Films 2010
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:20PM
Midsummer
Short Feature Directed by Hans Montelius (Swedish with English subtitles)
At midsummer in Sweden, according to an old tradition, young girls pick seven flowers. When they place the flowers under their pillow that night, they dream of their future love. This short film presents an interesting twist on that tradition.
A Cigar at the Beach
Short Feature Directed by Stephen Mills
On a trip to Florida, to visit his sick father, a cigar smoker leaves his family at the motel to puff away on the beach. He is visited by a group of erotic beauties and is taken to an off shore freighter to play poker in the ship’s belly. A huge wave engulfs everything, including the cigar. Winner of many cinematic awards and rejected by scores of Festivals, the surreal “Cigar” will make you think.
The Hills Have Thighs
Feature Film Written and Directed by Bubba Cromer
The Hills Have Thighs is an irreverent film set in the South as narrated by the lead character Drip Drywallan Appalachian version of Kevin Spacey in American Beauty. He investigates the disappearance of local hillbilly Daniel Boone Owen, who vanished after a corn liquor-induced stupor. Spanning Upper Pickens County, South Carolina and lower Transylvania County, North Carolina. There are other colorful, larger than life characters, including: Drip's mother who lives with him at a cat shelter known as Pussy Heaven; an Obama-obsessed Limousine Liberal from California named Tree-Tree, who has a penchant for Mammy Dolls and sees nothing wrong with her extensive collection of Negrobelia; and a colorful variety of big-boned ladies with even larger attitudes.
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Cape Horn Passage to California
Documentary Directed by Warwick Tompkins
After years of preparation, the “Wander Bird” leaves Gloucester, June 26, 1936.
It takes 240 days transversing the seas of the 19th century clipper ships to reach San Francisco. The Captain( and filmmaker) is Warwick Tompkins. The whole family makes the journey with the rest of the crew. Young son “Commodore” Tompkins, age four, is on board. He’s already a veteran of six Atlantic passages under sail. Today, he’s still sailing around the world at age 79! We hope all of the salty dogs in town will come out to screen this great documentary and perhaps meet the “Commodore”!
Rat Pack…Dean, Sammy and Frank
Documentary Directed by Del Jack, re-edited by Sarasota Fringe Films.
On the 26th of January 1960, the marquee in front of the Sands Hotel in LasVegas looked like a who’s who of contemporary show business. Rat Pack offers a definitive biography of the key players. History buffs and geezers of all ages, who can still remember, will love this replay of the past. And if they don’t remember, they will!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez…A Witch Writing
Documentary Directed by Mauricio Martinez-Cavard
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel prize-winning author of such luminous novels as 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love In The Time Of Cholera', was born in 1928 in the tiny Caribbean village of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia in the home of his grandfather, a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. This is the setting for the imaginary, magical world of his writing, and the setting for this very special film...a wondrous recreation of the life and times that gave birth to his own lyrical creations...
Whether writing short stories, epic novels, non-fiction or screenplays, Gabo, as he is affectionately known, is above all a brilliant storyteller. His writing is a tribute to both the power of the imagination and the mysteries of the human heart. This Film reveals Marquez as a skillful and spellbinding storyteller, taking us from birth ("Since I was born I had known I would be a writer.") to the turning points in his life that formed him and his body of work. Oprah likes this!