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EVENTS SCHEDULEClick any of the dates in this schedule for details of that day's films and events
Synopses The 2010 Appalachian Film Festival is kicking off this April and looks to be the most exciting and cutting edge festival of independent filmmaking this area has ever seen! April 9th the festival gets under way at Marshal University Smith Hall Room 154 the AFF brings you the following 5:30 PM (Short) Ed The Undertaker: Ed the Undertaker is a film that follows Ed, an isolated undertaker of a remote rural cemetery whose deranged personality teeters on the edge of psychosis. 5:40 PM (Short) Stevie Ray: A woman at her wit's end makes a simple request of her boyfriend to clean up his 'man-cave', resulting in a startling outcome neither of them could have predicted. 6:00 PM (Feature) The Crimson Mask: Two desperate men, from different worlds, find themselves unwitting pawns in an ancient ritual. Greed, Lust, Pride, Anger, and Envy have consumed the lives of Thomas Caine, a seemingly wealthy businessman, and Parker, a down on his luck pro wrestler. Both are overwhelmed with insurmountable debts and struggling to break free by any means. As their lives quickly unravel, so does an age-old secret conspiracy that leads the two men down a deadly path of redemption. 7:35 PM (Short) All the Missing Pieces: A college graduate leaving his hometown recalls the life of his grandfather and the day he left for World War II. 7:55 PM (Short) King of the Road: An old school biker, Wild Bill, fights to win back his favorite bar, the last vestige of his faded glory. 8:20 PM (Young Filmmaker) Closed Doors: A teen that was sexually abused returns as an angel with her first assignment, being her dad. 8:50 PM (Young Filmmaker) September: Set in rural North Carolina, tells the story of sixty-one year old, Jonathan Granger. When the furniture factory he's worked at for over thirty years closes, he's left uncertain about his future. The world is slowly passing him by, but he's not ready to step aside just yet. He does his best to roll with the punches and push on as he tries to keep everything from unravelling. 9:15 PM (Feature) Maxwell Stein: A Washed up Filmmaker from the Silent Era needs a new camera for his final project, his first talkie that he wants to leave behind as his greatest work, his legacy. The camera is found at a strange second hand shop off the beaten path . Maxwell Stein decides this is the camera for him,however the camera has different plans for Mr Stein and the cast as this haunted film camera begins to take over.
April the 16th the festival moves to the Huntington Museum of Art, located at 2033 McCoy Road Huntington, West Virginia, for an evening of fundraising for Hospice of Huntington and the Huntington Museum of Art. Starting with a cocktail reception from 5:30PM – 6PM and then commencing with the short and micro films which will be judged by all in attendance for this years newest prize “Peoples Choice for Short Film.” The winner will be recognized at the main event the following week at the Keith Albee Theater. The evening will be emceed by the Herald Dispatches Dave Lavender as well as Sheila from the WKEE Morning Show. Tickets for the fundraiser are $15 per individual or $25 per couple. The lineup is as follows 5:30 PM (Micro Film) The Watchers: Who watches the watchers? 5:34 PM (Micro Film) balance: Life is about balance. Gorgeous images captured with a $200 Flip MinoHD camera. 5:40 PM (Micro Film) Appalachian Dreams: An old clog dancer retires for the night, but his shoes are just getting started. Based on the traditional arts and crafts of southern Appalachia, Appalachian Dreams celebrates the high energy of clog dancing along with carved wooden toys, corn husk dolls, ceramic jugs and weaved baskets joining in on the fun. The film combines the traditional hand made crafts with the latest state of the art computer animation techniques to produce a film that will hopefully inspire future generations and keep alive the southern Appalachian tradition 5:47 PM (Short) Ben Pickle: Wonder Years meets Scrubs meets the Wizard of Oz in Bens pickled brain. 6:00 PM (Short) Down in Number 5: Rooted in the Southern Gothic storytelling tradition, 'Down in Number 5' follows a terminally ill coal miner as he struggles to find refuge for his developmentally disabled son. Based on a true story. 6:20 PM (Short) wait: Over the course of an evening two womens lives are changed forever. 6:40 PM (Short) Soapbox #5: a light-hearted short story for everyone in the family. An imaginative boy, Reese, daydreams an otherwise boring afternoon into a magical journey in his soapbox derby car. Shot in and around the Huntington area. 6:55 PM (Short) Squared: Forced to relocate to Pittsburgh from New York City, Andrew Feldman wants one thing from his new neighborhood, for everyone to leave him alone; however, when he injures himself on a run in a park, he soon learns that there is no running from its good-natured residents. 7:12 PM (Short) This Is Who We Are: Cheryl, a socially awkward woman who clings to her mother for a sense of self worth, falls into disarray when her mother enters the hospital. She fills the void in her life with an expired driver's license and in the process of trying to sustain a relationship with it and her self worth she learns to stand on her own. 7:30 PM (Short) Fire in the Mountains: Fire in the Mountains documents a independent wrestling organization in Appalachian Kentucky. Showing the hardships of life in both being a wrestler and promoter in Eastern KY in 2009. What was once a dream is now limited to very small armories and school lunchrooms across the mountains. Showcasing the hardships of life of a by gone industry. 7:52 PM (Short) Allemansratten: Pedal along with local bicyclists on their journey into nature.
April 23rd the big event comes to the historic Keith Albee Theater, located at 1021 4th Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia, with exclusive screenings of Nashville filmmaker Harmony Korines latest slice of Americana weirdness Trash Humpers as well as Jacob Young, of Dancing Outlaw fame, with his new documentary The Object: The Urim and the Thummim. Certain to be an unforgettable weekend which will have the town talking and jaws dropping. Kicking things off Friday the 23rd with the following 5:35 PM (Documentary) The Mountain Music Project: A Musical Odyssey from Appalachia to Himalaya (documentary): Two Virginia musicians, travel to Nepal to explore the extraordinary connections between Appalachian and Himalayan folk music. 6:35 PM (Feature) Passenger Pigeons: Set among the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky, 'Passenger Pigeons' is a story about finding hope and beauty in the dark hills of Appalachia. The film quietly interweaves four separate story lines over the course of a weekend as the town copes with the death of a local miner. 8:35 PM (Feature) You Won’t Miss Me: A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance. 10:00 PM (Special Presentation) Trash Humpers: This movie is a found VHS tape that someone buried in their backyard many years ago. It documents the days and nights of a small group of elderly peeping toms. The people on the tape also like to hump trash. They film each other doing terrible things. This tape seems as if it were made as an ode to vandalism. Very little is known about these people or where they came from, they seem to exist only on the margins and in the shadows of the American landscape. This tape crudely documents the shocking chaos and insanity of a group of true sociopaths, the likes of which have never been seen.
April 24th -- The festival concludes Saturday morning with a filmmakers roundtable discussion and breakfast with our special guest Jacob Young and brought to you by the West Virginia Film Office at 9 AM. The awards banquet and dinner will take place at 6:30 PM with tickets for the banquet going at $35 per person. The lineup for Saturday commences as follows 10:00 AM (Documentary) Deep Down: Deep Down follows the once-peaceful Appalachian mountain community of Maytown, Kentucky as neighbors find themselves in the center of a contentious battle over mountaintop removal coal mining. Through a complex human story that cuts across environment, economics, public policy, and culture, the story of two friends and their community reveals the devastating impact of our energy consumption against an explosive backdrop: Appalachia's centuries-old struggle over the black rock that fuels our planet. 11:00 AM (Documentary) A Dot and a Line..A Fade: A world of motorcycles, bikers, and dazzling art surround one of the first and best female airbrush artists in the automotive field: Pamela Shanteau. Discover how the three basic elements of airbrushing (A Dot and A Line, A Fade) combine to create stunning artwork. Join the journey, as she and her husband, Donn, work to build a business and keep the creative fires burning more than thirty years into her career. 12:45 PM (Feature) Cashing Out: The story, based on true events, revolves a series of mysterious and anonymous cash gifts that are being given to people who in desperate situations and need. Suspicious of the events, bank officials, police and even FBI are alerted and take action to find out who is behind these 'cashings'. 2:30 PM (Feature) Mean Parents Suck: A sweet young kindergarten teacher kills mean parents, accidentally, sort of. Kids get even in this dark comedy. The cute cop investigates and falls for the teacher. Will he send her to jail? 4:10 PM (Documentary) Dirty Business: 'Clean Coal' and the Battle for Our Energy Future is a documentary about the myth of clean coal. The film reveals the true, hidden environmental and social costs of the 'cheap' nineteenth century technology that still provides more than half the electricity powering today's digital age. DIRTY BUSINESS exposes Big Coal's propaganda campaign to convince the public that renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, are not ready for prime time - and that clean coal already exists. 5:40 PM (Documentary) Pass It On: North Carolina author Reynolds Price has been teaching at Duke University for 51 years, spanning his entire career as a writer. This documentary explores the roots, subject matter, influences, and changes in his teaching career, through original and archival materials. With interwoven excerpts of his own writing and testimonials from former students, including other well-known writers, a complex portrait is revealed of a man who truly loves the art of teaching literature. 8:00 PM (Special Presentation) The Object: The Urim and the Thummim: A Kentucky man finds what he believes is a religious artifact in a Nashville thrift store and sets out to convince others.
The 2010 Appalachian Film Festival is sponsored by the Huntington Regional Film Commission and the West Virginia Film Office. |
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