[NEohioPAL] Geauga Film Festival 2009 listing and schedule

Johnny K. Wu johnny at mdifilm.com
Mon May 25 07:41:25 PDT 2009


Hi everyone, below is the actual schedule and film listing for Geauga Film
Festival, Jean Claude The Gumming Zombie (whom gotten a great review by
Rogue Cinema) is playing on Friday at 7:20pm and The Rapture at 2:55pm on
Saturday, however, as you can see on the list, there are other films from
our fellow friends on the other days. So come out and support our local film
scene and enjoy those fine films! 

 

Geauga Film Festival

June 9-14, Historic Geauga Theater on Chardon Square

www.geaugafilm.org

Schedule

 

Tuesday June 9, 2009

7:00 pm            Welcome to Geauga County

7:02 pm            Mass Mailing

7:11 pm            Peaceful Parks of Geauga County

7:13 pm            Monday Morning

7:18 pm            Some Town Somewhere

7:27 pm            Vengeance

7:35 pm            To See the Moon in the Morning Sky

9:10 pm            end day 1

 

Wednesday June 10, 2009

7:00 pm            Interns

7:15 pm            Broken Oath

7:35 pm            Marvellette vs The Rubber City Madman

7:40 pm            Nachos

7:45 pm            Nathan's Rebellion

9:20 pm            end day 2

 

Thursday June 11, 2009

7:00 pm            So Long to Owl Creek

7:10 pm            The Hot Pocket

7:20 pm            Measured Sacrafice

7:40 pm            Murder @ Midnight

7:55 pm            The Bocce Bunch

8:10 pm            American Stories

9:30 pm            end day 3

 

Friday June 12, 2009

 7:00 pm           Interrogation

 7:15 pm           A Polish Winter

 7:20 pm           Jean Claude the Gummie Zombie

 7:55 pm           Visit China

 8:10 pm           The Union

 8:25 pm           Hellementary

 9:55 pm           Breath of Courage

11:00pm           end day 4

 

Saturday June 13, 2009

12:00 pm          In the Trenches

  1:35 pm          The Misadventures of Moon Kitty

  1:50 pm          Not Alone

  2:55 pm          The Rapture

  4:30 pm          Impaled: Painfully Blunt

  6:00 pm          Cabbie

  6:25 pm          6 Days

  7:50 pm          Samaritan

  8:15 pm          Ring of the Bishop

  9:45 pm          The Struggle for Existence

10:50 pm          end of day 5

 

Sunday June 14, 2009

12:00 pm          Red Battle

  2:30 pm          The Voices

  2:48 pm          Sweet Dreams

  2:55 pm          I Will Hurt You

  3:05 pm          He's Dead

  4:40 pm          Hush

  4:50 pm          Out of the Dark

  6:00 pm          Lies in the Reflection

  6:35 pm          Barstool Cowboy

   8:00pm          end of day 6 End of Festival                  


 

Film Description

Shorts:

The Misadventures of Moon Kitty      San Francisco, CA

Directed by DeWayne Austin

Follow the antics of a musical cat who lives on the moon with her baby, and
other lunar characters,

 

The Bocce Bunch         Concord, OH

Directed by Vince Radisek

A group of friends need something to do when they stumble upon the sport of
bocce ball.  After the meet their new coach they improve greatly, but then
their coach is kidnapped and they must play bocce to get him back.

 

A Polish Winter (animation)     Meath, Ireland

Directed by Shane and Paula Sheils

A young boy investigates the inside of cattle cars, this spurs haunting
memories.

 

Interns             Painesville , OH

Directed by Gina Ezzone

Two interns at a real estate company become fed up with their boss's antics.

 

Nachos            Akron, OH

Directed by Ian Kline

Two stoners execute the heist of a lifetime.  Well at least they think so.

 

Cabbie             Los Angeles, CA

Directed by Danlee Brussel

Marty Yacovelli, a Minnesota native now living in Chicago, has a dream.  A
dream of one day becoming  a cab driver in New York City.  There's only one
thing holing him bacl.?  At age 36, he has never had a driver's license.

 

Jean Claude, the Gummie Zombie     Cleveland, OH

Directed by Johnny K. Wu

When a toothless Frenchman finds himself the latest victim of a zombie
plague, he is befriended by an overly-wholesome family that belongs more in
a 1950's sitcom than the world today. "runs at an incredibly smooth pace;
featuring enough zombie carnage; goofy enough to entertain most everyone
else."- Rogue Cinema.

 

Sweet Dreams (animation)       Kendall Park, NJ

Directed by Kirsten Lepore

Made with entirely real food, this stop motion animation tell the tale of a
stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube
skyscrapers and frosting covered friends.

 

So long to Owl Creek              Bratenahl, OH

Directed by Joe Ogrinc

After friends and his family bid good-bye to a young man at his going away
party, he finds his life on an unexpected course.

 

The Hot Pocket           Akron, OH

Directed by Kipp Poe Spiechler

A detective gets caught up with the wrong woman.

 

I will Hurt You             Newman, GA

Directed by Gary Lynch

A mockumentary about a female wrestling promotion based on the internet that
offers downloads and DVD's.

 

Monday Morning        Toronto, ON

Directed by Jake Kovnat

One snowy morning a young woman returns to the house she once shared with
the man she loved.  As she readies herself to clear out the last of his
possessions, the memories of their past begin to animate in unexpected ways.

 

Measured Sacrifice     Grove City, OH

Directed by John Whitney

Set in dystopian future America, this low tech science fiction/drama follows
the story of Terry, a young woman in trouble.

 

Broken Oath    Solon, OH

Directed by Jeff Yanik

It's election night, and three lives are about to collide!

 

Welcome to Geauga County   Newbury, OH

Directed by Kenny Fadeley

Visual tours highlighting schools, town squares and points of interest in
Geauga County.

 

Interrogation   Cleveland, OH 

Directed by Steven Caple Jr.

A young black college student gets accused of murder, his interrogation is
by a racist police officer.  The student is physically, mentally and
emotionally abused            during the interrogation.

 

Mass Mailing   Parma, OH

Directed by Chris Otcasek

A comedy about receiving an advertisement that may or may not apply to you,
and the simple fact that some of us believe everything we read.

 

Small town Somewhere           Mexia, TX

Directed by Mark Sawyer

An artist enters a small town and becomes a catalyst for change in the
citizen's lives.

 

Lies in the Reflection          Cuyahoga Falls, OH          

Directed by Matt Pallotta

By peering through the looking glass, we see a series of events unravel on
the other side while dealing with alternative realities and dual roles for
each character.

 

Peaceful Parks of Geauga      Newbury, OH 

Directed by Robert Fadeley

A brief film showcasing the beauty of our local parks.

 

Vengeance       Newbury, OH

Directed by Kenny Fadeley

Ace Forman seeks vengeance against a madman who murdered his wife and child.

 

The Voices       S. Euclid, OH

Directed by Wanda Santos-Bray

A psychological thriller based on the notion that the symptoms of psychosis/
schizophrenia are not merely the definition of insanity, but that
hallucinations and hearing voices in our heads are real.

 

Samaritan       Painesville, OH

Directed by Eric Pappa

On his way downtown to meet his beautiful wife for a romantic dinner, this
typical all around good guy stops to help a stranded motorist, but when this
act of kindness turns to blackmail, he is faced with his most difficult
decision of his life.

.

Hush    Medina, OH

Directed by Stephen Mlinarcik

A young man living in recluse, encounters a ghost in his apartment.  Partial
to its presence and privy to its comfort, he goes about his daily life with
it as a of companion.  The ghost, however, has a purpose beyond his own.

 

The Union       Kaysville, UT

Directed by Tom Laughlin

A beautiful bride is forced to make the most important and dangerous
decision of her life, on her wedding day!

 

Visit China      Hudson, OH

Directed by Tony Smangy

Visit China explores "American Consumerism" through the depictions of the
loss of industry in Cleveland, OH and its subsequent effects on our global,
social and individual states.

 

Marvelette and the Rubber City Madman      Akron, OH

Directed by Bryan Pixler

Akron's only superhero faces off against another dastardly villain.

 

Murder @ Midnight    Stow, OH

Directed by Jeff Yanik

One night a series of strange events places a young horror / suspense
novelist into a scenario similar to the ones found in her books.  Fantasy or
reality?

 

Features:

The Rapture    Cleveland, OH

Directed by Johnny K Wu

The story of two bio-engineered humans, destined to become living weapons
for the military until they are spirited away by the female scientist who
created them.  Secrets reveal themselves and conflict inevitably arises.
Winner of Tellies and currently had international distribution.

 

Not Alone        Plantation, FL

Directed by Michael B Smith

A young news reporter, desperate to save her failing career, decides to take
her crew to a neighboring town to investigate a string of disappearances in
a trouble ridden country mansion with a haunted past. 

 

Nathan's Rebellion      Southwick, MA

Directed by KM Fitzgerald

Overshadowed by his jock brother, taken for granted by his traveling father,
Nathan follows an assignment by his teacher to take the Road not Taken.  He
turns a different way in the woods on the way home and ends up on a farm in
1786.

 

American Stories         Akron, OH

Directed by Rob Lucas

With only a few hours to go on the final leg of their Ohio tour, the indie
rock band The Little Devils stranded in a no name town.  As they wait for
their van to be repaired, they reveal a little more about themselves in some
unbelievable stories.

 

Breath of Courage      Stow, OH

Directed by Peter Fields

A young girl plays matchmaker to a couple of new acquaintances as she and
her older brother spend a week with a family friend while their parents
attempt to work out their marital problems.

 

Six Days          Galena, OH

Directed by Jim Leo

A pizza maker and his friend find themselves in hot water with a local
mobster when the lose his sportscar.

 

He's Dead       Palm Bay, FL

Directed by Ray and Migdalia Etheridge

A wealthy businessman is vacationing in the Bahamas when his boat is torched
by an arsonist.  He survives but is faced with the realization that someone
is trying to murder him.

 

Hellementary               Mentor, OH

Directed by Andrew M. Smoley

Students break into a school to solve a slue of deaths that happened in a
small town.

 

Ring of the Bishop       Boston, MA

Directed by KM Fitzgerald

In the real world, a man can lose his faith.and his charity.  Fate is about
to bring it back.

 

To See the Moon in the Morning Sky  Stow, OH

Directed by Peter Fields

A boy finds a satchel filled with thousands of dollars and then discovers
that a dangerous criminal knows he has the money and is determined to get it
back-no matter what the cost.

 

The Struggle for Existence     Mentor, OH

Directed by Michael Suglio

This documentary compares the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the
Creation Museum's approach to science.

 

Red Battle        Vermillion, OH

Directed by Matthew Zaleski

After being betrayed by one of his closest friends for the sake of obtaining
illegal substances, Matt is determined to expose his former friend and his
cronies for the criminals they are.

 

Out of the Dark           Boston, MA

Directed by KM Fitzgerald

The aftermath of sexual and emotional abuse of a toddler


 

In the Trenches           Cleveland, OH 

Directed by John Frommes

A feature length documentary on the making of a low budget independent film
entirely in Ohio.

 

Barstool Cowboy        Lincoln, NE

Directed by Mark Thimijan

An unemployed cowboy who can't find love vows to stay on a barstool for thee
months hoping to find answers at the bottom of a beer bottle.

 

 

Impaled: Painfully Blunt         Cleveland, OH

Directed by Richard Mullenax               

A Docu-comedy about a "Real-Life" vampire.                  

 

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