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LDUB Film Festival
Sunday, March 30, 2025

12 PM SESSION (7 FILMS)

STAND BY ME
DIRECTOR: Parisa Zandbaf; Islamic Republic of Iran
DOCUMENTARY: 2024
RUN TIME:10 minutes

This film depicts the struggles of an American couple suffering from a medical condition and the way they deal with it, which has become internationally popular, attracting tourists from around the globe. The American couple's dream travel to Amsterdam becomes a test of their love and a journey of universal bittersweet favors. 'Stand by Me' empathizes with its American and global audiences through art, compassion, fun, and suffering, subtly weaving the urgency of the condition with romance and love in a global societal context.

HEALTHY HARMONY - A Music Therapy Journey
DIRECTOR: Adrian Botton, USA, 3034
RUN TIME: 10:12 minutes

Starting in Miami, Florida, I began creating news stories for my local broadcasting network. I went on to win a National Student Emmy Award and got a scholarship to pursue digital media production. Now, I study at Florida State University and continue t tell stories around Tallahassee.

DEMON AMOUNG US
DIRECTOR: Jal Westerman USA; 2024
RUN TIME: 3:41 minutes

KEEPING TIME
DIRECTOR: Richard Jackson, USA
RUN TIME: 11:11 minutes

Antique clock repair shop owner Don Karpen looks over his life and the lessons he's learned including bouts with mental health.

I LOVE YOU
DIRECTOR: Carl A. Cinquino; USA, 2025
RUN TIME: 9:01 minutes

A girl falls in and out of love with a boy.

BLACK DENIM RAGE - A SHREDDER'S DREAM
DIRECTOR: Miles Anthony Stanley
MUSIC VIDEO, USA 2025
RUN TIME: 5:50 Minutes

Black Denim Rage's latest music video, "A Shredder's Dream," directed by Miles Stanley, delivers a high-octane visual experience that mirrors the band's aggressive blend of South and North American Speed, Thrash, and Heavy Metal. The video immerses viewers in a cinematic fever dream, featuring rapid-fire guitar solos, intense performance sequences, and surreal imagery that captures the raw energy and technical prowess characteristic of the band's style. This release follows their 2024 album "Chaos of War," which showcases their evolution with more technical elements and mature arrangements.

Miles Stanley, also known as Stiles Manley, is a multi-talented film maker from West Palm Beach Florida. A graduate of G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Picture Production, Miles now attends Palm Beach State College. Miles has worked on feature films such as Ned Venture, television programs for the golf channel, and documentaries.

He is the recipient of the Eg2 Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key and an award in a PBSC art show called "Art Across the Spectrum" for his digital art. His graphic designs have been published in convention booklets around Florida as well as the Metal Magazine "First Full of Metal" and two of his student films were accepted into Supercons Film Festival in 2014. Miles has also produced, edited, and directed a 40 minute documentary for the anime convention "Chibi Pa" called "Chibi Pa: Suki Desu: By fan for fans" which received an honorable mention at the Eg2 Scholastic Art and Writing Contest.

NOT ROD
DIRECTOR: Becca Green & Alex Pollack
DOCUMENTARY: Documentary, USA, 2024
RUN TIME:15:45 Minutes

As a young man in Scotland, singer George Orr played in bands and dreamed of becoming a rockstar. After repeatedly being told that he looked and sounded too much like a fellow newcomer named Rod Stewart, George's dream slowly faded. Forty years and many professional sidetracks later - including stints as a martial arts trainer and a Miami paparazzo - George was able to turn the very thing that held him back in his early attempt at a career in music into his ticket to success later in life. As a renowned Rod Stewart tribute artist, George entertains sold out crowds with his singing and Chardonnay-soaked banter. NOT ROD is a short documentary about a big personality who reminds us that it is never too late to do what you love.

2 PM SESSION (3 FILMS)

HALFWAY THERE
DIRECTOR: Richard Jackson
WRITTEN BY: Manny Mendez , 2025
RUN TIME: 20:25 Minutes
A look at life after incarceration and the needs facing the population of returning felons.

THE RESURRECTION
DIRECTOR: Michael LaMorte 2025, USA
RUN TIME: 31:53 Minutes

Comedian Vincent Vance (Dean Napolitano) gets a visit from an angel (Casey Peruski/Jim Patterson) just as his life is falling apart.

Michael Miguelito LaMorte has been a fixture at The Palm Beach Improv since 2014. As the stage manager, and "Voice of God", he recently surpassed 5000 shows at this iconic venue. Creator of the comedy series "Superstitious" and the frontal voice of the orchestra led by Grammy Award winning Pablo "Chino" Nuñez, anything is possible for "Miguelito" - his earned nickname. He continues to perfect his craft as a singer/writer/director with a heart rooted profoundly in urban Latin culture.

A POEM ABOUT HOW LITTLE I FEEL
DIRECTOR: Gage Scott Callenius 2024
RUN TIME:17 Minutes
Jack, A young poet, slowly loses his mind whilst trying to use his poem as proof that he still has feelings.

Gage Callenius is a young Actor/Writer/Director. With a heavy background in long form improvisation, Gage's current credits include being John in The Last Yiddish Speaker at FAU TheatreLab.

4 PM SESSION (1 FILM)

THE UNIVERSE IS A GRAIN OF SAND
DIRECTOR: Mark Alan Levinson 2025
RUN TIME: 73 Minutes

How do we make sense of the world around us? Our understanding of nature is shaped by the tools we create to observe it. The Universe in a Grain of Sand is a meditation by the award-winning filmmaker/physicist Mark Levinson (Particle Fever) on the synergy of art and science. Mapping out momentous revolutions in technology through a dazzling array of artwork.

Mark Levinson is the director and producer of the award-winning documentary feature Particle Fever about the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider experiment outside of Geneva. Before embarking on a film career, Mark earned a PhD in theoretical particle physics from the University of California at Berkeley. In the film world, he first became a specialist in the post-production writing and recording of dialogue, working on over 40 feature films including The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Seven, The Rainmaker, Johnny Mnemonic and The Social Network. His directorial debut was the fiction film Prisoner of Time, a story about two former Russian dissident artists after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most recently, he wrote/produced/directed the hybrid film, The Bit Player, about Claude Shannon, "The Father of Information Theory." Mark won the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication and the inaugural Robert E. Sievers Leonardo da Vinci Award for his work in the cross-disciplinary realms of art and science. His screenplay adaptation of Richard Powers's award-winning novel, The Gold Bug Variations, won two Sloan Foundation grants and was selected for the Sundance Screenplay Lab, Film Independent's Fast Track, and IFP's Project Forum.