Official Selections for FirstGlance 10 Announced
Celebrating 10 Years with 10 Nights of Indie Films
PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 2, 2007 - FirstGlance Film Festival is proud to announce the official selections for its 10th annual independent film festival being held on Friday, September 28, 2007 to Sunday, October 7, 2007 at the Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.
William Ostroff, Festival Director, said, “FirstGlance is excited to hold its 10th anniversary event at the Adrienne for 10 nights, our longest running festival to date. The screening committee found it tough to choose the official selections but we think our schedule reflects the best new indie shorts, docs, features, animations, music videos and student projects in the industry today.”
Films in Competition include:
Feature Narrative
Cold Storage- Tony Elwood Blood Car- Alex Orr
Liar’s Pendulum- Andrew W. Flores Mexican Sunrise- Rowdy Stovall
Midnight Clear- Dallas Jenkins Last Stop For Paul- Neil Mandt
Feature Documentary
Forgotten on the Bayou- Steven Scaffidi Bad Boys of Summer- Tiller Russell
An American Opera- Thomas McPhee Who is Bill Beall- Leeron Reiter and Christopher Lane
Short Narrative
A.W.O.L- Jack Swanstrom The Fifth- Ryan Levin
Razor Sharp- Marcus Perry The Golden Voice- Greg Cahill
The Last Stop Café- David H. Jeffery Ms. Goldman- John Ross
My Name is Wallace- Bob Pondillo A Fine Line Between Love and Latex- Michael Stein
Shank- Jenessa Joffe Somewhere in the City- Ramsey Denison
Up the Hill- Sasha Shemirani Marti’s Party- Annabelle Murphy
Night Falls- Krisztian Majdik No Destination- Shannah Laumeister
Succubus- Alison Reid Swept- Chris Marcantel
Bloom- Andrew Renzi Warlord- David Garrett
And the Woods Fell Silent- Rania Ajami The Hunter- Benjamin Gray
Raw Footage- Rupert Thompson Alcatraz- Juan Reyes
Blindness- Helio San Miguel Collapsed- Elliot Kew
Little White Flowers- Christopher Messina Send in the Clowns- Henry Naylor
I’m in the Band- Paul Sincoff Granny D Goes to Washington- Alidra Solday
Senioritis- Andrew Karlsruher Katrina’s Wake- Kathilynn Phillips
Away Game- Theodore Nannicelli The Pair- Christian Janss
The Unveiling- Aliza Nimon The Showdown- Fulvio Sestito (Hollywood Winner)
Shorts Too
Script Cops- Scott Rice Free Range- Steve Friendship
Cracks- Micah Baskir Snips and Snails- Hilari Scarl
The Messenger- Adam Finberg Lavinia’s Heist- Don Goodman
The SECRETary- Anthony Pitone Always Greener – Eric Grote
Last Night- Scott Patch (Hollywood Winner)
Mini-Docs
Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope- Larry Mendte At the Wall- Warren Bass
Generation Tehran- Sara Bavar Un-Kosher- Tara Stromberg
Downwinders: The People of Parowan- Jake White
A Taste of Nate- Jim McGorman (Hollywood Winner)
Animation
Stone Saviour- James Martinchek Sam & Piccolo- Adam Walker
ESC- Zachary Brewster-Geisz The Finger- Mike Owens
Gnaritas Monstrum- Seth Kendall Once Upon a Christmas Village- Michael Attardi
Music Videos
EEE Funk- Hunter Fine Karmacoda Turn- Sinisa Kukic
War on Sound- Eric Althin Gone -Andrew Watson
Crazy Feeling- Michael Licisyn
Student Shorts
Zombie Love- Yfke van Berckelaer American Deluxe- Aaron Brownlee
My First Time Driving- Rebecca Feldman Backstroke- Amy Bronson
Extraordinary Man- Seth Herron The Ghost of Sam Peckinpah- Jason Brewer
Melissa with a Heart Around It- Andrew Kenneth Gay
In addition to 10 nights of indie films, FirstGlance also invites filmmakers, audiences and the public to attend their filmmaking seminars like the Final Cut Pro Certification Course.
Visit www.firstglancefilms.com for up to the minute information on seminars, finalists, schedules,
ticket sales and other information on the festivals.
Please feel free to contact Andrea DiFabio for interviews, newspaper or magazine articles, television or radio special segments or if you’d be interested in previewing a project by one of the finalists for a film review. Project descriptions and cast lists are available upon request.
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