|
FLYWAY
FILM FESTIVAL 2008
 Archer House
16 minutes United States Directed by Dina Gachman
Written by Dina Gachman
A
young outcast braves the petit-four fueled skits and cult like rituals of
a Texas Sorority
Eighteen-year-old future journalist Sam Archer has always been the black
sheep in her traditional Southern family, but when she decides to go
undercover during rush in the very sorority that her mother and sister
have been pushing her to join, Sam finds herself in the middle of a
strangely alluring world full of teacups, skits, and sisterhood.
Dina Gachman was born
and raised in Texas. She is a graduate of UCLA and Archer House is her
thesis for the MFA Production program at USC's School of Cinematic Arts
_______________________________________________________________
Backgrounded
16 Minutes United States Directed by Matt Jackson
Written by Benj Goehner Produced by Andy Gunn
Evan
thinks he signed up to be a movie extra. But why do the ADs have rifles
and resort to violence so quickly?
Evan Higginbotham: professional movie extra. One
morning on the way to set, Evan and his fellow “Background Actors” are
left behind. Unwittingly picked up by terrorists, they are taken over the
border to Mexico. Even after being stripped, hosed down, and stuck in a
cold warehouse, not one of them can tell the difference between this and a
normal day on a Hollywood set. Will they escape? Does anyone care? After
experiencing this absurd circus Evan calls his career, he only knows one
thing for sure: Hell IS other extras.
________________________________________________________________
 Boletos Por Favor
(Tickets Please)
14 Minutes Spain Directed by Lucas Figueroa
Written by Lucas Figueroa
A train, a
pursuit, only one way to escape.
Lucas
Figueroa was born in Argentina in 1978, and currently resides in Madrid,
Spain. Though currently an award winning- filmmaker, he began his career
as a director of television commercials.
______________________________________________________________________
 Bon Voyage
4
Minutes United States Directed by Allyssa Kaiser
Written by Allyssa Kaiser
A
stop motion animated look at a young person’s preparations for a trip
abroad.
“Bon
Voyage” was inspired by filmmaker Allyssa Kaiser’s trip to France. Paired
with music this animated short will leave you with feelings of happiness
and a sense of adventure.
Allyssa Kaiser is a senior at The Perpich Center for the Performing Arts
in the Media Arts Program. Her animated short
“Bon Voyage” took 1st
place for Best Animated short at the Westport Youth Film Festival, and has
been screened throughout the country.
Bon Voyage is part of the
Flyway Film Festival Wisconsin/Minnesota Showcase
________________________________________________________________
 Cathedral Park
80 Minutes United States Directed by Vincent
Caldoni
Written by Vincent Caldoni
Twenty years, six lives, two films, one family; everything will come to
light eventually.
Vai's parents, Basti and Miora, risked everything to escape their small,
war- torn country of Otisia and give their unborn child a better life. Now
a teenager, Vai has little interest in her people's culture until she
finds a box of hidden film revealing raw footage of a German documentary
in Otisia, with her parent's as guides. With her friend Katie, they begin
making their own documentary to try and unravel what happened. This sets
off a chain of events that bend the lines between the old world and the
new and blur reality from fiction.
Vincent Caldoni began pursuing the performing arts while at Grant High
School, in Portland, Oregon. There he began writing and directing and also
produced several plays. In 2002, he joined with several other Art
Institute students to form the Blueprintfilms collective. In 2004, he
wrote and directed his first short film,
“The Accordion” and has gone on to work on several shorts, features and
music videos in a myriad of capacities. “Cathedral Park” is his
first feature film.
________________________________________________________________
Count Backwards
From Five
6
Minutes United States Directed by Tony Gault
Written by Tony Gault
A
visual exploration of generosity and addiction. Using old answering
machine tapes and home movies, filmmaker Tony Gault attempts to decipher
his brother’s troubled life.
The films of Tony Gault
have won awards at numerous film festivals around the world including
Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Cinematexas, U.S. Super 8, Aspen Shorts and the
New Orleans Film Festival. He teaches film production and studies at the
University of Denver. He is currently working on a film about language and
how it influences our perception of reality.
______________________________________________________________________
Cottonwood
6 Minutes
United States Directed by Chris Powers
Written by Dennis Mattai, Jason Klobassa, Wade Barry, Ian Kellogg & Brent
Latchaw
A
desperado relives his past as he faces death at the hands of lawmen.
Jack
has reached the end of the line of a life filled with tragedy. Forced to
live on the wrong side of the law, he finds himself face to face with his
captors. The random firings in Jack's brain take him back to the moment in
his childhood and the message from his angry Father that shaped his
destiny of lawlessness. Can death be any worse than the pain of life?
Cottonwood was created as part of the 48 hour film project,
a contest in
which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a
line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film from concept to
completion containing those elements.
Cottonwood is part of the
Flyway Film Festival Wisconsin/Minnesota Showcase
______________________________________________________________________
 Disconnected
62 Minutes
United States
Directed by Melody Gilbert
Produced by Reed Langton-Yanowitz, Julian Laurent, Mitchell Lundin,
Caitlin Magnusson, Jerome Potter, Andrew Tatge, Tom Schmidt, Ezra
Velazquez, Wain Yee
How long could you go without a computer?
In this thought- provoking documentary,
three Carleton College students take on the challenge of ditching all of
their computers to see how their academic, social and work lives are
affected. No Facebook. No word processing. No e-mail. How will they get
their work done? Will they cheat? This film follows Andrew, Caitlin and
Chel as they learn to interact with themselves and others in ways we have
largely forgotten.
Melody Gilbert is an award-winning independent filmmaker, journalist, and
educator from St. Paul, MN Oh yeah; she’s also the professor of the class.
Disconnected is part of
the Flyway Film Festival Wisconsin/Minnesota Showcase
______________________________________________________________________
Eugene and the
Worm
15 Minutes United States Directed by Josh Hope
Written by Josh Hope
Tuna. Basketball. Perversion.
“Eugene and the Worm” is the story of two awkward teenagers who team up
and challenge street bullies to a game of basketball in order to win
enough money to finish their robot.
Josh Hope, a native of Waynoka, OK got his start on several popular
network television shows (production assistant “The
Biggest Loser” and “American Idol”), and has worked on a variety
of independent film projects.
________________________________________________________________
 Farewell Darkness
96 Minutes United States Directed by Daniel
Pico
Written by Roy Maurer and Daniel Pico
Sometimes the war comes home.
A
young Chicago native, heavily abused by his father as a child, grows up to
face adversity— socially, mentally and eventually, during Operation Iraqi
Freedom as a Marine. Upon his return from his tour of duty (suffering from
PTSD), he learns his mother has been driven to suicide by this abusive
father. He must face his past to learn to deal with his present.
Daniel Pico was awarded
the Albert P Weisman award for his original screenplay “Two Days in
Limbo”, which went on to screen at the Marche du Filme at Cannes, and
has won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize - Best Short Film
- Michigan Independent Film Festival. Pico holds a Bachelor of the Arts
in Film and Video from Columbia College, Chicago.
________________________________________________________________
 Faubourg Tremé
67 Minutes United States Directed by Dawn
Logsdon
Written and Co-Directed by Lolis Eric Elie
Produced by
Lucie Faulknor, Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie
Executive Producer Wynton
Marsalis and Stanley
Nelson
The
Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
is a riveting tale of hope, heartbreak and resiliency set in New Orleans'
most fascinating neighborhood. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and
edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone.
 Faubourg Tremé is
arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the
Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of jazz. While the Tremé
district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina
documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African American communities
have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions... It is a film
of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and authentic details that
only two native New Orleanians could have made it.
Directors’
Statement
We are New Orleans filmmakers, one black and one white. With
the failure of the federal levees after Hurricane Katrina, our entire city
was transformed overnight into the symbol of all that has gone wrong in
America, in particular its deepening racial and economic divide. Seared
into the nation's consciousness are images of desperately poor black
people trapped on rooftops and denied the most basic protection of
American citizenship. Those images have come to represent black New
Orleans.
 Our goal in making this film was to tell the story behind
those images. We chose to focus on one New Orleans neighborhood, Faubourg
Tremé, a historic community that like much of the old city is
predominantly African American, poor, and steeped in distinctly
un-American traditions. For us Faubourg Tremé is quintessential New
Orleans. We wanted to capture the spirit of this place that has persevered
in the face of great hostility for centuries and created a culture and
history that enriched America and the world.
-Dawn Logsdon & Lolis
Eric Elie
________________________________________________________________
 Fodor’s Hamlet
131 Minutes Great Britain Directed by Alexander
Fodor
A
modern, stark and stunning interpretation of Shakespeare’s ghost story.
Alexander Fodor is the son of a Hungarian porn film director, making films
out of Berlin and Amsterdam. Up to the age of ten he thought all women
walked around in the nude. An essential ethos carries forward from his
childhood; there's no point making something if no one watches it.
______________________________________________________________________
 For A Few Marbles
More (Voor Een Paar Knikkers Meer)
11 Minutes The Netherlands Directed by Jelmar
Hufen
Written by Jelmar Hufen
Their playground was stolen, now they want it back
Four
ten-year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two
aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to
help them, there's only one solution. They have to find a way to get the
toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.
Jelmar Hufen worked in the Dutch film industry for a couple of years doing
various jobs as an assistant. With savings of € 10.000 and the help of
some generous friends in the Dutch film industry “For a few marbles more”
was shot. In October 2006 it had its premier at The Netherlands Film
Festival. Hufen is currently working as a successful commercial director
in The Netherlands.
________________________________________________________________
Here Comes Funky
Kazoo
17 Minutes Great Britain Directed by Paul
Fuller
Written by Mark “Papa” Garcia and Paul Fuller
Mark couldn't be happier.
He's got a date with the girl of his dreams.
However, the course of true love never runs smoothly, and when Mark
arrives for his date, things are not quite as he had expected. Unable to
recover from a bad start, Mark can't quite get the date back on track and
begins to feel like a bit of clown.
This is the sixth short film from writer/director Paul Fuller. Originally
from Hull in East Yorkshire he now resides in North London. After
establishing Scarytree Films in 2002 with the award winning, ultra-low
budget short film,
“Dummy”, he now
produces all his films from the living room of his flat and is currently
working on his first two feature scripts. Paul also wrote and directed the
“Cycle Hero” cinema advert for the cycling charity CTC's climate
change campaign. When he's not making films, he works as the art director
for a national newspaper in London. This latest film is the result of a
collaboration with Mark “Papa” Garcia who after appearing in Paul's last
film, “Jigsaw”, co-wrote, co-produced and starred in “Funky
Kazoo”.
________________________________________________________________
 Letting Go
4
Minutes United States Directed by Dan
Masucci
Written by Dan Masucci
A father struggles
with his son's growing independence in this heartfelt short film about a
boy who decides to put away his security blanket.
"Letting Go" was made by
request of the producers at Mark Burnett Productions for continued
participation in the audition process for Fox Televisions,” On the Lot”.
Director Dan Masucci was one of a hundred filmmakers (selected from more
than 12,000 applicants world wide) asked to create a short film for
further consideration in being cast on the program.
Contacted by talent producers for Fox in mid-February of 2007, Dan was
informed that he was onto the next round of auditions. He was also told
that should he proceed further, he might be called upon to make a film at
a moment's notice. Five days later, he got the call.
That same night, Masucci
wrote and story-boarded
"Letting Go." The
following night, he rehearsed the actors while his brother conducted
lighting tests. The night after that, the camera was rolling from 6:00pm
until 2:30am. When the crew left, Dan began editing. He finished in time
to get his son ready for school.
After forty-three hours
without sleep, the film completed in just four days, Dan Masucci went home
to bed.
______________________________________________________________________
 LOOP
85 Minutes United States Directed by Pericles
Lewnes
Written by Pericles Lewnes
Imagine waking up not knowing who you are, who you were, or who you will
be, in a place familiar, yet foreign.
The
world is in chaos and it twists around you like a snake. Everything brings
a vague recollection of memories you just can't grasp. You meet others
like you - lost, confused, and enraged - while the rest seem to ignore
your very existence. Who is your enemy? Who is your ally? Is that really
your wife? Who can be trusted? Meet Joseph List, bewildered white male,
midlife mad, drifting in a time warp where answers just generate more
questions. Joe knows something happened to him -- something powerful and
personal -- and he is desperate to find out what it is. Is it meaningful
or meaningless? Can it be fixed or is it not broken? “LOOP” is one man's
journey into a senseless world of bent time and elastic reality - a world
where he finds that the sanity he seeks is the insanity he's lost.
Pericles Lewnes is best
known for his feature length horror spoof “Redneck
Zombies” (1986) which was originally distributed on video. Dubbed as
a cult classic by horror fans “Redneck Zombies” was included in
the 80’s edition of Trivial Pursuit. Lewnes is a special effects artist
as well as a director of television commercials, documentaries and music
videos. In 2006 his gritty expose of mixed martial arts, “Fighter”
won Best Documentary at FAIF International Film Festival and Best
Biography at the New York International Film Festival. Lewnes was born
in Annapolis, MD and currently works as a shooter/editor in Washington
DC when he’s not making movies.
________________________________________________________________
Made In Japan
7
Minutes Spain Directed by Ciro Altabas
Written by Ciro Altabas Screenplay by Iñigo Díaz-Guardamino
Showing up
late for a date, a man has to explain his delay. It all started when he
tried on his mother’s fur coat, found a letter revealing a family secret,
and caught the next plane for Japan.
________________________________________________________________
Mary’s Friend
4
Minutes United States Directed by John
Roberts
Written by John Roberts
A
charmingly creepy Tim Burton-esque animated short by UW-Milwaukee student
John Roberts.
Mary’s Friend is part of
the Flyway Film Festival Wisconsin/Minnesota Showcase
________________________________________________________________
 Marta’s Sex Tape
46 Minutes United States/Mexico Directed By Anthony
Rivero Stabley
Written By Anthony Rivero Stabley
A
Pop Art Comedy
Marta is just a regular girl, who is deeply in debt. In order to pay back
what she owes, she decides to make a very, um... special kind of movie.
This is that film.
“Marta’s Sex Tape” was the recent winner of the Underground Spirit
Award at the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival.
Anthony Rivero Stabley was born in La Paz, Bolivia, and has been the Art
Director on such Hollywood films as-
White Oleander, City of
Industry and Stigmata.
________________________________________________________________
Melody Of Rain
6
Minutes Turkey Directed By Ridvan
Cevik
Written By Ridvan Cevik
Did
you ever wonder where birds go when the weather is rainy?
Ridvan Cevik born in Eskişehir, Turkey in 1979. Currently he is a research
assistant at the Anadolu University Animation Department.
________________________________________________________________
 Morbid Curiosity
6
Minutes United States Directed by Cindy Baer
Written by Matthew Irving
What
would happen if your deepest, darkest thoughts came true, just by thinking
them?
A
woman's videotaped confession reveals a lifelong struggle to control her
deadly ability.
Director’s Statement
Long before I met him, my husband Matthew Irving wrote the short story
“Morbid Curiosity” for a class assignment at Stanford University in 1992.
I’m sure he never imagined that 14 years later it would be dug up, and
adapted into a short film. I have always wondered what role our
subconscious mind plays in our day-to-day life. We can’t control the
things we think, right? The constant flood of information that we take
into our unconscious brain (from television, movies, music, the internet)
has to affect who we are as people. And I’m particularly drawn to stories
that have multiple layers, as well as comedy. That’s what attracted me to
this one. Not only did it make me wonder, “What hidden thoughts in my own
head are influencing how I live my life?” but also I knew it could be
fashioned inside a comedic “wrapper”. In this quirky little tale about a
woman who has terribly violent thoughts that come true, we actually
laugh. It’s kind of dark, funny, and philosophical, all at the same time.
-Cindy Baer
______________________________________________________________________
 Now You See Me,
Now You Don’t
30 Minutes Hungary Directed by Attila
Szaz
Written by Attila Szaz
What
would you do if your child became invisible?
It
seems like an ordinary day. Dad is experimenting in the lab; Mom is at
home boiling water, while their six year old son, Alex, is playing around
her. But this day is different. This day Dad brings something home from
the lab. And the next morning...Alex becomes invisible.
Attila Szaz was born in 1972, and graduated from the Producer class of
Academy of Theatre and Film in Budapest at the age of 23. During his
schooling he produced almost a dozen short films. In 2000 he became
editor-in-chief of VOX, Hungary's biggest movie magazine. A year later, he
directed his first commercial. In 2002, he quit journalism and started
directing and writing screenplays full- time. Since then he has directed
numerous commercials and music videos and has written four screenplays.
Currently he is pre-producing his first feature film,
Full House.
______________________________________________________________________
 Older Than America
90 Minutes United States Directed by Georgina
Lightning
Written by Georgina Lightning and Christine K Walker
Produced by Christine K Walker
Kill
the Indian, save the man.
A
woman's haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest's sinister plot to
silence her mother from speaking the truth about atrocities that occurred
at a Native Indian boarding school. A supernatural thriller with cultural
content, "Older Than America" speaks to the lasting
impact of the cultural genocide that occurred at such schools throughout
the United States and Canada.
Shot
on location in and around Cloquet, MN.
Georgina Lightning brings a long track record of creative experience in
the film industry as an actor, producer and acting coach on such projects
as: Dreamkeepers, Backroads, Johnny Greyeyes, Christmas in the
Clouds, Tecumseh The Oath, Smoke Signals, among countless others.
Lightning has also guest starred in T.V. episodes of Walker Texas
Ranger and West Wing. Lightning’s directorial debut Older
Than America is inspired by stories told to her by many of her family
members and friends who attended the Native Indian Boarding schools.
Lightning is also the cofounder of Tribal Alliance Productions, a
production company committed to producing media that matters told from a
native prospective. A long time advocate of Native Indian advancement in
the film industry, Lightning also formed Native Media Network, a group
dedicated to the promotion and advancement of Native Indian talent.
Christine Walker is an award-winning producer whose projects include
Factotum
starring Matt Dillon and Marisa Tomei. The film premiered at the 2006
Cannes Film Festival and the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Walker also Line
Produced American Splendor which won the Grand Jury Prize at the
2003 Sundance Film Festival and the International Critics Award at the
Cannes Film Festival. Other projects include: Backroads which
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Easter written by Big
Love Exec Producer Will Sheffer, Happy Heights Dream Society a
Thai-language film that screened at numerous interntional film festivals.
Walker also worked as a production Supervisor on the Chris rock film
Head of State.
Walker's awards and recognitions include: Producer’s Guild of America
Diversity Award, Independent Spirit Award Nominee for Motorola Producer of
the Year, the MN Blockbuster Film Fund Award, and the Sundance Producer’s
Institute Fellowship Award.
Older Than America is
part of the Flyway Film Festival Wisconsin/Minnesota showcase.
______________________________________________________________________
 Rattle Basket
98 Minutes United States Directed by Thomas L.
Phillips
Written By Jared Tweedie
Why
does anyone act the way they do?
Wherever Cerina Strickland and her sister Tabitha go, emotional
devastation is sure to follow in their wake. Shielding them from the
darker consequences of their fickle and self-centered relationships,
Stuart Clemons has been their best, and only, friend since childhood. But
when Cerina, jealous for his undivided attention, tries to sabotage his
burgeoning relationship with Bridgett, a whimsical divorcee she ironically
fixed him up with, the girls' friendship with Stuart becomes strained to
the breaking point. It couldn't come at a worse time, as Cerina contends
with the unexpected and unwanted neediness of the community college
professor she seduced for a B+ and Tabitha struggles to rebuff the
advances of her psychotic ex-cop boyfriend while dealing with her emerging
feelings for Stuart's crap-talking bartender friend, Wogbe. The girls must
grow up and learn to handle their own problems or risk permanently
fracturing their friendship with Stuart.
Thomas L. Phillips
was born and raised in
Knoxville, TN. The same birthplace as one of his favorite filmmakers,
Quentin Tarantino. He decided to leave Knoxville in 1995 when a gun was
stuck to his head while walking home from his job as a dishwasher.
Every movie Phillips
has directed has been written by screenwriter Jared Tweedie. They met in
film school at Chapman University and have continued their working
relationship ever since.
________________________________________________________________
 Speedy Delivery
72 Minutes United States Directed By Paul
Germain
David Newell travels the globe as “Mr. McFeely” to keep Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood alive, despite major transitions in children’s television.
Paul Germain has an extremely intense passion for storytelling. As an avid
painter, musician and writer of poetry and fiction, Germain is obsessed
with hearing, collecting and sharing stories through artistic media.
Amongst these and other creative outlets, documentary filmmaking reigns
supreme as his single greatest passion.
Germain graduated from Lafeyette College (Easton, PA) with a BA in
English/Art. It was here that he completed as interdisciplinary thesis
entitled “Human Expressions in Graffiti” an in-depth artistic and textual
analysis of school desk graffiti. He recently earned his Masters Degree in
Arts Management and a Masters in Entertainment Industry Management through
Carnegie Mellon University.
________________________________________________________________
Standing On A
Whale
29 Minutes United States Directed by Jorge
Arrieta
Written by Jorge Arrieta
I will be a bird and
fly – over the clouds... and when I'm tired I will rest in your tree.
But what if you're SO
BEAUTIFUL they put you in a cage for all to see?
...I will be an
artist...
Imagine 55 pieces of artwork ranging in size from 5 inches to 12 feet.
Visualize an accompanying 28-minute film with animation. Now consider 913
days of creation while simultaneously working odd jobs and realize the
inspiration of only one man — one artist.
Director’s Statement
I
began working on "Standing on a Whale" about 1000 years ago. What can be
created that does not take an eternity? We shape and are formed by all.
So, when I was swallowed by everything outside myself I had a choice. I
traveled inward. I sketched. I painted. Then I designed. I filmed and
edited. I painted more and more. I closed my eyes and found myself awake.
What do you see when you sleep? Are you standing on a whale fishing for
minnows? Well, then come to the show. Everyone is welcome.
— Jorge Arrieta
________________________________________________________________
Sur La Terre Comme
Au Ciel (On Earth As It Is In Heaven)
21 Minutes Canada Directed by Herve
Demers
Written by Hervé Demers and Xavier Lechausseur
After the passing of his beloved wife, an old man is left alone and feels
that those around him seem to envision his imminent death, as well.
_______________________________________________________
 TREE
46 Minutes United States Directed by Michael
Steinbeck
Written by Michael Steinbeck Screenplay by Bill Elverman
I’m
seeing my inglorious end…
After a recent tragedy, Tom Brueggeman and his family move to the old farm
where they discover a large tree that seems to give them cryptic visions
of their future. While his wife Ellie and daughter Katie seem to welcome
the mysterious phenomenon, Tom struggles with what appears to be a vision
of his own demise.
Both Michael Steinbeck and Bill Elverman were born in Twin Lakes, WI. We
are proud to showcase films from both Michael and Bill
(The Wintress) on the
opening night of our festival.
TREE is a part of the
Flyway Film Festival Wisconsin/Minnesota Showcase
_______________________________________________________________
 When I Was A
Partisan
90 Minutes Lithuania Directed by
Vytautas Landsbergis
A
child that sees things that are not meant for him, becomes an adult.
Vytautas V. Landsbergis (born in 1962) is a poet, prose writer, dramatist,
cinema and theatre director and musician. Landsbergis is first and
foremost known as the author of numerous fairytales. His fairytales were
born of the stories the writer used to tell to his own children and from
improvisations during meetings with friends. These are funny, ironic texts
of nonsensical poetics in which the author plays with words and uses
elements taken from Baltic folklore, the Bible and Lithuanian history. The
fairytales portray a bright, surprising world in which the core values are
outlined clearer and clearer and the resistance to evil is encouraged.
He is also the son of Lithuania’s first freely elected President following
the collapse of the Soviet Union.
________________________________________________________________
 Wing, The Fish
That Talked Back
13 Minutes The Netherlands Directed by Ricky
Rijneke
Written by Ricky Rijneke
Little Wing is now sure. Grandmother should be returned to China. Fantasy
and reality begin to mingle in a story concerning an old lady who does not
talk, some fish, and a cup of tea.
We
see this film through the eyes of Wing, who creates a totally artificial
world for herself and doesn’t allow real life to get in. Her world is
always miraculous, weird and sometimes frightening.
______________________________________________________________________
 The Wintress World Premier
16 Minutes United States Directed By Bill
Elverman
Written By Bill Elverman
Executive Producers Bill Elverman, Michael R Steinbeck, David Dietrich
Mike's concern for his friend reveals horrific abuses on a cold winter day
in Wisconsin.
The Flyway Film
Festival is proud to present the world premier of The Wintress as part of
the Wisconsin/Minnesota Showcase.
______________________________________________________________________
 Woodpecker
87 Minutes United States Directed By Alex
Karpovsky
Written By Jon E. Hyrns and Alex Karpovsky
An
existential tragi-comedy about hope, perception, and some very strange
birds.
 Fanatical birdwatchers
have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding
the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared extinct in the 1940’s,
the bird has apparently been spotted by numerous experts. Enter amateur
birder and poet Johnny Neander, who has convinced his taciturn sidekick
that he will be the one to find the elusive woodpecker. The ensuing chaos
divides the small town between believers and non-believers, rabid
environmentalists and opportunistic entrepreneurs. Much like the bird
itself, Woodpecker explores the intersection of fact and fiction,
manipulating our notions of documentary and narrative techniques within a
tragic comedy about hope, perception, and some very very strange birds.
Alex Karpovsky's first feature film,
The Hole Story,
won numerous awards on the festival circuit before being released
theatrically last year.
Filmmaker Magazine
selected Alex as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film 2006" and
he was short listed for the "Someone to Watch" Independent Spirit Award
last year. In addition to "Woodpecker", Alex is also in
post-production with the feature-length documentary "Trust Us, This Is
All Made Up", which focuses on America's most revered long-form comedy
improvisers -
TJ Jagodowski and
David Pasquesi. Alex
also enjoys acting, most recently playing the male lead in a new film by
Andrew Bujalski as well
as the voices of several Russian gangsters in the newly released Grand
Theft Auto IV.
|
