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Connecticut Film Festival Submissions 2013 - 20142013-01-26T00:00:00-05:002014-12-31T23:30:00-05:00Feature $50.00 Short $35.00 Student $25.00 State of ConnecticutThroughout The State of ConnecticutBethelCT06801USA
Rising Star - Southbury - May 192013-05-19T19:00:00-04:002013-05-19T21:00:00-04:00May 19 Rising Star – CT Grown Film Q&A with Writer & Director: Marty Lang –immediately following the film.  Chris is uptight, he counts beans for a living and worries way too much about work. Alyza is fancy free and counts beats, freestyles and dances in the moon- light. Can any two people be more opposite and still attract? Chris, an overworked insurance adjuster, finds out that layoffs are imminent, and has to work the weekend. While drowning in his sorrows he meets Alyza. Alyza could care less about things as mundane as layoffs and decides she’s going to teach Chris a thing or two during 24 hours in the Insurance Capital of the world. These two opposites may have more in common than meets the eye. Tickets are $8.00 online or at the door. Senors are $5.00 Heritage Hotel & Conference Center522 Heritage RoadSouthburyCT06488USAhttps://ticketleap-media-master.s3.amazonaws.com/bdd50112-70cd-48d5-b408-f1e0bebe55c4/small.jpg
Dear Governor Cuomo: New Yorkers Against Fracking CT Premiere & VIP Reception2013-05-22T18:30:00-04:002013-05-22T21:00:00-04:00On a rainy night in May 2012 a coalition of musicians, scientists and activists gathered in Albany on the governor's front doorstep, calling for a ban on hydraulic-fracturing (fracking). With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the moratorium on fracking in New York any day, the event was assembled in less than a month. The goal of the varied participants, many of whom had never met before this night, was to explain in clear terms the environmental, economic and health risks of fracking and to motivate people to rise up against the practice using a unique blend of music and message.   The film that resulted from the night -- a unique blend of The Last Waltz and An Inconvenient Truth -- was written and directed by Jon Bowermaster and filmed under the direction of Academy Award-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney. The stars of the night included actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo, environmental biologist Sandra Steingraber and a long list of musicians such as Natalie Merchant, Joan Osborne, Dan Zanes, the Felice Brothers, Citizen Cope, Medeski Martin & Wood and more.   Jon Bowermaster is a noted oceans expert, award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. The premiere evening includes VIP Reception and Q&A with filmmaker Jon Bowermaster plus complimentary wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres. Tickets $20 in advance and for members / $25 at the door. The Bruce MuseumOne Museum DriveGreenwichCT06830USAhttps://ticketleap-media-master.s3.amazonaws.com/d1cef3f8-f6e2-4e99-815a-90f74e69cdcb/small.jpg
Teresa Is A Mother - Southbury - June 92013-06-09T19:00:00-04:002013-06-09T21:00:00-04:00Teresa Is A Mother - Sneak Preview Screening Q&A With Director / Writer: Darren Press and Cast Members  Theresa McDermott has chased her “ideal” life as an urban-dwelling, punk(ish) singer-songwriter to the very end of its possible existence.  She is broke, options have run out and she happens to have a few kids she is raising on her own since their dad split a year ago.  Facing eviction and nowhere to go, Theresa packs up her children and what is left of her life and moves back to the small rural town, childhood home and parents she deliberately ran from a decade ago.  Her parents’ mutual misery and depressingly gloomy lives were a “downer” she felt had no place in her fun city life.  Yet from the moment Theresa drives back up her old driveway, it is clear that there have been some major changes. Her parents, armed with a plethora of hobbies, a hot tub and a new philosophy, are not exactly the old folks she left behind.  Theresa needs a job, her parents need their space and a painful family history needs some closure.  Old wounds, unattainable dreams, and some “other things” are exposed as a fractured family works to become whole and a woman with a few kids learns to become a mother. Tickets are $8.00 online or at the door. Senors are $5.00  Heritage Hotel & Conference Center522 Heritage RoadSouthburyCT06488USAhttps://ticketleap-media-master.s3.amazonaws.com/fa87d4d7-77c2-4240-a1ae-161e7ce9f903/small.jpg
Hello Lonesome - Southbury - June 232013-06-23T19:00:00-04:002013-06-23T21:00:00-04:00Hello Lonesome – Connecticut Made Film  Hello Lonesome is a story about people...actually, three stories about people. Regular people. They’re charming and flawed, and they’re all trying their best, just like the rest of us. There’s a voiceover artist who lives and works in his underwear from his self-made mountain utopia (HARRY CHASE) and his opera loving postal deliveryman (KAMEL BOUTROS). There’s a sassy suburban widow (LYNN COHEN) in her seventies and hervaguely peculiar but quite witty next-door neighbor (JAMES URBANIAK). There’s an adorable young couple that meets online and jumps right into a hot and heavy relationship – despite some potential red flags (NATE SMITH)/(SABRINA LLOYD). These three pairs have suddenly found each other, and while the couplings are anything but perfect, there is a magic in the way they come to depend on one another. Because when you’re alone in the world, sometimes all it takes is one person who cares about you to make all the difference. Tickets are $8.00 online or at the door. Senors are $5.00 Heritage Hotel & Conference Center522 Heritage RoadSouthburyCT06488USAhttps://ticketleap-media-master.s3.amazonaws.com/c76ce82e-e3be-4279-9e61-534a605f9300/small.jpg

Connecticut Film Festival

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Jan 26 2013, 12:00AM - Dec 31 2014, 11:30PM
Connecticut Film Festival Submissions 2013 - 2014
Bethel, CT
Sun, May 19, 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Rising Star - Southbury - May 19
Southbury, CT
Wed, May 22, 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Dear Governor Cuomo: New Yorkers Against Fracking CT Premiere & VIP Reception
Greenwich, CT
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Connecticut Film Festival Submissions 2013 - 2014

Feature $50.00 Short $35.00 Student $25.00

when:
  1. Saturday, January 26, 2013, 12:00 AM to Wednesday, December 31, 2014, 11:30 PM

Rising Star - Southbury - May 19

May 19 Rising Star – CT Grown Film Q&A with Writer & Director: Marty Lang –immediately following the film.  Chris is uptight, he counts beans for a living and worries way too much about work. Alyza is fancy free and counts beats, freestyles and dances in the moon- light. Can any two people be more opposite and still attract? Chris, an overworked insurance adjuster, finds out that layoffs are imminent, and has to work the weekend. While drowning in his sorrows he meets Alyza. Alyza could care less about things as mundane as layoffs and decides she’s going to teach Chris a thing or two during 24 hours in the Insurance Capital of the world. These two opposites may have more in common than meets the eye. Tickets are $8.00 online or at the door. Senors are $5.00

when:
  1. Sunday, May 19, 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Dear Governor Cuomo: New Yorkers Against Fracking CT Premiere & VIP Reception

On a rainy night in May 2012 a coalition of musicians, scientists and activists gathered in Albany on the governor's front doorstep, calling for a ban on hydraulic-fracturing (fracking). With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the moratorium on fracking in New York any day, the event was assembled in less than a month. The goal of the varied participants, many of whom had never met before this night, was to explain in clear terms the environmental, economic and health risks of fracking and to motivate people to rise up against the practice using a unique blend of music and message.   The film that resulted from the night -- a unique blend of The Last Waltz and An Inconvenient Truth -- was written and directed by Jon Bowermaster and filmed under the direction of Academy Award-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney. The stars of the night included actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo, environmental biologist Sandra Steingraber and a long list of musicians such as Natalie Merchant, Joan Osborne, Dan Zanes, the Felice Brothers, Citizen Cope, Medeski Martin & Wood and more.   Jon Bowermaster is a noted oceans expert, award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. The premiere evening includes VIP Reception and Q&A with filmmaker Jon Bowermaster plus complimentary wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres. Tickets $20 in advance and for members / $25 at the door.

when:
  1. Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Teresa Is A Mother - Southbury - June 9

Teresa Is A Mother - Sneak Preview Screening Q&A With Director / Writer: Darren Press and Cast Members  Theresa McDermott has chased her “ideal” life as an urban-dwelling, punk(ish) singer-songwriter to the very end of its possible existence.  She is broke, options have run out and she happens to have a few kids she is raising on her own since their dad split a year ago.  Facing eviction and nowhere to go, Theresa packs up her children and what is left of her life and moves back to the small rural town, childhood home and parents she deliberately ran from a decade ago.  Her parents’ mutual misery and depressingly gloomy lives were a “downer” she felt had no place in her fun city life.  Yet from the moment Theresa drives back up her old driveway, it is clear that there have been some major changes. Her parents, armed with a plethora of hobbies, a hot tub and a new philosophy, are not exactly the old folks she left behind.  Theresa needs a job, her parents need their space and a painful family history needs some closure.  Old wounds, unattainable dreams, and some “other things” are exposed as a fractured family works to become whole and a woman with a few kids learns to become a mother. Tickets are $8.00 online or at the door. Senors are $5.00 

when:
  1. Sunday, June 9, 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Hello Lonesome - Southbury - June 23

Hello Lonesome – Connecticut Made Film  Hello Lonesome is a story about people...actually, three stories about people. Regular people. They’re charming and flawed, and they’re all trying their best, just like the rest of us. There’s a voiceover artist who lives and works in his underwear from his self-made mountain utopia (HARRY CHASE) and his opera loving postal deliveryman (KAMEL BOUTROS). There’s a sassy suburban widow (LYNN COHEN) in her seventies and hervaguely peculiar but quite witty next-door neighbor (JAMES URBANIAK). There’s an adorable young couple that meets online and jumps right into a hot and heavy relationship – despite some potential red flags (NATE SMITH)/(SABRINA LLOYD). These three pairs have suddenly found each other, and while the couplings are anything but perfect, there is a magic in the way they come to depend on one another. Because when you’re alone in the world, sometimes all it takes is one person who cares about you to make all the difference. Tickets are $8.00 online or at the door. Senors are $5.00

when:
  1. Sunday, June 23, 2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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