Film Festival 2011

A man is stalked in downtown Denver … by himself. Damien Patrik is an actor, writer, editor and film producer. His film Cheese concluded last year’s Film Festival, and so he begins this year’s Festival.

This personal documentary about one Marbleheader’s bike ride from Marblehead to Boston shows how, by persistence, courage and very observant drivers, it can be done!

The Prologue is the first of a five-part series that we are spreading throughout the Film Festival. In this segment, the Concord filmmaker depicts a bicyclist who finds a map, and a man who halts his run through the woods to stomp on his cell phone. Is that clear?

Two young women encounter each other outside the JFK Building while waiting for their parents to settle their immigration issues. Katsiane is a prolific maker of short films, one of which won an award as one of the year’s best New England short works.

In the second part of this series, a map reader finds a box but encounters a mysterious—and threatening—hooded man.

This is a hilarious documentary about a convention of celebrity lookalikes: Oprah, Kenny Rogers, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, George Bush—you’ll meet them all!

The mapreader from Part 2 takes off with the mysterious box and brings it to an equally mysterious workshop.

A regular participant in the Film Festival, Masucci returns with an emotional story about the relationship between a father and his son. The boy is troubled by the absence of his mother, a soldier in the Middle East.

This is how it all began. Let’s see…. Someone was hit by a car … and then got up….

This Boston filmmaker’s story was chosen as one of the year’s best New England shorts. It is about a young woman’s attempt to connect with a store clerk as part of her search for fulfillment in difficult circumstances.

This film is the Boston filmmaker’s affecting and poetic story in which a man recalls his first snow, when an elderly man helps him retrieve a scarf from a tree.

The filmmaker offers a short animated music video about being loved by both the characters in the title. Francisco, a Boson-born musician who lives in Colorado, also animated the film.

This is a story of a father-daughter excursion that turns into an interior excursion for the father.

This award-winning Boston area animator and past Film Festival contributor has created an animated film about her bout with a serious illness.

This former Beverly resident is a prolific filmmaker with many awards to his credit. His comedy deals with the lengths one man will go to evade his self-appointed dietician and appropriate his favorite sugary treat.

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end? Don’t be so sure.