2003

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One dozen red roses: $30. One corsage: $18. Giving an annoying customer the oldest flowers in the shop: Priceless. Weddings, funerals, birthdays, and the school prom: all momentous events that require the talent and patience of your local florist. A brilliant floral designer, under the right circumstances, can make an event both breathtaking and memorable. On the other hand, when two weddings, a convention, and an unexpected funeral collide on the same weekend, your "boutonnieres" are really on the line.

Season:
2003
Director:
Melissa Scaramucci
Cinematography:
Peter Austin Hermes
Cast:
Randy Colton, Rebecca McCauley, Linda McDonald, W. Jerome Stevenson, Stacy Farley, Dave Shuler
Editor:
Dan Pringle
Producer:
Melissa Scaramucci, Peter Austin Hermes

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Season:
2003
Director:
Patricia Cardoso
Cast:
Lupe Ontiveros

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Love is perfect only in movies and books, and perfect love is something Iiris wants to discover. She is a 30-year-old bookstore assistant who just can't find her ideal man. All she is looking for is someone who is intelligent, handsome, kind, funny, and most importantly, loves movies. Just when she is about to give up her quest, she meets Marko, a promising young filmmaker, who can quote dialogue from Taxi Driver as well as she. Iiris believes she has found the kind of love that exists in her favorite films.

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Aku Louhimies
Cinematography:
Heikki F?rm
Cast:
Minna Haapkyl?, Peter Franz?n, Laura Malmivaara
Editor:
Samu Heikkil?
Producer:
Ilkka Y.L. Matila, Marko R?hr, Jarkko Hentula
Language:
Finnish with English subtitles

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Emily (Meredith Bishop) is a bored young temp, smoothly neurotic, who likes to spend her free time browsing through department stores. The problem is that she canÕt help sampling products like watches, CDs, and clothes without paying, just to see if she can get away with it. She meets her match in Nick (Jsu Garcia, Traffic, When We Were Soldiers), a surveillance expert with shady appetites of his own. Knee-deep in financial trouble with his ex-wife and under constant threat from a powerful drug kingpin, he hatches an audacious plan to rob his companyÕs safe.

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Thomas Trail
Cinematography:
Peter Rieveschl
Cast:
Jsu Garcia, Meredith Bishop, Leigh Taylor-Young, Henry Czerny
Editor:
Thomas Trail
Producer:
Mark Ean

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Featuring an all-star cast, Vanessa Parise's wonderful Kiss the Bride is an insightful and humorous look into the lives of a passionate but disparate Italian-American family and their individual struggles for love and validation. Danni is about to marry her true love, and the last thing her three sisters thought they'd be doing is returning home to Westerly, Rhode Island for Danni's wedding. Niki, the golden child, now lives in L.A., where her dreams of becoming a star have instead landed her a role on a Baywatch-type television show, much to her parents' chagrin.

Season:
2003
Director:
Vanessa Parise
Cinematography:
Rob Sweeney
Cast:
Alyssa Milano, Sean Patrick Flannery, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Jonathon Schaech, Brooke Langton, Amanda Detmer, Monet Mazur, Johnny Whitworth, Vanessa Parise
Editor:
Lois Freeman-Fox, Sam Citron
Producer:
David Shoshan, Rick Pepin, Jordan Gertner, Vanessa Parise

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Witty, stylish, weird, sexy, and disturbing, It All Happens Incredibly Fast blends comedy with psychological horror in an intense study of people drinking, talking, and coming face to face with their darkest demons. It is a strange, dark journey after hours; where the air is thick with cigarette smoke, the liquor flows free, and the lies are exposed as the walls close in. Just another friendly bar on a night that ends like so many, with a brawl. Seven regulars trapped one of them beaten half to death waiting for help to arrive. Amogst them, A STRANGER...he may or may not be what he seems.

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Jai Dixit
Cinematography:
Jesse Rosensweet
Cast:
Phillipa Domville, Tamara Hickey, Trent McMullen, Duane Murray, Susanne Sutchy, Jeff Topping, Maurice Dean Wint
Editor:
Michael Rea
Producer:
Jai Dixit, Paul Campbell

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Lies, deception, and a dead body make for intrigue in local filmmaker, and Cinequest mainstay, Shawn Flanagan's latest adventure.

Season:
2003
Director:
Shawn Flanagan

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A hot summer day, and Josef is being shipped out today. What possible way could single mom, Janet, express exactly what she is feeling?

Season:
2003
Director:
Micky Hohl

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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.

Season:
2003
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Holly Mosher
Cinematography:
Holly Mosher
Editor:
Virginia Flores
Producer:
Holly Mosher
Language:
Portuguese with English subtitles

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Marco is leading the good life, climbing the ladder of success, and doing plenty of heavy partying. He just canÕt seem to find the time for his patient wife, Melanie, and their 6-year-old son, Benny. Unable to wait for Marco to be a part of the family, Melanie decides she wants out, and takes Benny with her. Frustrated by the lack of time he gets to spend with his son-a concern that never fazed him when they were together-Marco becomes more and more agitated, finally taking matters into his own hands.

Season:
2003
Director:
Dani Levy
Cinematography:
Carsten Thiele
Cast:
Sebastian Blomberg, Maria Schrader, Ezra Valentin Lenz, Christiane Paul, Ulrich Noethen
Editor:
Elena Bromund
Producer:
Manuela Stehr
Language:
German with English subtitles
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