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Title Contact Country Director Website Year Completed Premiere? Run Time 3-Line Synopsis Venue 1 Venue Day 1 Venue Time 1 Venue 2 Venue Day 2 Venue Time 2 Venue 3 (Hate) Machine Canada Phil Caron 2005 5 Innocent words, beautiful children, transparent direction, unexpected results: these are the elements of (Hate)Cinematheque Machine, a short videoAugust that 10, explores 2007 the 2:00subjective PM process of creatingCCA media. ProducedAugust 9, in 2007reaction to 7:00media PM inspired xenophobia, this video explores the boundaries of what can be extracted and constructed from harmless raw footage. It's a very affecting piece, not to be missed as a creative tool for media literacy. 27,000 Days USA Naveen Singh www.27000DaysFilm.com 2007 RI 11 A dying man's search for respite collides with the existential and the spiritual, as he awakens to his final epiphanyCinematheque. August 10, 2007 2:00 PM The 30 Bones of Unfortunate Joey Jones USA Kevin McManus http://MGM2.COM 2006 7 29 times his mother warned to always check his treats,'unwrapped candy,' she said, 'is dangerous to eat'Columbus Theatre August 12, 2007 4:00 PM 48 Hour Film Project: Best of Providence USA Various 2007 New work shot over a 48 Hour Period during July 2007 Columbus Theatre August 12, 2007 6:00 PM The 5:22 USA Bernadette Demisay 2006 East Coast 21 Wordlessly a man passes a woman each night getting off the train. When she disappears, he becomes obsessedCinematheque with finding outAugust what happened 10, 2007 to her6:00. PM A Ciegas... France SALVADOR GOMEZ CUENCA 2006 12 Martin is 45 years old and blind. His World breaks into a thousand pieces when he is informed of the death of hisURI guide dog and faithfulAugust companion...10, 2007 7:00 PM A Garota (The Kid) Spain Fernando Pinheiro 2006 4 "Condemned by playing. The story of a child in black and white and a watercolor doll in painting on canvas." IMAX August 8, 2007 10:00 AM Across the Plateau (Chuan Yue Gao Yuan) Australia Paul Liu, Zhang Zeming 2007 World 95 The extraordinary story of seven Chinese men and women, all of them retired, who embark on a 3,100 kilometreCinematheque journey from Lanzhou,August a12, smoggy 2007 industrial2:30 PMcity in north west China, across the Tibetan plateau to Everest Base Camp. Advent USA David Woolner 2006 World 29 A story of two lonely people grieving on Christmas. When they encounter one another on this painful dayProvidence, will this foster Library healing orAugust open new 9, 2007 wounds? 5:00 PM The Adventures of CMYK USA Katie Machaiek http://pages.emerson.edu/students/katherine_machaiek2006 World 26 Real life is an adventure again. Cinematheque August 11, 2007 10:00 AM Ahaaarrr! United Kingdom Steve Skinner 2006 World 15 An actor doing a radio voice over for an advertisement for a shop that sells boating accessories is put throughColumbus hell byTheatre the producerAugust. 10, 2007 4:00 PM Airplanes USA Jen Heck 2006 10 Two teenaged girls hook up at a carnival, but when evening falls, their tentative friendship threatens to dissolve.Cinematheque August 8, 2007 9:30 PM Akai Brazil Carlos G. Gananian www.timorecinema.net 2006 21 Blood dyes red the corridors a house. A man is haunted by strange hallucinations, fragmented images ofColumbus a recurrent Theatre past. Guilt andAugust remorse 11, 2007 afflict his existence.4:00 PM The thirst has become unbearable. Redemption is in the sea. All I Want For Christmas USA Yee Yeo Chang 2007 NE The holidays bring an important day of reckoning for a woman whose busy schedule has endangered her Cinemathequerelationship August 10, 2007 8:15 PM American Fork USA Chris Bowman 2007 94 The life and times of Tracy Orbison, a grocery clerk with the mind of a dreamer, the soul of a poet, and the bodyCable of Cara really fat man.August 11, 2007 3:00 PM Anonymous Spain Nitzan Mager 2006 20 NEW FRESH KIND OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA. Columbus Theatre August 11, 2007 12:00 PM Antes y Despues de Besar a Maria (Before and AfterSpain Kissing Maria)RAMON ALOS 2007 World 7 Before and after kissing Maria narrates, from the point of view of Raúl, a 9 year-old child from a small village in URIthe Spanish countryside,August 10,his 2007adventures7:00 to kiss PM Maria, his 12 year-old cousin, which as every summer, has come to the village to spend her holydays. Aquarium USA Rob Meyer www.plasticmigration.com 2007 World 17 For a kid growing up in the suburbs, the truth can lie at the bottom of a fishtank. Cinematheque August 11, 2007 12:00 PM Arrivals Canada 2007 World 13 Amazing short film with brilliant cast, moving visuals, beautiful cinematography, strong direction and a quite,Cinematheque yet profound story. August 10, 2007 2:00 PM CCA August 11, 2007 7:00 PM Arthur's Paradise (Le' Paradis d'Arthur) Canada Luc Beauchamp www.leparadisdarthur.com 2006 U.S. 50 Set against fantasy backdrop portrayed by every day life and its wonders, Arthur the farmer invites us to Cinemathequea journey into the heartAugust of his rural 9, 2007 life, to the2:00 discovery PM of a strange and fragile world where music can sometimes play a strong and unexpected role. Art's Desire USA Sarah Wickliffe 2006 5 A character from a famous painting about war escapes into the museum in search of a better world. In doingCinematheque so, she learns to createAugust that 10, world 2007 for herself.2:00 PM ASIEMUT Canada Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrierwww .asiemut.com 2006 57 In 2005, Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier went on their first cycling expedition 8000 kilometres acrossProvidence Asia. In six Library months they Augustpedalled 8, from 2007 Mongolia3:00 to Kolkata,PM India, travelling through Xinjiang, the Taklamakan Desert, the high Tibetan plateau, and Nepal. Why? Not only to discover the world, but also to discover themselves... At the Zoo USA Aaron Davidson 2007 3 A trip to the zoo makes the day that much better IMAX August 10, 2007 10:00 AM Automoto Canada Cathy McInnes/Neil McInnes www.winnipegfilmgroup.com 2007 World 5 Automoto is a tour de force, stop motion animation re-imagining the filmmaking process. Columbus Theatre August 10, 2007 11:45 AM Back Soon USA Rob Williams www.guesthousefilms.com 2007 83 Logan and Gil find themselves inexplicably drawn together despite their disparate backgrounds. However,Cinematheque their bond is soon threatenedAugust 1by1, Gil's2007 mysterious8:15 pastPM and a startling revelation about their connection. Balance USA Chris Sparling http://www.anuziatthealamo.com 2006 World 14 An ordinary husband and wife choose to do the unthinkable as their only son nears death. Struggling toProvidence find a balance Library between moralityAugust 1 and1, 2007 mortality, the2:00 only PM thing they can do is what they think is right. Barrows, The Australia Tori Garrett www.twolittleindians.com 2006 10 What if Bonnie and Clyde didn't die violently in a hail of bullets? What if Bonnie and Clyde got life imprisonmentCCA instead. August 10, 2007 7:00 PM The Battle of Cable Street United Kingdom Yoav Segal 2006 North America 8 Blurring the line between live action and animation, this is a remarkable re-telling of a seminal event in Anglo-JewishURI history. A youngAugust boy 9, is 2007taken inside3:00 the PMmagical worldCinematheque of his own sketchbookAugust by his 10, grandfather 2007 , and2:00 experiences PM what it was like when Oswald Mosley?s `blackshirt fascists? attempted to march through the East End of London. Been Down That Muddy Road: The Legend of JoeUSA Barry Carol Carimi Acutt www.muddyroadmovie.com 2006 World 71 Many lives, one man, Joe Barry. Black Rep August 8, 2007 6:00 PM Best of PC USA Various 2007 Award winning film work from Providence College, RI URI August 12, 2007 3:00 PM Best of URI USA Various 2007 Award winning film work from the University of Rhode Island URI August 12, 2007 3:00 PM BIG FAMILY France http://WWW.BARBECUEFILMS.COM 2006 World 3 Big Family is a history which proceeds in New York, city where 'all ispossible', worst like the best. And no matterCCA what it arrives, thelifeAugust takes 10, 2007again its rights,7:00 eachPM one carries on its path, because such is the philosophy of this city Birth, The (La Nascita) Italy Massimo Amici http://www.acaluma.com 2006 North America 9 On a morning just like any other, a man hurries toward his busy day, unaware it could be his last. CCA August 10, 2007 7:00 PM Bitchslap USA James Pellerito 2007 World 5 Action, Slap, Cut Columbus Theatre August 10, 2007 4:00 PM Black, White + Gray USA James Crump www.blackwhitegray.com 2007 77 Black White + Gray examines the life and lives of influential curator and collector, Sam Wagstaff (1921–1987),Columbus a veritable Theatre force in Augustthe art world8, 2007 for nearly12:30 three PM decades. The film reveals the symbiotic relationship Wagstaff shared with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York during the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s. It peers into Wagstaff’s forceful patronage and guidance lent to the young artist, and Mapplethorpe’s subsequent ascendancy in the art world. The Blacksmith and the Carpenter USA Chris Redish 2006 World 12 A comedy of Biblical proportions! Columbus Theatre August 10, 2007 4:00 PM Blood Car USA Alex Orr www.bloodcar.com 2006 75 In the near future, gas prices are at an astronomical high. One man is determined to find an alternate fuel Cinemathequesource.