Announcing
Sue October 14th, 2007
From Producer Andy Coon’s blog,
ConvergeSouth Film Festival will be held at 2 Art Chicks Gallery on 609 S. Elm Street in Downtown Greensboro on Saturday October 20th, 2007. Doors open at 7:00 PM and the Festival will begin at 7:30.
We will have a fifteen minute intermission in which I will introduce Brian Conley from AliveInBaghdad.org and Farrah Hoffmire and Mitchell Davis from “Falling Together in New Orleans“. This will allow time for the audience to ask any questions to the present filmmakers. If it runs more than fifteen minuets so be it as long as it doesn’t run over 30 minutes.
ConvergeSouth Film Festival Schedule
TITLE: Deadly Finger
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jose Montesinos
RUNNING TIME: 4:01
Synopsis: The World-wide Master of the Deadly Finger technique challenges a martial arts instructor and his students.
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TITLE: Broken
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: David Wendelman
UNNING TIME: 15:22
Synopsis: Whether it’s been just to survive or to empower himself, every has been a fight for small-time boxer Luis Morales. Now after years of boxing, Luis’ promoter Marcel and his trainer Gerecke are pressuring him to leave the ring. But for Luis, the choice is not that simple. He is haunted by the memory of his father who, having once been a proud Mexican wrestler of the Lucha Libre, had died a broken man, struggling as a day laborer to support his family and to live the American dream. For Luis, to stop fighting is to fail, something he is more terrified of than of death. To fight is to exist.
FILM CREW:
Filmmaker - David Wendelman
Written by - David Wendelman
Producer - David Wendelman
Creative Producer - Michael Bentt
Executive Producers - John Riggi, David Wendelman
Original Music - Bobby Tahouri
Editor - Alex Ward
Sound Design - Jeffery Alan Jones, Daniel Pagan
Production Designer - Laura Paddock
Special Effects Make-Up Artist - Jacque Carroll
Fight Coordinator - Michael Bentt
FILM CAST:
Luis Morales - Jose Yenque
Gerecke - Gene Borkan
Marcel - Felix ‘Ryghin’ Pimentel
Francisco Morales - Paul Renteria
Juanita Morales - Doralicia
Julio - Ruben Bansie-Snellman
Pepe - Tommy Montoya
Augie - Joe Chacon
Javier - Brian Miller
Manuel - Will Morales
Young Luis Morales - Richard Garza
El Volcan (the masked wrestler) - Francisco Morales
Los Chivos - Enigma de Oro
Previous Festivals: Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival 2006, NY International Latino Film Festival 2006. Nosotros American Latino Film Festival 2006, Cinesol Film Festival 2006, Salento International Film Festival Italy 2006, 2nd International Short Film Festival La Nocha De Los Cortos 2006 Peru, Harlem International Film Festival 2006, Boston Latino International Film Festival 2006, 6 Festival International de Cine Hispano Mexico 2006, International Latino Film Festival San Francisco Bay Area 2006, CineMas Albuquerque Latino Film Festival 2007, 6ta Muestra Nacional de Nuevo Realizadores Havana, Cuba 2007, 14th San Diego Latino Film Festival 2007.
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TITLE: My Urban Report: Jena
CATEGORY: Citizen Journalism
DIRECTOR: Amani Channel
RUNNING TIME: 4:32
Synopsis:
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TITLE: Banana Bus
DIRECTOR NAME: Ajit Anthony Prem
CATEGORY: Vlog
RUNNING TIME: 2:12
Synopsis: JaCynthia Shepherd recalls her experiences on the Public School Bus system. It seems she received much of her education while riding to and from school.
FILM CAST & CREW:
Filmmaker - Ajit Anthony Prem
Voice over - JaCynthia Shepherd
Song - “She Was a Girl, She Was in Love� by Matt Baldwin
Previous Festivals: Ava Gardner Film Festival.
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TITLE: Blue Angel
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR NAME: Andrew Michael Warnecke
RUNNING TIME: 13:10
Synopsis: A disturbing, yet intimate and moving portrait of a girl (Jenafer Brown) confronted with her classmate’s (Aika Shima) confession of sexual abuse in the home. Based upon a short story by Christine Bollerud.
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TITLE: Honey I’m Home
DIRECTOR NAME: David Branin
CATEGORY: Short Film
RUNNING TIME: 5:40
Synopsis: This film tackles the topic of being unfaithful and having to confess the truth to one’s companion. Never before has infidelity been explored in the way that Branin does in this five minute masterpiece.
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TITLE: 80’s Man
DIRECTOR NAME: DC Douglas
CATEGORY: Music Video
RUNNING TIME: 3:28
Synopsis: This video was born out of lethargy and nurtured through an obsessive compulsive disorder.
8:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 31st, Lilia Popova calls up Robin Meyers and D.C. Douglas (who happen to live upstairs) and invites them down for pizza with her boyfriend, Abraham Peraza. D.C. Douglas, determined to break their vegetative demeanor, insists they also write a song. They all agree. 3 hours later, “Eighties Man� is born.
Over the next week, he is refined. It becomes apparent that a video must be made. The following Friday, several friends converge at a green screen studio in the aptly named Studio City. They have 2 hours to film. After one week of intensive editing and compositing, on August 20th, 2005, “Eighties Man - The Video� goes live on the web. Total cost: $600 and 100+ hours of creativity. The video is 3 minutes. Life is cruel.
What you are about to see is, indeed, one of the most important music videos of all time… (Yeah, bigger than “Let’s get Physical�)
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TITLE: Winds of Time: The Proposition
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jose Montesinos
RUNNING TIME: 4:57
Synopsis: Jorge Valenzuela must hire the Karate Boys to convince Carmen Dawn, Jiu-Jitsu Nurse, to go out with him. Comedy & action ensue…
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TITLE: F2
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jesse Knight
RUNNING TIME: 6:33
Synopsis: The decay of man coincides the decay of religion in a post apocalyptic world. A priest of the post apocalypse touches paintings and receives visions ultimately revealing his own sacrificial death at the hands of the high priestess.
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TITLE: Falling Together in New Orleans Vignette 3
CATEGORY: Citizen Journalism
DIRECTOR: Organic Process Productions
RUNNING TIME: 18:28
Synopsis: Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, they have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents of the Gulf.
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TITLE: Exit Strategy
DIRECTOR NAME: Valient Thorr
CATEGORY: Music Video
RUNNING TIME: 3:55
Synopsis:
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TITLE: Alive In Baghdad: An In-Depth Look at the Wall in Adhamiya
CATEGORY: Citizen Journalism
DIRECTOR: Brian Conley
RUNNING TIME: 8:07
Synopsis: When they began erecting a wall in Adhamiya the public response was varied, in Iraq, in the US, indeed around the world. Some responded with shock, others with outrage, others wondered why it hadn’t been tried before. Most importantly, there was a reaction, it was widespread, and strong. The press covered the issue of the wall repeatedly, with many papers writing multiple stories on the subject, extending over a period of months, some more. Unfortunately the images of the wall are few and far between. A Google image search reveals only 1,020 results for adhamiya wall, many of which are repeat images and many more are irrelevant to the search. Why has such an important event of the war and most recently the Surge, received so little visual coverage?
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INTERMISSION
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TITLE: Duck Duck Goose!
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: DC Douglas
RUNNING TIME: 20:52
Synopsis: Duck, Duck, GOOSE!� has no explosions or boobies. Well, wait a minute… It does feature one boob named Jacob who longs to keep his ex-wife close-by for masochistic pleasure. There’s also C.B., a nervous romantic with a hapless crush on an exotic burping beauty named Lizzie, who only wants to find a man with a mind like a woman, fall in love, and fly away to Paris. It’s an intoxicating blend of early sixties European romp and post-modern cynicism in glorious technicolor!
FILM CREW
Director - D.C. Douglas
Writer - D.C. Douglas
Producers - Rose Bertolero, D.C. Douglas, Josephine Gompertz
Original Music - Abraham Peraza, Lilia Popova
D.O.P. - Tom Robotham
Editor - D.C. Douglas
FILM CAST
Lizzie - Robin Meyers
Jacob - D.C. Douglas
C.B. - Bryan Cuprill
La Penis Woman - Courtenay Taylor
Le French Waiter - Christopher Carroll
Le Creepy Guy - Dan Butler
Le Romantic Guy - Michael Cade
La Crying Girl - Gina Marie Gian
La Matchmaker - Lisa Long
La Giggly Girl - Bess Meyer
La Religious Girl - Diane Mizota
Le Opera Singer - Abraham Peraza
La Pianis - Lilia Popova
Film Festivals: Tiburon International Film Festival, San Fernando International Film Festival, Palm Beach International Film Festival, Seattle SOS Film Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, Newport Beach International Film Festival, Trenton Film Festival, Santa Cruz Film Festival, Empire Film Festival, The O.C. Short Film Festival, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, New York Gen Art Ignite, Sacramento Film and Music Festival, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, DC Shorts Film Festival, Quittapahilla Film Festival, FAIF Film Festival, Ohio Independent Film Festival, Annapolis Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival
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TITLE: Deadly Finger Returns
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jose Montesinos
RUNNING TIME: 4:59
Synopsis: The Master of the Deadly Finger technique is back! Only this time he faces many more opponents!
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TITLE: My Urban Report: Twins
CATEGORY: Citizen Journalism
DIRECTOR: Amani Channel
RUNNING TIME: 10:51
Synopsis:
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TITLE: Tuning Out Roadkill
DIRECTOR NAME: Ajit Anthony Prem
CATEGORY: Short Film
RUNNING TIME: 4:22
Synopsis: We have a tendency to look away from all forms of death. Is it instinct? Is it to keep one’s insanity? Or does it just become meaningless when it happens so much?
FILM CAST & CREW:
Filmmaking & Music - Ajit Anthony Prem
Voice over - Scott Wallace
Previous Festivals: Ava Gardner Film Festival.
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TITLE: Alive In Baghdad: Iraq Journalist Killed in Heavy Traffic
CATEGORY: Citizen Journalism
DIRECTOR: Brian Conley
RUNNING TIME: 7:37
Synopsis: Iraqi police said that Suhad Shakir, an announcer in Al-Iraqiyah channel, was wounded when US forces opened fire on her car near the Foreign Ministry in central Baghdad. The US army said that it is verifying the truthfulness of the claim.
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TITLE: Thoughts on the Road
DIRECTOR NAME: Ajit Anthony Prem
CATEGORY: Vlog
SHOOTING FORMAT: DSLR Stills
RUNNING TIME: 1:39
Synopsis: Sometimes, the best place to think is on the road.
FILM CAST & CREW:
Filmmaker - Ajit Anthony Prem
Song by Hisato Higuchi
Previous Festivals: Ava Gardner Film Festival.
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TITLE: FAIT AC•COM•PLI
DIRECTOR NAME: Jason Marc Pierce
CATEGORY: Short Film
RUNNING TIME: 4:31
Synopsis: A Science Fiction piece that asks the question: “What would you do if you knew exactly when someone is going to die?�
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TITLE: Catastrophe
DIRECTOR NAME: Steven van Vuuren
CATEGORY: Short Film
RUNNING TIME: 6:48
Synopsis: Catastrophe is a black comedy about disturbed household that is changed forever by a surprising member of the family. Told from a unique perspective, Catastrophe uses imaginative camera work, sound design and stark colors to create an atmospheric tale.
FILM CREW:
Filmmaker/Editor - Stephen van Vuuren
Writers - Teresa Prevatte, Stephen van Vuuren
Producers - Sheila Duell, Marie van Vuuren
Script Supervisor/Edit - Andrew Johnson
Boom - Kelly Wall
Sound - Andrew Johnson, Marie van Vuuren
Grips - Alex Prevatte, Cameron Prevatte
PA - Diana Keyes-Johnson, Su Welikonich
FILM CAST
Husband - Reed Prevatte
Wife - Peggy Droz
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TITLE: Dear Stranger
DIRECTOR NAME: Ajit Anthony Prem
CATEGORY: Short Film
RUNNING TIME: 14:57
Synopsis: Dear Stranger follows the musings of a young woman’s erotic fantasies that develop harmlessly until they suffocate her mind and her real life relationships.
FILM CREW:
Filmmaker - Ajit Anthony Prem
Producer - Rachel Connolly
Executive Producers - Kelly Cook, Violette Harris
Still Photographer - Carl Gunhouse
Music Composer - Hunter M. McDermott
Additional Music - Bill Donovan
FILM CAST:
Rosie - Nikki Alikakos
Gordon - Steven Lock
Stranger - Michael Teh
Voice-Over - Kelly Cook
Rosie’s Friend - Maryse Karunaratne
Stranger’s Friend - George Rivas
Girls in Park - Lindsey Glass & Mandy
Previous Festivals: Annapolis Film Festival, Ava Gardner Film Festival.
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TITLE: Deathmatch Tournament 3
CATEGORY: Short Film Episodic
DIRECTOR: Matthew Sumner
RUNNING TIME: 4:59
Synopsis: Deathmatchtournament.com is a site where humans, cyborgs, and robots battle in a video game type world.
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TITLE: Housewifery
CATEGORY: Vlog
DIRECTOR: Jill Foster
RUNNING TIME: 3:18
Synopsis: In the last year Jill observed the life with her husband: they were emotionally awesome yet the remainder of their partnership looked imbalanced e.g. clutter at home, no living will, neither of them knew how to cook or invested the time in learning, and why did that retirement account still look empty despite their philosophically supporting savings, retirement plans, etc? These question demanded resolve … & a little humor too.
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TITLE: Gi Ho Lo: The Legacy of Richard Long
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jason Marc Pierce
RUNNING TIME: 8:01
Synopsis: Mockumentary about the youngest Gi Ho Lo master in America
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TITLE: Been You All Along
DIRECTOR NAME: Ajit Anthony Prem
CATEGORY: Vlog
RUNNING TIME: 2:31
Synopsis: Two people that were always meant to be together.
FILM CAST & CREW:
Filmmaker - Ajit Anthony Prem
Song by Buckethead
Previous Festivals: Ava Gardner Film Festival.
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TITLE: Winds of Time: Querida
CATEGORY: Short Film
DIRECTOR: Jose Montesinos
RUNNING TIME: 4:59
Synopsis: Jorge Valenzuela continues to long for Carmen Dawn. The Karate Boys, on their way to face Carmen again, are intercepted by their long-time rivals: The Throw-Down Team!
