Sunday June 20, 2010 – Opera Plaza

2:00pm

Types in Stereo

Director: Gemal Woods

Short | USA | 12 minutes

Types In Stereo is about how we can exist in multiple spaces. Stereotypes make light of those things that are either generally accepted, popularly true or made myth through misinterpretation. This short film will bring us in and out of the world of stereotypes.

Chicago Heights

Director: Daniel Nearing

Feature | USA | 15 minutes

Chicago Heights is a series of inter-related vignettes that play out in the imagination of an elderly writer as he stares at the ceiling light in his bedroom.

800 Pound Gorilla

Director: John Paxton Jr.

Short | USA | 28 minutes

Is an exploration on the question of school violence as it relates to urban and suburban/rural environments, and why it occurs. No longer can you afford to ignore the silence in the room.

Animal Drill

Director: Patrick Murphy

Short | USA | 24 minutes

A son must prove his manhood to his father by trying out for his high school basketball team.

3:30pm

One Dance

Director: Steve Marino

Short | USA | 7 minutes

The suburban dating scene can be awkward, but sometimes you just have to get out of the house.

Billy

Director: Winston Moxam

Feature | Canada | 85 minutes

A young journalist arrives at a retirement home to interview Billy, a 94 year-old Black man.  Billy tells him the story of his eventful life, dating back to his early recollections of a time when he left the United States to move to northern Manitoba.  He recalls his struggle as a homesteader, the racism he endured, his love of a woman, and his gift of photography.  Billy is the story of one man's constant search for acceptance.

5:30pm

Jelly

Director: Waleed Moursi

Feature | USA | 103 minutes

Are you still wondering why your life didn't turn out like a 'John Hughes' movie (Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles)? . . . Jelly is!

7:30pm

This Time

Director: Matthew Cherry

Short | USA | 15 minutes

A soldier back from war tries to win the love of his life back before she marries another man.

Trapped Haitian Nights

Director: Jean-Claude Lamarre

World premiere | USA | 90 minutes

A psychological thriller, that delves into the world of Voodoo and the fragility of the mind. This was the last Hollywood production shot in Haiti before the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010.

9:30pm

Sounds of Poetry

Director: Henderson Maddox

Short | USA | 20 minutes

Abuse, Drugs, Molestation, and Neglect are the elements of her childhood. Monique watched as her mom destroyed her body with drugs. She defended her life from the predators that came in and out of her mother’s home in Atlanta.

Behind The Shallow Mind

Director: Steve Horn

Feature | USA | 108 minutes

A tale of a hairstylist who has been blindly forced into the streets by her family then, she gets railroaded into a group of thugs where she becomes unaware of the dangers= that surround her.