Cast: Josh Helman, Evan Jonigkeit, Zosia
Mamet
When her best friend returns from Paris with a new lover, Kate's life is thrown off track. Encountering new personalities, old promises and sexual fluidity, Kate must decide to stay on her current path or burn it down to forge a new one.
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Florida Premiere
Tom Donahue, USA
In Davi's Way, legendary actor/singer Robert Davi, is given one year to recreate Sinatra's fabled 'Main Event' concert in Madison Square Garden on Sinatra's 100th Birthday in this unpredictable, poignant and comedic documentary that starts to feel like a real life cross between Curb Your Enthusiasm and This Is Spinal Tap.
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St. Petersburg Premiere
Maria Finitzo, USA
Cast: Kasey Buckley, Jack Griffo, Daphne Zuniga
At only 16 years old, Jamie takes an overdose of pills and steps off the end of the dock at his family’s summer home. No explanation can ever justify his terrible choice, an act that forever shatters his family’s history. Those left behind are Jamie's mother Peg (Debra Mooney, Dead Poets Society), his father Robert (Michael Hogan, Battlestar Galactica) and his sister Shelly.
Now, 25 years after Jamie’s death, Shelly (Daphne Zuniga, The Sure Thing) and her 16-year-old son Noah (Jack Griffo, The Thundermans) return to the summer home to help Peg recover from minor heart surgery. Although Peg has come to terms with her grief over her son, the years have not brought closure for her husband or daughter. Both blame themselves for Jamie’s death and have become estranged. Peg hopes Shelly’s visit will finally repair that relationship.
When Shelly arrives at the house, she is flooded with memories. Jamie’s ghost is everywhere: on a swing by the lake, in the corner of an old treehouse they played in as kids, and in the feel of the rocks he once collected. Photographs, home movies, sounds and even touch trigger flashbacks that move the story forward, eventually revealing all that led up to the moment of Jamie’s suicide.
Written and directed by Maria Finitzo, Those Left Behind is a story about loss and a family confronting the hard work of mourning. It is also a story of how a family recovers, and how they find the courage to move forward from that loss and accept that they can never change what has happened.
Recently released from a Psychiatric Hospital, Elizabeth (Anna Schafer) returns to her Los Angeles apartment where she lives with her fiancé, Grant (Ryan Vincent). With the guidance of her new psychiatrist, Dr. Bowman (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and the unfaltering support of Grant, Elizabeth works at regaining control of her mental stability and her life as she begins to plan their wedding. Struggling to navigate daily voices, hallucinations, anxiety, failing medications and her judgmental, unsupportive mother, Carol (Kathleen Quinlan), Elizabeth fears that Grant won’t be able to deal with her much longer.
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The amazing diversity of contemporary Cuban music is gorgeously explored in Ron Chapman’s third documentary feature. The Forbidden Shore follows the great success of The Poet of Havana, which featured Carlos Varela. With this ambitious new film, Chapman captures the full gamut of what’s happening now in Cuba, both the most exciting artists and the distinct musical scenes they move in, from classic son and salsa, to trova, nueva trova, reggaton, rock, jazz, metal, rap, electronic, classical, choral, pop, changu, danzón, rumba, yoruba, bolero, conga, timba, mambo and—if you can believe it—more.
But the present can only be understood within the context of the past, thus the film’s wonderful soundtrack is comprised of music new and old, of the sounds of modern iconoclasts and the immortal music of the old guard. This is a one-of-a-kind journey into the heart and soul of a sonic culture like no other, a place where music is cultivated and thrives through the enduring desire of its people to forge a sound that is all their own. Andres Castillo
