The SCHEDULE – Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014:

The Schedule – Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014:

DAY / SHOW	MOVIE TITLE	CATEGORY	MOVIE MAKER	MADE IN	SYNOPSIS
NOV. 7 , FRI
7 PM – 9.30 PM	Reception (Invite Only)
NOV. 8 , SAT	Venue: PlugAndPlay Event Center, Sunnyvale
SHOW-1	Theater 1
9.30 AM – 11 AM	5th Anniversary  Silicon Valley Film Festival  2014 Inauguration By Jose Esteves Mayor,  Milpitas,Ca,
	World School	docuF	Katzke	Anchorage	A mother takes her ten year old son around the world for 5th grade after a family tragedy.
	ON/OFF	Short	Thierry LORENZI	Bastia	ON/OFF is a sci-fi short film whose theme is transhumanism and post-humanity.
	Callow & Sons	Short	Burnett Rae	London	Haunted by the past, a lonely old bookshop owner decides to end his life. But with his final hour, comes an unexpected visitor.
	NENA		ECAM	Spain
SHOW-2	Theater 1
11 AM – 12.30 PM
	Kung Fu Elliot	docuF	Piperni	New York	The film tells the bizarre story of Elliot “White Lightning” Scott, who plans on becoming Canada’s first kung fu action hero with his low-budget karate epic, Blood Fight.
SHOW-3	Theater 1
12.30 PM – 2 PM
	The Desert Fish	Feature	Ghorbankarimi	Etobicoke	Ahmad is a young boy who wants to unravel the mystery of his dead mother who still comes to him in dreams. He undertakes an incredible journey to find out where he came from and the secrets his father never told him.
	Theater 2
	Bests of  “Silicon Valley Moviemakers”
	The Invisible Peak	docuS	Yost	Mill Valley	Exploring the indigenous view of mountain summits in the context of the removal of the West Peak of Mt. Tamalpais by the Army in 1950.
	Death and Her Neighbours	Short	Graham	San Jose	A young man deal with the death of his mother.
	Om Suryayanamaha (Salutations to the Sun)	Short	Kanhere	Palo Alto	Om Suryayanamaha (Salutations to the Sun), based on a poem, is a short film about a young devout village maiden who experiences a spiritual awakening.
	Life Gets Better	Short	Yacoe	Los Altos	A whimsical dark comedy about a man who loses everything.
	Practical Uses for a Time Machine	Short	Motoyoshi	Fremont	When a supernatural salesman offers naïve Wendy the use of his time machine, she goes back in time to become the perfect wife. Instead she finds she has a cheating husband, and now the means to ensure his unfaithful self is never born.
	Unplugged	animS	Jentzch	San Francisco	Taking viewers through the story of a boy breaking free from a meaningless and dreary life, Unplugged demonstrates the kind of quality that anyone can now achieve with Face Plus, a webcam, and a creative concept.
	The Mural	docuS	Guijarro	San Francisco	The Mural is a 20-minute documentary film following the stories of several artists with developmental disabilities from non-profit thearcsf.org as they work together with a group of civic artists from freespace.io to paint a wall that aims to erase barriers.
SHOW-4	Theater 1
2 PM – 3.30 PM
	WINNER ( Partners from China)	Feature	Zhou Wei	China	Movie “Winner” tells a story of a former boxer Cao Hai Long and his rival’s son Liu Yang is boxing industry’s new favorite, he has always wished to fight his father’s enemy . Finally two famous cross-generation boxers came on the same stage, and a remarkable game in history has begun
SHOW-5	Theater 1
3.30 PM – 5.30 PM
	THE ROAD (Partners from China) – True Story	Feature	Zheng Wei	China	The movie is based on a true story. A rural woman is supporting three old people who are not biologically related to her. One day she adopted an orphan and raised her. Finally, the child was grateful for what she’s done and paid her back.
SHOW-6	Theater 1
5.30 PM – 7 PM
	Phil the Phoenix	animS	Coffin	Prairie Village	The story of a boy who becomes a bird who becomes a hero…
	Between Times	animS	Kuwahata	Baltimore	A story told from a cuckoo clock.
	A Tropical Sunday	Short	Ribezzo	Maputo	Maputo, Mozambique. Lisa, Babu, Gito and Nuno live on the streets. At Sunday they spend the time at the Funfair, looking for a chance to jump on a ride and feel like children again.
	VATTEN	Short	Jones	Stockholm	A lonely girl discovers a mysterious unconditional love during a late night swim
SHOW-7	Theater 1
7 PM – 8.30 PM	Red Carpet Reception		DingDing TV, Media and Filmmaker’s interviews
	Silicon Valley Awards Ceremony		Performances: Indian Classical Dance by Student’s of Vishal Ramani Mayors and Chief Guests will announce ‘Silicon Valley Awards 2014’ Awards Presented By: Michael Kasperzak, Former Mayor, Mountain View David Whittum, Council Member, Sunnyvale Diana WP Ding, Founder & CEO  Ding Ding TV Zhang Wei, Movie Director, Beijing , China Zhou Wei, Movie Director,  Beijing, China
NOV. 23, SUN	Venue: Milpitas Library Theater
SHOW-8	Theater 3
1 PM – 5.30 PM
	I LOVE MADRID		ECAM	Spain
	El Fuego Detrás	Short	Aguirre	Corpus Christi	In a border town, a suicidal man is given another choice when a violent death thrusts the fate of a young immigrant girl into his hands.
	A Poet Long Ago	Short	Giraldi	New York	SONNY, a sanitation worker, and MALLOY, a newspaper man, meet by chance and reminisce about their grammar school days together back in 1970s Brooklyn
	EN DIRECTO		ECAM	Spain
	Moments	Short	Roos	Turi	A young boy finds an old camera with film rolls that make him discover the past of his family.
	Pandora’s Promise	docuF	Academy-Award®-nominated Director: Robert Stone	New York	The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we’ve got nuclear power wrong? PANDORA’S PROMISE asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty.