- Saturday Films
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018
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11:00AM
Wayside Cider
1 hour 42 minutes
Thriller / Horror
USA
Directed by James Ojala
A true unsolved ecological mystery, where thousands of hideously deformed frogs turned up in the waters of Minnesota, as seen through the eyes of a single mother and her 11 year old son who return to her hometown and find themselves fighting for their own lives.
12:00PM
Streamside Yoga Studio
DOUBLE FEATURE - Claudio Fasoli's Innersounds & Still Lifes
Claudio Fasoli's Innersounds
23 minutes
Music Documentary
Italy
Directed by Angelo Poli
A journey into the creative processes of jazz musician Claudio Fasoli, a journey in stages, an intimate and unpublished black and white portrait.
Still Lifes
43 minutes
Experimental
USA
Directed By: Jac Rubenstein
With a montage of static images of commonplace locations and a fugue of indistinct voices, natural sounds, and music, Still Lifes reflects upon the empty spaces where people had at one time lived, laughed, and worked.
Still Lifes Filmmaker Q&A
1:00PM: SHORTS
Wayside Cider
Tears
14 minutes
Drama
Germany
Directed by Miriam Dehne
In Belle Èpoque Berlin, everybody wants to be a star. A declaration of love to Alice Guy-Blaché, first female filmmaker of the world.
Sine Condicion Amoris (Unconditional Love)
32 minutes
Romance / Fantasy
New Zealand
Directed By: Luke Bonjers
The lives of a solitary young scientist and the girl he loves take a strange turn after he uses his latest experiment to save her life.
Falling Stars
25 minutes
Drama
Germany
Directed by Miriam Dehne
What is it, if someone lives your dream? The Young trapeze artists Zoe and Julius are the stars in a small Vaudeville-Varieté. But this sudden ends, when the mysterious Billy appears.
Tears / Falling Stars Filmmaker Q&A
1:00PM
The Andes Hotel
BLACK ROOM
6 minutes
Drama
Poland
Directed By: Bartłomiej Skupień
A man who has enough of existence in the modern world is looking for a way to find a peace and happiness.
Mr. Not Too Bad
8 minutes
Comedy
USA
Directed by Peter Matsoukas
A not too bad guy has a bad day and learns what's good for him.
Sac de Merde
13 minutes
Comedy
USA
Directed by Greg Chwerchak
Based on a true story, "Sac de Merde" tells the tale of Mazel Mankewicz, an unlucky-in-love yet irrationally optimistic New Yorker who thinks her luck has changed when she spends the night with the man of her dreams.
Dirty Old Man
10 minutes
Comedy
USA
Directed by Sam Avery
Dirty Old Man is a short film based on the comedy of the late-great Rodney Dangerfield and tells the story of an older man who continues to make inappropriate jokes to pretty women at the gym after receiving his final warning from the manager.
Sunday in the Park with doG
7 minutes
Animation
USA
Directed by Robert Rosenbaum
While enjoying a sandwich on a relaxing day in the park, a high-strung Guy has a chance meeting with a very zen, three-legged doG, who may or may not be... an existentialist.
Forgotten Country
10 minutes
Drama
USA
Directed by Eric Unverzagt
Two grieving siblings break into the house of the Doctor they believe didn't provide enough care for their recently deceased brother. Things go wrong when the doctor comes home unexpectedly.
The Cleaner
3 minutes
Comedy
USA
Directed by Demitra Papadinis
A woman must face all the challenges and terrors caused by an imminent visit from her mother.
Palookas
10 minutes
Comedy
USA
Directed by Prado Mukherji
Three people are pulling off the robbery of a lifetime. Except that they are unappreciated literary journalists, the setting is a dingy magazine shop, and two of them are in the midst of a painful breakup.
Forgotten Country, The Cleaner & Palookas Filmmakers Q&A
2:00PM
Streamside Yoga Studio
1 hour 32 minutes
Drama / Fantasy
Spain
Directed by Lucas Parnes & Jesus Serna
When Esteban wakes up no one recognizes him. They say he has been missing for days. Esteban tries to convince his acquaintances of the opposite. Suddenly there's an accident. Esteban is not Esteban anymore, but a stranger that arrives in his village.
3:00PM
Wayside Cider
Manitou Valley - short2 minutes
Animation
USA
Directed by Larry Fessenden
Teaser for an animated series based on characters from Larry Fessenden’s film Wendigo.
Wendigo
1 hour 31 minutes
Horror / Thriller
USA
Directed by Larry Fessenden
An urban couple and their 8-year old encounter horrors in the country, real and imagined.
The Last Winter
1 hour 41 minutes
Horror / Thriller
USA
Directed by Larry Fessenden
In Arctic Alaska a team of oil explorers succumb to an unknowable fear.
Larry Fessenden Q&A
3:00PM
The Andes Hotel
1 hour 12 minutes
Documentary
USA
Directed By: Elaine Mayes
A conceptual documentary about two older women on summer vacations in the Catskills. One of these women is Helen Levitt (1912 - 2009), a well-known artist photographer and filmmaker.
4:00PM
Streamside Yoga Studio
found family footage
10 minutes
Documentary
Directed By: Eric J Moore
Some time ago, the filmmaker received a box of 50-year-old 8mm films and one roll of degraded reel to reel audio, revealing an intact family he never knew existed.
A Soldier's Dream: The Milt Feldman Story
50 minutes
Documentary
USA
Directed By: Eduardo Montes-Bradley
An intimate portrait of POW captured at The Battle of The Bulge who stood proud as an American Jew in the face of his Nazi captors.
All Appliance
13 minutes
Documentary
USA
Directed by Chuka Umunna
Roy and Jack Vanasco are two brothers who enlisted and fought during World War Two. Upon their return to their native Brooklyn, they opened an appliance repair store--All Appliance Refrigerator Company.
5:00PM
The Andes Hotel
DOUBLE FEATURE: Brothers & Finish Line
Brothers
16 minutes
Documentary
USA
Directed by Jack Ballo
Broke and alone, two brothers who drank away their inheritance start a new life together in the woods of New Jersey while trying to put their troubled past behind them.
Finish Line: The Rise and Demise of Off-Track Betting
57 minutes
Documentary
USA
Directed by Joseph Fusco
The first documentary about the fallout from the closure of New York City's famed Off-Track Betting system.
Filmmaker Q&A: Finish Line: The Rise and Demise of Off-Track Betting
5:45 PM
Streamside Yoga Studio
1 hour 4 minutes
Documentary
Canada
Directed by Tracey April Cochrane
A documentary about first responders and PTSD. The People interviewed are from diverse backgrounds and locations, emphasizing the universal importance of the topic and message.
7:00PM
The Andes Hotel
1 hour 25 minutes
Documentary
USA
Directed By: Jillian Moul, Matthew Moul
The incredible eight year journey of U.S. military veterans from four generations as they discover unique ways to overcome post-war challenges, transforming their lives and continuing their service to others.
7:30PM
Wayside Cider
Filmmaker Party & Awards
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