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What do you get when you cross Apartment Zero with Blue Velvet? Answer: a very strange, claustrophobic - in fact just generally phobic - chilling debut feature from Kevin DiNovis. Trevor, a busboy, is insecure in the outer world. He desperately wants, and yet is at the same time totally terrified of, women. Lanh, a young street junkie in trouble, needs a place to stay and to hide. Trevor allows him to stay in his apartment.
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Some men live their lives regretting that they never pursued their dreams. Louis and Frank is a charming and funny film in which the title characters take a shot at realizing their childhood fantasy of becoming singing sensations. Louis (Steven Randazzo) runs a small, inept New York moving company by day. But he spends all his spare time in the basement of his house, microphone in hand, weaving song stylings to an imaginary audience in his fully equipped karaoke studio.
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Fade in: A rundown New York apartment. We find Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) and his five hundred-page script. It's obvious to us that Adolpho and the script both need something. Adolpho needs a dose of self confidence, and the script...well, it needs a producer. Tortured by self-doubt, financial ruin, and unrequited passion for his next door neighbor (Jennifer Beals), Adolpho places an ad offering his mammoth screenplay to the highest bidder. In steps Adolpho's "guardian angel," a fast-talking, "shyster" who promises to produce the film but complicates things with his own designs.
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Hope is the chaotic tale of two brothers, Nathan and Skippy. Skippy's terminal illness leads Nathan to decide to do whatever it takes to fulfill his brother's lifelong dream of the two of them being the captains of their own boat and sailing it around the world. Their means to raise the money? Robbing liquor stores. They are soon offered an opportunity to participate in the big time - a bank robbery. How could they pass up the offer? It would expedite the money-raising process and take care of all their problems for sure. Wrong.
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A circus ship, the beach, a long walk down the pier and a 40-pound rock to weight you down to the sea floor. What can go wrong?
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When everyone has the potential to be a public broadcaster, who becomes the documentor and what becomes of privacy? With Home Page, Doug Block (Silverlake Life) turns his attention to the burgeoning phenomenon known as the World Wide Web. Block became fascinated with the home pages that people would inhabit with their personal interests, thoughts, and feelings. He soon found that all links led to one page - that of Justin Hall.
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America in the 1960s was a tumultuous era of social activism and change. Spurred by world events, the Black struggle for civil rights, and the anti-war protests, Puerto Rican and Latino communities organized to fight for economic and social justice. One major group, The Young Lords, rose up in the barrios of New York and left a legacy of community empowerment. The Young Lords were a paramilitary organization that cleaned the streets, spearheaded public health and educational initiatives, and demanded that the city address the concerns of their community.
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In Columbia, a country fraught with violence, poverty, and rampant political corruption, a record number of candidates with no prior political experience ran for congress in 1998. Running for Bogota traces the campaigns of two such novices: Claudia Vasquez, a businesswoman, and Leonor Gonzalez Mina, a popular actress and singer known as "La Negra Grande de Columbia" Faced with the distrust of a people long jaded by promises of reform, the two women take to the streets to gain support and to learn from those they wish to represent.
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From the director of Which Way is East, comes this intelligent re-telling of the first woman and the creation theory.
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Cinequest is extremely pleased to add this special screening of Greg Tennant's The Distraction, the story of a young man struggling between instinct and rationality in his new marriage, as his attraction to another woman leads to obsession. Paul is confident in his love for his wife Ally. Taking a new job far from his home, life and friends is a challenge for Paul until he meets co-worker Leslie. Immediately attracted to Leslie, their growing friendship becomes a ray of light in Paul's otherwise mundane existence.