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THURSDAY, MAY 15TH
MELUNGEON VOICES
11:00 – 12:05 p.m.
Feature Documentary – 1 hour 3 minutes
Raleigh, NC
World Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – Julie Williams Dixon
Co-Director/DP - Warren Gentry
with: Dr. Brent Kennedy and other leading Melungeon researchers
Mystery has surrounded the multi-ethnic Melungeons who have lived deep in the Appalachians for hundreds of years. Their story of coming together from diverse backgrounds and putting aside cultural and racial differences to survive offers a look at an almost forgotten people and a never told piece of America’s history.
Julie Williams Dixon will be attending.
ESCAPE FROM 13
1:00 – 1:10 p.m.
Experimental – 7 Minutes, 15 Seconds
Tupelo, MS
World Premier
Writer, Director, Producer, – Russell Fox
 with:
Animated Characters - (Voice-overs – Robin Haire, Neal Sanford, Ken Calloway, Doug Stewart, Rudy Pounds, Russell Fox)
She wants to be free – at any costs – and sometimes your friends pose the greatest obstacles. A tale of yearning, betrayal and struggle.
Russell Fox will be attending.
THE FATHER
1:10-1:15 p.m.
Student - 2 minutes 15 seconds
Los Angeles, CA
World Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – Anthony Onah
Executive Producer – Brian Flanagan
Associate Producers – Evelyn Lewis, Roselynn Lewis
with:
Christopher L. Davis and Brandon White
Injustice cuts both ways when a father’s misguided effort drives his son to a shocking end.
FORGOTTEN COAST
1:15 – 2:10 p.m.
Feature Documentary – 55 minutes
Salt Lake City, Utah
Director – Jamie Christensen Johnston
Executive Producer – Brad Johnston
Associate Producer – Lisa Kettle
 with:
Eddie Favre, Lynn Tincher-Ladner, Everett and Elaine Ladnier, Don Farrar, Steve Patronas
You may think you know about the effects of Hurricane Katrina, but you would be wrong. This film is about the people of the Mississippi and Alabama coast struggling to reconstruct their lives and adjust to their rapidly changing culture.
Jamie Christensen Johnston will be attending.
THE MIRACLE
2:20-2:50 p.m.
Short – 29 minutes
Chicago, IL
Southern U.S. Premier
 Writer, Director, - Jeffrey Jon Smith
Executive Producer – James Aull
Producer – Jerry Prochazka
with:
Tekki Lomnicki, Rula Sirhan Gardenier
While confessing to her priest, Tikki Lomnicki born with dystrophic dwarfism must face the painful truth about a journey she and her mother made to Lourdes twenty-seven years earlier. This is a film about redemption.
ROSES ARE GREEK
2:50 – 3:00 p.m.
Young Filmmaker – 10 minutes
San Diego, CA
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – Katie Flynn
Assistant Director – Kaylynn Sheets
with:
Danny Morris, Deanna Lynn, Grant Zebold, Kathleen Meehan
A touching tale of a generous Greek immigrant and the neighbors who took his generosity for granted.
BOOK OF WISDOM
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Short – 26 minutes
Montreal, Quebec
World Premier
Writer – Ryan Costello, Jr.
Director – Lorne Hiltser
Producer – Josh Kimmel
 with:
Josh Kimmel, Erika Rosenbaum, Larry Day, Mike Paterson, Christine Ghawi
Danny Brown was unhappy with his life, invisible to the girl he liked, and constantly picked on by his co-worker. When a magical book boasting "All The Answers" appears in his apartment, Danny's life starts to turn around. Suddenly, he's getting the attention of his dream girl, respect from his boss, and a new found confidence. As Danny goes through the chapters, step by step, he realizes he's changing, but is the change for the better?
Josh Kimmel will be attending
SILVER TONGUES
3:30 – 3:55 p.m.
Student – 24 minutes 50 seconds
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director – Simon Arthur
Producer – Stuart Devon
Executive Producer – Mark Cousins
Associate Producer – James Alcock
 With : Alison Peebles, James Grant, Jon Morrisson, Una McLean, Maureen Carr
A wandering couple travel the road, becoming different people in each town, playing a gleefully sadistic game of deceit. In this film they prey on the care home of senile dementia sufferers convincing them that they are family members.
ABRAHAM’S BAKERY
3:55 – 4:05 p.m.
Young Filmmaker – 9 minutes, 42 seconds
Miami Beach, FL
 Writer, Director, Producer - Aaron Davidson
with:
Aaron Davidson – Narrator
Abraham’s Kosher Bakery has been a Miami Beach landmark for over 30 years and is one of the last old fashion bakeries of its kind. This film takes us behind the scenes as the camera lovingly follows the process of making delectable baked goods.
IMAGINE ME A HERO
4:15 – 4:25 p.m.
Short – 10 minutes 43 seconds
West Point, MS
Writer, Director, Producer, – Michael Williams
 with:
Jon Paul Whitlock, April Wren, Wes Pumphrey
Have you ever wished you had powers? In this short dramedy, Ben, an obsessed fan of the TV show Heroes, begins to believe that he may be developing powers just like the characters in the show.
Michael Williams, Jon Paul Whitlock and April Wren will be attending.
WAR EAGLE,ARKANSAS
4:25 – 5:55 p.m.
Feature – 1 hour 34 minutes
War Eagle, ARK
Mississippi and Southern USA Premier
Director, Robert Milazzo
Screenplay by Graham Gordy - Story by Vincent Insalaco and Graham Gordy
Producers – Marco Henry, Vincent Insalaco,
Assistant Director – Chris Carroll
with:
 Bryan Dennehy, Dan McCabe, James McDaniel, Luke Grimes, Mare Winningham, Mary K. Place, Misti Traya
War Eagle, Arkansas is a character driven drama about a young man’s dilemma of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of the Ozark Mountains. Language
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Courthouse on the Lawn Party/Screening
Music by: Homemade Jamz
Food by: Romie’s Grocery & Rob Lesley Catering
GENGHIS BLUES
Adrian Belic – special guest appearance
8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Feature Documentary – 90 minutes
Los Angeles, CA
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director – Roko Belic
Producers– Roko Belic and Adrian Belic
with:
Paul Pena
 This Oscar-nominated film is the story of a blind blues musician and his triumphant trek to the forgotten land of Tuva and the mysterious art of Khoomei or throatsinging, a seemingly impossible form of singing that produces multiple vocal tones simultaneously. Paul Pena, who has played with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Garcia, Muddy Waters and B.B. King, travels to Tuva to live among the descendants of Genghis Khan and compete in their triennial Khoomei contest.
Adrian Belic will be attending.
FRIDAY, MAY 16TH
MOST CHANGED
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Short - 17 minutes
Tupelo, MS
World Premier
 Writer, Director – Chuck McIntosh
Producers – Austin Haley, Tom Booth
with: Jacob Pryor, Christopher Womack, Lisa Martin
Two knuckleheads drop in on a 10-year high school reunion of a school they never attended and find out that identity is in the eye of the beholder. (non-competition)
Chuck McIntosh, Austin Haley and Tom Booth will be attending.
FINDING KRAFTLAND
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Feature Documentary- 1 hour and 15 minutes
Sherman Oaks, CA
Mississippi Premier
Directors/Writers - Richard Kraft, Adam Shell
Producer – Richard Kraft
 with:
Richard Kraft, Nicky Kraft, Stacey Asward, Alan Menken, Christophe Beck, Danny Elfman, David Zippel, Graeme Revell, John Ottman, John Brion, Marc Shaiman,
Treveor Rabin
After the death of his older brother, a Hollywood talent agent drags his son through an excessive quest to recapture his childhood. The quest involves zero gravity flights, obsessive collecting of pieces of Disneyland, and a trek around the world to discover the perfect rollercoaster. Along the way both father and son discover the true meaning of living life to its fullest. Language
INSIDE VOICE
2:15 – 2:25 p.m.
Student – 7 minutes
Tupelo, MS
World Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – David Rice
with:
Brian Powell, Thomas Ryden, Lindsey Rae Harris, Leah Duncan
A librarian spends his time musing about people in the real world he detests.
David Rice will be attending
RABIA
2:35 – 3:00 p.m.
Short - 23 minutes 30 seconds
Avon, CO
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director – Muhammad Ali Hasan
Executive Producers – Seeme Gull Hasan, Dani Rascon, Nick Becker, Wesley Thayer, Chris Ottesen
with:
Hanieh Jodat, Mo Gallini, Bob Corso, Ursula Taherian, Sheila Vand
Rabia is a woman who must blow herself up in order to exist. From the moment she straps explosives to her body, we are exposed to flashbacks of her past. When she steps onto a popular beach strapped with explosives we find ourselves wondering about her motives.
WE HEAR SIRENS
3:00 – 3:05 p.m.
Experimental – 3 minutes
Austin, TX
 Director, Producer – Alex Harder
with:
Footage by Chris Peterson
Special thanks – Charles de Montebello & Mitch McCabe
A childhood friend of mine escaped with his life from the World Trade Center on 9/11 2001. This film is culled from extremely rare footage he captured that day, inside as well as out. Images and sounds in memory….
NEVER GIVE UP HOPE
3:05 – 3:10 p.m.
Music Video – 2 minutes 45 seconds
Blue Springs, MS
World Premier
Writers/Producers - Daniel Lee, Jake Wood
Director – Daniel Lee
 with:
Uncertain Future
A music video for a song with a positive message by Tupelo’s own Uncertain Future.
Daniel Lee and Jake Wood will be attending.
STANDING ON A WHALE
3:10 – 3:40 p.m.
Experimental – 28 minutes
Nashville, TN
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer, – Jorge Arrieta
with:
Dominique Arrieta, Elijha Conley, Gabriel Wilson, Grant Beauchamp, Jeff Wilson, Jorge Arrieta
This imaginative film features artwork, animation and the concept of creation to bring to life the inspiration of one man – one artist.
Dominique Arrieta and Jorge Arrieta will be attending.
BREAKING POINT
3:40 – 3:50 p.m.
Young Filmmaker – 6 minutes
Hatley, MS
World Premier
 Writer, Director – Dustin Edmonson
Producer – Hunter White
with: Dustin Edmonson, Sarah Mitchell, Ashley Craig
A young recent divorcee and her sister are confronted by the divorcee’s ex-husband who demands to see his son. After a heated argument, things turn drastically wrong.
Dustin Edmonson, Hunter White, Sarah Mitchell, Ashley Craig, and Brennan Harris will be attending
LOVE PILLS
7:00 – 7:05 p.m.
Experimental – 3 minutes 12 seconds
Valencia, CA
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – Seojin Lee
with:
Animated Characters
There is a goddess of love who drops love pills into the forest and makes creatures fall in love. But one day she falls in love herself and does not know what to do.
AGAINST THE WIND
7:05– 7:15 p.m.
Short – 9 minutes 30 seconds
Scotia, NY
 Writer/Director – Dan Masucci
Producers – Dan Masucci, Joe Masucci
with: Michael F. Hayes
Growing old is the most unexpected certainty. In the twilight of his life, Ned reflects on his past, his remaining years and discovers how his role in life has changed. This sentimental film addresses two issues; the old truly are young at heart, and universal emotions live within us all.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(With English Subtitles)
7:15 – 7:35 p.m.
Short – 19 minutes
London, United Kingdom
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director, – Tim Plester
Producers - Margery Bone, Collin Teague
with:
Tim Plester, MyAnna Buring, Craig Parkinson
An offbeat black and white romantic comedy about love and communication ... with subtitles. This film features sparking music by singer/songwriter Barbarossa.
CECILIA ROSE
7:35 – 7:50 p.m.
Student - 11 minutes, 30 seconds
Calbasas, CA
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director – Judd King
Producer – Nelson Ceron
with:
Aaron Harp, Jana Lee, Marci Shaklee, Steve Guilmette
A young man's search for his missing girlfriend launches him into a head to head battle with a stranger who claims to know everything about him. The youth must defy the stranger's harrowing accusations and face his own tortured past if he is to have any hope of finding her. Language
KEYS
7:50 – 8:15 p.m.
Student – 23 minutes
Los Angeles, CA
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director – Christopher Babers
Producer – Damen Fletcher
Executive Producer – Wendy Raquel Robinson
 with:
Damen Fletcher, Francisco Farr, Trhea Danae, Wayne Baldwin
This is the dramatic story of a broken family who discovers healing within the broken keys of an old piano. Emotions are never just black and white.
Damen Fletcher and Christopher Babers will be attending
SWEETIE
8:15 – 8:35 p.m.
Short – 21 minutes
Somerville, MA
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director – Andrew Sayre
Producers – Andrew Sayre and Lindsay Shah
w ith:
Emily Boisseau, Ava Sophia
A young woman named Lilly comes across a little girl playing in her front yard who appears to be completely alone. Concerned for the child’s safety, Lilly decides to get involved. And it is the last mistake she will ever make. Language
COUGH DROP
8:35 – 8:55 p.m.
Student - 15 minutes 17 seconds
Studio City, CA
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director – Kristina Lear
Producers – Kristina Lear, Cynthia Graner
 With:
Julia Di Angelo, David Warshofsky, James Le Gros, Marin Hinkle
One day after school 10 year old Kate takes a different route home.
Kristina Lear will be attending
IT’S A GREAT DAY
9:05 -9:10 p.m.
Music Video – 4 minutes 14 seconds
Tupelo, MS
World Premier
Writer, Director, Producer– vaz Vanelli
 with:
Paul Thorn
In this music video Paul Thorn performs an original song in which characters inspired by Paul’s artwork come to life. (song written by Billy Maddox and Paul Thorn)
vaz Vanelli will be attending.
EPICAC
– Short – 21 minutes
Los Angeles, CA
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director – Will Tully
Producers – Will Tully, Jenny Lenz
Associate Producer – Joel Austin
 with:
Heather Long, Jack Serino, (voice-over) Lou Young
Based on a Kurt Vonnegut short story, EPICAC is a science fiction romance about a machine that learns to love. When it understands that it is not made of “protoplasm” it short circuits itself out of the female and male mathematician’s lives forever.
YESTERDAY WAS A LIE
9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Feature Film – 1 hour 29 minutes
Hollywood, CA
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director, Executive Producer – James Kerwin
Producer – Chase Masterson
Associate Producer – Daniel Henning
Co-Producer – Jay Thames
with:
 Chase Masterson, Jennifer Slimko, John Newton, Kipleigh Brown, Megan Henning, Mik Scriba, Nathan Mobley, Peter Mayhew, Robert Siegel, Warren Davis
Hoyle, a girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon, finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius. Her work takes a series of unforeseen twists as events around her grow increasingly surreal. Plunged into a dark world of intrigue and earth-shattering cosmological secrets, she is haunted by an ever present shadow whom she is destined to face. Hoyle discovers the most powerful force in the universe lies within the depths of the human heart.
SATURDAY, MAY 17TH
GUITARS
1:00 – 1:05 p.m.
Music Video - 4 Minutes, 31 Seconds
Brooklyn, New York
World Premier
Writer, Producer – Terry Carlton
Director – Bohagey Bowes
 with:
Terry Carlton
This is the official music video to the Terry Carlton song Guitars, featuring Andy Latimer of the group Camel. The psychedelic guitars is an homage to one man’s guitar collection.
Bohagey Bowes and Frannie Rutherford will be attending.
CRACKER
1:05 – 2:20 p.m.
Feature Documentary – 1 hour 15 minutes
Boca Raton, FL
Mississippi Premier
 Director – Victor Milt
Producers – George Pratt, Mac Martin, Martin Ross
Executive Producers, Barbara Carlton, Kim Milt
with:
Narrators - Barbara Korsen and Victor Milt
For over 250 years cowboys have ridden the plains of central Florida. This film captures the beauty of the old ways with the drama of encroaching civilization. We see cowboys on the range, at the rodeo and in the corrals in a beautiful and important film documenting America in the throes of change, losing her heritage.
WHIRL
2:20 – 2:30 p.m.
Experimental - 8 minutes
Mize, MS
 Writer, Director, Producer – Dick Ford
with:
Video feedback, Painted Film and Nature Photography
Whirl is an abstract meditation on the structure of the cosmos
Dick Ford and Adam Ford will be attending
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
2:30 – 2:40 p.m.
Young Filmmaker - 10 minutes
Silver Spring, MD
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer, – Melissa Mergner
with:
Melissa Mergner – narrator of film
A short documentary about farm laborer activists Baldemar Velasquez and his organization, the farm labor organizing committee.
LIKE MOLES, LIKE RATS
2:40 – 4:15 p.m.
Feature – 1 hour 35 minutes
Huntsville, AL
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director - Jim Torres
Author of adapted material Ron Harris
Producers – Donna Brower, Scott Lumpkin
Executive Producer – Derek Thornton
 with:
Azura Skye, Joshua Leonard, Nathan Baesal, Reg E. Cathey, Diane Salinger, Aaron Hendry, Shannon Eubanks, Charlie Talbert, Khadijah Haaq, Malika Haaq, Dan Beene, Phil Parker, Deborah Duke, Graham Roden
A post-apocalyptic fairytale about a young woman’s journey to deliver the first child born 15 years after famine, disease and war have taken their toll on civilization. A lone radio disc jockey provides the ray of hope in this artfully rendered vision of a challenging future filled with danger and fear. (non- competition)
Jim and Susannah Torres and Ron Harris will be attending.
THE HONEST SHEPHERD
4:20 – 4:40 p.m.
Young Filmmaker – 16 minutes 12 seconds
Savannah, GA
Mississippi Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – Lubomir Mihailo Kocka
with:
Jozef Bajnok, Viktor Setnicky, Zuzka Zimanova, Edo
Janko, an ordinary shepherd, becomes a subject of a bet concerning his honesty. Eventually everyone involved must face the consequences of their choices.
Lubomir Mihailo Kocka will be attending.
TRAINWRECK
4:40 – 4:45 p.m.
3 minutes, 17 seconds
Blue Springs, MS
World Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – April Perea
with:
The Mangled Fairy
This video is a music project by an underground Mississippi artist.
April Perea will be attending
CHASIN’ GUS’S GHOST
4:45 – 6:25 p.m.
Feature Documentary – 1 hour 37 minutes
Cleveland, Ohio
Mississippi Premier
Writer, Director, Producer – Todd Kwait
Executive Producer – Carol Kwait
with narrator Todd Kwait
A personal exploration of the roots and growth of jug band music in the US starting with Gus Cannon in the 1920’s and his dynamic influence on the popular folk music movement of the 60’s and 70’s. The film discovers its modern popularity in Japan and features interviews and performances by John Sebastian – Lovin’ Spoonful, Bob Weir - Grateful Dead, the voice of Taj Mahal and Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, and the late Fritz Richmond, Bill Keith and Maria Muldaur from the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and David Grisman. Langauge
HORIZON DINER
6:30 – 6:35 p.m.
Experimental – 3 minutes
Philadelphia, PA
World Premier
 Writer, Director, Producer – Joseph Crockett
With: animated character
A lively exploration of altered reality through altered perceptions. Both contemplative and humorous, this film imagines a world in which the laws of optics and time are out of control.
GREETINGS FROM THE SHORE
6:40 – 8:40 p.m.
Feature Film – 1 hour 58 minutes
Lavallette, NJ
Mississippi Premier
 Writer/Director – Greg Chwerchak
Writer/Producer – Gabrielle Berberich
Co-Producer – Gregory Charles Schaefer
Executive Producer – Robert I. Schulman
with:
Kim Shaw, Paul Sorvino, David Fumero, Jay O. Sanders, Andrew Shaifer, Lars Arentz-Hansen
Still reeling from the death of her father, a young girl spends one last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. But when her plans fall apart, the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high-stakes gambling, and unexpected love. Language
SUNDAY, MAY 18TH
BEYOND THE CALL
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Feature Documentary – 1 hour and 30 minutes
Los Angeles, CA
Writer, Director, Producer – Adrian Belic
With: Ed Artis, Dr. Jim Laws, Walt Ratterman
 In an Indiana Jones meets a Mother Teresa adventure, three middle-aged men, former soldiers and modern-day knights, travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, the front lines of war. Ed Artis, Jim Laws and Walt Ratterman are self-styled knights of Malta, and in 1995, they formed Knightbridge International, a unique humanitarian aid organization, whose motto is “High Adventure and Service to Humanity.” Artis explains “we’re not there to change anybody’s politics, we’re not in the god business, and we pay our own way.” Their specialty is going where death from landmines, bullets, or bombs is as frequent as death from hunger, disease, or the elements. As Laws tells it simply, “We do what we can, when we can, because we can.” Their personal convictions and courage drive them to places such as Afghanistan, Albania, Chechnya, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Rwanda, and the Southern Philippines, often when few if any other humanitarian organizations are around. The camera follows Artis, Laws and Ratterman as they take us on a journey into the heart of humanity and the soul of courage. An extremely inspiring film that is also hilarious, exciting and heart-wrenching. Not only are the three men good-willed, they are enjoyable characters filled with lovable quirks and wonderful stories to tell.
Adrian Belic and Dr. Jim Laws will be attending.
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