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For Film Festival and Distribution inquires, please contact Mike Bowes at mike@centralproductions.org.
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Projects
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Directed by: Theodore Cormey
Aerodynamics details the eleventh-hour mission of Lil' Moe, the first African-American ventriloquist dummy in space, and his estranged relationship with his ex-partner, ventriloquist Willy Jefferson.
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Directed by: Andrew Bujalski
"Beeswax, at first glance a modest, ragged slice of contemporary life, turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie. Its leisurely scenes and hesitant, circling conversations conceal both an ingenious comic structure and a rich emotional subtext. Mr. Bujalski, who has been compared at times to John Cassavetes, at times to Eric Rohmer, has, with an anthropologist's sympathetic detachment and a novelist's eye, discovered some of the hidden codes and rituals that govern modern behavior." —A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times, August 7, 2009
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Directed by: Ben Woodard and Andrew Landauro
Circuit is an experimental science-fiction feature film told through five separate story lines, each dealing with a different sense. A man falling from the sky, a woman who cannot taste, a student who finds an alien pod in his head—these are a few of the characters we encounter in Circuit. Through the evolution of the story, themes and threads from each segment weave together as a whole to reveal mysterious and connected events.
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Directed by: John Warren
The Entertainer is both a silent movie about the end of silent movies, and a miniature epic about a piano player for the motion pictures who loses his job when "talkies" are invented.
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Directed by: Shandor Garrison
Carl lost his wife and daughter on September 11th, but their remains were never recovered, believed to be part of "the fines" at Ground Zero. Four years later, when a business trip takes him back to the city where their plane departed, Carl unwittingly begins a journey to contend with his unsettled grief. An award-winning story of 9/11 loss and renewal, The Fines showcases a moving performance by actor David Douglas as Carl, an evocative score by "sound artist" Halsey Burgund, and the memorable work of cinematographer M. Zachary Lee.
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Written and directed by: Gerald Peary
For the Love of Movies is the first feature documentary to dramatize the rich, sociologically fascinating history of American film criticism. Written and directed by veteran film critic Gerald Peary and produced by Amy Geller, For the Love of Movies offers a unique insider's view of the film critics' profession with commentary from many of America's best-regarded reviewers.
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Directed by: Shandor Garrison
At a residential school for troubled kids on a desolate New England island, Luis, an HIV+ teen from the Bronx, prepares revenge in the mouthwash of a bullying student. Luis's frightening prank is discovered and he faces expulsion for threatening to spread his virus. When the boy's mentor—a struggling local man named Moe—is called to the island to say goodbye, he impulsively whisks Luis away on his fishing boat. Moe tries to a create a memorable last day together, but when he realizes that Luis is missing his anti-retroviral medicine, he must enlist the help of Luis' mainland nurse, Denise. An odd family forms around the kitchen table that night, one that stirs old feelings for Moe. Later that evening, Luis tells a story that Moe cannot quite believe. The truth or fiction of this story awakens in them both a sense of their own possibility and tragedy.
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Directed by: Garth Donovan
The Great American Guinea Pig reveals the journey of a young material-obsessed rapper to a socially conscious artist, on the brink of signing a major label deal. Yet on a deeper more personal level, the film will reveal a young boy's forced entry into adulthood at an early age and the amazing strength and balance he exhibited to handle and overcome this reality. The audience will be given full access into his innermost battles where he combats the demons holding him back from living a more fulfilled, meaningful existence.
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Directed by: Anne Loyer
Hanna's Ride is a coming-of-age film about a girl caught between two worlds: the open landscape of a horse farm, where she confronts physical danger, male sexual aggression, jealousy, and her own ambition; and the confining suburban environment, where she struggles with her mother's expectations of beauty and propriety.
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Directed by: Peggy Nelson
From June 2009 to March 2010, In Search of Adele H ran as an interactive Twitter movie about Adele Hugo — the historical person, the film, the madness, the fiction. Inspired by the Fluxus Movement, Adele's story was retold as though she were alive today and using Twitter. Text-based and comprised of Twitter posts, it was supplemented with additional short videos, images, music, and blog posts. The Twitter movie is now being made into a short film, currently in production.
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Directed by: Andrew Bujalski
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York City and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. This low-key character drama is by turns humorous, thoughtful, and real, and has been winning kudos on the festival circuit since its release in 2005.
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Directed by: Rob Peyrebrune
Party Like It's a Verb is an independent comedy that chronicles one night in the life of an unnamed and unloved character. His life is thrown into turmoil as his long term girlfriend leaves him. He responds by crashing his neighbor's party and pushing the interactions toward absurdity. An early morning trip to the beach with an equally disappointed young woman begins the process of discovering a future they have yet to imagine. It is a film that explores the limits of self-imposed identities and shows that the world is much bigger than our expectations.
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Directed by: Zachary Lee
At times a quirky, deadpan comedy, Shortness of Breath is also a tense crime film and an earnest love story. The film displays an interest in characters that exist on the margins of society and a fascination with the beauty of an American landscape. Equally, Shortness of Breath has roots in the films of the French New Wave, particularly Godard's Breathless, as the title suggests. The New Wave's obsession with film noir combined with its low-budget style and emphasis on location shooting offered a new twist on the American crime film of the 40s. Shortness of Breath is both an homage to the New Wave and an update to this formula.
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Directed by: Jeff Stern
The Romantic Possibilities is a love story set set in the reality that we know, but with one notable exception: the world is an endlessly changing and free-flowing succession of jobs and workplaces. Leo and June fall in love at and through work. They meet each other at the unique point in each of their lives when their career and romantic possibilities are overwhelming and seemingly infinite. As they go, their backdrops and uniforms change seamlessly.
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Directed by: Theodore Collatos
Tom Collins is an intimate look at today's 20s - 30s f*cked generation, living in the post-industrial, All-American town of Pittsfield, MA, and their relationship with the past glory days of the town's General Electric factory years. "Tommy" (Matt Shaw), is released from prison and reunites with his brothers "Patrick" (Rick Roucoulet), who is an Iraq war vet and "Ant" (Tony Shaw), a thief with manners who steals fine antiques. Tommy's new-found dream, while in jail, is to be a stand-up comedian. He tries to pursue his dream and straighten out, while attempting to get back with his former love "Sarah" (Rebekah Frenkel), who now has a young child of her own.
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Directed by: Michael Bowes
Yvonne works every day in a shop where, for her, everyday is simply any day—from a matter of simple habit her days have lost any trace of distinction. One day a shoplifter, doing what he does best, forces her to jump out of the shop door.
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Directed by: John Gianvito
Vapor Trail (Clark) is a documentary essay exploring circumstances of toxic contamination around the former US military bases in the Philippines as the locus for a meditation on historical amnesia, colonial privilege, and the consequences of unchecked militarism. Interweaving both cinéma-vérité and interview footage of Filipino victims and their families, environmental spokespersons, and community activists, along with early photographic material pertaining to the Philippine-American War, partisan songs, historical texts, and landscape photography, Vapor Trail (Clark) is an attempt to construct a work capable of rendering some measure of this human and environmental tragedy and the complexities of its remedy.
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