PRESS RELEASE: October 15, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LIGHT PLAYS TRICKS 4 SCHEDULE
Almost 50 international, Canadian, and Kingston films and videos set to screen.

KINGSTON, ON. The 4th edition of Kingston's LIGHT PLAYS TRICKS, a short film, video and new media festival, is happy to announce its schedule (at the end of this document). LPT4 runs from FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 to SUNDAY OCTOBER 21, 2001 at THE SCREENING ROOM in Downtown Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Thank you to our sponsors: Curry Original Restaurant, Linden Audio Video, Cogeco 13 Kingston, Baldwin Presentation Systems, Delightfully Different Tea House, and The Screening Room.

The schedule contains three programmes, Wackiness (comedies), Music, Mathematics, and Dark Visions (dramatic works, musicals, video art, and science-fiction), and Kingston Filmmaker Series (produced by local artists or artists with connections to Kingston). One programme is screened per day.

Some highlights of the programmes are

"Radiation Can Give You Brain Tumors" - LPT3 Featured Director Matthew Silver (Bergenfield, New Jersey, USA) returns to bring us a comedy about a simple man with a simple job who discovers his household appliance emit carcinogenic electromagnetic waves. (Director to attend festival)
"A Song for Honest Abe" - a hilarious mockumentary about a group of musician who put famous Abraham Lincoln speeches to music will be presented as a world premiere. (Director Charles Miller from Los Angeles, California, USA to attend festival)
"Death Jerk Off 2000" and "Dance Habibi Dance" - two hypnotic films by featured director Usama Alshaibi (Chicago, Illinois, USA), whose works combine music video, erotica, and video art.
"B-Men 3" - an impressive (and funny!) stop-motion video made by local 12-year old Dan Johnson (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) about an elite group of Beanie Baby superheroes.
"Conscienceness" - Local filmmaker Jason Gilmore (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) presents a mature dramatic film about a crime and the letter to the police chief that reveals as much as it hides.
"Sahara" and "Women Are Not Little Men" - Lisa Hayes (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) returns to LPT as a featured director with two films.
"T.H.E.Y." - Stephen Koncelik and Joe Ferroni's (Los Angeles, California, USA) new video; an investigation of the origin of homosexuality. Is it nature, nurture, or... something else?
A series of Special Screenings to be announced at the festival, including Academy Award winners, films inspired by LPT3, and video art.

Each programme is $5 and proceeds will go to The Child Development Center at Hotel Dieu Hospital. At Light Plays Tricks 3, 100% of ticket revenues were donated to the Child Development Center. Tickets will be available starting October 15 at The Screening Room.

Please note that the screening order in any given programme may change, and there may still be schedule additions.

Friday October 19, 2001

10:00 pm - 11:45 pm
Opening reception	Delightfully Different Tea House
Midnight	Programme 1 Wackiness
Radiation Can Give You Brain Tumors	Matthew Silver (USA, 15:00)
Kung-Fu Kitchen	Jeff Warmouth (USA, 04:55)
The Milkman	Ken Takahashi (Canada, 08:00)
The Glass	Asim A. Matin (USA, 00:45)
T.H.E.Y.	Stephen Koncelik (USA, 20:00)
Women Are Not Little Men	Featured Director: Lisa Hayes (15:00, Canada)
Sahara	Featured Director: Lisa Hayes (Canada)
Handicapped Hunters	Willy Laszlo (USA, 05:00)
Bathroom Boardroom	Chris Mich (USA, 07:30)
Cat Lady	Liesel de Boor (USA, 10:00)
'e'	Tae Hoon Lee (Canada, 05:20)
Hank and Mike	Matthiew Klinck (Canada, 15:00)
The Bottle	Sam Niemann, Ed Anderson (USA, 06:00)
SPECIAL SCREENING	TBA at festival

Saturday October 20, 2001

10:30pm-11:45pm
Reception	Catered by Sleepless Goat. Location to be announced
Midnight	Programme 2 Music, Mathematics, and Dark Visions
A Song for Honest Abe	Charles Miller (USA, 16:40)
MFL	Chris Mich, Paul A. Oehlers (USA, 08:38)
Come Clean - Ass Machine	James Reid (Canada, 03:16)
Death and Transfiguration	Gary Lee Nelson, Christine Gorbach (USA, 10:30)
Dance Habibi Dance	Featured Director: Usama Alshaibi (USA, 4:12)
Death Jerk Off 2000	Featured Director: Usama Alshaibi (USA, 2:34)
Mantis	Grzegorz Jonkajtys (Poland, 05:30)
Tous les Deux	Marc Beurteaux (Canada, 03:09)
Self: [Portrait/Fulfillment] A Film By the Blob Thing	Brian Stockton (Canada, 04:00)
Sploonka	Oscar Trolyn (USA, 24:00)
NEX	Brandon Youells (Canada, 4:14)
Four	Joseph Baron (Canada, 07:30)
The Cobbler	Jan Rudy (Canada, 06:35)
Mortality	Gary Irwin (USA, 13:42)
SPECIAL SCREENING	TBA at festival

Sunday October 21, 2001

1:00 pm	Programme 3 Kingston Filmmaker Series
Machine Machine Machine Machine	Sara Maclean (Canada, 5:00)
Mayflower	James Reid (Canada, 09:30)
Death Thesis	Steve Bueller (Canada, 10:00)
Ready for the Day	Deborah Washington (Canada, 05:00)
The Truth About Blue	Pierre Lefebvre (Canada, 10:00)
A Good Hunt	Thomas Breen (Canada, 01:21)
The Treatment	Maayke Schurer, Aaron Rossner (Canada, 13:00)
Invisible Jack	Shelley Johnstone (Canada, 04:12)
The End	Ivy Y. I. Oldford (Canada, 05:29)
Incubus	Tak Koyama (New Zealand, 06:30)
B-Men 3	Dan Johnson (Canada, 15:00)
Conscienceness	Jason Gilmore (Canada, 09:00)
Andrea's Minicam	Lisa Virtue (Australia, 07:00)
Marshlands	Penny McCann (Canada,06:07)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Doggy Nightmares	Duplo Collective (Canada)
Best of LPT3
Awards Presentations	Cogeco Kingston Filmmaker Award Magic Bunny (Audience Favourite Award) Curry Original Filmmaker Award

For further information, please contact:
Ad Wasey
(613) 453-0454
kingstonfilmsoc@hotmail.com
http://www.moviesinkingston.com/lpt

The Kingston Film Society has recently been revived and under the direction of Ad Wasey currently functions to serve and organize events for local cinephiles and filmmakers. Contact: Ad Wasey, t:(613)453-0454, f:(613)545-0350, kingstonfilmsoc@hotmail.com, http://www.moviesinkingston.com/kfs/

The Screening Room is Kingston's alternative cinema which shows art, foreign, and repertory films. 120 Princess Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5M6, t:(613)542-6080, http://www.moviesinkingston.com/sr/