| Taos Talking Picture Festival |
| Held APRIL 10-13, 2003 |
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| Sam Elliott at the premiere of "Off The Map" |
| Cambell Scott, Actor, Writer, Director of Off The Map |
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| Cambell Scott, Introduces the film. |
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| Sam Elliott does the answers questions from the audience. |
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| Emilio Estevez makes a suprise appearance at the opening film. |
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| More Info About The Festival Visit http://www.taostalkingpictures.com/ |
| Seven short films. Hang Time provides an exciting elevator exercise. La Pupp� is a story of puppy love lost and found. The supergirls in D.E.B.S. and the super-insecure boy in Niche offer lessons on being yourself. Ablution follows the rites of a day. A man deals with the leftovers of his father's life in Ties to a Dead Man. A writer searches for a noble death in For Our Man. (Total run time: 91 min.) |
| Shot in Taos, Campbell Scott's third film as director reaffirms his position as an essential voice in American cinema. The story is of a very untraditional family-a father (Sam Elliot) in the throes of depression, a practical, earthy mother (Joan Allen), their precocious daughter, and a visiting tax collector. Funny, poetic, and lovely, this is an instant New Mexican classic, perhaps the first to capture the mystery and magic of the place. Preceded by LAUD WEINER. (U.S., 2003, 100 min.) |
| A collection of inventive shorts. Clark, the Canadian Hockey Goalie, MVP of the Saskatchewan Moose Lodge Hockey League, wants something new for the off-season and heads south to try professional baseball. Peek into the secret life of furniture with Roof Sex, or see why a man would want to become a denizen of the deep in Not a Fish Story. Alaya presents the dangerous mix of kids and guns. It's nice to know that there's a bit of Tiny Magic around and that our dreams can come true, although that doesn't always mean what we think in Embryo. Novelty reveals the underside of footwear. (Total run time: 95 min.) |
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| Every year I put out a new flyer for the film festival and to send out to various film commissions and film orgranizations to further promote NewMexicoActors.com and our people. This year was no different I passed out arround 100 at the festival alone. this is the 2003 Flyer. |
| Thom Fitzgerald's digital film offers a compassionate, disturbing portrait of Bucharest and its inhabitants in the chaotic aftermath of communism. Set amongst a massive culling of Bucharest's stray dogs, Fitzgerald's narrative draws the audience into the intertwined stories of a disparate collection of characters. Propelled by a haunting score and powerful performances, Wild Dogs is more evidence of Fitzgerald's position as a major talent. (Canada, 2002, 97 min.) |
| Set in the near future, Greg Pak's exquisite, inventive feature, comprised of four short stories, explores the struggles of humans to connect in an age of automation. In one episode, a young couple must prove themselves worthy of parenthood; another features a mother trying to connect with her son; a third explores loneliness in the workplace. In each, remarkably life-like machines serve to reflect and refract the human condition. (U.S., 2002, 85 min.) |
