2011 Selected Films

Alison's Adventures: Snaked		All American Tooles		All Collected Things
Snaked Rainbows and kissing a cobra are the saving grace of Alison on her surf adventure to Morocco. Hawaii		Todd and Cindy Toole face the daunting task of raising their baby boy, Trigger, in a world where threats to his safety and security lurk around every corner. Thank God they live in America where they can by products designed to combat each and every one. Ratings: AL		Kayla looks back on all her collected memories of a recent relationship and tries to move on. Hawaii
Bait		Blackberry Stains		Breaking Out
A group of worms wake up one morning to find themselves trapped in a young boys bait bucket. Animation.		Secrets, shame, suicide, it all comes out in the wash. Ratings: AS UK		In a dark cold cell, two men are being held captive for reasons unknown to them. Dazzling martial arts sequences and dramatic moments in this action/drama highlight the fascinating story of their attempt to escape their fate. Ratings: AL, V
Bubbles		Buck James and the Jack Rabbit		Carefully Descending
On another sticky night in Tel Aviv, the kind that has become a tiring routine, while her husband is expected to return from a business trip abroad, Shira has to choose whether to turn left or right. Ratings: AS Israel		Buck James, one of the Old West's most dangerous and ruthless characters, meets his match in an equally ornery character, a jack rabbit. Ratings: AL, V		Haunted by dreams of a beautiful woman, a man must decide how far he will go for love. Hawaii
Cascadia		Chase Thompson, a film by Chase Thompson		Chasing Cotards
In the Pacific Northwest, a lucrative water privatization scheme capsizes on the rocky marriage of a broke hydrologist. Debt has eaten away all but the surface signs of love and trust, but his young & beautiful wife is consumed by her need for fine things. Ratings: AL, AS Canada		When up and coming filmmaker Chase Thompson is hired to direct a lackluster romance film, the foolhardy director takes it as an opportunity to fire the crew and turn the film into his own zombie slaying masterpiece, starring himself.		A formerly successful artist finds his life haunted by the death of his wife. All he wishes is that she would return to breathe life into his world once more. UK
Cold Sore		Das Fenster "The Window"		Deadbeat
After kissing a stranger, Jenna wakes up the next day to discover a nasty lesion has appeared on her lip. The doctor suggests a simple cold sore. But further tests reveal a much more sinister cause. Ratings: AS, V		Two seriously ill men are in a hospital room. One can look out of the window. The other has no view. Slowly the second man begins to drift into his roommates daily description of the outside world. Then, one night, he's awakened by a sound. Germany		Lost's Francois Chou and Kim Rhodes of the Suite Life of Zak & Cody star in this suspense thriller. When the people you love are the people you need to fear, the only thing you can do is run! Ratings: V
Farmer's Tan		Flowers for a Funeral		Futility
For a pale, disproportionate high school kid living in Orange County, happiness is seasonal.		A suicidal Goth woman gets schooled in the art of dying.		A fallen photo makes a moment of difference in the lives of two enemy soldiers. Australia
Get a Job		Hawai'i's Undersea Ohana		Here's the Kicker
Hawaii's most popular entertainers and musicians star in this madcap comedy with heart about an employment agent whose life turns inside-out when he tries to help a simpleton who surfs every day in a place where there are no waves. Ratings: AL, AS Hawaii		Hawaii's marine life, large and small, living together as ohana (family), as told through ancient Hawaiian proverbs and sayings set to music. Filmed mostly in Hawai'i Island waters with one segment from Ni'ihau. Hawaii		A failed pro football kicker and his girlfriend move to Texas to open a sports bar/beauty parlor - only to be offered his dream job during the move. The problem is getting away from his crazed freeloader friend and alcoholic father to tell her. Ratings: AL, AS, N
Hollywood Forever		In the long run		Layover, on the Shore
Decades intertwine as an earnest young man enters a vintage store and asks a jaded Goth salesgirl to help him buy a suit. A love story that stands the test of time.		Discover whether love is ever truly lost in the long run. Ratings: AL, AS		Interweaving two stories of Hawaii, this film is a minimalist, meditative film centering around an aimless young filmmaker in contemporary Honolulu, and the film he subsequently makes about his home. Hawaii
Little Brother is Watching You		Me or the Porn		Midas' Son
Even little brother watches over you. Ratings: V Germany		When a secret stash of online porn is discovered by his girlfriend, a man is issued a classic ultimatum "it's me or the porn". Ratings: AL, AS Canada		Midas' Son tells the story of a young man's homecoming to face old and unhealed resentments.
Morgue: a love story with guts		Mute		Passing Thru
A bullied, marginalized, and largely ignored cop is ordered to take a murder victim's body down to the morgue, and his life changes forever.		Jeffery, a deaf high school junior, is pushed to the limit when his neglecting father refuses him permission to tryout for his high school football team. Hawaii		3 Families, 2 Robberies, 1 Gun. They all converge in a gas station robbery. Ratings: AL
Perhaps Tomorrow		Quarters		Queen of the Lot
Annie has detached herself from her friends and her work until her daily lunch routine becomes the key to making peace with the ghosts of her past.		> After Evan's plan to take his best friend Chris on the cross country road-trip of a lifetime is derailed by Chris' girlfriend, he exacts sweet revenge using a slip-n-slide and cupcakes. Ratings: AL, AS		Under house arrest and in the midst of obsessively planning her comeback, an actress unexpectedly is swept away with her boyfriend to his family gathering and is immediately overwhelmed by the legendary film family and their impressive estate. Ratings: AL, AS, V
Regular Kids		Remaindered		Skew
Traveling show to show on Halloween, a circus family is at emotional odds. The kids want to trick or treat while Mom & Dad need to work. To regain the magic of childhood, Mom & Dad make the children's' dream come true in an unexpected and remarkable way		A once-famous author, desperate to regain his glory, travels selling his new novel and remaindered copies of his first book from the trunk of his car. He meets his last fan. Will she be his salvation or a novel way to die? Ratings: AL, AS, V		What begins as a carefree and fun-filled road trip for three friends, soon turns dark and foreboding as inexplicable events force them to question what is real and what is simply to horrible to imagine. Ratings: AL, V
Sproot		Sus		Sweet Little Lies
A young girl from a family of telekinetic beings struggles to master her special power only to discover she's much more powerful than she ever imagined. Animation. Hawaii		When a cop enters a liquor store for a bag of chips and finds the clerk stashing cash from the register and a suspicious looking bloke stashing bottles in his jacket, he promptly deals with the situation, then realizes all may not be as it seems. Australia		Bess, a feisty trailer park teen, steals a car and drives from Kansas to Las Vegas in search of her estranged father. Her nine-year old neighbor, Waldo, rides shotgun for this cross-country adventure.
The Bag		The Dead Inside		The Drummond Will
The story of a woman who has discovered her mother is hoarding pills in order to commit suicide. Based on a true story. Ratings: AL		This haunting musical features two lovers who have misplaced their muse. When one show signs of mental illness, the other finds inspiration in her deterioration. Actually, she's possessed and he must choose between the woman he loves and inspiration. Ratings: AL, AS, N, V		This black comedy is set in decaying rural England, a collision between old and new. Estranged brothers find themselves on a surprisingly dangerous undertaking to unravel the mystery surrounding their father's unlikely wealth. Ratings: AL, V United Kingdom
The Filmmaker		The Ghoul Lord		The Green Tie Affair
Mark is a filmmaker of over 25 years and none are earth-shatteringly great. What he lacks in talent he makes up for with sheer all consuming optimism. Ratings: AL		This fantasy comedy switches to and from reality as we follow the adventures of a collection of role-playing gamers. Laugh-out-loud moments, great action, and dazzling effects makes this film entertaining for all. Ratings: AL, V UK		A short musical about a green tie-wearing puppet who is deprived of his identity when people around him begin to copy his fashion style. Hawaii
The Haymaker		The Historian Paradox		The Pick-up Artist
An uninspired youth joins a gym to prove his mother wrong but doubts himself after he realizes who the trainer is. Ratings: AL, V		A time-traveling Historian falls for a woman he learns is destined to become a victim of a series of terrorist bombings. Ratings: V		Find out who has the best technique when two serial killers meet. Ratings: AL Hawaii
The Spirit of Isabel		Thief		Tinglewood
Economically collapsed Detroit send a young woman, out of work and on the verge of eviction from her apartment, into the streets as part of the worlds oldest profession. She refuses to give up faith that hope and redemption are just around the corner. Ratings: AL, AS, V		A twelve-year old Iraqi boy unwittingly befriends the young Suddam Hussein in 1959. Forty years later, in 2003, the two men come face to face a second time. Ratings: AL		When a family sets up camp deep in the Tinglewood forest, the last thing they expect is company and a violent struggle to survive the night. Ratings: V Australia
Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: "Cockfight"		Todd & the Book of Pure Evil: "Rock 'N Roll Zombies Know Best"		Touch
Turning a book loose in Crowley High that will make your deepest, darkest dreams come true can be at a horrifying cost. Anyone who possesses it is unable to resist the temptation to use it for their own teen-angst fueled desires. Ratings: AL, AS, N, V Canada		A book that will make your deepest, darkest dreams come true but at a horrifying cost. Turn this book loose in Crowley High and anyone who possesses it is unable to resist the temptation to use it for their own teen-angst fueled desires. Ratings: AL, AS, V Canada		Sometimes, the most personal connection in your life occurs with a complete stranger.
Train Master II: Jeremiah's Treasure		Uncle Melvin's Apartment		Vento (The Wind)
The town of Willamette is under duress as the children's hospital is to be replaced with a Tires to Energy Power Plant. The solution lies on the other side of the train tunnel, taking our 4 child adventurers back to the 1890's and a lost treasure of gold.		A germaphobe travels to New York to meet with publishers about his new novel. A rejection, a fall and a broken leg land him in the care of his scam-artist Uncle who he hasn't seen in almost 10 years, (the last time his apartment was cleaned). Ratings: AL		A small isolated town in Brazil is becoming windless. Ratings: V Brazil
Verdict		Waterfall		When He Left
Combat never stays on the battlefield.		In the human mind, grief appears in many forms and love burns deeper with a loss. Follow one man's journey as he confronts his grief over the loss of a loved one. Hawaii		For some soldiers, the deepest wounds are not those inflicted on the battlefield. The wars do not end when they come home. A soldier's greatest fight is often within himself.
Which Shall It Be?		Wounded		You, Me & The Circus
Impoverished but loving parents of seven children are offered a way out of poverty. In return for a home and some land they must choose a child to give away - Which Shall It Be? Brazil		A soldier afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome after his return from Iraq shares an eloquently moving moment with the nurse who befriends him at the V.A. Hospital. Ratings: AL		This is a film about love gone awry masked in a fantasy world of music and dance. Ratings: AL, AS
Ratings legend is AL Adult Language, AS Adult Situations, N Nudity, V Violence