RIIFF 2007 Presents a Week filled with Short Films and Festivities August 7-12th and screenings across the State of Rhode Island with 125 World Premieres and
36 US Premieres; and honors filmmaker, Christine Vachon


Providence, R.I. (July 30, 2007)-With films and filmmakers arriving from across the globe, the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) kicks off its 11th Annual event presenting a record 320 films to be screened over a six-day period. The Festival runs August 7-12th. This year's Festival will showcase cinematic work submitted from over 70 countries, and 34 states in the United States. RIIFF will present 125 World Premieres and 36 US Premieres. Following months of adjudication and review, Festival films have been selected from a whopping entry base of 2,491 submissions.

"It's a sensational year for us," said RIIFF Executive Director, George T. Marshall, "We have films from all over the world that our audiences will definitely enjoy. They're not just going to be popcorn entertainment. We have some very thoughtful pieces that will inspire, and hopefully encourage audiences to take action.”

For the first time, the Festival's opening night will premiere at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), the elegant and historic 3,300 seat theater that started life in the 1920s as Loews Movie Palace. The theatre is located at 220 Weybosset Street in the heart of downtown Providence. The evening will mark the premieres of major new work, see the presentation of a new Festival Award to filmmaker Christine Vachon, and celebrate the 10th Anniversary of NewEnglandFilm.com.

"I'm thrilled to be celebrating NewEnglandFilm.com's 10th anniversary with the Rhode Island Film Festival," says NewEnglandFilm.com Founder Michele Meek. "The festival celebrates the spirit of independent and local film in New England but also reaches across boundaries to
include international films and to qualify its films for Oscars."

NewEnglandFilm.com is the premier online resource and magazine for local film and video professionals -- reaching over 55,000 unique people each month according to Google Analytics.  Launched in August 1997 with a few pages, NewEnglandFilm.com has grown to consist of thousands of pages featuring an online magazine, industry directory and classifieds such as jobs, events and more.

Since RIIFF is one of only 61 film festivals world wide that is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) the Opening Night has become a crowd-pleasing salute to the Art of the Short Film. The work selected to be screened this year on Tuesday, August 7tth, includes: Joseph Mazzello's “Matters of Life and Death,” Bryce Dallas Howard's “Orchids,” Emmanuel Jesper's “Personal Spectator,” Ursula Burton's “The Happiest Day of His Life,” Guy Thys' “Tanghi Argentini,” Jennifer Aniston's “Room 10,” and Bill Giannakakis' “Welcome Home.”

Providence Mayor David M. Cicilline, the Festival's Honorary Chairman, introduced the Festival's newest partnership with statewide non-profit groups dubbed RIIFF Community Outreach, which gives out 1,500 tickets for opening night; translating to over $23,000 for non-profit organizations. The program gives non-profit groups fundraising and marketing opportunities as well as introduces a new audience to the Festival.

“If we bring more people in the community and introduce them to what we're doing, and encourage them to keep coming back,” Marshall said. "We want them to discover something beyond the next Hollywood sequel and to take a risk in supporting independent filmmakers."

RIIFF has received national and international recognition and is a qualifying festival with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The largest in New England, the six-day Festival includes films from an assortment of genres, gala events, and educational workshops.

“This festival is just over a decade old and really has become known as one of the best festivals in the world from the State of Rhode Island. I'm very proud of it,” Cicilline said.

RIIFF is an integral part of the “incredible momentum” of arts and culture in Providence and the state, said Cicilline, “and we know it adds to the vitality of our city.”
 
The Festival is not short on name actors who will be gracing the screen with this work this year, or in some cases, behind the camera as director. These include: Bryce Dallas Howard, Minnie Driver, Lukas Haas, Neve Campbell, Kristin Kreuk, Alfred Molina, Brad Paisley, Jill Eikenberry, Seymour Cassel, Harry Groener and Michael Tucker, Alexa Vega, Vincent Pastore, Harrison Ford, Alan Cumming, Anne Heche, Carrie Fisher, David Boreanaz, Karen Black, Kevin Sorbo, Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell, Russell Means, Colm Feore, Rupert Graves, Charles Dance, Joseph Mazzello, William Baldwin, Kathleen Quinlan, Harold Lloyd. Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Ian McKellen and Steve Coogan

Films to be presented at RIIFF have come from all over the world. From an entry base of over 2,500 films, RIIFF 2007 films have come from Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Romania, Israel, Croatia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Afghanistan Chile, Bosnia, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, Finland, Poland, South Africa, Nigeria, India and the United States. Over 70 countries will be represented.
 
RIIFF has also become an important vehicle for filmmakers to network and meet industry people, said filmmaker Eric Latek of Phantazma Pictures (Sweet Dreams). It was that opportunity that led to Latek sign on to two television shows, he said.

“What I've learned is there are thousands and thousands of film festivals, but only a few really matter, and RIIFF is actually a film festival that counts,” Latek said

RIIFF TO HONOR PRODUCER/DIRECTOR, CHRISTINE VACHON
Leading independent film producer and Brown University graduate Christine Vachon is the first recipient of the Roger Williams Independent Voice Award.

The Roger Williams Independent Voice Award is presented semi-annually to an outstanding artist whose vision promotes tolerance, compassion and understanding. Named after the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, who established an American tradition of religious freedom and individual liberty that was encoded in The Bill of Rights. This award honors a truly unique American whose ethics, philosophy and conscience reflects that of Roger Williams, who provided a refuge from rampant religious persecution, an open door to all people; a safe harbor in a vast sea of tyranny and oppression.

“Throughout her enduring career, Ms. Vachon has brought a unique and independent voice to the film industry through a vast body of work that reflects the values associated with Roger Williams and celebrated with this award,” said RIIFF's George Marshall.

Head of the New York-based production company, Killer Films, Vachon has produced over 30 films that include Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, One Hour Photo and Happiness.

Vachon is known as a producer who is passionately loyal to the vision of worthwhile films. She asserts that in order to realize a film's artistic possibilities there must be an understanding of the social and political realities of the times.

She is also the author of two books about the indie film industry. Published in 2006, in the book “A Killer Life: How and Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond,” Vachon writes she wants to produce films that challenge the viewer and approach a story from an unexpected place.

The award will be presented at the Opening Night Festivities slated for Tuesday, August 7th.

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING FOR 2007
New to this year's Festival is a two-day Forum dedicated to addressing the ins, outs and technology of shooting a film in the Ocean State. Called the Rhode Island Film Forum, the event will take place August 8-9th, 2007 (two morning program) at the URI Feinstein Campus, Providence. The Rhode Island Film Forum is designed to provide a networking platform, spur dialogue and get answers to your questions from those who make decisions. Programming includes, Why Rhode Island Is Right For Your Film; Rhode Island Film & Television Tax Credit; Film & Entertainment Law 101; A Guide To Post-Production; Film Financing & Distribution; Marketing & Finding Your Audience; and Using The Web To Build A Portfolio More than 30 presenters from the film industry and regional film offices will participate.

This year's RIIFF is also programmed with a number of special-interest sidebars. These include: Films for Families (FFF), Golden Age of Cinema Saluting the Silent Film Era with a special screening of Harold Lloyd's “Speedy,” featuring live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra; Providence GLBT Film Festival, New England Student Film Festival, KidsEye™ International Film Festival; Providence Film Festival (local work from the New England region); Providence World Film Festival (focus on Spanish and Portuguese Language Films) partnering with the Providence Latin American Film Festival;  Providence Jewish Film Festival partnering with the Rhode Island Jewish Film Festival; East-West Crossroads: Asian Film Festival (Films from China and Japan); JubilĂ© Franco AmĂ©ricain (films from Canada and France); Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival (introduced in April 2006) continues with during RIIFF with important documentary work from around the globe; Vortex Sci Fi & Fantasy Film Festival introduced with RIIFF 2007 with screenings scheduled for the Fall and Winter; and the RI Student Film Festival: Screenings of student films from Providence College and the URI Visualizations Film Festival

Additionally the Festival will be hosting free outdoor screenings of classic films by the King of Rock and Roll: Elvis Presley. The film: Richard Thorpe's “Jailhouse Rock,” and George Sidney's “Viva Las Vegas.”

THE FILMS SCHEDULED TO PLAY RIIFF 2007
The RIIFF 2007 Features to the screened at the Festival include: Chris Bowman's “American Fork (USA),” Alex Orr's “Blood Car (USA),” Kerry Douglas Dye and Jordan Hoffman's “Body/Antibody (USA, World Premiere),” Daniel Gildark's “Cthulhu (USA, World Premiere),” Jay Anania's “Day on Fire (USA),” Patrick J. Donnelly's “Divergence (USA),” Douglas Horn's “Entry Level (USA),” Andrew Shea's “Forfeit (USA),” Casper Andreas' “A Four Letter Word (USA),” Koji Yamamura's “Franz Kafka's Inaka Isha (Japan, U.S. Premiere),” Norm Hunter's “Her Best Move (USA),” Henry Jaglom's “Hollywood Dreams (USA),” McGuckian's “Intervention (UK/France, World Premiere),” Neil Mandt's “Last Stop for Paul (USA),” Richard Shenkman's “Man From Earth (USA),” Gil Kofman's “The Memory Thief (USA),” Dean Ronalds' “Netherbeast Incorporated (USA, World Premiere),” Vic Sarin's “Partition (Canada, US Premiere),” David Winning's “Something Beneath (Canada, World Premiere),” Richard Grifin's “Splatter Disco (USA, World Premiere),” Alan Cumming's “Suffering Man's Charity (USA),” Charles Oliver's “Take (USA),” Sun Xiaoru's “Tales of Rain and Magic (China, US Premiere),” Julia Taylor-Stanley's “These Foolish Things (USA, World Premiere),” Edwin Decena and Javier Molina's “Transformations (USA,),” Rajnesh Domalpalli's “Vanaja's (India, U.S. Premiere),” Matt Bissonnette's “Who Loves the Sun (Canada),” Rob Williams' “Back Soon (USA),” Morgan J. Freeman's “Just Like the Son (USA),” Michael Adante's “The Line (Australia, World Premiere),”

The RIIFF 2007 Documentary Features include: Paul Liu and Zhang Zeming's “Across the Plateau (Chuan Yue Gao Yuan)(Australia, World Premiere),” Luc Beauchamp's “Arthur's Paradise (Le' Paradis d'Arthur) (Canada, U.S. Premiere),” Olivier Higgins and Melanie Carrier's “Asiemut(Canada),” Carol Carimi Acutt's “Been Down That Muddy Road: The Legend of Joe Barry (USA, World Premiere),” James Crump's “Black, White, + Gray (USA),” Chris Burgard's “Border (USA, World Premiere),” Sonia Gonzalez's “Bragging Rights: Stickball Stories (USA),” Sherief Elkatsha's “Butts Out (USA),” Khashyar Darvich's “Dalai Lama Renaissance' (Narrated by Harrison Ford) (USA)” Andrew Kukura's “The Dhamma Brothers (USA, World Premiere),” Katy Chevigny's “Election Day (USA),” Gregroy Greene's “Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream (Canada),” Pericles Lewnes' “Fighter (USA),” Bob Hercules' “Forgiving Dr. Mengele (USA),” Doug Lantz's “From the 50 Yard Line (USA, World Premiere),” David Liban's “Geocache (USA, World Premiere),” Brent Kawchuk's “God Only Knows: Same Sex Marriage (Canada, U.S. Premiere),” David Bickerstaff and David Notman-Watt's “Half Life: A Journey to Chernobyl (UK),” Bob Ray's “Hell On Wheels (USA),” Jennifer Needleman's “I Love Hip Hop in Morocco (USA, World Premiere),” Ed Commons' “In Dreams Awake (USA),” Edward Blackoff's “INCEST A Family Tragedy (USA),” Johnathan D. Rabeu's “Italian Americans and Federal Hill (USA, World Premiere),” Richard Goulis' “Jonathan Bonner: “MIRTH” Sculptural Installation at RISD (USA, World Premiere),” Richard Goulis' “Just an Artist/Not an Artist (USA, World Premiere),” Derrick Roemer and Neil Graham's “Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel (Canada, U.S. Premiere),” Richard Angers' “Les accros de l'Anachronisme (Canada, U.S. Premiere),” Robert Wagner's “Love and Marriage (USA, World Premiere,” Don Wilson's “Mississippi Son (USA),” David Notman-Watt's “The Model Prisoners (UK, World Premiere),” Ceilia Carey Meyer's “Mr. Dial Has Something to Say (USA, World Premiere),” Lisette Kaualena Flanary's “Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula (USA),” Steve Delano's “No Bigger Than a Minute (USA),” Aaron Kohn's “Project Kick Talk ™ (USA, U.S. Premiere),” Ken Gumbert's “Red Terror on the Amber Coast (USA),” Benita Sills, Brooke Sebold, and Todd Sills' “Red Without Blue (USA),” Bill Clarke and Matt Wittmer's “The Regiment (USA, World Premiere),” Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiomo's “Revolution '67 (USA),” Adam Matalon's “Seasons in the Valley (USA),” Gary Weimberg's “Soldiers of Conscience (USA,),” Claire Andrade-Watkins' “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?': A Cape Verdean American Story (USA),” Yael Klopmann's “Storm of Emotions (Israel, World Premiere),” Jacqueline Willemsen's “Strongest Ever (USA, World Premiere),” Pierre Rehov's “Suicide Killers (USA),” Tom Murray's “Tell (USA),” Franco Sacchi's “This is Nollywood (USA),” Mary Healey Jamiel's' “ Ticks (USA),” Edward J. Delaney's “The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus (USA, World Premiere),” Stuart Urban's “Tovarisch I Am Not Dead (UK),” Mauri Pasanen's “Traces (Belgium),” Jeremy Stanford's “Trantasia (USA, World Premiere),” Brett Harvey's “The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (Canada, US Premiere),” Adam Hootnick's “Unsettled (USA, World Premiere),” Laura Bialis' “View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo (USA, U.S. Premiere),” Maryanne Galvin's “What's Going On Up There? (USA),” Thomas Jewett's “Who's Got the Power? (USA, World Premiere),” Andrew D. Cooke's “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist (USA),” Jeffrey Roth's “The Wonder of It All (USA),” Nikki Parker's “The Year of Paper (USA),” and David Bettencourt's “You Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point Park (USA).”

Many of the RIIFF Short Films screening at this year's Festival will be making their Festival World Premiere, among those are: David Woolner's “Advent,” Katie Machaiek's “The Adventures of CMYK,” Rob Meyer's “Aquarium,” Chris Sparling's “Balance,” Pellerito's “Bitchslap,” Chris Redish's “The Blacksmith and the Carpenter,” Raiya Corsiglia's “Blue Dreams Downtown,” Rachel Israel's “Brandon,” Aaron Sawyer's “Broken Circle,” Matthew Schramer's “Bubbie,” John Reilly's “Bystander,” Michelle Hung's “Chinese Dumplings,” Steven Hood's “Crossing the Heart,” Frank Kerr's “Crossroads,” Edward Tyndall's “Deconfliction,” Hilda Chan's “Desquamate,” Eva Saks' “Dirty Martini,” Michelle Steffes' “Driftwood,” Luke Matheny's “Earano,” Harold Einstein's “Eulogy for Jack,” Chuck Grieb's “Exact Change Only,” Christopher Ultimo's “Film School the Musical,” “Forever,” John MacDonnell's “The Front Runner,” Kosuke Furukawa's “Getap!,” Leigh Medeiros' “Go…No Go,” Greg Cahill's “The Golden Voice,” Vince Navarro's “Gordo,” Jesus Beltran's “The Grass Grows Green,” Lidia Sheinin's “Happily Ever After,” Nitzan Mager's “I Am God,” Stewart Schill's “I Hate Musical's” Randall Ehrmann's “I'm No Stud,”  MaryPaul Kloss and Mathew Acheson's “In the House of the Sin Eater,” David May's “Itsy Bitsy,” Jonathan Browning's “The Job,” Phil Allocco's “Joseph Henry,” Wes Shive's “Knockdown King, The Lucky Peralta,” Reiko Murakami's “Kujira,” Harry Kellerman's “The Little Gorilla,” Christopher Messina's “Little White Flowers,” Duke Johnson's “Marrying God,” Jeffrey Jon Smith's “The Miracle,” Tiger Darrow's “Mp3,” Todd Thompson's “Mr. Bubbs,” Penning's “My 9/11,” Ethan Cushing's “Negotiations,” Krisztian Majdik's “Night Falls,” Robin Larsen's “No. 6,” Andre Lyon's “Nuts,” Dee Rees' “Pariah,” Elena Topouzoglou's “Pharos,” Christian Baker's “The Piano Turner,” Evan Bernard's “Pound,” Doug Lenox's “Quincy & Althea,” Adam Goudchaux's “The Red Front,” Patrick Bosworth's “Regards,” Justin Geurrieri's “Rocketboy,” Matthew Scott Harris' “The Sad Sculptor,” Todd Tinkham's “Sadie Turns Seven,” Hanna Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi's “Secondhand (Pepe),” Gregg Brown's “Shrinks,” Jamie Carreiro's “Side Effect,” Todd Robinson's “Sounds of a Miracle,” Christopher Martini's “The Stone Child,” Till Neumann's “The Strange Case of Marie France,” Brian Chan's “The Secret Behind the Photo,” Robert Weiermair, Anna Christopher, and Paula Christensen's “Tres,” Brian Siegele's “Tuesday Morning,” J.J. Adler's “Unattached,” Daniel Lee White's “Used Books,” Christian Remde's “The Wine Bar,” and Stacy Dymalski's “The Write Stuff ,”

Additional short films from the U.S. that will be screening at the 2007 RIIFF include: Naveen Singh's “27,000 Days,” Kevin McManus' “The 30 Bones of Unfortunate Joey Jones,”  Bernadette Demisay's “The 5:22,” Fernando Pinheiro's “A Garota (The Kid),” Jen Heck's “Airplanes,” Yee Yao Chang's “All I Want for Christmas,” Sarah Wickliffe's “Art's Desire,” Aaron Davidson's “At the Zoo,” Amy Miller's “The Art of Melody,” Nicole Chudy's “The Glow,” Jamie Dufault and Dan Rheiu's “The World According to Devon,” Patrick Bosworth's “Regards,” Jamie Dufault's “Jamestown Bridge Demolition,” James Rita Rani's “Bombay Skies,” Paul Carafotes' “Club Soda,” Michael Brady's “The Collector,” Joe Acton's “Courage Doesn't Ask,” Jackie Liao's “Dandelion,” Ben Weeks' “The Detention Teacher,” Don Hertzfeldt's “Everything Will Be OK,” Daniel Bernhardt's “Fetch,” Katie Sotor's “The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors?,” Lyn Elliot's “Fish, but No Cigar,” Jeremy Beim's Mchael Simon's “Gay Zombie,” Andrew Filippone Jr.'s “Happy Monday,” Becky Baumgartner's “Heart of a Soul Surfer: The Bethany Hamilton Documentary,” Phillip Van's “High Maintenance (U.S. Premiere),” Greg Wilcox's “Homage to a Catalonian Christmas,” Rocco Michaluk's “Home on the Harbor,” Aaron Davidson's “Interview with Great Grandma Tillie,” Adam Bluming's “Jonna's Body, Please Hold,” John Cernak's “Joyride,” Jeff Stephenson's “Just Visiting,” Eben Kostbar's “Karma CafĂ©,” Kathryn Tayo Hall's “Kickstart,” David Nelson's “The Killer,” R.L. Hooker's “The Knife Grinder's Tale,” Valerie Kitchin's “Laisser Voir,” John Jordan's “Last Rights,” Randall Dottin's “Lifted,” Maria Rosenblum's “Magnetic Poles,” Mary Tucker's “Making Do,” Christopher Edwards' “Mercy,” Youngwoong Jang's “Mirage,” Lance Miller and Donald P. Unverrich's “Moviebonics,” Andy Abrahams Wilson's “Murder in Mesopotamia,” Kim Romano's “Muriel,” Tjebbo Anya Belkina's “Nasuh,” Clyde Mason's “Nina Baby,” James Zhen's “No One Sings Forever,” Kimberly Williams-Paisley “Numero Dos,” Zeke and Simon Hawkins' “Ode to Fredo,” Don Manley and Michel Schtakleff's “Old House Soul,” Michael Attardi's “Once Upon a Christmas Village,” Liz Van Verth's “Par Avion,” Alexandra Fisher's “Parthenabe,” Murphy Gibson's “Partially True Tales of High Adventure!,” Moon Molson's “Pop Foul,” John D. Reilly's “Presque Isle,” Michael Olesen's “The Red Balloon,” Len Simon's “Rindin the Puffer,” Y. Grace Park's “Running Scissors,” Tim Sternberg's “Salim Baba,” Rick Hammerly's “Signage,” Carmen Maria Milito's “Slice,” Lara Sebastian's “Something Inside,” Danielle Shamash's “The Sunday Man,” David Splinter's “This Actually Happens,” Thouly Dosios, “To Spiti Me Tis Elies (House of the Olive Trees),” Tiffany Shlain's “The Tribe,” Inbar Gilboa's “The Violin,” David Garrett's “Warlord (U.S. Premeire),” Robert Gaston's “Will You,” David Meyers' “Wood Diary,” and Manauvaskar Kublall's “Wormheard.”

There is also a strong representation of international shorts which includes: Phil Caron's “(Hate) Machine (Canada),” Salvador Gomez Cuenca's “A Ciegas… (France),” Steve Skinner's “Ahaaarrr! (UK, World Premiere),” Carlos G. Gananian's “Akai (Brazil),” Sebastian Alfie's “El Amor a las Cuatro de la Tarde (Love at 4 PM) (Spain, U.S. Premiere),” Nitzan Mager's “Anonymous (Spain),” Ramon Alos' “Antes y Despues de Besar a Maria (Before and After Kissing Maria) (Spain, World Premiere),” Naomi Jaye's “Arrivals (Canada, World Premiere),” Cathy and Neil McInnes' “Automoto (Canada, World Premiere),” Tori Garrett's “The Barrows (Australia),” Yoav Segal's “The Battle of Cable Street (UK, U.S. Premiere),” Cyril Cohen's “Big Family (France, World Premiere),” Massimo Amici's “The Birth (La Nascita) (Italy, U.S. Premiere),” Edwin McGill and Kasimir Burgess' “Booth Story (Australia),” May Lin Au Yong's “Bullet Proof Vest (Singapore, World Premiere),” Ben Phelps' “Checkpoint (Australia),” Sean Ascroft's “A Children's Hospital (Australia, World Premiere),” Noel Kearns' “The Cleaner (UK, World Premiere),” Vineet Dewan's “Clear Cut, Simple (Bahrain),” Derrick Lui and Lee Chee Tian's “Colours (Singapore, World Premiere),” Marcella Forster's “Daddy's Girl (UK, World Premiere),” Kristian A Soderstrom's “Darkness of Truth (Sweden, U.S. Premiere),” Matthew Lancit's “Death of a Gentleman (Canada, World Premiere),” PJ Dillon's “Deep Breaths (Ireland, World Premiere),” Julien Lecat and Sylvain Pioutaz's “Demain le veille (France, U.S. Premiere),” Rodrigo Gudino's “Demonology of Desire (Canda, World Premiere),” Marcin Glowacki's “Die Flugbegleiterin (The Stewardess) (Germany, World Premiere),” Tom Van Avermaet's “Droomtijd (Belgium, U.S. Premiere),” Ivona Juka's “Editing (Croatia),” Marc Almon's “Faire Chaluim Mhic Leoid (Canada, U.S. Premiere),” Isold Uggadottir's “Family Reunion (Godir Gestir) (Iceland),” Dana Dorian's “Fetch (UK),” Kareem Mortimer's “Float (Bahamas),” Joe Tucker's “For the Love of God (UK, U.S. Premiere),” Dana Dorian's “Hip Hip Hurray! (UK),” Xavi Sala's “Hiyab (Spain, U.S. Premiere),” Nicolas Spanoudis, “Il est ne le divin enfant (France, World Premiere),” Tor Fruergaard's “It Came from the West (Zombie Western) (Denmark, World Premiere),” Bogdan Apetri's “Last Day of December (Romania, U.S. Premiere),” Kester Dyer's “L'Ecouteur (Canada, World Premiere),” Sonia Whiteman's “Lens Love Story (Australia),” Matvei Jivov's “The Letter (Canada, World Premiere),” Theresa Corrao's “Life Lottery (UK, World Premiere),” Jose Carlos Ruiz's “Los Planetas (Spain, World Premiere),” Daniel Oron's “Look Both Ways (Canada),” Alison Heather's “Love On Track (Australia, U.S. Premiere),” Amit Gupta's “Love Story (UK, World Premiere),” Shane McCabe's “Lucky Escape (Ireland, U.S. Premiere),” Yan England's “Moi (Canada),” Jill Carter's “Moment (Canada, U.S. Premiere),” Fritz Bohm's “Mondmann (Moonman) (Germany, U.S. Premiere),” Jane Shearer's “Nature's Way (New Zealand),” Paul Campion's “Night of the Hell Hamsters (UK/New Zealand),” Dan Lovallo's “No Sanctuary (Australia),” JD Kelleher's “One Last Drink Before Morning (UK, World Premiere),” Peter Baynton's “Over The Hill (UK, U.S. Premiere),” Tricia Lee's “Paper Tulips(Canada, World Premiere),” Mikket Munch-Fals' “Partus (Denmark, World Premiere),” Enrique Garcia's “Perpetuum Mobile (Spain, U.S. Premiere),” Alan Chan's “Postcards From the Future (Malaysia, U.S. Premiere),” Abbe Robinson's “Private Life (UK),” Wojciech Kasperski's “The Refuge City (Poland, World Premiere),” Trevor Anderson and Steven Hope's “Rock Pockets (Canada),” Damien Rea's “Scarred (UK, World Premiere),” Danie Pentecost's “Sexy Thing (Australia),” Elinor Geller's “The Spirit Child (UK),” Arend Steenbergen's “Twee Dromen (Netherlands),” John Mavety's “The Von (Australia),” Javier Gutierrez's “Voodoo Bayou (Mexico, World Premiere),” Rob Sorrenti's “Wednesday (UK, World Premiere),” Joseph Procopio's “Western Spaghetti (Canada),” and Osbert Parker's “Yours Truly (UK, World Premiere).”

The Rhode Island International Film Festival is supported in part by the City of Providence, the Providence Tourism Council, the Providence Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism, WJAR TV10, Motif magazine, Clear Channel Communications, Sony, SAG/INDIE, NewEnglandFilm.com, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Amtrak, URI's College of Arts and Sciences, URI's Feinstein College of Continuing Education, the URI Film Media Program, Rule Broadcast Systems, Radio Disney and contributions from members and community supporters.

The Flickers Arts Collaborative, an organization with 25 years of experience presenting major artistic events as well as independent and foreign films to the public, produces the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

Advance ticket sales for screenings and special events are available through the RIIFF website (www.RIFilmFest.org). Student, group, and senior discounts are also available but only in advance. To purchase tickets or obtain more information about any aspect of RIIFF, call 401-861-4445; or write RIIFF, 268 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903; email info@film-festival.org. or log onto www. RIFilmFest.org.

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