The 2010 EIFF Excellence in Filmmaking Awards
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A Complex Villainelle Producers: |
A Lonely Place for Dying Producer: |
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Beans Producers: |
Behind the Door of a Producer: |
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Blackstar Warrior Producers: |
Calvin Marshall Producers: |
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Carmen Producers: |
Cesar’s World Producer: |
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Clemency Producer: |
Cockpit: The Rule of Engagement Producer: |
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Decklin and the Dentist Producers: |
Hot Toxic Love: The Making of The Toxic Avenger Musical Producer: |
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Imagining Home Producers:
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In The Footsteps of Elie Wiesel Producers: |
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Kilo Producers: |
Monkeywrench Producers: |
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Mother of the Year Producers: |
Multiracial Identity Producer: |
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One Summer at Camp Winston Producers: |
The Presence Producers: |
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Redux Producers: |
Resuscitate Producer: |
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Sandwich Days, The Producer: |
Santorini Blue Producers: |
 Schooling the World, The White Man’s Last Burden
Best Feature Documentary Producers:
Jim Hurst, Mark Grossan, Neal Marlens Director: Carol Black |
 Seducing Charlie Barker
Best Narrative Feature Producers:
Lynn Webb, Maurice Kanbar (Ex.), Owen Seitel (Co.), Daphne Zuniga (Assoc.) Director: Amy Glazer Writer: Theresa Rebeck |
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Slap Back Jack Producer: |
Streetball Producers: |
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What Happened, Dad? Producer: |
X’s & O’s Producers: |
2010 Films - Page 2 of 3
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Father and Sister A series of coincidences events brought about by a bee and a flower arrangement at a church result in unintended temptation. |
Finding My Magic An animated program created to help young children discover the magic within them to be positive, happy and successful. They are introduced to the “little black box" within and the “me messages" they can place inside to build self-esteem, assertiveness and confidence. |
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Fluorescent Gray Midnight blue gossamer adds its patina to a bedtime conversation that defines the meaning of “love knows no bounds.” |
The Hot Toxic Love: This documentary presents the trials and tribulations of the actors and creative team involved in the making of a musical. The story follows Louise Pitre – the Grand Dame of Canadian theater and Evan Alexander Smith, a 21-year-old grad in his first legit production. They have to get their new production to the stage in four weeks. |
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Imagining Home When nearly 400 low-income families in Portland, OR are displaced from their homes to make way for a "social experiment" in urban renewal, they must fight stereotypes of race and class. Residents struggle for empowerment, healing and community as they return to the redeveloped neighborhood. |
In The Footsteps of Elie Weisel Twelve American students follow the extraordinary life of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel from his birth place in the Transylvania Mountains, through the death camps of Hitler’s Third Reich and into the present. |
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The Incredible Space V-33, a robot in space, is bored with his dull and lackluster mission. He decides to create a companion. |
Into Darkness Cavers take you on a journey few will ever experience first hand. The images are spectacular in the underworld of caves, one of the final mysterious frontiers on earth. |
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Island of the Gondoliers "City of Lost Children" meets Fellini’s “La Strada” in this Venetian steampunk adventure about a bookish Italian historian named Leo Ghianti whose obsessive quest to find the last survivors of a forgotten genocide leads him into a frightening confrontation with a sinister circus. |
Journey of a Paper Son Dying from cancer, an elderly Chinese man shocks his family when he asks to be buried under his real name, a name unknown to the family. He was a victim of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, repealed in 1943. |
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Junebug His parents were church leaders, he was a Gangster Disciple. This is the story of Luther McKinstry, “Junebug,” and his transition from a life of drugs and gang banging to the founding of Luther McKinstry Ministries after being ordained as a minister of the gospel. He will be attending the EIFF for the screening of "Junebug." |
Keep Dancing Legendary dancers Marge Champion and Donald Saddler became friends while performing together in the Broadway Show Follies (2001). They are both 90 years old and when the show closed they decided to rent a private studio so they could continue to rehearse original dances. Champion was a dance model for “Snow White.” |
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Kidnap A little chicken is late for school, but her excuse is too wild to believe: getting kidnapped on the way to school. Her excuse turns into a saga that enshrines her as a master storyteller. |
Kilo A female San Francisco officer, Min Lee, loses a kilo of cocaine during a foot chase. Desperate not to go back empty-handed, she enlists her arrestee to buy a second one. |
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Let's Talk About Sex The hyprocrisy surrounding sex and sexuality in America is creating havoc and young people are paying the price. The conversation engages six young people and expands to the Bible Belt, Oregon and The Netherlands. Working solutions are examined. |
The Lift An insensitive young woman pushes the "close" button as an elderly woman approaches the elevator. Oops!! |
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The Macabre World Eight-year-old Lavender Williams, who recently lost her mother to cancer, sets off on an epic journey to find her dad, whom she’s never met. Her only companion is Lester, her late pet who’s returned from the grave to help her. The journey won’t be easy for Lavender and her zombie dog as the evil presence of Sheriff Murdstone stalks them at every turn. |
The Man With All The Marbles Two estranged brothers attempt to resolve their rivalry in a series of high-stakes games of marbles. One, Hâkan, is successfully running the family business, while the other, Martin, is homeless. Millions of dollars and pride are at risk for both. |
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Milking The Rhino The Maasai of Kenya and Namibia's Himba – two of the Earth's oldest cattle cultures – are in the midst of upheaval. After a century of "white man conservation," which has displaced them and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying to share the wildlife tourism pie and cope with deep cultural change. |
Monkeywrench A young environmental activist finds her ideology tested in a forest on the verge of being clearcut. |
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Mother of the Year She's raised her only son in the Catholic faith. On his 22nd birthday he tells the family he's gay and moving in with his Jewish partner. Dad dares her to find a church that will marry the gay couple, and also raise half the money for the wedding. With the help of her crazy, 35 year old atheist sister the adventure begins. |
Multiracial Identity Multiracial people are the fastest-growing demographic in America, yet there is no official recognition for mixed-race people. "Multiracial Identity" lays bare the social, political, and religious impact of this emerging culture. |
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No Limit Kids: Much Ado First-year middle school students begin meeting in an old abandoned theater on Main St. Inside they find a piece of their town’s history, a kind homeless man, Charlie (Bill Cobbs), and mutual acceptance. United, the kids set out to save the theater from impending development and protect Charlie’s safe haven. |
One Summer At Camp Winston Camp Winston accepts children with complex neurological disorders. Filmed in an intimate cinéma vérité style the story is warm, sometimes funny and often challenging. Staff members, some of whom struggle with disorders of their own, help these children with Tourette Syndrome, Asperger’s Syndrome and autism build self-esteem. |
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Parables A collection of short films, each drawn from a Biblical parable. |
The Presence A woman played by Academy Award Winner Mira Sorvino travels to an isolated cabin where she finds herself stalked by an apparition who has come to inhabit her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend the dark spirit’s haunting grows more obsessive. |
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Redux A mystical force allows a down on his luck businessman to relive the night he was murdered in order to fulfill his destiny and save someone else’s life. |
Resuscitate Kent, unemployed for two years, decides suicide is an attractive option. He chooses a local hardware store parking lot to undertake his mission. A teenage shopping cart retriever sensing something is wrong uses her quick wit and humor to drive this plot forward. |
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Ronan’s Escape Set in the rural wheat belt of Western Australia, Ronan is bullied constantly at school. On his way home this day he seeks refuge where he has many times before, in the shade of a majestic Australian gum tree atop a gentle hill. The experiences that have brought him here are too common in real life. |
Sally Grief and remorse forge a collision course as a teenage girl’s father and her accidental killer grapple with their demons. |
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The Sandwich Days Billiam, constantly tormented by a bully and airborne sandwiches because of his name, decides to ignore his mother’s advice and fight back with the help of his friend Tim and 100 sandwiches. |
Santorini Blue Alexandra and Felix, both writers, are a seemingly happy couple living in New York. She discovers that Felix is having an affair and retreats to Santorini, Greece to continue her writing. Felix learns of her whereabouts and, deeply regretting his behavior, follows after her. The island nurtures romance and temptation for both Felix and Alexandra. |
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Schooling the World: What happens when a traditional culture is re-educated? “Schooling the World” takes a challenging, sometimes entertaining and deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world’s last sustainable indigenous peoples. |
2010 Films - Page 3 of 3
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Scottish Bob The entire family is gathered together for a funeral, except for Bob. Typically absent, he rudely walks into the service and the day can only end in disaster. This comedy is a shell game of props. Nobody could imagine that hapless Bob would ever sink this low. |
Seducing Charlie Barker A gifted actor, Charlie Barker, begins his fall from grace as he encounters a chameleon-like social climber in the Manhattan entertainment industry. He is out of work, while his wife is a competent, assured television producer. His self-respect becomes surreal, then suddenly too real. |
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Slap Back Jack Superstar baseball player Bub Stocky makes the winning hit, but flubs his high fives, loses out on his lows, and punks out on his pounds at the home plate celebration. The coach sends Bub to train with Slap Back Jack, the high five master. |
Sowing the Seeds of Justice Cruz Reynoso felt the sting of injustice as a child. Later as a lawyer, judge and counter-balance to intolerance for Constitutional rights he shaped history. Born into a Spanish-speaking farm family he became the first Latino justice of the California Supreme Court. |
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Streetball Sixteen years after the end of apartheid there remains a generation that lives in extreme poverty. From this demographic a group of young men band together to fight for their place in the 2008 Homeless World Cup. The team consists of ex-convicts, former gangsters, orphans and recovering drug addicts that are set to prove that no one is beyond redemption. |
Summer Love is precious. "Summer" is an animated interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s "L'estate: Adagio." |
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Taco Mary An unmistakable image of the Virgin Mary appears in the taco of an atheist. What is he to do? |
What Happened, Dad? A student with a 3.95 GPA is permanently injured under the noses of coaching staff. The high school football industry is anything but safe, often played using sub-par equipment. Debilitating youth sports injuries are not uncommon across America. This is the chilling story behind Oregon’s “Max’s Law.” |
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Why Do You Have A Beard? Inspired by an airport security question this short film presents the rich ethnic diversity of humanity as animated faces morph from one culture to the next. |
X's & O's Everyone needs a strategy to score. While it’s not smooth sailing for a group of young men and women seeking relationships, it is great entertainment.
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