Snapple Theater, Friday, August 19th

Snapple Theater

Friday 19
10/11:30 AM
The Waiting Room (15 m, UK)
Dir. by R. Perkins
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Synopsis: A railway platform Kent, 1916.
A winter's night. A train pulls into the platform. A solitary woman steps off the train, an Edwardian nurse. Her face is distraught, her eyes are haunted.
She walks towards the one building on the platform, she reaches for the handle past the painted sign the 'Waiting Room'. She opens the door and
enters, closing it behind her. A single gun shot is heard, a screech of brakes, a scream of terror. The same platform ninety years later, November 2010,
Julian Creed, late thirties, tough, burly, a retired soldier, has been employed to investigate some strange happenings at The Waiting room. He enters
and begins a night he will never forget. A film about the horror of lost love.
The Strange Things about the Johnsons (28 m, USA)
Dir. by A. Aster
Genres: Family, Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: The Johnsons are an attractive, well to do, upper-middle class family whose reputation could not be better among their friends and
neighbors. But they hide an insidious secret, and Mr. Johnson has written an underground memoir which threatens to expose to a truly bizarre family
dynamic.
11:45 AM/1:15 PM
The Winking Boy (15 m, Australia) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by M. Dineen
Genres: Alternative, Comedy, Independent, Surreal, Romantic Comedy, Health/Medical
Synopsis: Communicating only by winking, Martin enjoys a lifestyle of pampering at Calm Springs Rest and Recuperation Center, where he has
everyone fooled into believing he is completely paralyzed. However everything changes when a mysterious new nurse starts working at the center.
Sleeping with Frank (4'35 m, USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by L. Baldwin
Genres: Alternative, Drama, Microcinema, Romance, Dance, Independent, Art, Music
Synopsis: Sleeping With Frank shows a slice of a morning in Queens, NY. A couple readies for the day.Wake-up, get dressed, eat breakfast.
The tableaux are familiar: cozy, rote, intimate and distant.
Dance and choreographed gestures reveal a potent underbelly to the lacquer of such domestic normalcy.
POV (7'12 m, UK) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by T. Walker
Genres: Drama, Coming of Age , Rejected, Social Issue
Synopsis: A pregnant teenager Karen has a black eye but how did it happen? The baby's father Mike is accused by his jealous ex-girlfriend
Gemma and Gemma's best friend Carly, but Karen says Mike didn't hit her. Three different points of view but who do you believe?
Jalopy (14'53 m, USA) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by L. Blood
Genres: Drama, Period/Historical
Synopsis: A young mechanic grew up without his father. When his mother passes away she leaves the son his fathers old 1946 Chevy. He embarks
on a journey threw time and is given a chance to change history.

Brad Fitt Will Be Mine ( 9 m, Australia) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by S. Quadra
Genres: Alternative, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Coming of Age , Independent, Surreal, Urban, Satire, Dramedy, Culture
Synopsis: A quirky dark comedy about before behind the scenes in Hollywood. Hollywood has never been so cut throat!
New Relativity (23 m, Japan) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by C. SuzuKi
Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, B-movie, Independent, Magical Realism, Surreal, Satire, Supernatural, Art
Synopsis: One day, a theoretical physicist has picked a fob watch up which could control time. But he has gotten a discomposure and an anguish
of himself because the watch just has broken out of his study. And a girl of the cafe sees his situation. But she is also in suffering because of her life
cycle.
Minnie Loves Junior (13'34 m, Australia) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by A. Mullins
Genres: Drama
Synopsis: What does a girl have to do to get a boy's attention?
'Minnie Loves Junior' is a heart-warming tale of a little boy who loves the ocean, and a little girl who loves the boy.Minnie lives in a seaside fishing
village. Junior lives there too. Little does he realize Minnie's unrequited love will soon save his life!


1:30/3:00 PM
Pink Skies (82 m, USA)
Dir. by G. Gilbert
Genres: Drama, Educational, Sport, Reality, Docu-Drama, Health/Medical, News
Synopsis: Pink Skies is an inspirational documentary about the empowerment of women. It's about overcoming obstacles as athletes and as human beings. The film covers an extraordinary event 'Jump for the Cause'. Last year, JFTC brought together 181 women from 31 countries to create a World Record All-Women's Skydiving Formation. They also raised almost $1 million dollars for breast cancer research! Along with phenomenal skydivers, the film features breast cancer survivors, cutting edge researchers, doctors and healers. It reveals breakthroughs that have not been widely publicized, explores whats working and what needs to be changed and the seismic shift towards prevention.


3:15/4:45 PM
Afterglow (13 m, Australia) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by N. Garner
Genres: Drama, Romance, Period/Historical
Synopsis: AFTERGLOW is a short film about a moment in time when a man is confronted with his past actions. The love of a young woman leads
him to a place of the most profound loss. A loss that will force him to question the very meaning of his own life and those he loves.
Mirabilis (13 m, Australia) WORLD PREMIERE
Dir. by A. Guilbert
Genres: Alternative, Drama, Erotic, Cult, Art
Synopsis: A woman enters a city fringe pub and meets what appears to be her father. The two exchange deep emotions for one another in Auslan as
the male character is deaf. It appears that they have not seen one another in a long time and many tears are shed.Eventually they leave the bar for the
fathers hotel room upstairs.
The Maestro (5'52 m, Australia)
Dir. by A. Anthony
Genres: Alternative, Drama, Musical, Independent, Rejected, Surreal, Urban, Dramedy, Reality, Art, Social Issue
Synopsis: A destitute man, living on city streets liberates a device and escapes to a symphony of light and sound.
Certain Essential Elements (22 m, USA)
Dir. by J. T. Schultz
Genres: Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Certain Essential Elements cleverly intersects the evening of two couples who find themselves at a crossroad in their lives and
relationships. Whether stoic, sad, naive or excited, reality seems to catch up with all of them one blustery night.
The Honeymoon Suite (12 m, UK)
Dir. by S. Leifer
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Religious, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Dramedy
Synopsis: THE HONEYMOON SUITE is a short comic film about the clumsy first steps of an arranged marriage.
De Paso (Passing By) (10 m, Colombia)
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La Mujer De Hielo (12 m, Argentina)
Dir. by L. Bechini
Genres: Short, Drama, Thriller
Synopsis: A tourist guide is obsessed with a legend about a woman condemned by her husband to wander on a Glacier for the rest of her life.
Every time the guide tells this story, he believes he can see the woman wandering on the ice. One day, a young lady and her husband arrive to tour
the Glacier. Once they arrive she starts feeling sick, and even more after she hears the story. The tourist guide recognizes her and will now do
anything on his power to make the legend real.
In Loco Parentis (7 m, Australia)
Dir. by P. Ashton
Genres: Comedy
Synopsis: Two men confront each other in a strange underground room. Before long, this uneasy interrogation takes a series of turns neither of them
expected, with far reaching consequences.


5:00/6:30 PM
More 4 Me (87 m, Australia) NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
Dir. by L. Fenner
Genres: Feature Documentary
Synopsis: ‘‘What’s the one thing you can’t live without?"
In the face of the global financial crisis, 'More 4 Me' follows Lincoln Fenner around the world to find out.
This feature documentary about the Need vs The Greed journeys across five continents. New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Perth, Australia are contrasted with Cambodia, a Kenyan orphanage and the slums of Nairobi, as he interviews everyone from actors and models to orphans and street sweepers.
This story journeys to the home of Hollywood Actor Vincent Jerosa (Crocodile Dundee II, Carlito's Way) and travels to the remote villages of Cambodia with the leading lady of the Australian stage Marina Prior (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables).