31.1.10

6:45 PM: Short Film - The Handlers

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Genre: Comedy
Director: Tamara Mc Daniel 
Director of Photography: Lee Ann Cone
Production: Phoenix Independent Film Makers Group
Writers: Mike Butler, Brian Kille, Rebecca Roos, Mark Stawecki, Michelle Wilcox, Nayda Britton
Editors: Tim Richards and Lee Ann Cone
Music: Scott Haskin
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Boss (Joe Holt), gets more aggravation out of his two goof-ball 'handlers' Vinnie (Mike Butler) and Tyrone (Robert Friedlander) then he can tolerate. When he sends Vinnie and Tyrone off to do his dirty-work, the Boss gets an unexpected surprise from them when they return.
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Cast
Boss....Joe Holt
Vinnie....Mike Butler
Tyrone....Robert Friedlander
Charlene....Kim Wolcott
Chauffer....Brian Kille
Mrs. Boss....Sasa Clancy
Waiter....Mark Stawecki
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Runtime: 7-Min
Release Date: 2007
 

29.1.10

6:50 PM: Short Film - Capitan


cinekoncept presents
Writer & Director: Diego Diaz
Producers: Luis Ivan Garcia & Hans Van Brill
Executive Producers: Rob Boyd, Mike Fanfarillo,
John Rambo and Jay Bush
Cinematographer: Steven Yatsko
Sound Designer: Nash Cubero
Score: James Bennett
Production Designer: Tammie Childress

Genre: Experimental Narrative
Run Time: Approx 7-Min
Website for Luis Ivan Garcia

Junior, an eight year old boy, who was raised by his grandmother. When she passed away, Junior didn’t understand how to deal with her loss. Trying to cope, Junior talks to his grandmother, as if she is present. Junior’s mother, Marabela, has a hard time dealing with her mothers passing but is more concerned about how her son feels. Junior uses his imagination to cope and realizes the only way for him to move on, is to set his grandmother free. On a walk back home from school, Junior stumbles upon a couch on the street. His imagination runs wild; he knows he has found the perfect ship to set his grandmother free. He makes sure everything about this couch is perfect and when he does, runs back home and tells his grandmother. Upon returning to the ship, Junior encounters a man threatening to steal it. Driven by will, he launches into a full sword fight, for control of his ship. It is up to him to make sure he doesn’t lose the ship or let his grandmother and himself down.

27.1.10

7:00 PM: Short Film - Fade In



"Fade In is an urban snapshot of the dreams, and hard realities, of a blue-collar father struggling the 9-5."

Genre: Experimental
Director: Nickolas Duarte
Cast J.A. Bratten
screenwriter J.A. Bratten
Production Company: Chrown Chimp Productions
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Released: 2009
Run Time: 3-min
 
"I started making movies a few years back with a goofy-looking filmmaker named Matthew King. We did a bunch of projects (short films, feature films and music videos) that earned us some accolades and support. I thought they were rubbish, but people really responded to them. So I said “What the heck?” and went professional." ....director Nickolas Duarte


"I have a passion for film and film production, and a big fan of sitcom comedies. My film hobbies includes screenwriting and film research." -- Adam Ray Production Designer & Associate Producer at Crown Chimp.

  
"Five years ago, back when we started filmmaking, the editing software somehow fell into my lap instead of Nick’s, and I got stuck with all the cutting and splicing. Fortunately, I fell in love with the process.  Also, my second love in Crown Chimp is Cinematography. Nick being the originator of most of projects translates to me, what he wants to see through his viewfinder and I do my best to match it." -- Matthew King  


  "Crown Chimp has become something very unique to the advertising and production world and I am stoked to be a part of it." - Brittany Draves : Director of Operations & Marketing Assistant at Crown Chimp.

25.1.10

7:05 PM: Short Film - Share The Wealth


"My goal is to bring new voices and
hidden histories, to broader audiences..."
- Bennie Klain, Director - Share the Wealth
Director: Bennie Klain
Production Company: TricksterFilms LCC
Genre: Experimental
Year Produced: 2006
Media: 35mm Film
Run Time: 8:00  min
An ironic parable, that follows a multi-faceted relationship
a Native woman has with her urban environment.

Shot in the style of a political cartoon, SHARE THE WEALTH, a 35mm narrative short film, situates a homeless middle-aged Native American woman on a busy city street. Thanks to a new “homeless tax” incurred by the government, she must raise the dollar she now owes. She finally catches a break when someone hands her a dollar. Joining a long line of other panhandlers, she waits her turn to pay her dues.   
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Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain is the founding partner and Chief Creative Officer with TricksterFilms,LLC based in Austin, Texas. A fluent Navajo speaker, Klain often incorporates the language into his work. In 2007 Bennie was selected to participate in Tribeca All Access for his work-in-progress documentary tentatively titled LOST TRIBES, and in 2004 he was a Sundance Institute/Ford Foundation Film Fellow for his feature script RELOCATION. Klain's feature documentary, WEAVING WORLDS premiered at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival and was screened on American Public Television in Fall 2008. His short fiction film, SHARE THE WEALTH, had its world premiere at the 2006 Native American Film + Video Festival and aired on the acclaimed PBS series THE TERRITORY in 2009. Prior to that Bennie's other short fiction YADA YADA premiered at Sundance 2002 and premiered on the PBS series, COLORVISION in 2004.

                         
photos & text c2002-2009 TricksterFilms LLC

23.1.10

7:20 PM: Short Film - One Nine


"Love is about being able to let go of the one
person you wish was right for you but isn't"

Starring: Molly Scarpine  Jayme Davis  Louis Oberlande  Chris Watson

Written & Directed by: Roxy Campos
Produced by: Luis Ivan Garcia and Gisele Fortuna
Director of Photography: Noney Riddle
Edited by: Ricky Benedict
Production Designer: Tammie Childress
Music by: Stephine Landazuri and Marck Davinci
Sound Design & Production: Trevor Gates and Joe Gosnell
Genre: Human Interest
Run Time: Approx 7-Minutes

Luis Ivan Garcia was born in a small border town in Mexico named Santa Cruz. He was resided there for almost twelve years. It was there he became inspired by the human condition and began expressing his creativity through various visual mediums. . While at the University of Arizona, he worked as an Executive Assistant for a regional magazine. In a short period of time Luis Ivan Garcia became one of the Executive Directors of the magazine. He published a series of articles pertaining to high-profile Latin and American artists which aided the crossover for both communities.

Soon thereafter, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his passion as film director and producer. He took advantage of the opportunity to study abroad at the University of Austria. As a result of this opportunity, he quickly gained knowledge in an education in multiculturalism. After completing his requirements at SMC, he transferred to the Art Institute of Los Angeles, California where he pursued his bachelors in Motion Picture Directing.

Throughout his experience, Luis Ivan has continued to implement his vision, passion and originality, by creating films he believes in.  Luis's film "Tortilla" was shown at last year's Arivaca Film Exhibition.

21.1.10

7:30 PM: Pretending


An intimate portrait of a middle-aged woman
who realizes that her dream passed her by.


Genre: Drama
Director: Nickolas Duarte (Tucson)
Production Company: Crown Chimp Productions
Production: Adam Norzagaray, Matthew King
Starring: Elizabeth DeVries
Cast: Cuffs, Teresa Shade & Dana Dirado
Score: Tom Bailey
Run Time: 9-Min

Filmmaker - Nickolas Duarte
"...Duarte, as well as constant Crown Chimp collaborators Adam Norzagaray and Matthew King, did a masterful job of creating and visually exploring a variety of locations, mixing in a great original score by Tom Bailey, with the always exceptional cinematography of Duarte, as it all worked together extremely well to bring forth a complex conceptual idea that could only be fully conveyed in a medium like film. The color palette was vibrant yet subtle, causing the viewers’ eyes to be unable to stray as the anticipation of what beautiful image would appear next was too compelling to miss. The film’s pacing was right where it needed to be thanks to a deft editing touch by Duarte, Norzagaray, and King. Pretending showed a definite growth cinematically for Crown Chimp, moving into a much more artistic direction........." by Eric Shlapack (Read full article: Clicke here at examiner.com)

19.1.10

7:42 PM: Short Film - Pattern Response


"This is America - Am an American!"...from the film Pattern Response

Production Company: Synthetic Human Pictures
Director: Stephen Krystek
Screenplay: Stephen Krystek & Charlie Steak
Editor: Hayden Blades
Cinematographer: David Matteson
Production Manager: Casey Moore
Assistant Director: Mandie Smith
Genre: Thriller-Drama
Run Time: 9-Min
Release Date: 2009

Film Synopsis: Joseph pays his bills, does his taxes, and loves his wife.  But when the grounding of his stable reality begins to fall apart, everything becomes suspect.
Synthetic Human Pictures presents a terrifying look at a coming world in which the notion of identity begins to lose its definition.
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> Official web page and trailer: http://www.patternresponse.com/
> For more information on the filmmakers: http://www.synthetichuman.com/

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Arivaca Filmmaker Bart Santello reflecting on Pattern Response:  "The film's theme of 'survellience' and an over-reaching 'control structure' should resonate with the people of Arivaca and other border towns that find ourselves under siege.  A borderland that itself is under survellience from those who seek to control everything."

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Synthetic Human Pictures emerged into the film industry in 2006 with the short horror/comedy Not Quite Dead. Synthetic Human Pictures strives to deliver highly creative, award-winning content that challenge the audience on both an emotive and intellectual level, pushing boundaries and opening up the human thought process.


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17.1.10

7:50 PM: Preview - Valentina Tereshkova (TRAILER ONLY)

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Director & Editor: Bart Santello - Arivaca, Arizona
Production Company: Psychotropic Films
Genre: Avant Garde
Release Date: 2011
Run Time: Approx 27-minutes

Valentina Tereshkova - The First Woman in Space is the first film of a series on early space travel by local Arivaca filmmaker Bart Santello. This film delivers media images from the early Russian Space Program in the form of a tone-poem depicting a perception of history. Valentina is the filmmakers artistic presentaton of historical events surrounding the orbital space flight of Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on June 16, 1963.

Director's Statement: I'm excited that this Russian space film kind of 'birthed' itself out of the pre-production visualizations I have been creating for my forthcoming film on the Apollo Space Program.  This film continues my textured examination of the symbiotic relationship between humans and technology."  Bart Santello - Filmmaker

01/27/10 Update: Sorry - This film will not be completed in time for this year's film exhibition - A 3-minute preview trailer of the movie will shown instead. ..Bart Santello - Director "Valentina Tereshkova"

15.1.10

8:00 PM: Short Film - Man Trap



"An Instant Underground Classic" - A Produce



Genre: Avant-Garde
Director: Bart Santello
Music by: A PRODUCE
Production Company: Psychotropic Films
Location: Arivaca, Arizona
Run Time: 12-Minutes
Release Date: 2004 & 2009

Man Trap channels the art of 'motion picture' into a film about our industrial age and the machines we've created to build even greater machines.

In a film that took one day to shoot and 5-years to complete, Digital filmmaker Bart Santello presents a dark dream about the reality of technology, its detachment from the natural environment and the marginalization of humans that tend to complex machines. 

Renowned electronic-ambient musician A PRODUCE shrouds this film in a haunting sound environment, which has the effect of trapping the viewer deep inside the 'machine'.


"My films are based on ideas actualized when mindful of life occurring in the present moment. The style and manner of my films provides sufficient contemplative space for the viewer to  psycho-actively engage with the film and form an emotional perspective of the work.  This film was created in the same way our subconsious mind forms dreams - Though inspired, yet fragmented events of our day, that when properly assembled not only tell a story, but inspire emotions and open new perspectives on reality." 
                                    - Man Trap Director Bart Santello 

13.1.10

8:55 PM: Short Film - Player

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Phoenix Independent Filmmakers Group
presents


A 'Player' (Jay Brigham) gets his comeuppance when ex-lovers plot revenge and crash a date he's having with his latest squeeze.

 Genre: Situational Comedy
 
Directed by: Robert Scot
Produced by: Tamara McDaniel
Director of Photography: James Arnett
Edited by: Austin Michaels
Music Composed by: Scott Haskin
Sound Direction: Jamie Fultz
Gafer: Levi Davis
Assistant Producer: David Glassman
Written by: Yvonne Wagner, Terry Nolan, Brett Ashley

CAST
Brett Ashkey - Jay Brigham - Sally Ann Francis - Chloe Haptonstall - Donna Kafer - Tamara McDaniel - Will Leon - Terry Nolan - Judith Tobi - Michael Jones

11.1.10

9:00 PM: Feature Film - Camp Burlesque


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PRESENTS

Written & Directed by: Antonio Marsico
Edited by: Joshua M. Dragotta
Produced by: Valerie Marsico, Stuart Johnson & Joshua M. Dragotta
Sound by: Jay Verkamp
Theme Song Performed by: Matthew Sweet
Director of Photography: Joshua M. Dragotta
Run Time: 30-Minutes
Release Date: 2005
NOTE: THIS FILM CONTAINS NUDITY

Enter an oasis of seresnity as Miss Exotic World Erochica Bamboo takes you on a tantalizing tour of the world's only camp of its kind catering to today's top women of Burlesque.
Watch as Miss Bamboo, Kitten DeVille, Mimi LeMeaux, Jessika Von Fuhr, Cherry Capri and 30 of today's curvaceous campers celebrate the human form.
Take in the top talent of today: The Swami from El Monte, Uncle Eddy Bell, Gorilla X, Count Smokula and the music of the Martini Kings as they pay tribute to modern Burlesque through song, comedy and dance!
From the DVD Sale on Amazon.com "Writer-director Antonio Marsico is no stranger to the DIY approach. Prior to penning and producing the Russ Meyers inspired B-Movie, Camp Burlesque, Marsico was bassist for the Los Angeles seminal punk band, The Plugz (Repo Man). Marsico's bassist talents have since populated the tours and recordings of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Marianne Faithfull amoung others. With his current band, The Martini Kings brothers Antonio and Frank wrote much of the exotic, tiki and nouveau-lounge music for Camp Burlesque."
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Click Below for Camp Burlesque Music Video