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Raindance Film Festival · 2013

Raindance Film Festival 2013

North American Indies

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31 films · 2 reviews

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2 Jacks (Two Jacks)

Review preview for 2 Jacks

The film has a cheap minimalistic feel, although this adds to the theme of two men who are always trying to grasp at anything that comes their way.

Paul Logan · 3 out of 5
Legendary Hollywood director, Jack Hussar a notorious womaniser returns to Hollywood to raise financing for his next film.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Bernard Rose; Writer: Bernard Rose, based on the short story by Leo Tolstoy.; Stars: Danny Huston, Sienna Miller, Billy Zane)

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9 Full Moons

A flighty young woman falls for a musician.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Tomer Almagor; Writer: Tomer Almagor; Stars: Amy Seimetz, Bret Roberts, Donal Logue)

All City

New York graffiti artists ply their trade.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Stephen Bell; Writer: Stephen Bell, Hugo Martinez; Stars: Brail, Case 2, Coco 144, Joe 182, Kez5, Rate, Les, Skuf, VFR)

Before The Spring After The Fall

A documentary about heavy metal in Egypt, shot before the revolution of 2011.

(Country: US, Egypt; Year: 2013; Director: Jed Rothstein)

Be Good

A struggling independent filmmaker with a sleepless baby to care for slowly becomes unbearable - even to himself.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Todd Looby; Writer: Todd Looby; Stars: Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, Paul Gordon)

Carlos Spills The Beans

A film about growing up rich, getting land and being the boss.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Brian McGuire; Writer: Joey Capone, Brian McGuire; Stars: Joey Capone, Bret Roberts, C.C. Sheffield, Brian McGuire, Harry Dean Stanton)

Coldwater

A teenager struggles to survive in a juvenile detention centre in the wilderness.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Vincent Grashaw; Writer: Vincent Grashaw, Mark Penney; Stars: P.J. Boudousqué, James C. Burns, Chris Petrovski, Octavius J. Johnson, Nicholas Bateman, Stephanie Simbari)

Doomsdays

A pre-Apocalyptic comedy about squatters.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Eddie Mullins; Writer: Eddie Mullins; Stars: Mark Bain, Jenny Bradley, Laura Campbell)

Everybody Street

A documentary about the life and work of New York street photographers.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Cheryl Dunn; Stars: Boogie, Martha Cooper, Bruce Davidson)

Fall And Winter

An environmental journey across the US.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Matt Anderson; Stars: Dean Blanchard, Grace Lee Boggs, Kevin Curole)

The Far Flung Star

A struggling actress is drawn into danger after a mysterious stranger kills her brother's lover.

(Country: US, Hong Kong; Year: 2013; Director: Steve Balderson; Stars: Christa Engelbrecht, Eric Tedder, John Werskey)

The First Winter

A young Portuguese man moves to Canada to be with his pregnant girlfriend, and finds himself adrift.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ryan McKenna; Writer: Ryan McKenna; Stars: Darcy Fehr, Joao Fernandes, Eve Majzels)

Get The Picture

A documentary portrait of 95 year old John G Morris, photo editor extraordinaire.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Cathy Pearson; Stars: John G Morris)

Go Down Death

Physical and psychic disaster in a forgotten town.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Aaron Schimberg; Writer: Aaron Schimberg; Stars: Lee Azzarello, Doug Barron, Burton Crane)

Heavy Hands

When a young man steals from a famous crime family, everyone is forced to take sides.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Sean Williamson; Writer: Sean Williamson; Stars: Sean Williamson, Frankie Latina, Kelly Cunningham)

Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp

The story of a legendary Chicago pimp who reinvented himself as an author.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jorge Hinojosa; Stars: Betty Beck, Camille Beck, Diane Beck)

I Play With The Phrase Each Other

Review preview for I Play With The Phrase Each Other

Great poets are frantically name-checked as if by way of justification when the overall effect has more in common with that of Douglas Adams' Vogons.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
Four isolated residents of the urban jungle communicate through phone conversations.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jay Alvarez; Writer: Jay Alvarez; Stars: Jay Alvarez, Will Hand, Megan Kopp, Alexander Fraser)

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Jake Squared

A filmmaker uses his work to try and figure out why he screws up all his relationships.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Howard Goldberg; Writer: Howard Goldberg; Stars: Elias Koteas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Virginia Madsen)

Mad Ship

A bereaved Scandinavian immigrant plans to escape the Great Depression by building a ship to sail across the prairie.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: David Martin; Writer: Patricia Fogliato, David Martin; Stars: Gil Bellows, Rachel Blanchard, Martha Burns)

Medora

In America's basketball heartland, four boys from rural Medora, Indiana fight to end their high school's team's losing streak, as their dwindling town faces the threat of extinction.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Andrew Cohn, Davy Rothbart)

The Meteor

Forty-something Pierre, his mother and his wife are linked by crime, guilt and loneliness. Like casualties of love and desire, they are dying to stick their heads above water and breathe the air of life.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: François Delisle; Writer: François Delisle; Stars: Noémie Godin Vigneau, François Delisle, Laurent Lucas, Brigitte Pogonat, François Papineau, Andrée Lachapelle)

Mutual Friends

New York thirtysomethings gather at a disastrous surprise party.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Matthew Watts; Writer: Francisco Angones, Jessica Sue Burstein; Stars: Caitlin FitzGerald, Cheyenne Jackson, Peter Scanavino)

Ofir

A documentary portrait of a man who has devoted his life to saving great apes.

(Country: US; Director: Mark McDannald; Stars: Ofir Drori)

Prevertere

An unusual search for love.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Brian McGuire; Writer: Brian McGuire; Stars: James Duval, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bret Roberts, Antonella Ponziani, Reza Sixo Safai)

SHReD: The Story Of Asher Bradshaw

The story of a six year old skateboarding legend and YouTube star.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Kathy Herndl; Stars: Asher Bradshaw, Justin Bradshaw, Maribel Bradshaw, Tom Bradshaw, Andrew Bradshaw)

Tales From The Organ Trade

An exploration of the underground trade in human body parts.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Ric Esther Bienstock; Writer: Ric Esther Bienstock; Stars: David Cronenberg)

Tru Love

A woman with a fear of commitment falls for widow only to find the widow's daughter determined to destroy their relationship.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Kate Johnston; Writer: Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald; Stars: Shauna MacDonald, Kate Trotter, Christine Horne)

Twenty Million People

When his comedian girlfriend goes missing, a young man persuades his imaginary friends to help in the search for her.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Michael Ferrell; Writer: Michael Ferrell; Stars: Michael Ferrell, Devin Sanchez, Chris Prine)

Welcome Nowhere

Roma Gypsies living in boxcars in Bulgaria struggle to get by without even basic facilities.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Kate Ryan; Stars: Ethan Hawke)

White Fox Mask

A surrealist parable.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ricky Shane Reid; Writer: Kentucker Audley, Ricky Shane Reid; Stars: Kentucker Audley, Lindsay Burdge, Heather Andersen, Ronald Thomas, Craig Mark Wells)

White Reindeer

It's Christmastime and a woman is trying to put her life back together after an unexpected tragedy.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Zach Clark; Writer: Zach Clark; Stars: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Laura Lemar-Goldsborough, Lydia Hyslop)