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15th Annual Film Festival
Narrative Feature Competition

Presented by Austin Film Festival

October 16-November 2, 2008

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Festival Films are listed according to categories. Following are the Narrative Feature Competition screenings. Other categories are Marquee Screenings; AFF Presents…; Documentary Feature Competition; Comedy Vanguard; Dark Matters; Target Family Film Series and Austin Screens. The Festival will also host 14 short film programs.  All films are listed with writer, director and cast information as well as a short synopsis. (The Thacker Case, pictured)

Narrative Feature Competition:(Venues and Times noted beside Film Titles)

“A Quiet Little Marriage” (USA, 85 min.) World Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 7:30PM • Dobie
Writer/Director: Mo Perkins
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Cy Carter, Jimmi Simpson, Charlie Day, Michael O’Neill, Lucy DeVito
It is because they love each other that things will go wrong for Olive and Dax.

“Agent 5: A Night in the Last Life Of” (USA, 77 min.) World Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 09:30PM • Hideout
Writer/Director: Matthew Desotell
Cast: Ryan Burnham
A lone “agent” discovers he has outlived his usefulness in this anti-thriller steeped in noir.

“Bigga Than Ben” (UK, 85 min.) Regional Premiere • Thu, Oct 16, 10:00PM • Dobie
Writer/Director: Suzie Halewood
Cast: Ben Barnes, Andrei Chadov, Ovidiu Matesan, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
Two likeable but wayward “pieces of Moscow scum” arrive in London intent on bettering themselves and amassing an easy fortune.

“Left” (Links) (Netherlands, 80 min.) North American Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 9:45PM • Dobie
Writer/Director: Froukje Tan
Cast: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Lotte Verbeek
Dexter has a problem: he sees his girlfriend everywhere. Even when it’s not her.

“Lost & Found” (Japan, 75 min.) North American Premiere • Sun, Oct 19, 7:15PM • Dobie
Writer/Director: Nobuyuki Miyake
Cast: Shun Sugata, Tomoyuki Hatanaka, Moeki Tsuruoka
The lives of the denizens of a train station, from the lovelorn to the lonely, all intersect in and around the lost and found department.

“The Map Reader” (New Zealand, 90 min.) World Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 2:45PM • Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
Writer/Director: Harold Brodie
Cast: Jordan Selwyn, Bonnie Soper, Mikaila Hutchison, Rebecca Gibney
Michael lives a dead-end life with his mother in New Zealand. To escape, he wraps himself in a world of maps, until two women come into his life.

“Shades of Ray” (USA, 90 min.) World Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 9:15PM • Bob Bullock Spirit Theater
Writer/Director: Jaffar Mahmood
Cast: Zachary Levi, Brian George, Kathy Baker, Sarah Shahi, Franz Kranz, Bonnie Sommerville
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep.

“The Skyjacker” (USA, 70 min.) Regional Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 02:30PM • Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
Writer/Director: Jeff Pickett
Cast: Jeff Pickett, Joan Alperin, Joe Willand, Lizzy Davis, Scott Edgecombe, Skip Colvin, Steven Klein
A loner with a plan: hijack a plane, collect ransom money, disappear.

“The Thacker Case” (USA, 90 min.) World Premiere  • Sat, Oct 18, 7:00PM • Rollins Theater
Writers: Brian Jun, Robert Dean Klein
Director: Brian Jun
Cast: Gabriel Mann, Eliza Dushku, Michael Welch
When a young man is brought in for drunk driving and ends up dead, the stories simply don’t add up. His parents hire a young attorney to find justice for their son.

“Trucker” (USA, 90 min.) Regional Premiere • Sun, Oct 19, 7:15PM • Bob Bullock Spirit Theater
Writer/Director: James Mottern
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Joey Lauren Adams, Benjamin Bratt, Jimmy Bennett
A truck-driver’s wild, dead-end existence is changed when her son re-enters her life.

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