CineSol Film Festival is a showcase festival, celebrating achievement in the art of filmmaking. CineSol is dedicated to furthering the art, craft and business of screenwriters and filmmakers and recognizing their artistic contributions. 

Schedule:

Saturday, December 7, 2024

12:15 – 1:45pm.  Shorts Block #1 – Documentaries.  I Care About Your Mailbox.  Boca Chica.  Broken Wings.  Surcos.  Sangre Violenta/Sangre Violeta, Across.  Room 133 Cameron.  Click here for tickets.

12:30pm – 2:06pm.  Resynator directed by Alison Tavel.  This documentary begins when Alison rescues Don’s synthesizer prototype from her grandmother’s attic.  What starts off as a curious resurrection project of her dad’s Resynator soon launches into a globe-trotting quest to untangle to unlock the deep secrets surrounding his life and invention.  https://www.resynator.com/.  https://www.facebook.com/resynator.   Room 135 Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

1:00pm – 2:23pm.  Border Crossed Us directed by Loretta van der Horst.   RGV.  In La Joya, Texas, a small town on the Mexican border, police search on a daily basis for traces of human traffickers who help migrants and refugees cross the border to the United States.  These hunts frequently result in perilous pursuits.  But no matter how convinced they are of the importance of their mission to catch smugglers, doubts gradually seem to arise among them too.  Theater.  Click here for tickets

1:00pm – 3:00pm.  Bradley Freeman Jr & Puppeteering.  In his presentation, Bradley takes you on a journey from growing up as a Muppet fan in Brownsville, to becoming one of Sesame Street’s principal performers.  Not only will there be a live demonstration of the art of television puppetry, there will be an interactive portion, where you may get to perform a character.  In addition, there will be a Q&A and signing after the presentation.  Room 142 Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

2:15pm – 3:41pm.  Shorts Block #2.  Lack, Dias de Luz y Penumbra, I Love You Too Many Times, The American Alien, The Nest, Anonymous, The Premiere, World’s Shortest War.  Room 133 Cameron. Click here for tickets.

2:30pm – 3:55pm.  The Strike directed by JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Gullkey.  The story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history.  Room 135.  Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

3:00pm – 4:22pm.  The Forest Hills directed by Scott Goldberg.  Rico descends in the Catskill Mountains after being haunted by nightmares.  Starring Chiko Mendez, Edward Furlong, Dee Wallace, and Shelley Duvall.  Theater.  Click here for tickets.

4:00pm – 5:27pm.  Shorts Block #3 – Horror.  Transylvanie, Invader, Devourer, Rejected, Incubacion, Dream Creep.  Room 133.  Cameron.  Click here for tickets.

4:30pm – 5:57pm.  Unlikely Allies directed by Anthony Pedone.  In 2003, a low-level cannabis case would end Weldon Angelos’ budding and promising career in the music industry.  But it would also give birth to a national movement to reform our country’s criminal justice system.  Room 135.  Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

6:30pm – Doors Open.

7:00pm – 8:44pm.  Bloody & Bruised:  The Untold Story of the Back Room directed by J. Budro Partida.  RGV.  The untold story of the most infamous heavy metal club to live and die in Austin, Texas, as told by the people who survived it.  Theater.  Click here for Saturday night tickets.

Sunday, December 8, 2024

12:15pm – 1:43pm.  Shorts Block #4.  A Monstrous Cure, Serial Killers Anonymous (The Repentant), Titty Boy, Forsaken Heart, What Are You Doing With Your Life?, The Folly of Paris, Search and Destroy, Dad Died Crying.  Room 133. Cameron.  Click here for tickets.

12:30pm – 1:52pm.  The In Between directed by Robie Flores.  Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass wanting to turn back time.  What emerges is a playful dance between a personal and collective coming-of-age portrait of kids on the border and Robie herself as she rediscovers the possibilities of joy in the aftermath of grief.  Room 135.  Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

1:00pm – 2:44pm.  Bloody & Bruised:  The Untold Story of the Back Room directed by J. Budro Partida.  RGV.  The untold story of the most infamous heavy metal club to live and die in Austin, Texas, as told by the people who survived it.  Theater.  Click here for Sunday tickets.

1:00pm – 3:00pm.  Understanding the Hollywood Script Formula workshop by JoJo Henrickson.  A look at the history, impact, and importance of the Hollywood script formula.  Room 142 Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

2:00pm – 3:28pm.  Shorts Block #5.  Kapitan, 3am The Graveyard Shift, The Turk, Candy and Fireworks, Men of Silence, Knot, I Was Here.  Room 133.  Cameron.  Click here for tickets.

2:30pm – 4:06pm.  Plastic People directed by Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong.  Documentary.  90 minutes.  Canada.  Almost every bit of plastic ends up ground down into “microplastics”.  These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in the water and sit in the soil.  And now, leading scientists are finding them in our bodies, our organs, our blood, and even the placentas of new mothers.  What is the impact of these invisible invaders on our health?  https://plasticpeopledoc.com.  https://www.facebook.com/plasticpeopledoc/.  Room 135.  Hidalgo.  Click here for tickets.

3:30pm – 4:05pm.  The Song of the Mad God directed by Roman Madrigal.  Short.  35 minutes.  RGV. Haunted by the memory of his wife’s murder, a fallen lord turns to forbidden magic for answers which will either redeem him or damn him forever.    Theater.   Click here for tickets.

Doors open.  4:30pm.

5:00pm – 8:00pm.  18th Annual 36 Hour Film Race Screening and Awards Ceremony.  Theater.  Click here for Awards Ceremony tickets.

Date:December 7-8,2024

Location:The eBridge Center for Business & Commercialization, 1304 E Adams St Brownsville, TX 78520

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