NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

April 3, 2001 12 AM PT

Unless otherwise marked, all films will be shown at Edwards Island 7

Cinemas, 999 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, and are $5. Tickets are

available by calling (888) 464-2468 or at o7 https://www.tickets.com.f7

TODAY

11:30 a.m.

Two Coyotes

o7 United States/Mexico, 2000

f7 Producer: Ignacio Gonzales

Director: Jose Reyes Bencomo

Screenwriter: Jose Reyes Bencomo

Cast: Jorge Cordova, Nico Guilak, Joe Esteres, Sara Duran

Running time: 90:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director, will be the film’s world

premiere.

o7 A twisted true story about survival in the midst of the Mexican

mob underworld of drugs. f7

1:30 p.m.

Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas (Virilite et Autres Sentiments

Modernes)

o7 France, 2000

f7 Producer: Blue Dahlia Production

Director: Ronan Girre

Screenwriter: Ronan Girre

Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Estelle Skornik

Running time: 88:00

o7 Thirty-year-old Alexis is your average modern young man: a

perennial teenager who refuses to grow up. Until the day he falls in love

with the bewitching Laura. It’s exhilarating at first, but Alexis soon

has a hard time coping. He wants to rid Laura of her demons and get back

to his easygoing life. Buttoday’s “exorcisms” have to be performed by

consent.

2 p.m.

Short Films: Our Real World

American Holocaust

Director: Teddy Parker

Running time: 29:14

o7 Documentary explores the link between Adolf Hitler’s treatment of

German Jews and the U.S. government’s treatment of American Indians.f7

This Is For You Spike

Directors: Ed Haas, Phil Currie

Running time: 7:00

o7 Actual audition tapes from two kids trying to get a part in a

Spike Lee movie.

Who is Albert Woo?

Director: Hunt Hoe

Running time: 52:00

o7 Exploring the identities of Asian men in the West, including

Jackie Chan and Dr. Mohan Agashe.

Shadows

Director: Mitch Levine

Running time: 24:00

o7 Set in a Nazi extermination camp during World War II, this film

explores surviving in a world where survival seems impossible.

4 p.m.

Keep the River on Your Right

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Peter Broderick

Directors: Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro

Screenwriters: Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro

Running time: 90:00

o7 Chronicles the amazing story of 78-year-old Tobias Schneebaum.

What could drive a gay Jewish painter from New York to leave friends,

family and success behind to seek out and live with some of the most

remote people on earth? Why would such a man walk alone into the jungles

of Indonesia and Peru to join headhunters and cannibals?

4:30 p.m.

Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara

o7 Mexico/United States, 2001f7

Producers: Felix Gehm, Robert Brewster

Directors: Felix Gehm, Robert Brewster

Screenwriters: Felix Gehm, Robert Brewster

Running time: 50:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director and producer, will be the

film’s West Coast premiere.

o7 As Mexico booms with the advent of NAFTA, a World Bank forestry

project begins building logging roads into some of the last old growth

forests in the Sierra Madres. Edwin Bustillos, a human rights organizer,

uncovers a series of drug related murders in the small pueblo of

Coloradas de la Virgen. f7

6:30 p.m.

Making Love (Canone Inverso)

o7 Italy, 2000

f7 Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori

Director: Ricky Tognazzi

Screenwriter: Graziano Diana

Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Hans Matheson, Melanie Thierry, Ricky Tognazzi,

Lee Williams

Running time: 107:00

o7 Music resounds with destiny and mystery binding child violin

prodigy Jeno to Sophie, a beautiful and famous pianist, as it interweaves

through history, challenging personal identity and unlocking painful

memories.

7 p.m.

Short Films: The Best of “Independent Exposure”

Pump with a Chump

Director: Modi

Running time: 3:00

o7 Tattooed tough guy Henry Rollins gives a wimpy guy a workout

lesson.

Boy Runs to Window

Director: Mark O’Connell

Running time: 3:00

o7 Digital video done with Quick Time.

Deadly Squirrel

Director: Jason Walker

Running Time: 4:30

o7 A tale of a hillbilly whose psychotic hatred of rodents is tested

by cohabitation.

Pictures in Ireland

Director: Dave Johnston

Running Time: 6:00

o7 The words of Ludwig Wittgenstein underscore images of everyday

Ireland.

Fran’s Fantastic Feasts

Director: Sue McNally

Running time: 4:00

o7 An new cooking show from this Seattle director.

Fishing for Brad

Director: Nicole Koschmann

Running time: 6:00

o7 A provocative look into human sexuality. f7

Magic Trick

Director: Scott Kravitz

Running time: 2:30

o7 Pick a card, any card.

Flip Film

Directors: Ellen Ugelstad, Alfonso Alvarez

Running time: 1:05

o7 An exciting, short trip on a bus in San Francisco as told through

an animated photo/flip book. f7

Bubble Numb

Director: Jessica Grynberg

Running Time: 7:00

o7 Beatrice is so full of sleep that she lives in a state of inertia.

Object Lesson

Director: Dylan Marshall Sisson

Running time: 3:00

o7 3-D animation with music by Seattle’s Kyle Hanson.

Keep Clear

Director: Corey Rosen

Running time: 2:30

o7 Without his glasses, he can see little more than nothing at all.

Rubber Gloves

Director: Tom E. Brown

Running time: 6:20

o7 Nothing you to need to know about AIDS.

Creature-Nites of Ohio

Director: Phil Paternite

Running time: 11:00

o7 A darkly humorous look at a future that is not so far away.

Flow

Director: Serge V. Gregory

Running Time: 6:00

o7 This film depicts the flow of water, people and machines into the

city.

Everybody! Bowl

Director: Dustin Woehrmann

Running Time: 3:00

o7 A look at the secrets and fashions of our most fabulous obsession:

bowling.

Kite

Director: Alina Chau Hiu Fan

Running Time: 3:00

o7 A musically driven, non-narrative animation.

Portrait of Lloyd

Director: Lisa Shannon

Running Time: 5:00

o7 A day-in-the-life documentary following an isolated old man.

Hangnail

Director: Shane Acker

Running Time: 2:00

o7 A man, man’s best friend and a small piece of skin that eventually

tears them apart.

Buena Vista Fight Club (2000)

Director: Evan Mather

Running Time: 2:00

o7 The most exciting two minutes of your life will be spent watching

this film!

Thought City

Director: Stefan Gruber

Running Time: 4:30

o7 An army of commuters goes about their routine and nonsensical

business.

9 p.m.

The Photographer

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producer: Peter Almond, Chris Moore, Jeremy Stein

Director: Jeremy Stein

Screenwriter: Jeremy Stein

Cast: Reg Rogers, Chris Bauer, Rob Campbell, John Heard, Maggie

Gyllenhaal, Anthony Michael Hall, Kristen Wilson

Running time: 91:00

o7 A year after becoming the toast of New York City’s art scene,

photographer Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the

night before his make-or-break gallery opening, Max embarks on a bizarre

trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could

save his career.

9:30 p.m.

The Wedding Video

o7 United States, 2001f7

Producers: Norman Korpi and Clint Cowen

Directors: Norman Korpi and Clint Cowen

Screenwriters: Norman Korpi and Clint Cowen

Cast: Featuring 10 ex-”Real World” cast members including Julie Oliver

and Rachel Campos Duffy

Running time: 84:00

o7 The film features 10 ex-Real World cast members who portray

exaggerated likenesses of their “perceived” public images in this spoof.

When the former cast members converge on Beverly Hills for Norman Korpi’s

wedding, the camera sees a side of Norman’s friends unknown to him: a

raunchy, bickering, back-stabbing group of self promoters who only play

nice when Norman is around.

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