Santa Fe Film Festival 2008

The plan was simple; the events that followed were not. When a tight crew of four thieves decide to take down a boutique hotel in the dead of winter things go horribly wrong. Unsuspecting hotel guests unwittingly play a part in this tangled web. Unusual lives and hard choices intertwine, twisting the scheme to the point of no return. Loyalty, love, friendship and honor are brought to a boil in this graphic crime thriller. Rooted in reality 2:22 draws its style from the classic French film Rififi with the story telling of Dog Day Afternoon.

The documentary '50,000 Balls' tracks four junior tennis players on the road to the national championships, revealing the mental, emotional and physical demands and rewards of being a full-time student and top-ranked junior tennis player. 'This film was made to educate, motivate and inspire players, parents and coaches,' says Sara Weinheimer, who worked on the project with her late husband, Tom Pura, who created, produced and underwrote '50,000 Balls.' 'Tom wanted to capture this unique moment in the kids' lives when they have to be men on the court, but are boys off the court.' '50,000 Balls' showcases the tough and tender moments of competitive tennis by following the players and their parents and coaches through the 2006 summer tournament season, ending at the Boys' 12s National Championships in Little Rock, Ark. The boys are New York native T.J. Pura, who recently moved to Los Angeles; Mitchell Krueger of Aledo, Texas; Joseph DiGiulio of Newport Beach, Calif.; and Mitchell Polnet of Churchville, Penn. All boys are ranked in the Top 20 of their respective USTA Sections. Interviews with the players, parents and coaches are interspersed through hard-rocking on-court action and scenes from home and school. Bonus material includes coaches Tom Gullikson, Jay Berger, Gilad Bloom, Chris Lewis, Billy McQuaid, and Dave Licker discussing their coaching experiences and philosophies. '50,000 Balls' achieved 'Official Selection' honors at this summer's Newport (R.I.) International Film Festival, the Northern California Film Festival in Modesto, and the Rome (Ga.) International Film Festival.

In the summer of 2005 the doctors said they were 99% sure filmmaker Phoebe Brown did not have ovarian cancer. She turned out to be the 1%. Two years later Phoebe is cancer free but not without scars. In 99 to 1: Ovarian Cancer and Me, the filmmaker takes us on a journey through her diagnosis, her grandmother's death from ovarian cancer, her physical and emotional reactions to chemotherapy treatment and her hopes for the future. Using experimental technique and the fragments of her cancer archive, 99 to 1 delivers a powerful narrative of hope and brings awareness to the often overlooked issues of ovarian cancer. 99 to 1 reminds us that while sometimes being the exception is tough, it can also lead to strength you never expected. Shot, edited and narrated by Ms. Brown, 99 to1 is ian intimate and quirky portrait of a survivor. The inspiration for this project was to break the silence that often accompanies gynecolgical cancers and the correct the misperception that ovarian cancer only effects older women. Phoebe tells a story that is fresh, honest, and ultimately, uplifting. This was a film created to help heal--both herself and anyone who has been touched by the pain of cancer.

If you want to see how America works, look at what happened to rock radio.For 50 years, it was our revolutionary medium. Radio had the power to move people then. And deejays seized it. In the 1950s, a handful of AM pioneers introduced white America to black rhythm and blues. Then New York deejay Alan Freed changed the course of American history by branding it 'rock and roll.' In the glory years of rock radio, personalities like Cousin Brucie, Murray the K, Dan Ingram, Jerry Blavat, Dick Biondi, Casey Kasem and Wolfman Jack ruled the airwaves.But from its earliest roots, rock radio had powerful enemies. In 1960, prodded by big-business interests, Congress held 'payola' hearings to target the deejays guilty of breaking down economic and racial barriers. Deejays like Alan Freed were booted off the air. Program director and radio consultants took control. Deejays could no longer play their own music. Rock radio became bland and predictable.Then came a new wave of deejays who set up shop on the FM dial. 'Top 40 is dead,' Declared Tom Donahue in San Francisco. 'And its rotting corpse is stinking up the airwaves.' They discovered bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, igniting a cultural revolution that helped end the Vietnam War. Until FM, too, was silenced by FCC intimidation and corporate greed. And 60s rock became 70s disco.When rock radio lost its soul, a flame went out. 'Airplay' pays tribute to those unsung heroes--and the promise of a rebirth on satellite radio. It's a story of love and war, told by the deejays and the artists they made rock stars. It celebrates a time when we all listened together and it changed our lives.

Bloodied, barefoot, and branded like cattle, a mysterious woman comes to town with an aim to kill the son of a bitch that done her wrong.

Seven international shorts that explore different worlds, including worlds unseen, worlds grounded on fantasy, and worlds on the outer fringes of reality. Includes works from Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and Ukraine.

Carrie and Mary Dann are elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch on their Treaty homeland in a beautiful but barren stretch of north central Nevada. Like most Western ranchers, they graze their livestock on the open range outside their ranch. That range is part of 60 million acres recognized as Western Shoshone land by the United States in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. In 1974 the U.S. sued the Dann sisters for trespassing?trespassing on United States Public Land without a permit. That set off a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme Court, then eventually to the United Nations.Besides lawsuits, there have been five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in which more than a thousand Dann horses and cattle were confiscated. The underlying question is ?Why?? The BLM accuses the sisters of degrading the land. The Danns say the U.S. wants the resources hidden below their Mother Earth. Shoshone land is the second largest gold producing area in the world. Contrasting the Dann sisters? personal lives with their political actions, ?American Outrage? examines why the United States government would spend millions of dollars to prosecute and persecute two old women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert?

Returning home was the choice she made. Letting go was the choice she inspired.After getting sick, a young Native American woman, Willa, returns to her mother's home where they both must come to terms with her illness. Willa's mother, who had been a long time 'shut in', begins venturing outside with her camcorder, taping the sunrise and mountains, bringing the outside world in to the bed ridden Willa. Audiences catch a glimpse into the lives of two dynamic women, leading up to the moment where only one thing is for certain... change. Award winning screenwriter, Kalani Queypo, offers up a compelling directorial debut with this intimate short film.Gripping performances by Tantoo Cardinal (Dances With Wolves, Legends of the Fall) and Rulan Tangen (The New World) are beautifully complimented with rich visual images and an impressive original soundtrack.