2009

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What kind of hit will it take to put this assassin to rest?

An insomniac ex-hit man, Price (Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan), restless and bored with his retired life, re-enters the fast-paced world of assassination in this thrilling and captivating mystery-love story, co-written by popular crime novelist Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and based on his short story.

Season:
2009
Director:
Jeffrey Goodman
Cinematography:
Richard Rutkowski
Cast:
Tom Sizemore, Sasha Alexander, Sprague Grayden, Bill Smitrovich
Editor:
Philip Harrison
Producer:
David Koplan
Language:
English
Genre:
Mystery
Music:
Ben Lovett

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An eerie tale of one man?s double identity.

The mind of a murderer is an often unexplored, mystifying place. Killer Poet takes you into that forbidden minefield of circumstance, opportunity, and thoughtless action to paint the portrait depicting one of America?s most notorious recaptured prisoners.

Season:
2009
Director:
Susan Gray
Cinematography:
Jeremy Leach, Stephen Christy, Bestor Cram
Editor:
Andrew Kukura
Producer:
Susan Gray
Executive Producer:
Bestor Cram
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary

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Winner ? Prize of Hope, Cannes Film Festival

There is a hell, a hell on earth, and it?s a place once known as paradise.

Season:
2009
Director:
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Cinematography:
Marc Koninckx
Cast:
Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay, Joseph Duo
Editor:
Stéphane Elmadjian
Producer:
Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoit Jaubert
Executive Producer:
Elisa Larrière
Language:
French (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama

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He bent the bars with music and let their souls fly free.

A guitar strung with sin and unsavory tales sings out yarns of hopeful remorse. This is an account of Cash?s long time advocacy of prison reform. At Folsom Prison was the first record ever recorded in a prison, when Johnny Cash, guitar in hand, induced the men of Folsom prison to transcend the walls that set asunder society from those inside.

Season:
2009
Director:
Bestor Cram
Cinematography:
Miguelangel Aponte-Rios, Bestor Cram
Cast:
John Carter Cash, Johnny Cash, Marshall Grant, Merle Haggard, W.S. Holland, John D. Loudermilk, Lou Robin, Marty Stuart
Editor:
Tim Raycroft
Producer:
Bestor Cram, Michael Streissguth
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary

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Veering from dark humor to whimsical surrealism, from laconic portrait to wild whodunit.

The Investigator is brimming with surprises and invention. Tibor, a great hulking lump of stolidity, is a human rock working in the morgue. The ultimate loner, completely satisfied with his lot, he is also a total pragmatist. When extra money is needed, he finds a way. "I had to do it. I did it." What starts off as a dourly surreal black comedy suddenly becomes a detective story with every convention turned on its head and perhaps, the most unlikely investigator ever.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Attila Gigor
Cinematography:
Máté Herbai
Cast:
Zsolt Anger, Judit Rezes, Sándor Terhes, Ildikó Tóth, Éva Kerekes, Zsolt Zágoni
Editor:
Zoltán Kovács
Producer:
Ferenc Pusztai
Language:
Hungarian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
László Melis

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What do you do when you?re hit by a ?quarter-life crisis?? Turn your life into a hip version of The Odd Couple.

Season:
2009
Director:
Oliver Irving
Cinematography:
Paul Swann
Cast:
Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Hardy, Powell Jones, Michael Irving
Editor:
Reuben Irving
Producer:
Justin Kelly
Executive Producer:
Mirabel Kelly, Bernard Kelly, Iain Sanderson, Tim Hoggard, Sarah Needham, Harry Hyman
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Joe Hastings

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Everything in life has a price.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Victor Avelar
Cinematography:
Hector Maeshiro
Cast:
Alejandro Belmonte, Natalia Esperón, Daniel Martínez, Siouzana Melikian, Arcelia Ramírez, Jorge Zárate
Editor:
Victor Avelar, Lourdes Rébora
Producer:
Julio Bárcenas, Ángeles Castro, Liliana Pardo
Language:
Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama

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Home may be where the heart is, but when the heart?s been shattered, there?s no safe place to go.

The always engrossing Marcia Gay Harden (Miller?s Crossing, (Pollack, Mystic River) stars as poet and mother Inga. For Inga, life is a wobbly structure, built upon a tangled mess of love and hope, anger and despair. The one thing that matters is Indigo her young daughter, with whom she gazes up at the clouds and discovers wondrous creatures in the vaporous forms that sail away with the wind.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Mary Haverstick
Cinematography:
Richard Rutkowski
Cast:
Marcia Gay Harden, Marian Seldes, Michael Gaston, Eulala Scheel
Editor:
Mary Haverstick
Producer:
Mary Haverstick, Chad Taylor, Michele Mercure
Executive Producer:
Paul Ware, Judy Ware
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Michele Mercure

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From its premiere at the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema, where it won both Best Director and the Audience Award, thence to numerous festivals in Europe, and now at Cinequest ? Historias Extraordinarias has been astounding sold-out audiences wherever it goes.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Mariano Llinás
Cinematography:
Agustín Mendilaharzu
Cast:
Mariano Llinás, Agustín Mendilaharzu, Walter Jakob, Klaus Dietze, Eduardo Laccono, Horacio Marassi
Editor:
Alejo Moguillansky, Agustin Rolandelli
Producer:
Laura Citarella
Language:
Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Mystery
Music:
Gabriel Chwojnik

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Winner - Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award Ronald Stone wore a bulletproof vest to work.

Season:
2009
Director:
Beth Toni Kruvant
Cinematography:
David Harges
Editor:
Anand Kamalakar
Producer:
Beth Toni Kruvant
Executive Producer:
Paul Bartick, Anand Kamalakar
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Ben Decter
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