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Putnam County International Film & Video Festival 2005 Across Town A cable show pilot featuring local leisure activities and businesses. This show has a golf pro, a restaurant owner and a local chef preparing a premium entrée. Plain Talk: "Our Town: The Putnam Valley
Iron Mines" Take a hike through the woods of Fahnestock State Park with historian Sallie Sypher, Legislator Sam Oliverio, Supervisor Carmelo Santos and Councilman Steve Johnson as Marie and Stan learn about the historical remnants of the long defunct iron mines that supported the Town in the past. Hey Slick Ralph and Ruth depart on an allegorical trip into the forest, from which only one of them will return. Ras Cuba Cuban Rastafarians discuss their culture, beliefs and life style as outcasts of Cuban Society. Arts of Forgetting Arts of Forgetting is a six minute music video for experimental improviser Mary Oliver. The soundtrack features Oliver's violin and voice interacting with real time digital sampling. Lis and Ogre A visually spectacular digitally animated adventure in which train engineer/heroine “Lis” inadvertently awakens the villain “Ogre” who then move through many extraordinary fantasy environments toward a climactic confrontation inside an otherworldly ore processing factory. Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses An improvised meditation on the boxlike conceptual mindset of academia, as it attempts to grapple with the bubble like flow of the real world, with animated illustrations. The Basement Filmed in Putnam County. Taking Back the Block: Stories of
Community Renaissance Taking Back the Block: Stories of Community Renaissance examines how four New York communities went from the vibrant 1950's to the devastating 1970's and to the rebirth of present day, becoming communities where people want to live and raise families once again. The End of Suburbia Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? Liberty Street: Alive At Ground Zero Loyal downtowners who ran for their lives from the collapse of the Twin Towers return with a resolve to restore their world to order. Exploring this dust-driven world of collateral damage at a time when photography and Ground Zero access are highly restricted, this film documents their struggle in counterpoint to the work on the Ground Zero interior and to harrowing testimony of 9/11. Shot between October 2001 & April 2003. The Book of What Remains September 11th, 2001, New York City. Where were you? Who was the first person you called? How do we live now? A doctor and his patients struggle to make sense of a world forever changed when all that remains is you and I. Shadow: Dead Riot SHADOW: DEAD RIOT is an homage to the horror and exploitation genres, in which a new inmate at a women's prison uses her martial-arts skills to battle fellow prisoners, zombies and the supernatural title character. Cookie Monster Roast Clay animated comedy with caricatures of well known celebrities - but this Roast is not ready for prime time. Very foul language, but hysterical. Mature audiences only. Along the Erie Canal Learn about the history of New York's Erie Canal industry. You'll be amazed how little you knew about how the Upstate New York economy evolved. Putnam Palace Putnam Palace: Showbiz hits the heartland. Are you ready to discover the secret? Burgaw Blues George Herbert Moore…couldn't read, couldn't write, couldn't drive a car, but at the age of 68 he could keep 150 songs in his head and play a four-hour gig without a set list. The More Things Change Tiger Woods is welcomed to play at every private golf club in America... is he welcomed to join? Henrietta's Disliking A schizophrenic woman wants for her cheating husband to come home from work. She may have a surprise for him. After June After June is a short film about three old friends who meet for an afternoon of furniture moving, petty theft, and fortune telling. It's a smart, offbeat snapshot of friendship and wrongdoing. Dell Hell I am NOT a vindictive person, but Dell had this coming. I swear to Jehovah and Allah, Dell drove me to make this thing. Know what happens when you promise me a $400 rebate and then try to weasel our of it. Watch Dell Hell and you'll find out! Inside Out A person is torn between work and play. Someone Else's Shoes
A day in the life of someone else. A Perfect Senior Year This latest drug prevention drama features excellent performances by both students and well known people in the Town of Putnam Valley in various roles. The best drama yet in this series, this mini-feature will influence many with its tragic yet plausible scenario. The Peekskill Project The aim of the Peekskill Project was to exposed the public to a wide range of contemporary art outside the traditional museum setting. This documentary explores the scope and diversity of the artists, their work, unique installations and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art's involvement with the event and community. Cycles of Repetition: an homage in
observations Cycles of Repetition reveals a series of vignettes, which document the repetitive nature of fiber-based hand work in India and the people who "perform" those repetitive gestures. The people of Gujarat and Rajasthan are informally and candidly documented in their work environments. Ominous: "13 Years of Pain"
"13 Years of Pain"
is a music video shot for the New Jersey Death Metal Zoom Suit After 50 years the US government unravels the secrets to the alien suit recovered in the spaceship crash of Roswell New Mexico. The armor allows the wearer supersonic flight, super strength, X-Ray vision and neuro blasts from the palms. But a failed delivery to the Pentagon allows the suit to be found by a young boy! Animated narrative. Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana is based on the 1925 esteemed Nation prize winning poem by Eli Siegel. Combining digitally enhanced still photographs, live-action, and special effects, this dramatic montage shows how a thing, a hot afternoon in Montana, has something in common with all other things, is related to the whole world -- people, places, things, events -- past and present! This is the way all people want and need to be seen!
Born into Brothels BORN INTO BROTHELS - the 2004 Academy
Award Winner for Best Documentary - is coming to DVD September 20th. Experience
how beauty can be found in even the most hopeless of places as this inspiring
film chronicles the transformative journey of a group of extraordinary children
in Calcutta¹s red light district. Ebert & Roeper give BORN INTO BROTHELS "two
thumbs up," and Newsweek calls it "a remarkable and moving story about the power
of art to transform lives." The DVD contains loads of extra features, including
updates on each of the children. Amidst the apparent growing prosperity
of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation
that is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and
Ross Kauffman's efforts to show that world of Calcutta's red light district. To
do that, they inspired a special group of children of the prostitutes of the
area to photograph the most reluctant subjects of it. As the kids excel in their
new found art, the filmmakers struggle to help them have a chance for a better
life away from the miserable poverty that threatens to crush their dreams. |
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