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APPALOOSA
writer / producer Robert Knott
Director: Ed Harris
Writers: Ed Harris, Robert Knott
Release Date: September 19, 2008 (New York, L.A. and Toronto) and October 3, 2008 (nationwide)
Genre: Western, Action
Plot: Set in the Old West territory of New Mexico, Appaloosa revolves around a pair of hired guns (Mortensen and Harris) who come to clean up a dangerous town run by a ruthless, powerful rancher (Irons) and his band of outlaws. While bringing new order to the town, the two fearless lawmen meet a provocative outsider (Zellweger) whose unconventional ways threaten to destroy their decade-old bond.
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Screening:
Sunday, September 21 • 7:00 pm • 116 min • Avalon Theatre
with writer / producer Robert Knott
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AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR
with Interfaith dialogue with Rabbi Peter Hyman and Father Bruce Byrolly
Director: Peter Gilbert, Steve James
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in Texas on December 7, 1989, after prosecutors ignored evidence inculpating a man, who bragged to friends about committing the crimes of which DeLuna was convicted.
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 12:30 pm • 98 min • Avalon Theatre
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THE BEST MAN and Political Panel*
with campaign panel hosted by CNN's Lucy Spiegel
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Gore Vidal
Release Date: 1964
Genre: Drama
Plot: The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 8:00 pm • 102 min • Avalon Theatre • with Political Discussion
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THE BLACK LIST PROJECT, VOLUME 1*
Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders with Elvis Mitchell
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: The idea was to interview, film and photograph prominent African Americans of various professions, disciplines and backgrounds.
These stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in this country would work toward re-defining "blacklist" for a new century in the process.
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Screenings:
Saturday, September 20 • 12:30 pm • 90 min • Academy Art Museum
Sunday, September 21 • 3:30 pm • 90 min • Avalon Theatre
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CHARLIE OBERT'S BARN*
with director Kurt Kolaja
Director: Kurt Kolaja
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: In the Sparta Township of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where the roads are still made of dirt (or gravel, depending on who you ask), lies the intersection of Hatchtown Road and Obert Road, surrounded by farms that have been run by the same families for many generations. Filmmaker Kurt Kolaja re-visits his hometown and takes particular interest in an old barn built by his late grandfather, Charlie Obert. The barn seems destined for the wood pile, so Kurt decides to dismantle it, transport it to Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and reconstruct it as his new family home. Along with his wife and daughter, he learns about loans, building permits, and the Native American tribe who were forcefully removed from the same Maryland land on which they are undertaking this rebuilding.
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 4:15 pm • 65 min • Academy Art Museum • with Kurt Kolaja |
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EUPHORIA
with director Lee Boot
Director: Lee Boot
Writers: Lee Boot
Release Date: June 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Euphoria begins by asking us: in a country built for the pursuit of happiness, is it working? Are you happy? Narrator Lee Boot takes us on a journey through the American landscape—the one that surrounds us and the one inside us. In each place, he touches on a meaningful piece of our history, our biology and our nature—each time leaving us with surprising metaphors that cause us to reflect. The intricate patterns of how humans survive and thrive emotionally and spiritually has been Boot’s core concern since his time as a high school teacher when he saw that his students’ success or failure depended more on their emotional state than anything else. Big surprise.
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Screening:
Sunday, September 21 • 10:00 am • 85 min • Academy Art Museum • with Lee Boot |
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FLASH OF GENIUS
with Tim Kearns and director Marc Abraham
Director: Marc Abraham
Writers: Philip Railsback
Release Date: 17 October 2008
Genre: Drama
Plot: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price.
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Opening Night Film
Friday, September 19 • 8:00 pm • 99 min • Avalon Theatre • with Tim Kearns and Marc Abraham
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THE FLY BOYS*
with executive producer Lisle Moore
Director: Rocco DeVilliers
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Adventure
Plot: Two kids from a small town accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 12:00 pm • 118 min • Historical Society Auditorium
with executive director Lisle Moore |
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HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL*
with performance by Art House Live
Director: William Castle
Writer: Robb White
Release Date: 1959
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They will all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
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Screening:Saturday, September 20 • 8:30 pm • 75min • Historical Society Auditorium
with performance by Art House Live |
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IN THE FAMILY
with director Beckie Stocchetti
Director: Joanna Rudnick
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with a genetic test result that leaves her vulnerable and confused, she balances dreams of having her own children with the unnerving reality that she is risking her life by holding on to her fertility. In the Family follows Joanna as she connects with other women trying to navigate the unpredictable world of predictive genetic testing. Intensely personal and timely, In the Family asks: How much do you sacrifice to survive?
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 3:00 pm • 83 min• Avalon Theatre • with director Beckie Stocchetti |
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I.O.U.S.A.*
with director Patrick Creadon & special guests
Director: Patrick Creadon
Writer: Patrick Creadon
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Few are aware that America may be on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. explores the country's shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster.
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 10:00 am • 85 min • Avalon Theatre • with Patrick Creadon
Sunday, September 21 • 1:00 pm • 85 min • Avalon Theatre • with director Patrick Creadon |
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THE PEOPLE SPEAK*
with producer Chris Moore
Director: Tony Sacco
Producer: Chris Moore
Release Date: 2009
Genre: Documentary
Plot: A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 5:30 pm • 90 min • Avalon Theatre • with producer Chris Moore |
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ROW HARD, NO EXCUSES*
with rower Tom Mailhot
Producer: Lantern Films
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: ROW HARD NO EXCUSES chronicles the voyage of the only American entry in a rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean. It is both an exciting sports-adventure story and an intimate portrait of the two-man crew that explores masculinity, midlife and ambition.
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Screenings:
Satrurday, September 20 • 6:00 PM • 88 min • Academy Art Museum • with rower Tom Mailhot
Sunday, September 21 • 12:00 pm • St. Michaels • with rower Tom Mailhot |
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SHORTS*
The shorts program is an eclectic mix of provocative filmmaking. Get ready to go to some wild places. Everything from dark comedy to lushly shot black and white narratives. Our selection this year is definitely not for children. One of the films, Nosebleed, has a recognizable star (David Arquette) but most do not. Adrien Muys' Iris tells the story of a very old crab picker. Filmmaker Jack Ferry, Flirting Andrea Shnoonens, shows how flirting can go horribly wrong. Mikael Sodersten's Debbi is truly in the category of political experimental filmmaking. Jake Mahaffy's super short, Inertia, is a beguiling motion study. Jamie Travis' Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner proves that being naughty may just save these kids' lives. Finally there is the mystery and love story, Everyone Who Has Ever Lived Here, told in diptychs and triptychs that will keep you guessing until the final frame.
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Screening:
Satrurday, September 20 • 2:30 PM • Academy Art Museum
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SMART PEOPLE
with writer Mark Poirier
Director: Noam Murro
Writer: Mark Poirier
Release Date: April 2008
Genre: Drama
Plot: Lawrence Wetherhold is miserable and a misanthrope: he's a widower, a pompous professor at Carnegie Mellow, an indifferent father to a college student and a high-school senior, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er-do-well who's come to town. A seizure and a fall send Lawrence to the emergency room where the physician, a former student of his, ends up going on a date with him. His daughter, Vanessa, lonely and friendless, whose been bonding with his brother, tries to sabotage dad and the doctor's relationship, but Lawrence is good at that without help. Is there any way these smart people can get a life? Can happiness be pursued beneath layers of irony?
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 2:30 pm • 95min • Historical Society Auditorium • with Mark Poirier |
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SHADOW OF THE HOUSE*
with director Allie Humenek
Director: Allie Humenuk
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Shadow of the House peers into his past and around the corners of his present to see what normally goes unseen. This film is a rare look into the life of one of America’s renowned photographers. A feature length film, Shadow of the House explores how Morell uses his art to make sense of a life up-ended by geographic, cultural, linguistic, and political dislocation. It is an intimate portrayal of how one man’s personal struggle with the themes of loss, exile, and self-determination reflects the ways in which we all work to construct narratives that unite the past with the present and memory with desire. Morell has used this tension to fuel a career as a remarkable artist.
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Screening:
Sunday, September 21 • 12:30 • 74 min • Academy Art Museum • with director Allie Humenek |
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SPINE TINGLER: THE WILLIAM CASTLE STORY*
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Release Date: 2007
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
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Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 6:30 pm • 82 min • Historical Society Auditorium |
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THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT*
Director: Rory Kennedy
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: A legend in political reporting, Helen Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy, earning the nickname "First Lady of the Press." Now in her 80s, the venerable journalist sits down to review her life and career in depth for the first time, engaging in a one-on-one interview with award-winning director Rory Kennedy.
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Screening:
Sunday, September 21 • 11:00 am • 40 min • Avalon Theatre |
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WAITING FOR HOCKNEY
with artist Billy Pappas
Director: Julie Checkoway
Writers: Julie Checkoway, Chris A. Peterson, Neal Checkoway
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Documentary
Plot: A comic and poignant tale of a Baltimore man and the people who believe in him as they collude and collide for an entire decade in the service of a grand idea. He spends eight years on a single drawing of Marilyn Monroe working to show a microscopic level of detail he hopes will reveal something deeper than photography.
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Screenings:
Saturday, September 20 • 10:00 am • 85 min • Academy Art Museum • with artist Billy Pappas
Sunday, September 21 • 3:00 pm • 85 min • Academy Art Museum • with artist Billy Pappas
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THE WHITE PONY **
with writer Laura Ambler
Writer: Laura Ambler
Genre: family
Screening:
Sunday, September 21 • 3:30 pm • 93 min • St. Michaels • with writer Laura Ambler
PIXAR SHORT FILMS**
Genre: Children & Family
Screening:
Saturday, September 20 • 10:00 am • 85 min • Historical Society Auditorium
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Chesapeake Film Festival is proud to partner with Easton Premier Cinemas in offering the following films. Tickets available at the door at Easton Premier Cinemas - CFF Festival, All-Access and Weekend Passes will be honored
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Plot:In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life.
REPRISE
Plot:REPRISE is a film about friendship, madness and creativity, about love and sorrow, great ambitions and the often unpleasant clash between youthful presumptions and reality.
YOUNG @ HEART
Plot: A story of the Young at Heart Chorus, a group of senior citizens who perform contemporary and classic rock and pop songs.
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