CineSol Film Festival

CineSol Film Festival
Saturday, Dec 7, 2024 at 12:15pm
The eBridge Center for Business & Commercialization
1304 E Adams St

CineSol Film Festival is a showcase festival, celebrating achievement in the art of filmmaking. CineSol is dedicated to furthering the art, craft and business of screenwriters and filmmakers and recognizing their artistic contributions. 

Schedule:

12:15 – 1:45pm.  Shorts Block #1 – Documentaries.  I Care About Your Mailbox.  Boca Chica.  Broken Wings.  Surcos.  Sangre Violenta/Sangre Violeta, Across.  Room 133 Cameron.  Click here for tickets.

12:30pm – 2:06pm.  Resynator directed by Alison Tavel.  This documentary begins when Alison rescues Don’s synthesizer prototype from her grandmother’s attic.  What starts off as a curious resurrection project of her dad’s Resynator soon launches into a globe-trotting quest to untangle to unlock the deep secrets surrounding his life and invention.  https://www.resynator.com/.  https://www.facebook.com/resynator.   Room 135 Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

1:00pm – 2:23pm.  Border Crossed Us directed by Loretta van der Horst.   RGV.  In La Joya, Texas, a small town on the Mexican border, police search on a daily basis for traces of human traffickers who help migrants and refugees cross the border to the United States.  These hunts frequently result in perilous pursuits.  But no matter how convinced they are of the importance of their mission to catch smugglers, doubts gradually seem to arise among them too.  Theater.  Click here for tickets

1:00pm – 3:00pm.  Bradley Freeman Jr & Puppeteering.  In his presentation, Bradley takes you on a journey from growing up as a Muppet fan in Brownsville, to becoming one of Sesame Street’s principal performers.  Not only will there be a live demonstration of the art of television puppetry, there will be an interactive portion, where you may get to perform a character.  In addition, there will be a Q&A and signing after the presentation.  Room 142 Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

2:15pm – 3:41pm.  Shorts Block #2.  Lack, Dias de Luz y Penumbra, I Love You Too Many Times, The American Alien, The Nest, Anonymous, The Premiere, World’s Shortest War.  Room 133 Cameron. Click here for tickets.

2:30pm – 3:55pm.  The Strike directed by JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Gullkey.  The story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history.  Room 135.  Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

3:00pm – 4:22pm.  The Forest Hills directed by Scott Goldberg.  Rico descends in the Catskill Mountains after being haunted by nightmares.  Starring Chiko Mendez, Edward Furlong, Dee Wallace, and Shelley Duvall.  Theater.  Click here for tickets.

4:00pm – 5:27pm.  Shorts Block #3 – Horror.  Transylvanie, Invader, Devourer, Rejected, Incubacion, Dream Creep.  Room 133.  Cameron.  Click here for tickets.

4:30pm – 5:57pm.  Unlikely Allies directed by Anthony Pedone.  In 2003, a low-level cannabis case would end Weldon Angelos’ budding and promising career in the music industry.  But it would also give birth to a national movement to reform our country’s criminal justice system.  Room 135.  Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

6:30pm – Doors Open.

7:00pm – 8:44pm.  Bloody & Bruised:  The Untold Story of the Back Room directed by J. Budro Partida.  RGV.  The untold story of the most infamous heavy metal club to live and die in Austin, Texas, as told by the people who survived it.  Theater.  Click here for Saturday night tickets.


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