King Kong
Wed Feb 28, 2018 – 5:00 pm | Hendricks Arts Center
King Kong
Directed by Lo Xu-Ming Tong
Narrative Short
Canada | 19 min | 2017
Eliza and her brother Damian live in Toronto with their mother. After she suffers an accident, they must travel to Montreal to join their father. The story is centered on Eliza, a young teenager. Having to take care of her brother and their wellbeing, this trip represents her first outing into the world as an independent woman filled with responsibilities.
Lo Xu-Ming Tong
Director, Writer
Lo Xu-Ming Tong was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. From 2010 to 2015, he studied Fine Art at Central Saint-Martins College of Art and Design where two of his films were shown at numerous film festivals. He works across film installations, narrative film and branded content.
Film Information
Director: Lo Xu-Ming Tong
Country: Canada
Year: 2017
Language: French with English subtitles
Runtime: 19 min
Rated: R
Credits
Writer: Lo Xu-Ming Tong
Producer: Géraldine Feraud-Miniconi
Cinematography/DP: Ménad Kesraoui
Music: Sacha Ratcliffe
Eliza
Damien
Hortense
The Father
Hope Rooms, The
Wed Feb 28, 2018 – 5:00 pm | Hendricks Arts Center
The Hope Rooms
Directed by Sam Yates
Narrative Short
United Kingdom | 24 min | 2016
The Hope Rooms tells the story of estranged father, Eamonn (Ciáran Hinds, Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones), and his son Sean (Andrew Scott, Moriarty in Sherlock), who meet up after 15 years at a café in London to heal old wounds.
Sam Yates
Director
Sam Yates is an award-winning film and theatre director. He was voted one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow in 2016, named a rising star in The Observer, and featured in GQ Magazine’s Men of the next 25 years. Yates has been described as “a major talent” in The Guardian newspaper and “a director of unusual flair” in The Observer.
Film Information
Director: Sam Yates
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2016
Language: English
Runtime: 24 min
Credits
Writer: David Watson
Producer: Bill Kenwright, David Konrad-Cooper, Sam Yates
Cinematography/DP: Luke Bryant
Music: Alex Baranowski
Editor: Christopher Watson
With You
Wed Feb 28, 2018 – 5:00 pm | Hendricks Arts Center
With You
Directed by Caroline Lindy &
Greta Titleman
Narrative Short
USA | 19 min | 2016
Sisters, Greta and Caroline, skip out on the reception of their mother’s funeral and spend the rest of the afternoon together. Determined to find distractions from their pain, they find their relationship tested by a narcissistic friend and an over bearing ex on the worst day of their lives.
Caroline Lindy, Co-Director
Caroline Lindy was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Kenyon College with a major in Drama.
She is based in Los Angeles and New York where she has cultivated a career in filmmaking, acting, and comedy.
Caroline is on the performance track at the Groundlings Theatre and writes and performs improv and sketch comedy in Los Angeles and nationally.
Greta Titelman, Co-Director
Greta Titelman is an actress and producer, known for Tevanik (2014), Moon Party (2016) and The Special Without Brett Davis (2015).
Film Information
Directors: Caroline Lindy, Greta Titelman
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Language: English
Runtime: 19 min
Rated: PG
Credits
Crick in the Holler
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Wed Feb 28, 2018 – 5:00 pm | Hendricks Arts Center
Crick in the Holler
Directed by Ursula Ellis
Narrative Short
USA | 18 min | 2017
During West Virginia’s 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student charged with the care of her rebellious younger sister instead becomes consumed by an issue with their water supply.
Ursula Ellis
Director, Writer
Ursula Ellis is a writer/director and recent MFA graduate in screenwriting from Columbia University. A former Army brat with roots in Appalachia, she is committed to telling stories that explore underrepresented aspects of American life.
Her MFA thesis short, CRICK IN THE HOLLER, shot on location in her family home of West Virginia, received a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant, as well as an IFP Audience Choice Award and Faculty Jury Honors at the 2017 Columbia University Film Festival. The film had its world festival premiere at the 2017 Woodstock Film Festival, before screening at the Citizen Jane Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival, and Lone Star Film Festival, where it was awarded best student short.
Her first feature film script, ANOMALIES, also set in West Virginia, placed in the 2015 Academy Nicholls Fellowship and is currently a nominee for the Humanitas Prize’s 2018 David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Fellowship.
Presently Ursula is in post-production on her proof-of-concept short film, FOR GEORGE ON HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY, starring esteemed stage and screen actors Michael Esper and Allie Gallerani, as well as developing various short, feature, and television projects.
Film Information
Director: Ursula Ellis
Country: USA
Year: 2017
Language: English
Runtime: 18 min
Rated: PG-13
Credits
Writer: Ursula Ellis
Producer: Ben Gojer, Kiera Kyoto Lewis, Emerson Nosek, Nadia Zoe
Director of Photography: Nick Perron-Siegel
Editor: Russell Yaffe
Sound Desiger: Gaelen Mullins
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Amerika
Wed Feb 28, 2018 – 5:00 pm | Hendricks Arts Center
Amerika
Directed by Ryan Ward
Narrative Short
USA | 14 min | 2017
A portrait of two parents and their 8-year-old son struggling against the harsh realities of inner-city life in an alternate version of modern day America.
Ryan Ward
Director, Writer
Ryan Ward’s debut feature film, Son of the Sunshine, which he wrote and directed, was nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for a 2012 Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film premiered as one of Indiewire’s “Top 5 Films to Watch” at Slamdance and screened at over 30 festivals, winning 13 awards. The movie was praised as “bleakly beautiful” by the CBC, “heart-wrenchingly authentic and powerful” by the Toronto Star, and “a gem of filmmaking genius” by the National Post.
In 2017, Ryan wrote and directed In the Beginning was Water and Sky, a short Native American fantasy drama that is distributed on PBS Indies, NativeFlix, and ShortsTV.
In 2017, Ryan also wrote and directed the short film, AmeriKa, which has screened at 22 festivals, winning Audience Awards at both Atlanta Underground and Riverside Film Festivals, as well as Best Film and Best Director at Atlanta Shortsfest. A feature version of AmeriKa is shortlisted for the 2018 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab and has been invited to participant in the JETS Initiative at Berlinale 2018.
Film Information
Director: Ryan Ward
Country: USA
Year: 2017
Language: English
Runtime: 14 min
Rated: R
Credits
Writer: Ryan Ward
Producer: Mackenzie Gruer
Music: David Bertok
Cinematographer/DP: Eduardo Ramirez Gonzalez
Production Designer: Bryan Barrios
Executive Producer: Ross Mollberg
