THE 43RD ANNUAL WORLDFEST
HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
APRIL 17 - 26, 2009
Here are a few choice film selections from the 2009 WorldFest International Film Festival...
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OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM
WORLD PREMIERE WITH PATRICIA NEAL
(IMDB)
Director: Jim Amatulli
Digital (USA)
With actors Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, Patricia Neal and High School Musical Olesya Rulin. When a successful developer goes to his 25th high school reunion and reunites with his high school band buddies, he gets a new lease on life but may have to sacrifice some things. The director is a Prior Remi Award Winner.
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(Movie Trailer)
Director: Gareth Lewis
Digital (Ireland / UK)
Milo, a professional hit man running from his obligations,
hides out in a remote village and seeks refuse from his boss by finding work as
the new baker.
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(You Tube)
Director: Jeff Hare
Digital (USA)
With actor James Brolin - a romantic comedy where a young coffee expert has his life turned upside down when his boss sends him to Thailand to inspect a bean crop for purchase. A former Remi Award Winner.
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(Official Website: www.cubalibrethemovie.com)
Director: Rai Garcia
35 mm (Spain)
After being evicted from their Kultural center, a group of squatters enter the Cuban Embargo the same time that Fidel Castro announces the first democratic elections....
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(Official Website: www.thedisappearedthemovie.com)
Director: Johnny Kervorkian
Digital (England UK)
When his 8-year old brother disappears, young Matthew tries to put his life and sanity back together. However, the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
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THE MESSENGER - 360 DAYS OF BOLIVAR
(Official Website: www.themessengerthemovie.com)
Director: Shawn S. Welling
Digital (Texas)
A documentary about four "Texas Style" characters and how their life experiences led themselves where they now lead on Bolivar Peninsula before and after IKE. We are presenting a Special Encore Premiere on Sunday April 26th, 2010 at 7:00pm.
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(A Disney Nature Presentation)
Director: Alastair Mendelsohn
35 mm (USA)
This documentary follows three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we all call home. Narrated by James Earl Jones and Patrick Stewart.
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(Movie Trailer)
Director: Alan Mendelsohn
Digital (Canada)
This documentary exposes one of the most important and least publicized issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.
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(Official Website: www.princeofcockfightingthemovie.com/index.html)
Director: Yeng Grande
Digital (Philippines)
When a young man begins searching for the best gamecock, he ends up finding love instead.
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(IMDB)
Director: Christos Georgiou
35mm (Greece)
On a very small Greek Island, a young police officer's life changes as he finds himself investigating the death of one of the island's inhabitants.
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(Official Website: www.underourskin.com/index.html)
Director: Andy Abrahams Wilson
35mm (USA)
A probing documentary about Lyme disease and how it often goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.
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OFFICIAL CLOSING NIGHT PREMIERE
(IMDB)
Director: John Crowley
35mm (England / UK)
A young boy whose parents run a hospice becomes obsessed with ghosts and the dying until an old magician (Michael Caine) who comes to live together with him to overcome his morbidity.
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