British Film Festival Los Angeles 2009

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Sunday, May 3rd
6:30 PM
The Gods of Circumstance
Justin Golding 2009 | Features
** Note: Pool Side Screening
 Custom Hotel - Pool
Monday, May 4th
10:00 AM
Shorts 1
Shorts Programs
  • Shattered | Davin Jeayes 2009
  • Carmichael: Rogues | JASON KEITH PLATT 2009
  • Sperfect | 2009
  • Travelogues
  • Recife/s | Cyriaco Lopes 2009
  • Hindsight 20/25
  • Landscape in a Portrait
  • The Politics of Fear
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
10:00 AM
Tao Of The Traveller
Robin Ramsay 2008 | Best Under 75 Mins | 65 min.
  • Terpsichore | Larry David Blumenthal 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
10:00 AM
Cracking the Code
Features | 96 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
12:00 PM
Committing Poetry in Times of War
Features | 115 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
12:00 PM
The AIDS Chronicles: Here to Represent
Bailey Barash 2007 | Best Documentary - USA | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
12:00 PM
The Truth About Weapons of Mass Destruction
Paul Hanes 2008 | Features | 94 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
2:00 PM
The Reflecting Pool
Features | 106 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
2:00 PM
Panama
Gianmarco Galassi 2008 | Best First Film | 63 min.
  • Getting Out | Steve Harris 2008
  • Lundon
Custom Hotel - Prairie
2:00 PM
Rock Music Rock Art
Shorts | 42 min.
** Note: La Taj Room
  • The German Lullaby
  • Virtuoso
  • Self-evident | Christy Johnson
  • Can It Be? Unconditional | John Johnson 2005
  • Inflatable You | Jan Moeskops, eric wobma, Mick Durlacher, Leo Franssen 2008
  • Just One More Night
  • The Revelation of Reverend Jones
Custom Hotel - TBD
2:30 PM
Call Back
Features | 94 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
4:00 PM
The Unidentified
Kevan Tucker 2008 | Best Feature - American | 113 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
4:00 PM
The Other Side of the Lens
Features | 101 min.
** Note: La Taj Room
 Custom Hotel - TBD
4:00 PM
The Wish
Marcel Mandu | Features | 96 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
6:00 PM
Changing The World On Vacation
Daniela Kon 2008 | Best Documentary - International | 87 min.
  • The Messenger | Tagore Almeida 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
6:00 PM
The Life Penalty
David Quint | Features | 74 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
8:00 PM
The Beverages
2008 | Features | 83 min.
  • Official Selection
Custom Hotel - Prairie
8:00 PM
Leave Me Behind
Kirk Gostkowski | Features | 124 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
8:00 PM
Becoming Pony Boi
Sergio Myers 2008 | Best Original Music | 88 min.
** Note: La Taj Room
 Custom Hotel - TBD
10:00 PM
Offside
Features | 88 min.
  • Morgan's Last Call | Frank Merle 2008
Custom Hotel - Prairie
10:30 PM
School Without Walls
Tanecia Britt 2008 | Best First Film | 55 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
11:59 PM
The Season
Features | 72 min.
  • Carnage On Graves Farm | Frank Merle 2009
Custom Hotel - Prairie
Tuesday, May 5th
10:00 AM
Shorts 2
Shorts Programs
  • Shattered Allegiance | Paul Winston, Marques Pardue 2008
  • The End (short)
  • Men of Steel | 2007
  • Look At Me | Daniel Turner 2008
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
10:00 AM
The Resolution
Petr Smelik, Petr Hastik 2008 | Best First Film | 81 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
10:00 AM
Number One, Longing, Number Two, Regret
2004 | Features | 92 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
12:00 PM
Shorts 3
Shorts Programs
  • Christmas with Marshall
  • Rubber Heart
  • Animated American | Joe Haidar, James Baker 2008
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
12:00 PM
Shot From the Dark
Features | 57 min.
  • Mixed Bag, Or What's In A Dream... | eric wobma 2007
  • Intermezzo | eric wobma 2008
  • Bloody Baby Blue | Vong Chea
Custom Hotel - La Taj
12:00 PM
Shorts 6
Shorts Programs
  • Youth | Jane Linfoot 2007
  • Open Your Eyes | Susan Cohen 2008
  • Seeking Wellness: Malignant Love
  • In the Shadows
  • Sunday At The Sinners' | Sarah Horwell 2008
Custom Hotel - Prairie
12:00 PM
The End
Features | 104 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
2:00 PM
Nothing Really Matters
Features | 105 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
2:00 PM
War Of The Gods
Jennifer Abbott 2008 | Best Documentary - International | 90 min.
** Note: Prairie Room
  • Ancestor Eyes | Kalani Queypo 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
2:00 PM
Jackson
J. F. Lawton | Features | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
2:00 PM
Restoring Hector
Shorts | 25 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
4:00 PM
Katrina Tails
Features | 90 min.
  • Be Good | Barney Cokeliss
Custom Hotel - Prairie
4:00 PM
Randomocity
Features | 100 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
4:00 PM
Baby Boomerang
Mark Arnett 2008 | Best Documentary - USA | 61 min.
  • Fields of Diameter
Custom Hotel - La Taj
6:00 PM
Ser o Estar
Features | 65 min.
  • Long Wooden Tobogganist
Custom Hotel - La Taj
6:00 PM
Shorts 5
Shorts Programs
  • Solace
  • A Thing Of The Past | Nick Butler 2008
  • Two Men Kissing
  • Crawling Skin | Petra Ahmann 2008
  • Wig | Todd Holland 2008
  • Awkward Silence | Ryan Copple 2008
  • A Soldier's Choice
Custom Hotel - Prairie
6:00 PM
Machetero
vagabond Beaumont 2007 | Best Feature - International | 98 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
8:00 PM
12 In A Box
John McKenzie 2006 | Best Feature - UK | 93 min.
  • Dr. Chong, Plastic Surgeon | David D. Williams
Custom Hotel - La Taj
8:00 PM
Seven Days
Features | 53 min.
  • From Silence to Sound | Chase Matthews
Custom Hotel - TBD
8:00 PM
Mass Romantic
Richard Paro | Best Feature - American, Features | 112 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
10:00 PM
Dark Spirits
Huck Keppler 2008 | Best First Film | 100 min.
  • Dark Static
Custom Hotel - Prairie
Wednesday, May 6th
10:00 AM
In-between
Features | 197 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
10:00 AM
AstroEuros
Jürgen G.H. Hoppmann | Features | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
10:00 AM
Gareth Hughes Program
Features | 90 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
10:00 AM
Ubuntu
Features | 58 min.
  • Masks (short) | ALBA RAYTON 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
12:00 PM
Kailums
Features | 87 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
12:00 PM
Superpower
Features | 119 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
12:00 PM
Children of the Congo: From War to Witchcraft
Dan Balluff | Features | 110 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
2:00 PM
Children in Exile
Chris Swider | Documentary | 60 min.
  • Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide of 1932-33 | Bobby Leigh 2008
  • Loma Lynda: The Red Door | jason bognacki 2008
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
2:00 PM
Courting Condi
Sebastian Doggart 2009 | Best Documentary - USA | 107 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
2:00 PM
Infant
Features | 94 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
2:00 PM
The Comic Book Lady
Features | 100 min.
  • Sewn Up | Daud Wingate Shah, Samantha Whittaker 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
4:00 PM
Deep Within the Heart
Features | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
4:00 PM
The Outsider
Features | 81 min.
  • Quantum
Custom Hotel - La Taj
4:20 PM
Ten ‘til Noon
Features | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
6:00 PM
Blur
Features | 88 min.
  • Shift
Custom Hotel - Prairie
6:00 PM
Gin & It...
Maria Micetich 2008 | Best Under 75 Mins | 53 min.
  • Desert Rose | Marta SantaMaria, otto felix, sophiah koikas 2006
Custom Hotel - La Taj
6:00 PM
Homeland
Features | 107 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
8:00 PM
Vlog
Joshua Butler 2008 | Best Feature - American | 72 min.
  • Rosecrans & Highland
Custom Hotel - Prairie
8:00 PM
An Unlikely Weapon
Features | 85 min.
  • The Last Chance
Custom Hotel - La Taj
10:00 PM
Unhinged
Features | 57 min.
  • Kiss Of The Moon | simon lewis 2008
Custom Hotel - Prairie
10:00 PM
Toy Room
Wesley J. Turner 2008 | Best Feature - American | 76 min.
  • Picnic
Custom Hotel - La Taj
11:59 PM
Stiff Luv
Best Original Screenplay | 91 min.
  • Bitch | Michael Medico
  • NO WORDS | Tenaya Cleveland 2009
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
Thursday, May 7th
10:00 AM
Soldiers of Peace
Features | 85 min.
  • Unseen Victims
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
10:00 AM
Mayday: Tugs of War
Robin Williams 2007 | Features | 102 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
10:00 AM
Seconds Out
Jason Keith Platt | Features | 140 min.
  • 45
Custom Hotel - La Taj
12:00 PM
Chekhov & Maria
2007 | Best Under 75 Mins | 85 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
12:00 PM
The Wahine Disaster
Sharon Barbour 2008 | International Documentary | 53 min.
  • Dudley's Raft | Robert Matthews 2007
  • The Good and the Bad: Memories of a Merchant Seaman | Richard Manning 2007
Custom Hotel - Prairie
12:00 PM
Shorts 8
Shorts Programs
  • Wallflower
  • Winterscape
  • Skylight
  • Daddy’s Girl | Marcella Forster
  • Things Girls Do... | Broderick Fox 2005
  • Donut Heaven | Annetta Marion
  • Five Years of Forever
Custom Hotel - TBD
2:00 PM
Faire: An American Renaissance
Doug Jacobson 2009 | Best Documentary - USA | 105 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
2:00 PM
The Rain has Stopped
Anna Taborska | Features | 55 min.
  • Seance Fiction
  • Tot Ziens!
  • A Little Change | Stewart Brodian 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
2:00 PM
Shorts 7
Shorts Programs
  • Ruyah Zahir | Nina Juliano 2008
  • Another Day Another Life | Rohit Gupta 2009
  • The Kill: A Short Film | Joe Vea 2008
  • The Hands | Charise Studesville 2008
  • Acts of God(zilla)
  • A Separate Tribe | Sue Keeton
  • Foet
  • The Legend of Don Williams | Tony Evans
Custom Hotel - Prairie
2:00 PM
CWCW
Features | 167 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
4:00 PM
Underdogs
Features | 73 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
4:00 PM
The Colony
Nick Mead 2008 | Best Documentary - UK | 75 min.
  • 5 Days - A Gypsy Journey | Nick Mead 2008
Custom Hotel - Prairie
6:00 PM
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Polly Bennell | Features | 112 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
6:00 PM
The Hipsters
Features | 87 min.
  • The Cell Phone | Velvet Rhodes, David Bacon 2008
Custom Hotel - La Taj
6:00 PM
Marathon Beirut
Deborah Harse | Documentary | 81 min.
  • This Man's Journey - Revisited | Rohan Sabharwal 2009
  • Startrip Chattabago | Ansje Germann 2008
Custom Hotel - TBD
8:00 PM
Mozlym
Edreace Purmul | Features | 105 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
8:00 PM
Two Million Stupid Women
Features | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
8:00 PM
Lahore
Sanjay Puran SIngh Chauhan 2009 | Best First Film | 143 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
10:00 PM
The Sky Has Fallen
Doug Roos 2009 | Best First Film | 72 min.
  • Twilight
Custom Hotel - Prairie
10:00 PM
Psychosomatic
Features | 79 min.
  • Pappy & Speedster | Brae Norwiss
Custom Hotel - La Taj
Friday, May 8th
10:00 AM
Small Town Girl
Jill Daniels 2007 | Features | 94 min.
  • Three Pints of Beer
  • A Geek walks into a pub | 2009
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
10:00 AM
Right Hand Drive
Mark Kalbskopf 2008 | Best Feature - UK | 100 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
10:00 AM
Not that Kind of Christian
2007 | Features | 80 min.
  • The Saint
Custom Hotel - Prairie
12:00 PM
Dark Static
Shorts | 10 min.
 Custom Hotel - TBD
12:00 PM
Prophet on the Run
Features | 53 min.
  • Out On The Wing | Gerard Roxburgh 2008
  • PSA
Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
12:00 PM
By the Sea
2002 | Features | 94 min.
 Custom Hotel - Prairie
12:00 PM
Shorts 9
Shorts Programs | 84 min.
  • Father's Day
  • The Cleaner | Noel Kearns 2007
  • The Lonely Londoner | Jason Young 2008
  • Vignette
  • Arc Of A Bird | Hugh Schulze 2008
  • The Detective
  • The Revenge of the Don
Custom Hotel - La Taj
2:00 PM
Sisterhood
Richard Wellings-Thomas 2008 | Best First Film | 91 min.
  • Vincent | Dee Allen 2008
Custom Hotel - Prairie
2:00 PM
Vidiots Episode 3: Flying Pooper Scooper with Joby Saad (as the Village Idiot)
Features | 90 min.
 Redondo Beach Performance Art Center
2:00 PM
Waiting for Tomorrow
George Gomez | Features | 90 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
4:00 PM
Over the Water
Features | 55 min.
 Custom Hotel - La Taj
8:00 PM
Awards Dinner
Awards | 120 min.
 Custom Hotel