[NEohioPAL] Malone Films will play at Canton Palace International Film Fest

[Open Frame]

Ten Malone University student films will play at the Canton Palace
International Film Fest.   Winning entries from earlier years were submitted
to the festival, but once festival programmers reviewed the Open Frame
discs, they invited four more films to be included, too.


The films playing at the festival include the following


Questionable Behavior directed by Stephen Thomas / 13 min. / 2008 /
Narrative Fiction

Will the police officer succeed in his attempt to bring in this drunken
driver?  Will the driver manage to keep his wits about him?  Or are these
the wrong questions to be asking?


Another Winter in Canton directed by Dan Walton / 5:20 min. / 2009 /
Experimental

One long day in Canton, Ohio shows the quiet and subtle beauty of winter set
to the music of a local band, Wild Boy of Aveyron.


Definition directed by Alyssa Pearson / 14:37 min. / 2009 / Narrative
Fiction

Val Carter feels trapped in monotony and decides to take drastic measures to
escape her mundane reality.  The further she is from familiarity, the more
she learns that assigning meaning to her life does not need to be so
definite.


Sloth directed by Dusty Jenkins / 16 min. / 2009 / Documentary

An impromptu game invented by bored college students becomes a cherished
tradition lasting for seven years despite threats from the institution and
even the city.


Benedict Sexton directed by Dusty Jenkins and Michael Popp / 12:44 min. /
2010 / Narrative Fiction

A break-in at midnight morphs into an unlikely connection.


Keepsakes directed by Alyssa Pearson / 16:26 min.  / 2010 / Narrative
Fiction

Aiden's estranged grandmother has just passed away, leaving him in a state
of mournful disappointment.  At the release of the will, he finds a to-do
list written in her hand.  Spontaneously, he decides to attempt the written
tasks in order to get to know her.


Two for Tuesday directed by Ryan Baechel / 5 min. / 2009 / Experimental

One night with big questions is handled in a trippy, dreamlike (?),
drugged-out (?) way in this experimental short about personal spiritual
struggle.


(w)hole directed by Taylor Hazlett / 6:14 min. / 2010 / Narrative Fiction

This silent film uses iconic images to wander through a girl’s journey into
adulthood. The story is big, the telling is simple. A parable about loss and
recovery.


Always directed by Ashley Barstow / 3:49 min. / 2010 / Short Documentary
Subject

This short documentary uses old family films to explore the connection
between a song and a relationship.


Chalk Burst directed by Nate Ross, Chris DeMichel, & Meredith Borling /3:51
min. /2008 /Experimental.  A class project yielded this stop motion
meditation on beauty and movement; on art and nature.


The films will play at the Canton Palace Theatre downtown in Canton, Ohio on
Friday, October 8th from 12:10 pm until 1:55 pm.   Cost of admission is $4
per person.  Some of the filmmakers will be on hand for Q & A afterward.
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