A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR The Festival has never been, and never will be, merely about past successes. It is a dynamic event, designed Ten years. It’s incredible to consider the sheer number each year to be about what is now, and what is next – for of terrific films and filmmakers who have come to LBI movies, for media and for discussing what these films, to share their films since the lights dimmed prior to the talks and experiences reflect: the world around us, at this very first film here at LIFF in 2009. As we gather in 2018 to time, in places near and distant. What do we see, how are celebrate the 10th edition of LIFF it’s fabulously rewarding our perspectives changed, challenged or reinforced by to see filmmakers returning for this year who were part the stories we watch and by those that tell them? LIFF at of the inaugural Festival. The 2009 edition of LIFF kicked ten has crafted a lineup we feel will reward, will challenge off with Big Fan, which was produced by Elan Bogarin. and give satisfaction to those who dive in. We have Elan returns in 2018 having co-directed with her brother added a new section in 2018 – ‘Storytellers’ - designed to Jonathan 306 Hollywood, a fabulous film that shows when showcase the very best in independent series, episodic it comes to looking at the life of a person – exemplified and television content, reflecting stories that are best by their own grandmother via the possessions she left suited to a serial format rather than a traditional film behind – that the measure of a life is much more complex format. It’s an engaging mix of comedy, drama and than what we initially assume. Poignant, funny and at times science fiction in each block and we highly encourage you melancholy, the film is - like life itself - a roller coaster of to give it a try. emotions. For those joining LIFF for the first time in 2018, welcome. Similarly, producer James Choi brought LIFF our 2009 We are thrilled to have you be a part of the LIFF family Closing Film, Made In China and returns in 2018 as and the LBI community. We hope you explore the Island producer of Sanghoon Lee’s Banana Season, a thoughtful, thoroughly and have a terrific experience in doing so. For intelligent and thoroughly enjoyable film, descriptors that those returning to LIFF, as always, welcome back. We could accurately describe James himself, and why we are delighted that you’re here again. always excited to hear about his new projects. Where are we at ten? We’re still right here on LBI, enjoying The sense of film community has steadily built through every minute of it. the nine festivals before this, built in ways that are almost imperceptible and those that provide moments It’s been a joyous ten years. Thanks for sharing it. Enjoy of definition. Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman, back this your 2018 Festival. year with their fourth festival entry, are emblematic of that community that we have worked so hard to establish, as ERIC JOHNSON their 2014 Festival entry This Time Next Year showed LBI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and its people at their finest, even as things on LBI were LIFF at their most daunting. Screening their film here on LBI provided a moment that those who attended will always remember, and in doing so Jeff and Farihah gave to LBI and to LIFF a powerful experience, forever bonding the Festival and the Island.

2 3 3RD ANNUAL LIFF 2018 is proud to bring back for its third year WRITE BY THE STAFF & SPECIAL THANKS BEACH, a writers’ retreat for female filmmakers and screenwriters. Designed with a simple mission: to foster female voices in EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR VENUE MANAGERS WELCOME CENTER FESTIVAL independent film, the program has the Festival bringing in female ERIC JOHNSON JET BARRETT COORDINATORS filmmakers and screenwriters to Long Beach Island for a week NATALIE CARICATO SHARON DAILEY leading up to and including the festival, with no obligation except to DEPUTY EXECUTIVE NICK CARICATO STEPHANIE HIEBERT HEADQUARTERS foster their creativity on whatever project they are currently working. DIRECTOR CHERYL FEDYNA HOPE GARDINER FILM SOCIETY TEAM AMIR BOGEN SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY DIANE HOOVER AMIR BOGEN Write By The Beach 2018 is sponsored by the generosity of CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MANAGING DIRECTOR REBECCA HORVATH SHARON DAILEY Dr. Robert D. Jambro 265 W. 9th Street (2nd floor) CHRISTINE ROONEY STEVE KORKER HOPE GARDINER STEVE RABBITT ERIC JOHNSON Ship Bottom, NJ LAURA REGNIER RON MARR FOUNDER & HOURS: CREATIVE DIRECTOR ANDREW WARREN CHARLIE PRINCE THURSDAY 11:00 AM - 8:00PM FRIDAY 11:00 AM - 8:00PM CHARLIE PRINCE LAURIE WRIGHT CHRISTINE ROONEY LAURIE WRIGHT SATURDAY 10:00 AM - 4:00PM SUNDAY 11:00 AM - 2:00PM VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING ERIC JOHNSON LINDA FEASTER FILM SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS SPONSORSHIP DIRECTOR DIANE MCCABE CHARLOTTE PRINCE SONDRA BENINATI STEVE BENINATI ONLINE SUBMISSIONS / WITHOUTABOX TECHNICAL DIRECTOR HOPE GARDINER KARL MEHRER ERIC JOHNSON YASMINE HANANI CHERYL KIRBY FESTIVAL CAMPAIGN BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAGGIE O’NEILL JOHN DIETERICH CHARLIE PRINCE & ARTWORK DIRECTORS ERIC JOHNSON CHARLOTTE PRINCE MARY DEMICHELE JOHN MILLER CHRISTINE ROONEY TAMMY DUNCAN CHARLIE PRINCE CHERIE SCHAIBLE MATT SCHOCH DAMIAN SCHAIBLE AIMEE PONG SHARON E. COOPER ANNE HU ROSE SCHIMM CHRISTINE ROONEY DAMIAN SCHAIBLE JIMMY BOOM SENIOR PROGRAMMER EILEEN VIDAL Sharon E. Cooper is an award-winning NYC based Anne Hu is a Taiwanese American, award-winning Rose Schimm is a Canadian writer and director. screenwriter. Her romantic comedy short, “The Seven Men director, writer, editor, and actress who is currently a She recently completed a Screenwriting MFA at PUBLIC RELATIONS MATTHEW KIERNAN of Hanukkah” (dir. Daryl Lathon) was in the Lighthouse Senior Producer and Editor at HBO. the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and her TED GEOGHEGAN ARTWORK / POSTER International Film Festival last summer, has screened work has been recognized in major script contests PROGRAMMERS / WEBSITE around the country and was a winner in the Boston Jewish She has edited trailers for television shows and films including the Austin Film Festival and Slamdance. MARKETING NATALIE CARICATO ORANGEYOUGLAD Film Festival. Sharon and Daryl are currently in post- including The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game of Prior to making the transition to filmmaking, she JILL VOSHELL SHARON DAILEY production for the sequel, entitled “Believin.’” Sharon was Thrones, and more. worked as a graphic designer in Canada and JESSE TENDLER PRINTERS part of an all female writing team for the new web series, Europe. She has traveled extensively around the ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR SHEA DAVIES COASTAL SIGN & “BKPI--Brooklyn Private Investigators” (creator/director She has also directed promos and award-winning short world as a solo traveler and currently resides in HOPE GARDINER AMIR BOGEN DESIGN Hye Yun Park). It’s about three women of color who are films. “Balloon,” her hand-drawn animated short placed Toronto. HOPE GARDINER EVERGREEN PRINTING self-proclaimed private investigators and screened at Top 16 in the Campus MovieFest Northeast Regional CHIP PARHAM Outfest and the Frameline and the trailer has been seen Competition. Her latest short “Cake” has been accepted COMMUNITY OUTREACH WWW.LIGHTHOUSEFILMFESTIVAL.ORG CHARLIE PRINCE LEGAL ADVISORS on Facebook 55 thousand times. Sharon has a Master’s into 28 festivals and has earned 9 awards, including Best NATALIE CARICATO from NYU, where she wrote the romantic comedy Writer/Director. The Washington Post also wrote an article JILL VOSHELL CHERIE SCHAIBLE screenplay, “The Golden Age of Kali”--about a closeted, on “Cake” for its satire on the objectification of Asian STUDENT OUTREACH LAURIE WRIGHT DAMIAN SCHAIBLE Hindu, lesbian New Yorker who is trying to keep her women in mainstream media. DIRECTORS ADAM SHPEEN Jewish girlfriend away from her family and vice versa. She KATIE PRINCE TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Individual Tickets $12 is currently interested in meeting with potential partners Hu has volunteered and co-led two NYC filmmakers SAL DEL GIUDICE JIMMY FERRANTE VIDEO PRODUCTION on this project. collectives, Film Fatales NYC Shorts (a female director’s ANTHONY SALZARULO NINO DEPASQUALE collective) and The Filmshop. All Access Pass $125 SPECIAL EVENTS Most of her short screenplays are adaptations of her COORDINATORS RADIO HOSPITALITY/HOUSING TICKETS AND PASSES CAN BE PURCHASED ON-LINE, short plays; one of her goals is to make a TV series from Her upcoming projects include two films about her KELLY TAYLOR-TRAVIS WBNJ 91.9 FM her short plays. These plays have been produced in experiences growing up Asian American in the suburbs COORDINATOR LAURIE WRIGHT WJRZ 100.1 FM AT THE SOC CHAMBER/LIFF WELCOME CENTER, Germany, India, Hungary, England, Singapore, and across of Cleveland, Ohio: “Lunchbox” (a dramatic short) and MAGGIE O’NEILL WRAT 95.9 FM OR AT THE DOOR OF ALL SCREENINGS. THE ALL the U.S. and are published in The Best 10-Minute Plays “Mother” (a supernatural, horror feature film). Additionally, SPECIAL EVENTS TEAM of 2010, 2014, and 2016; Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays, she is in pre-production for “Dating Patterns” (a series of VIRTUAL REALITY DIRECTORS ACCESS PASS INCLUDES ACCESS TO ALL FILMS AND and several college textbooks. If you want to see one of over-the-top, dark, comedic,micro shorts). MARK STERNBERG SONDRA BENINATI INTERNS PRIORITY SEATING, ALL PARTIES, BREAKFAST WITH these plays this August in NYC, her short play “Stalled”- KIIRA BENZING STEVE BENINATI EMANUEL AMBAR THE FILMMAKERS, AND AWARDS CEREMONY. -about two very different women who are stalling in a Her mission is to create honest and visual stories NATALIE CARICATO DAVID CASTILLO classy bathroom--is one of 30 plays (selected out of about minorities. In particular, Hu is passionate about SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM SHARON DAILEY NICHOLAS GUERRIERO over 850) in the prestigious Samuel French Festival. relationship and Asian American themes. She often writes SUSANNAH GORA BAILEY OTTO MATTHEW KIERNAN NOTE: ALL SALES ARE FINAL. TICKETS AND PASSES ONLY She has been a guest teacher, mentor and Writer-in- from personal experience, and she creates provocative SHANNON RABBITT CHERYL KIRBY BRIANNA OTTO GUARANTEE SEATS UNTIL 15 MINUTES BEFORE SHOW TIME. Residence in several programs teaching both playwriting work that not only tests boundaries but also possesses JILL VOSHELL DEBRA MALOTA REECE OTTO ENTRY LIMITED ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS. and screenwriting, and she is a writing coach/tutor, yoga purpose. Hu hopes to impact audiences through profound RENA DINENO JAMES RUSSIN instructor, a member of the Stillwater Writer’s Group and and poignant stories, so they may see the world through a TERRY YUEN MAGGIE O’NEILL the Dramatist Guild. Last year, Lighthouse was one of her different lens. KYLE RICHARD PHOTOGRAPHY favorite festivals because of the amazing programming, WEBSITE DIRECTOR the hospitality and the opportunities provided to make MARY DEMICHELE CHRISTINE ROONEY CREATIVELY YOURS, connections in a beautiful setting. She is honored to be a ANTHONY SALZARULO DAYNA part of the Write by the Beach program for women; some TRAVEL DIRECTOR CHERIE SCHAIBLE NATALIE CARICATO people say it matters to support women in film and some CHARLOTTE PRINCE DAMIAN SCHIABLE CHERYL FEDYNA people do something about it. www.sharonecooper.com SHAWNA STANGO ANDREW WARREN LAURIE WRIGHT TREASURER BERNICE SCHOKET 4 5 = FILMMAKER EXPECTED TO ATTEND Documentary Centerpiece Film

THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET 95 MIN DIRECTOR: JEREMY WORKMAN USA

For over six years, Matt Green, 37, has been pursuing an unusual personal quest. He’s walking every block of every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles that takes him through hundreds of neighborhoods. In order to pursue this project, Matt quit his job as an engineer, gave up his apartment, and discarded most of his possessions. He now lives on about $15 per day and couch-surfs at a multitude of apartments across the city. When he’s not out walking, Matt spends his time researching the myriad curiosities that catch his eye during his journey – be it a national landmark or a humble manhole cover. While he has devoted years of his life to this endeavor, Matt is not sure why he’s doing it. He isn’t writing a book or hoping to become a tour guide. He isn’t walking for charity or for publicity. He just feels compelled to walk, and to seek out moments of understanding about his world and the people who live in it.

From director Jeremy Workman (“Magical Universe”) and executive producer Opening Night Film Jesse Eisenberg comes a film culled from more than 500 hours of footage shot over three years across every borough and in nearly every corner of this WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY vast and vibrant city. It’s a story of one man’s peculiar personal mission, and the journey of discovery, humanity, and wonder that ensues. Initially a look DIRECTOR: MADELEINE OLNEK 84 MIN USA at a single city and the people who live there, “The World Before Your Feet” Molly Shannon plays Emily Dickinson in the humorous drama “Wild Nights unexpectedly transforms into a reflection on our larger world and its endless with Emily.” The poet’s persona, popularized since her death, became that of possibilities. And driving all of this is a simple story about a guy who is just a reclusive spinster – a delicate wallflower, too sensitive for this world. This walking around and seeing what he can see. film explores her vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years EXPECTED TO ATTEND - most notably Emily’s lifelong romantic relationship with another woman DIRECTOR JEREMY WORKMAN, SUBJECT MATT GREEN (Susan Ziegler). After Emily died, a rivalry emerged when her brother’s mistress (Amy Seimetz) along with editor T.W. Higginson (Brett Gelman) published a book of Emily’s poems. Unique and surreal, this seriously Closing Night Film Independent film was the Winner of the US-In-Progress award in Paris and premiered to great acclaim at this year’s SXSW Film Festival. ANOTE’S ARK 77 MIN EXPECTED TO ATTEND DIRECTOR: MATTHIEU RYTZ CANADA DIRECTOR: MADELEINE OLNEK

The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati faces a daunting challenge: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. As Anote Tong, Kiribati’s President, races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintain their dignity, many iKiribati are already seeking safe harbor overseas. Set against the backdrop of international climate negotiations and the fight to recognize climate displacement as an urgent human rights issue, Anote’s personal struggle to save his nation is intertwined with the extraordinary fate of Sermary, a young mother of six, who decides to migrate her family to New Zealand. At stake are the survival of Sermary’s family, the iKiribati people, and 4,000 years of iKiribati culture; yet the story also serves as a cautionary tale for low-lying Narrative Centerpiece Film populations everywhere.

MADELINE’S MADELINE 93 MIN DIRECTOR: JOSEPHINE DECKER USA

Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard) has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop’s ambitious director (Molly Parker) pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother (Miranda July) into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women’s lives.

Writer/director Josephine Decker has long been an independent filmmaker to admire, utilizing a welcome expressionistic approach that imbues her subjects with a vibrant sense of urgency. Anchored by a virtuoso performance from newcomer Helena Howard, whose powerful screen presence commands attention, Decker’s film displays a rare sensitivity for capturing the messy struggles of discovering a sense of one’s self that defies easy narrative categorization.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND DIRECTOR: JOSEPHINE DECKER

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77 MIN 85 MIN DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: USA THE GUILTY DENMARK THE UNAUTHORIZED STORY OF THE DALLAS DIRECTOR: GUSTAV MOLLER

COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman; DIRECTOR: DANA ADAM SHAPIRO after a sudden disconnection, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to solve a crime that Daughters of the Sexual Revolution is the never-before-told story of Suzanne Mitchell, is far bigger than he first thought. An utterly inventive spin on the classic thriller, the fiercely loyal den mother of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Seen by many first-time director Gustav Moller’s The Guilty premiered to rave reviews at this year’s as regressive and exploitative, this diverse sisterhood of small-town ‘girls next door’ Sundance Film Festival. became a controversial pop culture phenomenon at the height of the Sexual Revolution, changing the game of football, and America, forever. Oscar-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro (Murderball) premiered this film at SXSW and the topic hits at a particularly timely moment for the dialogue in America.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND PRODUCER: CARRA GREENBERG

93 MIN 109 MIN EASY ITALY/UKRAINE THE KING USA DIRECTOR: ANDREA MAGNANI DIRECTOR: EUGENE JARECKI

Easy, short for Isidoro, a former race car driver, is given a new job far from the racing Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner circuits: taking a coffin, with the body of an Ukrainian bricklayer, from Italy to a small Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip mountain village in Ukraine. But he quickly gets lost after the border. His lifetime across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey adventure can begin. A selection of the Locarno Film Festival, Easy is a comedic journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this of discovery through foreign lands for its hero, a beautifully paced film that takes full groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American advantage of its gorgeous settings and the unique situations in which he finds himself. Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and non, join the journey, including Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D, EXPECTED TO ATTEND Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among many DIRECTOR: ANDREA MAGNANI others. PRODUCER: CHIARA BARBO

40 MIN 85 MIN SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH USA THE MISOGYNISTS USA STAR COMBAT ZONE DIRECTOR: ONUR TUKEL DIRECTORS: ALEX FISCHER, RACHEL WOLTHER In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two A truly funny, original and completely awesome film that compares to nothing you’ve Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results, in the latest from indie provocateur ever seen, this blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Onur Tukel. As the night rages on, an ensemble of characters venture in and out of the Central Dance Team is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist room. Some match the two’s enthusiasm while others voice their terror at the prospect sketch show. The three Bing Bongs—Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani & Eleanore Pienta— of the incoming President, but most struggle to find reasons to care less about the lounge about, pass gas, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, results that caused the debauched celebration occurring around them. Led by Dylan with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style Baker’s gleefully deranged performance, Tukel’s tongue-in cheek exploration of a girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a divided America digs deep into the night’s mass existential crisis, and leaves with some cotton-candy-colored alternate universe and is just pure, complete fun. disquieting results.

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1985 85 MIN NIGHT COMES ON 87 MIN DIRECTOR: YEN TAN USA DIRECTOR: JORDANA SPIRO USA

Inspired by the award-winning short film of the same name, “1985” follows Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th Adrian (Cory Michael Smith, “Gotham”), a closeted young man returning to birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her 10 his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. year-old sister to track down their father, who they believe is living on Long Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in New York, Adrian reconnects Beach Island. Dominique Fishback (HBO’s The Deuce) gives a tremendous with his brother (Aidan Langford) and estranged childhood friend (Jamie lead performance as a girl, street-wise far beyond her years, determined Chung), as he struggles to divulge his dire circumstances to his religious to find answers and tough enough to absorb the blows that life can deal. parents (Virginia Madsen and Michael Chiklis). LIFF alum Yen Tan weaves Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, a tremendous portrait of a place and time in the film, full of terrific first-time director Jordana Spiro skillfully weaves a story that is patient and performances and beautiful moments of communication in uncertain reveals itself on its own terms. circumstances, tied together by the power of family, wherever one might find it.

103 MIN 77 MIN BANANA SEASON USA THE FEVER AND THE FRET USA DIRECTOR: SANGHOON LEE DIRECTOR: CATH GULICK

A tale of true love, friendship and taking flight, Banana Season is a A shy, artistic loner growing up in the Bronx, 14-year-old Eleanor is glimpse into the lives of ordinary souls, all at the point in their lives when tormented at school because of the large birthmarks on her face. At they flower or fade. Peter is a little person with a big dream of flying like night, she begins visiting another world, vast and desolate, where she the bird species his dwarfish body most closely resembles. He is hired encounters another being who is like her. But when Eleanor is forced into a to paint the town’s water tower, a place he comes to see as his very own confrontation at school, she faces a series of unexpected consequences, perch in which to take flight. Sun is a talented cage fighter who loves the and may have to leave her other world behind forever. Director Cath energy and excitement of fighting but finds inflicting harm on others more Gulick spins together a dark, compelling fairy tale of a girl’s escape from a unbearable than just absorbing the pain himself. Combining fantastical troubled reality that hits all the right notes as it leads us through Eleanor’s elements with gritty reality and a perfect eye for detail, director Sanghoon worlds Lee brings his story together in a subtle and always enjoyable fashion. EXPECTED TO ATTEND EXPECTED TO ATTEND DIRECTOR: CATH GULICK DIRECTOR: SANGHOON LEE PRODUCER: JAMES CHOI

87 MIN DON’T FORGET ME ISRAEL TWO LITTLE B*#CHES 75 MIN DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR RAM NEHARI DIRECTOR: EMMY HARRINGTON USA HEBREW W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES In the turmoil of an ugly breakup, Camille, unbridled and creative, seeks the Tom’s period is back. Her doctor at the Eating Disorder Unit where she is help of her straight laced and polite sister, Elena. Elena comes to the rescue, committed says that she is getting better. The thought of getting healthy but her deep frustration as the perennial caretaker is ignited. A passionate and heavy scares the shit out of her. It looks like it is going to be the worst moment of betrayal knocks her off her carefully constructed moral high day of her life. And then Tom meets Neil a socially awkward tuba player. ground, and she has to choose to either make things right with her sister, or Together, they try to escape from their lives and all that is considered keep her secret and maintain the emotional status quo. Before Elena can socially acceptable. Winner of Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress at decide, Camille discovers her secret, and presents Elena with an ultimatum the Torino International Film Festival, Don’t Forget Me is a dark comedy that changes the sisters forever. about the need to be out of your mind in order to fall madly in love. In TWO LITTLE B*#CHES, these sisters embody two archetypes: the “good girl” who politely follows the rules, and the “bad girl” who follows her heart EXPECTED TO ATTEND in defiance of them. In this seventy-two hour character study, we see the ACTRESS: TAL BERKOVICH dualistic challenge many women face; it seems there is no safe way to play your cards. Either way you’re the bitch. In the end, we’re left with real women rather than clichés. It turns out they are both good and bad, right and wrong and most importantly, they need each other.

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10 11 = FILMMAKER EXPECTED TO ATTEND CRIME + PUNISHMENT 103 MIN DIRECTOR: STEPHEN MAING USA

Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, “Crime + Punishment” intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops known as “The NYPD 12” and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. Over four years of unprecedented access, the film cinematically exposes the interconnected stories of systemic injustice in New York City policing through the bold efforts of a group of active duty officers, an innocent young man stuck in Rikers and one unforgettable private investigator. They bravely risk their safety, careers and livelihoods to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York City for decades. Investigative documentary at its finest and a widely-discussed film at this year’s 306 HOLLYWOOD 82 MIN Sundance Film Festival, it is sure to elicit dialogue in all audiences. DIRECTORS: ELAN BOGARIN, JONATHAN BOGARIN USA/HUNGARY

With boundless creativity and an irrepressible bouncing energy, “306 Hollywood” memorializes and honors the life of the filmmakers’ grandmother Annette Ontell. Housewife, fashion designer, and beloved family member, Ontell lived seven decades in the same house - 306 Hollywood Avenue in Hillside, New Jersey. Ultimately a profound reflection on how we examine and deal with the past, the film can also be viewed as a HALF THE PICTURE 94 MIN quirky instruction manual on how to live in the present. By turns elegiac, celebratory, DIRECTOR: AMY ADRION USA and edgy, with extrapolations ranging from the Rockefellers to Rome, “306 Hollywood” moves unexpectedly but inevitably, like a beautiful murmuration of birds. It remains Timely, incisive and invigorating “Half the Picture”consists of interviews with high intellectually adventurous while playfully peeking into odd corners and exploring shifts profile women directors including Ava DuVernay, Jill Soloway, Lena Dunham, Catherine in scale. With a lovely familial touch and a fresh musical score, it is also a crazy smart Hardwicke and Miranda July, and many others, discussing their early careers, how fun watch. Acclaimed at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the International they transitioned to studio films or television, how they balance having a demanding Director Award at HotDocs, the film marks the return to LIFF of co-directors Elan and directing career with family, and challenges and joys along the way. Their stories are Jonathan Bogarin, who produced the 2009 LIFF Opening Film “Big Fan.” insightful, funny and infuriating, sometimes all at once. Experts about gender inequality in Hollywood weigh in, establishing the magnitude of this employment discrimination EXPECTED TO ATTEND CO-DIRECTOR ELAN BOGARIN issue that shuts woman out across the board in an industry that systemically denies their expression and point of view. The film has screened at the Sundance and SXSW film festivals and LIFF is proud to premiere it in NJ. A YANGTZE LANDSCAPE 85 MIN DIRECTOR: XIN XU USA

“Any future book on documentary film history will have to mark a place of honor for Xu Xin’s ‘Karamay.’ Even among the field of exceptional work by China’s independent documakers, Xin’s fourth film is an astonishing achievement on every level…” –Variety Following on his acclaimed 2010 film ‘Karamay’ filmmaker Xu Xin returns with a meditative journey across China, evoking the best of Frederick Wiseman’s observational cinema PHANTOM COWBOYS 93 MIN paired with his own unique style. A Yangtze Landscape utilizes a non-narrative style, DIRECTOR: DANIEL PATRICK CARBONE USA setting off from the Yangtze’s marine port Shanghai, filming all the way to the Yangtze River’s source in Qinghai/Tibet - filming a total distance of thousands of kilometers. Premiering to acclaim at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, “Phantom Cowboys” is a Music and noise recorded live on scene are used in post-production, painstakingly paired documentary that explores the transition from boyhood to adulthood in places where with relatively independent visuals, creating a magically realistic atmosphere contrasted opportunity is a forgotten word. Nick is winding down a high school football career in with people seeming to be ‘decorative figures’ right out of traditional Chinese landscape Trona, California, a derelict mining town on the rim of Death Valley. Larry wiles away scrolls. An epic documentary that reflects on the grandeur and melancholy of the Yangtze the hours hunting rabbits in Pahokee, Florida’s sugarcane fields. And Tyler pursues River as a poignant metaphor for the violence and chaos of contemporary China. the supreme passion of his life, dirt track racing, in the green woodlands around Parkersburg, West Virginia. Moving gracefully between these subjects, and forward and EXPECTED TO ATTEND backward in time, “Phantom Cowboys” captures the consistent threads of responsibility, DIRECTOR: XIN XU parenthood, and manhood that weigh on each of these small-town teenagers, regardless of the community that raised him. Carbone reconnects with each young man years after their first encounters, allowing his audience to observe how their ambitions BEAUTIFUL THINGS 94 MIN evolve after just a few years on their own. This technique reveals the tension between DIRECTOR: FEDERICO BIASIN ITALY personal drive and the uncontrollable social forces that ensure individuals will make their own, unique way in life. Van is a floorhand, the maintenance man on an oil rig. He works in the desert, at a large oilfield in Texas. Danilo is the chief engineer of a freighter. He spends all his days in the heart of the vessel where a humongous engine resides. Andrea is a scientist. He has lived his whole life between mathematical formulae and the silence of the anechoic chamber. Vito has spent half of his life looking after slot machines. Today he is in charge of an immense reinforced-concrete pit for waste. These men, unwittingly, provide the basis for the whole sequence of creation, transport, marketing and destruction of the objects that feed our bulimic lifestyle. The objects that we think we need every day begin and end their journey inside isolated and eerie industrial and scientific locations. These men are monks in temples of steel and concrete and carry out the same mechanical rituals every day in silence and solitude, sharing the space with their own phantoms. A fascinating, beautiful look at the world, told in a unique way.

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12 13 HOW TO VR ***LIFF BADGE HOLDERS ONLY. Virtual reality technologies are constantly pushing into exciting new ground, bringing new ways to enhance our ability to perceive the world that surrounds us, telling stories in ways familiar and not, and can change how we interact with the world around us. LIFF’s VR section will be open for you to come by at your leisure, whether for 10 minutes to try one experience or a longer period to try them all. Our experienced VR programmers have scoured the landscape for the best, most innovative and exciting experiences for you to try out, a unique array of interactive, documentary, animated and narrative virtual reality journeys. Once you experience it, you’ll be hooked. We will be able to accommodate a limited amount of guests per hour. Admission will be first come first FRIDAY NIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT serve. You will have the opportunity to curate your experience with our program. Check LIFF schedule for operating hours. Centerpiece Party Centerpiece Party FRI. JUNE 8TH, 9:00 PM – 12:30 AM SAT, JUNE 9TH, 9:00 PM – 12:30 AM LOCATION LOCATION DADDY O, BRANT BEACH SHIP BOTTOM BREWERY/BISTRO 14

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KISS ME Breakfast w/ A Walk With Matt This “new-style” music video from Japanese rap/pop group P.O.P. was “created with the latest VR & 3D sound technology.” Captured 3D live-action images combined with the Filmmakers Green HOSTED BY SUN. JUNE 10TH 3D animation and ”3D Sound” combining stereophonic and CHOCOLATE binaural recording comes together for a joyful, catchy music ​Presented by Viacom​ NEXT ​and set to the song by Giraffage​ ​ NY TIMES FILM CRITIC GLENN KENNY experience guaranteed to make you smile. LOCATION Matt Green, subject of The World Before Your Feet, will take participants of the same name, Chocolate drops you as a robot into DIRECTORS: AKIRA FURUTA AND RYUTARO NAKAMURA on a walk of LBI, similar to those he takes in the film. An exploration of a world of colorful chrome in which everything is heavily SURF CITY HOTEL synchronized to the music. Your hands transform to cannons the world that surrounds us and goes largely unseen. Note: this is not a that spray cute chrome cats in slow motion to a tribe of guided tour. Participants should expect to walk several miles and dress people that are performing a ritualistic dance just for you, appropriately and be in good physical condition. their robot god, to provide them with their precious resource, the cute lil’ shiny kitties. Your hands transform into pulse speakers that shoot giant shock waves out into the vast Please see www.lighthousefilmfestival.org for more details. deforming chrome landscape. There’s also a herd of giant SPACE IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 12 PARTICIPANTS WHO SIGN UP. FREE. cat heads in migrating in the distance & a massive tribal chief cat that assists in the ritual by spraying champagne all over you in slow motion like a rap video. Everything is SUNDAY NIGHT shiny and glimmering, smooth and sexy, cute and strange, overwhelming and astonishing. RONE CREATOR :TYLER HURD, PRODUCER: ADAM ROGERS Closing Party & RONE is a distinctive portrait of the titular street artist, whose stunning large-scale portraits of women’s faces can be found adorning soon to be forgotten spaces, acting as a Awards Ceremony commentary on gentrification and the masculine realm of SUN. JUNE 10TH, 6:00 – 9:00 P.M. street art. The 360’ film takes the viewer inside Rone’s world: we follow him into the rarely-explored spaces in which he LOCATION works (an abandoned paper mill, a house set for demolition, JOE POPS a crumbling theatre), and learn about his unique philosophy on art and life. DIRECTOR: LESTER FRANCOIS SAT. JUNE 9TH & SUN. JUNE 10TH, 9:00 AM Start your day off right with some light bites from A Little Bit of Italy and DENOISE Denoise is a journey of words, sounds and geometries a breakfast discussion between NY Times Film Critic Glenn Kenny and in which to get lost. The virtual-reality experience allows select filmmakers from this year’s festival. viewers to immerse themselves in words to which it would be hard for them ever to have access in their own lives. Glenn Kenny was the senior editor and chief film critic for Premiere An oil field in Texas, the engine room of an ocean- going magazine from 1998 to 2007. He has written on film and music for The freighter, an immense anechoic chamber in Switzerland. These places are at the root of our daily existence because Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The New the objects which we love to fill our lives with begin and end York Daily News, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, ands other publications. He their journey in just these isolated and unfamiliar worlds, is the editor of the book A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists SUMMATION OF FORCE through a process of creation, transport, validation and on 25 Years of “Star Wars.” He currently contributes to MSN Movies, The In a moonlit suburban backyard, two brothers battle one destruction. The protagonists of the film lead solitary and Auteurs’ Notebook, and the DGA Quarterly and maintains the blog Some another in an otherworldly game of cricket in this stunning silent existences, remote from our own lifestyle, but their black and white live-action study of the motion, physics, and confessions make us feel part of a single design. Denoise is Came Running. psychology of sport. Created by photographers Trent Parke one of the satellite projects of the feature-length Beautiful PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, THIS EVENT IS LIMITED TO PASS and Narelle Autio, in collaboration with filmmaker Matthew Things and is part of the multidisciplinary project Beautiful HOLDERS ONLY. Bate, this VR artwork offers a cosmic, darkly beautiful, and Things, a way of investigating, though different means of dreamlike metaphor for life. expression, unfamiliar but fundamental people and places. DIRECTORS: TRENT PARKE, NARELLE AUTIO, MATTHEW BATE, CREATORS: GIORGIO FERRERO & FEDERICO BIASIN LOCATION SCREENWRITERS: TRENT PARKE, NARELLE AUTIO SURF CITY HOTEL 800 LONG BEACH BLVD, SURF CITY, NJ 08008 14 15 27 MIN BEING KEEGAN UK DIRECTOR: STEPHANIE ZARI

When a tormented naval officer returns home to Liverpool, the city becomes a landscape for atonement as he is forced to confront his past.

20 MIN BETWEEN SECONDS USA DIRECTOR: NORA JAENICKE

“Between Seconds” is the story of two musicians who have grown out of sync with their music and ultimately themselves. Both musicians discover mysterious red envelopes which lead them inside of their clocks and into a surreal clock world. Here they must figure out how to synchronize themselves or they risk never being able to play their music again.

A DAUGHTER 16 MIN A FRENCH FILM (KIND OF) 11 MIN DIRECTOR: STEPHANIE CHENG USA/CHINA DIRECTOR: AYMERIC GOETSCHY FRANCE 14 MIN A coming-of-age family drama set in Beijing portraying a young A cult director post French New Wave meets a young trendy BLACK PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS USA DIRECTOR: DONALDO PRESCOD girl who discovers a secret that shatters her seemingly perfect actress who has become famous thanks to television. The and spotless world meeting does not go as planned... A hitchhiker wonders if she’s just being prejudice, or if the black guy at the wheel is the cannibal mass murderer the police are looking for.

9 MIN BLOOD WOLF USA DIRECTOR: DIANA CIGNONI

BLOOD WOLF is the story of Stella and Aaron and their inflammatory love. The lines between passion and abuse quickly become blurred. A HAND OF BRIDGE 15 MIN ACTING HER AGE 10 MIN DIRECTORS: DAVID MILLER, FRANK BORIN USA DIRECTOR: CLAIRE DUB USA

A faithful adaptation of the micro-opera A Hand of Bridge (1958) Cory is 25 and doesn’t feel like the adult she thought she would by Samuel Barber. Two couples reveal their deepest desires, by now - so she pretends to be 25 years older! Quickly taken in darkest fears, and wildest fantasies during an evening playing by a mischievous gang of new peers, Cory learns what it means bridge. to be a grown woman.

13 MIN BROOKLYNN USA DIRECTOR: CHARLES A. MYSAK

A deeply personal look into how gun violence impacts a family long after the media spotlight fades away.

10 MIN CAKE USA ALL FOR THIS 3 MIN ATLANTIC CITY 15 MIN DIRECTOR: ANNE HU DIRECTOR: ERIC JENKINS-SAHLIN USA DIRECTOR: MIGUEL ALVAREZ USA Eliza, a bisexual woman, tries to explore her sexuality within her marriage Melissa finds her voice by invoking early blues women Junior and Pony are homeless day laborers drifting through San with her husband Thomas by surprise ordering a seemingly human female Antonio, Texas. Their mutual hardship has forged a friendship sex robot. But the sex robot is not the cure-all she had hoped for. Be careful as strong as brothers. But Pony is fixated by an Atlantic City what you wish for. postcard he carries – the last connection from his estranged mother from twenty years ago.

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CASTING 20 MIN CHOKE ARTIST 12 MIN e.ro.sion, noun 15 MIN EN ROUTE 7 MIN DIRECTOR: KATARZYNA ISKRA POLAND DIRECTOR: MELANIE NOTINGER USA DIRECTOR: CATRIONA RUBENIS-STEVENS USA DIRECTOR: PAMELA HARRIS USA

A young, Polish woman is forced to choose between her family A millennial comedian with severe social anxiety gets e.ro.sion follows the last days of a woman as she checks into the Two estranged sisters must face each other for the first time in a and her career as an actress. emboldened by dark fantasies starring a bartender at her work. “Goodbye Clinic” to have her life deleted. We witness a person year - on the 6-minute ride to their deceased brother’s memorial. fade into a parallel reality where she observes the world she once felt connected to, continue on without her, and the physical being of her body and soul disappear before her very eyes.

COMPLIANCE 10 MIN CROSS MY HEART 14 MIN DIRECTOR: JOHN MICHAEL KENNEDY USA DIRECTOR: SONTENISH A. MYERS JAMAICA/USA

In a severely overpopulated world, a father and son have ten An American teenage girl visits her family in Jamaica and minutes to decide who lives and who dies between them. uncovers a secret that changes the way she sees the people she FALL REPEAT 4 MIN FAN MAN’S BASEMENT 7 MIN loves. This film explores the culture of silence amongst women, DIRECTOR: ELISE SIEVERT BHUSHAN USA DIRECTOR: DREW LEWIS USA the kinds of secrets we keep and who they’re actually protecting. A dancer compromises for the sake of ambition while her A stop-motion animated short film about a pop-culture fanatic mentor pushes boundaries of power. calling himself ‘The Fanman’ who starts a Youtube channel out of his mother’s basement. Wearing the iconic mask of a certain caped-crusader and vowing an oath of anonymity, he chases internet fame by trying wholeheartedly to make a viral video.

DEATH METAL GRANDMA 13 MIN DISCONNECT 16 MIN DIRECTOR: LEAH GALANT USA DIRECTOR: OISIN BYRNE ENGLAND

97-year-old Holocaust survivor, Inge Ginsberg, rose to fame as A young Moroccan woman tries to get a divorce from her British- a songwriter for legendary musicians such as Doris Day, Dean Pakistani husband through a Sharia law court in East London. 5 MIN 7 MIN Martin and Nat King Cole. Death Metal Grandma follows Inge The problem is she won’t reveal her reasons and the Islamic FENG SHUI GLASS BUBBLE PROJECT DIRECTOR: NADA STJEPANOVIC USA DIRECTOR: FERNANDO LOPEZ USA Ginsberg’s journey to break out as a performer of death metal judges won’t annul the marriage until they can justify why. music and as she prepares for an America’s Got Talent audition. A woman struggles to rearrange her room, as her life reengages A small glass blowing shop in Cleveland is keeping a fading form itself. of art alive.

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GREATER GOOD 9 MIN HAIR WOLF 12 MIN LAYAM 17 MIN LEMON 12 MIN DIRECTOR: ANDREA ASHTON USA DIRECTOR: MARIAMA DIALLO USA DIRECTOR: ASSAF MACHNES ISRAEL DIRECTOR: TIMOTHY MICHAEL COOPER USA

When a pregnant woman receives an unexpected visit from two The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: Shai used to be a tough commander and Kedem used to be his Seconds after the wedding, a bride is stunned to learn that her strangers she is faced with making a life-altering decision. white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture. tormented rookie. Things change. new husband fudged nearly everything about his past, his family, and his accomplishments - but his revelations force her to come clean about a few shocking secrets of her own.

13 MIN HEAD ABOVE WATER 11 MIN HIATUS SWITZERLAND DIRECTOR: ERIC SHAHINIAN USA DIRECTOR: KEVIN HAEFELIN LONESOME WILLCOX 12 MIN LOSER LEAVES TOWN 12 MIN A devoted husband is forced to confront his doubts A philosophy teacher discusses religion in class. In the street he DIRECTORS: RYAN MAXEY, ZACK WRIGHT USA DIRECTOR: MARK NICKELSBURG USA about remaining the caretaker of his wife suffering from is confronted to his subject in an unexptected way Alzheimer’s disease. Willcox, Arizona is a country music town that isn’t what it used to Jose, an 11-year-old luchador, retreats into a fantasy world to be. The town’s only radio station has but one employee, a local connect with a part of himself he feels slipping away. When pariah who lives in the studio, and who has a complicated and he encounters a tough 12-year-old girl, he finds his sanctuary difficult relationship with the music he plays every day. world being infiltrated by the real one. Shot entirely on LBI and in Manahawkin.

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KENT STAYS IN THE WOODS 11 MIN LABORATORY CONDITIONS 17 MIN DIRECTOR: JACKSON DEVEREUX USA DIRECTOR: JOCELYN STAMAT USA

A portrait of a life in rural America, KENT follows an amiable cab A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful driver in Central Maine who lives alone in a trailer in the woods. experiment. MARITAL ARTS 13 MIN DIRECTOR: ANTHONY MARINELLI USA MEN DON’T WHISPER 22 MIN DIRECTOR: JORDAN FIRSTMAN USA Carlo and Claudia are a married couple in the midst of a heated argument about a suspicion of infidelity but what is not readily After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple apparent is whether their conflict is real, or the product of art. Reese and Peyton set out to do the most masculine thing they can think of sleep with some women.

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OVUM 8 MIN DIRECTOR: CIDNEY HUE USA

In the near future, Rosalyn must make a hard choice after a mind bending procedure.

MISSED CONNECTION 7 MIN MISSISSIPPI MINUTE 14 MIN 10 MIN DIRECTOR: NIKOLAI BASARICH USA DIRECTOR: PJ LEONARDOTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ICC FILMS PRESENTS USA PEACH AND CHERRY USA/FRANCE DIRECTOR: NOAH LEPAGE We’ve all been there on a train A man from New York City travels to Tupelo, Mississippi, to missing our chance to make a meaningful connection. search for a woman he met in Times Square. A whimsical romance between two you lovers as they wander the streets of Paris.

6 MIN OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ICC FILMS PRESENTS MISSISSIPPI MINUTE PIANO USA WRITTEN BY DYLAN SULLIVAN PRODUCED BY PJ LEONARD & MORGAN CUTTURINI DIRECTOR: BRENDAN WALSH STARRING PATRICK GALLAGHER, RYAN PERICH & CASEY DILLARD PERNELL EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS VOZ VANELLI, CHIP CRANE JIM & BARBARA BEANE FILM EDITOR CAMERON TADDEO DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL WILLIAMS MUSIC SUPERVISOR AL CUTTURINI DIRECTED BY PJ LEONARD Filmed in Ship Bottom, Piano tells the story of a piano technician SPECIAL THANKS TO PRES. DR. JAY ALLEN AND THE ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMMUNITY arrives at a house for a scheduled tuning at a fateful moment.

NATIVE 13 MIN NOBODY LOVES ME 12 MIN DIRECTOR: LINDA BHREATHNACH IRELAND DIRECTOR: JEFF REICHERT, FARIHAH ZAMAN USA

A man in the twilight of his life embarks on an emotional journey High in the Andes, a frog with an unusual appearance is to seek out the home and family he had left in his youth. threatened with extinction.

13 MIN PREMONICION CHILE DIRECTOR: LETICIA AKEL ESCARATE

JAVIER arrives to a small town where he faces a farming group led by GOAT, a stubborn man who doesn’t trust him and won’t allow him to work. Guided by strange dreams that haunt him at night, he will fight against the prejudices to win his place.

15 MIN REFUGEE WAVE USA/HONG KONG DIRECTOR: JANE CHOW

ONE DAY HOME 13 MIN OPTIONS 14 MIN “Flüchtlingswelle (Refugee Wave)” offers an intimate glimpse into the life of DIRECTOR: DREW DENNY USA DIRECTOR: MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE USA Gulghutai, who rejects the media’s homogenized narrative of refugee women as helpless victims. Following the saying “the personal is political,” this film serves Shattered from the implosion of her marriage, Frida embarks on When Avery Ross, the young CEO of a family-run chemical as a creative vehicle for Gulghutai’s thoughts and experiences since arriving in an epic quest: finding the perfect mattress to launch her new life. company, is extorted on the eve of the company’s IPO, she is Germany in 2014, while providing insight into how multiple aspects of her identity When she curls up next to an intriguing stranger, she’s suddenly faced with an impossible choice. intersect to impact the way she experiences displacement, discrimination, and reminded that bed is more than just a place to sleep. integration as she relentlessly fights for the rights of refugees.

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ROOFTOPS OF MY CITY 16 MIN SEE YA 13 MIN THE 5TH STAGE 5 MIN THE DOLLMAKER 10 MIN DIRECTOR: MAYA JASMIN USA DIRECTOR: BRUSI OLASON ICELAND DIRECTOR: LUKE SEARLES USA DIRECTOR: AL LOUGHER USA

The story of two neighbors who meet on their rooftops both A young football player has doubts when he gets the A schizophrenic college freshman must fight the voices in his A grieving mother latches on to a magical surrogate for her lost foreigners and artists from Europe living in Brooklyn. In their opportunity to escape his stale hometown. head and take the jump into adulthood to help a troubled girl at child. But small miracles come with big consequences.. loneliness they find each other, both seeking for connection and his first college party. both searching for an answer to where is truly “home”.

14 MIN SPACE/TIME CONUNDRUM 7 MIN STILL WATER RUNS DEEP 15 MIN THE DRIVER IS RED 15 MIN THE GAME USA DIRECTOR: FERNANDO LOPEZ USA DIRECTOR: ABBESI AKHAMIE NIGERIA DIRECTOR: RANDALL CHRISTOPHER USA DIRECTOR: MICHAEL COHN

Breaking the fabric of time, a man arrives to what seems to be 2002. A father must withstand his emotions and preserve his pride Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows the A first time patient visits a psychiatrist with surprising results. He quickly learns that he has arrived in the wrong year while the when his estranged son mysteriously disappears. story of secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he hunted down one of the only person who witnesses his arrival has a special request. highest ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.

9 MIN 15 MIN STRONGER TOGETHER USA SUDDENLY, BANANA USA/ISRAEL THE MUSIC LESSON 9 MIN DIRECTOR: STACEY MALTIN DIRECTOR: DEBBY CAPLUNIK DIRECTOR: ADAM R. BROWN, KYLE I. KELLEY USA When a fired up young woman accidentally brings home a lover with an opposite view on the world she must decide whether lust When Oded, an Israeli immigrant in New York, gets frustrated Marion, a jaded music teacher must deal with an unruly student or murder will win the night. with having to constantly defend his country in conversation at her soul sucking job. an unexpected entity reveals itself to help Oded ask the right questions about what it means to be foreign, political and idealist in new surroundings.

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THE PA STAYS IN THE PICTURE 6 MIN DIRECTOR: CLAIRE DUB, ARIELLE APFEL USA

On the set of an indie horror film, the cast and crew face the wrath of a nicotine-starved director desperately in search of a cigarette and coffee. A chipper PA is on the way to save the day, but what she finds will definitely make her re-think her career choice, no matter how much that degree from NYU cost.

16 MIN 7 MIN TWICE UPON A TIME 15 MIN UNWELCOME USA/NORWAY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND USA DIRECTOR: VOJIN VASOVIC CANADA DIRECTOR: IDA THERESA MYKLEBOST PLAYED AT MY HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTORS: ANTHONY JANNELLI, ROBERT PIETRI Twice Upon a Time, there was a king with split personality whose Unwelcome follows six-year old Menwar, who lives in a tent one half wants to become a poet and the other a fearless warrior. at a gas station in Greece. He and his family fled the bloody An animated short about the Velvet Underground’s first gig in They share their conscience, but have opposing wishes and conflict in Syria, hoping to start a new life. But when they finally 1965 in front of a crowd of shocked kids at a suburban New Jersey desperately want to get rid of each other. reached Europe, they found a continent that did not want them; high school. a continent that had closed its borders. The film gives the microphone to Menwar and lets him narrate the film himself.

10 MIN TIDE NORWAY DIRECTOR: MARGARTA F. A. ORKAN

At the line between tall mountains and the always moving sea a father works on his unusual boat. All the work he puts into it he does for his family. The anticipation of completing it is just as high as it is a burden. He must succeed.

VERONICA 11 MIN WAKE THE RIDERLESS HORSE 18 MIN DIRECTOR: REIKO AYLESWORTH USA DIRECTOR: MICHAEL LANGMAN USA

13 MIN The Transgender Identity Group welcome a new member but Jonathan, succumbing to an opioid addiction, decides that it’s TIGHTHEADS USA DIRECTOR: TIM MILLER are shocked when they discover the nature of her transition. time to end his story with an overdose; however, he discovers that the ‘easy out’ he was looking for is a little more challenging A middle-aged man running the family barrel business takes inventory of his than he imagined life after a surprising discovery at work.

5 MIN TIPHANY USA DIRECTOR: JUSTIN FERRATO

Tiphany is a short documentary character portrait about a fitness model as she shares her devastating story about her past and present.

YUNA’S LUNCH 16 MIN ZOE+ARI 10 MIN DIRECTOR: MYEONGJIN PARK USA DIRECTOR: RACHAEL MEYERS USA

Yuna makes lunch box meals and then eats these with her custom- Zoe and Ari, a couple of two years, pack their suitcases to fly to ers. Her most customers are lonely and share a feeling that there Zoe’s sister’s wedding in Portland. As they decide what to bring, is something lacking in their life. One day, She meets Anthony Ari learns a devastating truth about what Zoe’s family knows. who is delusional and suffers from multiple personalty disorder, and is forced to face her own troubling memories of the past.

26 27 We’re thrilled to introduce a new section – STORYTELLERS – to LIFF 2018. With its introduction, we aim to expand upon our original LIFF mission statement to discover and support the next LIFF 2018 generation of filmmakers by recognizing that there are stories that demand to be told in formats and styles that are not classic STUDENT FILMS filmmaking, and are more dynamic, funny and thrilling for choosing to go this route. Whether television pilots, episodic content or web ANXIETY series, as you will see in this section, there is a fabulous array of JB MASON (SOUND) talent waiting to show you that these particular tales are equally A visual and auditory representation of what anxiety feels like worthy of your time, and that its creators are indeed Storytellers working in peak form. Enjoy. BROKEN SHANNON MCGAVIN (DRAMA) MONDAYS 12 MIN (4 EPISODES) A boy meets a psychiatrist about his friend. USA DIRECTOR: ARNON MANOR THE FACE OF THE FOUNDATION SARA JAMES DOCUMENTARY BY ZACH GOLD (DOCUMENTARY) Kelly is trying to figure out her life in Los Angeles Sara James is a talented teenage singer songwriter who wanted to – her work, her relationships, her sex life. No give back so others could have the same opportunities that she did. At matter how hard she tries, her mundane, everyday 15, she started the Sara James Music Foundation to raise money for interactions end awkwardly for her. For Kelly, every music lessons for those who couldn’t otherwise afford them. day feels like a Monday. FUN FACTS ABOUT GOATS KATE MANNING (STOP ANIMATION) The creative, stop animation video gives an overview of some fun facts about goats.

ADVENTURE CAPITAL 22 MIN FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS 10 MIN KEEP ME POSTED 21 MIN A HOLOCAUST ESCAPE CO-DIRECTORS: EVERETT GLOVIER USA DIRECTOR: X. DEAN LIM USA DIRECTOR: HILLARY NUSSBAUM USA LAUREN WEBER (DOCUMENTARY) & ZACH MYERS This documentary explores the true story of Robert Tennenbuam, who In the absence of real problems, Harold realizes his Childhood friends Ali, Becca, and Kavita are super escapes the Holocaust in Vienna with his family in 1938 at the ripe age A disgraced Wall Street analyst exploits a group of family members are at risk of becoming apathetic close... with their cell phones. A comedic and biting of two-years-old. self-proclaimed nerds for his own profit. douchebags. To save them from the brink, he look at the impact of texting and social media on our alienates them all to prove they’re more than closest relationships, told through the lives of three LIFE JUST ISN’T WHAT IT WAS Amazon, Audi, and Apple Pay. friends trying to grow up without growing apart. ZACH GOLD (DRAMA) 16 MIN (3 EPISODES) Growing Pains of a high school senior getting ready to graduate and go ROYALLY USA to college, whose life begins to move much to quickly for him, and how DIRECTOR: DON DOWNIE he begins to cope and understand an important issue for every teen.

Mel, a millennial burnout, starts a princess party MARCH SADNESS company in order to gain access to the wallets, JACK SANDERS & JACKIE THORNTON (COMEDY) liquor shelves, and medicine cabinets of New York Two friends are caught up in a bracket pool and pay the price with City’s most elite parents. Along with her wide-eyed their friendship.. sidekick, she robs unsuspecting mothers blind NIGHTMARE AT MUSICAL HIGH from Park Slope to Park Avenue, all without ever KELLY HARPER (MUSICAL COMEDY) taking off her wig or tiara. A girl is trapped in a never-ending musical dream inside of her high school. BENEFITS WITH FRIENDS 12 MIN DIRECTOR: SHAINA FEINBERG USA NIGHTMARE AT MUSICAL HIGH FROM JAPPAN 8 MIN KELLY HARPER (MUSICAL COMEDY) When Wendy gets diagnosed with cancer, her friend DIRECTOR: DIR. RAJ TRIVEDI USA LOST KINGS 10 MIN (2 EPISODES) A girl is trapped in a never-ending musical dream inside of her Tina saves the day by agreeing to marry her so DIRECTOR: TERRANCE SMALLS USA high school. Wendy can use her health insurance. Wendy’s best Jappan Mehta, a young Indian-American man, PHYSICAL RE-EDUCATION friend and avant-garde modern dance partner, Jillian, moves in with his non-Indian girlfriend. His mother In Baltimore, Max, a dirt bike rider, seeks vengeance CHRISTIAN SMITH & JOSH KURTA (MOCK THRILLER) tries to support their decision but can’t help feeling is in complete denial of their relationship, sparking following the murder of her brother and in the A former baller is trapped inside a torture chamber and forced to be like a third wheel. Can these three friends survive flashbacks to his childhood as 12-year-old Jappan process uncovers a conspiracy involving illicit drugs re-educated. the cosmic joke of “until death do us apart”, or will navigates his American life beside his very traditional and crooked cops. the inanities of healthcare regulation finally be their Indian parents. PICK AGAIN wrecking ball? KIERAN SHERRY & WILL VINSKO (COMEDY) UNSPEAKABLE 15 MIN A group of teenage boys attempt to make a film for a film festival USA DIRECTOR: MILENA GOVICH competition, but struggle to find the right genre.

A young woman in a desperate situation averts RAISING MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN HAILEY PALMER (DOCUMENTARY) authorities by claiming to be a girl who disappeared The documentary tells the story of Mary Burch, a mother of two years ago as a child. But when the missing girl’s medically fragile children. The film documents the taxing job of family welcomes the impostor home, she’s forced to scheduling events, going to multiple doctors’ appointments, and the keep the deception alive or face the consequences. physical and emotional toll it takes on parents. THE ROOM KELLY HARPER, JULIA FORSYTH & MELISSA OLSON (THRILLER) HOLD TO YOUR BEST SELF 12 MIN 8 MIN A girl gets trapped in a small classroom with no way out DIRECTOR: EMILY HAGINS USA MANDATED USA SHATTERPROOF DIRECTOR: JESSE R. TENDLER THE BIG NOTHING 24 MIN Over the course of prom night, six seniors are ASHLEY FRIEDMAN CO-DIRECTORS: (3 EPISODES) A girl receives a package containing an item that comes with unusual confronted with big questions concerning identity, After a mysterious incident, four quirky women LUCY CAMPBELL & PETER NINOS AUS instructions. relationships, self-esteem, and their future. With are forced into court mandated therapy. Despite high school coming to an end, life’s expectations are When the captain of an isolated mining station their initial resistance to this flimsy ruse created by THE SIBLING WAR fundamentally challenged by looming “adulthood.” near Saturn is murdered, Detective Lennox is sent the police to gather intel, therapy might wind up by Jackie Thorton to interrogate the three remaining crew members, changing all of their lives for the better. Two siblings start a long, drawn out fight between each other. quickly discovering that everyone has a motive. ONE EYE SMALL 9 MIN Stained by Christian Smith A mysterious stain appears on a wall and USA With otherworldly threats approaching and the killer DIRECTOR: JANE STILES perplexes the resident. amongst them, the situation quickly devolves into a race for survival. Two female strangers become affectionate friends TRANS MARC CAIOLA over the course of a frenetic evening in NYC. A short personal documentary about Mark Troy. 28 29 CLAY FARLAND BERTHA BAY-SA PAN GUY NATTIV IAN HARNARINE Clay Farland is a Brooklyn-based film festival programmer and producer. Bertha Bay-Sa Pan is a Taiwanese American Director, Writer and Guy Nattiv is an acclaimed writer/director from Tel Aviv, Israel who Ian Harnarine was born in Toronto to Trinidadian parents. He studied Her festival work includes Telluride, Sundance, Full Frame, New Producer. Born in New Jersey and raised in Taiwan, she was educated graduated from the TLV film school “Camera Obscura.” physics at York University and the University of Illinois. He has an MFA Directors/New Films, and Tribeca. at Boston University (B.A. in Film & Art) and the Columbia University from NYU’s Graduate Film School where he now teaches along with the His first feature, “STRANGERS, premiered at the Sundance & Tribeca Graduate Film School receiving a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Physics Department. Film Festivals in 2008. It was based on his short film “Strangers” Directing. (with Erez Tadmor) that won best short at Sundance two years earlier. Harnarine’s directorial work includes Sesame Street, which garnered him Pan’s first feature film Face – starring Kristy Wu, Bai Ling, Kieu It was short-listed for the Academy Awards, and won over 20 festivals an Emmy Award nomination, TEDMED and a groundbreaking 360 music Chinh, Ken Leung, Treach, Will Yun Lee and Golden Globe Award and world-wide. video for the Headstones. His short film “Doubles With Slight Pepper” Emmy Award nominee Tina Chen - premiered at the 2002 Sundance (Executive Produced by Spike Lee), won the Toronto International Film His second feature, “THE FLOOD (Mabul)” won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in the Dramatic Competition, co-written by Oscar Festival and the Canadian Academy Award. Film Festival in 2011, two awards at the Thesaloniki film festivals, best nominee Oren Moverman and featured a score by Leonard Nelson film at Haifa Film Festival and was nominated for 6 Israeli Academy As a location sound mixer, Harnarine has mixed “God of Love” (Academy Hubbard of The Roots. During its successful festival run, “Face” won Awards. It was based on his short film “Mabul that won the Chrystal Award), “The Fly Room”, “Stuck Between Stations” and numerous numerous awards and was nominated for a GOTHAM AWARD. “Face” Bear award at the Berlin International film festival and 50 other film award winning short films, features, documentaries, special events and was released theatrically in 2005 to positive reviews from major festivals around the world. commercials. publications including The New York Times (a NY TIMES CRITICS PICK), Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, The Chicago Tribune, His third film, “MAGIC MEN (with Erez Tadmor), was shot in Greece and Harnarine is co-writing “Time Traveler” with Spike Lee, an adaptation and the BBC. premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2014. It won “Best Actor” of David Chariandy’s novel “Soucouyant” and a feature adaptation of in the Israeli Academy and the Audience Award at the MAUI film festival. “Doubles With Slight Pepper”. He was selected by Filmmaker Magazine Pan’s Second feature, Almost Perfect, stars Kelly Hu, Edison Chen, Ivan as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film and profiled in the New Shaw, Tina Chen, Christina Chang, and Tony Award winner Roger Rees. Guy is currently in post production with his first U.S. feature film, “SKIN” York Times. It premiered at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, and had Based on the true story of Bryon Widner. Produced by Maven Pictures a hugely successful festival run including winning the HBO EMERGING and Oren Moverman (Sight Unseen) with Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga, FILMMAKER AWARD at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. It Danielle MacDonald, Bill Camp. had a theatrical release in 2012, garnering positive reviews from Variety, He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and partner, actress San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Pulse, etc. Jaime Ray Newman. In addition to directing mando-pop superstar Leehom Wang’s 3D Chinese concert film “Open Fire,” which premiered at 2016 Toronto Film Festival, Pan was the director of music videos for artists such as Slimkid3 of Pharcyde, Chris Trapper of the Push Stars, and the popular children’s band Princess Katie and Racer Steve.

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Jeanne Drewsen is Senior Counsel at The Orchard, a leading An ensemble leading man in the classic spirits of Dana Andrews, Sterling With 20 years of experience developing film organizations, entertainment, arts Susan Skoog wrote, produced, and directed the feature film Whatever, which independent film, TV and music distribution company operating in over Hayden, Jack Palance & Ralph Meeker, Mark has brought his own unique and media events in the US and abroad, Meira is the Co-founder/Executive premiered at the Sundance Film Festival was released theatrically by Sony 30 markets worldwide. As the senior legal counsel for The Orchard’s style & process to roles with appearances at the Cannes Directors Director/Head Programmer of the Woodstock Film Festival, one of the Pictures Classics in 1998. Whatever stars Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls, How To film distribution division, she has helped negotiate deal terms and Fortnight, Sundance, Locarno, Deauville, Venice, Berlin & Fantasia most respected regional film festivals in the US. Meira has also co-founded Get Away with Murder) and Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now, The Rose, prepare contracts with filmmakers, film financiers and marketing service International Film Festivals & the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & the Cabo International Film Festival, which has developed into the Baja The Conversation.) Garnering critical acclaim, Whatever went on to screen at providers for many films, including the Academy Award®-nominated Sciences. International Film Festival, and served as Head Consultant for the first annual numerous film festivals throughout the world. Susan has written screenplays documentaries Cartel Land and Life, Animated; Taika Waititi’s The Hunt Bhutan International Film Festival. A filmmaker by training, for Warner Brothers, HBO and MTV Films among others, working with such Mark rose to manage the prestigious MET Theatre & was a founding for the Wilderpeople; Academy Award-winner Morgan Neville’s The esteemed producers as John Wells (ER, The West Wing, August: Osage member of the MET Theatre Workshop, studying alongside & under the Meira directed, produced and consulted on countless feature films, Music of Strangers; Alex Lehmann’s Blue Jay; Antonio Campos’ Christine; County), and Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger, (Cold Mountain, Election, Little Miss tutelage of A-list Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, & Tony winning actors screenplays and documentaries in various stages, from development to Pablo Larrain’s critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated Neruda; Sunshine). & directors, as well as Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights after acting distribution. She is currently producing a full length documentary as well as a Oren Moverman’s The Dinner; and Jeremiah Tower: The Last school. feature narrative, and is actively consulting on diverse film projects. Meira has Susan has also enjoyed a successful career as a writer, director, and producer Magnificent. The Orchard’s most recent film releases that she has written for daily and monthly publications including Indiewire, Poughkeepsie of numerous documentary and magazine programs for such networks worked on include Flower, Outside In, Kings, William Friedkin’s The Devil Mark can be seen currently in the IFC Midnight release of LOWLIFE Journal and i-D magazine, and has served as a juror, speaker, mentor and as VH1, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, AMC, FX, MTV, and Father Amorth, BPM (Beats Per Minute), Thelma, Super Dark Times, directed by student AMPAS winner Ryan Prows. panelist in film festivals and events in Bhutan, The Faroe Islands, Norway, CBS, Fuse, Rave HD, TBS, Tru TV/Court TV and PBS. Susan was the series Sundance Jury Prize winner Dina, The Work, 11/8/16, Trophy and The England, Israel, Texas, Utah, Florida and New York. producer for VH-1’s weekly film program FLIX as well as the producer and Hero, and upcoming summer theatrical releases American Animals Mark resides in New York and Los Angeles where he pursues his acting director for many of that network’s ACE Award winning series, VH1to One. and We The Animals. & filmmaking career. Her documentaries for this series included recording artists Carole King, kd lang, Dolly Parton, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and Johnny Clegg. Susan also co- directed and edited an hour long documentary for PBS on George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove, which aired in 2006.

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