Washington DC Independent Film Festival 2009

The story of an unlikely friendship between two women who find common ground in their tragic pasts. Genres: Women, Human Rights, Independent Contact: Evan Briggs Production Company: Stanford University - Art & Art History Director's Biography: Evan Briggs first became interested in documentary film as a senior in college through the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, N.C. She moved to San Francisco shortly after graduation in 2000, where she worked as an intern at the Bay Area Video Coalition before relocating to Seattle where she worked on a film about an Israeli-Palestinian support group for bereaved parents. Evan attended a month-long documentary workshop in Maine with Michael Rabiger, where she made her first short film about the Maine Wild Blueberry Queen competition. Since then, Evan's other short films have premiered in cities all over the country. She has also taught Digital Filmmaking Workshops for Kids through the Digital Media Academy. Evan grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and holds a B.A. in Literature and French from Duke University and an M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.

Death is easier than life for 2 million street children and young homeless in the Streets of Cairo. They face police brutality, sexual abuse, stealing of their organs, violence. Despite being castaways, they master the chaos, creating a world full of escapades, conflicts, laughter and sadness. Genres: Drama List of Festivals and Awards for Film: Cairo Film Festival Alexandria Fest (Best Supporting Actor) Bruxelles Arab Film Fest Contact: Ahmed ATEF Production Company: EGYPT FILMS Distributor: Sunny Land Films Limited Agent: Waleed Chaker-Fulbright Firm Chicago List of Director's Previous Films: Cigarettes Stumps (1993)-doc Lumiere take 2( 1995)-doc Omar 2000 (2000) -feature How girls love u (2003) -feature List of Director's Previous Awards: 14 prizes for Omar 2000 3 prizes for Cigarettes Stumps Director's Biography: Born 1971- BA from High Cinema Institute Cairo- study at the master degree of University of Southern California- alumni 2006-film critic of the daily AL AHRAM, ex fesival director of Cairo, ismailia , children and European film festivals in Egypt. Number of Films Directed: 10

Ibrahim is a worker living with his wife and two children. Everyday is the same for him; he goes out, gets to work, stops by the cafe and the pub. When he is working the day shift, he wakes up at night; when he is working the night shift, he has to sleep during day hours.. Genres: Drama Director's Biography: M. Cem Oztufekci was born in 1985. He studied at Robert College with a scholarship until university. Currently, he is a last year film student at Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty. "Ayak Altinda" is his first short film as a director and a producer. He directs and produces short films.

This film depicts the struggle of an immigrant family's attempts to assimilate into American life. Click Here To View the Trailer on YouTube Genres: Family, Drama, Asian, Asian American, Disability Culture, Coming of Age , Deconstruction, Independent, Wildlife, Rejected, Student, Youth/Teen, Children, Mature/Adult, Culture, Health/Medical Contact: James Z. Feng Production Company: RiLL Films Number of Films Directed: 2 Filmmaker James Z. Feng will be attending with his co-producer March 12th-15th.

France, in the near future. Unemployment raises to 35%. To solve the problem, the Government votes a new law called "The Empty Job." High salaried people must employ an unemployed person in their house. This is the way the Remiot, an upper-class couple, meet Elise, a young unemployed person. This forced co-habitation will bring Mr. Remiot to wonder about his way of life and his own existence. Genres: Sci-Fi Contact: Raphaèl Sevet Production Company: Les Films Sauvages Director's Biography: Antares Bassis was born in 1977, near Paris. He got a master degree in cinema at University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne (he has been teaching film in Junior High School for several years). He made several self-made short film, documentary and institutional. Last year he created a video installation for a theatre play from author Matei Visniec, a well known Rumanian author. Actually, he is developing a feature film comedy for cinema, and a science fiction thriller for tv. He will direct another short film in the following year.

Evelyn, a teen-aged girl who is committed to a married man plans on giving up everything for him. However, after her Christian mother finds out Evelyn's secret, she reproaches Evelyn for her looseness in life. Evelyn turns to the married man but is harshly rejected. At last she decides to take revenge on him. Genres: Drama Contact: Shih-Shan Chen Director's Biography: Novia Shih-Shan Chen is a filmmaker from Taiwan who has been in the US to study the crafts of filmmaking for four years. She has just completed her M.F.A. in Film Production from the School of Film at Ohio University. Her thesis film is called "Evelyn," a narrative short about a 17 year-old girl, who plans on to give up everything for the extramarital relationship that she gets involved in. "Evelyn" has won the Betty Thomas Film Award from the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University. This film is currently being submitted to film festivals. Student Film

A humorous look at Michael, an elderly, world-worn widower, in his pattern of mundane daily urban meanderings, happens upon a Tom of Finland doll in a sex shop window. His fascination with the erotic doll is the trigger for a belated and reluctant sexual self-discovery at the end of a lifetime of sexual repression. A series of dreams and stream of consciousness vignettes moves Michael from surprise to hope to love affair ending in violence and betrayal. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Erotic, Coming of Age , Fantasy, Independent, Surreal, Senior/Aging, Student, Dramedy Contact: Flavio Alves Student Film

A girl falls in love with a man she sees on her mother's funeral... Since that she cannot forget that man, so she starts to find out who he is. At the end she meets him again but also finds out the truth she never wants to know... Genres: Alternative, Women, Horror, Thriller, Crime, Independent, Surreal, Anime, Art Contact: Yun Wang Student Film