New Hampshire Film Festival 2013 Official Selections
The New Hampshire Film Festival is proud to announce the final selections for its 13th annual event taking place October 17-20, 2013 in Portsmouth, NH. The four day festival will screen close to one hundred films at four downtown venues (The Music Hall, The Music Hall Loft, The Seacoast Repertory Theatre and the Moffatt-Ladd House). The festival is made up of two major competitions the International competition held Friday, October 18 to Sunday, October 20 and the New Hampshire Night competition held on Thursday, October 17. The International competition has five major categories: Feature Narratives, Feature Documentaries, Short Narratives, Short Documentaries and Animation. The New Hampshire Night competition is made up of all NH Films and the NH Program.
Feature Narratives
Austenland directed by Jerusha Hess
Awful Nice directed by Todd Sklar
The Broken Circle Breakdown directed by Felix Van Groeningen
Burma directed by Carlos Puga
Doomsdays directed by Eddie Mullins
Drinking Buddies directed by Joe Swanberg
The English Teacher directed by Craig Zisk
Goodbye World directed by Denis Henry Hennely
Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell
*Labor Day directed by Jason Reitman
*Only Daughter directed by Aaron Wiederspahn
Pasadena directed by Will Slocombe
*Prince Avalanche directed by David Gordon Greene
The Retrieval directed by Chris Eska
Sal directed by Diego Rougier
Sanatorium directed by Brant Sersen
Touchy Feely Directed by Lynn Shelton
The Truth About Emanuel directed by Francesca Gregorini
*Twenty Million People directed by Michael Ferrell
Feature Documentaries
America’s Longest War directed by Paul Feine
Blackfish directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Blood Brother directed by Steve Hoover
The Crash Reel directed by Lucy Walker
Elena directed by Petra Costa
Forbidden Voices directed by Barbara Miller
If You Build It directed by Patrick Creadon
The Kill Team directed by Dan Krauss
Life According To Sam directed by Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Linsanity directed by Evan Jackson Leong
Little Hope Was Arson directed by Theo Love
Losing Lebron directed by Nicole Prowell Hart and Allyson Sherlock
The Naked Brand directed by Sherng-Lee Huang, Jeff Rosenblum
The Throwaways directed by Bhawin Suchak; Ira Mckinley
To Them That’s Gone directed by Andrew Mckay
*Tom Rush: No Regrets directed by Rob Stegman
When I Walk directed by Jason DaSilva
*William And The Windmill directed by Ben Nabors
Short Narratives
Alive, Feeling Like A Buck Seventy Five directed by Michael Neithardt
Allein directed by Stefan Langthaler
Amok directed by Käthe Niemeyer
Anal Break up directed by Dave McHugh
*Another Grace & Johnny Adventure: Zombie Island! directed by Peter Soby, Jr.
Astarsaga directed by Asa Hjorleifsdottir
Bicycle Hooker directed by David McHugh
Candace directed by Candace Wade
Death Of A Shadow directed by Tom Van Avermaet
Ellen Is Leaving directed by Michelle Savill
*Empyrean directed by Sophie Savage
*Epilogue directed by Dylan Allen
*Figments Of A Father directed by Kyle Turgeon
*Frames directed by Zachary Mehrbach
Great directed by Andreas Henn
*Here And Now directed by Julian Higgins
If We Were Adults directed by Michael Fitzgerald
*The Janitor directed by Mark Battle
Mud Lotus directed by Chris White
*Native Boy directed by Henry Roosevelt
Palimpsest directed by Michael Tyburski
Salvatore directed by William Shermer
Setup, Punch directed by David Schlussel
The Shoemaker directed by Michael Kaves
*Slam Man directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo
*Social Butterfly directed by Lauren Wolkstein
Trold directed by Fill Seifert
Tyrolean Riviera directed by Tatiana Von Furstenberg
Short Documentaries
High And Hallowed: Everest 1963 directed by Jake Norton
Irish Folk Furniture directed by Tony Donoghue
Maestra directed by Catherine Murphy
*Mozayik directed by Jon Bougher
*New England Blood directed by Ryan Scura
Slomo directed by Josh Izenberg
Who Shot Rock & Roll directed by Steven Kochones
Animation
Benjamin’s Flowers directed by Malin Erixon
The Cold Heart directed by Hannes Rall
The Missing Scarf directed by Eoin Duffy
*Moonlight Bait And Ammo directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo and Marc Dole
Oh Willy… directed by Mark James Roels, Emma De Swaef
New Hampshire Program
The New Hampshire Program consists of films that highlight the year’s uniquely NH productions, and up-and-coming NH filmmakers, producers, actors, and writers. NH Program films are not part of the International competition.
*A Coming Out Story directed by Corey Graff
*Click — With Deb Cram directed by Lars Trodson
*De Rochement The Language Of News directed by Gary David Anderson
*Iceberg directed by Maya Rudolph
*It All Started With Mom directed by Catherine O’Brien
*Jim And The Genie directed by Katie Ennis
*Ocean Boulevard directed by Simon Harling
*Patti And Me Minus Patti directed by Brian McAllister
*The People’s Forest directed by David Huntley
*Pray Me Down directed by Dan Carr
*Q. Cross: The Painter Behind The Portraits directed by Patrick King
*Shuffle directed by Alex Bourgoin, Brandon Elliott, Tyler St. Onge, James Troy
*Something in the Way directed by Ronen Rubinstein
*Tech Roulette directed by Dan Deering
*Many Voices One Song directed by Nancy Pollock
*NH film criteria: subject or story about NH, significant portion of film is filmed in NH, major cast or crew from NH, director/producer/writer from NH; from NH means the person involved has spent over 1 year in New Hampshire.