OPENING NIGHT - 7 BY 7 SHORTS PROGRAM

Thursday, May 6, 8:00 PM, The Hall at Brown Center
Followed by the Opening Night Party

THE FRANK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – Bob Odenkirk (17:00)
Last year Mr. Show’s Bob Odenkirk directed an independent feature called Melvin Goes to Dinner. Besides screening at the Maryland Film Festival, Odenkirk, writer/star Michael Blieden, and the rest of their team discovered just how many film festivals there are in this world. A lot! This is a home video of their trip to the most exclusive festival ever: The Frank International Film Festival.
THAT DAY- Matthew Thomas (3:45)
Capturing emotions of both loss and gain, a phone message from home defines one man’s search for happiness between two worlds.

GUARD DOG - Bill Plympton (5:30)
Mans best friend guards his master at whatever cost, but sometimes a dog’s paranoia is not in the best interest of the master. For more animated outrageousness, don’t miss Bill Plympton’s new feature, Hair High, showing later in this festival.

LSD A GO GO – Scott Calonico (10:00)
Utilizing educational “drug scare” films, National Archive photos, Ford Presidential Library photos, and recently declassified security memos, this doc looks into the case of Army officer Frank Olson, who plunged ten stories to his death in 1953 after taking LSD as part of the CIA’s MK-ULTRA program. A new short from the creator of The King & Dick, which screened at last year’s Maryland Film Festival.
DYSENCHANTED - Terri Edda Miller (8:00)
Storybook characters Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Goldilocks, Alice, Dorothy, and Red Riding Hood are in group therapy dealing with the issue that life is no fairy tale. When Clara, whose tale is yet to be told, joins them, she finds out that all women are heroes in their own stories.
WHEN I WAS A BOY – Matthew Modine (5:07)
A grown man relives the events of his childhood in the physical person of the man he has become. As everyone remembers, childhood came with defeats (like being ridiculed and beaten up by friends and enemies) and pleasures (like pushing a shopping cart through a supermarket while listening to the soothing background music). Don’t miss another short by Matthew Modine, Smoking, showing later in this festival.


PRETTY DEAD GIRL – Shawn Ku (22:00)
Singing, dancing, and necrophilia are all part of this girl loves boy, boy loves corpse musical necromance. Mortie only has eyes for the stiffs that pass through the morgue at the hospital, making him oblivious to the advances of the pretty young nurse Viola. What lengths will she go to if she can’t teach him to love a woman while she’s alive?