
Louis
Connor
Music Instructor
Judge 1
Judge 2

2019-12-12
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An aspiring young jazz musician transcends his past when music becomes his escape.
9.0After a fight with her mother, six year old Clara decides to run off to be with her father. But she falls asleep on the way on the bus and somehow ends up with the Wagner family. When Julia Wagner discovers bruises on Clara's body, she feels compelled to act.
4.8Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.
1.0A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.
7.0This documentary explores Life and Art of Queen bassist John Deacon.
9.0"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and alcohol abuse, going through the process of In vitro fertilization. When it comes to alcohol and smoking, an abuser is overlapped with the tendencies of both alcoholism and chain smoking wherein one is subjected to intense cravings, followed by untoward mental as well as physical detention. Things go downhill one morning, as she relapsed the night before and she suffers a miscarriage. Does it not leave us with the raucous screams of the unborn?
Still a child but longing to be an adult, thirteen year-old Nancy overcomes her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues her on her way home.
6.8In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Philipp is an outsider in his class and sometimes stands out due to his deliberate aggression. He doesn't find much understanding at home. In his search for a friend, he first comes across an older boy with whom he gets excited about computer games in department stores and tries out his first cigarette...
0.0This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An inspiring woman keeping alive ancient traditions and spirituality in modern Japan.
6.0When St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.
8.8At the school talent show, Tina, Gene, and Louise sing a song titled "My Butt Has a Fever," much to Mr. Frond’s dismay.
0.0Liyoki, a silverback gorilla, lives peacefully with his family, when they are attacked by poachers.
0.0A man in financial debt is asked by his little son if the photographer of the famous picture which shows the Hindenburg zeppelin going up in flames early this century has become rich by that. The father quickly concludes that he only has to take the right picture in order to be able to pay his debts. After contacting a underground explosives engineer he takes off to the Munich Olympic Tower with his camera...
5.4A 10-year-old boy sets off on a long-promised adventure with his father to discover Europe's biggest dam. But as they progress, harbored feelings surface and their relationship is put to a test. The dam they eventually face is not the one initially dreamed of.
5.0A boy who is a dreamer constructing airplane models meets an older woman, full of painful memories. After the initial period of intense infatuation and marital excitement, they gradually start to experience claustrophobia living together. The protagonist, jealous of his wife, finds it difficult to separate the truth from illusion in his mind full of racing thoughts.
4.1A Harvard dandy circa 1946 lures his best friend away from the privileges of conformity.