TCFF Daily Post - THE CLEARWATER FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM GUIDE

Here it is - the complete list of films we are showing and a little about our film panelists.  There's more to come, so hang in there!

 

 

A Soldier’s Mission

Animation

Director: Mel K. Lockett

3 minutes

USA 2010

A love struck tin soldier rushes to the aid of a fallen princess.OPENING NIGHT - LCC THU 3:00 - LCC THU 4:15 

A Tall TaleAnimation

Director: Brittany Biggs

8 minutes

USA 2010

A lost princess returns home to her ailing father, the King who sent her away.LCC FRI 9:00 - LCC SAT 7:00

Entanglement

Animation

Director: Renae Radford

6 minutes

USA 2010

A turbulent journey of unrequited love set in the garden of one’s subconscious.CCC2 THU 3:00 - LCC SAT 1:00

The Stain

Animation

Director: Ron Segal

12 minutes

Israel 2010

An unfinished version of a fable is given an ending by a random gust of wind through the author’s study.  A new headstrong adaptation of the familiar fable “The Scorpion And The Frog.”LCC THU 3:00 - LCC FRI 5:30 - CCC1 11:00 AM

Thembi’s Diary

Animation

Director: Jisoo Kim

6 minutes

USA 2010

A true audio documentary recorded by a South African girl with AIDS.  Although her disease is harsh for a 17 year old, Thembi talks to her virus every morning.  With a calm voice she says that as long as it leaves her alone she will do the same.CAP THU 5:00 - LCC SAT 1:00

Who Do Voodoo

Animation

Director: Tahnee Gehm

3 minutes

USA 2010

Olivia’s life takes an unexpected twist when a voodoo king fixes her back problem.  Little does she expect her obnoxious dog to ruin her performance - for the best!LCC THU 7:00 - LCC SAT 9:15

A Daytona Dream

Documentary

Director: Matthew Barksdale

1 Hour 30 minutes

USA 2010

Team owner and driver Scott Tucker assembles a dream team of elite race car drivers in an effort to win one of endurance racing's most prestigious events, the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Collisions, confrontations and high-speed racing action take center stage as both the human body and powerful, purpose-built machines are pushed to their absolute limits.LCC THU 3:00

Absent

Documentary

Director: Justin Hunt

1 hour 31 minutes

USA 2010

From the award-winning director of AMERICAN METH comes Justin Hunt's newest documentary that will undoubtedly lift the veil of how and why a father's absence can be so devastating to not only a child; but a family, community, and, eventually, society itself.Because one man makes a world of difference.CAP THU 7:00

American Colonies: Collapse Of The Bee

Documentary

Director: Jason Kushner

1 Hour 10 minutes

USA 2009

American Colonies: Collapse of the Bee is a completely independent film project that breaks down the role of bees/pollinators in our environment and economy. It explains the mysterious problem of Colony Collapse Disorder and then proposes a possible solution for the sake of our food supply and global economy.LCC FRI 5:30   

 

 

Astronaut Pam: Countdown To Commander

Documentary

Directors: Mary Jo Godges and Renee Sotile

39 minutes

USA 2009

The sky is NOT the limit! Ride along with Commander Pam Melroy and her crew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on an exciting journey to the International Space Station. Float in ZERO GRAVITY and strap in for MACH 25, on the space trip of a lifetime.“Being an astronaut is totally cool. It's the coolest job in or out of the world.” Pam Melroy.CAP SAT 1:00

Breaking News Breaking Down

Documentary

Director: Mike Walter

35 minutes

USA 2009

Journalists who have covered everything from Columbine, to 9-11, from Katrina to the War in Iraq and the Oklahoma City Bombing. They've told us the most important stories of our time, but they've never told us their personal stories, how getting the big story can get to the journalists, in many cases affecting their emotional well being.CCC2 SAT 11:00 PM

Bullfrogs On My Mind . . . A Kentucky Legend

Documentary

Director: Diane Mason

57 minutes

USA 2009

A woman searches for the truth of a family legend - Did their ancestor bring the bullfrog to Kentucky?LCC FRI 4:15

Cangleska Wakan

Documentary

Director: Aitken Pearson

53 minutes

United Kingdom 2009

The sacred hoop of life of the Lakota Sioux is explained by tribe members.CAP SAT 1:00      China: The Rebirth Of An Empire

Documentary

Director: Jesse Veverka

1 Hour 26 minutes

USA 2010

Peaceful rise or potential threat? China's 21st century emergence as a global superpower affects every single one of us.LCC THU 5:00

Healing Neen

Documentary

Director: Laura Cain

Co-Director: Diana Gross

54 minutes

USA 2010

'Healing Neen' takes viewers on a journey to places and subjects that many find difficult or uncomfortable to even fathom. Beginning with a nightmarish childhood beatings at the hands of her alcoholic mother and sexual assaults by neighborhood men, Tonier 'Neen' Cain's life sprawled down into crack addiction, homelessness and 83 arrests. At her lowest point, pregnant and incarcerated, she was offered her first break - the chance to enter a revolutionary trauma, mental health, and addictions program. Safe at last, Tonier began to heal and embarked on a boundless 'upward spiral'. Today she travels the country, speaking to professionals and those still living on the margins of society, spreading her message 'where there's breath there's hope'.LCC THU 9:00

House Quake

Documentary

Director: Karen Elizabeth Price

1 Hour 33 minutes

USA 2009

The behind the scenes story of how Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats took back Congress and transformed the way campaigns are run in the U.S.CAP THU 12:45

Houston We Have A Problem

Documentary

Director: Nicole Torre

1 Hour 23 minutes

USA 2009

Step inside the energy capital of the world to hear the truth about oil, straight from the hearts of the Texas oilmen themselves.  See decades of American presidents who have warned against the dependence on foreign oil, and how the U.S. Energy policy has always been a strategy of defense, not offense.CCC2 FRI 11:00 PM

I Am Seminole

Documentary

Director: Sabrina Cooper

7 minutes

USA 2010

Join Everett Osceola of the Seminole Tribe of Florida on a journey through the history of the tribe and how they are preparing for the future.CCC1 SAT 11:00 AM - CAP SAT 1:00  

Mission Appalachia - The Story Of Red Bird

Documentary

Director: Todd Scoggins

1 Hour 10 minutes

USA 2009

The mountain people of these hollers refer to it simply, and affectionately, as Red Bird. The mission has been in operation for nearly one-hundred years. Red Bird has worked exclusively in this area since the 1920's. The Red Bird Mission has been described as the most comprehensive mission site in the world. Nearly 3,000 people journey annually from across the United States to bring support to fellow Americans in this breathtaking landscape.LCC SAT 9:15

Oro Verde (Sea of Green)

Documentary

Director: Todd Scoggins

13 minutes

Argentina 2009

The tea farmers of Argentina harvest their crop.LCC SAT 9:15

Piano Grand

Documentary

Director: Stephen Gotler

55 minutes

USA 2010

The story of a magnificent grand piano built in the 1890’s by legendary Boston piano maker Chickering & Sons.  What began as a project to document the piano’s restoration evolved into a fascinating story about the people and historic events surrounding this beautiful instrument.CAP SAT 11:00 AM        Strawberry Fields: Keeping the Spirit Of John Lennon Alive

Documentary

Director: Mark Elsis

1 Hour 21 minutes

USA 2009

In his first in-depth interview in over thirty years Phil Spector tells stories about 'his brother' John Lennon, their love for each other and the wonderful music they produced.  This and other stories bring over a million people from every corner of Earth to visit Strawberry Fields and the Imagine mosaic each year.LCC FRI 9:00

The Day The World Turned Dayglo

Documentary

Director: Tim Kutler

1 Hour 44 minutes

United Kingdom 2009

Three days after 9/11 and the beginning of a five year odyssey by a young English teacher traveling through ten Muslim countries at the height of the century’s new conflict. “When you drive into a sandstorm there is no telling where or when you will finally exit.”  Arab proverb.CAP FRI 3:00 

The Shark Con

Documentary

Director: Rusty Armstrong

1 Hour 26 minutes

USA 2010

The Shark Con takes viewers on a roller coaster ride into the big business of sharks, revealing the controversial truth about the industry, all the while trying to answer the central question…Are sharks really over-fished? Or is this just an elaborate con?LCC SAT 1:00

The Silent Realm

Documentary

Director: Phillip Arnold

20 minutes

USA 2009

Young men and seasoned athletes still journey to isolated valleys and remote villages to lift Scotland's famous stones of strength, partaking of a centuries-old tradition that marked the passage from adolescence into manhood. This ancient custom is explained by Peter Martin, who has devoted his life to the research and lifting of Scotland's Manhood Stones.CCC1 SAT 11:00 AM      The Story Of Human Rights

Documentary

Director: Taron Lexton

9 minutes

USA 2009

A striking short film defining one of the worlds most misunderstood subjects: human rights.CAP THU 5:00

Through The Tunnel

Documentary

Director: Durand Adams, Charles Williams, Charles Clappsaddle

42 minutes

USA 2010

A retrospective of the desegregation of an historic all black high school through the eyes of the head football coach and a player who became an All-Pro in the NFL.LCC THU 9:00

Walking With Life: The Birth Of  A Human Rights Movement In Africa

Documentary

Director: Kenny Mann

38 minutes

USA 2010

Human rights education in Senegal triggers a re-examination of Koranic law and traditions like forced early marriage and female circumcision, causing a historic movement towards positive social change.CAP THU 5:00

Who Is Dancing?

Documentary

Director: Lu Gan

2 Hours  31 minutes

China 2010

A close look at the grueling audition process of the world's top ballet director, Mr. Roland Petit, a guest to the National Ballet of China as he chooses the starring roles for Bizet’s “Carmen”.  Cutthroat competition ensues in a battlefield without smoke from the start until the opening night curtain when we find out Who Is Dancing?LCC THU 6:30

Ashes To Anthrax

Short Film

Director: Corey Horton

9 minutes

USA 2010

A man follows the clues in his dreams to get answers.CAP SAT 11:00 AM

Dark Scribbles

Short Film

Director: Michael Venn

9 minutes

USA 2010

Angela is a psychic whose visions might be more than they appear. Her psychic abilities and her relationships are becoming intertwined. Sometimes nothing is exactly what it's supposed to be.CCC2 THU 3:00 - CCC1 FRI 3:00

Detention

Short Film

Director: Aden Shillito

12 minutes

New Zealand 2010

A school boy struggles to expose the suspicious behavior of the one-eyed caretaker at his primary school, only to find that life is vastly more complex than he could ever have imagined.CCC2 FRI 2:00

Dialing Amy

Short Film

Director: Lexer Kadan

11 minutes

USA 2010

A young girl left alone in a hotel room gets disturbing phone calls from a child predator.  Will she fall into his clutches or not?CCC1 THU 2:00 - CAP SAT 3:00        

 

 

Empty Space

Short Film

Director: Rob Underhill

12 minutes

USA 2009

EMPTY SPACE is based in part on the Mike Wiley one-man play, Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till: A true story that chronicles the 1955 Mississippi murder trial and confession of the men accused of the horrific slaying of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Mike Wiley plays all the characters in this, his breakout film debut.CAP THU 12:45

4 Pictures

Short Film

Director: Mike Madigan

15 minutes

USA 2009

'4 Pictures' is a personal narrative comedy that focuses on Kaitlin, living and documenting a simple day to day routine. Trying to avoid 'change' whenever possible, an unexpected revelation causes her to rethink her closest relationships. CCC1 THU 1:00 - CCC1 FRI 3:00

Friend Of The Devil

Short Film

Director: Eric H. Heisner

24 minutes

USA 2009

Former Texas Ranger, Jacob Matthau goes in pursuit of Bandits that robbed and killed a payroll guard. The journey takes him to the Mexican border and outside the law.CAP THU 11:00 AM

High Heels

Short Film

Director: Brett Carlson

14 minutes

USA 2009

A not too dark comedy about a guy mortally afraid of all shoes since the day he witnessed a tragic trolley accident caused buy a pair of sexy red heels.CAP THU 11:00 AM      

 

 

In Our Closeness

Short Film

Director: Torch Eberhart

7 minutes

USA 2010

Two brothers take off one night to bond and get to know each other. Everything goes wrong with a stop at the local convenience store.LCC THU 9:00

In The Shadows

Short Film

Director: Thomas D. Thompson

10 minutes

USA 2010

With the promise of a $20,000 reward a trio of friends search Capitol Theater to prove it is haunted.CAP SAT 11:00 AM

LASTRAIN

Short Film

Director: Tony Lopez

23 minutes

Spain 2010

Irene meets a handsome stranger who intrigues her when his predictions become true.OPENING NIGHT - CCC1 SAT 11:00 AM

Lighthouse

Short Film

Director: Ling Li

17 minutes

USA 2009

A lonely lighthouse keeper saves a mysterious drowning girl, who insists that she is a fish. Despite their booming romance she decides to return to the ocean.LCC FRI 9:00

Madcap Mabel

Short Film

Director: Dena Schumacher

35 minutes

USA 2010

The life of silent screen star Mabel Normand is seen through the repentant eyes of reporter Charlie Craig, whose scandalous stories helped destroy her career and give himself a chance to survive the next four years.CAP SAT 3:00

Marvin’s Plan

Short Film

Director: Marc Steele

24 minutes

USA 2009

Welcome to Marvin's world. A world of selling sperm to pay for his dates, only to face rejection after rejection. Fed up with his lot in life, Marvin concocts an outrageous plan to have a woman unwittingly have his child. However, what he does not know, is that a woman who works at the sperm bank where he donates has secretly impregnated herself with his sperm. What follows is an hilarious turn of events.CCC1 THU 1:00

No One Island

Short Film

Directors: Stacy Marr, Vanessa Ruane

20 minutes

USA 2009

There's no place like home.  After the sudden death of their father, a family attempts to come together and heal the wounds of a haunted past that have been left unspoken for years.CCC1 FRI 3:00

Only In Paris

Short Film

Director: Cary Cremidas

13 minutes

USA 2009

A woman must prove to herself that she can seduce a man.CCC1 THU 1:00

Over Cards

Short Film

Director: Marwan A. Abderrazzaq

13 minutes

USA 2010

Five friends, playing poker, discuss how each would kill his wife.CCC1 SAT 11:00 AM - LCC SAT 5:00

People That Do Something

Short Film

Director: Paul Galvan

6 minutes

USA 2009

An abusive man takes his stepdaughter shoplifting.CAP THU 11:00 AM

Picture Day

Short Film

Director: Ken Adachi

17 minutes

USA 2009

High school is tough. Freshman Miles Dufort will risk everything to take a perfect school picture. CCC2 FRI 11:00 PM - LCC SAT 7:00

Positive

Short Film

Director: Christian Cooks

19 minutes

USA 2009

Two young teenagers battle with the fact that they are HIV positive.CCC2 SAT 11:00 PM

Ragman

Short Film

Director: Dale Ward

18 minutes

USA 2009

A ragman from another time and place visits a modern city, offering to trade his new rags for the old ones of the people he meets.CAP THU 11:00 AM

Rita

Short Film

Director: Antonio Piazza

18 minutes

Italy 2009

Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the run who suddenly breaks into her home. It's a mysterious, enigmatic meeting that lets Rita experience a brief moment of freedom.CCC2 FRI 1:00 - SAT CCC1 11:00 PM

Seventeen Cents

Short Film

Director: John Marchetti

13 minutes

USA 2009

Based on a true story, rural Georgia, just after the depression, is hard, relentless and desperate for this farming family. A young boy yearns to take a class trip for a lesson in history. The family's lack of money and inability to send him becomes the lesson he'll never forget.CCC1 SAT 11:00 AM - CCC2 SAT 11:00 PM

Sissy

Short Film

Director: Bonnie Root

22 minutes

USA 2010

Sissy’s mother dumps her with a family friend, Charlie, a struggling magician down on his luck.  He makes Sissy his personal assistant and begins to impose responsibilities upon her that are beyond the abilities of a 14-year-old child.CAP THU 5:00 - CCC2 FRI 1:00

Take My Wife

Short Film

Director: Brett Carlson

22 minutes

USA 2009

A married couple intending to hire a gigolo to save their stale sex life mistakenly hire a hit man.CCC1 FRI 11:00 PM

Taught To Hate

Short Film

Director: James Garcia Sotomayor

27 minutes

Ecuador, USA 2009

The story of an Hispanic immigrant trying to find a job in America and an American family who's uncle's racial intolerance has a strong effect on his nephew.CAP THU 11:00 AM

The Desperate

Short Film

Director: Ben Hur Sepehr

33 minutes

USA 2009

On a rainy night in a concentration camp a fearsome Nazi general is forced to plead with a condemned Jewish doctor to save his dying only son.CCC2 THU 3:00 - CAP THU 9:00         

 

 

The Nice Girl

Short Film

Director: V. K. Shah

9 minutes

USA 2009

What are the chances that you would meet a stranger one day that could kill , kidnap, test, hurt, or hug you? After a terrible day at work, Kate is accosted by Jack, a stranger, who leads her on a quick journey, one that can change her, if she plays her cards right.LCC THU 1:00

Weequahic

Short Film

Director: Jamie Ruddy

8 minutes

USA 2009

Set in 1952, four wise guys in the numbers racket hang out at a diner and spend most of their time looking for new patsies to collect some extra scratch.  Their latest scheme to shake down the owner of the diner yields very unpredictable results.CAP THU 12:45

When He Left

Short Film

Director: Jeremy Decker

12 minutes

USA 2010

A family struggles with the suicide of their son, a veteran of Middle East deployment and victim of post Traumatic stress disorder.LCC THU 2:00

Zimbabwe

Short Film

Director: Anjuli Hinds

16 minutes

USA 2009

Amidst the turmoil and uncertainty of a militant regime, two young children of Zimbabwe are forced into a fight they hardly understand when they are pitted one against the other during a sudden farm invasion.LCC SAT 9:15

Night People

Mini-Feature Film

Director: Mickey Newman

44 minutes

USA 2010

After accidentally locking his keys, wallet, and cell phone in his apartment late one night, Nathan Richards embarks on a journey for refuge in which he encounters various drifters along the way.LCC THU 2:00

Out Of Focus

Mini-Feature Film

Director: Jim Cocoliato

45 minutes

USA 2010

Derek Miller was a young prosperous Cinematographer until Super-Star actor Clive Pierce has him fired. Derek's career and life plummets to the bottom, until opportunity knocks, offering him his chance to get back on top and enjoy success that he never even had dreamed possible.LCC THU 1:00

A Lonely Place For Dying

Feature Film

Director: Justin Evans

1 hour 36 minutes

USA 2009

In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders are clear: take the documents from Dzerzhinsky and kill him.CCC1 FRI 11:00 PM - LCC SAT 5:00

...Around

Feature Film

Director: David Spaltro

1 hour 44 minutes

USA 2009

A homeless man going to school in New York City searches for a place to call home.CCC2 FRI 2:00    

 

 

 

Black Dogs Barking

Feature Film

Director: Mehmet Bahadir

1 hour 30 minutes

Turkey 2010

Two friends try to go into business for themselves but instead find trouble with the parking garage mafia in Istanbul’s chaotic underground.CCC2 THU 1:00 - CCC1 SAT 11:00 PM

Earthwork

Feature Film

Director: Chris Ordal

1 hour 33 minutes

USA 2009

earthwork is the true story of real life crop artist Stan Herd who plants his unique, rural art form in New York City with the help of a group of homeless characters on a plot of land owned by Donald Trump.LCC SAT 7:00

Hope For A Thorn

Feature Film

Director: Erin Kitzinger

1 hour 14 minutes

USA 2009

Fighting loss, loneliness and madness, an estranged grandmother and granddaughter’s only chance for redemption is each other.CAP SAT 3:00

Innocent Crimes

Feature Film

Director: Jonathan Green

1 hour 37 minutes

United Kingdom 2009

A shy accountant seeking an escape from his hum-drum existence meets a charismatic man who is more dangerous than he first appears to be.CCC1 THU 2:00         My Name Is Jerry

Feature Film

Director: Morgan Mead

1 hour 40 minutes

USA 2009

As a salesman, Jerry Arthur (Doug Jones) drifts through days filled by slamming doors and low expectations. He is a middle-aged divorcee with a daughter he has not spoken to in years, a dead-end job, and low self-esteem. But, when he encounters the right mix of punk rock mentality and a few unique friends, he gets a rare chance to wake up from life and finally start living.LCC FRI 7:00

Railed Up And Wrecked

Feature Film

Director: Neil Webb

1 hour 36 minutes

Canada 2010

A man has strange dreams after he finds out his recently dead older brother was a drug dealer.CCC1 FRI 1:00

Sneakers & Soul

Feature Film

Director: Jonathan Zelenak

1 hour 41 minutes

USA 2009

After inheriting a pair of blue sneakers and a mysterious key to a New York City apartment, a young work obsessed lawyer finds himself following in his father’s footsteps - walking from South Jersey to New York with his loyal but complicated best friend.CCC2 THU 11:00 PM

Twenty Ten

Feature Film

Directors: Mark Alston & Byron Kaye

1 hour 11 minutes

Austalia 2010

The new Australian comedy Twenty Ten tracks four misbegotten twenty-somethings as they bicker, snicker and search for a life beyond each other and the deadbeat suburban Sydney street where they all work.  A life somewhere cool. Somewhere like Twenty Ten.OPENING NIGHT - CAP THU 9:00       EDUCATIONAL PANELS AND HOSTED FILMS

No movie tickets are necessary for films and educational panels. 

Just present your Film Badge to enter.

 

Fatal Kiss

Made For TV Movie

Director: Jeff Rector

30 Minutes

USA - 2002

Jeff Rector wrote, directed and stars in this vampire thriller that originally aired on HBO and also stars Carel Struyken (Twin Peaks, The Addams Family) and Kato Kaelin.  Jeff Rector will host with Q & A afterwards.LCC FRI 3:00

South Of Hell

Feature Film

Director: Wayne Crawford

90 Minutes

USA - 2005

Wayne Crawford produced, directed and acted in this campy horror film about film students who set out to make a horror film.  Wayne Crawford will host with Q & A afterwards.CCC1 THU 11:00 PM

U’bejani

Feature Film

Director: Wayne Crawford

90 Minutes

USA - 1997

Wayne Crawford wrote, directed and acted in this story about a city-dwelling detective hired as a bodyguard to protect an endangered rhinoceros.  This film won the Breckenridge Film Festival’s 1997 award for Best of the Fest in the Children/Family category and the Silver Apple Award in 1999 from the National Educational Media Network.  Fun for all ages with host Wayne Crawford and Q & A afterwards.LCC SAT 3:00

The Scriptoid Challenge Finalists

ADA Management hosts script readings featuring excerpts from the top ten scripts submitted to this years competition. LCC FRI 1:00