Thursday: 12:00 pm – Domenico’s
Friday: 9:00 pm – Cheese People/ Nikki’s Café
Friday: 11:00 am –  Rock County Historical Society
Saturday: 4:00 pm – Hendricks Art Center

Megumi’s Workout?

 

 

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 5 min.
Director: Scott Adams
Producer: Scott Adams

Megumi is a young girl who is very hungry, but she is also obsessed with being skinny.

When she goes to the refrigerator to get some food, she sees a banner she wrote on the refrigerator: Do not eat. She then looks back at the scale, which is in the kitchen. She goes to it, steps on the scale and she is very unhappy with what she sees. She then embarks on a number of exercises. First she does yoga. She proves very flexible and very fit, but then tumbles at the end. Then she does push-ups and other similar exercises. After that, she does martial arts, including demonstrations with nun-chucks and a katana blade. After that, she loses 10 pounds. She is ecstatic but still very hungry. She orders a pizza and eats it as if it is a blissful experience ruining all of the hard work she did for the day.

He filled it with books for his neighbors to borrow. But after he saw how people responded to his creation and told his buddy Rick about it, the two got to thinking. In this short documentary you’ll meet Todd and Rick together with some of the ardent community-minded readers who are part of their global phenomenon. Okay, so most of the little libraries are in the Midwest. Just wait. You’ll be able to say you saw the movie before things took off!

Global Tides

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 7 min.
Director: Linda Brieda

Global Tides is an international, interdisciplinary collaboration that incorporates film, music and dance. This short 7 minute film depicts two opposing life settings and forces:

On the one hand a fast-paced metropolis where an incessant flood of irritations lead to alienation from oneself and to a loss of creative inspiration, and on the other hand a beach by the ocean, where self-awareness, creativity and a sense of well-being thrive within the quiet peace of nature’s rhythms.

The film explores the struggle to recognize the soft calling of one’s inner voice, which can be overpowered by the frantic rush of the city crowds. Our need for isolation within the masses can lead to alienation from our environment and we become unaware of the permanent footprints that we leave upon the earth.

The multicultural creators of Global Tides have come together from the United States, Germany, and Japan. Their different artistic and cultural backgrounds bring varying perspectives to the same subject and thereby enhance the quality of the creative work, as well as the distribution possibilities. Screenings of the film are planned for Film Festivals in several countries, including the creators’ own.

Global Tides will serve as a wake-up call for the audience, inspiring them to newly listen to their intuition, open their eyes to the essentials in life and let their actions speak for a harmonious coexistence between the inner and the outer world.

Treasure

Category: Short Film
Country: Singapore
Language:
Rating: PG
Runtime: 11
Director: Sun Jun Hui

In Singapore, merry-go-rounds are near vanishing from playgrounds. Our next generation would not be able to identify with them, play with them, sit on them. Riding on a merry-go-round feels like time is blurred. A sweet coming of age Asian film starting with the universal question: What is time? The film explores the concept of time between the two generations. A grandson coming over to his grandpa’s house to fulfill a wish. Can they manipulate time? Can they do it? What are they doing?

Sweatshop

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 12
Director: Chin Tangsakulsathaporn
Producer: Chin Tangsakulsathaporn
Website:  The Sweatshop
Facebook:  The Sweatshop Film

The story about Lee (7, boy) and Mimi (11 girl) who struggle with their imprisonment in an illegal sweatshop and hope for a way out. Ahong (the sweatshop owner) confines the group of children workers in a depressed basement. When Lee finally discovers a chance to get away, he will make a decision that could change both of their futures forever.

Because It’s Small

 

 

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 17
Director: Marc Kornblatt
Producer: Marc Kornblatt

Begun as a modest carpentry project in a Wisconsin man’s front yard, Little Free Library has blossomed into what commentators have dubbed a world-wide movement. Todd Bol meant to build just one little school house, as a tribute to his mother. He filled it with books for his neighbors to borrow. But after he saw how people responded to his creation and told his buddy Rick about it, the two got to thinking. In this short documentary you’ll meet Todd and Rick together with some of the ardent community-minded readers who are part of their global phenomenon. Okay, so most of the little libraries are in the Midwest. Just wait. You’ll be able to say you saw the movie before things took off!

Colors of Evil

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 4
Director: Phillip Simon, Alyse Miller
Producer:
Website:  Alyse Miller
Website:  Phillip Simon
Facebook:  The Colors of Evil

Tormented on a daily basis by her schoolmate Nancy, Vivian uses her knowledge of the dark arts to summon a demon servant and get revenge. When she performs the ritual, however, the results are fluffier than she expected.

The Silk

Category: Short Film
Country: New Zealand
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 15
Director: Nathalie Boltt, Clare Burgess
Producer: Nathalie Boltt
Website:  The Silk

None of us want to die. But die we will. There is another way, though, as Herb and Amy find out. And it’s been right under their noses – for 50 years.
The silk, a gift of extraordinary beauty, has remained vibrant and entrancing as the Blackies have withered and faded. It represents the fabric of their life together, about to be ripped apart by Mr B’s illness. But Mrs B is a feisty one and she’s not about to take this folly sitting down. Unless it’s sitting down at a sewing machine to reshape this overprotected piece of material into something useful. She has no idea of the chain of events she will unleash however. Events that will bring to life, rob of life and reignite the life they have shared.
A story of love, mortality, transcendence…and making the first cut.

Nooner

 

 

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 13
Director: Kate Berneking Kogut
Producer: Kate Berneking Kogut

Struggling with a broken heart, Keely waits at her window table at a restaurant every day during lunch, watching as life passes her by. She sees the regulars – the young couple in love, the retired couple, the lonely man, and the empty store across the street. Observing how the lives around her are changing, she wonders how she can begin to move on. What will it take?

When the store across the street is rented, the new shop owner becomes a restaurant regular…and another way Keely might reconnect with life.

Filmed without dialog, ‘Nooner’ explores the power of reaching out and connecting with others.

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Thursday: 2:30 pm  –  Hendricks Art Center
Friday: 6:30 pm – Speakeasy 2
Saturday: 9:00 pm – Domenico’s

La Mirada Perdida

Category: Short Film
Country: Argentina, Spain
Language: 
Rating: PG-15
Runtime: 11
Director: Damian Dionisio
Producer: Osom Films
Website:  La Marida Perdida

Argentina, 1976. Claudio is forced to live with his family in hiding, due to his political ideals.

Runner

Category: Short Film
Country: Germany
Language: English subtitles
Rating: R
Runtime: 10
Director: Parker Ellerman
Producer: Jan Fincke

How far can we go in the pursuit of our goals? It is one of these universal questions that is raised by our film’s story. The answer is never easy to find. And doing the right thing sometimes clashes with our personal motives and needs. The Runner tells the story of a ten-year-old-boy in a township in Cape Town. He decides to head to the city in order to get some money for his mother’s urgent surgery. The lesson the boy in our film has to learn is universal: you cannot do something bad to achieve something good. The lead role is played by 10-year old Cwangco Mayekiso who actually lives in the Gugulethu township.

Nowhere To Go

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 15
Director: Robert May
Producer: Carly Chaikin

The end of a relationship often sees us tortured between words spoken and all that has been left unsaid. Capturing that restless emotion, NOWHERE TO GO fills the raw and indulgent space one lingers in after a breakup, with the internal dialogue we struggle to express. Divulging the gaping chasm between a couples’ worn down and developing thoughts—the film reveals a relationship that is as destructive as it is addictive, with whirlwind glimpses of what used to be. Reflecting flickers of every breakup, NOWHERE TO GO draws the audience in with universal feelings that are all too relatable. Directed by Robert May, the film is Carly Chaikin’s producorial and writing debut, in which she also stars alongside Jordan Heathcott.

No

Category: Short Film
Country: Spain
Language: 
Rating: R
Runtime: 10
Director: Guillermo P. Bosch
Producer: Guillermo P. Bosch, Juan Nemesio Martin
Website:  Guillermo P. Bosch
Facebook:  No – short film

“The Perfection in your hand.” An emerging model for advertisements suffers, all of a sudden, a physical defect that drives him into a process of self destruction. A descent into hell around the obsession with looks.

Wolf Call

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 13
Director: Rob Underhill
Producer: Rob Underhill

It is 1956. The previous year, 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago had gone missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy’s mutilated body was found in a river. William Bradford Huie of Look magazine sits down with the two men acquitted for the boy’s murder, Roy Bryant Jr. and J.W. Milam, to discuss the trial. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or their kin, until now…

WOLF CALL (16 Awards, 5 Nominations), the true Mississippi, civil rights story crafted from public record, transports us back to this historic drama that became a lightning rod for moral outrage and pivotal in inspiring a whole generation of young people to commit to social change in the 1950s. ‘His death was a spark that ignited the Civil Rights Movement in America,’ Ed Bradley, Emmy Award-winning journalist.

WOLF CALL is brought to you by the makers of “Empty Space”: winner of 8 festival awards, 4 nominations. “Wolf Call” is the next installment in the Emmett Till, civil rights saga: a transfixing, true-story of the historic interviews that became a lightning rod for moral outrage and pivotal in inspiring a whole generation of young people to commit to social change in the 1950s.

Cinematographer and co-producer, Aravind Ragupathi, pays visual tribute to 1950s news and television anchors in how the set, props, and shot selection are woven into the story-telling. And, the visual tricks he employs in “Wolf Call” were created on camera while filming, using techniques employed in the 1950s.

The film stars MIKE WILEY, winner of multiple Best Actor Awards for his performance in “Empty Space,” including Best Actor at the 25th Black International Cinema Berlin.

In WOLF CALL, Mike Wiley is William Bradford Huie of Look magazine…

In September of 1955, in Money, Mississippi a jury found Roy Bryant Jr. and J.W. Milam both not guilty of murdering 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago. Before the trial they had admitted to kidnapping Emmett, but held no blame in his disappearance and consequent murder. They weren’t even indicted for the abduction: off scot-free, clean as a whistle. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or their kin, until now. Without this missing piece of the puzzle, hypocrisy and myth had flourished.

It is now January 24, 1956, nearly six months after the kidnapping, murder and subsequent trial. William Bradford Huie sits down with the accused killers, J.W. and Roy, two men who have been hoisted on the shoulders of white supremacy.

Huie questions the men, not as a journalistic source and not as interrogator to witness, but as a southern white man to southern white men. He knows they did it, that answer is brutally obvious. What this reporter wants to understand, what Look magazine is paying $4000 dollars to print and what several million Americans just like you will pay to read and gossip over is, why?

As Roy and J.W. open up to Huie, hypocrisy is exposed, myth dispelled…

Brightwood

 

 

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 18
Director: Lautaro Gabriel Gonda
Producer: Jacob Leander
Website:  Brightwood
Facebook:  Brightwood

Sparrow, age 10, wakes one morning to find a nest of baby mice in her sock drawer. Attempting to care for them, she takes them with her on her mysterious daily routine. Bicycling through the forest, along the beach and quiet rural roads, collecting various found treasures. Along the way the mice face danger, including a hungry fox and a swirling creek.

Deep in the forest, Sparrow has created a sanctuary in a run-down house, where she keeps her treasures and hides from the rest of the world. She brings the baby mice here, but is unable to care for them.

Sparrow returns home and finds her parents in the kitchen, and the reason for her need to find a family is revealed. She faces a challenge greater than any child should.

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