Eastern Oregon Film Festival is proud to announce the 2011 Official Film Selections to be screened at the Granada Theater in historic downtown La Grande. Featured films for this yearʼs program include the NW Premiere of Jon Foyʼs Sundance winning documentary ʻResurrect Deadʼ, the West Coast Premiere of Tristan Pattersonʼs moving and intimate SXSW winner, ʻDragonslayerʼ, and Evan Glodell’s innovative and thrilling low-budget phenom, ʻBellflowerʼ. View the complete schedule.
2011 Official Short Film Selections
2011 Official Short Film Selections Eastern Oregon Film Festival announces the official 2011 short film selection. Each feature film for this year’s festival will be preceded by one of these great short films. A Face Fixed DIRECTOR: ANDREW DROZ PALERMO 19 MINUTES Thursday, Oct. 21 : 7:00pm Precedes Resurrect Dead Lost in a deep depression, a young man finds boxes of home videos and photographs of his parents creation, which shed light onto his broken home and give perspective on young love and fatherhood. Kosmos DIRECTOR:...
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OPENING NIGHT FEATURE Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Feature Documentary TRT: 85 min.| U.S.A. | color A Film By: JON FOY Awards: 2011 Sundance Director’s Award: Documentary ‘Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001. Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter.’ Strangeness is afoot. Most people don’t notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has...
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Green Narrative Feature TRT: 72 min.| U.S.A. | color Written and Directed by Sophia Takal Awards: SXSW / Chicken & Egg Emergent Woman Director Award An intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy in this haunting examination of the female psyche. “Brilliantly observed….strong performances and seamless, probing dialogue generate sequences of subtly shifting emotions, filling each scene with a palpable sense of tension and...
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Cirkus Columbia Narrative Feature TRT: 113min | Bosnia | color A film by Danis Tanovic *In Bosnian with English Subtitles Official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival “With his fourth film, “Cirkus Columbia,” Tanovic wisely returns to his Bosnia and Herzegovina roots, where the small but highly nuanced story, set in prewar 1991, rings with authenticity and weight.” -The Hollywood Reporter SYNOPSIS: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. The communists have fallen from power and Divko Buntic returns to the...
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The Last Mountain Feature Documentary TRT: 113min | USA | color Director: Bill Haney *A panel discussion hosted by Oregon Rural Action will follow the screening. “One of the most compelling environmental documentaries I’ve ever seen” - Dave Paiz, The Loft Cinema Synopsis In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many...
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DRAGONSLAYER Documentary Feature TRT 74 minute | United States | HD Director: Tristan Patterson Awards: Best Documentary Feature, SXSW 2011, Best Cinematography, SXSW 2011, Best International Feature, Hot Docs 2011 Drag City in association with Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty. “A must-see doc…”Dragonslayer” is a terrific new non-fiction movie with a lot of love...
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COUNTRY STORY Narrative Feature A Film by Ian Clark TRT 64 Min | USA | Color Jason is a small-town slacker living with his mom. Content with idle days and easy livin’, his forgetful nature creates tension at home so he sets off with his pals to try his hand at redemption. At once poetically sublime and playfully comedic, lyrical and sardonic, Country Story is a tender and loving homage to small-towns and quieter landscapes. Defined by both narrative fiction and documentary verité, this film honestly portrays the everyday drama and monotony...
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Bad Fever Narrative Feature – West Coast Premiere A Film by Dustin Guy Defa TRT 77 Min | USA | Color A humorless loner attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club. “5 out of 5… a challenging, haunting piece of filmmaking.” – Andrew Johnson, Gordon and the Whale Synopsis Alternatingly quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man’s broken American Dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even...
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Nobody Cares Narrative Feature – WORLD PREMIERE A Film by Dustin Travis Swartz TRT 95 Min | USA | Color Bob Rockefeller has never been loved, by anyone, ever. He’s a sad sack who shovels shit for a living. Life has been anything but extraordinary but that’s about to change. During a routine prostate exam, Bob learns he has only 8.5 days to live. 8.5 days to find happiness. 8.5 days to find true love. 8.5 days to find a home for his guinea pigs. 8.5 days to make up for 43 years of living a life that totally sucks. ...
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Press Pause Play Feature Documentary TRT 80 minute | United States | Color Directed by: David Dworsky and Victor Köhle “WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A NEW DARK AGE. THE CREATIVE WORLD IS DESTROYED. ALL WE HAVE IS CACOPHONY AND SELF OPINION.” —ANDREW KEEN, AUTHOR, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR Synopsis The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent...
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Bellflower A film by Evan Glodell Feature Narrative TRT: 105 min | United States | Color Rated R World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival 2011 SYNOPSIS Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more...
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