Brandi Sweet

WI / IL Short Slot #1

Fri Feb 14, 2014 –  5:00 pm — Café Fromage #2  Tickets
Sat Feb 15, 2014 –  7:30 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts  Tickets
Fri Feb 21, 2014 –  5:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts  Tickets

Silent Faces

Silent Faces
Category:  Drama
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG
Runtime:  17 min.
Director:  Ryan Bingham
Producer:  UWM Production Club
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

To cope with loneliness, a female cashier seeks out friendship by photographing strangers and constructing figurines. Silent Faces tells a story of relationships and human interaction.

Margaret works as a cashier, encountering people everyday but never truly connecting with anyone. To cope with her solitude, Margaret collects photographs of strangers and constructs makeshift figures to talk to. These extreme actions become obstacles for her real relationships.

The Painter

The Painter Category:  Drama, Experimental
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  R
Runtime:  14 min.
Director:  Kevin Cooper
Producer:  DeAnna Cooper, TaeJung Lee
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

A boy, barely 12 years old, lives in a world where violence surrounds him.  His sole means of survival is to escape the violence outside by creating art.  He is alone – abandoned for as long as he can remember.  He begins this day like every other: quietly sipping a cup of coffee in his rn-down kitchen, walls covered with newspaper clippings that chronicle the epidemic death toll in the inner city.

Amid wailing sirens and a squawking police scanner, he sits uncomfortably …cleaning a paintbrush.  An interviewer’s voice, unsure of what he is witnessing, asks the boy to explain his existence… his art.  Though the police instruct the boy to “return to work,” the interviewer holds them off until finally the boy agrees to show us his art.  Step inside the line… his art – a world at war.  Are you ready?

While It Lasts

While it Lasts Category:  Documentary, Biography
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating: PG
Runtime:  11 min.
Director:  Marc Kornblatt
Producer:  Marc Kornblatt
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

At 81, Jamie Ross, a retired art professor, lives in a small, Wisconsin town in a ramshackle studio crammed with his own work and thousands of objects he has collected over the decades. A patina of dust, covering most surfaces, adds to the studio’s eccentric character. Jamie’s current passion is rescuing intriguingly shaped tree limbs from his wood pile — his studio has no central heating — and turning them into finely polished shapes adorned with unusual words, such as ‘seemlessness’ and ‘starboard,’ that strike his fancy.

One rain-soaked afternoon, as water drips from the ceiling and creates puddles around the studio, Jamie shares his thoughts on beauty, creativity and his own mortality. His self-deprecating, heart-felt comments, blended with an original score, and a visual record of his collection, offer a glimpse into the mind and spirit of a dedicated artist as an old man.

USPS

USPS Category:  Documentary
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating: G
Runtime: 3 min.
Director:  Jessica Farrell
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

A look into the automated systems and daily procedures of the United States Postal Service.

Arrowhead

Arrowhead


Category:  Comedy
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  11 min.
Director:  Jonathan Phillips
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

A couple head up to a cabin to get away from the city, and to experience the inevitability of being mauled and eaten by a bear.

Brandi Sweet

Brandi  Sweet Category:  Drama
Country: U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  R
Runtime:  11 min.
Director:  Jack Millard
Producer:  Jack Millard
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Synopsis:

Two strangers meet for sexual pleasure and in the course of one night reveal much more to each other than they ever dared. Some dreams should never be told.

Gears

Gears

Category:  Sci Fi Drama
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG-13
Runtime:  20 min.
Director:  Steve Miosku
Producer: UWM Production Club
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

After saving his daughter from a near-fatal accident, a single father tries to decipher the strange gears he begins finding throughout his home.

NOTE:  Synopsis are typically provided directly by the filmmaker themselves. Often English is not their first language. We ask reader’s understanding for less-than-perfect language and grammar

Love You Still

WI / IL Short Slot #2

Sat Feb 15th:  5:00 pm — Café Fromage #2  Tickets
Sun Feb 16th:  5:00 pm — Café Fromage #2  Tickets
Sat Feb 22nd:  5:00 pm — Hendricks Center for the Arts  Tickets

From the Darkness Theatre

From the Darkness Theatre


Category:  Drama, Horror
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG-13
Runtime:  12 min.
Director:  Michael Viers
Producer: Gregory Bishop
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

A horror film about the private life of a small town TV horror host.

The private life of a local television Horror Host named Uncle Seymour Cadavers – a life filled with dingy theaters, old movies, and sinful actions. A nod to the infamous, yet never completed, Maniac 2. Written and Directed by Michael Viers, the film had been a passion piece for two years. The film stars Michael Denk and Thad Dulde.

Gadfly

Gadfly


Category:  Drama, Crime
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG-13
Runtime:  27 min.
Director:  Josh Halverson
Producer:  Ryan Bingham, Josh Halverson
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

Julian, a heavy drinker with a temper, has a deep bond with his sister who shared a difficult upbringing, one that forced Julian, the oldest, to protect his sister from a very young age–that bond is put to the test when she is hospitalized after falling into a coma. The doctor’s call it a new drug–they say she overdosed–but Julian finds a strange symbol and bruising on her arm which leads him to believe that there’s more to it than that. He soon finds himself in a criminal underworld as he tries to uncover the mystery of her disappearance.

 

Break

Break


Category:  Drama, Gay/Lesbian
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG-13
Runtime:  4 min.
Director:  Ryan Nanni
Producer:  Ryan Nanni
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Synopsis:

“Break” is a short film about two workers getting to know each other intimately while on a smoke break outside the shipping facility they work at.

White Room

The White Room


Category:  Drama, Sci-Fi
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG-13
Runtime:  11 min.
Director:  Tom Doherty
Producer:  Tom Doherty, Eric Smigiel
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

The White Room’ is a powerful, emotional, psychological drama, that follows a young man who wakes up trapped and confused in a mysterious room with no recollection as of how he came to be there. The events of the film play out in an unforeseeable direction that will leave a lasting impact on your life.

Love You Still

Love You Still


Category:  Drama
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG
Runtime:  11 min.
Director:  Michael Viers
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

John, an aging fisherman, struggles with memories of his young love, Alice.  He longs for her return and lives with regret.

Overpass Light Brigade

Overpass Light Brigade


Category:  Documentary, Social Issues
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  G
Runtime:  6 min.
Director:  Dusan Harminc, Matt Mullins
Producer:  Dusan Harminc
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

“Overpass Light Brigade” is a short film that tells the story behind Wisconsin’s Holders of the Lights using innovative time-lapse photography and interviews with founding members and other activists. The film showcases OLB’s simple, beautiful approach to performance art and action that beckons any who want to creatively join public discourse and voice concerns an elitist political system clamors to quiet.

Wheel

The Wheel


Category:  Fable, Drama
Country:  U.S.
Language:  English
Rating:  PG
Runtime:  15 min.
Director:  John Roberts
Producer:  César Gamiño, Marissa Nans
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Filmmaker AttendingSynopsis:

This whimsical, visually imaginative tale concerns a dutiful young man, fated to maintain a large wheel that balances the entire world — and his rebellious sister who is determined to tempt that fate.

NOTE:  Synopsis are typically provided directly by the filmmaker themselves. Often English is not their first language. We ask reader’s understanding for less-than-perfect language and grammar