
Sept.
21-24, 2000
AMERICAN
SHORTS PROGRAM
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DREAMER
1999/color/10:41 min./35mm A native
American Shaman has a vision of the
future through his dreams.
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Director,
screenwriter: Raymond Spiess Jr
Producer: Raymond E. Spiess Jr and Jeffry
Feinberg
Co-Producer: Gina Brown
Cinematographer: Marc Leidy
Editor: Jacob Bricca
Composer: Alan Howarth/Blue Stone Singers
Cast: Saginaw Grant
Bio:
Ray Spiess Jr. makes his directorial debut with
Dreamer. He is currently the Supervising Sound
Editor for the acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos.
CONTACT:
Raymond Spiess Jr.
The Digital Bench / Soaring Eagle Productions
3727 West Magnolia Blvd #414
Burbank, CA 91505
818 761-1357
respiess@hotmail.com
ICE
FISHING
1999/color/10:30 min/16mm
*Shot in the Hudson Valley
Rob Miller is a
twelve-year old boy growing up in a single parent
home that is repulsed by his mother's attempts to
find a husband. Without realizing it, he too is
searching
for a father.
Director,
Co-Producer, Screenwriter: Alex Kondracke
Producer: Angela Robinson
Cinematograper: Margaret Brown
Editor: Music Schmusic
Cast: Cameron Boyd, Tracey Howe, Ashley Carlisle,
Elizabeth Ann Townsend
Bio:
Alexandra Kondracke was born in Washington DC.
She graduated from Dartmouth College before
enrolling in NYU Graduate Film School. Alex has
worked as a cinematographer and segment producer
on many television documentaries including The
Learning Channel's Trauma/Life in the ER,
A&E's The Vincent Simmons project and HBO's
Nuyorican Dream. Ice Fishing is her first
narrative short. It was awarded an Honorable
mention at Sundance 2000.
CONTACT:
Alex Kondracke
234 East 7th Street #2rw
NY, NY 10009
212 460-9660
akk8287@is.nyu.edu
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ICEMAN
1999/color/04:45/35mmIceman examines
the imagery of a fleeting moment. A woman
struggles to create a memory of the
mother she never knew. The workings of a
tenement set the stage for her mother's
unimaginable end as Iceman draws upon a
fractured symbiosis on a hot summer day.
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Director: Kate
Judge
Producer: Dan Halpern
Director of Photography: Michael Falasco
Editor: David Kuther
Composer: Chris Cunningham
Cast: Joseph Baldwin, Lisa Bostnar, Libby
Christophersen, Sally Connors, Calvin Haywood,
Dennis Kaiser, Bob Newton, Kevin O'Donnell
CONTACT:
Kate Judge
Wow them Inc.
PO Box 940432
Rockaway Park, NY 11694
718 318-2446
wowthem@juno.com
LAST
REQUEST
2000/color/16:30 min/35mm

A hitman
takes his victim to the middle of nowhere to kill
him. When the victim finds out that the hitman is
a first timer, the tables are slowly turned.
Director: Tom
Hodges
Producer (s): Jennifer Blair and Tom Hodges
Screenwriter: Scott Murphy
Cinematographer: Benjamin Spek
Editor: Sean Albertson
Composer: Joseph Stanly Williams
Cast: Michael Chiklis (The Commish, Wired) and
David Gianopoulos (The Last Don)
Bio:
"The Last request" follows Hodges'
Award Winning short, "Shoot the Moon",
which won seven awards including the Audience
Award for Best Short at the Hamptons Intenational
Film festival and Audience Award for Best Comedy
at the Palm Springs International Shorts
Festival. Recently, Hodges completed negotiations
with Kismet Productions to option his feature
scripts "Cooties", a romantic comedy
which he will also direct.
CONTACT:
Tom Hodges
Kismet Productions
2307 Lake Shore Avenue
LA, CA 90039
323 661-4403
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