Big Bear Lake International Film Festival 2008

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Films List
Notice! Here you'll find a list of all of the films at the festival. Use the drop-down controls below to help filter your selections and find what you're looking for. Roll-over any film image for more detail on the film. Close

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Drama/Short Films
A young soldier in a veterans hospital where he's being fitted for an artificial leg.
Documentary
Why are young girls obsessed with their looks and being skinny? Who sets the standards for beauty? Can it be changed? The documentary explores the influence and pressure media has on young girls and women. Shocking interviews with editors from ELLE & Teen Vogue magazines, along with heart touching commentary from children. Parents, teachers and body image experts lend their voices to this eye-opening film.
Drama/Feature Films
Miranda, a former hooker is hiding out on a horse ranch in Malibu Canyon, attempting to establish her life as an artist/painter when Peppy, her former pimp, discovers her whereabouts and tries to get her "to play" the rich ranch owner who keeps piles of money in a wall safe. Miranda refuses to help him. Instead, she enlists Boyd, a ranch hand, to ward off the pimp's persistent demands to return to an old way of life she's no longer interested in. Tragedy ensues. Can one every escape evil intact? Click here to view the trailer.
Drama/Short Films
USC. What was a simple job escalates into a violent misunderstanding in this heart-stopping drama involving an American family and the three immigrant laborers hired to help them move. Shot without rehearsals and entirely improvised, the film gives us a raw look at the realities of the struggle to just do a day's work.
Documentary
'In 1966, Ruth Anson was a teenage reporter for KABC. One of her first interviews was with the Beatles, where she asked a young Paul McCartney if he had any plans for marriage. His response, "Only if you'll marry me." Forty years later, Ruth wonders, "What if I had said, yes?" This story follows Ruth on her journey to reconnect with Paul McCartney.
Family/Feature Films
A notorious diamond thief and two dim-witted accomplices stop along the highway where 12 year-old Owen sees them mistreating their dog.  The boy intervenes to give the thirsty dog a drink, but it escapes into the woods.  He helps the angry thugs search for the animal deep into the forest, then ditches them.  Owen finds the dog and they hide out in his secret fort, ingeniously fortified with booby traps and defense mechanisms to repel intruders.  Bravely, his fort is built atop the ridge where the feared "Madman of the Mountain" is said to live. Desperate to retrieve their $5 million in stolen jewels stashed on the dog, the thugs catch up with Owen, and a terrific battle ensues.  Can one kid with a tricked-out fort protect an animal from three determined thieves?  And is the legendary Madman of the Mountain real?  Kids of all ages will delight in the fast-paced action and comedy this heart-warming tale delivers.
Documentary
From the ashes of 4 decades of war, AIDS and corruption in Uganda, Africa, The Bataka Squad artists, Babaluku and Saba Saba, rise to forge a revolutionary path using music. They are on a mission to empower the forgotten youth of Africa from within, while spreading their message of hope around the globe. Narrated by Spearhead singer Michael Franti, follow the Bataka movement to amplify the spirit of the next generation in this musical journey..
Drama/Short Films
Vincent leaves is cloistered life in a small town behind for the freedom of Paris and the promise of a new beginning, but on his first day in the streets of his new home he learns that a change of scenery and costume isn't all it will take to change his life.
Special Tribute Film
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. - from IMDb
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