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Capture the Flag

Capture the Flag

By Lisanne Skyler

United States 14 minutes 2010 English
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Awards
  • Showtime Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting in a Short Film (Winner) - 2010 Nantucket Film Festival (Nantucket, United States)
Festivals
  • Cinequest Film Festival 2011 (San Jose, United States)
  • Aspen Shortsfest 2010 (Aspen, United States)
  • Bumbershoot: One Reel Film Festival 2010 (Seattle, United States)
  • Hamptons International Film Festival 2010 (Hamptons, United States)
  • Mill Valley Film Festival 2010 (Mill Valley, United States)
  • Nantucket Film Festival 2010 (Nantucket, United States)
  • Vancouver International Film Festival 2010 (Vancouver, Canada)

Synopsis

Emmy Clarke and Will Denton star in a movie based on the novel by Rebecca Chace, and directed by Lisanne Skyler (Getting to Know You, 1999 Sundance Film Festival), “Capture the Flag” stars Jane Stiles, Scott Cohen (Kissing Jessica Stein, Gilmore Girls), Gretchen Egolf (Roswell), Will Denton (Kidnapped) and Emmy Clarke (Monk).

Capture the Flag explores the tenuous relationship between a father and daughter in the socially turbulent 1970s. Teenage Annie and her father are about to gather with friends for an annual game of capture the flag. But this year, a lot more is at stake than winning the game. Over the course of this weekend, Annie learns to accept change, and that the most important relationships will somehow endure.

Winner of the 2010 Showtime’s Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting at the Nantucket Film Festival and was an Official Selection of The 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival.

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