2009 Florida Film Fest Competition Features
Two World Premieres, Five East Coast Premieres Among 20 Selected
Mar 12, 2009
The Florida Film Festival, produced by Enzian Theater and held in the Orlando, Florida, area from March 27 through April 5, draws about 23,000 people each year. This year’s competing films include nine filmmakers making their feature debut and six female directors. The Florida Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ten narrative and ten documentary films will compete for up to three awards each: a Grand Jury Award for best film in that category; a Special Jury Award given at the jury’s discretion for exceptional achievement; and an Audience Award determined by audience votes.
Narrative Full-Length Features Competition
Chronic Town
- Director: Tom Hines
- Southeast Premiere
EM
- Director: Tony Barbieri
- East Coast Premiere
Leaving Barstow
- Director: Peter Paige
- Florida Premiere
Lightbulb
- Director: Jeffrey Balsmeyer
- Southeast Premiere
Poundcake
- Director: Raphael Monserrate
- Southeast Premiere
Prince of Broadway
- Director: Sean Baker
- Regional Premiere
Sita Sings the Blues
- Director: Nina Paley
- Regional Premiere
Trucker
- Director: James Mottern
- Southeast Premiere
True Adolescents
- Director: Craig Johnson
- East Coast Premiere
We Are The Mods
- Director: E.E. Cassidy
- World Premiere
Documentary Full-Length Features Competition
Art & Copy
- Director: Doug Pray
- East Coast Premiere
Blast!
- Director: Paul Devlin
- Southeast Premiere
Earth Days
- Director: Robert Stone
- East Coast Premiere
The Garden
- Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Florida Premiere
- Additional Information: 2009 Academy Award Nominee
In A Dream
- Director: Jeremiah Zagar
- Florida Premiere
Pressure Cooker
- Directors: Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker
- Southeast Premiere
Prodigal Sons
- Director: Kimberly Reed
- Southeast Premiere
Smile ‘Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story
- Director: Lee Storey
- East Coast Premiere
The Way We Get By
- Director: Aron Gaudet
- Southeast Premiere
Where You From
- Director: Sabrina Lee
- World Premiere
Also at the 2009 Florida Film Festival
The Festival kicks off with a food-themed weekend of events and films with special appearances by Food Network star and Master Iron Chef Cat Cora and founding father of New World Cuisine, Norman Van Aken.
Special programs including Spotlight Features, International Features, Midnight Features, Music Features, Family Features, and Florida Features showcase a variety of non-competing films that focus on specific styles and subjects.
As part of the Festival’s Forbidden Retro Showcase that features older films with a dark edge, actress Glenn Close (Damages, The Shield, Dangerous Liaisons) is scheduled to attend a screening of her 1987 Adrian Lyne film Fatal Attraction. After the screening, Close will discuss stories from her life and career.
Other retro films included in the showcase: Crimes of Passion (1984; directed by Ken Russell); La Dolce Vita (1960; directed by Federico Fellini); Midnight Cowboy (1969; directed by John Schlesinger); and in a free screening at Central Park in Winter Park, Florida, Pillow Talk (1959; directed by Michael Gordon).
For a film schedule, list of programs, and other information about the Florida Film Festival, visit the official website. For more information about film festivals, read Film Festival Screenings.
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