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2008 Forx Film Fest

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The seventh annual Forx Film Fest was held November 7-8 2008 at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Showings began at 7:00 Friday evening, continuing Saturday afternoon and evening. Once again opening the festival was a film that played at the Empire during its first year of operation, and closing the festival was a repeat screening of the Empire-produced 2006 movie, Music to My Ears.


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[edit] Awards and Award Winners

Best Feature: No entries submitted for competition this year
Best Short: Heavenly Sight (2007)
Best Documentary: When the Landscape Is Quiet Again: The Legacy of Art Link (2008)
Best Music Video: The Whisky Sam Performance Video (2008)
Best Student Production: A Day with Mom (2006)
Audience Favorite: When the Landscape Is Quiet Again: The Legacy of Art Link (2008)


The full schedule for the seventh year of the festival is as follows:

[edit] November 7

[edit] Friday Evening Session

77 minutes - sci-fi fantasy
This John Barrymore version of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel about split personality originally played at the historic Empire Theatre September 27-28, 1920, exactly six months after the film's New York opening and less than a year after the Empire's November 10, 1919 opening.
A fictional tale explores a couple's different perspectives on marriage.
Three jurors need relief, each in a different way.
In this mockumentary, two hunters try to capture the Elusive Shane.
Moving into a fully furnished, inexpensive home seems like a blessing for a young woman, until she realizes that it is more of a curse, in a way she never expected.
On one of those days that starts off as though nothing could possibly go wrong, suddenly everything takes a bad turn and gets progressively worse.
After doing his laundry, an unlucky student discovers he has locked himself out of his dorm.
A girl waits impatiently in a coffee shop for a boy, and once he arrives he does not create a favorable impression.
A college student laments the fact that his girlfriend has dumped him, and then his roommate fixes him up with an unusual date.
This two-minute mockumentary describes the mission of the North Dakota antiballistic missile site, its abandonment, and its subsequent use by alien spacecraft.
Three girls do various activites to the accopaniment of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" in this music video.
Abstract patterns are animated in rhythm with swing music.
Traditional hand-drawn animation dramatizes an old man's effort to sit on a park bench.
Cut-out animation depicts a woman who will stop at nothing to pursue a purse-snatcher.
Motion-graphics animation illustrates Shel Silverstein's wild story.
Two cowboys have a duel in traditional hand-drawn animation.
Motion-graphics animation illustrates Shel Silverstein's story of a man who wants to feed others in an unusual way.
A variation on Shakespeare's characters is performed in cut-out animation.
Motion-graphics animation illustrates a fanciful story.
Tradtionial hand-drawn animation illustrates various letters of the alphabet in action.
Motion-graphics animation is used to dramatize excerpts from Lewis Carroll's famous story.
Animated abstract patterns synchronize with electronic sounds.

[edit] November 8

[edit] Saturday Afternoon Session

The band Whisky Sam performs nine songs on stage at the Diamond Lounge in Grand Forks.
A young man in his twenties travels on a journey to find his best friend -- a stuffed animal.
A young woman discovers that fear is only as real as you make it.
A boy plays God by controlling two computer game characters.
An experimental narrative inspired by the music of the Russian Circles
A young boy, dealing with the concept of death for the first time, finds meaning in a small detail.
A man is kidnapped from his hotel and taken to the middle of nowhere to die. But is everything what it seems?
A woman tries to pull her life together after a divorce.
A girl finds she is invited to two birthday parties the same day, one by her best friend and the other by the most popular girl in school.
When a young man breaks his boss' beloved stapler, the boss freaks out and the FBI must step in to protect him.
A detective finds a body by a stream, and is surprised when the young man's ghost suddenly shows up to explain what happened.
Students in the spring semester movie production class at the University of North Dakota work on their projects in this documentary.
106 minutes - sociopolitical satire and supernatural fantasy
Activists steal an ancient mummy that a grad student plans to study, but they inadvertantly bring it back to life and discover it has plans and political aspirations of its own.

[edit] Saturday Evening Session

This documentary on the life and contributions of former North Dakota governor Art Link, focuses on his strong agrarian idealism and concern for the state's future.
One year after her death, David's mother comes back to spend one final day with him in New York City.
A young woman tries to make sense of her brother's actions after a death in the family.
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.
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