PROGRAM #80
ARCLIGHT THEATER 12
MONDAY - SEPTEMBER 11 - 3:15 PM

Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker

(Animation / Germany / 35mm / 8 minutes)

Disturbed by loud music of one of his neighbors Mr. Schwartz calls the police. But initially the officer can’t ascertain anything... Then the film starts again from the view of every lessee and allows the spectator to see what really happened in every apartment: The history of a butterfly-effect.

Director / Producer / Writer: Stefan Mueller

Contact: info@basementpictures.com

Down in the Mouth

(Comedy / United States / 35mm / 20 minutes)

Ron Dibble has no uvula. And though it seems a small thing, he’s convinced the whole world sees him as a freak. How will he ever win his dream-girl’s affections given his “shortcoming?” He tries psychiatry and mail order, but in the end he desperately turns to plastic surgery in hopes of gaining the self-esteem he’s longed for all of his life.

Director: Kirby Ward

Producers: Kirby Ward and Cynthia Leigh Heim

Writer: Kirby Ward

Contact: kirbydw@sbcglobal.net

The Problem with Percival

(Comedy / United States / 35mm / 13 minutes)

Persnickety nine-year-old Percival Strum misdirects mourning the loss of his older brother into constant conflict with his trying-to-be-helpful grandmother. With his parents away, Percival’s frustrations lead him to hold auditions for and to hire a replacement ‘Gramma.’

Director: SethGordon

Producer / Writer: Heather Bergen Holme

Contact: heather@heatherholme.com

Tell It to the Fishes

(Comedy / United Kingdom / 35mm / 10 minutes)

Finn and Jack find themselves on a beach with their feet set in concrete. The tide rolls in. Salvation slips past. They argue. They drown.

Director / Writer: William Sinclair

Producers: Carol Murphy and Chloe Mercier

Contact: carol@laikapictures.com

Maxima Pena

(Comedy / Spain / 33mm/ 11 minutes)

In a regional football match, the trainer tries to avoid the relegation of his team, when he should be at his father’s funeral.

Director: Juanjo Gimenez

Producers: Xose Zapata and Oscar Diez

Writers: Juanjo Gimenez and Pere Altimira

Contact: maximapena@saltodeeje.com

In the Mood

(Comedy / United Kingdom / 35 mm / 7 minutes)

London, 1944. Nazi spy Eva has an ingenious method for transmitting a crucial Morse code message to a waiting German U-Boat. What can possibly go wrong?

Director: Hannah Robinson

Producers: Jonathan Hall and Jeremy Redhouse

Writer: Jonathan Hall

Contact: jonathanhall@blueyonder.co.uk

Free Range

(Comedy / United Kingdom / 16mm / 10 minutes)

You are what you eat... No food in the cupboards or cash in their pockets, and all their credit cards max-ed out. How can Dave and Charlotte find a way to keep body and soul together?

Director: Steve Friendship

Producer: Nicola Clayton

Writer: Frank Brown

Contact: nclayton@pooka.co.uk

P.E.O.Z.

(Comedy / Greece / 35mm / 11minutes)

Zacharias wakes up........without his penis.

Director / Writer: Cristo Petrou

Producers: Cristo Petrou and Federico Pietra

Contact: petrou4444@yahoo.gr

Marti’s Party

(Comedy / Australia / 35mm / 15 minutes)

Martin’s father died on his 57th birthday. Martin is about to turn 57 and Martin has a tendency to obsess about things.

Director / Producer / Writer: Annabelle Murphy

Contact: cmurfy@iprimus.com.au

Yellow Bird

(Drama / Canada / 35mm / 14 minutes)

Fayette Colback has always been a dreamer, despite living a dull and oppressive existence with her controlling husband Roy. That is, until a chance encounter with a little Yellow Bird turns both their lives upside-down. Inspired by new found joy, Fayette proves that change can occur with a little touch of magic and grave opportunity.

Director: Jessie Wallace

Producer: Steven Bray

Writers: Carol Brown, Jessie Walker, and Margie Lukas

Contact: jwallace@smilingtoadpictures.com

Casework

(Comedy / United States / 16mm / 4 minutes)

A film noir joke about P.I. Harold Stark on a tricky case.

Director: J. Todd Coleman

Producers: J. Todd Coleman, James Nance, and Lilas Lane

Writers: J. Todd Coleman and James Nance

Contact: lilas@lilaslane.com