nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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RegIonal shoWCase<br />
This year the Regional Showcase represents a wide array of talent and styles, a combination of first screenings of raw filmmaking<br />
and well polished, well produced films. Each film brings energy and excitement and tells a story that is longing to be told. We are<br />
very pleased to once again bring you films that have a connection to the region.<br />
Putty hill<br />
sAT Nov 12 6:25 PM-8:00 PM<br />
[Includes Q & A with Director]<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
out oF annaPolis<br />
sAT Nov 13 3:35 PM-5:20 PM<br />
[Includes Q & A with Director]<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
cost oF a soul<br />
sAT Nov 13 12:00 PM-1:30 PM<br />
[Includes Q & A with Director]<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
77<br />
Directed by Baltimore native and current resident, Matthew Porterfield, Putty Hill<br />
has made the rounds of the largest and most well known festivals including Berlin<br />
and SXSW. In the film, a young man dies of a heroin overdose in an abandoned<br />
house in Baltimore. On the eve of his funeral, family and friends gather to<br />
commemorate his life. Their shared memories paint a portrait of a community<br />
hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty, city living, and a generational divide<br />
but united in their pursuit of a new American Dream.<br />
Regional connection: Matthew Porterfield is a Baltimore resident<br />
currently making films in Baltimore and teaching at Johns Hopkins University.<br />
[dir. matthew porterfield, 2009, uS, video, 87 mins]<br />
Website: www.puttyhillmovie.com<br />
Matthew Porterfield was recently announced by <strong>Film</strong>maker Magazine as one of its<br />
“25 new Faces of independent <strong>Film</strong>” the 12th annual list spotlights, up-and-comers<br />
poised to shape the next generation of independent film. Please join Rob Rector as<br />
he sits down for a conversation with Matthew. See Page 89 for more information.<br />
The prestigious U.S. Naval Academy is distinguished by its clean-cut male and<br />
female students in crisp uniforms who are excited by the opportunity to serve<br />
their country. But how many of them are LGBT, and what is their experience at<br />
the Academy? <strong>Film</strong>maker and former Navy submarine officer Steve Clark Hall<br />
asks, and eleven gay and lesbian alumni tell. With humor and charm, former<br />
officers share their struggles and triumphs in these candid stories of coming out<br />
and coming to terms with their sexuality during their service.<br />
Regional connection: The Navy Academy is an institution that is of interest<br />
to most of the festival audience and many members of the film reside in nearby<br />
communities.<br />
[dir. Steven clark Hall, 20<strong>10</strong>, dVd, 73 mins]<br />
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to<br />
their North Philadelphia slum neighborhood. Tommy returns home to his wife,<br />
Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant. He meets his four-year-old<br />
daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. DD<br />
faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James, from becoming a victim<br />
of the streets. Meanwhile their oldest brother, Darnell, has risen to become the<br />
neighborhood kingpin. The two find themselves trapped in the same slums they<br />
joined the military to escape from. As they struggle to make their wrongs right,<br />
their own families become entangled in a web of crime and corruption so thick,<br />
murder becomes their only option.<br />
Regional connection: Writer/Director Sean Kirkpatrick is a Philadelphia<br />
native and the film was shot in and around Philadelphia with a cast from the<br />
area as well.<br />
dir. Sean Kirkpatrick, 20<strong>10</strong>, uS, video, <strong>10</strong>5 mins]<br />
RegIonal shoWCase