigative journey into the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to Turkey, Dubai and Greece. Told through the personal accounts of trafficked women, undercover footage, and still photography, this documentary exposes the root causes of why women continue to be sold into prostitution against their will and examines what can be done to stop it.

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Trinity Goodheart

Trinity Goodheart

Trinity GoodheartFriday: 5:00 pm – Rotary CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm – Franchesco’sBuy Tickets*
* (Dinner &  a Movie – Dinner @ 6:00)

Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime:  91 minutes
Director: Joanne Hock
Producer: Rick Eldridge

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When 12 year old Trinity Goodheart is visited by an angel who leaves her a pendant that belonged to her long lost mother, Trinity concludes that her mother is in danger and needs her help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ZyWKq0xf0

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Lutefisk Wars

Lutefisk Wars (The)

Lutefisk Wars

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BEST FEATURE FILM 2012

WINNER
BEST SCREENPLAY 2012

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  86 minutes
Director: Christopher Panneck, David Hall
Producer: Christopher Panneck, David Hall, Christopher Plogger

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Troubles escalate in a small North Dakota town when a frozen food delivery man is mistaken for someone else and ends up embroiled in the middle of an old feud between two Norwegian mafia families and their lutefisk recipe.

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Morya

Short Slot 4

Thursday: 10:00 pm – Bagels & MoreBuy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm Speakeasy II Buy Tickets

 

  • Morya
  • Two Friendly Ghosts
  • The Ascension
  • Tempest
  • Lady and the Champ
  • In the Morning
  • Mothmen of Milwaukee
  • My Prison Called Life
  • Interview

 

Morya

Morya

 

Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA
Rated: G
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Vihang Walve
Producer: Vihang Walve,  Bhakti Walve

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A 10 year-old Mumbai boy has tremendous faith in the elephant-headed god Ganesha. But his belief that the god fulfills his every wish takes an adverse turn.

Two Friendly GhostTwo Friendly Ghosts

 

Genre: Drama
Country: Germany USA
Rated: G
Runtime: 11 minutes
Director: Parker  Ellerman
Producer: Birke Birkner, Vincent Joliet, Thorne Mutert, Denni

 

James Dean and Donald Turnupseed, the man whose car killed Dean, meet again for the first time … at the very same intersection where the accident occurred.

The AscensionThe Ascension

 

 

Genre: Drama
Country: China
Rated: PG
Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Gershon Sng
Producer: Gershon Sng

A beggar finds a box with special powers and shares it with his friends.  Soon the friends are plotting to steal the box, and what follows is unexpected.

Tempest

 

Country: Brazil
Rated: PG
Runtime:10 minutes

Lost at sea, a grizzly Captain must weather the storm of the century to sail his way home.

 

Lady and the ChampLady and the Champ

 

 

Country: USA
Rated: G
Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Evan Burris Trout
Producer: Evan Burris Trout

 

Strangers meet and a bond is immediately discovered

 

In the MorningIn the Morning

 

 

Country: USA
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Geoff Crittenden
Producer: Geoff Crittenden

 

A troubled young couple has a fight shortly after waking up.

Mothmen of MilwaukeeMothmen of Milwaukee

 

 

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 6 minutes
Director: Kristin Peterson
Co-Producer and Students: Tate Bunker, instructor, Mitchell Blue, Joe Calamia, Kelly Danen, Derek Dehart, ,B.J. Fisher, Bennett Litton, Jonathan Long, Moe McPhearson, Kristin Peterson, Logan Peterson, Tony Porter, Noah Witt

Circling the lights at night, Milwaukee youth follow their leader in a new religious movement. Dressed in winged robed they explore ideas of community, joy, and purity through light.

My Prison Called LifeMy Prison Called Life

 

 

Genre: Family Drama
Country: Canada
Rated: PG
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Stephen Pickering
Producer: Jeff Doiron

 

Charles Surdell spends his last day in prison, awaiting his execution for the murder of his wife 18 years ago.  Having never received forgiveness from his son, he gives up hope that it’ll ever happen.

InterviewInterview

 

 

Genre: Musical, Animation
Country: South Korea
Rated: PG
Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Hyun-Won Kim
Producer: Hyun-Won Kim

The artist can’t focus on drawing as usual. He manages to calm himself down by venting his spleen on oil paints which are delivered today. Increasingly, he sees his appearance drawing and that bothers him. The more an appointment is getting closer, the more his nerves are on edge. What would he really want to draw ?

 

 

Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey MusicalFriday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy II Buy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm Beloit LibraryBuy Tickets
Sunday: Noon – Bushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets
(HOT TICKET Screening Added)

 

Genre: Comedy, Drama Musical
Country: Canada
Rating: PG
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: Michael McGowan
Producer: Michael McGowan, Avi Federgreen, Nadia Tavazzani

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Seventeen-year-old Farley has led a sheltered life, raised on a diet of home schooling, organic living and trips to the art gallery. To his parents’ dismay, Farley loves to play shinny with the local rink rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley is scouted and signed by the owner (Stephen McHattie) of a junior league team, where he becomes an instant star. But Farley discovers that stardom comes with a price-including the expectation to fight on the ice. Throw in a changing relationship with his best friend (Allie MacDonald), and Farley finds himself losing his way.

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Forgotten Soldiers

Forgotten Soldiers
Winner – Power Of Film Award

Forgotten Soldiers
WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Power Of Film AWARD
Friday: 5:00 pm – Woman’s Club Buy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm Angel MuseumBuy Tickets
Sunday: 2:30 pm – Bagels & MoreBuy Tickets
(Screening Added.)

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Philippines, China
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: Donald Plata
Producer: Donald Plata

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Three months into World War II, the President of the United States ordered General Douglas MacArthur to leave 80,000 men behind on Bataan, and escape to Australia. Those soldiers faced one of the worst atrocities in military history – the Bataan Death March. In Forgotten Soldiers, Hollywood actor Lou Diamond Phillips and ten Philippine Scout survivors tell the story of their gallant stand, their bitter surrender, and their ultimate triumph over the enemy.

General MacArthur’s army in the Far East included U.S. National Guard units from Wisconsin, Illinois, California, and New Mexico; ten divisions of newly recruited Philippine Army soldiers, and one U.S. Army infantry division–the Philippine Scouts.

The top brass in Washington promised to send reinforcements, planes, naval support and supplies…but months went by and the reinforcements never came.

The men held on for four months. As their supplies dwindled they went on half rations, then one-third rations. They grew weaker, victims of malaria, dysentery and other tropical diseases. After every other allied stronghold in the Pacific had fallen, their commanding officer finally succumbed to the Japanese onslaught rather than see any more of his men slaughtered.

As Prisoners of War the survivors of Bataan suffered even more. Thousands died on the Death March, thousands more in horrible Japanese prison camps.

In this stirring documentary movie, Bataan survivors describe the events over photographs, reenactments, actual footage of the Death March and shots taken inside the Japanese camps, much of the film captured from the Japanese at the end of the war. The Philippine Scouts were the backbone of General MacArthur’s forces, but few Americans today are even aware of this unique segment of the United States Army. They are America’s FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS.

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Man of Deeds

Man of Deeds
Winner – Best Documentary

Man of Deeds
WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Best Documentary AWARD
Friday: 7:30 pm – Woman’s Club Buy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm Domenico’sBuy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm – Nikki’s CafeBuy Tickets
(Screening Added)

Genre: Documentary
Country: France, USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 51 minutes
Director: Craig Schaefer
Producer: Ted Rosean

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Born into the chaos of the French Revolution, Mathias Loras would come to develop a vision for a state of spirituality in the New World that few dare dream. Brought up in an elegant, bourgeois family he would eventually become a missionary assigned to a remote outpost in the frontier territory of Iowa. There he would sew the seeds of the church to rough miners and farmers, while battling the unending hardships of life on edge of civilization.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNPo6dyI1Kw

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Patriot Guard Riders

Patriot Guard Riders

Patriot Guard Riders Friday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy I Buy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pmBagels & MoreBuy Tickets

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 75 minutes
Director: Ellen Frick
Producer: Ellen Frick

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Another American Soldier Has Died. Who cares? The suffering of soldiers and their families is largely invisible to most Americans. But not to these Americans. ‘Patriot Guard Riders’ is a documentary about a 200,000 strong motorcycle group who attend military funerals to honor the fallen, and to protect grieving families from a hate group who descend on the funerals and harass them.

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Johnny's Gone

Johnny’s Gone
Winner Best Soundtrack

Johnny's Gone
WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Best Soundtrack AWARD
Friday: 7:30 pm – Speakeasy I Buy Tickets
Saturday: 10:00 pmBushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets
Sunday: 2:30 pmBeloit LibraryBuy Tickets
(Screening Added)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 94 minutes
Director: Giorgio Serafini
Producer: Giuseppe Pedersoli, Jack Laveau

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The unsettling but heartfelt relationship between Sarah and a two year-old she calls Johnny hides a dark secret.

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Lost Bohemia

Lost Bohemia

Lost BohemiaFriday: 7:30 pm – Sullivan Theater Buy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pmDomenico’sBuy Tickets
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 79 minutes
Director: Josef Astor
Producer: Jody Shields, Johnathan Ferrantelli, Trevor King, Laura MacDonald

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A House Full of Thorns

Short Slot 3

Thursday: 7:30 pm Eclipse CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy I Buy Tickets

 

  • Hop the twig
  • Protect the Nation
  • Lars
  • The Film I Did Not Forget
  • Special Delivery
  • Talk
  • A House Full Of  Thorns
  • Always Sprinkle Pepper

Hop the TwigHop the twig

 

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada
Rated: G
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Kyle Rideout
Producer: Kyle Rideout, Yifeng Song, Josh Epstein, Naomi Wright

 

Death strikes a mortal blow… to a common house plant.  This plunges little Audrey into her deepest fear, that one day her mother will meet the same fate.

Protect the NationProtect the Nation

 

Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, South Africa
Rated: PG
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: C. R. Reisser
Producer: Marcus Machura, Thomas Reisser

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In the spring of 2008, a shocking wave of xenophobic attacks against foreign immigrants spread across South Africa, leading to the deaths of sixty-two people and the displacement of over 40,000. “Protect the Nation” is a humble and intimate look inside the struggles of a community and the consequences of greed, miscommunication and hate. When faced with the unexpected kindness of a stranger, a young boy begins to question himself. Does he have the courage to do what’s right?

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LarsLars

 

Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 18 minutes
Director: Manuela Rossi
Producer: Adam Perly, Manuela Rossi

 

Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers and struggles to reconcile his feeling of kinship with his ideology.

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The Film I Did Not ForgetThe Film I Did Not Forget

Genre: Drama, Documentary
Country: Uruguay | Brazil
Rated: G
Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Renato C. Gaiarsa
Producer: Renato C. Gaiarsa

 

During a trip to Uruguay, he filmed his girlfriend. After a break-up he returned to Sao Paulo and recorded the empty apartment where they both lived. As a result, pieces of love memories in the form of film.

Special DeliverySpecial Delivery

Genre: Musical
Country: USA
Rated: PG
Runtime: 8 minutes
Director: Charlie Cunliffe
Producer: Mary Cunliffe

 

Special Delivery” is a story about a group of matchmaking friends who get an unexpected surprise when they set up a wall flower and a quirky delivery person. They witness how love can truly transform people in ways they could not have imagined

TalkTalk

Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Callie Lane
Producer: Mike Hume, Callie Lane, Amir Nader

 

When Michael’s girlfriend Eloise surprises him with a day out at the beach he is blissfully unaware that soon his life will begin to spiral out of control.

A House Full of ThornsA House Full Of  Thorns

 

(“Unha casa con silveiras”)

 

Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rated: G
Runtime: 18 minutes
Director: Roi Fernandez
Producer: Roi Fernandez

 

The journey of a Galician actress trying to find her place in NYC breaking through her communication problems.

 

Always Sprinkle PepperAlways Sprinkle Pepper

 

Genre: Family
Country: USA
Rated: G
Runtime: 3 minutes
Director: Evan Trout, Alex Rodgers
Producer: Evan Trout, Alex Rodgers

 

Cinematic representation of the poem ‘Always Sprinkle Pepper’ by Shel Silverstein. A rebellious boy sprinkles pepper in his hair. He discovers that the pepper in his hair saves him from Wild Barbazoops and old hags.

Tipping Point

Tipping Point

Tipping PointThursday: 7:30 pm – Angel MuseumBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm Woman’s ClubBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Rating: G
Runtime:  54 minutes
Director: Laurence Jourdan
Producer: Nicolas Koutsikas

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Each year, oceans produce half of our oxygen. They represent nearly one half of the productivity of the planet. And they are threatened.We know that, by producing ever increasing amounts of CO2, man is turning the climate upside down. Since very recently, we also know that the excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere modifies the chemistry of the deep seas.Oceans are getting more acid. Their acidification leads us on an uncertain journey about which the scientific community is worried.

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It Is What It Is

Double Feature 1

Thursday: 10:00 pm – Wilson TheaterBuy Tickets
Friday: 10:00 pm – Sullivan TheaterBuy Tickets

 

  • BeatBoxing – The Fifth Element of Hip Hop
  • It Is What It Is

Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

BeatBoxing – The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Runtime:  55 minutes
Director: Klaus Schneyder
Producer: Angela Viscido

 

 

Beatboxing has become a multi-lingual and diverse instrument applied in all genres of music.  The documentary shows how this modern style of music has spread and how it continues to enrich the entertainment world.

It is What it isIt Is What It Is

 

Genre: Musical, Comedy
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Runtime:  40 minutes
Director: VP Boyle
Producer: VP Boyle, Andrew Gerle

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A modern day contemporary movie musical with a completely original score, IT IS WHAT IT IS explores the lives of seven young New Yorkers during a twenty-four hour period of near misses, tattered relationships and crumbling dreams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUD_IK3ly_A

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Turner Classic Movie: North by Northwest (Closing Event)

North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock presents

Alfred Hitchcock's North by NorthwestNorth by Northwest

The closing movie event of BIFF 2012 will be held at the Eclipse Center, featuring one of the greatest classics of American Film.

North by Northwest: Many consider it (at least from a plot standpoint) to be Hitchcock’s most accomplished effort. The screenplay, written by Ernest Lehman, keeps the viewer guessing but also provides answers in a timely fashion. Read more

Launch & Laurels

Launch & Laurels | BIFF 2012

Rub shoulders with filmmakers and aficionados from around the world at the BIFF Launch event. It’s the perfect way to kick off the festival. Help to congratulate our award winners as BIFF 2012 Filmmaker Award recipients will be announced.

*Shuttle service is available.
** Semi-formal dress

 

Date: Thursday Feb. 16th
Times:
– 5:00 pm, Event & Music begins
– 6:20 pm, Awards Ceremony begins

Location: Eclipse Center, 1701 Riverside Drive, Beloit
Musical Performance: San Juan Project
Tickets: $10 Adults / $5 Students (with ID) plus tax & service charges online

  • Josh Burton Award for Excellence
  • Power of Film Award
  • Ken Hendricks People’s Choice Award
  • Documentary
  • Feature
  • Short
  • Best of Wisconsin
  • Screenplay
  • Soundtrack
  • Animation
  • Student

San Juan Project

Originated in 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico, The San Juan Project consists of 4 members- Isreal Ulloa, Arturo Lamadrid, Arturo De La Torre, and Mayer Rod. With each member bringing their own unique style, San Juan Project’s musical concept has been winning over the local scene of Guadalajara since their start, and through there explosive live shows they [/twocol_one_last] have been captivating audiences throughout the country.

With their roots based in jazz, they layer there sound with electronic, hip hop, soul and funk influences, creating a lively mix for almost any audience. And with their talent for freestyle improvisation, you’re almost always guaranteed to see a surprisingly unique live show, which connects the band with the audience in an unmistakable way.

Presented By:

Blackhawk BankWIFR Rockford 23

The Speakeasy Lounge & Restaurant

Sneak Peek | Janesville 2012

The Speakeasy Lounge & RestaurantIs there any question that The Speakeasy is one of THE hot spots in Janesville? Of course there isn’t!

During your Sneak Peek you will be presented with an impressive spread of hors d’oeuvres with a cash bar. The Speakeasy will be host to two venues during BIFF 2012 on Friday and Saturday nights of the festival.

Come for a sneak look at some of the films that will be featured at this year’s festival and be one of the first to receive the official 2012 BIFF Program Book.

  • Date: Thursday, January 19th, 2012
  • Time: 5:30 pm
  • Location:  The Speakeasy – 19 N. High Street, Janesville WI
  • Price:  FREE


Sponsored by

Tallman Historic Campus