2008 Festival Highlights
Best of Festival & Best Feature Audience Award Winner
"If You Could Say It In Words"
Best Documentary Audience Award Winner
"Being Lincoln: Men With Hats"
Best Short Audience Award Winner
"Latch Key"
Opening Day Highlights Lincoln Record Attempt
Comedian Patrick Dodd's Fundraiser Performance
Comedian Nathan Wallace's Fundraiser Performance
FEATURE FILMS
29 Reasons to Run
99 min. - California
Director: Damon O'Steen - Writer: Gary Weeks
Starring: Gary Weeks & Branden Waits
Before I Say Goodbye
96 min. - Louisville
Director: The Brothers Flores - Writer: Kevin Flores
Starring: Adam King & Kiera Duffy
How To Be
90 min - England
Written & Directed By: Oliver Irving
Starring: Robert Pattinson & Rebecca Pidgeon
If You Could Say It In Words
"World Premiere!"
95 min. - Pennsylvania
Written & Directed By:Nicholas Gray
Starring: Marin Ireland & Alvin Keith
Road Signs The Movie: Director's Cut
"East Coast Premiere"
84 min. - Louisville
Director: Kristofer Allen Rommel - Writer: Merit Alexander
Starring: Christopher Alan Weixler & David Fleming
Someday I Suppose
"World Premiere!"
78 min. - Louisville
Director: Kristofer Allen Rommel - Writer: Merit Alexander
Starring: Luke Holladay & Stacy Boldrick
The Box
68 min. - Louisville
Written & Directed By: Zach Schuyler
Starring: Chris Albro & Ember Marr
The Grey
90 min. - Louisville
Director: Shane Dax Taylor - Writers:Mark Boone Junior & Shane Dax Taylor
Starring: Mark Boone Junior & Catherine Kellner
The Importance of Being Russell
99 min - Tennessee
Director: Sean Plemmons - Writer: Jeff Hassen & John Pickle
Starring: Russell Hawker
Trail of Crumbs
86 min - Louisville
Written & Directed By: Robert McAtee
Starring: Robert McAtee & Molly Leland
DOCUMENTARIES
Being Lincoln - Men With Hats
"East Coast Premiere"
82 min. - Tennessee
Director: Elvis Wilson
By the Wayside
57 min. - Louisville
Directors: Soozie Eastman & Justin Thomas Ostensen
I Zombie
57 min - New Jersey
Director: Jeremy Newman
Lasting Images: Alternatives to Traditional Burial
52 min. - Texas
Directors: Joan & Hammond Hendrix
Refuseniks
59 min . - Louisville
Director: Sonja de Vries
Saved By Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews
89 min. - New Jersey
Director: Slawomir Grunberg
The Road to Emmaus, PA
77 min. - Ohio
Director: Mark Denney
Thunder and Reins
"East Coast Premiere"
46 min. - Louisville
Director: Bruce Skinner
SHORT FILMS
400 Colts
15 min. - Louisville
Director: Chris Courson - Writer: Eric C.Sharp
Starring: Pete Whitaker, Eric C. Sharp & James Wolford Hardin
A Father's Sin
13 min. - Louisville
Director: Tony Curry
Starring: Rodney Cox
A Prayer
1 min. - California
Written & Directed By: Simone Bailey
Starring: Simone Bailey
AT3 (Air to the Throne)
Written & Directed By: Brian H. Teague
Starring: Justin Geer, James Sutton & Glenn Allen
Available Men
15 min. - Louisville
Written & Directed By: David Dean Bottrell
Starring: Brian Gattas, Jack Plotnick, Richard Ruccolo, & Kostas Sommer
Black
"World Premiere!"
39 min. - California
Written & Directed By: Seth & Nathan Anderson
Starring: Robert Mcatee & Seriina Covarrubias
Blood Soaked Sky
8 min. - New York
Written & Directed By: Wally Chung
Animation
Copasetic
8 min. - Illinois
Written & Directed By: Josh Hope
Starring: Mikki Raphael Rosenberg & Katie Enright
Emulsion
16 min. - Cincinnati
Written & Directed By: Ryan Lewis
Starring: Nick Rose, Jennifer Crilley
Eugene and the Worm
13 min. - Illinois
Written & Directed By: Josh Hope
Starring: Anthony Williams & Eric-Lee Olsen
Flourtown
9 min. - Minnesota
Director: William Slichter - Writers: William Slichter & Barbara Kingsly
Starring: Sally Wingert, Steve Yoakam & Kevin Kling
Halloweenhead
19 min - California
Written & Directed By: Tommy Rennier
Starring: Charles Schomber & Trey Thomure
Immer Sommer (Always Summer)
22 min. - Germany
Written & Directed By: Michael Ruf
Starring: Aline Staskowiak & Ulina am Ende
Latch Key
43 min. - Louisville
Director: Georgette Kleier Writer: Georgette Kleier
Starring: Greylyn Gregory, Adam Raque, Sara King, & Claire Longest
Lettuce Break Bread
6 min. - Louisville
Director: Tim Miller - Writer: Tommy Huelsman
Starring: Tommy Huelsman & Heather Hill
Mae (Mother)
"World Premiere!"
15 min. - Brazil
Written & Directed By: Luis Pereira
Race War: The Musical
9 min. - Louisville
Director: James Cronin - Writer: The Indicators
Starring: The Indicators
Red Autumn
15 min. - Louisville
Written & Directed By: Mohammad "Mike" Elsherif
Starring: Nicole Farmer & Mark Jeffrey Miller
Revenge of Lie
12 min. - South Korea
Written & Directed By: Kim Sang-Jun
Animation
Shh!! It's Alive
15 min. - Louisville
Written & Directed By: Ryan Cadima
Starring: Chuck Stephens, Gloria Marshall, Stephanie Wolz & Donald Thomas
Swimming To The Moon
13 min. - California
Written & Directed By: Greg Thompson
Starring: Eric McGraw & Becca Ashley
The BBC Challenge I "Fat" & II "Bald"
8 min. - Louisville
Director: Stu Pollard - Writers: Matt Saunders, Brandon Moynihan & Stu Pollard
Starring: Matt Saunders & Brandon Moynihan
The Passing
17 min. - Louisville
Written & Directed By: Saqib Siddik
Starring: Keegan Michael & Joher Coleman
The Predator's Return
14 min. - Florida
Written & Directed By: Jerald Fine
Starring: Warren Stevens & Harry Lupu
The Syndicate
38 min. - California
Written & Directed By: Allan Steele
Starring: Sonny Marinelli, Rick Pasqualone & Allan Steel
The Wind Fisherman
12 min. - California
Written & Directed By: Anna McRoberts
Starring: Will McCormack & Maurice Godin
Twilight of Youth
32 min. - Florida
Written & Directed By: Jerald Fine
Tyttonen (The Young Girl)
5 min. - Germany
Written & Directed By: Fabian Giessler
Starring: Juha-Matti Koskela & Saara Villi
Understanding the Blues
"World Premiere!"
16 min. - Georgia
Written & Directed By: Nick L. Bach
Starring: West Cummings & Brian Boozer
Voor een parr knikkers meer (For A Few Marbles More)
11 min - Netherlands
Director: Jelmar Hufen
Waiting
10 min. - California
Written & Directed By: Anthony Scalafari
Yeti Vengeance
17 min. - Versailles, KY
Written & Directed By: George Maranville
Starring: Suzanne Wallace Whayne & Dr. Frank Bettag |