EXPOSED
United States - World Premiere

96 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 7:00 pm, Oct. 17, Friday.
Exposed is a delicious satire about women, competition, and the blurred line between truth and spin; a look at "the story behind the story."

Director/Writer: Misti Barnes
Producers: Misti Barnes, Eve Elting
Cast: Tate Donovan, Gia Carides, Coolio, Lumi Cavazos, Brenda Strong

FINDING HOME
United States - U.S. Premiere

124 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 9:00 pm, Oct. 18, Saturday.
Since childhood, Amanda has been plagued with clouded memories of her traumatic removal from her grandmother and the place she loved dearly. Now she must confront her family's troubled past and the pain she has long repressed when she is forced to return to her grandmother's enchanting bed-and-breakfast inn on a remote island off the New England coast. Intricately woven with emotion and suspense, Finding Home is a powerful story of a young woman's journey to unravel the mysteries of her turbulent past.

Director: Lawrence David Foldes
Writers: Lawrence David Foldes, Grafton S. Harper
Producer: Victoria Paige Meyerink
Cast: Lisa Brenner, Geneviève Bujold, Louise Fletcher, Misha Collins

FLYFISHING
United Kingdom - West Coast Premiere

82 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 1:00 pm, Oct. 17, Friday. Two men become escorts. Their debts diminish, their problems mount, and their lives fall to pieces. Flyfishing combines the oldest profession in the world with the time-honored truths of love -- that it hurts, that there is someone for everyone, and true love conquers all-- for 40 an hour or 150 a night.

Director: David Williams
Writers: Neil Warhurst, Paul Barnhill, Roger Thomas
Producers: David Williams, Helen Baxendale
Cast: Kate Ashfield, Adam Croasdell, Helen Baxendale

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
United Kingdom/Luxembourg - Gala Premiere

95 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 7:00 pm, Oct. 17, Friday.
Set in 17th century Holland, Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the imagined, intriguing, and highly seductive story behind one of Vermeer's greatest and most enigmatic paintings. Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a tilemaker's daughter, is forced by tragedy to become a maid for the master painter (Colin Firth). Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an aptitude for helping in his studio, where she finds herself drawn to the man and his world of color and light. As she becomes part of his work, their growing intimacy spreads disruption and jealousy within his ordered household and beyond, fueling a scandal that threatens to ruin them all.

Director: Peter Webber
Writer: Olivia Hetreed
Producers: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Alakina Mann, Essie Davis, Judy Parfitt


HOTEL LOBBY
United States - World Premiere

75 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 5:00 pm, Oct. 18, Saturday. Three guests are stranded in a hotel lobby. Horace and Colt, a fifty-something married couple, are divided -- they have lost the key to their room and to each other. Diana reads a book and is divided from the real world by fiction. On the surface their exchanges are trivial and stilted. Nothing really happens. But as each retreats into their world of fantasy, a much more lively story unfolds -- a story of confrontations that should have happened, of secrets that need to be revealed.

Director: Jenny Foster
Writers: Stephen Keep Mills, Jenny Foster, Steve Diskin
Producers: Stephen Keep Mills, Daniel Dubiecki
Cast: Svetlana Efremova, Jennifer Griffin, Stephen Keep Mills