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Films

The Broken Heart of Gnocchi Bolognese
The Danger of Secrets
The Absence
Becoming Bergdwarf
Unknown Spectre
The Bear and the Rabbit
Stalker
Gold Digger
Telephone

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The Broken Heart of Gnocchi Bolognese

Rated: PG
Director: Katherine Vondy Producer: William Kwok
Length: 19 min
Short
USA

Website: Gnocchi Movie

Gnocchi Bolognese has never known her father, the chef whose signature dish she was named for. As the stage manager of a local theater, she pines from the wings for the troupe’s star actor. And with her 25th birthday around the corner, Gnocchi decides it’s time to act on her infatuation – but the pursuit of romance leads her down a tragicomic road to the origins of her unusual name.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxnQW9ZPAaM

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The Danger of Secrets

The Danger of Secrets - Ardent PicturesRated: PG13
Director: Christopher Comrie         Producer: Samantha Swan
Length: 3 min
Short | Comedy
Canada

Website: Ardent Pictures

This was inspired by U.S. “mental hygiene” propaganda films of the 50’s. We love DV’s versatility and saw this as a chance to make new colour DV look like old scratched and spliced black and white high-contrast film. It satirizes the resurgence of 50’s Cold War style paranoia in the world’s culture of fear.

by-the-way…
If you saw the Charlie Chaplin BIFF promo produced by Ardent Pictures… that’s Phil Luzi playing Charlie. You can see him again here in The Danger of Secrets.

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The Absence

Rated: PG
Director: Kristóf Novák
Length: 7 min
Short
Hungary

This short about what a teeneger does when he is absent from school.

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Becoming Bergdwarf

Rated: PG13
Director: A.J. Winslow           Producer:Adam Sherer
Length: 18 min
Short | Comedy | Drama
USA

A young adolescent, Sean Bergdwarf, saves and befriends a prostitute, challenging his overbearing mother’s morals. With encouragement from his quirky grandfather, Sean takes a step into manhood, and reconnects with his mother.

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Unknown Spectre

Rated: PG
Director: Stephen Pickering
Length: 6 min
Short | Sci-Fi
USA

Detective Jack Spencer is investigating several strange disappearances. His investigation brings him to question a local energy consultant, Dr. John Charles. Charles has been assisting the aliens in abducting humans for energy, expecting them to leave when they have enough, not knowing they will never be content.


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The Bear and the Rabbit

Rated: G
Director: Rob Ikegamie
Length: 12 min
Short | Drama
USA

An elderly hermit, along with his taxidermied dog, puts together a jigsaw puzzle, then must cope with the fact that it’s missing a piece.

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Stalker

Rated: PG
Director: Damien Patrik             Producer:Damien Patrik
Length: 3 min
Short | Drama | Mystery
USA

A man is being stalked in downtown Denver….by himself.

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Gold Digger

Rated: G
Director: Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz
Length: 18 min
Short | Drama | Family
USA

5 sisters travel by train to stop their widowed father from remarrying

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Telephone

Rated: G
Director: Jeffrey Bliss
Length: 5 min
Short | Drama | Fantasy
USA

Two isolated individuals desperately search to make connections amidst mysterious gift boxes, rotary telephones and spinning dials.

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