NewFilmmakers Announce WINTERFEST 2010

Winter Festival 2010 Saturday, January 2nd

NewFilmmakers starts the second annual Winter Fest and its 2010 Winter Series. A ticket for the whole evening tonight and every night is only $6.

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES about airports

Alberto Nacci THE MOVING TOWN (2008, 11 Minutes, Video) Gabriel Leigh FREQUENT FLYER (2009, 20 Minutes, Video)

6:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Gregg Conde THE JIMMY (2008, 11 Minutes, Video)
Kai Orion COPPER ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK (2008, 14 Minutes, 16MM)
Paul Vadassery EXIT 0 (2009, 15 Minutes, Video)
Ryan Lynch REAL MEN GO HUNTING (2009, 15 Minutes, Video)
Subbu Vedula THIN LINE (2009, 14 Minutes, Video)
Michael Dean KingS DOWN (2007, 20 Minutes, Video)

8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Alex Klymko SPY (2009, 90 Minutes, Video)

A romantic thriller. A man falls in love with a woman he is spying on and tries to save her from a fate she does not wish to flee. Stars Ben Curtis as Jonathan and Vincent Pastore as Dante.

Sunday, January 3rd

Winter Fest continues with STAND UP, a docu-drama about modern China.

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Warner Wada MUSKRAT JOHN: URBAN TRAPPER (2009, 29 Minutes, Video) A documentary about trapping in sight of the Empire State Building.

Arin Yoon AMERICANISM (2009, 50 Minutes, Video) A documentary about education in South Korea.

7:20PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Muhammed Azhar Shukor BAJU (2009, 10 Minutes, Video)
Dahci Ma THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE (2009, 10 Minutes, Video)
Hsin-Chin Lin WIND AND ROCK (2009, 15 Minutes, Video)
Katie Orjonikidze THE PARROT (2008, 30 Minutes, Video)

8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Clara Xing STAND UP (2008, 105 Minutes, Video)

In Jilin, a large industrial city in northern China, Song Xue-Wen, a young industrial worker, becomes the inadvertent victim of a radioactive accident at his company. He undergoes seven major operations in which both legs are amputated at the hip, and his left hand is amputated at the wrist. He also loses functionality of all five fingers of his right hand. A subsequent addiction to pain-killing morphine forces him to undergo drug rehabilitation three times.

The local company Song worked for refuses to give him proper compensation for his crippling losses or to even pay for prosthetic limbs with which he might some day achieve his dream of standing up. Experiencing the lowest point of his life, he meets a beautiful, caring young school teacher, named Yang Gang. Through their growing and emotionally supportive friendship, and with very meager financial support from his impoverished parents, he resolves to bring his case for just compensation to officials at his former company's headquarters in Beijing.

Song Xue-Wen plays himself in this film, which is based on the true story of his life.

Monday, January 4th

NewFilmmakers Winter Fest continues with DARK ROOM THEATER .

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Eric Sazer A PORTRAIT OF DISCOMFITURE (2009, 44 Minutes, Video)
Twenty year old Troy has had a crush on Rachel for over a year. This short film chronicles Troy's day as he finally confesses his feelings to her.

7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Sean Gill SLEEPY-TIME TIME 4 (2009, 5 Minutes, Video)
John Goras GHOST TANK (2009, 5 Minutes, Video)
Murray Wasylnuk CRACKED (2009, 8 Minutes, Video)
Roxine Helberg GREASED (2009, 12 Minutes, Video)
Brian David Lazarte REND (2008, 13 Minutes, 35MM)
Garret Anton Harkawik CONTEMPT OF LIFE (2009, 30 Minutes, Video)

8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Benjamin Pollack DARK ROOM THEATER (2009, 81 Minutes, Video)
DARK ROOM THEATER is a double feature in the vein of The Twilight Zone, about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations, using both ironic and comic twists. The show is hosted by an animated character entitled Dr. Brainly, a brain that lives in a glass beaker from an experiment gone wrong or right depending on your point of view.

Tuesday, January 5th

NewFilmmakers Winter Fest continues with the new feature 8 BEHIND THE WHEEL.

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES

about the space program

Karl Ferron REACHING TRANQUILITY (2009, 9 Minutes, 35mm)
Kevin Stirling MOON BEAT (2009, 90 Minutes, Video)

8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Masha Froliak WORLD (2009, 6 Minutes, Video)
Jordan Beswick SCARE CITY (2009, 11 Minutes, Video)
Annetta Marion MIDAS' SON (2009, 16 Minutes, Video)
Daniel Ferrara MICKEY (2009, 26 Minutes, Video)

9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Tracy Burroughs 8 BEHIND THE WHEEL (2009, 93 Minutes, Video)
Eight diverse personalities driving to unknown destinations. We are the voyeurs to their most personal thoughts. The serial killer, masseuse, pizza delivery girl, policeman, actress, middle-aged man, stoner and a pedophile. We slowly discover they are all related and that when some thoughts lead to actions bad things will happen.

Wednesday, January 6th

NewFilmmakers Winter Fest end with IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS.

6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Geoffray Barbier PARDON US FOR LIVING BUT THE GRAVEYARD IS FULL (2008, 61 Minutes, Video)
While the rest of the country celebrates the bicentennial and arty bands like Talking Heads and Television break new musical ground, two teenagers Keith Streng (1976 - present) and Jan-Marek Pakulski (1976 - 1986) formed the Fleshtones in 1976 in Queens, New York. Soon they were joined by neighborhood friends, art student Peter Zaremba (1976 - present) on vocals. The Fleshtones debuted at a CBGB's concert on May 19, 1976. By '78, their high-energy shows, neo-psychedelic sound gained The Fleshtones a rep as a don't-miss live band and signed to IRS records (REM, The Gogos).

7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
about the subway

Darius Clark Monroe TRAIN (2009, 7 Minutes, Video)
Michael Lawrence MIND THE GAP (2009, 12 Minutes, Video)
Brenda Collins DeCesare SYDNEY IN THE CITY (2008, 15 minutes, Video)
Alex Teller & Alon Jex OFFICER LENOT IN SHOWTIME (2009, 16 Minutes, Video)

8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Thomas Hofbauer IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2007, 98 Minutes, Video)
Brian is arrested for assaulting a gay couple and sentenced to 600 hours at an AIDS center against the wishes of Marnie, a counselor there. She is not afraid to battle Mitch, the director, who feels that exposing Brian to people at the center will help him discover some compassion. James, an ill resident, sees in Brian a young man trying to cope with a changing world. He tries befriending Brian. Brian wants no part of James. Brian, exposed to the daily existence in an AIDS hospice, eventually softens and forms a friendship with James. His growth culminates in an attempt to reconcile James with his estranged son and in his own attempt at reconciliation with his father.

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