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Boston Film Festival: Day Six

Sep21
2011 Written by popcornnroses

Hey all – the 27th annual Boston Film Festival is underway at Boston’s Stuart Street Playhouse! Boston Popcorn and Indie Film Spotlight will be giving you a daily rundown of the featured films playing every day, so be sure to check back to find out all the great features!

For full info go to the festival’s website at http://bostonfilmfestival.org

For tickets head over to the festival’s ticketing site at http://bostonfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

5:00PM “Thespians” — East Coast Premiere
Director: Warren Skeels
Producer: Brenda Egedy Kolb
Synopsis: Follow four high school thespian troupes to the largest thespian competition in the world. Following the themes of impact and value that theatre has in education.
Run Time: 1:31

 

7:00PM “The Trouble With the Truth” — World Premiere
Director/Writer: Jim Hemphill
Producers: Daniel Farrands, Thommy Hutson
Starring: Lea Thompson, John Shea, Danielle Harris, Keri Lynn Pratt
Synopsis: A divorced couple reconnects on the eve of their daughter’s wedding and realizes that their own relationship has more than a few unresolved issues.
Run Time: 1:36
9:00PM “Fort McCoy” — North East Premiere
Directors: Kate Connor, Michael Worth
Producer: Eric Stoltz
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor, Andy Hirsch, Camryn Manheim, Lyndsy Fonseca, Johnny Pacar
Synopsis: FORT McCOY is based on a true story when the Stirn family lived next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during W.W.II. It is a coming of age story beset with tragedy, a love story between a Jewish soldier and Catholic girl, and the journey of one man (Eric Stoltz) struggling to find his worth in a war that does not want him.
Run Time: 1:40
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Boston Film Festival: Day Five

Sep20
2011 Written by popcornnroses

Hey all – the 27th annual Boston Film Festival is underway at Stuart Street Playhouse! Boston Popcorn and Indie Film Spotlight will be giving you a daily rundown of the featured films playing every day, so be sure to check back to find out all the great features!

For full info go to the festival’s website at http://bostonfilmfestival.org

For tickets head over to the festival’s ticketing site at http://bostonfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

4:45PM “The Rescuers” — East Coast Premiere
Director/Producer Michael King
Producer: Joyce D. Mandell
Starring: Sir Martin Gilbert, Berl Shor, Gustav Goldberger
Synopsis: While Stephen Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” illuminated the previously little-known story of a German businessman who saved thousands of Jews for the concentration camps during WWII, there were many such heroes who defied the Nazis and their own governments to save countless Jews from a similar fate—chief among them the 12 diplomats whose efforts are documented in this riveting documentary from Emmy-winning filmmaker Michael King. The film traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist, who teams up with Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian, to travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats who rescued tens of thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi death camps. Michael King, Joyce D. Mandell and Regional Director Anti-Defamation League, Derrek L. Shulman, and TV Journalist Liz Walker will participate in a Q&A.
Run Time: 1:30

 

7:00PM “The Education of Dee Dee Ricks” — Special Private Screening
Director: Perri Peltz
Producer: Lisa R. Cohen
Executive Producer: Jane Rosenthal, Sheila Nevins for HBO
Featuring: Dee Dee Ricks
Synopsis: THE EDUCATION OF DEE DEE RICKS is and intimate story chronicling the lives of two very different women who share an unlikely friendship as they both struggle with their breast cancer diagnosis. This moving documentary shines a light on the great disparity in health care between the rich and poor in America, where millions of poor people who are uninsured don’t have the means or access to fight this terrible disease.
Run Time: 1:15

 

8:45PM “Serial Buddies” — Special Sneak Peek Screening
Director: Keven Undergaro
Producer: Maria Menounos
Executive Producer: Thomas Lynch
Synopsis: Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill prospective trophy winners to ease production demand, Graham is Gary’s intern who will do anything to become a trophy maker and Vinny Van Go drives a road emergency van because he likes to visit accident scenes. A coincidental encounter forces these four dim-witted rejects to join forces and embark upon an idiotic and altogether hilarious road trip adventure — encountering the likes of skinheads, fraternity jocks, sorority babes, missing children, bikers, porn-stars, clowns, and Kathie Lee Gifford! If the boys aren’t careful they might just become human, in what is “the very first serial killer buddy movie of all time.”
Run Time: 1:31
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Boston Film Festival: Day Two

Sep17
2011 Written by popcornnroses

Hey all – the 27th annual Boston Film Festival is underway at Boston’s Stuart Street Playhouse! Boston Popcorn and Indie Film Spotlight will be giving you a daily rundown of the featured films playing every day, so be sure to check back to find out all the great features!

For full info go to the festival’s website at http://bostonfilmfestival.org

For tickets head over to the festival’s ticketing site at http://bostonfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/

PLAYING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

12:00–2:15PM Shorts Program 1
Title: The Small Assassin
Director: Chris Charles
Title: The House I Keep
Director: Jhene Erwin
Title: Legacy
Director: Einar Thorsteinsson
Title: My Name is Julius
Director: Titi Yu
Title: Pie
Director: Jon Rosenbloom
Title: Light
Director: Kosta Nikas
Title: Sad Robot
Director: David Wendl
Title: Salvation Road
Director: Ka’ramuu Kush
Title: Le Miroir
Director: Sebastien Rossignol

 

3:00–4:30PM Panel Roundtable
From Script to Screen: Sam Jaeger (Parenthood) Director/Actor/Writer; Academy Award® nominee Keith Dorrington, Writer Producer of The Fighter; Eric Schaeffer, (Gravity) Director/Actor/Writer

 

5:00PM “Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White” — World Premiere
Director/Producer: Jennifer Jessum
Writer/Producer: Simon Joseph
Starring: Martin Sheen, Narrator
Synopsis: Holy Man is the story of Douglas White, an 88 year old- Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White’s innocence and brought the case back to Federal Court. Holy Man offers a rare glimpse into the mysterious world of Lakota religion, their intimate connection to the land, and a provocative expose of the systemic injustice that Native Americans face in the criminal justice system.
Run Time: 1:24

 

7:00PM “Take Me Home” — East Coast Premiere
Director/Writer/ Producer: Sam Jaeger
Producer: Jane Kosek
Starring: Sam Jaeger, Victor Garber, Bree Turner, Lin Shaye, Amber Jaeger
Synopsis: For Thom and Claire, running from your problems is the best way to face them.
Run Time: 1:37

 

9:15PM “96 Minutes” — East Coast Premiere
Director/Producer: Aimee Lagos
Producer: Lee Clay, Justin Moore Lewy, Charlie Mason, Paul Gilreath
Starring: Brittany Snow, Evan Ross, Christian Serratos, J. Michael Trautmann, and David Oyelowo
Synopsis: Four kids. One night. One shocking act slams them headlong into each other, hurtling them toward a life-changing end. These 96 minutes will change everything…
Run Time: 1:40
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