CINEviews 2008
WORKSHOP
The challenges of creating period of Film, from both sides of the camera with emmy-winning art director DAVID CRANK and PAUL FITZGERALD
David Crank’s credits include: The Tree of Life (2009) (post-production) “John Adams” (7 episodes, 2008) There Will Be Blood (2007)
The New World (2005) Iron Jawed Angels (2004) (TV) (as David M. Crank) Hannibal (2001) “Legacy” (1998) TV series (unknown episodes)
Fools Rush In (1997) Lassie (1994) Heart of Darkness (1994) (TV) Ethan Frome (1993)
CINEviews is proud to announce this year’s special guest is Paul Fitzgerald–actor, screenwriter and director. Paul’s directorial debut feature, Forgiven, which Paul also wrote and starred in, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and has gone on to play in festivals around the country and world—including The Deauville American Film Festival. Paul’s most recent acting work includes the role of Richard Henry Lee in the Emmy nominated John Adams mini-series for HBO.
Guest Paul Fitzgerald will screen his film, Forgiven and lead a workshop with emmy-winning art director, David Crank. Other films will be shown throughout the weekend.
Forgiven
Written and directed by Paul Fitzgerald
Best of Festival Shorts: Lustig
(drama, 16 min)
Directed by John Francis Black, II
Set in the years after the end of WWII, tells the story of a man’s solitary journey for redemption. Carrying haunting memories from time spent in a concentration camp, the man seeks out the family of a friend he knew there. He brings a secret to their doorstep that only the strength and courage of the deceased allows him to reveal. In admitting his own cowardice, he creates the heroic legacy of a man. A man a young son will always remember. (16 min
One Nation Under Guard
(doc. 10 min)
Directed by Lucas Krost
US prisons have become big business, housing 25% of all the people in the world behind bars, the largest prison population on the planet. In a frenzy of criminal justice, we have turned our backs on the founding principles of this nation to produce state and federal prisons at an alarming rate in the 1990s, opening 1 every 15 days in depressed rural towns and communities. Under this prison-industrial complex, we are locking up 1 in 3 young black men in this nation. US prisons are holding the strangest of reunions: grandfathers, fathers and sons behind bars. There is no paying of their debt to society, no clean slate
It Ain’t City Music
(doc. 15 min.)
Directed by Tom Davenport
1972 film of the National Country Music Contest in Warrenton, Virginia. “Any country song you hear nowadays, the guy’s either in jail or just got divorced,” notes a man who continues, “but it’s their lives and they write songs about it.”
Swing Vote
(comedy, 23 min)
Directed by Rebecca Pelletier & Emily Morse
Disillusioned and desperate following the results of the 2004 presidential election, best friends Casey and Billie stumble upon a plan to swing the 2008 election. Through seduction and sexual manipulation, the underground organization that these women create sets out to not only sway the male Republican vote, but to create lifetime Democratic converts. Casey and Billie’s experiment soon takes on a life of its own as their army of women are thrown into a whirlwind of encounters with the “other side.”
