FESTIVAL SCHEDULE THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008 Acorn Theatre
8:00 PM  - 10:00 PM	OPENING NIGHT FILM
	Then She Found Me Director: Helen Hunt TRT: 100:00 Starring: Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, Academy Award nominee Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, and Ben Shankman Adapted from Elinor Lipman’s novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with Then She Found Me, a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mother (Bette Midler), who turns out to be local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life’s questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE FRIDAY APRIL 11, 2008 Evergreen Theatre
10:00 AM  -11:30 AM	FRIDAY MORNING SHORTS
	A Thin Line Drama Writer / Director: Nils Taylor TRT: 4:52 A man weighs the consequences of excessive self-defense.
	Federal Affair Action Adventure Director: Justin Lutsky TRT: 3:00 An over-protective boyfriend uses his tactical resources as an FBI agent to infiltrate his girlfriend’s clandestine meeting. Produced for the advanced selection phase of Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett’s reality television show, On the Lot. This film had to be independently produced, written, directed and edited in one week.
	Mugs Director: Ronnie Cramer TRT: 4:24 One hundred of your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to the next. The minimalist, trance-like soundtrack adds to the hypnotic effect.
	Struck Comedy Director: Taron Lexton TRT: 7:00 Struck by an arrow that won't come out, Joel resolves to live with his unusual affliction, despite the torments from life.
	Rabia Drama Director: Muhammad Ali Hasan TRT: 23:30 Rabia is a woman who must sacrifice herself in order to exist. From the moment she straps explosives to her bare body, we are exposed to flashbacks of Rabia’s past, filled with abuse, rejection, and struggle. Is Rabia’s act one of evil or one of heroism?
	Morning Fall Thriller Director: Edward McGinty TRT: 9:00 A mysterious man wakes up on the side of the road, injured and confused — but where will he end up when he can’t find his way home?
	Dark Chocolate Drama Director: Scott Cervine TRT: 22:00 A middle-aged man struggles to overcome addiction so he can experience the love of a new relationship.
11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM	FEATURE
	Feast of the Assumption: The Otero Family Murders Evergreen Theatre Documentary Director: Marc Levitz TRT: 85:00 A living victim’s personal journey through the most unique serial killer case in U.S. history — the BTK murders, as told through the eyes of Charlie Otero, the oldest surviving member of the first family BTK murdered on January 15, 1974.
1:30 PM  - 3:00 PM	FEATURE
	Hats Off Evergreen Theatre Documentary Director: Jyll Johnstone TRT: 84:00 Hats Off profiles the beauty and eccentricities of an extraordinary woman, 93-year-old actress Mimi Weddell. With the style and grace of Katherine Hepburn, the smoky wit and wisdom of Dorothy Parker, and her own personal philosophy, “rise above it,” Mimi is truly an iconic American original.
3:00 PM  - 5:00 PM	FEATURE
	All Hat Evergreen Theatre Drama/Western Director: Leonard Farlinger TRT: 91:00 Starring Luke Kirby, Rachel Leigh Cook, Keith Carradine and Ernie Hudson. An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes (Kirby) returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed by urban development. All Hat is adapted from the novel by Brad Smith; Smith also penned the screenplay. Today’s screening is presented by 2007 LAFF Honoree Ernie Hudson.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE FRIDAY APRIL 11, 2008 Acorn Theatre
10:00 AM  - 11:30 AM	FEATURE
	Running Funny Acorn Theatre Drama Director: Anthony Grippa TRT: 77:14 Michael and Eddie are two broke college graduates who rent an ‘apartment garage’ from an old blind guy and begin their tumultuous transition into the real world.
11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM	FRIDAY SHORTS - WOMEN IN FILM
	Let Go Drama Writer / Director: Kelly L. King TRT: 9:00 Marcus and Eleanor are a young couple who enjoy breezy conversations in bed with intimate memories of the past and a harsh awakening of the present.
	Le Retour Drama Director: Rachel Earnest TRT: 20:00 Katherine returns to Orange County after spending a year living and studying in France. Coming home proves more difficult than expected as she struggles to readjust. Will Katherine ever be able to create harmony between her two worlds?
	Small Avalanches Drama Director: Gillian Munro TRT: 16:00 Still a child but longing to be an adult, thirteen year-old Nancy overcomes her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues her on her way home.
	Hold On Drama Directors: Jackie Julio and Doug Olear TRT: 20:12 Starring Jackie Julio, Doug Olear (The Wire, Something the Lord Made) and Dominic West (300, Chicago) and featuring music by Bruce Springsteen. A quirky comedy about Rose, a spirited, quadriplegic, physicist who goes to extreme measures in her quest for romance. This engaging, short film is sprinkled with absurdity and symbolism, adding a little spice for the consummate film lover.
	Out of Step Drama Director: Eileen Connors TRT: 18:33 When a father goes to clean out his late daughters house and discovers she was gay, he rejects the truth. But after he befriends a lesbian who is struggling with coming out, he comes to accept who his daughter was.
	CU@ED’s Drama Director: Casey Stangl TRT: 12:55 Tina and Tadd met online... are they ready for the face-to-face?
1:30 PM  - 3:15 PM	SHORTS - SCI FI AND MORE
	Eater Horror Writer / Directors: Matt and Ross Duffer TRT: 18:00 A rookie cop works the night shift at a police station with a cannibal prisoner on the loose.
	The Pedestrian Drama Director: Chard Hayward TRT: 17:00 In the controlled, paranoid, near future when walking after dark is strictly prohibited, Leonard Mead walks every night to visit his wife’s gravesite. On this night, Mead is forced to face the consequences of his “crime” as the authorities chase him to an exciting climax. (Based on a story by Ray Bradbury.)
	Light Years Drama Director: Richard N. Martin TRT: 15:00 Four relationships spanning the four corners of the globe are put to the ultimate test when they learn the world may end in eight minutes. Four Stories. Forewarned. For Love.
	Silver Tongues Drama Director: Simon Arthur TRT: 24:50 A wandering couple travel the road, becoming different people in each town they descend upon, playing a gleefully sadistic game of deceit. In this, the second part of the story, they prey on the care home of senile dementia sufferers, convincing them they that they know them.
	Verboten Drama Director: Martin Keegan TRT: 14:57 A peculiar teenage boy develops an obsession with his tyrannical father's girlfriend.
3:15 PM  -5:00 PM	SHORTS - ANIMATION AND MORE!
	Grim Fetch Animated Director: John Cahoon TRT: 4:54 Timmy’s dog is lured into a dark cemetery and disappears into the night. Facing his deepest and worst fears he sneaks into the graveyard. Timmy must find it in himself to overcome these feelings of terror and once again reunite himself with his canine companion.
	I Saved the World from Global Warming Comedy Directors: Nolan Wang and Kyle Dickinson TRT: 18:16 Kiefer Donovan saved the world from Global Warming. The only problem was...no one really cared. Now, 10 years later, he's trying to deal with his past while getting fired from his teaching position, facing his scientific nemesis, and confronting his own animated psyche! Can Keifer come to terms that Global Warming is “like, so last year?”
	I Would Rather Kill Myself, Than Ever Forgive You Of The Things You Have Said Animated Director: Frances Shaw TRT: 3:54 This project is a crude childlike animation, told from her perspective as a child, of life in her dysfunctional family.
	Simulacra Animated Director: Tatchapon Lertwirojkul TRT: 4:06 On a robot planet — where everything is either machine or food, one robot finds that there’s one organic life left in the world.
	Strange Fruit Animated Director: Neal Sopata TRT: 3:16 Strange Fruit is a three minute animated short film inspired by the poem of the same name written by Lewis Allen. It contrasts pastoral scenes of the old south with the ugly racial violence in the United States during the Jim Crow era.
	Negotiations Drama Director: Ethan Cushing TRT: 23:00 A policeman must negotiate a hostage scenario and a troubled relationship with his estranged son.
	Elvis & Ich Drama Director: Michael Sommer TRT: 23:38 Hermine’s 70th birthday present is an Elvis impersonator’s performance. A dream has come true for her. After all, she once met Elvis during his military service in Germany. Now she believes he has come back.
	OM Drama Director: Fredric Reshew TRT: 15:15 During a hot Manhattan day, we explore the inward thoughts of students during a yoga class, and how that chaos intertwines to that of a bike messenger blasting through the city streets.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2008 Evergreen Theatre
10:00 AM  -11:30 AM	DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
	The Hat Lady Documentary Director: Diane Ambruso TRT: 26:00 The Hat Lady is the inspiring and heart-warming true story of Shirley Eberhardt, whose knitting charity has touched people the world over.
	Operation Promise: Exodus from Ethiopia Documentary Director: Dina Kadisha TRT: 25:00 Dina Kadisha, a 21 year-old American girl, ventures into the shantytowns of Gondar and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Israel.
	Armed for the Challenge Documentary Directors: Patricia Thio and Kent Allison TRT: 20:30 “One-arm” Willie is a man of steel... and, yes, carbon fiber. Armed for the Challenge takes you on a ride through humor and passion, proving that disability doesn’t mean inability.
11:30 AM  -1:00 PM	FEATURE
	Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Director: Khashyar Darvich Narrated by Harrison Ford TRT: 77:14 Forty of the world’s most innovative thinkers travel to India in the Himalayan Mountains to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world’s problems. What happened was surprising and unexpected.
3:00 PM  -5:00 PM	FEATURE AND SHORT
	The Beanie Baby Soldier Documentary Director: Larry Mendte This screening is a benefit for TOUCH OF HOME. Money earned from the sale of single pass seats for this screening will be donated to Touch of Home. TRT: 10:30 When a soldier is killed in Iraq, he leaves behind a wonderful legacy of hope — in the form of Beanie Babies.
	Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience Documentary Director: Richard Robbins 2008 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary. TRT: 81:00 This film is a unique documentary about troops’ experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and airmen. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in the summer of 2006. A larger assortment was published as a book by Random House last September. It's a remarkable portrait of troops at war — the complexities, doubts, and fears — written with honesty. Today’s screening will be presented by 2008 LAFF Honoree Beau Bridges.
5:00 PM  -7:00 PM	FEATURE
	Elvis & Anabelle Drama / Romance Director: Will Geiger TRT: 110:00 Starring Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, and Keith Carradine. When a deceased beauty queen, Anabelle, is miraculously resurrected on the embalming table of a bitter young man named Elvis, the two unexpectedly connect. Together, they discover love, freedom and happiness as the real world and their own demons threaten to force them apart. Today’s screening will be presented by 2008 LAFF Honoree Joe Mantegna.
7:00 PM  -9:30 PM	FEATURE
	Greetings from the Shore 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Drama / Romance Director: Greg Chwerchak TRT: 118:00 Still reeling from the death of her father, a young girl spends one last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. But when her plans fall apart, the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high-stakes gambling, and unexpected love.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2008 Ballroom
9:30 PM  -11:30 PM	FEATURE
	The Kiss Horror Director: Scott Madden TRT: 105:00 A romantic comedy horror about a May-December romance between a Latina American Vampire and the 18 year-old boy that raises her from the near dead. Love sucks. And bites. Forever.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2008 Acorn Theatre
9:30 AM  -11:00 AM	FEATURE
	Bad Boys of Summer Documentary Directors: Tiller Russell and Loren Mendell TRT: 76:28 Battling prison violence and racism, the coach of the San Quentin Giants tries to change the lives of his convict baseball players during their final season together.
11:00 AM	FEATURE
	Rosemary’s Baby Drama Director: Roman Polanski TRT: 136:00 (plus discussion) A very special 40th Anniversary Screening with commentary from the film’s cinematographer, William A. Fraker, ASC. Mr. Fraker will stop the film at certain points to discuss the production process.
3:00 PM  -5:00 PM	FEATURE
	Breach Drama Written / Director: Billy Ray TRT: 110:00 Based on a true story. Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is a young surveillance and computer specialist who hopes to become an FBI field agent one day. Eric is recruited to his dream job in Intelligence at FBI headquarters to clerk for veteran FBI Intelligence agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). Eric soon finds that Hanssen is suspected of being a traitor and selling American secrets to the Soviet Union . Eric must discover Hanssen’s secrets before more damage is done to the security of the United States . Today’s screening is presented by writer-director Billy Ray.
5:00 PM  -7:00 PM	SATURDAY NIGHT SHORTS
	The Vaudevillian Drama Director: Bryan Nest TRT: 16:00 A ventriloquist’s relationship with his dummy is strained after they lose their jobs with a vaudeville theatre. The ventriloquist uses his talents to scam poor farmers for money, much to the dummy’s dismay
	All We Need is a Little Red Wagon Drama Director: Tim Stout TRT: 5:00 An ordinary man watched his life tick away until he took a ride down a hill on a little red wagon.
	Good Morning Drama Director: Ken Greenwald TRT: 12:00 A man gets up to go to work and nothing, but nothing, goes right.
	Why'd The Beetle Cross the Road? Comedy Director: Jan Skrentny TRT: 8:00 A beetle, “Blacky the Intrepid,” begins a harrowing journey across a Southern California beach. What would cause the tiny bug to risk life and shell?
	Jakob and the Angels Drama Director: Ron Lehmann TRT: 13:22 A man who prizes his solitude hires a team of thug-like exterminators to expel a flock of noisy angels from his attic. Amidst the ensuing mini Armageddon, he begins to regret exterminating his only companionship.
	The Hobart Shakespeareans Documentary Director: Mel Stuart TRT: 52:00 Teacher Rafe Esquith leads his class of inner-city fifth graders through an uncompromising curriculum of English, math and literature. At the end of the semester every student performs in a full length version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with advice from actors Ian McKellan and Michael York.
7:00 PM  -9:00 PM	FEATURE
	Player 5150 Drama Director: David Michael O’Neill TRT: 91:00 Starring Ethan Embry, Kathleen Robertson, Kelly Carlson and Christopher McDonald. A day trader (Embry) and his fiancée (Robertson) get caught up in high stakes gambling. Tonight’s screening is presented by 2006 LAFF Honoree Christopher McDonald.
9:00 PM  -11:00 PM	FEATURE
	August Drama Director: Austin Chick TRT: 88:00 Starring Josh Hartnett. August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SUNDAY APRIL 13, 2008 Evergreen Theatre
10:00 AM  -12:00 PM	SUNDAY MORNING SHORTS
	Red Ballet Director: Spencer Holden TRT: 5:00 The problem of existence.
	The Line Drama Director: Kent Bassett TRT: 24:00 A migrant father and son run out of water while crossing the desert border and must seek help from a ranch house.
	Mamitas Drama Director: Nicholas Ozeki TRT: 24:00 A self-appointed Casanova mentors his friend in the art of picking up hot “Mami chulas.”
	Stuck Drama Director: Bruce A. Block TRT: 10:53 While stuck in an elevator, two people discover the most intimate things about each other... that anything can happen.
	Chilis Comedy Director: Tyrone Huff TRT: 14:50 A Mexican-American woman brings her African-American boyfriend home to meet the parents.
	California King Comedy / Romance Director: Eli Kaufman TRT: 21:00 A mattress salesman who employs faux science to get women into bed falls for a cynical insomniac who watches late-night science reruns while fighting to get to sleep. California King was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which supports student films about real science instead of science fiction.
12:00 PM  -1:30 PM	FEATURE
	Champion. Drama Director: Joe Eckardt TRT: 81:00 Champion. chronicles the life of Mexican actor Danny Trejo. Through raw and candid conversations about everything, from trying heroin at age 12 to armed robbery, violence, and extensive prison time - including an emotional return to his actual cell behind the gray walls of San Quentin State Prison.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SUNDAY APRIL 13, 2008 Acorn Theater
10:30 AM  -11:45 AM	FEATURE
	MIA: A Soldier's Homecoming Drama Director: Randall Wilson TRT: 57:00 This screening is a benefit for the Jerry Pettis VA Hospital in Loma Linda,CA. Money earned from the sale of single pass seats for this screening will be donated to the hospital.
11:45 AM  - 1:30 PM	FEATURE
	Under the Snow Drama Director: Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal TRT: 95:00 With orders piling up in the snow chain division, two male workers are joined by two female temporary workers. For long, frigid days they each pack chains in silence until feisty Angela starts breaking the rules… and work becomes a game and their cold gray building a playground. (Spanish language with subtitles.)
PLEASE NOTE:  All films and celebrity appearances are subject to change or cancellation.