WI / IL Short Slot #1
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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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Synopsis:
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
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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Synopsis:
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
Category: Documentary, Biography
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: PG
Runtime: 11 min.
Director: Marc Kornblatt
Producer: Marc Kornblatt
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Synopsis:
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
Category: Documentary
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: G
Runtime: 3 min.
Director: Jessica Farrell
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Synopsis:
A look into the automated systems and daily procedures of the United States Postal Service.
Arrowhead
Category: Comedy
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 11 min.
Director: Jonathan Phillips
Producer:
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Synopsis:
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
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
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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Synopsis:
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
