THE ACTRESS / North Carolina Premiere - (91 Minutes)

Saturday, 2:45 – 4:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


Centering around a 20-something, hormone-charged Perth, Australia household, the film features Tom – the desperate-for-a-girlfriend supermarket manager, Kevin – an office administrator with a constant itchy right hand, and Claire – a gay arts student. When Claire’s girlfriend moves out, the three housemates go in search of a fourth renter and Tom finds Emma, an actress visiting from Melbourne, checking out the housing vacancies. As Emma manipulates and seduces her three housemates, they become pitched against each other and conflicts escalate, culminating in a near fatal incident at Emma’s birthday party. This film contains adult language and material.

Director: Zak Hilditch Producer: Zak Hilditch, Antony Webb Editor: Antony Webb Production Company: Quagmire Productions Cast: Matt Hardie, Jodie Passmore, Steve McCall, Caitlin Higgins

     

APART FROM THAT / North Carolina Premiere - (120 Minutes)

Friday, 2 – 4:15 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


A character-driven drama/comedy that follows the little moments and everyday lives of three strangers living in the Pacific Northwest. Ulla is an introverted student beautician who rents a room in the home of Peggy, an elderly exhibitionist with a habit of placing misleading phone calls to local fire departments. Leo, a Native American road striper, remains in constant search for any distraction that might allow him to forget that his best friend is dying and Sam is a Vietnamese banker who must make a decision at the office that will instigate a seemingly irreconcilable divide between himself and his adopted American son.

This film contains adult language and material.

Director: Jennifer Shainin, Randy Walker Producer: Jennifer Shainin, Peter Shainin, Randy Walker Editor: Jennifer Shainin, Randy Walker, Rosa Tyabji Production Company: ForeignAmerican Pictures Cast: Alice Ellingson, Gary Schoonveld, Jessica Marlowe-Goldstein, Kathleen McNearney, Kyle Conyers, Susan Alotrico, Toan Le, Tony Cladoosby

     

THE ARCHITECT / NOT IN COMPETITION - (81 Minutes)

Thursday, 7-11 pm Diana Wortham Theatre

Opening Night Gala Film


Starring Anthony Lapaglia in the title role along with Isabella Rossellini and Viola Davis, this film is a harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (Lapaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family. Tonya Neeley (Davis) is a pragmatic activist who is trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city’s most drug and crime-infested public housing projects. As part of her ongoing campaign to have the projects torn down and decent housing built in its place, Tonya decides that the one signature she needs more than any other on her petition is that of the projects’ original architect, Leo Waters.

Director: Matt Tauber Producer: Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente, Danny Leiner, Declan Baldwin, Anthony Lapaglia Editor: Tom Mcardle Production Company: Sly Dog Productions Cast: Anthony Lapaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan, Paul James, Serena Reeder

     

BOUND / NOT IN COMPETITION - (108 Minutes)

Saturday, 2:15 – 4:15 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


     

BULLETS OVER BROADWAY / NOT IN COMPETITION - (98 Minutes)

Friday, 7:30 – 9:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


An Evening with Jennifer Tilly
     

CANDY / NOT IN COMPETITION - (108 Minutes)

Sunday, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


The film, which is the feature helming debut of noted Australian stage director Neil Armfield, is based on the prize-winning novel by Luke Davies and was adapted for the screen by Davies and Armfield. In the film, recent Oscar-nominee Heath Ledger stars as Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who has fallen love with Candy, a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy, whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle – a boy, a girl, and a drug.

Director: Neil Armfield Producer: Margaret Fink, Emile Sherman Written By: Neil Armfield, Luke Davies Editor: Dany Cooper Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Martin, noni Hazlehurst, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza Mont

     

CAR BABES / World Premiere - (87 Minutes)

Friday, 4 – 6 pm Diana Wortham Theatre
Saturday, 4:45 – 6:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


Ford Davis is fresh out of college and out of a job. After damaging a rental car from his father's car dealership, Ford is forced into working on the lot as a salesman until he can pay off his debt to his dad, Big Len. While at the dealership, Ford befriends the other car salesmen, who refer to each other as 'CarBabes.' Ford comes up with one final plan to save the dealership from impending doom: a blowout sale to sell 300 cars in a month. Impossible? Not if you're a CarBabe.

Director: Nick Fumia, Chris Wolf Producer: Ben Rekhi, Liz Destro, Blake Dirickson Editor: Cary Gries Cast: Ben Savage, Blake Clark, Donnell Rawlings, Jon Gries, David Shackelford, Marshall Manesh, Carolina Garcia

     

CAT’S MEOW / NOT IN COMPETITION - (114 Minutes)

Sunday, 4:30 – 6:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


     

DIRTY DANCING / NOT IN COMPETITION - (100 Minutes)

Friday, 7 – 9:30 pm Diana Wortham Theatre


Baby is becoming a young woman in the summer where she meets Johnny Castle who teaches dance at a family Summer Camp and in his off hours Dirty Dances with the other dancers. She learns a routine so that one of the women can recover from an abortion and becomes Johnny's lover. As the summer winds down, each must come to grips with responsibility and love and others' expectations.

Director: Emile Ardolino Producer: Doro Bachrach, Eleanor Bergstein, Mitchell Cannold, Linda Gottlieb, Steven Reuther Editor: Peter C. Frank Cast: Jennifer Gray, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Jane Brucker, Kelly Bishop, Lonny Price, Max Cantor

     

DISAPPEARANCES / North Carolina Premiere - (103 Minutes)

Friday, 5 – 7 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


A Prohibition-era whiskey-running adventure film, comedy, and drama based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher. It tells the story of a hardy schemer and dreamer, Quebec Bill Bonhomme, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey smuggling. . .a traditional family occupation.

This film contains adult language and material.

Director: Jay Craven Producer: Jay Craven, Hathalee Higgs Editor: Beatrice Sisul Production Company: Border Run Pictures Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Lothaire Bluteau, Luis Guzman, Charlie McDermott

     

ELIZABETH GUNNESS / - (92 Minutes)

Friday, Noon – 2 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


A black comedy about a middle-aged woman in a small Southern town. Elizabeth is a conservative, self-righteous, opinionated woman, but considered by most to be harmless. In Elizabeth’s world, there are no complex problems – everything is simply right or it’s simply wrong – and things that are wrong must be corrected. She is a strong believer in the concept that justice must always be done, that punishment should be swift, and that being precise in all things makes for an orderly world. And where there is no order, she creates it – by any means necessary.

Director/Producer/Editor: Eric Maconaghie Rogers Production Company: Anomaly LLC Cast: Wendy Overly, Roy Fluhrer, Daley Fricks, John Knauss, Kerry Murphy

     

HIDING VICTORIA / World Premiere - (119 Minutes)

Friday, 4:45 – 7 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


Hard as nails 22 year felon Victoria Walker is given a tough choice by a judge: get a legal job or go to jail. Her bad attitude and demeanor slams the door on all her job opportunities except for a helpmate position with a wealthy elderly woman. When Althea Jaffery, age 70, hires Victoria, it is the beginning an unusual relationship between the two women. Unconditional love from Althea brings Victoria to the point of trust, allowing her to reveal her tortured past, while the persistent and confrontational Victoria helps open a painful secret in Althea's life.

This film contains adult language and material.

Director: Dan Chinander Producer: Dan Chinander, Mike Madden Editor: Dan Chinander, Mike Madden Production Company: Hiding Victoria Productions Cast: Anita Gillette, Margo Harshman, Avery Sommers, Margo Harshman, Michael Wiseman, Todd Sherry

     

INSTANT DADS / World Premiere - (70 Minutes)

Friday, 1:30 – 3:30 pm Diana Wortham Theatre


Steven’s ex-girlfriend from high school, Nancy, shows up with a surprise, their 10 year old son Luke! Nancy never told Steven that she got pregnant on prom night with his child but has reappeared in his life, now dying of cancer. She informs Steven that her last wish is to have him, 'the natural father', adopt Luke.

This film contains adult language and material.

Director: Derek Maki Producer: Anise Maki, Heather Lee, Victoria Katz Editor: Derek Bauman, Matthew Wood Production Company: Coolwaters Productions Cast: Steve Hasley, Nina Kaczorowski, Dominic Janes, Derek Maki

     

THE LAST ADAM / North Carolina Premiere - (104 Minutes)

Friday, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


When middle-aged Bobby Jackson returns home to Lake City, AL, he wonders about the lives of “the Bama Rascals,” a band of misfits he led in the ‘70s. Thankfully, when they were growing up as the most diverse bunch in a military mostly-white town, Coach Billy Adams and his wife Betty rescued them with the all-American pastime of baseball. But it’s been years since they’ve been together and now that Coach Billy has died from a massive heart attack, the Rascals must face their past as they serve as pallbearers for his funeral. Tormented by their current life situations and haunted by troubled pasts, will their homecoming be more bitter than sweet?

Director: Edford Banuel, Jr. Producer: Erroll Bailey, Shandra McDonald Editor: Florent Retz Production Company: Descending Dove Productions Cast: Anita Gillette, Leonard Roberts, Carl Lewis, Jose Yenque

     

LAST STOP FOR PAUL - (80 Minutes)

Friday, 2:30 – 4:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


Cliff and Charlie work together selling bathroom supplies. Charlie’s the seasoned traveler, having been to over 50 countries before his 30th birthday. Cliff dreams of traveling but always finds an excuse not to go. When Charlie asks Cliff to go to the Full Moon Party in Thailand, it is no surprise to anyone when Charlie is rejected. Things suddenly change when Cliff gets a phone call informing him that one of his childhood friends died unexpectedly. At the funeral, Cliff learns his buddy had been planning a trip around the world. Cliff decides to make sure his friend still makes that trip, even if it means carrying his ashes in a thermos to do it.

Director/Producer: Neil Mandt Editor: Eric Wing, Nick Scown, Stephen Butler Production Company: Mandt Brothers Productions Cast: Eric Wing, Greg Poppen, Heather Patrone, Marc Carter, Neil Mandt

     

ON OAK ISLAND / North Carolina Premiere - (89 Minutes)

Friday, 8 – 9:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
Saturday, 3 – 5pm Diana Wortham Theatre


Born with furious ambition but a weak heart, Owen Irving is a prodigious movie producer who must face his own mortality when a severe heart attack rips him from the life he loves. Convinced by a longtime friend to get as far from the pressures of life and work as possible, Owen begins his recovery on North Carolina’s Oak Island where he meets Jery Norman – a local girl with a dark past. Just as Owen is settling in, he gets news of a powerplay from within the studio he’s left behind and must now choose between fighting to get back into a life that might kill him. . . or embrace one that would ask him to give up everything he has worked for.

Filmed in North Carolina.

Director: Joseph Ian Horn Producer: Elizabeth Willaman, Joseph Horn Editor: Joseph Horn Production Company: Night Train New Mercury Studios Cast: Elizabeth Willaman, Frank Trimble, Joseph Horn, Ben Horn


SEED OF CHUCKY / NOT IN COMPETITION

Friday, 10:30 pm – 12:30 am Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


     

SEVERANCE / NOT IN COMPETITION - (90 Minutes)

Saturday, 9:45 – 11:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper


Working nine to five is a real killer, but teambuilding holidays can sometimes be even worse. A coach lurches out of the hustle and bustle of Budapest and heads towards the mountainous border. Aboard are seven employees of the international weapons manufacturer Palisade Defence, global suppliers of innovative weaponry for the past 75 war-torn years. The lucky group are being treated to a team-building weekend at the company’s newly built luxury spa lodge by their president, George Cinders. But things quickly go awry as the colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this bloody office outing.

Director: Christopher Smith Producer: Jason Newmark Editor: Stuart Gazzard Production Company: Dan Films Cast: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley, Andy Nyman, Babou Ceesay, David Gilliam, Júli Drajko, Judit Viktor, Sándor Boros

     

THE STONE HOUSE / North Carolina Premiere - (99 Minutes)

Saturday, Noon – 2 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower


Rick Berlinger and his wife move to a beautiful home in a quiet town. When locals begin to disappear soon after their arrival, many of the townspeople begin to suspect them. Others speak of the haunting history of a local abandoned asylum deep in the woods that making these people disappear. Only Rick can uncover the truth.

Director: John Wattenbarger Producer: John Wattenbarger, Donnie Mayles Editor: John Wattenbarger Cast: Dee Sudimak, Dominick Scott, Jeffery Bader, John Wattenbarger, Josh Harper, Ken Denbow, Sarah McCarron, Troy Bradford

     

TEN ‘TIL NOON / North Carolina Premiere - (88 Minutes)

Friday, 10 pm - Midnight Diana Wortham Theatre


Jet-lagged businessman Larry Taylor awakens to find two strangers in his bedroom at 11:50 am and, over the next ten minutes, will experience the most terrifying and possibly final moments of his life. But who these strangers are and what they want can only be determined by events occurring elsewhere at the same time. We relive these ten minutes through the eyes of his wife, her lover, his former business partner and others connected to what is not a simple home invasion.

Director: Scott Storm Producer: Michael Rogers, Brian Osborne Editor: Kalman Alexander Production Company: Shut Up & Shoot Pictures Cast: Alfonso Freeman, Jenya Lano, Paul J. Alessi, Thomas Kopache, Rayne Guest

     

UNDER THE CITY / North America Premiere - (117 Minutes)

Friday, 10:45 pm – 12:45 am Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
Saturday, 5:30 – 8 pm Diana Wortham Theatre


Chronicles the fact-based descent of unreformed, ex-con Nate Mayott into the secret world of police corruption and white slavery in Chicago - where anything can be bought or sold if the price is right and the demand is there. Which it is. Piece by piece, Nate sells his soul for freedom until he is finally backed into an impossible corner – he must kidnap an innocent young girl in order to save his own. Based on true events.

Director: Adam Golomb Producer: Adam Golomb, Tom Perschke, Dean Rabaiov Editor: Corey Coken, Tom Perschke Production Company: Hyde Park Films Cast: Dean Rabaiov, John Heard, Mike Starr, Richard Portnow

 



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