Women Texas Film Festival Presented By Methodist Dallas Medical Center Announces Selections For 4th Edition
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- Category: Entertainment News
- Published on Saturday, 20 July 2019 21:43
- Written by Hildy Johnson
The 2019 Women Texas Film Festival official selections:
Opening Night Selection
CRSHD
Director: Emily Cohn
Country: USA, Running Time: 82 minutes
On the last night of her college freshman year, Izzy tries to lose her virginity with the help of her two best friends, but their only hope is getting into an exclusive, invite-only "Crush Party."
Closing Night Selection
EMMETT (BOY GENIUS)
Director: Bridget Stokes
Country: USA, Running Time: 90 min
Emmett, a 12-year-old black child prodigy, teams up with his eccentric SAT tutor to solve a crime and keep his family from splitting up.
Preceded by
EARTH MOTHER
Director: Kelly Riot
Country: USA, Running Time: 3 minutes
EARTH MOTHER is a musical short that portrays Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo, Ameila Earhart and Joan of Arc taking a stand against the societal norms and restrictions of their time. Each of these women is a pioneering force in history and the struggles they overcame cemented their places as feminist icons.
Special Make Out Party Presentation
MAKE OUT PARTY
Director: Emily Esperanza
Country: USA, Running Time: 25 minutes
MAKE OUT PARTY is a no-budget, high-style comedy of errors that follows three vibrant characters though a day of misadventure as they set out to attend hostess Mary Woah's Make Out Party. Meet Madame X, a leather-clad Venus with too many lovers; Band-Aid Box, a dapper-femme do-gooder just trying to make it through their day; and Bambi, a peppy Satanist-witch with no time for catcalls. Will they make it to gap-toothed-pin-up-queen Mary Woah's Make Out Party? From meanie alien greaser gangs, to a pair of tough roller-skaters, a conniving librarian and a disgruntled waitress, our heroes sure have their work cut out for them. In the end, Make Out Party reminds us that we are all wild wonderful wackos who deserve a French kiss.
ADDITIONAL FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS
A PERFECT 14
Director: Giovanna Morales Vargas
Country: Canada, Running Time: 105 minutes
A PERFECT 14 explores the world of plus size models fighting to reshape the fashion industry and the beauty standards of society. The film follows the journeys of models Elly Mayday (Canada), Kerosene Deluxe (Netherlands) and Laura Wells (Australia) as they struggle against our culture's distorted perception of body image. The film also questions the fashion industry leaders and pioneers in the world's meccas and holds them accountable for their responsibility in size-based segregation.
A SCIENTIST'S GUIDE TO LIVING AND DYING
Director: Nitzan Mager
Country: USA, Running Time: 75 minutes
This film presents a hybrid of fiction and real life. A real pregnancy is followed on film over nine months and explored within a fictional story: A young scientist in the midst of groundbreaking research is thrown into free-fall when she becomes pregnant with her dead husband’s child and is suddenly confronted by the unknowable — absorbed into a realm of mystical female consciousness both terrifying and transcendent.
BARBARA RUBIN & THE EXPLODING NY UNDERGROUND
Director: Chuck Smith
Producers: Elizabeth Stanton
Country: USA, Running Time: 78 minutes
Barbara Rubin's twenty-nine-minute experimental film CHRISTMAS ON EARTH caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1963. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city's underground film scene. All the more remarkable that the vision belonged to an 18-year-old girl. A virtual Zelig of the '60s, Barbara Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah and bewitched Allen Ginsberg. The same unbridled creativity that inspired her to make films when women simply didn't, saw her breach yet another male domain, Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at thirty-five years old.
EVER AFTER (ENDGEIST)
Director: Carolina Hellsgård
Country: Germany, Running Time: 90 minutes
It has been two years since a zombie virus epidemic infected all but two German cities. Vivi and Eva flee the struggling community in Weimar for the one other safe-haven: Jena.
HOLY TRINITY
Director: Molly Hewitt
Country: USA, Running Time: 91 minutes
Trinity is an independent, sex-positive millennial working as a Dominatrix in Chicago. After an incident huffing her drug of choice—a mysterious aerosol can from the ubiquitous Glamhag brand—she finds herself with a newfound gift for speaking to the dead. Confused and more than a little curious about this strange turn of events, Trinity seeks the counsel of a colorful cast of characters, from priests and drag queens to a witch and more, all of whom teach her their unique spiritual practices.
HUNTER’S WEEKEND
Director: Amy Taylor
Country: USA, Running Time: 72 minutes
Park rangers, Lyle and Victor, just want their elite, invitation-only hunter's weekend event to go well, but when hunters start turning up dead, they must race to find the killer before they become the next victims. This micro-budget mockumentary style, dark comedy was shot in the woods of Virginia, in six days, with a crew of five people.
THE IN-BETWEEN
Director: Mindy Bledsoe
Country: USA, Running Time: 77 minutes
Two women set out on a road trip with different missions. Mads (Jennifer Stone, Wizards of Waverly Place) needs to renew her driver's license in South Dakota, while Junior needs to visit Portland, Oregon on a quest for her dead sister. Both women have medical issues that cause friction along the way, but they never let those problems define their identities. Of course, Mads is also keeping a secret from Junior, that could explode at any moment and ruin their journey…
THE LOWER PLATEAU
Director: Liz Singh
Country: Canada, Running Time: 82 minutes
A burnt out pot dealer slash musician struggles through a Montreal winter with the help of her friends.
MICKEY AND THE BEAR
Director: Annabelle Attanasio
Country: USA, Running Time: 88 minutes
Faced with the responsibility to take care of her addict, veteran father, headstrong teen Mickey Peck keeps her household afloat.
QUEERING THE SCRIPT
Director: Gabrielle Zilkha
Country: Canada, Running Time: 90 minutes
A sparkling celebration of queer fangirls and the shows they love. Queerness on television has moved from subtext in series such as "Xena: Warrior Princess" to all-out multi-season relationships between women, as seen on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Lost Girl," and "Carmilla." Stars such as Ilene Chaiken, Stephanie Beatriz, Lucy Lawless and Angelica Ross join with the voices of numerous kickass fangirls in this fast-paced history of queer women’s representation of contemporary television.
STUCK
Director: Jenni Tooley
Country: USA, Running Time: 84 minutes
A woman struggles to remember a number of her “lives” through the veil of her fading memories as she deals with the onset of Alzheimer’s.
TITO
Director: Grace Glowicki
Country: Canada, Running Time: 106 minutes
A desperate man seeks refuge from the predators hunting him by befriending a cheerful intruder.
TWO WAYS HOME
Director: Ron Vignone
Producers: Kimberly Busbee, Tanna Frederick, Tricia Linklater, Ron Vignone
Country: USA, Running Time: 97 minutes
A young woman living with bipolar disorder struggles to honor her grandfather’s last wish while attempting to reunite with her estranged 12-year-old daughter.
THE WALL OF MEXICO
Directors: Magdalena Zyzak, Zachary Cotler
Countries: USA, Running Time: 105 minutes
A wealthy Mexican family decides to build a wall around their ranch to stop townspeople from stealing their well water.
WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS
Directors: Sean Bloomfield, Cimela Kidonakis
Country: USA, Running time: 103 minutes
WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS follows the nationwide search for Fr. Rene, which resulted in a series of shocking revelations and the discovery of a 20-year-old letter in which Fr. Rene seemed to foretell his own fate.
