THEATRE 1
11:00am – 12:30pm
Checkmate
Comedy, New York City
Director: Nicky Julias
Running Time: 17 min.
Synopsis: Three low-level mobsters try to dispose of another in upstate New York. Their idea is to kill the man in the exact way a serial killer kills his victims so they are not blamed.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 16mm
11:00am – 12:30pm
Love Me or Lick It
Comedy, Summit, NJ
Director: Ryan Gaffney
Running Time:
11 min.
Synopsis: An ice cream may melt fast in the summer, but a cold heart does not.
Presentation Format: DVD
Original Format: digital
11:00am – 12:30pm
GET THE HELL OUT OF HEAVEN
Comedy, Wycoff, NJ
Director: Robert Smithline
Running Time: 12 min.
World Premiere
Synopsis: Get the Hell Out of Heaven is an adventure-comedy about a cop and a criminal who kill each other during a high speed chase. The criminal accidentally winds up in heaven while the cop accidentally goes to hell.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 16mm
11:00am – 12:30pm
(This ticket block includes 3 films)
THEATRE 1
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Alien Space
Animation, New York City
Director: Vincent MacTiernan
Running Time: 3 min.
World Premiere
Synopsis: A unique look at an invasion of a planet as viewed from inside a spaceship of Aliens.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: computer animation
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Peroxide Passion
Romantic comedy, New York City
Director: Monty Diamond
Running: 84 min.
Synopsis: It's been Jed Milligan's lifelong obsession to get out of Jersey and when Connecticut socialite Ashley De Ganay agrees to marry him he is in heaven thinking he is finally going to make his escape to a life of luxury. Then Ashley dumps Jed at the alter and his life changes forever.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 35mm
2:00pm – 4:00pm
(This ticket block includes 2 films)

THEATRE 1
4:45pm – 6:15pm

Off
Horror, New York City
Director: Tyler Polhemus
Running Time: 15 min.
Synopsis: Shot in stark black and white, Off is the story of Daphne, a deaf teenager, whose view of the world is forever changed by a disturbing encounter with the evil that resides in her hometown.
Presentation format: Beta SP
Original Format: 16mm
4:45pm – 6:15pm

Game Day
Comedy, Los Angeles, CA
Director: Michael Ruane
Running Time: 17 min.
Synopsis:
Gameday is a funny look inside Beer League Softball in America. It is about men in their mid-30’s who have gotten their degrees, been married and have lived through many rights of passage. But in the end, they look forward to that one night a week to forget the confusion their lives have become. Like kids, they live for the game…and this is Gameday.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 35mm
4:45pm – 6:15pm
My Femme Lady
Comedy, Santa Monica,CA
Director: Terri Miller
Running Time: 22 min.
East Coast Premiere
Synopsis: An action/musical parody inspired by La Femme Nikita and My Fair Lady…When Doris runs her mother down with the family car, instead of a death sentence our heroine is acquired by an underground organization to be trained as an agent…a Hollywood agent.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: Super 16
4:45pm – 6:15pm
(This ticket block includes 3 films)
THEATRE 1
7:00pm – 9:00pm
The Little Red Toilet
Animation, Brooklyn NY
Director: Anita Weber
Running Time: 6 min.
East Coast Premiere
Synopsis: When a little red toilet realizes his family is gone, he ventures out of the bathroom in search of food. He gets to a mysterious place called “kitchen”, where he meets strange and exotic appliances and finds himself confronted with a bullying dishwasher…
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 16mm
7:00pm – 9:00pm
High Times' Potluck
Comedy, New York City
Director: Alison E.G. Thompson
Running Time: 93 min.
World Premiere
Synopsis: Potluck is a dark comedy set in the underground scene of Manhattan. We follow a suitcase of Marijuana as it is sold, stolen, re-stolen, and sold again and passes through the hands of mobsters, punk rockers, artists, hippies and drag queens.
Potluck is centered around a mafia soldier who begins to question his existence after smoking his first joint.
Presentation Format: 35mm
Original Format: Digi-Beta Pal
7:00pm – 9:00pm
(This ticket block includes 2 films)
THEATRE 1
9:45pm – 11:45pm
Null Null
Comedy, Cologne, Germany
Director: Uwe Irnsinger
Running Time: 5.25 min.
Synopsis: A biker and a businessman meet in a dirty bar-toilet where they experience their own, private Armageddon.
Presentation Format:
35mm
Original Format: 35mm

9:45pm – 11:45pm
Welcome to the Family
Comedy, Whippany, NJ
Director: Anthony D. Costanza
Running Time: 90 min.
US Premiere
Synopsis: Mafia boss, Carlo Bennedetto, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and the buffoons, morons and idiots from his past attempt to kill him before he kicks the bucket.
Presentation Format:
Beta SP
Original Format: Super 16
9:45pm – 11:45pm
(This ticket block includes 2 films)
THEATRE 1
12:15 - 1:30am

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Comedy, Hoboken, NJ
Director: Jackie Eagan
Running Time: 75 min.
Synopsis: 1950’s Sci-fi movie re-dubbed with absurd new dialogue-new scenes and an alien dance number. They came from outer space to take over the world and they are fabulous.
Presentation Format: 35mm
Original Format: 35mm
12:15 - 1:30am

THEATRE 2
11:00am – 1:00pm
Dog’s Life
Comedy, Philadelphia, PA
Director: John Knapich
Running Time: 87 min.
Synopsis: Set in a working class Brooklyn and featuring a colorful array of intriguing misfits, this compassionately told tragic-comedy about the intertwined fates of a troubled young man and a dim-witted janitor, observes an urban America both fortified and betrayed by two-bit fantasies.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: digital
11:00am – 1:00pm

THEATRE 2
2:30am – 4:30pm
Unsavory Characters
Drama, Film Noir, Crugers, NY
Director: Richard W. Haines
Running Time: 90 min
Synopsis: Archer Royce is a pulp fiction author with writers block. Seeking inspiration he picks up Kristen Bennett, femme fatale. They have an affair when she coerces him into murder and intrigue. Archer uses his real life experiences to finish his book in strange case of life initiating art.
Presentation Format: 35mm
Original Format: 35mm
2:30am – 4:30pm
THEATRE 2
5:15pm – 6:45pm
Caught in Time
Drama, New York City
Director: Abigail Zealey Bess
Running Time: 6 min 27 sec
Synopsis: "Caught in Time" is a visual poem set to music that pays tribute to the game of baseball with particular focus on the man who is rarely in the spotlight, the Umpire.
Presentation Format: 35mm
Original Format: 16mm
5:15pm – 6:45pm
Melting Glass
Drama, Los Angeles, CA
Director: Patrick Grandaw
Running Time: 28 min
Synopsis: A poignant drama about an American glassblower in Prague and his Czech fiancé. When news of a promotion threatens to tear them apart and send him back to the States, Jerry discovers that love over international borders can be more fragile than crystal.
Presentation Format: 35mm
Original Format: 35mm
5:15pm – 6:45pm
A Walk in the Park
Comedy, Jersey City, NJ
Director: Stephen Coombs
Running Time: 32 min
Synopsis: Tom and Amy have decided to roller blade through Central Park on their first date together. Amy has all the confidence in the world, but for Tom, it’s no “Walk in the Park”. Sit back and enjoy as our skaters introduce you to a number of interesting characters they meet along the way.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 16mm
5:15pm – 6:45pm
(This ticket block includes 3 films)
THEATRE 2
7:30pm – 9:30pm
The Russian Job
Comedy, Moscow and Hoboken, NJ
Director: Jeffrey Wolf
Running Time: 84
World Premiere
Synopsis: A romantic action-comedy which tells the story of Anthony Santini, nephew of Hoboken Mafia Don, tony Santini, and his misadventures with Ivan, son of #1 man of the Russian mob. Their mission is to find Nina, a Russian mail order bride on the lam after ripping off five husbands, one of whom belongs to the Italian crew.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format: 35 mm
7:30pm – 9:30pm
THEATRE 2
10:15pm – close
Hoboken Tales
Comedy, Drama, New York, NY
Directors: Jay Gable and Mike Dana
Running Time: 98 min.
Synopsis: A woodcarver sculpts four comedic tales; stories of love, faith, fate and superstition. Set in Hoboken, these modern day stories are told through four distinct voices; a barber, a pizzaboy, a fisherman and a bakerman and range from bawdy to endearing.
Presentation Format: Digi Beta
Original Format: 35mm
10:15pm – close
THEATRE 2
12:15am - 1:30am
Rave’n
Drama, Westfield, NJ
Director: Kenneth Waddell
Running Time: 75 min.
World Premiere
Synopsis: Rave’n --- rock/funk singer/songwriter --- plays his last gig.
But as he performs, memories hit. Hard. His addict girlfriend… their son… his dealing brother and distant father… slap him with the pain of what he’s about. This is the guy who didn’t make it… giving the performance of his life.
Presentation Format: Beta SP
Original Format:
digital
12:15am - 1:30am
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