A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
USA, 1974, drama, 155 mins.

DIRECTOR: John Cassavettes
GUEST: Film Critic Kathleen Carroll
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Easton Premier Cinemas • 3:00pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: A caged free-spriit, wife and mother Mabel Longhetti (Rowlands), loves her kids and construction worker husband Nick and desperately wants to please them, but her impulsive behavior convinces Nick (Falk) that she has become a threat to herself and others.

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ALL SHE CAN
USA - 2011 - drama - 91 minutes

DIRECTOR: Amy Wendel
SCREENING: Sunday, 9/25 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 4:00p
Monday, 9/26 • Chesapeake College • 5:00pm
SYNOPSIS: Luz Garcia, a high school senior in a forgotten Texas town, wants something different than the options awaiting her after graduation.

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BAG IT (screening with OUT TO PASTURE)
USA - 2010 - documentary - 74 minutes

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Suzan Beraza
GUEST: Suzan Beraza
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Historical Society • 11:30am •Q&A/Sustainability Panel Discussion to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown / Garfield at Prince • 1:00pm • Q&A/Sustainability Panel Discussion to follow
SYNOPSIS: The story follows Jeb Berrier, an average American guy who is admittedly not a "tree hugger," who makes a pledge to stop using plastic bags. His girlfriend, Anne, joins him in the challenge to decrease their use of plastic at home.

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BAND TOGETHER precluded with short films by Cecile Davis
USA - 2010 - documentary

DIRECTOR: Kurt Kolaja
GUEST: Kurt Kolaja
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Avalon Theatre • 4:00pm • Q&A to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Academy Art Museum • Noon • Q&A to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown / Garfield at Prince • 8:00pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: Band Together strides along with the Kent County Community Marching Band to discover a journey of camaraderie, commitment, and community.

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BUCK
USA - 2011 - Documentary - 88 minutes

DIRECTOR: Cindy Meehl
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Easton Premier Cinemas • 12:30pm
Sunday, 9/25 • Easton Premier Cinemas • 3:00pm
SYNOPSIS: The incredible true story of Buck Brannaman, the unusually perceptive cowboy whose remarkable ability to communicate with horses inspired the novel The Horse Whisperer and the hit film by Robert Redford to follow.

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BUDRUS
Arabic - 2010 - documentary - 81 minutes

DIRECTOR: Julia Bacha
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Academy Art Museum • 4:30pm
SYNOPSIS: It takes a village to unite the most divided people on earth. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha, Budrus is about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier.

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BULL DURHAM
USA - 1988 - narrative - 108 minutes

DIRECTOR: Ron Shelton
GUEST: Rick Kollinger with special guest Frank Cashen, former GM of the Baltimore Orioles
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Avalon Theatre • 6:30pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: A blend of comedy, drama and romance, this film follows the intertwining of three lives brought together by the great American pastime.

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CAFETERIA MAN
USA - 2011 - documentary

DIRECTOR: Richard Chisolm
GUEST: Richard Chisolm (Dir.) , Sheila Kinkade (Prod.) , Tony Geraci (actor)
SCREENING: CLOSING FILM: Sunday, 9/25 • Avalon Theatre • 5:00pm • Q&A/Panel Discussion to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown / Garfield at Prince • 5:30pm • Q&A
SYNOPSIS: Cafeteria Man is a story of positive movement. It’s about the aspiration of social activists and citizens coming together to change the way kids eat at school. It’s about overhauling a dysfunctional nutritional system. And, it’s the story of what it takes, and who it takes, to make solutions happen.

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COALS TO NEWCASTLE
USA - 2010 - documentary- 79 minutes

CO-DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Marca Hagenstad
CO-DIRECTOR & PRODUCER: Aaron Dunsay
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Academy Art Museum • 7:00pm
SYNOPSIS: In 'Coals to Newcastle,' UK funk band, The New Mastersounds, bring the funk back to a post-Katrina New Orleans during Jazzfest 2007.

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EVERYDAY SUNSHINE
USA - 2011 - documentary - 103 minutes

DIRECTOR: Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 4:00pm
Saturday, 9/25 • Historical Society • 8:30pm
SYNOPSIS: From the shifting fault lines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years.

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HELL AND BACK AGAIN
USA - 2011 - documentary

DIRECTOR: Danfung Dennis
GUEST: Danfung Dennis (Director)
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Avalon Theatre • 1:00pm • Q&A/Veterans Panel Discussion to follow
Sunday, 9/24 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 11:00am • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: Within hours of being dropped deep behind enemy lines, 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris’s unit is attacked from all sides. Cut off and surrounded, the Marines fight a ghostlike enemy and experience immense hostility from displaced villagers caught in the middle.

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HOW TO DIE IN OREGON
USA - 2011 - documentary - 107 minutes

DIRECTOR: Peter Richardson
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Academy Art Museum • 11:30am • Q&A to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Avalon • Noon • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: Director Peter Richardson gently takes us into the world of the terminally ill. Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

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MEEK'S CUTOFF
USA – 2010 – narrative – 144 minutes

DIRECTOR: Kelly Reichardt
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Easton Premier Cinemas • 6:30pm
SYNOPSIS: This Western stars Michelle Williams. The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains.

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MISS REPRESENTATION
USA - 2011 - documentary - 85 minutes

DIRECTOR: Jennifer Siebel Newsom
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Academy Art Museum • 2:00pm
SYNOPSIS: Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

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NETWORK
USA - 1976 - drama - 121 minutes

DIRECTOR: Sidney Lumet
GUEST: Kathleen Carol & Lucy Spiegell
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Avalon Theatre • 10:00am • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: Beale can't stomach the idea of losing his 25-year post as anchorman simply because of age, so in his next broadcast he announces to the viewers that he's going to commit suicide on his final program.

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NYICFF - GIRLS POINT OF VIEW
Various, 70 min. • In English or with English subtitles

SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • Noon
SYNOPSIS: SHORTS FILMS FOR AGES 12 & Up- A collection of the best short films focusing on female protagonists and exploring common teen and tween girl issues around the globe, for ages 9 to 16. Program includes:

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NYICFF - KIDS FLIX
Various, 60 min. In English or musical/no dialogue

SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Historical Society • 10:00am
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown / Garfield at Prince • 10:00am
SYNOPSIS: SHORTS FILMS FOR AGES 3 & Up - A kaleidoscopic showcase of the best short film and animation from around the world, for ages 3 to 6. Program includes:

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NYICFF - KIDS PARTY MIX
Various, 68 min. In English or musical/no dialogue

SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Historical Society • 2:30pm
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown / Garfield at Prince • 11:15am
SYNOPSIS: SHORTS FILMS FOR AGES 6 & Up A selection of the most entertaining, thought-provoking and visually stunning short films for ages 7 to 14

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OUT TO PASTURE - THE FUTURE OF FARMING
USA - 2010 - documentary - 35 minutes

DIRECTOR: Allen Moore
GUEST: Allen Moore and student-filmmakers
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Historical Society • 11:30am • Q&A to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown / Garfield at Prince • 1:00pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: There are rising concerns about the impact of industrial farming on our health, the environment, local communities, and the welfare of the animals.

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PIG
USA - 2011 - sci-fi/drama - 90 minutes

PRODUCER: Mark Stolaroff
GUEST: Mark Stolaroff
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Avalon Theatre • 9:30pm • Q&A to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Cambridge, Gallery 447 • 1:00pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining consciousness, the man realizes he has no idea who he is or how he got in the desert.

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REAGAN
USA - 2011 - documentary - 105 minutes

DIRECTOR: Eugene Jarecki
GUEST: Katja Bullock
SCREENING: Sunday, 9/25 • Avalon Theatre • 9:30am • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: Jarecki examines the enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world – icon, screen star, and two-term president Ronald Reagan.

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THE FLAW
USA, 2011, documentary, 78 minutes

DIRECTOR: David Sington
GUEST: Sam Pizzigati
SYNOPSIS: Taking for its title Greenspan's description that he'd found a flaw in his model of how the world worked, THE FLAW attempts to explain the underlying causes of the crisis in more depth than any documentary to date.
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 2:00pm
Sunday, 9/24 • Avalon Theatre • 2:30pm • Q&A to follow
Monday, 9/26 • Chesapeake College • 2:30pm

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THE GREAT MCGINTY
USA, 1940, Comedy, 82 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Preston Sturges
SYNOPSIS: Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty...
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Historical Society • 4:00pm • Tribute to Sheila Lanahan to follow

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THE GREEN WAVE
Iran, 2010, Documentary, 80 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Ali Samadi Ahadi
SYNOPSIS: In this urgent and powerful documentary, filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi integrates animation with live-action footage, testimonials, and posts from courageous Iranian bloggers, who dared to tell the world about recent political events in Iran.
SCREENING: Sunday, 9/25 • Academy Art Museum • 2:30pm
Monday, 9/26 • Chesapeake College • 11:30am

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THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY
USA - 2011 - drama - 106 minutes

DIRECTOR: Joe Maggio
GUEST: Joe Maggio and actor Dennis Farina
SCREENING: OPENING NIGHT FILM: Friday, September 23 • Avalon Theatre • 6pm • Q&A to follow
Saturday, 9/24 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 7:00pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY chronicles the last days in the life of Joe May (Dennis Farina) an aging, short money hustler who, despite a flawed life, has always believed that a glorious destiny awaited him.

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THE LIE
USA - 2010 - drama - 80 minutes

WRITER/DIRECTOR/ACTOR: Josh Leonard
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Historical Society • 6:30pm
SYNOPSIS: Once an idealistic young man with artistic aspirations, Lonnie is stuck and doesn’t quite know it. Working at an unfulfilling job, he longs to realize his lifelong dream of becoming a musician.

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THE MILL AND THE CROSS
Poland - 2011 - drama - 92 minutes

DIRECTOR: Lech Majewski
GUEST: Erik Neil
SCREENING: Sunday, 9/25 • Academy Art Museum • 10:00am • Q&A to follow
Sunday, 9/25 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 6:30pm
SYNOPSIS: Lech Majewski, a widely reputed Polish visual artist with retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in NY and artworks on view at the Venice Biennale has created a motion picture The Mill & the Cross based on the painting by Peter Bruegel, The Way to Calvary.

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UN VIE DE CHAT / A CAT IN PARIS
FRANCE - 2010 - animation- 70 minutes

DIRECTOR: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Cambridge/Gallery 447 • 10:00am
Sunday, 9/25 • Chestertown/ Garfield at Prince • 3:30pm
SYNOPSIS: A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

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WE WERE HERE
USA - 2011 - documentary - 90 minutes

DIRECTOR: David Weissman
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Academy Art Museum • 9:00pm
SYNOPSIS: Praised as the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. As a filmmaker and political activist who arrived in SF in 1976 and was deeply impacted by the epidemic, director David Weissman brings a unique personal understanding to this history.

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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
USA - 1966 - drama - 131 minutes

DIRECTOR: Mike Nichols
GUEST: Chris Kaltenbach
SCREENING: Sunday, 9/25 • Academy Art Museum • 5:00pm • Q&A to follow
SYNOPSIS: George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other.

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!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
USA - 2010 - documentary - 83 minutes

DIRECTOR: Lynn Hershman Leeson
SCREENING: Saturday, 9/24 • Academy Art Museum • 9:30am
SYNOPSIS: Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, WOMEN ART REVOLUTION reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

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