PROGRAM #4
ARCLIGHT THEATER 9
WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 6 - 1:15 PM

The Audience

(Comedy / United States / Digital Beta / 4 minutes)

The celebrity entourage has become a staple of modern America. Actors, rappers, musicians and athletes rarely appear in public without a gaggle of sycophants hovering around them like stars in the evening sky. Now this phenomenon has moved on to its next inevitable phase. Celebrated BBC telejournalist Alan Feasible introduces us to Alex Thomas, a comedian who travels with his own audience.

Director / Writer: Jason Strouse

Producers: Lainie Jordan and Jeff Melnick

Contact: lowermerionfilms@yahoo.com

Beauty Rides a Lion, Recollections of Hollywood Starlet

(Documentary / United States / Digital Beta / 15 minutes)

This is the true story of courageous 50's MGM starlet, Carmen Phillips, who flees town at the age of 11 to avoid prison and ends up in Hollywood starring opposite the leading brat packers of her time—Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty, and Dean Martin.

Director / Producer / Writer: Diana Williamson

Contact: info@themusiclibrary.org

H to the 3 - Commercial

Ad Agency: Modernista! / Client: General Motors Hummer

This HUMMER spot incorporates a unique 360º film technique to create the sensation of riding atop a record turntable as it is being scratched by a DJ, while an H3 drives across a steel truss bridge. Images of the bridge and surrounding environment are reflected in the truck as a cool hip hop beat carries us along for the ride.

Directors: Stefan Arni and Siggi Kinski (HIS-Production Co.)

Wings of Legacy

(Drama / United States / Beta SP / 15 minutes)

“Wings of Legacy” is the story of two women from a world of movement and with a heart of dance.

Director / Writer: Neeta Mittal

Producer: Kunal Mittal

Contact: neeta@neetamittal.com

Just a Girl

(Drama / United States / Digital Beta / 22 minutes)

Just a Girl offers a searing look into the insidious and underexposed topic of acquaintance rape. Persophone (Diane Gaeta) is forced to reflect on the event that changed her forever while writing her college term paper on “Her Life, So Far.”

Director / Writer: Lilly Scourtis

Producers: S.J. Main and Shannon Factor

Contact: lilly@desertflowerproduction.com

Aroarah’s Garage - Commercial

Ad Agency: Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners / Client: Converse, Inc.

An all-girl garage band gets catty during a practice session. This film is part of the Converse Gallery, a collection of films submitted by consumers about what the Chuck Taylor All Star means to them.

Director: Alastair McKevitt

A Really Intimate Portrait

(Comedy / United States / Digital Beta / 29 minutes)

A parody of Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait series. A true look at the frivolous and marginal accomplishments of a nobody, who, by the end of the show, will look like a somebody.

Director / Producer / Writer: Dani Alpert

Contact: fosse2fosse@gmail.com

The Gathering - Commercial

Ad Agency: Downtown Partners DDB / Client: Anheuser Busch- Bud Light

As a guy tries to enjoy a Bud Light in an empty park, people suddenly start appearing as if by magic.

Director: Tim Hamilton