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2007 Forx Film Fest

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The sixth annual Forx Film Fest was held November 30 and December 1-2, 2007 at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Showings began at 7:00 Friday evening, continued Saturday afternoon and evening, and Sunday afternoon. Ticket holders could also stay to see a special 7:00 Sunday night screening of the Empire-produced 2006 movie, Music to My Ears.

The 10:30 Saturday morning panel discussion by filmmakers was cancelled this year due to the severe winter weather, but the remainder of the festival continued, including the 6 pm Saturday "Backstage with the Arts" presentation on digital movie production, with wine and cookies.

Screenings ran from 7:00 p.m. until between 11:00 and 11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings, and from 1:00 to shortly after 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday afternoons. At least one feature-length movie was scheduled for each of the four screening sessions (the last show of each session) and there was a brief break about halfway through each session.

Movies on this year's schedule covered a wide variety of subject material, genres, and styles. They ranged from two minutes to an hour and forty-five minutes in length, including selections from filmmakers based in Grand Forks-East Grand Forks, Fargo-Moorhead, Jamestown, Bismarck, and Minneapolis. The first film on the festival's opening night, as has been traditional since 2004, was a title that played at the historic theatre during its first few years of operation. This year, for the first time, selected award-winners and favorites from each of the previous five festivals were screened throughout the weekend.


Contents

[edit] Awards and Award Winners

Best Feature: Resident Alien
Best Short: If Only
Best Documentary: Carving the White
Best Music Video: No entries this year
Best Student Production: A Place to Bury My Heart
Audience Favorite: -to be announced soon-


The schedule for the sixth year of the festival was as follows

[edit] November 30

[edit] Friday Evening Session

93 minutes - crime drama
Lon Chaney, Sr. stars as a bitter, legless gangster kingpin with plans to unleash chaos on the world and to revenge himself against the doctor who needlessly amputated his legs as a child. Meanwhile, a female detective who infiltrates his lair finds herself falling in love with him, and the attractive sculptor-daughter of the doctor is fascinated with his demonic attitude. This film originally played at the Empire December 1 and 2, 1920, a little more than a year after the theatre's November 1919 opening.
2 minutes - experimental
Image and sound provide a moody meditation on life in North Dakota.
12 minutes - murder mystery (student)
In flashback, incidents unfold that lead to the death of a young man with a bipolar girlfriend.
8 minutes - crime drama
A woman involves her unsuspecting sister in a robbery. This is an expanded version of a movie made for the Fargo Film Festival's 2-Minute Movie Contest
97 minutes - drama
On a remote high-security prison island in the not-too-distant future, nine convicted murderers are put together in a room and informed that only one of them may emerge alive. In a deadly game, each must draw lots to determine which of them is to be killed by one of the others. The motivation to participate is that the one survivor will be granted a government pardon and set free. During the ordeal, the convicts learn more about each other and themselves. A preliminary cut of the movie's first 45 minutes played at the 2006 Forx Film Fest.

[edit] December 1

[edit] Saturday Morning Session

  • - Digital Movie Roundtable Discussion
This year's panel discussion was cancelled due to severe winter weather.

[edit] Saturday Afternoon Session

22 minutes - documentary
This movie explores the impact of "Urban Harvest" (an urban revitalization and farmer's market event) on the Bismarck community. Searching for the "center" of this Midwestern city (comparing it with European cities, specifically Warsaw, Poland), it forces its viewers to question the choice of shopping mall chains and corporate megastores as opposed to supporting one's local community.
10 minutes - drama (student)
A father's final gift.
16 minutes - drama (student)
Unable to help a girl struggling with her faith, a young priest's world crumbles around him.
6 minutes - experimental documentary (student)
An experimental documentary landscape of personalities local to Moorhead, Minnesota
8 minutes - drama (student)
A young professional dancer unwisely relies on their past personal relationship to avoid paying off her drug dealer. This movie was created in the UND Summer Movie Camp.
7 minutes - drama (student)
Two girls cherish the feather boa left to them by their late mother as a good luck charm. When it mysteriously disappears, they start to experience bad luck in their dancing recitals. This movie was created in the UND Summer Movie Camp.
4 minutes - comedy (student)
A young man tries to convince a girl in a coffee shop to give him her feather boa. This movie was created in the UND Summer Movie Camp.
13 minutes - comedy (student)
An straight-arrow young go-getter accepts the bet by his slacker roommates that he is incapabable of breaking rules to the point that he could be fired from a job the same day he was hired.
2 minutes - animation (student)
A mannequin comes to life and does a self-portrait of itself.
9 minutes - psychological horror (student)
A young man is haunted by memories and old love letters at a lake cabin.
15 minutes - drama - "Best Short" 2005 Forx Film Fest
A man struggles with alcohol while trying to adjust to retired life.
10 minutes - clay animation - Opening selection 2002 Forx Film Fest
In a medieval kingdom, a bumbling kitchen servant dreams of becoming a knight.
81 minutes - gothic thriller
A troubled teen expelled from a New York boarding school is sent to live with her eccentric aunt in the Midwest. There she meets a graduate student translating a rare and controversial ancient manuscript he has smuggled out of the Middle East. Soon the two must join forces to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend, while dealing with threats by various fanatics attempting to obtain his document and/or sabotage his work. Meanwhile, their house may or may not be haunted in this gothic thriller with an underlying sense of humor.

[edit] Saturday Evening Session

21 minutes - drama (student)
Some people say that love is dead. For Adelaid this may be true.
11 minutes - drama (student)
Two friends are both in unhappy/unsatisfied relationships because of their belief that things will get better.
7 minutes (student)
Dreams and reality share things in common, like desire and intrigue, but are usually separate. The two only meet through passion.
6 minutes
Made as part of the 48-hour National FIlm Challenge, this is a horror film we like to call "All the gore without the bore."
5 minutes - animation (student)
An unexpected visitor appears at Sarah's house one night. It will detonate memories of their relationship in the past.
33 minutes - dramedy
Tommy, Marcus, and Jimmy, three distant brothers, try to find common ground while attending their father's funeral.
24 minutes - comedy (student)
Love, romance, action...and a little bit of Leroy in this dark comedy about a fast-talking egomaniac's experiences with women, gangsters, and small dogs.
44 minutes - crime drama - "Best Short" 2003 Forx Film Fest
In a world of guns, drugs, deceit, and murder, Brax and Lyle, two ruthless hit men, must seek, destroy, and return what is due to Georgie, their boss lady. - The screening of this movie was cancelled after the videotape jammed about five minutes into it, and it was replaced with Love Me Tender.
20 minutes - dark comedy romance (student)
Filmed on 16mm film; not what you might expect from its title, unless you're a cannibal in love...
86 minutes - horror-thriller
A young man who enlists his best friend to help investigate the grisly mutilation death of his younger sister. Other teens are suddenly turning up dead by similar methods, but the police can find no clues tying them together. Along the way, the boys discover some disturbing secrets about their small town, and must confront some unexpected consequences related to their own lives.

[edit] December 2

[edit] Sunday Afternoon Session

24 minutes - documentary
A look at the 2007 Budweiser Snowsculpting International Championships in Breckinridge, Colorado.
13 minutes - drama (student)
A romantic square between four college students.
15 minutes - documentary
This documentary investigates and sometimes re-enacts ghost stories about various North Dakota locations.
2 minutes - comedy
A young man's friends all seem to look unusually familiar.
13 minutes - comedy (student)
A hopeless romantic is caught in a bodily transformation just as he meets his true love.
6 minutes - documentary (student)
A look into the life of an average everyday working man.
8 minutes - clay animation - "Audience Favorite" 2004 Forx Film Fest
Some clay figures decide to revolt against their existence in this colorful existential comedy.
19 minutes - comedy - "Best Short" 2006 Forx Film Fest
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark discuss the progress of their expedition in a St. Louis tavern.
10 minutes - comedy-drama "Best Student Production" 2005 Forx Film Fest
When he hears that his favorite comic book hero will be signing autographs at a local store, a little boy goes on adventure to meet him.
4 minutes - documentary
Two men attempt to cross North Dakota by "snowkiting," moving entirely by wind power.
105 minutes - romantic comedy/sci-fi
An attractive divorcee finally gets out of Fargo, North Dakota, only to find herself broke and without a job, unable to pay her rent at a rundown motel in rural Stillwater, Minnesota. The motel is run by a UFO fanatic, who is convinced that the new handyman he just hired is actually an alien from a spaceship that crashed in the nearby woods. Naturally, something of a romantic triangle develops, and then the UFO nut’s former physics professor shows up with a government investigation team looking for extra-terrestrial evidence.
  • - Awards Presentation -

[edit] Sunday Evening (Extra Session)

119 minutes - musical comedy-romance
Townspeople band together in an attempt to save a local landmark threatened with demolition. This backstage musical comedy was co-produced by and largely shot at the Empire Arts Center, and closed out last year's Forx Film Fest. Although not officially part of this year's festival, ticket holders for any of the individual sessions or the full weekend festival ticket could attend at no additional charge.
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