Billy Club
Sat Feb 15, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Domenico’s
Sun Feb 16, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Bushel & Peck’s
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Café Fromage #1
Community Partners: Art Club, Sigma Chi, Suds O’Hanahans
Billy Club
Strike Three: You’re DEAD
Category: Comedy, Horror
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 90 min.
Director: Drew Rosas, Nick Sommer
Producer: Blaine Vess, Eric Gerber
Synopsis:
A throwback to the slasher films of the 1980s, “Billy Club” is the latest splatter pic from Nick Sommer and Drew Rosas. Fifteen years after a triple homicide tore their Little League team and community apart, four friends reconvene to pay tribute to their fallen coach and teammates, only to be menaced by a mysterious figure hidden behind and antique umpire’s mask and brandishing a nailcovered baseball bat. This bloody, brutal romp creates a memborable new slasher villain to place alonside Jason Voorhees, Ghostface and Michael Meyers.
NOTE: Synopsis are typically provided directly by the filmmaker themselves. Often English is not their first language. We ask reader’s understanding for less-than-perfect language and grammar
Home
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Club Impulse
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Club Impulse
Home
It’s more than just a place
Category: Drama, Independent
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 113 min.
Director: Jono Oliver
Producer: Daniela Barbosa, Ged Dickersin, Jono Oliver
Synopsis:
Home is the story of a man, recovering from mental illness, who tries to rebuild his life and reconnect with his estranged son by moving out of the group home where he resides and into an apartment of his own. Read more
Touring Talkies
Sat Feb 15, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Café Fromage #2
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Café Fromage #1
Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Café Fromage #2
Community Partners: Fairfield Inn, Turtle Creek Bookstore
Touring Talkies
Category: Drama
Country: India
Language: English Subtitles
Rating: R
Runtime: 113 min.
Director: Gajendra Ahire
Producer:
- Website – N/A
- On IMDb
- On Facebook – N/A
Synopsis:
Indian cinema started with the age old tradition of showing movies in travelling tents known as Touring Talkies. Although the Touring Talkies are 106 years old in India, now for about half a century these tents have been a regular feature in most of the Jatra’s (Spritual Fair’s) taking place across Maharastrian villages where Marathi cinema comes alive in a most unique fashion. Read more
You’ll Be A Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88cO5W9154
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 2:00 pm — My Apartment
Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts
Community Partner: French Club | Beloit College
You’ll Be A Man
Tu Seras Un Homme
Category: Drama, Family
Country: France
Language: English Subtitles
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 87 min.
Director: Benoit Cohen
Producer: Matthieu Prada
- Website
- On IMDb – N/A
- On Facebook
Synopsis:
Leo is 10 and wise beyond his years. A solitary dreamer who seeks refuge in books. When the carefree 20-year-old Theo steps into his life, it forces Leo out of his shell. Read more
Hot Guys With Guns
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Club Impulse
Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Club Impulse
Hot Guys with Guns
Category: Comedy, Adult Drama
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: MA
Runtime: 105 min.
Director: Doug Spearman
Producer: Doug Spearman, Joel Heisey
Synopsis:
Danny Lohman is an actor on a quest. He wants a job, desperately, on a Crime And Punishment. His favorite show is going to re-cast the lead, a salty, renegade of a private investigator. Danny, being the good method actor that he is will do whatever it takes to prepare for his big break. Including taking a night class at Santa Monica Junior College in becoming a Private Investigator. Read more
The Human War / Echo
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Café Fromage #2
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Domenico’s
Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Domenico’s
Filmmaker Spotlight – The Making of “The Human War” Sun. Feb. 23, 2014 | More info here.
(Echo – short film preceding feature, see detail below)
The Human War
Category: Comedy, Independent
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 76 min
Director: Pirooz Kalayeh, Thomas Henwood
Producer: Pirooz Kalayeh, Thomas Henwood
Synopsis:
Mark Swift is your typical Youngstown teenager, smart, streetwise, and stifled by a depressed local economy and self-destructive youth culture. He’s also a struggling writer, trying to hone his craft and give himself an education he can’t afford. Read more
in the Can
Wed Feb 19, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Domenico’s
Thu Feb 20, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts
in the Can
If the opportunity comes, will you take it?
Category: ASL (American Sign Language)
Country: U.S.
Language: English Subtitles
Rating: TBD
Runtime: 107 min.
Director: Mark Wood
Producer: Bellamie Harvard
Synopsis:
Nicky, an aspiring young director, has the dream of every filmmaker: that one day he’d make it big in Hollywood. His dream suddenly comes true in the form of a mysterious stranger, Lou Lumire, who is a self-proclaimed Hollywood producer. Lumire has the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime offer for Nicky: to direct his very first feature film production! Read more
Channeling
Sun Feb 16, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Bushel & Peck’s
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 2:00 pm — Café Fromage #2
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Club Impulse
Community Partners: Phi Psi, US Cellular
Channeling
You’re only live once
Category: Drama / Sci-Fi
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 107 min.
Director: Drew Thomas
Producer: Gerry Santos, Laila Ansari
- Website – N/A
- On IMDb
Synopsis:
A soldier returns home on bereavement leave to discover that his brother’s accidental death…wasn’t.
With 72 hours to solve the mystery, Jonah assumes his brother’s identity, and enters a world of voyeurism and exhibitionism that’s as dangerous as it is addictive – a world in which people broadcast their lives in real time to as large an audience as possible. Read more
Musgo (Moss) / Ugly Night
Sat Feb 15, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Bushel & Peck’s
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 7:30 pm — My Apartment
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Rotary River Center (BIFF Latino Discount)
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 12:00 pm — Café Fromage #2
(Ugly Night – short film preceding feature, see detail below)
Musgo (Moss)
Category: Thriller | Crime
Country: Spain
Language:
Rating: R
Runtime: 72 min.
Director: Gami Orbegoso
Producer: Gami Orbegoso
- Website – N/A
- On IMDb
- On Facebook
Synopsis:
Sara runs a large country house in the middle of the Pyrenees, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Her peaceful life is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of her stepmother with whom she does not get along. Her stepmother brings her father’s ashes. What at first looks like a reconciliation turns into a nightmare. Read more
Jimmy in Pienk
Sun Feb 16, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Bushel & Peck’s
Thu Feb 20, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Club Impulse
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 2:00 pm — La Casa Grande
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 2:00 pm — La Casa Grande
Sat Fri Feb 22, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Bushel & Peck’s
Community Partners: First Class Cosmetology School, Totally Tan Inc.
Jimmy in Pienk
Khaki is the new pink
Category: Comedy / Romance
Country: South Africa
Language: English subtitles
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 93
Director: Hanneke Schutte
Producer: Zaheer Goodman-Bhyat
Synopsis:
JIMMY IN PINK is a quirky comedy about Jimmy Bester, a rugged seventh generation corn farmer who can give an accurate five-day weather forecast by simply sniffing the wind. Read more
Mad Ship
Thu Feb 20, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Café Fromage #1
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Bagels and More
Sat Feb 22. 2104 – 7:30 pm — Café Fromage #2
Mad Ship
Bound by hope. Driven by passion
Category: Drama / Romance
Country: Canada
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 94 min.
Director: David Mortin
Producer: Patricia Fogliato, David Mortin, Elizabeth Jarvis
Synopsis:
Mad Ship is the story of Tomas Sorensen, a Scandinavian immigrant to the Canadian prairies in the 1920s.
Go Down Death
Sat Feb 15, 2014 – 12:00 pm — Café Fromage #2
Sat Feb 22, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts
Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 2:00 pm — My Apartment
Community Partners: Anthropology Club | Beloit College
“Go Down Death”
In Monochromanical Eye-Straining 2-D
Category: Comedy
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 88 min.
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Producer: Vanessa McDonnell
Synopsis:
‘An astonishing, out-of-nowhere film…a dreamy, highly stylized affair recalling early David Lynch or Guy Maddin. Highly recommended.’ – Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine Read more
Siberia. Monamour
Sun Feb 16, 2014 – 5:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts Tickets
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts Tickets
Sun Feb 23, 2014 – 12:00 pm — Bagels & More Tickets
Community Partner: Russian Club
Siberie Monamour
God has forgotten, but they did not forget God
Category: Drama
Country: Russian Federation
Language: English Subtitled
Rating: R
Runtime: 102 min.
Director: Slava Ross
Producer: Slava Ross, Pavel Skurikhin, Igor Chekalin, Vadim Zhuk
Synopsis:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan and his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. They wait for the boy’s father, who left two years ago and has not returned yet. Read more
Hasta Nunca
Fri Feb 14, 2014 – 5:00 pm — My Apartment Tickets
Fri Feb 21, 2014 – 7:30 pm — Rotary River Center Tickets (BIFF Latino Discount)
Community Partner: The Literacy Connection
Hasta Nunca
See you Never
Category: Fiction, Hispanic
Country: U.S., Uruguay
Language: Spanish with Subtitles
Rating: R
Runtime: 80 min.
Director: Mark Street
Producer:
Synopsis:
“Hasta Nunca follows MARIO LIGETTI, a middle aged hipster DJ who produces an underground radio show in Montevideo, Uruguay. He invites listeners to share their intimate thoughts with him and a live radio audience on the air. Mario re-negotiates his public and private personas during the course of the film and enters into an extra marital affair with JULIA, a divorcee searching for a new artistic spark.
In this international production (USA and Uruguay) each call in to the show was written and performed by local actors. Topics addressed in telephone conversations: lingering effects of the military dictatorship in Uruguay, the difficulty of obtaining an (illegal) abortion and varied identity issues. Ligetti’s show is a modern rollicking Miss Lonelyhearts with its host increasingly suffocated by the personal predicaments of his listeners.
Montevideo is a strong background character in the film’s visual landscape. Callers’ voices on the radio provide an acoustic counterpoint for an observational investigation of this ramshackle port city which retains the architectural vestiges of its colonial past.
NOTE: Synopsis are typically provided directly by the filmmaker themselves. Often English is not their first language. We ask reader’s understanding for less-than-perfect language and grammar Read more
Jake Squared
Jake Squared
Life is Stranger Than Life
Category: Comedy / Romance
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 101
Director: Howard Goldberg
Producer: Howard Goldberg, David K. Wilson, Elias Koteas
Synopsis:
Jake Klein, 50, sets out to make a movie. He hires an actor to play himself and throws a big party. His idea is to shoot the heck out of it and see what he gets. But, everything spins out of control as different, unexpected people show up. Read more
Servitude
Servitude
Get Your Shift Together
Category: Comedy
Country: Canada
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 85 min.
Director: Warren Sonoda
Producer: Sean Buckley
Synopsis:
A group of frustrated waiters at a kitschy steakhouse take over their restaurant for one final, glorious, revenge-filled night when they discover they are all about to be fired.
NOTE: Synopsis are typically provided directly by the filmmaker themselves. Often English is not their first language. We ask reader’s understanding for less-than-perfect language and grammar
B-Side
B-Side
Love is so damn catchy
Category: Comedy / Romance
Country: US
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 97 min.
Director: Amos Posner
Producer: April Lamb
Synopsis:
MIKE ZUMSTEG is a DJ for an underground internet radio station he helped found. APRIL SIMON is a fading pop star on what she expects to be the final tour of her career.
When April writes in to Mike’s show after he randomly makes a joke at her expense, the two end up meeting and forming an unlikely relationship.
Convenience
http://vimeo.com/71966917
Convenience
One Night. Two Men. Three Hostages… No Clue
Category: Comedy
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 97 min.
Director: Keri Collins
Producer: Ray Panthaki
Synopsis:
“When simple Shaan (Four Lions’ Adeel Ahktar) finds himself in debt to some Russians for an accidnetal strip club incident, he drags life-long friend Ajay (Ray Panthaki) into the circumstances by hiding at their flat. They escpae the gun-toting heavy foreigners, but still need to find a way to pay back the over £8000 of debt. Read more
Colegas (Buddies)
Colegas (Buddies)
The funniest comedy of the year
Category: Adventure / Comedy
Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 100 min.
Director: Marcelo Galvão
Producer: Marcelo Galvão
Synopsis:
“Buddies” is a road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light, through the eyes of 3 characters with Down syndrome, who run away from the institute where they live to gain their freedom. Read more
Putzel
Putzel
Sometimes you have to cross the street to find true love…
Category: Comedy | Jewish
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 88 min.
Director: Jason Chaet
Producer: Rick Moore, Sheri Davani
Synopsis:
For some, life is an adventure filled with opportunities to excel, and worlds to explore. But for Walter Himmelstein, a young man endearingly known as Putzel, life literally doesn’t go beyond his family’s fish store and his community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The Golden Scallop
The Golden Scallop
Category: Comedy
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 83 min.
Director: Joseph Laraja
Producer: Michael Boisvert
- Website – N/A
- On IMDb
- On Facebook
Synopsis:
Every year since 1969 the best three fried fish restaurants in the northeast have competed in the Golden Scallop Championship. The 43rd annual pits a food truck seeking redemption, an aging former champion and a well financed, novelty friendly fish house against each other in the truest test of short order cooking mettle. Read more
