AMERICAN INDEPENDENT COMPETITION
TOTAL RUNNING TIME 97 MIN

Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 12:30pm at Regal Winter Park Village
Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 9:00pm at Regal Winter Park Village
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ESTES AVENUE
USA/UK, 2004, 3 MIN
DIRECTED BY PAUL COTTER
EAST COAST PREMIERE
It’s 11:00 Sunday morning on Estes Avenue. Five residents greet this special day in their own particular ways. Another charmer from the director of Last Hand Standing (FFF 2004).



OUR TIME IS UP
USA, 2004, 15 MIN
DIRECTED BY ROB PEARLSTEIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
Therapist Leonard Stern (Kevin Pollak, The Usual Suspects) discovers he has only six weeks to live. Previously gentle and sympathetic, the doctor tries a fresh new approach: brutal honesty.



QUASAR HERNANDEZ
USA, 2004, 9 MIN
DIRECTED BY DAVID ZELLNER
EAST COAST PREMIERE
After two years of friendship and good times, “Big Brother” Jim offers his young charge Craig a unique explanation why they can never see each other again.



YOUNGSTER
USA, 2004, 8 MIN
DIRECTED BY WILL CANON
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A 12-year-old drug dealer makes a bad business decision … and then a worse one yet.



JUNEBUG AND HURRICANE
USA, 2004, 9 MIN
DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
FLORIDA PREMIERE
Janeane Garofalo (The Truth About Cats and Dogs) stars in this tale of a mother and daughter in a world of their own, always together, and always on the move. From the director of Coming Down the Mountain (FFF 2003).



THE INTERVENTION
USA, 2005, 15 MIN
DIRECTED BY JAY DUPLASS
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Steve’s friends gather to press him to admit the truth about Bill Parcells, a grammar school fieldtrip, and, uhhh, that other thing. A bit of uncomfortable fun from the makers of Scrabble (FFF 2004, Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short).



LA VIE D'UN CHIEN (THE LIFE OF A DOG)
USA, 2004, 13 MIN, IN FRENCH W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
DIRECTED BY JOHN HARDEN
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A serum unlocks the spiritual and carnal fulfillment of a dog’s life, but a human hand proves a grim impediment to utopia in this clever homage to Chris Marker’s classic 1962 short, La Jetée.



A CAN OF PAINT
USA, 2004, 24 MIN
DIRECTED BY ROBI MICHAEL
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Alone in deep space, an interstellar salvage man gets a dab of alien paint on his skin—not good! Unable to get help and accompanied by only a dispassionate computer, he must figure out how to stop the spreading—fast.