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Director's Note: Never try to shoot a feature with only $350. Don't ever hire a homeless man as your script supervisor. And, last but not least, always do a thorough background check on all leading actors. They could be nuts! An appropriate statement once you've seen Shawn Flanagan's The Friggin' Mafia Movie -- a film that pretty much lets you know that filmmaking is hell! In fact, at some point, you are going to ask yourself if the filmmakers have edited together their film or the making of their film.
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When you're walking the prison Broadway as a new fish, you better have your game face on, or you'll be a punk until parole. In his debut feature, Sean Wilson delivers what could be a primer for those going into the joint or a peek between the bars for those armchair cinephiles who have always wondered what happens after Dano books 'em. Short on sentimentality and bolstered by violent tension, the story of Slim on his first (probably not last) trip into the federal penitentiary system is based on Wilson's own experiences inside.
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A raw drama about a very UN-Yuppie couple, 3 Days takes us into the hidden world of a male and female prostitute who have a unique relationship. They walk down the streets barely noticed. They're looked upon as merely Junkies or Prostitutes. They've brought it all on themselves. This is how most react when they see people like Randy and Lex; a couple trying to survive on the streets. Both have done almost anything to live, to breath one more day. This is their story.
Michael Kineslla, Renee Smith, Amy Watt, Douglas Sept
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He may be a vision in gold rip away pants and drive the women wild with erotic gyrations, but Robert Lopez is no ordinary Elvis impersonator. He is El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, and his goal is to educate as he entertains. Once the curator of an L.A. folk art museum, the thoughtful Lopez is now almost as much an icon as his hero. With hits like "Ain't Nothing but a Chihuahua," and "Immigration Time," El Vez adapts lyrics to familiar Elvis melodies to inform about a number of historical and political topics.
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Tony has been serving up his famous cholesterol-loaded all-day breakfasts since the late 60s without taking a single vacation. A workaholic to the end, Tony has some of the most loyal customers--each more than likely a true candidate for bypass surgery--who affectionately refer to him as "the God of Potatoes." Director Ezra Soiferman chronicles Tony's return to his birthplace on the mythical island of Crete, for the first time in 30 years.
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Come one! Come all! Step right up into a world of mystery. Witness, if you will, wonders that defy imagination! Welcome to Gibsonton, Florida, home to the 2 foot 6 inch woman who married the 8 foot 4 inch giant, the couple with the two-headed cow and the contortionist who smiles on one side of his face, frowns on the other, and hammers a spike up his nose.
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Mitko Panov's Comrades is an absorbing rumination on friendship, war and the strength of spirit. A simple photograph from 1981--Mitko Panov, one of many smiling teenagers in the photograph, and his friends are a part of Yugoslavia's irony-free "Army of Peace." Panov and his comrades, like most teenage soldiers, are unconcerned about Marshal Tito or ethnicity. They orient themselves according to who among them is the unit's best musician, party animal or comedian. They are blissfully unaware of the horrors that are about to take place.
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The only statistical requirement is that one be 60 years or better. Their traits include graciousness, dignity, maturity and inner beauty. They are women of distinction; women of vigor. They have reached the Age of Elegance. The Ms. Senior America Pageant is the first and foremost pageant to honor those women who have reached what has been termed the Age of Elegance. This five-day event was held at the New York, New York Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, where thirty-two contestants competed for the title of Ms. Senior America.
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Far more than any news magazine show could, Emmy-winning director Rustin Thompson observes the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle with an amazing dedication to human drama as well as objective detail. Although most news shows pigeonholed the protests as one side against another--dreadlocked protestors against riot police--30 Frames a Second goes much deeper.
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Celebrated Spanish director Ventura Pons always defies conventions of filmmaking by creating uncommon stories of imagination and strength. His latest film, To Die (Or Not), is another provocative, visceral work amongst an already astounding career. One of the most inventive works in this year's Cinequest, To Die (Or Not) tells seven independent stories--stories filled with power, wealth, comedy, passion and innocence. In each tale, the main character dies, and each by somewhat odd and unavoidable means. These people are to die. It was meant to be. Or was it?