Downloadable PDF of the 2010 Program Guide
Thursday, Aug. 19 – Center for the Arts
8:00 PM
Opening Night Gala/ Feature Program 1
Winners of the KSK Young Filmmakers Grant
The New Year (82 min)
One-time high school valedictorian and “most likely to succeed,” beautiful bookworm Sunny finds herself stuck in Pensacola in her mid-twenties, working at a bowling alley and caring for her terminally ill father. Sunny is taken off guard when she runs into a charming high school rival who is home from New York for the holidays, and finds herself at a crossroads between chasing her old dreams, or creating new ones that she never believed she would have.
Q&A with The New Year star Trieste Kelly Dunn and Director Brett Haley
Friday, Aug. 20 – Nevada Theatre
6:00 PM
Feature Program 2
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (5 min)
MARS (82 min)
A new space race is born between NASA and the ESA when Charlie Brownsville, Hank Morrison, and Dr. Casey Cook compete against an artificially intelligent robot to find out what's up there on the red planet. This romantic comedy is told in the playful style of a graphic novel – using an animation process that director Geoff Marslett developed specifically for MARS.
Q&A with MARS Director Geoff Marslett
8:00 PM
Feature Program 3
Stuck (90 min)
Director Steve Balderson's film noir homage to good ol' Women-in-Prison movies. Starring Karen Black, Susan Traylor, Jane Weidlin (The Go-Gos) & Mink Stole! Tongues to remain in cheek throughout this screening.
Friday, Aug. 20 – Miners Foundry
6:00 PM
Wild Things
The complex relationships between humans and our environment is rich in dramatic possibilities and life lessons. Four filmmakers show us how...
Wolf Creek (3 min)
Fledgling (7 min)
Shelter (7 min)
Last Elephants in Thailand (40 min)
8:00 PM
Shorts and Giggles
Hey, did you hear the one about the nurse who went to a wrestling match on acid? Neither did we... but we did come across these comedy shorts.
Wisdom Teeth (5 min)
Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No (5 min)
Death Row Diet (5 min)
Wrestling With My Father (5 min)
Winner: Best Short Film (5 min)
Short Film (3 min)
Career Day (14 min)
One Square Mile of Earth (12 min)
PLEASE (15 min)
10:30 PM
Nevada City Film Festival Comedy Show
Featuring Tim Heidecker, plus Duncan Trussell, Brody Stevens, Howard Kremer aka Dragon Boy Suede and hosted by DJ Douggpound and Johnny Pemberton.
Saturday, Aug. 21 – Nevada Theatre
1:30 PM
Feature Program 4
Eclipse (6 min)
MARS (82 min)
A new space race is born between NASA and the ESA when Charlie Brownsville, Hank Morrison, and Dr. Casey Cook compete against an artificially intelligent robot to find out what's up there on the red planet. This romantic comedy is told in the playful style of a graphic novel – using an animation process that director Geoff Marslett developed specifically for MARS.
Q&A with MARS Director Geoff Marslett
4:00 PM
Dreaming in Blue /Fuera de Liga (Out of This League) (65 min)
Like baseball? It’s Cuba’s national pastime, too. In this fun and hotly controversial film we follow the team from Havana, The Industriales (“The Blues”,) through their season with an unfiltered take behind the scenes in the dugout, on the road, and in the streets of Havana. Independently produced and directed by Cuban filmmaker, Ian Padron, you will see why it took him years to overcome the politics to finally get this unique film in Cuban theaters. And you don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this delightful film. This was Cuban filmmaker/director Ian Padron’s first feature documentary. Winner, Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking,Traverse City Film Festival 2010.
6:00 PM
Reel Life
Seven non-fiction perspectives on life as lived. If you're paying attention nothing is truly "ordinary".
Time Machine (11 min)
Shelter (7 min)
Shave (5 min)
Waiting for a Train (20 min)
In Summer with Terry Riley (5 min)
Planet XQ (6 min)
How to Make A Baby (1 min)
8:00 PM
Life in Music
Four films depicting how music has the power to transform and to inspire.
Quartetto (8 min)
Carmen (5 min)
In Remembrance of Lobi Traore (7 min)
My Musical Life (56 min)
Saturday, Aug. 21 – Miners Foundry
12:30 PM
Editing Panel – Presented by AJA and Grass Valley Group
2:00 PM
Directors Panel
With Brett Haley (The New Year), Geoff Marslett (MARS), Oscar Bucher (Waiting On A Train), Grzegorz "Greg" Jonkajtys (3rd Letter), Ivette Garcia (Career Day), Dennis Hauck (Sunday Punch), Phillip Wolter (The Bridge) and moderated by Kyle Buchanan from Movieline
4:00 PM
Love is Strange
Dating, marriage, parenthood... and more! Seven filmmakers explore various and sundry places in the human heart.
The Right Stuff (5 min)
All Animals (15 min)
Empty House (5 min)
Florescent Gray (8 min)
One Day (11 min)
Please (15 min)
How to Make A Baby (1 min)
6:00 PM
Short Stories
Shadows and Light are necessary elements in both film and life itself. Past, present and (potential) futures are explored in these five dramas.
Ventaja del Sicano (7 min)
3rd Letter (15 min)
The Bridge (16 min)
Beine Brechen (15 min)
Up Under the Roof (20 min)
8:00 PM
Survival of the Crittest
“Crit” (noun) – Pronounced: ”kri-t”. "A person or thing so extremely and naturally itself that it may pose a threat to ordinary reality.” Note: a nurse will be on hand during the program to attend to anyone overcome by the critness of it all.
Wisdom Teeth (5 min)
Win Some Lose Some (3 min)
Sunday Punch (18 min)
Seahorse (6 min)
El Amante del Padrino (28 min)
Ataque de los Robotos Nebulosa (6 min)
Gray Expectations (13 min)
9:00 PM
Jury Awards
10:00 PM
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Special Screening
"Nevada City Film Festival is thrilled to announce that this year's special guests are Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of the cult television show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Together they will be presenting a special screening of shorts and music videos from the show. The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is a sketch comedy television series on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim that has featured a variety of actors and comedians such as John C. Reilly, Neil Hamburger, “Weird Al” Yankovich, David Cross, Zach Galifianakis, Will Forte, and Jeff Goldblum among others. The program consists of a surrealistic mash up of sketches, songs and commercials in a public access television style that is both hilarious and slightly uncomfortable."
Sunday, Aug. 22 – Miners Foundry
1:30 PM
Wild Things
The complex relationships between humans and our environment is rich in dramatic possibilities and life lessons. Four filmmakers show us how...
Wolf Creek (3 min)
Fledgling (7 min)
Shelter (7 min)
Last Elephants in Thailand (40 min)
4:00 PM
Film Fest Favorites
A select program of some of our favorite short films from the 2010 Festival
6:00 PM
Audience Awards
7:30 PM
Golden Oldies from the early years of the Nevada City Film Festival include favorites such
as Moto-genocide, Curious Acts of Modern Lovers, and Jobby the Awesome Surfer.
* All Films are subject to change
