2005 Winter Film Festival

What better way to introduce a film festival than to present the previews to a film you’ll never see...at least this year? Steve Schinnerer, a student a Marblehead High School, presents a trailer to a film coming soon to your local screens. Is the "local threat" Steve and his biker buddies, or the film he is promising us?

Some are born great, and some have greatness thrust upon them. The character in this comedy piece thinks he’s the former—the famous comic book and television hero— but ends up as the latter. Michele Roderick is a local graduate whose works have been shown on Time-Warner Television, MTV, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I'm Batman was shown at the 2001 U.S. Comedy Film Festival.

This film, a tale of white collar hell, out-Dilberts Dilbert. Chris Miller is an animator from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, whose sardonic pieces can be found online at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/chrismillershow

A stunning and instructive documentary about the underwater vegetation that is the source of life under the sea and ultimately for us all. Mark Miller is a biologist, maritime historian, and author who has published books, magazine articles, and scientific papers. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts.

Animator LeAnn Erickson tells the story of a bee’s life and its encounter with the world’s most powerful species. LeAnn Erickson is a faculty member of Temple University’s Film and Media Arts program. Her work has appeared on public television and in galleries, and has won national recognition in film/video festivals.

This is an experimental film by a Massachusetts filmmaker about the discovery of what lies beneath her feet.

This film is the story of a young, pregnant girl who left her farm for a city where she could give birth and give up her child. It’s also the story of that child (the filmmaker) who returned forty years later to seek out her lost connection. Among other awards, Along the Pale Blue River won First Place-Experimental at the Athens International Film and Video Festival and is currently part of the "Identity in Contemporary Art" exhibit at the DeCordova Museum. Ann Fessler is the Head of the Photography Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Jake drives his friends and parents crazy, plays basketball, jumps rope, suffers with his sinuses, makes a movie, and otherwise takes the sideways approach to life’s experiences. Another animation from LeAnn Erickson.

An evening dinner celebrating the reunion of two young
couples ends with the rediscovery of a long lost relationship
between two of the people involved. Expect the unexpected in
this black-and-white film in which the entire story is told
without dialogue. Jason Santo is the director of Mindscape
Productions, an independent production company in the
Boston area. This film is part of the "Bent" series, now
available at, among other places, Suncoast, Tower Records,
and Newbury Comics..

It’s 11:45 am on the same morning as the "True Office Story" above, but now Bob has an important announcement to make, and he’s not going to send you a memo about it.

Marblehead’s Steve Schinnerer recognizes that the sound of silence was not what he was looking for.

The mysterious Ros Bobos takes apart an old film of the famous nursery rhyme and then does what all the kings horses and all the king’s men couldn’t do: puts it together again. Music by Renaldo and the Loaf.

A dramatic film in which the loss of a woman’s father triggers opens other family wounds. Theodore Collatos is a filmmaker who was born in Beverly and lives in Richmond, Massachusetts. His films have been shown in Mexico, Berlin, Chicago, and Texas, as well as Massachusetts. Solitaire was shown on PBS in Chicago and in New York and will be seen in a film festival in Boston soon.

Filmmaker and Nahant resident Eli Mavros explores "lives of quiet desperation" and, boy, are they desperate!

A music video from the local filmmaking prodigy (see I'm Batman) that will send you rocking off to bed and will keep the cleanup crew snapping their fingers and swiveling their hips.