East Lansing Film Festival 2009

The East Lansing Film Festival - ELFF

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This comedic and self-referential claymation mockumentary tells the making of a puppet film.
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A short thriller in which psychotic love obsessed Alicja talks to the camera.
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One morning Johnny finds a CD player in his room that does not belong to him. It doesn’t belong to anyone he knows. Johnny, therefore, comes to a logical conclusion: this CD player is in fact a time machine sent back to him. From him. In the future. To him. In the now. Johnny's life and ties to reality slowly begin to fray as he tries desperately to activate the time machine. Or CD player.
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Ever read a choose your own adventure novel? This one’s a movie. An interactive murder mystery comedy in which the audience makes choices to navigate through multiple story lines and five unique endings to solve the crime!
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Returning home was the choice she made. Letting go was the choice she inspired.After getting sick, a young Native American woman, Willa, returns to her mother's home where they both must come to terms with her illness. Willa's mother, who had been a long time 'shut in', begins venturing outside with her camcorder, taping the sunrise and mountains, bringing the outside world in to the bed ridden Willa. Audiences catch a glimpse into the lives of two dynamic women, leading up to the moment where only one thing is for certain... change. Award winning screenwriter, Kalani Queypo, offers up a compelling directorial debut with this intimate short film.Gripping performances by Tantoo Cardinal (Dances With Wolves, Legends of the Fall) and Rulan Tangen (The New World) are beautifully complimented with rich visual images and an impressive original soundtrack.
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An artist disappears under mysterious circumstances after one of his paintings is connected to a series of miracles. A film crew pieces together details of the story through interviews and archival footage.
Closing Night Film
Ashes of American Flags is a new film presenting the Chicago band Wilco live in concert during their 2008 tour. Filmed and recorded from five quintessentially American concert venues - Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Tipitina’s in New Orleans, The Mobile, AL Civic Center, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. – the film captures the spirit, energy and poignancy of a Wilco concert and tour. Ashes of American Flags intersperses interviews with band members and day-in-the-life footage as the band travels across the U.S.
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Austin Smith is an 8-year-old boy who is diagnosed with autism. He loves to take pictures of the “Brighton Biennial,” 27 public art sculptures in downtown Brighton, Michigan, his hometown. Everyday, Austin and his mother, Faith, walk through downtown to make sure all of the art displays are safe. What does Austin think of the town's conservative response to the sculptures? How will he react when some of the sculptures are vandalized? “Austin's Movie” is a story about the innocence of a unique young individual to help us see things we miss in life.
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Bean, a fifteen year old writer, says goodbye to her surrogate father, Johnny. Her mother, Julie, has a new boyfriend, Scoot, a lazy redneck. Bean wants Julie to stop cycling through men and start being a mother. When Julie is unreceptive, Bean takes action to gain her mother’s attention.
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