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A PLACE OF TRUTH
USA/OR | Maine Premiere
Director: Barrett Rudich
Setting up her typewriter on streets across the country, 21-year-old Abi Mott taps out poetry that captures people’s lives with stunning clarity. In A Place of Truth, director Barrett Rudich creates an intriguing portrait of a millennial woman bringing her charm, intuition and courage to the daunting task of being a busking poet.
Documentary, 65 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 2 p.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q&A following film
AMERICAN ROAD
USA/IL | Maine Premiere
Director: Kurt Jacobson & Warren Leming
This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road – and especially of going off the beaten track – in American lore. The Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post-war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it; hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s and the current generation of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. American Road ultimately probes the meaning of what it is to be an American, not just a wayfarer.
Documentary, 108 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 12 p.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary
BRIDGE AND TUNNEL
USA/CA
Director: Jason Brescia
A cynical comedy that follows a group of Long Island twenty-somethings through 2012. Friends who grew up under the umbrella of the 9/11 attacks, graduated high school into a peaking war, and transitioned from college into the worst economic climate their country faced in generations. The result is prolonged youth; an ensemble that attempts to date like adults while living at home with their parents, settles for employment that they’re overqualified for, and crawls forward with their lives as they dig out from insurmountable student debt.
Feature, 95 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 3 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
DESPAIR AND THE SALT AIR
USA/ME
Director: Rick Groleau
Despair and the Salt Air highlights the beautiful and haunting work of artist James Groleau, focusing on his work in the medium known as mezzotint, an engraving technique developed in the seventeenth century. The film covers time he spent in war-torn Guatemala, which inspired a series of colored-pencil drawings and a book, and delves into his discovery of the mezzotint and eventual mastery of the process. James is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2001.
Documentary, 15 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 11 a.m.
Q & A following film
DETOUR
USA/ME
Director: Gary Robinov & Dean Merrill
A recovering drug addict struggles with his anxiety and depression in his every day life, decides to set an intention for the week by letting go of the past and embracing the new person he hopes he can be. With this wish and an open mind, a stranger enters his life: to help or to hurt? He doesn’t know, but the similarities between them are too close to call a coincidence. As he tries to stay clean and sober, he also realizes he must fight to stay alive.
Short, 30 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 12:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short
Q & A following film
DOWN BY THE RIVER’S EDGE
USA/ME
Director: Susan Gagnon
The documentary, Down By The River’s Edge, by Susan Gagnon, in association with MBTV is a historic account of the Otis Mill from the 1890s, and the paper makers who worked there in the foothills of western Maine. The film also includes the devastating closure of the mill in 2009.
Documentary, 60 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Q & A following film
FIGHTING FOR THE FUTALEUFU
USA/CT
Director: Stephanie Haig
For years, Chileans living in the Azul valley in Patagonia viewed the wild Futaleufu River with awe and apprehension. The late 1980s brought kayakers and white water rafters to the region. Their conquest of the river and the resulting eco-tourist business has brought opportunity, jobs and a vibrant community. Fighting for the Futaleufu explores the natural beauty of the river and the surrounding community. It looks at the lives of Chilean rafters Robert Currie, his son and the local natives who work to protect the river and the region from foreign damming and mining projects.
Documentary, 16 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary
Q & A following film
HANDFUL OF ROMANCE
USA/ME
Director: Sean Martin
Two men make their sock puppets make out creating awkward tension between them.
Short, 4 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 11:40 a.m.
Q & A following film
HOTLINE
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Deva Blaisdell-Anderson, Lee Miller
When Beth, a seasoned crisis hotline worker begins her shift, it seems like a regular night on the frontlines, resolving the myriad crisis of strangers. But, when she answers a call from a suicidal sex offender, she enters new territory. Sensing his fragile state, she breaks the golden rule for her profession and shares personal information with the caller.
Short, 12 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 1:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short
HOW TO KILL A ZOMBIE
USA/ME
Director: Tiffany McLean
Mack Stone is trying to raise his son Jesse to be a survivalist and a real man. Jesse just wants to do his own thing in his own way. Can they somehow learn to see eye to eye during a zombie holocaust, find some suitable mates, and save humanity?
Feature, 90 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
IN PASSING
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Alan Miller
In Passing is a short film about two lonely people who jump off a building to end their lives, but meet on the way down and discover it’s never too late to fall in love.
Short, 5 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 1:20 p.m.
INK & STEEL
USA/NY | Maine Premiere
Director: Jonathan Ehlers & Patrick Ward-Perkins
In this upstate New York drama, when a turf war engulfs the city, aging mob enforcer Michael retrieves the Don’s troubled son from his college partying. After they survive an attempted hit on the road home, Michael seeks refuge at a rural farm, imposing on a single mother and her teenage son living there. As violence escalates in the city, Michael is ordered to wait it out, keeping the boss’ son safe while coexisting as unwelcome house guests.
Feature, 135 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 3:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
KOAN DE SPRING
FRANCE/VIETNAM | Maine Premiere
Director: Marc-Olivier Louveau
Master Truong, the old Fearless of the Emperor, is nearing the end of his life and he has not yet found his successor. The country has to be prepared for war and the Emperor is furiously impatient. He gives him two weeks to find a successor. Master Truong goes to visit a famous General (Master Wing) who had disappeared to become a simple fisherman and lives now with his two sons (Tin and Tan) and his daughter (Lan, with a disfigured face) on the shores of the Lake Ba Bê.
Feature, 75 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 10:30 a.m.
Nominated: Best Feature
LEAVE KEYS IN CAR
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Tessa Blake
An action/comedy about a mismatched couple on the therapist-mandated vacation to Hawaii who pick up the wrong rental car. Suddenly, they find themselves in the middle of a bungled kidnapping, on the run from the bad guys and happier than they’ve ever been.
Short, 14 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 12 p.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
LEAVING CIRCADIA
USA/NY | World Premiere
Director: Evan Mathew Weinstein
Leaving Circadia is a romantic dramedy that follows the misadventures of Tom, the slacker superintendent of a Brooklyn brownstone apartment building, and his only slightly more responsible buddies, chronicling the difficult transition from the happy-go-lucky lifestyle of their twenties to the often harsh reality of thirties adulthood.
Feature, 86 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 1 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
FRANCE
Director: Benoit Mastre
Alain meets Estelle in unsettling circumstances. They’ll then have to share a heavy secret. What they don’t know is that a witness, Balthazar is watching them.
Feature, 80 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 2:30 p.m.
MUSIC CITY USA
USA/AZ | Maine Premiere
Director: Chris McDaniel
Nashville is an area rich in culture, inspiration and pride. Resilience unlike many have seen, yet it is known primarily for its music. Did the people inspire the area, did the music inspire the people, or did this special place on the globe inspire them both?
Documentary, 80 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 11:30 a.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary, Best Director
Q & A following film
NATAL
USA/ME
Director: Corey Norman
After Carissa’s recent suicide attempt, four friends head to an isolated Maine cabin for a weekend of fun. When she starts hearing scratching in the walls, she begins questioning her own sanity as her world spirals out of control.
Short, 27 minutes
FCPH—Fri., June 13, 10 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short
Q & A following film
OUT OF THE ASH
UK | Maine Premiere
Director: Sandy Garfunkel
Robbed at gunpoint, a man turns the tables on his mugger but in trying to teach the attacker a lesson, ends up confronting his own devastating memories of a childhood lost.
Short, 14 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 12 p.m.
PARADIGM
USA/ME
Director: Adam Bouffard
In the technologically advanced, but not-so-bright future, our world is falling apart. James, a third generation farmer, is forced to make a decision: hold on to the only thing he knows or the only family he has.
Short, 9 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 12:30 p.m.
Q & A following film
PENELOPE: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WOODS
USA/ME
Director: Jennifer Widor Smith
The short film Penelope: Once Upon a Time in the Woods is a dark fairy tale set in the Maine woods, where evil twists the imagination of a young girl as her older sister gets pulled to the horrors that lurk within.
Short, 10 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 3 p.m.
Q & A following film
POSSUM
USA/NJ | Maine Premiere
Director: Eleanor Wilson
Alex and Ben are struggling to connect after a painful experience left them on different pages. On the weekend of Halloween, a trip upstate forces them to deal with each other. Possum examines the different ways in which people manage grief and how comfort can be found in the most unexpected situations.
Short, 17 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 2:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
RABBIT AND DEER
HUNGARY | Maine Premiere
Director: Péter Vácz
Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident, Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.
Short, 17 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 1 p.m.
REMEMBER TO BREATHE
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Marc Saltarelli
Alice Martin (Lee Meriwether), a former musical headliner, now lives alone and forgotten in a house hidden away just below the Hollywood sign. She remembers a past love (Susan Blakely) as she searches for meaning in her golden years. While mentoring a young aspiring singer (Leigh Ann Larkin), past memories become entwined with the present as Alice comes to realize that what she thought was lost is only dormant, awaiting a new spark.
Short, 26 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 11 a.m.
REST MY BONES
IRELAND | U.S. Premiere
Director: Shaun O’Connor
Jim, an ex-alcoholic, has just lost his job. He walks into his local bar and makes the fateful decision to order a whiskey. But before he can drink it, a mysterious bar patron tells him a dark tale that might just change his mind…
Short, 8 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 11: 30 a.m.
RICHARD3
USA/ME | World Premiere of First-Cut
Director: Michael Miclon
The famed play of a hunchback maniacal king who murders his way to the top surprisingly and easily lent itself to the absurd. Adding a twist or two to the original script and trimming away some of the less essential parts of the story, Michael Miclon created a script that told the story and utilized everything in his performing arsenal, from improvisation to juggling. The result is a film that young and old, Shakespeare fans and those less inclined toward the Bard, will find themselves side-by-side laughing out loud.
Special Screening, 120 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 7:30 p.m.
After-Party following film
SAY GOODBYE
USA/ME
Director: Shawn T. McGrath
Meet Joseph, a man who never leaves his house who is introduced to a Ouija board at a poker party. He has a few ticks. He’s a bit of a neat freak, a little OCD. You might even say he’s a germaphobe. And to top it all off he’s on new trial meds. After his friends leave him alone things start to happen around him. Is he seeing things? Is someone simply messing with him? Or has he somehow unleashed something from the other side?
Short, 33 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 1:30 p.m.
Q & A following film
TEXTING NO
USA/ME
Director: Ben Lounsbury
A blind man steers his car by listening for the change in the noise his cane makes as it scrapes across the center line. A teenage girl drives her truck while texting. The two of them end up in the same lane headed toward each other.
Short, 1 minute
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 11 a.m.
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
USA/NY | Maine Premiere
Director: Kristin S. Wheeler
Life is made up of defining moments and The Beginning and the End follows a magically-normal couple through theirs. We watch Jane and Mark as they tumble happily into – and painfully out of – intoxicating love. Through the cleverly-interwoven openings and closings of dates, we see first impressions, slammed doors, a gentle first kiss, fits of giggles, building tension… and an ultimate turning point. Funny, romantic and poignant, The Beginning and the End is a film for anyone who has ever known the joy and heartbreak of love.
Short, 20 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 11:30 a.m.
Nominated: Best Short, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
THE HANDSOME SHADOWS
IRELAND | U.S. Premiere
Director: Mark Cogan
A day of heartache for Doc is deepened when a face from the past reappears, shaking his world to its very core.
Short, 13 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 2 p.m.
THE HANOVER HOUSE
USA/ME
Director: Corey Norman
Returning from his father’s funeral, Robert Foster is faced with the unimaginable; he hits a young girl with his car. In a desperate attempt to save her life, he seeks help at a nearby farmhouse. Little does Robert know that the house has been waiting for him his entire life.
Feature, 75 minutes
FCPH—Fri., June 13, 8:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best in Festival
Q & A following film
THE HUNGRY HEART
USA/VT | Maine Premiere
Director: Bess O’Brien
The Hungry Heart provides an intimate look at the often hidden world of prescription drug addiction through the world of Vermont pediatrician, Fred Holmes, who works with patients struggling with this disease.
Documentary, 93 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary
Q & A following film
THE MAGIC BRACELET
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Jon Poll
The Magic Bracelet mysteriously links best friends Angela, Ashley and a cheese obsessed dog. When Ashley inherits a totem bracelet from a friend who died of Mitochondrial Disease – the same illness she herself battles – it leads the girls on a mystical journey of discovery in which a new level of friendship, family and healing is revealed. This project was created by Make A Film Foundation to fulfill the wish of 15-year-old Rina Goldberg whose final words to her mom before she died of Mitochondrial disease were ‘Promise to take care of my film.’
Short, 18 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 3 p.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
THE MARY CONTEST
CANADA | Maine Premiere
Director: Teresa McGee
Young Mary Kelly dreams of becoming a nun, like her beloved teacher, Sr. Adelia, but despite her best efforts, she can’t seem to tame her bad temper. It doesn’t help that the popular girl, Tammy, teases her relentlessly. Things come to a head when they both take part in a contest to come up with the most names for Mary; Our Lady of Fatima, the Immaculate Conception, etc. Tammy pushes Mary to the brink and in the aftermath some startling secrets about Tammy are revealed.
Short, 22 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 12:30 p.m.
THE WATER IN THE BAY
USA/ME
Director: Jonathan Blood
When the police start asking questions about an old flame’s family, pizza delivery guy Baxter Bennett gets drawn into a murder investigation. A serial killer, a dead son, unfaithful spouses and angry exes—what really happened that night one year ago? The more Baxter digs, the more he learns about a family that was barely holding itself together, and the terrible event that pulled them apart. Does Baxter have too much time on his hands, or is he asking the questions nobody else thought to ask?
Feature, 97 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 1 p.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
TREASURE HUNT
ISRAEL
Director: Nadan Pines
Despite loving each other dearly, Nadan’s Dad and only sister (Naama) haven’t met for the last 15 years. Treasure Hunt tells the story of Nadan’s attempt to get these two unique characters back together, an optimistic mission which boils down to recreating one special event: preparing a ‘Treasure hunt’ game for Naama’s upcoming birthday – a long forgotten family tradition.
Documentary, 40 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
WHAT IF?
AUSTRALIA
Director: Gina Stoj
What if you could change your life, would you be prepared for the consequences?
Short, 11 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 12:45 p.m.
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A PLACE OF TRUTH
USA/OR | Maine Premiere
Director: Barrett Rudich
Setting up her typewriter on streets across the country, 21-year-old Abi Mott taps out poetry that captures people’s lives with stunning clarity. In A Place of Truth, director Barrett Rudich creates an intriguing portrait of a millennial woman bringing her charm, intuition and courage to the daunting task of being a busking poet.
Documentary, 65 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 2 p.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q&A following film
AMERICAN ROAD
USA/IL | Maine Premiere
Director: Kurt Jacobson & Warren Leming
This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road – and especially of going off the beaten track – in American lore. The Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post-war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it; hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s and the current generation of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. American Road ultimately probes the meaning of what it is to be an American, not just a wayfarer.
Documentary, 108 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 12 p.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary
BRIDGE AND TUNNEL
USA/CA
Director: Jason Brescia
A cynical comedy that follows a group of Long Island twenty-somethings through 2012. Friends who grew up under the umbrella of the 9/11 attacks, graduated high school into a peaking war, and transitioned from college into the worst economic climate their country faced in generations. The result is prolonged youth; an ensemble that attempts to date like adults while living at home with their parents, settles for employment that they’re overqualified for, and crawls forward with their lives as they dig out from insurmountable student debt.
Feature, 95 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 3 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
DESPAIR AND THE SALT AIR
USA/ME
Director: Rick Groleau
Despair and the Salt Air highlights the beautiful and haunting work of artist James Groleau, focusing on his work in the medium known as mezzotint, an engraving technique developed in the seventeenth century. The film covers time he spent in war-torn Guatemala, which inspired a series of colored-pencil drawings and a book, and delves into his discovery of the mezzotint and eventual mastery of the process. James is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2001.
Documentary, 15 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 11 a.m.
Q & A following film
DETOUR
USA/ME
Director: Gary Robinov & Dean Merrill
A recovering drug addict struggles with his anxiety and depression in his every day life, decides to set an intention for the week by letting go of the past and embracing the new person he hopes he can be. With this wish and an open mind, a stranger enters his life: to help or to hurt? He doesn’t know, but the similarities between them are too close to call a coincidence. As he tries to stay clean and sober, he also realizes he must fight to stay alive.
Short, 30 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 12:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short
Q & A following film
DOWN BY THE RIVER’S EDGE
USA/ME
Director: Susan Gagnon
The documentary, Down By The River’s Edge, by Susan Gagnon, in association with MBTV is a historic account of the Otis Mill from the 1890s, and the paper makers who worked there in the foothills of western Maine. The film also includes the devastating closure of the mill in 2009.
Documentary, 60 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Q & A following film
FIGHTING FOR THE FUTALEUFU
USA/CT
Director: Stephanie Haig
For years, Chileans living in the Azul valley in Patagonia viewed the wild Futaleufu River with awe and apprehension. The late 1980s brought kayakers and white water rafters to the region. Their conquest of the river and the resulting eco-tourist business has brought opportunity, jobs and a vibrant community. Fighting for the Futaleufu explores the natural beauty of the river and the surrounding community. It looks at the lives of Chilean rafters Robert Currie, his son and the local natives who work to protect the river and the region from foreign damming and mining projects.
Documentary, 16 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary
Q & A following film
HANDFUL OF ROMANCE
USA/ME
Director: Sean Martin
Two men make their sock puppets make out creating awkward tension between them.
Short, 4 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 11:40 a.m.
Q & A following film
HOTLINE
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Deva Blaisdell-Anderson, Lee Miller
When Beth, a seasoned crisis hotline worker begins her shift, it seems like a regular night on the frontlines, resolving the myriad crisis of strangers. But, when she answers a call from a suicidal sex offender, she enters new territory. Sensing his fragile state, she breaks the golden rule for her profession and shares personal information with the caller.
Short, 12 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 1:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short
HOW TO KILL A ZOMBIE
USA/ME
Director: Tiffany McLean
Mack Stone is trying to raise his son Jesse to be a survivalist and a real man. Jesse just wants to do his own thing in his own way. Can they somehow learn to see eye to eye during a zombie holocaust, find some suitable mates, and save humanity?
Feature, 90 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
IN PASSING
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Alan Miller
In Passing is a short film about two lonely people who jump off a building to end their lives, but meet on the way down and discover it’s never too late to fall in love.
Short, 5 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 1:20 p.m.
INK & STEEL
USA/NY | Maine Premiere
Director: Jonathan Ehlers & Patrick Ward-Perkins
In this upstate New York drama, when a turf war engulfs the city, aging mob enforcer Michael retrieves the Don’s troubled son from his college partying. After they survive an attempted hit on the road home, Michael seeks refuge at a rural farm, imposing on a single mother and her teenage son living there. As violence escalates in the city, Michael is ordered to wait it out, keeping the boss’ son safe while coexisting as unwelcome house guests.
Feature, 135 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 3:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
KOAN DE SPRING
FRANCE/VIETNAM | Maine Premiere
Director: Marc-Olivier Louveau
Master Truong, the old Fearless of the Emperor, is nearing the end of his life and he has not yet found his successor. The country has to be prepared for war and the Emperor is furiously impatient. He gives him two weeks to find a successor. Master Truong goes to visit a famous General (Master Wing) who had disappeared to become a simple fisherman and lives now with his two sons (Tin and Tan) and his daughter (Lan, with a disfigured face) on the shores of the Lake Ba Bê.
Feature, 75 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 10:30 a.m.
Nominated: Best Feature
LEAVE KEYS IN CAR
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Tessa Blake
An action/comedy about a mismatched couple on the therapist-mandated vacation to Hawaii who pick up the wrong rental car. Suddenly, they find themselves in the middle of a bungled kidnapping, on the run from the bad guys and happier than they’ve ever been.
Short, 14 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 12 p.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
LEAVING CIRCADIA
USA/NY | World Premiere
Director: Evan Mathew Weinstein
Leaving Circadia is a romantic dramedy that follows the misadventures of Tom, the slacker superintendent of a Brooklyn brownstone apartment building, and his only slightly more responsible buddies, chronicling the difficult transition from the happy-go-lucky lifestyle of their twenties to the often harsh reality of thirties adulthood.
Feature, 86 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 1 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
FRANCE
Director: Benoit Mastre
Alain meets Estelle in unsettling circumstances. They’ll then have to share a heavy secret. What they don’t know is that a witness, Balthazar is watching them.
Feature, 80 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 2:30 p.m.
MUSIC CITY USA
USA/AZ | Maine Premiere
Director: Chris McDaniel
Nashville is an area rich in culture, inspiration and pride. Resilience unlike many have seen, yet it is known primarily for its music. Did the people inspire the area, did the music inspire the people, or did this special place on the globe inspire them both?
Documentary, 80 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 11:30 a.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary, Best Director
Q & A following film
NATAL
USA/ME
Director: Corey Norman
After Carissa’s recent suicide attempt, four friends head to an isolated Maine cabin for a weekend of fun. When she starts hearing scratching in the walls, she begins questioning her own sanity as her world spirals out of control.
Short, 27 minutes
FCPH—Fri., June 13, 10 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short
Q & A following film
OUT OF THE ASH
UK | Maine Premiere
Director: Sandy Garfunkel
Robbed at gunpoint, a man turns the tables on his mugger but in trying to teach the attacker a lesson, ends up confronting his own devastating memories of a childhood lost.
Short, 14 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 12 p.m.
PARADIGM
USA/ME
Director: Adam Bouffard
In the technologically advanced, but not-so-bright future, our world is falling apart. James, a third generation farmer, is forced to make a decision: hold on to the only thing he knows or the only family he has.
Short, 9 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 12:30 p.m.
Q & A following film
PENELOPE: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WOODS
USA/ME
Director: Jennifer Widor Smith
The short film Penelope: Once Upon a Time in the Woods is a dark fairy tale set in the Maine woods, where evil twists the imagination of a young girl as her older sister gets pulled to the horrors that lurk within.
Short, 10 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 3 p.m.
Q & A following film
POSSUM
USA/NJ | Maine Premiere
Director: Eleanor Wilson
Alex and Ben are struggling to connect after a painful experience left them on different pages. On the weekend of Halloween, a trip upstate forces them to deal with each other. Possum examines the different ways in which people manage grief and how comfort can be found in the most unexpected situations.
Short, 17 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 2:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Short, Best Director, Best in Festival, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
RABBIT AND DEER
HUNGARY | Maine Premiere
Director: Péter Vácz
Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident, Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.
Short, 17 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 1 p.m.
REMEMBER TO BREATHE
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Marc Saltarelli
Alice Martin (Lee Meriwether), a former musical headliner, now lives alone and forgotten in a house hidden away just below the Hollywood sign. She remembers a past love (Susan Blakely) as she searches for meaning in her golden years. While mentoring a young aspiring singer (Leigh Ann Larkin), past memories become entwined with the present as Alice comes to realize that what she thought was lost is only dormant, awaiting a new spark.
Short, 26 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 11 a.m.
REST MY BONES
IRELAND | U.S. Premiere
Director: Shaun O’Connor
Jim, an ex-alcoholic, has just lost his job. He walks into his local bar and makes the fateful decision to order a whiskey. But before he can drink it, a mysterious bar patron tells him a dark tale that might just change his mind…
Short, 8 minutes
APL—Sat., June 14, 11: 30 a.m.
RICHARD3
USA/ME | World Premiere of First-Cut
Director: Michael Miclon
The famed play of a hunchback maniacal king who murders his way to the top surprisingly and easily lent itself to the absurd. Adding a twist or two to the original script and trimming away some of the less essential parts of the story, Michael Miclon created a script that told the story and utilized everything in his performing arsenal, from improvisation to juggling. The result is a film that young and old, Shakespeare fans and those less inclined toward the Bard, will find themselves side-by-side laughing out loud.
Special Screening, 120 minutes
FCPH—Sat., June 14, 7:30 p.m.
After-Party following film
SAY GOODBYE
USA/ME
Director: Shawn T. McGrath
Meet Joseph, a man who never leaves his house who is introduced to a Ouija board at a poker party. He has a few ticks. He’s a bit of a neat freak, a little OCD. You might even say he’s a germaphobe. And to top it all off he’s on new trial meds. After his friends leave him alone things start to happen around him. Is he seeing things? Is someone simply messing with him? Or has he somehow unleashed something from the other side?
Short, 33 minutes
LPL—Sat., June 14, 1:30 p.m.
Q & A following film
TEXTING NO
USA/ME
Director: Ben Lounsbury
A blind man steers his car by listening for the change in the noise his cane makes as it scrapes across the center line. A teenage girl drives her truck while texting. The two of them end up in the same lane headed toward each other.
Short, 1 minute
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 11 a.m.
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
USA/NY | Maine Premiere
Director: Kristin S. Wheeler
Life is made up of defining moments and The Beginning and the End follows a magically-normal couple through theirs. We watch Jane and Mark as they tumble happily into – and painfully out of – intoxicating love. Through the cleverly-interwoven openings and closings of dates, we see first impressions, slammed doors, a gentle first kiss, fits of giggles, building tension… and an ultimate turning point. Funny, romantic and poignant, The Beginning and the End is a film for anyone who has ever known the joy and heartbreak of love.
Short, 20 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 11:30 a.m.
Nominated: Best Short, Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
THE HANDSOME SHADOWS
IRELAND | U.S. Premiere
Director: Mark Cogan
A day of heartache for Doc is deepened when a face from the past reappears, shaking his world to its very core.
Short, 13 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 2 p.m.
THE HANOVER HOUSE
USA/ME
Director: Corey Norman
Returning from his father’s funeral, Robert Foster is faced with the unimaginable; he hits a young girl with his car. In a desperate attempt to save her life, he seeks help at a nearby farmhouse. Little does Robert know that the house has been waiting for him his entire life.
Feature, 75 minutes
FCPH—Fri., June 13, 8:30 p.m.
Nominated: Best Feature, Best in Festival
Q & A following film
THE HUNGRY HEART
USA/VT | Maine Premiere
Director: Bess O’Brien
The Hungry Heart provides an intimate look at the often hidden world of prescription drug addiction through the world of Vermont pediatrician, Fred Holmes, who works with patients struggling with this disease.
Documentary, 93 minutes
TPT—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
Nominated: Best Documentary
Q & A following film
THE MAGIC BRACELET
USA/CA | Maine Premiere
Director: Jon Poll
The Magic Bracelet mysteriously links best friends Angela, Ashley and a cheese obsessed dog. When Ashley inherits a totem bracelet from a friend who died of Mitochondrial Disease – the same illness she herself battles – it leads the girls on a mystical journey of discovery in which a new level of friendship, family and healing is revealed. This project was created by Make A Film Foundation to fulfill the wish of 15-year-old Rina Goldberg whose final words to her mom before she died of Mitochondrial disease were ‘Promise to take care of my film.’
Short, 18 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 3 p.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
THE MARY CONTEST
CANADA | Maine Premiere
Director: Teresa McGee
Young Mary Kelly dreams of becoming a nun, like her beloved teacher, Sr. Adelia, but despite her best efforts, she can’t seem to tame her bad temper. It doesn’t help that the popular girl, Tammy, teases her relentlessly. Things come to a head when they both take part in a contest to come up with the most names for Mary; Our Lady of Fatima, the Immaculate Conception, etc. Tammy pushes Mary to the brink and in the aftermath some startling secrets about Tammy are revealed.
Short, 22 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 12:30 p.m.
THE WATER IN THE BAY
USA/ME
Director: Jonathan Blood
When the police start asking questions about an old flame’s family, pizza delivery guy Baxter Bennett gets drawn into a murder investigation. A serial killer, a dead son, unfaithful spouses and angry exes—what really happened that night one year ago? The more Baxter digs, the more he learns about a family that was barely holding itself together, and the terrible event that pulled them apart. Does Baxter have too much time on his hands, or is he asking the questions nobody else thought to ask?
Feature, 97 minutes
FCHH—Sat., June 14, 1 p.m.
Nominated: Verizon’s People’s Choice Award
Q & A following film
TREASURE HUNT
ISRAEL
Director: Nadan Pines
Despite loving each other dearly, Nadan’s Dad and only sister (Naama) haven’t met for the last 15 years. Treasure Hunt tells the story of Nadan’s attempt to get these two unique characters back together, an optimistic mission which boils down to recreating one special event: preparing a ‘Treasure hunt’ game for Naama’s upcoming birthday – a long forgotten family tradition.
Documentary, 40 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 10 a.m.
WHAT IF?
AUSTRALIA
Director: Gina Stoj
What if you could change your life, would you be prepared for the consequences?
Short, 11 minutes
FGPC—Sat., June 14, 12:45 p.m.
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