University of New England

Cookies, UNE's film and video festival, features short films and great food Nov. 12th

Are you tired of someone deciding which films you should see? Sick of pompous critics who have never even made a film telling you what to watch? Sick of playing it safe? Ready to think for yourself? If you dare, it's time for Cookie Shorts!

Cookies Shorts is the festival that has no standards. We show it all!

Cookies Shorts, the University of New England's film and video festival, is Nov. 12, 2005 at the University's Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland.  Festival begins at 10:00. It is free admission and open to the public. All films 10 minutes and less.

This time around we have a great mix of shorts from across the country and world. We are screening 40 films/videos that run the gamut from comedy, satire, documentary, commentary, horror, spoof, action, experimental, romantic, and drama.

Locally, we have a film from UNE's Film Club directed by Patrick Hayes (Honor Student is a creepy horror film), Anthony Bellantuono (Light Stalker follows a man exploring Portland by night with a camera), Ashley d'Entremont (Be Bop Boys looks behind the scenes of a boy band and Death, a public service announcement). From Biddeford, we have Jessica Peck's documentary of her pregnancy (It's Like a Final Dress Rehearsal).

We have returning Boston filmmakers, Kevin Anderton and George O'Connor, creators of Tug of the World (two aliens fighting over a human to enslave). We have a filmmaker new to Cookies but not to the film world, Lisa Fotedar Miller from New York City. Miller offers two films; A Good Scratch is Hard To Find (woman finds satisfaction in an elevator) and My Father's Eyes (woman meets her father for the first time). And, from Israel, we have Nimrod Kamer and Yuval Zuker's Beautiful Tamar, a story about a love triangle.

Join us November 12th for films, food (provided One Fifty-Ate and Blue Spoon) and fun. Get up close and personal with the filmmakers. We will have a record number of filmmakers at the festival who look forward to sharing a cookie with you!

For more info and screening schedule:

www.une.edu/filmfestival  or Kari Wagner at 207 602-2334.