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	Q&A Sessions at International Film Festival Offer Viewers More By Rob McCallum Mount Shasta Herald October 4, 2006 http://www.mtshastanews.com/articles/2006/10/04/news/10filmfestivalqa.txt If moviegoers are left wanting more at the Mount Shasta International Film Festival, they'll get it. For the third year in a row, the festival is bringing in directors of highlight films for question and answer periods On the Saturday of the 3-day festival - October 13th-15th at Coming Attractions Theatre in Mount Shasta and the Ford Theater at College of the Siskiyous - three directors, a writer/actor and a main character will be available for questions from the audience following the showing of their films. Paul Cultrera, the subject of the documentary "Hand of God", "American Fusion" director Frank Lin, "Chutzpah, This Is?" writer/actor David Scharff, "Full Disclosure" writer/director Douglas Horn and "Sound of the Soul" producer/director Stephen Olsson will be on hand. "We mostly sell out when we have these Q&As," festival director Jeffrey Winters said. "People love asking them questions. It should be pretty fun." "Hand of God" is a documentary about Cultrera and his family's response to sexual abuse by a priest in 1964. The director, Paul's younger brother Joe, traces the next 30 years of his life. A wide variety of music, religions and film festival awards converge in the documentary "Sound of the Soul." Here Olsson pays homage to the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. Musicians from Muslim, Christian and Jewish backgrounds perform in Morocco during times of religious conflict. First-time director Lin's "American Fusion" is a romantic comedy about a Chinese immigrant who falls for a Mexican-American, much to the chagrin of her domineering mother. From the short film category, "Chutzpah, This Is?" touts itself as a mockumentary in the vein of "This is Spinal Tap." Scharff is one of the Meshugenah MCs along with George Segal in this indie hit. Members of this group will also be singing at the Gala Opening-Night party on October 13th. Also in shorts is "Full Disclosure," in which writer/director Douglas Horn follows Everett through dates where he discloses all his terrible habits, attitudes and hang-ups on the first date. With representatives coming from each genre, moviegoers have a variety of film styles to choose from. " There's really a lot of variety," Winters said. "It's hard not to find something."
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