New Filmmakers Presents THE ART OF SUICIDE as Part of SummerFest 2010, 7/14

On Wednesday, July 14th NewFilmmakers celebrates Bastille Day. Flying in will be the director and cast members of THE VISIT about a French teenager obsessed with porn.

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FRENCH SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Charlotte Beaudoin Pelletier LE SEPTIEME ECART (2009, 8 Minutes, 16MM)
Short francophone movie on the life of a strange character passionate about Ballet and living an unrealistic life.

Raquel Schefer AVO (MUIDUMBE) (2010, 10 Minutes, 8MM & Video)
Portrait of a colonial family in Mozambique in 1960. Director is PhD candidate in Cinematographic Studies at University of Sorbonne Nonvelle.

Guillaume Mazloum PEINE PERDUE (2010, 12 Minutes, 8MM)
What revolt should we lead? The standards and rules always seem to have the last word. The lost cause//a research about involvement and revolt.

Matthieu Rumani / Nicolas Slomka DERNIÈRE DÉMARQUE(2009, 14 Minutes, 35MM)
Georges, totalement dénué d'imagination et d'ambition, se dispute avec sa femme. Alors qu'il traîne son désespoir et sa crise de la quarantaine dans les rues de Paris, son chien se fait écraser. On lui suggère alors, pour réparer ce drame, d'aller à l'épicerie du vieux Saïd. Dans ce lieu magique, il semblerait que l'on trouve tout. Au sens propre. Même le bonheur ?

Pierre Terrade CRESCENDO (2009, 14 Minutes, Video)
A woman lives in poverty with a child and a violent drug dealer.

Farouk Thoyer THE ART OF SUICIDE (2009, 27 Minutes, Video)
A dark tale about a suicidal man who meets the devil incarnate.

7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION
Arnaud Collery LITTLE KLAUS BIG WORLD (2010, 60 Minutes, Video)
KLAUS PIERRE is an international documentary comedy about action star dreams, love and worldwide adventure. Klaus Pierre is a half German, half French, wanna-be action star who travels to Hollywood to be the next Keanu Reeves, his all-time action hero. An unfortunate event takes him back to Europe. But fate then puts Klaus on another journey through Japan, China and India.

8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION
Richard Dailey THE VISIT (2010, 90 Minutes, Video)
Melinda is a 16-year-old born again Christian who visits her cousin Elliot and his mother in Paris for the Christmas holiday and finds herself in a web of Parisian intrigue that forms around her. Elliot is a virgin who is obsessed with porn and he falls in lust with Melinda, who believes the Devil had possessed him. Elliot's best friend, Jeremy, a closet gay who is also in love with Elliot, plots to separate them by introducing Melinda to an older friend with a rock band and a motorcycle, Dominique. Jeremy's plan works: Melinda falls in love with Dominique and has a vision of their being married by Christ. Eliot's mother watches in dismay as her son falls into a depression only worsened by the Christmas cheer in Paris. Elliot attempts to see a prostitute but is rejected because he is too young. In an effort to console his friend, Jeremy confesses his love. Elliot is disgusted and throws his best friend out. Finally Dominique is revealed as the cad he is and Melinda realizes that she has been in love with Elliot all along. A New Year's Eve party turns everything upside-down in a midwinter night's dream.

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