Dinner with Holly
Double or Nothing
Narrative Short, 12 min.
Narrative Short, 11 min.
Directed by Josh Crockett and Daniel Sinclair
Directed by Nathaniel Krause
Screening: Friday 11:00 a.m. (S3), Saturday 5:30 p.m. (S2), screens in Narrative Shorts block 2
Screening: Friday 11:00 a.m. (S3), Saturday 5:30 p.m. (S2), screens in Narrative Shorts block 2
A young couple has a big plan to spice up their love life when their friend, Holly, comes over for dinner.
Clark and Becca leave a bar after a night out with friends. When a homeless man approaches them on the street, Clark gets an idea. Adam Brody, Louisa Krause and Keith David star in this dark comedy by master playwright Neil LaBute.
The Discoverers Narrative Feature, 104 min. Directed by Justin Schwarz Screening: Friday 8:00 p.m. (S2), Sunday 5:00 p.m. (S2) Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenage kids – Zoe and Jack – on a road trip to a conference in hopes of putting his career back on track. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes AWOL on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour.
Drawing on a Dream Mississippi Documentary Short, 14 min. (not in competition) Directed by Susan Dobbs and David Rae Morris Screening: Friday 3:15 p.m. (S1), Sunday 12:00 p.m. (S3), preceded by We Didn’t Get Famous, followed by Antenna The colorful complexities of the late Delta rocker and artist, Duff Dorrough of Ruleville.
Documentary Filmmaking: Panel Saturday 12:00 p.m. (Lyric Theater) Free, no ticket required! Each year filmmakers and industry professionals take a look at the hot topics in documentary filmmaking. Hosted by Media and Documentary Projects Director Andy Harper, the panel will include Deirdre Haj (Executive Director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival), Shirley Mixon (Programming Director for Mississippi Public Broadcasting), film critic Gerald Peary and documentary filmmaker Shannon McCoy Cohn.
DVD Blues: or Thad calls Barton about Renaldo and Clara Mississippi Documentary Short, 10 min. (not in competition) Screening: Saturday 11:15 a.m. (S1) in Mississippi Documentary block Directed by Thad Lee Barton Segal sold Thad Lee a seemingly faulty copy of Renaldo and Clara, so Thad calls Barton for answers.
Don’t Break Down Experimental Short, 7 min. Directed by Matt Meindl Screening: Saturday 11:45 a.m. (S3), screens in the Experimental Shorts block This film is total garbage.
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(S1) = Screen 1 / (S2) = Screen 2 / (S3) = Screen 3 at Malco Oxford Studio
february 21-24, 2013