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Sunday, Clearview Cinemas -
Times and Locations subject to change
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
What You Need To Know
 | RBIFF presents a one hour panel discussion aimed at helping the emerging filmmaker find his or her footing in the independent film industry.
Moderated by George McMorrow |
Attendance at Panel Discussion Is Free of Charge
Panel Members
Stephen Padilla:
Director of “Little Things” (being screening Sunday at 1:30). Stephen has a background in screenwriting and is a graduate of Columbia University. He is the president of Family Affair Films based in New York.
Will Keenan
Will has been described by film magazines as an “Indie Film Posterboy” for his extensive work as an actor, director, producer, writer, and distributor in over 50 films.
William Devizia
Director of Lesser Prophets (1997). William broke into the film business while studying literature and creative writing at New York University and has spent the last decade directing. He has directed several documentaries and is currently preparing for production of “The Jersey Boy”.
George McMorrow
George is the founder and president of Cinecall Soundtracks and Productions, which is a full service production and post- production facility located in Red Bank, NJ.
Mark Doyle
Mark learned most aspects of filmmaking by working hands-on on various productions. Together with partner Bruno Derlin, they founded and published Guerrilla Filmmaker magazine and are the co-founding directors of Visionfest: The Other Festival.
Jason Sherry
Jason is the Director of Drama and an instructor in English and Digital Filmmaking at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School. He is an accomplished actor and has directed and produced several short films. He is the founder of The Community Film Project, a non-profit organization that facilitates the production and promotion of independent films.
Andrew Malecki
Director and head of Philmreel Productions. Andrew is the youngest person on the panel at 19 years old. He is an accomplished emerging filmmaker using 35mm, 8mm and HD as medium for his projects.
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
The Little Things
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Miranda is a second grade teacher whose life with her boyfriend, Jace, is comfortable, if unsatisfying, until she meets Michael. Michael opens Miranda up to his world of intimacy, intensity and vulnerability, the likes of which she has never before experienced, but always secretly desired. The only problem is that Michael is otherwise entangled in a relationship of his own. As Michael and Miranda begin to negotiate the complexities of their budding relationship, they are forced to deal with the realities of their individual circumstances. Will circumstance, timing and fear win out or will all the little things they share along the way add up in the end to something real, substantial and lasting?
1 hr. 30 mins USA - Directed by Stephen Padilla
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3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Mom's Apple Pie:
The Heart of the Lesbian Mother's Custody Movement
 | An important document of GLBT history, Mom's Apple Pie looks at Seattle-based Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund, founded in the early 1970s as a resource for mothers whose children were being legally removed from their care based solely on the fact that they were lesbians.
Narrated by Kate Clinton.
57 mins. USA -
Directed by Jody Laine, Shan Ottey and Shad Reinstein
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5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
 | Puppet
A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the entity will soon inflict upon its creator.
5 mins. USA - Directed by Patrick Smith
*also screens Saturday as part of Animators March Ahead! *. |
A Knockout
Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl.
Signing with a promoter, she won all 21 fights, 18 of them with a knockout, an exceptional achievement in women's boxing. But despite her spectacular record in the ring, her career came to a sudden halt when her promoter broke her contract under the belief that she was not promotable. |
| Refusing to vamp up her image and pose naked in magazines, this undefeated world champion was abandoned by an industry more interested in selling sex than sport.
53 mins. Netherlands - Directed by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger
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7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Apple Spits Out Its Seeds: Where the tour bus doesn't go.
(Shorts Segment)
 | Not your usual ride through the city.
A sometimes humorous, sometimes gritty, but always challenging view of an urban life filled with potholes; from deviant heart breakers to dangerous friends in seedy hotels.
-SEGMENT INFORMATION-
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*Segment also screens Friday @ 5:00 pm*
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9:00 pm - 10:45 pm
CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE FILM - Stomp! Shout! Scream!
 | Green Umbrella
This music video follows the love and conflict between a heterosexual couple who don't know they are only Barbie dolls being manipulated by an unseen being.
4 mins USA - Directed by Jordan Galland
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 | Gone Fishin'
A man's relaxing day of fishing takes a drastic turn for the worse.
2 mins 32 secs. New Jersey, USA - Directed by JR Skola
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STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM!
THE RBIFF CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE
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An all-girl garage rock band gets stranded in a small southern town at the same time as the Skunk Ape (the Florida Everglades' version of Big Foot) is washed ashore by a hurricane.
Written and produced as if it was made in 1966,
everything --from the production design, to the style of acting, to the original songs and score-- is created as if the film was a lost classic of the genre.
1 hr. 17 mins. USA - Directed by Jay Edwards
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Sunday, Two River Theatre -
(RBIFF's We Want To Know Documentary Hub)
Times and Locations subject to change
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Souls From Fire
 | "We are not lives emerging from the ashes. We are souls from fire " - These are unifying words of Polish partisans pursuing full Jewish lives in their homeland. This is a film about conversion to Judaism in contemporary Poland and about the gorgeous raw power of liberty.
42 mins. 36 secs. New Jersey, USA / Poland
Directed by Rabbi Harry Levin, Jacek Taszakowski,
Darek Szendel and Jan Duwjat
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2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
 | Caught In Paint
'Caught in Paint' captures painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on transparent surfaces while the David Parsons Dance Co. dance in mid-air thru the painting imitating Blitt's paint strokes.
5 mins 54 secs USA - Directed by Rita Blitt
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The Shape of Water
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Intimate stories and compelling footage of five women who abandon female genital mutilation, tap rubber trees to protect the rainforest, defend the biodiversity of the planet and oppose military occupations -- in Senegal, Brazil, India, Jerusalem. Experience their conflicts as they create a more just world.
Narrated by New Jersey's own Susan Sarandon.
1 hr. 10 mins Senegal, Brazil, India
Directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani
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4:00 pm - 5:45 pm
 | When Georgie Goes Marchin' Home
This animated short takes us on a surreal tour of the Bush administration and its many misadventures. Like a ride through a fun house, we are taken into the bizarro world of GW. A surprise ending makes this sometimes uneasy jaunt worth the ride.
3 mins 30 secs USA - Directed by David Puls
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Prescription For Disaster
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Prescription For Disaster is an in-depth investigation into the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, lobbyists, lawmakers, medical schools, and researchers, and the impact this has on consumers and their healthcare.
1 hr. 28 mins USA - Directed by Gary Null
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6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
No Vacancy
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'No Vacancy' chronicles what education, health and contraceptive needs are required before couples have replacement size families and the actions that are taking place around the world to achieve population stabilization. From environmental deterioration to zero-based fossil-fuel economies, from the AIDS pandemic to lifting 3 billion people out of poverty, from rapid urbanization to the potential of global warming, this film both informs and entertains.
1 hr. 30 mins U S A, India, Mexico
Directed by Michael Tobias
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8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Al Otro Lado (To The Other Side)
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"Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)" tells the human story behind illegal immigration and drug trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico through the eyes of Magdiel, a 23-year-old fisherman and aspiring composer who dreams of a better life. For people south of the border, the "other side" is the dream of an impossibly rich United States, where even menial jobs can support families and whole communities that have been left behind. For people north of the border, "Al Otro Lado" sheds light on harsh choices that their neighbors to the south often face because of economic crisis.
1 hr. 6 mins USA / Mexico - Directed by Natalia Almada
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9:30 pm - 10:45 pm
CLOSING NIGHT DOCUMENTARY - The Canary Effect
 | Anna and the Solider
The 18-year old Italian girl Anna is haunted by her past. In 1944 she lost her family in a massacre by the German Wehrmacht. When one of the soldiers returns six years later, the moment of revenge has come...
10 mins 7 secs Germany
Directed by Christian Prettin and Soeren Hueper
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THE CANARY EFFECT
THE RBIFF CLOSING NIGHT DOCUMENTARY
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The Canary Effect takes an in depth look at the devastating effect that US policies have had on the Indigenous people of America. Using beautifully crafted imagery it presents a chilling case to what many believe is an ongoing genocide of the American Indian. Featuring interviews with some of the leading scholars and exponents of Indigenous struggles, alongside revealing insight from those who work and live on reservations today, The Canary Effect creates a link between the past and present in a unique way never before explored. |
60 mins. USA - Directed by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman
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