2008 Short Program A
Jun 1st, 2008 by MIFF Team
SCREENING TIME: 11am SATURDAY JULY 12th, 2008
Approximate Rating Range: G to PG-13
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I Met the Walrus | ||
| 2007 Oscar Nominee | |||
| Director: Josh Raskin | |||
| Starring: John Lennon, Jerry Levitan | |||
| In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Using the original interview as the sound-track, this narrative tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multi-pronged animation. | |||
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Apples and Oranges | ||
| Director: Darrell Faria | |||
| Starring: Laura Sheridan, Alex Anderson | |||
| A deliciously fruitful tale of an apple and an orange, in love. | |||
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Arnie Juice | ||
| You Scum | |||
| Director: Dany Gehshan, Chris Green | |||
| Starring: Michelle Ferguson, Owen McLaughlin, Gregg Shanks, Michael Saturno | |||
| In a world ripe with violent crime and warfare, an energy drink with a hilariously bizarre side effect is made available to the public, kicking off a wacky series of events that culminate in making what once seemed like a distant world dream into a world reality. You Scum. | |||
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The Breakout | ||
| Director: Tyler Williams | |||
| Starring: Ilan Rosenberg, Allen Keng, DL MacDonald | |||
| With authorities hot on his trail, the recently escaped inmate IR-300 follows a hand drawn map to a secluded area deep in the countryside. Upon arrival he is outraged to find two other escapees trying to make off with his coveted prize: a large stash of stolen money. Despite the odds, IR-300 is not about to leave empty handed. | |||
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The Client | ||
| Director: Jessica Hudson | |||
| Starring: Shawn Bakken, Jonathan Sommer | |||
| A man goes into a lawyer’s office seeking advice when an accusation surfaces that he is involved in a series of robberies. | |||
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The Good Son | ||
| Based on a True Story | |||
| Director: Amar Wala | |||
| Starring: Jad Yehia, Badih Abou Chakra, Robert Nolan | |||
| The Good Son is the true story of a young boy who is asked to translate for his father as CSIS (Canadian Securities and Intelligence Services) officers question him in their home. Slowly, the questions become more and more hostile, and what started out as an interview, strategically turns into an interrogation, with the young boy caught in the middle. | |||
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I Am An Apartment Building | ||
| Director: Lara Azzopardi | |||
| Starring: Heidi Hayes, Kofi Payton, Carlo Rota, Andrew Kenneth Martin, Caryn Green, Raoul Bhaneja, Joanne Kelly | |||
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A reality television show plays in the background of five different apartments while the real realities of life and love play out in the forefront. Five apartments, five different relationships connected by one TV show and one apartment building. This is our life, we are, I am, an apartment building. |
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Je me souviens | ||
| Director: Andrew Moniz | |||
| Starring: Alyssa Pridham, Caitlyn Gladman, Fred Steiss | |||
| A strange man appears in a small foreign town in the middle of winter. He walks around in the frigid cold and asks locals about a girl he once met and if they’ve seen her. His journey leads him to an unexpected and life altering occurrence and a strange new beginning. Shot in northern Quebec, Je Me Souviens (I Remember), is a surreal look at determination and fate in a new and exciting style of filmmaking. | |||
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Maybelline the Butterfly | ||
| Director: Travis Ainley | |||
| Starring: Ace Hicks, Ted Neal | |||
| A charming look at a first date perfectly capturing the awkwardness, hesitation and infatuation of a blossoming love. Filled with fresh dialogue and top-notch acting Maybelline the Butterfly encapsulates that familiar crush and human connection though it’s quirks and honest dipictions. In the closing moments the film subtly transforms along with the relationship portrayed on screen into something much more genuine, shown in a final beautiful moment. | |||
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The Missing Piece | ||
| Some Solutions Can Be Murder! | |||
| Director: Alexander Galant | |||
| Starring: Kristan Weddel , Lada Darewych, J.P. Baldwin, Carmen Gillespie | |||
| A young woman receives a mystical jigsaw puzzle, which reveals shifting images of a past disappearance and a possible deadly future. | |||
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The Politics of Fear | ||
| Director: Pasquale Marco Veltri | |||
| Starring: Todd Cleland, Lori Graystone, Julie Roza | |||
| The film questions the effect of news entertainment on the public. After 9/11 the news media learned that if they keep the audience afraid they would get higher ratings. The story centers around a man named John, who is so obsessed with news coverage and news entertainment that he is afraid to leave his house. He hears machine guns outside, tanks roll by and grenades explode in the basement. John begins to believe it is unsafe to go outside and that if he does he may explode. |
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Premiere | ||
| Director: Alvin Campana | |||
| Starring: Tommy Taylor, Cassandra Togneri, Alvin Campana, C.S. Legacy, Steve Jesse, Mimi Nahri, Ruth McKinnon, Julian DeZotti | |||
| A quirky, young drive-in employee decides she wants to elevate the profile of her workplace by organizing a Canadian premiere of a French art house film. As she enlists the help of her fellow drive-in workers it becomes clear that this group of oddballs and outcasts may not be up to the job. | |||
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Rockstar | ||
| Director: Linda Matarasso | |||
| Starring: Corey Henry | |||
| A business man makes his usual daily mundane subway commute to work. He is transported into the world of an 80’s Rockstar through the power of his mp3 player and his imagination. | |||
