UWP Lecturers Riverside International Film Festival This Week April 16-25

[John Ganim]

Does everyone know that the Riverside 
Internationl Film Festival is this week? We've 
seen some good films at past festivals, especially from India and Korea.

http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/




<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//>Riverside International Film Festival Home
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EXPERIENCE THE WORLD IN TEN DAYS



April 16 to April 25, 2010
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   Location

ULTRASTAR Cinemas - University Village
1201 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92507
Tickets:

Tickets can be purchased at 
<http://movies.msn.com/showtimes/showtimes.aspx?shloc=92506&th=9228&theater=9228&ipp=5>UltraStar 
Cinemas

<http://boxoffice.printtixusa.com/ultrastar/movies?v=3440>
Ultrastar

Adults $8
Students & Seniors $5

<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//forms/RIFF2010.Schedule.4-7.pdf>
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EXPERIENCE THE WORLD IN TEN DAYS!


Season Pass – $100 (any day any movie)
Available to purchase at the Ultrastar Theater.

Sponsor Opportunities

<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//forms/RIFF-Sponsor-Form-2010.pdf>Click 
here to view sponsor opportunities.
<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/forms/RIFF_2010_Poster_competition.pdf>RIFF 
2010 Poster Competition

Winner - 
<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//images/2010/RIFF-poster-2010-Don-Daniels.jpg>Don 
Daniels
Latest News

Film Festival Opening Night
Gala Celebrates Two Legendary Actresses

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Actresses Ann Rutherford and 
Anne Jeffreys will be honored at the Riverside 
International Film Festival’s (RIFF) Opening 
Night Gala Champagne Reception at The Fox 
Performing Arts Center. The event is being held 
in conjunction with the Riverside Fox Foundation 
on Friday April 16, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org/20100326-opening-night-press-release.php>Read 
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    * <http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//2010-featured-films.php>Features
    * <http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//2010-shorts-films.php>Shorts
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<http://www.riversidefilmfest.org//2010-documentaries-films.php>Documentaries

Select an above catagory.
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Opening Night GALA Friday April 16th 6:00PM

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2010 Sponsers
  Riverside International Film Festival 2010 Sponsors (in no particular order):
Ultra Star Cinemas
Charter
ADLABS
Consulado de Mexico CA
Riverside Medical Clinic
PE.com
Riverside Arts Council
City of Riverside
The City of Riverside Human Relations Commission
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© 2007-2010 Riverside International Film 
Festival  •  2009 Site Design by XiCast: <http://www.xicast.com>www.XiCast.com



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2010 Featured Films



Root-Searching: The Stories Behind the Watchtowers

Country:
China
Feature:
120 mins
The Chinese have played many varied roles in 
other countries when they have left China.


The Olympic Dream of a Village

Country:
China
Feature:
90 mins
Director:
Zhang Mingshong, Zheng Xiaoxu, Gong Tuo, Zhong Lixin, Lu Zhenping
The film depicts the struggle of a teenage boy Li 
Hanhua who lost the use of his two legs in an 
accident. Formerly a local swimming champion, as 
we approach the 2008 Olympics, he comes back into 
race, competing this time in the framework of 
2008 Paralympic Games. This film is the moving 
story of a young man whose life is a great lesson 
of bravery and determination. Solidarity is also 
a key value in this film as the community is very supportive to this young guy.


Idiots

Idiots


Country:
India
Feature:
2 hr 40 mins
Director:
Rajkumar Hirani
Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. 
On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten 
bet, a wedding they must crash and a funeral that 
goes impossibly out of control. As they make 
their way through the perilous landscape, another 
journey begins: their inner journey through 
memory lane and the story of their friend – the 
irrepressible free thinker Rancho, who in his 
unique way, touched and changed their lives.


7 Days in Slow Motion

7 Days in Slow Motion


Country:
India
Feature:
100min
Director:
Umakanth Thumrugoti

Ravi's lives his life by the pie-chart his mother 
defines for him - 60% education and only 0.2% - 
2.9 minutes each day for fun! When Ravi and his 
friends, chance upon the camera of a visiting 
tourist, they see their dreams come true where 
they can make a Bollywood film and meet the 
famous actress, Ms.Ray. The path to making a film 
is riddled with problems: they only have 7 days 
to return the camera and their final exams begin 
in 7 days! The 7 days mark a comical journey 

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Bandhobi

Bandhobi


Country:
South Korea
Feature:
107min
Director:
SHIN Dong-il
Production supported by:
Korean Film Council

Min-suh is a lonely high scholar. Her single 
mother is busy dating younger men and her friends 
are busy preparing for university. She takes care 
of herself through a part-time job that doesn’t 
cover the bills. Sick of her mother’s love 
affairs, she runs away from home and encounters a migrant worker named Karim.


Bugambilia (1945)

Blind Ambition


Country:
Mexico
Feature:
105 minutes
Director:
Emilio “El Indio” Fernandez
The spoiled daughter (Delores Del Rio) of a 
immensely wealthy miner is pursued by many 
suitors, but when she falls in love with the 
least respectable of them, her jealous father’s 
reaction leads to disaster for all.


Cinema Salvation

Cinema Salvation


Country:
USA
Feature:
96 minutes
Director:
Mike Cohen
Greg loved Hannah, Hannah loved Greg, but Hannah 
also loves God but being an atheist, Greg 
doesn’t. When their engagement fell apart, Greg 
was shattered. But instead of turning to God like 
Hannah had, Greg turned his focus to film. When 
his script about Hannah was chosen to be 
produced, Greg’s new journey as a director began 
– with cameras capturing it all.


Darren & Abbey

Darren & Abbey


Country:
USA
Feature:
70 minutes
Director:
Michael P. Noens
Two teenage strangers spend an unexpectedly 
engaging evening with one another on the eve of 
Christmas Eve discussing five major human 
desires: power, money, family, sex and time.


Desierto Adentro

Desierto Adentro


Country:
Mexico
Feature:
110 minutes
Director:
Rodrigo Pla
The film is set against the backdrop of Mexico’s 
Cristero War, which took place between 1926 and 
1929, when the Mexican government banned 
Catholicism and persecuted its followers. In 
rural Mexico a man commits a sin against the 
Catholic Church by not defending it against the 
revolutionaries and yet another by betraying his 
village. The film incorporates animation and art 
as bookends to each series of events.


Flor Silvestre (1943)

Flor Silvestre (1943)


Country:
Mexico
Feature:
94 minutes
Director:
Emilio Fernandez
Wealthy young Jose Luis Castro loves and marries 
a beautiful poor girl, Esperanza, to the angry 
dismay of both his father and hers. Not only does 
Jose Luis marry “below his station,” he becomes 
involved in revolutionary activities, trying to 
achieve equality for all in Mexico. Esperanza 
tells this tale of the Mexican Revolution in 
flashback throughout this movie, to her grown son who never knew his father.


Florida Road

Florida Road


Country:
South Africa
Feature:
110 minutes
Director:
Brad Glass
'Florida Road' is set in Durban, South Africa and 
centers on the life of young Shaan Sahay, mid 
20's, whose family moved from Mumbai, India to 
South Africa for a better life when Shaan was 
just a young boy. Shaan wants to write Hollywood 
action films, while his father wants him to 
follow a more conventional career, like his brother.


Fly Penguin

Fly Penguin


Country:
South Africa
Feature:
110 minutes
Director:
YIM Soon-rye
The film is about familiar events that reflects 
the lives of ordinary people in Korea at the 
present time. Through these stories, the director 
shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily lives.


God’s Country, Off Route 9

Gods Country, Off Route 9


Country:
USA
Feature:
103 minutes
Director:
Steven Saylor
A debt-ridden ex-grad student is goaded into 
returning home to family-values country to play 
the role of "loyal son" in his estranged father's 
political campaign. "God's Country, Off Route 9" 
is a dark comedy that fuses unrequited love, 
local politics, and post-racial culture against a 
backdrop of unresolved family issues, self-love, and self-loathing.


I am Bish

I am Bish


Country:
Australia
Feature:
90 minutes
Director:
David Bishop
What 'I am Legend' would have been if the hero 
was fatter, whiter,stupider and lived in Perth, 
Western Australia -- the most isolatedcapital 
city in the world – if he also had a video camera 
and was under siege by 300 zombies.


I Am Somebody: No Chance in Hell

I Am Somebody: No Chance in Hell


Country:
USA
Feature:
101 minutes
Director:
Aki Aleong
In 1870's America, a Chinese immigrant accused of 
murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; 
he must try to prove his innocence in a time when 
people of color had no legal rights and could be 
bought and sold for a profit. This untold tale of 
America's past will transport you on a 
provocative east-meets-west journey, intertwined 
with the roots of the Chinese, the blacks and the 
Mexicans as they dramatically clash with an emerging new America.


In 200 Characters or Less

In 200 Characters or Less


Country:
USA
Feature:
83 minutes
Director:
Mauro Giuffrida
Today, we are more affected by technology than we 
think. When Michael is asked to describe himself 
in 200 characters or less for an on-line dating 
service, his journey of escaping loneliness 
begins. But is it really that easy to find someone?


La Perla (1945)

La Perla (1945)


Country:
Mexico
Feature:
85 minutes
Director:
Emilio Fernandez

Quino, his wife Juana and their son live in a 
tiny Mexican fishing village. When Quino finds a 
huge, beautiful pearl at the bottom of the sea, 
he has visions of wealth and an education for his 
son. However, locals and even pearl buyers try to 
swindle him out of it, even attacking him for it.


Las-Abandonadas-1944

Las Abandonadas (1944)


Country:
Mexico
Feature:
103 minutes
Director:
Emilio Fernandez
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing 
bigamist husband, is forced to provide for her 
son and combat the difficulties of being an 
unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.


Maya Bazaar

Maya Bazaar


Country:
India
Feature:
2 hrs 45 min
Director:
K V Reddy
A legendary tale of Mahabharata, the episode is 
about the romance between Abhimanyu , son of 
Arjuna and Sasirekha. Since the Pandavas don't 
have any wealth as they lost it all in gamble, 
Sakuni hatches a plan to get Lakshmana engaged to 
Sasirekha. Noticing this, Lord Krishna enters the 
scene and he devises a counter plan.


Neither Day Nor Night

Neither Day Nor Night


Country:
USA
Feature:
105 minutes
Director:
Chris Schwab
Amy Young is a 24-year-old woman striving to 
establish a closer relationship with her widowed 
father Harris, who appears reluctant. Ultimately, 
Harris has no choice when he becomes temporarily 
bedridden and Amy moves in to care for him. 
Suspicions replace Amy’s compassion for her 
father when she discovers the source of his antagonism towards her.


Paa

Paa


Country:
India
Feature:
126 minutes
Director:
R. Balakrishnan

Auro is an intelligent 12-year-old boy with an 
extremely rare genetic defect progeria; mentally 
he is twelve and very normal, but physically he 
looks five times older. Auro lives with his 
mother Vidya who is a gynecologist; Amol Arte is 
a young, full-of-ideals politician. Auro is 
Amol's son and Vidya conceals this from him since 
Amol wanted her to have an abortion. When Auro 
does learn the truth he tries to get his mother 
and father back together; Amol realizes his 
mistake and stays by Auro's side when his health begins to deteriorate.


Pueblerina (1948)

Pueblerina (1948)


Country:
Mexico
Feature:
106 minutes
Director:
Emilio Fernandez

Aurelio avenged the rape of his beloved Paloma by 
killing her attacker, and served six years in 
prison. Released on parole, he returns home only 
to find his mother has died and Paloma is living 
in poverty with her six-year-old son. Aurelio 
still loves Paloma and wants to marry her and 
live peacefully on his farm, but others in the 
town are not willing to leave him alone.


Ringa Ringa

Ringa Ringa


Country:
India
Feature:
100 minutes
Director:
Sanjay Jadhav
"Ringa Ringa roses 
 all fall down." Ringa Ringa 
was filmed on the backdrop of picturesque Goa, 
India. The film’s script revolves around a 
character Rang, a man with a criminal background who turns politician.


Shikshancha

Shikshancha


Country:
India
Feature:
1 hr 48 mins
Director:
Mahesh Manjrekar

Shri was born with great talent in cricket, but 
in studies he is average. Like many fathers, his 
father does not value his talent in sports, and 
believes that a child’s intellect is reflected only in their grade sheet.


Sneakers & Soul

Sneakers & Soul


Country:
USA
Feature:
101 minutes
Director:
Jonathan Zelanak
“You should always have a perfect bed and 
comfortable shoes, because when you’re not in 
one, you’re in the other.” This is the credo of 
Johnny-boy Bailey’s late father, Murray, a man 
whose passion for life and love for adventure was an inspiration to all.


Sontha Uuru

Sontha Uuru


Country:
India
Feature:
2 hrs
Director:
I.S.S. Murthy
A small village has many characters in the form 
of Raja, who is in love with Malli , the 
prostitute; both of them are quite close to Rudru 
who takes care of the graveyard. Everything goes 
well in the village till their lives take a turn 
when the government comes with the proposal of 
setting up a special business zone.They want the 
villagers to sell their lands and leave. Whether 
the village folks accept it or not forms the rest of the story.


The Ode

The Ode


Country:
USA
Feature:
97 minutes
Director:
Neil Lahiri
THE ODE spans two generations and intertwines the 
doomed but passionate love story of Parin and 
Shiraz with the tempestuous life of their son 
Ali, who is gay. When his mother comes to visit 
Ali, attempts to change his ways, we glimpse into 
a troubled past he cannot escape and which 
threatens to destroy him unless he finds peace with his mother.


The Last Musketeer

The Last Musketeer


Country:
USA
Feature:
89 minutes
Director:
Art Zapata, Emre Korkmaz
A mother’s love, a father’s struggle and a boy’s 
fantasy. The Last Musketeer is about a Latino 
family, Joe, Christine and Johnny Souza and their 
struggle with alcoholism. This drama is loosely based on true events.


Tierra Madre

Tierra Madre


Country:
USA
Feature:
62 minutes
Director:
Dylan Verrechia
The true story of a woman on the Mexican border 
determined to raise her children with her female 
partner. Aidee Gonzales is an aging stripper who 
lives in Tecate, Mexico. It is a portrait about 
herself, her friends, her children, and her 
girlfriend Rosalba. When Rosalba comes to live 
with Aidee and her children, Rosalba tells her of 
her desire to have a baby of her own. Aidee 
cannot refuse her lover that wish and together 
they go looking for a male partner to bear her a child.


Vinnaithandi Varuvaya

Tierra Madre


Country:
India
Feature:
2 hrs
Director:
Gowtham menon
The story of ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’ is about an 
aspiring film maker Karthik, who wants to make it 
big in his profession. On his journey to success 
he falls in love with Jessie. But as things move 
on he is forced to choose either his ambition or 
love and he’s ready to sacrifice his dream for his love.
© 2007-2010 Riverside International Film 
Festival  •  2009 Site Design by XiCast: <http://www.xicast.com>www.XiCast.com




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