HD
Showcase Toronto 2005
Here’s
our lineup for this year’s show.
These films were originated and will be projected in high
definition.
Our Showcase will be at
Atom Egoyan and Hussain Amarshi’s Camera
Bar. CAMERA is a unique bar, lounge and Screening Gallery located on
Address:
Telephone: 416.530.0011
September 13th through 15th 2005
From
For reservations email Susan@HD-Showcase.com
Trailers @ www.HD-Showcase.com
Questions? 310.540.6639 or 310.540.6631
mobile 310.923.3857
Features:
“Novem”
In
1973, nine college students spent an amazing week camping out and recording
music at a remote studio location.
They each write a composition and collaborate on each other’s songs
during six days and nights of friendship, music, and fun. By the end of the week, they have
produced nine introspective songs that preserve their mood, hopes, and fears for
generations. The music they
recorded disappears and remains silent for over thirty years until a college
student at a garage sale accidentally purchases it. NOVEM’s music and story spread quickly
over the Internet to college campuses across the country. This Brad Kimmel film documents this
student’s quest to answer the question that everyone is starting to ask: “What
happened to these guys?”
“Katie Bird:
Certifiable Crazy Person”
KatieBird Wilkins, a
woman with a passion for love, relives the events that lead up to her first
killing during her final “session” with Dr. Mark Richardson, her psychologist
and lover. What begins as a lover’s
spat; soon becomes a chilling childhood testimony of the relationships that
molded her into a torturous killer.
From her earliest childhood lessons to her first heartbreak, KatieBird
learns the gruesome reality of truth and love.
“The Rest of Your
Life”
A
group of twenty-something’s in
“Spotless”
A notorious hit man,
who is hired to remove bums from the streets of
“In Plain
Sight”
All bad things must
come to an end… Time is short and the money’s big for eccentric, campus “hit
man” Daulton Monroe. He’s losing
his old partner, training a new one, and falling in love with a beautiful
bartender/lounge singer/journalist.
During the biggest fob of his career, the hunter becomes the hunted as
someone attempts to manipulate his shadowy operation. When it’s all on the line… Everyone’s a
suspect! No one has a clue! And the
only place to hide is In Plain
Sight.
“Sonata”
Megan lives within an
isolated world meticulously crafted by her domineering mother, famous author
Samantha Fergus. Taking great care
to keep her daughter safe from outside influence, Samantha seldom allows Megan
to leave the confines of their secluded home. As Megan struggles to break free of the
world fabricated by her mother, the fairy-tale becomes a prison governed by
Samantha’s grim imagination. Will
Megan gain control of her own destiny or will she succumb to the dark recesses
of her mother’s twisted tale?
Shorts:
“Filters”
Romance can be
difficult. Billy knows this well,
but he’s not making things easier.
In this tale of a lonely man looking for unconditional love, Billy
devises a bizarre scheme to filter out women who can’t accept him for who he
is. But where does repulsion end
and love begin?
“Karma Ghost”
A story about Karma
and a guy named Pete.
“The Journey”
“On the Couch”
A
lesbian executive experiences the worst day of her life in the confines of her
living room, on the couch. As her world comes crashing down around her, she
contemplates taking her life.
“Embryo”
Jason Fields, a
neurotic man stricken with Agoraphobia, receives an unexpected wooden box in the
mail. He opens it to find a bizarre
device that promises to grant him his ultimate fantasy if he simply places the
accompanying helmet on five people and then wear it himself. When a friend accidentally tries on the
helmet, it steals his mind and feeds it to a strange creature now forming inside
the bell jar. Driven by his lust to
receive the promise of the device and a growing need to feed the grotesque
creature, Jason soon finds himself with a host of “frozen” victims hidden in his
bedroom. Jason’s once orderly
existence unravels and a simple act of curiosity derails into madness as he
incubates a mysterious and nightmarish monster.
“Small Change”
A young woman’s glee
at discovering a “magical” truth-telling coin turns to alarm when it reveals
disturbing facts about her fiancés past.
But her coin also shows that the future isn’t about avoiding chances,
it’s about taking them.
“Hold the Rice”
Tess Green, 25, a
funky blonde Chinese-American mechanic from
“Mojo Café”
The Mojo Café is a
supernatural
“Evenfall”
Eve is new to the spy
business which makes her need to succeed higher than most. Miles is like the evil twin brother of
James Bond: all the charm and lethality but with a warped conscience. Uncle is the overprotective figure-a
great character to have in an action thriller! Durand is a man making up for his humble
beginnings in life through treachery and wealth. Ben is a whiz kid that every good spy
needs for the success of the op!
“Natural Selection”
In the future city of
“F*@k the Movie”
Rhetoric is re-defined as we explore
every derivation of the f word as it relates to our character’s emotions, his actions and his state of
mind.
“Confessions of a Late
Bloomer”
For 15 year-old Donny,
high school sucks. He’s the
smallest in the class and is only ever noticed when he’s the butt of someone’s
joke. But this week it’s all about
to change…forever. To escape the
pummeling of his life, Donny accepts the school bully’s challenge to kiss
Sheila, the girl of Donny’s dreams by the end of the week. Now, Donny must stumble along an absurd
journey to manhood while proving to the world that manliness is a state of
mind…and a little fake body hair.
“Clowns”
Forget
the center ring, the real show at this circus takes place backstage. CLOWNS is a
hilarious black comedy about the real lives of the men behind the nose. Taking
place in eight minutes of chaotic real time before a show, the short follows the
extreme character arc of Frank - a once great CLOWN, now reduced to a
pathetic shell of his former self due to drug, alcohol, gambling, and sex
addiction. He is helped along his hero's journey toward transformation and
redemption by the swift ass kicking he receives at the hands of a fresh
faced young clown, known only as the NEW KID.
“Daddy’s Boy”
It’s a story about
love and meat!