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Twin Cities Gold Film Festival |
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 THE THIRD ANNUAL TWIN CITIES GOLD FILM FESTIVAL! Friday, Saturday & Sunday, February 23 25, 2007 Nathan Block and all of the staff at the Plaza wish to thank EVERYONE who braved the weather to attend the Twin Cities Gold Film Festival. We appreciate your business, kind words and support. The Festival wishes to congratulate the winners which were crowned on Sunday night, 2/25.
We will be doing another program for the winners and other selected shorts in the near future, so please check this website regularly! Thank you for supporting an INDEPENDENT film festival highlighting INDEPENDENT films here in the Twin Cities! Nathan Block Founder, Twin Cities Gold Film Festival
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS
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BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA (BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA) SPAIN 30 Minutes Oscar Nominees: Javier Fesser & Luis Manso Binta, a 7-year-old girl, sets out to change the life of her young cousin |
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ERAMOS POCOS (ONE TOO MANY) Kimuak/SPAIN 16 Minutes Oscar Nominee: Borja Cobeaga When his wife leaves him, Joaquin asks his son to help him persuade his mother-in-law to do the housework. |
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HELMER & SON DENMARK 12 Minutes Oscar Nominees: Soren Pilmark & Kim Magnusson A son is called to the rest home, where his father has recently been admitted. |
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THE SAVIOUR Australian Film Television & Radio School/AUSTRALIA 19 Minutes Oscar Nominees: Peter Templeman & Stuart Parkyn Malcolm, a door-to-door Mormon evangelist is in love with a married woman. |
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WEST BANK STORY UNITED STATES 21 Minutes Oscar Nominee: Ari Sandel A musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands on the West Bank. |
ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
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THE DANISH POET (Den Danske Dikteren) National Film Board of Canada / NORWAY & CANADA 15 Minutes Oscar Nominee: Torill Kove Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, takes a holiday in Norway to meet the famous writer Sigrid Undset. |
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THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL Buena Vista/UNITED STATES 7 Minutes Oscar Nominees: Roger Allers & Don Hahn A tale about a poor young girl who finds visions of happiness in the fiery flames of the matches that she lights to keep warm. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. |
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MAESTRO Szimplafilm/HUNGARY 5 Minutes Oscar Nominee: Geza M. Toth Maestro sits in front of a dressing room mirror, and carefully prepares for his grand show. |
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NO TIME FOR NUTS 20th Century Fox/UNITED STATES 7 Minutes Oscar Nominees: Chris Renaud & Michael Thurmeier While trying to bury a nut during the Ice Age, Scrat uncovers a frozen time machine. |
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A GENTLEMANS DUEL Blur Studio/ UNITED STATES 7:45 minutes Director: Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Scott McNally A seemingly innocent tea party takes a turn for the dramatic when two imperious aristocrats suddenly find themselves competing for the affections of the same fair lady. |
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GUIDE DOG Branscome International/UNITED STATES 5:45 minutes Director: Bill Plympton GUIDE DOG is a sequel to the Oscar nominated short GUARD DOG. This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results. |
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ONE RAT SHORT Charlex Films / UNITED STATES 10:18 minutes Director: Alex Weil The mesmerizing ballet of a discarded food wrapper leads to a New York subway rat into an adventure of love and loss. |
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THE PASSENGER AUSTRALIA 7 MINUTES Director: Chris Jones Storm clouds gather as a timid bookworm braves his daily walk to the bus stop. When he discovers what awaits him on board, he realizes hed have been better off outside in the storm. |
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WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL UNITED STATES 15:33 MINUTES Director: Adam Parrish King When teenage Felix, from a deadbeat Brooklyn home, is asked by Mr. H, the kindly corner store owner, to mind his dog while he's away, it's up to Felix either to reciprocate the benevolence Mr. H has always shown him, or perpetuate the neglect handed down as a family legacy. |
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECTS
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THE BLOOD OF THE YINGZHOU DISTRICT By Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon Young Gao Jun, a Chinese AIDS orphan, faces possible rejection by his surviving relatives, who are torn between family tradition and their fear of the disease. Academy Award History This is the first Academy Award nomination for Ruby Yang. This is the second Academy Award nomination for Thomas Lennon. He was previously nominated for: THE BATTLE OVER CITIZEN KANE (1995) -- Nominee, Documentary (Feature) |
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RECYCLED LIFE By Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad At the vast, toxic Guatemala City Garbage Dump, generations of families eke out a living picking through the trash in search of items they can recycle. Narrated by Edward James Olmos. Academy Award History These are the first Academy Award nominations for Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad. Thttp://www.recycledlifedoc.com/ |
 
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REHEARSING A DREAM By Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Exceptionally talented high school students are given the chance to spend one week working with leading figures from the world of the performing arts. Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon are a wife and husband filmmaking team whose documentaries have garnered three Academy Award nominations, three Emmys and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming. They have received filmmaking grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Ford Foundation and the American Film Institute. Their documentaries have been broadcast nationally on PBS and HBO, and screened at festivals around the world including the New York Film Festival, Sundance, New Directors/New Films, London , Berlin , Montreal and St. Petersburg . In addition, they have overseen and filmed dance preservation projects for the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Lincoln Center 's Library and Museum of the Performing Arts. Both Mr. Simon and Ms. Goodman are active voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They have served as consultants to the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Program, on the Documentary Screening Committee for the Academy Awards and as judges for the Emmy Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award. Academy Award History This is the third Academy Award nomination for Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. They were previously nominated for: CHIMPS: SO LIKE US (1990) -- Nominee, Documentary (Short Subject); ISAAC IN AMERICA: A JOURNEY WITH ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1986) -- Nominee, Documentary (Feature) |
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TWO HANDS Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr When pianist Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand in 1965, he began a decades-long struggle to find a cure for his mysterious ailment while reshaping his career to accommodate his loss. Academy Award History This is the second Academy Award nomination for Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr. they were previously nominated for: MY ARCHITECT (2003) -- Nominee, Documentary Feature |
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