"Shorts" movie night at Boston Fest

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on September 9th, 2006

The Boston Comedy Festival kicks off Sunday night with their film portion. Here’s a list of films screening at the “Shorts” IMAGINE Movie Night at the Improv Asylum:

JUST YOUR AVERAGE ARAB, directed by Raouf Zaki, (19:00). Arab-American characters meet in the storage room of a convenience store to take an Arab American Survival Course post 9/11. Ahmed Ahmed stars. The film will make you laugh and think.

EMBEDDED COMEDIANS, (the trailer) directed by Joey Carrol and Jim McCue, (2:31). Two Boston Comedians get embedded with the US troops on a 30-day tour of Bosnia, Kosovo, Kyrgistan, Kuwait and Iraq. Starring Joey Carroll and Jim McCue and the US military and an angry Camel.

AVAILABLE MEN, directed by David Dean Bottrell, (14:59). A Hollywood agent (on the verge of being fired) is dispatched to a L.A. bar with strict orders to sign a hot new writer he has never met. On the same night, a sensitive gay man (with the same first name as the writer) arrives at the bar to meet a blind date. Hilarity ensues when these two men mistake each other for the other person they were expecting to meet.

MY PARENTS WERE POETS, directed by David Punch, (23:00). A highly stylized comedic spoof and well produced story of how two stand-up poets find each other, lose each other, and find each other again told with a lot of rhyme and feel of the time.

JUNIOR! THE WENDY’S GUY, directed by Stephen Stephanian, (15:15). A short documentary about a man who has attained cult status on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin through his speedy and unorthodox handling of the register at the Wendy’s in the Texas Union.

FIRST KISS, directed by Stephen Stephanian, (3:30). Was your first kiss awkward? So what? You still got to kiss, didn’t you?

MIME MASSACRE, directed by Colin Decker, (6:01). When it comes to mimes, people either love them or hate them. This movie is for the haters.

DIARY OF AN APRICOT CREAM, directed by JP Ouellette, (5:17). A spoof of “JAWS” and the retelling of an Indianapolis disaster, as told by an apricot cream.

MASK OF THE NINJA, directed by Kevin Anderton, (3:06). A Chinese Special Agent must defeat the ninja warriors of her nemesis, Master Plan, and save the free world.

MARINE ON THE SCENE, directed by Dario Russo, (5:17). Marine Biology students Troy and Grant have transplanted the brain of a killer whale into the body of a multimedia student.

EVERY THIRTY SECONDS, directed by Jeremy Corray, (5:49). Every Thirty Seconds. A man is hit by a drunk driver. This is that man.

A MAN AND A WOMAN, directed by Brian McKim, (3:23). Wind-up toys make a statement about life, love, and romance. (See it on YouTube.com!)

BARNEY THE TERRIER, directed by Anny Slater, (1:23). The White House Scottish Terrier talks to his secret service agent about life at the White House.

THE NORMAN ROCKWELL CODE, directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo, (29:00). A famous museum. a shocking murder. a distinguished symbologist.an alluring cryptologist. secrets written in code. THE DA VINCI CODE gets cracked (and smacked upside the head) in this whimsical parody.

The Boston Comedy & Movie Festival “Opening Night” Party immediately follows the Movie Night presentation.