Sedona Film Festival 2016
Every film I saw at Sedona (features and shorts) - and some ones I'd still like to see at the end!
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- DirectorH. Nelson TraceyStarsBrendan CaltonMeredith Riley StewartVarda AppletonA naïve high school boy is forced by his mother to find a summer job at the only place he can find a job: a sex shop.
- DirectorLeah WolchokStarsRoz ChastLiana FinckEmily FlakeHD. Meet the cartooning legends and hopefuls who create the iconic single-panel cartoons for readers of the New Yorker.
- DirectorJoseph ItayaStarsJustin KellyBenjamin StockhamCeleste DesjardinsSent to spend the summer on a remote and mysterious island, brothers embark on a thrilling treasure hunt to restore their family's lost fortune.
- DirectorJody McVeigh-SchultzStarsSam ZviblemanChristine WeatherupDon YananWill, a 30-year old who is losing control of his life, inherits his father's cabin and with it a new perspective on his family, childhood and relationships.
- DirectorGabriel LichtmannStarsMartín SlipakJavier DrolasInés PalomboLucas, a young lawyer meets the stunning, sexy Bárbara in a café. Lucas, thinks she is perfect, with a taste for good literature. Lucas takes her home on his first date. The next morning Lucas wakes up to find Bárbara gone together with his cash hoard. Determined to recover his money he tracks her down, but is shocked to find the identity of the person behind the heist.
- DirectorLyric R. CabralDavid Felix SutcliffeStarsKhalifah Ali Al-AkiliMike HealeyAli Kareem(T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspective of "Shariff", a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned informant, viewers get an unfettered glimpse of the government's counterterrorism tactics and the murky justifications behind them. Taut, stark and controversial, (T)ERROR illuminates the fragile relationships between individual and surveillance state in modern America, and asks who is watching the watchers.
- DirectorVincent ToujasStarsCamille Durand-TovarThéo FriletAnnabelle HettmannMaria and Jonathan meet after witnessing a car crash. Despite an instant attraction, Jonathan will have to come to terms with a strange companion who has invaded Maria's life for too long: "ELLE".
- DirectorSteven BiverStarsDaniel WylandFrom San Quentin's death row, a convicted killer tells the gripping, tragic story of his life and crimes. When the day of his execution arrives, something extraordinary happens and the space between life and death isn't so clear.
- DirectorSridhar ReddyStarsAlexandra BennettBarbara FigginsKatelin HealyA young, unarmed black teenager is shot by a white neighborhood watchman. It is up to a jury of six to decide whether or not the man is guilty of murder. Inheriting the classic 12 ANGRY MEN and shadowing the incendiary current events of police brutality, racial profiling and civil rights, 6 ANGRY WOMEN - done with an improvised script - presents the jury deliberation of six women, strangers brought together by their civil duty, each seeking to do the right thing. But the ultimate question looms for each of them to answer: what is justice vs. what is legal?
- DirectorStijn ConinxStarsLuigi Lo CascioDonatella FinocchiaroMatteo SimoniThe true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
- DirectorJulian HigginsStarsRaymond J. BarryVincent KartheiserQ'orianka KilcherWhen an aging college professor confronts two hunters trespassing on his property, he begins an escalating battle of wills that will test his faith in everything he holds dear. Adapted from a short story by acclaimed author James Lee Burke, WINTER LIGHT is a modern-day revisionist Western set in the frozen wilderness of Montana.
- DirectorDavid VictoriStarsRyan EggoldFelix AvitiaDavid AtkinsonA boy and his father are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity.
- DirectorBob CelliStarsClaudio Brovedani NutiEllinore CarrabbaValerie SmaldoneA world at war. A brother and sister. A day that changed their family forever.
- DirectorJustin CliftonIn Southeastern Utah, one of the last major wild places remaining in the lower 48 sits teetering on a precipice of rampant industrial development. Home to some of the most stunning landscapes in the world, the Greater Canyonlands Region has become the playground of adventurous souls who love and appreciate the wonder of wild places. It has also become the target of greedy industrialists, who threaten to turn our treasured parks into islands, our canyons into roaring hydrocarbon highways and our rivers into endangered arteries among vast swaths of oil and gas development, uranium and potash mining and, potentially, tar sands development bordering Canyonlands National Park. Will we have the determination to protect these treasured landscapes?
- DirectorAlexandria BombachMo ScarpelliStarsMassoud HossainiWakil KohsarNajibullah MusaferWhen the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born. Now, as foreign troops and media withdraw, Afghanistan is left to stand on its own, and so are its journalists. Set in a modern Afghanistan bursting with color and character, FRAME BY FRAME follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape reframing Afghanistan for the world, and for themselves. Through cinema vérité, intimate interviews, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime, the film connects audiences with four humans in the pursuit of the truth.
- DirectorElias MatarStarsElias Matar'Flight of The Refugees' documents the harrowing journey of various families as they cross the Macedonian border from Greece to Germany. Over seven thousand refugees start this journey everyday seeking asylum in Western Europe. We bare witness to six of those days.
- DirectorRichard CousinsStarsGina BramhillSimon BubbMax CormacA young soldier and his experiences in the First World War. It highlights the hardships and horrors faced by many young men who served in the Army during that time. Based on true events.
- DirectorErnest MillsStarsLorna Nickson BrownJamie ChandlerBeth CookeChronicles of Courage consists of filmed performance, archive, animation and music to represent three contrasting experiences of World War One (WW1). The experiences were sourced and interpreted from three very personal, unique perspectives. Firstly from the letters and beautifully illustrated diaries of a field hospital Red Cross Nurse, Margaret Gregg, receiving wounded soldiers by train from the front line. Secondly from the letters and newspaper articles written by her brother, Arthur Gregg, from the French trenches. And thirdly through the poems of Arthur's fiance, Marian Allen, who wrote Arthur many poems throughout the war and continued to write to him many years after his death.
- DirectorMatt EdwardsStarsFrederick LauWyatt RussellBrian CeponisTrapped behind German lines in the closing months of WWII, an American takes a young German hostage and forces him to lead the way back to safety.
- DirectorJames PaulStarsMiroslav BabuskýJohn Paul FrankePavol GrecoCzechoslovakia - 1958 - how a defining moment can affect a family, a country, and one man's lifetime seen through the eyes of a Czechoslovakian track runner on the day of the biggest race of his life.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanNatalia AkermanSylvaine AkermanFilmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
- DirectorTracy BoydStarsMackenzie PhillipsGlenn ScarpelliStephen WallemMarco's not living his life. When a surprise visit from his past turns his world upside down, he might just discover what's been holding him back all this time.