he 2007 First Look Film Festival is broken up into six screenings spanning four days.Select a program from the list to see the films in that screening or select 'All Films' to browse everything. Every show is different!

Program Listings:

Truth and Lies: April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM Starz FilmCenter

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Friday Night Screening

Auteur
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 26:00
Directed by: Kevin Abrams
School: American Film Institute

A video pirate dreams of glory as a filmmaker.

Bestman
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 9:45
Directed by: Andrew Halasz
School: Chatham College

The leap every man must make when he is faced with his imminent, impending nuptials is examined in the this funny, neurotic tale of a man on the verge.

Coffeeeee
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 4:20
Directed by: . Nolan
School: Center of Arts and Technology

A Day in the life of a coffee fanatic who can't quite function normally without a few pots. In this Classically animated short, things go from bad to worse as something as simple as getting a cup of coffee unexpectedly becomes a test of self control.

Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 23:00
Directed by: Ben Wu
School: Stanford

This film is a portrait of the artists with developmental disabilities that work at Creativity Explored, a non-profit art center in San Francisco. Through their own words, the artists discuss their methods and work, as well as the difficulties they face outside, and the strength of the community they've formed among themselves and the staff within the studio walls.

May I Please Speak to Vartan
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 9:20
Directed by: Alex Jablonski
School: UCLA School of Theater, Film and TV

After moving into a new apartment filmmaker Alex Jablonski began receiving 30 phonecalls a day, all of them for a man named Vartan. After months of trying to ignore the phone Jablonski made a list of every person that had called and began calling them back.

Pop Foul
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 19:00
Directed by: Moon Molson
School: Columbia University, School of the Arts, Film Division

A boy sees his father take a beating from a local thug on the way home from a Little League game and agrees to help hide the incident from his mother. The series of betrayals that follow send the boy down his own path of destruction.

 2006 Student Academy Award Bronze Medal

Solomon Grundy
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 1:16
Directed by: Chris Myers and Ken Seward
School: Savannah College of Art and Design

Solomon Grundy's life is a series of whirlwind ceremonies and rituals over which he has no control.

The Hunter
Playing: Truth and Lies April 20th, 2007 - 8 PM (full details)
Runtime: 20:00
Directed by: Benjamin Gray
School: Columbia University School of the Arts

Each winter Tub hunts with childhood friends Frank and Kenny. Middle-aged and still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to be different. And it is: deep inside a snow-covered forest, his long-buried aggression comes raging to the surface. Based on the Tobias Wolff short story 'Hunters in the Snow'.