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SCREENING TIME & DATE: Sunday, September 8th @ 10:00 PM
SYNOPSIS: When a nature photographer explains to the Police how she fought her way out of the Watchatoomy Valley, they dismiss her crazed and violent story as a meth-induced nightmare. But when they discover that she’s telling the truth, it’s too late.
AWARDS NOMINATIONS (6): Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup
DIRECTOR: Teddy Grennan
CAST: Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Robert Longstreet, Bruce Dern
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Strong Language
USA / 2019 / 1 hour, 17 minutes
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Teddy Grennan is a writer, producer, and director from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Swing Low is his directorial debut.
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8 (USA & ITALY)
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SYNOPSIS: A poolroom romance set in an isolated saloon in New Mexico. Jack, a selfish and sexist billiard player that hustles for living, struggles to seduce Jessie, a quiet and mysterious woman pool master.
DIRECTOR: Gabriele Fabbro
RATINGS GUIDE: Language
AWARDS NOMINATIONS (3): Best Student Short, Best Ensemble Cast – Short, Best Editing – Short
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Gabriele Fabbro was born in 1996, in Milan, Italy. He’s a film director graduated from New York Film Academy with a BFA degree in Filmmaking. Since 2011, he wrote, directed and produced more than 20 productions including short films, music videos, documentaries and commercials. He’s known for his work on “8”, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”, “The Waltz of the Monsters” and “Two Steps Away” that gained him over 50 nominations and awards. Gabriele is currently working on a feature documentary and developing his first feature film.
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HARPER FINCH (USA)
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SYNOPSIS: Driven by obsession, a young mental patient forcibly attempts to rekindle his relationship with an emotionally fragile fellow inmate. When she rejects his advances, the confrontation quickly escalates into a violent battle for survival and sanity. From the executive producer of Sundance Audience Award winner, Crown Heights and the writer/director of Netflix’s Face 2 Face.
DIRECTOR: Matthew Toronto & Jonathan Baker
RATINGS GUIDE: Violence, Language, Strong Violence, Strong Language, Sensuality, Strong Sexuality
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: An award-winning director, writer and producer, Matt Toronto’s coming-of-age feature Face 2 Face was recently released on Netflix and won the Jury Award for Innovation at the Edmonton International Film Festival (www.seeface2face.com). His first feature, The Pact, won top awards and official selection in 22 film festivals around the world (www.watchthepact.com). Matt has written, directed and produced an array of pilots, web series and award-winning short films while nurturing a successful career directing at top-notch theatres in New York City and across the country. He has an MFA in directing from Penn State, where he also spent eight years on faculty in their prestigious School of Theatre. He began his career as an actor, starring in a long list of plays and musicals, including five seasons in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular dancing alongside the Rockettes! Jonathan Baker is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America and works with his partner Nnamdi Asomugha under the banner iAm21 Entertainment. They recently wrapped Sylvie, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi. They also produced the upcoming feature Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, and Nicolas Hoult, directed by George Nolfi. They are producing stage productions of Spamalot, the adaptation of the movies August Rush and The Harder They Come, and just finished the play American Son starring Kerry Washington, which Netflix picked up. He Executive Produced Crown Heights (dir. Matt Ruskin), starring LaKeith Stanfield (Short Term 12, Atlanta) and Nnamdi, which won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2017 and was bought by Amazon Studios. He writes/directs and performs under the alias “Bo D”. The forth coming satire Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime is due out this year.
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