Wednesday, April 16

NewFilmmakers Celebrates Living On The Outside



6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Zack Winestine CARAVAN / PRAGUE (2007, 76 Minutes, Video)

A bicycle caravan -- with the theme, 'Money or Life' -- travels 500 miles across Europe to join protests in Prague against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The goal is to create a mobile utopian community which will be a living counter-example to the values of these powerful financial institutions. The landscape is beautiful, and bicycles possess their own poetry. But it's not always easy functioning without money. The authorities have their own ideas about policing the intersection of utopia and everyday life. And should the caravan succeed in getting to Prague, there's the matter of shutting down the World Bank/IMF meeting...

7:20PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Philip DeRise A GOLDFISH BIRTHDAY MEMENTO (2007, 1 Minute, Video)
Gia Milani SHE LOST HER MARBLES (2007, 4 Minutes, Video)
Ari Selinger DAY ON WHEELS (2007, 12 Minutes, Video)
Andrew Fitzgerald ENTER FLAVIUS (2007, 26 Minutes, Video)
Kirstie Palmer LOVE (2007, 13 Minutes, 35MM)

8:20PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION

Gary Powell SHADOWS ARE FALLING (2007, 11 Minutes, Video)
Brian Scofield BACKROADS (2007, 9 Minutes, Video)

10:20PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION

Antonio Jeraci 20 SOMETHING (2007, 83 Minutes, Video)
  
John, Paul, and Rob are best friends, roommates, and contending with their own quarterlife crisis. John; an overwhelmed accountant has been transferred to work in London, however has recently learned that a brief affair with his boss's wife may have left him as a father. Paul; a reforming womanizer continues to have difficulty understanding what defines a relationship, and Rob; a pot-smoking video game entrepreneur leads a personal campaign against corporate capitalism, and undernourished women. While struggling with self-doubt and uncertainty, this arduous day of moving becomes a young-man's search for truth and meaning within his new found reality of adulthood.