Artsfest film festival
May 30th 2005
All films are free (donations requested), except “Midnight
Madness” film $5.00. The schedule is as follows:12:00 Noon: Pennsylvania Natives - Local Filmmakers
Neck Deep
by Todd Bieber & Juliana Brafa, Winfield, PA
Narrative, 5 minutes
Class warfare takes its battle to the fishing hole, where two anglers cross paths at a trout stream only big enough for one man.
A humorous twist as roles are suddenly reversed. Featuring original music by Grammy Award-winning percussionist Steve Mitchell
and flutist Flora Eyster.
Smudge
by Patrick Lenahan, Los Angeles, CA via Harrisburg, PA
13 minutes
A rags-to-riches story in which a homeless window-washer comes to possess both a silent-cinema-era woman and a stolen fortune after
killing the woman's villainous bank-robbing boyfriend. A true homage to the villain-hero silent films.
Tracks
by C.C. Webster. New York, NY via New Cumberland, PA
Narrative, 20 minutes
When Frizzy inherits her Dad’s piece of crap car, she’s in for the ride of her life.
1:00 PM: The Next Generation Films from the Capital Area School for the Arts
See the work of the next generation of filmmakers, as the talented students of the Capital Area School for the Arts, a local arts magnet school, showcase their works.
The Capital Area School for the Arts (CASA) offers intensive instruction in visual art, dance, music, media arts, and
theatre to qualified high school students. Located in several sites in the heart of downtown Harrisburg, the school uses the
city as its "classroom," affording its students access to the numerous resources located downtown, and utilizing a yearly theme
based on the urban environment.
45minutes.
2:00 PM: Forget Hollywood…Central PA Is Where It’s At!
View films by local filmmakers, then join in the discussion about how they made their films right here in Central Pennsylvania.
Unconscious Calendar
by Jason Herr, Harrisburg, PA
Narrative, 19 minutes
An absurd, funny, and possibly frightening story. A slightly surreal tale.
Free Lunch
by James Roxbury, Harrisburg
Narrative, 40 minutes
Two pranksters grab a handful of business cards from a coffee shop’s raffle for a “free lunch.” Dealing them up like playing cards,
they proceed to terrorize the cardholders, which include a crack addict that poses as a driving school instructor to hustle drugs
around town, a high profile realtor couple, a codes inspector and an airhead anchorwoman.
Soon, this man-made fiasco takes on a life of its own but ends in tragedy when one of the pranksters asks a cardholder on a date
and becomes the victim of his own game.
The Vendors
by Sarah Schreckengaust, Harrisburg, PA
Narative, 20 minutes
A comedy about one foodie's coming of age. When Robin, a food critic who berates her co-workers for eating processed foods out of
the vending machine, has a falling out with a gourmet cheese purveyor, her beautiful food world is shattered. As her belief system
unravels, her obsession with the vending machine mounts. In the end, Robin's hard-learned lesson is a lesson to all about who's really
controlling what we choose to eat.


