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THE
ACTRESS / North Carolina Premiere - (91
Minutes)
Saturday, 2:45 – 4:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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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
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APART
FROM THAT / North Carolina Premiere - (120
Minutes)
Friday, 2 – 4:15 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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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
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THE
ARCHITECT / NOT IN COMPETITION - (81
Minutes)
Thursday, 7-11 pm Diana Wortham Theatre
Opening Night Gala Film
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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
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BOUND / NOT IN COMPETITION - (108
Minutes)
Saturday, 2:15 – 4:15
pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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BULLETS
OVER BROADWAY / NOT IN COMPETITION - (98
Minutes)
Friday, 7:30 – 9:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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An Evening with Jennifer Tilly
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CANDY / NOT IN COMPETITION - (108
Minutes)
Sunday, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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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
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CAR
BABES / World Premiere - (87
Minutes)
Friday, 4 – 6 pm Diana Wortham Theatre
Saturday, 4:45 – 6:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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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
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CAT’S
MEOW / NOT IN COMPETITION - (114
Minutes)
Sunday, 4:30 – 6:30
pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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DIRTY
DANCING / NOT IN COMPETITION - (100
Minutes)
Friday, 7 – 9:30 pm Diana Wortham Theatre
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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
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DISAPPEARANCES / North Carolina Premiere - (103
Minutes)
Friday, 5 – 7 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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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
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ELIZABETH
GUNNESS / - (92
Minutes)
Friday, Noon – 2 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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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
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HIDING
VICTORIA / World Premiere - (119
Minutes)
Friday, 4:45 – 7 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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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
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INSTANT
DADS / World Premiere - (70
Minutes)
Friday, 1:30 – 3:30 pm Diana Wortham Theatre
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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
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THE
LAST ADAM / North Carolina Premiere - (104
Minutes)
Friday, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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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
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LAST
STOP FOR PAUL - (80
Minutes)
Friday, 2:30 – 4:30 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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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
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ON
OAK ISLAND / North Carolina Premiere - (89
Minutes)
Friday, 8 – 9:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
Saturday, 3 – 5pm Diana Wortham Theatre
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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
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SEED
OF CHUCKY / NOT IN COMPETITION
Friday, 10:30 pm – 12:30 am Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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SEVERANCE / NOT IN COMPETITION - (90
Minutes)
Saturday, 9:45 – 11:45 pm Fine Arts Theatre, Upper
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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
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THE
STONE HOUSE / North Carolina Premiere - (99
Minutes)
Saturday, Noon – 2
pm Fine Arts Theatre, Lower
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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
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TEN ‘TIL
NOON / North Carolina Premiere - (88
Minutes)
Friday, 10 pm - Midnight Diana Wortham Theatre
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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
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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
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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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