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Schedule
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F R I D A Y
September 22, 2006
6:30pm
Mingle with the Makers
Rub elbows with filmmakers featured in the Max Allan Collins Film Expo before and after the screening of Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life while enjoying music, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
Cedar Valley Premiere
Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life
Max Allan Collins (Muscatine, IA)
105 minutes, 2006Originally produced as a play, Eliot Ness marks the first theatrical work from acclaimed Iowa author Collins. It played at the Des Moines Playhouse to enthusiastic audience response and rave reviews. Collins and his frequent collaborator Phil Dingeldein led a crew of Quad Cities and Des Moines filmmakers on an intense five-day shoot to make this film, only the second Iowa feature to be shot on Hi-Definition Video. The project represents the culmination of decades of research by the prolific writer, whose bestselling novel Road to Perdition was adapted into the Academy Award winning film.
S A T U R D A Y
September 23, 2006
9:30am
FREE Family Flicks
Films suitable for family audiences
Lemonade
Brad Hansen, (Windsor Heights, IA)
5 minutes, 2006
Conflict escalates to comedic proportions, as two kids unwittingly set up their lemonade stands across the street from one another in this delightful animated short film.
Bradley’s Summer
Matt Umphreys, Mason Cambridge,
Jackie Chavez (Glenwood, IA)
76 minutes, 2005
Bradley expects a boring summer at his aunt’s house until he hooks up with a group of kids with overactive imaginations who have formed a detective club. Hilarity ensues as they stumble upon an imminent terrorist plot – or is it something much less sinister?
1:00pm
Notes Towards A History
Francesca Soans (Waterloo, IA)
57 minutes, 2000
A poetic meditation on the textures of memory and meaning of history, weaving together archival travel film footage with the intimate memories of a 103-year-old Indian woman.
Homage to a
Catalonian Christmas
Greg Wilcox (Des Moines, IA)
18 minutes, 2005
The scatological nature of some of its holiday festivities makes Catalonia, an autonomous region of Northeast Spain, a Christmas destination of choice for adventurous travelers. These holiday traditions are explored in this unbelievably hilarious documentary. You’ll laugh until you crap!
Fortunate Son
Greg Wilcox (Des Moines, IA)
4 minutes, 2005
To promote a new line of jeans, a patriotic commercial incorporated two lines of Credence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 song “Fortunate Son”. This film examines the commercial’s use of the tune versus the true meaning of the original song.
‘Round Midnight
Andy Brodie (Iowa City, IA)
5 minutes, 2005
A portrait of longtime Iowa radio personality and jazz lover Jim Dougherty who continues to host the “Jazz and Jim” program even in retirement. A Golden Eddy winner.
Will vs. Chocolate
William Wright (Coralville, IA)
11 minutes, 2006
An office worker struggles to resist the temptations of a very persuasive chocolate bar.
Tuesday the Thirteenth
Anson Poe (Cedar Falls, IA)
2 minutes, 2006
Send-up in the form of a trailer for an uneventful horror film.
The Insomniac
Connery Kappeler, Jordan Burwell
(Durant, IA) 6 minutes, 2006
A young man, unable to sleep, finds that being an insomniac may not be such a bad thing after all.
The Body in La Brea
Brian Markowski, Joe Jennison (Urbana, IA)
16 minutes, 2006
Two friends share lunch and a secret in this very dark comedy.
3:15 pm
The Nazi Drawings by Artist Mauricio Lasansky
Lane Wyrick (Iowa City, IA)
25 minutes, 2004
Rarely has the true horror of human degradation been so powerfully expressed as in artist Mauricio Lasansky’s series “The Nazi Drawings”. Explore the history and passion behind Lasansky’s stunning graphic portrayal of man’s inhumanity to man, of death and human deprivation.
Subliminal
Sam Pleggenkuhle, Tim Armstrong,
Matt Cahoy, Bob Farland (Sumner, IA)
30 minutes, 2006
Teenage boys working in a movie theatre try to use subliminal messages to win over a girl.
House of Beehives
Tad Davis (Iowa City, IA)
8 minutes
Davis’ visualization of a story by Italian author Italo Calvino using found footage.
Air We Breath
Tad Davis (Iowa City, IA)
5 minutes
An experimental music video for a track by the Alabama-based band the Dexateens.
Dylan on the Porch
Tad Davis (Iowa City, IA)
3 minutes
A split-screen super-8 film edited digitally. Features footage of Davis’ son playing in the driveway.
Girls of Elizabeth Street
Tad Davis (Iowa City, IA)
13 minutes
An autobiographical fictional film shot on 16mm film and edited digitally. Set in the 1970s, it is the story of a ten-year-old boy’s coming-of-age. Winner of a Golden Eddy at the CR Independent Film Festival.
Vision Decay Memory
Tad Davis (Iowa City, IA)
2 minutes
A super-8 film edited on video dealing with the way we see, the way those images decay, and finally how they are reinvented in memory.
Disconnected
Tad Davis (Iowa City, IA)
11 minutes
Non-fiction video diary dealing with the political and personal upheaval, during the first four years of the new millennium.
6:00 pm
Cedar Valley Premiere
with Q&A session
Caveman:
V.T. Hamlin & Alley Oop
Max Allan Collins (Muscatine, IA)
48 minutes, 2005
Written and directed by Collins and produced by the University of Iowa Video Center, Caveman tells the story of Vincent T. Hamlin, the innovative cartoonist who created the dinosaur-laden, long-running comic strip, Alley Oop. Hamlin was born and raised in Perry, Iowa.
World Premiere
Skippy Love Chicago
Dan Hale, Joe Zerull (Moline, IL)
18 minutes, 2006
Charmingly whimsical story of a robot who finds love and conflict on the streets of Chicago.
Lemonade
Brad Hansen (Windsor Heights, IA)
5 minutes, 2005
Conflict escalates to comedic proportions, as two kids unwittingly set up their lemonade stands across the street from one another in this delightful animated short film.
Invisibilities
Jennifer Proctor (Iowa City, IA)
11 minutes, 2006
A portrait of an Iowa-based Chinese-American artist, Ava Su Ganwei, with invisible disabilities and conspicuous gifts.
7:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Featuring filmmakers including Andy Brodie, Tad Davis, Todd Fossey, Brad Hansen, “Insane” Mike Saunders, Francesca Soans, Gregory Wilcox, and Lane Wyrick.
8:30 pm
The Coffee Shop
Nick Bertelsen, David DeBord (Des Moines, IA)
6 minutes, 2006
All Bob wanted was a simple sup of coffee. But his request for “plain old coffee” at a specialty coffee house brings unwanted attention from the staff, other customers, and three mysterious strangers.
Truth Spoken
Josh Guffey, Cole Northway,
Logan Swain (Iowa City, IA)
9 minutes, 2006
Gritty street drama with a user trying to make a score from his dealer, but trust is at a premium and all may not be as it seems.
Transcendence
Joe Boyle (Davenport, IA)
5 minutes, 2006
A man seeks to “transcend” negative occurrences and situations in his life. Stunning visual imagery.
Souvenir
Insane Mike Saunders, Jason Bolinger
(Ottumwa, IA) 9 minutes, 2005
A woman on a blind date discovers something sinister in her date’s bathroom.
Burned
Bob Hurst (Iowa City, IA)
25 minutes, 2005
A security guard and a shoplifter team up for a spree through post 9/11 America.
Overnight
Todd Fossey (Cedar Falls, IA)
82 minutes, 2004
Chronicles the rise and fall of the arrogant and abrasive Troy Duffy, writer and director of The Boondock Saints. An official selection at the Sundance, Los Angeles, Seattle International, and Edinburgh Film Festivals. The New York Post calls this film “brutally funny” and the Washington Post writes that it is “wickedly pleasurable”.
Bag Man
Insane Mike Saunders, Jason Bolinger
(Ottumwa, IA) 96 minutes, 2005
Walter has been picked on and pushed around all of his life. With the assistance of the ghost of Jack the Ripper, Walter hatches a plan to gain respect by becoming a serial killer in this darkly comedic horror flick.
S U N D A Y
September 24, 2006
1:00pm
Tracing A Journey
Craig Schaefer, Chris Lenart (Dubuque, IA)
42 minutes, 2005
Empowering story of Samuel Mazzuchelli who left Italy in 1828 to become a pioneer priest in the New World. Winner of a Silver Eddy at the CR Independent Film Festival.
Brothers Sing On:
The Road to St. Peters
Paul Marlow, Mark Janssen (Cedar Rapids, IA)
59 minutes, 2005
The University of Northern Iowa Men’s Varsity Glee Club prepares for its 13th European tour. Their final destination is St. Peter Basilica in Rome, the largest church in the world. For the students, it’s the chance of a lifetime. For their director, Robert Byrnes, it will be his last. This filmed earned the Audience Choice Award at the CR Independent Film Festival.
Inquire Within
William Wright (Coralville, IA)
16 minutes, 2006
A troubled young woman seeks help from a professional philosopher.
Alternative Forms of Energy
Jennifer Proctor (Iowa City, IA)
5 minutes, 2005
This experimental documentary draws parallels between the grassroots production of biodiesel fuel and the creation of a handmade film.
3:15 pm
Fightin’ Iowa Style:
Grigsby vs. Harrison
Brian Markowski, Carrie Miell (Cedar Rapids, IA)
9 minutes, 2006|
On March 25, 2006, two men faced off for the Ultimate Fighting Midwest Cage Championship. This film follows the two fighters in the hours before the match as they prepare for the big event.
Jeff Byrd, Performance Artist
Jeff Byrd (Cedar Falls, IA)
20 minutes, 2006
A compilation of Byrd’s video work and documentation of some of selected performances which explore issues such as masculinity, identity and the relationships between artifice and reality.
Six Feet Frozen
Joe Boyle (Davenport, IA)
34 minutes, 2005
Buddy, a mentally challenged outcast searches for a flame to warm his frozen soul. A Gold Eddy Winner at the CR Independent Film Festival.
Voices from the Storm
Wartburg College (Waverly, IA)
60 minutes, 2006
In January 2006, six Wartburg College students traveled to New Orleans and collected stories of the city in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. They produced this film to serve as a documentary record and to raise funds to support the Bethlehem Children’s Center and the New Orleans Music Hall of Fame.
6:00 pm
America’s Lost Landscape:
The Tallgrass Prairie
David O’Shields (Cedar Falls, IA)
57 minutes, 2005
The rich and complex story of the nearly complete destruction of America’s tallgrass prairie, one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history. This film has won numerous awards at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival, EarthVision International Film and Video Festival, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, International Wildlife Film Festival and received a special award from the International Documentary Association.
Villisca: Living With a Mystery
Kelly Rundle, Tammy Rundle (Los Angeles, CA)
116 minutes, 2004
When an entire family is wiped out by an axe murderer on a June evening in 1912, a small Iowa town spirals into chaos and division. This film chronicles the crime and its aftermath, events which continue to play a defining role in this small community nearly 100 years later.
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