ATLANTA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
AUGUST 23 - 27, 2006 AT EYEDRUM & CINEFEST. See WWW.AUFF.ORG for latest info.
On this night:
Friday, August 25, 2006 @ Eyedrum
5:30 until 10:30 PM - AUFF Special Event
Free outdoor BBQ w/ Joy Lachoy & Tha Pumpsta
Drama Shorts Program : ACTION!!
7:00 PM
running time: 132 min.
AUFF's Drama Shorts promise two hours of intense action, sexual tension and high end drama. While almost anyone can write a dramatic script, it takes very talented directors and incredible actors to create films as celebrated as these.
*HOMBRE KABUKI
Dir.: Leo Age - CA - 10 min.
Love, lust and lucha libre. Two lovers enact a game of duping and disguise with a mysterious Mexican wrestling mask.
*VOODO DOLL
Dir.: Roberto Minervini - NY - 20 min.
Amidst a harsh environment of drugs and violence, a gang of lost kids hustle to make a living. The gang goes about it business until a mysterious kid with a masked face enters the picture.
COPPERHEAD ROAD
Dir.: Ian Ogden - NY - 15 min.
A no-holds-barred depiction of a drunken woman's nightmarish, post-New Year's Eve party run-in with a sociopathic cop.
THE FREQUENCY OF RED
Dir.: Daniel McCabe - LA - 22 min.
Set in a future where the world has become completely red, one man finds an object which has retained it's natural color.
RUTHERFORD COUNTY
Dir.: Lis Anna - NC - 35 min.
When three men running contraband from Miami to New York get lost in a
strange place called Rutherford County their lives are forever
changed.
BELOW THE SURFACE
Dir. Jeremy Cohen - TX - 9 min.
Overcoming fears is just a wave away.
BEING
Dir.: Jonas Kr. Nielsen, Soren H. Boeskov - Denmark - 11 min.
Three chapters: DEMON is about a young man in conflict with suppressed homosexuality, SON is about mother fixation, REPLACEMENT is about a couples anxiety for love and commitment and their need for desire.
(Repeat Screening from International Shorts)
Comedy Shorts Program - LOL !!
Friday, August 25, 2006 @ Eyedrum
9:00 PM
running time: 99 minutes
We are pretty sure you'll be laughing out loud at hilarious stories of a robot, a couple with a unwanted baby, a talented bread fighter, a boy with a sword, two wacky Explorers, a clueless Advertising Agent, and Jesus.
*BROBOT
Dir.: Brian Lonano / Bryan Marshall - NY - 30 min.
A film about the value of family, the consequence of playing God, the strength of character, deception, ice cream, and robots.
*OUR BUNDLE OF EXTRAORDINARY JOY
Dir.: Clayton Harper III - NY - 23 min.
A young married couple narrowly avoid a divorce when they share their true feelings about their child. After a number of therapy sessions, they agree to sell the child to a foreign businessman.
AD MAN
Dir.: Iddo Patt - TN - 10 min.
A naive Advertising Agent struggles to find new business in the big city.
SHACKLETON : QUEST FOR THE POLE
Dir.: Miska Draskoczy - NY - 9 min.
Lord Bramwell Shackleton, great grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton, set out to achieve the goal that had eluded his family for generations - the South Pole.
KING OF THE JEWS
Dir.: Ryen McPherson - NV - 16 min.
Jesus checks into a Las Vegas hotel room, and calls an escort to help him relax.
A FALTA DE PAN
Dir.: Martin Rosete - Spain - 11 min. (Spanish, English Subtitles)
Spain, after civil war, and two men duel in a time when there are rations on their weapon of choice - bread. (Repeat Screening from
Spanish Shorts)
SWORD BOY
Dir.: Tristan Orchard - Canada - 5 min.
A primitive still picture animation about racism, swords and one boy's quest to attain greatness. (Repeat screening from experimental shorts)
Local Shorts Program : Fresh Georgia Peaches
Friday, August 25, 2006 @ Eyedrum
10:30 PM
running time: 135 minutes
Locals are loved at AUFF. Georgia has always sprouted incredible talent in independent film, and our Fresh Georgia Peaches program proves it. We had so many local submissions that there isn't enough time to screen them all! Here are just a few that shine.
THE ADVENTURES OF SASS PARILLA THE SINGING GORILLA
Dir.: Chuck Porterfield - ATL - ( Episodes One & Two)
This hilarious four part adventure starring the famous
guy-in-a-gorilla suit, Sass Parilla, finds him fighting off the
advances of the diabolical Black Widow. This fiend will stop at nothing to destroy Sass, employing a giant robot gorilla, a mystical snow warrior, the undead, and more.
10:00 PM - Episdode One and
12:00 AM - Episdode Two
THE AXE MAN
Dir.: Wade Ballance - ATL - 14 min.
Derek Dean is the best 'Axe Man' in the business. With a smile, he can fire you and have you leave hoping for opportunities you never thought possible. But his job is starting to take a toll on him.
THE IDIOT BOXER
Dir.: Scott Balzer / Damian Dunn - ATL - 5 min.
Two couch potato remote control freaks find TV to be entertaining in the most unusual way.
BOXED IN
Dir.: Daniel Heisel - GA - 11 min.
Caroline is a violent criminal who has stumbled upon a very powerful weapon - her own mind.
PAPER FLOWERS AND ASHES
Dir.: Melissa Faulkner - ATL - 24 min.
On the brink of suicide, Nora discovers the death of her distant
grandmother. As the sole inheritor, she must take her grandmother's
ashes home and face her innermost fears.
FACTUALITY
Dir.: N.D. Westbrook, Aaron Doherty - GA - 18 min.
Friendship and love go head on with desire. In the end, there is no winner.
PLATELETS: LEPIDOPTERAPHAGE
Dir.: Justin Curfman - ATL - 10 min.
Surreal stop-motion / CG hybrid film with narrative birthed from some dark dream logic. (Repeat Screening from Animation Shorts)
ROBOCTOPUS
Dir.: Robert Paraguassu - ATL - 10 min.
Roboctopus, a deliquent half-robot, half-octopus, endangers the lives
of two children for fun and profit. (Repeat Screening from Animation
Shorts)
ROOM 101
Dir: Takuro Masuda - ATL - 10 min.
A Half-Dead Man's hysterically grotesque experience in Limbo.
KUNG FU GRAMPS AND NINJA PIG IN PLAID TODAY GONE TOMORROW...
Dir.: Marshall Krich - GA - 4 min.
Kung Fu Gramps and Ninja Pig try to save the world from aliens who came to earth to show people the meaning of greed. (Repeat Screening
from Animation Shorts)
JUXTAPOSER
Dir.: Joanna Davidovich - ATL - 4 min.
The little girl and the temperamental kitty cat.
(Repeat Screening
from Animation Shorts)
FOUND
Dir.: Sherri Larsen - ATL - 10 min.
In viewing the hundreds of anonymous home movies, what responsibility
does the filmmaker have to the images? (Repeat Screening from
Experimental Shorts)
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