Public Library of Johnston County & Smithfield
305 East Market Street
River City Arts (RCA)
109 South Third Street
Music
Narrative, Amination, and Doc Short Blocks....
Documentary Shorts
Crush 4:00
Obamba Or Your Mama 12:38
Martorana 6:30
Sammies Sandies 6:00
WKNC: A Behind The Scenes Look 4:00
Lost Colony 15:16
Total time 47:84
Animation Shorts
Birth 12:00
Rescued 5:00
Pete's Odyssey 4:00
Ben Pickle: The Sweet Gherkin Cut 13:00
Lost Kisses Episode 6 7:00
Just A Man 7:00
Still Life 4:30
Narrative Shorts One
Camp Fire Massacre 16:00
Eaten 6:00
I want your smile 3:00
Shrimp Muffin Preview 3:00
Vaudeville Confessions Season 1 3:00
Good/Evil 1:00
Desert-Shore Girl 5:00
American Short 9:40
Letting Go 9:01
Total Time: 56:00
Narrative Shorts Two
Dead of the Night 18:00
Blood Clown 3:22
Fledgling 12:38
Meandering 3:00
Penny 5:57
News from Afar 4:00
Rescued 5:00
Timed Romance 7:00
Total time: 53:00
Narrative Shorts Three
The Drive Off 1:08
Hammer 6:00
The Hit 1:23
Still Life 4:50
Marselo 1:00
Dietro Le Cose 6:00
Birth 12:00
Alexs 5:00
Guerra 12:00
Ben Pickle: The Sweet Gherkin Cut 13:00
Hammer 6:00
Touch Me Karaoke 3:00
Total Time: 61:00
Narrative Shorts Four
There’s a Monster in my room 2:22
Lost Kisses Episode 6 7:00
Letting Go 9:07
Eight Ball 7:00
Jesusito De Mi Vida 10:00
Label Horrors 3:00
Halloween Nightmare 15:37
Pete’s Odyssey 4:00
Total Time: 58:00
Narrative Shorts Five
Greensboro My Subconscious 7:00
Just A Man 7:00
Kiwi Child 30:00
Frame 12:38
Total Time: 57:00
Movies
Ticket Prices
Individual Film Screening $2.00
Director’s Cut (all 50+ films) $15.00
Individual Party Pass (Kick-off, Licorice, Mad Hatter, Wrap) $15.00
Green Room (all access) $60.00
Tickets can be purchased in advance or at each screening and party venue.
To pre order tix, please contact:
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The AG Indie Film Fest will take place in Smithfield on November 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2009.
Thanks!
Kirk Adam
AG Indie Film Fest 2009
2009 Film Synopses
Alexa / 5 min / 2008/ Director: Todd Tinkham / All is well in quiet suburbia until Alexa unlocks a world of danger and surprise. / www.tinkhamtown.com
American Short / 9:40 min / 2009 / Director: Todd Tinkham / An all-American road movie in a stalled car with four eccentric travelers. / www.tinkhamtown.com
Ben Pickle, The Sweet Gherkin Cut / 13 min / 2009 / Director: Nic Beery / Here's a day in the life of our friend, Ben. He is a mischievous 12-year old who lives more inside his brain than outside in the real world.
Blood Clown / 3.22 min / 1996 / Director: Alan Watkins / A man has a possessed clown that is urging him to attack a neighbor. / www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin
Blood Sweat and Gears / 90 min / 2006 / Director: Jason S. Edwards / Blood Sweat and Gears is the unique tour that hit bike rallies across the country with live, “in your face” fabrication. Dedicated to the members of the US Armed Forces. “We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished. What started out as something to make our involvement in the bike shows more interesting, has turned into a unique, rare tribute to the men and women of our armed forces. I set out to give something back, and am excited that the whole tour is now memorialized in this documentary.”
Camp Fire Massacre / 16 min / 2008 / Director: Alan Watkins / Three friends take a weekend camping trip that results in terror! Is it the nosy neighbor or one of the friend's terrible secret that is to blame? / www4.ncsu.edu/~AWWatkin
Coffee Date / 93 min / 2006 / Director: Stewart Wade / As the result of a practical joke by his brother, a straight guy ends up on a blind date with a gay guy. They take revenge on the brother by reversing the joke. Unfortunately, their mom finds out and is determined to prove her love to her “gay” son no matter what. After an attempt to prove his heterosexuality with a sexy younger woman ends in disaster, he starts to wonder if his feelings for the gay guy could be more than he'd ever suspected? / www.coffeedatethemovie.com
Crush: Rising Rap Star / 4 min / 2009 / Director: Jeff M. Giordano / A revealing portrait of an 18 year old aspiring rapper from Southern New Jersey. / www.jeffmgiordano.com
Dead of the Night / 18 min / 2009 / Director: Christine Parker / A young woman gets a great deal buying her first home. Unfortunately, it turns out it is not as great a bargain as she thought it was. A strange man appears in her dreams trying to warn her that the house has a deadly secret. / www.theadrenalingroup.com
Desert Shore Girl / 5 min / 2009 / Director: Arianna Sykes / The music video for Desert Shore Girl features the lush watery scenes of Wakulla Springs, Manatee Springs, and Amelia Island, and more (which, in turn, inspired the song). / www.youtube.com/starryari
Dietro le cose / 6 min / 2008 / Director: Antonello Novellino / The emptiness to be filled to the point of doubling... transforming itself transverally... fill a plastic bag, fill a life with plastic... food... colours of fruit and vegetables... obsessive compulsive bulimic rituality that just a spurt of water can wash away only to start again... behind the things... behind the doors. / www.noviceyoung.com/antonellonovellino
Dodo of the Year / 80 min / 2005 / Director: Sam Post / Paul’s family holds an annual election to select the stupidest person each year. Against his better judgment, he brings home Amy, his new girlfriend, on the day of the election. The politics get brutal, and the relationship snaps under the pressure.
The Drive Off / 1:08 min / 1997 / Director: Alan Watkins / A guy is in such a hurry, he drives off and leaves his pregnant wife behind. www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin
Drowning Slowly / 95 min / 2009 / Director: Chelsea Wayant / Early morning gunfire interrupts Emaline LeBlancs lonely routine by forcing her to interact with her neighbors, thus changing the course of her life indefinitely.
Eaten / 6 min / 2006 / Director: Anne Haydock / Lunchtime in the world of the mundane spectacular: tin foil, olive loaf, wallpaper, windows, housecoats, hawks, moths, direct animation, timelapse photography, rephotography, orginial super-8 footage, and foleyed sound combine to investigate what it is to eat and be eaten.
Eight Ball / 7 min / 2009 / Director: Tony Murnahan / A cocaine junkie shows up unannounced at his dealer's home and learns the consequences. / www.stwrongtone.com
Fledgling / 7 min / 2009 / Director: Tony Gault and Elizabeth Henry / This film explores the relationship between Kevin and a baby crow he finds one stormy night. Kevin's backyard provides the rich setting for a story about his conflicted relationship to nature.
Frame / 12:38 min / 2009 / Director: Nic Beery / Kelly wants to express herself. She encounters different situations, one involving nature and another involving music, which in the end inspire her to create a work of art. Kelly, in her search, seems to ultimately be happiest when she is finally able to express herself through art and evoke love and and happiness in others. The film uses a metaphor of a real frame to capture the composition of her situation, and then what is inside the frame transforms into a piece of art. Frame evokes strong raw emotion – sadness – curiosity – hopefulness. Kelly leads the viewer on a path of discovery. The feelings linger long after the final credits. / www.beerymedia.com
Good/Evil / 1 min / 2008 / Director: Antonello Novellino / A body-subject with line guides crossed and marked from spiritual allegorical configurations in which the exercise of vision is stirred. Light caresses and penetrates the things suggesting rising zen. / www.noviceyoung.com/antonellonovellino
The Green Rush / 55 min / 2008 / Director: Jason S. Edwards / Set in rural Northern California, A compelling look at the lives of some not-so-ordinary farmers, The Green Rush is a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of a unique group of marijuana farmers in Northern California over the course of an entire outdoor grow season. /www.greenrushmovie.com / NC Premier
Greensboro My Subconscious / 7 min / 2000 / Director: Arianna Sykes / A girl dreams lucidly as she drives through Greensboro one night, but the city sleeps with its eyes open. / www.youtube.com/starryari
Guerra / 12 min / 2009 / Director: Antonello Novellino / A young and brilliant journalist in the Balkans, a killer, a 13 year old boy who escapes from him and from the bombs, his grandmother. Emanual tells us his story of a war boy who doesn't want to lose his innocence and his love for human beings. He doesn't want to forget but wants to forgive... / www.noviceyoung.com/antonellonovellino
Halloween Nightmare / 15:37 min / 1997 / Director: Alan Watkins / A lunatic escapes an insane asylum and tries to find and kill his daughter on Halloween. / www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin
Hammer / 6 min / 2009 / Director: Tony Murnahan / A local trailer trash girl tortures the local mechanic when he tries to put the moves on her. / www.stwrongtone.com
The Hit / 1:23 min /2007 / Director: Alan Watkins / A guy who leaves his door open gets more than he bargained for. / www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin
I Want Your Smile / 3 min / 2009 / Director: Athena Reel and Jamie Roberts / Music video for “I Want Your Smile” by the NYC band America's Sweetheart from the “Rainbow Party” album (2006). / www.youtube.com/starryari
Jesusito de mi Vida / 10 min / 2009 / Director: Jesus Perez-Miranda and David Avila / Jesus, a six year old child wakes up in the middle of the night with an urgent need to pee. But his fear of the dark prevents him from crossing the long corridor that separates his room from the bathroom. Influenced by his mother's advice, he ask God for help, in the hope that some kind of miracle might happen. / http://jesusitodemivida.tumblr.com
Just a Man / 7 min / 2009 / Director: Brian John Mitchell / Just a Man is the latest mini-comic from this director. It is a western story in the style of The Bravados, The Unforgiven, and The Red Headed Stranger. / www.silbermedia.com
Kiwi Child / 30 min / 2004 / Director: Sam Post / When Nina asks Jenna to return the toboggan she loaned her, she gets stuck waiting with Jenna's weird brother, William. Nina gets a full dose of William's world – complete with the oddballs and thoughts that inhabit it -- including the world's most unique cheese sandwich. She's annoyed at first, but ultimately can't help but to soften. Theme is post-9/11, Iraq war disillusionment.
Label Horrors / 3:40 min / 2009 / Director: Candy Wilder / Scares meet high fashion in a suburban American home in the stylish tale of fright. / www.stcroixstudios.com
Letting Go / 9:01 min / 2009 / Director: William Lilly / Letting Go is an abstract drama about a man dealing with a tragic loss. / www.everlongfilms.com
Lost Colony / 15:16 min / 2009 / Director: Caroline Stephenson / African-American women in Northeastern North Carolina describe their experiences working at a poultry processing plant.
Lost Kisses, Episode 6 / 7 min / 2009 / Director: Brian John Mitchell / Lost Kisses is the fifth zine I've made. It's the most emotionally accurate thing I've ever done & this seems to have given it some universal appeal. It is a pain to construct both physically and emotionally, so while you're thinking "this is only as big as a pack of matches," it's still as big as my entire life. Something like that. Episode 6 deals with the pros and cons of relationships. / www.silbermedia.com
The Magistical / 99 min / 2009 / Director: Out of Our Minds Animations Studios, Inc. / In order to protect and preserve all precious life, The Magistical creates a spell which granst immortality to the last remaining of every type of creature. A powerful and evil Draken sees an opportunity to use the spell to further her ambitions to rule the world. In darkness and shadow, she beings killings all of the other Drakens in hopes of becoming the last, so she can rule as she pleases, without fear of death. Soon there is only one last obstacle to her evil ambitions, a helpless baby Draken cub named Knot. / www.themagistical.com
Marselo / 1 min / 2008 / Director: Antonello Novellino / A young artist goes in his studio and he is ready to start a new work. In silence he observes a great white cloth laid on the wall. Suddenly he falls on it swept away by the inspiration, with rage he paints the cloth. This moment is going to change his life forever, because, thanks to the realization of this work, he's grown up. / www.noviceyoung.com/antonellonovellino
Martorana / 6:30 min /2007 / Director: Justin J. Jackson / This film follows a young dancer, Stacy Martorana, during the last two months of her college career. This is the story of Stacy as told by her art—dance. Filmed on location in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. / www.vol4.com
Meandering / 3 min / 2009 / Director: Athena Reel / Music video for Meandering by Found Objects of Desire, from the “Altamaha” album. Arianna wanders through the Appalachian mountains. / www.youtube.com/starryari
News from Afar / 4 min / 2009 / Director: Shawna Baca / A young soldier on leave visits his mother. / www.shawnabaca.com
Obama or Your Mama / 12 min / 2008 / Director: Richard Gonzales / On January 31, 2008 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were about to debate inside the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. For the thousands gathered outside, the debate had already begun. Who would be the Democratic party's nominee Obama or Your Mama? / www.youtube.com/captundergarments
Penny / 5:57 min / 2009 / Director: Mary Cates / A down and out penny finally finds respect and gets a lucky break. NC Premier
Pete's Odyssey / 5:30 min / 2009 / Director: Larry Lauria / Pete's Odyssey is the story of Pete aka Cynthia and her efforts to come of age as a young bird. Pete awakens and realizes that today is a new and different day. She ventures out, faces her fears, and changes her life. Her story is played out against the song “Unafraid to Find,” written and performed by Michelle Armstrong. / http://tooninstitute.awn.com
The Red Queen / 83 min / 2009 / Director: Vic Alexander / The movie traces how some rock-n-rollers lose their way and end up worshiping satanic images and fire dancing to trance music until the wee hours of the morn. Then suddenly at the dawn of a new day, there is a sign on the horizon: the Morning Star glows brightly just over the mountain's edge. "It's the Morning Star, it's the star that the Father gave to the Son," says the Red Queen. The movie celebrates how good conquers evil. In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," the Red Queen says to Alice, "In this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." In Evolutionary Theory, no matter how fast someone runs, the Red Queen runs faster.
Rescued / 5 min / 2009 / Director: Peter Parlegreco / A hand drawn journey to another planet. NC Premier
Rocaterrania / 73:47 min / 2009 / Director: Brett Ingram / This is a feature-length documentary journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler, a visionary artist who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth and illustrated the nation's history for six decades. Featuring an eclectic original score by Merge Records instrumental artists Shark Quest, Rocaterrania unveils Kuhler's astounding body of work to the world and tells his extraordinary life story in the process. / www.brettingram.org
Sammie's Sandies / 6 min / 2009 / Director: Alan Watkins / Mocumentary about pageant moms. / www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin
Shrimp Muffin / 3 min / 2009 / Director: Arianna Sykes and Lorry Kikta / An aspiring witch attempts a love spell on a self-loathing, freeloading musician when his girlfriend leaves town on a business trip. ...An it harm none, do what ye will? / www.youtube.com/starryari
Still Life / 4:50 min / 2008/ Director: Steven von V /A woman reaches a milestone amidst the flood of a lifetime of memories. Stop-motion animation created with techniques developed by the filmmaker. www.outsideinthemovie.com
There's a Monster in My Room / 2.21 min / 2007 / Director: Alan Watkins / Parents don't believe it when their daughter tells them there is a monster in her room. / www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin
Timed Romance / 7 min / 2009 / Director: Rob Underhill / Romance, it is all about timing.
Touch Me Karaoke / 3 min /2008 / Director: Roger Beebe / Mudhoney's “Touch Me I'm Sick” collides with a 70s educational film with horrifying (and hilarious) results. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/
TreQuarti / 75 min / 2009 / Director: Roberto Longo / In an unrecognizable Milan, cold and inhuman, the marital relationship by Eva and Daniel floats through a sea made of half-truths and rigid daily routine. When the ability to hide his nature, that Daniel has always made a shield, crumbles unexpectedly, he will face his fearsome instincts, and a man came from afar affect the fragile balance of the couple. / www.robertolongo.net
Vaudeville Confessions: Season One / 3 min / 2009 / Director: Jeff M. Giordano and Justin J. Jackson / Ineffable escapades of humanity; experimental fun for all tastes! / www.jeffmgiordano.com
Who I'd like to meet: AG Indie Film Fest Schedule
I'm working on the workshops and panels.
Thursday November 12, 2009
Johnston County Public Library
5:30 pm
The Magistical
Free Special Screening!
Wed. Nov 18, 2009
Lampe
7:30pm
Kick Off
We Love Our NC Filmmakers
Ben Pickle, The Sweet Gherkin Cut
Nic Berry
13:00
Penny
Mary Cates
5:57
Timed Romance
Rob Underhill
7:00
Alexa
Todd Tinkham
4:57
There’s a Monster in My Room
Alan Watkins
1:08
Just A Man
Brian John Mitchell
7:00
Still Life
Stephen V
4:50
Penny
Mary Cates
5:57
Total Time: 50:00
Kick Off Party
Thursday Nov 19, 2009
Lampe
5:00
Animation Shorts
53:00
6:15
Drowning Slowly
Chelsea Wayant
95:00
8:15
Trequarti
Robert Longo
75:00
10:00 pm
Licorice Party
River City Arts
Johnston County Public Library
5:30
Dodo of the Year
Sam Post
80:00
7:00
Narrative Shorts Two
51:00
Inflow Studio Lounge
7:00 pm
Rocatorrania
Brett Ingram
73:47
8:30 pm
Narrative Shorts Four
43:00
Friday Nov. 20, 2009
Lampe
7:00
Narrative Shorts Two
51:00
8:00 pm
The Red Queen
Vic Alexander
83:00
9:45 pm
Coffee Date
Stewart Wade
94:00
Johnston County
Public Library
2:00
Narrative Shorts Four
43:00
3:00pm
Rocaterrania
Brett Ingram
73:47
4:30pm
Narrative Shorts One
43:00
Hastings House
4:00
Workshop
5:30
Workshop
Other
Mad Hatter Party
RCA
10:30
Ava’s Midnight Stroll
Orchard House
Sat Nov 21, 2009
9:00 am
Breakfast with the Filmmakers
Gandolfo’s New York Deli
Lampe
10:00
Documentary Shorts
49:00
11:00
Narrative Shorts Two
51:00
Orchesterian Demo
John Lampe
12:30pm
Todd Tinkham Retrospective
50:00
1:30pm
Narrative Shorts Four
58:00
3:00pm
The Magistical
Out of our minds
99:00
5:30 pm
Blood Sweat and Gears
Jason S Edwards
90:00
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