Raindance Film Festival 2013

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2 Jacks 2 Jacks
2 Jacks and I Play With The Phrase Each Other
2 Jacks (Two Jacks) (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Bernard Rose; Writer: Bernard Rose, based on the short story by Leo Tolstoy.; Stars: Danny Huston, Sienna Miller, Billy Zane)
Legendary Hollywood director, Jack Hussar a notorious womaniser returns to Hollywood to raise financing for his next film.
9 Full Moons (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Tomer Almagor; Writer: Tomer Almagor; Stars: Amy Seimetz, Bret Roberts, Donal Logue)
A flighty young woman falls for a musician.
All City (Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Stephen Bell; Writer: Stephen Bell, Hugo Martinez; Stars: Brail, Case 2, Coco 144, Joe 182, Kez5, Rate, Les, Skuf, VFR)
New York graffiti artists ply their trade.
Before The Spring After The Fall (Country: US, Egypt; Year: 2013; Director: Jed Rothstein)
A documentary about heavy metal in Egypt, shot before the revolution of 2011.
Be Good (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Todd Looby; Writer: Todd Looby; Stars: Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, Paul Gordon)
A struggling independent filmmaker with a sleepless baby to care for slowly becomes unbearable - even to himself.
Carlos Spills The Beans (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Brian McGuire; Writer: Joey Capone, Brian McGuire; Stars: Joey Capone, Bret Roberts, C.C. Sheffield, Brian McGuire, Harry Dean Stanton)
A film about growing up rich, getting land and being the boss.
Coldwater (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Vincent Grashaw; Writer: Vincent Grashaw, Mark Penney; Stars: P.J. Boudousqué, James C. Burns, Chris Petrovski, Octavius J. Johnson, Nicholas Bateman, Stephanie Simbari)
A teenager struggles to survive in a juvenile detention centre in the wilderness.
Doomsdays (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Eddie Mullins; Writer: Eddie Mullins; Stars: Mark Bain, Jenny Bradley, Laura Campbell)
A pre-Apocalyptic comedy about squatters.
Everybody Street (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Cheryl Dunn; Stars: Boogie, Martha Cooper, Bruce Davidson)
A documentary about the life and work of New York street photographers.
Fall And Winter (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Matt Anderson; Stars: Dean Blanchard, Grace Lee Boggs, Kevin Curole)
An environmental journey across the US.
The Far Flung Star (Country: US, Hong Kong; Year: 2013; Director: Steve Balderson; Stars: Christa Engelbrecht, Eric Tedder, John Werskey)
A struggling actress is drawn into danger after a mysterious stranger kills her brother's lover.
The First Winter (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ryan McKenna; Writer: Ryan McKenna; Stars: Darcy Fehr, Joao Fernandes, Eve Majzels)
A young Portuguese man moves to Canada to be with his pregnant girlfriend, and finds himself adrift.
Get The Picture (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Cathy Pearson; Stars: John G Morris)
A documentary portrait of 95 year old John G Morris, photo editor extraordinaire.
Go Down Death (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Aaron Schimberg; Writer: Aaron Schimberg; Stars: Lee Azzarello, Doug Barron, Burton Crane)
Physical and psychic disaster in a forgotten town.
Heavy Hands (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Sean Williamson; Writer: Sean Williamson; Stars: Sean Williamson, Frankie Latina, Kelly Cunningham)
When a young man steals from a famous crime family, everyone is forced to take sides.
Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jorge Hinojosa; Stars: Betty Beck, Camille Beck, Diane Beck)
The story of a legendary Chicago pimp who reinvented himself as an author.
I Play With The Phrase Each Other (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jay Alvarez; Writer: Jay Alvarez; Stars: Jay Alvarez, Will Hand, Megan Kopp, Alexander Fraser)
Four isolated residents of the urban jungle communicate through phone conversations.
Jake Squared (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Howard Goldberg; Writer: Howard Goldberg; Stars: Elias Koteas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Virginia Madsen)
A filmmaker uses his work to try and figure out why he screws up all his relationships.
Mad Ship (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: David Martin; Writer: Patricia Fogliato, David Martin; Stars: Gil Bellows, Rachel Blanchard, Martha Burns)
A bereaved Scandinavian immigrant plans to escape the Great Depression by building a ship to sail across the prairie.
Medora (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Andrew Cohn, Davy Rothbart)
In America's basketball heartland, four boys from rural Medora, Indiana fight to end their high school's team's losing streak, as their dwindling town faces the threat of extinction.
The Meteor (Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: François Delisle; Writer: François Delisle; Stars: Noémie Godin Vigneau, François Delisle, Laurent Lucas, Brigitte Pogonat, François Papineau, Andrée Lachapelle)
Forty-something Pierre, his mother and his wife are linked by crime, guilt and loneliness. Like casualties of love and desire, they are dying to stick their heads above water and breathe the air of life.
Mutual Friends (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Matthew Watts; Writer: Francisco Angones, Jessica Sue Burstein; Stars: Caitlin FitzGerald, Cheyenne Jackson, Peter Scanavino)
New York thirtysomethings gather at a disastrous surprise party.
Ofir (Country: US; Director: Mark McDannald; Stars: Ofir Drori)
A documentary portrait of a man who has devoted his life to saving great apes.
Prevertere (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Brian McGuire; Writer: Brian McGuire; Stars: James Duval, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bret Roberts, Antonella Ponziani, Reza Sixo Safai)
An unusual search for love.
SHReD: The Story Of Asher Bradshaw (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Kathy Herndl; Stars: Asher Bradshaw, Justin Bradshaw, Maribel Bradshaw, Tom Bradshaw, Andrew Bradshaw)
The story of a six year old skateboarding legend and YouTube star.
Tales From The Organ Trade (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Ric Esther Bienstock; Writer: Ric Esther Bienstock; Stars: David Cronenberg)
An exploration of the underground trade in human body parts.
Tru Love (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Kate Johnston; Writer: Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald; Stars: Shauna MacDonald, Kate Trotter, Christine Horne)
A woman with a fear of commitment falls for widow only to find the widow's daughter determined to destroy their relationship.
Twenty Million People (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Michael Ferrell; Writer: Michael Ferrell; Stars: Michael Ferrell, Devin Sanchez, Chris Prine)
When his comedian girlfriend goes missing, a young man persuades his imaginary friends to help in the search for her.
Welcome Nowhere (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Kate Ryan; Stars: Ethan Hawke)
Roma Gypsies living in boxcars in Bulgaria struggle to get by without even basic facilities.
White Fox Mask (Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ricky Shane Reid; Writer: Kentucker Audley, Ricky Shane Reid; Stars: Kentucker Audley, Lindsay Burdge, Heather Andersen, Ronald Thomas, Craig Mark Wells)
A surrealist parable.
White Reindeer (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Zach Clark; Writer: Zach Clark; Stars: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Laura Lemar-Goldsborough, Lydia Hyslop)
It's Christmastime and a woman is trying to put her life back together after an unexpected tragedy.
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