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42nd WorldFest Independent International
Film Festival
April 16-25, 2009

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Festival Schedule April 2008
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Friday - April 18, 2008
 
FEATURES

5:00 pm
Theatre A

THE ANTE - MAX PERRIER - CANADA - Down-on-his luck, Sam Bailey take a wrong run and winds up lost at a remote farm where a psychotic housewife frames him for murder. 82 minutes - 35mm

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5:00 pm
Theatre B

THE ROAD TO PARTITION + INDIA UNLEASHED - ALAN MENDELSEN - PAKISTAN / CANADA - This close and unflinching look at what actually transpired when India and Pakistan were divided in 1947 along religious lines. 46 minutes - India Unleashed is a remarkable look at the dynamic world of life in India today - from Daily Planet. 50 min - Digital

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5:00 pm
Theatre C

MAHEK (Encore Screening) - KRANTI KANADE - INDIA - Eleven year old Mahek is a girl whose imagination is bigger than life, and her daydreams seem to always get her into trouble. In steps her fairy godmother who is not magical at all and Mahek must figure things out for herself. 80 minutes - 35mm

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7:15 pm
Theatre A

THEY WAIT (Encore Screening) - ERNIE BARBARASH - CANADA - A young boy and his Mom, newly arrived to Vancouver from Shanghai, are sensitive to the restless spirits of dead ancestors who are wanting to "rest in peace" and begin haunting folks during Chinese Ghost month. 88 minutes - 35mm

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7:15 pm
Theatre B

FLOAT - CALVIN SIMMONS - USA - A young wanabee filmmaker almost goes Hollywood while trying to figure out what makes him tick and how to find true love. 80 minutes

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7:15 pm
Theatre C

MAGAZINE GAP ROAD - (Encore Screening) - NICHOLAS CHIN - HONK KONG - Magazine Gap Road is the secluded enclave of wealth and privilege overlooking the commerce and crowds of Hong Kong, but here young Samantha, a curator for a private museum has to decide if she can risk saving her girlfriend from the type of life she has strived to leave in her past. 90 minutes - 35mm

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9:30 pm
Theatre A

WHEN AUTUMN SUNLIGHT COMES - (Encore Screening) - BUI, TRUNG HAI - SAIGON, VIET NAM - A young Vietnamese man tries to juggle the many elements of trying to succeed in modern day Vietnam with the hope of finding true love. 97 minutes - 35MM

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9:30 pm
Theatre B

BOHICA - DJ PAUL - USA - Four young US Army Reservists get caught in the crossfire of a meaningless mission in American-occupied Afghanistan which gets ugly when the Marines show up. 92 minutes - Digital

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9:30 pm
Theatre C

TrailerDEATH GAME - MENAHEM GOLAN - USA / BELARUSSE - A promising young basketball player is drawn into the violent world of drugs, high stakes and corruption as he is about to go pro. 90 minutes - 35mm

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No Shorts on this Day.

 
WORLDFEST PRODUCTION SEMINARS - Friday, April 18 2008

The Renaissance Hotel - Lower level meeting rooms
6 Greenway Plaza
Houston, TX
Check Festival Registration Desk for the location of the meeting room.

10:00 am

DOCS ON A DIME ~ A remarkable course in making award-winning Documentary Films from one of the masters - Alan Mendehlson (Multiple International Award-winning documentarian from Canada, eh?) 4/17 Thurs @ 2pm

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2:00 pm

Independent Film Distribution
Stuart Strutin, Panorama Distribution, New York - a hard look at the realities of distributing the Indie Film, of arranging for distribution and the many emerging alternatives.

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