The Longest Continuously-Running Film Festival in Northeast Pennsylvania
Schedule Of Events
11:00 am - Main Stage Features 376m
11:00am - Tim Stead, Magician With Wood
Documentary 1:29m
Directed by Beatrix Wood
Award-winning screenwriter and director, Beatrix Wood, of Scotland designed a touching documentary on Tim Stead, a legend of our time in his native country. Scotsman Stead crafts his woodwork creations, including handmade fine furniture, sculptures, and even his own home. Freely giving his time, care, and skills to other artists, we hear them praise this talented man. Then tragedy strikes and his wife makes a decades-long and painful struggle to save his art, his reputation, and their home for posterity. A must-see, especially for all talented souls who craft original beauty with their own two hands and for all those who appreciate a battle to save excellence for future generations.
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11:00 am - Main Stage Features 376m
1:00pm - The Refugee
Drama, 1:41m
Directed by Johnny Greenlaw
Director Johnny Greenlaw gives us a compelling heartrending story of Eva, a young girl in Iraq. She and her family desire a life different than the one she knows, one filled with the freedoms that we Americans enjoy. As her entire family is murdered, American troops come to fight and rescue them, but they are too late. One brave soldier saves her, giving her the cross from his neck, inscribed with his initials. Years later, as an adult now living in the U.S., living with her hardworking uncle, Eva feels the need to locate the man who saved her life. A lovely film, exploring the idea of the American Dream.
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3:00pm - Classic Film Screening - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Comedy CLASSIC MOVIE with special guest Illeana Douglas, hosted by author/film historian John DiLeo.
A quintessential post-war look at the American Dream, the delightful Mr. Blandings follows one family’s hilarious tribulations after they trade their cramped NYC apartment for an 18th-century fixer-upper in Connecticut. Advertising man Cary Grant and his wife Myrna Loy will soon become mired in a money pit because their unsalvageable historic home leads to the costly creation of their eventual dream house.
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6:30pm - Nobody Wants To Shoot A Woman
Drama 1:32
Directed by Kerry Ann Enright
Writer, Director and Producer, Kelly Ann Enright brings us her original, offbeat drama with touches of ironic comedy, as middle-aged, lower middle-class, Mary, (Tina Benko), finds herself trapped in her new ‘dream house’ gifted to her by her lying and abusive gangster husband. When Mary and her son witness her husband’s murder, she seeks employment with no skills or education, joining a gang of thieves. Mary finds herself doing ‘just one last job’ after another, desperate to hide her new criminal life from her young son and her best friend, an admiring police detective. How will she handle those she loves, those she fears and possibly get vengeance on her husband’s enemies? A hard-boiled, entertaining mixture of oddball characters, desperation and determination by a woman wronged, with touches of "Bonnie and Clyde", "Wanda" and "Fun With Dick and Jane" all wound up into one smoothly done, but tough drama.
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8:30pm - Thelma
Comedy
Directed by Josh Margolin
Thelma is a rare rewarding comedy/drama with three generations of a functional family! Enjoy June Squibb’s spunky depiction of the 93 year old grandma we all should have. Scammed shamefully by phone with the real, recurrent call, "I’m in trouble and I need ten thousand immediately" routine, Thelma vows vigilante justice. Toss in a grateful grandson and iconic Richard Round (SHAFT) and Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) and perky Parker Posey, all directed by Josh Margolin, and you share a fun film with poignant plot twists. Top off your evening with a senior who is implacable in an intelligent ‘indie’, and enjoy!
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