The All-New Hell's Kitchen Film Festival

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Published on Sunday, 28 August 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The inaugural Hell's Kitchen Film Festival (NYHKFF) runs September 1 - 11, 2011 at the Producers’ Club Indiehouse theaters in the Hell‛s Kitchen area of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Co-founders Alfred and Ernest Tollja, owners of the long-established Producers’ Club in Hell’s Kitchen, founded the all-digital festival "to revitalize and bring attention to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen as a community of artists and film enthusiasts," says Ernest Tollja.

"The festival provides a fresh, edgy New York audience and an intimate setting for independent filmmakers whose voices may still be new, undiscovered or unheralded." He adds, "It’s really for works that may have fallen through the cracks, are waiting to break through, or demand further attention."

The Opening Night film is Kevin, the first non-fiction film from acclaimed director Jay Duplass, the story of the disappearance and redemption of renowned Austin, Texas musician Kevin Gant. Musician Kevin Gant will be performing live after the screening, and a Q&A with Duplass will follow.

The film will be preceded by a screening of the Academy Award winning short film God of Love by Luke Matheny.

The Centerpiece Selection is Postales directed by Josh Hyde, starring Guimel Soria Martinez, Nadia Alexander, Alan Cuba. The lives of a vacationing American family and a poor Peruvian family get intertwined when a young American girl falls in love with a Peruvian postcard vendor.

The Closing Night Selection is Lost in Italy directed by Craig Viveiros, starring Glen Murphy, Ray Winstone, Serena Iansiti. A London tough wakes up in 1950’s Italy with no idea how -- or why -- he got there.

In between are some stories with a unique twist, including:

Dr. Limptooth
dir. Maclain Nelson, Matt Jespersen
starring Gary Cole, Julie Gonzalo, Alexis Knapp, Bart Johnson
A middle-aged vampire has trouble growing his teeth and accidentally turns his teen girlfriend into a vampire.

Walk a Mile in My Pradas
dir. Joey Sylvester
starring Nathaniel Marston, Tom Arnold, Tom Archdeacon, Dee Wallace, Mike Starr
A little magic causes a soon-to-be-married homophobe and an openly gay man to suddenly switch sexual preferences.

All God’s Creatures
dir. Ryan Cummings, Frank Licata
Starring Josh Folan, Carson Grant, Jessica Kaye, Ginger Kroll
Coffee-house worker by day, killer of "filthy women" by night, a man tries to change after falling in love.

Forever
dir. Li Lin Wee (Singapore)
A young woman who appears on romantic faux-wedding videos pursues a young man who works with her in one of these videos.

Five Day Shelter
dir. Ger Leonard (Ireland)
starring John Lynch, Kate Dickie, Ger Ryan, Michael FitzGerald, Marcella Plunkett
Five days in the lives of several characters in urban Ireland.

Ghosts of Old Shanghai
dir. Eric Heise (China/US)
Charles Mayer, George Christopher Tronsrue, York Chen, Leo Francis
An American couple move into an old Shanghai lane house from the 1930’s and strange things start to happen.

Documentaries include:

Bringing King to China
dir. Kevin McKiernan
A young American teacher in China faces obstacles when she tries to produce a play about Martin Luther King.

King of Chinatown
dir. Jordan Levinson, Calvin Theobald
A professional gamer rises to fame with the release of Street Fighter 4.

Clickin’ for Love
dir. Pablo C. Pappano
Online dating veterans share their stories of search for soul mates, casual encounters and everything in between.

Also screening are several short film programs as well as music videos.

There will also be daily panels, information to be announced.

For more information, go to www.hellskitchenfilm.com.

New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival
September 1 - 11, 2011

Producers’ Club Theaters
358 W. 44 St. (betw 8th & 9th Aves.)
New York City
212-315-4743
www.producersclub.com

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