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Three Days (of Hamlet)

Documentary Feature, 84 min,
Director: Alex Hyde-Whyte
Producer: Chris Stevens, Mara New
Writer: Alex Hyde-Whyte

Alex Hyde-Whyte becomes actor/manager to a troupe of actors and others, who gather for three days to rehearse and perform Shakespeare's greatest play.  Hamlet gets a “reality makeover” from Richard Chamberlain, Stephanie Powers and others in this imaginative and personal film.

Letters Home-The Autobiography of Carlos Diaz
Drama, 36 min, Florida Premiere
Director: James Venable
Producer: Brian McCary, James Venable
Writer: Jean Hart Howard, Emime Ramirez
Cast: Andrew Reyes, Eimy Ramirez, Jose Cruz, John Oyuela Lake Worth, Florida, Carlos Diaz, a product of domestic violence and a troubled family decides to join a local street gang in hopes of finding a better way of caring for his family.  The Letters Home story was written by the Students Home Safe Project sponsored by the YMCA.  The film is now being used as a teaching tool to help youths across the nation.

The Persistence Of
Drama, 8 min, World Premiere
Director: Alan Cadi Lee
Producer: Alan Cadi Lee
Writer: Alan Cadi Lee
Cast: Tracy Johnson, Alan Cadi Lee, Jenny Lee

A daughter refuses to let her father live in the past as he invents the future.

Now I Know
Drama, 2.36 min, Florida Premiere
Director: Joe Pisciotta
Producer: Madrid Street Films
Writer: Joe Pisciotta
Cast: Paris Adkins

Is it a sign of the times we live in? Facebook, Twitter, American Idol and You Tube…or is it something else? What would drive a young girl to post a video of herself online asking the question "Am I pretty or am I ugly?"  And what drove the five million people who viewed that video?  "NOW I KNOW" could be the sequel.

Music Folk-The Songs Of Phil Ochs
Doc, 49 min, Florida Premiere
Director: James Venable
Producer: Sonny Ochs, Joan Greenberg Brown
Writer: Sonny Ochs, Joan Greenberg Brown
Cast: Local Artists

Local musicians pay tribute to legendary folk singer Phil Ochs and perform a concert at the Lake Worth Playhouse. Produced by Sonny Ochs and Joyce Greenberg Brown to bring awareness to 35 yrs of on going social issues, promote educational history through the art of story telling and Folk Music and continued support for local artists and the Arts community.

I Will Not
Photography Film, 55 min
Cast: Nataline Aron

Although we all belong to humanity & to this international world of 'community', isolation is a universal detriment of being human.  When a person is weakened & their motivation has expired, this is when we just open our hearts and reach out to others.

Return To A Dream
Music Video, 4.5 min, World Premiere
Director: Bruce Feigenbaum
Cast: Natural Palm Beach County

Landscape cinemetography understatedly interjected  with acoustic jazz results in Figtree Films' second production, "Return To A Dream", a more reflective follow-up to its' award- winning debut, "changing seasons". Lush without being cloying, this piece attempts to move ahead in Figtree's ongoing efforts to become more articulate cinematic spokespersons for the South Florida landscape. The Jack Vella Orchestra, playing from their 2012 release, "Security Deposit", features the Colvin Avenue sound rooted in North Buffalo, New York, and provides an intricately moody and stirring soundtrack, mightily backed by the wildlife of Palm Beach County.

Broward Livin Country Lovin
Comedy, 2.5 min, U.S. Premiere
Director: Emmanuel Moirero
Producer: Emmanuel Moirero,Jason Galotti
Writer: Jason Galotti
Cast: Jason Galotti, Horatio Lewis, Tracy Johnson

A resident of Broward County shows the viewers, in an unusual fashion, why he loves living there.

Barely
Dance, 3.5 min, Florida & E Coast
Director: Natalie Metzger
Producer: Music: Robert Allaire
Writer: Choreographer:Colin Connor
Cast: Melissa Bourkas

A motion poem of memory & isolation.

Voice from the Grave
Drama, 14.25 min, Florida
Director: Ray & Migdalia Etheridge
Producer: Migdalia Etheridge
Writer: Ray Etheridge
Cast: Bill Carter, Elaine Hoffman, Michael Rayburn, Guy D. Wells

A mentally challenged man turns to his dead grandmother for advice.

Rita, Pigboy and Me
Comedy, 30 min
Director: Eric Gordon
Producer: Eric Gordon, Janie Hernandez
Writer: Tom Lazarus
Cast: Mel Gorham
A satirical comedy about the relationship between a model & a professional athlete who physically represent the ideal couple; however, with the assistance of a psychiatrist and a lawyer they discover that they are quite incompatible.

Freaks
Drama, 10.22 min, Florida Premiere
Director: Fredeorico Moren
Cast: Lex Indigo, Dylan Parrish,Danielle Spisso, Tyler Kaslow

Linda, a girl in her late teens, is in love with a guy, but her dad doesn't like him or his friends. Linda gets fed up with her dad and tries to do what she wants, but in the end she discovers that love and life are very complicated and she can't always get what she wants.

Creepy Croquet
Comedy, 15.57 min, World
Director: Cynthia Morrison
Producer: Cynthia Morrison
Writer: Cynthia Morrisson
Cast: Phonda Sterns, Danielle Guerra, Jackie McDow, Marco Salerno

Monsters must amuse themselves too! Vampires practice violin & fencing, then join in a game of croquet by moonlight with Wolfman Munny, Witch and Undertaker. Unfortunately the Headless Horseman loses his horse.

Presumed Dead
Drama, 15.25 min, Florida Premiere
Director: Ray & Migdalia Etheridge
Producer: Migdalia Etheridge
Writer: Ray Etheridge
Cast: Bill Carter, Mark Emerson, Tom Myers, Patrick Campion

A wealthy businessman dies and his partners want their share of his estate.

It's Gonna Be A Long Night
Drama/Comedy, 14.34 min, World Premiere
Director: Barbara Goldman
Producer: Palm Beach Film School - Barbara Goldman
Writer: Barbara Goldman
Cast: Cheri Schmit Burr, Angela Cramer, Destiny Thomas, Liz Petrell

Arrested yet again, Lola, Honey, and Cinny are forced to spend the night in a local jail holding cell. The uneventful stay of these “women of the night”  is shaken when Margaret, a neurotic snobby socialite joins them. Several confrontations occur,  before Margaret realizes her future may be changed forever because of this unexpected, chance meeting.

Isolation: A Zombie Short
Horror, 8 min, Florida Premiere
Director: Dylan J. Carver
Producer: Dylan J. Carver / Quiten Foster
Writer: Dylan J. Carver & Garrett Mentzer
Cast: Bob McPherson, Cj Lopez, Quinten Foster

A man trying to hole up in a house during the zobie apocalypse, loses his mind and his faith.

Skinner
Horror, 6 min, U.S.
Director: Emmanuel Moirero
Producer: Emmanuel Moirero, Jason Galotti
Writer: Jason Galotti
Cast: Jason Galotti, Horatio Lewis, Tracy Johnson

A supposed serial cannibal known as Skinner is arrested and interrogated after a fellow detective has gone missing.

Dollar Paper
Comedy, 58 min, Florida Premiere
Director: Keith Adams, Rodney Stallings
Producer: Keith Adams, Rodney Stallings
Writer: Keith Adams, Rodney Stallings
Cast: Rodney Stallings, Corey Louis, Ivett Santiago, Keith Adams

From the streets of Palm Beach County, Kutt Cheez Records N Films presents the DOLLAR PAPER. Come see the city of Riviera Beach in it's rarest form. Follow Chancy as he goes from being the neighborhood hustler to the running joke of the hood. When put on house arrest, he finds himself being harrassed by his arch rival Midgetman.

The Models Of Bekonscot
Documentary, 3.5 min, World Premiere
Director: Sophie Le Neveu
Producer: Sophie Le Neveu
Writer: Sophie Le Neveu
Cast: Sophie Le Neveu
Documentary about a model English village.

Paradise
Music Video, 4.5 min, World
Director: Amia Melian
Producer: Kurt Daley
Writer: Amia Melian
Cast: Catherine Kelly, Patricia Kelly

The mom packs her bags and leaves her daughter for a new life. So to deal with the pain, the daughter runs upstairs to run away to "Paradise", which is in her dreams. In "Paradise" she sees her mom and they play and have fun at the park. The video then skips from her playing with her mom in "Paradise" to the real world in which her mother has come back home. When the mom goes to feel her daughter's skin, she realizes it is cold and her daughter is gone.

Shake Me Down
Music Video, 3.5 min, World Premiere
Director: Amia Melian
Writer: Amia Melian
Cast: Patricia Kelly, Keegan Turner

A girl who is being abused by her boyfriend runs away only to be caught at the end.

Misguided Ghosts
Music Video, 3 min, World
Director: Amia Melian
Writer: Amia Melian
Cast: Patricia Kelly

A girl runs away to find herself and eventually cracks under the pressure.

Roadtripped
Comedy, 8 min, World
Director: Drew Perlmutter
Producer: Johnathan Flechas
Writer: Drew Perlmutter
Cast: Alaina Walton, Nick Lepa, Cheddar, Kevin Shealy

Nick and Alaina were supposed to embark on what would be the road trip of their lives. Unfortunately, cousin Cheddar has to tag along for the ride. Things seem to be going fine for the trio until their luck runs out…

Survivors Guilt
Music Video, 3.5 min, World Premiere
Director: Christopher Philip Alejandro Anne Oh
Producer: Christopher Philip Alejandro Anne Oh
Writer: Christopher Philip Alejandro Anne Oh
Cast: Kyle Pickford, Cameron Healy

The spirit of a soldier who is killed in Afghanistan returns home to discover that people seem to have forgotten about the war and the soldiers putting their lives on the line.

Nameless-Breaking The Silence
Documentary, 7 min
Director: Gary Davis, X Armour
Producer: Gary Davis
Writer: Izcselk Faith, X Armour
Cast: Summer Orta, X Armour

Two people talk about the problems they face dealing with everyday life.

Silver Dollar
Adventure, 41 min, World Premiere
Director: Cynthia Morrison
Producer: Cynthia Morrison
Writer: Cynthia Morrisson
Cast: Alex Penate, Jason Pennington, Rhonda Sterns, Joan Dennehy

A rivalry between 2 Wild West Shows, in Modern Day. Displays evil tactics of Show Boss that is Ruthless. Presents him behind the scenes of these show performances.

The Natasha Leonard Show
Documentary, 15 min
Director: Natasha Leonard
Producer: Natasha Leonard
Writer: Natasha Leonard
Cast: Natasha Leonard

Natasha Leonard talks to the youth about problems in their everyday lives and "breaking the silence."

Flea Market Finish Line
Drama/Family, 31 min, World Premiere
Director: Ika Santamaria
Producer: Joseph Hammond
Writer: Ika Santamaria
Cast: Aylin Silva, Dan Samora, Sasha Marina & Janmarco Santiago

Cata, a Cuban-American housewife, seeks to have her family in order. Her daughter, Belkis, is only concerned with prom and spending time with her boyfriend, a go-cart racer and mechanic on a fast-track to nowhere. To make matters worse, her husband Roberto is a nostalgic former rebel, more concerned with his politics than his family.

Book Deal
Drama, 32 min
Director: Frank Eberling
Producer: Frank Eberling
Writer: Frank Eberling
Cast: Katarina Waters, Peter Marzilli

A famous novelist is being interviewed by a literary scholar. He tries to seduce her with words, but she continues to resist in this dark comedy with surprising twists.

High Tea
Drama, 23 min
Director: Marc Conen
Producer: Marc Conen / Peter Vlietstra
Writer: Zmarc Conen
Cast: Peter Nicholas, Elizabeth James, Alistair Scott

British master thief Jack attempts to rip off his patron whilst carrying out a job in Amsterdam.