ABSENCE OF EMILY*
Thornhill, ON. Canada

WINNER: BEST FOREIGN FILM

2003/24min./Color

Comedy/Foreign/Thriller/Short

*adapted from the short story by Jack Ritchie, which was the recipient of the Edgar award in 1982.

Emily has been on vacation for several weeks. At least that's what her husband has been telling people. But, given that no one else has heard from her, Emily's meddling cousin Millicent suspects a far darker reason for her absence.


LEAD ACTOR
Geordie Johnson*  (Largo Winch, The English Patient)
Brenda Bazinet  (Haven, Dear America)
Barry Flatman  (Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay)

FEATURED PLAYER
Aron Tager (Rocky Marciano, Serendipity)

*nominated Oustanding Actor in a Comedy:
Geordie Johnson

www.sideviewprod.com

DIXIE-PG

ANTEBODY* "Georgia Premiere"
Los Angeles, CA .

Catalyst For Change
Productions

Director:
James Gleason

Writer:
James Gleason

2004/17min./Color

Drama/Horror/Thriller/Short

A body is recovered from the Los Angeles River, wearing nothing but a plastic bag over its head. It is identified by fingerprints as Martin David Ambro. Despite all the evidence, one disturbing fact prevents Lois Ambro from accepting the terrible news about her husband.

Ah, what looks to be just another murder mystery is anything but. But to reveal what it is would defeat the purpose of the telling. Antebody is not a typo, it would literally mean “before the body,” which is as much as you are going to get out of me.

LEAD ACTOR
Kristin Carey  (Without A Trace (TV), Strong Medecine (TV)
Henry LeBlanc  (24 (TV), Everybody Loves Raymond (TV),

FEATURED PLAYER
Pierre Stahrre  
John Rocha  
Lou Briggs  
Herb Mendelsohn  (Dragnet (TV), The Guardian (TV))

DIXIE-PG-13 (L,V)

CANTA (The Briefcase)* "U.S. Premiere"
Los Angeles, CA./Istanbul, Turkey

Lunapark Filimcilik

Director:
Emre Sahin

Writer:
Emre Sahin

2005/30min./Color

Drama/Foreign/Suspense/Thriller/Short

Set in the gritty, yet enchanting streets of Istanbul, Çanta is the story of three strangers who each unknowingly possess the object of the other’s desire -thus sending them on a collision course full of surreal twists and turns and life altering results.

LEAD ACTOR
Abdullah Sahin  (Nokta ile Virgul)
Ali Atay  (Yangin Duasi, Op'la Zo'nun Drami)
Ceyda Sener  (Ghetto, Olum)

FEATURED PLAYER
Sema Onur  (Bizimkiler)
Mehmet Gulerbasli  (Bizimkiler)
Oner Eren  


www.cantafilm.com

DIXIE-PG-13

Dutch Bird "Georgia Premiere"
Brighton, E. Sussex, UK.

2004/20min./Color

Comedy/Foreign/Short


A touching comedic tale about an Irish Pigeon Racer, Seamus Kerrigan [David Kelly-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Waking Ned Devine], who gets embroiled in an International drug trafficking plot to smuggle drugs over to Ireland from Holland using carrier pigeons


LEAD ACTOR
David Kelly  (Charlie and the Chocalate Factory, Waking Ned Devine)
Christopher Dunne  (28 Days Later, Lighthouse, Irish Jam)

FEATURED PLAYER
Mick Hayden  
Joe Wiles  
Adam Chapman  
Maurice Gleeson  

www.onetakepictures.co.uk

DIXIE-PG (DC)

MODUS VIVENDI* "Southern Premiere"
Los Angeles, CA.

Liukis Film

Director:
Richard Liukis

Writer:
Richard Liukis

2004/5min./Color

Art/Experimental/Music/Drama/Short

Artist’s passage through several mystifying settings leads her to the transformation .

LEAD ACTOR
Maria Bush  

DIXIE-PG-13 (S)

SMART CARD * "World Premiere"
Woodland Hills, CA.

Oxford Entertainment

Director:
James Oxford

Writer:
Joseph Anaya

2005/16min./Color

Drama/Sci-Fi/Suspense/Thriller/Short

Smart Card, is a tale of a utopian future where every aspect of your life intergraded into one system. Convenience and simplicity is the product and Smart Corporation does the packaging. Robert Sharpe(David Kreigel) has been living this care free life. Everything is perfect, until he encounters a philosophical vagrant (Bret Roberts) at a local fueling station who steals the one item you can not do without, his “SMART CARD.”

LEAD ACTOR
David Kriegel  
Bret Roberts  
Bill A. Jones  

FEATURED PLAYER
Brad GreenQuist  

http://oxford-entertainment.com

DIXIE-R (L)

WOOD DIARY * "Southern Premiere"
Henderson, KY.

Exit 7, Inc.

Director:
David Meyers

Writer:
David Meyers

2005/16min./Color

Experimental/Docu-Drama/Short

Walker Woods leads a lonely and monotonous life. His world is filled with dependence, disgust and disarray, and shows no hope for change.

Yet through it all, he continues a routine and maintains a set of sanctified virtues. All the while expressing his inner beauty as an outsider artist through masterful wood and metal creations. The inspiration behind Walker's fortitude and sanity reveal themselves when we are exposed to his secret wooden diary.

LEAD ACTOR
Samuel Gates
Margaret Gates

*nominated for Oustanding Actor in a Film:
Samuel Gates
*nominated for Oustanding Original Story/Screenplay

DIXIE-PG