QCFF 2016 4:00PM-6:00PM The Queen City Film Festival (QCFF), Western Appalachian Block 1 Maryland's premiere film festival, is held each “Rapidan: A Journey Down A Virginia River” year in early Fall in Cumberland, Maryland. (4:00pm), Phil Audibert, USA, 3 minutes - A Founded in 2012, and currently in our fifth short video set to music showing a pristine year, QCFF 2016 offers a four-day program of river in Virginia from its source to its screenings and educational panels, and confluence with the Rappahannock River. welcomes filmmakers from around the world. Located in Allegany County, Cumberland “State Inspection” (4:06pm), David Smith, USA, offers a delightful blend of hospitality and 8 minutes - An anxious young man tries to history; mingled with charming shops, talk to a girl he meets while waiting for his car delicious dining, arts and entertainment and at an auto repair shop. lots of events and activities. We are also Bounty Momma "Shakespeare in the Trailer pleased to introduce visiting filmmakers to Park" (4:15pm), Wendy Keeling, USA, 11 local media. minutes - The bounty hunting world will never be the same under the watch of hot tempered redneck momma Twyla Sue Dollarhide and Thursday, October 6 her dim witted family. Twyla Sue Dollarhide, 12:00PM-2:00PM aka “Bounty Momma”, is a no-nonsense southern firecracker with a reality show who, Filmmaker/Media Reception despite the incompetence of her gun toting These informal, unstructured "meet & greet" lamebrain family and film crew, proudly sessions allow networking time for boasts that she “always gets her man”! This filmmakers, staff, and media. reality parody brings the viewer inside the day to day of a dysfunctional family business that 2:00PM-4:00PM turns otherwise mundane bounty escapades into mayhem and madness. If Reno 911, The Educational Panel: Appalachia Beverly Hillbillies, and Dog the Bounty Hunter The Thursday festival program kicks off with had a love child it would probably be Bounty the Appalachian category, and Thursday’s Momma! This award winning series is sure to educational panel will be dedicated to get a laugh!! Appalachian subjects. The program will encompass the following subject areas: “Ghosts In The Mountains” (4:28pm), Chris Defining Appalachia, Appalachia in Film, Social Hite, USA, 19 minutes - Ghosts in the Justice Mountains is about one man's drive and determination to document, preserve, and Kara Rogers Thomas - Dr. Kara Rogers popularize Pennsylvania folktales and myths Thomas is an Associate Professor of Folklore over a thirty year period. and Sociology at Frostburg State University. Her work as a Folklorist is supported in part “Walking The Crooked Tune” (4:49pm), through a grant from Maryland Traditions, a Charles Cohen, USA, 28 minutes - Walking program of the Maryland State Arts Council. the Crooked Tune, a fiddler's journey out of Her areas of interest include folklore and the past, follows master fiddler Dave Bing as folklife studies, Appalachian studies, religious he plays the fire giver of much misunderstood experience, and interdisciplinary learning in genre known as Old Time. Even under this the Humanities and Social Sciences. archaic definition, Dave Bing's blend of old time stands as an archaic form of 'crooked tunes' learned from a family isolated even by West Virginia standards. 2 NOTE: Times listed within programming blocks are approximate. “Walking The Crooked Tune” Dave Bing Q&A Ziegler, President of the Pittsburgh History & (5:18pm) Landmarks Foundation, Michael Sriprasert, President of the Landmarks Development 6:00PM-8:00PM Corporation (a subsidiary of PHLF), and Shawn P. Hershberger, Executive Director of the Appalachian Block 2 Cumberland Economic Development “Son of Clowns” (6:00pm), Evan Kidd, USA, 95 Corporation. minutes - Minor TV star Hudson Cash loses his show, and his family’s backyard circus is “Through The Place” (2:30pm), Daniel floundering. After returning home to live with Lovering, USA, 56 minutes - A feature-length his parents, he finds adjusting to life back in documentary about the Pittsburgh History & North Carolina his most challenging role yet. Landmarks Foundation and the historic preservation movement in the United States 8:00PM-10:30PM over the past 50 years. Opening Night Feature 4:00PM-6:00PM “Pepino's Back” (8:00pm), Luca Bich, Italy, 51 minutes - Jorge Luis Fernandez 'Pepino', after LGBT Block 1 a 30 years long exile from his land, goes back “Bus Stop Beauty” (4:00pm), Eric Brunt, to his past, back to his friend and family, to his Canada, 3 minutes - A young man falls head mother's grave, to the streets of La Habana, over heels, but when the girl of his dreams to his rock music and at the end of his trip he'll turns out not to be what she seems, he learns feel more reconciled, free. to let go of preconceived notions surrounding love. “Nighthawks on the Blue Highway” (9:00pm). Michael Streissguth, USA, 75 minutes - “MUKWANO” (4:03pm), Cecilie McNair, The Nighthawks struggle to keep their music Denmark, 20 minutes - Mary Kabufufu is alive after four decades in the unforgiving lesbian and asylum seeker. She is looking for music business. Hopeless record deals, weary her girlfriend, who disappeared during their days on the road, and conflict among the four escape from Uganda. During her last interview members threaten to bury the band. But The at the Refugee Board it dawns on her that she Nighthawks soldier on, carrying the torch of has overlooked a clue that might lead her to the blues into the 21st century. Starring her girlfriend. But she still does not know if George Thorogood, John Hammond, Luther she can get asylum. 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, and Mark Wenner. “Wedlocked” (4:24pm), Puppett, USA, 12 minutes - Inspired by true stories, three Friday, October 7 women work their way out of a divorce triangle they never signed up for. Back in the 12:00PM-2:00PM dark ages before SCOTUS decreed marriage equality for all across the land... Sydney and Filmmaker/Media Reception Cameron are a happily engaged couple These informal, unstructured "meet & greet" looking forward to their big day. There's one sessions allow networking time for obstacle… Sydney is still married to Lisa and filmmakers, staff, and media. as their home state won't recognize their marriage, a divorce is impossible! Follow 2:00PM-4:00PM Sydney and Cameron on a hilarious journey Educational Panel: Creative through this not-so-fictional fable to find out the answer to the question…Are You Married Placemaking Enough (To Get Divorced)? Broadly focused on Redevelopment for the Arts, the panel will be anchored by Arthur 3 NOTE: Times listed within programming blocks are approximate. “Who I Am” (4:37pm), Monika Wilczynska, UK, “Intrinsic Moral Evil” (5:48pm), Harm Weistra, 17 minutes - Who I Am is a drama short film Netherlands, 11 minutes - Intrinsic Moral Evil based on true events, with an original script seems to be a tale of identity and coming of written by Monika Wilczynska. It is a coming of age. But above all, the three dancers play with age tale about Elijah, a young transgender the viewer’s perception and expectations. The teenager from a very religious background, layered story gradually develops; revealing its who has to try to reconcile their identity with last secrets just before the end credits start. their faith and their family’s expectations of Inviting the audience to make its own them. With the help of anti-conformist Lisbeth interpretation. and their friends, Elijah learns not to compromise their own integrity in face of 6:00PM-8:00PM prejudice and adversity. The film inquires: can an LGBTQ-identifying person benefit from Documentary Block 1 religion whilst staying true to who they are? “Last Dance On The Main” (6:00pm), Why is it important to tackle identity in Aristofanis Soulikias, Canada, 3 minutes - regards to religion? How restrictive is our While a row of historic buildings on Montreal’s perception of spirituality and divinity? 'Who I St Laurent boulevard is being demolished by Am' does not attempt to answer these politicians and building developers, the local questions, but it aspires to open the dialogue community resists. to the public on subjects that have been “Some Stories Around Witches” (6:05pm), under-represented or taboo for far too long. LIPIKA SINGH DARAI, India, 53 minutes - The “Longing” (4:57pm), Nadav Mishali, Israel, 20 Film depicts the humanitarian crisis minutes - Every month Michal immerses in a surrounding instances of witch hunting, taking Mikveh as part of the religious ritual before us closer to the people who have been she and her husband can resume marital accused, ostracized and tortured for being relations. When the long-awaited night ‘witches’. Through stories from some parts of arrives, nothing happens between the two. Odisha, India, which find resonance in other Her husband’s absence, as well as the parts of the country as well, it enquires into deterioration in the intimacy between them, the circumstances that lead to witch hunting: makes her suspect on her husband’s true a teenage girl kills an old woman, one of her identity. relatives, for being a witch and the cause of her father’s death; a village turns into a mob “Easy Reappearance” (5:17pm) , Guillaume overnight to kill three people - a man and two Levil, France, 17 minutes - Anne, a fifty year women identified as witches by a witch doctor; old woman with a bourgeois mentality, listens a family believed to bring ill fate, is to a message secretly intended for her excommunicated and threatened after it husband: a man makes an appointment with cooks meat. The Film explores the politics of him in a gay club where you must give the witch hunting - how superstition, greed, password, « Easy Reappearance »..