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Selected Award Winners and Best of the Festival films*
*Selected from our 3rd Annual Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Fest. Tickets to each program are $10, $15 for two programs, $20 for three programs, and only $25 for all five programs!
Friday, February 20 @ 6:30pm
Saturday, February 21 @ 4:15pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
6:30pm
Romans 12:20 (UK, 27 min. 2007)
Malky is a tattoo covered nightclub doorman with a penchant for violence. His armour is his heavily muscled body, his weapons - his hands and his feet. He has used physical prowess to beat back and keep at bay his many enemies. It is something he has done
Balancing the Books (USA, 103min. 2008)
'BALANCING THE BOOKS' is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it
9:15pm
Maxwell Multiple Climax (USA, 30min. 2007)
The Maxwell Multiple Climax is an epic instructional film with a mod retro-style that teaches men how to achieve multiple orgasms.A new approach to sex education, the film's instruction is direct and sincere, leaving the visuals to do the entertaining.
Yesterday Was A Lie (USA, 89 min. 2008)
Kipleigh Brown 'exudes Bacall' ('Slice of SciFi') as Hoyle, a girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon who finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius (John Newton). But her work takes a series of unforeseen twists as events around her grow
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21
4:00pm
Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn (USA, 38min. 2008)
Based on the diary written by 80-year-old Jessie Singer Sylvester between 1976 and1978, we enter an ordinary life full of undiscovered riches. As she struggles to make ends meet and reaches out to better herself, Jessie faces the growing violence in her neighborhood and the realization that she is finally and completely alone. The words of the Walt Whitman poem, 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,' run through the film as Jessie's strength and resilience carry her to the next chapter of her life.
Torn From the Flag (Hungary/USA, 97 minutes. 2008)
In 1956, Hungary, a nation of 10 million people, revolts, and throws off the tyranny of the Soviet Union, a nation of 200 million, for thirteen days. Hungary's freedom is quickly and brutally crushed. However, their heroic struggle eventually leads to the fall of communism around the world.
6:45pm
Manos Partidos (USA, 11min. 2008)
While reluctantly spending the day at the border with his father, William Jenkins witnesses the unthinkable and the once father/son volunteer border watch trip now becomes a personal struggle of morality and familial obligation.
Bad Blood (USA, 107min. 2007)
A Future/Retro Chiller that is character driven and plausibly terrifying, involving nine attractive college students on a group Holiday road trip where they are first thrust into a 'Duel-like' road rage scenario, and then, 'herded' into a secret enclave where the seemingly benign folk with their yearly macabre rituals become the stuff of nightmares challenging their survival. 'Piper Laurie (of Carrie fame) as 'Millie' the Matriarch of this clan and Conrad Janis as Lawrence, its eminence grise, both stars and helms this 'edible' and gorgeous film.
9:30pm
For Tomorrow (Argentina, 35min. 2008)
Seeking rest from the stress of running a business, young entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie traveled to Argentina to learn to play polo. Little did he know that his experience there would change his life, provide hope for thousands of people worldwide and at the same time revolutionize the shoe industry. This is the beginning of an inspiring story that chronicles the creation of TOMS, a company that gives back, one for one, and the thousands of children it benefits. Changing a life begins with a single step...
Contact Killers (USA, 87min. 2008)
Jane Bradford is entangled in the biggest government conspiracy in history. Framed by the CIA as a murderer, hunted across oceans, her only hope is to uncover the secret she was unwittingly paid to erase. Once an assassin, Jane is now a mark herself, stalked by the CIA's Special Activities Division aka US Government contract killers. But proving your innocence to contract killers isn't easy. The CIA's assassins don't ask questions. They don't even think. They just pull the trigger.
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