The American Dream 74 minutes n
2011 n
Thursday 9:10p n Sunday 3:10p n
USA n In Competition
Friday 12:10p n Monday 6:10p
Saturday 09:40a
Plays with A Finger, Two Dots Then Me (p63) Director/Screenwriter: Jamil Walker Smith n
Matthew Blute n Editor: David Au n
Bucksville 104 minutes n
Thursday 6:10p n Sunday 09:40a n
Director: Chel White n Producer: Brittany Ballard n Cinematographer: Music/Composers: Kenny Inglis, Lykke Li, TV on the
Radio n Principal Cast: Christine Dunford, Malcolm Goodwin, Venita Metoyer, Jamil Walker Smith n
littleplowfilms.com
Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, videotape their last 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. One hundred days before Obama’s inauguration, these young men have joined the Marines together to face the obstacles and circumstances that seem to overwhelm their passage into manhood.
Luis wants to be a filmmaker and Ronald wants to travel the world and raise a family. Through the lens of Luis’s video camera, they capture their friends, family members and places they call home — to remember who they are and where they come from. In their darkest hour, they turn on the video camera for the last time and document the final moments of their journey home. An edgy, honest, and at times humorous film about family, friendship, and what it means to be a hero in today’s world. [adult content, language]
Jamil Walker Smith Director’s Statement
Imagine a war film where you never see a battle scene. A film where before you see the soldier’s gun, you see the block he grew up on. Before you see him holding his dead buddy, you see him being held by his mother. These images give war a face; a face if you look at it long enough, you might have the thought “I know him.”
This is the full-length feature film that Luis would have submitted to film schools and shared with you and his community, upon returning from Afghanistan. In honoring the reality of his world, we made the entire film using equipment and means of production that Luis would have had access to: a prosumer camera, actual locations, Home Depot lights, and friends and family in place of professional actors.
Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
2011 n
USA n
In Competition
Friday 9:10p n Monday 3:10p
Saturday 12:10p Producers: Darren M. Demetre, Laura McGie n
Tom Berenger, Charles Jennings, David Hume Kennerly, Laura McGie, Chel White n Screenwriters: Laura McGie, Chel White n
Cinematographer: Marc Greenfield n
Executive Producers: Editors: Ben
Blankenship, Dennis Fitzgerald, Chel White n Music/Composers: Tom Brosseau, Chel White n Principal Cast: Tom Berenger, David Bodin, Nathan Dunkin, Storm Large, Allen Nause, Ted Rooney, Thomas Stroppel n
bucksvillemovie.com
25-year-old Presley grew up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest in the shadow of his father and a secret militia called The Lodge. Along with his cousins, he is committed for life to participate in the group’s self-appointed mission of justice and punishment. He’s had long time desire to leave Bucksville but leaving The Lodge has never been an option for any of its members. When the group forms connections to a national militia with an extremist right wing agenda, Presley must decide whether to break family bonds or become an accomplice.
The film eerily delves into the realm of ethics and the militia movement, within the context of family conflicts over loyalty and love. Haunting and frank, it ponders the fine line between good and evil in a rural setting that is both beautiful and dark. [violence]
Chel White Director’s Statement
The origins of the story for this film came from a dream I had a few years ago in which a young man was part of a small town, secret brotherhood involved in vigilante killings in the name of ‘social justice.’ The group’s self-appointed mission was to right the failings of the U.S. criminal justice system and avenge the innocent. Eventually, this man had an epiphany of conscience that led him to betray the group. The other members caught wind of this and by the end the man found himself on trial for his life.
After waking up from my dream, I realized it might make a good premise for a film. At this point it expanded to include other characters, dialog, and complete scenes. Early on, we agreed we should add women characters who, in the tradition of a lot of classic literature, would be the truth-seers.
Selected Filmography: A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process (In Less Than 60 Seconds) (2007 AIFF), Wind
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