11:30AM - Genius Within: The Inner Life with Glenn Gould
Directed by Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont
US / 2009 / 109min / English
Cinematique Theater


This documentary aims to show "the more human side of Glenn Gould," a man as famous for his reclusiveness and bizarre personal habits as he was for his music.  The film paints a portrait of Gould as funny and intelligent, but a troubled artist. He had a number of loyal friends and millions of fans, but preferred the solitude of his family's northern Ontario cottage.












1:00PM - Fort McCoy
Directed and written by Kate Connor
Directed by Michael Worth
US / 2010 / English
News-Journal Center


Based on a true story when the Stirn family lived between this Nazi POW camp and American army base in Wisconsin. Frank Stirn moves with his family to become a barber on the base and struggles to find his worth during a war that does not want him. Frank must face the emasculation of not being able to fight due to a heart murmur and the shame of his German heritage. In the end, Frank fights his own private war against a Nazi SS Officer who threatens his family. It is a coming of age story for his nine-year-old daughter Gertie, who befriends a young German POW. Gertie is forced to grow up in the summer of 1944 when faced with tragedy. Lastly, it is a love story between Gertie's young Aunt Anna and a Jewish soldier, Sam, back from fighting the bloody battle in Monte Cassino, Italy. Sam must deal with nightmares from the war and choose between his Jewish family and the Catholic girl he loves. They must overcome the taboo of an interfaith relationship at a time when the Jewish race was being annihilated.







1:30PM - Hideaway
Le refuge (original title)
Directed by François Ozon
France / 2009 / 88min / French subtitled in English
Cinematique Theater


Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge and the two supremely spoiled young people connect.








3:15PM - Nora's Will
Cinco días sin Nora (original title)
Directed & written by Mariana Chenillo
Mexico / 2008 / 92min / Spanish subtitled in English
Cinematique Theater

Jose lerns that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to Jose that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.






3:30PM - Fanny, Annie & Danny
Directed & written by Chris Brown
US / 2010 / 82min / English
News-Journal Center


In this finely-crafted feature, three dysfunctional adult sibling sare brought together by their horrific mother for the Christmas holiday. What seems commonplace on the surface becomes riveting in the details. As with a tsunami building strength silently offshore, we sense the impending climax without knowing exactly when it will hit - or how hard.

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6:00PM - Dinner / 7:30PM - OPENING NIGHT - BENEATH THE BLUE

Time: 6pm dinner, 7:30pm movie, following Q&A with actor David Keith and Director Michael Sellers.

Benefit: Silent Auction
Admission: $50 buy tickets

The News Journal Center
221 N. Beach Street in Down Town Daytona Beach


Directed  and written by Michael D. Sellers
US / 2010 / English
News-Journal Center

Guests: Michael Sellers & David Keith will lead Q&A following film.

Alyssa Harker, CAITLIN WACHS, an 18 year old dolphin researcher working with her famous scientist father Hawk, DAVID KEITH, becomes romantically involved with an older and somewhat mysterious tourist named Craig, PAUL WESLEY. Craig, leading a secret identity as a Naval officer, is on a mission that threatens the research center and Rasca, a wild dolphin with whom Alyssa has a powerful bond. A plot of espionage, conspiracy, and kidnapping evolves as Alyssa find her loyalties tested, and the tale leads to a graveyard of dead dolphins and whales near the location of the notorious underwater testing of US Navy Sonar. Alyssa and Hawk together find themselves on the trail to rescue Rasca and save other marine mammals at risk -- while Craig finds himself trapped in an increasingly complex moral dilemma that will force him to choose once and for all where his allegiance lies. Watch the trailer here.