If there are any filmmakers, actors, directors, producers or tech people reading this who'd like to give their film a plug, please, by all means consider this an open invitation to start posting. We're now at the halfway mark of NHFX 2006, so time is not on your side.

Saturday brings a lot of good films, including the second screenings of two Seacoast-based films, “Bootful of Fish,” directed by Mike Gillis, and the animated short, “The Toll,” both of which were detailed in a previous post.

“Johnny Was,” a 21st Century Bristish style Gangsta flick starring Roger Daltrey of The Who is at The Music Hall at 3:45 p.m. “Drunkboat” starring John Malkovich and John Goodman, which screens at The Music Hall at 6:30 p.m., is a must-see on many people’s NHFX list.

One more to think about is “You Are Alone,” a film I knew nothing about but which was strongly recommended to me today by Nicole Gregg of the NHFX staff. I ran into Nicole at the Connie Bean Center Headquarters and she quickly saw I was in a predicament as to what to see this year. She grabbed a catalogue and started circling her own “must-see” suggestions for me to follow, or ignore at my peril.

Here’s the blurb on “You Are Alone."

"Directed and written by Gorman Bechard. Starring Jessica Bohl Richard Brundage. Feature drama.
You Are Alone has won 6 numerous awards including Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Visionary, and Best Feature at various festivals. It has been screened at over 20 prestigious film festivals worldwide.

"We're gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!" But it’s a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. Daphne, a Yale-bound high school senior whose depression has blurred her sense of reality, works as an escort, advertising her services online. It's a little bit of a "fuck-you" that helps get her through the day, until her next door neighbor catches her as the "entertainment" at his nephew's bachelor party. With her hidden life precariously hanging in the balance, Daphne agrees to spend one hour with her neighbor.

Initially confrontational, Daphne and her neighbor begin to shed their bitter layers of personal disappointment and general cynicism by talking about sex. It's eye-opening for her neighbor: BBBJs, dining at the Y, salad tossing, and, of course, Snap! But behind this teenager's jaded fantasies hides the very essence of heartbreak, acceptance, need, and desire...ironically paralleled by a broken man’s desperate attempts to test the limits of her advertised promise to do anything and everything.

“An extraordinary film” David Kleiler, Director, Boston Underground Film Festival

“Last Tango in New England” Justin Fielding, New England Film"

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