World Premiere
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Can you nurture love, or is it inherently only a natural phenomenon?
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Everyday folks by day, master voyeurs by night.
Accompanied by his buddies on the rooftops of Montreal, Steve Sherman sheds the respectable persona he wears throughout the day and becomes the leader of the Peepers, a group of eagle-eyed watchers looking for excitement in other people?s windows. Complete with their own set of rules (?A peeper never looks at a shower!?), the guys enjoy their sly escapades until Annette Fulvish, a university professor who, as part of her research, grabs her own set of binoculars and gives them a run for their money.
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Their lives were on the line?and then the trouble really began.
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What if you were scripted?to behave badly?
Taking unconventional storytelling to another level, filmmaker Cullen Hoback (Monster Camp, Cinequest 2007) travels to a private high school where he writes a script about a real couple and the student who comes between them. However, the scripted love triangle soon tangles with reality. In the face of teenage confusion and hormones, façades fall to true feelings, hidden truths are revealed and the thin line between fiction and reality starts to blur.
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With adulthood just around the corner, a group of New Jersey adolescents deal with their last summer together in their own unique, unpredictable ways. Some of them, like Brian, prefer to start anew by severing old relationships. Others, like Tommy and Melissa, try to ease their way into the future while hanging on to their teenage aspirations. While small-city life is ideal for Grady and Janine, who dream of growing older together in the suburbs, it is a dead-end for Matt and Sammy, who can hardly wait to leave for more adventurous places.
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Down but not out, three friends come together to create a new beginning.
Using intimate and imaginative cinematography to create a vibrant depiction of New York?s Hell?s Kitchen, director Steve Staso (Celluloid #1, Cinequest 2007) unveils a moving and lyrical tale where three very different lives intersect to find friendship and redemption.
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Where do you go after hello?
Like many young businessmen, Stirling desires more out of life than sitting in an office day after day. When he befriends Amy, a troubled homeless girl, he is instantly drawn into her secret fantasy world. So begins a ?lost weekend? of the duo taking on new personalities?from hippies to grunting cavemen. But as the games bring them closer together, Stirling and Amy realize that their fantasy world does have its limits and that they must confront the frightening reality of each other?s life.
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All she ever wanted to do was dance, but ended up getting so much more.
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?You start by scribbling, but you end up emoting.?
Alex Caldiero describes himself as a ?sonosopher. ? He creates emotions and thoughts with sound. To Caldiero, sound is more than just music. When people hear words, they normally associate them with meanings and conveyances of thought. In reality, spoken words are merely sounds. Every spoken syllable is but a drop of water in a great symphony. When you speak, you sing. When you rely entirely on instruments, you actually constrain your own musical talent.