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15th Annual Austin Film Festival
Dark Matters

Presented by Austin Film Festival

October 16-October 23, 2008

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In addition to hosting its annual screenwriters’ conference, the AFF will screen approximately 190 feature and short films including World, U.S. and Regional premieres. Festival Films are listed according to categories. Following are the Dark Matters screenings. Other categories are Marquee Screenings; AFF Presents…; Narrative FeatureCompetition; Documentary Feature Competition; Comedy Vanguard; 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. (Pictured: Alphabet Killer)

Dark Matters: (Venues and Times noted beside Film Titles)

“100 Feet” (USA, 105 min.) World Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 7:30PM • Bob Bullock IMAX
Writer/Director: Eric Red
Cast: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Micael Pare, Ed Westwick
After Marnie Watson kills her husband in self-defense, she is placed under house arrest only to discover that the house is possessed by the violent spirit of her dead husband.

“Alphabet Killer” (USA, 100 min.) Regional Premiere • Sun, Oct 19, 10:00PM • Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
Writer: Tom Malloy
Director: Rob Schmidt
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton, Michael Ironside, Tom Noonan, Martin Donovan
An obsessive police investigator begins seeing the ghost of the murdered girl whose case she is trying to solve.


“Eden Log” (France, 98 min.) US Premiere • Sun, Oct 19, 9:45PM • Bob Bullock IMAX
Writers: Franck Vestiel, Pierre Bordage
Director: Franck Vestiel
Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Vimala Pons, Zohar, Wexler, Sifan Shao
A man wakens in a digital fantasia with no knowledge of who he is, but pursued by ravenous mutants and phantoms.

“Nightmare Detective 2” (Japan, 90 min.) US Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 10:00PM • Bob Bullock IMAX
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Writers: Hisakatsu Kuroki, Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Yui Miura
The Nightmare Detective, a man who can enter your dreams, is back. A high school girl, hearing of his abilities begs him to free her from recurring nightmares.

“Splinter” (USA, 90 min.) Regional Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 10:00PM • Alamo Drafthouse Lakecreek
Writers: Kai Barry, Toby Wilkins
Director: Toby Wilkins
Cast: Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner, Charles Baker, Laurel Whitsett, Rachel Kerbs
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a parasite that transforms its victims into deadly hosts, a couple and an escaped convict must to work together to survive this primal terror.

“Strange Girls” (USA, 97 min.) Regional Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 10:00PM • Alamo Drafthouse Lakecreek
Writer/Director: Rona Marks
Cast: Angela Berliner, Jordana Berliner, Andre DeLawrence Rice, Adrienne Wehr, Kasey Daley
Twin sisters, unable and unwilling to talk to anyone but each other, are released from a psychiatric institution after the shocking murder of their psychiatrist.

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