2000
"The Doe Boy" (USA)
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"Otilia Rauda" (Latin America)
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"The Invitation" (Europe)
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"Laundry" (Japan)
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The Doe Boy
2001 / USA / 85min.
*2001 Taos Talking Picture Festival Bubbling Under Award
*2001 American Indian Film Festival, Best Director
[SYNOPSIS]
Hunter is a young Cherokee, with a Caucasian father. A hemophiliac Hunter needs to avoid any injury, resulting in isolation from his friends and his father who is good at hunting. Feeling the need to prove himself, Hunter tries to kill a buck to be a hero. He, however mistakenly kills a doe.
[DIRECTOR]
Randy Redroad
Randy Redroad has written and directed three films, including HAIRCUTS HURT and HIGH HORSE, named the best short film at the American Indian Film Festival and best film at Festival d'Amiens, France. Redroad won the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film Fellowship prior to attending the Sundance institute Producers Conference and Filmmakers Lab in 1994. THE DOE BOY is his debut feature.
[Staff]
Director / Screenwriter : Randy Redroad
Producer : Chris Eyre and Anthony Vozza
Executive Producer : Jennifer Newell-Easton
Co-producer : Randy Redroad
Music : Adam Dorn
Director of Photography : Laszlo Kadar
Editor : Matthew Booth
Art Director : Laura Ballinger
Costume Design : Erin Lenk and Patia J. Proutt
[Cast]
Hunter Kirk : James Duval
Hank Kirk : Kevin Anderson
Young Hunter : Andrew J. Ferchland
Maggie Kirk : Jeri Arredondo
Geri : Jade Herrera
Otilia Rauda
2001 / Mexico / 110min.
*2001 Amiens International Film Festival Golden Unicorn
*2001 Huelva Latin American Film Festival Silver Colon for Best Actress
[SYNOPSIS]
Otilia has a gorgeous body. Strictly reared Otilia has a birthmark on her face, thus it is hard to find the true lover. Her father arranges the marriage for her. The husband transmits syphilis and makes her sterile. After this incident, she takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, she meets an outlaw by chance and falls in love, while nursing him.
[DIRECTOR]
Dana Rotberg
Dana Rotberg was born in 1960 in Mexico City. She graduated from the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in 1985. In 1984 she directed a medium length documentary film ELVIRA LUZ CRUZ which won the Best Documentary Award from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts.
In 1989 she directed her first feature film INTIMADAD, which was shown in various film festivals such as the Young Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1991 she produced and directed her second film ANGEL DE FUEGO, which opened the Quinzaine de Realisateurs in the Cannes.
[Staff]
Director / Screenwriter : Dana Rotberg
Producer : Alfredo Ripstein
Cinematographer : Guillermo Granillo
[Cast]
Otilia : Gabriela Canudas
Melquiades : Alberto Estrella
Isidro : Alvaro Guerrero
Rubén Lazcano : Carlos Torres Torrija
The Invitation
UK
[SYNOPSIS]
16 year-old Laura lives with her family in the countryside in the southern coast of England.
The mother only dotes on her smart brother and her adorable sister and the father couldn't careless about the family. Laura cannot find her place in home. Then, she meets an attractive and mysterious Robert. Due to his enigmatic past, she becomes infatuated with him.
[DIRECTOR]
Carine Adler
Carine Adler was trained at the National.Film & Television School. Since graduating she has directed the documentary EDWARD'S FLYING BOAT for Channel Four and a short drama, FEVER, starring Katrin Cartlidge, for the BFI and Channel Four. In 1996 she wrote and directed UNDER THE SKIN Starring Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook and Rita Tushingham, which won the Michael Powell Award for Best Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Scotland on Sunday Critics Award, and the International Critics Award at the Toronto Film Festival, all in 1997. UNDER THE SKIN was screened at the 1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Laundry
2001 / Japan / 126min.
*2001 Montreal World Film Festival Cinema of Tomorrow
*2002 Sundance Film Festival
[SYNOPSIS]
Teru works at a coin-laundry and keeps watch for laundry-thieves. This launderette is the only world Teru knows, who is mentally handicapped due to the injury on his head in early childhood. One day, he meets Mizue who has left her clothes, and eventually starts to live with her. Mizue's emotional wound seems to be healed at first.
[DIRECTOR]
Junichi Mori
Junichi Mori worked his way up in the film and television industry, serving as assistant director, writer, and finally director. LAUNDRY, starring Yosuke Kubozuka and Koyuki, is his first feature.
[Staff]
Director / Screenwriter: Junichi Mori
Producers : Toru Horibe, Chikahiro Ando, Keiichiro Moriya
Director of Photography : Kozo Shibasaki
Editor : Hiroshi Matsuo
Music : Zentaro Watanabe
Animation : MAYA MAXX
[Cast]
Teru : Yosuke Kubozuka
Mizue Yamada : Koyuki
Sally : Takashi Naito
Miyashita : Kenichiro Tanabe
Tsue no Rojin : Katsumi Muramatsu
Shashin Obasan : Kazue Tsunogae
Kinuyo Okazaki : Hana Kino
Shiori Okazaki : Risa Nishimura
Hidenori : Shuho Shinohara