Mindy Bledsoe’s THE IN-BETWEEN Opens Oxford Film Festival’s 10th Weekly Virtual Fest ; OFF to the DRIVE IN delivers the scares with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Mindy Bledsoe’s THE IN-BETWEEN Opens the Oxford Film Festival’s 10th Weekly Virtual Film Fest, Virtual Art House and OFF to the DRIVE IN films are highlighted by award winners and music.

The virtual presentation of Mindy Bledsoe’s winner of multiple awards on the film festival circuit, THE IN-BETWEEN is a road movie with depth of two women with medical issues battling and leaning on each other as they make a cross-country trip, and Braden King’s THE EVENING HOUR is a taut down-home drama (with Oxford’s Susan McPhail in the cast) that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Mindy Bledsoe's THE IN-BETWEEN

THE IN-BETWEEN

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Oxford Film Festival

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Last year’s big prize winners and top finisher’s from the Memphis Film Prize and Louisiana Film Prize will be featured, giving Oxford audiences a chance to see what inspired thousands of people to vote and help those films win the big bucks.

Leslie Woodhead’s documentary on one of the all time great singers, ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS, and Asaf Galay’s ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND chronicling the upheaval that took place when the band’s lead singer moved from Sweden to Israel put music front and center once again.

Last but not least, one of the all-time drive in classics will be at OFF to the DRIVE IN on July 2 as George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD will deliver the scares and social commentary courtesy of the zombie hoards.

ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND, Oxford Film Festival

ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND

ELLA FITZGERALD, Oxford Film Festival

ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

Executive Director Melanie Addington said. “ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND and ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS are inspiring documentaries that are a vivid reminder of why art can change the world. Between that and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, which is one of the all-time drive-in classics, to the weekly virtual festival continuing with award winning films such as THE IN-BETWEEN, last year’s winners and top finishers from the Memphis and Louisiana Film Prize competitions, and THE EVENING HOUR, which played at Sundance, this is an action-packed week.”

 

WEEKLY VIRTUAL FILM FEST TICKETS:

THE IN-BETWEEN

https://watch.eventive.org/2020oxff/play/5e9c93d8139d81002ad82740/5e9f072233bbae0031d3e6ef

Live Q&A set for June 27 at 4:00PM

 

Film Prize Top 5 Shorts Block

https://watch.eventive.org/2020oxff/play/5e9c96f5fb3a4500293f6e0d

Live Q&A set for June 27 at 5:00PM

 

THE EVENING HOUR

https://watch.eventive.org/2020oxff/play/5eb483d4b6d6c8083e2b1f33

Live Q&A set for June 28 at 7:00PM

 

VIRTUAL ART HOUSE RENTAL TICKETS: 

ALL I CAN SAY

https://oxfordac.eventive.org/schedule/5eda5c919f89590030a99b9e

 

ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND

https://watch.eventive.org/oxfordac/play/5eed598f443989004c303147

 

ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

https://oxfordac.eventive.org/schedule/5ed329c0f7f9e2009140d10e

 

THE LAST TREE

https://oxfordac.eventive.org/schedule/5edac78508ec2e003033aaa0

 

Oxford Film Festival Presents FILM FESTIVAL DAY Rainbow Retrospective: A Decade of Queer Comedy Shorts

https://oxfordac.eventive.org/schedule/5ef4cec1b2ea220036e0baa8

 

OFF to the DRIVE-IN TICKETS

GREASE

https://oxfordac.eventive.org/schedule/5eda1607e560c600458e2096

June 27 at 8:00PM at Cannon Lot (100 Thacker loop)

Pre-purchases only

 

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

https://oxfordac.eventive.org/schedule/5eda170be24881002980569e

July 2 at 8:00PM at Cannon Lot (100 Thacker loop)

Pre-purchases only

ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY

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GHOSTED

MAVEN VOYAGE

MAVEN VOYAGE

 

OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL 2020 10th WEEKLY VIRTUAL FILM FEST

Films, events and descriptions

 

OXFORD WEEKLY VIRTUAL FEST

THE EVENING HOUR

Director: Braden King

Country: USA, Running Time: 115 min

Cole, a popular, young health aide at a nursing home living in rural Appalachia, makes ends meet by redistributing excess medication from townies to local buyers. Among a community low on opportunities but seemingly awash in pill bottles, he envisions himself as a caretaker, genuinely fond of his suppliers and keeping addicted customers out of the path of the town’s menacing kingpin. The fragile balance of his double life is suddenly threatened when childhood friend Terry Rose returns after years away with plans to capitalize on what he perceives as Cole’s place in the local drug trade.

 

THE IN-BETWEEN      

Director: Mindy Bledsoe

Country: USA, Running Time: 77 minutes

Two women set out on a road trip with different missions. Mads (Jennifer Stone, Wizards of Waverly Place) needs to renew her driver’s license in South Dakota, while Junior needs to visit Portland, Oregon on a quest for her dead sister. Both women have medical issues that cause friction along the way, but they never let those problems define their identities. Of course, Mads is also keeping a secret from Junior, that could explode at any moment and ruin their journey…

 

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

 Film Prize Top 5

TRT: 74:15 min

 

A NIGHT OUT                                                  2019 Memphis Film Prize Winner

Directors: Abby Meyers, Kevin Brooks

Country: USA, Running Time: 13 min

A woman goes for a night out after a messy breakup.

 

ANNIVERSARY                                                2019 Louisiana Film Prize Winner

Director: James Harlin Palmer

Country: USA, Running Time: 14 min

ANNIVERSARY is the story of a couple celebrating one year as doting sweethearts. Everything is going swimmingly until Jimmy realizes Ellie believes this milestone leads to the altar – a sacrifice he’s not ready to make.

 

BLACK PAJAMAS

Director: Hattie Haggard Gobble

Country: USA, Running Time: 12 min

A Vietnam veteran encounters one of his triggers when walking up to a large river. As he approaches a woman in red, he is suddenly taken to a new mindset due to his struggle with PTSD. He begins a romantic duet with the woman in red, but tragically can not see her face.

 

GHOSTED

Director: Blayne Weaver

Country: USA, Running Time: 14 min

A lonely man uses his special gift to pursue his dark infatuation with a coworker.

 

LEO & GRACE

Director: Gabriel Savodivker

Country: USA, Running Time: 15 min

Torn apart by a racial divide, two lovers find each other 30 years later and must do the impossible to stay together, even if it means risking their freedom forever.

 

MAVEN VOYAGE

Director: Rachel Emerson

Country: USA, Running Time: 15 min

Maeve is working toward someone’s life-long goal to be on the first manned mission to Mars, in a slightly unconventional way.

 

OFF to the DRIVE IN

GREASE (1978)

Director: Randel Kleiser

Country: USA, Running Time: 110 min

Good girl Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

 

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)

Director: George A. Romero

Country: USA, Running Time: 96 min

A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States.

 

VIRTUAL ART HOUSE

ALL I CAN SAY                                                                       

Directors: Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould

Coleen Hennessy, Shannon Hoon

Country: USA, Running Time: 102 min

Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself from 1990-95 with a Hi8 video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon meticulously documented his life – his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame and his struggle with addiction.

 

ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND

Director: Asaf Galay

Country: Israel, Running Time: 65 min

Thirty years after launching into international stardom, queer disco-pop band Army of Lovers embarks on a new chapter when lead singer Jean-Pierre Barda embraces his roots by moving from Sweden to Israel.

 

ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

Director: Leslie Woodhead

Country: USA, Running Time: 89 min

Film looks at the life ad career of the legendary and unique songstress, Ella Fitzgerald

 

THE LAST TREE

Director: Shola Amoo

Country: UK, Running Time: 98 min

After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.

 

Oxford Film Festival Presents FILM FESTIVAL DAY Rainbow Retrospective: A Decade of Queer Comedy Shorts

Directors: Various

Running Time: 77 min

On June 28th, film festival audiences from across North America will join together for a virtual screening celebrating Pride Month and the queer film community. This retrospective of humorous hits represents a fascinating time capsule of LGBTQ+ humor and evolving perspectives over the last decade. (Some language & profanity.) Films  include:

 

FOXY TROT (2018)

Director: Lisa Donato

Country: USA, Running Time: 15 min

A lesbian couple is unexpectedly faced with their relationship issues when they take ballroom dancing lessons in a heteronormative class.

 

GAYBY (2010)

Director: Jonathan Lisecki

Country: USA, Running Time: 11 min

Jenn (straight) and Matt (gay) are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, they decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together…the old fashioned way.

 

GAYSHARKTANK.COM (2010)

Director: Guy Shalem

Country: USA, Running Time: 15 min

In early 2010, Chatroulette.com, a website that allows people to meet other online strangers via web cam, became an internet sensation. GAYSHARKTANK.COM is a film about the first gay site told through the interactions of 25 strangers looking for love, lust, and other things you might look for on a random gay video chat.

 

I KNOW HER (2019)

Director: Fawzia Mirza

Country: USA, Running Time: 3 min

In the afterglow of a seemingly fated hookup, two women realize that perhaps they have a little too much in common.

 

ONE YEAR LEASE (2014)

Director: Brian Bolster

Told almost entirely through voice mail messages, ONE YEAR LEASE documents the travails of Brian, Thomas, and Casper as they endure a year-long sentence with Rita, the cat-loving landlady.

 

SOMETHING REAL (2012)

Director: Guy Shalem

Country USA, Running Time: 9 min

A celebrity-packed short with a musical twist about the bar scene in New York.
SPUNKLE (2016)

Director: Lisa Donato

Country: USA, Running Time: 13 min

A man contemplates fatherhood when his older sister and her free-spirited wife ask him to be the sperm donor and uncle of their baby.

Mindy Bledsoe’s THE IN-BETWEEN Opens the Oxford Film Festival’s 10th Weekly Virtual Film Fest, Virtual Art House and OFF to the DRIVE IN films are highlighted by award winners and music.