The 24th-annual Fort Lauderdale
International Film Festival begins October 23 and runs through November 8. With
the exception of the opening night, all films will be shown at Cinema Paradiso
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Here's the full schedule of films and events.
Friday, October 23
At the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale:
7 p.m. 2009 Short Film Program No. 1 (Free with
tickets to the opening night film)
Includes: Closed Zone, Expiration, The Wheel
Goes Round, Pigeon Impossible, I Do
7 p.m. Michelle Monaghan FLIFF2009
"Star on the Horizon" Honoree
7 p.m. Kevin McCarthy - 2009 Lifetime
Achievement Recipient
7 p.m. TiMER - Opening Night Film
Appearing at screening: Director Jacqueline
Schaeffer and castmember and Michelle Borth
At Signature Grand, 6900 W. State Road 84, Davie:
9:30 p.m. Starry, Starry Night: The Opening
Night Gala for the 24th
Saturday, October 24
10 a.m. 2009
12 p.m. Official Rejection
Appearing at screening: Director Paul
Osborne
2 p.m. Thank You For Washing - Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Camille
Brown
2 p.m. Article 32
Appearing at screening: filmmakers Don
Sikorski, Douglas Stewart, and John Errante
3:45 p.m. Lover - Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Aldo
Paternostro and castmember Marisé Alvarez
3:45 p.m. Tantric Tourists
Appearing at screening: Laurie Handlers
6 p.m. Trucker
Appearing at screening: Director James
Mottern and the star of the film Michelle Monaghan
7:45 p.m. Here And There
Appearing at screening: Director Darko
Lungulov
9:30 p.m. Black Dynamite
Appearing at screening: Director Scott
Sanders and the film's star Michael Jai White
7:30 p.m. Mods & Rockers presents Quadrophinia, outdoors at Cinema Paradiso
11 p.m. Black Dynamite party at Bova Prime
on Las Olas
Free with ticket to Black Dynamite
Sunday, October 25
11:45 a.m. Rain Rain - Short film
11:45 a.m. Gargoyle - Short film
11:45 a.m. Lessons From
Appearing at screening: Writer Allan
Richards
1 p.m. Don Mckay
Appearing at screening: Director Jake
Goldberger
2:45 p.m. Dear Lemon
4:30 p.m. Beyond The Pole
Appearing at screening: Director David Louis
Williams
6:15 p.m. Hungry Years
Appearing at screening: Directors Isaak
James & Eva James, and castmember Micheal J Burg
8:15 p.m. Black Dynamite
Appearing at screening: Director Scott
Sanders and the film's star Michael Jai White
9:45 p.m. Black Dynamite Courtyard Party
Monday, October 26
6 p.m. A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home
Appearing at screening: Director/Producer
Josh Grossberg and producers Michael Kier, and Jill Goldstein
7:30 p.m. An Englishman In
9:30 p.m. The Pillars at New River Sound
After Party
Free with ticket to "An Englishman in
Tuesday, October 27
6 p.m. Mount St Elias
Appearing at screening: Director Alyn Darney
and Skier Axel Naglich
6:30 p.m. Mediterranean Food with dinner
cooked on site by Carrabbas Italian Grille followed by the 8 p.m. film
8 p.m. Mediterranean Food (film only)
9:45 p.m. Coyote Ugly After Party
Free with ticket to Mediterranean Food
Wednesday, October 28
5:45 p.m. Romaine, 30 Below
7:30 p.m. Queen To Play
9:15 p.m. Smith and Jones after party
Free with ticket to Queen To Play
Thursday, October 29
6 p.m. At A Glance
8 p.m.
Appearing at screening: Director Brian
Caunter, actor Frank Vincent, plus other cast and crew members
9:45 p.m. Paranormal Activity
10 p.m. The W Hosts
Free with ticket to Chicago Overcoat
Friday, October 30
5:45 p.m. Where did the Sound Go - Short
film
Appearing at screening: Producer Vic Hunter
5:45 p.m. All My Brothers's Fingers and Toes
- Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Marlene E.
Weiss
5:45 p.m. I'm An Artist
Appearing at screening: Directors Joseph
Hammond & Rachael Profiloski
6:55 p.m. Fright Night Movie Special
Includes 2 drinks, hot dog, bottomless
popcorn for the evening and all three movies.
7 p.m. The Seventh Moon
8:30 p.m. Audie And The Wolf
Appearing at screening: Castmember Elana
Krausz and Producer Christo Dimassis
9:55 p.m. Best Ribs In Town
Appearing at screening: Director David
Mikalson plus members of the cast and crew
Saturday, October 31
10 a.m. Jillian Dillon - Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Yvette
Edery
10 a.m. Azur & Asmar
12 p.m. The Oblivion Tree
Appearing at screening: Director Norluck
Dorange
1:30 p.m. The Finding (El Descrubimiento) -
Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Alonso
Alvarez Barreda
1:30 p.m. Life Is A Banquet
3 p.m. Pandora's Box
5 p.m. Italians (film only)
7:30 p.m. Broken Embraces
Appearing at screening: Castmember Tamar
Novas'
10 p.m. Repo! The Genetic Opera
10 p.m. Smooth Operator - Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Alyn Darney
11:55 p.m. Rocky Horror Picture Show
Featuring live performers.
Sunday, November 1
10:30 a.m. Autistic License
Appearing at screening: Director Stacey
Dinner-Levin
12:30 p.m. Hineni's Triumph of the Spirit -
Short film
Appearing at screening: renown author,
writer of the films and Holocaust Survivor; Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
12:30 p.m. Ingelore
Special guest: Ingelore Herz Honigstein and
Director Frank Stiefel
12:30 p.m. Sectrets to Savor - Short film
Appearing at screening: Director Alyn Darney
2 p.m. Queen To Play
4 p.m. Wonderful World
Appearing at screening: Director Josh Goldin
and the film's star Matthew Broderick
5:30 p.m. Wonderful World Reception
Featuring Cheese, Crackers & Crudite in
the Courtyard
6 p.m. Matthew Broderick - 2009 Career
Achievement Honoree
6:05 p.m. Wonderful World
Appearing at screening: Director Josh Goldin
and Matthew Broderick
7:45 p.m. Not By Chance
9:30 p.m. Yolo After Party
Free with ticket to Not By Chance
Monday, November 2
5 p.m. 2009
6 p.m. Cody
Appearing at screening: Director Chris
Schueler
7:30 p.m. Romaine, 30 Below
7:30 p.m. Midway at the
Tuesday, November 3
5:45 p.m. 2009 Short Film Program No. 2
Includes: First Time Long Time, True Beauty,
Miracle Fish, The Little Acorn, I Passi Dell'Anima, Lover, Kindness
7:30 p.m. Genie and the Shark - Short film
7:30 p.m. Commercials, Comedy and
And evening with director Jim Jenkins
9 p.m. Pop Star On Ice
9 p.m. Mango's After Party
Free with ticket to Commercials, Comedy
& Cannes
Wednesday, November 4
5 p.m. Dinner from Carrabbas followed by the 6:35 p.m. film Italians
5:30 p.m. 2009
6:30 p.m. Mario Tosi Lifetime Achievement
Film Retrospective
Free to FLIFF members
6:35 p.m. Italians (film only)
8:30 p.m. Rough Winds
Appearing at screening: Director Andrea
Olabarria and members of the cast and crew
10 p.m. Rough Winds cast and crew party in the Cinema Paradiso courtyard
Free with ticket to Rough Winds
Thursday, November 5
5 p.m. 2009
6 p.m. When The Evening Comes
Appearing at screening: Director Craig
Geraghty and Producer Leonard Marinello
7:30 p.m. Punching The Clown
Appearing at screening: filmmakers Henry
Phillips and Gregori Viens
9:10 p.m. Gigante
9:30 p.m. Smith and Jones after party
Friday, November 6
5 p.m. Amancio: Two Faces On A
Appearing at screening: Director Tom Murray
and Producer Bruce Presley
7:30 p.m. In My Sleep
Appearing at screening: Director Allen Wolf
9:15 p.m. A Taste of
Includes: Audience with the
10:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 7
10 a.m. Princess Lilifee
11:30 a.m. Paddle To
1 p.m. Screen Actors Guild Indie Workshop
How to Hire SAG Actors on Any Budget - and
Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask
2 p.m. A Span Of Heaven
3:45 p.m. The Market
5:30 p.m. Failing Better Now
Appearing at screening: Director Keren
Atzmon and Castmembers Lindsay Michelle Nader and Joyce DeWitt
7:30 p.m. Entre Nos
Appearing at screening: Directors Paola
Mendoza & Gloria La Morte
9:15 p.m. The Chaser
Sunday, November 8
10 a.m. Cafe Cinematheque International
presents The Eagle Hunter's Son
Includes pastries, bagels, coffee, and
post-film discussion
1 p.m. Circus Rosaire
Appearing at screening: Director Robyn
Bliley and members of the Rosaire family
2:45 p.m. Gashole
Appearing at screening: Directors Jeremy
Wagener & Scott D. Roberts
5 p.m. A Matter Of Size
6:45 p.m. A Matter Of Size (closing-night
film and wrap party)
8 p.m. 2009 FLIFF Wrap Party
