Rappahannock Independent Film Festival 2008

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Narrative
Every year, more than 50,000 people worldwide fall victim to the Nigerian Scam. Usually contacted by e-mail about a business proposal or winning a lottery, the victims fall for these unbelievable stories, and lose their life savings. According to some reports, the scam is the third most lucrative industry in Nigeria, generating over 5 billion dollars in the last 20 years. Authorities have named the scam after the number of the article in the Nigerian constitution that deals with the matter - 419.
Documentary
The portrait of a bungalow colony in New York's Catskill Mountains owned by Holocaust survivors who, after 25 years together, are reluctantly planning to sell their summer home.
Documentary/Featured
SeeThink Productions presents a feature-length documentary film on the life and art of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), one of the most original and influential painters of the 20th century. This documentary tells the story of Neel's life, exploring the struggles she faced as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention. This film explores the entirety of Neel's life, making use of the extensive textual, photographic, and filmic archives granted exclusively to SeeThink Productions by Neel Arts and Alice Neel Images. SeeThink has also gained exclusive access to noted video artist Michel Auder's footage of Neel in her seventies and eighties.
Narrative
Anthony Samuels is a single father, lawyer, and insomniac writer, still recovering from the loss of his wife. He struggles to maintain a normal life for his teenage daughter, Valerie. When his daughter is attacked in their home, Anthony has to deal with potentially losing the most important thing in his life. Again.
Documentary/Music
A brief river film.
Documentary/Short
Just as Picasso portrays faces and bodies differently in his paintings, people are created differently from each other. What society does with those differences is attaches labels and judgments. Clara's brother is born with T21 and she learns to behold a different truth about all people.
Narrative/Short
An assassin with amnesia begins to remember and learn about his past.
Featured/Narrative/Short
Four ten-year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to help them, there's only one solution. They have to find a way to get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.
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