Luminaris

Short Slot 1

Thursday:  2:30 pm – Bushel & Peck’s
Friday: 6:30 pm – Cheese People/ Nikki’s Café
Saturday:  6:30 pm –  Speakeasy 2
Saturday: 4:00 pm – Katie’s Cup

Luminaris

Luminaris | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: Argentina, Spain
Language:
Rating: G
Runtime: 6 min.
Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Producer: Sol Rulloni

In a world controlled and timed by the light, a common man has a plan that could change the destiny.

CatCam

CatCam | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 15
Director: Seth Keal
Producer: Seth Keal
Website:  CatCam The Movie

Mr. Lee, an adopted stray cat, routinely disappeared from his North Carolina home for days on end. Intrigued by Mr. Lee’s whereabouts, his owner Juergen, a German engineer, created a camera designed to fit around the feline’s neck. Engineered to capture continuous photographs, Juergen hoped to discover the mysterious life of his cat. After many unsuccessful attempts, Mr. Lee returned with the camera intact and photographic evidence of his travels. Intrigued by his findings, Juergen published the photographs on the Internet, unaware that his small invention would send shock-waves around the world and alter his life forever.

Old Country Lullaby

Old Country Lullaby | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 7 min.
Director: Marc Kornblatt
Producer: Marc Kornblatt
Website:  Old Country Lullaby

‘…and you shall inscribe them on the doorposts of your home…’

The quote comes from Deuteronomy and is known the world over by Jews as a symbol of home. The words appear in a passage that children learn to recite from early on and are found, hand-written in Hebrew on parchment, inside the mezuzah, a cylinder-shaped container that Jews place on the right side of their doorposts as a sign of their faith..

In OLD COUNTRY LULLABY, my 7:30-minute dramatic short, the past and future merge as Jules and his daughter Mira pack up their last boxes and take down the mezuzahs in anticipation of selling their home. Lunch is waiting for them across town at their new apartment, but Jules has trouble leaving.

Sitting on the floor in his daughter’s empty bedroom, he can’t remember a certain lullaby he used to sing to her when she was a baby. It may be a small matter to Mira, but to Jules the niggun (Hebrew for wordless melody) he learned from his grandfather seems significant. To him it represents his connection to his ancestors, the old country they left behind and the culture they brought to America.

Singing the tune in its entirety strikes Jules as an important way of holding onto his past as he himself grows older and moves on. He needs Mira’s help to remember.

Transthreeded

Transthreeded | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: Spain
Language:
Rating: G
Runtime: 2 min.
Director: Andres Vidal
Producer: Andres Vidal

Earth, the next target.

Quest for Energy

Quest for Energy | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 10 min.
Director: Vinit Parmar
Producer: Ryoya Terao

QUEST FOR ENERGY encourages us to think about our energy consumption and way of life to get closer achieve zero impact on our environment.

Four million islanders want electricity. For eons, they had survived in the dark, lit by dim kerosene lamps. They still burn wood for fire. Millions live like this around the world.. The people of the Sunderbans live less than hundred miles away from Kolkata, India, residing in the largest wetland in the world adjacent to one of the most populated urban areas.

This World Heritage site boasts about two hundred fifty wild, white Bengal tigers, only fifty-two of the hundred-two islands are human-inhabited. These islanders have witnessed massive flooding and realize their islands will be under water because of rising sea levels from climate change. Two islands recently disappeared. The UN reports that 75% of the landmass will be under water due to climate change. Four million islanders risk losing everything, their homes, farmland, animal stock, and their lives.

In the 1990s, the West Bengal government commissioned the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency to electrify its off-grid population without contributing to the degradation of the tender wetland ecosystem. Low cost coal is not an option.

The residents voted to acquire clean energy. Now, three of the fifty-two occupied islands have electricity from a hybrid mini-grid power plant that uses wood to make a biogas, without producing climate-changing emissions. Replenishment of used wood through plantation of new trees makes this process sustainable. But, only about six hundred homes enjoy an electrical connection. How about the other forty-nine islands?
These islanders power their CFL bulbs, fans, television sets, DVD players, cell phones, computers and other appliances from large renewable charged batteries.

Solar panels purchased from local solar shops can be seen on rooftops and straw huts. A local hospital’s solar panels has permitted emergency operations using simple lights and modern vital-sign machines and cured illnesses by administering vaccines kept in cold storage.

For cooking – burning firewood and kerosene, caused burns and even deaths and smoke inhalation problems. Now, manure pits supply ample natural cooking gas from fermented cow manure for a safe and fast cooking experience. It produces zero emissions.

Simple sustainable technology has saved lives, and transformed an off-grid village into a thriving city of entrepreneurs, bustling with energy, and the conveniences of appliances. Imagine what can be done for the rest of the off-grid world still living in the dark.

Filmmaker AttendingCracked

 

 

Cracked

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 5 min.
Director:  Terence Campbell
Producer: Terence Campbell
Website:  Terence Campbell
Facebook: Cracked

Every shot is a pan of broken eggs.

Kaloo School

Kaloo SchoolCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 11 min.
Director:  Sahra Mosawi
Producer: Asmita Shrish
Website:  Kaloo School
Facebook:  Kaloo School

In between the famous Mountain in rural north Afghanistan there is a village with 2500 families with just two schools for children. Every child spent about 5 hours everyday to go to the school, which is hard and sometimes impossible especially for girls in unsafe environment. But now people in Afghanistan are more aware about education and have freedom of giving their children a full privilege of education. People from villages understand the importance of educating their children regardless of boy or girl.

This documentary is a symbol of present Afghan life, with some hope for their future trying to build better country and explores life of the people in a period of time to show how their way of life change in a positive way after NATO invasion. The aim is to bring to light the human stories in the world’s most dangerous and deprived regions. To show how they live in this situation, fighting for the better tomorrow.

Milo

Milo | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: Italy
Language:  n/a
Rating: G
Runtime: 9 min.
Director: Simon Pietro De Domenico
Producer: Simon Pietro De Domenico

The storm of silence will be a very common weather phenomenon in 2012. Milo, a boy of 7 years, lives in a world all its own and he does not like ‘outside’ interference. For this reason, one day he decides to record the storm of silence in order to isolate himself in his world.

Old Angel

Old Angel | The MovieCategory: Short Film
Country: Taiwan
Language: Taiwanese w/ English subtitles
Rating: G
Runtime: 5 min.
Director: Dony Chiang
Producer: Dony Chiang

Old Angel once hurt his wings. He came to the forest to mend his wings among the colossal trees. His wings have healed, but he’s been here for a long, long time.

So long that he’s forgotten how it feels to fly. But he just can’t forget, the last time he tried to flap his wings, that excruciating pain, that crushing despair he felt. Time and again he’s walked to the edge of a cliff, at the edge of the trees, but he’s never summoned enough courage to fly.

The autumn leaves have nearly all fallen, and migrating littleangels arrives near the Colossal Forest. Dim rays of light piercing from the forest catch the eye of one Little Angel. He feels an mysterious force pulling on him, as if it is saying, something needs him. He halts in his tracks, before starting toward its source. . .

Smile

Smile | Matteo PianezziCategory: Short Film
Country: Italy
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 8 min.
Director: Matteo Pianezzi
Producer: Matteo Pianezzi

Behind a clown’s makeup there is always a man with his story: the story of his life, that could be happy or not funny at all, even if his clothes and his makeup let us think something definitely smiley. If the Clown is a mime too, it would not be possible to ask him to tell us his story: he would not answer us. The only thing left to do is follow him to see where he takes us, and understand where he is going. We will find out that the Clown, the Mime and the Man are the same person, inevitably.

Bottle

Bottle | Kirsten LeporeCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 6 min.
Director: Kirsten Lepore
Producer: Kirsten Lepore

Animated on location at a beach, in snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.

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The Sweatshop Movie

Short Slot 2

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

Filmmaker AttendingMegumi’s Workout?

 

 

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

Global TidesCategory: 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

Time passed on the merry-go-round blurCategory: 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

The Sweatshop MovieCategory: 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.

Filmmaker AttendingBecause It’s Small

 

 

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

Colors of EvilCategory: 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

The Silk | Nathalie BolttCategory: 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.

Filmmaker AttendingNooner

 

 

Nooner | Kate Berneking Kogut

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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Wait for Rain

Short Slot 3

Thursday:  10:00 pm – Bagels & More
Friday: 1:30 pm –  Rock County Historical Society
Saturday: 6:30 pm – Cheese People/ Nikki’s Café

Lifted

Lifted | Zachary GoldbergCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 5
Director: Zachary Goldberg
Producer: Sarah Sellman

LIFTED tells an ethereal story of a fleeting kinship formed between two lonely children. Sara (Beatrice Miller) makes a fascinating discovery when a boy (Brandon Buescher) endowed with the power of flight crashes behind her home.

From Zachary Goldberg, this empathetic fantasy is grounded in the emotional journey of its characters.. the boy who fell from the sky and the girl who found him. LIFTED was completed as a thesis film for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Film & Television Department.

House, A Home

A House, A Home | Daniel FickleCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 7
Director: Daniel Fickle
Producer: Mark C. Smith
Website:  A House, A Home

The Lone Fir Cemetery is the resting place for many of the people who founded and influenced the history of Portland, Oregon.

When a benefit album titled Dearly Departed was commissioned by Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery, singer-songwriters from the Pacific Northwest were approached and asked to write a song about a specific person buried at Lone Fir.

Adam Shearer (Weinland) chose to write about James C. Hawthorne, a doctor and humanist who cared for the mentally ill. Shearer enlisted the help of Adam Selzer (M. Ward, Norfolk & Western) and together they wrote A House, A Home. The song tells a story about two of Dr. Hawthorne’s patients whose love for each other is unrealized until they pass away. The music video for A House, A Home begins at the last line of the song ”You die knowing he’ll bury you next to your love in the ground…” and continues the story.

Bounce

Bounce | John AkreCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 6
Director: John Akre
Producer: John Akre

My father died very suddenly, and left me before I could tell him all the things I wanted to tell him. After his body floated away, I discovered him again through the photo albums that he left behind. These albums were full of images that I had never seen before, images from his childhood. An image of him with a pogo stick led me to buying a similar pogo stick at a garage sale and using that pogo stick to reach his head up in the sky.

When a friend was making a documentary about pogo sticks, I volunteered to do an interview, but I don’t remember doing it. I saw the film, but didn’t even recognize myself in it. When I left the film, I saw the pogo stick, which I had ridden to the screening, had been stolen.

‘Bounce’ is based on a dream I had after the death of my father. It is an animated short that uses clay and cut-out construction paper to tell the story of the death of my father and the rediscovery of his life after his death from his photo albums. It is told in silent movie style, with inter-titles, and a minimalist soundtrack made up of water sounds.

Filmmaker AttendingMy Friend Erhan

 

 

My Friend Erhan | Khurram M. Sultan

Category: Short Film
Country: Turkey,United Kingdom
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 12
Director: Khurrum M. Sultan
Producer: Bedii Akin

Nur and her new friend Erhan are young children in a orphanage. One day Erhan the mute gets into trouble because of Nur and takes the blame for her, which leaves her feeling guilty. Tahir, the head of the orphanage wants to teach the kids a lesson and gives Erhan a goat to look after, which will be slaughtered later to feed the kids. Nur manages to lose the goat as well and panics, because she doesn’t want her friend to get into trouble for her again. She sets off on an adventurous journey to find and return the goat, but comes back empty handed, yet having learned the importance of honesty and responsibility. Just as she confesses to the head of the orphanage, it turns out that Erhan had actually found and been looking after the goat. Erhan thanks and forgives her. Nur is redeemed.

Filmmaker AttendingMemento Mori

 

 

Momento Mori | Karen Erbach

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 11
Director: Karen Erbach
Producer: Susan Kerns

Emmanuel never quite recovered from losing his mother when he was a child. He devotes his life to traveling town to town in his showman’s wagon, and he enters a small, quintessentially American village circa the early 1900s. He encourages the townspeople to have their photos taken, and afterward, he steals their most prized possessions. Then he meets Violet, a young woman who also has lost her mother, and he feels a kinship with her. Her story allows him to question his own actions. Emmanuel starts to wonder if revenge is the best form of healing, and he eventually has a change of heart.

Wait for Rain

Wait For Rain | Kyle RideoutCategory: Short Film
Country: Canada
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 14
Director: Kyle Rideout
Producer: Josh Epstein
Website:  Kyle Rideout
Facebook:  Motion 58 Entertainment

A warming planet has made water scarce, food a rarity, and wearing plants like jewelry fashionable. James, a hapless office worker, becomes obsessed with nurturing his plant in order to obtain the respect of his peers and risks everything to not Wait for Rain.

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The Extraction

Short Slot 4

Friday: 6:30 pm   –  Hendricks Art Center
Saturday: 4:00 pm – Cheese People/ Nikki’s Café

Filmmaker AttendingExtraction

 

 

The Extraction

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 11
Director: Stephen Pickering
Producer: Stephen Pickering

After successfully completing their mission, two soldiers suddenly find themselves trapped behind enemy lines when their chopper is shot down. Having been given their new extraction point, their sole mission is to stay alive. They must now depend on their training, survival skills and faith in one another as they dodge enemy fire trying to get home. This film was written and filmed by middle school and high school students from the Drywater Productions School of Film.

‘THE THINGS MY FATHER NEVER TAUGHT ME’

"The Things My Father Never Taught Me"Category: Short Film
Country: Australia
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 7
Director: Burleigh Smith
Producer: Burleigh Smith

Melvin gives useless dating advice to his three-year-old son. He teaches him to dress well, act with confidence and spend time in the right places. Everything goes horribly wrong, until Melvin meets Mary, an attractive single mother. After a clumsy romantic advance, Melvin is shot down and forced to reconsider his role as romance expert.

Ella

Ella | Juan Montes de OcaCategory: Short Film
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 19
Director: Juan Montes de Oca
Producer: Juan Montes de Oca

LIFTED tells an ethereal story of a fleeting kinship formed between two lonely children. Sara (Beatrice Miller) makes a fascinating discovery when a boy (Brandon Buescher) endowed with the power of flight crashes behind her home.

From Zachary Goldberg, this empathetic fantasy is grounded in the emotional journey of its characters.. the boy who fell from the sky and the girl who found him. LIFTED was completed as a thesis film for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Film & Television Department.

Angst

Angst | Naga KataruCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 3
Director: Naga Kataru
Producer: Naga Kataru

Teenage pregnancy is becoming an important social issue in our culture. Further, teen pregnancies can be a direct result of contributing social problems: poor education, a history of reckless behavior, dysfunctional families, to mention a few.

The intent of this movie is depict the angst a teenager has to go thru in the process of taking a pregnancy test.

Workers leaving the factory

Workers Leaving the Factory | Anna LinkeCategory: Short Film
Country: Germany
Language: German w/ English Subtitles
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 10
Director: Anna Linke
Producer: Anna Linke

In remembrance of the Lumiere Brothers: Karin works in a metal factory where she spends day after day, performing the same monotonous tasks. When a new worker begins his job in the factory, it seems to be the end of this drab life. He not only likes Karin but also the strange metal figurines she secretly builds before her workday starts.

Filmmaker AttendingMissed Connections

 

 

Missed Connections | Susan Kerns

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 13
Director: Susan Kerns
Producer: Susan Kerns

Missed connections become connections made in this romantic comedy based on personal ads. Featuring Busby Berkeley-inspired dancers and a fanciful score from the tomorrows of yesterday, ‘Missed Connections’ transports viewers to a space where dreams of love come alive!

In the spaceship-shaped 1960s-era supper club ‘The Gobbler,’ outdoor superstore employee Sandals musters the nerve to ask lovely long-time customer Farmer to dance. Golden Fox reunites with Plant Manager, and this time, it’s animal. Appletini, the irrepressible and oft inebriated red-head, captures the hearts and desires of not one, but two police officers. And a car accident turns into a love connection for opposites Car Crash and Hottie on a Bike.

Filmmaker AttendingVampire Formerly Known as Dracula

 

 

Vampire Formerly Known as Dracula

Category: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 15
Director: Nate Schardin
Producer: Nate Schardin

A campy journey with Dracula as he attempts to assimilate into a modern society.

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Distance | Sang Joon Kim

Short Slot 5

Thursday: 7:30 pm –  Cheese People/ Nikki’s Café
Friday: 4:00 pm – Bagels & More

Distance

Distance | Sang Joon KimCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2
Director: Sang Joon Kim
Producer: Sang Joon Kim

Everything about ‘Distance’ started from my own experience. It’s about me, my brother and my father.

The relationship between my brother and my father has been always terrible. They never communicated and the worst part of them was that they never ever tried to understand each other. I wanted to talk about this in a slight humorous way.I highly believe that lack of communication between a father and a son is not an issue that I only experienced. Even though ‘Distance’ started off from my own personal experiment, I didn’t think this was just my own baggage. This is what happening to all of us. Because of the generation gap between parents and kids in these days, it is understandable conflicts that they would have. But, if we try to find a common issues that we can talk about with our parents constantly, I believe the relationship will get better like it was never been better.

From the start of the movie, the father and the son do not understand each others sentiments while they are watching television. The father have a hard time figuring out why his son is laughing and the son finds really weird why his father is crying for. However, at the very end of the film, they find something that interests both of them together and start to gather up better.

bona nox

bona nox | Jean Frederic EedekensCategory: Short Film
Country: Belgium
Language: Dutch w/ English subtitles
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 14
Director: Jean-frederic Eerdekens
Producer: Oliver Rausin

Since mommy died in a car accident, daddy is crying all the time. And I move with ‘Wheelchair’, my wheelchair. But I can fix everything : I have a time machine. So, I will save mommy in the past and fix my legs in the future. But I need something to succeed… And I found it !

Just Like Me

Just Like Me | Deana DiSalvioCategory: Short Film
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czeck w/ English subtitles
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 8
Director: Deana DiSalvio
Producer: Deana DiSalvio

LUKAS is taught by his older brother, PETR, how to shoot a gun hidden in a shed on their farm. Unbeknown to their mother, BARA, who left PETR in charge of his little brother for the day, the boys set up a makeshift shooting range. They spend the day shooting all the cans, when one can remains, PETR instead shoots a bird on a nearby branch. PETR runs back to the house to replenish their supply of bullets, leaving the shocked LUKAS with the bird and the gun outside.

Unfarewell

Unfarewell | Ainhoa MenendezCategory: Short Film
Country: Spain
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 16
Director: Ainhoa Menendez
Producer: Pablo Erusalimsky

In an idyllic village, the inhabitants raise hens, knead bread, tend to their crops. And guard a dark secret

Casting

Casting | Jacob SwansonCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 5
Director: Jacob Swanson
Producer: Jacob Swanson

A short-film made as the casting piece for filmmaker Jacob R Swanson’s first feature ‘Walk Amongst the Living’. In the surreal and unsettling short, a woman (played by four different women) are terrorized by an unidentified source of light. Trapped in a dark empty room, she runs for the darkness and the light hunt her down again and again. She is temporarily freed from the chasing light, by turning on the room lights. When the light returns to torment her, she finds an unexpected way out, although only one of actress playing her gets there.

Residuum

Residuum | Niav ContyCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 5
Director: Niav Conty
Producer: Niav Conty

Her feet on the edge of a rooftop, his hand approaches slowly…

Oscar V

Oscar V | Jonathan Albert MurphyCategory: Short Film
Country: Brazil
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 14
Director: Jonathan Albert Murphy
Producer: Natasha Manttovanni

Oscar V is an Englishman living in Brazil. He is married to a Brazilian lady, but their relationship is not what it was. He runs an electronics repair shop and with his sidekick Pedro, he discovers how to manipulate web-cam software so they can view unsuspecting customers going about their daily chores.

The arrival in their shop one day of a beautiful woman with a laptop needing to be repaired leads to an encounter with the police.

Man with all the Marbles

Man with all the marbles | Hans MonteliusCategory: Short Film
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 15
Director: Hans Montelius
Producer: Jonas Moberg

This is story of the rivalry between two brothers. Håkan is the successful one, running the family business. Martin is homeless. When their father dies, he divides the company between them. Håkan has always won over Martin in everything, from the marbles they played as children to control of the business. And Martin is fixed on the idea of beating his brother in a game of marbles. If he can just beat him, everything will turn around. He puts all his energy into practicing with his marbles. Håkan wants to buy Martins share of the business. But Martin won’t do it unless they play one more game. So they play. And the stakes are Martins shares.

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La Mirada Perdida - Dionisio

Short Slot 6

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

La Mirada Perdida

La Mirada Perdida - DionisioCategory: 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

Runner | Parker EllermanCategory: 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

Nowhere to go | Robert MayCategory: 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

No | Guillermo BoschCategory: 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

Wolf Call | Rob UnderhillCategory: 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…

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Brightwood | Lautaro Gabriel Gonda

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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Goodby Cruel World | Adrian McFarlane

Short Slot 7

Friday:  1:30 pm –  Bushel & Peck’s
Saturday: 9:00 pm – Wilson Theater
Sunday: 5:00 pm – La Casa Grande

Goodbye, Cruel World

Goodby Cruel World | Adrian McFarlaneCategory: Short Film
Country: Australia
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 15
Director: Adrian McFarlane
Producer: Jonathon Miller

George stands at the edge of a tall building, ready to throw himself off when he is interrupted by a quirky young woman, Tilda. Unable to ‘go while someone else is watching’ George storms off but can’t shake Tilda who won’t jump to her death because she is scared of heights. They munch a big bag of chips together, the adrenaline rush feeding their appetites and after Tilda confesses her previous failed suicide attempts (and big meals that followed), they decide to find a fantastic way to commit suicide together, eventually settling on pills by candlelight. As they swill whiskey and pills, passing out together, George tells Tilda that they could be best friends…in the next life.

George awakes in a hospital bed, alone. He returns to the scene of their suicide to find a big mess…an empty chip packet…and Tilda. He asks what happens and she describes how she saved his life at the last moment after she realised they were friends and that ‘friends don’t let each other kill themselves’. George exclaims how unfair that is.

George and Tilda return to the rooftop, standing on the edge again. Tilda goads him but he’s not ready, not yet. Suddenly he gets the rush and they back away from the edge towards an overflowing picnic which they tear into together, happy and alive.

Cherry Waves

Cherry Waves | Carey WilliamsCategory: Short Film
Country: USA
Language: English
Rating: R
Runtime: 15
Director: Carey Williams
Producer: Brad Clements, Christina Jo’Leigh, Michael Dallatorre
Website:  Cherry  Waves Film

Angie Adams, a hardened yet spiritual street fighter faces her biggest challenge of whether to continue living her life for others or finally for herself and the woman she loves.

World for Raul

World For Raul | Mauro MuellerCategory: Short Film
Country: Mexico,Switzerland,U S A
Language: English
Rating: PG-15
Runtime: 15
Director: Mauro Mueller
Producer: Mauro Mueller

When thirteen-year-old Raul is asked to entertain the local landowner’s son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

Trimbelten

TRIMBELTEN Sebastian KuehnCategory: Short Film
Country: Germany
Language: 
Rating: R
Runtime: 15
Director: Sebastian Kuehn
Producer: Sebastian Kuehn

After years spent in his self-imposed exile, the broken ex-cop TRIMBELTEN embarks on his last journey. This journey has only one purpose: Revenge for his daughters death. But on his way Trimbelten teams up with a young outcast named Stina. It seems like she is able to distract him from his plan. There is something about that girl that reminds Trimbelten of his daughter.

Landscape

Landscape | Anabela CostaCategory: Short Film
Country: France
Language: 
Rating: G
Runtime: 11
Director: Anabela Costa
Producer: Anabela Costa
Website:  Landscape

Landscape, is what can be seen, and not in physical terms but as an outward expression of human perception: ‘a landscape is a cultural image, a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolizing surroundings’, so it will always be a personal take over an area of land, of human elements buildings or structures with a cultural and aesthetic dimension.

Stalled

Stalled | Shannon KohliCategory: Short Film
Country: Canada,New Zealand,Switzerland
Language: English
Rating: PG-15
Runtime: 16
Director: Shannon Kohli
Producer: Meghan Gardiner

The entire script for ?Stalled? was pieced together solely using graffiti quotes found in washroom stalls across the North America. Not one single word was added to the script. The writer of this piece, Meghan Gardiner, came up with the idea after noticing a debate on abortion in a Toronto women?s washroom. The honestly and outrage scrawled across this piece of linoleum was shocking. Meghan soon discovered that women everywhere were divulging their personal secrets on bathroom stall walls, some even turning into long conversations with strangers. Meghan spent almost three years gathering over eight hundred quotes from across the continent. The content ranges from funny to poignant to disturbing to heart breaking. After collecting as many of these quotes as she could, Meghan categorized them into themes, and had more than enough material on eating disorders, drug addiction, unwanted pregnancy, and bullying among other compelling themes. Those categories were then pieced together into text, and four distinct characters were born (again, ONLY using graffiti. No added or edited material whatsoever).

We meet these four characters through the character of THE JANITOR, an elderly woman in her seventies who has had the same job for most of her adult life. She is fatigued however and looks older than her seventy years, as if something about cleaning these stalls drains her. As we watch her enter the first stall, we realize that when cleaning the stalls of their graffiti, she becomes the woman inside who wrote the words. She takes on their life, their circumstances and their struggle. Each character speaks to the trials and tribulations of their individual struggle with heartbreaking honesty. After all, someone somewhere actually felt the need to write these words on a wall.

Shannon Kohli directed and directed photography on ?Stalled?. Meghan played all of the characters, showing that not only could any one of these women be one of us, but in a way, we are all one woman. Each character and stall is set in a different era, not only for aesthetic and creative reasons, but also to show that the issues addressed in this film have been plaguing women for decades. Although Stalled was shot in the same bathroom, each stall was transformed with lighting, camera style and production design to suit each character?s environment. Sound design and music composition will play an important role in completing the transformation. Meghan?s appearance for each character was drastically altered with the help of special character makeup, prosthetics, color contacts, wardrobe and hair.

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