World Premiere
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"Crime is an equal opportunity profession-anyone can do it."
Amadeu and Leonardo are friends scraping to make a living in Rio. Dreams drive their lives. For the irascible and down to earth Amadeu, always trying to make a buck from tourists, his dream is to make his life worthwhile; for naïve dreamer Leonardo, yearning for the excitement of crime novels, it is to become a famous writer.
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Who would have thought that a small high school from Northern California would have a football team that has won over 150 straight games and is ranked #1 in the country year after year? Welcome to De La Salle High, where it's not about X's and O's...it's about having faith in something larger than yourself.
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Director Josh Apter (Kaaterskill Falls, Cinequest 2002) tells an unlikely love story of two people trying to find themselves, first as friends, then partners and finally lovers.
Gus enjoys his carefree life, bicycling around Manhattan delivering special packages to a steady group of regulars. But after a cataclysmic occurrence, Gus realizes that it's time to go straight.
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Call them dwarfs, although they prefer "little people" or "people of short stature." But you might as well call them what they are: homeowners, parents, students, friends, lovers, working professionals and contributing members of society.
Jan Krawitz' Big Enough is an intimate and refreshing portrait of what it is like growing up as a Little Person. Reminiscent of Michael Apted's acclaimed 7-Up series, Big Enough explores what a group of little people achieve and learn during their lives - and the emotional and physical challenges they have faced in an "average-sized" world.
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Roger Weisberg and Vanessa Roth's Aging Out is the emotionally stirring and poignant saga of three teenagers in New York and Los Angeles who, for most of their lives, have been shuffled from one foster care home to another. Now, they find their teen years in foster care coming to an end and are "aging out" of their ability to continue as wards-literally being forced to fend for themselves in a harsh world.
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A white man stranded on the side of the road. A black man speeding by in an SUV. An act of kindness with fatal repercussions. Two strangers, harboring dark secrets, learn how much can change in just thirty miles. Humorous, moving and suspenseful, 30 Miles is a road movie full of secrets, betrayal, murder and deception.