Works
Carnival Train
Who: filmmakers Matt and Cornelia Barr
When: 6:30 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
Where: Studio Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5
The carnies who assemble and maintain the rides and man the games for the James E. Strates carnival are often
looked down upon because of their transient way of life. Matt Barr goes behind the scenes to capture how
carnies create a community and way of life that transcends place and time.
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Chicken Cheerleader
Who: Directed by Carissa Dorson
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
Carly, the head cheerleader, is faced with a ruined reputation when her friends come to "The Barnyard",
a dinner where unknown to the whole school, she works as a waitress.
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Complete History of the World
Who: Directed by Thomas Lorne
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
When a neurotic, tongue-tied professor of linguistics fails in his attempts to talk to an interesting
woman at the local bookstore, he retreats deep into his mind.
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Crackie
Who: Directed by Sherry White,
Produced by Jennice Ripley and Rhonda Buckley
When: 9:00 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10
"Crackie" is the story of Mitsy, seventeen, who lives in a ramshackle house in a small town,
with her grandmother, Bride, who has raised her since she was four. Bride spends her days scrounging in the local dump
and her nights entertaining men in her bedroom.
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Dreamers and Troublemakers
Who: Artists Charlotte Lee and Christopher W. Weeks
When: April 5-15, 2010 (Opening Reception: 6-9pm April 8, 2010)
Where: HCC-Ybor Gallery (HCC Performing Arts Building)
Tickets: Free
As a complement to the 2010 Fesitval of the Moving Image, the HCC-Ybor Art Gallery will present works by two Tampa-area artists:
a multi-media installation by Charlotte Lee and
digital images by Christoper Weeks.
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Eric Durham: Florida's Confidence Man
When: 11 am Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Who: Directed by Corey Allen
Tickets: $5
Like a mad scientist, "the confidence man" left the corners of the drug trade and disappeared
only to resurface as one of Tampa's most notorious white collar crime figures.
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Faithless
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Who: Directed by Ramuel Galarza
Tickets: Free
When Pastor Rey Guerrero and his wife, Catalina, return home from church one Sunday, Catalina discovers
a positive pregnancy test in her daughter's bathroom. Will a family member's secret sin be revealed?
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Fire
Who: Choreographed by Christina Acosta, visual design by Charles Recher and performed HCC Dance Department Ensemble
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 7, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
Gentlemen, We've Got to Go
Who: Directed by Stan Kozna
When: 7:30 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10
From projectionist to producer, Chano Rodriguez has spent decades in the film business.
Legend has it that he taught Gary Cooper how to ride a horse and Dennis Hopper how to ride a motorcycle.
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Goodbye Victoria
When: 6:00 pm Sunday, April 11, 2010
Where: Silver Meteor Gallery
Who: Directed by Diran Lyons and Matthew Potter
Tickets: $5
Bradley Mason needs a job, or so says his girlfriend, Victoria. A
tempting opportunity arises when he reunites with old friend Randy, who had moved away from
their boyhood city of Charleston to California.
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Ground Is Lava
Who: Written and Directed by Alexander Solomita
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
When a couple of friends get into an argument there is only one way to settle their dispute. A film made
by University of Tampa student Alexander Solomita.
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Ichthyopolis
Who: Created by Andre Silva
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
"Ichthyopolis", a film by Andre Silva,
is a "short psychedelic technomation, occupies a realm where high-camp, the absurd and the esoteric intersect".
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Journeys in the Kingdom of Shadows
Who: Written and directed by Charles Lyman,
edited by Peter Melaragno
When: 4:00 pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5
"Journeys in the Kingdom of Shadows: the Life and Times of Will Hindle" is a reality-based film
about the highly influential film artist Will Hindle, whose work helped fuel the development of a school of filmmaking
known as "The Personal Film".
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March 31
Who: Directed by Christina Santa Cruz
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
An abstract display of memories and inner struggles create a surrealist
reconstruction of a young girl's fear. Journey through her mind as she
attempts to cope with a recent loss.
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Moving Water: A Brook Through Time
Who: Directed by Charles Lyman
When: 11:30 am Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Studio Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
A film about a family and the changing ecology of the Theodore Lyman Preserve at Red Brook in
Wareham, Massachusetts.
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My Dog Tulip
Who: Animators Paul and Sandra Fierlinger
When: 9:00 pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10
"My Dog Tulip" is a full-length animated film of J.R. Ackerley's book of the same name. It also is
the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted utilizing paperless computer technology.
Tulip was animated by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, who have produced adult animation for PBS for
15 years.
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Rocaterrania
Who: Directed by Brett Ingram
When: 5:00pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5
During the past four decades, seventy-six-year-old Renaldo Kuhler has created hundreds of plates for the
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, illustrating diverse flora and fauna for obscure scientific journals.
Before this documentary, no one knew that Kuhler is also a prolific visionary artist.
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Prom Date
Who: Directed by Fawn Testa
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
Jack can't find a date for the prom, but with a little imagination, he draws up an unforgettable night.
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Taboo: Ronny Elliott
Who: Directed by Dawn Elliott
When: 2:00-6:00 pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Silver Meteor Gallery
Tickets: $5
Directed by Dawn Elliott, "Taboo: Ronny Elliott" is a documentary work-in-progress
about the director's husband, singer-songwriter Ronny Elliott.
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Tampa Film Network Showcase
Who: Selected filmmaers from the Showcase event
When: 7:00 pm Wednesday April 7, 2010
Where: HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10
Members of the Tampa Film Network selected the best of the films presented at the group's Showcase event. Filmmakers are: Daniel Brienza, Taylor Girard, Tony Stinyard, Robert Kreh, Ryan Justice, Sean Osorio and Brian Bourke.
Tampa Urban Experience
Who: Directed by Ryan Stone
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free
"Tampa Urban Exploration" is an experimental documentary film of a hobby that
the filmmaker, Ryan Stone, enjoys. He explores and photographs abandoned or unusual buildings in urban areas.
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The Great Indication
When: 7:30 pm Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Who: Directed by Adrian Errico
Tickets: Free
This narrative piece is adapted from a portion of William S. Burroughs' "The Soft Machine". It depicts an
implied monetary exchange between two individuals for a "surgery".
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The Source
When: 9:00 pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Who: Directed by Joshua Long
Produced by Michael Long
Tickets: $5
Kevin Waterman s a troubled ex-vice detective. When his old partner and friend
is murdered by the mob, he has nothing left but revenge.
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The Valedictorian's Moment
Who: Directed by Fred Smith
When: 7:30 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
Where: Mainstage Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10
One the eve of her high school graduation and valedictorian address, a 16-year-old scholastic prodigy finds
inspiration after suffering an identity crisis coupled with a hard hitting case of writer's block.
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What Lurks in the Dark
Who: Director Garrett Brown
When: 9:00 pm Thursday, April 10, 2010
Where: Studio Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5
An idyllic cabin in the woods becomes a prison for a man and his family. Each evening at sundown he fears they
will be annihilated by a menacing presence. While his wife and child slumber, he waits out the night.
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Wild Caught
Who: filmmakers Matt and Cornelia Barr
When: 5:30 pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Studio Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5
Captivated by the ingenuity, wisdom, and sense of community shared by fishermen on the North Carolina, Matt Barr spent
seven years filming them at work and with their families. What started as the story of a tight-knit traditional fishing
town changed in 2003 when the way of life was threatened by high taxes and the plummeting price of shrimp, the main catch
in Sneads Ferry.
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With These Hands
Who: filmmakers Matt and Cornelia Barr
When: 8:30 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
Where: Studio Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5
In March 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Company closed its plant in Martinsville,
Virginia, after 83 years in operation.
"With These Hands" follows the last load of kiln-dried wood down the assembly line as it is
cut, honed, and assembled into fine furniture.
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