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| Intensity TV: Episode #114 |
Intense Drama: Family Matters
(June 30 at 9 p.m.)
On The Way Home
A young boy's innocence is taken from him, and his parental perceptions shattered, when his family has a chance encounter with a terrified little girl following a day at the amusement park. Director Ben Spector captures the fear and uncertainty that come with the knowledge that parents are not omnipotent, all protecting and all-powerful. Spector also wrote, produced and edited the film.
Crossing Over
On a dark and stormy night, a rookie border patrol officer apprehends a mysterious woman and her small boy after nearly running them down in the mud. He wakes to find them gone, but eventually locates a grisly clue as to their whereabouts. Director Wayne Kramer, himself an immigrant from South Africa, paints an intimate portrait of the search for a new life in America and the dangers that lie along the way. The film was shot in four days with a budget of just $25,000.
Absence
An old man bicycling through the forest abandons his ride when a little girl mysteriously appears before him. Writer/ director David Rosenthal says the inspiration for the film came from a friend who fathered a child that he never knew only to learn of the child's death years later. Much of the enchanted, surreal appearance of the film was achieved by waiting until the "magic hour" each day of the shoot. This film played at Slamdance.
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