2004 Austin Film Festival
Weapons of Mass Deception
$15.95 | 98 minutes
Best Documentary
Danny Schechter is a man determined to shine a glaring spotlight onto the true situation regarding the early 21st century deployment of military forces in Iraq. A fastidious consumer of the news, Schechter spent countless hours documenting the media coverage of the war, initially publishing his ideas on www.mediachannel.org&hellip…
Imaginary Heroes
$21.95 | 112 minutes
This realistic family film starring Sigourney Weaver and Emile Hirsch as a loving mother and son asks some deep questions about mortality, the risks of depression, and staying together verses splitting up. Living in a beautiful house in a manicured suburban neighborhood, the Travis family seems flawless at first glance. That is, until&hellip&hellip…
Searching For Angela Shelton
$21.95 | 94 minutes
Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature - Distributed
When model/actress-turned-screenwriter Angela Shelton (TUMBLEWEEDS) set out on a quest to find all the other women in America who share her name, she hoped to make some interesting observations about American women. But what began as an artistic experiment quickly became something&hellip…
Overnight
$21.95 | 82 minutes
In Hollywood, screenwriting failures are so common that bars in the city are strewn with down-on-their-luck writers drowning their sorrows over broken dreams. Documentary filmmakers Mark Brian Smith and Tony Montana begin their movie in such an establishment--a Hollywood bar called J. Sloan's. OVERNIGHT focuses on 25-year-old J.Sloan's&hellip&hellip…
P.S.
$13.95 | 89 minutes
Dylan Kidd follows up his well-received ROGER DODGER with this adaptation of Helen Schulman's novel. Adapted by Kidd and Schulman, P.S. tells the story of a frustrated thirtysomething who is desperate to make a human connection. Louise Harrington (Laura Linney) is the director of admissions for Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts&hellip&hellip…
Sex is Comedy
$17.95 | 95 minutes
To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat has become known for her graphic and cynical takes on male-female sexual relationships and has faced accusations of onset cruelty. SEX IS&hellip&hellip…
Cape of Good Hope
$20.95 | 107 minutes
Best Narrative Feature - Undistributed
Jury Prize for Best Film
Mark Bamford directs (and co-wrote) this engaging dramedy about diversity, culture, religion, and love in post-apartheid South Africa. A motley collection of fascinating characters of a variety of races populate Bamford's rough yet hopeful world, including the&hellip…