Welcome
to the 17th Annual Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival On behalf of myself and the Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival group, I would like to welcome everyone to the 2015 Festival. My hope is that everyone leaves saying “I had a great time!” and that you will be back again next year. So...sit back, enjoy the films, the food, the fun and the friendships!
Thank you again for coming! Hal Wixon Fonding Director
Program
Film Screenings:
Friday, September 11, 2015 • 6:00 P.M. - 11:30 P.M. Saturday, September 12, 2015 • 8:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Awards Ceremony: Saturday, September 12, 2015
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A Special Thank You
To all our committee members and volunteers
Liz Chapman Van Shotwell Peggy “Domino” Taylor Hector Luna
Karen Wizon Hal Wixon Melvin Harris Eric Ochoa
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Disclaimer: The Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival presents independent films without editing or censorship. While the Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival hopes you enjoy your participation, the Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival is not responsible for any views, scenes or language within the films presented. As such, the Gulf Coast Film & Videos Festival cannot assume responsibility for any offense or expressions you might experience by viewing these films. Please take notice that all scenes, opinions and statements are offered by the director and actors in each film, and are not the views or expressions of the Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival. Some films may have violence, adult language or content that may not be suitable for children under 17.
Scheduled to Appear:
Actor/Producer
LEW TEMPLE This year, Mr. Hal Wixon (organizer and founder of the GCFVF) is pleased to announce that Houston Actor Lew Temple is scheduled to be the honored guest and accepting the 2015 GCFVF’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, September 12th. Mr. Temple is a dynamic actor and has over a 100 credits to his name that includes a recurring part on “The Walking Dead”, “Walker, Texas Ranger”, “The Preacher’s Daughter”, “Lap Dance”, “The Rolling Road”, The Lone Ranger”, “Hawaii Five-0″ among a huge list. Check out his IMDB page at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0854702/ Tickets are going to sell-out quickly for this! So, don’t wait to get them. First-come-first-served.
Master of Ceremony and Host:
ERNIE MANOUSE The festival is excited to bring in Houston Public Broadcasting celebrity Mr. Ernie Manouse to host and MC the GCFVF Saturday Night “Live” Cascade Awards Presentation, happening Saturday, September 12th, 2015 at the Sundance Grill (800 Mariners Dr., Kemah, Texas). Mr. Manouse is a 5-time KATIE Award Winner for Outstanding Interview/Talk Show for the Southern Region, is a producer of the nationally Syndicated HoustonPBS series “InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse”, helped to create and produce the prime time television magazine “The Connection”, produced and hosted the daily magazine program “WeekNight Edition” (which evolved into “WeekDay”), serves on the advisory board of STAGES Theater and the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater and has launched a late night chat fest series called, “The After Party” that combines arts coverage, with upbeat fun interview. Mr. Ernie Manouse is a regular and supporter of the Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival and has hosted and MC’d the festival awards on numerous occasions. He is always open to say hello and chat. Don’t miss out and grab your tickets.
Celebrity Guests to attend the GCFVF Saturday Night “Live” Awards: Rub elbows with some of the celebrities that will be at the GCFVF Saturday Night “Live” Cascade Award Presentation, Saturday, September 12th at the Sundance Grill (800 Mariners Dr., Kemah, Texas). Bring your camera, grab a selfie or get an autograph with the likes of Actor Brandon Smith, Actress/Producer and Photographer Michelle Simmons, Fashionista and model Jen Barbeito and Broadway Dancer Claudia Cox who will all be walking the restaurant, talking with guests and making the festival an enjoyable time for everyone.
Film Screenings
Friday, September 11
6:00 P.M. - Through The City
(3 mins. 00 sec. Genre: Music Video Director: Autumn Grounds
6:05 P.M. - The Blimp Trap
(3 mins. 30 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Shawn Welling
6:10 P.M. - Village Folksinger
(48 mins. 37 sec. Genre: Documentary Director: David Francis Synopsis: David Francis calls his film a “musical documentary collage”. A fusion of image, drawing, music and interview, Village Folksinger is an unglamorous, whimsical, ecstatic celebration of a singer-songwriter’s experience of New York...
7:00 P.M. - Circadian Rhythm (11 mins. 59 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Lea M. Jones
7:15 P.M. - Mr. Chucklebones (23 mins. 52 sec. Genre: Horror Director: James H. Longmore
Synopsis: On her first day of working for Child protective Services, Sara is introduced to her first case, a creepy eleven year old boy named Bobby with an imaginary friend called Mr. Chucklebones. Sara is shocked when bobby is then fostered by a seemingly unsuitable couple; the brutish, abusive Mr. Taylor and his long suffering mail order bride. The placement ends in gruesome tragedy when Mr. And Mrs. Taylor are found dead, quite possibly at the hands of Bobby. Sara wonders if her supervisor knows more about the occurrence than he is giving away, if the placement was a deliberate attempt at retribution on the Taylors, and if Bobby’s imaginary Mr. Chucklebones is perhaps not so imaginary after all.
7:47 P.M. - Fractured Diamond (1 mins. 54 sec. Genre: Trailer Director: Kristen Perry
7:50 P.M. - Isle of Doom
(59 mins. 07 sec. Genre: Horror Director: Frank Shank Synopsis: A couple decides to move to open up a daiquiri bar on the beach in Galveston, Tx only to move into a haunted house. Based on true events, the story entails a man who flushed his baby down the toilet in the 50’s. This causes Jaye to start seeing and feeling the presence of something in the house at first, then all over the island. This makes her start to drift from her lover and partner for life, Grace. Meanwhile, Ali is a struggling Imam who has lost his child and wife in child birth but still tries to keep his faith strong, but will it be enough to take down a jinn who ha been around as long as the island itself, almost 5000 years…
9:10 P.M. - Peace and Rain
(3 mins. 37 sec. Genre: Music Video Director: John Browning Synopsis: Pray for Peace and Rain. A music video written and performed by Darrel Booth, a resident of the Texas Gulf Coast. Children have always been caught up in war with little choice but to experience the same horrors as other civilians – as casualties
9:25 P.M. - What if My Wife Died In Yoga Class? (16 mins. 50 sec. Genre: Comedy Director: Jeffrey Williams
Synopsis: We’ve all asked ourselves what would happen if a sudden tragedy changed our lives forever. Most people let those fleeting thoughts slide, but Randy is not most people. For randy, laundry day will become an epic journey of self-discovery. When an unthinkable question leas to eye-opening answers, he will find that hope and despair can be found in the most unlikely places, and he biggest obstacle to happiness is the logistics of a bi ass bag of socks.
9:45 P.M. - Introspection
(5 mins. 20 sec. Genre: Drama/Art/Experimental Director: Quinton Lowe Synopsis: A photographer just gone blind explains his theory of an antagonist destroying peoples brains to a dying gym owner he meets in a public park.
9:55 P.M. - The Taking of Ezra Bodine (10 mins. 04 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Lance R. Marshall
Synopsis: Hawkes is sent by God to take the mysterious Ezra Bodine, but an encounter with Dean may hinder his Heavenly mission.
10:10 P.M. - Midnight Abyss
(1 hr. 19 mins. 02 sec. Genre: Horror Director: Stephen Wolfe Synopsis: Filmed in Seabrook and Galveston, Midnight Abyss is a psychological horror film that delves into the horrors of our own imaginations an nightmares. We follow To (Andy Palmer), a regular teenager who appears normal on the outside but is really a troubled individual on the inside. He has been having a reoccurring night-
mare that haunts him every night. He is being chased by a silhouetted figure through an eerie forest and no one is around to help him. Towards the end of the dream he hits a dead end and the figure attacks him just before he wakes up. During a lecture in his psychology class the next morning, Tod learns more about nightmares and the kinds of psychological effects it can have on the mind. This gives him a chance to try and dissect his own personal nightmare. His best friend, Lucy (Briannah Korin), calls him and invites him over later that night to watch a movie. She has been ill with some sort of unknown sickness and has been confined to her bed for the past week. Tod agrees and later that night they end up watching a horror film involving a vampire (Will Sheffield) chasing after a young woman (Tracy Collins) outside a huge Gothic castle. Being personally terrified of vampires, the movie really gets to Tod. After leaving Lucy’s house, he begins to hear and see things on his journey back home and starts to come under the impression tat a real vampire is after him. From there we go inside Tod’s head and see his nightmares come to life as he struggles to face and overcome his own personal fears
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Saturday, September 12 8:00 A.M. - If I Could Talk
(10 mins. 00 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Shawn Welling
8:15 A.M. - The Kid
(49 mins. 44 sec. Genre: Silent Director: David Scott Heck Synopsis: A distraught mother abandons her baby boy. An unsuspecting trmp finds the child and cares for him. Six years later, CPS comes to take the boy and our hero fights to save the orphan from the public system. A father’s love drives him to protect the kid. The Kid is the first complete modern day remake of a Charlie Chaplin silent film.
9:10 A.M. - Sweethearts of the Gridiron (29 mins. 58 sec. Genre: Documentary Director: Chip Hale
Synopsis: When the Kilgore Rangerettes took the field for the first time on September 12, 1940, they changed football halftime entertainment forever. For 75 years the Rangerettes have thrilled crowds all over the world with their stunning precision dance routines. Coined Sweethearts of the Nation’s Gridiron by broadcaster and NFL hall of Fame legend Red George, the Rangerettes were actually founded as a part of a pre-Title IX initia-
tive on the part of Kilgore College president B.E. Masters. Dr. Master’s goals were to equalize the male-female student body ration at the college and to encourage women to exercise and participate in sports. He also had the goal of keeping the hard-living oil field roughnecks in their seats during halftime, rather than drinking and brawling under the stands. Filmmaker Chip Hale followed the Rangerettes for over a year. Hi documentary Sweethearts of the Gridiron captures the history and importance of the Rangerettes in the arts., the angst of the young ladies as they work through the tryout process, and how an organization with what some view as old world values continues to empower women and drive them to succeed.
9:45 A.M. - Introspection
(7 mins. 01 sec. Genre: Drama/Art/Experimental Director: Tarik Belhouchet
9:55 A.M. - Beta Centauri
(1 hr. 32 mins. 00 sec. Genre: Documentary Director: Daniel R Poulson Synopsis: The young Captain Dino Poulson and his daughter Sasha carry on the family dream of exploring and sailing around the globe, all while trying to overcome tragic past set of events that left the young Captains wife and Sasha’s young mother resting in peace. Captain Dino an Sasha triumphantly explore and travel the world’s s ocean. Simultaneously Dino raises his daughter abroad, single-handily
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skipper of his dialing vessel. Sasha diligently works on her daily curriculum, as she gains more than just education from a book, all while documenting and capturing the picturesque beauty of their ventures on video for all to experience Join them in Fiji as the local indigenous Fijian people invite Captain Dino and Sasha to a customary welcoming “Kava Ceremony”. Dino and Sasha show you the magnificent beauty of the South Pacific and all it has to offer. They capture the vibrant fish, brilliances of the coral, and the peculiar sea islands – Bora Bora, Tumotus-Rangiroa, Fiji-Suva and the Coral Sea, Australia- Whitsunday Island, Coco’s Keeling Islands – Direction Island, Mascarene Islands – Rodriguez, South Africa-Simon’s Town, St. Helena – Jamestown, Brazil-Natal, Trinidad and Tobago – Port of Spain just to m\name a few.
10:30 A.M. - Primary Ignition of Secondary (3 mins. 54 sec. Genre: Documentary Director: Randel Smith
10:35 A.M. - First Impressions (24 mins. 39 sec. Genre: Horror Director: James H. Longmore
Synopsis: Nurse Jessica is introduced to the mysterious patient ‘Emily’ on commencing her job with the night team at a psychiatric hospital. ‘Emily’ mimics characters from the TV that she watches constantly, and has never used her own voice. Jessica has a breakthrough moment with Emily who finally used\s her own voice to beg for help Emily becomes a victim of the abuse dished out by the other two night staff, an event that leads to the horrific death of
both of them. It is revealed that Jessica is not a nurse, but a freelance demon collector/broker who has infiltrated the hospital in the search for her next acquisition.
10:50 A.M. - This is My Monologue: Part 1 (1 mins. 59 sec. Genre: Art/Experimental Director: Sam W. Kratzel
Synopsis: This is “My Monologue: Part 1” is a film adaptation of a writing written by RCrecelius. Elizabeth A. Pankratz, a fictitious character played by Rebecca Crecelius, broke the dialogue into two characters. The result is a mysterious communication that leaves room for the viewer’s own interpretation. Is this a political piece, is this a internal dialogue, and who exactly are Cynthia and Terry> This is My Monologue: Part 1” is the first in a series of films to be released in 2015.
10:55 A.M. - Beyond The Yellow Brick Road (10 mins. 00 sec. Genre: Documentary Director: Shawn Welling
11:10 A.M. - 7 Minutes of Mayhem, Episode 286B Hosted by Tony Reeves and Debbie Goldberg (15 mins. 19 sec. Genre: Comedy Director: Joey Cantu
Synopsis: 1960’s TV show hosts, Tony Reeves and Debbie Goldberg experience the nightmare of watching a low budget horror film with commercials about a young couple who buy a house only to find that the inhabitant of the house will do whatever it takes to get rid of them.
11:30 A.M. - Bitch is Ready for Tea (2 mins. 48 sec. Genre: Music Video
Director: Kapil Nair Synopsis: Bitch is Ready for tea is a rap video created by Margo Stutts Toombs and Kapil Nair. It celebrates grumpy women who are ready for tea – now!
11:35 P.M. - Charlie
(22 mins. 52 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Shawn Ryan Synopsis: no one ever listened to Charlie, until he stopped talking. ‘Charlie’ is the story of a young man who goes hysterically mute when choosing to leave his abusive past behind. It’s Christmas Eve as he stumbles upon the Sanderson family who take him in as their own. Charlie’s silence acts as a mirror for the Sanderson family who discovers what bravery, compassion, and accepting one’s self are all about. . .
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12:00 P.M. - FROG
(17 mins. 15 sec. Genre: Drama/Coming of Age Director: Tyler A. Wallach
12:20 P.M. - The Phone In The Attic
(1 hr. 37 mins. 00 sec. Genre: Drama/Thriller Director: Jim Long Synopsis: A young woman becomes the prime murder suspect when those who institutionalized her begin dying. The town of Braxton, Arkansas is shocked by a series of murders and the prime suspect is Charity Whelan, a troubled young woman institutionalized for killing her mother ten years earlier. Sheriff Vine Tabor is one of the few who believes she is innocent. His investigation begins to expose a cover-up that could lead all the way to the state capital.
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(45 mins. 00 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Katt Gilgrease
3:05 P.M. - Moving Day
(17 mins. 58 sec. Genre: Drama Director: Louis Hunter Synopsis: Moving day is here. Carrie’s illness has suddenly returned, and now she and Pete are breaking up. Her friends are confused and blame Pete, but is it really that simple? Is this a mutual separation, or is Pete kicking her out? While everyone else struggles with the decision, Pete struggles with a secret burden that only he can carry.
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In Memorium Dr. William Hawes
gram in 1984 and 1994. He was senior J. William Fulbright lecturer at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan in 2001. Dr. Hawes authored Live television Drama, 1946-1952 (McFarland, 2001), Public Television America’s First Station (Sunstone Press, 1996), Television Performing: News and Information (Focal, 1991), aka Ante La Camara (Voluntad, 1993), Chinese edition, 1999, American Television Drama: The Experimental Years (Alabama, 1986), and The Performer in Mass Media (Hastings House, 1976). he was a contributing author to Radio broadcasting, Understanding Television and television Station Management.
William Hawes, Ph.D., University of Michigan was a professor in the School of Communication at the University of Houston. He produced more than 500 television programs, and was the creator and producer of the university’s workshop series that has showcased young talent for over 30 years. He produced a dozen short films. He was the former manager of three FM stations and former head of radio-televisionfilm at the UH and Texas Christian University. He also taught at Eastern Michigan University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in media history/ criticism and production, he taught in the UH London pro-
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