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Thank You For Supporting: 80 Years of Mingus Magic Director: Ryan Adamowicz Runtime: 45 minutes The enchanting story behind a magic shop in Reading, Pennsylvania that has been in operation for eight decades. Learn about the history, the culture and the community that has kept the magic alive in Reading for so many years. It’s …
Bored In The USA Director: Mike Finazzo Runtime: 82 minutes “Life is simpler in black and white.” This line, uttered midway through Bored in the U.S.A., could well serve as the film’s thesis statement. Following the budding friendship of Kelly (Kelly Lloyd, Wits End), a bored housewife, and Chris (Chris Milner, Comedy Central), a displaced …
Something Director: Stephen Portland Runtime: 86 minutes A couple, struggling to cope with a new baby, find themselves unraveling when they begin to suspect a mysterious intruder is in their house. website | watch trailer Screening Info Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 6pmVenue: Reading IMAX TheaterAddress: 30 N 2nd St, ReadingTickets: $10
16 MINS Director: Stephane Verzi Runtime: 16 minutes In a Post Apocalyptic world, two lovers race against time and the elements to secure enough penicillin to save a life. website Don’t Look Director: Luciana Faulhaber Runtime: 71 minutes Classic 1980’s comedy horror is alive and well in this over-the-top and wildly-funny feature that pays homage …
Truth Director: Eric Paul Erickson Runtime: 105 minutes Following a bloody revolution and civil war, former army officer Xavier Faraday is ushered into an interrogation room and chained up opposite Maria Ramses,his appointed representative for the fledgling government’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Offered a chance at amnesty for detailing his time at an infamous internment …
The Clown Director: Bruce Gorman, Jr. Runtime: 87 minutes Barnaby Hatchett, a corporate working stiff whose life is a mess, is harassed everyday as he goes in and out of work by a dark clown that lives in the parking lot, and that only he can see. website Screening Info Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 …
Special Presentation: Heroes Dive Director: Brett WheatRuntime: 13 minutes Five paralyzed veterans attempt an open ocean dive that changes their perceptions of who they are and what they can do. Running A.T. Full Speed Director: Ryan Simmons Runtime: 87 minutes One man’s dream of raising $100,000 for the orphans of Uganda by beating the world’s …
Counter Histories: Rock Hill Director: Fr3deR1cK Runtime: 60 minutes Nine young black men exercise their power to change history. It’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is stalled with protest after protest, arrest after arrest, bailout after bailout and then return to life as usual in the segregated South. Students at a small local Baptist …
Fumero-Ism: The Grafstract Director: Keith Aronowitz Runtime: 16 minutes Fumero-Ism, The Grafstract, profiles the well known NYC street artist and muralist known as Fumero. The film examines his interest and growth in art from childhood to present, reveals his process, and what motivates him to keep putting out incredible work at a high rate, from …
Sacrificial Virgins Director: Andi Reiss Runtime: 30 minutes The Human Papilloma Vaccine (HPV) is a treatment in widespread use but its efficacy in preventing cancer is medically unproven, while unintended, adverse reactions are blighting and even ending the lives of girls and young women across the world. However, pharmaceutical manufacturers and many health authorities are …
