VOB Film Festival - Labor Day Weekend Schedule of Films

Friday Night, August 30th Dinner and A Movie $35
Includes an Italian dinner, wine tasting and the New York Premier of Cloudburst, with Olympia Dukakis.  Reservations a must
http://www.vobfilmfestival.com/Dinner_and_A_Movie.html



Friday night, August 30th, at The Studio Around the Corner: $5 admission
Seating limited as this is for the movie only.  Nobody admitted before Dinner and a Movie guests are seated.

Molly - 10 min.
A precocious young girl determined to sell five thousand boxes of cookies for her Girl Scout-like organization faces off with a curmudgeonly classic car enthusiast who's equally determined not to give in to her pitch. Director/Producer: Heather Morrison

No Strings Attached - 7 min (World Premiere)
Things are not always as they seem when a young man arrives at a remote estate to make good on a deal with some very demanding clients. Directors: Cindel Krajewski, Jenko Kent

Cloudburst - 1 hr., 33 min.(NY Premiere)
A longtime lesbian couple escapes from a nursing home in Maine where their relationship is threatened. Destination: Canada, where they can be married. When they pick up a colorful hitchhiker, adventure and hilarity ensue.Director/Producer: Thom Fitzgerald,Featuring: Olympia Dukakis, Kristin Booth, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette (adult language, brief nudity)

Saturday, August 31st
Food Festival - Oak Street - 4PM - 7PM.
Sponsored by the Brewster Chamber of Commerce
Food, music and artists on Oak Street from 4-7PM.

SHORT FILM FESTIVAL:
Saturday, 8/31 from 8pm-10pm Saturday at great lawn of Walter Brewster House (Raindate: Sunday, 9/1, same time and location). The event is free to attend.

Molly (10 min.)
A Slice of Onion (13 min., 28 sec.)
Odessa (14 min., 57 sec.)
Manual Para Emprendedores (11 min., 11 sec.)
The Things My Father Never Taught Me (7 min.)
Bubble (8 min.)
Locked (8 min.)
Viva Torguga: Meshing Conservation and Culture in Magdalena Bay (16 min., 35 sec.)
Happy Endings (3 min)
No Strings Attached (7 min)
http://www.vobfilmfestival.com/Short_Film_Festival.php


Sunday, September 1st
Film Festival line up at The Studio Around the Corner:
http://vobfilmfestival.com/Sunday_Film_Festival.html
The lineup is broken up into five sessions

Session 1
10:00am - 12:00pm   - $2 admission
Molly - 10 min.
A precocious young girl determined to sell five thousand boxes of cookies for her Girl Scout-like organization faces off with a curmudgeonly classic car enthusiast who's equally determined not to give in to her pitch. Director/Producer: Heather Morrison

Viva Tortuga: Meshing Conservation and Culture in Magdalena Bay - 16 min

The rich natural resources of Magdalena Bay, a wildlife haven on the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, were once endangered by sea turtle poaching and other extractive activity. This documentary explores the surrounding community's efforts to build a new economic model around conservation and sustainable tourism. Producers: Maria Luskay, Andrew Revkin
                   
Rolling Thunder - 3 min.
Coverage of Rolling Thunder XXV, a Memorial Day demonstration that attracted a million veterans on bikes to Washington, DC to honor those who are missing in action and demand their safe return. Producer: Michael Raab

The Robeson Concert & Riots of 1949  - 29 min (World Premiere)
In 1949, Paul Robeson, an African-American baritone with leftist political leanings, staged a concert in Cortlandt Manor, NY to benefit the Civil Rights Congress. But racism and anticommunist fears sparked a series of terrifying riots that threatened to shut down the concert and injured many attendees. Pete Seeger, who performed at the concert, and local historians and residents remember the impact of the riots on the town of Peekskill and the nation.Director/Produer: Eileen Newman, Featuring: Pete Seeger

Happy Endings - 3 min
Man's best friend finds his own best friend in this entertaining animated short. Director/Producer: Vatt Pictures

A Slice of Onion - 13 min.
An uninspired music student reluctantly takes a class in Asian cuisine and finds herself at odds with the instructor . . . until they hesitantly develop an unlikely friendship.Director: Cindy Au Yeung

Manual Para Emprendedores - 11 min.
Two small-town buddies dream of making it big in the new Cuban free-market economy. But as with start-ups everywhere, success is hard won. First, they'll have to learn the ropes of marketing and deal with the inevitable red tape. Director: Andrew Stehney Vargas

The Things My Father Never Taught Me -  7 min.
A single father considers himself a dating advice guru . . . until he has an opportunity to test his technique in the real world with an attractive single mom. Director/Producer: Burleigh Smith

Session 2
12:30 - 2:30    $5 admission 

Odessa - 14 min.
On the eve of the first human expedition to the inhabitable planet of Odessa, a man in a bar accidentally ruins a woman's shoes while arguing about space exploration. When he insists on buying her new footwear, the gift may be more significant than he understands.Director: Cidney Hue

Listen  - 1 hr., 35 min. (Premiere)
A young man's obsession with sounds that only he hears has made him a lifelong social outcast. But when his gift leads to an extraordinary invention, he finds the key to instant popularity. How far will he go to get what—and who—he wants? And how far will everyone else go to get what he has? Director: F.C. Rabbath
                                     
Session 3
3 - 5:00       $5 admission         

Seven Miles to Shore - 1 hr.  (World Premiere)
A look at the harrowing experiences of residents of Rockaway Beach who survived the flooding and fires of Hurricane Sandy . . . with the help of one very special lifeguard.  Director/Producer:John Sica

No Strings Attached - 7 min (World Premiere)
Things are not always as they seem when a young man arrives at a remote estate to make good on a deal with some very demanding clients. Directors: Cindel Krajewski, Jenko Kent

Winter Rye - 27 min (World Premiere)
In eighteenth-century New York, a young girl struggles to recover from her father's death as supplies grow low and income scarce. When her family takes on a farmhand and the girl falls for him, she must contend with her cousin's rivalry and her mother's insistence that she marry advantageously.  Director: Victoria DeMartin
 
Melville - 15 min (World Premiere)
A local day worker is embraced by most members of a Brewster family, while being judged by an Uncle who voices some very clear opinions about illegal immigrants. Directors: Tom Bisogno and Josue Ignacio Saldana    
                          
Session 4
5:30 - 7:45 (Mature audiences) $5 admission

Only Thunder - 14 min
On a dark and stormy night, a town sheriff discovers an unknown woman and child on his doorstep. When the woman reveals a long hidden secret, the sheriff may be forced to take responsibility for far more than a fatherless child. Director/Producer: Chris Ramirez (adult language)

Junggsellin (Bachelorette) - 14 min
A bachelorette party only serves to remind a young woman that she's the last single girl standing. But when she runs into someone special, she just may realize that she was looking for love in the wrong places. Director/Producer:Anna Linke

Reckoning - 10 min., 40 sec. (US Premiere)
An ex-con sets out to reclaim his money, his girl, and his life in a game of revenge that could have fatal consequences.(adult language, violence)
Director/Producer:Ivan Melkin

Cloudburst - 1 hr., 33 min.(NY Premiere)
A longtime lesbian couple escapes from a nursing home in Maine where their relationship is threatened. Destination: Canada, where they can be married. When they pick up a colorful hitchhiker, adventure and hilarity ensue.Director/Producer: Thom Fitzgerald,Featuring: Olympia Dukakis, Kristin Booth, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette (adult language, brief nudity)

Session 5 - $5 Admission
Sunday, 9/1 from 8pm-10pm at The Studio Around the Corner

Molly (10 min.)
A Slice of Onion (13 min., 28 sec.)
Odessa (14 min., 57 sec.)
Manual Para Emprendedores (11 min., 11 sec.)
The Things My Father Never Taught Me (7 min.)
Bubble (8 min.)
Locked (8 min.)
Viva Torguga: Meshing Conservation and Culture in Magdalena Bay (16 min., 35 sec.)
Happy Endings (3 min)
No Strings Attached (7 min)