PROGRAM #23
ARCLIGHT THEATER 9
THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 7 - 3:30 PM

Cries From Maelstrom                                            

(Experimental / United States / Beta SP / 10 minutes)

Experimental short inspired by children’s accounts collected after the first atomic bombings; a heart-rending but hopeful first-person present tense narrative. We glimpse children playing on the eve of destruction, then scrambling to find a way home in a surreal landscape.

Director/Producer/Writer: Peter Barton

Contact: peterbarton@earthlink.net

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Roads to Ramadi

(Drama / United States / Digital Beta / 12 minutes)

A young man joins the U.S. army after 9/11 and has to come to grips with the realities of war.

Director / Writer: Robert Ham and Mark Stampfli

Producer: Robert Ham, Mark Stampfli, and Don Clark

Contact: robert@roberthamfilms.com

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Collins College - Commercial

Collins College offers technical training and development in the areas of visual communication, animation, personal computer network technology, and e-commerce programming.

Director: Pratik A. Amin

Sticks - Commercial

Ad Agency: Downtown Partners DDB / Client: Pepsi QTG Canada – Gatorade

NHL star Sidney Crosby joins in for a game of street hockey, setting off a chain reaction among fans. The stick pile grows as a swelling crowd eagerly awaits the World’s biggest street hockey game.

Director: Gregor Nicholas

Heads Up

(Drama / Australia / Digital Beta / 7 minutes)

Between no man’s land and a mad man, the name of the game is survival. Captain Chris Jones and his men have lived through four years of hell in the trenches of the First World War. But with peace only days away, can they hope to survive their new commanding officer?

Director: Dean Ganter

Producer: Garrett Russell

Writer: Les McDiarmid

Contact: gjr@powerup.com.au

Yanush Korchak

(Documentary / Israel / Digital Beta / 45 minutes)

This film is about the last three days in the life of Yanush Korchak: a doctor, a writer, a teacher, and director of the orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. Despite having a few opportunities to escape, Yanush stayed with the children. This film is based on the letters, books, and diaries of Yanush Korchak, that reveal to the audience what was hidden inside the soul of the great humanitarian.

Director / Writer: Semion Vinokur

Producers: Semion Vinokur and Yaakov Svirsky

Contact: acohen@arifilms.tv

One Venue/Bloc Party - Commercial

Ad Agency: Publicis West- Seattle / Client: Real Networks

Expressing Rhapsody’s music passion and innate desire to share it with others-open 24 hours a day, right on your desktop.

H-E-N-R-Y

(Drama / United States / Digital Beta / 19 minutes)

Hank meets Henry on the prison basketball court. It’s Hank’s first day in, Henry’s last. Hank and Henry discover that despite the difference in their circumstance they are more similar than first perceived. Shot on location inside and outside of the historic Stillwater prison, H-E-N-R-Y provides a unique perspective on confinement, using a lyrical, atmospheric tone.

Director / Writer: William Kruse

Producer: Ross Crandall

Contact: front242@usinternet.com

The Magic of Tiba - Commercial

Client: Pynsworth Alley Records

Tibe discovers the forgotten treasures of an old warehouse and awakens the music of a lost era.

Director: Philipp Edelmann