ACEFEST 2009

A comedic and informative short advising girls, from the viewpoint of guys, of how to effectively get rid of a stalker.

From Grassroots Films of Brooklyn, New York comes THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE – Winner of the 2008 Maui Film Festival for 'Best Documentary' -- the true story of a band of brothers who travel the world in search of the answers to the burning questions: Who am I? Who is Man? Why do we search for meaning? Their journey brings them into the middle of the lives of the homeless on the streets of New York City, the orphans and disabled children of Peru, and the abandoned lepers in the forests of Ghana, Africa. What the young men discover changes them forever. Through one on one interviews and real life encounters, the brothers are awakened to the beauty of the human person and the resilience of the human spirit.

Filmed over ten years, this controversial documentary follows five roommates trying to make it in Hollywood who face the unexpected consequences of fame. When Tony Zierra, an aspiring filmmaker with no money, stars or crew, resorts to filming the lives of his four struggling actor roommates, he never imagines the incredible twists of fate he would end up capturing on camera. Things take an amazing turn when three of the actors, Brad Rowe (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Shelter), Chad Lindberg (October Sky, The Fast And The Furious) and Wes Bentley (American Beauty, Ghost Rider) defy astronomical odds and quickly hit it big. Meanwhile, the fourth actor, Greg Fawcett, is nearly driven insane watching the others get famous. It doesn't take long for the unsettling reality of stardom to set in. Lindberg's hope of becoming a leading man is crushed when he’s repeatedly told he doesn’t have the right look; Rowe ends up typecast as a pretty boy and can't break past his uncanny resemblance to Brad Pitt; while Bentley, who has the most explosive career launch in decades, uneasily retreats from his sudden, overwhelming fame. As the actors deal with life in the public eye, Zierra struggles with constant obstacles while he tries to complete his film - including being scrutinized and blocked by the actors' nervous agents. From a unique vantage point, My Big Break explores what it's really like to become famous and how people are changed forever, but not necessarily for better, when their dreams come true.

Comedic crime-drama stars John Saxon (Enter The Dragon, Electric Horseman, A Nightmare On Elm Street), Basil Hoffman (All The President’s Men, Ordinary People, My Favorite Year), and Larry Gelman (Mr. Saturday Night, The Frisco Kid, The Odd Couple) as three guys in their seventies who reclaim their vitality when mistakenly picking up a bag full of cocaine puts them between the cops and the mob. Film also stars Phil LaMarr (Pulp Fiction, Mad TV, Family Guy) as a low-level mob boss who tries to take the merchandise from them. Film deals with the misconceptions of ageism in both directions. The four recognizable leads have hundreds of film/television appearances between them working with the likes of Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, Quentin Tarantino, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, and many others. Film has sort of a “Cocoon meets Pulp Fiction” flavor…

In an unnamed conflict in an unnamed country, two women, DREENA, ('Munich's' Lynn Cohen), and Anna, (Agata Domanska) struggle to maintain some form of normality in their lives, all the while trapped from fleeing their homes due to an unseen sniper, who keeps the two women forever on guard.

A showcase of six of the freshest American short films.

America has questions about today’s youth, what we care about, and where we’re headed. We had those questions too. So, after graduating college, four of us loaded an RV and embarked on a journey looking for answers. We traveled to all of the lower 48 states, talking to our peers about growing up, 9/11, race, the Internet, careers, sex, love, and the American Dream. Along the way, we met a wide cross-section of young Americans, ranging from a cancer researcher in Boston to a drug dealer in New Mexico, from an Iraq veteran in Florida to the founder of Facebook in Silicon Valley. OUR TIME is a passionate portrayal of a generation, a meditation on coming of age in 21st-century America, and a rallying cry against apathy.

Two stupid aliens try to fix their UFO after crashing from the Moon to the Earth but they don't know how to fix it. While one tends to follow by the manual to fix it, the other wants to do by instinct. Finally they fixed the UFO but they encounter an unexpected situation.