NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Unless otherwise marked, all films will be shown at Edwards Island 7

Cinemas, 999 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, and are $5. Tickets are

available by calling (888) 464-2468 or at o7 https://www.tickets.com.f7

TODAY

11 a.m.

Terminal Rite (Rito Terminal)

o7 Mexico, 1999f7

Producer: Milt Valdez Salazar

Director: Oscar Urrutia Lazo

Screenwriter: Oscar Urrutia Lazo

Cast: Angeles Cruz, Guillermo Larrea, Guillermo Rios, Soledad Ruiz,

Rafael Valazco

Running time: 100:00

o7 After leaving the native community where he has been documenting

local rituals, a photographer has several strange experiences. He returns

to the community to seek answers. f7

11:30 a.m.

An Unfinished Symphony

o7 United States, 2001

f7 Producer: Bestor Cram

Directors: Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros

Running time: 59:00

o7 Set over Memorial Day 1971, “Unfinished Symphony” depicts

Operation POW, which captured the nation’s attention when an instance of

civil disobedience resulted in more than 400 veterans and townspeople

being incarcerated in the town’s garage.

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1:30 p.m.

Maze

o7 United States, 2000f7

Producer: Debbon Ayer

Director: Rob Morrow

Screenwriter: Rob Morrow

Running time: 98:00

o7 A sculptor with Tourette’s syndrome finds himself in the middle of

a love triangle that starts when his best friend abandons his longtime

and, unbeknownst to him, pregnant girlfriend.f7

2 p.m.

Short Films: Action In My Shorts

Dinner Time

Director: Benjamin Goldsmith

Running time: 13:22o7 A mysterious desert outlaw terrorizes a small

town whenever he rides through. No morsel of food is safe. Try to stop

him? He stops you. Today, however, he might just meet his match.

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Hitclown

Director: Chris Mancini

Running time: 13:00

o7 A clown for children’s parties hates her job and her life. A hit

maf7 no7 sees his life as one torturously long death sentence. They

accidentally switch bags, and decide they like the other’s job betterf7

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I Want to Die (Quiero Morir)

Director: Gemma Felius

Running time: 14:50

o7 A hospitalized paraplegic psychopath assassin dreams of dying. A

cop, whose life was ruined when his wife and child were killed, is the

assassin’s last chance to be “disconnected.”

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The Rain

Director: David Beatty

Running time: 15:00

o7 In an environmental nightmare, two men encounter a freak

occurrence of nature that threatens more than just their lives.

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Cadaverous

Director: Michael Fiore

Running time: 20:48

o7 Tony De Marco is no ordinary medical student. His plan to become a

doctor is hindered by a deep-rooted fear of death. In the presence of an

anatomy class cadaver, his necrophobia surfacesf7 .

Killing Time

Director: Carlo De Rosa

Running time: 11:00

o7 An old man kills two teenagers who rob and intimidate old people

living in the neighborhood.

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Righteous Indignation

Director: Katrina Bronson

Running time: 17:00

o7 Circumstances of chance, fate, love and death allow a hardened man

to be transformed by the vulnerability of a little girl.

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Bad Assassin

Director: Don O. Knowlton

Running time: 14:00

o7 An assassin fails to kill an accountant and understands that he

will have to pay the ultimate price. Being a bad assassin, however, he

fails at killing himself and is left incapacitated.f7

4 p.m.

Big Eden

o7 United States, 2000

f7 Producers: Jennifer Chaiken, John D. Vaughan

Director: Thomas Bezucha

Screenwriter: Thomas Bezucha

Cast: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Louise Fletcher, George Coe, Nan

Martin

Running time: 117:00

o7 Successful but lonely New York artist Henry Hart returns to the

Montana town of his childhood, Big Eden. There, he finds he must come to

terms with his childhood best friend, a man who is now the object of his

unrequited love.

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4:30 p.m.

Zoe

o7 United States/Great Britain, 2001f7

Producers: Carol Cyrb, Bill Kenwright

Director: Deborah Attoinese

Screenwriters: Deborah Attoinese, Amy Dawes

Cast: Jenny Seagrove, Vanessa Zima, Stephi Lineberg, Victoria Davis,

Gordon Tootoosis, Kim Greist

Running time: 90:00

* Screening will be attended by the director and cast members.

o7 Adolescent Zoe and her two friends have grim home lives. When

things become unbearable, the trio decides to run away to Los Angeles. On

their journey, they meet Cecilia, an Englishwoman, who has her own

troubles.

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6:30 p.m.

Middlemen

o7 Canada, 2000

f7 Producers: Robert Petrovicz, Kevin Speckmaier

Director: Kevin Speckmaier

Screenwriters: Kevin Speckmaier, Robert Petrovicz

Cast: James Hutson, Kirsten Robek, Byron Lucas

Running time: 100:00

* Screening, to be attended by the director and cast members, will be

the film’s U.S. premiere.

o7 A small-time crook finds himself presented with the ultimate score

-- a chance to intercept a high-stakes drug deal by exploiting its

weakest link, the middleman.

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7 p.m.

Zoot Suit

o7 United States, 1981

f7 Producers: Kenneth Brecher, Peter J. Burrell, Gordon Davidson,

William P. Wingate

Director: Luis Valdez

Screenwriter: Luiz Valdez

Cast: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly,

John Anderson, Abel Franco, Mike Gomez, Alma Martinez, Frank McCarthy,

Tony Plana, Robert Beltran

Running time: 103:00

o7 Four men, mostly Chicano, are put on trial for murder at the

height of the racial tensions and rioting that plagued Los Angeles during

World War II. f7

* El Torito at Fashion Island will host a 9 p.m. gala honoring the

film’s 20th anniversary. $40.

9 p.m.

Wild Side (Director’s Cut)

o7 United States, 1995/2000

f7 Producers: Hamish McAlpine, Frank Mazzola, Nick Jones

Director: Donald Campbell

Screenwriters: Donald Cammell, China Kong

Cast: Christopher Walken, Anne Heche, Joan Chen, Steven Bauer

Running time: 112:00

* Screening will be attended by the producer.

o7 Snapping under financial debt, Alex, a bank loan officer, is

forced into moonlighting as a high-class call girl. Her No. 1 client is a

psychotic financial racketeer who worships her yet suspects that she

might work for the FBI. He assigns his bodyguard -- who really is a

federal agent -- to tail her. Meanwhile, the racketeer’s wife meets Alex

at the bank, and the two instantly fall in love, kicking off a dangerous

affair.

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9:30 p.m.

Short Films: SMASH CUTS! Totally Twisted Shorts

The Hangnail

Director: Shane Acker

Running Time: 2:00

The Dehumanized

Director: Mitch Watson

Running time: 15:00

Judgment Day

Directors: Johan Liedgren, Noah Tannen

Running time: 3:00

Shock Asylum

Director: Dan Dinello

Running time: 15:00

Finger Pickin’ Good

Director: Sybil Wickersheimer

Running Time: 1:30

Crime Scene Cleaners

Director: David J. Sperling

Running time: 15:00

Creature-Nites of Ohio

Director: Phil Paternite

Running time: 11:00

Sunday’s Game

Director: Gene Laufenberg

Running time: 10:00