Photovoltaic

Short, Documentary

Producer(s):

Director(s): Tommy Tang, Audrey Seda

Writer(s):

Cast & Crew: Lisa Graumlich, Yoram Bauman

Synopsis: An exploration of how the adoption of large-scale solar power can combat climate change and bring social good to people all around the world. We follow women solar engineers from developing countries, a stand-up economist, and the Dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington to learn about how this technology connects with other social issues.

The Bee Keeper

Short, Documentary

Producer(s): Briana Gallo

Director(s): Briana Gallo

Writer(s):

Cast & Crew: Chico Colvard

Synopsis: 35 years ago, “Doc” was a cripple – that is until he tried bee sting therapy (Apitherapy) in Maine.  Since then, the 97 year-old retired dentist has lived an active and adventurous life – opening his home daily to treat and connect with a host of characters, lifelong friends and loved ones.

Food From the Sky

Short, Documentary, Student

Producer(s): Jai Ashar

Director(s): Jai Ashar

Writer(s): Jai Ashar

Cast & Crew:

Run Time: 12 minutes

Synopsis: With the world stricken by hunger and poverty, I go on a journey to find a solution. I meet all types of people ranging from farmers to government officials to see what the world has been doing to make a change. Through my journey, I find various technologies that can improve the food people get by allowing the common farmer to work with better equipment.

La Muneca Fea (The Ugly Doll)

Documentary

Producer(s): George Reyes, Claudia Lopez Garcia

Director(s): George Reyes, Claudia Lopez Garcia

Writer(s): George Reyes, Claudia Lopez Garcia

Cast & Crew: Carolina Herrera, Maria Sanchez

Synopsis: Twenty-five elderly and active sex workers in Mexico City, between the ages of sixty and ninety, seek peace and community behind the walls of Casa Xochiquetzal, a shelter established for them by a former colleague and friend. The home is named for the Aztec goddess of flowers, beauty and sexual love.

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Where Have You Gone Lou DiMaggio?

Documentary

Producer(s): Brad Kuhlman, Lou DiMaggio, Allison Gorelik, Wendy Backofen, Greg Bardsley

Director(s): Brad Kuhlman

Writer(s):

Cast & Crew: Lou DiMaggio

Run Time: 75 minutes

Synopsis: From 1985 to 1989, Lou DiMaggio, no relation to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, was a regular at the iconic ‘Catch a Rising Star’ comedy club in New York City.  For four years, Lou worked along side of and made lasting friendships with a small group of comedians who are some of the very best in the business. Larry David, Colin Quinn, Suzie Essman, Joy Behar, Jeff Garlin and Chris Rock are just a few of Lou’s old pals who appear in the film.   After all this time, can Lou rediscover his comedic voice and once again become relevant in the world of comedy?

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

Documentary

Producer(s): Stephan Wellink, Robert de Young

Director(s): Robert de Young

Writer(s): Stephan Wellink, Robert de Young

Cast & Crew: Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Veronica Cartwright, Tippi Hedren, Jack Thompson, Rod Taylor

Run Time: 80 minutes

Synopsis: With his recent role is in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, Rod Taylor also featured in many influential films: The VIP’s, The Birds, The Time Machine, 36 Hours, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, The Glass Bottom Boat, Hotel, and Zabriski Point. He was one of the first leading actors to voice a Disney animated character when he portrayed the hero, Pongo, in 101 Dalmatians. The film features Maggie Smith, Tippi Hedren, Angela Lansbury, Veronica Cartwright, Baz Luhrmann, Stephan Elliott, Susie Porter, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, Keith Michell, and Rod himself.

The Call

Short

Producer(s): Michael Stylianou

Writer(s): Gavin Culle

Cast & Crew: Chris Leacy, James kar, Yiannnis Manolopoulos, Reza Jouze

Synopsis: At home in his apartment, the man obsessively cuts out stories of war and terror from newspapers while the TV news blares. He meticulously tapes the cuttings to the walls of his living room, which are already covered in hundreds of articles.  A ringing cuts through the sound of the TV and, after fishing through the sea of papers carpeting the floor, the man uncovers an old style telephone and lifts the receiver.  The call is from the authority, who tells him his city is under attack, and that he should lock all doors and windows for his own safety.

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The Followers of Gilgamesh

Short

Producer(s): Ghouna Jaber

Director(s): Abdul Jabbar Maki

Writer(s): Abdul Jabbar Maki

Cast & Crew: Ben Robinson, Giannis Giannakopoulos, Vincent Corver, Falah Hannon

Synopsis: After the death of his father, a 12 year old boy devises a risky plan to find out why he was never allowed into his father’s room.  With questions still surrounding the cause of his father’s death, the truth that lies in the bedroom will shake the foundation of everything the boy ever knew.

The Little Dictator

Short

Producer(s): Emanuel Cohn (co-producer)

Director(s): Nurith Cohn

Writer(s): Emanuel Cohn

Cast & Crew: Emanuel Cohn, Iris Penn, Ruth Geller

Synopsis: Professor Yossi Kleinmann, a religious Jew, gets stuck with a calamitous mustache at the 90th birthday party of his wife’s grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. The rest is history.

A Big Love

Short

Producer(s): Max Chicco

Director(s): Max Chicco

Writer(s): Max Chicco and Simona Rapello

Cast & Crew: Paolo Graziosi, Alessia Olivetti, Andrea Murchio, Ettore Scarpa, and Franco Barbero, Vittorio Anelli (Dop) Igor Mendolia (editor) Francesca Cibischino (Costumes Designer) Alessio Fornasiero (Sound), Claudio Vernetti (Music)

Synopsis: Osvaldo Caforio is an old watchmaker, who is still in love with his wife Rosetta. One morning, as he is getting ready to go renew his identity card. Arrived at the civil register’s office, the attendant informs him that he can’t renew his identity card because, according to the electronic system, he’s dead. Osvaldo is at a loss and he doesn’t know what to do. The representative informs him that he has to follow protocol 25/A: he has to be reborn! And that’s exactly what happens. Osvaldo is reborn into the world and he finds himself in an infant’s body!

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The Nest Egg

Short

Producer(s): Martina Silcock

Director(s): Lucy Patrick Ward

Cast & Crew: Paul Copley, James Northcote, Sarah Cunningham

Synopsis: Ernie is a widower with a windfall. He wants his wife, not the cash and comes up with an ingenious plan to find a deserving person to give it to.  Tracey and her daughter, Amy, have each other but no money.   Could fate and eggs bring them all together?  The Nest Egg: the story of a chicken suit, benevolence and eggs.

Atomic Couple!

Short, Student

Producer(s): Constanza Castro

Director(s): Rodrigo Espinosa

Writer(s): Rodrigo Espinosa

Cast & Crew: Jessa Zarubica, Ben Solenberger

Synopsis: Maggie Adams, a once promising nurse, is forced to confront the realities of her marriage when nuclear war breaks out and sets off a series of unexpected events that offer her a glimmer of hope to returning to who she yearns to be.

Wan Mei (Perfect)

Short

Producer(s): Saad Nawab

Director(s): Yiyi Yin

Writer(s): Yiyi Yin

Cast & Crew: Allen Theosky Rowe, Wei-Yi Lin

Synopsis: When a man realizes his girlfriend has been unfaithful to him, he resorts to revenge… and the love of a mannequin.

Waste

Synopsis: Roger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with his quirky roommate and foodie, Olive. But as the meals become increasingly strange, and push the limits of curiosity, Roger must ask himself how far he will go for love?

The Curse of Don Scarducci

Short

Producer(s): Chris Fondulas, Brady Kirchberg, James Canty, Jessie Hoyt, Angel D’apice (Associate Producer)

Director(s): Chris Fondulas

Writer(s): Chris Fondulas

Cast & Crew: Neil Parisi, Maulik Pancholy, Halley Feiffer, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Life is good for Don, a rough and tumble mobster, until the day he discovers his intolerance to gluten, and can no longer enjoy the staples of his everyday mobster diet. As his food habits change, so do his demeanor and lifestyle, but it all goes south when his mob family discovers his new life.

Susie Sunshine

Short

Producer(s): Chelsea O’Connor, Elizabeth Engle, Jessica Howell, Marisa Ruby

Cast & Crew: Jessica Howell, Melissa Marie Elias, Jeff Corbett, Geoffrey Wade

Synopsis: In an alternate world, imbued with the style and sensibilities of our 1950’s, Martin Energy maintains it’s position of power by dominating the energy market with its unique process of harnessing women’s emotional intelligence and strength to generate resources such as sunshine, electricity, and fire.

Cuckold Picasso

Short

Producer(s): Stephen Sweeney

Writer(s): James R Adams II, Lance Larson

Cast & Crew: Micah Fitzgerald, Gia Vangieri

Synopsis: “A powerful, jolting experience to the senses that forces the viewer into introspection.”- Persis LOVE, Oaxaca FilmFest

Pablo Picasso’s “1971 Harlequin Head”, thought forever lost in a Romanian fire, is found vividly alive in the disturbed psyche of a tortured man’s soul.  It is necessary to open a third eye–necessary to dare to look straight on at the things we need to face. In doing so, we free ourselves to embrace and learn from the things we are prone to unnecessarily fear the most.

Conspiracy PIE

Short

Producer(s): Levi A. Taylor, D.K. Johnston

Director(s): Levi A. Taylor

Writer(s): Levi A. Taylor

Cast & Crew: Evan Silcox

Synopsis: Get ready for a nostalgic ride down memory lane to a time life was filled with Legos, video games and imaginative questions you’d muse with your best friend. Conspiracy P.I.E. reflects on friendship while reminding us to “never stop being that kid that asks why after everything.”

Other People’s Heads

Short

Producer(s): Stephen Winterhalter

Director(s): Stephen Winterhalter

Writer(s): Stephen Winterhalter

Cast & Crew: Mark Ulrich

Synopsis: Set in a grotesquely decadent world, 12 legal officials are presiding over guillotine executions that go bizarrely wrong when the prisoners have an unexpected reaction to death. The officials have to then come to terms with the unbelievable horror they witness.

Mest’

Short

Producer(s): Anastasiya Rul

Director(s): Morgan Roberts

Writer(s): Morgan Roberts

Cast & Crew:

Synopsis: Chett is abused by his parents and beat up at school until a classmate’s family takes him in and teaches him to protect himself.

JIMBO

Short

Producer(s): Rodrigo Zanforlin

Director(s): Rodrigo Zanforlin

Writer(s): Rodrigo Zanforlin

Cast & Crew:

Synopsis: An young weird and abused man, break free from his oppressor father after they robbed a bank.

The Shadow Hours

Short

Producer(s): Kyle Higgins, Nick Erickson, JJ Vazquez

Director(s): Kyle Higgins

Writer(s): Kyle Higgins

Cast & Crew: Tom Riley, Britt Lower, Bear McCreary, Lindsey Moran, Michael Nie

Run Time: 19 minutes

Synopsis: A Neo-Noir following twin brothers born with a mysterious condition: only one of them can be awake at a time. Posing as one person, each awake for only half of a day, they make a living as private investigators… until a budding romance threatens to ruin their lives.

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The Pretender

Short

Producer(s): Nathan Morse

Director(s): Nathan Morse

Writer(s):

Cast & Crew: Ignacio Genzon, Michael Gore, Chalia Young, Oliver Cooper, Christian George, lex Arquette

Run Time: 26 minutes

Synopsis: Desperate to live life in a wheelchair, an unlikely friendship mobilizes this solitary man to cut off what’s been holding him back.