Buy Tickets

ADMISSION

Each Daytime Film $5 (this is a generic ticket can be used for film of choice and day of choice)

Each Evening Film $10 (this is a generic ticket can be used toward film of your choice and day of your choice)

$50 for a 3-Day All-Festival Pass 

Buy festival passes here.

 

Plus 3 for $30 Meal Deals at Participating Downtown Restaurants!

Thursday April 11th “Opening Night”:

Two Shorts and “Argo”

6:45pm Atrapado
Buy Evening Ticket for Opening Night
Buy Ticketatrapado
He is trapped
No Playground for Little Cowboys
playground After a locker room robbery, rookie cowboy Louis decides to take the ‘Stuff’ all for himself. This puts Billy ‘The Kid’ on his trail, dispassionately removing anyone in his way of the pursuit of his quarry.

Watch Trailer Here

7:00pm Argo
ARGO A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.

Watch Trailer Here

Friday

Bridge of Life

10:00am High School Program
charm city
  • The Derby Girls
  • Charm City Rumpus
  • Transient
  • Animation Hotline
  • Valor in the Streets
  • A Flight of Fancy
  • High School Students’ Films
12 noon The Man Who Ate New Orleans
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
new-orleans-food-the-man-who-ate-new-orleans
Food, music, and rebuilding in New Orleans, including one pastor’s historic quest.

Watch Trailer Here

1:40pm Ai Means Love
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
ai pic
He’s a WV boy that’s never had a girlfriend; she’s a shy Japanese girl who has hidden her faith.  When the parents get involved comedy and drama ensue.  It’s a roller coaster ride through love, faith, sushi and fireworks.
3:10pm The Creation of Gods & Generals

4:00pm

Objects

Buy tickets for day film
Buy TicketObjects

Academy Theater

12noon Shorts 1
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
afis
  • Necropolis
  • My Green Pencil
  • The Swimmer
  • Dedeler En Lisini Billir
  • Rose, Mary and Time
1:50pm Shorts 2
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
08The_Hatch
  • Pizza Bagel
  • If You’re Serious
  • Soon to be Infamous
  • Al Final del Dia
  • The Beginning
  • Hatch
4:10pm Shorts 3
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
devils dosh
  • Signing Singles
  • Annie Kopchosky
  • 99%
  • Devil’s Dosh

Watch Trailer Here

7:30pm Awake
Buy Tickets for Evening Film to include:  Two Shorts and “Twenty Million People”
Buy Ticket
11x17_Poster
It’s been a long time since Greg Burton’s life showed him anything other than heartache and disappointment. Greg has resigned himself to a tedious routine, carrying on the same bitter conversation with himself. Little does he know that his routine is about to be shattered, and his failed life given new purpose.
7:45pm LION
 0 Lion is about a middle-aged man, Walter, who develops a friendship with a much younger man, Bradly. As their friendship grows, they realize digging deeper into each other’s past and present may not prove as appealing as they thought.

Watch Trailer Here.

 

 

Twenty Million People
rain When Brian’s new girlfriend, a stand-up comedian, suddenly disappears, he enlists the help of his broken-hearted best friend and imaginary characters from a cliche romantic comedy to find her.

Watch Trailer Here

Saturday

Bridge of Life

11:00am The Believers
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
The believers
March 1989: two respected chemists from the University of Utah stand in front of a wall of reporters. Flashbulbs pop as they announce they have solved the world’s energy problems using seawater, batteries and a mysterious glass contraption. ‘Cold Fusion’ is born.

Watch Trailer Here

12:35pm Shorts 4
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
0
  • Manfred & the Waiting Room
  • Cord
  • Play Dead
  • According to Plan A
  • Clouds
2:25pm My Way
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
photo-thumb5
Frustrated by years of male-dominated corporate oppression as an AIG analyst on Wall Street, savvy businesswoman Rebekah Starr ditches the dreary and blasts off or LA’s Sunset Strip to shoot a music video of her all-girl rock band, The Rebekah Starr Band. Film commentary from rockstars Rikki Rockett (Poison,) Steven Adler (Guns N’Roses,) Chip Z’Nuff (Enuff Z’Nuff) and Ron Jeremy.

Watch Trailer Here

4:10pm On your Mark, Get set, Mow
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
images
On Your Mark, Get Set, MOW! is a documentary film being produced by Mike Ratel which will which will show how the sport of lawn mower racing is on the ‘cutting edge’ in the battle of Huntington’s disease.

Watch Trailer Here

Academy Theater

11:00am Route 30, Too
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
route 30
A Visitor from another planet mixes it up with the locals along Route 30, in South Central Pennsylvania.  Veteran Film Maker John Putch’s ROUTE 30, TOO! is the 2ND installment of the Route 30 Trilogy.  A stand alone backwoods comedy.

Watch Trailer Here

12:50pm Shorts 5
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
Saturday short 5 Un Fils Poster 12x18 English No Logo
  • Un fils
  • The Boy Who’d Never Seen Rain
  • The Visit (Trailer)
  • Fabula
2:50pm Broken Glass
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
Upon arrival at a group meeting, a man unsure why he is there must contend with memories and hallucinations causing him to question his sanity and confront his devastating past.
4:45pm Shorts 6
Buy tickets for day film
Buy Ticket
WorldsWeCreatedstill2
  • The Marker
  • Killer Cables
  • Crumble
  • Worlds We Created
  • The Lake
  • Do You Believe in the Devil
6:30pm Titanic Love
Buy Tickets for Evening film to include: Titanic Love and The Story of Luke
Buy Ticket
9573195_orig
Lucy has found a Titanic Love cruise and wants to relive the Hollywood dream. Jack does not, they cant afford it and Lucy is furious. Their relationship hits rough waters and Jack calls on best friend Delroy for advice and a cheap alternative. True to form, Delroy and his trusty sidekick Jaz come up with a cunning plan that could change all their lives forever.

Watch Trailer Here

6:52pm The Story of Luke
The Story of Luke - Movie Stills 15 Sheltered his whole life by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is suddenly thrust into a world that doesn’t expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love, and he isn’t taking no for an answer.

Watch Trailer Here

SPONSORS

Maryland Convention and Visitors BureauPower MarketingKaplan UniversityThe Maryland TheatreBulls & BearsAnderson PhotographsThompson GasCorporation of Hagerstown MarylandWashington County Arts CouncilHighRockHagerstown Church Bridge of LifeWhat's NXT
Volvo Group Trucks Hagerstown MarylandThe Columbia Bank Hagerstown Trust DivisionLeitersburg CinemasSchmankerl StubeHagerstown Community College

INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS

  • Mary Anne and Emmet Burke
  • Mr. Peter and Cynthia Perini