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2004 Wild Rose Independent Film Festival
UPDATED SCHEDULE AND
PRICING OF SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
(current as of 9/22/2004)
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Important
Reminder: All films are intended for mature audiences, and most contain
profanity, nudity and/or other mature material. Parental guidance and
discretion are strongly advised!
Wednesday, September 29 * Thursday, September 30 *
Friday, October 1 * Saturday, October 2
* Sunday, October 3
Admission Pricing
Wednesday, September 29, 2004.
OPENING NIGHT
at the Vaudeville
Mews, 212 4th Street, Des Moines, Iowa, 50309
6:00 pm. DOORS OPEN
at the Vaudeville Mews, 212 4th Street. Appetizers provided; drinks
available at the bar.
"Installed" and playing
periodically through the evening will be Ryan Schroeder's short film Spiritual
Healthclub (NY/Iowa), an eerie depiction of the
collapse of a dualistic psychological struggle.
6:45 pm WELCOME AND
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL by the Festival Programmers.
7:00 pm SHORTS
Hope through Harmony
(Iowa) - 35 minutes. Documentary, screening in competition.
Iowa legend
Simon Estes inspires a cultural exchange initiative that brings a group
of 40 teenage South African singers to stay with central Iowa families
for a year.
Sock Puppet Fiesta (Iowa) - 14 minutes. Student
Comedy, screening in competition. It's whites vs. blacks (socks, that
is), in a fight to the death unless a pair of thread-crossed lovers can
stop the violence.
8:00 pm
ADDRESS by Marty Jorgensen, President of the Iowa
Motion Picture Association.
8:15 pm SHORTS
On Account of Amber (Iowa) - 19 minutes. Drama,
screening in competition. An ex-convict seeks to carry out his quest
for redemption. One of the most nominated films at the festival,
including Best Short and Best Debut Film.
Spank (Canada) -
16 minutes. Drama, screening in competition.
In this
techno-future with a twist, a common domestic psycho-drama is not all it
seems. Whether counselling session or virtual reality masochism, an
enterprising therapist/technician makes an unexpected change in the
program.
One of the fest's strongest films, Spank has been nominated in
every category for which it is eligible.
Space Rocket (Iowa) - 16 minutes. Comedy,
screening in competition. The crew of the spaceship Sledgehammer wages
war against a dastardly, seemingly indestructible enemy. Another
heavily nominated film, including Best Short, Best Iowa Film, and Best
Screenplay.
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Thursday, September 30, 2004
(still at the
Vaudeville Mews - 212 4th Street, DSM)
6:00 pm -
DOORS OPEN at the Vaudeville Mews. Drinks available at the bar.
6:45 pm - SHORTS
Peace Out San Diego (California) - 12 minutes.
Student "Musical Documentary", screening in competition. Student
filmmaker Patty K. Mooney stretches the documentary form with this film
about music-led protests against the Iraq war.
Searching for Norman: A Grandson's Journey
(Minneapolis) - 24 minutes. Documentary, screening in competition. A
young man searches out the truth of the death of his grandfather in
World War II.
Going Down to Neverland (Chicago/Omaha/Council
Bluffs, IA) - 12 minutes. Student Drama, screening in competition. A
young woman meets several strangely familiar people as she waits for a
flight with her fiance. This film, is produced largely by teenagers in
the Fresh Films/Book of Stories program administered by Chicago's
Dreaming Tree Films.
On Account of Amber (Iowa) (re-screening) - 19
minutes. Drama, screening in competition. (See description above.)
8:00 pm - ADDRESS
by Member(s) of the Iowa motion picture industry community TBA.
8:05 pm - FEATURE
El Maya (Texas/Mexico) - 90 minutes. Drama,
screening in competition. The debut film of the Rodriguez brothers (who
now live in Des Moines), El Maya is a strange, sometimes
lyrical, sometimes fierce, always compelling story about a young man who
discovers a mystical world and the love of a beautiful girl in the heart
of the Mayan land.
Live music by PALOMAR -
and not one, but two other bands TBA - follows the festival at the
Vaudeville Mews!
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Friday,
October 1, 2004,
(still at the Vaudeville
Mews, 212 4th Street, DSM)
IFP/CENTRAL STANDARD NIGHT
5:00 pm. DOORS OPEN
at the Vaudeville Mews. Drinks available at the bar.
5:30 pm. HAPPY HOUR
FLICKAGE
Cubicle Commandos (Colorado) - 5 minutes. Student
Animated Comedy, screening in competition. Two office workers play
pranks on each other in this comedy that proves that claymation can, in
fact, be dangerous.... Winner of the Festival Programmers' Special
Award for Animation, and a nominee for Best Student Film.
Bartleby's Booth (Iowa) - 5 minutes. Student
Comedy-Drama, screening in competition. After seeing this film, you'll
never look at "just some kid" on a college campus the same way again.
Smokin' Irony (Iowa) - 14 minutes. Student Comedy,
screening in competition. For anyone with a taste for cigarettes, or
poetic justice, or both.
240 Monroe (NYC) - 15 minutes. Student Comedy,
screening in competition. A young man in a troubled romance seeks
advice and counsel from his mother. . . who happens to be dead. An
oft-nominated student film from New York filmmaker Louise Bylicki.
Ext. Bench - Day (Austin, TX) - 6 minutes.
Comedy, screening in competition. It's a drama set in a palm tree
garden with monkeys.....No, it's a comedy about people at bus stops with
top hats....No, it takes place in a desert with motorcycles and
briefcases....No, it's all of the above. With a jump kick.
Space Rocket (Iowa) - 16 minutes (re-screening).
Comedy, screening in competition. (Please see description above.)
6:45 pm. WELCOME
by the Festival Programmers, and Member(s) of the Iowa motion picture
industry TBA.
7:00 pm. WELCOME TO, AND
ADDRESS BY, TODD HANSEN of the Independent Feature Project and
Central Standard Film Festival.
7:10 pm. SHORT FILMS FROM
THE IFP & CENTRAL STANDARD FILM FESTIVAL
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Immaculate House (Minneapolis) - 15
minutes. A film by Kevin Obsatz, not screening in competition.
Stale
Mate (Minneapolis) - 8 minutes.
Comedy, screening in competition. Produced in less than 48 hours by
Fight 12 Collective, this hilarious comedy asks the question "Just how
dead is dead?"
7:45 pm. FEATURE FILM FROM THE IFP & CENTRAL STANDARD FILM
FESTIVAL
Sinkhole (North Carolina) - 90 minutes. Drama,
screening in competition. It's a gray day at the landfill. Every winter
day is gray in rural Western North Carolina. All the world feels mean
and dark: the back roads, strip malls, trailer parks, abandoned mines,
convenience store parking lots. Things are about to get even worse for
Jason Griffin: His backhoe just turned up the body of a dead woman at
the landfill. And it's going to be one slippery slope.
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Saturday,
October 2, 2004,
at the Fleur Cinema and Café
4545 Fleur Dr., Des Moines,
Iowa, 50321
8:30 am. DOORS OPEN
at the Fleur Cinema and Café.
9:00 am. SHORTS. (A la
carte admission price for Small Town and Neverland is
$3.00)
Small Town Reality (Iowa) - 49 minutes. Student
Comedy-Drama, screening in competition. Hollywood comes to a small town
in Iowa, casting teens for a new reality television series, but the
audition unexpectedly turns into a nightmare. Written and performed by
high school students in a small midwestern town of 10,000, with
production assistance provided pro bono by Hawthorne Direct, a
local production company.
Going Down to Neverland (Chicago/Omaha/Council
Bluffs, IA) - 12 minutes (re-screening) Student Drama, screening in
competition. (Please see description above.)
10:15 am. MASTER FILMMAKING SEMINAR #1:
Low-budget Filmmaking in Multiple Markets: A
Conversation with the Rodriguez Brothers!
Offered by
well-known filmmaker brothers, Francisco and Jose Rodriguez, this seminar
will focus on the experiences of two independent filmmakers who have made
films in several markets. Relocated to the Midwest from the Texas/Mexico
area where they shot! their first two features, these brothers have a
unique perspective on indie film. They will show their trailer for their
new feature film, Vamoose, which was recently shot in Iowa and
stars many Iowa talent; plus, they'll present clips from yet another
completed feature, Numbers! (A la carte admission price
for the Rodriguez seminar is $15.00)
11:30 pm. DOUBLE FEATURE.
(A la carte admission price for this specific block of screenings -
University and Noir - is $8.00, total [$4.00 per film])
University Heights (Iowa) - 90 minutes. Student
Drama, screening in competition. Another in Bluebox Limited's
ever-increasing canon of films, University Heights is a
reflection of daily American struggles, seen in microcosm on a college
campus.
Shades of Noir (Iowa/Los Angeles) - 85 minutes.
Drama/Documentary, screening in competition. (Newly re-edited
version). New York Times-bestselling mystery writer Max Allan
Collins hosts an anthology of three short films (Eliot Ness: An
Untouchable Life, A Matter of Principal, Three Women) and a
bio-documentary on seminal crime novelist Mickey Spillane. Through
these films (all written by Collins) are demonstrated the various
"shades" of the noir genre.
2:45 pm. PANEL
DISCUSSION: Directors on
Breaking Out and Breaking In - A Conversation with Stu Pollard, Max Allan
Collins, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Moderated by James
Serpento. (A la carte admission price for this Directors
panel discussion is $10.00.)
3:45 pm. MASTER FILMMAKING SEMINAR #2 -
Keynote Guest Director, STU POLLARD: Film
Financing, Marketing and Distribution Strategies.
Successful
Louisville and LA-based indie filmmaker Stu Pollard will present a seminar
on how to fund, market and get films distributed. Stu's first feature,
Nice Guys Sleep Alone, starring Morgan Fairchild and Vanessa
Marcil (90210) was picked up by HBO. Stu's new movie, Keep
Your Distance, stars Stacy Keach, Elizabeth Pena (Lone Star),
Christian Kane (Just Married) and Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing
Jessica Stein) and will be released soon. He will show a trailer for
the new film. (A la carte dmission price for the Pollard
seminar is $35.00.)
5:15 pm. Q/A and RECEPTION
FOR STU POLLARD at the Fleur! DOORS OPEN for evening program.
(This reception is included for Pollard-seminar attendees. A
la carte admission price for ONLY the reception is $5.00.)
6:20 pm. SHORT and
FEATURE. (A la carte admission price for Spank and
Muffin Man is $8.00.)
Spank (Canada)
16 minutes. (Re-screening.) Drama, screening in
competition. (Please see description above.)
Muffin Man (Washington State)
90 minutes. Comedy, screening in competition. It's the
Discovery Channel gone wild (with dashes of Bert Brecht and John Waters)
in this hilarious, yet sobering, fantasy in which social excess and an
obesity epidemic lead to the extinction of the human race.
8:15 pm. WELCOME
by the Festival Administrators.
(A la carte admission
price for this block of activities, including the various addresses,
the Pollard Keynote Address, The Found Footage Festival [see
below], and the Awards ceremony is $15.00)
8:20 pm. ADDRESS
by Tom Wheeler of the Iowa Film Office.
8:30 pm. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
by Stu Pollard.
8:45 pm. FEATURE.
The Found Footage Festival (Minneapolis) - 90
minutes. Not screening in competition. One of the hits of last year's
Wild Rose Film Festival was Cine-Magic's Gas 'n' Fuel, and the
boys are back! This year, they're hosting a hilarious feature-length
compilation of educational and industrial film footage, straight from
sold-out screenings around the country, that Film Threat's Eric
Campos described as springing "from the very bowels of hell because no
mortal man could possibly come up with something this entertaining."
10:30 pm.
AWARDS CEREMONY - Hosted by Kimberly
Busbee and James Serpento. (A la carte admission price for
the Awards Ceremony is $5.00 [filmmakers enter free]).
Why not head back over
to the Vaudeville Mews after the Awards? It's a night of great bluegrass
by MR. BABER'S NEIGHBORS and a fabulous new local act THE WULI MASTERS!
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Sunday,
October 3, 2004
(still at the Fleur Cinema
and Cafe
4545 Fleur Drive, Des
Moines, 50321)
12:30 pm - DOORS OPEN
at the Fleur Cinema and Cafe.
1:00 pm - MUSICAL
ENTERTAINMENT by Bowman and Brown, presenting original songs
inspired by the events and town of Villisca, Iowa.
1:25 pm - WELCOME
by the Festival Programmers.
1:30 pm - FEATURE
Villisca Axe-Murder: The Untold Story (Iowa) 90
minutes. Not screening in competition. A paranormal investigative
documentary by Iowa filmmakers, Joe Pate and Sean Merryman, with Miller
Paranormal Research. This
film deals with the paranormal activity and residual haunting of the
infamous "Villisca Axe Murder House," ! site of the unsolved 1912
murders of eight people (including six children) Includes interviews
and data captured by infra-red cameras, Electronic Voice Phenomenon tape
recorders and video and still cameras.
3:15 pm - QUESTION/ANSWER
with
filmmakers Joe Pate and Sean Merryman, Darwin and Martha Linn (owners of
the J.B. Moore Home, the Villisca Axe Murder House), members of the
psychic investigative team, and representatives from Millers Paranormal
Research.
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ADMISSION PRICING
Generally, what follow are prices
for passes to more than one event on a specific day. Individual motion
picture tickets will run from $3-8, depending on the piece (length,
student vs. professional, etc.) Individual panel and seminar prices range
from $10, up to $35 for the Stu Pollard film financing workshop.
Admission to music acts at the Vaudeville Mews is NOT included in any
of the prices below.
Wednesday, September
29, 2004
WED-1 Full
Wednesday Evening Pass.................$12.00
Includes appetizers, all
movies, and guest speakers.
WED-2 Guest
Speakers and 2nd Film Program......$7.00
Includes Spank, Space
Rocket and On Account of Amber.
Thursday, September
30, 2004
THU-1 Full
Thursday Evening Pass......................$10.00
Includes all movies (4 shorts
and a feature)
THU-2 2nd Film
program (Feature only)................$6.00
Includes only El Maya.
Friday, October 1,
2004
FRI-1 Full
Friday Evening Pass............................$15.00
Includes all movies (including
Happy Hour Flickage, other shorts and feature), address by Todd Hanson
of the IFP/Central Standard.
FRI-2 Evening
Program (2 Shorts and Feature)....$10.00
Includes An Immaculate
House, Stale Mate and Sinkhole.
FRI-3 Feature
Only...............................................$7.00
Includes only Sinkhole.
Saturday, October 2,
2004
SAT-1 Full
Saturday (All day and evening) Pass..................$82.00
Includes all screenings,
seminars and Awards Ceremony.
SAT-2 Stu
Pollard Financing/Distribution seminar ONLY....$35.00
SAT-3 All
Evening Screenings and Awards Ceremony........$20.00
Includes Spank, Muffin
Man, The Found Footage Festival and Awards.
Ala carte pricing is
available; individual screenings and events are $3-15.00, depending.
Passes are the best value! Be sure to inquire at the ticket table!
Sunday, October 3,
2004
SUN-1
Villisca Axe-Murder House: The Untold Story....$7.00
Includes screening, music and
question/answer.
THE
BIG ONE - Full Wild Rose Film Festival
Pass.................$100.00
Admission to ALL films, seminars and
other events! Significant savings on individual event prices!
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