THE 23 BOSTON FILM FESTIVAL
AMC LOEWS THEATRES
SEPTEMBER 14-21

Friday, September 14
Saturday, September 15
Sunday, September 16
Monday, September 17
Tuesday, September 18
Wednesday, September 19
Thursday, September 18
Friday, September 21

Friday, September 14 Opening Night Film and Party
7:30PM	Grace is Gone	Director *James Strouse, starring John Cusack, 92 min
10:00PM	OPENING NIGHT PARTY	Mantra 52 Template Place, Boston, 02111 617-542-8111
	* Be one of the first 100 tickets sold to the film and have your ticket stamped at the BFF table and you'll get into the party free! (value $150)
Saturday, September 15
12:00-2:00PM	The Price of Sugar	Director *Bill Haney, Narrated by Paul Newman, 90 min
2:30-3:30PM	Calvin and Sweet Pea	*Director John Fletcher 52 min
	Synopsis: The children of a woman dying from Alzheimer's struggle with whether their father's treatment of their mother in the final years of her life absolves him from the previous fifty.
4:00-6:00PM	Mo	105 min
	Synopsis: Mo’s just another kid trying to fit in and find his way, however he suffers from a genetic mutation called "Marfan Syndrome, which makes his adolescent trials all that more difficult
4:00-6:00PM	In The Crease	Director *Michael Sarner, 90 min
	Synopsis: IN THE CREASE is the first film to take an inside look at youth sports and what it means to kids and their families by charting the roller-coaster ride of a real life teenage hockey team's pursuit of a national championship. The film also features interviews from 15 NHL Stars sharing their own on the ice triumphs growing up playing the game.
7:00-8:30PM	Oldest Basketball Team in The World	Director *Sharon McGowan, 47 min
	Synopsis: This documentary follows 'The Retreads', a women's basketball team with an average ago of 72 as they train for the World Masters Games. Alone in their age category, The Retreads find they must play against three younger, stronger and faster teams.
7:30-9:30PM	Lars and The Real Girl	Director *Craig Gillespie, starring Ryan Gosling, *Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Schneider, 120 min
8:00-11:00PM	JERRY WEINTRAUB TRIBUTE	with GEORGE CLOONEY
8:30-10:30PM	Team Everest	*Andy Cockrum, 111 min
10:00PM-12:00AM	Lars and The Real Girl	Director *Craig Gillespie, starring Ryan Gosling, *Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Schneider, 120 min
Sunday, September 16
12:00-2:30PM	Come Walk in My Shoes	Director *Robin Smith, 57 min
	Synopsis: Civil rights pioneer John Lewis revisits the churches, parks and bridges where he played a pivotal role in the struggle for equality and voting rights in the segregated south.
	Lost and Found in Mexico	Director *Caren Cross, 53 min
	Synopsis: Lost and Found in Mexico starts out light-hearted but becomes a thought-provoking and inspiring look into the hearts and minds of people who exchanged the American dream for life in third world Mexico.
12:00-2:00PM	Short Program A	122 min
	The Ladies	Dir/Prod: Christina Voros. 13 min
	Synopsis: 75 years since the first marriage, 50 since the Hungarian Revolution, 25 since the last divorce, two sisters continue to cling to their craft, their grudges and each other.
	A.W.O.L.	Dir: Jack Swanstrom Prod: Jessica Wethington, 22 min
	Synopsis: A Twist of Fate Can Be Torture.
	Coney Island	Dir/Prod: Ramen Cromwell, 26 min
	Synopsis: A GUY down on his luck finds himself lost in Coney Island where he meets a woman he mistakes for a MERMAID. They spend the day together and dream about running off to start a new life.
	These Boots are Made for Walken	Dir/Prod: Jeremy Pack, 25 min
	Synopsis: A man has committed himself to a mental institution believing he is Christopher Walken. His brother finds him and enlists his help in a heist so that he wants to get out of the institution.
	A Driving Lesson	Dir/Prod: Darren Press, 25 min
	Synopsis: It is a lovely autumn day and Leslie has taken her daughter Brooke out for a driving lesson on a quiet country road. And as in any mother/daughter relationship, things do not remain quiet.
	The Baglady Diaries	Dir:Tyler Purcell Prod/starring:Laney Fichera, 10 min
	Synopsis: Wanda Shapiro a very successful, yet egocentric talent agent spontaneously combusts; confirming, that we all may be, just one deal away from the streets.
	Sweet Pea	14 min
3:00-5:00PM	The Union: The Business of Getting High	Director *Brett Harvey, 105 min
	Synopsis: After noticing the effects of the illegal marijuana trade industry on his business, a young night club owner dives head first into the underground market. From buried train cars, to Harvard professors and pop culture icons, join Adam Scorgie as he attempts to unravel the mystery of 'The Union'.
4:00-6:00PM	Rails & Ties	Director *Alison Eastwood, starring *Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, 120 Min
5:30-7:30PM	MetroSexual	Director *Adam Kaufman, starring Shaun Benson, Nick Paonessa, Mya Harrison, Colm Meaney, 84 min
6:00-8:00PM	Todd English and BONFIRE Party
	Synopsis: In “The Metrosexual”, Eric Bremer elevates “typical male behavior” with his obsessive attention to appearance, manners, and a preference for the finer things in life.
8:30-10:30PM	Good Luck Chuck	Director *Mark Helfrich, starring *Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, 120 min
9:00-11:00PM	Rails & Ties	Director *Alison Eastwood, starring *Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, 120
Monday, September 17
3:30-5:30PM	Street Cleaner	Director *Nathaniel Nauert, 34 min
	Synopsis: A prostitute gets kidnapped and held in a small room, but not for the reasons one would expect.
	Rose	Director Ava Karvonen, starring Kathryn Robinson, Phillip Rogers, 33 min
	Synopsis: Little Travis lives for one day a year, the day he goes into the woods to meet his best friend Rose. The ghost of a murdered, runaway teenage girl, Rose returns to the woods once a year to relive her final hours to the last detail.
	CNN Hero Mountain Top Removal	Director *Michael Cusack O’Connell 74 min
	Synopsis: Mountain Top Removal explores the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining through the actions of coal field residents and citizen conservation groups.
5:00-7:00PM	Filmmaker Reception	Strega Restaurant
6:00-8:00PM	Bobby Dog	Director *TK Reilly, Starring Mike Boland, Dawn McGee, Joshua Eddy, 115 min
6:00-8:00PM	Short Program B	120 min
	Alternate Endings	Dir/Prod: Elisabeth Fry, 14 min
	Synopsis: The story of a successful photojournalist who is caught in the crossfire of a Los Angeles gang war. As she recovers from her physical injuries, she is forced to confront the dark emotional pain of her past.
	Massacre at Mirambi	Dir/Prod: Sam Kauffmann, 5 min
	Synopsis: Does the way we responded to the genocide in Rwanda tell us about who we are as members of the 'Global Village' and predict our response to Darfur?
	D4 Delivery	Dir/Prod: Heland Lee, 13 min
	Synopsis: Living in New York City can be perilous...especially when you lead the life of a Chinese food delivery man. Murders and assaults happen daily but go unreported.
	The Ride	Dir./Prod: Brian Ide
	The film takes us on a ride with Paul Revere and shows us what really happened on that fateful night in Boston.
	Case 13
	On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres	Dir/Prod: Jason Mann
	Synopsis: A microcosm of ecclesiastical tension in the United States that depicts one family at the mercy of a Mid-western town after trying to stop the mandatory prayer in the local high school.
	The End of Magic
	August
	A Bump In The Night	Dir/Prod: Benjamin Kitchens, 6 min
	Synopsis: A smoky control room is the center of salvation. A small team of scientists and engineers stands poised delicately between the world and unspeakable destruction. The future of the earth is in the past and one man is being sent to retrieve it. Will he survive, or will he encounter something unlike anything he has ever experienced?
	December Story
	Why?	7 min
7:00-9:00PM	Trade	Director *Marco Kreuzpaintner, starring Kevin Kline, *Alicja Bachleda, Paulina Gaitan, Cesar Ramos, Producer *Roland Emmering, 90 min
	Synopsis: Trade is the riveting story of what happens to 13-year-old Adriana after she is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City and her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, who sets off on a desperate mission to save her.
9:30-11:30PM	Good Luck Chuck	Director *Mark Helfrich, starring *Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, 120 min
Tuesday, September 18
4:00-6:00PM	Short Program C	121 min
	Super 16	17 min
	Taxista	21 min
	Lebenswandel	22 min
	The Masquerade	16 min
	The Hikeaway	16 min
	Perle	10 min
	Turn Back South	11 min
	Love Story	13 min
	The Art of Stalking	Dir/Prod: Amitabh Klemm, 14 min
	Synopsis: Leo is infatuated with Kate, has been following her for some time, and needs to know part of her feels the same way towards him. One night Leo discovers someone dangerous also following Kate. He takes it upon himself to protect her, and everything goes horribly wrong.
6:00-8:00PM	Everybody Wants To Be Italian	Director *Jason Todd Ipson, Jaime Burke, starring Cerina Vincent, Dan Cortese, *Jay Jablonski, *John Kapelos, John Enos III, 103 min
	Synopsis: It's a case of mistaken ethnicity, when two non-Italians pretend to be Italian to win each other's hearts in Boston's North End.
5:00-7:00PM	Filmmaker Reception	Umbria Restaurant
6:30-8:00PM	Million Calorie March	Director *Gary Marino, starring Brian Baldwin, Dan Jones, Russ Surette, Julie Marino and Dr. Howard Rankin, 95 min
	Synopsis: Million Calorie March follows the journey of recovering food addict, Gary Marino, whose weight loss inspired him to launch a national Walk for Obesity and become a healthy activist for change. Marino uses his Florida to Boston walk to raise funds to fight childhood obesity
8:30PM	Stiffs	Director *Frank Ciota, starring *Danny Aiello, *Leslie Ann Warren, 80 min
Wednesday, September 19
4:00-6:30PM	Greetings From The Shore	Director *Greg Chwerchak, starring Paul Sorvino, Jay O' Sanders, *Kim Shaw, *David Fumero, 118 min
	Synopsis: A coming of age film in the tradition of “Mystic Pizza” and “Dirty Dancing”
5:00-7:00PM	Filmmaker Reception	33 Restaurant and Lounge
7:15-9:15PM	Wondering William and The Sandman	7 min
	In The Land of Merry Misfits	Director *Kevin Ungaro, Producer *Maria Menounos, 98 min
	Synopsis: It’s Will’s loss of love and his desire for revenge that drives him through a mystical tunnel and into a strange universe.
7:00-9:00PM	Take	Director *Charles Oliver, starring Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, *Adam Rodriquez, 99 min
	Synopsis:The lives of two strangers, a struggling mother and a gambling addict, converge in unspeakable tragedy.
9:30-11:15PM	Strength and Honour	*Director Mark Mahon, starring *Michael Madsen, 104 min
	Synopsis: A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death
9:30-11:00PM	In The World of Puppy Love	Director *Wendy Diamond, 78 min
	Synopsis: It's the story of one woman's heartfelt search to discover whether the same unconditional love, loyalty and soulful bond people experience with their dogs can be paralleled in a human relationship. Can she find the right breed!
CLOSING NIGHT Thursday, September 20
5:00-7:00PM	CLOSING NIGHT Party	MIEL RESTAURANT At The Intercontinetal
4:00PM	Golden Days	Director *Chris Suchorsky, 95 min
5:00-6:30PM	Beyond The Call	Director *Adrian Belic, 82 min
7:00-8:00PM	Who Ordered Tax	Director *Kevin Bright, Linda Feferman, 30 min
8:00-10:00PM	New York City Serenade	Director *Frank Whaley, starring Freddie Prince, Jr. Chris Klein, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Wallace Shawn, 95 min
	Synopsis: New York City Serenade tells the story of lifelong friends Owen and Ray and the series of events that lead to their final farewell. Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Chris Klein are Owen and Ray.
7:15-8:00PM	Love Sees No Color	*Starring Nassiri, 30 min
	Synopsis: "Love Sees No Colors" is a one-of-a-kind 12-minute musical sung in 15 languages by thousands of children in 18 countries by 18 of the world's most talented directors. Nassiri began filming this visually stunning short film in the fall of 2006 as a launching pad for the Nassiri World Peace Foundation
8:30-10:30PM	The Poet	Director *Damien Lee, starring Daryl Hannah, Jonathan Scarfe, Nina Dobrev, *Zachary Bennett, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates, 91 min
	Synopsis: At the dawn of WWII, a Rabbi’s daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another.
Friday, September 21
3:00-5:00PM	Short Program D	119 min
	Odesa	Dir/Prod: Ian Midgley, 13 min
	Synopsis: A young American is trapped in a Ukrainian hospital as he battles fever.
	Archer House	Dir: Dina Gachman Prod: Mary Posatko, 17 min
	Synopsis: A young outcast braves the petit four-fueled skits and cult-like rituals of a Texas sorority.
	Silence	Dir/Prod: Aldo Paternostro, 18 min
	Synopsis: A film shot in reverse- an unsentimental yet intimate story about how the absence of words affects a young couple's future. It is about the frailties of love and an examination of what happens when two people want different things and are afraid to accept it.
	Shawn and Sean Search For God	Dir/Prod: Rosario Pellerito, 18 min
	Synopsis: Shawn and Sean go on a journey with one thing on there mind; God. 'Shawn and Sean Search for God is a heartfelt comedy about the struggles two naive men face as they go on a quest to find 'God'...literally. When things don't pan out as expected, they must make a decision. Keep going or give up.
	Wonderful, Wonderful	17 min
	Sexy Thing	Dir: Denie Pentecost Prod: Heather Oxenham, 14 min
	Synopsis: On a dry suburban day, a 12 year old is caught between the conflicting worlds of family, friendship and imagination. Struggling to endure a confusing love, and longing simply to be seen, the child survives by transforming pain.
	Lucifer	8 min
	Synopsis: This is the story of an exalted angel, charismatic, even heroic, who sat at the right hand of God presumed to be the “chosen one” to rule the Kingdom of Heaven. But this angel whose fierce pride fueled an ambition that would corrupt his judgment, alienate him from his closest friend, divide the heavenly host into two warring factions and ultimately bring Sin and Death to mankind.
6:30-8:30M	High and Outside	*Bill Spaceman Lee, Director *Peter J. Vogt