Hey all – the 27th annual Boston Film Festival is underway at Stuart Street Playhouse! Boston Popcorn and Indie Film Spotlight will be giving you a daily rundown of the featured films playing every day, so be sure to check back to find out all the great features!
For full info go to the festival’s website at http://bostonfilmfestival.org
For tickets head over to the festival’s ticketing site at http://bostonfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
5:00PM “Thespians” — East Coast Premiere | |
Director: | Warren Skeels |
Producer: | Brenda Egedy Kolb |
Synopsis: | Follow four high school thespian troupes to the largest thespian competition in the world. Following the themes of impact and value that theatre has in education. |
Run Time: | 1:31 |
7:00PM “The Trouble With the Truth” — World Premiere | |
Director/Writer: | Jim Hemphill |
Producers: | Daniel Farrands, Thommy Hutson |
Starring: | Lea Thompson, John Shea, Danielle Harris, Keri Lynn Pratt |
Synopsis: | A divorced couple reconnects on the eve of their daughter’s wedding and realizes that their own relationship has more than a few unresolved issues. |
Run Time: | 1:36 |
9:00PM “Fort McCoy” — North East Premiere | |
Directors: | Kate Connor, Michael Worth |
Producer: | Eric Stoltz |
Starring: | Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor, Andy Hirsch, Camryn Manheim, Lyndsy Fonseca, Johnny Pacar |
Synopsis: | FORT McCOY is based on a true story when the Stirn family lived next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during W.W.II. It is a coming of age story beset with tragedy, a love story between a Jewish soldier and Catholic girl, and the journey of one man (Eric Stoltz) struggling to find his worth in a war that does not want him. |
Run Time: | 1:40 |
