Raleigh Studios - Chaplin Theater . 5300 Melrose Ave . Sunday June 12th at 6:00PM . RSVP 818-384-1643
After Twilight (33:50 min., 35mm)
Bookish Jen Frazier seems an unlikely choice to be a freedom fighter, but when a theocratic new order occupies
the state of Texas, Jen is pushed into action carrying
contraband for the underground. A surprise raid by the
religious police shows Jen just how dangerous it can be
to fight a state with God on its side.
- Gary Watson - Houston, Texas
Gary L. Watson began his career in a Tulsa, Oklahoma motion picture film processing laboratory. He started shooting film and video taking his first job as a television news photographer at KENS Television in San Antonio, Texas and later worked in the same capacity in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas at KXAS Television and WFAA Television. Watson then moved to Houston, Texas where he began working on commercial, documentary, corporate and feature film productions as a Director of Photography. In 1993 Watson directed, photographed, and edited Inside The Octagon, a feature-length documentary on the history of the M.G. Car Company, which currently has worldwide television and video distribution. Watson's feature film credits as Director of Photography include Learning Curve (MTI Home Video) and most recently Mr. Hell. Watson has directed and photographed numerous award-winning commercials, documentaries, and marketing programs. www.roadsterproductions.com
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Ana's House (13:48 min., HD)
Trapped in an abusive marriage, a young Mexican mother, Ana, chooses her freedom over her children.
- Olivia Saldivar - Ft. Worth, Texas.
Olivia Saldivar spent her youth surrounded by gang activity in an area of Fort Worth, Texas called "No Man's Land." Working her way through film school as a secretary, she has written and directed six short films that reflect the stories she's witnessed or experienced in her sordid past. Olivia's films have won several awards and have been screened at numerous film festivals including SXSW Film Festival in Austin and the Toronto International Film Festival. Olivia wants to continue to make films that dramatize everyday life. redletterfilms@hotmail.com
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Hope's War
(12:02 min., 16mm)
After returning home from Iraq, a U.S. soldier struggles to adapt back to every day life, but brutal visions of war threaten to destroy him.
- Ya'ke Smith - Austin, Texas
Ya'Ke Smith can't remember a time when the moving image did not interest him. In San Antonio, Texas, he made his first film as a sophomore in high school and while attending the University of The Incarnate Word, he made three films which all garnered film festival awards. His first 16mm film, Shoppin, has also been honored in several film festivals. Ya'Ke is currently a second-year M.F.A candidate in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin and he is busy writing his next short film Prayer Closet, which he plans to shoot in the fall of 2005. Hope's War is his latest film. yake83@hotmail.com
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Love Math (10:00 min., 16mm)
Based on actual events, by way of couplings, coincidence and interconnections, a young man retraces the variables between his dream girl, an ex-girlfriend, a former football star, an amateur pornographer, two sisters, a recluse with a speech impediment, and his mortal enemy, a guy you just want to punch in the face. But, if love factors into this equation, how does it all add up?
- Kent Carpenter Zambrana - Austin, Texas
As Kent Carpenter Zambrana grew up in Chicago, IL, he would watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and want to be a bank robber, then Batman and want to be a superhero, then Back to the Future and want to go back to the future. He was soon confronted with reality and realized that what he really loved were the films themselves. His fascination persisted into his teen years when he moved to San Antonio, Texas and attended high school at the North East School of the Arts. In 2001, he continued his education at the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with a degree in Film this May. At 22, Kent has screened several films in festivals throughout the US, and is currently at work on a feature film. kent@minutemile.com
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LSD A Go Go
(10:00 min., CGI/Mini-DV)
On November 19, 1953 a man plunged to his death from 10 floors above the streets of Manhattan. The man who jumped wasn't just a down on his luck stockbroker, he was an army officer by the name of Frank Olson. An army officer, it turns out, who had recently participated in trial tests given by the Central Intelligence Agency while experimenting with their new wonder drug - LSD!
- Scott Calonico - Austin, Texas
Scott Calonico is currently employed by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts where he designs tax forms. Seriously. By using sources entirely in the public domain, he was able to complete LSD A Go Go on a budget of $15.00. Calonico is also a stand-up comic and founder of the annual ZombieDance Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Although most of his acting work is classified for "national security" issues, he was seen as "The Angry Movie Guy" on the short-lived MTV sitcom Austin Stories. Scott and Stacey, his "comedy hottie", live in Austin with four cats and a Yellow Nape Amazon Parrot all with names usually reserved for humans.www.flojo.com
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Separated by Light
(14:53 min., S16mm)
A young girl named America recruits a loveable goof named Richard Parker to help her shoot a documentary film. As the duo compile their interviews, the project begins to fall apart. An unsuspecting visitor helps them figure out what the documentary film really needs.
- Sai Selvarajan - Dallas, Texas
Sai Selvarajan was born in Sri-Lanka on a Wednesday night during a coup d'etat. He grew up in Nigeria playing soccer and eating bananas. After a brief stint in the U.K., Sai moved with his parents to Dallas at the age of 9. Sai sold his soul to pop-culture and graduated in 2001 from the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in Film & Graphic Design. In his last semester, Sai stumbled into stardom with a short film called Blood & Oil. Sai spends his days as an off-line editor at Video Post and Transfer in Dallas and his nights dreaming, writing, thinking and trying. www.blackleaderfilms.com
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Wake (17:05 min., S16mm)
