BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//B-Side Presents: Solstice Film Festival 2008//iCal4j 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080619T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080619T173000 SUMMARY:Opening Night Social DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Opening Night LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/openingnightsocial_solstice2008 UID:149990069-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080619T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080619T193000 SUMMARY:Killer Movie DESCRIPTION:A reality television shoot that goes terrifyingly awry when i ts crew becomes stranded in a remote Northern town. A killer is on the l oose\, stalking cast and crew one by one. CATEGORIES:Comedy, Featured, Horror, Mystery, Opening Night Film, Thrille r LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/killermovie_solstice2008 UID:149985806-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080619T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080619T213000 SUMMARY:After Party DESCRIPTION:Hosted by LoTo. CATEGORIES:Party LOCATION:Loto Bar and Restaurant URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/openingnightafterparty_solstice2 008 UID:149992812-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T173000 SUMMARY:Charlie DESCRIPTION:A man who has failed in love and continually destroyed the li ves\nof the people he loves most embarks on an emotional journey to disc over just\nwhere he went wrong in director Salvatore Interlandi's deeply personal\nrelationship drama. Lately\, Charlie has been drifting furthe r and further\naway from his family. While there doesn't seem to be any overt reason for\nthe impenetrable wall Charlie has constructed around h imself\, the fact\nremains that this lonely soul has become but a ghost within his own world.\nOne night\, after discovering another man's car p arked in his driveway\,\nCharlie becomes convinced that his wife is havi ng an affair and embarks on\nan embittered journey of drinking\, fightin g\, and confusion. Later\,\nCharliebecomes determined to discover the tr uth behind the stranger he\nhas\ntransformed into\, seeks out his ex-gir lfriend and entering into a disastrous\nconfrontation with his best frie nd. As Charlie's grim journey sends him\nreeling through the city street s\, he sets out in search of a stranger in\nhopes of making some kind of emotional connection. ~ Jason Buchanan\, All\nMovie Guide CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/charlie_solstice2008 UID:149985967-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T173000 SUMMARY:Patsy DESCRIPTION:"Patsy"\, Is a darkly humored psychological farce\, a romanti c comedy of the absurd\, as seen through the eyes of "Lenny Rose" (Brett Golov). \nLenny's already delusional world spirals even more wildly out of control when Patsy (Christine Lakin) slips into his Palm Beach cloth ing store and very quickly into his life.\nBeing pursued by questionable covert agents and her past\, Patsy brings along her excess baggage to a dd to Lenny's chaotic world of\, "Nothing is what it seems".\nWith a str ange sense of deja vu\, Lenny and Patsy connect\, ultimately taking a lo st journey into the outer reaches of Lenny's mind. CATEGORIES:Comedy, Romantic LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/patsy_solstice2008 UID:149986274-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T193000 SUMMARY:Spotlight Social Hour DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Spotlight Social Hour LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/spotlightsocialhour_solstice2008 UID:149990328-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T193000 SUMMARY:Spotlight Social Hour DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Spotlight Social Hour LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/spotlightsocialhour_solstice2008 UID:149990362-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T203000 SUMMARY:From Within DESCRIPTION:The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-on e apparently by suicide... CATEGORIES:Feature, Featured, Horror LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/fromwithin_solstice2008 UID:149986165-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T203000 SUMMARY:From Within DESCRIPTION:The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-on e apparently by suicide... CATEGORIES:Feature, Featured, Horror LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/fromwithin_solstice2008 UID:149986460-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080620T213000 SUMMARY:After Party DESCRIPTION:Hosted by LoTo. CATEGORIES:Party LOCATION:Loto Bar and Restaurant URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/openingnightafterparty_solstice2 008 UID:149992843-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T113000 SUMMARY:Rainbow Around the Sun DESCRIPTION:"Rainbow Around the Sun" is a rock musical based on the album of the same name by singer-actor Matthew Alvin Brown. In the vein of cl assic musicals like "Tommy\," "Pink Floyd: The Wall\," and "Hedwig and t he Angry Inch\," "Rainbow" tells its story almost entirely through songs and imagery.\n \n Brown stars as Zachary Blasto\, a hard-drinking but t alented songwriter and performer who creates vivid musical fantasies to avoid dealing with the downward spiral of his personal life. When confro nted with the loss of someone he loves\, Zach must choose whether to fac e his demons or surrender to the madness of his imaginary world.\n \n "R ainbow Around the Sun" is an unconventional narrative that plays more li ke a favorite album than a typical movie. Scenes are sequenced like song s on a record\, seamlessly moving from dramatic moments to honky-tonk pe rformances and fully animated Busby Berkely-style hallucinations. It's a film that wears its heart on its sleeve\, created by filmmakers who bel ieve that music can be a healing force in life\, if you let it.\n \n Rai nbow Around the Sun-Full Trailer Add to My Profile | More Videos CATEGORIES:Musical LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/rainbowaroundthesun_solstice2008 UID:149988374-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T123000 SUMMARY:One Night DESCRIPTION:Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fac t that their lives are about to change. Larry\, an A&R executive\, has b een sublimating his deep fear of getting older by carrying on an affair with his young assistant\, Emily\, unbeknownst to his stunning model gir lfriend\, Mia. Abby\, a sensitive college student\, worships her older b oyfriend Marc\, while thinking her friend Clarice is only a child. Miche lle is looking forward to meeting Jack\, with whom she's flirted online but has never met in person. Wendy is sure she needs a change in her lif e\, but she's not sure what it should be. And Greg\, a charming but nerv ous actor\, finally gets to go out with Angelina\, the object of a long- standing crush. As the night unfolds\, the characters all convene at the same music venue\, and their lives intersect in ways both humorous and poignant. We can see that they're driven by an unconscious desire for hu man connection\, and their interactions with strangers reveal to them wh at they've been missing\, allowing them to see others -- and themselves -- in a truer light. By the morning\, their lives have changed -- some s ubtly\, some dramatically\, but all irreversibly. Many films erroneously call themselves ensemble pieces\, but One Night is truly that\, emphasi zed by the many long takes that deliver us from storyline to storyline. Shot entirely on various locations in New York City\, One Night is both tragic and hopeful -- it shows how alone and unaware of other people we can be\, yet also demonstrates the joy that can happen when we truly ope n ourselves up to others.\n \n \n read a review here \n \n \n read anoth er review here CATEGORIES:Drama, Feature LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/onenight_solstice2008 UID:149987590-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T141000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T144000 SUMMARY:Woodpecker DESCRIPTION:Woodpecker is the second feature-length film from writer/dire ctor Alex Karpovsky\, whose award-winning debut\, The Hole Story\, was r eleased theatrically last year after a hearty\nfestival run. In 2006 Ale x was selected as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmm aker Magazine and he was shortlisted for the “Someone to Watch” Independ ent Spirit Award\nlast year.\n \n As a follow-up\, Karpovsky turns to th e strange and blossoming world of birdwatching – America’s fastest growi ng\nrecreational activity with some 15 million enthusiasts. Focusing\non a peculiar pair of birders\, the film explores the search for the famou s Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Declared extinct in the 1940’s\, this mysteri ous creature has been recently spotted by\nlocals in the murky bayous of Eastern Arkansas. Though additional sightings by reputed ornithologists have followed\, concrete proof remains elusive\, splitting the communit y between believers and skeptics. Yet the faith of our heroic pair is un wavering\, and it\nseems their desperate commitment to the search is abo ut to cost\nthem dearly.\n \n Building towards a shattering climax that undermines everything we thought we knew about this extraordinary bird\, \nWoodpecker is an unconventional journey that incorporates a real setti ng\, complete with real characters\, into a narrative structure\, comple te with a pre-conceived storyline. Much like the\nwoodpecker itself\, th e film explores the twilight of uncertainty between fact and fiction and the ways expectation and context can manipulate our notions of “reality ”. Interweaving documentary and\nnarrative styles\, all truth becomes su bjective in this existential tragicomedy about perception\, identity\, a nd some very very strange birds.\n \n Filmed entirely on location in Ark ansas\, Woodpecker went into production in January of 2007. CATEGORIES:Feature LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/woodpecker_solstice2008 UID:149987636-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T153000 SUMMARY:Shorts Gallery 2 DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Shorts Gallery LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/shortsgallery2_solstice2008 UID:149988455-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T164500 SUMMARY:Shorts Gallery 1 DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Shorts Gallery LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/shortsgallery1_solstice2008 UID:149987831-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T173000 SUMMARY:Further North DESCRIPTION:FURTHER NORTH follows five people and their relation to murde r: as perpetrators\, as victims\, as conspirators\, as avengers\nand as bystanders. They each have a varied and conflicting path but all someho w lead to the same road in Northern Minnesota. CATEGORIES:Feature, Suspense LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/furthurnorth_solstice2008 UID:149989224-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T193000 SUMMARY:Closing Social DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Closing Night LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/closingsocial_solstice2008 UID:149990477-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T193000 SUMMARY:Closing Social DESCRIPTION: CATEGORIES:Closing Night LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/closingsocial_solstice2008 UID:149990504-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T203000 SUMMARY:Brothers at War DESCRIPTION:"Brothers at War\," a documentary directed and produced by Ra demacher\, gives a personal look of American soldiers' perspective while at war in Iraq. CATEGORIES:Closing Night Film, Documentary, Feature, Featured LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 1 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/brothersatwar_solstice2008 UID:149988260-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T203000 SUMMARY:Brothers at War DESCRIPTION:"Brothers at War\," a documentary directed and produced by Ra demacher\, gives a personal look of American soldiers' perspective while at war in Iraq. CATEGORIES:Closing Night Film, Documentary, Feature, Featured LOCATION:Galtier Plaza Theater 2 URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/brothersatwar_solstice2008 UID:149989282-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091125T075933Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20080621T213000 SUMMARY:After Party DESCRIPTION:Hosted by LoTo. CATEGORIES:Party LOCATION:Loto Bar and Restaurant URL:http://solstice.bside.com/2008/films/openingnightafterparty_solstice2 008 UID:149992878-solstice.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR