ADMISSION IS FREE TO ALL FILMS!
The Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library, this years co-sponsor, will be showing the films in the historic Waldomore, which is located at 400 W Pike St, in downtown Clarksburg, adjacent to the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library where there is ample FREE PARKING.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 11th, 2009
7 PM AsturianUS Spanish Filmmaker Luis Argeo will be on hand to present his documentary film about the Spanish immigrants who settled in Clarksburg, WV and went to work in the Spelter zinc factory.
DEAR CHILD JESUS / JESUSITO DE MI VIDA 10 minutes Spanish Filmmaker Jesus Perez-Miranda. This film has been shown in Turkey, Spain, London,UK, Russia and Paris, France. The Pare Lorentz International Film Festival is proud to present this fine film making it's US PREMIERE in Clarksburg, West Virginia English Subtitles. A MUST SEE FILM.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 12th, 2009
9 AM THE RIVER & THE FIGHT FOR LIFE 100 minutes PARE LORENTZ
10 AM
11 AM AMERICA'S LAST DOUGHBOY 30 minutes West Virgina documentary filmmaker Martha Jett interviews Mr. Frank Buckles, the last surviving American World War One veteran. He is 108 years old. This is the 2nd screening WORLD WIDE.
TOUR OF DUTY 9 minutes A compelling story with shocking footage in Iraq's Sadr City from West Virginia soldier Travis Tharp as told by West Virginia Filmmaker David Hough, witness the dangers firsthand. WORLD PREMIERE.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE 4 minutes An Animated short from the United Kingdom.
12 NOON Adopt a Jesus West Virginian Filmmaker Bob Wilkinson will present his newest documentary film and be available after the film for a Question and Answer session.
1 PM Edgar Allan Poe fans will enjoy two films by Italian Producer Buonafede Nestore.
THE OVAL PORTRAIT / IL RITRATTO OVALE 22 minutes from the original tale of Edgar Allan Poe, the film tells the sad history of a young and nice woman, sacrificial lamb immolated on the Art Alter from her husband the painter, who steals her soul to take alive his painting.
ULALUME makes its WORLD PREMIERE here at the Annual Pare Lorentz International Film Festival in Clarksburg, West Virginia. A night journey, Edgar the poet, in company with Psyche, his soul travel through spectral and shadowy landscapes. The two characters come close to a stately avenue, flanked by monumental cypress trees, which run through.
2 PM REGULAR 12 minutes (2006) by Spanish Filmmaker Alfonso Nogueroles. In REGULAR Alfonso Fernandez tells in his own words, how he tried to make a living out of his passion for skateboarding. But accomplishing a dream is not always what you expected: struggle, disillusionment, emigration...Through footage from every year we witness the parallel evolutions of both the sport and the skater. Regular is what the call a person who rides with his left foot forward.
LUNCH WATCHING TV 5 minutes (2009) Spanish Filmmaker Alfonso Nogueroles
unveils his latest short film here at the Annual Pare Lorentz International Film Festival in Clarksburg, West Virginia making it's WORLD PREMIERE.
3 PM THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS & NUREMBERG 103 minutes PARE LORENTZ
4:50 PM WWOOFING 10 minutes A no-budget, non-dialogue short documentary about a Belgian man, Stefan Van Oeckel, living and working on an organic farm in Cornwall, England. A portrait of one man and his environment. WWOOFING stands for World Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms. United Kingdom Filmmaker, Robin Whenary has shown her film in Sydney, Australia, India, Scotland, Poland and the United States, now making it's West Virginia Premiere.
5 PM MOTION 4 minutes A spinning top is spun and several everyday actions become interconnected, through the power of editing. Then it all starts to go wrong...
United Kingdom Filmmaker, Robin Whenary West Virginia Premiere.
JOY ASSOCIATION / FROSHINN E.V. 46 minutes by Filmmaker Wolfram Huke who's directing studies at Munich Film School in Germany. The country fair, the biggest of its kind, people in Muhlhaussen say, but the youth have left town, following work to the west. At least for celebration they return; for eight days in late summer when it is supposed to become as nice as it always was. In the “Joy Association,” at the edge of the city, they work months to prepare. English Subtitles WORLD PREMIERE.
6 PM
7 PM LAW & DISORDER 80 minutes by Ken Beaver An irreverent ghost befriends the newly hired Executive Director of a dysfunctional Washington DC law firm, and togoether, they work to keep the Managing Partner, Hillary Parker, from going to jail for murder and her diabolical and ever scheming fellow Partner, Sooner Fairbanks, from taking over. Making it's WORLD PREMIERE here at The Pare Lorentz International Film Festival in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 13th, 2009
The following films are made available at no cost to all local schools in Harrison County from December 11th thru 20th by a grant from the International Documentary Association, The New York Community Trust and are presented by The West Virginia Movie Museum in conjunction with the West Virginia Filmmakers' Guild.
BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA 89 Minutes Winner 2008 Directed by David Novack Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.
“As upsetting as it is informative.”- NEW YORK TIMES
SUGIHARA CONSPIRACY OF KINDNESS (2000 winner) 103 minutes
MANDELA: SON OF AFRICA, FATHER OF A NATION (1997 winner) 118 minutes
OIL ON ICE (2004 winner) 56 minutes
AMERICA'S LOST LANDSCAPE: THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE (2005 winner) 60 minutes
(this one is paired with Island Out Of Time)
ISLAND OUT OF TIME (2001 winner) 30 minutes
(this one is paired with America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie)
On behalf of the Board Of Directors and the Selection committee I would like to thank all the fine Filmmakers from around the world who have submitted their films for our consideration, while not every entry meets the criteria set forth by our expert panel of judges, we encourage those of you who submitted films that did not make it into this years festival, to continue striving in the pursuit of your dreams and career goals. Thank You to all the Filmmakers who made this, our First Annual, Pare Lorentz International Film Festival a true representation of the art of storytelling and Film making possible.
DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE FOLLOWING FILMS
THEY ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL AUDIENCES
PRIVATE SHOWINGS CAN BE ARRANGED
DURING THE FESTIVAL.
PRIVATE SHOWING
THE GYNAECOLOGIST 10 minutes Spanish Filmmaker Alfonso Camarero CONTAINS NUDITY, VIOLENCE The Gynecologist's next patient is a boy, what follows is an absurd tragedy. WEST VIRGINIA PREMIERE.
PRIVATE SHOWING
THE HAIL MARY 9 minutes California Filmmaker Donna Brodsky presents this short comedy about a young saleswoman who tries to sell an insurance policy to a bully bartender and overcomes all physical odds when she challenges him to an arm wrestling contest. BRIEF GRAPHIC LANGUAGE.
PRIVATE SHOWING
AUTODAFE 79 minutes ITALY. An Independent Feature Film written, directed and produced by Italian Filmmaker Emiliano Cribari, makes it's WORLD PREMIERE here at the Pare Lorentz International Film Festival in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Claudio Amerio lives near Turin and works in a factory. His father and mother died recently and he finds himself alone, stirred by memories, in a big house. Claudio suffers from anxiety and there is evidence of an imminent occurrence. Suddenly this feeling takes shape and becomes a dark omen, which takes the form of recurrent dreams of the father with the women of Claudio's life, Silvia, a colleague, Clara, his nurse and Katia, the maid. CONTAINS NUDITY, SEX, VIOLENCE, ADULT THEME.
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