 ALLERD FISHBEIN'S IN LOVEPALM BEACH PREMIERE A comedy about the first big crush. Thirteen-year old Allerd Fishbein (played by John Daley of TV's Freaks and Geeks) is going on a family vacation to the Catskills, and life has stopped making sense. His body is changing. His Bar Mitzvah is coming. And he just fell in love for the very first time. Together with.... COCKFIGHT SOUTHERN PREMIEREIsrael, 2000. Sigalit Liphshitz, Director. Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem. Hebrew w/ Eng. subtitles. 13 minutes, 16 mm. On a hot summer day, Marciano and his Romanian worker are driving a truck full of chickens. The Palestinian checkpoint is declared closed just as they arrive and as Marciano argues to get the checkpoint opened, he discover that the officer there is Nabil who formerly worked in his chicken coop. More than just the chickens get fried. Together with... KING OF THE JEWS PALM BEACH PREMIEREU.S.A., 2000. Jay Rosenblatt, Director. English. 18 minutes, 16 mm. This provocative and deeply personal film looks at popular representations of Jesus, filtered through the imagination of a Jewish-American child. |