WORLD PREMIERE
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"Soon it became evident that the camera was almost totally uninhibited by the usual complications that come with changing position in the midst of shooting." - Richard Leacock, Cahiers du Cinema 1959
Master filmmaker Richard Leacock delighted and challenged audiences when he received the Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award in 2001. Director Jane Weiner has spent almost four decades celebrating Leacock?s work through film.
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Winner - Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award
All you need is one person to believe in you.
Estranged from his father, Adam grittily made himself into a college basketball star. Eschewing a college coaching job for a small town high school, Adam spots Dave, an intellectually handicapped, fatherless giant of a man-child, who has never played a game of basketball in his life.
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A magical, realistic journey through the eyes of a woman washed up on the shore in a remote village somewhere in the south of Mexico.
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A politically incorrect dark comedy about three chicks trying to get rid of a corpse.
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Winner - Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award
Children will thrive, even under the most challenging of circumstances.
Just miles from the U.S. border lies a huge garbage dump in Tijuana. Within this dump is a community which Mother Teresa described as ?one of the world?s most destitute.? But this is NOT a story of despair and hopelessness.
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Gifted director Joe Brewster (The Keeper, Cinequest 1996) returns to Cinequest with The Killing Zone, his latest psychological thriller. Set in West Africa and Brooklyn, it is a compelling tale that examines obsession, duty, and coming to grips with oneÕs own past. Malcolm escaped his hard life as a youth in Ghana to become a psychiatrist in a suburban community outside New York City. But with his private practice unable to support his affluent lifestyle, Malcolm accepts the offer of his mentor, Dr.
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Director Holly Mosher chronicles the workings of the Women's Life Collective, a Brazilian community organization aimed at helping women of all ages battle the cycles of mental and physical violence. These women have their moment in the sun as they convene to explore how to stand up for themselves, defend themselves, and show inner strength. By sorting through the painful realities of domestic violence and sexual exploitation, they discover that the first step to finding a way out of their troubles is to simply talk to each other.
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What does a filmmaker from L.A. do when she's invited to her mother's tenth year memorial service in Athens, Greece? With this question in mind, director Angeliki Giannakopoulos sets out, camera in hand, on a heartfelt, intensely moving quest to discover the history of her family and her homeland of Athens, where her mother's memorial ceremony was to take place.
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Featuring Academy Award Winner Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry, The Partridge Family)
A serial killer...an array of victims...not exactly the kind of day Steven had in mind.
A post-modern farce that brilliantly blends style, drama and absurdist comedy, Generic Thriller follow Steven, a young, handsome and gay theatre professor, out to write a plain, old thriller?yet finds his work taken over by a runaway cast.