7:30pm     Opening Night Feature - When a Man Falls in the Forest - Director: Ryan Eslinger - BUY TICKETS

Feature preceded by opening remarks and Festival welcome.

Presentation of inaugural Sacramento Film and Music Festival Film Arts Service Award to Shawn Sullivan.

10:00pm     Feature - commit. - Director: Mickey Blaine - BUY TICKETS

Thursday, August 9

Sony Creative Software Presents:

2:30pm     Student Days - Shorts Program: From Cradle to the Grave (Almost) - BUY TICKETS

• The Walls/Drowning Pool (Music Video) - Director: Noah Lagin - NYU
• Other People's Children - Director: Beth Miranda Botshon - Hunter College
• Happy Valentine's Day - Director: Mark Ratzlaff - University of British Columbia
• The Smell of Congee - Director: Curtis Long - Temple
• One Eyed Marky and the Gay Caballeros - Director: America Palacios - University of Colorado
• Scaling Up - Director: Brian Blasiak - Rochester Institute of Technology
• The Lonely Lights: The Color of Lemons - Director: Benjamin M Piety - University of Central Florida
• Holding Hands - Director: Brett Meyer - California State University, Fullerton
• American Deluxe - Director: Aaron Brownlee - University of Central Florida
• I'm No Stud - Director: Randall Ehrmann - Brooklyn College
• Aisle 73 - Director: Olivia Silver - UCLA

If you would like to sign up for a pitch session with Larry Meistrich click here

9:00pm     Feature - Holding Trevor - Director: Rosser Goodman - BUY TICKETS
     Presented in association with the Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

• Special Short Presentation - 20 Straws: Growing Up Gay

Friday, August 10

Sony Creative Software Presents:

2:30pm     Student Days - Shorts Program: Fact, Fantasy, and Science Fiction - BUY TICKETS

• Sustainable Table: What's On Your Plate - Director: Mischa Hedges - Chapman
• Speaking Notes: Three Movements with Tabea Zimmermann - Director: Ruth Schocken Katz - London Film School
• Glimpse - Director: Dustin Grella - University of Akron
• Rose Colored Glasses - Director: Andrew Fortenbacher - Grand Valley State
• The Sunday Man - Director: Danielle Shamash - AFI
• Itsy Bitsy - Director: David May - Chapman
• Ellipsis - Director: Robert Vornkahl - Hofstra
• Anisometropia - Director: Dima Otvertchenko - Vassar

7:00pm     Feature - Good Time Max - Director: James Franco - BUY TICKETS

• Music Video - Gone: Bill Madden - Director: Andrew Watson

9:00pm     Feature - August the First - Director: Lanre Olabisi - BUY TICKETS

• Portable Living Room - Director: Ransom Riggs

11:00pm     Feature - The Metrosexual - Director: Adam Kaufman - BUY TICKETS

• Short Film - Crazy Love - Director: William Van Cuyck

Saturday, August 11

11:00am     Shorts Program - California Creativity - BUY TICKETS

• Show Us Your Shorts - Sacramento Bee Film Contest Finalists
• Life - Director: Chris King
• The Grass Grows Green - Director: Jesus Beltran
• Worry Wart - Director: Rory Campbell
• Ambassadors Day - Director: David Kellum

1:00pm     Feature - An American Opera - Director: Tom McPhee - BUY TICKETS

• Music Video - Umbrellas are Useless - Director: Thomas Pullar

3:00pm     Shorts Program - World Shorts - BUY TICKETS

• Saturday Night Newtown Sunday Morning Enmore - Director: Christopher Johnson
• Agnieszka: A Dark Symphony of 2039 - Director: Martin Gauvreau
• Droomtijd - Director: Tom Van Avermaet
• Will of the Wisp - Director: Jody Thompson
• A.W.O.L. - Director: Jack Swanstrom
• Sand Dancer - Director: Valerie Reid

5:00pm      Feature - Road To Victory - Director: Mike Reilly - BUY TICKETS

7:00pm     SAC MUSIC SEEN - BUY TICKETS

• The Refinery - Director: Steve Stubbs
• FreeX - Director: Jay Truesdale
• Stunt Double - Director: Todd Peeters
• D.Jesus feat. Paris Martinez - Directors: Erin Kruger & Lucas Abel
• Ricky Berger - Director: Mike Alfidi
• Hell Toupee - Director: Ken Aksentiev & Juan Espinoza
• Pets - Directors: Steve Orcino and Amir Sharafeh
• Kimberly Trip - Director: Robert Yoshino
• Will Haven - Director: Scott Cramer
• OlsonOlson - Director: Jay Truesdale
• Self Against City - Director: Marco Delatorre

Intermission

• Inter Course - Directors: Juan Espinoza & Ken Aksentiev
• Sex On Sunday - Director: Heidi Boucher
• Counter Step - Director: Jourdan McClure
• The Common Men - Director: Drew Hall
• Project Soma - Director: Kyle Murphy
• The Peabody Incident - Director: Ruthann Vargas
• San Kazakgascar - Director: Sarah Wissenback
• Nideit - Director: Lance Ogren
• With Passion - Director: Scott Cramer
• Blame Betty - Director: Sarah Wissenback
• Young Aundee - Director: Ryan Todd

• Live Acoustic Performance by: Hardy Harr

• Live Acoustic Performance by: Larisa Bryski

• Live Acoustic Performance by: Xenophilia

10:00pm     Feature - See Jane Run - Director: Ryan Webb - BUY TICKETS
     Presented in association with the Sacramento Horror Film Festival

12:00am     Midnight Shorts Madness (For Mature Audiences) - BUY TICKETS

• Moon Cake - Director: Marty Stano
• Lily - Director: Daniel Boneville
• By Appointment Only - Director: John Faust
• Zombie Love - Director: Yfke van Berckelaer

Sunday, August 12

11:00am     Documentary - Short Format - BUY TICKETS

• Pilgrimage - Director: Tadashi Nakamura
• Desarrollo Humano - Director: David Munoz
• Generation Tehran - Director: Sara Bavar
• Granny D Goes to Washington - Director: Alidra Solday

1:00pm     A Conversation With Joe Carnahan - Director (Narc, Smokin' Aces) - BUY TICKETS

3:00pm     Feature - Ben's Plan - Director: Jenna Ricker - BUY TICKETS

• Music Video - Salty Eyes: The Matches - Director: Michael Coleman

5:00pm     Conversation - Redwood Palms - Film Investing and Distribution (When a Man Falls in the Forest) - BUY TICKETS

7:00pm     Shorts Program: 10 X 10 Filmmaker Challenge - BUY TICKETS

• Live Acoustic Performance by: Ditching Mindy

Past Festivals: Schedule 2001 / Schedule 2002 / Schedule 2003 / Schedule 2004 / Schedule 2005 / Schedule 2006

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