For 2004, the Salon expanded to two tents - the Trans-Lux and the Rialto - located adjacent to Milford Theatre & next to the Hospitality Tent, and as part of the lineup featured emerging independent filmmakers, talented artists from university Film Schools as well as work of local high school students. As in the past, the 2004 Film Salon brought together industry insiders with moviegoers to educate and entertain within an intimate setting - all free to the public.

Film Salon Hours:
Saturday, October 16, 2004
11 AM – 10.30 PM
Sunday, October 17, 2004
12 Noon to 5 PM

The 2004 Youth in Film / New Indie Filmmakers Program is made possible in part through contributions from:

• Gabe Construction and Development Corp of Glendale, NY - Ernie and Adrianne Bertuzzi
• Princeton Realty Management of Sparta, NJ - Dr. Barth and Rosemary D’Ascoli
• Davis R. Chant Realtors of Milford, PA
• The Eastman Kodak Company

Saturday

TENT 1: The "Trans-Lux" Theatre

12 Noon: Welcome and Introduction

12 Noon – 1:30 PM Films, Q&A, from Delaware Valley High School Students (present & past)

• A Cup of Conscience by Alex Lotorto, Steve Ohocinski, Matt Wardell, and Kelsey Stalter, DVHS Class of 2005. (~45 min) Based in the town of Milford, PA, the story follows a day of three young men as they discover that their differences lie deeper than their favorite drinks at the local coffee shop. Discussing the universal issues of love, family and religion, each takes a different stance on the issue at hand, tasting the ideas of a well-brewed "cup of conscience."
  
  
• The Good Fight by Jeremy Russell, DVHS Class of 2003 (17 min). The story of a young man estranged from his repetitive life realizes that he’s not alone on one humid summer day. Set off by his companion’s wrong-doings, David is met by an eclectic web of characters as he leaves home in an attempt to rekindle what he feels he’s been missing for the last five years.
  

1:30-2 PM Lunch Break

2-3 PM Lecture: Screenwriting, by Malia Scotch Marmo & Stephen Scotch Marmo Writer/Producer/Director Malia Scotch Marmo wrote Steven Spielberg’s fantasy, Hook, and has served as producer on many others. She also teaches at Columbia. Her husband, with whom she often works, is producer, story consultant and editor Stephen Scotch-Marmo, a former video editor. To illuminate screenwriting points, they show their short film. The Three F's: Feeding, Fighting and Procreating will be a triptych of short films, each depicting a life-changing moment in a person's life. Part 3 (7 min), the first part to be completed, concerns a sixteen year-old’s first sexual experience. (Depicts sexuality but does not have nudity. It is not intended for younger audiences.)

3-6:30 "Cutting Edge From the Cutting Edge": New Film Shorts from Universities

3-4:30 PM Columbia University

• Wrigley by Oliver Refson (15 min)
  A middle-aged man’s coming of age story about growing up and letting go …maybe. On a stakeout in a suburban neighborhood, a strong silent type and his motor-mouth sidekick stew in a car eating bagels and cream cheese … and kidnapping an old man.
  
  
• Family Portrait by Patricia Riggen (27 min)
  

• Richard and Diana render their own family portrait as they recount their childhood memories and the challenges they faced since1968 when, for Life magazine Gordon Parks photographed their disenfranchised African American family of 12 living in extreme poverty in a small Harlem apartment. A moving documentary.
  
  
• Orson by David Pastor Vallejo (17 min 20 sec)
  
• When crime strikes the boring gated community of Maple Meadows, there’s only one man to call. And then there’s also Orson. A comedy/thriller/spoof.

4:30-5:30 PM Pennsylvania State University

Dylan DiMaggio filming Hugh Brodie in The Truthful One. Photo (c)2004 Joe DiMaggio.

• The Truthful One by Dylan DiMaggio (6 min) DVHS Class of 2000
  Over the past 10 years, DiMaggio has recorded jazz musician Hugh Brodie in many concerts, back stage interviews and formal studio interviews. Brodie's music is beautiful, avant-garde, complex and at the same time very simple, and his inner beauty transcends the film medium. DiMaggio's ultimate goal is to do a 1 hour special on Brodie for PBS, and is actively looking for creative collaborators.
  
  
• Something Else by Alex Jerri and Chris Radcliff (23min, 22sec)
  With their parents away and the teachers on strike, a brother and sister aimlessly spend their days exploring each other and the intimacy of their relationship. While dealing with a depressing night job, a troubled aunt, and a puzzling neighbor, the two of them reflect on the aimlessness of their lives, the possibilities of their future, and the dream of someday being truly happy.
  
  

5:30-6 PM Temple University

• Make-up by Inbar Gilboa (22 min)
  One Night. Four Lives. Worlds Collide. Ayala is visiting the States to celebrate her last days of freedom before enlisting in the Israeli army. Out for a night on the town with friends Karen and Oren, Ayala puts a first encounter trust in Oren's friend Drew, a promoter who sneaks the underage girls into a nightclub. When Ayala & Drew disappear, jealousy erupts. The search for the missing pair leads to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion.
  
  

6-6:30 PM New York University

• Savior by Eria Skuladottir (28 min). In Icelandic, subtitled.
  A lonely teenage girl's quest for independence. Forced by her neglectful parents to spend summer in a camp for much younger children, Kaja runs away. What she encounters on her journey are the dangers of the exotic Icelandic wilderness and her deepest fears

6:30-7 PM Dinner Break

7-10:30 PM "Cutting Edge from the Cutting Edge": More Film School Shorts

7-10 PM School of Visual Arts (2004 Dusty Film Festival Award Winners)

• Francesca by Alexis Russo (12 min) (Outstanding Achievement, Alternative Cinema) A day in the life of an 82 year old and the progression of her short term memory due to dementia.
  
• Kalipolis by Minos Papas (15 min) (Outstanding Achievement, Cinematography) A young woman arrives in New York City for the first time. In her new, empty apartment she discovers an audio tape that takes her on a journey through the city, through the eyes of a poet preparing to leave forever. A film about permanent transition in NYC.
  
  
• Field Theory by Jesse Coane (18 min) (Outstanding Achievement Directing, Editing) How hard are you willing to try? How hard are you trying to forget? You watch T.V. You sleep in. You take time for granted ... So what is it that you are looking for? What is it going to take? What’s Next?
  
• Frog by Christopher Conforti (4 min) (Outstanding Achievement, Traditional Animation) In his search for water, a frog finds himself evading panic-stricken swimmers, a vicious house cat, and eventually passes through the human digestive system before reaching salvation in a tranquil lake.
  
  
• Momentum by Sandra Madsen (30 min) (Outstanding Achievement, Documentary Filmmaking) A documentary comparing the progression of the Anti-Iraq war movement in NY and Washington DC, to the progression of police aggression. The quest, to find a truth behind the movement, its ideals regarding democracy, and the voices of a people seeking a peaceful solution to the issues with Iraq. Includes footage shot in Iraq before, during and after the War.
  
  
• Dear Mum, Something Horrible Happened to Humphrey by Genevieve Manion (8 min) (Outstanding Achievement, Alternative Cinema) A gritty, visual feast for the eyes, a harrowing tale of self-discovery and tea. A luscious muse comes to terms with her self-made vacuum of mediocrity while submitting to a has-been photographer who captures her every move, slinking through NY streets and bars, falling prey to bizarre twitching until they throw her into a life-altering epiphany! … And then there’s poor Humphrey.
  
  
  
• A Daughter’s Father (Vater einter tochter) by Kathrin Burmester (30 min) (Outstanding Achievement, Documentary) Burmester, a native of Germany, created a documentary about her father who passed away in the fall of 2002. The film documents her journey to discover the man and hard worker he was. Burmester filmed throughout her father's two-year battle with cancer, which she says, "helped her face [her] father's disease, and it seemed to help [her] father too.

10-10:30 PM State University of NY (SUNY/Purchase)

• Modern Romance by Jymi Mehiel (15 min) A gritty journey of a young girl trapped in a life of prostitution. At a crossroads of self-destruction and the possibility of escape, will the weight of the world she's under keep her down?

Saturday

TENT 2: The "Rialto Theatre"
11AM Welcome and Introduction

11 AM-Noon Children’s Presentation: Milton's Dilemma and the Consequences of Bullying, a presentation for children by Patricia Gatto & John De Angelis, local authors of the book, Milton’s Dilemma, featuring an animated reading of their story and original songs, with book signings.

12:15-1:15 PM Lecture: And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies by John DiLeo. Author of two books about films, including And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies, which Pauline Kael called "the smartest movie quiz book I’ve ever seen," DiLeo is also an occasional book reviewer for The Washington Post, and writes a DVD column for Urban Refugee Magazine. He will pay tribute, via video clips and readings, to some surprising and wonderful moments in classic movies, with particular attention paid to great screen performances that for too long have been underappreciated.

1:30-2 PM Lunch Break

2-4.30 PM A Seminar on Shorts

• 2:30 PM The Catskill Chainsaw Redemption by Matt Unger (15 min)
  A chainsaw-wielding maniac goes on an unexpected odyssey of self-discovery. After a lifetime of cutting people open, can he learn what they're really like inside? Co-written by Unger with J.R. Havlan, Emmy winning writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
  
  
  
  
• 3 PM The Paper Mache Chase by Dave Jordan (10 min) Spalding Gray's last performance in this short about over-achieving parents and their hilarious attempts to get their child into an elite pre-school. Also starring Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City, Jim Gaffigan (That 70s Show, Welcome to NY, Igby Goes Down) Kate Burton and Lonette McKee.
  
  
• 3:30 PM Exit 8A by Margaret Harris (22 min) Shot in NJ, Exit 8A is about the way the world feels right now, like a pressure cooker, with a claustrophobic sense of hopelessness. Things can go out of control so easily. One discussion in a gas station can lead to a brawl, a kidnapping and a murder: life as chaos theory; everything happens in the moment.
  

4:30-5 PM Film Bee Dee Bop, by Alexandra Oakley (24 min) Quebec, Canada, is caught between American & European artistic influences, a cultural diversity. This documentary exposes Montreal’s underground comics as a distinct form of expression. We meet three different artists for whom comic strips go beyond our usual Sunday cartoons we read as children. Marginality, originality and authenticity characterize their work.

5:30-6:30 PM Casting Seminar: Independent Films, Commercials and Voiceovers Jennifer Sukup is a top voiceover casting agent for hundreds of television and radio spots, animation and industrials, including Showtime, Verizon, Volvo and Dunkin Donuts. She also casts for independent features, shorts and readings. NY agent Jean-Louis Diamonika of the Gersh Talent & Literary Agency in NYC was most previously associated with the highly regarded commercial talent agency Cunningham-Escott-Dipene), and served his apprenticeship to veteran Carrie Morgan, the industry’s most respected commercial agent. Hear their insights on breaking into this lucrative market.

6:30-7 PM Dinner Break

7-8 PM Lecture on Production Design by Kalina Ivanov: How Color Creates Mood in Film and Life. Master production designer and storyboard artist Kalina Ivanov, whose first break came from Jonathan Demme in Silence of the Lambs, gives a wonderful presentation about production design, weaving in film examples with her talk.

9-10 PM A Salon Box of Chocolates: You Never Know What You're Gonna Get

Sunday, October 17, 2004
Hours: 12-5 PM

TENT 1: The "Trans-Lux Theatre"

Black Bear Film Festival EnviroFest

Three excellent documentary films jump into the environmental fray to give powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes hopeful, sometimes despairing, views of how we are intimately affected right here in our own homes.

• 12 -1:30 PM
  Containment: Life after Three Mile Island, by Nick Poppy & Chris Boebel (60 min, 2003) Nick Poppy was evacuated with his family from the area during the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979; a quarter of a century later he and Chris Boebel explore the legacy from the perspective of the nearby community of Middletown, PA. A skillful weave of interview, verité scenes and archival material, examining the accident’s long-term effects on local residents, from health issues to activism. What, the filmmakers ask, is the half-life of memory? Co-director/writer Nick Poppy will be in attendance to stir the conversation. www.containment.net
  
  
• 1:30 – 3:30 PM
• Save Our Land, Save Our Towns, by Dirk Eitzen. Introduced by Peter Pinchot (57 min, 2000) Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Hylton, this is a fascinating look at the loss of open space as urban sprawl eats up America’s cities, towns and countryside – but giving hope and the hows of rebuilding our towns and preserving the countryside from strip malls and subdivisions, with an especial look at how England has managed to stay green and full of lovely villages over centuries of population growth. Filmed in Pennsylvania, England, Oregon, and North Carolina. Environmentalist Peter Pinchot (Pinchot Institute of Conservation) will be on hand to show how to "Keep Pike Green" as our own county is named one of the 50 fastest-growing counties in the country. www.saveourlandsaveourtowns.org
  
  
• 3:30 – 5 PM
• Blue Vinyl, by Judith Helfand & Daniel B. Gold (94 min, 2002) Winner of the documentary cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for 2 Emmys, this self-styled "toxic comedy" is a powerfully funny film of one family’s journey with PVCs and the plastic industry. When Judith Helfand’s parents decide to vinyl side their Long Island house, she tries – unsuccessfully - to talk them out of this seemingly benign cure-all. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, the Peabody Award-winning filmmaker goes on a toxic odyssey in search of answers about the nature of the world’s second-most popular plastic that even pigeons won’t eat off of. A representative from the Blue Vinyl Organization will join us for discussion. www.bluevinyl.org, www.myhouseisyourhouse.org

Sunday

TENT 2: The "Rialto" Theatre

• The Bookshelf, by Yohei Kawamata (5 min) Something is about to happen in a studio apartment. A plump man builds a bookshelf, eventually, with his bare hands. But he realizes that he did not make sure of something very crucial.
  
  
• Superhero, by Mike Lazorwitz (3 min) While searching France for his next subject, Jean-Luc Dupin found a local legend. This is the life story of Mike Lazorwitz, superhero.
  
  
• Stuck, by Xochitl Gonzalez (15 min) Steve, a doctor on-call one night at the county hospital, is stuck with a needle infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. Rather than go home and face what has happened, Steve stays and continues to treat patients, including the one who potentially infected him.
  

12:30-1:30 PM Screening of Documentary Work-In-Progress, A Prayer for Peace

1:30-2 PM Lunch Break

2-3 PM Lecture: Producing & Financing Independent Films
Money problems? Get the independent film financing scoop from industry insiders. Jose Martinez, Jr. is an entertainment & corporate attorney, co-founder of Arthouse Films, a division of Palm Pictures (www.palmpictures.com). Paul Barretta is founder of Talent Clearing House, which administers royalties, licensing, equity participation and related contracts for the media and entertainment industry.

3-5 PM Black Bear's Best of the Best. Includes India, 1964 by Abhay Chopra (28 min) (School of Visual Arts Dusty Award Winner for Outstanding Film, Outstanding Achievement in Directing). Looking at capital punishment in India. A jailer has been performing executions for 25 years as a 9-5 job. What happens when he starts feeling?

Film Salon:
William Schill,Coordinator
Grace Woodard, Co-Coordinator
Fred Buchholz (EnviroFest)